Honorable Marriage (PART 5)

Usually following suite is the excuse that they were born that way, and they can't help it, and simply desire to have what everyone else has. Does that logic prove that homosexuality is acceptable behavior? We are all born sinners, and all have a natural yearning and desire to sin against God. Our minds are enmity against God, yet we are still responsible to God for our actions. A natural proclivity to covetousness doesn't excuse coveting. That sin, like all other sin, must be fled, not fed. Giving in to sin will never make it right. That is only blaming God for their sins and proves the need of a Saviour. All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men says the Lord Jesus, and this sin is no different. What is needed is repentance, turning form sin and trusting in Jesus Christ for salvation, believing in the Lamb of God, who taketh away sin, rather than excusing and diving deeper into lusts on the broad way that leads to destruction.



The ever popular “you’re a Christian, you’re not supposed to judge me” line attempts to disqualify you from even discussing the issue, that we are somehow supposed to remain silent and put our stamp of approval on all activity in the name of Christian charity. In some cases, liberal pundits will attempt to say that Jesus would have approved gay marriage. We found in our text a condition but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge. The fornicator and adulterers or those that commit sexual sin, God will judge. Yes, we as Christians can and should judge and discern what is right and wrong according to God’s word. The idea that truth is relative to the situation or the individual is not a biblical worldview. Given that God instituted marriage and since marriage is good, and has been clearly defined by the founder Himself, any and all sexual activity apart from the marriage bed is sinful and immoral. God said that homosexuality sinful, thus we can rightly and boldly declare that it is sinful behavior. Indeed, it is, for some, a behavior that they feel is natural, but only because the sinfulness of their hearts. Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things. Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshiped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen. 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 1:21-27) Homosexuality is not a natural or normal, but a curse and plague for idolatry. God doesn’t not condone, nor bless, and certainly does not bless the union of unnatural lusts and vile affections. God gave the people in Romans one over to the lusts of their own heart, and this feeling they had, this love or lust they shared was to the dishonor of their own bodies. Notice in I Timothy 1:10 Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers, For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine. Homosexuals are contrary to sound doctrine. God says that marriage is honorable, and that homosexuals defile themselves. Marriage is a picture of Christ’s love for His church, and homosexuality is classified with murders of mom’s and dad’s. It is a sinful, unholy and profane activity, and in no wise sanctioned in marriage. Jesus did not, does not, nor will not condone or make way for gay marriage because it is an abomination. Leviticus 18:22 Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination. Some liberal ‘theologians’ will say that is OT, and no longer applies to us today, but we live in grace and mercy. An abomination is something that God hates and whether Old Testament or New, He will always hate it, always. Study the Old Testaments use of the word abomination. I’ll give two examples of the usage, first in Leviticus 11:10 And all that have not fins and scales in the seas, and in the rivers, of all that move in the waters, and of any living thing which is in the waters, they shall be an abomination unto you. Next Deuteronomy 7:25 The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire: thou shalt not desire the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it unto thee, lest thou be snared therein: for it is an abomination to the LORD thy God. Some things God said were an abomination to Him, others were to be an abomination to Israel, thus Peter’s reaction to eating unclean animals, it was an abomination unto him, not God, so that how we can live now without the restrictive dietary laws of the Old Testament, had they been an abomination to God, He would still not allow that diet. What is an abomination to God today, was an abomination 5,000 years ago. God is clear, in His word, concerning sexual activity, and the bounds of marriage. The seventh commandment condemns gay marriage. I believe that GD Boardman well said “It is the divine Lawgiver’s ordinance, guarding the chastity of marriage, the sanctity of home, the blessedness of the household, the preservation of society, the up building of mankind.”