Hope in the age of Sexual Confusion

 


The goal of this paper is to address the Individual, National, and Ministry Level Perspectives on the sin of Homosexuality. And at the end, I provide a link to another work that was written in response to academia and seminary professors with whom I have conversed that believes same-sex attraction is involuntary. I refute the position in that link. Hopefully that paper will fill in some gaps that this one does not address.

 

This, I hope, will address some confusion of the sexual disorder that pervades our western culture. My desire is that this contribution will help us think in straight lines, again, and to offer a way to Christ from homosexual bonds.

 

This is not some hit-piece on homosexuals or an opportunity to rail against same sex immorality or the lesser, SSA, or transsexual/genders. It may target two readers:

 

ONE: Those who are falling into the lullful sway of Christian leaders who want you to accept the premise that homosexual attraction is not sinful if it remains within the mind. This lie logically takes the next step that homosexual desires in the mind are involuntary; thus, not sinful. Another great leap that I don't address here, are those who are proponents for "gay Christians"...that may be addressed in the link below. Additionally, we must be clear that God does not “whisper” about sexual immorality. It is a killer.

 

TWO: And it is to the reader who may be reeling in the throes of homosexual desire or lifestyle and might have the patience to read this paper through to the end. It’s as truthful and objective, mostly, as I can manage, and has light at the end of the tunnel. Of course, I have my opinions and derivations but hope that they are based upon something that doesn’t move. One may find oneself somewhere in the narrative. Christ is all about rescuing the enslaved. Frankly, He starts only with the enslaved. 


And don’t you just hate it when you start to read a paper and the writer spends half the ink on disclaiming why the paper is not hitting a home run or is not exhaustive, profound, astute, or laced with hidden knowledge, etc., etc., etc.? So, I’ll skip that part, except to say that when the pronoun “he” is used, it is a universal reference to both sexes...oh, so tone deaf I am.


Anything that one thinks I should have said, or could have said better, or shouldn’t have said, the answer is in the previous paragraph.


I do not want to confuse different issues at hand when we address homosexuality. So, let’s jump right in. The following terms are nowhere else. They are my own categories, so I am to blame.


The Individual aspect of this Sin

 

To begin, let us start with the basic premise that before the Fall in the Garden of Eden, heterosexual attraction was innate and God designed. Any other kind of attraction was after the Fall, thus Prohibited. Any attraction other than heterosexual is sinful. 


Primer Tier Sexuality: There is a period of time in life when a child is experiencing emotional upswings and downswings, sometimes they are torrential and sometimes not. They are trying to figure out life. The best time to enslave someone into sexual perplexity is at their earliest youth. There is a tidal wave of hormonal influxes taking place in the pre-teen that creates normal confusion. This is the time for parents to capture a child with the awe and wonder of sexuality in a biblical world view.

 

I remember one of the first times a homosexual tried to “pick me up”. I wasn’t even a teen. After it happened, I thought there was something wrong with me. “Why did he approach me?”, “Why was I targeted?”, “Did he think I was a homosexual?” Were it not for some Christian base I had, I would have worried and would have become confused. I soon realized that there are sharks always looking for prey. Children are very soft targets. Just see the demonic hellishness of child grooming in grammar school with drag queen hour and even worse exposure to sexual perversions our children experience in public schools. And too often, parents do nothing. 

 

Satan is very familiar with this verse and follows it savagely:

Prov 22.6

Train up a child in the way he should go, even when he is old, he will not depart from it.

 

There is naïve sexual confusion that a simple dose of universal absolute truth stabilizes and cures. It is best administered under the watchful protection of loving parents; thus, exists an all-out war on the family institution.

 

First Tier Homosexuality: this is an individual who has long graduated from Primer Tier Sexuality but has failed to respond to the many general and specific warning signs that a good and loving God has displayed through various forms of revelation. He was not exposed to a biblical world view nor tutored in universal absolute truth.


Some young adults go deeper into heterosexual immorality. Their sexual self-awareness began with little or erred guidance from parents and then rapidly expanded to self-discovery. Dabbling in free sexualized thought and pornographic images under socialized influence, progressed to actual, physical exploits that included anything from self-autoeroticism to open relationships with the opposite sex that included living together. All boundaries were repelled with no fear of exceeding personal discipline or limits; all pursuits became sexual conquests. Everything became sexualized, and under the shadows of this present darkness, homosexuality is the nuance of the day. This individual is able to recognize that he has wondered far from the sexual path that is designed by God (for whatever thousand reasons). Perhaps, he would like a way to ease out of his entrenchment but doesn’t know how. As well, for every long-term reason he may foresee to stop his downward movement, he is upended by a more short-term benefit to stay in it; namely, pleasure. Currently, the immediate return of pleasure outweighs the pain he fears in the future. Christ reaches for him with a clear pathway to salvation, but he rejects the hand of deliverance. Instead, he begins to embrace false narratives: “I was born this way”, “It was not my choice”, “These desires are not voluntary”, “I have gender dysphoria”, “I knew there was something different about me as far back as I can remember”, “I am resisting these cultural restraints that society has placed upon me”, “What’s so wrong with wanting to be with the one you love?”, “I must be authentic and true to myself”, etc., etc., etc. 


What is really at hand with these declarative statements is a type of clef note-apologetic dispensed to lost, eager minds that reject universal absolute truth. It is an emotive cry to grasp for a reason to accept one’s fall.  There is a litany of mantras that work in most venues; yet, they are simply stock answers that act as a medication to isolate one from the pain and truth of their condition. If one chants these narratives enough in their despair and join themselves in a choir that sings the same chorus, they will soon accept the lies that harden their hearts further.

 

These prescriptive medicinal answers help to deaden the thump of a dying conscience but are directly from the archive of the prince of the power of the air. It is from a worldly reservoir of fictitious clichés provided for an eager audience to accept and propagate homosexuality. Soon, the individual leaves the solitary pain of inordinate and prohibited desires and finds comradery in groups that have long ago given up to immoral passions. 

 

Prior to this point, it would have been far easier to reject this way of life and throw oneself upon the abundant grace and mercy of Christ and experience His cleansing power and presence. This turn-around to Christ would have resulted in a hunger for righteousness and a clean slate from dogged memories. He would have been a new creature and old things would have been swept away and all things would have become new. The call of Christ for salvation still beckons, but will this one hear? Will this one turn in time? Until his last breath, Christ calls. The Christian still has a mission to one such as this to propose the gospel and love the individual as Christ loves them.

 

Second Tier Homosexuality: this is the individual homosexual who is no longer entirely haunted by the pain of his rejection of Truth. He progresses further into a mind bend that convinces him that his abnormal desires are normal. He perceives that others are the ones who are abnormal for rejecting him or not celebrating his sexual freedom. He does not see his homosexual lifestyle rejected but sees himself rejected. Any discomfort he experiences in his chosen lifestyle is not his fault but the fault of those who will not celebrate with him. His homosexuality is becoming his identity. He would simply not know how to live without this sexual drive. It is an addiction to fill an abyss of lostness. The sexual aspect of his life is not just an act, it is not something he does, but something he is. He is spinning and spinning an enslaving web of sexual identity. Nothing else matters. Behind that identity is perpetual enslavement, and ultimately, a walking death unto terminal, eternal destruction. Yet, he appears to be joyful, at ease with himself and finds a semblance of purpose and community. If male, he may embrace the “lisp” and adorn himself in the communal accouterments – the hair, finger nails, piercings, and demeanor. If female, she begins to mimic her idea of the perfect masculine aura – clothes, hair, piercings, tattoos, aggressive demeanor, and mannerisms, etc. Of course, neither of the above are hard fast rules that a Second-Tier homosexual will undertake. Either sex could find the covert mode of life safer and more apropos to their circumstances.

