Homosexuality and the Living Word - Brandon Scalf

The Sexual Revolution and the Need for Biblical Authority

Now I don't watch a lot of TV shows, nor do I watch a lot of movies, but over the past week or so, I've been a bit under the weather and found myself on the couch next to the pup watching a few shows.

And there's one thing that I've learned that is honestly quite surprising, while not all that surprising in the first place. As I turned on the TV and tried watching newer shows, I began to notice a very common theme.

And that common theme is this, that homosexuality or sexual perversion in all of its forms has so penetrated the culture that it is almost a casual, normal thing. Now there are some of us, old enough in the room, who remembers a day where sexual perversion or homosexuality was something not thinkable.

It wasn't uttered. It wasn't talked about. I can remember a time when I was in the army and it was don't ask, don't tell. And by the time I got out of the army, they were trying to give us PowerPoints.

If you don't know what that is, you're lucky. Teaching us how to interact with same-sex attracted people. Now in these shows, there were no apologies. In fact, there wasn't even a huge, hey, look over here.

It was just relationships that were sinful in nature, looked upon like it was a normal way of life. And the reason that has happened is because the sexual revolution is the God of our age. Now we're going to look specifically at the set of homosexuality and other things that fall underneath the LGBTQ plus kind of umbrella.

But the reality is we are a sexualized people from top to bottom. We think that the world and the way that we do things ought to be looked through the lens of sexuality. This is why people can identify, for example, as homosexuals, because who you are, your identity is according to our culture, the ultimate reality.

The ultimate reality is what you think about sex and how you perform sex. But the Bible teaches us and has for us an entirely different approach to both identity and sexual ethics. And here's the deal.

It has so penetrated our culture that we are, as Christians who believe in the word of God, becoming the minority. And we are being censored. We are being hated because of our stance. Something that was prized and prioritized in our country has now become something anathema.

But the good news is try as they might, and they will try, to censor our word bearers, imprison them. They cannot silence God's piercing, convicting, and life-reorienting word. So long as we have this book, we have God's answers for what it means to be human and what it means to be male and what it means to be female and what it looks like to engage in a proper and biblical sexual ethic.

And so if we are going to be people who live like those who honor God, we need to read God's word and be exegeted, as it were, by God's word that we might walk in a different way, no matter how hard it might be.

Hebrews 4:12-13 and the Living, Active Word

And so if you would, please stand with me for the honoring and reading of God's holy, infallible, and all-sufficient word. And I'm going to read for you a passage of scripture from Hebrews chapter 4 verses 12 and 13.

And this has nothing to do with, and everything to do with, homosexuality. And I hope that will become increasingly clear as we move along. Hebrews chapter 4 verses 12 and 13. It says this, For the word of God is living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing as far as the division of soul and spirit of both joints and marrow, and able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

And there is no creature hidden from his sight, but all things are uncovered and laid bare to the eyes of him to whom we have an account to give. The grass withers and the flower fades, but the word of our God endures forever.

Amen. Amen. Please have a seat. Now, if we are going to be Christians who love God, love his people, and live in a way that is honoring to him, especially as it relates to our sexuality, we need to be people of the word.

The word is what I have said over and over does the work. It is the word that does the work. And so if we are to address our culture in any meaningful way, or if we are to address our own heart in any meaningful way, we need to look at this living and active word that pierces to the bone and marrow.

So look with me starting at verse 12 here. It says, For the word of God is living and active. Of course, we know the word of God to be the very words of God. Everything in 2 Timothy 3, 16 and 17 show us that the word of God here is God-breathed.

Now, there is a few ways to take this passage. Some people believe that this is talking about Jesus, the incarnate word, and other people take it to be about the written word, the Theanoustos, the God-breathed word, about the incarnate word.

I'm partial to the separate interpretation, but that doesn't mean that they can't be bound up together. But let's look at it through the lens of the written word. It says here that the written word, the word of God is living and it is active.

The question that we must ask if we are going to address this question is, what does it mean that the word is living and active if it is that instrument through which we can address these sorts of questions?

Well, we have to see that it speaks, it pleads, and it conquers. That's what it means to be a living and active word. It speaks, it pleads, and it conquers. Let me expand upon that a little bit. By saying that the word of God is living and active and saying that it speaks, what we are saying is that essentially it teaches us.

