Social Justice Train Cars of Egalitarianism, Homosexuality, and Entitlement

Okay, dear ones. Thank you for joining me for my second and final presentation and in this presentation

I'm going to look at some more cars that Inevitably come along the social justice train again think

When the social justice coming in that that engine comes in it's bringing cars along with it so in this presentation, we're going to look at the egalitarian car the homosexual car and then we'll conclude by the

Entitlement car and the entitlement car does indeed lead us to a different gospel all together

Okay, so let us begin by defining these terms egalitarianism and complementarianism

Egalitarianism theologically speaking. There's a political definition of this a political slash philosophical slash

Sociological definition of this term that actually does fit into kind of the more leftist political spectrum but but for our purposes here theologically speaking the egalitarian view is that Women can hold the same positions of leadership in both the home and in the church

Okay in the Christian world if you're egalitarian That means that you believe that women can lead spiritually be in positions of authority in both the home and the church

Just as much as can men. So in other words, they can be pastors they can be elders

They can do all the things that men can do that is opposed and in contradiction to Complementarianism the complementarian position holds that Positions of spiritual leadership in both the home and the church are reserved solely for men

Okay, so a position of being an elder or a pastor

Shepherd those terms are used interchangeably in the New Testament, by the way, but an elder a pastor those

Positions are reserved solely for men women are not Biblically permitted to serve as an elder to serve as a pastor now the complementarian position

Absolutely does hold that men and women are of equal value Galatians 3 28 is very clear about this

Now therefore neither there's neither Jew nor Greek slave nor free male nor female for we are all one in Christ Jesus Men men and women are both created in the image of God.

We are Equally sinners we are saved through the same gospel.

We are indwelt by the same Holy Spirit There's nothing that is any more inherently spiritual about a man as Opposed to a woman

So we are on equal footing absolutely equal footing before God in that regard but God has designed it that the positions of leadership in the

Institutions that he created the home and the church are to be filled by men now theologically conservative

Evangelicals those with a high view of scripture who hold to the inerrancy of scripture

Have held that the complementarian position is the biblical position

This changed at least with the United Methodist Church in 1956 in 1956 the

United Methodist Church Granted women full clergy rights and this is a portrait of Maud Jensen.

She was the first female clergy member who first lady who had been granted full clergy rights

In the United Methodist Church now the United Methodist Church had been allowing women to preach for Over a hundred years before this but to actually be granted full clergy rights with all the bells and whistles and and everything that goes

Along with that Maud Jensen was the first one in 1956 so that began the the doctrinal slide of the

United Methodist Church and now When you look at the United Methodist Church, it is for all intents and purposes full -blown apostate

John and Charles Wesley would not recognize the United Methodist Church today and dear friends

Please understand this when when you look at any denomination when a denomination begins to ordain women and put them in positions of Leadership that the

Bible reserves only for men that begins the doctrinal slide Okay, the the camel's nose is under the tent an error always begets more error

Right, it spreads like gangrene and left unchecked That error will eventually lead to full -blown theological liberalism which is exactly where the majority of the

United Methodist Church is today, but Southern Baptist and then

I'm not Southern Baptist in full disclosure and a lot of people think I am I used to be but I haven't been officially for I guess about 11 years now, but the

Southern Baptist Commission has has always maintained that The complementarian position is the right

Position and that has been the rule amongst theologically conservative Evangelicals with a high view of Scripture now, that would not be true in the charismatic world

I mean charismatics would say they have a high view of Scripture, but in the charismatic movement women preach almost as much as men do and it's very common to see women as pastors in the in the charismatic movement charismatic

Churches, but any any time that this has been done whether it's United Methodist Church And we're going to see it in the charismatic churches as well.

This will always Directly lead into full -blown Theological liberalism and the tide has been turning in the

Southern Baptist Convention. The Southern Baptist Convention again has been complementarian Really for its entire existence

But in the last especially in the last ten years or so that that slide away from complementarianism

Towards egalitarianism has been ramping up now while I'm thinking about that. Let me let me make this point

What you see in the social justice movement is that they will use the same lingo as conservatives

So they'll have the same lexicon But they're using different dictionaries.

Okay, they they will say oh, we're we're conservative We have a high view of Scripture.

Oh, we're Complementarian, but we just believe that a woman can preach on Sunday as long as she has the pastor's permission

Then you're not complementarian Okay, so watch that watch that in every facet of the social justice movement and all of its all of its

Tentacles they use the same lexicon. They'll use the same lingo the same terminology But they import into that terminology very very different definitions

Beth Moore threw a big rock in the evangelical pond in 2019 on Twitter.

She was responding to a lady named Vicki Courtney who was preaching at a church on Mother's Day and Beth Moore responded by saying

I'm doing Mother's Day to Vicki. Let's please don't tell anyone this

Haha, as she puts that on social media with all of her many many many thousands of followers

Well, this caused this caused a lot of waves and there was a lot of discussion and there were some articles written by some conservative

Theologians dr. Owen Strand among them who was a speaker at this particular conference and rightly pointed out that the

Not only is the office of pastor reserved for men biblically but so is the function of preaching now some have tried to wiggle out of the complementarian position by saying that Well, it's okay for a woman to preach as long as she's not the pastor

That makes no sense. You cannot separate the function from the office And I'm kind of surprised that this caused the brouhaha that it did because this was not at all

The first time that Beth Moore had ever preached in a church Corporate worship on a

Sunday. It's it was not the first time that's not something that she does regularly But from time to time by her own admission she does do it

So wasn't wasn't like this was a one -off not by any stretch now Beth Moore's Excuse for doing this.

