ROMANS 1:26 VILE PASSIONS When God gives people up to their own burning passion, there is a finality to it. No matter what our government may legislate and consider is in the best interests of the people, God has designed standards of behavior and morality that He knew ahead of time are in our best interests. Uncontrolled passions are shameful and debased. There is no foundation, no excuse for those shameful vile passions to overcome the human mind.
There are normal appetites that are natural to the body. These are not condemned when kept in the guidelines of God's original intention. When one steps outside the parameters of marriage or the boundaries of human society as ordained by God - that leads to adultery and fornication. But these have gone beyond even that to unnatural passions that leave human instinct behind. These women have gone so far that God gave them up. There are those who claim these passionate appetites are natural. When that which is natural and designed by God is overlooked or abandoned by those who seek forbidden fruit, usually there is no real or defined limit that will stop them.
Around us the evidence of changing moral standards have become so common-place that Christian believers will be pressured to accept these changes in spite of what the holy scriptures say. In changing times and when social "more`s" change, we still must maintain our commitment to God and His truth. It is incumbent on us to be faithful to God no matter what people do, even if they are our own kin-folk. For us to accept wrong practices and wrong morals in those we have natural familial ties to, and then to condemn those things in others is at the best inconsistent, and at the worst hypocritical and sinful.
Sadly, there will probably be those we know and love who God will give up because they chose to go their own way and ignore the righteousness of life that God intended. It may well be that those who reject God's moral order for living will not only be given up to uncleanness and given up to vile passions, but also given up to eternal damnation.
What fleeting pleasure of lust and vile passion ever could compete With all that God Himself has planned that we might be complete. The temporary unnatural appetites by-pass the moral interests that are normal Those graceless self-centered actions go against all that we know is moral.
There is disappointment and heart-felt grief that those who in their youth Seemed satisfied and quite content to learn and practice truth But when they are pressured by those who never learned of God's redeeming grace For some unknown reason they turn away and reject a life of faith.
Now what guides them and controls them is these senses, not their soul And they live life in bits and pieces, never able to become whole Chasing vile passions to find some meaning they are seeking quick relief Going down that broad road searching, they do things that bring them grief.
The inward marks and outward scars may not be seen by many But the consequences of uncontrolled passions are hurts that are felt by many. Family members can't forget their great hopes and dreams for you Consequences of vile passions change their perception of the one they knew.
Deeper far than just those of the moment are the consequences yet to come Age and years will dim that passion and that effect will soon strike home To have known the truth and the right way to live and from that to willfully turn Will mean that unfulfilled vile passion will in one's soul forever burn.
Never satisfied, always searching, wanting to try out every new thing Will into the years that follow, nothing but heartache and sorrow bring When those you thought you loved so much have left and to another gone Those vile passions still will make demands when you are alone.
"What a miserable existence such people must have, Holy, Righteous God, and how it must grieve Thee to see those who Thou hast loved, turn so completely away from Thy righteous expectations to dark vile passions. May the truth of the Gospel reach to such people and may they be stopped from going on in that way. May they turn in repentance and faith to the Lord Jesus Christ, Amen."
ROMANS 1: 27 THE PENALTY The laws of our land have changed because of people who want a lifestyle of their own choosing. The moral and sexual conditions God designed including the restrictions God placed upon men, have been deliberately rejected. We must remember, and help others to remember, there are consequences to expect from sin. "The wages of sin is death."
People now rely on the health care system or on the support of care-givers to deal with the results of homosexuality. Those who contract AIDS and other STDs think a cure has been found that allows them to do what they want and still not suffer the consequences. Perversions deemed okay by men are still perversions and payday will always come.
The standards of human contact and experiences were established by God for the moral, spiritual and physical welfare of mankind. When these are deviated from, there will be serious negative results, both for the individual who commits the sin and on others who are around that person. Our sin does affect others whether we like to admit it or not. Governments may make a sin legal as far as the leaders of our country is concerned, but it is still sin. The majority of people may agree with a sin being engaged in, but it is still sin. Churches may allow sinful practices now that were not allowed in them in the past but it is still sin. Families may have those in them who practice homosexuality and feel they have to accommodate to the one who practices that sin, but it is still sin.
The day of reckoning in the future will be by God's standards, not those of men, no matter how tolerant they think the Bible-believing Christian should be. We love sinners for the potential that is in them and for the fact that God loves them, but we hate the sins that are practiced.
It is wrong for me to okay what designates a perversion To accommodate, to those practices people choose, causes great aversion To those who seek to live godly by the biblical mandates And refuse to compromise the truth that we might placate The sins of the flesh some want to engage in for pleasure We know the outcome will be consequences that measure The results of that sin by the standards God clearly gave And those who refuse to repent of that sin will not be saved.
We are right to love the sinner - but not to love their sin Turning away from righteousness is where many begin To ignore what is right, for the immoral pleasures they seek And many who seem to do well in some ways are really morally weak By presenting them with the truth of God when revealed, They have opportunity to repent and believe the Gospel that they might be healed Of those mournful habits that take them on a downward spiral. We may be able to assist them in overcoming that damning trial.
I must never forget the power of God's written truth It gives me understanding as to each person's worth. There is hope for the hopeless when in guilt and confession They turn to God for deliverance from sin and seek His salvation. There is grace that is sufficient for every person's need. There is forgiveness with God when to the Gospel they give heed. Faith in Christ can change a person into a new creation. And the Holy Spirit gives the power to live out one's regeneration.
"O Righteous God, I believe Thou art able to save to the uttermost any who will come to Thee as a repentant and lost sinner. I know when they put their faith in the Person and work of the Lord Jesus Christ; Thou art able and willing to save them, I pray this will happen here in these Gospel meetings. In the Savior's precious name. Amen."