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. "
Why would the Absolute Love let this happen? Don't you hear this all the time. Instead of people and our lustful passions, anger and hatred being the cause of wars, murders and violence, we blame God. We exchanged the duty of honoring Christ, for the harsher duty of serving our flesh. We desire fulfillment but never look for it in the one who fulfills.
No sexual intercourse is not wrong, it is a creation of God, meant for pleasure, we pervert the act and are never satiated. Yes there are consequences for this perversion.This error in judgment. This deception of the heart and understanding.
Rom 1:26, 27 "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."
We now; in this web of deception, this exchange of truth for lies; are inundated with the result of the exchange. Have you ever been covetous, even envious, ever gossip or slander, ever boastful, act heartless or disobeyed your parents.
It is not right to point to something you might feel is wrong- like homosexuality-then feel superior or righteous because that isn't our part of the exchange. Religion and moral superiority can be just as heinous an exchange. Any goodness of man falls short.
Rom 1:28-31 "And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done. They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips, slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless. "
The only thing left, apart from humble repentance and falling back on the everlasting, absolute love of God, is to live in approval of what we know is wrong-self-justification. We say; "it is no worse than what the other person did." "I am no worse than the next person" "It doesn't matter, I'm not harming anyone else" "What is done in private is my own business." and "They deserved it."
All the while we know, how unloving these actions and attitudes are, how unlike the image of God we have become. He is Absolute Love.
Rom 1:32 "Though they know God's decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them."
There are no excuses left to give, when we come to give an account of ourselves, before the Absolute Love.
Rom 2:1 "Therefore you have no excuse, O man, every one of you who judges. For in passing judgment on another you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, practice the very same things."
Fall on Him and be saved, He is Absolute Love.
Why would the Absolute Love let this happen? Don't you hear this all the time. Instead of people and our lustful passions, anger and hatred being the cause of wars, murders and violence, we blame God. We exchanged the duty of honoring Christ, for the harsher duty of serving our flesh. We desire fulfillment but never look for it in the one who fulfills.
No sexual intercourse is not wrong, it is a creation of God, meant for pleasure, we pervert the act and are never satiated. Yes there are consequences for this perversion.This error in judgment. This deception of the heart and understanding.
Rom 1:26, 27 "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."
We now; in this web of deception, this exchange of truth for lies; are inundated with the result of the exchange. Have you ever been covetous, even envious, ever gossip or slander, ever boastful, act heartless or disobeyed your parents.
It is not right to point to something you might feel is wrong- like homosexuality-then feel superior or righteous because that isn't our part of the exchange. Religion and moral superiority can be just as heinous an exchange. Any goodness of man falls short.
Rom 1:28-31 "And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done. They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips, slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless. "
The only thing left, apart from humble repentance and falling back on the everlasting, absolute love of God, is to live in approval of what we know is wrong-self-justification. We say; "it is no worse than what the other person did." "I am no worse than the next person" "It doesn't matter, I'm not harming anyone else" "What is done in private is my own business." and "They deserved it."
All the while we know, how unloving these actions and attitudes are, how unlike the image of God we have become. He is Absolute Love.
Rom 1:32 "Though they know God's decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them."
There are no excuses left to give, when we come to give an account of ourselves, before the Absolute Love.
Rom 2:1 "Therefore you have no excuse, O man, every one of you who judges. For in passing judgment on another you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, practice the very same things."
Fall on Him and be saved, He is Absolute Love.
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