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- Since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done. (Romans 1:28) It’s clear that there is a sinful, rebellious condition prior to God’s giving them over to a debased mind.
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Jul 29, 2024 · The mind governed by the flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so” (Romans 8:5–7). A debased mind substitutes what is good for what is evil. It exchanges “the truth about God for a lie” (Romans 1:25).
Jul 29, 2024 · Being given over or yielded up to one’s sinful desires is a judgment from God. Who was it that God gave over? The ungodly and unrighteous: “The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness” (Romans 1:18).
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Now let’s look at this specific question; namely, Did God first harden the sinners in Romans 1:24, 26, 28before he gave them up to dishonorable passions? Let me quote one of those verses. It’s clear that there is a sinful, rebellious condition prior to God’s giving them over to a debased mind. In other words, his removing the restraints that he oft...
Here’s a great mystery. We may not be able to fully explain it, but here it is in Scripture; namely, what humans are by nature fits us for God’s just wrath. They were “by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.” This is the condition of every human being. We are by nature “sons of disobedience” — that is, by nature, we disobey; it’s our...
The reason I say “from the beginning” and “decreed from the beginning” is that Paul says in Romans 11:5–7, Paul traces the deliverance from hardness back to the election of grace, which happened before the foundation of the world. “He chose us in him before the foundation of the world” (Ephesians 1:4). From the beginning — that is, the very beginni...
Now, with regard to the other question raised — namely, How does this work in culture? — that’s just another world he opens up at the end there; he just throws that one in. Are you kidding me? Throw that question in here on top of this? How does this work in culture? Let me just close with one observation. In view of Romans 1:24, 26, 28, it is naiv...
It turns out that, at least on this side of eternity, God has expressed His wrath by allowing human beings to be consumed with the desire to do unrighteous things out of a debased mind. In other words, God allowed humanity free reign to express their sin unchecked.
- And even as they did not like to have God in their knowledge, God gave them over (παρέδυκεν, as before) to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient (i.e. unfitting or unseemly things).
Eventually when people persist in sin and insist that they know best, God will give them over to a depraved mind. This results in a loss of mental health—a mind that cannot tell right from wrong and is totally focused on “me.”.
Aug 21, 2020 · Romans 1:28 reveals that “God gave them up to a debased mind…”. Who is this describing, and what does it mean? From one of our Ask Ligonier events, Derek Thomas speaks on the dreadful effects of sin and the only way they can be undone.
