I feel like whenever someone reads the bible they should be required to be listening to bands such as Impending Doom, With Blood Comes Cleansing or For Today. If you don't know who these guys are you should. I feel this kind of music invokes feelings within us that do justice to how we should react to God. Fear, action, awe, adrenaline and so on. Romans 1:16 starts off with this, "For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it IS the POWER of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also the Greek. For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith, as it is written "The righteous shall live by faith."" I love the first part of this verse, "For I am not ashamed of the gospel." I don't know about the rest of you, but to often I find myself being ashamed of the gospel. When I'm surrounded by nonbelievers I tend to hide my faith. I feel like this comes form the natural desire for us as humans to want to be accepted by everyone. As christians I feel like this needs to change. Yeah you may loose a few friends or you may be singled out, but thats all worth pleasing god or bringing someone to christ. God tells us to "... make disciples of all nations..."(Matthew 28: 19). Romans 16-17 also reveals to us that the gospel is the saving power of God, in which the righteousness of God is revealed.
For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them (Romans 1:19). There is no excuse guys, God has given us sufficient evidence of his existence, the fault is with those who reject the evidence.
The rest of Romans 1 gives us foresight of what our lives look like when we choose not to honor or give thanks to God.
As christians we need to honor God and never forget that we are all sinners who deserve death.
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