God Is Not Gay!

God Is Not Gay

While witnessing at the Kentucky Derby last weekend, I heard people yell out “God is gay” more than I’ve ever heard before. It’s blasphemous to say such evil things. God is not dead. God is not gay. God is not pro-gay. God is not on the LGBT side of this current immoral revolution sweeping across America. 

God is not gay and He is not in favor of gays, nor same sex marriage nor transgenderism. God is righteous and Holy. God considers marriage to be between one man and one woman. Not two men. Not two women. Not one wife and three girlfriends. Not men and children. Not any abomination. God is for the holy matrimony of one man and one woman.

And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them (Genesis 1:26-27). Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh (Genesis 2:24).

Jesus also backed this up – that marriage is between one man and one woman.  The Pharisees also came unto him, tempting him, and saying unto him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause? And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,

And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh? Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder (Matthew 19:3-6).

The Apostle Paul also backs up that God’s design is one man and one woman in 1 Corinthians 7:2: Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

God is not gay and He states clearly that marriage is between a man and a woman. Jesus also confirms this in the New Testament. The Bible is very clear on this subject. You have to work very hard to try to misinterpret the Holy Scriptures. But it’s black and white. One man and one woman.

Sodomites

In addition to this, the Bible says some very tough things about homosexuality. The Bible doesn’t gloss over the terminology. It’s not called homosexuality (yes, I know the word wasn’t invented when the Bible was written) which is a nicer sounding name than sodomites. Gay and lesbian are even softer words than homosexuality. Same sex marriage is also culturally accepted in America now-a-days. But the Bible is much harsher than this.

Sodomy was a very serious offense in the Bible and the Israelites were even commanded to kill those who participated in sodomy. I want to make clear that I’m not advocating that homosexuals should be killed. God is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. My friends and I were all lost sinners and we all had our own sins that we used to love. Sodomy is a sin just like adultery and fornication. They are all sexual sins committed against God and we are all image bearers of God, so all sexual sin is an abomination to our righteous God.

Make no mistake; the Bible clearly states that sodomy is an abomination to Almighty God. We try to sanitize the terms by saying gay, lesbian or homosexual, but the Bible calls homosexuals – sodomites. It is an abomination to God. There is no way to misinterpret this. Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination (Leviticus 18:22). For whosoever shall commit any of these abominations, even the souls that commit them shall be cut off from among their people (Leviticus 18:29).

If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them (Leviticus 20:13). Again, I’m not saying gays should be killed. This was what the Israelites were ordered to do in the Old Testament. I bring it up here to show that sodomy is a very serious offense in God’s eyes.

The Apostle Paul says in Romans 1:26-28: 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. And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient.

Jude 1:5-7 states: I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.  And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day. Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh (sodomites), are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.

But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully; 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 (sodomites), for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine (1 Timothy 1:8-10).

1 Corinthians 6:9-11 says: Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate (transgenders), nor abusers of themselves with mankind (sodomites), Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.

God Does Not Support Sodomy

Do not be deceived tonight. God is not gay and He in no way supports sodomy. The unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God. No unrepentant fornicator, no adulterer, no sodomite, no idolater, no drunkard, no thief will make it to Heaven. In other words all unrepentant sinners who die in their sins will go to Hell. This is black and white and very clear. There are no exceptions. The Apostle Paul says but such were some of you. But you are washed, you are sanctified, you are justified by the shed blood of Jesus. Only those who repent and put their trust in Jesus will be saved.

The Apostle Paul says the following to believers: But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit. Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body. What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s (1 Corinthians 6:17-20).

Those of us who are saved have been bought with a price. We are joined to the Lord in one spirit. Our bodies are not our own anymore. We are joined to Christ Jesus through the Holy Spirit. If you are continuing in your habitual sexual sin tonight, you are not saved. You are lost and on the broad road to destruction. Do not die in your sins and go to Hell. Come to Jesus. Come to the One who can set you free from your bondage to sin. Come to our risen Lord and Savior. Be saved. Be cleansed. Be washed. Be justified. Be made right with God; through Jesus Christ alone. Only Jesus saves.

Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge (Hebrews 13:4).  And ye shall be holy unto me: for I the Lord am holy, and have severed you from other people, that ye should be mine (Leviticus 20:26). Oh, tonight, obey God rather than man.

Flee fornication. Flee sexual immorality. Flee the pleasures of the flesh. Turn from your idolatry. Turn from your sins and turn to Jesus. Put your faith in Him. Trust His finished work on the cross to save you from your sins. Repent and surrender your life to Jesus Christ our Lord. Don’t put this off. Get right with God – tonight! Today is the day of salvation. God is not dead and God is not gay. Do not continue in your sins and suffer God’s righteous wrath for all of eternity. Repent and believe the Gospel.

(This message was lifted up  on the square in downtown Springfield, MO on May 13, 2016