It is words on a page that show us truths, specifically doctrinal and theological truths about things in the world. Not only are there facts in it, like the facts of creation, the facts of Jesus' resurrection, the facts of his crucifixion, the facts of the apostles and when they lived, how they lived, and so on and so forth.

It also teaches us the truth behind the truth. Why did God create? Why did God resurrect? Why did the apostles exist and do what they did in their ministries? But it also teaches us about who God is in his Trinitarian nature.

It teaches us who he is in his goodness and graciousness. It speaks to us by showing us, we've been walking through Ephesians so this shouldn't be shocking to you, the nature of mankind. That we are totally depraved, ill and undeserving sinners, deserving of God's wrath because of the rebellion we have chosen to live in.

And what he has done, this great God and Savior in redemptive history to secure salvation for his elect in the person and work of Jesus Christ. The Bible is not a textbook. I'm sure you've heard this, but it's not less than that.

It teaches us a lot of stuff and it's not open to just anyone's interpretation. It has to be a point. There has to be a point rather. There has to be a point to what is being said because there is an author behind what is being said.

And so this is why we take interpretation and hermeneutics and things like this very seriously because we want to get to the heart of the matter of every single text. However, it's not just a textbook in that God has sent his word to do something.

So it's not just static, it's living and it's active. And it's active by speaking, but it's also active by pleading. We have a pleading Bible. It's more than information. It's more than propositional truth.

It actually begs us to consider some very crucial realities. It begs us to consider who God is and who we are in light of that reality. It pleads with us to respond to his gospel and in faith and repentance.

It admonishes us to take sin seriously, to take the realities of heaven and hell seriously. It admonishes us to die for our wives as Christ died for the church men. For women, it admonishes us, commands us to submit to our husbands.

But most assuredly and more pointedly today, it takes seriously and pleads with us to take seriously the Bible's assumed and explicitly taught sexual ethic. So this is not open to how we feel about any given thing, right?

We might have loved ones. We might have even had struggles ourselves. I don't know what your story is with same-sex attraction or whatever the case may be, but it's not about loving who you love or feeling what you feel.

Though this is what our cultural culture will tell us, the Bible is not silent on these matters. Not only is it not silent on these matters, it's living and it's active. It speaks, it pleads, and thirdly, it conquers.

It conquers. Not only does the Bible teach us information, not only does it plead with us, beg us, and admonish us, it also conquers our seared consciences and it overcomes our objections and it causes us by the power of the Spirit to be changed.

In other words, the Word of God in being living and active is powerful and effectual. That is, it actually does work on us. The Holy Spirit, the surgeon of God, if you will, cuts and molds us as this says, right?

The Word of God is living and active and it's sharper than any two-edged sword and it's piercing as far as the divisions of the soul and of the Spirit. Effects happen. When you hear the Word of God preached, you will never be the same ever again.

If the Word is preached faithfully, you will either walk out of here closer to Jesus, having repented of your sin, having loved him more, or walking out of here hardened and walking further from Jesus.

So, the Word always is working and it's always conquering. The question is, how is it conquering? And we know this because the Bible teaches it. In Romans chapter 10, verse 17, it says, faith comes from hearing and hearing by the Word of Christ.

And so, those who have hard hearts, they become softened when the Spirit is at work or they become hardened. Maybe we see our sin for the first time. Whether it's same-sex attraction, whether it's being too harsh and angry, whether it's being vain, whether it's being legalistic, whether it's being antinomian, the Bible is an equal opportunity offender and it's only desire through the power of the Holy Spirit.

I'm talking about it like it's its own thing. I mean, it is its own thing, but it's not a person. And so, I'm personifying it in a way, but don't take that to be theological assertion. It is the Word of God and when it is preached and when it is read, the Spirit of God uses that Word to do some things.

And it will always, as I said, do what it was meant to do. Isaiah chapter 55, verse 11, God makes this irrefutably clear when he says, so will my Word be which goes forth from my mouth. It will not return to me empty and without accomplishing what pleases me and without succeeding in the matter for which I sent it.

So, none of us in this room have to be afraid to open our mouths on behalf of God by reading his Word to people. There's never going to be a time where you offer somebody scripture and it be untrue or unhelpful or ineffectual.

God will always achieve the purpose for which he sends his Word. And so, when we submit to its yoke, it conquers our idol-worshipping hearts and that's a beautiful reality. First our hearts and then we can trust it, trust God rather, to use it to crush the idol-worshipping hearts in the lives of other people.

