The Meaning Of Gender

Father in heaven what a delight it is to be here this morning to be with your people

on this weekend where we remember those sacrifices that were made for us for our

Temporal freedom.

Lord how much more should we recall the sacrifice that was made for our?

Spiritual freedom for our purchase for our redemption.

Lord would you bless our time here this morning as we look again at a very?

Difficult and timely cultural issue.

And what the Bible says about how we should think about it father.

We pray that you would bless us and bless us as we minister to those who are

Struggling Through their faulty worldview.

Father we pray these things in Jesus name.

Amen.

Well I you know I thought I was really done with all this and then I this week I became I

felt like Paul in Acts 17.

I'm just vexed in my spirit over Certain issues and really this is at the

at the heart of it.

Thank you, Russ at the heart of it.

This really is an issue of Idolatry that is to say worshiping a

a different God.

And what I mean by that and by the way the issue or the the title of this morning's message is the

meaning.

You know I did that series called the meaning of life.

This is the meaning of Gender and you say well, what's so complicated about that?

Well, you're gonna find out this morning.

What's so complicated about that?

But it really is.

As We go through this this morning.

I think you'll see that what they're really doing is they're worshiping the creature rather than the Creator.

George Orwell, I found this quote this week, and I just loved it so I had to I had to get in there in 1939 he wrote

this he says we have now sunk to a depth at Which restatement of the obvious is the

first duty of intelligent men, and I think as a

culture We have sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of those who

love the Lord.

We always want to begin with the gospel when we're talking to somebody especially unbelievers.

But we should not shrink we cannot shrink from principles that are clearly proclaimed in the Bible.

I think he must not be shaped by social trends, but by eternal truths of Scripture.

In other words Our minds should not be conformed to worldly thinking but

by Scripture Paul wrote do not be conformed to this world.

But be transformed by the renewal of your mind that by testing you may discern What is the will of

God what is good and acceptable and perfect?

But we're now living really in kind of Almost Alice in Wonderland.

I mean where people look at things and they they see them in exactly the opposite way of which the

the Bible proclaims.

I mean talking about gender.

Where I grew up you know in the rural?

Confines of Southern California, LA.

We had two genders.

You know when I went to school we had a boys room and a girls room.

I was reading this week.

You know at the White House.

They now have an all -gender bathroom all Gender bathroom.

I mean you just think well it could be either male or female.

No.

It's all genders and There really is quite a spectrum.

Allegedly it turns out as we will see this morning that

according to the culture Gender is all in your brain.

It's all in your mind.

And I really I was not aware of this.

I mean this this became a newsflash to me.

You may be one gender anatomically and determine that you are a different one psychologically.

In other words you feel like you are Someone other than who you are and we saw that this

Recently I guess was a couple weeks ago Bruce Jenner.

You know now said well the interviewer whoever it was who was it doesn't

matter.

She says you know are you a woman and he says well and notice I said he says

yes.

And I just thought okay Bruce Jenner won.

I mean he was famous before he was with the Kardashians he won the

1976 decathlon in in the Olympics and You know what the winner of the

decathlon is typically proclaimed.

Anybody ever heard that heard this title?

What's that Best athlete in the world and well Why is that?

Because you have to be strong you have to be fast you have to be able to jump far you have to be able to Do run a distance you have to be

able to do all these things and do them well enough that at the end of ten Events you win, and I'm just like

now.

He's sitting there on this couch saying I'm a woman.

I'm like everybody who lost to him in 1976 must be thinking I

Don't know man you look pretty buff I.

You know when you were throwing that javelin, I wasn't thinking that's a nice throw for a woman.

Well, I mean, it's funny, but it's at the same point.

It's sad when you think of what is going on a Bruce Jenner's mind.

You know to where you'd say you know I don't call me Brenda.

Whatever he wants to whatever he wants to name himself.

Let's look at Genesis 1 27 and 28 and really you know so many truths.

Just go right back to the beginning.

If you want to know you want to know what the world set up is supposed to be you just go back to the beginning.

And God tells us There's no big mystery here.

Genesis 1 verses 27 and 28 and what somebody read those two verses, please

I see no hands.

