Spiritual Warfare

A reprobate mind is not the cause of sin - it is the result of sin. A darkened heart and a blinded mind are the result of sin, not the origin of it. To be left to your lusts and selfishness may sound just like what the rebellious sinner wants, but it quickly turns into the suburbs of hell for him. The way of the transgressor is hard, and his pleasure turns into his punishment.

God says in his word that homosexuality is a heinous sin and abomination in his sight. So then why is it not looked upon the same way as other sins? Would people be as tolerant and sympathetic to murder, stealing, or lying? Of course they would not! The righteous God who judges sin will account those who sympathize with sin as guilty as the sinner himself because their heart and mind are in agreement with him. A person involved in this sin must acknowledge that it is sin and turn from it and trust Christ, just as all sinners must do to be saved.

To worship the creature more than the Creator is to worship the creation, or as most people perceive it - "nature." To look for God in nature is not the right thing to do. Nature has been corrupted by man's sin and is not as God created it in the beginning. We must look for God and truth in the only reliable place it can be found and that is the written Word of God.

There is a point where God turns loose of a rebellious soul and leaves him to his lusts. This is the last thing that can be done when all else has failed to bring them to repentance. There came a day when the prodigal's father released his son and even gave him his portion of the goods. But the boy still had a father he could return to and that is what he did after his sin had brought him low. God would have all men to be saved. Never think that his giving someone up to uncleanness is God giving up on their soul.

The wise men of this world are only pretenders to wisdom. They are not really wise, and in fact are fools, according to the Scripture. "The world by wisdom knew not God." This is obvious when they change the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things. People who imagine God to suit themselves are fools. More people go this route to hell than any other way.

"Their foolish heart was darkened." To be darkened means to be deprived of light, or to be made ignorant. Light and love go together. A darkened heart does not love, and simply does not care.. The ungodly who claim to be motivated by love and compassion are not telling the truth. "He that loveth not knoweth not God, for God is love." A darkened heart is under the control and influence of spirits of devils and has become a stronghold of Satan.

When we turn away from God we are surrounded by darkness. When we draw nigh to God we are surrounded by light. When our mind and imagination has nothing but truth to work with we find the way gets brighter and brighter. One of the rewards of having a sound mind here and now is that we begin to know the breadth, length, depth, and height and are filled with all the fulness of God. The end of the earthly journey is a glorious and joyous graduation to the very presence of the Lord.

When we leave God out of our thoughts and our imagination becomes vain we are taken farther and farther from God. Satan is able to establish a stronghold in our mind because we have took his bait and accepted his lies as truth, and from that point we do not reason rightly. Our mind and heart are darkened and we are lost in the darkness without any light.

Romans 1 marks the path that leads to depravity and eternal death. Satan wages his battle in our minds and if we would survive his assaults and his deception we had better know how the mind works. This is a very important message full of truth that will help you more than anything else in this world in having victory in your own life, training your children, and seeing to their spiritual survival, and understanding what is going on in others around you.

Imagination is creating in our mind an illusion or fantasy made out of the things we have seen, heard, and felt. God meant it to be used for creating real things, since we are made in his image and likeness, but sin has corrupted the human mind and heart and now it is used by the powers of evil to destroy us. Imagination is where sin is always born and planned before it is carried out in the flesh. An imagination that has no reins will wreck the mind, life, and soul. Insanity is legally defined as "the inability to distinguish between fantasy and reality."