DR VODDIE BAUCHAM 2020 | THE SIN OF SODOM ON DISPLAY IN AMERICA | Old but Gold Series

welcome to the teaching ministry of grace Family Baptist Church GFB C's mission is proclaiming the supremacy of Christ to all men with a view of biblical conversion and comprehensive discipleship thank you for visiting grace Family Baptist net father thank you again for this incredible privilege of being in your presence being among your people having this opportunity to worship you having this opportunity to be encountered by you and now Lord as we open your word we ask that you would do just that that you were that you would encounter us than your word we ask that you grant us wisdom that you would grant us faith that you would Greta ears to hear that you would grant us a willing spirit that we might obey grant this we ask in Jesus name for his sake amen so four weeks ago there was major controversy as the president-elect made a choice of Rick Warren to offer prayer during his inauguration ceremony and the major controversy really sort of originated rose up if you will on the west coast out of California because proposition 8 had passed in the state of California defining marriage as a relationship between a man and a woman and really overturning legislative action in the state of California that had allowed for homosexual marriage really that had mandated homosexual marriage so the Supreme Court there in California had made a decision for the entire state the state then spoke in response and revoked what the Supreme Court had said well Rick Warren has the dubious distinction of being a well-known pastor in the state of California who had the audacity to say publicly that he favored such a definition as a result when dr. Warren was asked to come and pray there at the inauguration individuals who had their feelings hurt over proposition 8 felt like it was an absolute affront to have a man to come and pray at the inauguration who actually believes that marriage should be defined as a relationship between a man and a woman and there was a mighty uproar however there is another turn of events that has been rather silent in the press and that turn of events that has been rather silent in the press is the fact that today everything will be kicked off by a bishop named Gene Robinson now Bishop Gene Robinson you asked who is that is he some famous preacher no not a famous preacher not even a very good one is he some famous pastor no not not a famous pastor actually quite a mediocre one it is he some famous theologian or some famous author nope now you've never heard of Gene Robinson because of his theology or because of his writing or anything like that is he some unbelievable prayer warrior who is known for getting prayers answered and therefore he has been called upon to no no absolutely not Bishop Gene Robinson is a self-proclaimed alcoholic who abandoned his wife for another lover why did you ask would he be brought in to kick off the ceremonies beginning today I'll tell you why because he is the first openly homosexual man to be named a bishop by the Episcopal Church it's the only reason that we know gene Robinson's name he is absolutely disqualified biblically from being a pastor absolutely disqualified biblically you read first Timothy chapter 3 you read Titus chapter 1 it won't take you along even apart from his homosexuality it won't take you long to realize that this is a disqualified man he's there for one reason and one reason only now here's what we need to ask ourselves if we're here in Genesis chapter 19 and we talked last week about the judgment of God this awesome and terrible judgment of God being poured out on Sodom and Gomorrah as a reminder for all people of all times about the holiness of God and about the righteousness of God how do we then come to a place where we so openly and it so readily accept this abomination well we probably don't have time to answer that question in full but I think there are some clues here in Genesis chapter 19 and so we'll look here at Genesis chapter 19 and it's impossible unfortunately to look at Genesis chapter 19 without addressing some very serious apologetic questions in our culture and in our day because as I will demonstrate for you it is not the consensus among most Christians that Genesis chapter 19 either number one is a direct direct issue of open and blatant sodomy or number two that it has anything to do with your life and my life today or anything whatsoever to do with what the Bible has to say about what marriage is and what appropriate sexual relations are there are individuals and your hair from you'll you'll hear from some of those individuals today who meant that argument either argument number one they try to subvert the text and they said no no no no no Genesis chapter 19 is really not about that sin the sin in Sodom and Gomorrah is not really about that sin or they say yes that was the issue there however we are now no longer under law were under grace and in the New Testament we don't have such a stern pronouncement or any pronouncement at all some would argue against what they would refer to as loving monogamous homosexual relationships and again let me just say the reason it's important for us to address this on the one is because the Bible addresses it clearly and openly but secondly because the individuals making these claims the individuals whose voices are heard the loudest are individuals who are identified as being inside the church not outside the judge so what i'm not saying here that a bunch of professors in other disciplines got together and said to the church church you're out to lunch no I'm saying individuals who stand up here and do what I'm doing I'm saying individuals who teach in colleges and seminaries and train pastors I'm saying individuals whose names and work are known in theological circles are the ones making this time of proclamation and its impact is so widespread that you and I both know I mean we could we could spend the rest of the day allowing individuals to come up here and testify one by one of people that they know personally in their own lives who on the one hand claim allegiance to the Lord Jesus Christ and other hand believe that this issue of homosexuality is overblown that it shouldn't be a major issue if it issue at all within the context of the church I believe this first part of Genesis chapter 19 answers all of those issues rather clearly let me just read this for you okay any of you are wondering if you know I mean how how I spread is this how overt is this let me just read this for you we'll start with this one we'll just warm up with a little Brian McLaren Brian McLaren well-known name Brian McLaren is a leader of the emergent / emerging church / conversation that I put all those slashes in there because that's what they do some of them say emerging church some say emergent church some say emerging conversation or emergent conversation just depends on who you're talking to at the time but they're all swimming in the same stream and Brian McLaren is their leader well-known best-selling author often called upon by the press this is an article that appeared in Christianity today Christianity today is where this appeared the title is Brian