Romans 1:18-32  Paul reminds us that God's wrath is a real thing.  He has made it known.  He has made it clear.  It is why He tells us to "Fear God and give Him glory because the hour of the judgement has come; and worship Him who made the heaven and the earth and sea and springs of water." ( Revelation 14:7)  The same God Who created the world.. Who has displayed His power and divine nature in all of His creation... is the same God Who will judge those who refuse to "honor Him as God".  These are the unrighteous, the ungodly, the ungrateful.. the "fools". 

Paul does not hold back in his detailed description of the sins of the unrighteous.  They make idols, exchanging "the glory of the incorruptible God for an image in the form of corruptible man and of birds and four-footed animals and crawling creatures.."  

They "exchanged the truth of God for a lie..." They "served the creature rather than the Creator." 

They act indecently, women and men both, ignoring the way that God designed them.. to "burn" in their desire.. 

".. being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, evil, full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice, they are gossips, slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, without understanding, untrustworthy, unloving, unmerciful... " 

Paul says that these are "worthy of death".  And even more they "give hearty approval" to anyone else that practice these same sins. They will be judged severely for causing others to stumble, "Woe to the world because of its stumbling blocks! For it is inevitable that stumbling blocks come; but woe to the man through whom the stumbling block comes!" ( Matthew 18:7)  Especially, Jesus says, causing a "little one" to stumble.. "it is better for him that a heavy millstone be hung around his neck, and that he be drowned in the depth of the sea." (v6)

What then, do we do?  Repent! Repent! Repent!  There is no other way to have the wrathful judgment of God taken away.  Only Jesus!  We are without any other way to remove the guilt of our sins and the anger of our Creator.. than to choose the salvation that comes through His Grace and Mercy.  Jesus died for this reason.. to take the sins off of us and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.. ALL unrighteousness.  Confess it! Turn away from it! Put faith and trust in the One Who died for this reason.. to save us from the wrath of our Holy God. 

Father, bring the Truth to our land once again!  Turn us back from the lies and the foolishness and the unrighteousness that brings death and destruction.  May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be proclaimed. The gospel is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes! Let this Good News be shouted from the mountain tops we pray!  In Jesus' name. Amen.