Well, it's Mother's Day It's Mother's Day Mother's Day is a

Man -made holiday. There's nothing biblical about Mother's Day. That is a man -made holiday.

It's a secular holiday So it you it bears so it has no bearing at all in God's economy and his truth whether or not that Sunday is

Mother's Day It is the Lord's Day where we as believers gather Corporately to worship

God in spirit and in truth and when a woman is filling the pulpit on a

Sunday morning God is not being worshipped either in spirit or in truth And since then

Beth Moore has preached at other churches She has preached even at Wheaton College and Truett Seminary And this is a video that was posted just very recently within a couple of a week or two ago

For preaching at Truett Seminary and this is actually actually preaching at a preaching conference there were people like Dean Todd still and his wife

Carolyn like several members of your faculty and Like the precious people that have opened up their arms to me and would dare to have me at a preacher's conference my good friend

So if Beth Moore will accept an invitation to preach at a preaching conference

Then that obviously tells you she has no problem whatsoever with women preaching whether it is in church or in a seminary and Shame on Truett Seminary for having her preach at a preaching conference and aside from the egalitarian issue

Honestly, Beth Moore is a whole other discussion But Beth Moore is hermeneutic some of the some of the interpretations that she comes up with in Scripture are just absolutely

Mind -blowing bizarre looney tunes, but anyway back to the issue at hand

The church that Rick Warren pastors Saddleback Church made big news earlier this year back in May of 2021 in which they ordained three women as pastors

Okay, and they actually are calling these three women pastors This is a picture that you see of course the three lower circles

There are the women who they are ordaining and the higher circle there is is

Rick Warren himself So this is this is Rick Warren. This is the pastor of Saddleback Church one of the flagship churches of the

Southern Baptist Convention This is the author of purpose -driven life purpose -driven church and so here you have one of the largest churches in the

SPC Openly and flagrantly ordaining women as pastors now There were a few in the

SPC who spoke up about this or push back on it But nothing has been done and nothing will be done

The Saddleback Church should be kicked out of the Southern Baptist Convention, but no

It won't nothing to see here move along the current president of the

SPC is Ed Litton Ed Litton pastors in Mobile, Alabama and Ed Litton is a serial plagiarist

I've done some videos on that on my youtube channel you can go to my youtube channel and look at those but he Others have as well.

It's Exhaustively Documented and proven. He is a serial plagiarist has been plagiarizing sermons for years and yet Not one of the presidents of any of the six

Southern Baptist seminaries have said anything about it one president Jason Allen did say something about plagiarism in general, but none of the six presidents have called for his resignation

And he should resign but At any rate Ed Litton claims to be a complementarian he claims to believe the the biblical view that the positions of Leadership in both the home and the church are to be held by men and only men can be pastors

But Ed Litton on multiple occasions has co -preached Sermons on Sunday morning with his wife and here is a just a picture of one of those

Occasions and it's interesting I've actually watched a couple of these and on at least one of them

Ed Litton and his wife have both They were both plagiarizing

Someone else in their sermon. This was a sermon that was lifted from Tim Keller So you've got two issues going on here

Ed Litton Plagiarizing and his wife is plagiarizing But Ed Litton claims to be a complementarian

And that goes back to what I was saying a minute ago, they're using the same lexicon, but a very different dictionary

So if it doesn't matter if the woman has Permission from the senior pastor that doesn't make it.

Okay it Sin is not okay. As long as you have someone else's permission to do it if for example when

I was a seminary student if I had gone to one of my buddies in the men's dorm and One of my friends was a guy named

Lance. I said, hey Lance I've got this paper coming up and I know you had this class last semester and you wrote a paper on the same subject

Can I copy your paper and put my name on it? If Lance had said yeah, sure man, that's okay

I understand you're in a bind and you got this deadline looming. It's okay Here's my paper and I copy his paper, but put my name on it.

It doesn't make it. Okay. It's still sin Russell Moore, Dr.

Russell Moore up until very recently was the president of the ERLC in the Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Religious Liberties Commission and back in 2006

Russell Moore was very was a very staunch Complementarian and he warned about encroaching feminism and even specifically called out

Beth Moore for her preaching in churches on a Sunday and he warned about that rightly

So but that was that was back in 2006 and Russell Moore has completely changed now and now

Russell Moore and Beth Moore are big buddies their big friends and Russell Moore as is now a functional

Egalitarian because he Praises Beth Moore supports Beth Moore and has famously said that if the

SBC doesn't have a place for Beth Moore Then it doesn't have a place for a lot of us Beth Moore has since left the

SBC and Beth Moore has now officially come out of the egalitarian closet

Want to show you this tweet from April the 7th 2021 Beth Moore writes this she says let me be blunt when you functionally treat

Complementarianism a doctrine of man all caps as if it belongs among the matters of first importance

Yay as a litmus test for where one stands on inerrancy and authority of Scripture You are the ones who have misused

Scripture you went too far Okay, a couple of points here

When when Beth Moore refers to complementarianism as a doctrine of man

No, it's not a doctrine of man The term was created by man the term complementarianism was created by man

In exactly the same way that the word Trinity was created by man

You will not find the word Trinity or Trinitarian in the scriptures But you will find the doctrine of the

Trinity very clearly taught unmistakably taught so Yeah, the term complementarianism you won't find in Scripture But the doctrine the theology you absolutely will find in Scripture.

