ON HOMOSEXUALITY

 

  Today’s commentary is a hard teaching because the world has replaced “obedience” with “tolerance” and “love” with “hatred.” Now examine the supporting scripture along with commentary.

  The Church at Corinth became despicable when Paul was away. “When the cat is away, the mice will play” rang true even in that day. God calls sinners to repentance, but Satan calls Christians to iniquity. Since original sin, the nature of fallen man is to answer the call of Satan and have deaf ears when God calls. Thus, few will enter Heaven; albeit everyone who claims to follow Christ think themselves as one of the chosen few.

  First off, “chosen” has qualifiers; the “chosen” answer God’s calling, reject the call of Satan, and trust God and not Satan for safety. God calls by conviction. Satan calls by apathy, or as scripture calls it, “vanity.” Vanity is caring not for the things of God but whatever pleases the self. The self, or ego, is the god of sinners, and its idol is the flesh. The flesh must be appeased, or the “god” gets upset. Satan knows that and offers tantalizing temptations. Things are not really idols; they are temptations.

  The original sin was not the pleasant appearance of the fruit of the forbidden tree. That was temptation to sin. The sin was not even eating the fruit. That was a mechanical and natural thing to do. The original sin was being “as God” in that the desires of Adam and Eve were more important than God’s Will. Inevitably any “sin” is desiring “to be” as God, and iniquity is living as if a person is God.

  Yesterday I wrote of fornication in the Corinthian Church. Other sins of the flesh were in that Church as well, and maybe in some of the others. Some in Corinth had a problem with sin. Paul wrote:

Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. (1 Cor 6:9-10)

  Paul began in the previous chapter by talking against defrauding others by suing, then in chapter six, the subject changed to defrauding themselves. He gradually moved from extortion to sexual sins, likely so as not to anger, but to present the truth gently.

  In years past, preachers could have well just screamed, “You are all sinners!” There are two reactions to blatant accusations: (1) It must be all the others who are, or (2) How dare the preacher accuse me! Since Paul’s day, the entire world has mellowed. At the present time, sexual sins are seldom preached against because to do so would deplete the Church. Just who in the Church has never sinned? Just who has never sinned sexually? Few if any.

  By coincidence one Sunday, the daughter of one of the Christian parents was in church with her boyfriend. God had a plan that day; the preacher preached against fornication and abortion. The Christian parents, rather than pleased, were angered. The preacher had offended their daughter and her boyfriend. It was not the daughter that complained but the Christian parents. Perhaps the daughter was convicted. To be truthful, conviction is upsetting and one can either change the situation or rebel. I am sure that the parents made feeble excuses for the preacher’s insensitivity, and the daughter never returned to our church.

  Sexual sins are serious business! “The unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God.” What will they inherit, then? The realm of Satan, or Hell. Are temporary sexual gratifications worth eternal torments in Hell? Most people evaluate that premise and choose damnation. They are fools.

  Fools have the attitude that It is my body and I will do with it as I please. Paul pointed out that it is not your body, but a body on loan from God and when the lease expires, he wants the body as it was when he built it.

  Sexual sins indicate that it is my body and I will do with it as I please. The outcome of sexual sins, for heterosexual sex, is pregnancy. With continuity of thought, the irrational person will say, “It is my body, and I will do with it as I please,” notwithstanding that there is another body involved!

  The placenta is single-use tissue. It does not belong to you. Once the fetus matures enough birth ensues and the placenta is discarded. The placenta is not the mother’s; it is a nurturing and protective haven on loan from God. The soul belongs to God and Paul referred to it as the “Temple of the Holy Ghost” (1 Cor 6:19). With that said, the womb is owned by God because your body is not your own. Allegorically, the womb is the unborn child’s “Garden of Eden” for nine months. God guards the gate to life, but intruders always seek to enter in, just as for the Garden!

  The “effeminate” in the list of unrighteous activities are homosexuals (Strong’s Dictionary). Like PauI, I will be careful to not offend. He used a gentle term, but he was firm in the consequences of the effeminate — they shall not enter the Kingdom of God. Have you heard your preacher preach that? Most preachers do not; they would rather have homosexuals in Hell than offend them. The secular world, thanks to the American Psychiatric Association (APA), refer to disagreement with homosexuality as “homophobia.” Rather than abnormal behaviors being wrong, normal behaviors are. Historically, homosexuality had always been abnormal until the APA was picketed by homosexuals.

  The APA declared, without provenance, that they are born that way. Lady Gaga validated that disinformation in the song, “Born This Way.” Who could possible doubt the credentials of Lady Gaga? Who could doubt the mostly atheistic members of APA?

