(True Disciple Conference) the Greatest Words in All of Scripture — Paul Washer

Let's open up our Bibles to Romans chapter 3, Romans chapter 3, verse 23. Before we read our text, let's go to the Lord in prayer. I pray that in this night you would get glory for yourself, get great glory for your son.

I pray that the Holy Spirit might fill ever-increasing measure. That you would revive us in Christ, about Christ. That as it is in heaven, so it would be on earth. Everything in Him, about Him, for Him.

In our weakness, in our smallness, finite and incapable. Oh God, please, in Jesus' name, Amen. Romans 3 .23. For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, being justified as a gift by His grace through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus, whom God displayed publicly as a propitiation in His blood through faith.

This was to demonstrate His righteousness because in the forbearance of God He passed over the sins previously committed. For the demonstration, I say, of His righteousness at the present time so that He would be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.

Where then is boasting, it is excluded by what kind of law? Of works? No, but by a law of faith. For we maintain that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law. We have before us this evening what many scholars and preachers throughout the ages of the church have said to be the Acropolis of the Christian faith.

The fortified city of Christianity. The great shining star in Scripture. I have heard some very godly men say that if they had to lose the entire Bible and could pick only one passage, this is the passage they would hold.

Because in this passage is found the very salvation of man. There are words here that are possibly the greatest words in all of Scripture. And we cannot understand the gospel of Jesus Christ apart from understanding some of these words.

Some of these things that are said in this small text. And if you do not understand the glory of God in the gospel, how then will you live? How will you live? So many today, we call them gospel hardened.

They're not gospel hardened. They are gospel ignorant. So many today that are truly born again. Who are looking for motivation and reason and zeal and a source of Christian life. And they do not understand that it is found only in the truths of the gospel.

And yet they think they know the gospel. But the gospel in America today has been reduced down to, as I have said many times, four spiritual laws and five things God wants you to know. The gospel is treated as a small truth.

Christianity 101, something that you learn in five minutes and afterwards you pray a prayer and then you go on to the greater stuff. But there is nothing greater than the gospel of Jesus Christ. And as it is laid out in this glorious text.

And so we're going to take this text line by line and seek to discover by the grace of God some of what's buried here. First of all, he says, for all have sinned. Isn't it quite amazing? Doesn't this show the lack of discernment on our part and the dullness of our own hearts?

Those of you who are born again, those of us who are born again, upon hearing all have sinned, we ought to be falling out of our chairs at this very moment, worshiping God and giving thanks to God that He has saved us from such a terrible thing.

And those of you who are not born again, who treat the gospel as something common, or maybe have gathered unto yourself a sort of gospel that doesn't change life, you ought to fall on your face in fear, knowing that if God doesn't move on your behalf, you will stand before Him in your sin.

And that is a most terrible estate. All have sinned. Why don't we tremble? Why don't we know how terrible this is? We don't know how much we've sinned in the same way a fish doesn't know how wet it is.

We were born in sin. We were conceived in sin. We were born in a fallen world of sin. The only thing we've ever known is sin. Our society, as Scripture says, drinks down iniquity like it was water. We also live in a land that is rampant of the ignorance of God.

They have no knowledge of God. We don't know who God is. We treat Him as though He were some sort of Santa Claus or a buffoon of a grandfather. And we do not understand that He is the Lord of lords and King of kings.

Do you know that hell is of infinite duration? The primary reason is because every sin you commit is committed against an infinitely worthy and good God. Sin is sin today. Listen to the way we speak about sin.

We talk about sin against man. We talk about sin even against nature and animals and trees. But no one realizes that all sin is ultimately sin against God. David sinned against his people. David committed adultery with a woman.

David murdered a man, but in the end he said this, Against thee and thee alone have I sinned. Why is sin so terrible? Because it's committed against God. Why don't we tremble? Because we don't know what that means.

And why don't we know what that means? Because we do not know who God is. Such a glorious and blessed being. Imagine this for a moment. God stands there on the day of creation. And he tells planets to put themselves in certain orbits in space.

And they all bow down and say amen and obey him. He tells stars to find their place in the sky and to follow his decree to the letter. And they all bow down and obey him. He tells mountains to be lifted up and valleys to be cast down.