McLaren on homosexual on the homosexual question finding a pastoral response finding a pastoral response to the homosexual question talks about someone who came up to him and asked him a question and how how he have reserved he is about even answering when people ask him about that particular issue and listen to what he says I hesitate in answering the homosexual question not because I am a cowardly flip-flopper who wants to tickle ears but because I'm a pastor and pastor's have learned from Jesus that there is more to answer in to answering the question than being right or even honest he must also be pastoral that means understanding the question behind the question the need or fear or hope or assumption that motivates the question but don't know answer the question answer the question behind the question and answer the fear that motivates the question but by all means don't answer the question frankly many of us don't know what we should think about homosexuality we've heard all sides but no position has yet won our confidence so that we can say it seems good to the Holy Spirit and to us that alienates us from both the Liberals and the Conservatives who seem to know exactly what we should think even if we are convinced that all homosexual behavior is always sinful we still want to treat gay and lesbian people with more dignity gentleness and respect than our colleagues do if we think that there may actually be a legitimate context for some homosexual relationships we know that the biblical arguments are nuanced and multi-layered and the pastoral ramifications are staggeringly complex we are sure if or where lines are to be drawn nor do we know how to enforce with fairness whatever lines are drawn perhaps we need a five year moratorium on making pronouncements in the meantime we'll practice prayerful Christian dialogue listen respectfully disagree agreeably when decisions need to be made again he's talking about about homosexuality here they'll be admittedly provisional we'll keep our ears attuned to scholars and biblical studies theology ethics psychology genetics sociology and related fields then in five years if we have clarity we'll speak if not we'll set another five years for ongoing reflection after all many important issues in church history took centuries to figure out maybe this moratorium would help us resist the wind of doctrine blowing furiously from the left and the right so that we can patiently wait for the wind of the Spirit to set our course that's where we are that's where we are and here's what I would venture to say to you the overwhelming majority of people who claim to be Christian you go to our college campuses and you talk to the people who claim to be Christian on our college campuses between 18 and 22 years old and the reason that blyat Brian McClaren has such a loud voice in our culture that's because on this issue like many others he is resoundingly more familiar to them and resoundingly more closely associated and aligned with where they are than anyone else speaking for the issue from a biblical perspective in fact I may have shared this with you before but in every state here's what we know in every state that has brought up the issue of homosexual marriage and every state where it's been on the ballot in every state it's passed overwhelmingly defining marriage as a relationship between a man and a woman but in every state where it has passed this one included there's always been one demographic where it either passes by so slim a margin or doesn't pass at all that one demographic is 18 to 24 year olds that's the demographic 18 to 24 year olds future that's where they are so lest you think that McLaren can be just sort of dismissed as this voice out there in the wilderness that no one would listen to I remind you again that was your Christianity today you ever been in Christianity today I have never been in Christianity that that was in Christianity today okay let's look at Genesis chapter 19 that is so pure and multifaceted and nuanced the two angels came to Sodom in the evening and lot was sitting in the gate of Sodom when lots saw them he rose to meet them and bowed himself with his face to the earth and said my lord please turn aside to your servants house and spend the night and wash your feet then you may rise up early and go on your way they said no we will spend the night in the town square but he pressed them strongly so they turned aside to him and entered his house and he made them a feast and baked unleavened bread and they ate notice the similarities and the distinctions between his encounter and the encounter with Abraham notice the distinction between the way Abraham immediately recognizes who he's dealing with and lot does not verse four but before they lay down the men of the city the men of Sodom both young and old all the people to the last man surrounded the house and they called it a lot where are the men who came to you tonight brings them out to us that we may know them by the way heed underline that term that we may know them because here's one of the lines of argumentation one of the lines of argumentation is about these individuals wanting to share hospitality with these individuals so it's not about sodomy but we've seen that word in Genesis a number of times for example Adam knew his wife and as a result of him knowing his wife they had a child this word does not mean have a conversation case you're wondering how we know that look at the next part of the text verse six lot went out to the man at the entrance shut the door after him and said I beg you my brother's do not act so wickedly they're not talking about hospitality lot knows they're not talking about hospitality if they just wanted to show hospitality why would lot accuse them of acting wickedly look at the next part of the text perhaps the most disturbing aspect of this entire passage behold lot says I have two daughters who have not known any man let me bring them out to you and do to them as you please only do nothing to these men for they have come under the shelter of my roof we talked before about the rules of hospitality an individual comes to your home an individual comes by the way you demonstrate hospitality to them if they were hostile perhaps you can stop the hostilities but you also demonstrate hospitality to them and they're to be protected in your home because if something happens to them while they're in your home that is actually considered an aggressive act on your part and so when vengeance is carrying out its carried out against you and your home so on the one hand we understand that lot is actually acting in accordance with the law of hospitality in the ancient Near East but the law of hospitality in the ancient Near East says nothing about giving away your virgin daughters verse nine but they said stand and they said this fellow came to sojourn and he has become the judge now we will deal worse with you than with them again supposedly this is about hospitality now they say we will deal worse with you than with them in other words what they wanted with these men was something that was terrible for these men and the way we know that is because now they said a lot it's going to be worse for you then it's