  What is the condition in which everyone is born? King David called it “shapen in iniquity” (Psalm 51:5). Original sin is a deviation from the Will of God, and Paul listed many deviations. Enlightened (sic) churches are most often the darkest places and seminary-trained theologians the “darkest angels.” Most seminaries teach psychology. Any rational person can see that psychology, “the study of the soul,” is a religion in competition with Christianity. That is evident because their theories are most often at odds with Holy Scripture. Psychology is an irreligion with atheist “theologians.” (My graduate studies were in the field of psychology and much of it were attacks on Christian principles.)

  We are all born prone to sin. Soon after crowning the newborn child begins the rebellion. It cries for food and attention, then throws tantrums if they do not obtain what they want. (Ironically, children are born inclined to be socialists. Humor is intended, but it is true!) Before long, children steal, and lie about stealing. Only correction can change their attitudes, but even children do not want to be corrected, and more anger ensues. Adults, if they have not been remolded by Christian parents, retain those attitudes.

  Homosexuality is based on the scenario that It is my body and I will do with it as I please. Again, your body is on loan from God. It is intended for the living space of God. God despises sin, and certainly will not live in it! Nobody is born a homosexual and there is no evidence to support the “born this way” mantra.

  Psychologists say that their brains are different, but if so, are they different because of genetics or because they have been remolded. Psychology remolds more than teach. They have an agenda, and if thinking does not fit their theories, they make them fit. Different brain features do not even hint at causation. “Born this way” is a lie to make one comfortable with their stronghold.

  As you can see, the Church at Corinth had numerous sins in which they were comfortable: fornicators, idolaters, adulterers, the effeminate, abusers of themselves with mankind, thieves, the covetous, drunkards, revilers, and extortioners. Were they all born that way, or were they born with those propensities? Paul, inspired by God. condemned those who extort as unworthy of salvation. That is the “born this way” sin of usurers. Others have a propensity to steal. Were they born to steal or is it that they learn to steal?

  None of those sins are genetic; only the inclination to be drawn toward evil. In other words, all those sins are learned behaviors that the world has taught them and remolded them to accept as just fine.

  Should the behavior of stealing be tolerated? Only socialists could believe that, and Black Lives Matter transparently tolerate theft and destruction. Civil people, however, would not tolerate stealing. The mob that steals are barbarians; they do as pagans would do.

  The same holds true for any sin. Even secular society does not tolerate most of the sins that Paul listed, so why should God? Well, He does not. There is a great and terrible penalty. Why should society tolerate homosexual behavior? Truly, none of us can change it, but they can with the assistance of God. God, however, is tolerant to a degree in that He is patient, but when change does not occur, His wrath is exposed. God does not teach tolerance, but obedience.

  Christians may not be able to change the behavior of others, but Scripture is to reprove and correct (2 Tim 3:16). The invisible government controlled by the “political correctness” (PC) police forbids anyone from correcting the wrong behavior of homosexuality. Their “bible” does not expect obedience to God but liberation from Him. Ironically, those who claim the most tolerance are those most intolerant. What they say goes, and damn those who disagree.

  What is godly love? “That none should perish” (John 3:16). Why do Christians teach against homosexuality? Christian want that they never perish. Why does the world tolerate homosexual behavior? They care not whether they perish or not because they think that there is no penalty. Many liberal churches would consider God a homophobe. That is a great challenge to God! Those preachers and teachers are “the word” in their minds, and they consider themselves “gods.”

  Christians are accused of hating homosexuals by the PC Police. Who are they true haters? Those that do not care whether homosexuals are saved or not. Christians care! That is loving them as part of the “whosoever” in John 3:16.

  Many Christians have relatives that have choose that lifestyle. They know in their hearts that they are not hated. Some may hate their sin, but sin is hard to change without Jesus washing it away! Some sins require additional “scrubbing” as the dirt is hard to wash out, not for God, but by the stubbornness of people. They must truly desire a new attitude, but some love the way they are because the pleasure is worth the gamble. They gamble that either there is no God, no judgment, or that God is more tolerant than He is.

  Hard to release sins are called strongholds. Who has the hold? Satan. He must be denied. But many churches teach that Satan is not real, he is only a boogeyman to scare Christians into compliance. How can anyone deny Satan? By denying themselves (Mark 8:34). That is denying yourself the pleasure that you enjoy more than trusting God.

  The sorriest thing is that churches fail to teach the truth. They fear the world more than the Church fears God! Paul condemned the Church at Corinth for tolerating sin. The modern Church remains condemned.

  And as for the government; teaching the truth is a hate crime. Oh, how cunning the Devil is!