Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity for the dishonoring of their bodies with one another.Therefore God also gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves;Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:Wherefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts unto uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves:
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Here are the verses for this morning, Romans chapter 1, 24 through 27. Therefore, God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshipped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen. For this reason, God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature. 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. Let me remind you of the flow of this passage. You look at verse 22, claiming to be wise, they became fools. Paul from Romans 1.18 through chapter 3 verse 20 is pouring upon his readers this argument about the universality of sin. And here particular in chapter 1, it's about sins in the Gentile world. …
… Paul said, don't trade the treasure for trinkets. Trinkets. Romans 1 24. Therefore God gave them over. There's the abandonment. Remember that? That's the wrath of God. God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity. Are you, are you believing? It's a controversial statement to say a man is a man and a woman is a woman. I'm telling you guys, insanity. There's no other explanation. For the degrading of their bodies with one another. C.S. Lewis was a famous atheist who was transformed by the power of the gospel. Look at what he said. There are only two kinds of people in the end. Those who say to God, thy will be done, and those to whom God says, in the end, all right then, have it your way. And the most frightening character in Scripture that faced this was the biblical bodybuilder, Samson. Samson, a he-man with a she-weakness. Judges chapter 16 verse 20 he'd gone through all these women all this fame he turned his back on God and it was his time to shine but the Bible says in Judges 16 20 but he did not know that the Lord had left him. …
… what? Thinking. Claiming to be wise, they became fools. So, worldly worship leads to worldly thoughts. Let's see where it goes from this. Romans 1 24 says, therefore, so in light of, see if it shows up at the top here. Barely. All right, here we go. In light of worship that is centered around the world that leads to worldly thoughts. So therefore, in light of this, God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the creator who is forever blessed, who is blessed forever, amen. So did you see that? Worldly worship led to worldly thoughts which led to worldly desires. God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, which then led to what? To the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves. Worldly actions. So then, and then it comes back to the core, why do they have these worldly desires and act in this worldly way? …