I want to show you this text first Timothy 2 12 through 14 Paul writes, but I do not allow a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man

But to remain quiet Okay, first Timothy 2 12 is one of the is one of the many key texts in dealing with complementarianism in addition to the text in which he says that a an elder a pastor must be the husband of one wife obviously a woman cannot be the husband of one wife despite all the nonsense going on in our world where a

Man can identify as a woman and vice versa and all this kind of looney tune stuff But back to the real world back to reality a wife a woman cannot be the husband of one wife

Okay, what I want to do now is look at some of the common arguments against complementarianism and We don't have time to do a deep dive on all these things

Obviously, I just kind of want to give you a bird's -eye view here for kind of from 30 ,000 feet strong bird

You know what I mean, so in dealing with first Timothy 2 12, for example the way that egalitarians get around Versus like first Timothy 2 12 as I say, well that was just relegated to the culture of the day

You know, that was a cultural norm and but our society has evolved now You see we're so much more enlightened and so things like what

Paul said in first Timothy 2 12 That's not that's not binding anymore today But look at what

Paul says here in the context in verse 13 Paul continues and he says for it was

Adam Who was first created and then Eve and it was not Adam who was deceived?

But the woman was deceived and became a wrongdoer So Paul here is making a theological point and he is he is tying this to the created order

So this is a theological point that is timeless It doesn't it doesn't run out.

There's never a time when it is not applicable and If it could not be any more clear look at the very next verse verse 15

Paul says but women will be preserved through childbirth If they continue in faith love and sanctity with moderation so he even create even connects this to childbearing and Though we are living about two thousand years after this was written last time

I checked it was still women who do most of the childbearing nowadays all of it

So this is not cultural. This is theological and this is timeless So one of the arrows in the egalitarian quiver is taken from Romans 16 verse 7 now those of you who have really?

Observant you might have noticed that up until this point all of the scripture references that I've been citing I have been citing from the

New American Standard Bible Well this one I'm going to give to you in the NIV because it has to be in the

NIV for this particular Egalitarian argument to work. So let's look at this

Romans 16 verse 7 Paul writes Greet Andronicus and Junia my fellow

Jews who have been in prison with me. They are outstanding among the Apostles and so the argument is is that Paul greets

Junia and Calls her a an Apostle and Junia was a woman and so Paul is saying that Junia was an

Apostle well a couple of points to be made about this number one We don't even know for certain that Junia was a woman

Junia may have been a man This is one of those names in Greek that could you could really go either way with it

It could be male could be female. We have the same thing in English We have a few names that could go either way

Sam, for example Sam is usually referring to a man, but it could be short for Samantha for a woman or what's another one?

Ashley most of the time Ashley is a female name, but there are I've met a few men who are named

Ashley that is a male name Ashley was a Soldier and gone with the wind male.

So anyway can it could go either way and it's kind of the situation here with Junia So let's just assume for Arguments sake that Junia was indeed a woman.

So what do we do with this because Paul seems to call her an Apostle Except that he only seems to call her an

Apostle. I want to show you the same verse We're gonna go back to the New American Standard because the

NIV is a bit Paraphrastic. It's not a true literal word -for -word translation

It's more of a thought -for -thought and that kind of gets into the realm of interpretation So I like the

I like the literal word -for -word translations the ESV New American Standard Bible and I'm also going to show you this from the legacy standard

Bible Which is uh is going soon going to be my go -to translation once it's all out right now. It's just in the

Available in New Testament Psalm and Proverbs waiting on the Old Testament come out. So Very literal but at any rate let's go to this

Let me show you the same verse in the New American Standard and the legacy standard translation

In fact, I'll show you all three here so the pertinent parts in the New American Standard says that Andronicus and Junia are outstanding in the view of the

Apostles ESV they are well known to the Apostles legacy standard

Bible who are Outstanding to the Apostles. So you see dear friends all in the world

This is saying is that Junia whoever he or she was Was not an actual

Apostle capital a office of Apostle It says that Andronicus and Junia were

Notable, they were notable among the Apostles the Apostles held them in high regard notice that they were fellow prisoners

So they were obviously faithful servants of Christ willing to even be Imprisoned for their faith in Christ.

So they were noted. They were well respected They were admired by the Apostles, but Junia was not an

Apostle Another egalitarian argument is based on Romans 16 verse 1

But again, you've got to look at it in the NIV Paul writes I commend to you our sister

Phoebe a deacon of the church in syncria. So Paul apparently refers to Phoebe who is indeed a woman as a deacon

So if a woman can be a deacon then isn't that an argument for? Egalitarianism because a deacon is indeed an office in the church.

Well The NIV again NIV this is one of the weaknesses of the

NIV Let me show you the same verse in the New American Standard Paul writes

I recommend to you our sister Phoebe who is a servant of the church, which is at syncria.

So The word servant here in the Greek diakonos for the singular Can refer to the office of being a deacon in which case?

One holding that office would have to be the husband of one wife Temperate hospitable not addicted to wine all those qualifications that Paul gives

However, it could also refer to a servant just in the general sense of the term How do you know which is correct?

You know Which is correct by the context of the passage and we have the same thing with other terms in the

New Testament as well Apostle is actually also one of those terms apostle could refer to in a very general sense

Just someone who is sent out from a church in the in the sense of an evangelist or missionary.

