Romans 1:18-32 ~ When God Gives Up + PDF Teacher's Notes

If you give up on someone you just leave him alone. If you give someone up you are turning him in or turning him over to something else. God does not merely passively give up on people who commit idolatry; God actively gives them over to degraded passions. Being turned over to sexual sins in general (lusts of the heart and the dishonoring of the body) is the active judgment from God for idolatry. A society consumed with sexual sins is a society under God’s judgment.

The sin of idolatry, of suppressing the truth, brought on God’s wrath. The consequence of idolatry is the moral disintegration of society

The Greatest demonstration of both God’s love and His wrath was displayed at Calvary’s cross. God loved us so much that He poured out His wrath for our sin on Jesus so that we will have life.