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Rom 1:22-24
We are following here the descent of the ungodly.
Those who have suppressed the knowledge of God find themselves on a downward descent that leads to ultimate destruction.
find themselves on a downward descent that leads to destruction.
Rom 1:18-
When we suppress the truth about God and we do not worship God then our mind which was created to know God and glorify God becomes futile in every pursuit and it becomes darkened and unable to perceive truth.
Thinking They are Wise They Become Foolish
We see here the deception of sin.
How that a person can become so dark in their minds that they begin to think that they are wise when in fact they are foolish.
Why?
Because any wisdom that does not lead to Jesus Christ is foolishness.
1 Cor 1:17-
The Exchange
What is described here is idolatry.
Because they suppress the truth about God and choose to not worship Him as God they are left with a void.
We were created to give God glory so when we fail to give Him glory we must transfer that worship to something else.
The exchange that was made was instead of giving God our creator glory they made images.
These images were of other humans, birds, and other creatures.
We are hard wired to commune with God, to worship God and glorify God.
It’s in our DNA.
So what happens when we refuse to worship God?
The need we have does not go away, so we fix our need to glorify and worship on something else.
It doesn’t even make sense to make and image and then worship the thing that we have made.
And yet… look at Israel after God had delivered them from Egypt they made a golden calf and then said this is our god that brought us out of Egypt.
You would think that only a fool would do something like that.
But then look at the Greeks.
They were suppose to be wise, they prided themselves on their wisdom and yet they worshiped gods of their own making.
Professing themselves to be wise they became fools.
It easy for us to see their foolishness isn’t it?
But what about us?
An idol can be anything that we glorify instead of God.
On Thursday prayer meeting we shared the Lord’s table together.
I shared the passage in John where Jesus said you must eat my flesh and drink my blood or we will not have any life in us.
everyone of us has a hunger and a thirst that we have had since we were born.
We spend our lives trying to quench that thirst and satisfy that hunger.
Some through money and power, some through hobbies and entertainment.
But Jesus tells us that He is the only thing that will satisfy you.
People will often get married thinking that this person is going to satisfy this thirst we have only to find that their spouse cannot fulfil them.
So then they think that something must be wrong I must have married the wrong person so they divorce and find someone else only to discover that this person can’t satisfy either.
The problem is only the bread of life can fill the need only the living water can quench your thirst.
Jesus must be our food and our drink.
We must rely on him to sustain us.
If we try to find a way to quench this thirst through any other means then we make for ourselves and Idol.
Many didn’t follow Jesus after he told them they must eat His flesh and drink His blood.
But He was trying to teach them that we must live by Him we must come to Him for our deepest spiritual hunger and our deepest spiritual thirst to be completely satisfied in Him.
John 6:35
So these that Paul speaks of have made the exchange of the object of there praise and glory.
They have exchanged the bread of life for some stale crumbs and they have exchanged the living water for some stagnate mud puddle.
And so as the apostle said in vs. 18 the wrath of God is being revealed against them.
Not as we might image in the form of fire and brimstone but it is revealed by God..
Giving them Up
Giving them Up
Idolatry always leads to immorality.
If people do not worship God the the most natural place to turn to next is God’s creation.
And because we were made in the image of God, people glorify people.
So we worship the creature rather than the creator.
As we try to find in other people the fulfilment that only Christ can give us it leads to all kinds of sexual perversions.
And the outworking of God’s wrath on mankind is in giving then up to their sins.
So God’s wrath is manifest not in his intervention but rather His lack of intervention.
God gives them over to their lust and their perversions to dishonour their own bodies between themselves.
Three times in this chapter we read that refrain “God gave them up”.
The very worse thing that could happen to any person is for God to give them up.
God is the only one holding us back from self destruction and if He gives us up then there is noting keeping us back and we rapidly race towards our own demise.
if we have raised something or someone up in our lives and we misplacing the glory that belongs only to God, then let us repent this morning.
Let us turn to Jesus and find the bread of life and the living water.
We are then left with this void, an emptiness, a hunger which demands to be satisfied.
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