Day 4

Scripture to Read: Romans 1:26–27

Yesterday, we began to examine where God “gave them over” to their fleshly desires because of His judgment. Today we read that “God gave them over to degrading passions.” The evidence of this has been seen in every generation for the last 6,000 years. So, we should not be surprised when we still see men and women today exchanging their God-given desires for the opposite sex being perverted to desire those of the same sex. We should never think or believe that God’s mercy or kindness allows mankind to live in sin. What causes us to sin starts with our lustful passions (James 1:13–16). When we give in to our lustful passions, that gives birth to sin in our lives and when sin is committed, it always results in death. Because of God’s wrath, mankind goes on destroying itself with sin. In every rebellious and disobedient choice against God, mankind chooses to exchange the truth of God for the lie of our choosing and mankind serves itself above the Creator. God had Paul use the definite article – it is not a lie, but the lie, as we read in Romans 1:25. We must remember that the lie started way back in Genesis 3:5 when the serpent laid out the first lie, “For God knows that in the day you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” Mankind has been deceived by the lie for 6,000 years. Christ is The Truth and the only one who can give us victory.

Challenge & Application

· What is one major take away that God gave you today about mankind’s sin and mankind choosing the lie over The Truth? · How will you help others know Christ is The Truth and the only one who can give us victory over our unfilled desires?

Don’t forget to pray using the A.C.T.S. (Adoration, Confession, Thanksgiving, Supplication) method!

Devotionals from this week

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Day 1

God speaks so clearly through His Word. What God has to say to us this week, as usual, is incredibly powerful. As we unpack Romans 1:18–32 this week, we will see the abundance of God’s grace but also His judgment. As we begin in Romans 1:18–20, the first thing that jumps out to us is that God does not overlook sin, and His wrath is revealed f...

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Day 2

It’s truly amazing how arrogant and prideful the entire human race can be, especially when we choose to ignore God and His Word. As a human race, we can come up with all sorts of “gods” that we choose to worship. The problem with our false gods is that we control them. We contrive in our minds what our false gods expect from us, and we think ...

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Day 3

God repeats His Truth so that we do not miss what He wants us to obey each day. An excellent example of God repeating the exact phrase is in Romans 1:24, Romans 1:26, and Romans 1:28. The phrase “gave them over” is so important that God had Paul repeat this phrase three times. As we have seen over the past two devotions is that God has made H...

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Day 4

Yesterday, we began to examine where God “gave them over” to their fleshly desires because of His judgment. Today we read that “God gave them over to degrading passions.” The evidence of this has been seen in every generation for the last 6,000 years. So, we should not be surprised when we still see men and women today exchanging their God-gi...

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Day 5

When God led Paul to write the book of Romans, Paul wrote it from the city of Corinth, where every sort of sexual immorality and ritualistic prostitution was practiced freely. The terminology of Romans 1:24 refers to this combination of sexual immorality and idol worship. In Romans 1:18–32, God had Paul describe the sin and corruption of the ...

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Day 6

God loves every person He has created and those still yet to be created. God loves us so much that He chose us even before the world was created (Ephesians 1:4, 2 Thessalonians 2:13). As God, through Christ, laid down His life for us, He desires us to choose Him in the same way He has already chosen us. But as we continue to walk through Roma...

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Day 7

As we finish out this week’s devotions on Romans 1:18–32, we find God clarifying for us that all of those who have completely rejected Him have been filled with an abundance of sinful passions. Many people only focus on the sexual sin declared in Romans 1:24–28. But God lets us know that all of those who do not see fit to acknowledge Him as t...

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