When God Gives Us Up Part 2 R825B

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Barabbas is in charge. I want to guide them over to Dollar Tree. What is idolatry. I wanted to. The rejection of God. I we've studied all of this. That's why I'm not spending a lot of time on number two.

It is the suppression of the truth of God reciting number three. It is the refusal to glorify God. Number four. It is the exchange of God for man and number five. It is the rejection of the knowledge of God according to verse 28 since I did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, he gave them over to a depraved mind, we've been rocked in America again because in California the wife of another well-known lawyer was brutally murdered. Recently, all of us have seen it on television. We certainly saddened by anything like that but evidently a young 16-year-old boy has been arrested and he belongs to a sick and even call cold golfs folks. We've got them in our community you cannot baby father lightweight old black like paint their eyes black hair is black. It stands up straight. They got all kinds of symbols and things called Glover them everything about the Gothic cultism is evil. Everything about and on television. The attorneys are saying this. This is secular television as early as this morning I good not once but several times.

A young man who was a Goff walking Peter today 13 times with a blunt object, apparently allegedly called the symbol intro back and some woman and the trainees assigned this was done by a depraved mind, you don't say that was the most incredible bit of attorney I have ever heard of in my entire life.

I mean, he came up with that all by himself and it just admissible in a court of law. If it doesn't violate some kind of amendment but then maybe we going to stand on the rights of the gods. Excuse me. God gave them up to idolatry number two God gave them up to immorality. Verse 26 or 27 and in this particular regard God speaks about the sin of homosexuality.

That is what he's talking about. He's speaking about the sin of homosexuality and he uses homosexuality as the primary illustration of verse 24 then God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another because they had exchanged the truth of God for a lot. They took God out of the scheme of things they said God is not relevant and so God gave them over to their immorality, not the sin of homosexuality is the cardinal sin but sexual sin is that sin which illustrates the degrading of the body outside of the parameters of God's experiment at what is this all about, I submit to you today my dear friends that the sin of homosexuality simply illustrates what happens when God is taken out of the fabric of human relationships. There are three reasons why number one because it dramatically illustrates the perversion of that which God made for man's good. Now whip talking about sex here sex the sex act. God created man and woman in God's perfect order and assignment for mutual sexual gratification for the bearing of children full companionship with the parameters of God's design of marriage, man and woman.

What happens when you take God out of that design version takes place of that which God intended and designed to be good so what's this you never thought you'd hear your boss to say this six is wonderful.

It's incredible. It's to be celebrated. It's the most incredible thing that God could ever give to the human rights God intended it that way but you take God out of it.

It becomes anything but wonderful. I want to show you something in just a moment, folks.

So number one illustrates dramatically the perversion of that which God made for man's good number two, it logically illustrates the refusal of man to submit to God's order. That's why we find this word women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. Man abandoned natural relations with women. All right there is not one single solitary thing about a homosexual relationship that has any logic in it what so ever. From beginning to end.

Listen carefully.

My dear friend.

That's what God is say the human anatomy the way God designed us in every way.

The way the body functions. Every component of our bodies. The presentation of the body. The attractiveness of the body. Everything that you can think about related to human sexuality. It is completely obsolete and entirely. I didn't know how God's created order to have anything related to a homosexual relationship. Both man and woman number three. It historically illustrates a certain sign of the inevitable downfall of the nation. Boy that is a tough one but it does. I wish I had time to give a history lesson on the rise and fall of the Roman Empire, and so on and so forth.

Second Peter 26 is God condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah by burning them to ashes, and made them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly. In June, seven, you might want to read, five, six and seven in a Similar Way, Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding towns gave themselves up to sexual immorality and perversion. They serve as an example of those who suffer the punishment of eternal fire. So what God gave man up when God seen you run your own number one he gave them up to idolatry. He gave them Barabbas, to guide them up to immorality, sexual perversion and he uses the illustration of the sin of homosexuality which illustrates the perversion of that which God intended to be good. It illustrates the refusal to submit to God's order. Natural versus unnatural and it historically illustrates a certain sign of the downfall of a nation. All right, you're ready.

Number three God gave them up to iniquity number one to idolatry number two immorality number three iniquity. What is that from verse 28 in what God says because they rejected God. God gave them over to a rejected mind. So what is a depraved mind furniture a depraved mind is a mind which has lost the ability to know the difference between right and wrong according to God's standards. That's a spiritually depraved line and this list that God gives to us is a reflection of the culture in which we live.

It portrays the outgrowth of a rejected mind of an abandoned mine so I want to get you very quickly, I portrait of a godless person.

I want you just to imagine a person who is a person a man or woman of oil bill without God. God's not in control. God hasa God has saved you on your own. What is that person look like, well, we got 21 Greek terms your I don't have time to get into all of them but I'm going to give you just a smattering and I divided them up into three sections. Number one.

The character of a godless person number two.

The conduct of a godless person number three the conversation of a godless person, character, conduct and conversation God gave them over to iniquity. Well, let's look first of all, how would you define a character how would you discuss the fine someone's character not your think of people. I promise you this is a reflection of our culture number one wickedness what is wickedness. Now we defining the character of a person without God that's been abandoned his armies on wickedness having a bad disposition morally bad to evil the inclination to do wrong. We all know people like that, maybe, except in the classroom next to somebody does matter what class you having history, biology and physiology mathematics that persons in there. I'm telling you they bought an inclination to do evil.

You just know it's coming here it comes. You know it is just that inclination greed number three really greed is covetousness.

The last two at Vaughn's one so folks watch this a society without God is dog eat dog society. That's what that is greed. The last two at Vaughn's oneself number four depravity.

