Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts

 Psalm 1:21-32

Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like a mortal human being and birds and animals and reptiles.

Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another.

Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones.  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.

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.

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.

So God lets them do as they want, and they sink deeper and deeper into the morass of their own perverse and perverted behavior. Wrong thinking and wrongdoing go hand in hand. If the reason is rejected.

Why?

Men's sins are worshiping the creators, 1)exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made. 2)Exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural one, women and men both. Inflamed with lust for one another. 3) depraved mind to do what ought not to be done. 4) They know God's righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death.

God gave them ... for they like to do the evil things. They deserve to die, but they keep doing it, so God's anger burst out over them.

God is sad to those who like evil things, even they deserve to die. God is full of mercy hope they may return from evil to righteousness. God gave them time and opportunity, the time is in the hands of the Lord.

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1)人很大的問題明知有榮耀的神，卻不去榮耀神，認為自然界的一切都是自然形成的。故意不認識神，神就任憑他們行惡。不把神當作神來敬拜。把神當作僕人，認為一切都是神應該做的。

2)人另外找神就是找到偶像，因此放縱情慾，玷辱自己的身體。性別的混亂，同性戀是逆著原來的本性  

3)人故意不認識神就把他們交給不義的事。人和人的關係、家庭關係也破壞，結局是死，他們仍然行。

這段經文對於基督徒有什麼關係? 我們知道神，我們是否有真感謝神，還是將感謝神掛在嘴邊，心中沒有感恩。榮耀神是不以自己的需要為目的。凡事謝恩，凡事榮耀神，就不會離開神，不會自以為是。

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人自己作的選擇與行為只有自己來承擔後果。

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How?

Be aware to do the right things even reject the right thing is sin.