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QUESTIONS:
1. Continued sin forces God to give men up to their own desires.
Why is this true?
How can you use this strong Scripture to reach someone living in sin?
2. How far-reaching is sin's damage to the lives of other people?
3. What role does man's free will play in his abandonment of God?
In God's abandonment of men?
2. Man abandons God, actually turns away from God and gives God up.
This may be called spiritual abandonment: man spiritually abandons God.
God has given man a free will, and if a man wills to turn away from God, he can.
God will not interfere with that choice.
To do so would be to take away man's freedom.
2. Man abandons God, actually turns away from God and gives God up.
This may be called spiritual abandonment: man spiritually abandons God.
God has given man a free will, and if a man wills to turn away from God, he can.
God will not interfere with that choice.
To do so would be to take away man's freedom.
So God appeals to man spiritually, through mercy and love and grace, but He does not violate man's choice.
To do so would be to have a coerced and mechanical universe.
Man would become nothing but a robot, coerced to do this and that and to do it exactly as God wills.
The result would be tragic: man would never experience love, goodness, care, concern, or feelings.
Love is not love if it is coerced.
It is mechanical and meaningless.
The expression of any affection or virtue is meaningless unless it is freely given.
Therefore, when man turns away from God, he himself makes the choice to do so, and God cannot interfere.
The choice is man's, and man is abandoned to do exactly as he has chosen.
Therefore, God has no choice.
He must...
aTherefore, God has no choice.
He must...
· give man up
· let man go his own way
· spiritually abandon man
· leave man to live for that which he has chosen
romans 1:24-25
GOD GAVE MEN UP TO UNCLEANNESS
The word uncleanness means impurity, filthiness, immorality, defilement, pollution, contamination, infection.
When men turn from God—abandon God to live unclean and immoral lives—God leaves men.
He abandons them to their choice.
God lets men wallow around in their filthiness.
Men are judged and condemned to uncleanness.
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The reason men are condemned to "uncleanness" is because of the lusts "in their hearts."
Their hearts are filled with lusts, that is, passionate cravings, desires, and urges.
They long after things that displease God and that dishonor their bodies.
God cares deeply about the human body, and he judges any person who abuses the body.
In the Greek the lusts are said to be "in their own hearts."
Sin takes place in the heart before it takes place by act.
2. The result of living an unclean life is idolatry.
Men "changed the truth of God into a lie and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator."
When men live in uncleanness, they begin to serve and to give their lives to one of two things.
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They serve themselves, giving their time and energy to their own desires, pursuits, and lusts.
b.
They serve other "gods," gods that allow them to go ahead and live as they wish.
They imagine what god is like and they worship him either in their mind or in some graven image molded by their hands.
They conceive of a god that is... ·
1. a god of some religion · a god of Christianity · a god of some part of nature· a god of men · a god of creation · a god of goodness
The point is this.
Man abandons the only true and living God and lusts after uncleanness.
He lusts and craves so much... · that he creates a god in his own mind who allows him to satisfy his lust.
· that he rationalizes and thinks that his god understands his situation and need, and that his god will not judge him for his uncleanness and immorality.
· that he conceives of a god who will allow him to do what he wants.
· that he matches his god to fit his morals, letting his morals determine the kind of god he is going to worship.
· that he twists god to fit what he wants.
· that he allows his morals (uncleanness) to control his thoughts about God.
Man serves and gives his time and energy to the god he imagines in his mind and to the idols he creates within his imagination and thoughts.
He abandons God so that he can live the unclean life he craves.
Therefore, God judges man and abandons man to live in his uncleanness.
GOD GAVE MEN UP TO VILE, UNNATURAL AFFECTIONS
The term vile affections means passions, dishonor, disgrace, infamy, shame, and degradation.
It means passions that cannot be controlled or governed, that run loose and wild, no matter how much a person tries to control them.
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The reason God gives men up to vile affections is because of their unnatural passion.
Men continue to lust, craving the illegitimate and unlawful.
They burn in their lust one for another.
And note what Scripture is talking about: unnatural affection, that is, homosexuality.
a. Women burn and lust and exchange the "natural use into that which is against nature."
And note, it is against nature.
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Men burn in their "lust one toward another; men with men doing that which is shameful."
Note again that the sin takes place in the heart.
Men burn within, crave the sin before they commit the act.
It is their burning, their lusting, their craving that sets them aflame to pursue the shameful act.
Their hearts burn after other men, not after God.
Therefore, they stand condemned, and God is forced to judge them.
2. The result of unnatural affection is a totally depraved nature.
When men choose a life of "vile affections," God gives them up to it.
It is man's choice, and since it is man's choice, God can do nothing about it.
God has to give man up to what he chooses.
He does not override man's will.
Note a crucial fact: Scripture says men receive "in themselves that recompence [pay back, punishment] of their error."
The judgment for homosexuality is within, not without man.
If a person burns after unnatural affection, he is given over to his burning; he is given over to burn and crave more and more.
He is judged and condemned to live in his unnatural passion and to feel the shame of it.
He is enslaved and held in bondage to it, psychologically and physically.
And the judgment is "meet," that is, fit, just, exactly what it should be.
If men lust and burn after unnatural affection, it is only fit that they be given what they so passionately crave.
Therefore, God judges men by giving men up to live in their vile affections.
QUESTIONS:
1.
What happens to the man who tries to control his vile affections?
2. Why does God give men up to vile affections?
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