Greetings FB members and friends
CBS this Morning in their ongoing coverage and promotion of homosexuality featured a segment on a young black student who gave the valedictorian speech for his graduating class and used the occasion to inform his audience he is bisexual. According to CTM, the video has had over 900,000 views. Many in the audience stood and cheered and his tweeter following went from 12 to 2000. This growing excitement and embracement of homosexuality is resulting from society’s rejection of Divine rulership.
Homosexuality, like adultery, fornication, idolatry and all rejection of Divine law is a choice people are making which is finding greater acceptance in the mainstream culture. People may not always control their sexual feelings toward another person or gender. In other words, they may not have sought these feelings, or for that matter, even desire or want these feelings. But regardless of what kind of desires and feelings they may be, we all have control of how to respond to those feelings and desires. When and with whom a person chooses to have (or not have) sexual relationships with is a choice free people make for themselves.
Sexual sins occur when we allow our feelings and desires to control our behavior instead of Divine law. Divine law only permits sexual intimacy between a male and female within the context of marriage. Any and all other sexual expression between individuals is Divinely unlawful. Homosexuality, like all sexual sin, is part of the greater lawlessness on the part of society at large. So to announce or come out as LGBTQ is for a person to say that they have sexual desires or feelings for people of the same sex and they intend not to deny those feelings but instead attempt to fulfill them.
Likewise, adultery, fornication and all sexual perversion occur when people refuse to deny (which means not to act or follow through on) desires and feelings contrary to Divine law. It has been a minute since I addressed the issue of homosexuality directly. But since it has been in the forefront of the news recently, silence can sometimes be interpreted as complicity or acceptance. And it’s important for people to know humanity can’t remove the sin from sin and to recognize and put into perspective the events and happenings of our time.
The sermon “Taking the Sin Out of Sin” speaks to these issues and is available online at our website or through our mobile app. That’s all for this segment of the Shepherd’s Voice. Thanks for listening and until next time, fear God and keep His commandments.
Pastor Jordan
