Thank you very much.
You
No, you can't, you can't stop this.
It's a good point.
Good evening ladies and gentlemen welcome back to faithful word Baptist Church
So nice to see you all here for a Sunday night service find your seats
Please grab a song but go to him number two thirty six and we'll get started tonight him number two hundred thirty six
Him number two hundred thirty six. No, not one him number two hundred and thirty six
Once you've found your place, we'll start together right on that first 236.
There's not a friend like the lowly Jesus in the 236.
Look it up together now.
There's not a friend.
to bless you on the service so I have asked for the next Macintosh to be able to do some
privilege.
To be gathered here tonight we pray that you would bless all aspects of the service and
fill pastor with fire and Holy Spirit and help us to take heed to every word that spoke
in the night.
It's in Jesus' name we pray.
Amen.
Hymn number 194, number 194, since Jesus came into my heart, hymn number 194, we'll
sing this out nice and strong on that verse now, 194, what a wonderful change in my mind.
sing it out now.
Jesus came into my heart
And in my coming down now my pathway of shortness
Jesus came into my heart
And Jesus came into my heart
But the joy of my soul like the sea billows roll through
Jesus came into my heart
I can see that Jesus gave it to my heart
go through our announcements together.
If you don't have a bulletin,
slip up your hand nice and high.
We'll get to you with one.
On the inside we have our service time Sunday mornings at 10 30 is our preaching service Sunday nights at 6 Wednesday nights at 7 is our Bible study we've got the soul winning times listed there below as well as salvation and baptisms.
We've got the birthdays and anniversaries listed there for the month of January.
On the back the birth announcement congratulations to the Mether family on the birth of baby David Isaiah.
Below that, the baby shower, that already happened today.
Thank you to everyone who participated in that.
And then we've got a wedding coming up
for Micaiah and Isabella that's on January the 18th.
So just a couple weeks away on that,
everyone in the church is invited to attend.
And so don't be shy about showing up
to these type of things.
They're definitely for everybody to come.
And does anybody remember what time it was?
It was in the, the time was in the bulletin last week
and then the time disappeared.
Oh, well, of course the groom remembers four o'clock, right?
So four in the afternoon is when that is on January the 18th.
So we hope you'll be there for that.
And then we've got some guest preachers coming up.
On January 22nd, we've got Pastor Aaron Thompson
from Sher Foundation Baptist Church up in Vancouver,
Washington, and the other five churches that he pastors.
And then we've got Pastor Jonathan Shelly coming
from Steadfast Baptist Church in Cedar Hill, Texas.
And that is about it for announcements.
Let's go ahead and count up the soul winning
from the past few days going back to Thursday.
Anything from Thursday?
Okay, okay, got it.
Okay, all right, and then what about Friday?
Okay, anything else from Friday? How about Saturday?
And then
Okay, got it
All right anything else from Saturday and then brother Scott said that the main group had five anything outside of that main group with
Brother Scott gotcha
Okay, got it.
That's already written down, got it.
Thanks for making sure though.
All right, anything else from today?
All right, very good.
Keep up the great work on soul winning.
With that, let's sing our next song.
Come lead us.
All right, take your hymnals please.
Go to hymn number 150, hymn number 150.
My faith has found a resting place.
Hymn number 150.
Let's start together on that verse, verse 150, my faith has found a resting place, not in device nor grief, in number 100 and 50, sing it out on that verse now.
I have found a resting place, not in device nor grief, I trust the ever living one.
It is once for me now.
that He died for me.
He died for me that Jesus sails this as my fear and doubt.
A simple soul I come to know will never cast me out.
and that he died for me. My heart is leaning on the word, the rich and word of God. Salvation by
hymn number 272 272 Jesus I come hymn number 272 we haven't done this one in
our church here but if you know it sing it out with me nice and strong to help
those around you number 272 out of my bondage
Let's turn our Bibles to Romans chapter one.
Romans chapter number one, as we always do,
we'll read the entire chapter beginning
in verse number one.
Follow along silently with brother Dan
as he reads Romans chapter one,
starting in verse number one.
Romans chapter 1 the Bible reads, Paul a servant of Jesus Christ called to be an apostle separated under the gospel of God
Which he had promised to for by his prophets in the holy scriptures
Concerning his son Jesus Christ our Lord which was made of the seed of David according to the flesh and declared to be the son of
God with power
According to the spirit of holiness by the resurrection from the dead by whom we have received grace and apostleship for
obedience to the faith among all nations for his name
among whom are you also the called of Jesus Christ, to all that be in Rome, beloved of God,
called to be saints, grace to you, and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is spoken of throughout
the whole world. For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son,
Making request, if by any means now at length I might have a prosperous journey by the will of God to come unto you.
For I long to see you, that I may impart unto you some spiritual gift, to the end you may be established.
That is, that I may be comforted together with you by the mutual faith both of you and me.
Now, I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that oftentimes I purposed to come unto you,
but was let hitherto, that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among other
Gentiles.
I am deader both to the Greeks and to the Barbarians, both to the wise and to the unwise.
So as much as is in me, I am ready to preach the gospel to you that are at Rome also.
For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God unto salvation
For therein is the righteousness of God, revealed from faith to faith, as it is written that
just shall live by faith.
For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness
of men who hold the truth in unrighteousness.
Because that which may be known of God has manifested in them, for God hath showed it
unto them.
For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood
by the things that are made, even his eternal power in Godhead, so that they are without
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.
Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, and changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man and to birds and four-footed beasts and creeping things.
who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshiped and served the creature more than
the Creator, who is blessed forever, amen.
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, and likewise also the men, leaving
the natural use of the woman burn in their lust one toward another, men with men working
that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was
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.
Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness,
full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity,
whispers, backbiter, haters of God,
despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, without understanding.
covenant breakers without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful, who knowing the judgment
of God that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same
but have pleasure in them that do them.
Definitely Father Lord. Thank you for allowing us to be in church. Thank you for all the soul winners doing the work for you
Please fill pastor Anderson with the Holy Spirit so they may preach boldly from the Bible so that we can be edified by the sermon
In Jesus name I pray amen
Men, Romans chapter one, I want to start reading in verse number 16.
The title of my sermon this evening is God gave them up.
God gave them up, this is a statement that occurs a few times in this chapter.
God gave them up, God gave them up, God gave them over, and these are pretty scary words
That's the last place that anyone would ever want to be but if you would look at verse number 16 the Bible reads
But for I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ is a very famous verse
I'm not ashamed of the gospel of Christ
For it is the power of God unto salvation
to everyone
That goes to church is that what it says everyone who who is a good person
repents of all their sins, lives a good life, keeps the commandments. No, it's the power of God
unto salvation to everyone that believeth to the Jew first and also to the Greek. And so the gospel
of Jesus Christ is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believeth, right? Salvation goes
to everyone who believes that whosoever believeth in him the Bible says should not perish but have
eternal life. Isn't it interesting how some of the most famous verses in the Bible
are so clear on what it takes to be saved.
Romans 1.16, John 3.16, and yet so many people can quote these verses and yet, whoop,
just goes right over their head this concept of salvation by faith.
But I want you to notice the next verse says,
for therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith.
Now the therein is referring back to the gospel, right?
I'm not ashamed of the gospel.
Therein, in the Gospel, is revealed what?
The righteousness of God, from faith to faith.
As it is written, the just shall live by faith, right?
