Contempt for God’s Kindness
Romans 2:4 Contempt for God's Kindness As you take your Bibles in hand, please turn to Romans, chapter 2, verse 4. As we have worked through Paul’s letter to the Romans, especially beginning in Romans 1:18 to the end of the chapter, we have seen Paul demonstrate two things. First of all the justice of God’s condemnation, the justice of God’s wrath against the world in it’s sinful rebellion. He has demonstrated the justice of that wrath by showing the universality of sin. Sin is everywhere, and he’s illustrated the pervasiveness of sin, the universality of sin by showing the gross immorality in the society to which he was writing. And, in fact, the same kinds of immoralities that you would have seen in Greco-Roman society you see in society in America today. And so Paul…