The So, I'm Psal 1.19 reminds us that God's word is a lamp to our feet, it's a light to our

path. Today on Truth for Life, we'll see how the Bible applied correctly and

consistently can keep us from becoming blind or indifferent to the darkness

around us. Alistair Begg is teaching from Romans chapter one.

V. V. 18, for the wrath of God is revealed.

Now how is the wrath of God revealed?

V verse 24 begins to tell us.

Here is how God's wrath is being revealed in the present tense. God gave them up.

This is the first of three gave them ups.

V verse 24, verse. V. 26.

V. 28.

Now there's something that is very, very important to notice here, because there is no question

that there is a cause and effect in the implications of responding to temptation and sinning and so on,

when desire then meets with action and so on and thinking of the book of James. So somehow or another when this

happens this inevitably happens. And so when you read that therefore God gave

them up in the lust of their heart to uncleanness

to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves.

This is not just non-interference on the part of God.

The phrase he gave them up, gave them up, is not simply he left them to themselves.

The phrase actually means being handed over to here a more intensified and aggravated cultivation of thes of their hearts. This is so vitally important we realize

that sin in the religious realm is here punished in the moral realm.

The unrighteousness emerges from the ungodliness. The progression that runs throughout the whole section is

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