And they bow down in worship. He tells the brave sea, you will come to this point and you will come no further. And the sea adores and God tells you to come and you go no. How wicked is our sin. And if it were only an act it would be terrible enough.

But sin goes much deeper in the heart of a man. A man does not simply commit sin. A man is born in sin. Vile and corrupt from the beginning. Let's just go for just a moment. Go over to Genesis just quickly with me.

Chapter 6, verse 5. Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth. And that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. Only evil continually. I simply read this text one time preaching at a university.

And a young reporter came up to me and he said, I don't agree with your interpretation. And I said, young man, I didn't interpret the text, I read it. And he said, well I don't agree. And I said, young man, let me tell you something.

If I could pull out your heart right now. If I could take every thought you have ever had. From your first waking moment until this very hour. If I could take every thought you've ever had. Not just your deeds, but your thoughts.

Only your thoughts. And I could put them on a video. And I could show that video here in this auditorium tonight. You would run off of this campus and you would never show your face here again. Because you have thought things so wicked and so perverted.

You cannot even share them with your closest friend. As a matter of fact, if your closest friend knew. Some of the thoughts you've had against him. He would no longer be your friend. And young man, I do not know that because I'm a prophet.

I know that because it's what the scriptures say. And I know that like you, I too am a man. I can say the same thing about every one of you here tonight. You would spend every ounce of energy. To hide from everyone in this room.

What has gone through your mind just in the last hour. Don't tell me scripture is not right. When it talks about all men having sinned. Because all men are sinners. Go to Genesis 8 for a moment. Verse 21.

And the Lord smelled the soothing aroma. And the Lord said to himself, I will never again curse the ground on account of man. For the intent of man's heart is evil from his youth. This can mean evil from childhood.

Evil from a babe. Let me share with you something that a correction officer said a long time ago. He said this. Discover that human nature is such. That imagine for a moment an 18 month old baby. That you're holding in your arms.

And that 18 month old baby sees that shiny watch on your wrist. And he grabs for your watch. And you pull his hand away and say no. He begins to cry. And move about in your arms. He reaches for the watch again.

You grab his hand and say no. He begins to scream and cry. He reaches for the watch again. You say no. He begins to frail his arms. Even in the direction of your face. I submit to you. That if that 18 month old baby had the strength of an 18 year old man.

He would slaughter you there where you stand father. Rip the watch off your arm. And walk across your bloody body. Out the door without feeling an ounce of remorse. You see here's something you need to understand.

Hitler was not an anomaly. Hitler was not a phenomenon. Hitler was what everyone in this room has the potential of being. And not only that. You need to understand. Even in all the wickedness of Hitler.

Hitler was still restrained by the common grace of God. And you need to know this. That if it were not for the common grace of God. Restraining you in your unconverted state. You would make Hitler look like a choir boy.

What we do not understand is what scripture teaches about men. Men are evil. You say well I don't agree. That's because you've grabbed enough of Christianity to stand. But you don't believe the Bible.

The scriptures testimony against you. And all men. Is that we are born with evil. And we are evil. Do you have to teach a child to lie? Do you have to teach a child to be self centered? Do you have to teach a child to be selfish?

Do you have to teach a child to be brutal to other children? They learn that on their own. Set them free. Discipline them not. And see what you have in ten years. A monster. Why? Because what scripture says is true.

And you hold your ears and you say. I don't want to hear it. I don't want to hear it. In the same way that a person dying of cancer is in denial. And says to the doctor. I don't want to hear it. I don't want to hear it.

But by cupping the hands over your ears. You close yourself off from any remedy. The first thing you must embrace is this. All men are born in sin. And given over to sin. And all men are born hating God.

You say. Well I never hated God. Yes you do. If you did not. If you did not. And in your unconverted state. Hate God. Then the Bible is not true. Because the Bible calls all men haters of God. And enemies of God.

You say. But I loved God ever since I was little. No. You loved an image of God. That you created with your own mind. And you loved what you made. But if someone would have come to you. And pointed out the God of scripture.

You would have said. I could never love a God like that. So many times I'll go to people. And they say. Well I've loved God all my life. And I say. Can I sit down with you for a half an hour. And just explain from scripture.

Some of the historical Christian beliefs about God. And after a half an hour. A good church man will say. That's not my God. And I have to say. Of course it's not. But it is the God of scripture. It is the God of scripture.

