There is no college
degree needed to understand what God is saying here. If man chooses to reject Him, His Word, and
His ways, God will let him live in the filth of his sin and bear its
consequences.
The world of Paul’s
day was no different than ours is today.
There was a blatant disregard for God and people were pursuing sinful
pleasures. Immorality was common. Sexual expressions contrary to God’s design
for sex were common. Homosexual activity
was common. God could have prevented mankind
from doing it, but He didn’t. He wants
us to live within His moral boundaries out of our willful desire to please Him,
not out of forced obedience.
The Lord gave us
sexuality to honor Him. We honor Him as
we join with Him in the process of creating life. God in His wisdom gave us desires that were
to be fulfilled by the opposite sex. Our
attraction to each other would aid in the bonding of the hearts into oneness
and ensure that mankind would flourish.
What God created for good, man in his sinfulness soon perverted.
Man soon glorified
his sexuality and it became an end in itself instead of the means to an end as
God designed it to be. Man pursued the
pleasures it brings instead of pursuing God.
Man did what was right in his own eyes and chose to dishonor God. Sin causes us to distort and pervert that
which God created for good. Whenever we
choose to do something contrary to God’s intended purposes, it is sin. All immoral behavior is sin. God sets the boundaries for our sexual behavior
and anything outside of those boundaries is sin.
In order to honor
God we must live submissively to Him. We
must live by His standards and not create our own. Great judgment will come upon all who pervert
God’s laws for life and holiness.
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