 

Either way, one further abandons Truth and lives a very myopic life with no long view of the future. The true horizon is hidden from him, and he plops along day-to-day, feeling his way to the next sexual, emotional sensation. Until his last breath, Christ calls, but his ears are tickled with one more song of false hope. He is finding comradery in a world abandoned by God (addressed below). He is developing an apologetic for homosexuality. He is adoring the icons that Satan has placed in society as strong, alluring voices for this insanity. I don’t know how far or to what extent his distance from the voice of Christ may grow, but he is not far to find himself in the shadow of a world that is abandoned to a reprobate mind. Regardless of the distance that one journeys into the alluring shrills of sexual exploration, the hand of Christ is just one grasp away.

 

Third Tier Homosexuality: this is the homosexual who has planted his roots in the “movement”. He is no longer an individual seeking light but is a collective. He is “an agenda”. He is an enemy of Christ. He is an enemy of the nuclear family. He embraces darkness and despises structure. He is reprobate and is abandoned by God. He is audacious, calculative, and worldly powerful. The Christian ought to repel this agenda driven onslaught. He is no longer one to be heard, but one to be repelled. The Christian has a two-fold mission now: to still share the gospel and be the light to the individual, and to resist the darkness of the homosexual spirit of the age. Remember, Christian, this is not his world. This world is Christ’s and Christ’s alone, and He is sovereign. And it is His sovereignty that permits this abhorrent behavior. It is His wrath unfolding on a world that has rejected Him.

 

This world is God’s and God’s alone:


1 Chron 16.31

Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice; And let them say among the nations, “The Lord reigns.”

 

Job 42.2

“I know that You can do all things, and that no purpose of Yours can be thwarted.

 

Ps 115.3

But our God is in the heavens; He does whatever He pleases.

 

Ps 121.2

My help comes from the Lord, Who made heaven and earth.

 

Prov 16.33

The lot is cast into the lap, but its every decision is from the Lord.

 

Lam 3.37-38

Who is there who speaks and it comes to pass, Unless the Lord has commanded it? Is it not from the mouth of the Most High That both good and ill go forth?

 

Isa 45.5-7

“I am the Lord, and there is no other; Besides Me there is no God. I will gird you, though you have not known Me; That men may know from the rising to the setting of the sun That there is no one besides Me. I am the Lord, and there is no other, The One forming light and creating darkness, causing well-being, and creating calamity; I am the Lord who does all these.

 

Jer 32.17

‘Ah Lord God! Behold, You have made the heavens and the earth by Your great power and by Your outstretched arm! Nothing is too difficult for You,

 

Col 1.16-17

For by Him all things were created, both in the heavens and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things have been created through Him and for Him. He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together.

 

We have moved into this third tier of homosexuality as a nation, and even beyond. This Western Culture has wholeheartedly rejected God and there is no escape exit from God’s wrath except through the narrow gate of the cross. Just fact. That gate entrance is still open.

 

Let us now follow four biblical aspects of the consequences of rejecting God, particularly in the context of the homosexual tidal wave. We’ll look at the different forms of God’s wrath against those who reject Him and how these categories of wrath relate to different forms of homosexuality. And then end with some ministry aspects for those who have set their lives to total sexual gratuity and can find no way back.

 

First, let’s borrow from John MacArthur when he teaches us about the categories of God’s wrath.

 

From John MacArthur:

 

“Any nation, any association of human beings that constitute a culture, if they turn away from the truth in unrighteousness, will receive the wrath of God…

Now the wrath of God comes in many forms. There is eternal wrath; that’s hell. There’s eschatological wrath; that would be all of the expressions of wrath in the book of Revelation, all the judgments that fall on the earth that you know of in time of the Tribulation. 

That’s eschatological wrath; our Lord talked about that in His sermon on the Second Coming in Matthew 24 and 25. So there is eternal wrath, eschatological wrath; there’s a kind of a cataclysmic wrath—massive earthquakes, massive floods, the most massive being the Genesis flood, where God literally drowned the entire human race with the exception of one family. There is sowing and reaping wrath: Whatever you sow, you reap. There are consequences to sinful behavior that are built into that sinful behavior. So, there are many aspects of the wrath of God, and it works inexorably, it works inevitably, and it works justly.”

 

Further from John MacArthur:

 

“But there’s another kind of wrath, and that’s what is being talked about in Romans 1. This is the wrath of abandonment. This is the wrath of abandonment. This is historical. In Acts 14, the Bible says God allowed all the nations to go their own way. The history of the world is the history of nations going their own way and consequently experiencing the wrath of divine abandonment. And that is in view in Romans 1:18: “The wrath of God . . . revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth and unrighteousness, because that which is known about God is evident within them; for God made it evident to them. For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse.” This is the perfect place on the planet to connect with that, right? God, by His creation, has put Himself on display to the degree that His eternal power and divine nature are manifest, and anyone who rejects Him is without excuse. And men do, and nations do, and cultures do—and that’s the cycle of human history.”

 

Let’s now derive some conclusions from what we’ve observed about the wrath of God. We can call them “spiritual laws”.

 

1. First spiritual law - When we reject God, God’s wrath falls in various forms. Simply, rejecting God our Creator bears wrath from our Creator.

 

When one rejects the Truth – the prescriptions and declarations from God’s inspired Word - one rejects God and experiences the wrath of God. Romans 1.18, “For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all godlessness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness.” 

 

Sometimes it is difficult to distinguish exactly which form of God’s wrath is present and sometimes, not. It may be more easily discerned by observing whether his wrath is upon an individual or a nation. In our western culture, we see both. As for the individual, it is more likely the sowing and reaping wrath. I call this “Consequential Living”. People do what they want discerning the least consequences. However, they do not realize that the principle of sewing and reaping means that what they sew, they will reap later and greater. (Hosea 8.7) They totally miss these core attributes of God:

 

1.      The disregard of God’s Omniscience: they act as though God doesn’t know.

2.      The disregard of God’s Righteousness:  they act as though God doesn’t care.

3.      The disregard of God’s Justice:  they act as though God won’t do anything about it.

 

We see this kind of wrath in every individual we know and meet, both at work, in the market, in the home and neighborhood, and even upon ourselves. Our responsibility and calling is to share the Gospel Truth to these individuals and to live it out in our own lives in confession and repentance for our personal cleansing. 

 

As for national wrath, we recognize a divine judgment as it expands from individual rebellion to national proportions. I would more likely lean toward categorizing this as the wrath of abandonment. In this sense, national divine wrath is a product of individual wrath that is born nationally. And, why? In western countries, the individual elects’ representatives to govern themselves. These representatives “look” like those who elect them. If the governmental hemisphere is reprobate and corrupt, it is because the populace is reprobate and corrupt. Government is a thermometer, and the populace is the thermostat. The individual created the political and national landscape. Not long following, the power structure of those who were elected, make laws, and appoint judiciaries that promote and sustain the very evil for which the wrath of God falls (Eph 5.5-6). A national insanity becomes the familial bond into which the individual finds a home. Insanity seems to be the latest Zeitgeist. There is inculcation and celebration of reprobate narratives. Political and law enforcement entities, corporations, media, and entertainment industries demonstrate the wrath of God’s abandonment. Everything vile, dark, and unrighteous is heralded as right and true. This is the individual wrath of God that annexes and entire nation. All is upside down. This is at least the abandonment of God. 