Yes, Brian.

I mean, it's so simple and yet so profound.

I mean even as you think about Bruce Jenner Bruce Jenner not saying Okay, I'm a woman

well Actually that's not quite possible because you have children that

Would not have been born if you were actually a woman.

I don't know how to tell you this Bruce.

Whatever your head is telling you.

Your head is fallen.

It's mistaken.

Listen to this.

These are federal guidelines that come from.

Actually, this is this is it's a little bit lengthy, but just try to follow this along.

This comes from the Department of Health and Services the DHS big federal agency.

But what they're doing is they took these guidelines.

From New York City has this little Commission.

And they took these guidelines and they posted them on the DHS website, and they're hoping other cities will adopt these.

So this is what the federal government wants cities to implement.

So this is ultimately what the federal government would like everybody to believe.

And this article that I'm citing says as federal state and local governments continue to expand their laws and

regulations regarding gender identity.

Conflicts over religious objections are sure to grow.

Alright, you know just as an aside.

I don't know if anybody saw this this week this happened in Canada.

But there was a jeweler who was asked by a lesbian couple to make wedding rings did you see this

and.

And so they do this the jeweler does this and they present the wedding rings to these people and

Someone after you know they they they're pleased with the rings everything's fine they love the service they got and everything

else, but one of their friends sees later on a Sign in the store that says marriage is between a man and

a woman.

And now these lesbians are mortally offended because the people don't believe the right even though they did everything that the lesbians

wanted they don't believe the right thing and so they They they don't want the rings anymore.

And they actually got a refund.

But I'm just like you know.

So it's not enough to actually do what they want you to do.

You have to believe what they want you to believe.

Well, that's not enough anyway.

So conflicts over religious objections are sure to grow this article says and.

Then we come to the guidelines here, and they say that one flashpoint could be foster

parenting.

I Know we have a few foster parents here.

So you know these guidelines could theoretically at one point or another impact you.

The article goes on to say as if the issues surrounding gender identity were not controversial enough adding children to the mix

increases the potential for rancor.

Both sides claim the high ground and in some cases insist that those who disagree are

guilty of child abuse.

LGBTQ Advocates let me see if I can get that all right.

Lesbian Gay bisexual transsexual and queer

advocates Say children need complete listen to this children

need complete autonomy.

That is to say independence over their self identification as Lesbians gays

bisexuals transgenders, or here's the new category individuals questioning their sexual

identity and they accuse a traditionalists of discrimination and maltreatment.

Those with traditional views about sex.

Meanwhile see an abdication of adult responsibility when such children often the midst of personal and emotional

Crises are allowed and encouraged to select a gender expression.

You listen to this language, and it's just frightening.

What is a gender expression?

They're allowed to select a gender expression at variance with their biological sex a

child we're talking about as.

This debate unfolds the federal Department of Health and Human Services is weighed in recommending these guidelines from New York

City.

It's called safe and respected policy best practices and guidance for serving transgender

and gender Non -conforming children again listen to the language.

You know why do I want to cite Orwell in the beginning because Orwell made it basically his name

on?

You know making up these terms that made no sense.

But the government's would probably try to use and here we have you know these kind of Again

through the looking -glass sort of language.

What is?

What is that gender non -conforming.

And then they talk about in the child welfare detention and juvenile justice systems.

An article on the website of HHS that's health and human services family and Youth

Bureau service this is in New York City calls these guidelines quotes a great primer for anyone

who may come into contact with Transgender and gender non -conforming children and youth and suggests that

other localities may want to adopt them.

The Guidelines are intended for use in child welfare

detention and juvenile justice systems not only by city workers.

But also by foster parents and volunteers.

They run for more than 60 pages and their overriding message is quote affirmation.

Under no circumstances any staff member of Children's Services or its provider agencies to attempt to

convince an LB whatever Youth to reject or modify his or

her sexual orientation or gender identity.

ACS takes this policy very seriously instructing staff every time you see other staff or youth making

negative remarks biased statements verbal or physical remarks or not respecting

name and pronoun preferences.

It is your responsibility to intervene and report the incident.

