Same Sex Desire & The idolatry of Pride Month

Loving Family Members Without Choosing Sin

You don't have to make the decision between Jesus or your gay nephew, or Jesus or your gay family member. Those really aren't the choices. You can still love them and love God, but you don't choose them over God.

Yes, Barb. Something that has puzzled me over this question is, I've read a lot of stories of people who realized very early in childhood that there was something different about themselves from other people.

And as they got older and realized that they were gay, they prayed and prayed and prayed that God would take that away from them. And for so many of them it didn't happen. And some of them wrote it out in their suicide note.

And it puzzles me, because why? If the person desperately wanted to be straight...

Desire, Temptation, and the Choice to Obey

Yeah. Well, let me approach it this way. Do any of you have desire? Not those types of desires, necessarily. Just any desire, any temptation that you've felt like you've dealt with your whole life? There are certain sins you're prone to.

All of us, right? Don't we all have the besetting sins? There are certain things that we feel tempted to do. Have you prayed for God to take those things away? Has he done that? See, that's not really the issue.

The issue is, am I going to indulge in this? Am I going to choose to live as a drunkard? Am I going to choose to live the homosexual lifestyle? Am I going to choose to continue to steal? Am I going to choose to continue to fornicate and commit adultery?

Am I going to... That's a choice. How you feel at any given moment, that might not be a choice. Because I can't always control the way I feel about things. That's really the issue. Now, sometimes God does take those.

There are desires, things I wanted to do 20 years ago. I have no desire to do those things. So, sometimes we do get victory. God takes it away, or we just obey the Lord. And over time, it's just not a problem anymore.

And for all the people who say what you shared, Barb, that I just never overcame that, or I can't. There are plenty of testimonies of former... people who lived formerly a homosexual life, and now they are straight.

And they say, it's no longer... You may say, well, that's a minority, or I don't... They exist. I mean, there's people on all different sides saying all different things. But we all have sinful desires.

And the question is, am I going to obey the Lord and not indulge? Or am I just going to say, hey, this is who I am? Because we all are sinners, right? Well, I'm just a sinner, so I'm just going to... Right.

You know, the main difference is the homosexual thing. That's like the big issue. It's like a golden calf in our country. We have a whole month devoted to it. It's idolatry is what it is. You say, well, you know, the Christians, you're all just singling them out.

No, we're not. Maybe some people do, but they have made this the issue. If there was a month devoted to theft, let's celebrate... You know, August is, you know, theft month. Let's celebrate theft.

We'd be just as against that. National Burglar's Day. Right.

And you say, well, that's ridiculous. Well, I mean, people would have thought Pride Month was ridiculous just 20 years ago, 30 years ago. 1 Corinthians 6. Paul says, starting in verse 9,. Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God?

Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God.

Now there's pretty good chant. Now, again, because it's the big issue of the day. People often quote this. Homosexuals aren't going to heaven. Well, well, it also says thieves aren't going to heaven. So what is this verse saying?

What is Paul saying? If you've done this, you can't go to heaven. That's not what he's saying. And by the way, he goes on, And such were some of you. So some people in the Corinthian church were living that lifestyle, and now they're not.

Some people were drunkards. Now they're not. What he's saying is people who that's their lifestyle. You're just a thief. You know, there's those people that they rob a bank. You know, they get let out.

They rob a liquor store. They get out. They do it again. That's evidence. They've never been converted to Christ. Someone who is just a reviler throughout their whole life. They're just one of those people.

They just just spew out of their mouth, just hateful things and reviling. And that's just who they are. And they choose to live this way their whole life. That's evidence. They've never been born again.

So it's not just that one thing. But if you choose to live, if you choose to embrace your sin and affirm what God says is wrong. That's just evidence that you're not going to heaven because you're not born again.

If you were born again, you would at least start out wanting to get victory over that. It might take some time. But this is the divide. Affirming sin or struggling with sin. Everybody has some struggle with sin.

You can say you're perfect, but nobody here is going to buy that. So don't sell it. But affirming it is obviously wrong. And that was understood in our country. It was understood in any Christian civilization for a long time.

But now we're living in a pagan or heathen culture. That's just the way it is. All right.

Acceptance, Pride Month, and the Golden Calf of Our Culture

So someone we haven't heard from. Emil. But Dad, I know you still love me. And whatever I am here. But please, for Thanksgiving, can I bring my partner over? Yeah. No. No, you can't. That would be my answer.

That would be a no. That's the crux. Accept me. Accept who I am in a real form. Yeah. Acceptance is what they crave. Yep. And that's why we're being forced to live in a month of the acceptance month. We're going to honor what they do, what they are, what they say they are.

Yeah. Thank you. That's good.

Celebrate Christianity. I would also say this. If my child became an alcoholic and they wanted to come over with their bottle of gin, I would say, you ain't coming over with that either. You know, if you choose to go home afterwards and drink yourself into a stupor, you're an adult.

That's your choice. And you know how I feel about it. But you're not bringing that to my house. As for me and my house, what?