Romans 1:24-27
Steven Mulhall appeared before Judge Michael Orlando for a parole hearing. After the hearing, the placard with the judge’s name on the courtroom door was missing. A couple weeks later, Steven was before Judge Orlando again for stealing the $40 nameplate. Because Steven had several arrests for petty theft, this nameplate heist broke his parole and turned it into a felony with jail time. Steven was caught because he posted pictures of himself posing with the nameplate on his girlfriend’s Facebook page. Sin makes you stupid.
In 2013 my mentor (Rev. Kevin Shorkey) wrote a book titled “Sin makes you stupid,” with the above example. In his book, he uses many illustrations of people that should have known better - that fall to obviously sinful actions. These normally smart people knowing God’s truth but then ignoring it, fall for sinful desires. “Intelligent gifted people trading the best things in their lives for those of lesser value,” (K. Shorkey). The reality is that God’s truth matters. Always has and always will.
God’s truth is not a good way or an option to consider. It is the only and the best way. God’s truth has authority whether we follow it or not. Our world likes to offer every way but God’s way. The world says that all options are always open and why put limits on them? What started out as “free love” in the 1960’s has turned into we must legalize every sexual perversion no matter how extreme. This excess is so far from God’s truth and design for one man and one woman bonded in marriage. God’s design is that the husband and wife are different but compliment each other in ability, emotion, and gifts brought to the marriage relationship. This relationship is the building blocks of a good healthy society. God has laid out the proper order and structure for my life. Some of us ignore that structure for the excesses of this world. We are addicted to porn, we are involved in a sexual relationship outside of marriage, we are pursuing homosexual relationships or any of the other excesses of sin this world has to offer. This pursuit has left you empty and hollowed out as a person. Desperate to find meaning and value. In this darkness there is hope and that hope comes from God.
After a long list of sinful actions, God’s Truth gives this promise: “And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God,” 1 Cor. 6:11. There is hope in Jesus! You can be washed, set apart (sanctified), and made right in the work of Jesus. If you are trapped in sin, be washed in the blood of Jesus by asking for repentance and submitting your life to Jesus and His truth. This is the only way to true peace and purpose. We know in our hearts that God’s truth is the best - trust it, follow it, and live it out daily.
In 2013 my mentor (Rev. Kevin Shorkey) wrote a book titled “Sin makes you stupid,” with the above example. In his book, he uses many illustrations of people that should have known better - that fall to obviously sinful actions. These normally smart people knowing God’s truth but then ignoring it, fall for sinful desires. “Intelligent gifted people trading the best things in their lives for those of lesser value,” (K. Shorkey). The reality is that God’s truth matters. Always has and always will.
God’s truth is not a good way or an option to consider. It is the only and the best way. God’s truth has authority whether we follow it or not. Our world likes to offer every way but God’s way. The world says that all options are always open and why put limits on them? What started out as “free love” in the 1960’s has turned into we must legalize every sexual perversion no matter how extreme. This excess is so far from God’s truth and design for one man and one woman bonded in marriage. God’s design is that the husband and wife are different but compliment each other in ability, emotion, and gifts brought to the marriage relationship. This relationship is the building blocks of a good healthy society. God has laid out the proper order and structure for my life. Some of us ignore that structure for the excesses of this world. We are addicted to porn, we are involved in a sexual relationship outside of marriage, we are pursuing homosexual relationships or any of the other excesses of sin this world has to offer. This pursuit has left you empty and hollowed out as a person. Desperate to find meaning and value. In this darkness there is hope and that hope comes from God.
After a long list of sinful actions, God’s Truth gives this promise: “And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God,” 1 Cor. 6:11. There is hope in Jesus! You can be washed, set apart (sanctified), and made right in the work of Jesus. If you are trapped in sin, be washed in the blood of Jesus by asking for repentance and submitting your life to Jesus and His truth. This is the only way to true peace and purpose. We know in our hearts that God’s truth is the best - trust it, follow it, and live it out daily.
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