No Excuses. Mark Norman

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1 No Excuses Mark Norman

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5 Please excuse Connie from gym class today, as she has difficulty breeding.

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8 The gospel is the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes. For in the gospel the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith, as it is written, "The righteous shall live by faith. Romans 1:16-17 ESV

9 God gives to us what he demands of us.

10 But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law Romans 3:21 ESV

11 Romans is the story of how a good God takes a bad man and makes him a good man.

12 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth. 19 For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. 20 For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse. 21 For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22 Claiming to be wise, they became fools, 23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles. Romans 1:18-23 ESV

13 No Excuse What God has done. What man has done. What God has done.

14 No Excuse What God has done. He has left undeniable clues.

15 For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. 20 For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. Romans 1:19-20 ESV

16 No Excuse What God has done. He has left undeniable clues.

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21 The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork. Psalm 19:1 ESV

22 No Excuse What God has done. He has left undeniable clues.

23 No Excuse What God has done. He has left undeniable clues. What man has done. Suppressed the truth.

24 For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22 Claiming to be wise, they became fools, 23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles. Romans 1:21-23 ESV

25 Biology is the study of complicated things that give the appearance of having been designed for a purpose. Richard Dawkins

26 Biologists must constantly keep in mind that what they see was not designed, but rather evolved. Francis Crick

27 And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their deeds were evil. John 3:19 ESV

28 No Excuse What God has done. He has left undeniable clues. What man has done. Suppressed the truth.

29 No Excuse What God has done. He has left undeniable clues. What man has done. Suppressed the truth. What God has done. Revealed his wrath.

30 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth. Romans 1:18 ESV

31 The Lord is a jealous and avenging God; the Lord is avenging and wrathful; the Lord takes vengeance on his adversaries and keeps wrath for his enemies. 3 The Lord is slow to anger and great in power, and the Lord will by no means clear the guilty. His way is in whirlwind and storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet. 6 Who can stand before his indignation? Who can endure the heat of his anger? His wrath is poured out like fire, and the rocks are broken into pieces by him. 7 The Lord is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; he knows those who take refuge in him. 8 But with an overflowing flood he will make a complete end of the adversaries, and will pursue his enemies into darkness. Nahum 1:2-3,6-8 ESV

32 When the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels 8 in flaming fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. 9 They will suffer the punishment of eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might, 10 when he comes on that day to be glorified in his saints, and to be marveled at among all who have believed, because our testimony to you was believed. 2 Thessalonians 1:7-10 ESV

33 God's wrath in the Bible is never the capricious, self-indulgent, irritable, morally ignoble thing that human anger so often is. It is, instead, a right and necessary reaction to objective moral evil. God is only angry where anger is called for. Even among humans, there is such a thing as righteous indignation, though it is, perhaps, rarely found. But all God's indignation is righteous. J. I. Packer

34 The Bible does not present us with a God who chances upon neutral men and women and arbitrarily consigns some to heaven and some to hell. He takes guilty men and women, all of whom deserve his wrath, and in his great mercy and love he saves vast numbers of them. Hell stands as a horrible witness to human defiance in the face of great grace. D. A. Carson

35 No Excuse What God has done. He has left undeniable clues. What man has done. Suppressed the truth. What God has done. Revealed his wrath.