A Study of Romans (2)

Gave up

These verses seem to me to answer the age old question - “Why does God allow things to happen and people to act like they do?”;

People have chosen time and time again to resist and reject God, so allows them to live live in their sinfulness;

People have relegated God to being something that is unimportant and irrelevant, they have lost or suppressed their internal longing for God, and have place people, animals and things above Him;

They have not only done this spiritually but physically through sexual immorality;

However God is worthy of limitless praise and worship.

Vile Passions

God created everything to be good, we know this because of the Genesis 1 account where God proclaimed multiple times “and it was good”;

God even created man and woman to desire each other, however with sin comes immorality and immorality leads to deeper and deeper perversion which leads to leaving what was created as good and natural;

Secular society has accepted these vile passions as Paul calls them as normal and natural but sadly so have many churches.

Ungodly Character

Now because of their ungodly character God basically released them into the wild, to do as they please, yet with final judgement coming;

Paul’s list of ungodly character is strategically structured;

The first four are general rejections of God;

The next five deal with people in area of actions and attitude towards others;

The final twelve are unrighteous characteristics

Every person has a deep seeded knowledge of right and wrong - that deep understanding that cannot be explained - even people that don’t know Christ;

Sin comes with a cost and the ultimate cost is separation from God for eternity - a second death.