In other words if someone is obviously male and you call them a he and they would like to be referred to as

she you should be reported because you're not respecting their desires and

They go on to say if you substituted.

This is actually the program director if you substituted LGBTQ youth with another vulnerable

population of youth within our system.

And they cite specifically pregnant and parenting teens or youth with disabilities.

Or youth who are not citizens of the United States the same standards apply.

This is about good parenting and meeting the specific needs of your child no matter their sexual orientation gender

identity or gender expression.

This article goes on to say listen if you want to compare these things pregnancy.

Well let me ask you if someone is pregnant or if someone has a disability or if

someone is from another country.

How does that then compare with these Gender identity these questions of gender identity or something like

that I?

Mean if someone is pregnant where they have a baby on their lap, or you know they don't speak English.

I can generally tell that They're either pregnant or they have a baby, or they

are from another country.

Probably I mean you probably didn't grow up in the United States and speak a different language.

It's possible.

I guess.

But how am I supposed to know if somebody has a separate or a different?

Gender identity or a different gender expression.

That's not it's not objective.

It's subjective.

That's the whole point.

I mean you're sitting on you're sitting across the room from Bruce Jenner, and you say Bruce you won the 1976

decathlon.

Are you now saying that you're a woman?

Yes, I am.

Well objectively it would appear to me that you're a male since you have Progeny you have children.

That doesn't seem very likely if you were a woman, and you had a wife you know that.

Biologically that doesn't work as far as we know.

But it goes on here the guidelines state that a child who experiences

gender fluidity and Changes gender identity is to be affirmed, but they are

silent as to what other expressions of identity Must be affirmed and which may be regulated

in children's lives now.

I know what you're saying what you're thinking you're thinking.

What is Gender fluidity.

I didn't know I had to look it up.

Gender fluidity is a gender identity best described as a dynamic mix of boy and

girl.

A Person who is gender fluid may feel like a mix of the two traditional genders.

Think about that for a moment the the two traditional genders or the two actual genders.

But may feel more like a boy some days and more like a girl other days.

Being gender -fluid has nothing to do with the physical components one has nor their sexual orientation

and unless you just think this is a small group of People who are trying to do this listen this is

from the or this actually sets the World Health Organization Which is I think it's

Under the UN or associated in some way with the UN probably funded through the UN defines gender as

a result of.

And this is really getting to the root of it socially constructed ideas About behavior

actions and roles of our particular sex so in other words if you

identify as male it is a social construct you have been you

know little boys are the way they are because we have taught them to like trucks and

you know police cars and What and you know guns and all that stuff little girls like

dolls because we have taught them to like dolls and This is all social

socially invented and Enforced on people it's like every person is

let's just say a lump of cookie dough and then you know the social

pressure comes down on them like a cookie cutter and Forces them to be this that or the other thing and they're like

you know what that's wrong.

Because we're forcing people to fit into Shapes and and ways that they just they don't feel comfortable

with the assignment of gender

Involves taking into account these psychological and biological attributes assigned by nature

Followed by the imposition of the socially constructed conduct in other words.

They're they're trying to explain.

They've got all this wording here, and it's all nonsense.

Gender ambiguity deals with the idea of having the freedom to choose listen Manipulate

and create a personal niche within any defined socially constructed code of

conduct while gender fluidity is Outlawing all the rules of cultural gender

assignment.

In other words you don't have to conform.

You don't have to fit into some cookie cutter thing you can be whatever you want to be female

and male.

Let's see let me get the whole sentence here listen to this and just compare it with Genesis 128 what we read earlier male

and female created he them.

It does not accept the prevalence of two rigidly defined genders female

and male and Believes in freedom to choose any kind of gender with no

rules.

No defined boundaries and no fulfilling of expectations associated with any particular

gender.

So what are they really saying here?

What is this?

Besides.

What's that?

Well?

It's indoctrination.

I'm going to put it another way.

You have a child.

You say to your child Child go clean your room.

The child says No, I will not clean my room.

What would we call that?

It's rebellion.

So God says male and female.

I've created mankind.

Mankind says.

We will not fit into your little stereotypes.