So people being saved by faith, people believing on Christ, receiving salvation, living by faith,
living eternally because of their faith, is a revelation of the righteousness of God.
So, God is righteous and that is revealed through salvation because we're not saved
by our own righteousness.
All our righteousnesses are as filthy rags.
We're saved by the righteousness of God, imputed unto us.
In the next verse, he says in verse 18, the wrath of God is revealed, right?
So on the one hand, the righteousness of God is revealed through the gospel,
through the idea of people being saved by faith in Jesus.
That's a revelation of the righteousness of God.
And then also now we see that the wrath of God is also revealed.
from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who hold the truth in unrighteousness.
Now, some people will try to twist this passage of Romans 1 and come up with strange interpretations of it,
but it's very clear what we're talking about here.
On the one hand, we are talking about saved Christians in verses 16 and 17 who have believed in Jesus
and are therefore righteous in the sight of God, they're going to heaven,
and they will live by faith.
But then, on the other hand, we have the unsaved people of this world
described from verse 18 and onward, right?
Because these are people who hold the truth in unrighteousness,
look at verse 19,
because that which may be known of God has manifest in them,
for God has showed it unto them,
and then it goes on at the end of verse 20 to say that they're without excuse,
because that when they knew God, they glorified Him not as God.
Now, here's what we need to understand.
Just because these people hold the truth, or they may know about God,
or they, you know, they're holding the truth, they know God, and so forth,
that doesn't mean that they're saved.
Okay.
When the Bible says here that they knew him, it just means that they were familiar with
him, they became aware of him, they were exposed to who he is because it says when they knew
God, they glorified him not as God.
Okay.
Does that sound like a saved person?
A saved person doesn't know who God is but not acknowledge him as God, right?
Obviously, being saved has to do with believing in God, believing in Jesus Christ as the Son
of God, as the Savior of the world.
This is the exact opposite of that.
But sometimes people will try to twist this and take these parts about knowing God as
somehow that that makes them saved.
That does not make you saved.
What makes you saved is when God knows you.
When he knows you, you're saved, but he's going to say to those that are not saved,
Okay, these people, and let's back up with that in mind.
I'm just kind of throwing that out there
because people are constantly turning this passage
on its head because they don't like what it teaches.
And so we're just gonna go through this methodically
and look at this carefully tonight.
It says, for the wrath of God, verse 18,
is revealed from heaven.
against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who hold the truth and unrighteousness,
and the main thing I want you to see here is that these men who hold the truth and unrighteous
are the opposite of the people in verses 16 and 17, the people who believed in Jesus, right?
The righteousness of God is revealed in these people, the wrath of God is revealed in these
people, okay?
And that's what I want you to see, the distinction that's there, okay?
Hold the truth in unrighteousness, okay? They possess the truth. It's not that they don't have access to the truth
They do but they're not handling the truth properly
they're not responding properly to that truth and we'll see what that looks like in the next verse says
Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them. So in what way are they holding truth?
They're holding truth because that which may be known of God is manifest in them for God has showed it under them
So, their holding truth simply means God showed them the truth.
They could, if they wanted to, know who God is because God showed them the truth.
Why?
Verse 20, for the invisible things of Him from the creation of the world are clearly seen
being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead so that
they are without excuse.
So, the idea here is that these people who are unsaved, it's not that they don't have
It's all around them, right?
The invisible things of Him from the creation of the world are clearly seen
being understood by the things that are made.
They can look at the creation and see God's eternal power and Godhead,
and therefore they are without excuse.
So they have access to the truth, they have the ability to know truth,
but yet they do not respond properly to that.
Verse 21, because that when they knew God, they glorified Him not as God.
right? So it's not that they've never heard about God or that they have no inkling that
there's a Creator of this world. They should be able to realize that just from looking around.
They have been exposed to these truths but yet they refuse to acknowledge what's right in front
of them that God is God, okay? That God is the Creator and that they need to believe on the Lord
They glorified him not as God.
This is not saying that they were saved.
It's just saying that they were familiar with God.
It'd be like if I said, oh yeah, you know,
I know Brother Madison.
It doesn't mean that I'm trusting in him
as my savior or something, right?
It just means I know who he is.
I know him.
I've met him, right?
I've spoken with him.
That's what that means when it says they knew God.
And so it says here 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
So this downward spiral begins with someone not giving thanks and glory
To God as the Creator not acknowledging him being ungrateful
Unthankful not wanting to give him any credit
for his creation, not wanting to give him any credit for all the blessings that he bestows upon us,
because let's face it, he sends rain on the just and on the unjust, right?
So God has blessed all the people of this world in various ways, and he's given us life,
and he's given us various gifts, and he's taken care of us at times,
and some of us appreciate that, some of us don't, some of us respect that, and some don't.
And so they did not acknowledge God as God, they were not grateful and thankful for the things that he had done for them.
And so therefore, because they had this attitude,
they became vain in their imagination.
They basically, you know, decide that, you know,
well, God's not really the reason why we're here.
It's something else.
They might believe in false gods,
or they may even just believe in evolution as a substitute for God
and just say, well, this universe just created itself.
And they have this vain imagination that somehow the world can come from nothing,
that living things can come from non-living things,
and that everything is just a big cosmic accident.
And maybe in some other galaxy far, far away, there's also another accident going on and other life forms.
And you know, the truth is out there and I want to believe in all that kind of stuff.
but he says that they became vain in their imaginations
and their foolish heart was darkened.
Okay, so it all started with being ungrateful,
then they start dreaming up all these other explanations
to not give God proper credit and proper glory,
and then their foolish heart ends up being darkened.
Now, what I want you to notice here is that
these people are the ones who are doing
They're wrong here. It's not God making them choose this or making them do this.
They're the ones who, when they were exposed to God, they decided not to glorify Him as God.
They decided not to be thankful. They decided to dream up all these vain imaginations.
But then now we have the first passive thing where something is happening to them.
Their foolish heart was darkened.
Right, so we see now their foolish hearts being darkened. That's something that's happening to them
So the first three things are something that they're doing
You know, they are you know becoming vain and they are
You know being unthankful and not glorifying God and then their foolish heart gets darkened as a result. Okay?
professing themselves to be wise, they became fools.
Now, stop and think about this, and you could also,
whenever you're thinking about God and His creation,
you can also think about an analogy of parents and their children,
because of the fact that God, of course, is the Heavenly Father.
And so, in many ways, our parents on this earth are an analog with God in heaven
So, when you stop and think about this, what about children who are unthankful for what
their parents have done for them, and we're living in a generation that is unthankful
to their parents in general.
What do I mean by that?
Because if you think about it, when you're a parent, you make sacrifices to have children
and to bring children into this world.
money and energy and headaches and just think about how expensive it is just
even to just give birth as expensive and then you're just buying all this food
you're buying all these diapers you got to have a bigger house you got to have a
bigger vehicle and then you're up in the middle of the night cleaning up
diaper mess vomit you know you're dealing with all these problems walking
around with colicky babies in the middle of the night for hours and hours
ungrateful children inevitably will say when you bring up to them,
hey, you know, we did all this for you.
We spent all these thousands of hours and all this money,
and we put all this effort into raising you.
Give us some respect.
Give us some honor.
Give us some gratitude.
Give us some appreciation.
Here's what they'll inevitably say.
Well, I didn't ask to be brought into this world.
I didn't ask to be born.
I didn't ask you to do those things.
This is what children will say to their parents.
