The What goes through your mind when you hear these words, freedom, liberation, independence, choice? For most of us, these words independence choice.

For most of us these words bring happy feelings, a sense of release from limitations, restrictions

or burdens.

But today on Truth for Life, Alistair Beg explains how it's possible to actually

become prisoners of Romans Chapter 1 from verse 28.

And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do

what ought not to be done. They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil,

covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips, slanderers, haters of God,

insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless,

ruthless. Though they know God's righteous decree that those who

practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them.

Amen.

We have acknowledged our need of you and as we come to the Bible we realize Lord that this is a living book

We seek to understand it in the awareness that it actually understands us and it manages in all the nooks and

crannies of our rebellious hearts to penetrate and convict us and convince us and assure us of your love.

And so we pray that that may be true as we look at these verses now.

In Jesus' name. Amen.

Well, we come to the third of these God gave them up.

Statements, we have already noticed that there are three times where an exchange

takes place which will note, but on three occasions Paul uses this particular

phrase, God gave them up, to describe a single divine action.

We are not to think of this in terms of a temporal progression, but rather he reiterates this one thing

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