Purity and Homosexuality: A 4-Point Study on 1 Corinthians 6:9-10

1.  According to the Department of Christian Defense (May-June 2013), "Gay Christianity" is a doctrine of tolerance.  I agree with the  author and have based my little sermon on his good points.  We ought to know that prior to 1962 sodomy was a felony in the USA.  America was against the practice of homosexuality.  Now homosexuality is a "cultural norm" in America.  I respectfully have the freedom of speech as an American citizen to speak against homosexual behavior in a male-to-male relationship.  It use to be considered an moral abomination.  Now it is accepted with the blind leading the blind.  The Bible says that those who practice such things will never enter the kingdom of heaven.  It is a immoral practice of the unregenerate.  Sometimes Christians accept the practice of homosexuality because of biblical ignorance.  This lifestyle is not okay for someone to practice in light of the moral holiness and righteousness of the Bible.  The Bible tells us in Psalm 7:11 that He is constantly angry with the wicked everyday.  The wicked do not have the Spirit of God in faithful repentance and redeeming the time.  The practice of homosexuality is evidence of a reprobate heart.  Sinners proclaim Jesus as Lord but engage in harmful practices.  The Bible forbids a "Gay Christianity" because it is a practice contrary to divine righteousness.  It is possible to commit iniquity to grow toward ungodly disobedience and it is possible for the Christian to grow in godly obedience. 

2.  There is a growth in professing homosexual Christians.  There is nothing new under the sun, but this has gotten to be a cancer to moral purity.   The homosexual claims to be born the way they are.  The Bible says every human being was born in original sin and all of us are actual transgressors.  They say that the OT passages in Leviticus refer to only temple prostitution.  The Bible also speaks about Jonathan and David in a loving friendship in Christ but homosexuals will say it was a homosexual relationship.  We see that they say that Jesus never condemned homosexuality.  They also say that God is unconditional love and He never condemns in the NT a homosexual relationship, but only "prostitutes and pederasts."  Homosexuals profoundly disagree that the Bible has prohibitions against homosexuality lifestyle.  The practice of homosexuality is a violation of God's written Word.  Let our errors be proven from the divine Word for it does not tolerate a homosexuality in any sense.  Philosophy cannot condone the practice of homosexuality because the knowledge of the Bible forbids it.  Lifestyle cannot condone those who condone it because the Ten Commandments speak against sexual immorality in a narrow and board way, "Thou shalt not commit adultery."  Tolerance cannot support homosexuality because the moral nature of the marriage bed left undefiled is only between a man and a woman.  For C.H. Spurgeon says:

Concerning homosexuality: This once brought hell out of heaven on Sodom

3.  The Bible's prohibition against homosexuality is Leviticus 18:22 and 20:13.  These verses speak against the engagement of the practice of homosexuality.  The Bible calls it an abomination.   Homosexuals try to say it only refers to a cultural meaning of temple prostitution.   The Bible does not refer to it as merely "temple prostitution" because it refers to male-to male.  The Bible refers to homosexual acts as an abomination in-between other wrong sexual acts.  The context rejects a mere temple prostitution.  Leviticus is not speaking against temple prostitution.  Rather it is speaking against all sorts of homosexual acts.  The NT also speaks in the same way against homosexual behavior between a male and a male in sexual activity (cf. Rm 1:18-32; 1 Cor. 6:9; 1 Tim. 1:10).   I understand that homosexual people will say that Jesus never covered this topic and therefore the practice is allowable.  Other apologists say that Jesus did not mention ever doctrine and this is true, but the rest of the Word of God is still the Word of God (see Jn 21:25).  The words of Jesus are the Words of God just like the rest of the NT.  It carries the same divine authority as holy Scripture.  I suggest to you that Jesus did refer to sexual immorality in Mt 15:19.  Out of the sinner's heart comes all kinds of reckless sins.  The Ten Commandments in the seventh commandments refers to a prostitution against the practice of sodomy.  For the Westminster Larger Catechism says:

Q. 139. What are the sins forbidden in the seventh commandment?
A. The sins forbidden in the seventh commandment, besides the neglect of the duties required,[780] are, adultery, fornication,[781] rape, incest,[782] sodomy, and all unnatural lusts;[783] all unclean imaginations, thoughts, purposes, and affections;[784] all corrupt or filthy communications, or listening thereunto;[785] wanton looks,[786] impudent or light behaviour, immodest apparel;[787] prohibiting of lawful,[788] and dispensing with unlawful marriages;[789] allowing, tolerating, keeping of stews, and resorting to them;[790] entangling vows of single life,[791] undue delay of marriage,[792] having more wives or husbands than one at the same time;[793] unjust divorce,[794] or desertion;[795] idleness, gluttony, drunkenness,[796] unchaste company;[797] lascivious songs, books, pictures, dancings, stage plays;[798] and all other provocations to, or acts of uncleanness, either in ourselves or others.[799]

4.  America ought to turn from this abomination of sodomy.  She ought to repent unto renewed obedience.  God has turned America over to sexual lust of the sinful flesh.  It has invaded the Church of Rome in an abandonment to sexual impurity and recklessness.  It has also come to the liberal Anglican Church and ruined and compromised her proclamation of the gospel of God.  It is also in society where it has degraded the marriage bed and murdered the biblical family of husband and wife.  The Bible calls the people who engage in this wicked behavior to repentance and faith.   It calls them to obedience and to walk worthy of the gospel.   Pleasure does not make a immoral practice right.  Rather seek the pleasure of glorifying God by renewed obedience.  Homosexuality is not the unforgivable sin if someone repents of it.  Those who practice it as a philosophical lifestyle engage in sin that forbids entrance into heaven because it does not spiritually avail to repentance towards God and the purity of faith in our Lord Jesus.  The Cross is meant for us to live a holy pure life before God in demonstration of our hew heart.   For Greg L. Bahnsen declares:

God’s verdict on homosexuality is inescapably clear. His law is a precise interpretation of the sexual order of creation for fallen man, rendering again His intention and direction for sexual relations. When members of the same sex (homo-sexual) practice intercourse with each other…they violate God’s basic creation order in a vile and abominable fashion.