Title: We Need Rescue From Death
Reference: Romans 1:24-32
Speaker: Paul Brandes, PaulB@cckc.church

> Sometimes, getting exactly what you want is the absolute worst thing that can happen to you.

> When we don’t want God… What happens when He gives us what we want?

> We are handed over to a “life” without Life.

> We are handed over to a “life” without Life.

> We are handed over to distorting the image of God.

“Here, Paul narrows the scope of ‘sinful desire’ to one particular example: The desire to possess the body of another to satisfy one's own body. … This type of lust is unhealthy, even if many regard it as perfectly legitimate. … The body is degraded as it is consumed physically and spiritually.” - Solomon Andria

“Paul’s purpose in [highlighting same-sex practice] may not be because he regards it as a more serious sin than others but because he sees it as a particularly clear illustration of the violation of the created order.” - Doug Moo

> We are handed over to a “life” without Life.

> We are handed over to distorting the image of God.

“[This] argument proposes that Paul had a problem not with same-sex sexual relationships as such but with the excessive lust that led people to those relationships.”
- Preston Sprinkle, Does the Bible Support Same Sex Marriage?

“From my vantage point, ‘desire’ and ‘passion’ are considered wrong in Romans 1 not because such desires are excessive — Paul never says they are excessive — but because they are satisfied in a sexual relationship that's deemed contrary to God's will. It's the action, not the magnitude of desire itself, that Paul considers to be contrary to nature.’”
- Preston Sprinkle, Does the Bible Support Same Sex Marriage?

> We are next handed over to all manner of chaos.

> We are handed over to death.

> Accept our verdict: Death.

> We hand ourselves over to the One who was handed over for us!