Romans 1:24-25 - The Lusts of their Hearts

[stefanm]

Wow ! "the rejection of God (idolatry) is the beginning of all the other sins and ailments we see all around us". Amen. Truth.

[jewishbride]

In accordance with this word and romans 1:24-25, 2 corinthians 6:14-18 I bind myself freed of every unequal yoke and common share with those exchanging God his truth for a lie and honoring creation above the Creator, while binding to hell to admire creation above the Creator in my life, the lives of my family, friends, colleagues, neighbours, acquintances, opponents and the body of Christ, in the name and blood of Jesus Christ, amen and hallelujah!

[sarkkoa]

i dedicate this presentation to the Gentiles who support and celebrate Gentile behavior by awarding monies and gifting them power over non Gentiles...

[alans]

That is awesome, I used the cliff analogy recently teaching my son about sinners who have given up God.

[alans]

They have put the "desire the get along" or conform before the desire to please God and morality. People are lovers of the earth and man more than God.

[rodneywade]

IDOLATRY THROUGH CREATURES

Explaining romans 1 21-25 KJV

Gods children turned from him to idols and indoor and outdoor fourfooted beasts and such..
God gave them up to uncleanness, cancelled salvation, guilty of original sin once again.
Because they worshipped the CREATURE more than the CREATOR.

Idolatry is from the devil.

The punishment of idolatry is eternal damnation.

The remedy is to confess our sins to God through Jesus and turn from our wicked ways.
Unrepentance is unforgiven to Jesus.

Paul wrote romans in 57ad. So he KNEW to KNOW God is to KNOW Jesus first. He was talking about the saved that turned from God.
The lost knew OF God but didnt KNOW God and are already condemned and unclean being without Christ.

"KNOWING" God

John 14 KJV
[6] Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
[7] If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him.

John 19
[30] When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, IT IS FINISHED: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.

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Romans

[21] Because that, when they KNEW God, they glorified him NOT as God, neither were thankful; but became VAIN in their IMAGINATIONS, and their foolish heart was darkened.
[22] Professing themselves to be wise, they became FOOLS,
[23] And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an IMAGE made like to CORRUPTIBLE man, and to BIRDS, and FOURFOOTED BEASTS, and CREEPING things.
[24] Wherefore God also GAVE THEM UP to UNCLEANNESS through the LUSTS of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:
[25] Who changed the truth of God into a LIE, and worshipped and served the CREATURE more than the CREATOR, who is blessed for ever. Amen

WHAT??? HE GAVE THEM UP TO UNCLEANNESS??
This means THEY WERE ONCE CLEAN/SAVED.
Not all christians obey God.

IDOLATRY means when a child of God spends more time with something or someone other than God. Leaning on them for the things God wants us to lean on HIM for. Like protection and emotional therapy, trust, companionship, etc.

Worship can be just allegiance to someone or to something.
Literally bowing down with arms flailing doesnt necessarily take place.

They changed the glory of God by disrespecting him by replacing him with creatures and corruptible men as idols. Worshipping them instead by leaning on them for the things we are to lean on our jealous God for.
And using his words to vindicate their beastie idolatry. As old to now.

Fourfooted beasts means ANY AND ALL fourfooted ANIMALS on earth.

LUST is the urge to covet anything followed by lack of self control.

Romans 1 21-25 is referring to the saved worshipping and serving LIVE CREATURES
More than worshipping and serving the CREATOR.

IMAGE.

An IMAGE is born in the IMAGINATION. To worship something is of what some have in their imagination as something more worthy than others.
One can create an image in his imagination of a live animal being his king. So he worships him as his king by leaning on it for PROTECTION and emotional therapy and a fill in for a human and a god. He gave his image life. So to speak.
So the fourfooted beast is his image of his king. And our jealous God isnt. So in our jealous Gods eyes he is worshipping and serving the fourfooted beast instead of God.
This is IDOLATRY.
Most people never realize it. Or maybe they do. No excuse.

The most popular common
staple of american households currently is indoor fourfooted animals. Theres Around 332 million people in the U.S. and over 100 million households are in the U.S. atleast 80 percent have indoor animals. And growing all because of lack of control of lust and themselves. Idolatry.

IMAGE is also a perception of somebody or something..

A graven image is tooled. Graven image is not mentioned here.

A statue or picture is NOT a creature in this case. A creature is a living breathing being..

Romans 1
[25] Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the CREATURE MORE THAN THE CREATOR, who is blessed for ever. Amen

Here saved people lusted their indoor beasts so much that they changed Gods truth into a lie to defend their indoor beastie covetness. To feel vindicated from their lusts. So much they still will fight to the death to defend their indoor beastie covetness.
For thousands of years to current they have been bringing up scriptures from old testament out of desperation saying God gave us dominion and love your beast and such as a defense. Like proverbs 12 10 for example. Pitting scripture against scripture. (Blasphemy) That was their go to and still is. That never gave them the right to commit idolatry. Yet they still do. The LIE is taking Gods word out of context to justify their coveting idolatry and for believing their idol can supply their needs more than God.
Thats why paul wrote this and the holy ghost blessed it because they live a LIE and try to cover it with Gods word. It became a serious issue with Gods children turning away from our jealous God by the masses.
IDOLATRY.
Repent.

Time spent reveals the God/god .