We will not fit into your little cookie cutter.

We're not going to be male and female.

We'll be whatever we like.

Thank you very much.

It's rebellion and what they're ultimately trying to say is gender is

not God assigned.

It is entirely Subjective.

It's all in your mind.

It's whatever you want it to be.

I Also found this definition of gender fluidity which I happen to like a little

bit more.

Says gender fluidity is what happens when political correctness is taken to its logical conclusion.

It's right up there.

I think Bob posted this actually pastor Bob.

It says it's right up there with racial fluidity religious fluidity

and age fluidity.

One day I can feel like a middle -aged black Muslim female and identify as such.

Well, the next day I feel more like a young Asian Buddhist male and Identify as such

although my outward appearance may show me being a Caucasian female.

Looks are deceiving and should in no way prevent me from being taken seriously as a Jewish male

gender racial Religious and age fluidities are premised on feelings and the expression of those

feelings.

Not genetics or appearance.

These are my rights and they are guaranteed by the UN.

Don't we live in a wonderful age?

This is really the ultimate kind of we will have nobody to rule over us.

Nobody is going to tell us how we have to live or how we have to think.

Now in a serious note there are I Looked this up there about one in twenty five

thousand babies are born with some form of Ambiguous

Anatomy and the gender is not clearly defined, you know, maybe they have both maybe they have

some mix and.

This is situation.

I mean, it's difficult.

But you know.

It's a situation where you have to trust that the parents and doctor will make the best determination they can.

But generally speaking gender is not really complex.

Let's look at Matthew 19.

And what somebody read verses 3 to 6.

Yeah, go ahead.

Now this is clear.

Thanks.

Well, this is clear with regard to marriage why you know any kind of marriage doesn't

go.

You know to just show you how odd I think this is January our four -year -old granddaughter

Said this week.

I mean she's talked, you know for a while that she wanted to you know.

Marry her daddy and then she was gonna marry, you know Jude and she'll marry me and and you know.

The idea came up of marrying somebody else and she said well, I would never marry a stranger.

You know, I could see the wisdom in that.

But nevertheless, I just thought now let's just kind of go.

Well, we'll remove the gender identity question.

We'll just say well.

Let's let four -year -olds decide who they're gonna marry.

You know, look they can do whatever they want because you know when they know their identity.

She may be in some kind of crises and you know needs.

This is all just all nonsense.

Children say I'm sorry with all you know deference to my grandchildren stupid things.

They do stupid things.

That's why they have parents.

You know, you don't come out of the womb a fully formed adult ready to make your own decisions.

You have to be taught certain things.

You have to understand the world as it is not the world as your little three or four year old mind sees it

and What is happening now is our world the same?

Wait a minute.

Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

This is all too rigid.

This is all too complex.

This is all too structured.

Why don't we just reduce it to a four -year -old mentality people can be whatever they want to be.

You know if your child says that he's a Martian don't tell him he's not a Martian.

He's got the right to assert the fact that he's actually from Mars.

This it's just odd.

It's just bizarre.

It's.

Well, it's suppressing the truth and unrighteousness.

The truth is obvious.

But it doesn't matter what the truth is.

You know, why do people have so much trouble figuring it out.

Well, I think in part it might be because this is something that we're learning via

celebrity.

Any of you probably know?

Angelina Jolie's eight -year -old daughter no longer wants to be known as a a

girl.

She'd rather be called John.

She wants to be identified as a boy.

Her dad Brad Pitt recently disclosed an interview that he would he would talk to her and he would call her

shy short for Shiloh.

That was that's her name.

She'd interrupt him saying I'm John.

So, how do they respond?

By disciplining her and making sure that she understood.

Oh, no, that's not right.

Now the whole family addresses her as John and.

At her mom's recent unbroken film premiere.

She wore a suit and tie to match her old brothers.

While tomboy tendencies have clearly been going on for a while back in 2010.

So this would be four years before this article.

So when she was four years old, this child was four.

Angelina Jolie told Vanity Fair quote she wants to be a boy.

So listen, so we had to cut her hair.

So that she'd look like a boy.

She likes to wear boys everything.

She thinks she's one of the brothers.

