Paul unfold God’s Wrath on Man’s Sin Part 4
Romans
1:29-32 Being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness,
covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit,
evil-mindedness; they are whisperers, backbiters, haters of God,
violent, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, undiscerning,
untrustworthy, unloving, unforgiving, unmerciful; who, knowing the righteous
judgment of God, that those who practice such things are deserving of death,
not only do the same but also approve of those who practice them. NKJV
We saw the last time how the Apostle Paul by
inspiration of God the Holy Spirit revealed that a part of God’s Wrath on living
humanity is to give them up or over to a mind unable to discern the difference
between what is good and evil in God’s sight. Paul calls this type of mind morally
reprobate, unapproved, rejected, and worthless. It does not take a rocket
scientist to conclude that those given over to this mind cannot produce any
sort of lifestyle that is honoring or pleasing to God. Therefore, we saw that
Paul documented for us how humanity given over to this debased mind turned 180
degrees away from what was normal, nice, and natural in the God designed and
ordained order of sexual behavior to lust after and engage in sexual activity
with the same sex. Our Lord Jesus Christ said, Matthew 6:22-23 “The lamp of the body is the
eye. If therefore your eye is good, your whole body will be full of light. But
if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the
light that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness!” NKJV
In the people given up by God to a reprobate mind is
utter and complete spiritual darkness that manifest itself in the vile passions
described by the Apostle Paul in Romans
1:26-27. It is very easy for each one of us and all people everywhere to
say, “Well certainly this sort of mind does not apply to me because I have
never partaken in the vile passions of homosexuality.” The Holy Spirit leading
the Apostle Paul in the writing of this letter now known as the “Book of Romans”
fully anticipated sinful human beings everywhere (not just those in Rome during
the time of Paul’s writing) making this declaration in their hearts and minds. Now
Paul continues on to say that all of humanity given over to this worthless mind
are filled with all unrighteousness, and God the Holy Spirit inspires Paul to go
on to include 22 additional vile sins that spring forth from the heart of
unregenerate humanity. These sins are a mixture of the sins of the flesh and the
sins of the spirit and every human being can find themselves in this list (Romans 3:23) and all of these sins are
equally repulsive to a Just and Holy God. First up on the list are fornicators,
as if we thought Paul was through with the sexual sin when he called out
homosexuality, but now he includes fornication/sexual immorality which is all
sex outside of marriage (pornography, masturbation, adultery, incest,
prostitution, pedophilia, etc.) between a man and woman (1 Thessalonians 4:3).
Next is wickedness which means those who plot sin
and depravity or harm to others (Proverbs
30:20). It stands that covetousness follows which means to be insatiably desiring
of wealth by any greedy or fraudulent means like the many false prophets in our
world (2 Peter 2:3). The
unregenerate heart is filled with maliciousness which is just down right
badness internally to the point of wanting to inflict physical pain on another
for no apparent reason (3 John 1:10).
They are full of envy which means being jealous and ill willed, resentful, and
spiteful to another person or group of people (Job 5:2 & Proverbs 14:30). The unregenerate heart is filled
with murder in it wanting and executing literally the taking of another human
life (Psalm 94:6 & 1 John 3:15).
Strife in the heart is always seeking for a quarrel or contention or argument (Proverbs 26:21). Deceit is in the heart
of the reprobate always being wiley and using guile to trick others for their
advantage, an attribute of every false prophet (Psalm 10:7 & Proverbs 12:20 & Romans 3:13 & Colossians 2:8).
Malignity is just evil-mindedness where the mind is always consumed or fixed
upon thinking and doing that which is evil or mischievous (that which
deliberately causes harm or damage to people or property) (Psalm 36:4). The whisperer is perhaps one of the most evil of all because
he or she is the one that attacks the reputation of another person in secret (Proverbs 16:28). The backbiter is the
paternal twin of the whisperer except that he or she who backbites will talk
against or slander another person in private or in public it makes no
difference to the heart filled with this evil (Psalm 15:3 & Psalm 31:13 & Proverbs 10:18).
The hater of God is obviously the atheist, but it is
also all who do not want God to rule supreme in and over their daily lives (Luke 19:27). The despiteful person is a
violent person desiring to injure others physically or to insult them with
words (Psalm 7:16 & Proverbs 16:29).