 

Isa 5.20-23

Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil;

Who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness;

Who substitute bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!

Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes

And clever in their own sight!

Woe to those who are heroes in drinking wine

And valiant men in mixing strong drink,

Who justify the wicked for a bribe,

And take away the rights of the ones who are in the right!

 

If one who is reading this argument and requires multiple examples of the current reprobate state that rules our country, then go back to sleep. I do have some below from the Obama era, but to capture the current developments - just too stinky to include. Just look around.

 

But let’s get this on the table now. 

 

There’s a lot of talk above about the wrath of God. Some may say, “Is that all your God has to offer, a bunch of wrath”? It’s hard to answer such an imprudent question when two thousand years ago the very God Who is wrathful against rebellious mankind, settled His wrath with the propitiation of His son. His wrath deserved upon us was voluntarily shifted to His Son. He who knew no sin, became sin on our behalf that we might become the righteousness of God in Christ. The cross is where both His love and wrath met and kissed. (Ps 85.10) This propitiation and relief from the wrath of God is available to any who will receive it…not denying the predestination of the elect. Who knows but God, who they may be?

 

Further, the wrath of God against all ungodliness in the world is one of the small ways that God forewarns of final judgment to come… His current wrath is an act of Mercy!

Yes, it is. Everything that goes wrong for mankind when they make sinful choices is not just for an immediate temporal consequence, but in a way, it functions as a particular act of God’s mercyin that He is teaching and warning mankind of a future ultimate judgment.

 

Now back to topic.

 

2. Second spiritual law – We become what we most admire or worship. When we reject God our Creator, not only do we experience His wrath, but we worship the creation. 


(G.K. Beale has an interesting book on this very topic: We Become What We Worship. It's worth the read.)

 

One reflects the very thing one most admires. One’s whole life is shaped and geared to achieve and acquire what one “worships”. We mirror the desire in our hearts.

 

Becoming what you worship:


Ps 115.8:
Those who make “them” will become like them, everyone who trusts in them.

 

Them” are the Idols. They are those things of creation that are worshiped, desired, and imagined. They are those things that either in the long or short stretches of the mind, one fascinates, daydreams, or rehearses. It could be in what one finds identity. The purpose in life is to have and then become what one most desires. Any time that anything supplants the preeminence of Christ in one’s heart and mind, that thing is an idol.

 

These idols can be objects to fill an empty soul without Christ. The lure of glitter and gold. If not “things”, the idols could be the desperate pursuit to have an identity in something, to be something, or to expand what one believes to be a self-authenticating presence in their world.

 

Imagine a life of idolatry as a three-car train. One car is the Lust of the Flesh (The “Feel It” sins). The next car is the Lust of the Eyes (The “See It” Sins). And the third car is The Boastful Pride of Life (The “Be It” Sins). See 1 John 2.15-17 (more on this text below). These three cars in the train always start with one in the lead yet are constantly shifting, competing, and fighting for prominence. For the godless, the whole of their lives is spent riding these cars, jumping from one car to the other. If one is not in the pursuit of God, one is pursuing what one most desires on this train. The endeavor of life is to worship the things of this world. Without Christ, we are idolators.

 

God created Humans to be imaging beings who reflect His glory, not the idols we pursue in creation.

 

What is it that you and I reflect?

 

It is not possible to be neutral on this issue! Everyone (not a superlative) thinks that there are two universes: The one universe that they live in and the other universe in which everyone else lives. 

 

There is only one universe – God’s universe. In the beginning, God Created…it’s all His. The decrees of God apply to everyone, everyone. The one who rejects God will always reflect something else in creation. It is our fundamental pursuit. We were created by God as imaging creatures. It is His decree that His wrath will fall on those who reject Him and that they will reflect whatever else they desire beside God. There is no other universe in which one may hide from God’s law. What people revere, they resemble, Either for RUIN, or for RESTORATION.

 

Gen 1.27

Let us make man in our own image.

 

Let’s be clearer about this “creation”. One may say that they don’t worship the dumb things in this world. I don’t ride the train! I am smarter than that. I don’t have “idols” like the caveman. One may continue to say, “I don’t worship anything, I’m in charge of my affections and my own heart. I’m no imbecile. Nothing owns my heart but me.” They are wrong. They do not own their own universe. Things and possessions people do worship just like God said. They do ride that train. If there was nothing tangible to possess and worship, then there are unseen things to worship. Worship of creation is not just what is seen or touchable. It is also a global system led by the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience.

 

John divides creation into TWO aspects. He says, do not love…

1. The world (Unseen),

2. Nor the things in the world (Seen things). 

There are TWO things to worship, the unseen and the seen.

See 1 John 2.15-17:

“Do not love the world nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the boastful pride of life, is not from the Father, but is from the world. The world is passing away, and also its lusts; but the one who does the will of God lives forever.”

 

3. At this point, we combine the first and second spiritual laws from above – 

1. The wrath of God is ever pressing on those who reject Him, and 

2. We become what we most admire or worship – 

3. And the third is this - God abandons those who reject   

    Him to the very systems and objects that have taken His place.

 

So, again:

Law #1 – God’s wrath abides on those who reject Truth.

Law #2 – We become what we worship.

Law #3 – God’s wrath is the act of abandonment to what we worship.

 

Onward to Law #3 

It is here where I intersect the three laws with the sin of homosexuality.

God’s wrath abandons one to become what they worship regarding their sexual desires.

 

Paul attributes the origin of same sex passions and practices as a failure to thank and honor God, or as disordered worship – Idolatry. 

 

So, humanity’s original rejection of God incurred His judgment and His passive and terrible wrath… He gives them up to their own devices, impure lusts, dishonorable passions and to a debased, reprobate, useless mind. It is a vice that ever tightens. Disordered desires result from disordered worship. 

We can see that in God’s wrath, we are given over to resemble what we worship instead. This “giving over” to what we desire IS the wrath of God. We have the depth in life that is as shallow as the possessions we desire. 

 

James 5.1-3

“Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries which are coming upon you. Your riches have rotted, and your garments have become moth-eaten. Your gold and your silver have rusted; and their rust will be a witness against you and will consume your flesh like fire. It is in the last days that you have stored up your treasure!”

 

Matthew 6.19-21

“Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. “But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys, and where thieves do not break in or steal; for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.”

 

St. Augustine: “The root of all evil is wrongly directed desire.” 

 

How much clearer can it be stated that the wrath of God is that we are abandoned to what we worship? Read in Psalms and in Job - This is the wrath of God.

 

Job 8.4
“If your sons sinned against Him, Then He delivered them into the power of their transgression.”


PS 81.12

“So, I gave them over to the stubbornness of their heart, to walk in their own devices

 

There is a synergistic effect in Law #3. The wrath of God is “God letting us go”. We let go of God and at some point, God lets go of us. We are abandoned. There is something terrible when this takes place. When He does that, He includes a “goodbye” gift: 


2 Thess 2.11-12

For this reason, God will send upon them a deluding influence so that they will believe what is false, in order that they all may be judged who did not believe the truth but took pleasure in wickedness.

 

There is a quote from the 1800’s referencing God to Israel, but can one imagine how awful this principle may fall upon those who reject Him having been offered so great light?

