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Man’s Ruin
 – 
God’s Redemption
Ft. Supply Baptist Church
(10 lessons in total)
a study of man’s utter need and God’s complete answer in Romans 1:16-32
Contents
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Lesson 1 Man’s Ruin and God’s Wrath2Lesson 2 Guilt and Depravity of Man7Lesson 3 The Truth and the Lie12Lesson 4 God’s Judgment on the Lie21Lesson 5 Catalog of Sins I29Lesson 6 Catalog of Sins II40Lesson 7 Catalog of Sins III46Lesson 8 The Worst of Sins51Lesson 9 Marvelous Work of Christ58Lesson 10 Holiness and Salvation64
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Lesson 1Man’s Ruin and God’s Wrath
 Romans 1:16-18
“For I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.“For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.“For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;“Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shown it unto them.“For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the thingsthat are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:“Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain intheir imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.“Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,“And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and  four-footed beasts, and creeping things.“Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonor their ownbodies between themselves:“Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who isblessed for ever. Amen.“For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:“And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; menwith men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which wasmeet.“And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to dothose things which are not convenient;“Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder,debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,“Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,“Without understanding, covenant-breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:“Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same,but have pleasure in them that do them.” Romans 1:16-32
Introduction
This portion of God’s Word in Romans 1:16-32, more than any other, shows the awful plight and degradation of thehuman race because of our fall in Adam in the Garden of Eden. In Adam, we rebelled against the sovereign God of theuniverse and became gods unto ourselves. These verses teach us what is wrong with the world today, what is wrong withthe nations, and what is wrong with you and me, who make up the nations of the world. We have left the one and only trueand living God. We have turned to our own way, to do what seems right in our own eyes. We follow the dictates of our 
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depraved hearts, which hate God, holiness, righteousness, and our fellow man, and which love sin and darkness. Weworship and serve the creature (ourselves) more than the Creator, Who is blessed forever.
Obvious Facts
 First,
 because of their fall and ruin in Adam by disobedience to God, men are
by nature
in an awful state of sin anddegradation.
Second,
 because of their continual state of rebellion against God and their holding the truth of God in unrighteousness,men bring upon themselves the very
reprobation
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of God;
for it is said of them that “God also gave them up touncleanness” (v. 24), “God gave them up unto vile affections” (v. 26), and “God gave them over to a reprobate mind” (v.28).
Third,
men left to themselves with the restraint of God removed will only
 grow worse
and worse in sin, being filledwith all the awful sins mentioned in verses 29-31. In other words, there is nothing in the entire universe that can stop menfrom devolving downward into hell, if left to themselves.
 Fourth,
the awful ruin of man, his love for sin, and the power of sin over him are greatly demonstrated in verse 32,which reads, “Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only dothe same, but have pleasure in them that do them.” Here we see these things:
•Men have an inner knowledge from God of the reality of sin.•Men have a consciousness that God must hate, judge, and punish sin.•Men persist in the ways of sin in spite of the warning of their own natural conscience.•Men come to the point where they condone, approve, and then aid and rejoice in the sin of others.•Men come to the place where they are the supporters of their own sin and the vices of others rather than supporters of therighteousness of God.
The
 fifth
fact noted in these verses is that, apart from the power and grace of God in Christ,
no man can deliver himself 
from his awful, ruined state. Why not? Let John 3:19-20 answer:
“And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, becausetheir deeds were evil. For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light 
 
 , lest his deeds should be reproved.”
Man is so blinded by Satan and sin that he chooses darkness rather than light, evil rather than good, unrighteousnessrather than righteousness, his own way rather than the way of God, and hell rather than heaven.
Sixth,
Romans 1:16-32 teaches us that man abides under the righteous
wrath of God 
and that the judgment and wrath of God will fall upon sin. This is the wrath which is revealed in all its awesome fury “from heaven, against all ungodlinessand unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness” (v. 18).Another way of reading this verse is,
“For God’s [holy] wrath and indignation are revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who in their wickedness repress and hinder the truth and make it inoperative.”
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God’s Wrath and Gracious Redemption
 Not only is the love, mercy, and grace of God revealed from heaven, but the attribute of 
the wrath of God 
is alsorevealed from the same place. It comes from the same holy and righteous God who sits upon the throne of His holiness(Psa 47:8); and this wrath and indignation is against the ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their wickedlives stifle the truth. They repress and hinder the truth, thus making it inoperative in their hearts and lives, for their wills
will not break 
and
will not bow
to the authority of God by acknowledging His eternal power and Godhead, even thoughthis truth is clearly seen and revealed to them (vv. 19-20). All these things will have our attention as we look at each verseindividually.These verses teach the awful ruin and plight of man because of the deep depravity
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 of his heart, yet out of them shinesforth
the gracious redemption in Christ.
In the Gospel, the good news, God has provided salvation for poor, helpless,hopeless sinners. In it He reveals “the righteousness of God,” which is given to every one who believes; for “the just shalllive by faith” (Rom 1:16-17).
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reprobation
– disapproval and rejection.
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depravity
– because of Adam’s sin in the Garden of Eden, depravity is the corruption of human nature which renders all peopleguilty before God and inclines the hearts of all to sin.
Total 
depravity does not mean that all men are in all ways as wicked as they can be. Rather it means that every faculty of man is polluted by sin rendering all sinners incapable of saving themselves.
 Radical 
(from theroot) depravity expresses this thought more clearly.
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