The Case For Culpability

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Watch as Pastor Zach Conover talks about the case for culpability. Do we know? Are we truly guilty? Watch and share and let the world know. Go to the website to get equipped and get free training. You can get more at http://apologiastudios.com. Be sure to like, share, and comment on this video. #ApologiaStudios You can partner with us by signing up for All Access. When you do you make everything we do possible and you also get our TV show, After Show, and Apologia Academy. In our Academy you can take a courses on Christian apologetics and much more. Follow us on social media here: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ApologiaStudios/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/apologiastudios?lang=en Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/apologiastudios/?hl=en

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Therefore, God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshipped and served the creature rather than the
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Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen. Romans 1 is perhaps the greatest evidence of the inspiration of Scripture.
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It details the problem with all of us, namely the sinfulness of the human heart. It forms the dark backdrop upon which the light of the gospel shines.
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The passage speaks to our suppression of the truth that God exists and that we're to recognize Him as God, giving glory and honor and praise to Him.
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Paul tells us that our rebellion against God and worship of the things that He has made impacts every part of us.
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The exchange of God for idols makes our reasoning futile and empty and causes our hearts, which is the very center and seed of our intellect and our passions, to go dark, and in trading the glory of the incorruptible
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God for that which is corruptible, even our bodies and our sexuality are affected as we distort the design and function of all that God has made.
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This natural function of the body is what our culture today is at war with. This is seen in the promotion of homosexuality and transgenderism, but particularly in the area of abortion.
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In the case of abortion, the self, the body, and sex are all being worshipped as gods.
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They're all created things that derive their existence from God Himself. Now remember,
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Paul tells us that before the exchange of the creator -creature relationship, there's a sinful suppression of the truth.
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But we can't suppress what we don't already possess. This knowledge of God and the purposes of His creation have been clearly seen in the things that He has made.
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These include the function of the human body and the primary purposes of sex. How does this apply to abortion?
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The argument of many is that abortive mothers who kill their own children are ignorant of what they're doing and of the humanity of the child that they carry.
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But if we take seriously what the Bible tells us, we are all deeply aware of the God who made us and that our primary purpose is to give
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Him glory and not the things that He has made. However, the problem is, of course, our sin.
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We are at war not only with God, but with the way that He has intended for us to live in His world.
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This includes His desire for men and women to have fruitful sex within the one -flesh union of marriage.
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But we don't want the things of God. We don't want to worship God with our bodies and obey
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Him. We willfully suppress that truth and switch out the true God for counterfeit ones that cannot satisfy us.
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This is why women sacrifice their children on the altar of career, relationships, unlimited freedom, and convenience all in the name of choice, which is really just another idol itself.
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To say that because women have been indoctrinated and lied to about the truth that they are pregnant with a living human being from conception needs to be granted.
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However, it does not override the truth of God's Word that they already possessed this knowledge from the beginning.
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This is why they need Christ and His good news, the only revelation from God that is enough to save them from their stifling of the truth in a life of unrighteousness.
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If we treat them as culpable, we can offer the forgiveness of God, calling them to repentance and faith in Jesus based on His work on the cross.
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Only the transformative, regenerating power of the Holy Spirit can change an idolatrous heart and produce a life of worship to the one true
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God. But until that happens, women and men will not glorify God with their bodies.
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They will continue to degrade themselves in the act and participation of abortion, and their children will pay the price by being the true victims of their sin and grave injustice.