 

“If once we prevail to quench the motions of his Spirit, our state will be awful beyond all expression: ‘Woe to them,’ says God, ‘when I depart from them’ (Hos 9.12)”

(Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae, I think)

 

We may see how this delusion from God morphs into national mendacities. There is a popular lie that has been growing and flourishing: homosexuals are born that way. The Great “Theologian-ess”, Lady Gaga, put this lie to song. There is also a lie that same-sex attraction is involuntary. This lie has been put to pulpits and paper by the hand of numerous Theologians and “Christian” counselors. 

 

Homosexuals are not “Born that Way”, nor are their desires involuntary. How is that all other sinful desire is voluntary, but not this one? Why is only the homosexual desire involuntary? This lie is the delusion of God’s wrath seeping into every spore of the brain cell. Those who profess these lies are confusing their desires with what is the judgment of God and the illusion that has clouded the mind.


I might add that I simply stated that homosexuals are not “Born that way”. It was a simple declarative statement just like the statement a homosexual would make to the contrary. My statement is just as valid as his. So, there. 


It is not my objective to refute whatever anyone might promote as case studies that “prove” a genetic origin for homosexuality. Many have looked for the “gay gene” over the years, but all studies have floundered and disproved themselves. Now, the only “case” are those which collect multiple data of declarative statements as though the sheer number of declarative statements coalesced is the same as truth. I have another study on the genetics and epigenetics of homosexuality and to my satisfaction, there is no gay gene.

 

As per Law #3, allow me to “employ” the categories of God’s wrath with what I formulate as “progressive sexuality”. The wrath of God unfolds in the sexual life with what I categorize as either, 1. Consequential, 2. Classical, 3. Cultural, or 4. Cataclysmic Homosexual sin.

 

First, CONSEQUENTIAL is where we begin with any lifestyle or destiny. We introduced that above. The consequence of obedience is life and life that grows in abundance. The consequence of disobedience is destruction. Destruction may happen suddenly with great loss or even death, or it may happen over time. Sanity diminishes until such callousness of heart becomes impenetrable for truth to tread. Mental faculties are lost, and physical vigor vanishes.

 

The principle in the Song of Solomon 2.15 is that there are little foxes that ruin the vineyard. The foxes are “little”—it’s the little things, the things overlooked that often spoil things of value. And then one day, all is lost, and the vineyard is ruined.

 

The downgrade of the consequential sexual lifestyle of Romans 1 for those who reject God is as follows:

 

1. “Consequential” Sexuality

(Primer Sexuality and First Tier Homosexuality)

“Consequential” is such a “Catch-all” term to categorize any lifestyle and behavior that is contrary to biblical prescription. The heart and mind of mankind is conceived to find its own way as soon as one can see for oneself. All people reject God from their first breath of enlightened thought. 


Homosexuality is simply one outcome or result of rejecting God our creator and worshipping the creature. This proves the principle, “we become what we worship”. God abandons us to the consequences of our sexual pursuits. Filling the personal sexual void is a massive endeavor. We should not be astonished with the downfall of Western Society and its embrace to find identity, authenticity, autonomy, and purpose in its sexual rebellion outside of any transcendent meaning. 

 

Western culture seeks significance in itself. It is a matter of consequence and abandonment of The God of Truth and then it is His abandonment of them.

 

Since God’s creation is vast, the void one experiences when they reject God is not always filled with homosexuality. Homosexuality is just one consequence of rejecting God. It is just another amiss passion to fill the vacuum. One can either fall upon homosexuality or be the one upon which it falls. However, Romans Chapter 1 does specify that homosexuality is the hammer of God’s wrath on a nation that rejects Truth. Stated again, homosexuality IS the wrath of God on a nation.

 

The nature of the sinful heart is to propagate its own likeness. Perhaps mankind, created in the image of God, continues in themselves the communicable creative attribute of our Triune God, and in our reflective nature, we create our own image everywhere there is vulnerability. The homosexual driven by his craving does not exist by himself and must always be on the hunt to feed and flourish upon others seeking the same or upon the unguarded heart waiting for the void to be answered. The heart in rebellion to God does not fade away, it grows and yearns to succeed itself in others. 

 

It does not keep to itself. It does not abide by the passive wishes of those outside its peripheries to keep minding its own business. The evil heart cannot be contained and when squashed to silence by law, it oozes out from between and beneath the very implement that suppresses it and grows and strengthens again. There is no rid of it. It even swallows up that which seeks to eradicate it. And now, as we see, laws are made to protect and encourage the very things for which God’s wrath falls.

 

A warning to the wise, or even not so wise, the most effective God-given tool to prevent the pervasive, heinous onslaught of homosexuality is the nuclear family: a father who fathers, a mother who mothers, and children who imitate, honor, and obey their parents. The greatest gift a father and mother can give to their children is to demonstrate with all purity and earnestness a love between husband and wife. Know that this Western Culture sees the patriarchal nuclear family as a repressive sexual code that must be shattered. It is the enemy.

 

Rom 1.32

and although they know the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, they not only do the samebut also give hearty approval to those who practice them.

1 Pet 4.4

In all this, they are surprised that you do not run with them into the same excesses of dissipation, and they malign you;

 

2. “Classical” Homosexuality

(First Tier Homosexuality)


Classical Homosexuality is Self-Worship, “I love myself so much, that in my depraved nature, I am attracted to one of my own sex.” - Male with Male, Female with Female.

John Piper is asked, “What is wrong with Homosexuality?”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_n078cvLw8I

 

Personally, I do not favor this view of Piper’s. It is odd that one would idolize oneself so greatly that one would want to have sexual relations with one like oneself, but I offer it, nonetheless. Perhaps it could be plausible in an ultimate idolatrous facet of self.

 

3. Cultural Homosexuality

(Second and Third Tier Homosexuality)

 

This category is divine wrath at the national level. This is the footprint of the spirit of the age in the masses of collective individuals. Social theorists have invaded the social imagery and people believe and adapt to whatever is the latest emotive, therapeutic “thing”. Western Culture has devolved into a quest for personal identity, authenticity, and autonomy. The West is driven to self-expression, and to perform in public in a manner consistent with that which one feels or thinks one is on the inside. That is the essence of authenticity. And this is also the authenticity that dominates the contemporary cultural imagination. Identity thus requires recognition by another. And recognition becomes a life-and-death struggle.

 

As stated by Carl Trueman (The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self):

 

“…homosexuals in general, are seen as consenting adults, and are not seen as victimizers and call on a long history of social marginalization and victimhood. They can thus claim a right to recognition, a recognition that is connected to a further aspect of the modern moral imagination, that of dignity.

 

The homosexual has gained the recognition of society as a whole and is king, though he may be a pedophile. Because the homosexual claims his sexuality as his personal identity, simple tolerance is not enough. He requires equality before the law and recognition by the law and in society. One must not find themselves on the wrong side of law and social attitudes. The person who objects to homosexual practices is refusing to recognize an identity that society at large recognizes as legitimate and is a moral offense now. It is not simply a matter of indifference. The question of identity in the modern world is a question of dignity. The homosexual society must feel that they are equal members of society because their identity and dignity is at stake. This is why they require legislation. Though the civil rights movement of the 1950’s was based on universal humanity, the homosexual movement of today is based on individual self-determination.”

 

We are now living in a social stratosphere built upon the wants of an individual. If that individual does not get what he wants, he is oppressed. If he is oppressed, he is a victim and the western world bends to his will. We must endow him with total authenticity no matter what it costs the foundations of society. The foundations of society are destroyed. The stability of society just doesn’t matter when weighed against one’s personal identity. It is the “Tyranny of One”. As Kirk Kameron said, “Homosexuality is unnatural, detrimental and ultimately destructive to so many of the foundations to civilization”.

