God's View of Homosexuality, Part 2 B

Sexual perversion is forgivable. Such were some of you but you are washed, you are sanctified, you are justified in all of this through the Lord Jesus Christ is sin, but there is product of your jeans or your environment. Nowhere is that debate more heated than in the matter of homosexuality. How do people of the same-sex end up desiring each other are they making a choice or are they born homosexual and simply following their true nature. Next on Grace to you.

John MacArthur continues his series titled homosexuality and the Bible. The lesson you're about to hear will prepare you for those delicate and maybe even intimidating conversations with friends and family members who support homosexuality or who may be trapped in that lifestyle themselves a compelling message ahead. Let's get to it. Now here's John MacArthur, what does society say about homosexuality. Well, 1981 I was born a man who left an immense impact on human history.

His name was Sigmund Freud among many human behaviors which were curiosities to him was the behavior of sodomy.

He became very interested in dealing with sodomites and understanding them. He determined after some suppose a research that sodomy was a psychological disorder and that it was directly related to a domineering mother.

By the way that viewpoint still hangs around today and you hear people articulated. He said basically it's just a disorder that comes because you are dominated by your mother and you grow up, then hating the one who dominated you, and since wanted dominated you was a woman you hate women and so you attach your sexual fantasy to men.

It's been a very popular viewpoint in the 1930s, there came a man by the name of Carlock Ellis Carlock Ellis have published a manual, a sex book and that sex book he brought sodomy into the open.

This is the 1930s. He said frankly. Freud is wrong is not a psychological disorder generated by domineering mother is hereditary is genetic and it is a higher level of genius than just normal folks possess so since Freud and Allison and others who have embellished both viewpoints. You can take your pick. Did your mother do it to you because she was nasty and domineering or did your mother and father do it to you genetically and are still debate.

The reason there is still debate is because no one can prove it's hereditary. Furthermore, no one can prove that homosexuals have in common a domineering mother. Then along came a real fraud by the name of Albert Kinsey with the famous Kinsey report 1940s and 1950s he published the famous candidate Kinsey reports on sexuality. He was a sexual pervert himself and so he was trying to prove a point before even did his research you want to justify adultery, fornication, homosexuality, and any other kind of deviant sex, so I fabricated his figures fabricated his research spent this week reading a very interesting book called Kinsey sex and fraud. It debunks the entire Kinsey report and shows how fraudulent the figures were it was. He remember who said that as a result of his research was that 1/10 people were sodomites in this normalized it. 1/10 were sodomites.

That is not true is never been true may someday in the future be true if their media campaign is continuing a successful he tilted and twisted and fabricated the statistics to make it look like everyone was in adulterer everyone was a fornicator.

Everyone was having affairs illicitly out of their marriage, and 1/10 people were sodomites followed up by the American psychiatric Association which declassified sodomy as a mental sickness and removed it from its list of standard diagnostic diseases and illnesses. The American psychiatric Association decided to buy under Carlock Ellison say it was hereditary. There is no evidence there is no evidence that homosexuality is a result of a domineering mother. There is no evidence that homosexuality is a result of genetics. There is plenty of evidence that homosexuality is a choice, choice, like all sin's choice. You may have certain susceptibility to it. There may be some people who are more tempted in that area, but it primarily has to do with choice and if you read the literature of those that are trying to help people come out of homosexual sodomites in they will tell you that what leads people into these choices. What what leads them to live like this is just a simple little list of things. One early homosexual experience when their young somebody engages them some other boys. Maybe in their youth or even late childhood, adolescence, engages them in some kind of homosexual play that stimulates another component in the leading people into these kinds of choices is the need for intimacy and some homosexual supplies. It there are factors in life that lay out the path of temptation, but it still the series of choices and where you have kids that are rejected by women who are looking for a subculture of acceptance with the need for intimacy who get lured into this kind of thing you have some choices lead to other choices lead to other choices and becomes lost out of control.

Romans chapter 1 verse 18, very familiar text which gives us a good look at the fallenness of man and God's reaction the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness. In other words, God's wrath is revealed against the whole human race because they have the truth, and they suppress it. They rejected that which is known about God is evident within them. God is planted in their hearts.

God has made it evident to them. Verse 20 since the creation of the world his invisible attributes, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what is been made so that there without excuse. You have the internal moral law of God, you have the external creation and evidence of God and his morality.

The evidence is there. The truth is there, and men rejected verse 21, even when they knew God innately from the internal witness and externally from the creation they did not honor him as God, they didn't give thanks they became futile in their speculations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing to be wise, they became fools, and exchange the glory of the incorruptible God for an image in the form of corruptible man and birds and four-footed animals and crawling creatures. They rejected God, thus rejecting truth, they created their own gods like animals and men and failed to worship the true God, and that's why God's wrath is poured out upon them.