going to be for them then they pressed hard against the man lot and drew near to break the door down but the men reach out their hands and brought lot into the house with them and shut the door and they struck with blindness the men who were at the entrance of the house both small and great so that they wore themselves out groping for the door this is absolutely one of the most disturbing passages in the Bible there are so many things about this passage that just make us uncomfortable there are so many things about this passage that just make us wonder even about the wisdom of delving into these kinds of issues but I want to remind you that on last week we talked about the fact that God was bringing judgment on Sodom and Gomorrah in a very public way and he was reminding he's telling Abraham what he's about to do specifically the text says so that Abraham could warn his children after him God wants us to be warned about this issue so he's specific about what he's dealing with not graphic not graphic but specific and let me just put a footnote here let me put a footnote here especially a lot of homeschool families here and one of the things that we hear oftentimes you homeschool families you know exactly what I'm talking about you know exactly where I'm coming from one of these things we hear is this well you know I just don't want to shelter my children like that because if they're going to be out there in the world that someday I want them to be aware folks God does not treat his children like that he does not give us graphic sinful unnecessary details and yet even without the graphics sinful unnecessary details we know this is a bad thing you don't have to see it you don't have to experience it you don't even have to walk closely with it to know that it's vile and that it's to be avoided God doesn't get graphic with us we don't have to be graphic with our children our children don't have to experience sin to know that sin is wrong our children will have to walk with people who live in the gutter to know that they shouldn't live in the gutter our children don't have to be exposed to the most graphic and vile things of the world in order for them to recognize and be aware of the fact that there are graphic and bio things out there that they should flee from and in fact shouldn't even open their minds to that's the way we should act toward sin that's the way we should treat sin so don't you ever apologize for sheltering your children I believe we're commanded to shelter our children amen don't you ever apologize regardless of what kind of choices you've made with your children all of us in this room regardless of those kinds of sources I use that one because it's the most obvious and probably the most common in the room but all of us have some sources that we've made with our children that sometimes people come down on because they talk about this issue of sheltering here's the other thing you know your children and what some of them need as opposed to what others of the need again never apologize to that but here's the other thing the idea is we protect our children but we still give them the information and you can give the information without the graphic nastiness and I just put another footnote here I always got there been a number of times where I've wished that I could say this to a person who was in the process of sharing their testimony amen sometimes my life was awful is enough amen sometimes we don't need to know exactly how awful it was we don't need to know exactly what your experiences were we don't need to know exactly how gross and how vile things were sometimes you can speak volumes by just saying there were things in my life that I wish I'd never seen and never done everybody in the room can go amen hallelujah praise the Lord move on from there amen God opens the door here he lets us know exactly what he's dealing with exactly what he's talking about but he does not bring us to a place where we end up being tempted with the sin but being brought into the graphic nature of it several things I want to say about the sin of Sodom number one the sin of Sodom was sodomy the sin of Sodom was sodomy and I say that because there are a host of individuals who make the argument that the set of Sodom really wasn't about sodomy they go for example to Ezekiel chapter 16 and in Ezekiel chapter 16 Ezekiel is he speaking metaphorically about Sodom Psalms not there anymore just like in Isaiah chapter one you know hear my words you rulers of Sodom give ear o you people of Gomorrah well as Isaiah written to Sodom and Gomorrah Noailles is not written to sodom and gomorrah suddenly the more toasts are ready when Isaiah is writing Sodom and Gomorrah has become a metaphor for wickedness and for sinfulness and they're in Ezekiel chapter 16 we see the term being used but if Oracle II and he speaks about a lack of hospitality there it is he goes after the chapter 16 and a lot of people use that as a proof text to come back and say see what we were talking about there in silent amaura is explained in Ezekiel chapter 16 and it was really about hospitality well you know that's not the only place that you talked about how about Jude verse 7 listen what Jude says Jude verse 7 sodom and gomorrah and the surrounding cities which likewise indulge in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desire serve an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire Amen hallelujah praise the Lord argument over the Bible clearly teaches that the sin of sodom and gomorrah was the city of sodomy that's what we're dealing with here that's why there was Hellfire and brimstone that's what's going on here it was not some other sort of nuanced thing happening it was clear and the author goes out of his way to make himself clear as clear as he can possibly be without getting graphic we see the clarity there in a number of ways number one because the determine Allah technology that he uses these men come out and say we want to know them folks if you've been paying attention from Genesis 1 all the way up to where we are in Genesis chapter 19 you are well aware of what that phrase means we want to know them and in case that was not enough lot comes back out and says don't do this wickedness he refers to it as wickedness so now we got clue number two here's clue number three it's horrible that lot does this and we'll get to that in a moment but clue number three is in case you were wondering is that we're talking about sodomy here in case you were wondering that's why these individuals are beating down the door first the terminology used second referring to it as wickedness and start Li lot basically saying I'd rather you guys do that to my daughter's than to these two men and in case those three things in the text are not enough then just let scripture interpret scripture we come to the new test of it and Jude makes it as clear as day it was sexual immorality and it was pursuing unnatural desires the sin of Sodom was sodomy it was homosexuality that's what we're dealing with here the Bible is unambiguous as to whether or not that sin absolutely unambiguous here's the second thing the sin of Sodom was especially and uniquely heinous the sin of Sodom was especially and