 

4. Cataclysmic Homosexuality

(Second and Third Tier Homosexuality)

 

This category of homosexuality is the end of the road of human sexuality. It is the “Transgender or Trans-sexual Development” with which we are bludgeoned today. (Bruce/Caitlyn Jenner Icon)

 

Let’s look at two facets of this “transexual” insanity. 

 

1. A contemporary, tsunamic phenomenon today is the destruction of a child’s future sexual gender. If the physical killing of unborn babies wasn’t enough, children are lured into a metaphysical murder by mutilating their bodies that kill their future roles as masculine and feminine men and women. In addition to the actual physical butchering of their bodies, they are also jabbed with hormones that don’t belong in their bodies. This physical, hormonal, glandular, chemical, and emotional destruction of little children is an act of the worse of pagan peoples.  

 

This is both demonic at the individual level and satanic at the national scale. This act upon our vulnerable children by their parents, schools, hospitals, and government is a nation utterly devoid of Truth. It is insane. This western culture is experiencing the strangling vice grip of its own idolatrous devices. The wrath of God is as clear as the noon-day sun in a cloudless sky.

 

This catastrophic homosexuality may be the precursor to the eschatological wrath of God. And until that day of the Lord arrives, I am certain that God is dealing in the most dreadful manner upon those who are causing the fall of these little ones. We may not be privy to all the providence of God’s wrath upon this homosexual arena, but we can be sure that His righteous wrath is a grueling vice that will soon unfold into eternal judgment. This is God’s universe.

 

2. Since this pure evil destruction of our children is a recent spectacle, there are many today who missed the alluring, despotic sirens of Ulysses. Many have willingly chosen to deconstruct their natural God-given sex to pretend they are the opposite sex. They were not forced into this lifestyle by pagan parents and extrinsic factors. Those in this Trans-lifestyle are those whom this lifestyle was not forced. These are those who like a garden, planted an immoral thought only to have it grow into a full-blown harvest of thorns. It was the progression of 1st to 3rd Tier homosexuality. They rejected truth, they worshipped the creation and are now enthroned upon their own kingdom of darkness. They worshipped the attributes of the opposite sex and nourished inordinate desires and satiated their evil hearts with lust and strained for grander immoral gains than what they had yet received. 

 

This manner of homosexuality so craves the opposite sex that one begins to mimic the opposite sex. It is the way that they have found to gain greater returns. The end will be the destruction of their bodies. The imaginations of their fancies are infinite, and it forces the body to keep pace; but the body will be devoured – it will reach its limit. The body can not keep up with the imagination.

 

They cannot BE the opposite sexthey can only mimic the opposite sex.

 

As Darrell B. Harrison says, “Transitioning’, is a mental mirage. Your gender doesn’t change because it cannot change. Regardless of what you tell yourself to the contrary, your gender is immutable. Wearing lipstick doesn’t make a male a female, nor does breast removal make a female a male.”

 

Cataclysmic” Homosexuality is the near Total Abandonment and rebellion of God’s ordained male and female sexual decree for man and woman and the innate masculine and feminine gender identity.

 

I say “near” because there is no decree of God that one can abandon. Even though one may rebel against God’s natural creation order, the male/masculine and female/feminine role is still inescapableeven though, defiantly reversed.

 

Cataclysmic” Homosexuality IS Ps 115.8; Job 8.4; and Ps 81.12  on steroids.

 

For the Male – “Trans-Development”:  Male mimics Female.

The male takes on the Female persona towards other Males. He is feminine or effeminate in demeanor and manipulates his body to his perception of the ideal female form that he has so worshipped. It is more than just crossdressing. It is immersing oneself into the very nature of what he believes his ideal female ought to be; whether ultimately submissive, abhorrently audacious or anything in between.

 

BUT, WHY?

 

Because he inordinately fascinates and worships the FEMALE. In so doing, he “Becomes what he worships”. (This is Spiritual Law #2 from above). And this is the wrath of God’s abandonment.

 

This is a long and drawn-out process of the “Law of Diminishing Returns”. The individual basked himself in the lust of the flesh, trained himself in evil (2 Pet 2.14having eyes full of adultery that never cease from sin, enticing unstable souls, having a heart trained in greed, accursed children;), and pursued forbidden thinking. He received a thrill or surge of dopamine and endorphins at the beginning of his lustful, pornographic campaign for pleasure, but as the law states, his return diminished as he appeased himself in his pursuits. He worshipped the female. After time, he took a deeper and darker turn to maintain the same return of pleasure. He tries to become what he most desires. C.S. Lewis addressed this law in his insightful story of The Witch and The Wardrobe when he references “Turkish Delight”. 

One does whatever it takes to intensify the devotion and exhilaration to one’s Idol. I believe there is a demonic assist.

 

What people revere, they resemble, either for RUIN, or for RESTORATION. For Ruin it is the worship of Creation. For Restoration it is the worship of the Creator.

 

For the Female – “Trans-Development”: The Female mimics the Male and Takes on the Masculine persona toward other Females.

 

BUT, WHY?

 

She is becoming what she has been Deprived or becoming what she most Craved. The “Trans…. Development” or Mimicking the Masculine Gender which was deprived to Her (a male has actively or passively mistreated her in the past). Perhaps, too, she perceived herself invisible when in the presence of strong masculinity. She wanted to become visible. This is not the fault of masculinity; it is the fault of femininity not blossomed.

 

She worshipped masculinity to be shown to her, but when neglected, devastated, or injured by a male figure in her life….She becomes what she so desired to be shown and modeled to her from a masculine figure - So, she becomes masculine for her own self and mimics the masculine persona toward another female.

 

I can be and do better than a man!!” It is defiance.

 

She is dwelling in a very ICKY, dark world of depravity.

This is not natural. We are not born this way!

 

This is IDOLTARY.

 

She dwells in the appropriated terminology of terms such as, “Transgender, Transsexual, and Transitioning, dysphoria”. Her quest to be what she has been deprived becomes terminal with staggering velocity. There, she unnaturally progresses to “Sexual Reassignment Surgery” (SRS), “Hormonal Replacement Therapy” (HRT) to correct the error of being “Born in the wrong body

 

Or

 

To become/mimic that which she was deprived. 

 

It is contradictory to say the least. She has an aversion to males, yet desires to become one.

 

Though this section of “Female Trans-Development” addresses the HRT, SRS for women, men also pursue the same unnatural voodoo treatments to manipulate their own bodies to appear as that of a female. The male does parallel the same plight as the female in this matter. He does not hate the female as does the female hates the male. He idolizes the female and sets his passions in overdrive to become what he most desires.

 

There may, of course, be other various and sundry explanations why a female seeks the masculine persona. And there may be other motives why men crave the female persona, but I believe these are the soundest, most basic reasons for this development. Explaining any insanity is harder than trying to carry a bowl of spaghetti without the bowl.

 

For either male or females…the outcome is that they become what they worship and are abandoned to their own devices. This outcome is the wrath of God. Reiterating: 


Becoming what one worships:
Ps 115.8Those who make them will become like them, everyone who trusts in them.

 

We become what we worship.

We will always reflect the nature and attributes of what we most covet.

 

Again, how did this happen???

In Romans 1:18–32
Suppression of the Knowledge of God leads to idolatry, and idolatry leads to immorality.

In the “Trans-world”, one seeks to become what they worship or on that which one is captivated – The Opposite Sex.