I'm an evangelist or it could refer to The office of being an apostle and we denote that with a capital a elder is the same way presbyteros

It could refer simply to an older man an older man, or it could refer to the office of being an elder so you have to look at the context in which it is used and here the the

Given the compendium of Scripture we're gonna talk about in just a second the context argues

Overwhelmingly that Paul is simply referring to fib Phoebe as a servant in the church

Wonderful lady sister in the Lord as Paul says Absolutely, and she serves but she doesn't hold the office of being a deacon in fact in John chapter 2 the wedding of Cana the servants there are also referred to as Deacons if you want to render it that way diakonos or diakonoi

But it simply means in that context a servant the people filling the water pots are we're obviously not

Deacons in the church, right? I mean the church had not even yet been instituted at that point in time so Context context context and it really does help to have a literal word -for -word translation like the

New American Standard ESV or the legacy standard Bible, which is coming out soon shameless plug

Another egalitarian argument is based upon Priscilla in Acts chapter 18 Priscilla and her husband

Aquila you might remember took Apollos who is well -versed in Scripture but they took him inside us took him aside and Instructed him more fully in the doctrine of Christ and some have said oh well

That's that's proof right there that a man can teach a woman because Priscilla instructed Apollos but friends a couple of things one.

She was with her husband Aquila number two. This was a private setting.

Okay, this interaction with Apollos was private This was not in corporate worship You know if if for example my wife and I Kathy were to have a couple over for dinner or something like that and and we we begin to talk theology, which we inevitably would and And the the husband of the couple that we had over said something and we get to talking about it

That maybe it maybe is a little bit off theologically. I have no problem whatsoever with Kathy instructing said male guest in our home more more fully in the ways of Scripture and Gently correcting his theology.

I have absolutely no problem with that. In fact, we've had things like that You know in our lives many many many times

So and Kathy has has helped me in some theological things as well over the years

So, you know in a private setting and my wife by the way Knows her stuff. I have absolutely no problem with that a private setting is perfectly fine

But it's a different matter when the corporate body of Christ has gathered together for worship on a

Sunday. That's when those Instructions that's when those the male -female roles those guidelines come into play and also let's talk real quickly about the women at the tomb because I hear this one forwarded by Egalitarians quite a bit that it was women who were the first heralds of the resurrection of Jesus It was the women at the tomb and they went and they told the disciples about Jesus Resurrected and surely since it was women who brought this good news

They were the first ones to report it that surely that means that women can preach Context context context there's a big difference between Heralding something or reporting something as opposed to exegeting scripture

Okay, the women at the tomb a they were not in church They weren't this was this again.

This was before the church was actually even created in the book of Acts So they were not in church This was not corporate worship and the women went to report what they had seen per the instructions of the angels there

There's a big difference between reporting something in exegeting scripture. They were not preaching They were simply reporting big big difference.

So everyone's to sum all of this up The egalitarian argument has no biblical merit the fact of the matter is when you look at the clear meaning of the text an elder a

Pastor is to be the husband of one wife a woman cannot do that A woman is not allowed to usurp the authority over a man

She is not allowed to teach men in a corporate setting scripture is crystal clear about this and there's just no amount of hermeneutical gymnastics that you can go through to get around the clear meaning of the text

None of the books of the Bible were written by a woman None of the pastors of any of the churches that we read about in the

New Testament were pastored by women none of the Apostles were women

The fact that Jesus chose 12 men as his disciples and Apostles That was not a flip of the coin.

Okay, that was deliberate. So you just cannot make an argument for Egalitarianism it is unbiblical and as I said a bit ago

Once you open that egalitarian door once that camel's nose is under the tent the rest of the camel is coming and It will not be long before you go into full -blown

Theological liberalism it has happened every time and it really is ironic when egalitarians accuse complementarians of demeaning women not not esteeming women not honoring women

I would submit to you that it is those who advocate women to be in positions That God has simply not permitted them to be in they are the ones who demean women

They are the ones who are not honoring women women Have a very important role to play they are to be look at Titus chapter 2

They are to be workers in the home and that you know nowadays in our society that's looked down upon that's poo -pooed no, that is that is a very high calling a

Man cannot do what God has designed a woman to do No woman cannot do what God has designed a man to do equal value

But we do have different roles and and it is it is actually those who put women in places that God is simply not ordained for them to be in who who are

Dishonoring women and I'm not even saying that a woman cannot possess the gift of teaching because you know what?

I'd believe that some women do possess the gift of teaching just like some men possess the gift of teaching

But read Titus chapter 2 a woman is to use that gift to teach other

Women I have no problem whatsoever with a woman teaching

A group of women in a church, maybe a women's Bible study class or something like that Read Titus chapter 2 the older women are to teach the younger women.

I have no problem with that whatsoever so yes women can have the gift of teaching as long as they use that gift to teach other women as it relates to the gathering of the local church

Okay. All right, dear ones. Let us turn our attention now to the next car on the social justice train and that is the homosexual car

Okay, dear ones the evangelical church traditionally has been very clear that the

Bible defines homosexuality as aberrant and Inherently sinful there are six texts in the

Bible that specifically deal with homosexuality Genesis 19 Sodom and Gomorrah Leviticus chapter 18

Leviticus chapter 20 and then you have in the New Testament Romans chapter 1 first Corinthians chapter 6 and first Timothy chapter 1 these verses are clearly dealing with Homosexuality and they and they quite clearly and irrefutably

Define the homosexuality as inherently sinful But that has begun to change in the evangelical world the winds of social justice

Have begun to kind of loosen the moorings there and now there's you're seeing wiggle room

To varying degrees the the revoice conference made big news a couple of years ago because it had some connection to the

PCA and and the revoice conference is basically saying that Same -sex attraction is not sinful.

