Section 5
shameful lusts (1:26). Such people may become sodomites, indulging in evil passions and unre stricted affection, dishonoring their bodies with one another. Third, God gives people up to a disapproved mind (1:28). If you disapprove of holding God in your knowledge, God will allow you to have a mind that He disapproves. Look at today's sinful society; no one has a mind that can be approved by God. All have been given up by God to a disapproved mind. People are foolish and shameful in their sinful ways. Their behavior is absolutely improper. Nevertheless, they continue in sin because God has given them up to a disapproved mind.
Having Fornication—Confusion in Order
When a person has been given up by God to uncleanness, dishonorable lusts, and to a dis approved mind, the consequence is fornication (1:24, 26, 27). Do you know the true meaning of fornication? Fornication means to violate the governing and controlling principle. This brings about confusion in order. God's economy is one husband for one wife. This is not only God's economy; it is His ruling and controlling princi ple. The people who have been given up by God will do almost anything to break this principle,