I didn't ask for that.
But you know what's so funny?
This is the exact thing that atheists will say to God,
like, well, I didn't ask to be created.
I didn't ask to be bored.
Now here's the thing.
Normal people are glad to be alive.
I'm glad I'm here.
You know what I mean?
I'm glad that God created me.
And I'm glad that my parents made me.
And I'm glad that my parents raised me.
I wrote this weird, like nihilistic weird attitude of like,
well, I didn't even ask to be born into this world.
Kind of a crazy weird thing is that,
but isn't that what people say?
Because I guarantee you,
I'm not the only person who's heard this a million times
from atheists about God,
or from children about their parents.
Well, I didn't ask to be brought into this world.
You know, I didn't ask for you to give birth to me, mom.
It's like what a stupid thing to say, but it's just as stupid as when people say well God, I didn't ask to be created
You know, why'd you even create me in this world anyway?
You know, it's pretty sad to have that attitude. It makes it seem like you're living a really depressing life if
You don't even value the gift of life that you've been given
Because I like I said I'm glad to be here. I'm thankful for my life
I'm thankful that I'm alive right now and I hope that God allows me to live much longer.
I want to live to be a very old man.
I want to be up here preaching in my 90s or even beyond that, you know, whatever God allows
me to do, I'll take it.
I'm not just like, oh man, why am I even alive, you know, no man, I want to be here.
that this kind of ungrateful attitude that children direct toward their parents is very
similar to the type of stuff that you'll hear atheists say toward God.
Not wanting to glorify your parents as parents, not wanting to honor them is sort of like
the same mentality where you don't want to honor God and give credit to God.
And you know what I've heard other people say too is when things happen in their life
and you say, hey, that's a blessing from God, they say, no, God had nothing to do with that.
I did that.
Or that's just chance.
That was just good luck.
Or that was just my hard work paying off.
Now every good gift and every perfect gift is from above.
And coming down from the Father of lights
with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
And so it's that kind of ungrateful attitude
that starts the downward spiral in Romans chapter one
of people going down this dark path
where they don't wanna glorify God as God.
They're not thankful.
for the gift of life that God has given them and so they go down this dark path.
And what's funny too is that you have this attitude now
where children think they don't owe anything to their parents.
Now I can understand some unsaved atheists, non-christian thinking that.
I don't know how anybody can read the Bible and think that they don't owe something to their parents.
Because Jesus Christ literally preaches on this in Matthew chapter 15.
He talks about how the Pharisees are hypocrites and how they have made the word of God of
none effect through their tradition because the Bible says honor thy father and mother
and whoso curses with father or mother let him die the death.
But you say that if a man says it is Corban that is to say a gift whatsoever thou might
Right, but what's he saying? And I know I said that kind of fast and it's kind of a mouthful
But read Matthew 15 carefully. He's saying you're allowing people to do nothing for their father and mother
You're not requiring them to honor their father and mother if they basically
You know have this Corban loophole where they donate the money or whatever they do
However, exactly that work doesn't really the point.
The point is that Jesus is rebuking the Pharisees
for allowing people to wiggle out of honoring
their father and mother and paying the debt that they owe
to their father and mother.
And you say, well, I still don't believe it.
Okay, how about in Paul's epistle to Timothy,
where he says, if any man or woman
that believe it have widows,
he says, let them relieve them
and let not the church be charged.
It says, if a man or woman that believes have widows,
let them learn first piety at home
and to re-quite their parents.
In first Timothy five,
it says that children should re-quite their parents.
What does the word re-quite mean?
Requite means recompense, pay them back.
And the Bible says that when your parents are old, you pay them back.
You re-quite them.
It's like if you say we are quit, it means we're even.
To re-quite is to make it quit, to pay it back, to recompense.
And so, yeah, you do, oh, you say, well, why would I own my parents anything?
Because your parents worked and paid and sacrificed to bring you into this world.
Well, I didn't ask them to do that.
Yeah, and atheists didn't ask to be created either, but here we are.
And you're an ungrateful punk, and you need to not have that wicked attitude of ingratitude.
toward either God or your parents, okay?
And so these people, they're having that
ungrateful attitude toward God,
and that starts them on a dark path
toward a horrible fate that we're gonna see later
in the chapter.
So it says, in verse number 22,
professing themselves to be wise,
they became fools.
And it's kind of funny, some of these intellectuals
and scoffers and atheists that would deny the fact
that God created this world.
What are they called? Professors many times, right?
You know, these intellectual scientific types that claim that the world created itself,
that things came from nothing, and that non-life produced life.
Of course, these are not actually scientific ideas. They're philosophical ideas.
I mean, any biology textbook will tell you life begets life.
and that living material can only come from other living material.
Living material begets living material, but then here's what they'll say.
Well, a long time ago, something alive must have come from something not alive because it's here.
So they have no explanation from where the first living things came from,
and they'll acknowledge the principle that life can't come from non-life.
But they're like well, but it had to have happened once because here we are excuse me. I have another explanation God created life
God created life, okay
And obviously, I don't want to paint a picture that all professors or that all scientists
feel that way because there are many professors and many scientists who will acknowledge that
God created life or that God at least could have created life.
Maybe that's the explanation they'll sometimes say.
Not all of them are rabid atheists, of course, but many of them are.
And professing themselves to be wise, they became fools because it is really stupid
to say that all this complicated genetic material and DNA
and all of the complicated animals and plants that we see
came from nothing.
It's impossible.
It's a stupid thought.
It'd be like finding a computer and saying that the computer
just kind of naturally came into existence on its own.
That would be absurd,
but yet even the simplest organism
is way more complicated than that computer.
And, and, and here's the thing, you have to understand that when Charles Darwin is coming
up with this idea of evolution, he's working before DNA had even been discovered.
In fact, he's working before anything was even really known about genetics, because
the father of genetics, Mendel, was actually living at the same time as Darwin, and there's
no evidence that they read each other's work.
I mean, some people think they might have been aware of each other or some of their theories
about it, but Mendel's work didn't become popular.
Until after Darwin had been dead for a long time. It didn't really get popular until the early 20th century
So genetics started to be discovered in the early 20th century is when that science started to develop and then DNA
We're talking about the middle of the 20th century. Okay, so here's the thing
Charles Darwin is saying. Oh, well these really simple organisms
Begotte more complicated organisms, but the problem
that is that here's what Charles Darwin didn't know there's no such thing as a simple organism
you know Charles Darwin didn't know the fact that there's no such thing as a simple organism
because even if you go down to just a single celled organism it's extremely complicated
You know, here's one example, you know, our DNA as human beings has 2.9 billion base pairs
Okay, so that's the code on which humans are built. It's 2.9 billion
Base pairs long that's how long our DNA is and here's what's interesting about that is that there is a
Species of paramecium, which is a single-celled
organism
So you think like we're humans. We're these complicated organisms. We're you know, we're a lot more than one cell, right?
But just a tiny microscopic single-celled organism. There is one that has DNA with
299 billion base pairs. So the DNA of certain single-celled organisms is actually
there's a hundred times more information than our DNA.
So that's your simple organism.
right? A creature with 299 billion base pairs. There's your simple organism. And
here's the thing, obviously that's an extreme example, but you could pick all,
you could take all the single-celled organisms you want because now the
genomes of millions of species have been mapped now in 2025. Virtually any animal
you want, you can go online if you know what you're doing and you can look at the
Name the animal, giraffe, polar bear, lion.
