What Does the New Testament Teach About Homosexuality, Part Nine.
Hi, welcome to today's Little Lesson.
We've been talking about the subject of what Scripture says about homosexuality, first
Old Testament, New Testament now.
These are Little Lessons, I've already gone eight, I think this is number nine now, and
so we can't go on forever.
I have written extensively on the subject, and if you go to DavidServant.com, you can
read my extensive writings.
I've answered many arguments that have been presented by the homosexual community, whom
I love, and even those saying that we're Christians, and that we're reinterpreting the Bible, and
we've been wrong for many years and the Bible doesn't actually condemn homosexuality, I
address all of the things that they say.
I've got an article in there about, I think it's titled A Homosexual You Will Love, and
it's designed to really create compassion and love on behalf of the homosexual community
and world, by the Christian community, which sometimes is often very judgmental and condemning.
I talk about some of the reasons that people become homosexual.
So, much more thorough than what I'm doing in these Little Lessons, okay.
So if this interests you, go to DavidServant.com, go into the search bar and type in homosexuality,
and you'll come up with all those articles.
Recently, we've been in Romans.
We're looking at this really rich passage in Romans, Chapter 1, where Paul is not just
condemning homosexuality, he just mentions it, not in passing, but he certainly mentions
it as an indication of God's wrath on two levels.
First of all, allowing people to suffer the consequences that are built into their sinful
decisions, and sinful behaviors, and sinful lifestyles, that's an indication of God's
passive wrath, and part of the theme of this passage is that God's wrath is revealed from
Heaven against all ungodliness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness.
We read that early on, a couple of Little Lessons ago.
So now Paul is elaborating on that very concept, and he mentions specifically homosexuality,
female homosexuality and male homosexuality, and he uses a phrase here, speaking of that,
you know, God giving them over to degrading passions, and so in some sense, on some level,
the homosexual lifestyle is an indication of the wrath of God.
God said, "Okay, I'm going to let you go into depravity," and not that he doesn't love you,
because if you're still alive and you're not in hell, he loves you, right.
He's trying to get you to come to him.
He's still speaking to you.
He's speaking to you right now, through me, on one level, right, because I'm sharing his
word.
So he's trying to reach people who are homosexual, to bring them out of that lifestyle, and we're
going to read, before too long, a passage in Corinthians about a bunch of former homosexuals,
praise the Lord, and they exists today, hundreds of them, okay, that I'm certainly aware of.
So he talks about homosexuality as being an indication of God's wrath, and on another
level, cutting into the middle of verse 27 of Romans 1, committing indecent acts and
receiving in their own persons the due penalty of their error.
I don't see why people don't discuss this.
Of course, people who are already suppressing the truth, this is a truth they suppress.
Why doesn't anyone ever say that the AIDS epidemic is very much associated with certain
sexual behaviors, that, oh, by the way, the Bible say are wrong?
Nobody wants to say that because we're suppressing the truth.
There's a reason.
And, again, not just picking on the homosexual behavior, but we read in closing in our last
lesson, multitudes, not multitudes but many, a list, a list of indicators, sinful behaviors
that are indicative of the wrath of God, for which people suffer.
Now, let me read through this list again and see if you can think of anyone you know who's
been guilty of any of these sins, including you, and you suffered because of it.
See, because my basic premise is, God gives his commandments because he loves us and he
knows what's best for us, and so all the sexual perversions, God's prohibiting them not because
he's trying to rob us of joy, it's because he wants us to experience his highest and
his best joy in sex as he designed it, okay.
So listen to this, "Being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed."
Do you know anyone who's ever suffered because of greed?
"Evil, full of envy."
You know anyone who's ever suffered because of envy.
"Murder."
Do you know anyone who's ever suffered because they committed murder?
"Strife, deceit, malice, they are gossips."
Do you know anyone who's ever suffered because they gossiped?
See, God loves us.
He doesn't want us doing this stupid stuff.
"Slanderers, haters of God."
See, anyone who hates God suffers.
God doesn't want you to suffer.
"Insolent, arrogant, boastful."
Do you know anyone who's ever suffered because they're arrogant and boastful?
Well, pride goes before a fall, the Bible says.
The falling is the judgment.
That's the suffering.
"Inventors of evil, disobedient to parents."
Do you know anyone who suffered because they were disobedient to their parents?
I know all my kids would say amen.
I'm going to say amen to my disobedience to my parents.
I suffered because of my disobedience to my parents.
Like that commercial where the guys says, "I should have had a V8.
What was I thinking?
I should have had a V8."
Well, we should say that every time we do anything that's wrong.
"What was I thinking?
I'm so stupid.
God loves me.
That's why he said don't do that.
I did it anyways."
"Without understanding, untrustworthy."
Anyone ever suffer because they were, you couldn't trust them?
"Unloving."
You ever suffer because you didn't love?
"Unmerciful."
Did you ever suffer because you didn't show someone mercy?
"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 they give hearty approval to those who practice
them."
You see, all these stupid sinners, and that's what we are, stupid, with a capital S, stupid
sinners.
Sin is stupid.
All sin is stupid.
Should have done the right thing.
Okay, so I only have a half a minute or so left.
What does New Testament teach about homosexuality?
1 Corinthians 6:9, "Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom
of God.
Do not be deceived, neither fornicators, nor idolaters, not adulterers, nor effeminate,
nor homosexuals," there it is, "nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers,
nor swindlers will inherit the Kingdom of God."
End of story, period, period, period.
So we're not just picking on homosexuals, they're just one more in the category of stupid
sinners, along with all the rest of us, who at one time, or still are, involved in these
other things in Paul's list that say that if you practice these things, you won't enter
the kingdom of Heaven, you won't get the kingdom of Heaven, you're not going to inherit Heaven.
Then the next verse, which I'm closing on, listen to this, here's the greatest news of
all, "Such were some of you."
See, the Corinthian Christians, in the past, they were in all ... people in all these categories.
There were people in the Corinthian church who were former homosexuals, who were no longer
homosexuals, just like there were former thieves, former adulterers, former idolaters, but they
were changed, they were transformed by the goodness and the mercy of God, through Jesus
Christ, who died for our sins on the cross.
"Such were some of you, but you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in
the name of our Lord Jesus Christ and in the spirit of God," and that's where we'll pick
up in our final lesson.
It'll be number 10 in this series on homosexuality.
Hope to see you then.
God bless