This is why we go to the gay pride festivals and preach the gospel. This is why we go onto the streets and we preach the gospel. Because we believe that the Word does the work. Because it is living. Because it is active.

The Word Wounds, Exposes, and Judges the Heart

And so, we have seen here God's Word is in fact living and active. As we look at our passage again, I want you to see that God's Word is sharp and pierces like a sword. It says in verse 12, for the Word of God is living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword and piercing as far as the divisions of the soul and of the spirit.

So, both joints and marrow and able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart. What's getting at, what is the author of Hebrews getting at here when he says that it is sharp and it pierces like a sword?

Well, he's not saying it speaks, it pleads, and it conquers. He's already said that. He's saying that it wounds and it exposes. It wounds and it exposes. When the Word is proclaimed and it is working, it says here that we get cut.

We get cut. And the question we must ask is, what does that mean? Obviously, we're not getting physically cut. So, what kind of poetic language is being utilized to help us to understand what's going on here?

Well, it's certainly not one where he's speaking of a serial killer, for example. Our God does not cut us with the word like a cold, lifeless, emotionless person who desires to do someone harm. How does he cut us?

He cuts us like a surgeon. He cuts us like a surgeon. Both a serial killer, for example, and a surgeon have the exact same utensil. But one cuts to harm and the other cuts to heal. And we have a God who cuts to reveal and to expose.

Now, how does it wound us? Well, it wounds us because, first of all, the Bible, if you are paying attention, tells every single one of us that we are not all that awesome. Now, I say that not to be mean or critical of anyone in this room.

I think you're great, okay? I love you. But the Bible tells us that even though your pastor loves you and even though he thinks you're great, we are all not great. We are all dead in our sins and our transgressions and we all deserve God's wrath.

We all deserve punishment because we are all sinful and rebellious against him. And that doesn't feel good to come to grips with that reality, right? And this is the exact opposite message that the world tries to send.

I was just listening to a friend who went out and saw that new In-N-Out movie or whatever that Disney movie is that just came out about the emotions that live inside a person's body. I think that's what it's called.

But one of the things, one of the critiques that I heard from Christian friends is that over and over, the way that one of the characters got over kind of their insecurities is by repeatedly saying, I'm a good person.

I'm a good person. I'm a good person. The world wants you to think that you're a good person so that you won't think that you have any need for the Lord Jesus Christ, that you have no need for the Word of God to chisel you and mold you into Christ's image.

So it's a wounding reality when you actually think about it. It's wounding to think that the Son of God had to come and bear your sins so that you could be saved, right? It's a humbling reality that wounds us when we realize that the cross is a gigantic beacon that says not one of us could measure up.

But it's true nonetheless. Not only that, but it exposes our sinful disposition and the particular things that we struggle with. When we read the Bible, we can't argue because it's God. And when you're arguing with your spouse or children, when you're arguing with your brothers and your sisters, you might go back and forth and you might say, well, no, it's your fault, or it's your fault, or it's your fault, or it's your fault.

But the Bible always looks back at us and says, it's your fault. And if you have been reading the Bible lately and it hasn't offended you, you haven't been reading it right. Because it is trying to fix you.

The Holy Spirit is trying to use the Word to pluck out all that is in you that is left from your influence of the world, the flesh, and the devil. It's trying to remove your grip from those things. And it does that by judging.

So God's Word not only is living and active, not only is it sharper than any two-edged sword that pierces us, it also judges us. God's Word judges, which is the next thing that I want you to see here.

Look with me again at verse 12. This is that it judges the thoughts and intentions of the heart. That's right. The Word of God judges our thoughts and our heart. That is, it criticizes the mind and the heart.

It reveals and critiques loves, it reveals and critiques false gods, and it puts it in front of you and tells you to do something about that. Namely, repent and believe what it says. And what you need to understand, friends, is it's important that you get intentions of the heart and thoughts.

Now, it's one thing to be judged for what you think. And you might even be thinking, okay, with the Holy Spirit's help, or with a really good book, or with the Bible, with some really good information, we might be able to change the way we think.

Well, yeah, we need the Holy Spirit's help for that. And you might think that, but what you will certainly have a hard time thinking is the same thing as it relates to the heart. And this goes, or should go without saying, but we'll say it anyway, because all of the alphabet people, the LGBTQ plus stuff, all of their mantras have to do with, well, it's all about your feelings, right?