I mean, those are easy.
Now add another million species that you've never even
heard of.
All their DNA has been mapped now.
Remember, like 25 years ago, they were mapping the human
genome?
It was a huge deal.
Human genome project.
Billions and billions of dollars, and literally over 1,000
scientists worked on it for years.
A thousand scientists are working on it, spending billions of billions of dollars to map the
human genome.
Now, in 2025, you know how much it costs if you wanted to map your full human genome?
It's $1,000 to map your full genome.
Exactly what they were trying to do 25 years ago, spending billions of dollars, thousands
of scientists.
Now, it's $1,000.
I think it's like $1,100, exactly, is how much it costs now for them to run.
Every bacteria, every virus, every animal,
I mean, they're mapping these genomes like crazy.
And there's all this data,
nobody even has time to process it all.
And you can literally just go online
and just download the full genome of a camel.
I mean, you wouldn't know what to do with it necessarily,
but you can literally just download as a text file
on your computer in a matter of seconds.
You know from these websites, I've done it and it's easy, you know, you just download it and it's just there it is
You know, you just got all the you know
ATC GGG AATT GCGA. Whoa, this is really cool
But you know, obviously then you got to figure out how to read it and process it and map it and so forth folks
The the simplest organism that there is has a super complicated code
DNA
That is the map for how to build that organism, and it's super complicated and even a single cell
You know what whenever I first learned about cells and all the parts of a cell
It reminded me of like a city. It's like a little city
Every cell in your body or any animals body. It's like a city and I was thinking like oh these are different departments of this
It's like a whole operation that's going on in one cell
And obviously, our bodies are made up of trillions of cells, you know.
And so this idea of, oh, well, you know, it's just these little simple organisms and then
they got more complicated.
Well, then why aren't there any simple organisms anywhere for us to look at?
Show me one of these simple organisms.
And don't show me that picture of an ape slowly turning into a human, the famous picture.
Why don't you show me a picture of something that's nothing, not alive, turning into the
Show me the evolution from nothingness to the first single-celled organism. You can't
Unless you just dreamed up something in your vain imagination and real scientists will actually admit to you
Yeah, we have no idea where life came from and we don't even know what life even is
We don't even have a definition for life
That's the true story but see they professing themselves to be wise they became fools right and dreamed up all of these
explanations because of the wickedness of their heart, which is really just
Not wanting to acknowledge God as God
They don't want to retain God in their knowledge.
They don't want to glorify Him as God because they're unthankful, right?
Just like a child who doesn't want to recognize their mother and father, doesn't want to honor
their father and mother, they don't want to recognize the heavenly Father.
They don't want to recognize the Creator.
It says in verse 23,
and changed the glory of the uncorruptible God
into an image made like to corruptible man
and to birds and four-footed beasts and creeping things.
And here's the thing,
obviously the primary context here
because it's the epistle to the Romans.
So it's the apostle Paul writing in the first century AD.
He's obviously thinking about idolatry of, you know,
worshiping...
humans, beasts or whatever, the whole pantheon of gods and goddesses and so they have idols
like in the Old Testament, the golden calf or something and then you have other Greek
gods, Roman gods, Eastern gods, all these different things.
Obviously idolatry is the primary application, but you know obviously the Bible is not just
written by man, it's not just the Apostle Paul writing, it's also the Holy Spirit.
writing. And so often the Bible goes beyond just what's right there on the
surface. What maybe the apostle Paul is directly referring to and there can be a
lot of other layers of meaning and other applications because frankly in
2025 America idolatry is not really a huge problem. Now if we're living in India
yeah it's still a problem.
or if we were living in Southeast Asia or something.
But let's face it, in America it's not a huge problem.
But you know, you could also look at this and say,
okay, well they changed the glory of the uncorruptible God
into an image made like to corruptible man,
and to birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping things.
And then in a moment, he's gonna say,
they worshiped and served the creature
more than the creator.
You could also apply this to the idea that
We, as human beings, are made in the image of God and they have basically taken that glory that God gets for creating us in his own image
by now saying, well, no, no, no, we weren't really made by God, we actually came from animals, you know.
And then you'll see now this almost worship that people have toward animals, now in our modern society even, because they have this attitude where we're no different than that.
You know, and they say well, you know, you got to be vegan because you wouldn't want to be milked every day
You don't want to be you know, have somebody just grabbing you and milking you
So why are you grabbing that animal and milking that animal?
Right, and you wouldn't want your children or you know you to be served as a burger or something
So why are you doing that to this cow?
Okay, but but again
They're not
glorifying and acknowledging God as the Creator who has created human beings in his image
and that human beings reflect the glory of God Almighty and are not products of animals
and are not on par with animals. We're not on the same level with animals.
We as Christians, we worship the Creator.
But today, atheists and agnostics often worship the creation.
And really, you can see how this connects with idolatry, because idolatry in many cases
has come out of this kind of pantheistic worship of nature, oh, we're worshiping the river
over here, we're worshiping the mountain over here, we're worshiping the forest over here,
and then it turns into like an anthropomorphized river god, mountain god, forest god, or whatever,
right?
So, even though we might not necessarily have the exact example of people carving an image
of a cow and bowing down to it...
We still can see this kind of a thing playing out where people aren't acknowledging God as the Creator.
They're believing that we came from animals.
They're then worshiping animals, saying that animals are more important than humans.
And you know, oh, I just don't like people. I just like dogs instead.
And you hear these kind of strange statements that people make.
And they're not kidding, unfortunately.
And so the Bible says that because they did this, because they were not thankful and didn't glorify God and became fools,
it says,
Now the thing I want to point out here, this is the first of three statements because we have God gave them up, God gave them up, God gave them over.
And the first thing I want to point out here is that it says,
God gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts,
and the word, wherefore, at the beginning there in verse 24, means, for this reason.
Okay, so because they didn't glorify God,
because they came up with alternative explanations for where they came from
and started worshiping animals instead of God,
because they did that, God gave them up to uncleanness.
Again, I'm just going to reiterate because of the dumb interpretations that are out there.
Are we talking about saved people?
Is it even possible that we could be talking about saved Christians right now?
It's absurd, because saved Christians aren't bowing down to a lizard and worshiping it.
There's no saved Christian that is worshiping, and that's what that is, the creeping thing
Creeping things are talking about lizards and things of that nature, right?
I'm not saying lizards is the only thing that creep, but that's an example of what we call a creeping thing.
Okay.
And so
Christians are not worshipping a lizard. None of them are.
They're not worshiping cows, they're not refusing to acknowledge God as Creator.
Everybody who's a saved Christian believes that God's the Creator, and they're acknowledging God as God.
Nobody says, oh, I don't believe in God, but I'm a Christian.
It's an absurd statement.
If someone said that to you, you'd say, well, they're for sure not saved.
Somebody told me, well, I don't believe in God, but I am a Christian.
You just say, well, you're unsaved.
You're not saved, because without faith, it's impossible to please Him.
You know, you have to believe, salvation's by faith, back to verses 16 and 17.
And so we're talking about unsaved people who have just rejected God.
And so as a result of rejecting God, God gave them up to uncleanness.
Okay?
So, just stop and think about the language here.
Don't let this truth pass you by.
What does that mean?
Okay, it sounds to me like there's something restraining these people or holding them back
from getting super unclean.
But then God just kind of gives them up to uncleanness and just kind of says, whatever.
Does everybody understand?