Let's take another look. Let's go on over to Isaiah. Isaiah 64. Verse 6. For all of us have become like one who is unclean. And all our righteous deeds are like filthy garments. And all of us wither like a leaf.

And our iniquities like the wind. Take us away. I helped build a church years ago. In San Pablo. Near the Colombian border on the Amazon. And it was a colony of lepers. Have you ever seen a leper? Have you ever smelt a leper?

If I brought a leper of the worst sort. There's about three different kinds of lepers. If I brought a leper of the worst sort. You'd smell him before he got out of the parking lot into this building. If he walked in here.

He would be a mass of rotting flesh. Body fluid. Pus and blood. When he said all of us are like one who is unclean. This is possible to reference here. And let's say that all you fine people say. Well we must do something about this.

So you go to Kansas City. To the most exclusive shop. And you buy the finest silk you can find. And you take that silk. And you bring it back. And you wrap that man head to toe in that fine white silk.

And you say. Bravo look what we've done. We've saved the day. We've made him presentable. But that silk only lies on that flesh for a few seconds. And the corruption of that man's body begins to bleed through that fine silk.

And that silk becomes as corrupt as the man himself. That is why all our good works are like filthy rags before God. Because we ourselves prior to conversion. Have a heart of stone. A God hating heart.

A heart of evil. Born in sin. Given towards sin. That is the testimony of Scripture. Some of you. In your 60's, 70's. You heard preaching like this all the time when you were children. But now it seems the new generations to follow cannot bear with truth.

They would rather be deceived and think well of themselves. But a man who will not accept his illness cannot be healed. A man who does not have all his hopes crushed. With regard to his own self-righteousness.

Merit and worth cannot turn to Christ. We must realize that we are destitute. And there is only one Savior. And His name is Jesus. We go on back to Romans chapter 3. Verse 10 it says, There is none righteous, not even one.

The word righteous in some degree means straight. It is talking about a standard. To be righteous you must be perfectly conformed to a certain standard. If you are not conformed to that straight standard.

You are twisted. You are crooked. Another word perverted. The standard is God's nature and God's law. And the Bible says no one has conformed himself to the standard of God's holy nature. The standard of God's holy law.

All of us have become twisted and dislocated. It says also there is none who understands. There is none who seeks for God. If you have ever truly sought for God. It is only because God has sought you first.

It says all have turned aside together. They have become useless. There is no one who does good, not even one. How many people, even those who set themselves inside the sphere of Christianity. Will tell you they are going to heaven because they are not that bad.

They are going to heaven because they are good. But what is the testimony of Scripture? There is none good. No, not one. None. None have sinned. You say, but brother Paul, I have not sinned much. How much do you have to sin?

Adam and Eve sinned only one time. And the entire universe was cast into moral chaos and judgment. You have sinned more times than you can count on a calculator. If Adam and Eve and even creation could not escape the condemnation of one sin.

How will you escape the condemnation of all the sins that are heaped upon your head? You say, but I am pretty good as far as humans go. But you will not be judged by human standard. You will be judged by God.

A righteous and holy God. And He has seen your heart. So many people will say, don't judge me, you don't know what is in my heart. How foolish a statement. Because they would be ashamed if I knew what was in their heart.

Why would they ever want to use their own heart as evidence that they really are good? Because they hide their heart from everyone. You don't know me really? Okay, then let me see you in secret. No, I would never let you see that.

Just the thoughts of our own mind accuses us. Sinned. And come short of the glory. So common today to take this verse and just almost seem to make it humanistic. What does it mean to fall short of the glory of God?

Well, God had a marvelous plan for all of us. And He had so much invested in seeing us being filled with glory. But although He had this great plan, none of us have reached it. I don't think that's the primary meaning of the text.

When we have fallen short of the glory of God, I think that phrase should be interpreted in the context of Romans chapter 1, where it says, although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God, nor give thanks.

You were created. Well, let's think, by whom? By God. And not only were you created by God, all your faculties, your very existence is sustained by Him. You owe every breath and every beat of your heart to God.

And the breath is given only to return in worship, and the heart beats only to serve Him. And yet, look at the testimony against us. Our minds and our lives are filled up with searching for our purpose.

Searching for our dreams, our goals, our will, what we want. Even those who claim some form of piety would have to say that in their daily lives they're practical atheists. God is far from their thoughts.

