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Abandoned by God, Part 1
Romans 1:24-25

Code: 45-14

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Let's look together at Romans chapter 1 and I want to read for you the setting for our message tonight, verses 24 through 32...Romans 1:24 to 32.

Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness to the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonor their own bodies between themselves; who exchanged the truth of God for the lie and worshiped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen. For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections; for even their women did exchange the natural use for that which is against nature: and likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was fitting. And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind to do those things which are not seemly. Being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malignity; whisperers, backbiters, haters of God, insolent, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: who knowing the judgment of God, that they who commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same but have pleasure in them that do them.

Now basically those verses are a catalog of the sinfulness of man. Men are wicked. They are vile. They are evil. They are creatures utterly filled with sinfulness. They are characterized as ungodly and unrighteous.

Now we are not in this particular day and age surprised to hear this about men because we see it all around us. We see the depravity of man made manifest to us. We're not in a world of isolation. We are in a tremendously integrated kind of world, a cosmopolitan kind of world, a media oriented kind of world that is shrunken to such a small size that we pretty well know everything that's going on everywhere and the sinfulness of man is common knowledge. No matter how well a society begins, it always decends to the same pit of immoral behavior and subsequent judgment of God that is categorically presented to us in Romans chapter 1. Like a baby, the beginnings may be lovely and beautiful but the end is ugly. Everything starts well but the vileness of man's nature plunges him into the pit of sin under the condemnation of God with nothing but a prospect of eternal hell.

Man is not good and you need to mark that at the very beginning. Man is evil. His nature is bent on sin and given his prerogatives he will inevitably end up in the morass of immorality.

Why? Why is it so?

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