You just don't act on it But even that is is iffy at best because there's some really bad stuff going on with revoice but I Notice when probably think

I'm picking on the Southern Baptist here because I keep mentioning the SPC so much But that is the largest

Protestant denomination And so it that there's there's a lot of churches within that and we're seeing

The SPC which is again has has traditionally been very strong in its stance against homosexuality rightly, so other issues notwithstanding But I want to show you some clips from recent sermons preached by the former president of the

SPC JD Greer and then the current president of the SPC Ed Litton and you're gonna see obvious plagiarism here

That's not really the point but I want you to listen to what these two men who are both pastors and former and current president of the

Southern Baptist Convention have to say about homosexuality and this again this is just to show you how

How things are changing? Convictions are waning which leads me to the second way that I see us going wrong here number two

We think it's the worst sin Here's the second thing. I think we do we go wrong and that is thinking homosexuality is the worst of all sins

Jen Wilkin who's one of our favorite Bible teachers here and who's actually leading our women's conference She said she said we ought to whisper about what the

Bible whispers about And we ought to shout about what it shouts about and the Bible appears more to whisper when it comes to sexual sin

Compared to its shouts about materialism and religious pride in the Bible sexual sin is

Whispered compared to the shout God makes about greed and judgmentalism

Dear friends that is absolutely stunning for two pastors two presidents of the

SPC to say that the Bible whispers about sexual sin That's unbelievable to me.

Let's look at just a few of the text Colossians 3 5 through 6

Therefore consider the members of your earthly body as dead to sexual immorality

Impurity passion evil desire and greed which is idolatry on account of these things the wrath of God is

Coming upon the sons of disobedience Does that sound like a whisper to you?

First Timothy 1 9 through 10 knowing this that the law is not made for a righteous person But for those who are lawless and rebellious

For the ungodly and sinners for the unholy and godless for those who kill their fathers or mothers for murderers for sexually immoral persons for Homosexuals for kidnappers for liars for perjurers and whatsoever else is contrary to sound teaching

Romans 13 13 let us walk properly as in the day not in carousing and drunkenness not in sexual promiscuity

And sensuality not in strife and jealousy Now I want to bring your attention to 1st

Corinthians chapter 6 verse 18 Paul says flee sexual immorality

Every other sin that a man commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral man sins against his own body

When it comes to sexual immorality Paul says flee it Flee it

Don't entertain it. Don't play with it. Don't dabble in it flee run

Because there's something unique about sexual sin unlike all other sins Sexual sin is something that is committed inside the body and it it leaves a stain

It leaves a wound that will never completely go away now.

Don't misunderstand me I'm not saying it cannot be forgiven. It can be forgiven. Absolutely Judicially speaking it can be forgiven just as much and just as quickly as any other sin

Judicially speaking But it leaves a stain it leaves a wound

Let's look at Proverbs Proverbs chapter 6 27 through 29 Can a man take fire in his bosom and his clothes not be burned or can a man walk on hot coals and his feet?

Not be scorched So was the one who goes in to his neighbor's wife. Whoever touches her will not go unpunished

Look at verses 32 through 33 The one who commits adultery with a woman is lacking a heart of wisdom.

He who would destroy his soul does it Wounds and disgrace he will find and his reproach will not be blotted out

That is not to say that sexual sin cannot be forgiven it can But unlike other sins sexual sin is committed inside the body it is different It leaves a wound it leaves a stained and the reproach of it will never be fully blotted out

There will always be a wound there Dear friends the Bible whispers about no sin.

The Bible whispers about no sin especially not Sexual sin ask ask the residents of Sodom and Gomorrah as fire and brimstone

Was raining down upon them from heaven ask them if that sounded like a whisper from God The Bible whispers about no sin and especially not sexual sin for two pastors to say this is just unbelievable to me and In watching this it you really get the sense that these two men and others like them

J .D. Greer Ed Litton They have both been blown about to varying degrees By the winds of social justice and others like them you really get the sense when you hear them address the issue of homosexuality that it's

They can't get around the fact that the Bible clearly marks it out as sin. They can't get around that But boy you kind of get the sense that they sure wish that they could it's their whole approach to this was one of An apologetic nature, you know

Yeah, the the Bible says this and but it's not any worse than any of the other sins, you know

It's it's it's like they're apologizing for what the Bible clearly says

Stop apologizing for the Bible Stop apologizing for God If you feel like you have to apologize for God then get out of the pulpit

Get out of the pulpit That let me say something here that I fear Might get misunderstood, but I feel like it's important enough that even though I might get misunderstood

I'm gonna say it anyway in this sense You can almost think of homosexuality as an affliction and not just a sinful choice

Because for most gay people they feel like they didn't choose those desires In fact, here's what I've learned after two decades of pastoring almost every person

I've encountered in the church At least almost every person who struggles with the same -sex attraction is almost always dealing first and foremost with an unanswered prayer

You and I may think that homosexuality is a sinful choice and I have actually said that from this pulpit

But many gay people that I know Don't think they've ever chosen this desire and in a real sense.

