How are most people able to keep the sins listed in Romans 1 under control?
The vast majority of people keep the sins listed in Romans 1 under control by inhibition and training. When that control is lost, any of those behaviors can manifest. Newspapers are full of such occurrences, showing that without restraint the sin nature becomes evident.
Les explains that the vast majority of people are able to keep these things under control by inhibition and training. But when they lose control, any of these sins can break out, and our newspapers are full of it. He connects this to Genesis 6:5, just before the flood, where God saw that every imagination of man's heart was only evil continually. Les reminds us of Jesus' words that as it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be at the coming of the Son of Man, and says we are getting there fast.
Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
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