 

AND throw in a thousand variants of “Grooming”, “nurturing”, and SATANIC INFLUENCES
in a sex-soaked society and we have Sexual Chaos and Ungoverned Immoral Expressions.
We have a raceway to unrestricted, ungoverned AUTONOMY!

 

I herald the Creator, again. Though one may intentionally suppress the knowledge of God, the imprint of sexuality placed in us by God at conception, is still evident. The Homosexual or Transsexual/gender performs or mimics either the feminine or masculine template that our Creator has designed. It is impossible to drive off the edge of God’s ordained and decreed order of basic design.

 

God’s design of Masculinity and Femininity is inescapable.

 

Notwithstanding the immorality of homosexuality, which is derived from Idolatry, derived from suppressing the knowledge of God…

Homosexuality as addressed in Romans 1, is primarily a JUDGMENT FROM GOD. He “Gives them over” to depravity…  

 

America is under God’s Judgment.

 

Note to Parents:


In rearing your children, spend minimum time displaying what one ought not to 
become
Maximize time on displaying what one ought to become!

 

Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, dwell on these things. (Phil 4.8)

 

Who do you want your children to be like – put them on display. Find Heroes for your children. They will image what is presented before them. Display for them what they should most desire to be. The spiritual law that one becomes what one worships is also true in the most pure and holy pursuits.

 

There is a book titled, Mere Sexuality by Todd Wilson. In his book, he heralds “gay Christians” as the “go-to” heroes for those struggling with same sex attraction. He believes they have the answers on how to remain chaste while living as a “gay Christian” and suppressing same sex attraction (Prohibited Attraction – call it what it really is). 

 

He says these bulwarks of Christianity are “like” your child. They have suffered with homosexual desires all their life and can help your child struggle, too. The author puts Sam Allberry on display as a character to model Christian sexuality. He promotes other gay Christians in his book as bearers of strength for chastity even though they long for romantic same sex relationships. The author even states that there is a godly man in his congregation that has desired to be woman since he was 10 years old. 

 

This is where progressive Christianity is plunging. It is exactly what parents ought not to do. Do not promote a lifeguard that can barely keep himself afloat. Parents, promote strong swimmers who have never fought drowning in the murky darkness of homosexuality. Show them what right looks like. And should it ever come upon your child the delusion that they are in the wrong sexed body or that they sense confusion about their attractions, if there is a lifeguard that has become a strong swimmer who swam away from the homosexual current, then with great prudence, perhaps this one can offer some edifying counsel to your child.

 

We can only accept what the author tells us about these “gay” Christians and their foundational struggles that always seem to unfold in purity. All we have is what the author says. That’s all we have. So much more can be said.

 

Titus was placed by Paul as an elder on the Island of Crete. Paul wrote to Titus around 66AD. Christianity was brand new. He told him to set in order what remains and appoint elders in every city. But Crete was known for its debauchery. Paul said that he knew “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.” Paul also gave Titus the criteria for qualifications of an elder. They must be above reproach as God’s steward, not self-willed, not quick-tempered, not addicted to wine, not pugnacious, not fond of sordid gain, but hospitable, loving what is good, sensible, just, devout, self-controlled, holding fast the faithful word, which is in accordance with the teaching, so that he will be able both to exhort in sound doctrine and to refute those who contradict.

 

Where, then, on the Island of Crete would Titus find such an order of men? Where would he find solid men on an Island filled with liars, evil beasts, and lazy gluttons? Particularly, when Christianity was brand new. God knew. He preserved these men amongst an evil people. They were there. God made sure of it before there was ever a need for them. 

 

And God will do the same for your family. Heroes of the faith are there. Men and women who are unsullied by this evil culture. There are those who are the real deal. Parents, find them, display them, and herald them. Don’t fall for this tripe that a crippled, marginal, anemic Christian can run a marathon. Do not accept that we should display as icons those who will not accept the glorious transforming victory in Christ from sinful passions or those who will not walk worthy of their calling. Marginal Christianity should not be enthroned as a status for our children to aspire. 


As a side note, of course, every mother and father want to be their Children’s “ONLY” hero, but don’t let jealousy get in the way of a healthy development of a whole human being exposed to the entire body of Christ. Christ, the Head, from whom the whole body, being fitted and held together by what every joint supplies, according to the proper working of each individual part, causes the growth of the body for the building up of itself in love. (Eph 4.16)

 

In all the above satanic and demonic enslavement of one’s personal idolatrous pursuits, the rattling and raging of such crimes against the Creator grows still more. What were secreted passions and clandestine pleasures of the mind and heart have now been set free to the public view with aggressive force. This is how the wrath of God unfolds. These sexual evils and proclivities of once small groups and individuals have swelled and annexed every government department, corporation, media and entertainment entity, education facility, and even into every home. This is a nation abandoned by God. And this nation pursues idolatrous pleasures and does so with nucleonic radiation. 

 

The promotion of depraved homosexual immorality is done so with great insolence, evil, and wickedness; yet they are treated as cherubs. See what Paul says about the Coriolis effect of man’s downward spiral.

 

Rom 1.28-32

“And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God any longer, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do those things which are not proper, being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice; they are gossips, slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, without understanding, untrustworthy, unloving, unmerciful; and although they know the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, they not only do the same, but also give hearty approval to those who practice them.”

 

And again, Paul repeats humanities display of squalid living as history begins to reach its final days:

 

2 Tim 3.1-4

“But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come. For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good, treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God…”

 

The National aspect of this Sin

 

Note: this collection of data was prepared prior to the Immoral decree of the Supreme Court that “Constitutionalized” Same Sex Marriage, but the following examples, though, out of date, 

do represent a sample and example of yesterday’s state of affairs. I have stopped updating this paper with the most morose current events of the day and suffice it to say that what spiritual conditions annotated here from years ago have not ceased nor reached its plateau.

 

*“California Senate Votes to Force All California Public Schools to Promote Homosexuality, Trans-sexuality, Bisexuality Education”

*Las Vegas schools consider teaching kindergartners about masturbation, homosexuality… 

*Students in Maine middle school:

“Students Taught About Homosexual Foreplay Disguised as Tolerance”

*NC School District Okay with Gay Marriage Fairy Tale for Third Graders 

*Forcing Girls to Share a Bathroom with a “Gender Confused” Boy …

 

Normalizing homosexuality in the public schools:

Gorham Middle School in Maine (a state where voters approved same sex “marriage” very early on) holds an annual “Diversity Day,” in which homosexuals attempt to persuade children that deviant sexual behavior is normal and that any disapproval of it is intolerant, which, in PC America, is a bad thing. During the question-and-answer portion of the most recent indoctrination session in the presence of children, the discussion turned to what homosexuals use for “queer safe sex.” 

 

Obama appoints Homosexual Propagandist to Education:

In a stunning move, the former President Barack Obama nominated homosexual propagandist Kevin Jennings to be the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Education in charge of the “Safe and Drug-Free Schools” program. 


Aside from overseeing drug education programs, the term “safe” also means making public schools “safe” for alleged homosexual children; translated, this means Jennings’s position will be used to produce and disseminate pro-homosexual propaganda to America’s public schools.

 

THERE ARE SAFE ZONES in ALL UNIVERSITIES FOR HOMOSEXUALS AND THERE ARE NO SAFE ZONES FOR HETEROSEXUALS.

 

The wrath of God is crossing generational lines:


1 Tim 5.24
:
“The sins of some men are quite evident, going before them to judgment; for others” 
their sins follow after.

 

Parents, what you excuse in moderation, your children abuse in excess!