uniquely heinous it's not like other sins and I say that and we get sort of uncomfortable because well I thought all sins were the same really listen to Jesus in John chapter 19 verse 11 jesus answered him you would have no authority over me at all unless it had been given you from above therefore he who delivered me over to you has the greater sin see interesting comment American Church culture believes all sins are equal Jesus disagrees he believes there's some sense that are greater than others the bible does not teach that all sins are equal some sins are greater than others some things are more wicked than other things we're told not to worry or be anxious about anything trust me the sin of worry is not equal to the sin of murder how do we send it with a straight face now if if what we're trying to communicate is that for individuals who are without God for individuals who are without Jesus Christ for individuals who are unregenerate for individuals who are not saved then will die and they will be separated from God forever regardless of what sins in particular they have committed then amen hallelujah praise the Lord that is absolutely true but there are some sins but a more heinous than others and this is one in particular the sin of homosexuality is particularly heinous and by the way we already know that by Genesis chapter 19 while we already know that by Genesis chapter 19 it is a couple of things just that all we've got is Genesis number 1 we know that this sin is a perversion of the created order it's a perversion of the created order you just go back to Genesis chapter 1 and Genesis chapter 2 and it does not take a rocket scientist to figure out that this was not what God had in mind amen it's a perversion of the created order secondly it's a perversion of the procreation command first command in the Bible Genesis 1:28 be fruitful and multiply this sin is a perversion because it makes it impossible for us to do what God's commanded us to do God is giving us marriage God has given us the relations between men and women in marriage for specific purposes and chief among them is procreation now again I have to put a footnote here with three very careful because here's what happens oftentimes when people make this argument we got that we're making the argument in the culture and we say well no that's just not right and they just stop right because well you know that they can't have children and all of a sudden the homosexual advocate he's licking his chops he loves that line of argumentation because he turns right back around and he says oh wait a minute so you're saying that really sex is for procreation so there are two things that you just told me you believe number one you believe it's inappropriate for men and wives to ever engage in that activity unless it's for the purpose of procreation and number two you just told me that two people in their sixties if they're widowed they shouldn't be allowed to get married why puts their tools appropriate and then we just sit down we go of the be very careful when we make that argument that's did I just say we shouldn't make that line of argumentation that's not what I said at all it's not what I said at all for a couple of reasons number one because it is a categorical by categorical here's what I mean that categorically God has designed men and women to be able to procreate as a category does that mean that it always occurs nope does it mean that it always occurs God hasn't designed it that way for it to always occur one of the reasons God hasn't designed it for it to always occur that way first Corinthians chapter seven gives us a glue Paul makes it very clear that we're not to deprive one another sexually because the enemy uses that against us because there are certain desires that we have that God intended to be satisfied in the context of a marital relationship now the category is men woman because that leads us to procreation the activity is appropriate because God tells us clearly in 1st Corinthians chapter 7 that he's particular activity in order for us to have a place where we can live in righteousness and holiness and yet still satisfy those desires that God gave us by the way he gave us the desires because it's those desires that lead to procreation so I'll be afraid to make that argument thirdly not only is it a perversion of the created order and a perversion of the perfect procreation command but it's also perversion of the promise remember what we've been talking about in the life of Abraham remember we've been talking about since Genesis chapter 3 and verse 15 the proto you ain't yelling on that the first proclamation of the gospel there in Genesis chapter 3 and verse 15 is about the seed of the woman crushing the head of the serpent to see the desert Minh so from then on what's the serpent trying to do he's trying to kill the seed from then on that's what the serpent wants to do that is the work of the devil that is the work of the serpent to kill the seed what a better way to kill the seed than to send women with women and men with men you do that no chance the promised Messiah is ever going to come this is another to love the adversary in order to avoid the fulfillment of the promise of the coming of the Messiah so it's the perversion of the created order it's a perversion of the procreation command it's also a perversion of the promise so even before we have the law folks and this is the whole thing because people will often make this argument oh well you know actually you find that in Leviticus and that's the law and we're no longer under the law and so you can't go to the law well first of all yes you absolutely can go to the law God's moral laws transcend it but secondly this is before the Levitical law and they're getting wiped off the face of the earth for it before the Levitical law the sin of Sodom of sodomy the sin of Sodom was especially and uniquely heinous here's the other thing the sin of Sodom was ubiquitous look at what he says here in verse 4 I want you to grasp this I hadn't noticed this before I mean it really hadn't just dawned on me before like it did in my preparation but look with me at verse 4 but before they lay down notice how quickly this happens these are the city gates you almost get this picture you almost get the picture that seasons guys coming he goes oh this is no way that this is new you follow me on that there's no way this is new and these guys are coming in lots at the city gate and lot says um no need to come to my house no we're gonna go to the city centre uh-uh y'all need to come to my house now please and the text says in verse 4 before they lay down someone spotted them on the way a Lots house and by the time they had eaten and before they lay down listen look at the next part of this the men of the city and remember I first talked about this before we've talked about this this this rhetorical device of saying something three times in three different ways in order to make your point if email terminology that's bold italics and underline all in the same day phrase that's what he does here he says the men of Sodom get stopped there but he did both young and old good stop there but he did all the people to the last man he note that