They may be right they are right and It isn't because their desires are

God -given their desires like mine are sin -given Sin is an affront to a holy

God and every person I know who struggles with same -sex attraction Has an unanswered prayer in their life

I'm talking to people who struggle with it and The unanswered prayer is God. Why didn't you take this away from me?

I tell you I am really uncomfortable with what you just heard there to say that Homosexuality is more like an affliction as Though it's something that you you can't help and there's nothing you can do about my cerebral palsy is an affliction

Multiple sclerosis is an affliction cancer is an affliction Muscular dystrophy is an affliction

Homosexuality is a choice. It is absolutely a choice all sin is a choice that we make your sinful choices and then to say that People who struggle with this, you know at the end of it that it's an unanswered prayer and that that is why they

Continue to struggle with this because their their prayers have not been answered. I'll tell you what friends that comes perilously close if not

Completely crossing the line of of blaming God for this Friends we can blame

No one for our sins, but ourselves much less God I mean that that strongly insinuated that if God had just answered their prayers, then they wouldn't be struggling with this

I mean don't don't blame God For the sin of homosexuality or any other sin that is completely antithetical to the gospel

I'm going to come back to that point as we close this video Homosexuality does not send you to hell.

You know how I know that because heterosexuality does not send you to heaven Homosexuality does not send people to hell.

How do I know that because heterosexuality doesn't send people to heaven You know when I first heard that clip

I had to rewind it to see if I actually heard what I thought I heard that is just Gobsmacking to me.

Okay. So JD Greer preached this sermon in January of 2019 Ed Litton preached it

January of 2020. So a full calendar year later and clearly it's Ed Litton who's plagiarizing

J .D. Greer and J .D. Greer plagiarized some other sources, but anyway That statement

Theologically speaking is so mind -numbingly Dumb. I mean, how can you make a statement like that?

They actually JD Greer got it from Tim Keller Tim Keller is the one who first said it a number of years ago in an interview, but at any rate that statement is so profoundly

Mind -numbingly Theologically bankrupt it is hard for me to imagine

How any pastor could have seen that statement? I mean put myself in the shoes of Ed Litton.

Ed Litton is plagiarizing a sermon from JD Greer preached a year ago And you know at least you've got a even though you didn't write it

You've got to go over your notes and kind of look at it So at least you kind of somewhat familiar with the material before you you know

Step up onto the platform and deliver it. By the way, what Ed Litton is doing is not preaching. It's acting

But I digress But how is it? How is it for Ed Litton that he could have looked over these notes from JD Greer and seen that statement and not thought no

Wait a minute. Is that right? Something about that doesn't seem right. Is that right? That's not

That statement was so profoundly unbiblical so dumb No Heterosexuality doesn't send you to heaven, but there's nothing inherently sinful about being heterosexual

That's God's design from literally day one

That's God's design There's nothing inherently sinful about it. There is something inherently sinful about Homosexuality it's not sinful for a young Let's for for example a young Christian man to be attracted to a young Christian woman

He wants to get to know her and begin the courtship process or whatever you want to call that There's nothing sinful about that.

That's God's design Okay, if if men and women were not attracted to one another then nobody would ever get married

There's nothing wrong with that There is something inherently wrong and disordered and sinful about homosexuality

Heterosexuality came before the fall Homosexuality only came after the fall.

It's an inherently sinful Desire and it's not just J .D.

Greer and Ed Litton who are compromising on homosexuality many in fact I would dare say almost all of those who are promoting social justice in the evangelical world are

Compromising on it at least to some degree Beth Moore is another example now

It's interesting this case with Beth Moore in her book entitled praying God's Word that came out

I believe in 2009 so it's it's over a decade old in her book praying God's Word Beth Moore was very clear about homosexuality.

I mean she called it a satanic assault evil Sinful she said it's inherently sinful and and must be repented from hey, she's she was right

She was absolutely right But fast forward a decade or so you some of you might remember that back in I think it was 2019 2018 or 19 2019.

There was an open letter written to Beth Moore and it was signed by Several ladies who were doctrinally sound teachers

Martha Peace Debbie Lynn Kespert Michelle Leslie and Susan Heck and they am

I missing someone if I am I'm sorry But anyway, they they put this letter out for Beth Moore an open letter asking

Beth Moore some basic questions What do you believe about? Homosexuality and she would not answer the questions directly

It made a lot of news a lot of different websites reported on it made a lot of news But she would not answer the questions

Directly and then someone discovered that in the Kindle version of her book praying

God's Word that whole section on Homosexuality had been removed it's not in the

Kindle versions just in the you know, the old print versions, but not in the Kindle version and so Of course that raised a lot of eyebrows or why did she take this out?

and so things kind of came to critical mass and she finally had to explain why

She took that section out Interestingly in her blog post she she never said that she affirms that homosexuality is a sin she would only say that she affirms a traditional biblical sexual ethic

And then she also goes on to talk about how she was worried that she overshot she said she oh, no

She wasn't worried about she said I overshot scripture by a mile and what she said in her book praying

God's Word No, she didn't overshoot scripture at all. She was actually right that she was right about what scripture said about Homosexuality and then she gives this example of how she was worried how maybe a 13 year old girl who was struggling with her

Identity and her whatever, you know, whether she's attracted to men or boys or girls and and she was so worried that someone some little girl like that would read that passage in her book and then worry that she was less than that she was just deplorable and there's nothing that she was just Terrible person and there's no hope for and she and Beth Moore didn't want to Come across too strongly and push someone like that away

Well, here's the thing the most Loving thing we could do for someone is to tell them the truth

Beth Moore is also good friends with Jonathan Merritt Jonathan Merritt is a son of James Merritt who is a pastor and former president of the

SPC and Jonathan Merritt really honestly to the surprise of no one Came out earlier this year out of the closet

Was very open that he was he is a homosexual man. I mean every everybody's kind of everybody pretty much knew this but Jonathan Merritt has just heaped praise on Beth Moore Back and forth

Beth Moore to Jonathan and Jonathan to her just heaped praise on one another In fact, here's a screenshot of a tweet that Jonathan Merritt put up Jonathan Merritt writes

I'm going to say something and I know it's theologically suspect and if it means you need to farewell me

That's okay, because I need to live my truth now parenthetically, there is no such thing as your truth or my truth or Billy Bob's truth.

