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God abandons unrepentant Homosexual!

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Therefore God also gave them up to uncleanness.… to vile passions.… to a debased mind  (Rom. 1:24–28). How does God reveal His wrath against sinful human beings in the here and now? The answer is simple, Paul says—He abandons them. He simply lets them do what they want to do. The irony, as Dr. James M. Boice points out, is that “this is precisely what man has been fighting for ever since Adam ’s first rebellion in the Garden of Eden.  Man has been wanting to get rid of God, to push Him out of his life.” God’s response is to give man what he wants. But things do not work out quite the way man plans. “Instead of happiness we find misery [apart from God],” Boice writes. “Instead of freedom we find the debilitating bondage of sin.… When we run away from God we think our way will be uphill, because we want it to be so. But the way is actually downhill. We are pulled down by the law of moral gravity—when God lets go.” Paul outlines three stages of the human descent into...