I'm gonna bring the mine I want to bring the mine last week God what if there's 50 okay where's this 45 sure what there's 40 okay what is 30 what's that you can sure there's not the text says every man in the city I just just think about that for a moment I mean we all know that there are parts of town that there are parts of the country well no I you know I'll never forget you know I was in San Francisco I was preaching at Golden Gate Seminary and one of the professor's there at Golden Gate took me to this neat will place in there in Marin County and San Francisco and we go to this old place and it's a place where they have these ole those old records you know it's like old jazz records and stuff from the 20s and 30s and 40s and these old magazines you know I like that sort of thing and so I got some copies of Life magazine and stuff like that from the 20s and 30s and 40s and you try to find you know how issues from when certain things happen when world war two first kicked off and all the sort of stuff I am engrossed I'm absolutely amazed I'm going through this stuff and I can't believe it I'm pulling things out Oh Jasmine would love this person would love this trailer oh I can't believe you see what year this is oh it's unbelievable sucking up my head down I'm doing this and all of a sudden there's some fishnet pantyhose and some boots right there and they're big boots and then I'm going around and I didn't think anything of it Nelson I buff somebody and it's the fishnet pantyhose in the big boots and I said excuse me and I hear no problem are you doing sir and I look up and all around me as far as the eye could see inside this floor almost aerials and transvestites go outside and right next door there was a salon that was a homosexual and transvestite salon right next door and I'm just throwing it this is not in the Bible Belt anymore just common nobody thought anything of it that pales in comparison for what happened in Sun when I just talking about a lot of people when I just talking about it becoming culturally acceptable we're talking about this having infected everyone in the culture except lot that's what we're talking about here it was everywhere was everywhere and that just tells me things can and probably will get worse amen it's never been this bad never before never since was it this bad things can't get worse fourthly the sin of Sodom even affected righteous law don't miss that the sin of Sodom even effective righteous lot water I'll call them righteous lot if you remember last week Peter calls him righteous lot do you think this split-second decision that he made about his daughters just came from nowhere where to come from God absolutely not didn't come from God where did it come from it came from where lot lives it came from what lot has been bathing in it came from what lot it absolutely surrounded himself with and become inundated with and become comfortable with that's where it came from listen to these strong words from one commentator as the constancy of lot and risking his own life for the defense of his guests deserves no common praise and not only it does and he did he risked his life lot walks outside closes the door behind him and he says no don't do this with you thing that's courageous and we ought to just say man hallelujah praise the Lord that's but just like we should so now Moses relates that a defect was mixed with the great virtue which sprinkled it with some imperfection for being destitute of advice he devised as is usual and intricate affairs and unlawful remedy what an understatement he does not hesitate to prostitute his own daughters that he may restrain the indomitable fury of the people but he should rather have endured a thousand deaths that have resorted to such a measure Amen hallelujah praise the Lord he should rather have endured a thousand deaths was not appropriate for him to do that but where does something like that come from where else could it have come from what's amazing here if that lot lives in this stuff and he's got two virgin daughters that's what's amazing here but evidently according to the culture here in Sodom they were pretty safe and yet he devises this scheme and remember he's referred to as righteous lot I want you to understand something here's what I want you to hear on this it is it is real easy for us to to look at this type of behavior and look at this type of sin and look at it in this sort of pompous self-righteous way but I want you to know that the encroachment of our culture in this area is affecting us it is affected some more than it has affected others but it has affected us trust me when I tell you this had had I grown up fifty or a hundred years ago and been in that store in San Francisco what when I looked up I probably would have just passed out my brain would have just short-circuited and I'll just can you imagine buddy a hundred years ago standing up in that store it just probably just died on the spot just kill them on the spot me not so much I was surprised by the number I was surprised by the magnitude but quite frankly not really surprised by the behavior much anymore it's everywhere I am affected by it you are affected by it but but there are different levels of being affected by it listen to a couple of these things this is from Lisa Miller Lisa Miller is the religion writer for Newsweek and in the December 6th edition this was our Christmas present from Newsweek she wrote an article marriage our mutual joy and listen to what she says here about marriage in this news report this is Newsweek okay this is this is the big guns this is Newsweek you got time if you got Newsweek this is Miz leaked the Bible does condemn gay male sex in a handful of passages twice Leviticus refers to sex between men as an abomination King James Version she has here in parentheses which in and of itself is a misrepresentation King James not the only place where you find that but she puts that in parentheses some people think you know yeah the you know the arcade version of the Bible but these are throwaway lines in the particular text given over codes for living in the ancient Jewish world attention throwaway lines she says a text that devotes verse after verse to treatments for leprosy cleanness rituals for administrating women and the correct way to sacrifice a goat or a lamb or a total Turtledove most of us no longer he's Leviticus on haircuts or blood sacrifices our modern understanding of the world has passed its prescriptions our modern understanding of the world has surpassed its prescriptions now listen I don't he Leviticus on the sacrificial system but not because I'm too sophisticated but because Christ has fulfilled that part of the law she says it's because we're more sophisticated than people in Bible times there's never been a man on the face of the earth that has probably been a sophisticated that never been immensely sophisticated as Adam was never who had been more sophisticated than Adam nobody just by virtue of how long he lived and by virtue of him having been created in the perfect environment as the perfect man you put the perfect man in the perfect environment and let him live some nine hundred years nobody will ever be as sophisticated as him