People may think this way, but really it's about you love who you love, and love is a feeling, and you don't get to dictate that. Well, the Bible gets to, it judges the intentions of the heart. Maybe you've heard this, well, just follow your heart.

Friends, following your heart has ended more marriages, mutilated more bodies, destroyed more souls, and ended more lives than the devil could have imagined. Follow your heart is hell's most effective slogan yet.

And what happens is when our hearts swell up with these idols, the more the Word of God addresses your heart issues. So it's not enough to say, well, this is how I feel. Well, who cares what you feel?

The Bible's trying to fix your feeler. This is why it's imperative that you keep your nose buried in the Word. And the good news is, friends, the more you read the Bible, the more the Bible reads you, and the more it addresses your sinful disposition, your proclivities.

Show me a person who is not repenting of sin and growing in holiness. I'll show you a person who is not reading their Bible. The best thing you can do to make sure that you don't grow in grace is to keep your Bible on the shelf covered in dust, to make sure it's never looking like it's falling apart.

This is why we need the Bible for ourselves, and this is why we must promote the Bible in the public sphere. Let me ask you all a question, including the children. So children, look up here, but everyone pay attention.

Let me ask you a question. Where do you live with your Bible? Where is it at? I'm not speaking, is it on your nightstand? I'm asking, do you live with your Bible on the ground and you step over it? Do you live life ignoring what the scriptures teach, ignoring what the scriptures say, or do you live with the scriptures beside you?

That is, you'll pick it up when it's convenient for you or when it helps you win some sort of argument, or it's intellectually intriguing, and you'll take some of the truth that sounds good to you, just like you'll take truth from other religions or thought leaders like Jordan Peterson or Joe Rogan, or do you live with the Word of God above you?

Do you live with the Word of God as the thing that governs your thought life, governs your emotions, governs the way in which you will do what you are called to do? Are you able to stand underneath the Word of God and live in such a way that if people chuck anything at you, you say, it doesn't matter because this is what the Word says.

Well, before we can talk about homosexuality, we've got to get to a place where we say, I'm going to stand on the Word of God. So why did I have a 20-minute introduction about the Word of God? Because it matters that much.

Because I'm going to say some things that if you are not clued into, or care about, or have allegiance to the Word, really makes no difference because you'll walk out of here and say, well, that's not what the culture says, that's not what my heart says, that's not what people's hearts say, and they've got to be who they are called.

They're born that way. Well, Jesus says you must be born again. Jesus says that our hearts are wicked. Jeremiah the prophet says that our hearts are deceitful. And so we need not be deceived. We need to look in the clear glass that is, in fact, holy scripture.

Well, you might say next then, okay, I'm following your train of thought here. In order to address the sin of homosexuality and different sexual perversions, we must, in fact, see what the Word of God has to say on this.

Yes and amen. But what about the people who do not read the Word of God, do not care about the Word of God? Are they off the hook? No. They are not off the hook for multiplicity of different reasons, but one is given to us in the next verse, verse 13.

Right after addressing the Word of God and what it does in Hebrews chapter 4, the author says, and there is no creature hidden from his sight, speaking of God here, but all things are uncovered and laid bare to the eyes of him to whom we have an account to give.

Here's what they're saying. If you do not care about the Word of God, too bad. You are still accountable to the living God. And even those of you who have the Word of God, it's God who you sit under as your authority.

And by following his Word, you are doing that because it's his Word. God's opinion is all that matters for every single person sitting in this room. And the reason for that, as the author of Ecclesiastes has said, and so many others in the Bible, we will come to judgment.

And we will not say, well, we didn't hear enough of the Word of God. Okay. First of all, you live in the best time in history to get your hands on the Word of God. You trip and fall on the Word of God nowadays.

Second of all, the thing that we're going to be talking about at length today is made evident in nature. And so as we take somewhat of a sharp left turn, having this understanding that it is the Word of God that helps us address these problems, though the Word of God exclusively is not what gets people out of judgment, I want you to consider three R's.

Three R's. Rest, run, and remember. Rest, run, and remember. And here we're going to step outside of this passage itself, but still staying underneath the umbrella of the Word of God. And we're going to address the sinfulness of homosexuality, how to think about it, how to address it, and how to honor God as we think about it and address it.

