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This is the Greatest Question and we must know the answer how a man can get right with God.
The New Testament especially the Letter to the Romans, presents the Plan of Salvation in a systematic manner. The theme of the letter is : the Gospel (the Good News of Jesus Christ) is God’s power for men’s salvation, because it tells how sinners can be changed so as to be right with God. Romans 1:16-17
“The Righteousness of God” is an outstanding phrase in this book. The man who possesses it is right with God. This comes from Faith in Jesus Christ. All men need this righteousness because all men have sinned.
Note these steps downward of man.
Rom 1:18 For God's anger is being revealed from Heaven against all impiety and against the iniquity of men who through iniquity 1. suppress the truth. God is angry:
Rom 1:19 because what may be known about Him is plain to their inmost consciousness; for He Himself has made it plain to them.
2. Man knows there is a God in His Innermost consciousness.
3. They failed to serve and worship Him and their minds became darkened.
Rom 1:20 For, from the very creation of the world, His invisible perfections--namely His eternal power and divine nature--have been rendered intelligible and clearly visible by His works, so that these men are without excuse.
Rom 1:21 For when they had come to know God, they did not give Him glory as God nor render Him thanks, but they became absorbed in useless discussions, and their senseless minds were darkened.
Rom 1:22 While boasting of their wisdom they became utter fools,
4. Spiritual Blindness lead to Idolatry.
Rom 1:23 and, instead of worshipping the imperishable God, they worshipped images resembling perishable man or resembling birds or beasts or reptiles.
5. This lead to complete Moral Corruption.
Rom 1:24 For this reason, in accordance with their own depraved cravings, God gave them up to uncleanness, allowing them to dishonour their bodies among themselves with impurity.
Rom 1:25 For they had bartered the reality of God for what is unreal, and had offered divine honours and religious service to created things, rather than to the Creator--He who is for ever blessed. Amen.
Rom 1:26 This then is the reason why God gave them up to vile passions. For not only did the women among them exchange the natural use of their bodies for one which is contrary to nature, but the men also,
Rom 1:27 in just the same way--neglecting that for which nature intends women--burned with passion towards one another, men practising shameful vice with men, and receiving in their own selves the reward which necessarily followed their misconduct.
Rom 1:28 And just as they had refused to continue to have a full knowledge of God, so it was to utterly worthless minds that God gave them up, for them to do things which should not be done.
Rom 1:29 Their hearts overflowed with all sorts of dishonesty, mischief, greed, malice. They were full of envy and murder, and were quarrelsome, crafty, and spiteful.
Rom 1:30 They were secret backbiters, open slanderers; hateful to God, insolent, haughty, boastful; inventors of new forms of sin, disobedient to parents, destitute of common sense,
Rom 1:31 faithless to their promises, without natural affection, without human pity.
They are without excuse because they have the revelation of God in nature, and a conscience that approves or disapproves of what they do. Romans 1 :19-20;
Rom 2:14 For when Gentiles who have no Law obey by natural instinct the commands of the Law, they, without having a Law, are a Law to themselves;
Rom 2:15 since they exhibit proof that a knowledge of the conduct which the Law requires is engraven on their hearts, while their consciences also bear witness to the Law, and their thoughts, as if in mutual discussion, accuse them or perhaps maintain their innocence--
Rom 2:16 on the day when God will judge the secrets of men's lives by Jesus Christ, as declared in the Good News as I have taught it.
Even the Jews which had all the advantages of being God’s chosen nation and being given the Law through Moses have violated God very Laws in thought, word and actions. See Romans chapter 2.
“Paul clangs the prison doors shut of the Cells of Condemnation.
Rom 3:19 Now we know that as many things as the law says, it speaks to those under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.
By the deeds of the Law no flesh shall be justified before God, because all have sinned and have fallen short of the glory of God.
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