There is only God's truth. Okay truth is outside of all of us

It is God's truth. But anyway, I digress He says I no longer believe

Beth Moore is a human I think she is an angelic being having a human experience

That is high praise Jonathan Merritt who is a homosexual has such

Affection for Beth Moore. He actually says she does he doesn't even think she's human that she's an angel

Friends I bring this out and I point this out for this reason There is no way that Jonathan Merritt would be heaping such praise on Beth Moore if Beth Moore had sat down With her friend

Jonathan and said Jonathan I care about you and because I care about you I've got to tell you the truth of what

God says and if you die in your sin if you die in your sin of homosexuality

You will not inherit the kingdom of God You will go to hell if you die in that state.

That is the very clear unmistakable teaching from Scripture Let's look at 1st

Corinthians chapter 6 9 through 11 Paul writes or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God?

Do not be deceived neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor effeminate nor Homosexuals nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor revilers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God Dear friends.

The Bible is very clear if you die in the sin of homosexuality You will not inherit the kingdom of God.

You cannot be a gay Christian Okay, there's there's no such thing and that's one of the things that's coming along this social justice train

You can be you can be a gay Christian and some would say well you can You can be a gay

Christian as long as you don't act on it the desire for something that is inherently sinful is also sinful you cannot be a gay

Christian any more than you can be a child molesting Christian our our identity is not in our sin as Christians our identity is in Christ Not in our sin, and if you die in this in any of these sins in a habitual unrepentant state

Then you will not inherit the kingdom of God and it's not to single out

Homosexuality as as any more serious or any more difficult to be forgiven of than any other sin

That's not the point when God grants repentance the think of it this way

The the back of sin is broken as Christians We can we stumble into sin, but we don't swim in it.

We don't relish sin. We don't enjoy sin We don't look for opportunities to sin We don't play with sin when we sin as Christians it grieves us and if you die in a state of habitual

Unrepentant sin as a quote -unquote gay Christian or homosexual Christian that you there is no such thing

You will not inherit the kingdom of God If Beth Moore truly loved

Jonathan Merritt, and if she truly loved this Hypothetical 13 year old girl that she wrote about the most loving thing that she could do for them is to tell them the truth

That if you die in that sin, you will not inherit the kingdom of God. You will go to hell That the the most loving thing we can do for people is to tell them the truth

The most hateful thing we can do is to know the truth But don't tell them if you really want to hate somebody do that Know the truth know what scripture plainly teaches

Don't tell them If you really want to hate somebody do that Now I want us to look let's go back to the text.

Look at what Paul says in verse 11 He says and such were some of you

You were those things You you were sexually immoral you were a reviler you were an idolater you were a drunkard

You were a homosexual But you're not that anymore Such were some of you you were those things, but you're not now he says but you were

Washed you were sanctified. You were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the spirit of our

God dear friends There is freedom in the gospel There is freedom in the gospel and we cannot be ashamed of the gospel

We cannot be ashamed of the gospel and not by not giving it to people who so desperately need it the most loving thing to do for Jonathan Merritt of this hypothetical 13 year old girl or Anyone else is to tell them the truth

Now there is a way to speak the truth Paul tells us how to do it in Ephesians 4 15 We are to speak the truth in love

Speaking the truth in love means just what it says It means we are to speak the truth, but just don't be a jerk about it

Speak the truth in love speaking the truth in love does not mean watering down The truth does not mean we dilute the truth

It means we speak the truth, but we speak it to people in compassion and love, but we speak it firmly and unapologetically

And I do not hate I know no true Christian I know there's a lot of people that call themselves

Christians in art No true Christian hates homosexuals or anybody else

We should love them enough to tell them the truth love them enough to tell that there is freedom in Christ that if they will repent of sin and trust

Christ then they can join the ranks of the Such were some of you the last car on our train is the entitlement car

One of the things that makes the social justice movement so very dangerous is that it portrays people as Victims it makes people believe that they are victims that they are entitled to things

Indifference there is no better way to inoculate Someone against their need for the gospel than to make them think that they are a victim

Friend of mine Jim Osmond and I were talking one day and he said if God were to take from me everything that I have

Take away my family my possessions my wife everything and leave me to die alone

In a ditch a slow painful death and then send me straight to hell. He would have done me no wrong

Now that may sound harsh, but that's absolutely true You and I deserve nothing the whole premise we deserve nothing

But God's wrath the whole premise of the social justice movement is that you're a victim

You're a victim of the man. You're a victim of society. You're a victim of injustice

Dear friends. Let me tell you something. None of us wants true justice Okay, none of us wants true justice because if you and I got what we deserve we would get nothing

But the wrath of God and so there is no Prosperity gospel, there is no social gospel anytime you add an adjective to the gospel

You've got a different gospel and that is what that is why the Apostle Paul rebuked the

Corinthians so Strongly in Galatians chapter 3 verse 1. He says who has bewitched you you foolish

Galatians What did the Galatians do that incurred such a strong rebuke from the Apostle? You know what they did?

