What does the New Testament say about homosexuality?
This is part 10.
Hey, welcome to this little lesson, and this'll be the last little lesson on this series on
what does the Bible say about homosexuality?
I've written much more extensively than what you'll find in these lessons at davidservant.com.
Just type in a keyword like homosexuality in the search bar, and you'll get all those
articles.
I've tried to be very understanding, compassionate, gracious, gentle, humble, all those good things
that we're supposed to be, as I've written in loving admonition.
Okay?
Not hate speech, love speech.
God loves you, that's why he doesn't want you to sin at all.
We were talking about this the last two little lessons.
Within the sin, there are built-in consequences, and then you suffer because you were stupid
because you sinned.
Or, me, because I've done my share of stupid sinning.
There's built-in consequences.
You suffer because of your sin.
God doesn't want you to suffer.
That's why he says don't sin.
"I want you to be blessed," God says.
"I want you to enjoy life as it was intended to be, and that is not sucking on some other
man's penis, as a man."
Oh, dear God.
If you think that's fun, you got a lot to learn, buddy.
You got a lot to learn.
That's not God's best.
God's best for you is someone of the opposite sex.
To whom you're committed for time.
With whom you can have children and raise them up to be God lovers like yourself.
That is God's intention for everybody.
And God is not just delivering homosexuals, he's delivering every kind of sinner out there.
And some that I'm sure that are much, much worse on many levels.
Murderers, mass murderers, in some case, forgives them and redeems them.
Oh, my goodness, the grace of God.
Paul, the apostle Paul, the guy that wrote more of the New Testament than anybody else,
you realize he was a murderer, a persecutor of Christians, holding the coats of the people
who were stoning the Church's first martyr, and then running off to other cities and bringing
back Christians in chains.
This is Paul.
He called himself the greatest sinner.
He said, "Yet, God showed me mercy," that he could set an example for everybody else.
"If God can forgive me, God can forgive anybody."
Paul was much worse than any homosexual, you can be sure of that on a level in God's eyes.
Persecuting the Church, murdering Christians.
So, on our last little lesson, we read First Corinthians 6 and verse number 9, 10, 11.
You might want to look at those later on, you get a chance.
It's very clear that God can deliver people from any sin.
And in the Corinthian church, there were former swindlers, there were former drunkards, there
were former greedy people, former thieves, former homosexuals, former adulterers.
They all got transformed, and still happening today, because God's still the same.
He's just as good, he's just as great as he ever was.
Last scripture that I want to talk about in this series, and this is found in First Timothy.
This is also written by Paul.
We're talking about what the Bible teaches about homosexuality, because there's so much
confusion about that today, even within some church circles.
First Timothy 1, and verse number eight.
"But we know that the law is good."
He's speaking here specifically of the law of Moses, because that's only law that he
could've been speaking of in this context.
"If," if, if, "one uses it lawfully."
So, there's an unlawful use of the law.
"Realizing the fact that law is not made for a righteous person, but for those who are
lawless and rebellious."
You see, for example, there doesn't have to be a law in the United States, or in Pennsylvania,
or the city where I live, in Pittsburgh, that it's wrong to steal.
I don't need that law on the books anywhere, because I don't steal.
Why?
Because I've submitted my life to Jesus Christ, and in my heart, I'm submitted to him.
So, I don't need that law.
I don't need any law.
I don't need laws that forbid murder, here in the country in which I live.
I don't need that.
You only need laws for people that are rebellious and lawless.
Then, he begins to list ... He further elaborates, "but for those who are lawless and rebellious,
for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane."
Listen to his list, now.
This is going to remind you of something we looked at early on in this series.
"For those who kill their fathers or mothers."
Would you agree with me that that's wrong?
Killing your father or your mother is an evil thing?
Yeah.
Well, I'll bet you you don't have to have a law in order to prevent you from killing
your mother and father, because the proof of the pudding is the fact that you haven't
killed your mother and your father.
It wasn't a law that prevented you, you didn't say, "Oh, I'd love to kill them, but there's
a law that says it."
No, no.
You're constrained by your own conscience.
"Those who kill their fathers or mothers, for murderers ... " All murder.
Everyone knows that's wrong.
"And immoral men."
Now, I think he's talking there about all sexual immorality, but then he gets more specific
momentarily.
"And homosexuals."
See, that's the New Testament.
And people say, "Well, in the Greek, it doesn't really say ... There was no word for homosexual
in Greek."
Oh, come on.
Come on, come on.
People stretch the truth.
Stretch the facts to pervert the truth.
Look up the word that's translated homosexual.
The root of it's two words: men, bed.
It's homosexual.
Homosexual's a good translation of the word.
"And kidnappers."
Would you say that's wrong?
Kidnapping's wrong?
I bet you would.
I bet you'd say that's wrong to abduct children and hold them for ransom.
"And liars."
Do you believe it's wrong to lie?
Bet you do.
"And perjurers."
Do you believe it's wrong to lie under oath?
"And whatever else is contrary to sound teaching, according to the glorious gospel of the blessed
God with which I have been entrusted."
So, because our series has ... We've been talking about homosexuality, but the last
four or five lessons, I've been trying to fit that into the context of the whole Bible.
Well, two points I wanted you to see, and this passage makes it clear.
It's not just homosexuality that God is displeased with, okay?
Secondly, but God is very displeased with homosexuality, because you find it in these
lists in the Old and the New Testament, in lists of sins that everybody agrees are sins.
The new thinking that homosexuality is no longer wrong, and that's an antiquated idea,
according to the Bible, not me, according to the Bible, freedom of speech, freedom of
religion, it's wrong.
And I tried to emphasize repeatedly, it's wrong like everything else that God's displeased
with, and God is able to forgive.
He wants to forgive, and he wants to transform.
But you have to fall on your face before him and cry out and believe in Jesus.
Okay, all right.
That's all for this little lesson.
Thank you so much for joining me for this 10 part series looking at what the Bible has
to say about homosexuality.
Hope to see you next time.
God bless you.