When they're at business, when they're in the factory, when they're in the field, when they're working at home, is God the center of their thoughts? And all their thinking and all their doing, are they doing it for the glory of God?

You say to me, but Brother Paul, no one is that way. That's absolutely my point. All have sinned. All have fallen short of the glory of God. Why are men so hollow and so miserable and so without purpose?

Isn't it amazing? Christians in America are the most wealthy, most protected Christians that have ever existed in history. And yet you go into all those so-called Christian bookstores of yours and 85 of the books are written about how empty we are.

Do you want to know why we're empty? First of all, because the great majority of those calling themselves Christians are not converted. But secondly, even those who are Christians are empty for the very reason Jesus never was.

He said, I have food to eat that you know not of. My food is to do the will of my Father. Our food is to gain ground on this planet. Success, comfort, fame, leisure, youth, beauty. Us, us, us, us. And the more we get of us, the more empty we are.

Because we were made for something else. Better said, we were made for someone else. But we have become twisted and dislocated. Not only have we sinned, not only are we separated from a holy and a righteous God, but our whole purpose has been wrenched from us.

All have sinned, fallen short of the glory of God. But now here comes the problem. It is the greatest blessing you could ever hear. It is the greatest problem you could ever hear. And what is it? God is just.

You say, well, that's good. I want a just God. I wouldn't want an all-powerful being who is evil. I want a just God. That's good news, Brother Paul. No, it's not, because you're not just. You see, here's the problem.

He is a just God. And a just God, the judge of all the earth, will do right. And in doing right, His response to you is rather dreadful. Now, I know that you've heard these evangelists over and over on television.

How many times do I hear evangelists get up in the pulpit and say, Now, the first thing I want all you good people to know is that God, unlike those Puritan preachers of yesterday, God is not an angry God.

How many times have you heard that? God is not an angry God. Okay? Let's just see. Go with me to Psalms chapter 7, verse 11. God is a righteous judge and a God who has indignation every day. In some of your translations, a God who is angry every day.

You see, God doesn't need a PR man to make Him politically correct so that people will like Him. The Bible says God is an angry God. And you ought to fall down on your knees and praise that He is. Not only is He an angry God, He is a God who hates.

Not only is He an angry God, He is a God who hates. And you say, Yes, Brother Paul, you're exactly right. God hates the sin and loves the sinner. Well, that looks good on the back of a Christian t-shirt, but that's not biblical.

The Bible does not say that God hates the sin and loves the sinner. The Bible says God hates the sinner. Look in Psalms 5. Just look there for a moment. Psalms 5, verse 5. The boastful shall not stand before your eyes.

You hate all who do iniquity. In another translation, you hate all who do wrong. Now, does it say here that God hates the sin? Or that God hates the sinner? You say, Brother Paul, but what about John 3, verse 16?

It's in the book. God so loved the world. Yes, it's in the book, but so is Psalms 5. But God is merciful and a loving God. What about that? Yes, that's true and we're going to talk about it, but you can't understand it until you understand the full counsel of God.

God is love, but this loving God hates. God is merciful, but He is angry. You see, you just can't take one side of the coin, not just one part of the story, and that's the problem today. As I said this morning, I one time preached one whole sermon one night on the holiness of God, and after the sermon, three men walked up to me and said, Brother Paul, we got a real problem with you because you preached an entire sermon on the holiness of God and not once did you mention the love of God.

And I said, well, gentlemen, last night I preached on the love of God and not once did I mention the holiness of God and not one of you had a problem with that. You see, dear people, we're always getting a one-sided story, but doesn't the Scriptures tell us that we need the full counsel of God?

I'm going to talk about the love of God tonight in a way possibly you've never known it, but in order for you to appreciate the love of God, you've got to understand something. His love is exalted in the same way the stars are exalted by a pitch black sky.

Let me ask you a question. Where did the stars go this afternoon? Did someone put them all in a basket and carry them away? How come when you looked up you didn't see them? Because there was so much light.

You could not marvel at their beauty. You could not even see them because there was so much light. In the same way, you cannot see the stars of God's grace and His love with so much light. When preachers tell you that men are so good, the only way to truly appreciate the love of God and the grace of God is to see the pitch dark blackness of man.

