Faith on the Go: Ep 1: The Downward Spiral: Society's Rejection of God's Truth

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Welcome to the Diary of a Black Woman, where we dive deep into the Word of God

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to uncover the truths that shape our lives.

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I'm your host, Connie Morris, and today we're starting a powerful new series

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called The Downward Spiral, Understanding Humanity's Rejection of God.

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This series is about confronting the uncomfortable truths of how our society

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and sometimes we ourselves reject God's truth,

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leading us down a path of spiritual and moral decay.

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And so that's going to be the theme for the next couple of episodes or more.

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I think I have about maybe 15 episodes. And we're just going to just walk this through bite by,

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I like to say episode by episode and just find out how do we end up in a world

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that so that's decaying right before our eyes.

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I love crime shows. I love to watch crime shows.

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But now I'm watching where 12 year olds are now committing murders.

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12-year-olds, what would you imagine that a 12-year-old have the mental capacity to kill someone?

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And then you start thinking of the characteristics of the enemy.

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The enemy kills, steal, and destroy. So he doesn't care who he uses.

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And so we want to be able to recognize and identify the downward spiral of humanity's rejection of God.

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And so in episode one, we're going to be going to scriptures of Romans 1, 18 to 32.

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So go ahead and find Romans 1, 18 to 32. I'll be reading from the New King James Version.

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And since this is our Faith on the Go series, these are not long episodes.

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So I'm going to jump in and I'm going to jump out, but it's going to be powerful.

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And so I want you to understand, yeah, because this is something that,

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you know, I always have these episodes. That's something that gets me thinking

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about like what is going on around me.

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And then I just begin to study the word of God and boom, he began to reveal to me just the things.

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When we begin to reject just a little bit of truth, we allow a lot of lying.

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And so we're going to start to understand where we in our life have rejected

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God's truth and allow a lie to come in.

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And that's where the spiral begin

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And like I've mentioned before A copy of this devotional I won't be a devotional

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It'll be pretty much the podcast script Will be on the website So you can get

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a copy of it And so this series is about confronting The uncomfortable truths of how our society.

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And sometimes how we reject God's truth, leading us on a downward path of spiritual and moral decay.

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Our first episode is titled Suppressing the Truth, the Beginning of the Downward Spiral.

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We're going to break down Romans 1, 18 to 32,

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verse by verse, to understand how rejecting God's truth initiates a downward

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spiral, both in our lives and in the world around us.

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Hopefully, by now, you found the verses.

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So let's start.

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For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness

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of men who suppress the truth and unrighteousness.

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Because what may be known of God is manifested in them. Let me grab some water already. Dang.

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Let's start over. For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness

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and the unrighteousness of man who suppress the truth and unrighteousness because

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of what may be known of God is manifest in them.

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For God has shown it to them. For since the creation of the world,

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his invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made.

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Even his eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse,

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because although they knew God, they did not glorify him as God, nor were thankful,

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but became futile in their thoughts, and their foolish hearts were darkened.

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Professing to be wise, they became fools and changed the glory of the incorruptible

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God into an image made like corruptible man and birds and four-footed animals and creepy things.

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Therefore, God also gave them up to uncleanliness and the lust of their hearts

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to dishonor their bodies among themselves,

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who exchanged the truth of God for the lie and worship and serve the creator

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rather than the creator,

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who is blessed forever. Amen.

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For this reason, God gave them up to vile passions. For even their women exchanged

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the natural use for what is against nature.

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Likewise, also the men, leaving the natural use of the women,

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burn in their lust for one another.

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Men with men committing what is

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shameful and receiving in themselves the penalty of error, which was due.

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And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge,

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God gave them over to a debased mind to do those things which are not fitting.

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Being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness,

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covetousness, maliciousness, full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil-mindedness.

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They are all whisperers, backbiting, haters of God, violent,

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proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents.

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Undiscerning, untrustworthy, unloving, unforgiving, unmerciful.

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Who, knowing the righteousness of God,

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Judgment of God, that those who practice such things are deserving of death,

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not only do the same, but also approve of those who practice them.

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Wow. God did not miss any words in that script, in those scriptures, Romans 1, 18 through 32.

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The last one, verse 32, is really what really kind of brings it home.

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It says, who knowing the righteous judgment of God, that those who practice

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such things are deserving of death, not only do the same, but also approve of

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those who practice them.

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So God's saying like a lot in that verse. So let's break it down.

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Our first one, the wrath of God revealed, Romans 1, 18.

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It says, the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness,

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unrighteousness of men who suppress truth and unrighteousness.

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It says God's wrath is not arbitrary. It is a response to the willful suppression of his truth.

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Humanity's unrighteousness is not just a matter of ignorance.

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It's an active choice to suppress what is known about God.

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Ask yourself, in what ways might you be suppressing the truth in your own life?

