(Rom 1:28) “… God gave them over to a reprobate mind,…(29)  Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,(30)  Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, (31)  Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:” Since the saved person sees some of these things in self, does it mean they are reprobate? No. The saved, upon realization of this within, will pray the Lord’s deliverance to be pleasing in God’s sight. The lost have no such compulsion.

 (Rom 1:28) “… God gave them over to a reprobate mind,…(29)  Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,” Consider how far away this is from God’s desire for the true Believer, the saved, (Eph 5:18)  “…be filled with the Spirit; (19)  Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord; (20)  Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ; (21)  Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.”  Which is manifest in you?

(Rom 1:28) “And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;”  Notice that rejecting Who God is brings a judgment. God “gave them over” (v.24 “gave them up”): He let go of the reins of restrain having found them “reprobate” – rejected, worthless (as to His purpose). How sad. What a waste of life, one that lived only for self.

 (Rom 1:27) “And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.”  Whether it is man with man or woman with woman, one plays the male and the other the female. That very act says it is unnatural (unseemly), an action against the norm of how God made us. There is a judgment that follows from God – always, no matter the type of sin. Yet, sin affects everyone around the sinner. The longer one is around sin, the more likely they are to accept it.

(Rom 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. (26)  For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: (27)  And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.”  “Vile”: disgraceful.  Sexual immorality at any level is disgraceful. What a shame that we have been so influenced by the world that we know longer see “all” sexual immorality as disgraceful. God help us to come to view of sinful practice: (Psa_97:10) “Ye that love the LORD, hate evil:…”    

(Rom 1:24) “Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness…. (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.”  In what way does man serve the creature over the Creator? The average person has no thought of God. Their minds are focused upon self. The Creator should be uplifted and exalted in our hearts, sought unto and asked to direct our path, yielded to – His will over ours. He and He alone is blessed forever, so ask Him to lead you in exalting Him everyday of your own life.

(Rom 1:24) “Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:”  Sexual sin is as far from spirituality as night is to day. The Bible says it is to sin against one’s own body (1 Cor 6:18). Our creation in the image of God was made for the purpose of honoring Him! We by and through willful sin have dishonored it. .

(Rom 1:24) “Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:”  “Through the lusts of their own hearts” Even the best person among us has a corrupt heart. Our sin nature manifest itself in desires contrary to the standards of God. “Lust” is the desire for that which we do not or cannot have and “nothing”, in the end, satisfies it. It takes the miracle of the rebirth to change us within.

 (Rom 1:24) “Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:”  “Gave them up”: literally let loose of the reins.  At the beginning of each of our lives the Holy Spirit restrains us from following the extremes of our heart. Merciful, merciful God! The more we struggle, the more He lets lost man go. As you can see, there are those He lets totally go of.