And when you see the pitch dark blackness of your own heart, and then you realize that God moved in love for you, it causes you to fall down on your knees with the greatest esteem and worship God. I have a point to all this madness.

I've got to dig a hole and bury you deep. I've got to show you how dark your night and hopeless your situation so that when I begin to talk about Jesus, you're filled with admiration. Sometimes I'll pick up a thing of keys and I'll jingle them before the congregation and I'll say, does the sound of these keys bring you any joy?

Everyone goes, no. Of course not, because you're not locked away in a dungeon. If you were locked away in a dungeon, the sound of keys would bring you great joy. Your heart would leap with hope. Preachers don't preach about sin.

And they're just about as moral as a doctor who will not tell his patient he's dying. I want to abase man totally. I want man to see what he is so that when we talk about God's love in sending His own Son, men cry out, amazing grace!

How sweet the sound! Several years ago when I was in Peru, someone sent me a tape, Amazing Grace. I was so happy. I love that song. And I put it in my little cassette player there and it went around for the first verse.

I grabbed it out of the cassette player and threw it right in the trash can. Do you want to know why? Because it said this, Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound that saved a man like me. You know, I think it says sinner like me.

And before that it says wretch like me and worm like me. Behold, every generation, man just seems to be getting better. Men don't need saviors. Wretches do. And when you take away the darkness of man, you take away the glory of the Gospel.

Have you ever wondered why some men who were drug addicts and women who were prostitutes and murderers and all so on and so forth, when they're converted, they seem to be filled with such a special zeal for God?

It's because they didn't come from a country club. They didn't come from some religious denomination or religious life where everyone pretends to be moral, upstanding and deserving of God's love. They came out of the sewer and when they heard about the love of God, their hearts exploded.

Now let's talk about God's response. God is angry. And you say, I don't like that. You should. I pick up a newspaper and I'm sitting beside you. I pick up a newspaper. I look at it and I go with a kind of a smile, a twinkle in my eye, hey, did you read this?

A pedophile molested six boys. Hey, get a kick out of this. What would you say about me? He'd say, you're sick. What's wrong with you? You should read that and be so angry. Oh, I should. But God has no right to be angry.

Every day He sees the wickedness of this world. Every day He sees the filth and the murder and the crimes and everything else. But in your book, God has no right to be angry. I tell you He is angry. He is so angry that on the day He pulls back His mercy and He comes to judge the world, the great captains of this world will cry out for mountains to be picked up and thrown on top of them to hide them from the wrath of the Lamb.

What would you think about a God who could look down at Auschwitz and be apathetic? Who could give Hitler a hug? Who can watch the United States of America murder thousands of babies every day and say, I'm okay and you're okay?

He's angry. And if He wasn't angry, He'd be immoral. Just like me. If I read a terrible newspaper clipping like that and laughed about it or was neutral about it or said, every man for himself, you know, we're all free.

You'd look at me and say, you're sick. You should be angry. Well, how much more angry should God be? But not just with the Hitlers of the world. With you. For all your crimes and trespasses against Him and His creation.

You see? Let's talk a minute about Psalms. Chapter 5. Look at this text. Just look at the Bible. I have so many people who tell me I don't believe that. And I say, well, look at the Bible. No, I'm not going to because I just don't believe that.

That's okay when you're at a university and you're speaking to an agnostic professor. But someone who claims to be Christian and does the same thing, there's a serious problem. I just refuse. Look at it.

What does it say? The boastful shall not stand before your eyes. You hate all who do iniquity. You hate all those who do wrong. You hate workers of iniquity. These are the different translations. It doesn't say that God's hatred is directed toward the iniquity or the sin.

It says God's hatred is directed towards the man who commits it. And did not the loving, lowly Jesus say the same thing? That those who did not believe in Him, the wrath of God abides upon them. John 3.

What do you think the wrath of God is? Wrath of God in Hebrew comes from a word that literally means nostril or the flaring of a nostril. I, being a farm boy, we raise Charlay cattle. I know exactly what that means.

We had a couple of 2 ,000 and 3 ,000 pound bulls. Perfecto bulls. You walk across that lot and that bull flare his nostrils, you know your party is over. You better run. When it talks about the wrath of God in the Bible, it's the flaring of the nostrils.

