Sexuality, Acceptance, and the Gospel | Theocast

The World’s Search for Acceptance and the Lie of Sexual Approval

Sin will always rob you of joy, and you will always be searching for this sense of it being acceptable. This is what the culture, and even in Christianity, remove any kind of homosexual or any other kind of sexual deviancy that's out there.

Even sex before marriage, there's a pressure of you need to be able to accept this and make it be okay with it. I will say that what the world's really looking for is they want that feeling of being accepted.

They want to be a part of something that is good, and they want their sin. This is what it talks about in the New Testament where they turn what is evil into good and good into evil. They want their evil to be accepted, and what we can come in and say is that acceptability you were looking for can be found, but it can't be found in the way in which you are pursuing it.

It's a great observation that the unconditional acceptance that people are looking for is offered freely to us in Christ.

The Gospel’s Power to Give Acceptance

When I interact with people who are in these circumstances or struggling with this, the gospel is foolish to them, but I don't allow that to distract me because I know that the power of the gospel can come in and give that acceptance to people, but they have to lay aside, as Paul says, we have to die to everything.

Right now we're talking about acceptability within sexuality, but this applies. It can apply in your parenting. It can apply in your career. It can apply in your gender. We want to feel accepted by what we do, but the only acceptance that we will ever feel is in what Christ has done.

Then when you live in that, you can let that wash over you and you wear that guard. You put on that robe. You feel that acceptance of God. You don't want anything else. You want to shout it from the rooftops.

Did you all know? Did you know this existed? Did you know you could have this? Did you know it could be for everyone? It changes everything.

Justin Perdue. Amen.

Christ’s Power to Save Sinners Beyond Their Worst Sin

I think maybe a parting shot, and then I might tee up something for the members area. A parting shot would be, and this is not my opinion or John's opinion, this is what we can pronounce and say to the listener and say to one another based upon the testimony of God's word, that to the saints who are listening, I don't know, John doesn't know everything that you've done, but we can promise you beyond the shadow of a doubt that you cannot out-sin Christ's power and ability to save you.

That is a wonderful thought for sinners who struggle with corruption.

You don't want to try, but for those who have a tender conscience and who are thinking, brother, you have no idea what I've done. You're right. I don't know what you've done. Now I could surmise it. I'm not surprised by it very much.

As a pastor, even knowing my own heart, I'm just not surprised by it very much. But you will never, if you are trusting Christ, you will never out-sin his power and his ability.

To save you.