Highlight: Sexuality and Identity

They wrap us up and bind us up and tell us that we need to keep our identity, our true self, locked.

Away. But Jesus... Question, what in the text gives us reason to believe that this is about identity? What in the text gives us that, that it's about identity, our identity? Nothing. Nothing in the text.

Sexuality as a Competing Identity

Brandon Robertson is taking modern concepts about coming out of the closet. He's taking his own particular issue and problem with the Christian church's rejection on the basis of Scripture, his particular choices in sexual ethic.

He has a problem with that. So he says, well, here's the scenario. There's so many people who want to live this out. They want to live out this sexual ethic. And there's so many other Christians, standing on the word of God, by the way, who are saying, no, God condemns that.

You need to turn from that. Such were some of you. God redeems people from all of these sins, addiction, sexual immorality, adultery, heterosexual sins, all those things. God delivers us from those things.

He saves us from our sins. And such were some of you. And Brandon Robertson says, no, no, you're binding up these people. You're casting them out. You're leaving them as though left for dead. Why? Because their identity is wrapped up in their sexuality.

Isn't that amazing? That in order to dive head first into Brandon Robertson's worldview and his view of Scripture is that your sexuality, what you do with your genitals is the substance of who you are.

It's everything. Your physical intimacy, that's your whole identity. It's everything. That's what they want us to believe. That this is everything. This is your identity. Your sexuality is your ultimate identity.

And it's honestly not only depraved, but it's honestly depressing. It's depressing that according to Brandon Robertson, there is really no escape from this because there's no such were some of you necessary.

And your whole identity is wrapped up in your sexual choices here. And so what we're doing is we're taking people and we're saying to them, no, you shouldn't live this out. This is something that God calls us in and we're putting them away and we're binding them up and we're not allowing them to live out their true self.

Their true self being what they do with their genitals and who they do it with. That's everything. That's their true identity. Brandon Robertson couldn't have a lick of a meaningful debate with a person who was advocating for a sexual practice that even Brandon Robertson found deplorable or depraved because all of his arguments in terms of his rejection of scripture and what he accepts would work for their lifestyle too.

They could just change the word and they could say, I can have a healthy, loving relationship with Jesus Christ as pedophile. I can have a sexual and healthy, loving relationship with Jesus Christ as someone who enjoys sex with animals.

And they could use the same arguments as Brandon Robertson ultimately, because Brandon Robertson doesn't see the word of God as ultimate and definitional. It's not for Brandon Robertson.