That deity would be so angry. And it says that at the breath of His mouth, the mountains melt. A young guy one time said, I'll stand there on judgment day and I won't be afraid. And I said, no young man, you will melt before God like a tiny wax figurine before a blast furnace.

God comes with hatred against evil. God comes with anger against evil. And you say, brother Paul, but no, as one lady said one time, she goes, no, God can't hate because God is love. I said, well, first of all, we have to go not on philosophical inferences.

We have to go on Scripture. And when Scripture said God hates, you better believe Him. But second of all, let's be philosophical for a moment. You say God is love and therefore He can't hate. I tell you that God is love, therefore He must hate.

Do you love Jews? You must hate the Holocaust. If I told you, hey, did you read about the Holocaust and you said, yeah, yeah, I'm pretty neutral about that. I mean, you know, what anybody wants to do, you know, it was Hitler's idea.

It's okay with me. I would think you were a monster. You'd probably be thrown in jail for a hate crime. If you love Jews, you must hate the Holocaust. Do you love children? How many of you have said with your own voice, I hate abortion?

Oh, so you have the right to hate because of all the great love in your heart. But you think it's strange that God would hate because He loves. You see, God loves all that is beautiful and lovely and excellent.

Let's just all wrap it up in one basket. God loves everything that's like Him. That's where the problem comes from. We have the right to love everything we choose to love, but we think God ought to love everything that we love.

God loves everything that is like Him because He is absolute perfection and He comes with wrath against everything that contradicts His nature and will. And that is us. Everyone in this room has broken every law God has ever made.

If you don't understand that, you don't understand Christianity. Now, I want us to go for a moment to the book of Proverbs. And I'm going to show you the greatest problem in all of Scripture. Proverbs 17, verse 15.

He who justifies the wicked and he who condemns the righteous, both of them alike are an abomination to the Lord. Abomination is probably the strongest word we have in all of Scripture. There's just nothing more horrible before God than an abomination.

And what's an abomination to God? An abomination is this. He who justifies the wicked and he who condemns the righteous, both of them alike, are an abomination. Now, let's go back to our main text. We've looked at, For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.

Now, let's look at this. Speaking about Christians, those who have truly been converted, regenerated by the Holy Spirit, those who have believed in Jesus Christ unto salvation, he says this about them.

Although they have all sinned and fallen short of the glory of God, they are justified. Justified. Now, what does it mean to be justified? Justified does not mean God treats me just as if I'd never sinned.

I know it rhymes and everything, but that's not the meaning of the word. Justified does not mean that the moment you believe in Jesus, God makes you just, perfectly righteous, because if that was the case, you'd never sin again.

Justified means that the moment the sinner looks unto Jesus with saving faith, that sinner is legally declared by God to be right before Him. To be righteous before Him and right with Him. Actually, justification is a forensic term or a legal term.

God the Judge looks down upon the sinner who places his faith in Christ and declares that sinner to be legally right with Him. Now, how does that work? Well, it says this. He says, being justified as a gift by His grace.

Now, Paul's being redundant here. Being justified. Being justified as a gift by His grace. How are we justified? It's a gift. It's a gift. Do you know where it says about the Messiah, they hated me without a cause?

Did Jesus ever give anyone a cause to hate Him? No. You would argue, no, no, no, no, no. Jesus never gave even the tiniest hint of a cause for someone to hate Him. They hated Him without a cause. That's the same word used here.

That the Christian is justified without a cause. That means, sir, ma 'am, young person, you gave God absolutely no cause to declare you right. I don't know why God saved me. Well, I can tell you this.

It was not because of you. It was in spite of you. What worth did God see in me? Absolutely none. He said, He declared you right even though you did not give Him a cause to do so. He justified you without cause by His grace.

Now, I want you to look at something. Most religions today, most religions seek to answer only one question. Think about it. All the religions out there except for some eastern mystic religions, but most religions seek to answer only one question.

How can a man be right with God? If you go into some African pagan tribes or South America or even here in the United States where they're returning to paganism and they're offering blood sacrifices to trees and demon gods and everything else.

All over the world, throughout history, men have had this reality that they were wrong with God. Whatever God they believed in. They had this knowing in their conscience that there was a problem. And that demonstrates one thing, that Romans 1 is true.

That all men know enough about the one true God and enough about His will to know that they have broken His law and that He is against them and they are against Him. But let's just interview for a second three men from your main religions.