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Then he talks about number nine faithless where they faithless in this text literally means on trustworthy when God says you're on your own. He reigned as you faithless on trustworthy because you left your own recognizance.

Number 10 senseless since this is an interesting word. I did a word study on that you not. It means it means stupid.

I hate to say that, but it is. It means that a person who doesn't have Jesus Christ, God controlling their thoughts is just stupid. I'm going up to some people of the years we talked for example about homosexuality and I've seen but it's just not natural. I mean a man sleeping with a man or woman with a woman. Just think about the illogical nature of a homosexual basically what's wrong with that stupid folks house to put it answer stupid lesson we look at today. The Bible says people without God just become senseless.

The capacity to think spiritually that capacity I can't do it by senseless number 11 Harkless no feelings for others. While there is the character of a godless person. What about the conduct of a godless person carries talking about. Let me remind you again, God gave them over number one to idolatry said all right you on Barabbas regarding number two gave them over to immorality, sexual perversion and said to them you want to get involved in the sin of homosexuality you're going to be given a living death sentence, a living death sentence because you are perverted. What I gave to you for good. You are degrading your bodies, then there is the fact that he gave them over to iniquity gives us this list portrait of a person without God. Godless person number one we looked at the character number two conduct of a godless person and he's got several here: go through all of them. How do you like that x-ray mood comes from strife ever meet someone who is just full of strife and I talked about classrooms just now and and you know teachers will turn that in many of the classes they have menu look out very is there she is just just full of strife we say man I just full of grief and given that somebody doesn't matter.

The sun was shining they going to see a cloud somewhere, strife just want to break just disruptive just strife or malice, or that's a that's a painful word even the site malice is just the desire to inflict harm on other people. Many classrooms you've even made a real down the line and buoy folks.

I went to boarding school in the mountains of Suitland.

I'm telling you I've been in the Army boarding school. I know what these are. I have the shortest fuse in my world when it comes to bullying.

It just does something to me because I been subject to.

Have you ever met somebody who just it doesn't matter what they do. They are going to go and inflict harm on somebody else. They write little notes. They run down, make suggestions, point fingers break down always trying to minimize somebody walking through on campus man here they come with their friends and they see the other. I say look is coming you can bully with your word. You can bully with your eyes you can bully with your heart, you can bully with your fist, you can bully with your person.

Just that's what he stole, not malice.

Just the desire to inflict harm on others before boastful. We know what that is inventing ways of doing evil talking about. Conduct your folks willfully going around doing bad things.

It's a deliberate action number six disobeying parents, you know, by the way that that's the fourth commandment. Honor your father and mother, second Timothy chapter 3.

One of the marks of the end times is disobedience to parents. By the way parents if you want to know that your children are living for the Lord apply that standard Bible says. When God sees you run your own. One of the marks of that is that a child will become disobedient to their parents. So that helps you when you minister to your children. You might be ministering to your children from the wrong angle you trying to fix something with the wrong parts to fix it.

Bible says disobedience is the mark of a person that God is said all right I'll just let Barabbas live in your home for a while.

Ruthless number seven picture of America without God. Never forget the Los Angeles riots. The ruthlessness of people. Katrina the ruthlessness of Ohio just recently an absolute group that I couldn't damn with everything at my disposal, holding a demonstration to their right to hate people and incited another group of people and the next minute you got riots and ruthlessness just senseless ruthlessness, foolishness. That's a picture of the world without God. That's a picture of looseness. That's a picture of God taking his hands off, there's the character in the conduct. What about the conversation of a godless person to things gossip those of the whispers ever made a whisper. I just need to share something with you. Don't don't tell anybody she'd kill me if I told you this in the church we say this and I go to prayer request.

I want to share with you.

That's what we do we catch it.

The gossipers you not gossip does folks. It assassinates someone's character. It breaks people down. It's unfair, it's unjust, and then the slaughter is not gossip us laundries on malicious they deliberately defame others, so there it is what God say, does God looking into the heart of man sign. I'm God. This is who I am. This is what I've done for you not love his man turns around and sees man out on any part he gives us over to what idolatry you can have Barabbas I give you over to immorality and you will get be given a life that same I give you over to iniquity your whole life is going to be like scrambled eggs.

Everything is going to be thrown to get you going to have no course no rider on your ship the plane in your engine is burning. It's on five Jesus looks out upon the cross, and he says father forgive them for they know not what they do I die just for you. Would you come to me you know Jesus Christ you give your heart to him.

You can know him today. You can trust in you can be set free. I've done that it doesn't matter. It's not about the sin of homosexuality or greed of God hating or slaughtering gossiping all of us have sinned and come short of the glory of God but your trust him today. You can be set free my friend for ever.

You can know him. There is tomorrow and I want to invite you today to give your heart and life to him, folks. That is why that is why I want to tell you that everybody is welcome in this church because there is not one of us is anything short of the suicide by the grace you are sensing the joy in Dr. Don's heart, that great truth about what God's grace that you never knew love in your heart that purpose of knowing this is what you're here for as we love God and love others. All we would love to help take the next step sister in your heart. Would you like to have that right now on our phone 866899 word that's 866-899-9673 or you rather go keyboard to keyboard. We love to do that as well. On our website@theencouragingword.org The Encouraging Word.org before we get away closing talk from Dr. Don Wilton are you ready to give your heart of life to the Lord Jesus Christ. I'm so happy to hear that. Why don't you pray this prayer with me today. Dear God, I know that you love me very, very much and I know that the Lord Jesus Christ came and died on the cross so that I might be forgiven of my sin. Today I repainted myself. I confess my sin that I invite you to come into my heart by faith in Jesus name I pray. If you pray that prayer, let me be the first one welcome to the family of God. This is one I hope that you know how much I'm going to be praying how very important this is for me.

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