The NEED · Sunday 2 of 32
The NEED of the World
Romans 1:18-32 · Sunday, 4 May 2025 · 9 preachers
The 9 treatments
Same passage, same morning, different rooms.
Chuck Lindsey
The sermon looks at Romans 1:18–3:20, explaining that God’s wrath is revealed against all ungodliness and unrighteousness. It shows that every person is born sinful, that God’s wrath will be poured…
Gary Wright
The Need of the World
God's wrath is real, and the gospel is the only way of escape. The sermon examines Romans 1:18, showing that sin brings divine punishment, yet Christ's death covers the sins of those who trust in…
Jayson Combs
The sermon explores Romans 1:18–2, presenting God’s righteousness offered in the gospel and then revealing His wrath against human rebellion and sin. Pastor Jason Combs calls listeners to recognize…
John Carter
The Gospel: Promised, Powered, and Proclaimed
The preacher continues a Romans series, showing that after the good news of the gospel we must confront humanity’s sin and God’s wrath revealed from heaven. He argues that creation and Scripture…
Keaton Washburn
Rescued from Ruin
Exploring Romans 1:18-32, the message explains that God's wrath is revealed against those who suppress the truth through unrighteousness. It describes a progression from bad belief—like thinking one…
Matt Montgomery
The sermon explains that God’s wrath is revealed against all ungodliness, and that humanity is inexcusably sinful, needing a Savior. It calls believers to examine their lives, stop tolerating secret…
Noble Baird
God’s Wrath and the Need for Jesus
The sermon walks through Romans 1:18–32, showing how God’s righteousness and His settled wrath are revealed against ungodliness and unrighteousness. It explains how humanity suppresses the truth…
Patrick Bicknell
The sermon opens with Paul’s thesis that the gospel is the power of God for salvation, then turns to the bad news of God’s wrath against sin revealed in Romans 1:18‑22. It describes humanity’s fallen…
The passage
Read Romans 1:18-32 (ESV)
Chapter 1
18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth.
19 For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them.
20 For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.
21 For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened.
22 Claiming to be wise, they became fools,
23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.
24 Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves,
25 because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.
26 For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature;
27 and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.
28 And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done.
29 They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips,
30 slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents,
31 foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless.
32 Though they know God’s righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them.
Where else these verses were handled
Other Sundays of this series whose preachers spoke into this passage — counted from verified spoken references, not from the schedule.
| Sunday | Passage | References | Preachers |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Spirit - Gives Us Life | 8:9-11 | 34 | 2 |
| The NEED of the Religious, Pt. 1 | 2:1-16 | 30 | 5 |
| Reach - Romans Road | 3:10-18; 3:23; 6:23; 5:8; 10:9-10; 10:13 | 21 | 2 |
| Israel's Future | 11:1-36 | 12 | 1 |
| Righteousness Explained | 3:21-31 | 9 | 4 |
| Through One Man | 5:12-21 | 8 | 2 |
| Israel's Past | 9:1-29 | 8 | 1 |
| The Spirit - Helps Us in our Weakness | 8:18-27 | 7 | 3 |
| SELF - Incapable in Relation to the Law of God | 7:1-12 | 5 | 1 |
| Grow - Conforming to the Image of Christ | 8:29 | 4 | 2 |
| All Are Guilty Before God and NEED to be Saved | 3:9-20 | 3 | 2 |
| The Spirit - Gives Us Victory | 8:28-39 | 2 | 1 |