never nor those in his first 10 generations but she says this because were more sophisticated listen to this also why would we regard its condemnation of homosexuality with more seriousness than we regard it's advice which is far lengthier on the best price to pay for a slave now I want you to notice that she goes to the slavery issue and I want you to see something here again bear with me we won't do this much longer but you have to know this that that was by design this book I may have referred to this book to you before it's called after the ball how America will conquer its fear and hatred of gays in the 90s this book was published in 1989 it's important to keep that in mind for a couple of reasons number one because it's now 20 years later and this book is just absolutely pressing it what we've seen over the last twenty years is the program outlined in this book 20 years ago by these two authors here's the second thing the reason that it's important that it happened in 1989 in 1988 there was a meeting of the 140 leading homosexual advocates in order to devise a strategy for how they would deal with homosexuality in the United States I want you to hear a couple of these things listen to what they say here this is in the first chapter age though a loose cannon is a cannon indeed as cynical as it may seem age gives us a chance however brief to establish ourselves as a victimized minority legitimately deserving of America's special protection and care listen to this the campaign we outline in this book though complex depends centrally upon a program of unabashed propaganda firmly grounded in long-established principles of psychology and advertising one of the tools they use is a tool called jamming Jenning is the way that they make people feel guilty about their negative opinions of homosexuals listen that is all normal people feel shame when they perceive that they are not thinking feeling or acting like one of the pack and these days all but the stupidest and most unregenerate of bigots perceived that prejudice against all other minority groups for example blacks Jews and Catholics and women has long since sheets to be approved let alone fashionable and that to express such prejudice if not to hold them makes one decidedly not one of the pack so what's their idea always talk about homosexuality in the context of blacks Jews or other oppressed minorities that's part of the jamming procedure that was outlined in this book in 1980 line 89 and what does Lisa Miller do at the end of her paragraph about homosexuality in her article in Newsweek at the end of 2008 she identifies the issue of homosexuality with the issue of slavery and in other words if you believe what the Bible says in Leviticus about homosexuality that you are as bigoted as individuals who used to use the Bible to justify slavery that did not come out of left field that came out of a field manual that was designed to desensitize our culture on the issue of homosexuality and this book is line by line by line the program of propaganda that we have seen over the last twenty years and it has been so effective that now a man who is a professed alcoholic who abandoned his wife who has no theological merit who has no pastoral merit is being propped up at the inauguration today simply because he's a groundbreaker who was the first homosexual to be named bishop by the Episcopal Church don't you think for a moment that this is not a pitch battle plus dish Lisa Miller isn't it how about this Terry Davis pastor of First Presbyterian Church in Hartford Connecticut has been presiding over holy unions since 1992 listen what he says I'm against promiscuity love ought to be expressed in committed relationships not through casual sex and I think the church should recognize the validity of committed same-sex relationships that's a Presbyterian pastor how about this from Walter Brueggemann Walter Brueggemann is a well-known theologian while suburban mom is emeritus professor at Columbia Theological Seminary seminary kidney and equals the Apostle Paul when he looks for difficult support for gay marriage here the Pergamon says there is neither Greek nor Jew slave nor free male nor female for you are all one in Jesus Christ the religious argument for gay marriage he adds is not generally made with reference to particular texts that this is a religious argument for gay marriage bergamot is talking about I had to read Brueggemann as a theology student okay the arguments for gay marriage is not made with particularly text but with the general conviction that the Bible is bent toward inclusiveness listen to Miller again and then we'll read a couple passages description here's the other line of argumentation that people use we're just talking about a couple of obscure verses in leviticus by the way that line is almost a direct quote of our president-elect who on March 5th said this I don't think same-sex unions should be called marriage but I think that it is a legal right that they should have that is recognized by the state if people find that controversial then I would just refer them to the Sermon on the Mount which i think is in my mind for my faith more central than an obscure passage in Romans president-elect Barack Obama listen to how Miller treats this issue and then we'll look at these texts and we'll close Paul was tough on homosexuality though recently progressive scholars don't you just love that progressive scholars have argued that his condemnation of men who were inflamed with lust for one another which he calls a perversion is really a critique of the of the worst kind of wickedness self-delusion violence from a security and debauchery in his book the arrogance of Nations the scholar Neil Eliot behzod referred this scholar the scholar never I was talking about John Piper they wouldn't say the scholar they say the Reverend the pastor why because those are catchphrases for people out there get phrase if they call you the Reverend or the pastor this is just some fundamentalist who just kind of bible thumper he's not really intelligent he's just a guy who has rope you know he's got faith he believes real hard but here they use the term scholar at the catch phrasing you need always be leery when people use that phrase scholar Neal Elliott argues that Paul is referring in this famous passage to the depravity of the Roman emperors that Craven habits of Nero and Polly glia a references audience would have grasped instantly Paul is not talking about what we call homosexuality at all Eliot says he's talking about a certain group of people who have done everything in this list we're not dealing with anything like gay love or gay marriage we're talking about really really violent people who meet their end and are judged by God in any case one might add Paul argued more strenuously against divorce and at least half of the Christians in America disagree and disregard that teaching by the way that's just a blatant lie but Lisa Miller in Newsweek that half of Christians disagree with Paul on the issue of whether or not divorce is wrong that's a blatant lie what does the Bible teach let's look at a few passengers here and then make couple comments we'll be done look at me in Leviticus chapter 18 and it's