Development of Reprobation

By: American Decency Staff

We received an email regarding our concern about Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition from a fellow yesterday.  It isn’t unlike others that we occasionally see but which we know represents the thinking of others lost in darkness.  It reads as follows: Get a life! At my local Publix, when I see that they have covered up magazines with "scantily clad" women on them, I remove the shields and put them over the National Enquirer or Star magazines. Magazines much more toxic (to the mind) than the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition. People coming from this point of view would also ridicule the following:“Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts …â€Â [Romans 1:24-32] Or the following comments: A man’s morality dictates his theology or philosophy. Freedom is not the power to do what we want but to do what we ought. Sports Illustrated Swimsuit is dangerous on many levels but here are several main concerns. The stirring up of the senses to put them out of control is called lasciviousness.  Then these drives become sensual drives.  Then our mind and senses become sensuality. Our thought life, our TV, our Internet choices, friendships are built around strong sensual drives.  That’s carnal. Corruption. Death. This is called concupiscence. We have stronger sexual drives than spiritual drives.  We are no longer free but slaves to our sensuality.  (Romans 1 passage)  Sin doesn’t stop here.  The wages of sensuality is more sensuality.  (If we do this to someone else this is defrauding.  Stirring up in someone else.  Girls don’t understand how easy it is to stir up boys.) It only grows. It doesn’t stop there. (James 1:  Double minded person will be unstable in all his ways.) Sensuality.  Confusion.  Abomination.  Degradation.  Mind, will, emotion built around sensual.  This is called reprobation.   A reprobate is a person who is a slave to this condition.  They really are mixed up. Confused.  They are argumentative.  They think they are right.  They become a law unto themselves. God puts into our being in the beginning of life that nakedness is wrong.  Some would say that’s a cultural thing.  We hear people defend sensuality, immodesty with that very argument – that nakedness is a cultural thing. When Adam and Eve sinned they lost the glory of God – their nakedness showed – they sought for leaves. As a person moves toward reprobation, they drift more and more into deeper perversion. Things that used to bother them don’t anymore. Reprobation – mind confused.  Mind upside down.  We can see every civilization by way of this overview.   As more and more individuals in our society move down the path of lasciviousness, concupiscence and then reprobation, we are destroying ourselves. God tells us in His Word that if we turn away from His love and standards, He will let us go and we are turned over to unrighteousness.  The result is perversion, sexually transmitted diseases and many other consequences of ungodliness: God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;  Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,  Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,  Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:  Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them. [Romans 1: 28-32] God has the only cure:  salvation, abstinence, purity, faithfulness. Be not deceived, God will not be mocked. It is a very scary picture.  Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition is only one such skin, pornographic magazine, but it is one that has increasingly found its way into our stores, checkout counters, homes, hearts and minds. God will not be mocked. Be not deceived. Below we include a petition to sign yourself and share it with your friends, then take it to your local store manager and push back SI Swimsuit Edition. Yesterdays email targeted Walgreens but there are other chains that need your salt and light action. This petition is a great tool Take the following petition; get like-minded ones to join with you in getting signatures of others and present it to any store carrying this pornographic magazine. http://www.americandecency.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Petition-to-Owners-Managers-of-family-Oriented-stores.pdf ======================================= Let Walgreens hear from you. Click on the link below to express your concern to Walgreens http://americandecency.org/take_action_form.php Contact information: Walgreen Co. -President, CEO, and Director – Gregory Wasson Greg.Wasson@walgreens.com 200 Wilmot Rd. Deerfield, IL 60015 Phone: 847-914-2500 Fax: 847-914-2804 ============================================================ Your support is important to our ability to make a difference: donate online at: http://www.americandecency.org/folder.php?f=donate American Decency Association Bill Johnson, President P.O. Box 202 Fremont, MI 49412 ph: 231-924-4050 www.americandecency.org www.twitter.com/billwjohnson

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