He's removing the restraint from them and just saying like, okay, whatever.
You're going to be that way?
And it says, through the lusts of their own hearts.
So it is not that God has dreamed up something wicked or sinful for them to do.
God's not making them do anything weird or sinful, right?
No, no, no, it's through the lusts of their own heart.
All God's doing is just giving them up, right?
Instead of restraining them, instead of holding them back,
He just gives them over to that.
and it all takes place through the lusts of their own heart,
it comes from the wickedness of their own heart,
to dishonor their own bodies between themselves, okay?
So they are being physical with one another
in a dishonorable way,
and we're gonna get to the specifics of that in a moment.
He's gonna tell us exactly what he's talking about.
But it says, who changed the truth of God into a lie,
and worshiped and served the creature more than the Creator,
who is blessed forever, amen.
Now, we don't want to mistakenly think that verse 25 has to take place after verse 24.
Verse 25 is just reminding us who we're talking about.
He gave them up to uncleanness to the son of their own bodies between themselves.
You know those people that worshiped and served the creature more than the Creator, the ones
we just talked about in verse 23.
24 is the result, 25 is just identifying this group
as those same people, okay?
This relative clause starting with who is describing
the people that were given up, that were given up
to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts.
And because they did those things enumerated
in verses 23 and 25, it says for this cause,
because of this, right?
Isn't that just like the where for in verse 24?
God gave them up unto vile affections.
So notice, verse 24 says,
wherefore God gave them up to uncleanness,
to dishonor their bodies,
and then in verse 26 it says,
God gave them up unto vile affections.
It's really a restatement of the same thing, okay?
The dishonoring of their bodies between themselves
is the same thing as the vile affections.
Okay? Why are they doing these things?
Why? Because God gave them up.
The implication here is that if God did not give them up to those things, they wouldn't be doing those things.
But God gave them up to those things.
And you say, Pastor Anderson, you know, why are you breaking it down so simple?
Because we just don't need this much help.
I'm really glad that you feel that way,
but the sad thing is that everybody outside these walls
doesn't seem to grasp what I'm teaching you right now.
And so I'm just going real slow
to make sure that we at least on the inside of these walls
understand this passage because I'm telling you,
this is not being preached across America.
This is not being preached in Baptist churches.
The so-called old IFB does not believe
what I'm about to show you right here.
Even though it's crystal clear, so I'm just leaving no stone unturned might as well
Just break it down word by word line by line and make sure we all on the same page here
Who changed the truth of God into a lie worship the creature more than the Creator
Verse 26 for this cause God gave them up into vile affections
For now this is just further explanation
what the vile affections are, what the dishonoring their own bodies with
themselves are, for even their women did change the natural use into that which
is against nature and likewise also the men leaving the natural use of the woman
burned in their lusts one toward another, men with men working that which is
unseemly and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was
meat.
And so what are we talking about here?
The natural thing would be for men and women
to have a physical relationship with one another.
A man and a woman get married
and they have a physical relationship with one another.
That is natural.
That is normal.
The Bible says marriage is honorable in all
and the bed undefiled.
But, Hormungers and adulterers God will judge.
So the Bible calls the marriage bed honorable, okay?
It is natural.
The man has a natural use of the woman, the Bible says.
But these people go contrary to nature, not just contrary to God or the Bible, they're
going contrary to nature, contrary to what kind of, contrary to human nature, contrary
And they do these vile things, gross things, dishonorable things, wicked things where the women will leave the natural use, right?
And they'll do something against nature and then also the men will do the same thing, men with men.
So obviously we're talking about homosexuality here.
We're talking about the women with the women, the men with the men.
It's unnatural, it's not normal, it's vile, it's disgusting.
that's what is happening here. Likewise also the man leaving the natural use of
the woman burned in their lust one toward another. Now a man burning with
lust toward another man is not normal. Now look we live among sinners. The world
is filled with sinful people. We all have a sinful nature.
Even after we're saved, we still have the same sinful flesh,
and we are surrounded by people, many of whom don't believe in God at all,
are not Christian at all, don't think that absolute morality necessarily even exists.
But even among such people, it is not normal for a man to lust after another man.
Even the most sinful people, worldly people, ungodly people,
is not burning in less toward other dudes.
It's not normal.
It's not natural.
It goes against nature.
It's sort of like, you know, you think about nature,
you have magnets and it's like the positive
and the negative magnet attract each other.
The positive and the positive repel one another.
The negative and the negative repel one another
and you can try to push them together.
It's just like, you can't get it to go together, right?
This is kind of how it is with two dudes.
You know, you're just like, they're just like, ah!
In fact, when I was a kid, my science book in the subject
on magnetism, and it was explaining magnetism,
it showed two male poodles walking away from each other
and discussed, and then it showed two female poodles
walking away from each other and discussed,
and then it showed a male and a female poodle
walking toward each other with a heart,
and the male poodle was labeled positive,
and it was showing like, see, opposites attract.
This is how magnets work.
Somehow I doubt that that's what the Tempe
you know, public school district has in their textbook right now.
But that's the textbook I grew up with, you know,
30-some years ago or whatever.
And so here's what you have to understand,
that men lusting toward other men, women, you know,
doing this with each other, men doing this, it's bizarre.
It's, and our world is trying to cram it down our throats
and just make it seem like it's normal.
So every TV show and movie and book and magazine is trying to just gaslight you into thinking that this is normal and
That it's just totally normal like they'll just you know on any kind of just
You know book or TV show or movie. They'll just introduce these homo characters like it's just natural as rain
Like nobody's even surprised. Just oh, yeah, whatever, you know
That's normal. No, it isn't
But they push it and they push it and they brainwash you enough to where now even Christians are starting to think that this is normal
And it is not normal
It is disgusting. It is vile and let's face it. We all have a sinful nature
Okay, so here's the thing, you know if I'm driving down the road and I see some you know image of some scantily clad babe
Am I, as a man, Pastor Anderson, am I going to be tempted to lust after that image?
Or if I see some babe walking down the street or something and she's dressed inappropriately,
there's a pretty good chance that, physically speaking, I am going to want to look at that
and indulge in that fantasy or whatever because that's how we're wired as men biologically.
Okay, men are attracted to women women are attracted to men. It's just biology
You know and I'm sure that there you know some of you are so holy that maybe you've never had that thought or whatever
But the point is that just if we're honest if we're honest as men
This is something that is tempting unto us
This is something that we deal with as men and here's the thing the fact that our biology is wired that way does not give us an excuse
to indulge in that you know we can't just say well of course I'm going to look at it I mean
you know it's just I'm a I'm a red-blooded male you know telling me not to look at this beautiful
babe you know that's that's just like you know just telling you know the apple not to fall from
the tree or something it's just nature but here's what you have to understand is that God calls us
God calls us through the Spirit to overcome the lust of the flesh and the Bible says that if we walk in the Spirit
We will not fulfill the lust of the flesh. So God is not telling us. Hey, yeah, it's natural
It's normal. I made you that way
So just go ahead and just lust after all the women and and go out and just commit a bunch of fornication adultery. No, it's wrong
We are supposed to control those appetites
We're supposed to control the lust of the eyes, the lust of the flesh.
We are supposed to get married and then indulge that appetite in its proper context within
marriage.
One wife for life and that is what God has designed.
And yeah, does our biology prompt it?
Look, my biology also would have, you know,
my biology wanted me to eat about five of those donuts
this morning and to drink a whole gallon of that milk.