This just covers fourfooted beasts.

We are NOT talking about the infinity ways to commit idolatry here.
We are ONLY talking about idols specific to this post.

Revelation 21
[8] But the FEARFUL, and UNBELIEVING, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and IDOLATERS, and ALL LIARS, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death

Exodus 34

14) For thou shalt
worship no other god: for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God:

This is spiritually discerned.

Im not here to judge or condemn. Just to serve the Lord by raising awareness of these issues on this post.

Bless you.

[rodneywade]

IDOLATRY THROUGH CREATURES

Explaining romans 1 21-25 KJV

Gods children turned from him to idols and indoor and outdoor fourfooted beasts and such..
God gave them up to uncleanness, cancelled salvation, guilty of original sin once again.
Because they worshipped the CREATURE more than the CREATOR.

Idolatry is from the devil.

The punishment of idolatry is eternal damnation.

The remedy is to confess our sins to God through Jesus and turn from our wicked ways.
Unrepentance is unforgiven to Jesus.

Paul wrote romans in 57ad. So he KNEW to KNOW God is to KNOW Jesus first. He was talking about the saved that turned from God.
The lost knew OF God but didnt KNOW God and are already condemned and unclean being without Christ.

"KNOWING" God

John 14 KJV
[6] Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
[7] If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him.

John 19
[30] When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, IT IS FINISHED: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.

THE NEW COVENANT IS IN AFFECT. Zero ad

Romans

[21] Because that, when they KNEW God, they glorified him NOT as God, neither were thankful; but became VAIN in their IMAGINATIONS, and their foolish heart was darkened.
[22] Professing themselves to be wise, they became FOOLS,
[23] And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an IMAGE made like to CORRUPTIBLE man, and to BIRDS, and FOURFOOTED BEASTS, and CREEPING things.
[24] Wherefore God also GAVE THEM UP to UNCLEANNESS through the LUSTS of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:
[25] Who changed the truth of God into a LIE, and worshipped and served the CREATURE more than the CREATOR, who is blessed for ever. Amen

WHAT??? HE GAVE THEM UP TO UNCLEANNESS??
This means THEY WERE ONCE CLEAN/SAVED.
Not all christians obey God.

IDOLATRY means when a child of God spends more time with something or someone other than God. Leaning on them for the things God wants us to lean on HIM for. Like protection and emotional therapy, trust, companionship, etc.

Worship can be just allegiance to someone or to something.
Literally bowing down with arms flailing doesnt necessarily take place.

They changed the glory of God by disrespecting him by replacing him with creatures and corruptible men as idols. Worshipping them instead by leaning on them for the things we are to lean on our jealous God for.
And using his words to vindicate their beastie idolatry. As old to now.

Fourfooted beasts means ANY AND ALL fourfooted ANIMALS on earth.

LUST is the urge to covet anything followed by lack of self control.

Romans 1 21-25 is referring to the saved worshipping and serving LIVE CREATURES
More than worshipping and serving the CREATOR.

IMAGE.

An IMAGE is born in the IMAGINATION. To worship something is of what some have in their imagination as something more worthy than others.
One can create an image in his imagination of a live animal being his king. So he worships him as his king by leaning on it for PROTECTION and emotional therapy and a fill in for a human and a god. He gave his image life. So to speak.
So the fourfooted beast is his image of his king. And our jealous God isnt. So in our jealous Gods eyes he is worshipping and serving the fourfooted beast instead of God.
This is IDOLATRY.
Most people never realize it. Or maybe they do. No excuse.

The most popular common
staple of american households currently is indoor fourfooted animals. Theres Around 332 million people in the U.S. and over 100 million households are in the U.S. atleast 80 percent have indoor animals. And growing all because of lack of control of lust and themselves. Idolatry.

IMAGE is also a perception of somebody or something..

A graven image is tooled. Graven image is not mentioned here.

A statue or picture is NOT a creature in this case. A creature is a living breathing being..

Romans 1
[25] Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the CREATURE MORE THAN THE CREATOR, who is blessed for ever. Amen

Here saved people lusted their indoor beasts so much that they changed Gods truth into a lie to defend their indoor beastie covetness. To feel vindicated from their lusts. So much they still will fight to the death to defend their indoor beastie covetness.
For thousands of years to current they have been bringing up scriptures from old testament out of desperation saying God gave us dominion and love your beast and such as a defense. Like proverbs 12 10 for example. Pitting scripture against scripture. (Blasphemy) That was their go to and still is. That never gave them the right to commit idolatry. Yet they still do. The LIE is taking Gods word out of context to justify their coveting idolatry and for believing their idol can supply their needs more than God.
Thats why paul wrote this and the holy ghost blessed it because they live a LIE and try to cover it with Gods word. It became a serious issue with Gods children turning away from our jealous God by the masses.
IDOLATRY.
Repent.

Time spent reveals the God/god .

This just covers fourfooted beasts.

We are NOT talking about the infinity ways to commit idolatry here.
We are ONLY talking about idols specific to this post.

Revelation 21
[8] But the FEARFUL, and UNBELIEVING, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and IDOLATERS, and ALL LIARS, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death

Exodus 34

14) For thou shalt
worship no other god: for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God:

This is spiritually discerned.

Im not here to judge or condemn. Just to serve the Lord by raising awareness of these issues on this post.

Bless you.