God Gave Them Up

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God Gave Them Up!

• Roman 124-32

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• Whatever a man sows, this he will also reap
  Galatians 67

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Proverbs 1434 (NASB)

• Righteousness exalts a nation,
  But sin is a disgrace to any
  people.

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• Mans failure to take heed to this rule and
  continue in sin, is a
  demonstration of our great and desperate need of
  the saving power of the gospel of Christ.

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God Gives Sinners Up When They Forsake Him.

• When people reject God and turn to idols, the
  result is a corrupt mind and strong desire for
  morally unclean practices (Rom. 124, 26-28).

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• When people abandon God and rebel against His
  will, God gives them up to fulfill their hearts
  desire, a deliberate act of wrath.

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Romans 124 (NASB)

• Therefore God gave them over in the lusts of
  their hearts to impurity, that their bodies might
  be dishonored among them.

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Romans 126 (NASB)

• For this reason God gave them over to degrading
  passions for their women exchanged the natural
  function for that which is unnatural,

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Romans 128 (NASB)

• And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge
  God any longer, God gave them over to a depraved
  mind, to do those things which are not proper,
  -- cf. James 113

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• When God gives people up to their practices of
  sin, they learn the hard way what sin leads to
  and suffer the consequences of sin.

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Galatians 67-8 (NASB)

• 7 Do not be deceived, God is not mocked for
  whatever a man sows, this he will also reap. 8
  For the one who sows to his own flesh shall from
  the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows
  to the Spirit shall from the Spirit reap eternal
  life.

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Given Up to Degrading Passions.

• The exchange of God for idols leads to another
  awful exchange Natural relations for unnatural
  ones.

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Romans 126 (NASB)

• For this reason God gave them over to degrading
  passions for their women exchanged the natural
  function for that which is unnatural

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Romans 127 (NASB)

• and in the same way also the men abandoned the
  natural function of the woman and burned in their
  desire toward one another, men with men
  committing indecent acts and receiving in their
  own persons the due penalty of their error.

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• Natural is not what seems natural to you or to
  me, but what is natural to God! (e.g., Gen. 224
  Mat. 194-6).

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• To God, homosexual sex is indecent or
  shameful (Rom. 127) an abomination (Lev.
  1822), meaning morally disgusting.

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• The behavior condemned here is very much mutual
  or consensual (Rom. 127a) burned in their
  desire toward one another.

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• Homosexuals receive in their own persons the due
  penalty of the error (Rom. 127b cf. 1 Cor.
  618).

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• When people forsake God, God will forsake them
  and as a result, they will grow from bad to worse.

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Romans 129-31 (NASB)

• 29 being filled with all unrighteousness,
  wickedness, greed, evil full of envy, murder,
  strife, deceit, malice they are gossips, 30
  slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant,
  boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to
  parents, 31 without understanding, untrustworthy,
  unloving, unmerciful

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• Marks of a Society That Rejects
  God and the Consequences
  They Suffer. Romans
  128-32

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GOD GAVE THEM UP

• Fornication (KJV) unlawful, illicit sexual
  intercourse, includes pre-martial relations,
  adultery, homosexual acts, bestiality, incest.

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1 Corinthians 618 (NASB)

• Flee immorality (fornication - KJV). Every
  other sin that a man commits is outside the body,
  but the immoral man sins against his own body.

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GOD GAVE THEM UP

• Greed / Covetousness
• The covetous crave more and more of what they
  have enough of already.
• They long for more and therefore are never
  satisfied, content, nor truly happy.

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• Jesus warned of the danger of covetousness and
  how a person could lose their soul because of it!
  (Luke 1215-21).

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GOD GAVE THEM UP

• Maliciousness deep-seated hatred with the
  wish to do harm to others.

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• Hateful people are miserable people who
  experience the fruit of bitterness, discord, and
  unhappiness.

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GOD GAVE THEM UP

• Full of envy
  the feeling of displeasure produced by
  witnessing or hearing of the advantage or
  prosperity of others -- Vines Expository
  Dictionary.