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Are there areas where you are choosing to ignore God's guidance?

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So we read the scripture. It's not missing any words about what we see around the world.

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What's the agenda for homosexuality? God gives it to us here.

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That is not his plan, it's not his agenda, and yet it's put before us.

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And what does God say about that?

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It says God's wrath is not arbitrary.

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It is a response to the willful suppression of his truth. So when we suppress the truth.

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Humanity's unrighteousness is not just a matter of ignorance.

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It's an active choice to suppress what is known about God.

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So God says here, I have revealed myself to you and you have refused to acknowledge it.

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And this is the beginning of the spiral.

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Let's go to point two, God's revelation through creation, Romans 1, 19 to 20.

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Because what may be known of God is manifest in them, for God has shown it to them.

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For since the creation of the world, his invisible attributes have been clearly seen,

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understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead,

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so that they are without excuse.

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God has made himself known through creation.

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His attributes, his powers, his divinity are evident in the world around us,

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leaving humanity without excuse.

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Consider how the beauty and complexity of creation testifies to God's existence.

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How does this understanding impact your responsibility to acknowledge and honor him?

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Point three, the consequences of ungratefulness. Romans 1, 21 to 23.

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Because although they knew God, they did not glorify him as God,

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nor were thankful, but because became futile in their thoughts and their foolish hearts were darkened.

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Professing to be wise, they became fools. They changed the glory of the incorruptible

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God into an image made like corruptible man and birds and four-footed animals and creepy things.

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Knowing God isn't enough if we don't glorify him and give thanks.

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When we fail to honor God, our thoughts become futile, our hearts darken,

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leading to foolishness and idolatry.

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We just don't acknowledge him. It says, knowing God isn't enough if we don't

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glorify him and give thanks.

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So when you ignore him, that starts a downward spiral.

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When we fail to honor him.

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Our thoughts become futile and our hearts darken, leading to foolishness and idolatry.

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Gratitude and worship are essential in keeping our hearts aligned with God's truth.

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Are you regularly glorifying him for who he is?

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Or have you allowed other things to take his place?

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For God gives them over. Romans 1, 24 to 25.

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Therefore, God also gave them up to uncleanliness and the lust of their hearts

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to dishonor their bodies among themselves,

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who exchanged the truth of God for the lie and worship and serve the creator

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rather than the creator who is blessed forever. Amen.

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When people persist in rejecting God's truth, he allows them to follow their sinful desires.

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This leads to the degradation of their bodies and minds as they exchange the truth for lies.

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What lies might you be believing or living by?

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How have these lies affected your relationship with God and your own being?

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God is truth and he creates us truth. And we know the truth because the truth

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is in us. We're created with truth.

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But when we are ignoring the truth and you know you're ignoring the truth,

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and how does that affect the way you live?

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How does that affect the way you believe?

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How does that open you up for more lies? Then how do these lies affect your

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relationship with God and your own well-being?

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Well-being could be your health, your wealth, your well-being, right?

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Your wealth, your wealth, health, and your wealth, right? How does that affect you?

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I just know when I get out of line with God, God does so many things to get me back in line.

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So I know that when I get so far out of the way,

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I know things start to go downhill quick and you want to blame it on maybe your

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boyfriend or your girlfriend or the workplace, your boss, everything else.

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But have you really checked your truth meter?

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Have you checked your honor meter? Have you checked like where you your relationship meter with God?

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Could it be that something is off? Could it be that God is trying to get your attention?

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Let's go to number five. The natural order rejected.

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Romans 1, 26 to 27. For this reason, God has given them up to vile passions.

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For even their women exchange the natural use for what is against nature.

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Likewise, also the men leaving the natural use of the woman.

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I like that. God says a natural use of a woman. God created male,

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for female and female for male. But he said, when you leave the natural use of a woman,

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burning their lust for one another, men with men, committing what is shameful

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and receiving in themselves the penalty of error for which was due.

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When God is rejected, even the natural order he created is overturned.

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This leads to unnatural and sinful behavior that goes against his design.

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So things are out of order. The farther you get from God, the more out of order things begin to be.

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It seems normal to you, but it's so out of order for God.

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So how does society today reflects this rejection of God's natural order.

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In what ways can we as believers uphold and honor God's design for life?

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So as we see, God has designed men for women and women for men.

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And when that line is crossed, that shows a downward spiral of society.

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And we see here in Romans 1, 26 to 27, we see that the natural order is rejected.

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Where else can we see in society where the natural order is rejected?

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Have we seen an increase in bestiality where men and women are sleeping with

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their dogs and their cats and these animals, wildlife?

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The further humanity goes down this downward spiral, the further we get away

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from God, the more the natural order is overturned.

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God did not create females to sleep with dogs and animals.