 

Sometimes generations later, which means, Parents, the consequences of sins in your own life will come to bear in your children and beyond; thus, a nation is lost.

 

WHENEVER NONE OF THIS SEEMS TO MAKE SENSE…

 

   Remember, “It’s all about God!” This is still His universe, and He reigns from the placid throne of heaven. Nothing is out of control.

What is satans goal in all this whirlwind depravity? 

 

It is Satan’s attack on the family.

 

WHY???

 

Homosexual marriage, gender transition—these are not the real battlegrounds

The real battle ground is against God, against Christ, against the Holy Spirit, against the Bible, against the church, and the gospel. Any blasphemy against God comes from God haters, Christ haters, Bible haters, gospel haters. And they are fueled by the arch-hater, Satan himself.

 

For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places. Eph 6.12

 

Because...

 

As JMAC would say…

 

Marriage is vital to God’s design, for ordered society, sensible civilization— a civilization able to enjoy common grace—

Since marriage is, by God’s design, His way to pass on order, to pass on peace, to pass on temporal blessing, and even to pass on righteousness from one generation to the next, the family has always been under assault. 

 

MARRIAGE REFLECTS OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH CHRIST. MOMs AND DADs are the FRONTLINE EVANGELISTS to this abandoned world.

 

When your children leave the home without a strong biblical grounding In God’s Word, they become salvage work for someone else.

 

The objective of Satan, the objective of demons, and consequently, the objective of all who are the subjects of Satan—the children of Satan, as they’re called in Scripture—is to destroy everything that God has made. 

They are the enemies of God and Christ and the truth of Scripture and the gospel.

 

(Acts 13.10; Jn 8.44; Eph 2.1-3; 1 Jn 3.8,10; Matt 7.15; 2 Pet 2.1-3)

 

FURTHER….

 

The objective is not simply to redefine sexual gender. 

The objective is not simply to redefine marriage. 

The objective is to destroy what God has designed.

 

WHY?

 

Families provide a small, sovereign unit that acts as a barrier against the corruption that seeks to destroy. 

Shatter the family, destroy the family and the small sovereign barrier is disintegrated. And by the way, the goal in all of this—

Is NOT homosexual, same-sex marriage. 

The goal is the total elimination of all marriage, which then means you don’t possess any privacy or sovereignty over your own family.

 

You don’t have that small, sovereign unit, and your children are not yours. They’re public children and they belong to the education system; and they belong to the country; and they belong to the village—but not to you. 

And so, when they’re fifteen in the state of Oregon or cross the border into California, they can have a sex change without telling their parents—and the state will do it and pay for it.

 

Your SON leaves home and comes back your DAUGHTER.

 

This is not about same-sex marriage. This is about the total obliteration of the family. So that there will be no more family, no more covenants. No more private, sovereign units that stand up against the corruption. 

NO MORE FRONTLINE EVANGELISTS FOR OUR CHILDREN!

 

No more Gospel witness in the homes.

 

The enemy knows to capture them when they are most vulnerable…as young children.

 

Again, “True evangelism is with children; the rest is salvage work” (Child Evangelism Fellowship)

 

Jesus taught us this when He said, “Suffer the little children to come unto Me.” Matt 19.14

 

Let’s look at how Satan has progressively attacked the family, both in America and around the world…

 

Let’s go back to contraception, you go BACK to where this all began. The primary roots, admittedly, is in the feminist movement. 

(One should study on their own the connection between Gnosticism and Feminism)

…. now when contraception comes in, you have sex without children.

 

Notice the PROGRESSION from contraception, to abortion, to surrogate parents to homosexual Adoption…

 

This has been a National Progression…it is a progression that has weaseled in on us as we slept….

 

So, contraception comes along, and you can have sex without children.

 

But that’s not enough; that doesn’t cover enough ground because that’s not complete enough, so you add abortion. (Another form of contraception)

 

And now you can have sex without children and if it misses and you do have a child conceived, 
just kill it. 

 

In the Unredeemed Community, this is sex without any responsibility.

For Example:

 

At East Carolina University (NC):
During the TV Series “Shark Week”, the University has “SEX WEEK”

The Student Health Dept. passes out thousands of condoms on the halls of the Dorms before the weekend and promotes promiscuous sex. Then….

On Monday, they pass out literature that will help point them to abortion clinics and pills that will abort any conceptions that may have taken place.

“Did you forget something? Fix the mistake with an abortion”

 

PROGRESSION

*We’ve come all the way from sex without children to … children without sex (surrogates)
*You can manufacture a baby. Two lesbians can have a baby. A lesbian can have planted in her womb a living being from somebody else. Children can be manufactured.
*So now you can have sex without children, and you can have children without sex. 
*They can also adopt children and promote their “values” to the innocent.

The Lord Jesus Christ has something Far more horrid for these “parents” than a millstone…

(LK 17.2)

The normal reason for marriage, a man and a woman coming together to produce children, has been completely convoluted. 

You can just make them. Why do you need a family? Why do you need a husband? Why do you need a wife?

 

We’re at about 50% of children in America that are born without married parents…out of wedlock. (Depending on where one finds the stats, these numbers are pretty much across the board. Of course, number-hunting sometimes depends on one’s preference for point)


29% of White Children are born out of wedlock.
53% of Hispanic Children are born out of wedlock.

10-17% Asian
73-80% of Black Children are born out of wedlock.

Most of the abortions are black children and when black children are not aborted, there is a huge monetary payoff to the mother with tax dollars. She is entitled to a minimum of $4000 per month for a child if she keeps having children every two years.

 

The late Congressman, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, reported that with the governmental entitlements in the Civil Rights Bill of the 60’s, we have the end of the black family.

It’s going to get worse and worse and worse as marriage disappears. Why get married? Too many complications. Too many questions. Too binding. 

And people will be able to make any kind of contract they want; make any arrangement they want. Same sex. Opposite sex. Polygamy. One can even marry themself. 

Because Satan just wants to completely obliterate marriage.

 

We need to be compassionate toward INDVIDUALS caught up in homosexuality…yet we must resist the INSTITUTION of Homosexuality and the agenda:

1. Continue to demonstrate the fragrance of Christ in pubic-view and demonstrate what difference it makes that we are Christians in a world out of control. Simply, ask yourself, “What difference does being a Christian make right here and right now?”


2. And the most compassionate thing you can do for people under God’s wrath is, in love, to warn them of the eternal consequences-to warn them of eternal judgment. That’s compassionate. Preach the gospel; proclaim the gospel; proclaim grace and forgiveness. But preach to them of their impending, personal accountability before a Righteous Judge.


Leviticus 19.17: ‘You shall not hate your fellow countryman in your heart; you may surely reprove your neighbor but shall not incur sin because of him.


There is no Love without Truth.


And on the flip side, preach to them all that Christ superabundantly supplies in every void, every loneliness, and in every desperate thought. Preach to them that IN CHRIST we have our identity, purpose, and hope for every moment until the last unfolding of time. Our last breath that we take in this body will be as sweet as our first breath that we took in Christ.


The Ministerial aspect of this Sin

 

The following are notes I took from a lecture given by Sam Williams (SEBTS). I cannot entirely agree with some of his labeling of individuals as SSA and SSO (Same Sex Attraction/ Same Sex Orientation), but he has a compassionate approach that seems to be biblically sound in his estimate. The labels of SSA/SSO are not sound biblical labels. Those who are attracted to the same sex should know their attraction is “PROHIBITED ATTRACTION/ORIENTATION”. This label is sounder when dealing with lustful passions. It leaves no room for normality or complacency

Sam Williams (Southeastern Theological Seminary) – A Christian Psychology of and Response to Homosexuality

 

https://vimeo.com/30850212

 

Introductory Statements:


*So, the response of the church to SSA/SSO must be just as serious as was Jesus. (Same Sex Attraction/ Same Sex Orientation)

*It must be as theologically accurate and morally bold, as was Jesus. 
*At the same time, as pastoral and gracious as is Jesus. 

