This week is Part Three of a Five Part series about Embracing Righteousness as a Lifestyle. In a world where every lifestyle is accepted and embraced except the Christian lifestyle it is fitting that we title this series Can You Handle The Truth. Remember Jesus said I am the way, the truth and the life.
Romans 1:24-27 NASB Therefore God gave them over in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, so that their bodies would be dishonored among them. (25) For they exchanged the truth of 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 over to degrading passions; for their women exchanged the natural function for that which is unnatural, (27) and in the same way also the men abandoned the natural function of the woman and burned in their desire toward one another, men with men committing indecent acts and receiving in their own persons the due penalty of their error.
Last week Paul told us that man has explained away God. Even with the truth that nature provides, man has invented his theories that leave out God. As a result of man’s lack of regard for the Creator, Paul starts to outline the consequences of disbelief. All you need to do is look around and you will see what Paul is talking about. God gave them over to three things: Impurity of hearts, Degrading Passions, and Degrading Minds. This week we will discuss the first two.
God abandoned them because they first abandoned Him. One word explains the entire thought. SEX In today’s world one cannot watch 5 minutes of television without seeing something with a reference to sex. We see sex introduced to sell items that has nothing to do with it. Society is obsessed with sex. Yes Paul was addressing the Roman Church but the same issue is still alive today. We live in a world where ever depraved thought can be enacted, all from a result of throwing God away. This is happening in the heterosexual and homosexual world. Any way of life that has no regard for God and tries to explain Him away to fit their life has missed the point that point is making.
See it is simple, when Jesus Christ comes into to our lives we are a new creature. Our lives are transformed to live for Him and that means everything we do is for the one purpose of leading others to him. He is our Savior and God’s grace is sufficient to make us what he would have us to be physical, mentally and spiritually. However, we must be willing to listen, willing to see, and willing to believe.
If you would like to have Jesus as your personal savior go to the tab labeled “How to Be Saved” read that page and ask Jesus into your life.
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