It's not that they denied the deity of Christ or the bodily resurrection of Christ or any of these things

They didn't even deny salvation by grace through faith they just added one little thing and the one little thing that the

Galatians added was circumcision and When they added that Paul rebuked them in the strongest of possible terms

And dear friends, it's not that the social justice proponents in the evangelical world are outright denying

The deity of Christ or the bodily resident resurrection. They're not even denying that salvation salvation is by grace through faith

But anytime you say set the gospel is salvation by grace through faith plus something

Plus in our case social justice Whatever follows the plus Gets all of the attention that gets all the attention and guess what gets left behind Guess what gets forgotten the gospel gets forgotten and So as I conclude

I want to clue conclude with that very thing the gospel if you're watching this and you're not sure of Where you would go when you die, please hear hear this if you've heard nothing else

Number one, you're not a victim You're not a victim if you are in your sins

You are in fact an enemy of God Has there been a time in your life when you've been convicted by the

Holy Spirit of God that you are a sinner? You have lied all of us have lied. Let God be true in every man a liar

You have lied you have stolen something you've taken something that does not belong to you. You're a blasphemer

You're an adulterer at heart at least if you've ever looked at another person with lust you're an adulterer

Go through the laws of God the moral law of God thou shalt not lie thou shalt not steal thou shalt not

Blaspheme thou shalt not commit adultery all of us have we have done these things in both word and in deed in thought

Thousands of times throughout the courses of our lives and just like when we break laws on earth There's a penalty to be paid how much more so when we break the laws of God But unlike breaking laws on earth that are temporal and the punishment is temporal

When we sin against God We have sinned against one who is eternal He is thrice holy and he is eternal and because we have sinned against the one eternal

God The punishment of that sin is also eternal and if we die in our sins

We will very rightly and very justly go to a very real place that the Bible calls hell Where the worm will not die.

The fire will not be quenched. There will be wailing weeping gnashing of teeth and That torment will never end

The full undiluted fury of God's wrath will be poured out day and night forever and ever

That's the bad news. That's what you deserve dear friend. You're not a victim

You're not entitled to anything but that wrath The only justice to which we are entitled is the justice of God the wrath of God and believe me

You don't want that justice Your works will not save you Isaiah chapter 64 says that our works are as filthy rags

Before a thrice holy God lay your works down. They will profit you nothing

That's the bad news is that you deserve nothing but God's justice and that is his wrath But there is good news and the good news of the gospel is this is that God loves you

And God has made a way for you to escape his wrath God sent his son

Jesus Christ to this earth and Jesus is one person with two natures fully

God fully man and Jesus lived a perfect life on this earth never broke any of God's laws

He lived his life to the perfect pleasure of God And then

Jesus willingly laid down his life on the cross. His life was not taken. He gave it

This perfect person gave his perfect life as a perfect sacrifice

To perfectly satisfy the perfect wrath of God Jesus satisfied

God's wrath died on the cross and in three days later bodily raised from the dead Proving himself to be who he said he was

God in human flesh And the only way to have the wrath of God removed is to repent of sin turn from sin and place your trust in What Jesus did for you on the cross?

And I want to say something about repentance Genuine repentance that genuine that initial repentance unto salvation is something granted by God and maybe you're not sure

Well, how do I know if I've repented? How do I know if I've repented enough? The Bible says that we are to examine ourselves to see if we're in the faith

Has there been a change in your life? Do you have a love for Christ? Do you have a love for his word?

Do you desire to grow in the grace and knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ? Do you have a love for the brethren?

Do you have a godly sorrow over sin? Paul describes this in 2nd Corinthians chapter 7 and a godly sorrow over sin dear ones as Opposed to a worldly sorrow which is nothing more than a guilty conscience and that leads to death

But a godly sorrow over sin is when we grieve over our sin we grieve over our sin because we understand that our sin grieves

God and Just as much as we should want a Savior from hell. We should want a

Savior from our sin a Lot of people out there that want a Savior from hell

They want to get out of hell free card because they're their conscience convicts them and they know they're sinners

But far few fewer people truly want a Savior from their sin If you want a

Savior from hell, but not a Savior from sin, then you have a Savior from neither So do you grieve over your sin if you're not certain in where you are with your relationship with Jesus Christ I would encourage you to get real honest before God cry out to him

Ask him to save you and if you come to him in a true godly sorrow over your sin, he will save you

Jesus says the one who comes to me I will in no wise cast out you will you will pass from death to life

He will save you Okay, dear ones, thank you very much for watching and I hope that this has been helpful for you

And as I conclude kind of the clincher here every form of theological mischief that plagues the

Evangelical world whether it's word of faith new apostolic Reformation prosperity gospel all that kind of garbage or whether it's social justice

Or even Roman Catholicism what whatever? form of theological mischief

Plagues the the true church. It can all be boiled down to an abandonment of scriptures sufficiency sufficiency

We don't need critical race theory as a useful analytical tool The only analytical tool we need is the

Word of God the Word of God Diagnoses the problem and the Word of God prescribes the only solution and that is the gospel of Jesus Christ Okay, dear ones until our next time together