Rest in God's Created Order for Sexual Ethics

So the first thing, rest. What I mean by that is we must rest in the truthfulness of God's holy, infallible, and all-sufficient Word regarding sexual ethics. Regarding sexual ethics. The first thing that the Bible teaches us, almost from page one, is that homosexuality destroys God's ordained plan for humanity.

So if you're thinking, well, why are we even addressing this? Well, partly because it's Pride Month and everybody is getting this shoved down their throat if they turn on the TV or if they look on their phone or if they go out in public anywhere.

So there's that. Secondly, Pastor Corey wanted it and he gets what he wants. Thirdly, because it's important and the Bible addresses it and we must think about this, especially in our culture. In Genesis 1 and 2, not very far into the Bible, God starts teaching us about the purpose for the sexes.

That is male and female. Look with me at Genesis chapter 1 verses 26 and 28. In Genesis chapter 1 verse 26, God is engaging in the creation of the world and he begins to create us. And it says, then God said, let us make man in our image according to our likeness so that they will have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.

And God created man in his own image. And in the image of God, he created him. Male and female, he created them. Don't pause right there. And I want you to note something. It says here that he created male and female.

It doesn't say that he created male, female, and then all these other genders that are all over the place. In other words, when God created, he knew of, ordained of, only two genders. Only two pronouns existed, right?

He and she. There's no they, there's no it, there's no raccoon, there's no, I mean, whatever people are doing these days. There's none of that. There's male and female, two genders, but I want you to notice something.

They have the same purpose. Now they don't have the same roles, but they have the same purpose. Why did he create them? It says he made them male and female according to their likeness so that they would what?

Have dominion over the fish and the sea. According to Genesis 2, 21 and 24, God gave the woman to the man as a gift so that they together would take dominion. Here's what this very practically means. If it's not clear, men cannot take dominion holding another man's hand.

Dominion cannot be taken without a woman, women. Dominion cannot be taken without and women. Very important. Dominion cannot be taken without a man. It's a package deal. Now, of course, the charge is given to both and yet they do have separate roles that they play.

They're not different in equality, but they are different in roles. It is the man's job to press this mission forward and it is the woman's job to come alongside the man and to be his helpmate in this achievement of dominion.

Pushing back the darkness in this world and promoting the lordship and beauty of Jesus Christ with the righteous. So how does he do that? How do they do that? Well, he goes on in verse 27, God blessed them and God said to them, be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that creeps on the earth.

Now, a lot could be said about this passage and I would love to get into it, but as you can tell, I'm already talking very fast so that we can get through this. But one of the things that we can say and need to say about it at this juncture is that at least one thing taking dominion means is to be fruitful and multiply.

Very simply, this means to procreate, to create other humans, to have children, to flood this earth with, as Psalm 127, 6 says, little arrows. 127 rather, I'm sorry. 127, Psalm 127. We need to flood this earth with children armed with the word of God who love the Lord Jesus and who take the world by holy endeavor.

Let me ask you a very simple question. Can a man and a man fill this earth with arrows? No. Despite what the channels may say, it seems so silly to even ask such a question. I'll be honest. Can a woman and a woman make a child?

No. And yet, the world is believing not only that, that somehow men can be women and women can be men and that they can have babies when they can't have babies. I mean, I just hear of high schools that are allowing children to think that they're raccoons.

They put litter boxes in the stalls. If that's a commercial not to send your kids to public school, I don't know what is. I'm not saying if you do that, you're in any sort of sin, but as Bode Bauckham has often said, if you send your kids to Caesar, don't be surprised when they act like Romans.

That means to be fruitful and multiply. Now, of course, we live in a sin marred world and we're under the curse of the fall. And that doesn't mean that every single person is going to have children, but that is the way that God has created the world to function as a normative principle.

Well, okay, pastor or Christian, that is just in the Old Testament though. In the New Testament, God's really loving and he's accepting of of all genders that he didn't bring up in the garden and of all sexualities.

Wrong. Jesus in the New Testament himself, and we'll stick to Jesus because as soon as you start throwing in Paul, which we'll get to in a moment, but they start saying, well, well, that's, that's not Jesus.

That's not the God, man. That's just some dude's opinion. Some dude's opinion who has been carried along by the Holy Spirit, writing the very words of God. But sure. Let's, let's, let's look at Jesus words here in Matthew 19.

