a
reprobate mind
To do those things which are not
Convening keep your place there in Romans go with me the book of Jeremiah if you would
In the Old Testament you've got Isaiah
Jeremiah Lamentations Ezekiel
Jeremiah chapter 6 you know the verse, but let's look at it. What does the word reprobate mean?
Well the Bible defines it for us in Jeremiah chapter number 6 and verse 30
Jeremiah 6 30 says this reprobate silver
Shall men call them
Now here the the prophet Jeremiah is talking about the fact
That there are people
that are going to be called reprobates or
reprobate silver and the idea of course when we talk about
Metals and and silver and gold gold would be have to once it's brought out of the ground it would have to be
refined you would mine it then you'd refine it and
Refining is a process of purging where you would boil it and have all the impurities boil up to the top and those
And those impurities would be removed in order to make the silver pure and Jeremiah is talking about the fact that when they would take
Something like silver and they would refine it they would heat it up so that all the impurities would come up to the top that
Draws at the top they would they would remove that and they would call that
Reprobate silver it came from the silver, but it was trash. It was reprobate
It was something they did not want that's what Jeremiah is referring to he says there are people like that
He says reprobate silver shall men call them you say why would anybody look at somebody and say that's a reprobate
Or that's reprobate silver. Here's why because the Lord hath rejected them I
Guess they can tired of these feet with these Christian organizations
We're not giving up on anybody no matter how you how bad you are no matter how wicked you are
We're not giving up on you. Let me tell you something. I'm all for love. I'm all for patience. I'm all for forgiveness
I'm all for all those things, but when you're forgiving more than God forgives you're forgiving too much I
Mean when you love when you love so much that you out love God the Bible says God is love and if God gave them
Up there's nothing you can do about it friend
Reprobate silver shall men call them
Here's why because the Lord has rejected them when the Lord has rejected you when the Lord has rejected someone
There's nothing anyone can do for them
Because the Lord has rejected them go to 1st Timothy chapter 4
1st Timothy chapter 4 if you can find the t-books that are all clustered together 1st 2nd Thessalonians 1st 2nd Timothy Titus 1st Timothy chapter 4
See the Bible says that they've been given over to a reprobate mind
What does that mean exactly what it means is that their conscience?
Because remember God revealed himself through creation and conscience
Creation reveals God Psalm 19 tells us that the heavens declare the glory of God
That that the heaven and nature itself declares to us the amazement of God
He reveals himself through nature and he reveals himself through conscious
You know even unsaved people even unsaved people would say you don't do that to a child
You don't hurt a child that way
You say why would I say people person do that because they might not be saved
But they still got a conscience God gave him a conscience
You say well, why would these people do it?
First Timothy chapter 4 look at verse 1
Now the Spirit speaketh expressly
That in the latter times by the way, we're living in the latter times according the Bible
Some shall depart from the faith
Giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of devils speaking lies and hypocrisy. I want you to notice these words having their
conscience seared
with a hot iron
The Bible says that there are people who can have their conscience seared
This is what the Bible refers to when it calls when it says that God gave them over to a reprobate mind
To do those things which are not convenient. You know what it means to see or something
This is often something that's done if somebody would maybe have a wound that it's bleeding and and and and they might die
It's bringing so much you might take a hot iron and you would place it over that and and their their wound in order to burn
That skin together to make it callous to make it hardened so that you can't feel it
When when something is seared it's it's burned so that there's no longer feeling there
The Bible says that their conscience is seared
Their conscience is callous. It's unfeeling. It's hardened. It's seared with a hot iron
Their conscience is seared. This is what it means when the Bible says that they were given over to a rejected or
reprobate mind go to Titus chapter number one
Titus chapter one and we can go into a lot more detail about the mind and all that we got a documentary called psychopath
Reprobates, I think it's out there. It's on YouTube somewhere
And you can find it and and and we went through all that
Information even even medically
Titus 1 and verse 15 says this unto the pure all things are pure
But unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure
notice these words, but even their mind and
Conscience is defiled
Their conscience is defiled
Your conscience is supposed to be the moral aspect of you God put it in you to tell you no don't do that
That's wrong even when we sit against our own conscience and do that which our conscience tells us not to do we feel guilt and shame
for having done it
These people their conscience itself is defiled
It's like having a conscience saying yes steal from that person. Yeah kill that person. Yeah rape that person. Yeah
Take advantage of that child
Their conscience their mind is defiled
Their conscience their mind or their conscience is defiled
Verse 16 they profess that they know God but in works
They deny him being abominable and disobedient and unto every good work. Here's our word
reprobate
No matter how good they are they're reprobates
You say why because they have a depraved mind their conscience has been seared
They've been given over to a reprobate mind
This is the only way that they can do these unnatural sins because normal people can't perform these unnatural sins period