The Book of Romans is often referred to as the greatest or the most influential book in the Bible. It is filled with the good news of redemption and salvation.
Romans 10:9-10: “If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved”
Romans 5:8 “But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”
Romans 8:1 “Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus”
But Romans also clearly explains the slippery slope of societal judgment, how that manifests itself in culture for those who have rejected Christ.
“If you choose not to retain the knowledge of God, choose to hide it, ignore it, to bury it, God will give you the gift of having what you want…he will release you.” — Pastor Allen Jackson.
Romans 1:18-32 – Humanity’s Rejection of God
Romans 1: 18-32 details the blueprint of judgment – a downward spiral where, by refusing to acknowledge God, people are given over to depraved minds and dishonorable actions, even approving of those who do wrong, leaving them without excuse before God’s righteous judgment.
Suppressed Truth: People have suppressed the truth about God through their persistent unrighteousness.
Exchange of God’s Glory for Corruption: In a series of exchanges, humanity replaces God’s glory with its own idol, worshipping creations rather than the creator, and exchanges the truth about God for lies.
(WE ARE HERE –>) God Gives Them Over: As a consequence, God gives people over to the lusts of their hearts, leading them into uncleanness and immoral practices, and ultimately to a depraved mind that approves of wrongdoing.
Read the passages below carefully and think about how we’ve ‘progressed’ since the Sexual Revolution began. Even as a child of the 80’s I observe a drastically steep decline in morality, perversion and all forms of sexual immorality, and lawlessness from then to now.
Romans 1 :18-32
God’s Wrath Against Sinful Humanity
18 The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness, 19 since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them.
20 For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been Clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.
21 For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22 Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools 23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like a mortal human being and birds and animals and reptiles.
24 Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. 25 They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.
26 Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. 27 In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.
28 Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done. 29 They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity.
They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, 30 slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; 31 they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy. 32 Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them.
Along with idolatry and widespread immorality, aberrant sexuality is a major sign of a nation under judgment. This is why an alarming increased number of us are given over to unclean sexual desires and practice sexuality that is ultimately harmful and offensive to God. Baked into this is the rejection of God through gender confusion.
Nothing short of turning back to God is and widescale repentance and restoration will reverse our course.
The sexual revolution began in the 1940’s when societal views on sex began to change from procreation to self-expression, then came birth control, removal of prayer in public schools, removal of God from our public institutions, abortion, and a progressing dismissal of God’s design for the family and sexuality.
“If My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.” 2 Chronicles 7:14
Darkness prevails in the absence of light.
Do we want to continue operating in darkness, or repent and live according to God’s perfect will?
God’s grace and mercy are available to everyone who turn to Him in repentance and accept His free gift of salvation through faith in Jesus Christ.
You can find victory and renewal of the mind even if you feel it’s impossible. With God, all things are possible! I’m not talking about a white knuckle experience but rather a natural transition through faith and putting God first in your life — I am living proof, having overcome sexual depravity along with severe substance abuse issues, and criminal tendencies.
And beyond the thousands of amazing testimonies of deliverance from substance abuse, lives of crime, infidelity, prostitution, etc., the greatest testimonies are here: https://changedmovement.com — do not believe the lies the media and secular culture feed you! “You can change”…”no more depression”…no more “drinking myself into stupors.”…”I am now a child of God.” ..”You can have a family and kids.” Please watch this video.
When God Abandons a Nation (Romans 1:18-32)
God Is Judging Our Nation | Allen Jackson Ministries (2024)
“If you choose not to retain the knowledge of God, choose to hide it, ignore it, to bury it, God will give you the gift of having what you want…he will release you.” — Pastor Allen Jackson.
America Is Under God’s Judgment (Paul Washer and Dr. John MacArthur) – This short video is 14+ years old: listen to Paul Washer’s predictions!
Also, read the story of Sodom and Gomorrah where once again, the judgment is highlighted by sexual immorality. It’s found in Genesis 18:16 – 19:29. And if you want evidence this happened, do a YouTube search for “sulfur balls Sodom and Gomorrah.”
God’s judgment never ends well. We can be naive or proud or live in denial all we want, but God is God and you and I are not. Matthew 4: 7 “It is also written: ‘Do not put the Lord your God to the test.”
The Bible mentions judgments throughout history, such as the Flood, the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, and the exile of the Israelites. And of course the final judgment in the book of Revelation. Israel becoming a nation again (the regathering of the Jewish people — an undeniable last days marker) shows us that we are closer than ever and seemingly living in the Last Days — this is said to Prepare not Scare you – go here to read more.
Repentance and salvation is the answer. If a society as whole is under judgment it doesn’t mean you have to be.
Romans 8: 1-4
1Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, 2because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives life has set you free from the law of sin and death. 3For what the law was powerless to do because it was weakened by the flesh, God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh to be a sin offering. And so he condemned sin in the flesh, 4in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
