What Does the Bible Teach About Homosexuality part two.
Hey, welcome to today's little lesson where we're continue our discussion on what the
Bible, not what David, but what the Bible says about homosexuality.
We started in our last lesson in a classic passage in Leviticus chapter 18 where God
is saying lots of things to the people of Israel, and he's saying, "This is how I want
you to behave because you're going to be my people and I'm taking you into the promised
land where you're going to dispossess some very evil, wicked people, and I don't want
you to be like them.
Because if you become like them then I'm going to treat you just like I'm about to treat
them.
I'm dispossessing them out of their land.
Judgment is falling on them.
I don't want judgment to fall on you.
So, you've got to act differently than those people or you know, because I'm consistent."
God is saying, "I never change.
What I hate a thousand years ago I hate today.
What I loved a thousand years ago I love today."
Okay.
So we looked at this first verse of the passage in Leviticus chapter 18 where God said, "You
shall not have intercourse with your neighbor's wife to be defiled with her."
And my point was, in our last little lesson, everybody agrees with that across the board,
around the world, in every culture.
Even those cultures that are polygamous which that's obviously questionable in many people's
minds.
But even polygamous cultures still adultery is wrong.
"Don't have sex with any of my wives", the polygamist would say.
And everyone would say, "It's wrong to have sex with one of the wives of the polygamist."
Okay.
So, that's universally agreed upon.
So we continue wow reading what God says, the one who created sex, the one who created
every thing as he regulates human sexuality.
Leviticus 18:21 the very next verse, "You shall not give any of your offspring, that
is your children to offer them to Molek, nor shall you profane the name of your God.
I am Lord."
Now that doesn't say anything about sexuality but I just want you to see we're reading in
a passage that you know, pretty obvious what's wrong about these things.
Don't take, let me just paraphrase this, don't take your babies and go to the altar of Moloch.
There's this Moloch god there carved in stone and there's a big fire in front of them And
don't throw your baby or but one of your children into that fire to as to show your devotion
to god Moloch.
That's an abomination to God.
Well, all agree that it's wrong to throw your babies into a fire.
You know, I bet you about 99.999% of all people watching this, if not 100% will say, "That's
wrong."
But here's where the confusion starts and this is getting off track but yet some people
say it's okay to rip a baby that would be born in another day or two, a fully developed
baby human being rip that baby out of its womb, cut it to pieces or kill it with some
poison, and kill it that way.
That's okay.
"But we would never, never, never, never take a live baby and throw it into a fire.
That would be immoral."
Well, you know, you're very, very confused if you think that that's wrong and it's okay
to do it to a baby who's just about to be born.
And if it's not okay to do it to a baby that's just about to be born in a day or two it's
not right to do it to a baby that's about to be born in a month or two, or in four months,
or in five months, or in six months, and you can take that logic all the way back to conception.
Okay, so off topic here, but let's get back on topic.
So verse number 22.
We've just read in verse 20 and 21 of Leviticus 18 two things that universally everybody agrees
are just horribly grievous things, adultery and sacrificing your children to a God.
It's amazing that you've even got to say these things.
Verse 22, "You shall not lie with a male as one lies with a female, it is an abomination."
Now, isn't it interesting that people who would say that those first two things are
clearly wrong, adultery is wrong ... I mean again many within the homosexual community
would say, "Oh my goodness these homosexuals that are just sleeping around with lots of
partners we don't agree with that.
We commit to each other in life commitments of marriage."
Because they have a moral standard.
It's not up to a heterosexual standard but it's a high homosexual standard.
"We're not sleeping around.
We're going to be faithful to one partner of the same sex."
You see?
So there's a moral standard that they've established there.
Well, okay I guess that's on one level praiseworthy, but again is this the word of God or is it
not the word of God?
Well, again, anyone who is espousing a homosexual lifestyle is being okay morally okay would
have to say, "Well, this is not the word of God."
Okay.
All right, well that's your choice.
But anyways, I'm talking about what the Bible teaches about homosexuality.
That's what I'm teaching here.
My idea is what the Bible teaches.
"You shall not lie with a male as one lies with a female, it is an abomination."
Now, so sandwiched there now we're going to read the next verse.
That little prohibition of homosexual sex is sandwiched between adultery, throwing your
kids into a fire in devotion to Moloch.
And now look at verse number 23 of Leviticus 18.
"Also, you shall not have intercourse with any animal to be defiled with it.
Nor shall any woman stand before an animal to mate with it.
It is a perversion."
Now, you have to say, "Why did God even have to say these things?"
But yet there are places that you could go to in the world and in your country probably.
I know that in America you can go to place like this and you could watch perverted sex
just like that.
Well, you certainly gonna watch it in pornographic films and so forth.
But there are places you actually go see live sex with animals.
Not a whole lot of places and I've never been to one okay but they're out there.
And so, this is the depth of depravity of some people's mind.
And I would be willing to bet that most people who embrace a homosexual lifestyle would say
that sex with animals is immoral.
It's a sexual perversion.
Now, you'd have to ask on what level.
Because morality presumes that there is a moral regulator with a capital r, namely God.
So, it's always interesting to hear people that don't believe in God or have some invented
concept of God saying something's wrong.
Well, on what basis is it wrong?
Why?
Well, it's because they know certain things within their heart because God, the God, the
only God has put it within their hearts.
God has written his laws within our hearts.
We have a conscience that tells us what is right and wrong.
And so, everybody knows that having sex with animals is wrong.
The person who's in the act of having sex with animals knows in their heart right then
this is wrong but they suppress that guilt and they say, "Oh, but I'm going to do it
anyway."
Because they don't love God and they at that point in time don't care what God's thinking.
All right, so you get this.
I'd be willing to bet that most folks within the homosexual community would not only say
that sex with animals is wrong, they would also say that those who get married to the
same sex within the homosexual community, they would say that adultery is wrong.
Why else would you get married?
So, if your same sex partner was unfaithful to you and had sex with somebody else you
would consider that adultery.
You would say, "That's wrong.
You betrayed me.
That's morally wrong.
You made a vow to me till death do us part."
Yeah.
So, you have moral standards here in the Bible, these are all listed together.
And I bet most of the homosexual community would say that it's wrong to take your baby
and throw it into a fireplace to kill it and burn it.
Right.
Okay.
Something to think about.
And I'm saying this because I've got hope.
I've got hope for those who this bothers them when I've just read and they'd like to escape
it.
Well, I've got great news for you.
God will help you.
So keep watching these little lessons.
Okay.
And we'll get to that in greater depth as we continue.
I hope to see you next time.
God bless you.