Jesus is interacting with the Pharisees and they're trying to get, get him in a gotcha question, right? And so they, they asked Jesus in verse three, is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason at all?

And of course, based on his teaching, they're assuming he's going to say, well, no, you can't get divorced. And then they're going to go, Hey, wait, wait a minute. Did it Moses? Did it Moses allow people in the Old Testament get divorced?

Now I'll leave that story and that, that entire thing for another sermon. But, but I want you to hear the way he answers the question before he even addresses their question about divorce. He says this, which is actually answering their question about divorce, but he's doing it of course, in a way that only Jesus can do it.

And he answered and he said in verse four, have you not read? You should already know the answer. In other words, that he who created them speaking of God from the beginning, made them male and female and said, for this reason, a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife and the two shall become one flesh.

So they are no longer two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together. Let no man separate. You see here, Jesus is saying that this is the creation order. This is how it works. It works by one man and one woman becoming married, having children, spreading their heirs.

It's not rocket science, Jesus is saying. Children, would you look at me for just a second? I want you to, I want you to hear this and I want you to remember this. Maybe, maybe even write it down if you, if you can, right?

Because this is very important to remember in our culture. Marriage, according to the Bible is one man and one woman for life. One man, one woman for life. What can't I do or how can't I think about that any, any way outside of that sentence?

And that's not just pastor Brandon's opinion. That's not heritage's opinion. That's God's opinion. It's God's opinion. And it doesn't make us unloving to say that. It makes us truth telling people. And the worst thing you can do to people you love is to lie to them.

That's unloving. And if you love people, you'll tell them the truth. The second thing that the Bible teaches about us about homosexuality is that it defiles homes, churches, and nations. So not only does it work against the created order, not only does homosexuality destroy the family by removing from it the ability to procreate and to honor God in their taking of dominion, it also defiles homes, churches, and nations.

Now, Leviticus chapter 18, 22 is a common verse that people cite and think through and talk about. And there's a lot that could be said about this, but if you know it and you've said it, you've likely got in trouble.

And it says, Well, that seems heavy. Well, yes, it's heavy because it's true. It's true. And it's true because when you defy God in anything, regardless of sexuality, you pollute the land and you beg for God's judgment.

But sexual sin, according to especially the Old Testament, but even so in the New Testament, is a much greater sin because you're sinning against your own body and you're spreading a lot of stuff. I mean, there's arguably the deadliest disease that exists in this world was carried forth because of homosexuals and the way that they engage with one another.

That, of course, being HIV and AIDS. So you can see how it pollutes the land. Explaining this in Leviticus 18, 28, just a few verses later, it gives a reason why it's abomination. It's an abomination because it pollutes the land.

And it says specifically to the people of Israel, so that the land will not vomit you out should you defile it. As it has vomited out the nation which has been before you. Friends, sexual sin is a perversion that defiles homes, churches, and nations.

I mean, since the sexual revolution began, I mean, you can look at what's happening in the world. Now, I'm an optimistic guy in terms of eschatology. But like, if you look at America right now, it seems like it's doing this and not this.

And it's not just because people are lying, cheating, and stealing. I mean, a lot of people lie, cheat, and steal. And we agree it's horrible. I'm not trying to make light of that at all. It deserves, all sin is equal before God and deserves God's judgment.

However, a lot of the issues that we are in today, down to abortion, are because of people's sexual perversion. Why is it okay for people to murder their children in the womb in their mind? Because they're allowed to do whatever they want with their body.

Now, I heard the other day, I read this, I don't know how far to take it, but I thought it was a very interesting observation, if you will. This idea of our bodies, you know, my body, my choice. That's what people use, you know, on the liberal left to justify their sexual perversion, justify their abortion, so on and so forth.

And, you know, it's interesting that at the Lord's table, we come to it and Jesus reminds us that his body has been destroyed for us. But our sexual perversion, we're willing to destroy other people's bodies to make ourselves happy.

You see, you can look at the spiritual realities of everything happening, and you can see that it's the exact opposite, the antithesis of who God is. Jesus died for us, and we're willing for other people to die or for us to die to continue to be selfish.

It's insane. And so what do we do? When we think like that, when we approve of that, we invite God's judgment. And we can see this in places like Romans chapter 1. Romans chapter 1 is quite honestly one of the most insane passages of scripture to me, right?