Is Homosexuality a sin?
Now this might seem to be a strange question to ask because all of us in the room hopefully would answer with affirmative yes. However, many outside this room would struggle with answering this question correctly. Why is that? I believe the answer is because we are being bombarded with the Homosexual movement. It wasn’t that along ago when homosexual were ashamed of what they were doing and they kept their sinful secret. But, starting around the 60s the Gay movement begins to blossom and grow and more and more people have started coming out of the closest as they like to say. It’s only been in the last 10 years that more and more government leaders and movie stars have started announcing proudly that they are gay.
I also find it a shame that the word gay has been turned in to vile description of a homosexual. The word gay used to be used by everyone. If you watch some of the older movies you will see them say I feel so gay today which of course simply meant they were happy. But, now thanks to the homosexual movement this word cannot be used in the same way every again.
One of the avenues that they use to promote and desensitize the public for their sinful behavior is through the media. Just about every movie or show that you watch on TV either has a fulltime gay character or will have a part time one. Their agenda is to try and get us to accept that they are hear to stay and that homosexuality is a part of our culture so we should simply accept their behavior as normal. Now a new report has just came out about a decline in gay characters on some shows and this has the gay community worried. Here is what the report says in it entirety.
As the new autumn
television season kicks into gear in the
In a statement released Monday, the Gay and Lesbian
Cancellations of shows like “Spin City,” “Felicity” and “The Education of Max
Bickford” are responsible for the downturn, which leaves only six shows with
gay and lesbian characters: “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” “Dawson’s Creek,” “E.R.,”
“NYPD Blue,” “Will & Grace” and the new “MDs.”
The absence of “That 80s Show” and “Education of Max Bickford” also leaves the
new network season without a bisexual or transgender character, respectively.
“The diversity of the gay community cannot be conveyed through seven
characters, especially when all of those characters are white,” said Scott
Seomin, GLAAD’s entertainment media director. There were 20 such characters
last season.
GLAAD’s tally, however, does not include primetime shows on cable channels,
such as “Queer As Folk,” “Six Feet Under” and “Sex and the City.” The three
shows are the most popular among several cable offerings that feature GLBT
characters.
Not all gay activists share GLAAD’s level of concern. John Aravosis, who led
the “
“Whether you’re up or down a gay character or two isn’t nearly as important
as the fact that TV has accepted us as a normal part of the fabric of gay life,”
he said.
I hope this is trend that continues but what this report shows us is that the homosexual use the media as tool influence people in accepting their behavior. Another thing that helps the homosexual movements are big companies have decided to help fund the homosexual movement such as Ford and Wal-mart. Many of our retailers have started using homosexual behavior in their commercials trying to appeal the gay community. Some companies have began to offer special discounts to gay owned businesses. Friends we need to be aware of these tactics and try our best not to become desensitized to the fact that Homosexuality is wrong in God’s eyes. Listen to this quote.
“The more popular a
type of moral corruption becomes in society, the less opposition there is to
the sin from the Christian community.”
Now I wish I could say this quote isn’t true and it shouldn’t be but unfortunately is most of the time. Of course when this person refers the Christian community is lumping all the denominations and the one church you read about in the Bible all together as one group. In the past when new movement began such as the homosexual movement the religious world protested and spoke against such movements but as more time has passed now we see less protesting and more religions embracing homosexuality. This same thing has happened with the concept of marriage, divorce and re-marriage with the church. The Bible states only 2 ways that a person can be remarried scripturally and that is if your mate cheats on you then you have the right divorce and remarry or if you mate dies you are also free to remarry any other reason given are beyond what the scriptures say. But because of such high divorce rates this is not a popular teaching and so many in the religions world and even some of sister congregations have decided to look the other way instead of standing on God’s Word and this is the same thing that is happening with the Homosexual movement.
This is why you now see denomination splitting into new denomination because one group wants to accept active homosexuals into their denominations while others do not.
Now as far as I know I have not read or heard nor heard of the Lord’s church accepting or splitting over the homosexual movement so far but mark my words it will most likely happen sometime in our generation and that will be very sad. Now the reason I say it most likely is because I have notice a pattern. When the religious world especial those who call themselves denominations start adopting sinful agendas then it not usually to much longer until you start seeing some who belong to Christ’s church start accepting them as well.
Then what really kills me is when these groups try and twist the scriptures to show that God is not really opposed to Homosexuality. This brings us to the next part of lesson where I will affirm that God has been against homosexuality from the beginning of time.
When you look at the Bible you will find that you can break up in 3 different areas. The first is the Patriarchy period which includes creation to the time of Moses. The second is know as the Old Law or Judaism which includes the time of Moses up to the time of Christ. The third period of time is called the New Law or Christianity which started with Jesus death on the cross and continues on today.
Let begin with the Patriarchy period and see if Homosexuality was condemned by God.