The pride of man is the most hidden of all sins but it is the root of all the
other sins for it is the elevating of ones on self above others and this is one
sin that God hates (Proverbs 6:16-17
& Luke 18:9-14). The boaster is the one who brags about his or her own
goodness above others who are not quite as good as they perceive themselves (Proverbs 16:25 & Ephesians 2:8-9). There
are those with consciences so seared that they become inventors of evil things
that is discovering or contriving new ways or methods to carry out evil and
harmful actions upon others (Genesis
37:20 & Psalm 21:11). We have been privy to the disobedience of
children to their parents in every generation (Exodus 20:12). The heart bent to do evil has no understanding of
that which is holy and good from God’s Nature (Jeremiah 5:21 &Psalm 10:4 & Proverbs 4:19). There are those
who cannot keep their word ever and are untrustworthy (Psalm 92:6). The
reprobate mind is without even the most basic of affections toward those of his
or her own flesh and blood but will indeed inflict evil upon even them (Genesis 37:23-28). The person or persons
that are implacable are the ones always breaking agreements or truce breaking
with others (Proverbs 11:18 & Proverbs
12:5). They are unmerciful to others instead seeking revenge or reprisal
for being wronged (Matthew 5:7 &
James 2:13).
Paul concludes this indictment of mankind with the
reality that people take pleasure in leading others into sin and deeper
depravity that have completely given themselves over into the lap of the wicked
one. Worse than all of these depraved conditions and actions that come from a
fallen and unregenerate heart is the heart that gets its thrills, kicks, and
entertainment from the sin and debauchery of others (Psalm 50:18). The Hollywood film industry and television industry
makes billions year after year by satisfying the pleasure seeking and whoring hearts
that long to witness the uncleanness in humanity displayed in big screen living
color and high definition day after day month after month and year after year.
Many of the people who act in this God dishonoring, Christ defaming, and
satanic exaltations are held up as today’s idols and worshiped as if they were
some sort of gods. This is the reason for Entertainment Tonight and the many
other shows like that one totally and singularly devoted to tracking the lives
of these film and TV idols. The reprobate mind Paul speaks of is a mind without
God the Holy Spirit (therefore it is a mind with some degree of insanity) (Jude 1:19) capable of the most debased,
defiled, and deadly acts of violence against other human beings and likewise
the most dreadful acts of depraved sexual activity invented. Every soul or
person unregenerate is living with a mind under the control of the evil one (and
thus it is a foolish mind and an insane mind, even the most intelligent (human
intelligence do understand) well respected man or woman in our world. This is
not popular speech by the lost worlds standards, but nevertheless it is the
truth from the One True God my Lord, Master, and Savior Jesus Christ (1 John 5:18-21).
“Eternity to the godly is a day that has no sunset;
eternity to the wicked is
a night that has no sunrise.” Thomas Watson 1620-1686
“If the Lord should bring a wicked man to heaven, heaven
would be hell to him; for he who loves not grace upon earth will never love it
in heaven.” Christopher Love 1618-1651
“Our nation is being led astray by ungodly judges,
mayors and governors, who are given to change, defying the Constitution and
substituting their own wicked agendas.”
David Wilkerson 1931-2011
“The riches of His free grace cause me daily to
triumph over all the temptations of the wicked one, who is very vigilant, and seeks all occasions to
disturb me.” George Whitefield 1714-1770
“He that boasts of being one of God’s elect, while
he is willfully and habitually living in sin, is only deceiving himself, and
talking wicked blasphemy.”
J. C. Ryle 1816-1900
“Wherefore all theology, when separated from Christ,
is not only vain and confused, but is also mad, deceitful, and spurious; for,
though the philosophers sometimes utter excellent sayings, yet they have
nothing but what is short-lived, and even mixed up with wicked and erroneous sentiments.” John Calvin 1509-1564
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from your heart to the Lord Jesus Christ (you speaking directly to Him), Dear
Lord Jesus, I confess to You that I am a sinner and I need Your forgiveness. I
believe You shed Your Blood and died for my sins. I believe that You rose from
the dead proving that You alone are God. I repent of my sins. I want to turn
from my sins. I ask You Dear Lord Jesus to come into my heart and take control
of my life. I want You to be my Lord, Savior, and my God. Amen...Sincerely in Christ,
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