Our greatest problems in life are not ignorance problems, they are preference problems.

And that means our greatest need is not merely new information, our greatest need is being

given new preferences, new desires, new loves.

As John Pepper explained from Romans chapter 1 in a 2015 sermon, here's how we explained

it.

Once set up why we're existing, namely we exist to know and experience and enjoy and

reflect the value, the glory, the beauty of God, back to him, he now makes the connection

with sex.

Isn't that remarkable?

Four times.

This is unmistakable and amazing.

Four times.

He makes the connection between the distortion of the relationship vertically and the darkness

there with the distortion of the sexual relationship horizontally and the darkness there.

So let's see these four times where Paul does this.

Number one, the connection between verse 23 and 24.

They exchange the glory of the immortal God for images, verse 24, therefore, that's

a very important word, therefore God gave them up to the lusts of their hearts, to impurity,

to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves.

So the exchange vertically, verse 23, they exchange the glory of God, results in God

handing them over to horizontal dishonorable passions of the body and in lust.

So where does lust come from?

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