If I would have just listened to whatever my body wanted,
because I had one and a half donuts this morning.
Usually I don't eat any of them,
but today I ate one and a half of them.
And you know what?
That was not me just going crazy.
I'll show you, I'll show you going crazy.
I'll eat a dozen donuts.
If I just took the, if I just took off the restraint,
you know what I mean?
Obviously, you don't just go through life
just indulging every craving.
You know, every time you feel like laying down,
you're just gonna lay down,
you're just at work, get a little tired,
just lay on the floor.
Just, oh, just keep eating, eat every time I'm hungry,
eat, eat, eat, you're gonna get huge, right?
You don't indulge every appetite.
And obviously when things are sinful,
The Holy Spirit is there to help you overcome those things and transcend your biology, transcend
the flesh.
But here's the thing, we as men, we have that temptation, don't we?
We struggle with that, where we see those images and we want to feast our eyes on that.
But here's the thing, if I'm driving down the street and I saw some dude.
on a billboard or some dude by the side of the road.
I'm not just like, oh, you know, can't look at that,
you know, I will send, because there's no desire
to look at that.
You know, if I walk into the locker room
and there's some naked dude, that's not a temptation, right?
Now, if I walked in and there's a naked lady,
you know, again, it's just like a reflex,
you're just gonna wanna look at that.
He's just like, and you gotta make a point not to do that.
Does everybody understand what I'm saying?
Yeah.
Okay, so to sit there and say, well, you know, these homos,
they're just sinners like the rest of us, you know,
we're all just sinners.
It's like, no, not really.
Because yeah, we're all sinners,
but we don't have temptations other than those
that are common to man.
There's no temptation taking you,
but such as is common to man.
And we all as men, yeah, we're all tempted
by the beautiful babes of this world.
But you know, we're not tempted by is another dude.
That's not a temptation. That's not a thing.
Okay. In fact, it's not only not a temptation. It's gross.
It's repugnant. It's repulsive. We're just like, gross.
It's vile. That's the word the Bible uses.
And so we have to ask ourselves,
why is it that a certain segment of our society in 2025
is dudes that lust after other dudes?
Why is there a segment of our society that is going against nature?
Well, they're just sinners. No, because sinners don't do that
Normal sinners don't do that
Christians who are backslidden, you know what they're gonna do. They're gonna go out and
Commit fornication or adultery or something, which don't be wrong. Those are big sins
But those are the natural drives that they would be driven toward
Whereas, when you see a man burning in lust toward another man, there's a question.
How did he get that way?
What went wrong?
Why is this dude lusting after another?
Why are these women lesbians?
Like what happened there?
And so the world has their answer.
What's the world's answer?
Oh, they're born that way.
It's baloney. I remember when I was a kid
They were searching for the gauging and everything and you heard about this and they're looking and it's funny
They looked and looked and looked and guess what they never found it
But now all of a sudden in 2025. They're just like they're born that way like like what happened is a bunch of scientists
checked out that theory it didn't pan out a few years went by of silence and then all of a sudden there's like
Well, yeah, I mean, and then it's just like
Yeah, of course they're born that way. You're like what what I thought we I thought you guys explored that and it didn't pan out
They did identical twin studies
Where they're seeing if one identical twins a Homo
You know does that impact whether the other twins a Homo and it was like no statistically significant correlation
And that even identical twins with the same DNA, if one's a homo,
the effect that that has on the other one being a homo is not even statistically significant.
And even if there were some slight correlation, you could just say,
well, they had the same weird upbringing or whatever.
But even that didn't pan out.
They just, there were just a bunch of sets of identical twins where one was a homo and the other wasn't.
And there was no, and you know, the science just isn't there, it's just a lie.
To say oh, they're born that way. It's just it's stupid. It's false
And then these homos every homo that you'll talk to this is the crap that they'll say to you
They'll say like oh, well, you don't understand. I already felt this way when I was seven
Who's heard this from homos before? Oh, I felt this way when I was eight years old
I already knew it when I was nine. I already knew when I was here's why you know that this is total baloney
What they're saying to you is that no six seven eight or nine year old is even thinking about those things
Am I right because guess what when I was six seven eight nine I preferred boys, too
Because every single six seven eight nine ten-year-old prefers boys because girls have cooties
They because they're not thinking about these adult topics because they haven't even hit puberty
That's the last thing on their mind. You know what they're thinking about boys are just fun to play with or whatever
So basically you have these these these sodomites trying to rewrite their life history saying oh, yeah
I did prefer boys when I was eight nine ten eleven. Yeah, you and everyone else too
And you say, no, no, I was thinking about something different.
Well then, you know what?
You must have been molested or shown pornography then, because no child would normally think
about those things at age five, six, seven, eight, nine, right, unless they got exposed
to something weird.
And that's what our society now.
Wicked elements of our society are trying to do that now
They're trying to expose kids to these ideas and get them thinking along these lines when they're five six seven eight
They're getting in and teaching this stuff in kindergarten first grade second grade third grade
And they are trying to pervert the minds of young children and confuse them
Because any normal child is just not thinking about those things at all
I mean, think about, you know, I can remember my own life.
I remember being in fourth grade and being upset that I was surrounded by girls.
And I was sitting, you know, I wanted to sit with boys and I had a girl on this side of my desk,
I had a girl on this side, girl in front, girl in back.
I was like, dang it.
But then I realized that the teacher had done that on purpose and that the whole room went boy, girl, boy, girl, boy, girl.
Because the first time I thought it was just me, just bad luck.
But then it turned out it was like boy girl boy girl boy girl boy girl boy girl because the teacher knows there's gonna be less talking
Okay, but then you fast forward like three four years to when you're 1213 and now all of a sudden it's like hey, baby. All right, you know
It goes from being bad luck to good luck to be surrounded by girls
Okay, but it's not normal for kids in elementary school to be thinking about anything along those lines
unless they've been corrupted by someone.
Someone took them aside, showed them something filthy,
showed them something inappropriate,
talked to them or even worse, molested them or whatever.
That's how you know this,
but it's like people just don't think.
They don't stop and think that, yeah,
we all, when we're five, six, seven,
prefer the same gender,
because we're not thinking about it in a weird way.
It's just kids playing with other kids.
You know and just because let's say a girl is just a little bit of a tomboy or something. That's pretty normal
Right, it's pretty normal and it's pretty normal for boys to like play house or whatever sometimes or those things are just normal things
But what happens is what they do is they try to reinterpret their childhood and exaggerate these things
Oh one time I played with dolls or something every dude probably played with dolls sometime just because they got sick of their own toys
You know every kid once they burned through the Hardy boys started, you know reading Nancy Drew for a while
Right every girl they burn through the Nancy Drew series they pull out the hearty boys
You know it's just like there's always gonna be a little bit of crossover of toys and entertainment and play and sometimes
You're gonna go play with the girls as a boy
You're gonna go play house with them and then they're gonna come play like you know, I don't know
Cowboys and Indians with you later or whatever
But this stuff gets all reinterpreted through a perverted mind because under the pure all things are pure
But under them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure
But even their minds and their conscience is defiled, you know
So they go back and reinterpret these things in a weird way to claim they're born that way
So on the one time we on the one hand we have this world
Claiming the sodomites are born that way right because the Bible calls them sodomites
On the one hand the world says they're born that way
Then we have mainstream evangelical Christianity.
