HOLY WRATH AGAINST HUMAN SIN. Romans 1:18-32 It is important for us all to remember that God is loving and just. His justice doesn’t negate His love in any way. Love and justice were reconciled at the cross of Calvary when God laid on His Son the iniquity of us all. God’s love is not inconsistent with His holiness in any way. By the very nature of our being, humans, created by God and for God to share fellowship and life with, have been endued with a sense of “God-awareness” in us. That truth has been wired into us by being created in God's image.
Human beings can be saved by God’s grace based on the witness of creation and conscience because “natural revelation” is given to people in every nation who fear Him and practice what is right. It is in human nature to seek the Lord if we choose to. He is not far from every person because “in Him, we live and move and have our being.” We do not become children of God by what we believe but by the One in whom we believe. When we put our faith in the Lord Jesus Christ personally, we become “children of God by faith in Jesus Christ.”
In this part of Romans One, the message of the Gospel to us is that there is a God willing to reveal Himself to us through whatever means we are willing to allow Him. Our God-given free will gives us that privilege. When a person seeks the Lord, even though they may know nothing about Him except that He exists, He makes sure that that person comes to know Him and believes in Him by faith.
Another major point of this last part of the chapter is that God has designed people, in His own way, to live and function in the way He made us. God condemns sexual misbehavior. He made human beings male and female for their comfort and well-being and to pro-create and continue the human race. Human life lived in the way God intends can be a fulfilling and meaningful way of life. To choose to live in a way that is not according to the divine plan will bring righteous judgment on those who exalt themselves and worship themselves by placing their will above God’s will.
The world's major religions all have a broad base of morality that includes a moral lifestyle. That is because of the commonality of humanity. God’s covenant of righteousness in the practice of life that was made with Noah preceded the covenant of written moral laws that He made with Israel. Natural moral laws are written on the tables of each human heart. Sadly, we go astray as soon as we are born with the sin principle passed on from parents to children, and it doesn’t skip any generation. “All have sinned and come short of the glory of God.”