The exchange of the absolute for the temporal, who would do that? Exchanging immortal glory for others feigned approval, no one would do that. Exchanging the Absolute Love for fleeting passions, marred images and things that creep around looking to deceive. This is unimaginable, but so true of our lives.
We live in disdain of the loving creator and worship those things that can never bring satisfaction. Thus insatiability controls and drives us ever farther from peace and love.
Rom 1:22-23 "Claiming to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things."
It is our choice you know, and we all have chosen it. We love other things and our own independence more than we love God. God is Absolute Love He must be loved completely, in the purity of His Holiness. It is an unyielding requirement yet it is a requirement.
Rom 1:24-25 "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 worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen."
Is this all too dark for you? Too horrifying to think of about yourself, your family members, the people around you? This reality is the beginning of hope-repentance. But could God forgive us of this?
A glimmer of hope- good news.
Our pastor did a great job illustrating this last week.
Rom 5:6-8 "For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. For one will scarcely die for a righteous person--though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die-- but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us."
Don't forget the contrast between our choice and God's choice. He is Absolute Love.
We live in disdain of the loving creator and worship those things that can never bring satisfaction. Thus insatiability controls and drives us ever farther from peace and love.
Rom 1:22-23 "Claiming to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things."
It is our choice you know, and we all have chosen it. We love other things and our own independence more than we love God. God is Absolute Love He must be loved completely, in the purity of His Holiness. It is an unyielding requirement yet it is a requirement.
Rom 1:24-25 "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 worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen."
Is this all too dark for you? Too horrifying to think of about yourself, your family members, the people around you? This reality is the beginning of hope-repentance. But could God forgive us of this?
A glimmer of hope- good news.
Our pastor did a great job illustrating this last week.
Rom 5:6-8 "For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. For one will scarcely die for a righteous person--though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die-- but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us."
Don't forget the contrast between our choice and God's choice. He is Absolute Love.
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