Mainstream evangelical Christianity does not claim that they're born that way.
They don't accept that. They do not acknowledge that.
Here's what mainstream evangelical Christianity says.
Oh, they're just like everyone else.
They're just normal.
So they just kind of have this weird reality denial
by claiming, oh, well, we're all sinners and they're just normal
and they should just stop doing that.
Just stop it.
And here's what's so funny is that some of these pastors,
some of these evangelical pastors will even say things like,
well, we could all be homos.
And you're just like, what the heck?
You know, like, hey, you know, we could all,
you know, we could all fall into that sin
if we got backslidden enough, amen?
And it's just like crickets, you know, like,
it's like, speak for yourself.
So the evangelical Christians
are kind of just denying reality.
They're just denying reality that these people are different.
These people are not normal because most people are repulsed by that activity, they're burning
and lust toward it, something's different here.
So then the world is like, yeah, something's different, but then they make up this fiction
about them being born that way.
The true story is what the Bible says here, the reason that they are that way is because
God gave them up to vile affections.
The difference between the super-worldly, sinful guy that you know that still thinks
homos are weird, but he'll go out and be a whoremonger and, you know, he has no problem
going to the strip club and going out and sowing his wild oats with a bunch of just
babes that he picks up at a bar, you know, some super wicked guy, what's the difference
between that guy and homos?
The difference is that one has been given up to vile affections and the other hasn't.
Does everybody understand?
Now what does this mean to be given up to vial infections?
I think a great illustration for this is like a governor in your car.
So old cars in the 70s, and I wasn't born, but this is what I've been told, they had
this thing called a governor, right?
And certain vehicles would have a governor, and it basically doesn't allow the car to
go above a certain speed.
Who knows what I'm talking about?
So, there's like a governor that stops the car from going a certain speed, right?
And then, so it's like a restraint that keeps the car from going beyond a certain threshold.
Well, here's the thing.
We as human beings made the image of God.
We also have certain restraints that make us different than animals, right?
Because animals will do all kinds of weird, gross things that people won't do, right?
You know a cat will just stick it one of its hind legs up in the air and just start licking
You know something grows and you're just like what the heck like what are you doing and you look we've all if we've been around dogs long
Enough we've seen dogs eat feces and vomit and all kind of you're just like what in the world
You know, we've also seen that proverbial dog in heat that just there's just humping everything in sight
And you're just like what is wrong with this dog?
They're animals
They don't have these, you know, qualms about cleanliness and things, right?
Whereas human beings, we have all these boundaries and barriers that we don't cross and things
that are gross to us and weird and not normal.
What happens is when a person rejects God to the point that we're talking about here
in Romans chapter 1, God will give them over to vile affections, meaning that he just removes
You know, there's like a threshold or a line that normal people don't cross. God basically just removes that.
So God is not dreaming up this filth or weird stuff that they get involved in, but normal people are not pedophiles or
homos or any of these other perversions that I'm not even going to mention, like, you know, like what it says in Leviticus 18 and 20,
you know, people that would lie with a beast or something like that. You know, normal people would never do that.
They don't want to do that. They're grossed out by that.
So when you see people that are doing those things, you know what it tells you?
The governor's been removed.
So God has basically turned them into like tantamount to a beast where they'll just kind of do anything.
He removes that normal restraint and he just gives them over to dishonor their own bodies between themselves through the lusts of their own heart
He just gives them over to vile affections and then you see it says in verse 26
God gave them up into vile affections for even their women to change the natural use of that which is against nature
Likewise also the men leaving the natural use of the woman burned in their lusts one to another if you see a man
Lusting toward another man and a man's burning less toward other men. It's because it's evidence that God has given him over to a reprobate mind
He's been given up
Was he born that way now is he normal is you just like everyone else now he's been given up
and again, I
Don't see what's complicated about this chapter. I think this chapter is pretty clear
But it's just people don't want to believe this this would have been easy to preach 50 years ago
But people don't want to believe this because of the fact that our society has brainwashed
us into thinking that homos are normal, they're the same as everybody else, or that they're
even somehow better than us, or wonderful.
They're the nicest people ever.
But look what the Bible says, 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, right?
Convenient means things that would come naturally, okay?
God gave them over to a reprobate mind to do those things.
It's like, what do you not understand about that, right?
God gave them over.
So, sometimes homos will say, God made me this way.
Yeah, because God gave you over to a reprobate mind to do those things that are not convenient.
God gave you up under vile affections.
God gave you up under uncleanness.
That's why you're not normal.
And he says God gave them over to a reprobate mind to do those things which are not convenient.
Now what does the word reprobate mean?
The word reprobate simply means rejected.
And you can use a dictionary to define this, or you can just study the Bible and see how it's used.
For example, in Jeremiah 6.30 it says,
So, a reprobate mind means a rejected mind.
So, they have the mindset of those who have been rejected by God.
And notice how this is reciprocal. It says in verse 28,
So they hate God so much that they have pushed him out of their mind like they don't even want to remember that he even exists and
As a consequence God gave them over to a reprobate mind. So basically what God saying is you rejected me now
I'm rejecting you and
He gave them up to vile affections it says and then it goes on to describe them being filled now
This is not a complete sentence. This is a dependent clause. This is not a complete sentence
Being filled with all unrighteousness is a description of the people that we just talked about.
God gave them over to a reprobate mind, now it's described to them.
Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness,
full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity, whispers, backbite,
here's the key, underline this one, haters of God.
Haters of God, right?
That's how they even got there in the first place.
despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents.
And again, we talked about how that attitude that atheists and agnostics and people who reject God have toward God
is often the same attitude that they have toward their parents.
Or that even Christian kids could sometimes get toward their parents of like,
well, I don't owe you anything and, you know, I never asked to be born into this family and that kind of stupidity.
without understanding covenant breakers,
without natural affection,
implacable, unmerciful, okay?
Now, some people will again try to twist this passage
and say, well, if being a homo makes you a reprobate,
well, then I guess just boasting makes you a reprobate
or being disobedient to your parents makes you a reprobate
or, you know, no, wrong.
What the Bible is saying is that these people who are reprobate they also have all these other sins as well
They're also full of envy murdered debate deceit maliciousness malignity whispers backbiter
So there's just other attributes that they have
Here's the difference. They share those attributes with normal people
Normal people can fall into the trap of being a whisperer backbiter
Right? Normal people can do things like disobey their parents, covet, whatever.
Okay, obviously every sin on this list, a reprobate does not one make.
But what you have to understand is that what is described earlier in the passage is something that's against nature.
It isn't normal. It's normal for people to lie, cheat, steal because we have a sinful nature.
it is not normal for men to be attracted to other men,
women to be attracted to other women.
It is evidence of the reprobate mind.
Now here's what I,
I'm gonna close the sermon in a few minutes,
but let's review really quick everything I did not say
that people will lie and say that I said.
You know, people who watch this online,
obviously you're not going to.
But people that will see this online. This is what they'll lie and say that I said and this is what people lie every single day about me and
The old IV and they go oh pastor Anderson believes that homosexuality is an unforgivable sin. It's an unpardonable sin
Did I teach that at any point in this sermon?
Did I teach anywhere in this sermon that being a homo?
Turns a person into a reprobate
That if someone commits a homo act God turns them into a reprobate. Is that what is that well?
No, because because it's the exact opposite of that
It is becoming a reprobate that turns someone into a homo
That's what I actually said
Being a homo doesn't make you a reprobate being a reprobate makes you a homo, okay?
