Distasteful

Romans 1:24-32

Some things are just distasteful and talking about them or discussing them sometimes leaves a disagreeable measure of bitterness in our mouth and on our mind. Ever since our society decided to make tolerance the number one virtue among men, we have been asked to swallow the acrid disobedience of moral depravity.

It is difficult for some of us to imaging that God would give up on some. When we understand the cost He personally paid to redeem mankind, one would think His omnipotence would force compliance. But that is not the way of God.

We are saddened when we read and understand the plethora of evil acts that debase the mind and body and turn men’s hearts from the Savior to savagery. Romans 1:24-32 is not an easy passage to misunderstand. If we shut our eyes and close our ears and place our minds in neutral, perhaps we can misconstrue or misinterpret, but it requires effort to do so.

These past few years particularly our great Republic has taken serious steps down the slippery slope of immorality toward the abyss of Spiritual death. When our nation, by any means and to whatever degree, facilitates an increase in the speed or our abandonment of God’s design and purpose, we move inextricably toward the consuming fire of His righteous judgment against us.

When the silence of the Church is perceived to be tacit approval, we who are of the family of God invite the wrath of God on those who practice evil, and the discipline of God on those who, by their inability to remain faithful, incur the chastening and scourging of our Father who deals with us as sons (see Hebrews 12:6-8). It is, therefore, incumbent on believers everywhere to speak the Truth in llove. God hates sin!

We must never allow ignorance and/or disobedience of Truth to become the norm for our society. The Church must stand on the absolute authority of the Scriptures and expect explicit obedience to the revealed will of God. Where that conflicts with the rebellion of those who have given themselves to uncleanness and lust, have dishonored their bodies, worshipped and served the creature rather than the Creator, and exchanged the Truth of God for a lie, so be it.

Share the Gospel. Pray. Explain the penalty of the error. Llove. But never give up the Truth. It is our only hope and salvation.