important to remember these I remember Genesis 19 Leviticus 18 when you're talking about the Old Testament look at the blue Leviticus 18:22 you shall not lie with a male as with a woman it is an abomination turn over Leviticus chapter 20 and verse 13 just one page if you will if a man lies with a male as with a woman both of them have committed an abomination they shall surely be put to death their blood is upon them they shall surely be put to death their blood is upon them now I want to show you something that people often overlook in Romans chapter one New Testament we start with Romans chapter one let's go there because remember the argument is there's some obscure verses in the Old Testament but you really don't have anything in the New Testament that openly and clearly condemns homosexuality look at Romans chapter one Olivia 2627 first let's go back to verse 24 therefore God gave them up in the lust of their hearts to impurity to the dishonouring of their bodies among themselves because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshipped and served the creature rather than the Creator who is blessed forever amen not a reference to homosexuality there it is a reference however to sexual impurity and lust now I only point that out because the argument is that this next paragraph is about wicked Roman emperors and it's not about common practice look at verse 26 for this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions for their women exchanged the natural relations for those that are contrary to nature and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves that due penalty for their error by the way does the New Testament lighten up on God Serena series regarding homosexuality look at verse 32 though they know God's decree that those who practice such things deserve to die where does he get that from Leviticus chapter 20 he doesn't think it's irrelevant and not only do them but give approval to those who practice them beyond Romans 1 I want you to look at 1st Corinthians chapter 6 first Corinthians chapter 6 let's look at 9 through 11 here 1st Corinthians chapter 6 9 through 11 or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God do not be deceived neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor men who practice homosexuality nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor revilers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God and such were some of you so much for it can't change in the first century there were people who used to be gay and then they weren't anymore because God got ahold of them amen such were some of you but you were washed you were sanctified you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the spirit of our God he didn't say you used to practice these things but it was just the far-out versions and now you're nice and loving with it no he says you're not that any more you were but now you're not turn with me also 1st Timothy 1:9 through 11 first Timothy 1:9 through 11 go back to verse eight actually then we know that the law is good if one uses it lawfully understanding this that the law is not laid down for the just but for the lawless and disobedient for the ungodly and sinners for the unholy and profane for those who strike their fathers and mothers for murderers the sexually immoral men who practice homosexuality in slavers by the way does the New Testament condone slavery no it does it it puts it in the same category as homosexuality but you've never you never know that reading people like Lisa Miller you would never know that it was in fact New Testament Christians whose worldview gave the impetus for the end of slavery evildoers Liars perjurers and whatever else is contrary to sound doctrine in accordance with the gospel and the glory of the blessed God with which I have been entrusted are these obscure references are these just references to the worst kinds of homosexuality here's another thing that I want you to note virtually everywhere in the New Testament will you read these words about homosexuality sexual immorality is right there with it it's grievous it's heinous and it is absolutely accepted in our culture I want you to read one more passage description this one doesn't refer directly to homosexuality but here's what I want you to see look at in Rome look at I'm sorry Matthew chapter 19 beginning at verse 3 Matthew chapter 19 beginning in verse 3 the Pharisees came up to him Jesus and tested him by asking is it lawful to divorce one's wife for any cause he answered have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female Jesus teaching on marriage is based in the creation order he who made them from the beginning made them male and female and said therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife and the two shall become one flesh so they are no longer two but one flesh what therefore God has joined together let man not separate they said to him why then did Moses command one to give a certificate of divorce and to send her away he said to them because of your hardness of heart Moses allowed you to divorce your wives but from the beginning it was not so and I say to you whoever divorces his wife except for sexual immorality notice that it doesn't say divorce that's a belter then except for sexual immorality and marries another commits adultery except for sexual immorality the word there is pornea the Greek word is pornea it's not the word for adultery although that's common in the discussion among Christians that adultery is a cause for divorce and remarriage the word is not adultery the word is sexual immorality and that word for sexual immorality goes back to the morality codes of Leviticus now because of this and we don't have near enough time to deal with all of this this morning but just bear with me for a moment here and you'll understand the line of argumentation there are several schools of thought on divorce marriage I want to talk to you about one of them that's the school of thought that says the Bible does not allow for divorce and remarriage under any circumstances under any circumstances that's the position of this church by the way but the bible does not allow for divorce and remarriage under any circumstances the argument is based from the fact that this word used here is porneia he uses this word for sexual immorality not the word for adultery a couple of things are very interesting here number one you don't see this clause anywhere else in the New Testament or divorce is spoken up you'll see this clause when Jesus talks about this for example in Luke or when he talks about it in mark you don't see this clause except for pornea you only see it in matthew now why would you see this pornea clause only in matthew well because the pornea clause most commonly refers to betrothal and not marriage in other words if you find out during your betrothal period that number one your intended is not a virgin that you may break the patrol boat which by the way was a legally binding contract you could break the betrothal if you found out that this individual was not a virgin number two if you found out that you were too closely related according to the Levitical code well to marry would be sexually immoral so you may break