26 For this reason God gave them up to vile passions. For even their women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature. 27 Likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust for one another, men with men committing what is shameful, and receiving in themselves the penalty of their error which was due. (Rom 1)
In these two verses The Apostle Paul covers both male and female sexual aberrations. It is simply a perversion of what God in the beginning created, looked at and said "was good."
I have heard it said that Jesus never spoke about or aganist same sex relationships. Yet in speaking to the subject of divorce Jesus said "from the beginning of the creation, God ‘made them male and female.’ 7 ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, 8 and the two shall become one flesh’; so then they are no longer two, but one flesh. 9 Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate.” Jesus clearly states marriage is between a man and woman declared by God Himself in the Pentateuch. ( first 5 books of the Old Testament)
When a person unites with another in a sexual union there is more to it than just flesh involved. There is a spiritual component to it. The two become one. Marriage is indeed a sacred union, between a man and woman--only-- as declared by God (Gen 2:21-24)
The good that God intended became corrupted, defiled, twisted, perverse, to the point where mankind was given over to every kind of evil, wicked desire to fulfill that endless craving that can never be satisfied. For mankind desires a new thrill, to assuage a hunger that draws them like a moth to the flame. Leading to their destruction.
Jesus concurs with the Old Testament Scripture of Jeremiah 17:9 “ The heart is deceitful above all things, And desperately wicked; Who can know it? The Orginal word from the hebrew for deceiful means crooked or polluted. So many who have denied the God of creation have embraced another god, an idol by which to justify themselves and give their life meaning.
The environment is their new idol. They decry the pollution of the world yet neglect the pollution of their own souls and bodies with old lies in a nice new attractive package wrapped up by the enemy of mankind, that murderer from the beginning who whispered "has God said???? You'll be like God." He indeed is the god of this age, blinding those fools who have said, "there is no God." And what better way for this one to convince than as an angel of enlightenment stroking the ego's of the intellectual elite. The great deceiver of the deceived.
Another translation says "9The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly perverse and corrupt and severely, mortally sick! Who can know it [perceive, understand, be acquainted with his own heart and mind]?
Stll other translations same the heart is "beyond cure."
12 There is a way that seems right to a man, But its end is the way of death. (Proverbs 14)
People go through their entire lives living in rebellion to God. Refusing to accept what God says because they believe God is trying to stifle their pleasure, their fun, their freedom. So they deny he exists or cultivate the god of their own imagination. But the Father really knows best, because when mankind gives itself over to unbridled passions, the flesh is never satisfied, leading to a downward spiral into the abyss of endless sorrow. Always unfulfilled. Slaves to a mind driven by lust--earthly, sensual, demonic.
20 When you were slaves to sin, you were free from the control of righteousness. 21 What benefit did you reap at that time from the things you are now ashamed of? Those things result in death! 22 But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves to God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life. 23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 6)
It is a strong word in the orginal language. Slave. (doulos) it is one who is in a permanant relation of servitude to another. His will altogether consumed in the will of another.
17 So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking. 18 They are darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardening of their hearts. 19 Having lost all sensitivity, they have given themselves over to sensuality so as to indulge in every kind of impurity, with a continual lust for more.(Eph 4)
Human beings are either one or the other. Slaves to sin. Or slaves to God. I find it interesting that when people believe they are free to do whatever they want, so to speak, they really aren't free at all. They're slaves. Slaves to their lusts, slaves to their passions and slaves to their desires. This can never lead to true peace and contentment. These are the ones who constantly seek that which will satisfy, if only for a moment, the uncontrollable urge that floods through them. Saddest part of all, after that desire is fulfilled, it must be saught after again and again and again. A never ending maze of maddening perversity that always leads to death.
5 Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. (Gen 6)
God's patience lasts for a very long time. But one day He will say "ENOUGH." Sodom and Gomorrah are an example of this. To us all. As The apostle Peter tells us.
"and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, making them an example to those who afterward would live ungodly;" (2 Peter 2)
All throughout the Scripture the unrependant are warned that one day God's patience will cease.... 3 For when they say, “Peace and safety!” then sudden destruction comes upon them, as labor pains upon a pregnant woman. And they shall not escape. (1 Thess 5)
For those without the only name under heaven given by which we can be saved ....19 Oh, how they are brought to desolation, as in a moment! They are utterly consumed with terrors.(Ps 73) It will be a day of terror. A day when they realize their time is up.
I saw the dead, small and great, standing before God, and books were opened. And another book was opened, which is the Book of Life. And the dead were judged according to their works, by the things which were written in the books. 13 The sea gave up the dead who were in it, and Death and Hades delivered up the dead who were in them. And they were judged, each one according to his works. 14 Then Death and Hades were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. 15 And anyone not found written in the Book of Life was cast into the lake of fire. (Rev 20)
As Jesus says in his parable of the sheep and goats in Matt. 25 " 41 “Then He will say to those on the left hand, ‘Depart from Me, you cursed, into the everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels.46 And these will go away into everlasting punishment.
Are you believing the lie of the world, the flesh and the devil. A terrible day of judgement will come. The religionists don't like too speak about it, or just don't believe it. But scripture teaches it. I ask look at the world today. What's wrong with it. We are what is wrong with it. All of us because our our rebellion against God.
"both Jews and Greeks that they are all under sin.10 As it is written:
“ There is none righteous, no, not one;
11 There is none who understands;
There is none who seeks after God.
12 They have all turned aside;
They have together become unprofitable;
There is none who does good, no, not one.”
13 “ Their throat is an open tomb;
With their tongues they have practiced deceit”;
“ The poison of asps is under their lips”;
14 “ Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.”
15 “ Their feet are swift to shed blood;
16 Destruction and misery are in their ways;
17 And the way of peace they have not known.”
18 “ There is no fear of God before their eyes.”
And it is Paul the apostle quoting the Old Testament, for there are those who are sorely deceived by false teachers in the distributed churches who deny the only God and His Son Jesus Christ our Lord by telling people that they can pray in any god they wish to pray to.
Remember this, the Father judges no one but has committed ALL JUDGEMENT TO THE SON. Jesus will be, is the JUDGE. It is He you will stand before one day. And now that day is nearer than before. The seconds are ticking down. The time is at hand. The earth and the heavens are about to shake. ...."when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with His mighty angels, 8 in flaming fire taking vengeance on those who do not know God, and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9 These shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His power...(2 Thess 1)
BUT for all those who have bowed to the King of Kings and Lord of Lords....and confessed that Jesus Christ is Lord....(to the glory of God the Father) "our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ, 21 who, by the power that enables him to bring everything under his control, will transform our lowly bodies so that they will be like his glorious body. "(Phil 3)
For the people of God, those born not of the flesh, not of the will of man but of God. School will be over. A New Heavens and New Earth where righteousness dwells will be established. And we shall be together forever with the lord. Comfort one another with this.
1 Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! Therefore the world does not know us, because it did not know Him. 2 Beloved, now we are children of God; and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He is revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is. 3 And everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as He is pure.
The world and it's desires are passing away. It will all be burned up. The things of man will be no more. God will reign supreme. And only those who are righteous, by the righteousness of Jesus Christ can enter in. Where will you stand on that great day. When Jesus puts the question to you, "Who do you say I am."
1 Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away. Nothing impure will ever enter it.... nor will anyone who does what is shameful or deceitful, the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars—their place will be in the fiery lake of burning sulfur..... But only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s book of life.
