• apology called for in admitting merchandise not
paid for
• robbing God of glory also shameful, serious sin
THE POSITIVE POWER OF GOD’S INVITATION
• Good News a call to God’s righteousness
• obedience, salvation also being offered
THE WORLD’S WORST EXCHANGE RATE
• God’s qualities should be obvious from what has
been made
• hard-wired by conscience to acknowledge absolutes
of right/wrong
• exchanged God’s glory for idols: man-made images
(evolution, relativism)
ABANDONED TO DEPTHS OF SHAME AND WRATH
• God gives sinners over to their desires / lusts /
depraved thinking
• sexual sins invite penalty in own bodies; e.g.
pedophile ring exposed
• other sins wall us off from God / others, become
heartless
• prostitution victims aware of deadly shame
• God’s wrath stored up for day of judgment
UP FOR A FIGHT - “HAVE YOU EVER LOST?”
• CS Lewis humbled / helped by wife’s challenge, love
in face of tragedy