Sexual Immorality
Sexual
immorality is one of the reasons that the wrath of God is coming upon
man. There are other things such as drunkenness, slander, and lying; but
sexual immorality stands out because it is promoted by society and the
most unclean. There are many things that are sexually immoral. It is
increasingly becoming necessary to point a number of these out:
· If a man commits adultery with another man's wife-with the wife
of his neighbor-both the adulterer and the adulteress must be put to
death.
· If a man sleeps with his father's wife, he has dishonored his
father. Both the man and the woman must be put to death; their blood
will be on their own heads.
· If a man sleeps with his daughter-in-law, both of them must be
put to death. What they have done is a perversion; their blood will be
on their own heads.
· If a man lies with a man as one lies with a woman, both of them
have done what is detestable. They must be put to death; their blood
will be on their own heads.
· If a man marries both a woman and her mother, it is wicked.
Both he and they must be burned in the fire, so that no wickedness will
be among you.
· If a man has sexual relations with an animal, he must be put to
death, and you must kill the animal.
· If a woman approaches an animal to have sexual relations with
it, kill both the woman and the animal. They must be put to death; their
blood will be on their own heads.
· If a man marries his sister, the daughter of either his father
or his mother, and they have sexual relations, it is a disgrace. They
must be cut off before the eyes of their people. He has dishonored his
sister and will be held responsible.
· If a man lies with a woman during her monthly period and has
sexual relations with her, he has exposed the source of her flow, and
she has also uncovered it. Both of them must be cut off from their
people.
· Do not have sexual relations with the sister of either your
mother or your father, for that would dishonor a close relative; both of
you would be held responsible.
· If a man sleeps with his aunt, he has dishonored his uncle.
They will be held responsible; they will die childless.
· If a man marries his brother's wife, it is an act of impurity;
he has dishonored his brother. They will be childless. (Leviticus
20:10-21)
The most prominent of these is the act of faggotry - a man lying with a
man as one lies with a woman. This act being accepted and even promoted
in society denotes a people that have completely turned from God in
their depravity —an example would be the late city of Sodom. It is the
full blossom of the fruits of perversion, a fully ripened defilement of
one’s fellow man. Which is quite appropriate for the wine press of God’s
wrath awaiting them.
If an individual claims to be righteous and promotes homosexuality or
even condones it, he/she has a form of godliness but denies its power
and/or he/she is a ravenous wolf disguised in sheepskin. These, of
course, have a dark place reserved for them. Whilst they assure,
promote, condone or love homosexuality; God hates them.
The righteous hate what is false, but the wicked bring shame and
disgrace. (Proverbs 13:5)
The LORD examines the righteous, but the wicked and those who love
violence his soul hates. (Psalm 11:5)
Someone might use the story of Jesus and the woman who was caught in
adultery as a scapegoat. However Jesus’ last words to her were “sin no
more.” If she went on sinning in her sexual immoralities, after seeing
the goodness of Jesus Christ’s salvation, then there would no longer
remain reconciliation for her further adulteries.
A person who has committed homosexual acts, like any
fornicating/perverted person, is condemned until forgiven. This person
is not forgiven unless he/she turns away from these sins. To be forgiven
and return to something as sexual immorality, like a dog returning to
its vomit, it is worse for that man than before.
The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the
godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their
wickedness, since what may be known about God is plain to them, because
God has made it plain to them. For since the creation of the world God's
invisible qualities--his eternal power and divine nature--have been
clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are
without excuse. For although they knew God, they neither glorified him
as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and
their foolish hearts were darkened. Although they claimed to be wise,
they became fools and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images
made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.
Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to
sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. They
exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created
things rather than the Creator--who is forever praised. Amen. Because of
this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged
natural relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also
abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for
one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in
themselves the due penalty for their perversion. Furthermore, since they
did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, he gave them
over to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done. They have
become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity.
They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are
gossips, slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they
invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; they are
senseless, faithless, heartless, and ruthless. Although they know God's
righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not
only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who
practice them. (Romans 1:18-32)
- Matt
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