*We must bring hope: The gospel changes the most Important things initially and it changes everything eventually.

 

A sovereign act of God, through the gospel, generates a type of faith in and obedience to Christ that flows out of a fundamentally reoriented heart that results in a changed and changing life.

 

FOUR WAYS TO PROMOTE CHANGE IN THOSE WHO STRUGGLE WITH SSA:

 

1. PROMOTE HONESTY with yourself, others and with God. In view of the mercy of God, it makes no sense to deny, minimize, avoid SSA or any form of sexual sin.
There is a properly Christian form of “coming out of the closet”. Should we all not come out of the closet with our sin and sinful tendencies? We do this so we can repent more thoroughly and receive all the help and healing that comes from Jesus and authentic Christian relationships. That which we keep to ourselves tends to fester and swell into a painful shame, depression, guilt, anxiety and sometimes suicide. As the body of Christ, as parents, as friends, we can cultivate openness to the acknowledgement and confession of any type of sin in our communities.

 

2. CULTIVATE A NEW RESPECT FOR DIFFERENCES, especially for different types of men. Various forms of masculinity can be affirmed, and one should not presume that cultural stereotypes are biblical norms or guidelines. There is more than one type of man and not all of them like to camp, play sports, or fight. If the character of Jesus is not to be the main part of our view of manhood, then it is not biblical manhood, (see the Sermon on the Mount and the “Blessed Are’s…”)
How would Jesus speak to a man who is different?

Same is true for women.

Do a study on what is biblical Masculinity and biblical Femininity. STUDY JESUS.

 

3. EXHIBIT A TYPE OF EMPATHY FOR SSA/SSO (or those with Prohibited Attraction) that understands how their sin is under the cross. Acknowledge that we are much more alike the person who struggles with SSA than we are different. They have their particular sin tendencies, and you have yours. Every one of us have a weak link and some form of remnant sin for which we need Jesus and one another, therefore, SSA should not be singled out as a “red letter” sin.

 

I’d like to take a few moments to interject my own opinion regarding Point 3 above:

 

(I would add that it should not be minimized, either. There are many besetting sins that are endeared by the possessor and do not require the participation of another – and structurally, these people with their invisible sins are like leaks in the roof, but homosexuality is when the roof caves in. All sins are personally destructive both now and ultimately in eternity, but homosexuality necessarily includes the takedown of others).

 

I mentioned above that there is a strong swell of opinion in the church today that “Same Sex Attraction” is not sinful, nor is it voluntary. This position states that it is not the attraction that is sinful, but the action or response to the attraction that is sinful. They say that if one does not ACT sinfully, then the desire is not sin. Just having the same sex desire is not sin in and of itself.

 

In the push to not label SSA as a “red letter” Sin, some in church circles with a diverse model of viewing mankind, have actually removed the PASSION of SSA from any sinful mention at all; Yet, leaving forms of “Opposite Sex Attraction” as sinful. This position blurs the borders of what is and is Not righteous.

 

I personally differ from this opinion…

If there is one who wishes to be free from this Same-sex-attraction, then we offer this Individual no hope if we tell him that he is not Sinning. And we are also prescribing that

Christ is impotent in the desires of the heart…Which is where sin begins. We must not condone impure thoughts.

  

When one reasons that SSA is not sin unless one acts upon it, then unwittingly, they are attributing it as a sinless desire. How can one reason that an impure deed can spring forth from a pure thought? In fact, there is ample biblical grounds that one should “do good deeds” from a pure heart, not the opposite.

 

People do immoral deeds because they have immoral thoughts. They have immoral thoughts because they have a built-in propensity to be inflamed in the direction of lusts. They have those passions because there is an evil component inside every human being. It’s there, it can’t be denied.

 

Covetousness or Greed is the last sin listed in the Ten Commandments; but it really is the basic motive of all sin. It is the last sin in the Decalogue, but it is what is behind all the other sins. It is what was behind Satan’s fall. He was greedy; he coveted God’s place. 


Covetousness is the desire for what isn’t yoursIt is the desire for what is forbiddenIt is the desire for what is against the will of God.

 It’s the desire for something to which one has no right, entitled to or the desire to have more than one has. It is the absence and opposite of contentment. It is the desire to have more; and in the case of the fallenness of the human heart, it is the desire to have more of something for which one it not entitled. Jesus considered the covetous heart to be the very source from which all evil arose.

 

Covetousness is an insatiable desire that can never be satisfied, to want what you don’t have. To desire what God has not given. Trying to satisfy covetousness in the human heart is like trying to fill a bowl with no bottom. And this, of course, is self-seeking pride. 

It is the desire to have what one doesn’t have. 
It is the passion to have what is prohibited.
It is a lack of contentment. 

It is covetousness. 
And when directed toward a physical relationship with someone, it ends up in sexual sin. 
It is covetousness
.

 

Every sin comes from this. The reason you do any sin is because you have decided that you will do what you have no right to do. You will take what you have no right to take; that’s what sin is. And Jesus said even in the longing there is sin, Matthew 5
“If a man looks on a woman to lust after her he’s committed adultery in his heart.” 
You hear people today say,

 
“Well, you know, I’m a same- sex attracted person, but that’s not sinful in and of itself.” 
Well, of course it is. Opposite sex attraction can be sinful, same-sex attraction is sinful, because it’s a reflection in the heart of a longing for what one does not have the right to have
.

 

Can one not see the contradiction when Jesus says it is sinful for a man to lust after a woman, yet, for whatever reason, church leaders say that it is not sinful for a man to lust after another man?

 

Alright… back to Sam Williams…moving on to the fourth point.

 

4. PROVIDE BIBLICAL HOPE FOR CHANGE. We have all been changed as believers and are changing as believers and in need of much more. 

Real and substantive change can be expected for all of us. Tim Wilkins says that when he repented from homosexuality, he did not know how to become heterosexualbut he did know how to be obedient to Christ. It didn’t matter to him whether he would ever be attracted to a woman, what mattered is that he was attracted to Christ. What mattered to him was becoming a disciple of Jesus.

 

DISPLAY CHRIST.

The Answer is not loving the OPPOSITE SEX, the answer is LOVING CHRIST.

 

Change for all of us is a grace fueled process that is called progressive sanctification along with obedience of faith along a narrow and often difficult road accompanied by other Christian men and women in the local church all of which is rooted in the transformative power of the gospel of God in the rich soil of the body of Christ. The Cross of Christ signifies the beginning of the end of the old self for all of us. 
 
It is the progressive and radical reordering and reorientation of every one of our distorted desires. But sin is stubborn, especially at the level of desires. The old man dies stubbornly but the old man is history. 

 

And finally…


With respect to many root sins that are deeply entrenched within us, change, may or not be associated with a complete elimination or reversal of a person with SSA (Prohibited Attraction) for now, but, in the cross, neither the past or our desires determine our identity or our future.

 

OUR IDENTITY: WE ARE IN CHRIST


Same-sex attraction is not voluntary:

https://walkingtruth.blogspot.com/2022/07/same-sex-attraction-is-not-just-same.html


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