It’s Still in the Book

Today’s Passages – Leviticus 16 – 18

“Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.” – (Leviticus 18:22)

“For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.” – (Romans 1:26-27)

In chapter 18 of Leviticus, God gives His people His laws regarding marriage and sexual purity. He goes into great detail explaining who they could not “uncover”. He also specifically forbids a man lying with another man. It was very clear to the saints of old that sodomy was a sin, and was to be removed from a godly society. However, in recent years, the sin of sodomy, or homosexuality, has become a very unpopular sin to preach against in our churches. Our modern culture has gone beyond just tolerating this “abomination”, and has even promoted it in many  ways. Many of our pulpits have been intimidated into silence, choosing to just leave this particular sin alone. It is not “politically correct” anymore to preach against homosexuality.  Some “churches” have even ordained “gay” ministers. God help us. This is clearly a fulfillment of what God said in Romans 1 about the state of mankind as they get further and further away from Biblical principal, and closer and closer to the return of Christ. And the fact that our churches no longer talk about it is also a fulfillment of what God says in 2 Timothy 3:

“For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.” – (2 Timothy 4:3-4)

Well, I don’t want to be “wishy-washy” about this subject. God has not changed His mind about it, so neither should I as a preacher – Homosexuality is clearly sin, and as such should be preached against with the same spirit and zeal that we might preach against any other sin. By the way, fornication and adultery are also still in the book, and should also be preached against in these modern times. However, as much as we need to be clear in our condemning of the sin, we must also be just as clear in informing the sinner of God’s love for them. I believe homosexuals can be saved; along with adulterers, fornicaters, liars, and any other type of sinner. I believe we all fall into one of those categories. I do realize that there will come a time that if a person continues in their sin, and also continues to reject Christ, their conscience will be seared, and their mind will become reprobate; and when a person gets to that point they will have no desire to repent of their sin, and come to Christ. But I also believe that the vast majority of the people that are living in sin, even sexual sin, still have a conscience , and can still come to Christ for forgiveness. However, once a person becomes saved, they must foresake the sin that they repented of. Jesus did tell the woman caught in adultery to “go and sin no more”.

One more thing – the rainbow is God’s symbol. It does not belong to the gay rights crowd.


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Melissa Dilley
Melissa Dilley
12 years ago

There will always be someone upset by what’s being preached – I don’t like hearing that God commands us to tithe. Preacher’s job is just to take what God says in the Bible and give it to us, no matter which sin it is. And the Bible did NOT mention any one sin in particular when it said that God showed His love ‘in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.’ So don’t shoot the messenger, love the sinner – hate the sin, and just do right.

Camille Stahl
Camille Stahl
12 years ago

So many people are dieing and going to hell every second. Their sin is blinding them from seeing the truth that Jesus saves. This message made me realize that we (me) need to be sharing salvation. Today my goal is to get 10 tracks out in the community. We can only change the world won by one!!

Gary Geiger
Gary Geiger
12 years ago

We can only change the world won by one!!

LIKE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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