Romans 1:24-32 The World’s Tailspin Spiral Hits Rock Bottom On The Bedrock Of Homosexuality – Romans Message 4 Series

Romans 1:24-32 THE WORLD’S TAILSPIN SPIRAL HITS ROCK BOTTOM. WHAT IS THAT? WHAT’S THE BIG DEAL WITH HOMOSEXUALITY? – Romans Message 4

This message in Romans continues from last time where we looked at the path man has taken away from God and it goes down and down. Step by step, as he went His own way, the way ahead became darker and darker. This time we will see where the freefall stops and nothing but judgement awaits.

[F]. THE NEXT STEP IN MAN’S DOWNWARD SPIRAL – STEP 4 – HUMAN BODIES BECAME DISHONOURED IN LUST AND IMPURITY

{{Romans 1:24 “Therefore GOD GAVE THEM OVER in the LUSTS of their hearts to impurity, that their bodies might be dishonoured among them”}} The “Therefore” starting the verse is important. In scripture, these adverbs should be noticed. This verse begins with a “therefore”, and as someone has said, “When you encounter a “therefore” always ask what it is there for.” Here it captures all that we have done so far, to draw a conclusion, which is now, the rest of the chapter.

Remember there are 3 “God gave them overs” in this chapter. The first of these in verse 24 is allowing the human heart to follow the natural, sinful lusts. That led to impurity and the dishonouring of their bodies. The latter part of Romans 1 is outlining the downward spiral of the human race. Down, down, and down.

“God gave them over” means God withdrew and let them pursue their own desires. Man’s natural desires are always down. His nature hates God but loves moral darkness. It is a very sorry state for an individual or a nation when “God gives them over” but, we are living in times where we see the outcome of all this. The downward spiral of western nations has seen a great increase in drug taking, in Satanism, in crime and violence, and in hatred for God and Christians. Violence is everywhere, crime is out of control in a number of lands, and Governments are weak, meaningless and downright Marxist. The world is being brought into one by the WEF and the WHO, cemented each to the other by the delusion of climate change.

[G]. THE NEXT STEP IN MAN’S DOWNWARD SPIRAL – STEP 5 – HUMAN REJECTION OF GOD MEANS SATANISM

{{Romans 1:25 “for they EXCHANGED the truth of God for a lie, and worshipped and served the CREATURE rather than the Creator who is blessed forever. Amen.”}} This is a further regression. Remember the hearts are becoming darker, so deeds are darker too. This next move is into paganism and idolatry. God’s revealed truth was exchanged for a lie. It is the Creator who is blessed forever, but natural man has moved so far away from that. He worships creation including the creations of his own hands, and has adopted aspects of paganism into society.

We looked at primitive societies in the last message in regard to paganism and the worship of man-made deities, but in more recent times in western culture there is increasing worship of Satan. The occult is everywhere inspired through rock music and drugs, books, technology and media. Drugs are the portal Satan uses to take over minds where control has been relinquished through the taken drug, or role-playing in gaming. Homosexuality plays a large part but we reserve that for later.

The rainbow serpent is a Satanist spiritism, the worship of the Australian aborigines, and it is being forced on to Australians and kids at school. The aborigines have a “smoking ceremony” where they invoke the evil spirits with the wafting of smoke, and depraved Australian governments have opened Parliament with this ceremony bringing the nation under spiritism and further into darkness.

Not just in Australia and the United States, but the dark forces of the creature who was exchanged for the Creator are in control. Satan has replaced the truth of God. That is why the world heads downwards and pursues lies.

[H]. THE NEXT STEP IN MAN’S DOWNWARD SPIRAL – STEP 6 – ONCE A NATION ADOPTS HOMOSEXUALITY AND LEGISLATES IN ITS FAVOUR, THE DOWNWARD SPIRAL HAS HIT ROCK BOTTOM

{{Romans 1:26 “For this reason GOD GAVE THEM OVER to DEGRADING PASSIONS, for their women exchanged the natural function for that which is UNNATURAL, Romans 1:27 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.”}}

I am keeping these two verses together because they are together. We are at the bottom because Paul has no more points (I called them “steps”) in this descending darkness. Once a nation corrupts its morals to the extent that it legislates to enshrine perversion and debauchery and immorality, then the nation can descend no further. The verses which follow in this chapter, merely outline some of the characteristics of sin at its worse.