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He created the natural order of men to be with women and women to be with men,

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not men to go sleep with animals or women to sleep with animals.

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Bestiality has increased. So it gets more and more stranger.

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So how has society today reflect this rejection of God's natural order?

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In what way can we as believers uphold and honor God's design for our lives?

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Number six, debased mind, Romans 1, 28 to 32.

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And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge,

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God gave them over to a debased mind to do those things which are not fitting,

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being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness,

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covetousness, maliciousness, full of envy,

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murder, strife, deceit, evil-mindedness.

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Whisperers, backbiters, haters of God, violent, proud, bolsters,

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inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, undiscerning.

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Undiscerning is dangerous. All this other stuff, But undiscerning will definitely get you killed.

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Untrustworthy, unloving, unforgiving, unmerciful.

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Who knowing the righteous judgment

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of God, that those who practice such things are deserving of death.

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Not only do the same, but also approve of those who practice it.

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That's a list of things. And if we look into the world today,

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you can probably break this down.

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You know, you go on YouTube, I think YouTube or any tube,

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any social media, you can actually pull, you can start to categorize what you

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see or what they allow to get through to the public into some of these categories.

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They're showing you how the world is at a downward spiral, downward spiral,

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downward spiral, downward spiral, full of envy. People are,

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You just turn it on and you see this drama. I can go into all the drama I see

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because I don't want to mess up the anointing that God has put on my life for

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this particular podcast.

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But the things that we see is just so, so of a debased mind.

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The mind is just full of just darkness.

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So a debased mind is a result of consistently rejecting God.

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It leads to a life filled with all kinds of unrighteousness and ultimately brings about God's judgment.

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It's a dark mind. It's a dark mind.

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So take a moment and reflect in the areas of your life where you need to retain God's knowledge.

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How can you actively resist the pull of a debased mind and stay rooted in righteousness?

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As you can see this list on Romans 28 to 32, It's not even the people that have this mind.

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It's the people who enjoy the entertainment.

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Because people get three millions of reviews when people are doing any of these things.

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If there's a church episode, you don't get, maybe I'll just give an example.

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You don't get a million views. But if you're doing any of these other things,

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you are getting millions of views.

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So you got the people who approve of those people that practice them by observing

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them, giving them all that time and energy, right?

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Come on now, exposing yourself to that information as though that helps your

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Christian walk, just darkening your mind.

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And so being able to resist it, finding something else to do,

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read your Bible, but being pulled in by the darkness and the debased minds of others. So good.

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We're going to wrap up. We're about to wrap up.

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We're going to wrap up episode one.

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But I just want to wrap it up on a positive note here. So I want to challenge

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you to reflect on where you might be suppressing God's truth in your life.

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Are there areas where you have allowed the world's wisdom to take precedence over God?

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Over God's. Are you holding on to lies because the truth is too uncomfortable?

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It's like when God says no, he means no. There's no way around it. He means no.

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Proverbs 3, 5 to 6 reminds us that trust in the Lord with all your heart and

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lean not to your own understanding.

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In all your ways, acknowledge him and he shall direct your path.

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Today, let's make a commitment to trust in the Lord completely,

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to reject the lies we have been told and to embrace the truth in every area of your life.

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And if this has prickled your mind or prickled your heart, that means there's

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still time. They mean your mind is not so debased.

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If this has made you upset or angry, maybe your mind is not so debased.

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You know, if you're upset about it, maybe your mind is not so debased.

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I mean, there's still time for a change.

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There's still a time to repent and to get right with God.

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It's still time to allow some truth and a little light, a little light, a little leaven.

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Leaven is a whole lump, right? But a little light can also shine bright into

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your light and change it around. This could be a warning.

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It could be your only warning. So I just want to encourage you to do this week.

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Spend some time in prayer and reflection.

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Just read over the scripture, asking God to reveal any areas where you've been

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suppressing the truth and to give you the strength to walk in his light.

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Consider how you can actively retain God in your knowledge and resist the pull of the debased mind.

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Next week, we'll continue to journey through Romans 1 as we explore the more

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profound consequences of rejecting God's truth to know how it leads to a debased mind.

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I encourage you to spend time in prayer and reflection this week,

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asking God to reveal areas where you have been suppressing the truth and to

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give and to give you the strength to walk in this light.

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A lot of times when you ask so much dark in, like maybe you are on YouTube or

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whatever you pay attention to more than you read your Bible.

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Turn it off. Do a fast.

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Do prayer and fast. And then allow or change, you know, find.

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And I think turning it off be the best.

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Go through that little withdrawal for a while and refocus your mind so that

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you let some light in so that God can do a work in you.

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So thank you for joining me on this journey.

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This is, I'm your host, Connie Morris with the Diary of Black Women.

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Stay blessed, stay vigilant, and keep moving forward and walking in the truth.

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Until next time. Amen. Amen.