JESUS DID ADDRESS THE SIN OF HOMOSEXUALITY

JESUS DID ADDRESS THE SIN OF HOMOSEXUALITY

1. Jesus sustained the supremacy of OT Scripture. Why not, the Godhead Inspired it! He referred to OT Scripture constantly as Authority:

 

Jn 17.17 

“Sanctify them in the truth; Thy word is truth.”

 

The moral and righteous living references in the Old Testament are entirely relevant today – they were to Jesus.

 

2. Jesus is the Second Person of the Godhead – The Son of God. Where was He during the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah? He was right there.

 

3. Jesus stated that marriage is between a MAN and a WOMAN:

 

Matt 19.4-5 

And He answered and said, “Have you not read, that He who created them from the beginning MADE THEM MALE AND FEMALE, and said, ‘FOR THIS CAUSE A MAN SHALL LEAVE HIS FATHER AND MOTHER, AND SHALL CLEAVE TO HIS WIFE; AND THE TWO SHALL BECOME ONE FLESH’?

 

Jesus need NOT say WHAT IS NOT marriage, saying WHAT IS marriage is sufficient.

 

GK Chesterton: 

“There are many, many angles at which you can fall 

but only one angle at which you can stand straight.”

 

4. Jesus commissioned His Apostles – His “Sent Ones” – to be His authority throughout the world in the Great Commission.

 

Acts 1.8 

but you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be My witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and even to the remotest part of the earth.

 

5. The Apostles carried the confidence that when they spoke, it was as though Christ was speaking; thus, when the Apostles addressed the issues of righteous living, Christ was their Authority:

 

2 Co 2:17 

For we are not like many, peddling the word of God, but as from sincerity, but as from God, we speak in Christ in the sight of God.

 

Ga 1:12 

For I neither received it from man, nor was I taught it, but I received it through a revelation of Jesus Christ.

 

1Th 2:13 

And for this reason we also constantly thank God that when you received from us the word of God’s message, you accepted it not as the word of men, but for what it really is, the word of God, which also performs its work in you who believe.

 

1Th 4:1-2 

Finally then, brethren, we request and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that, as you received from us instruction as to how you ought to walk and please God (just as you actually do walk), that you may excel still more. For you know what commandments we gave you by the authority of the Lord Jesus.

 

1Ti 4:6 

In pointing out these things to the brethren, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, constantly nourished on the words of the faith and of the sound doctrine which you have been following.

 

1Ti 6:3-4 

If anyone advocates a different doctrine, and does not agree with sound words, those of our Lord Jesus Christ, and with the doctrine conforming to godliness, he is conceited and understands nothing; but he has a morbid interest in controversial questions and disputes about words, out of which arise envy, strife, abusive language, evil suspicions,

 

2Ti 3:16 

All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness;

 

Heb 2:3 

how shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation? After it was at the first spoken through the Lord, it was confirmed to us by those who heard,

 

2 Pe 1:4 

For by these He has granted to us His precious and magnificent promises, in order that by them you might become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world by lust.

 

2 Pe 3:1-2

This is now, beloved, the second letter I am writing to you in which I am stirring up your sincere mind by way of reminder, that you should remember the words spoken beforehand by the holy prophets and the commandment of the Lord and Savior spoken by your apostles.

 

2 Pe 3:15-16

and regard the patience of our Lord to be salvation; just as also our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given him, wrote to you, as also in all his letters, speaking in them of these things, in which are some things hard to understand, which the untaught and unstable distort, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction.

 

So, when the Apostles directly address the sin of homosexuality, or any sin, the Lord Jesus Christ is their Authority.

 

Rom 1.20f 

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. 

For even though they knew God, they did not honor Him as God, or give thanks; but they became futile in their speculations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for an image in the form of corruptible man and of birds and four-footed animals and crawling creatures. Therefore God gave them over in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, that their bodies might be dishonored among them. For they exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen. For this reason God gave them over to degrading passions; for their women exchanged the natural function for that which is unnatural, and in the same way also the men abandoned the natural function of the woman and burned in their desire toward one another, men with men committing indecent acts and receiving in their own persons the due penalty of their error. 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.

 

1 Cor 6:9f 

Or do you not know that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals…

 

1 Tim1.8-11 

But we know that the Law is good, if one uses it lawfully, realizing the fact that law is not made for a righteous man, but for those who are lawless and rebellious, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for those who kill their fathers or mothers, for murderers and immoral men and homosexuals and kidnappers and liars and perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound teaching, according to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, with which I have been entrusted.