What does the Bible say about homosexuality part three.
Hi, welcome to today's lesson.
This will be the third little lesson on what scripture says about homosexuality.
We've just gotten to the edge of the subject in Leviticus chapter 18 just looking at the
classic scripture that God said a number of things regarding his regulation of sexual
behavior amongst human beings and certain things that he labels perversions.
We've just read a passage of scripture where God says, and I'm paraphrasing it, don't have
sex with your neighbor's wife.
That's wrong, that's sinful.
Of course we all probably agree with that.
Then he says, don't throw your babies into the fire in devotion to the God Moloch.
I think we probably all agree that's wrong.
Then God says, men shouldn't be lying with men as a man lies with a female.
Well, not everyone would agree with that.
Then the very next verse is don't have sex with animals.
When people say that, well, you know, Bible doesn't have anything to say about homosexuality
or it's really not relevant, they weren't in the new covenant or something.
Well, I don't know.
We just read four things that I think three of them, everybody on the planet would agree
with, that adultery is wrong, that killing your children is wrong, and that having sex
with animals is wrong.
What about that fourth one?
Homosexuality, well, God's got it in that same list.
If this is the word of God, if there's truth in the other three, well, how can we just
discard this fourth one?
Continuing this passage that we started in the previous, previous little lessons, listen
to Leviticus 18:24, "Do not defile yourself by any of these things...
" God says they're all defilements, "for by all these the nations which I am casting out
before you have become defiled."
This was going on, all this stuff that God just described in these four verses preceding
where we are now, all this was happening in the land of Canaan.
That's why God says, you know, I've had enough, I've waited hundreds of years for these people
to repent.
I've spoken to them in their conscience millions of times, and they just ignore me.
They're beyond redemption.
We're just going to wipe them out, I'll give you guys a chance.
God says in the very next verse, "For the land has become defiled, therefore I have
brought its punishment upon it, so the land has spewed out its inhabitants."
Leviticus 18 and verse number 25.
Another passage, God says, if you guys become like the ones you dispossessed, I'm going
to do the same thing to you because I'm consistent and I don't show partiality.
I'm favoring you by bringing you out of Egypt, but I'm not going to lower the standard for
you.
You're held to the same standards as everybody else.
Similarly, two chapters later in Leviticus where God is still talking about human behavior
and in some cases, human sexuality, he says in Leviticus Chapter 20:11, "If there is a
man who lies with his father's wife... " you're having sex with your, it's either your mother
or your stepmother, can't be anybody else but that, okay.
"He has uncovered his father's nakedness both of them shall surely be put to death, their
bloodguiltiness is upon them."
I think it's pretty clear to us that God is saying, this is a sin to have sex with your
mother or have sex with your stepmother is wrong.
It's a form of adultery, a form of incest.
I guess it doesn't make a difference.
I'll bet you, 99.9999% of all the people watching this video would agree with what we just read
right there.
It's not right.
Why not?
Why isn't it right?
Just ask yourself that question.
Why?
What's so wrong about that?
I mean, if both people get pleasure out of it, what can be wrong?
If it feels good, do it.
God made my body, I'm attracted sexually to my stepmother, she's attracted sexually.
Why I shouldn't?
See, you're smart enough to figure that out and you know it intuitively within your own
heart and conscience.
You need to ask yourself the question, where did that come from?
Because if there's regulations that you think ought to be followed, there's got to be a
regulator.
All right, very next verse.
"If there is a man who lies with his daughter-in-law... " we're jumping from the mother to stepmother
now to your son's wife, your daughter, "If the man lies with his daughter-in-law, both
of them shall surely be put to death.
They have committed incest, their bloodguiltiness is upon them."
I bet you 99.9999% of all people watching this video would agree with what God just
said there that it's wrong to have sex with your daughter-in-law.
Sounds like a perversion, doesn't it?
Well, what makes it wrong?
What makes that wrong?
What makes sleeping around with just anybody wrong?
In fact, what makes it wrong to just have sex in the streets?
Why do people have to do it discreetly behind closed doors?
What makes these things wrong?
Everyone believe it's wrong to have sex in public.
Why do they believe it's wrong to have sex with your mother, sex with your mother-in-law,
sex with your stepmother, sex with your daughter-in-law?
Why do most people think that's wrong?
I'll tell you why, because God put that in their hearts, because you could make an argument
that it's not wrong on some level.
Okay, very next verse now.
We're all in agreement up until this point, but oops, here comes something that some people
are not going to agree with.
"If there is a man who lies with a male as those who lie with a woman, both of them have
committed a detestable act.
They shall surely be put to death."
I don't know.
Can you agree that those first two things we just read in Leviticus 20 are wrong and
the third one, that's okay.
Times have changed.
Now it's different.
Even though men have penises and penises don't fit into other penises, it's okay to handle
another man's penis or suck on his penis and give him pleasure.
Come on, this is just as perverted as the other things that God is describing.
They're unnatural.
They go against the normal created order of things.
Look at the next one to see what this scripture is sandwiched in between, Leviticus 20:14,
"If there is a man who marries a woman and her mother," he's not just a polygamist, he's
a generational polygamist, marry his mom and daughter.
He's having sex with mom and daughter, it is immorality, both he and they shall be burned
with fire so there will be no immorality in your midst."
I'll bet you 99.9999% of all people watching this video would agree with me that it's wrong
for someone to marry a mother and a daughter combo.
Face up to the verse right above it, face up to the facts that in God's eyes, maybe
not in your eyes, but in God's eyes, homosexuality is in these same categories of perversion.
Now, I don't say that in condemnation, I say that in, I'm just telling you what you know
already deep within your heart.
Absolutely.
Every homosexual knows within their heart, this is not right.
This does not please the one who made me.
The wonderful, amazing thing is that, God who's displeased by those things will forgive
us of anything if we'll repent and he'll transform us and change us and there are thousands of
people who can testify that they once were involved in a homosexual lifestyle and today
they are free.
I've met some of them.
I had one of them in the very first church that I pastored as a very young man.
I still remember him, still remember his name, still remember some of his funny sayings,
married with kids, but formerly a homosexual.
Somehow God did a miracle in his life.
You know, I began right then to, you know, I have a lot of compassion for people who
are caught in the homosexual lifestyle because I think it's oftentimes has something to do
with what they've experienced in their lives.
If I had experienced what they had experienced, I might be the same as them.
We'll talk about that on the next little lesson because we're out of time in this one.
God bless you.
Hope to see you next time.