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• They are so focused on what they dont have they
  lose sight of what they do have and what they can
  do to help those who are less fortunate.

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GOD GAVE THEM UP

• Murder to slay or kill unlawfully.
  Strife a desire to
  argue for pleasure, to irritate, and disquiet
  everyone.

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• Murder may lead to imprisonment or execution, yet
  it also may lead to overwhelming guilt, haunting
  memories, and regret.

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• Strife is the desire to purposefully irritate,
  disquiet, alarm, or upset others.

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Proverbs 171 (NASB)

• Better is a dry morsel and quietness with it,
  than a house full of feasting with strife.

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• People who continually cause strife take delight
  to contradict others yet lose friendships and
  peace with others.

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GOD GAVE THEM UP

• Deceit (i.e., trickery, fraud, dishonesty) (1
  Pet. 310).
  Evil-mindedness (bent on evil) (Prov. 1119)
  Whisperers (gossips)
  and Backbiters (speak false of you behind your
  back, slanderers) (Prov. 2019 1113).

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1 Peter 310 (NASB)

• For, "Let him who means to love life and see
  good days refrain his tongue from evil and his
  lips from speaking guile (deceit).

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Proverbs 1119 (NASB)

• ... he who pursues evil will bring about his
  own death.

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Proverbs 2019 (NASB)

• He who goes about as a slanderer reveals
  secrets, Therefore do not associate with a
  gossip.

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Proverbs 1119 (NASB)

• He who goes about as a talebearer reveals
  secrets, but he who is trustworthy conceals a
  matter.

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GOD GAVE THEM UP

• Haters of God,
  Insolent (rude, injurious, disrespectful,
  insulting of others), Proud (arrogant),
  Boastful, and
  Inventors of Evil.

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• Haters of God (God-haters) are people who become
  so wicked in the hearts and lives that they repay
  God only with hate.

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• Hating God or at the very least rejecting or
  ignoring God, leads people to become insolent,
  proud, and boastful (Rom. 130).

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1 Timothy 113 (NASB)

• even though I was formerly a blasphemer and a
  persecutor and a violent aggressor (or insolent,
  injurious) And yet I was shown mercy, because I
  acted ignorantly in unbelief

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Proverbs 1812 (NASB)

• Before destruction the heart of man is haughty,
  but humility goes before honor.

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• Inventors of evil devise new ways or methods to
  accomplish evil.

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Proverbs 614-15 (NASB)

• 14 Who with perversity in his heart devises evil
  continually, who spreads strife. 15 Therefore his
  calamity will come suddenly instantly he will be
  broken, and there will be no healing.

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GOD GAVE THEM UP

• Disobedient to Parents (Rom.
  130b cf. Deut. 2118-21).
• Includes disobedience in ones youth as well as
  dishonor and / or cruelty to parents throughout
  life. - cf. Eph.
  61-3

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• A nation filled with disobedient children is a
  major sign of decay and a predictor of its
  downfall!

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GOD GAVE THEM UP

• Without Understanding (i.e., willfully ignorant
  or stupid), Untrustworthy (covenantbreakers),
  Unloving (without natural affection toward
  family or kin), Unforgiving, and
  Unmerciful.

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Death Is the Just Sentence They
Will Receive.

• Romans 132 (NASB) and, although they know the
  ordinance of God, that those who practice such
  things are worthy of death, they not only do the
  same, but also give hearty approval to those who
  practice them.

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• WORTHY OF DEATH
  (Physical Hab. 1-3 or
  Spiritual Death - Rom. 623 2 Thes. 19)

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• Despite their knowledge of this (Rom. 132),
  they go right ahead and
  sin anyway and take delight in others
  sinning also!

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• Let Us Take Heed
  to the Wrath of God
  -- the Lessons of Sin and Their
  Consequences and Believe
  Obey the Gospel for
  Eternal Life.

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Romans 623 (NASB)

• For the wages of sin is death, but the free
  gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our
  Lord.