There you have the characterization of the fallen world. God has given the knowledge of himself internally and externally. Men rejected and instead of seeing God as revealed, they turned their back on God. They invent their own gods and bring about the wrath of God upon now the wrath of God comes in this form. Verse 24 therefore God gave them over, God gave them over what a statement he gave them over in the lusts of their hearts to impurity that their bodies might be dishonored among them. We verse 26 for this reason God gave them over there it is again to degrading passions verse 28 just as I didn't see fit to acknowledge God any longer, God gave them over to a depraved mind. Verse 24 gave them over that their bodies would be dishonored. Verse 26 he gave them over to degrading passions in their heart. Verse 28 gave them over to a depraved mind body parts mind all given over and what what became of that when God took his hand off, and God let man go his own way. What came of it.

Sexual perversion. What you see today is already the evidence of God's judgment on men as he lets him go. Verse 24 God gave them over in the lusts of their hearts to impurity that their bodies might be dishonored among them the exchange the truth of God for a lie. They worshiped and served the creature rather than the creator who is blessed forever. Amen.

Then verse 26 for this reason God gave them over to degrading passions. What kind for their women exchanged the natural function for that which is on natural. They were given over verse 24 says to epi through media uncleanness reaching out after forbidden pleasure. The Stoics called it grasping for pleasure which defies all reason.

Last gone wild.

That's what verse 24 starting about desires that make people do shameless things and nameless thing and they dishonored their bodies.

How did they dishonor their bodies. They did what was against nature. They did what was unnatural in verse 26 women exchanged the natural function for that which is unnatural what you have in homosexuality, then, is a very clear illustration of depravity of people given over to their lusts without any restraint on God's part. He just let them go. Women we call them lesbians. They have chosen to live godless Leanne God gives them over to the results of their choices.

Verse 27 and in the same way also. The men abandoned the natural function of the woman and burned in their desire toward one another, men with men committing indecent acts and receiving in their own persons the due penalty of their error. They burned in their lust.

That phrase burned in their desire toward one another literally to burnout kayak hopes to burn out. They were consuming with the last is the consuming range of it. According to the New York Times, quote the man who knows more about violent death than anyone else in the country is Dr. Milton Halpern, formerly chief medical examiner of New York City. In his biography titled where death delights helper not a Christian, wrote this. It's not my role to condemn homosexuality. As such, and I leave it to the psychiatrist and psychologist to try to figure out why people practice homosexuality, he said I'm not to judge it, but having performed 60,000 autopsies is high time that those who deviate from the norms should understand the risks. I don't know why it is so, but it seems that the violent explosions of jealousy among homosexuals far exceed those of the jealousy of a man for a woman or a woman. For a man.

The pent-up charges and energy of the homosexual relationship simply cannot be contained. When the explosive point is reached. The result is brutally violent helper goes on, but this is the normal pattern of these homosexual attacks multiple stabbings, the senseless beatings that obviously must continue long after the victim dies when we see these brutal multiple wound cases in a single victim. We automatically assume that we are dealing with a homosexual victim and a homosexual attacker and why, because there is a burning last that is out of control. They burned in their desires.

He went on to say in his book that in 10 seconds, they can look at a dead body and tell you whether it was killed by homosexual because of the mutilations in the multiple stabbings or multiple blows there is annoying, unsatisfied, gripping the lust that is evidence of their depravity and evidence of the fact that God has given them over, let him go there burning in their desire women exchanging the natural function for what is unnatural and men with men committing indecent acts and receiving in their persons the due penalty of their error. Verse 28. They didn't want to acknowledge God so God just gave him over to a depraved mind, to do the things which aren't proper things which make no sense.

That's part of God's judgment on verse 32. After chronicling a whole list of sins that are the result of God giving people over it says the people practice these things are worthy of death, and they still do them and then they give hearty approval to those who practiced they advocate them. They know the ordinance of God but those who practice such things are worthy of death that's in the Bible. That's clear, but they still doing them and they give hearty approval to others who practiced all of life becomes totally disoriented as a species of ant lives in some parts of Africa, by the way the ants in Africa can build massive anthills, some of them 20 feet high and they live in subterranean tunnels that go way down into the earth with the younger sheltered and down in the subterranean tunnels where the ants move is a special shelter for the Queen workers go on foraging trips to distant places. Returning to the nest with food for the colony, and particularly for the Queen is said by those who study them that if when they are away their Queen is molested.

The workers even far away become nervous and uncoordinated. She's killed.

