Men Burning in Lust One Toward Another Romans 1:27

Paul the apostle told the church members in Rome about people who did not “glorify” or “thank” God, “changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshiped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever” He added, “For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections:

for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature”, and in chapter one and verse twenty-seven of Romans Paul told with the church members how people, “likewise also the men...burned in their lust one toward another” where we read:

And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was meet.:

The verse begins, “And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another;” Paul began with the words, “and likewise” or “equally and in the same way” “also the men” which refers to “even so the male human beings”, “leaving” which means “departing and going away from” “the natural use” which means “the inborn and governed by the instincts of nature” “of the woman” or “of the female human being”, “burned” which means “were kindled and set on fire” “in their lust” or “in their longing, craving and eager appetite” “one toward another” which means “to and towards each other”. Paul shared how the “males” who “changed the truth of God into a lie” “passionately desired” other “males” after “departing from” the “inborn” way of women.

The verse goes on to say, “men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was meet.:” Paul continued with the words, “men” which means “male human beings” “with men” or “along and together with male human beings” “working” which means “performing, accomplishing and achieving” “that which is unseemly” or “shameful, indecent and naked”, “and receiving” which means “ recovering or taking back and aside,” “in themselves” or “within these who do such practices” “that recompense” which means “the reward given in compensation and requital” “of their error” or “the wandering, straying about and wrong modes of acting relative to morals or religion of these” “which was meet” which means “that is necessary, right and proper”. Paul shared how the “men” who “changed the truth of God into a lie” performed “shameful and indecent” acts with one another and received a “reward” for their “straying about and wrong moral acting”.

When we meditate upon these words of Paul, we see how “males” also turned from the “natural” way of the “woman” to commit “lustful physical acts” with one another. Paul called this “unseemly” behavior which is “shameful and indecent”, and those who have rejected God's truth are inclined not only to “lust” after these things, but also to “commit” immoral “acts” with one another. Jesus Christ came to redeem mankind from sinful ways, and those who commit these acts are not exempt from His loving offer of “salvation”. Those who reject God's offer of Jesus also reject His ways, and lest there be any who read these words who do not understand how much God loves them, let it be known, Jesus came “to seek and to save that which was lost”.

Next time Paul tells the church members, “the did not like to retain God in their knowledge”, so read ahead, and we shall join together then,

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