The Folly Of Gay Pride

THE FOLLY OF GAY PRIDE

In this message I first want to point out that the Lord is not pleased in any kind of pride to start with, as is given evidence in Prov. 16:18, where it says, "Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall." Also, in Prov. 16:5, "Everyone that is proud in heart is an abomination to the Lord: though hand join in hand, he shall not go unpunished." Let us pray that we not get into the snare of pride, lest we fall into a trap like the one we will illuminate in this message!

Homosexuality was NEVER natural, not for any animals, nor man. God Himself stated it in Genesis; "So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created He him; male and female created He them. And God blessed them, and God said unto them, 'Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.'" (Gen. 1:27 - 28) God clearly stated to be fruitful and multiply. We are not like the worms, who have both sexes and one can impregnate any other. There is no room to transgender, or be transexual, which is even worse!

Gen. 19:1-25 covers the first time God's judgment is recorded against the wicked, who harbor among the many unrepented sins they have being homosexual. Gen. 19:5 specifically covers where the men of Sodom demand of Lot that he bring out the two angels that visited him, that they may know them, which biblically speaking, means they wanted to have intimate relations with them. Their reward for this initially was blindness, followed by fire and brimstone from heaven to the total destruction of their cities!

Among the heinous offenses handed down from God to Moses to the Israelites, Lev. 20:13 pronounces sentence upon a person who lives as a homosexual in that day; "If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a womankind, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them." This means they brought it upon themselves to be killed for what they did, and they were stoned to death in those days, a painful way to die. Lev. 18:22 gives the warning, but this verse gives the consequence. Deut. 23:17 echoes the command of God.

Judg. 19:16-20:48 tells the story of worthless men among the Benjamites, men of Belial, who wanted to "know" a man who visited an old man who lived in the land of the Benjamites. What transpired later in this passage of scripture resulted in the Benjamite war; all because of the perverse desires of these men of the Benjamites!

Now if anyone believes the New Testament offers sympathy to the person who chooses this lifestyle, that person is mistaken. Rom. 1:24, 26-32, condemns lesbian and homosexual activities in these verses, and Paul is not done yet. In Rom. 12:9b and 21 he exorts to abhor and overcome evil and cleave to goodness, to overcome evil with goodness. These people can change their lifestyle and be saved, but they must want to change, and go to God with a fervent heart for His help, that He might hear.

"But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery." (Matt. 5:32) I want to make this point not about Jesus teaching about adultery, nor how divorce causes adultery, but rather the fact that Jesus uses the words "his" and "wife" concerning marriage and divorce. This should make it abundantly clear that Jesus does not offer a homosexual option. He never said, "or significant other", because gay marriage is not recognized by God, nor will it ever be, other than as an abomination.

1 Cor. 6:9 - 10 has Paul preaching on carnal living there, too, and both the terms effeminate and abusers of themselves with mankind refers to living a homosexual lifestyle. He exhorted that those who lived in perverse lifestyles to repent and flee fornication and other such perverted carnal living later in the epistle. He further states in 1 Cor. 15:50 that corruption doesn't inherit incorruption. Those who have not been born again will not inherit the incorruption that is eternal life! He preaches one more time against homosexuality in 1 Tim. 1:9-10, Them that defile themselves with mankind refers to homosexuals, and these are among the rebels against God's law, whose punishment is hell and later, the lake of fire, the second death.

I would that all homosexuals and transgenderal people repent their lifestyles and what they have done, and return themselves to their nature and the natural way God intended them to be, because there is one more clear statement by God concerning those who rebel stiffneckedly to the end against His word concerning the homosexual lifestyle; "And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb's book of life." (Rev. 21:27)

Now in knowing God's will is that all would be saved, if you could convert an unsaved soul practicing this lifestyle to following Christ, if the Spirit is willing, I am persuaded that James 5:19 - 20, which is generally meant for people already Christians, can also be applied to these people, provided they are willing to be converted to believing in Christ and being born again. Indeed, if a gay person stop being prideful of his or her lifestyle, repent and turn to God, their multitude of sins is promised to be hidden in the precious blood of Jesus!