They become frantic they rush around aimlessly and eventually die in the field without ever finding their way back. It's thought that the worker ants in the normal situation are constantly oriented to the Queen by some radar like device if she is killed all orientation ceases frenzy ensues. A frenzy that ends in death. What a parable of men. What a parable of man cut off from God lives in the disoriented frenzy until his death frenzy of being disconnected from God. Such is the condition of fallen man of homosexuals, sodomites, but again we need do and where we began this sin is forgivable. Such were some of you but you are washed, you are sanctified, you are justified in all of this through the Lord Jesus Christ and in the spirit of our God is sin, but there is forgiveness young man named Robert was baptized and he came into the water and he told a wonderful testimony, he said I have AIDS and he said I've been a homosexual for years and I said to someone I want deliverance from this life. Where can I go where can I go and find help and he said someone told me to go to Grace Community Church and I could find help their he said. I walked into this church on a Sunday morning.

I'd never been here. He sat right out over there and he said I was desperate. I wanted deliverance from my sin and its consequence death, and he said John got up as he does every Sunday at and read a Psalm and he said this is what he read, and he recited some 107 they wandered in the wilderness in the desert region. They didn't find a way to an inhabited city. They were hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted within them.

Then they cried out to the Lord in their trouble. He delivered them out of their distresses.

He led them also biased. Straightway to go to an inhabited city let them give thanks to the Lord for his lovingkindness and for his wonders to the sons of men, for he has satisfied the thirsty soul and the hungry soul.

He is filled with what is good. There were those who dwell in darkness and in the shadow of death, prisoners in misery and chains because they had rebelled against the words of God and spurned the counsel of the most high. Therefore, he humbled their hardwood labor. They stumbled and there was none to help.

Then they cried out to the Lord in their trouble. He saved them out of their distresses. He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and their chains apart. Let them give thanks to the Lord for his lovingkindness and for his wonders to the sons of men stood in these waters and recited that verbatim and he said when I heard you read that I knew I come to the right place and that my chains could be broken and I could be set free that morning that first Sunday that first time you ever come here.

He gave his life to Jesus Christ was wonderfully saved later entered the waters of baptism to confess that sin and that transformation and I said to him privately what you going to do with the days of life that God gives you.

Well he told me said the gay pride parade is coming down the street near where I live.

I've been in the mainstream of this whole thing and he said all of my former friends are going to be stopping by to greet me because they know I'm so ill and I'm going to give every one of them the gospel of Christ. That's the good news is that father we thank you for the grace that is granted to sinners of any kind, and every kind. We thank you that you forgive the deepest darkest sin that you break the strongest chains that you give grace to the vilest sinner, for you have done it for us and we pray for people who are trapped in this terrible lifestyle with its inexplicable passions.

We pray all God that you would deliver many be gracious to them and save them for your glory. What a testimony Lord.

It would be if many were saved out of that sin and gave testimony to your grace and became rescuers of others in those chains. Thank you for setting so many free but your grace may be displayed, and your love for sinners, we pray. Also, Lord, for those who come out of that lifestyle and come to you and are still tempted whose memories are vivid with the ugly things of the past. We pray Lord that you will wash those memories away the chill fix them on holy things on right relationships clean out their minds give them pure thoughts and triumph over temptation.

Give us all Lord opportunity to speak to those that we might meet. Caught in that sin and to know that the most compassionate thing we can do is not accept them but warned him for if they don't understand the sin they can't see the Savior and Lord. This is but one sin among many. We pray that you would save sinners of all kinds make them holy sanctified for your glory that many may sing your praise in time and throughout eternity.

Our Savior's name, we ask, that's John MacArthur, Chancellor of the Masters University in seminary with his current series on grace to you titled homosexuality in the Bible John at the start of this series we acknowledge that the whole question of homosexuality as a kind of lightning rod issue. It's not politically correct. There are lots of people who don't even want to have the discussion.

What do you hope people who listen to these broadcasts will take away from this study yell isn't politically correct to criticize homosexuality that the homosexual community is worked very hard to try to back people off from any criticism made it obviously is aberrant on its face, it is aberrant. The Bible condemns it in no uncertain terms. It is an abomination to God but the people who are going to commit that sin have come out of the closet become very very bold and they are demanding protection there demanding laws that allow for this and that prosecute people who condemn it so that doesn't change our responsibility responsibility is the same even if they make laws against confronting homosexuality, criticizing homosexuality. We owe the person trapped in that sin. The truth of the gospel which is the only hope of deliverance from that sin and its consequence eternal punishment in hell. So we have to confront homosexuality.

We have to do it boldly. We may have to do it even though it's against the law to do it so that we can graciously bring salvation to those who are caught in that terrible sin. It isn't just the tolerance is a virtue in our society it is that but it seems as though tolerance of homosexuality is the most demanded thing and that's going to make us have to take a stand that is going to be unpopular and maybe even illegal.

We have to be ready to do that we have to proclaim the gospel to anyone trapped in sin, so we want you to know what the Bible says about homosexuality.

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