Our first example begin Gen. 18 when Abraham get some heavenly visitors that affirm that he is going to have a son but notice what happens starting in verse,
Genesis 18:16 Then
the men rose from there and looked toward Sodom, and Abraham went with them to
send them on the way. 17 And
the LORD said, "Shall I hide from Abraham what I am doing, 18 "since Abraham shall
surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall
be blessed in him? 19
"For I have known him, in order that he may command his children and his
household after him, that they keep the way of the LORD, to do righteousness
and justice, that the LORD may bring to Abraham what He has spoken to
him." 20 And the LORD
said, "Because the outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because
their sin is very grave, 21
"I will go down now and see whether they have done altogether according to
the outcry against it that has come to Me; and if not, I will know." 22 Then the men turned away from
there and went toward
As we learned their was a
great outcry against vile sins of
Genesis 19:1 Now the
two angels came to Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gate of
Genesis 19:4 Now
before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, both old and
young, all the people from every quarter, surrounded the house. 5 And they called to
This just shows how
wicked this city was and we can see they were not interested in
Genesis 19:12 Then
the men said to Lot, "Have you anyone else here? Son-in-law, your sons,
your daughters, and whomever you have in the city -- take them out of
this place! 13 "For we
will destroy this place, because the outcry against them has grown great before
the face of the LORD, and the LORD has sent us to destroy it." 14 So Lot went out and spoke to
his sons-in-law, who had married his daughters, and said, "Get up, get out
of this place; for the LORD will destroy this city!" But to his
sons-in-law he seemed to be joking. 15
When the morning dawned, the angels urged
God destroyed
Jude 1:7 as Sodom
and Gomorrah, and the cities around them in a similar manner to these, having
given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh,
are set forth as an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
Now let move up in time
to Moses Law or Judaism to see if God had changed his mind about homosexuality.
We all know that Moses gave us the 10 commandments and then he gave over 600
laws that were to obeyed in the book of Leviticus.
Leviticus 18: 20
'Moreover you shall not lie carnally with your neighbor's wife, to defile
yourself with her. 21 'And
you shall not let any of your descendants pass through the fire to
Molech, nor shall you profane the name of your God: I am the LORD. 22 'You shall not lie with a
male as with a woman. It is an abomination. 23 'Nor shall you mate with any
animal, to defile yourself with it. Nor shall any woman stand before an animal
to mate with it. It is perversion.
24 ' Do not defile yourselves with any of these things; for
by all these the nations are defiled, which I am casting out before you. 25 'For the land is defiled;
therefore I visit the punishment of its iniquity upon it, and the land vomits
out its inhabitants. 26 'You
shall therefore keep My statutes and My judgments, and shall not commit any of
these abominations, either any of your own nation or any stranger who
dwells among you 27 '(for all
these abominations the men of the land have done, who were before you,
and thus the land is defiled), 28
'lest the land vomit you out also when you defile it, as it vomited out the
nations that were before you. 29
'For whoever commits any of these abominations, the persons who commit them shall
be cut off from among their people. 30
'Therefore you shall keep My ordinance, so that you do not commit any
of these abominable customs which were committed before you, and that you
do not defile yourselves by them: I am the LORD your God.' "
Friends you can’t get
much clearly than that. We can see that all things that are listed including
homosexuality are considered to be an abomination to the Lord and these people
doing these acts were to be cut off from children of
Leviticus 20:13 'If a
man lies with a male as he lies with a woman, both of them have committed an
abomination. They shall surely be put to death. Their blood shall be upon
them.
Homosexuality was
punishable by death under the Old Law. So, far we have seen that God has not
changed his mind toward the vile act of Homosexuality and need to keep in mind
that today we are not under the Patriarchy Period nor or we under Moses Law.
So, now we must focus in on the Christian period to see if God changed his mind
toward homosexuality. First lets look at,
Ephesians 5:3 But fornication
and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as is
fitting for saints; 4 neither
filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor coarse jesting, which are not fitting, but
rather giving of thanks. 5
For this you know, that no fornicator, unclean person, nor covetous man, who is
an idolater, has any inheritance in the
None of the people listed
here are going to make it to heaven which shows that these acts are acceptable
by God. Now fornication is broad term which includes in relations between
people outside the bondage of marriage which includes homosexuality. Now
someone might say well as long as Gay couple are married then they will be ok
but that not the case because there is not authority for a homosexual marriage
in the Bible instead Jesus says this,
Matthew 19:3 The
Pharisees also came to Him, testing Him, and saying to Him, "Is it lawful
for a man to divorce his wife for just any reason?" 4 And He answered and said to
them, "Have you not read that He who made them at the beginning
'made them male and female,' 5
"and said, 'For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be
joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh'? 6 "So then, they are no
longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let not man
separate."
Since the beginning of
time God designed marriage to between a man and a women and that’s it and so a
Gay couple can never truly be married in God’s eyes. Notice Paul says in,
Romans 1:26 For
this reason God gave them up to vile passions. For even their women exchanged
the natural use for what is against nature.
27 Likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman,
burned in their lust for one another, men with men committing what is shameful,
and receiving in themselves the penalty of their error which was due.
Notice Homosexuality is
consider as not being natural as goes against nature. It considered to be a vile
passion and shameful. Finally notice that Paul tells the Corinthians in,
1 Corinthians 6:9 Do you
not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the
Friends it doesn’t get
any clearly then this those who choose to live the homosexual lifestyle will
not make it to heaven. I have clearly shown the God has not changed him mind
about the sin of homosexuality as I have shown you from scriptures where
condemned in all 3 time periods. So don’t every let anybody try to convince you
that the Bible doesn’t condemn Homosexuality. But, there is great news for all
those who engage in sin including the homosexuals because notice the next thing
Paul says,
1 Corinthians 6:11 And such
were some of you. But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were
justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.
This shows us without a
doubt that the sinner can change and no longer be involved in the type of sins
and yes that includes homosexuals all can be forgiven because everyone of the
sins and be overcome if the person is willing to do so. That what is so
wonderful about God because it doesn’t matter what sin you have been involved
in in the past because if you are willing repent that is change you lifestyle
and conform it to the word of God you can stand justified before God. If you
notice Paul say these formers sinners had been washed which is reference to
their baptism when accepted Christ as their savior.
This same invitation is
for you. (give invitation).