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Carl Westerlund :: Romans 1:24-25 - Man Gets What He Chooses

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Romans in Outline No. 21

1.1  WHEN GOD GIVES MAN OVER

Romans 1:24a  “Therefore…”

2.1  The conclusion — the results of suppressing truth

Note: “…the wrath of God is revealed…” (Present tense) — Romans 1:18

3.1  MAN HAD A KNOWLEDGE OF GOD — Romans 1:19-20

3.2  MAN REFUSED TO GLORIFY GOD AS GOD AND BE THANKFUL — Romans 1:21a

3.3  MAN BECAME FUTILE IN THINKING WITH DARKENED HEARTS — Romans 1:21b

3.4  MAN SUBSTITUTED IDOLS FOR GOD’S GLORY — Romans 1:22c

2.2  The meaning of God giving man up

2.3  How God gives up — the departure of the Spirit

2.4  The three ways of giving up

3.1  GIVE UP TO UNCLEANNESS — Romans 1:24

3.2  GIVE UP TO HOMOSEXUALITY — Romans 1:26

3.3  GIVE UP TO DEPRAVED MIND — Romans 1:28

1.2  A SPECIFIC AREA OF GIVING OVERRomans 1:24b

2.1  Sex as uncleanness

2.2  The source of uncleanness

1.3  WHAT MAN’S DEPRAVITY EVIDENCESRomans 1:25

2.1  What has been forsaken

2.2  What has been embraced

2.3  The substitute religion — “the lie”

3.1  SATAN IS THE “FATHER OF LIES”John 8:44

3.2  IDOLS ARE LIES — Isaiah 44:18-20

3.3  ANTICHRIST WILL PROMOTE THE LIE IN THE LAST DAYS — 2 Thessalonians 2:9-12

1.4  THE DOXOLOGY

1.5  CONCLUSION

2.1  God is just in condemning the unrighteous

2.2  God punishes sin with sin

2.3  Man is not religiously (or any other way) evolving upward, but downward

2.4  Idolatry and unbelief go together

Romans 1:24-25

24 Therefore God also gave them up to uncleanness, in the lusts of their hearts, to dishonor their bodies among themselves, 25 who exchanged the truth of God for the lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen. (NKJV)

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