FALSE GOSPEL 32: HOW ABOUT SEXUAL IMMORALITY IN THE CHURCHES? Why Do Many Pastors, Priests, and Evangelists Fell Into Sexual Temptations and Sins? Should the Church Accepts Sexually Immoral Members?

We can surely say that many Churches have some knowledge of God. They are preaching about God, and they have their regular Bible Studies. But how and why is it that many of their Church members, especially their pastors, priests, and evangelists, are still victims of the sexual sins that they are preachings against?

By: LOPE COLUMNA

KABBALIST PASTOR GENERAL

The BRIDE OF CHRIST MINISTRY OF LIFE

WHEN THEY KNEW GOD, THEY DID NOT GLORIFY HIM AS GOD

• Because that, when THEY KNEW GOD, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.  (Rom 1:21 KJV)

From Albert Barnes' Notes on The Bible:  

When they knew God - Greek, "knowing God." That is, they had an acquaintance with the existence and many of the perfections of one God.  Yet the knowledge of this great truth was not communicated to the people. It was confined to the philosophers; and not improbably one design of the mysteries celebrated throughout Greece was to keep up the knowledge of the one true God. Gibbon has remarked that "the philosophers regarded all the popular superstitions as equally false: the common people as equally true; and the politicians as equally useful." This was probably a correct account of the prevalent feelings among the ancients. A single extract from "Cicero" (de Natura Deorum, lib. ii. c. 6) will show that they had the knowledge of one God. "There is something in the nature of things, which the mind of man, which reason, which human power cannot effect; and certainly what produces this must be better than man. What can this be called but "God?" Again (c. 2), "What can be so plain and manifest, when we look at heaven, and contemplate heavenly things, as that there is some divinity of most excellent mind, by which these things are governed?"

They glorified him not as God - They did not "honor" him as God. This was the true source of their abominations. To glorify him "as God" is to regard with proper reverence all his perfections and laws; to venerate his name, his power, his holiness, and presence, etc. As they were not inclined to do this, so they were given over to their own vain and wicked desires. Sinners are not willing to give honor to God, as God. They are not pleased with his perfections; and therefore the mind becomes fixed on other objects, and the heart gives free indulgence to its own sinful desires. A willingness to honor God as God - to reverence, love, and obey him, would effectually restrain people from sin.

Neither were thankful - The obligation to be "thankful" to God for his mercies, for the goodness which we experience, is plain and obvious. Thus, we judge of favors received of our fellow-men. the apostle here clearly regards this unwillingness to render gratitude to God for his mercies as one of the causes of their subsequent corruption and idolatry. The reasons of this are the following.

1. The effect of ingratitude is to render the heart hard and insensible. 
2. People seek to forget the Being to whom they are unwilling to exercise gratitude. 
3. To do this, they fix their affections on other things; and hence, the pagan expressed their gratitude not to God, but to the sun, and moon, and stars, etc., the mediums by which God bestows his favors upon people. And we may here learn that an unwillingness to thank God for his mercies is one of the most certain causes of alienation and hardness of heart.

But became vain - To "become vain," with us, means to be elated, or to be self-conceited, or to seek praise from others. The meaning here seems to be, they became foolish, frivolous in their thoughts and reasonings. They acted foolishly; they employed themselves in useless and frivolous questions, the effect of which was to lead the mind further and further from the truth respecting God.

Imaginations - This word means properly "thoughts," then "reasonings," and also "disputations." Perhaps our word, "speculations," would convey its meaning here. It implies that they were unwilling to honor God, and being unwilling to honor him, they commenced those speculations which resulted in all their vain and foolish opinions about idols, and the various rites of idolatrous worship. Many of the speculations and inquiries of the ancients were among the most vain and senseless which the mind can conceive.

And their foolish heart - The word "heart" is not infrequently used to denote the mind, or the understanding. We apply it to denote the affections. But such was not its common use, among the Hebrews. We speak of the head when we refer to the understanding, but this was not the case with the Hebrews. They spoke of the heart in this manner, and in this sense it is clearly used in this place; see Eph_1:18; Rom_2:15; 2Co_4:6; 2Pe_1:19. The word "foolish" means literally what is without "understanding;" Mat_15:16.

Was darkened - Was rendered obscure, so that they did not perceive and comprehend the truth. The process which is stated in this verse is,

1. That people had the knowledge of God. 
2. That they refused to honor him when they knew him, and were opposed to his character and government.
3. That they were ungrateful.
4. That they then began to doubt, to reason, to speculate, and wandered far into darkness.

This is substantially the process by which people wander away from God now. They have the knowledge of God, but they do not love him; and being dissatisfied with his character and government, they begin to speculate, fall into error, and then "find no end in wandering mazes lost," and sink into the depths of heresy and of sin.

• Claiming to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man... (Rom 1:22-23) 

• Therefore God delivered them over in the cravings of their hearts to sexual impurity, so that their bodies were degraded among themselves.  (Rom 1:24)

• They exchanged the TRUTH OF GOD for a LIE, and worshiped and served something created instead of the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.  (Rom 1:25) 

• This is why God delivered them over to degrading passions. For even their females exchanged natural sexual intercourse for what is unnatural.  (Rom 1:26)

Should the Church Accepts Sexually Immoral Members? The BIBLE Answers with a Powerful NO!

• It is widely reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and the kind of sexual immorality that is not even condoned among the Gentiles--a man is living with his father's wife. (1Co 5:1)

• And you are inflated with pride, instead of filled with grief so that he who has committed this act might be removed from among you. (1Co 5:2)

Turn that one over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the Day of the Lord. (1Co 5:5)

Your boasting is not good. Don't you know that a little yeast permeates the whole batch of dough? (1Co 5:6)

• Clean out the old yeast so that you may be a new batch, since you are unleavened. For Christ our Passover has been sacrificed. (1Co 5:7)

• I wrote to you in a letter not to associate with sexually immoral people-- (1Co 5:9)

• ...not to associate with anyone who bears the name of brother who is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or a reviler, a drunkard or a swindler. Do not even eat with such a person. (1Co 5:11)

• ... Put away the evil person from among yourselves. (1Co 5:13)

DO NOT BE DECEIVED! HOMOSEXUALS AND IMMORAL PEOPLE WILL NOT BE SAVED AND WILL BE REJECTED IN THE KINGDOM OF GOD!

• Do you not know that the unjust will not inherit God's kingdom? Do not be deceived: no sexually immoral people, idolaters, adulterers, male prostitutes, homosexuals, ...will inherit God's kingdom. (1Co 6:9-10)

THEY ARE ALL WITHOUT EXCUSE!

• From the creation of the world His invisible attributes, that is, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what He has made. As a result, people are without excuse. (Rom 1:20) 

Continued on Part 33: BELIEVE IT, OR NOT, THE FALSE GOSPEL OF MEN CAUSE THE CHURCHES' WORSHIP SERVICES AND PRACTICES TO BECOME INSULTS TO GOD! Make Sure that Your Praise Worship is Not Profaned Worship!


Or proceed to: THE BIBLE TRUTH ABOUT FORNICATION (Pornography and Homosexuality)

NOTE: Bible verses used in this article is based on the Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB). If not, the quoted translation is mentioned.

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