the betrothal during that time several other things now why would Matthew bring the pornea code into play and not the other Gospels because Matthew is the only one who has a discussion about Joseph putting Mary away during the betrothal that's why he's the only one who talks about the pornea code because he's the only one who talks about that you don't find that in the rest of the rest of the of the narratives about the birth of Christ only in Matthew and therefore only in Matthew you have this reference to the pornea code and what does that have to do with what we're talking here's what it has to do with what we're talking about Jesus recognized sexual immorality the same way Moses did what Moses says was sexually immoral Jesus says the sexually immoral and he actually points to these morality codes that we find in Leviticus when he makes his statement in Matthew chapter 5 and reiterates in Matthew chapter 19 and ironically Matthew chapter 5 that's the Sermon on the Mount which President Elect says is the place where you go to justify homosexual marriage folks you can't get there from here it can't justify homosexuality anyhow anyway from the Old Testament or from the New Testament and here's the problem specifically with the justification of homosexuality think about this for a moment God uses Sodom and Gomorrah as an example and the names of those twin cities are used throughout the rest of the Bible as a warning a warning God demonstrates his righteousness and he demonstrates his wrath and he gives a warning for the rest of the time of history and he warns them you remember these people who are sexually immoral you remember what I did because of their immorality he reminds us of who he is and that he's the God who's going to judge again and ultimately and finally here's what's so pernicious about the promotion of homosexuality we take what is the ultimate warning in the Old Testament and basically saying God was wrong about that that really wasn't what it was about that really wasn't what upset God and even if it did he was the cruel god of the Old Testament and not the god of the New Testament what's the danger in that here's the danger in that Sodom and Gomorrah is supposed to make your ears perk up when you read revelation amen it's supposed to remind you not that we've been told about the judgment that is to come but that we've been warned about a judgment that is to come by the God who turn those cities into ashes that's why it's so pernicious so do I believe that we are Bosch homosexual lovey absolutely not and I hope you don't see that as what has happened here today not at all that is not my position at all but my position is we must hold fast to the truth description and my position is also this in our day and in our culture this is the front line of the ballot as far as the encroachment of the evil one on the truth of the Scriptures and we should not be surprised because what did you say beloved while I was making every effort to write to you about our common salvation I found it necessary to or to write to you urging you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all handed down to the Saints why was this important Jude says because certain persons have crept in unnoticed ungodly persons who turn the grace of God into lawlessness and deny our only master and Lord Jesus Christ in that interesting they creep into the church identify themselves as Christian they turn grace into lawlessness justifying sin and they deny our only master and Lord Jesus Christ well here's the rest of the story about what's happening today with Bishop Robinson not only is he a bishop who turns grace into lawlessness by being an alcoholic homosexual who abandoned his wife and then is called bishop he turns the grace of our God into lawlessness he also denies our only Lord and Master Jesus Christ because the bishop has said I looked at inaugural prayers over the last 30 or 40 years and was amazed at how aggressively Christian they were that's the word he used aggressively Christian not overtly Christian aggressively Christian aggressive in the negative term overtly Christian you're just making an observation he says they were aggressively Christian so when I pray I am NOT going to pray in Jesus name not even going to pray to the God of the Bible I am going to pray to the God of our understanding which is terminology he learned in Alcoholics Anonymous those who have crept in unnoticed ungodly persons were marked out for this condemnation who turn the grace of our God into lawlessness and deny our only master and Lord Jesus Christ what's the big deal here's the big deal the homosexual looks at Gene Robinson and says I'm okay when instead what he needs the ear is a Genesis 19 brought serious about this repent believe come to faith in the Lord Jesus Christ who according to 1st Corinthians chapter 6 verses 9 through 11 can save you from this and can deliver you from this and can give you wholeness and healing and use you for his glory and instead of hearing that what they're hearing from individuals like Lisa Miller and individuals like Walter Brueggemann and individuals like Brian McLaren is you are okay in your sin I ask you this question who loves them more who loves them more the one who will beg them with tear-stained eyes to repent and come out of their wicked lifestyle or the one who sits to them you know what the Bible really doesn't mean what it says what it talks about that you're actually okay I don't think so and I'm grieved my heart breaks of what's happening this thing in our land as I says woe to you who call wicked good woe to you I'm afraid for us not afraid for me I know where I'm going I'm afraid for us I love my brothers and sisters my fellow Americans absolutely love them and because of that I'll continue to preach this truth regardless of what it costs because what we desperately need is not to become more tolerant of what God calls wicked but what we desperately need is a word from the Lord and individuals who will without compromise and without venom proclaim that truth and the gospel which is the only answer I just encourage you I admonish you I beg you to be that people I plead with you I know this has been long and maybe in some areas laborious but I absolutely believe that this is crucial I absolutely believe that every person under the sound of my voice says people close to you who are struggling with homosexuality people in your family was from Houma homosexuality or worse who are not struggling amen they've just given in it's no longer a struggle every one of you under the sound of my voice has people in your family or people who are close to you who look at you and call you evil because you believe what we just talked about here today and every one of us has a tendency to recoil I want you to know that's part of the strategy is one of the hardest books I've ever read not because the words were big and not because it was hard to get through it's actually a pretty easy read but because I'm just every every five minutes I was going I I'm through norm of age it's real it's here heinous it's costly you've been listening to the podcast for grace family Baptist dotnet

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