That's how it works. Does everybody understand the difference because being a homo is a symptom
the fact that you have been given over to the reprobate mind because you didn't
want to retain God in your knowledge. That's what that actually is saying. And
so here's the thing, we do live in a day where people are very confused and
where children are being corrupted, molested, brainwashed, confused, and there
are all kinds of kids and teenagers that right now because of the abuse of just
the filth and garbage that they're being exposed to, they're
their minds may be wondering maybe I'm a homo or something and they might even
experiment with something or especially if they're under the influence of drugs
or alcohol someone might molest them or get them involved in some act that they
normally would not have participated in you know that doesn't make them a
reprobate it's super gross and wicked and sinful but it wouldn't necessarily
make them a reprobate you say where's the line the person the man who burns and
You know it is somebody who did something gross like I'll give you an example. I knew a guy that told me he said
That when he was growing up he was molested and so therefore he was confused and he one time
Experimented with that and right away. He was grossed out by it and knew like this is not who I am
Like, this is not for me.
But the reason that he even tried it
was because he'd been abused and corrupted,
and then that led him to experiment with that.
And then he was grossed out by it, rejected it,
ended up many, many years later as an adult getting saved.
Okay, this guy's not a reprobate.
Okay, he was a victim that then, unfortunately,
went on to commit a gross sin at some point.
That's not the point, okay?
What we're saying is that those who are burning in lust toward the same gender are not normal.
So your out-and-proud sodomites are reprobates, and by the way, they are beyond the hope of salvation.
They have been rejected by God. They've been given over to a reprobate mind.
They are doomed and damned, and there is nothing you can do for them. It is too late for them.
They are rejected. They are reprobate.
because people get super offended by this doctrine saying that,
oh, homos can't be saved because and it's like, well maybe they can get saved.
How can you get saved when you hate God and don't even want to retain Him in your knowledge
and your heart has been darkened and your heart has been hardened?
And what does the Bible say in John 12, 39 about people whose heart has been hardened
and their mind darkened and their eyes blinded?
It says, therefore they could not believe because God has blinded their minds.
Here's the thing, if a person believes in Jesus, they will be saved, period.
You say, what if a homo believed in Jesus? Will he be saved? Theoretically, yes, of course, everyone who believes he'll be saved.
But the problem is, you can't believe in Jesus when you don't even want to retain him in your knowledge, when you hate him so much that you don't even want to believe he exists.
So now he's hardened your heart and turned you over to a reprobate mind.
You're done. It's too late for you.
People get super offended by this and they say, you know, that we don't love people or we're not, you know, reaching out to the homos and stuff.
But here's the thing, we've accidentally witnessed more homos than the old IFB has witnessed to on purpose.
Because people don't always walk around with a sign that says, hello, my name is, I'm a homo.
And so therefore, we're constantly giving the gospel to just every person we meet.
And here's the thing, when a teenager,
if a child or a teenager tells me that they're a sodomite,
I just assume that they're just confused
and don't know what they're talking about
and I preach the gospel to them anyway.
You know what I mean?
Because a lot of times these kids will identify that way
because it's like trendy.
Like, oh, I'm a lesbian, oh, I'm a homo, or whatever.
And you're just like, whatever, you know?
And you give them the gospel,
just kind of hoping that they're just confused.
And a lot of times it turns out
they've never even done any of that stuff.
It's just like brainwashing that they've received.
Whereas if I'm out soul winning
and I knock the door and some dude comes to the door
and drag.
don't have to stand there and look at that and God doesn't expect me to stand
there and look at that and talk to that person and look I knocked on the door
one time and this guy's like oh my you know why don't I go get my boyfriend out
of the show we can all talk about I'm just like screw you I'm out of here not
gonna sit here and witness to some filthy reprobate homo that's casting your
pearls before swine my friend okay but like I said
We're constantly giving people the benefit of the doubt and here's what I've always said if I'm 99% sure that somebody's a homo
I'll give them the gospel anyway just for the 1% chance that they're not
You know and I've look there have been people I remember there's there's this there was this one girl
And she had like a bully's haircut
She had a rainbow sticker on her thermos and I thought that for sure she was a lesbian because she just
Seemed like it, but you know what? I wasn't sure I didn't have any evidence of that
I didn't want to just jump to that conclusion
And so I ended up witnessing to her anyway being kind under anyway
And it turned out she was not a lesbian at all because a lot of people just have that sticker
Because they're just supporting homos or something
It turned out she was married, totally normal, you know, so I'm not saying we want to just
start labeling everyone and just jump into conclusions.
But you know, when a dude is in drag or something...
Or when somebody just outright just tells you I'm a homo and you know then at that point
You know what you're dealing with and you just need to get away from gross people like that and just move you know
And it's funny because some people would be
Scandalized by me saying I'm not gonna witness to some dude and drag
It's like well, what if what if I knocked on the door and a naked lady came to the door am I just gonna be like all right
Roman's 323. Let's go
And guess what
A dude coming to the door and drag is way more offensive than coming to the door naked.
It's super offensive, it's super gross, none of us want to look at that.
And the Bible says, I'll set no wicked thing before my eyes.
And the Bible says, give not that which is holy under the dogs, and don't cast your pearls
before swine, because they will trample them under their feet and turn again and rend you.
So no, we're not going soul-winning at a gay pride parade.
And so I know this is an unpopular doctrine, but it's amazing how every time I preach on this,
the Bible keeps saying the same thing, I keep turning to Romans 1, and there it is again, you know?
And it's like 2025, it still says it, I'm not changing on this doctrine, I'm not backing down on this doctrine.
And you say, well, I don't agree with you, Pastor Erzik, because I think that Homoes can still be saved.
Well, here's what I say to you, go get as many Homoes saved as you want, just don't bring them here.
Amen?
Because we don't want them around our kids.
So you go get all the homos you want saved.
Good luck with that.
You have a ball, witnessing the homos.
That's Baird's never-word of prayer.
Father, we thank you so much for your word, Lord.
Thank you for Romans chapter 1.
Thank you that the gospel, the power of God,
and the salvation, Lord.
Thank you that we are saved by faith alone
through grace.
Through Christ, thank you so much for your unspeakable gift, Lord, and Lord God, help us to be aware of the
horrible things that are going on in our society right now,
the wicked agendas that are being pushed, Lord, and help us not to
fall prey to wicked, malicious, evil people described in Romans 1. Help us to get away from them and keep our families away from them,
and to realize that if you have rejected them, we should reject them as well.
Lord God, please bless us as we go our separate ways this week and
Help us to honor and glorify you throughout the week and in Jesus' name. We pray amen
Him in the right ladies gentlemen take your hymns, please go to him number three him number three Jesus paid it all him number three
We got that first verse together in hint number three.
I hope I stayed this way and I hope you can see us now.
In hint number three, sing it out.
I hear the Savior sing,
Thy strength in need is small.
Now the weakness watch and pray,
Lighted be Thy know it all.
Let the crescent stay, he watched it white as snow.
For now it be my time, thy power and mine alone.
And change the leprous past, and now the heart of stone.
Left a crimson stain, he watched in white as snow,
Born out in the navi, where by thy grace to claim,
I'll wash my wronged wife in the blood of Calvary's lamb.
And when before the fall, I stand in complete, Jesus died my soul to save, my head shall still repeat, Jesus made it all.
I think it's not the other side.