She was four.

Your job is not to cater to your four -year -old your job is to parents

but of course if you have a Non -biblical worldview then pretty much anything goes.

Another family.

You're the Jennings family, this is a little bit older story.

This is from ABC on the surface the Jennings and the four children and their four children are a typical American family.

But their youngest child jazz.

Now that's not the child's real name.

That's just what they substituted in there is only in kindergarten and already.

She is one of the youngest known cases of an early transition from male to female.

Wait a minute, what are you saying that she's male and her body is changing into female.

No, that's not what they're saying.

I mean that's transition.

We'll say things like this her parents to her.

Very affirming you're special.

God made you special.

Because there aren't very many girls out there.

Now.

This is a boy.

There aren't very many girls out there that have your physical anatomy.

Well, in fact, there are none.

Then the husband says that Rene his wife and I are in a hundred percent agreement as to how do we should raise

Jazz, we don't encourage we support and we just keep listening to what she tells us.

And now they're the government is saying you know what if if they have parents were to teach opposite of this.

It's child abuse.

This is really I mean, it's sad because you just think this is a four -year -old.

Now older but this is a four -year -old that needs I.

Mean obviously needs to be loved and encouraged and and you know,

but also needs to be taught.

If they speak foolishness you say well, no, that's really not right.

You're a boy and I can prove it but.

Here's what his parents did.

When his parents praised jazz as a good boy, he would correct them saying he was a good girl.

The Jennings wanted to believe it would pass.

Scott said after all he was in a bit of denial about what jazz was trying to tell them they had two

rowdy twin boys who are two years older than jazz and.

They had painted their nails growing up and that passed.

But jazz kept gravitating to girl things.

Insisting that his anatomy was a mistake.

When jazz was two he asked mommy his mom a question that left her numb and frozen.

He said mommy.

When's the good fairy going to come and with her magic wand and change, you know?

My anatomy.

That's what her mom said.

Troubled by her son's behavior.

Renee eventually consulted her copy.

Everybody has this at home.

Don't they consulted her copy of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual or DSM for

the book used by psychologists and psychiatrists to identify mental disorders.

She read the entry for gender identity disorder with alarming familiarity.

The DSM says a diagnosis for gender identity disorder can be made if.

One someone has a strong and persistent cross -gender identification to.

Someone feels a persistent discomfort with his or her sex.

This discomfort number three is not due to some kind of anatomical anomaly and

For the discomfort causes significant distress or impairment in their life.

Even jazz's pediatrician told the Jennings that they had a serious problem on their hands.

According to Renee their doctor said yes.

I believe your your child has gender identity disorder and I recommend that you go to a professional.

What's gonna happen?

Of course, the professional is going to support this.

This is why that person is in their profession.

So dr Marilyn Volker a therapist who specializes in sex and gender issues later

confirmed to listen to this Letter confirmed jazz's diagnosis.

The four -year -old says I May look like a boy, but I'm actually a girl and the doctor says

yes.

Yes, that's right.

No one knows why children like jazz are transgender.

There are only theories.

Blah blah blah blah, but but I thought that was interesting too.

No one knows why children like jazz are transgender.

Well, no one knows.

Hmm.

But we're going to affirm them anyway, you know, it's not scientific but we we're just gonna affirm them.

With jazz's diagnosis at hand the Jennings Explained the situation to their other children

in their home that they came to accept jazz as a girl.

There he could wear a dress, etc, etc.

But in public would dress like a boy and Jazz wasn't

happy with that.

And she wasn't allowed to wear a tutu like the rest of the girls.

And she just kind of stood there and snapped her finger into the tapping thing with the toe.

It just looks so sad.

It was heartbreaking to watch.

The dance recital however was a turning point that Jennings made the difficult decision to let their son become their daughter

on his fifth birthday.

Jazz wore a girl's one -piece bathing suit.

He was now she in an innocent pool party became a coming -out to all of her friends.

For and then five years old and makes a decision that's going to impact

His life for the rest of his life and his parents do nothing to Stop him.

Let's look at Romans chapter 1 and and we really will see I think the

The answer here in Romans chapter 1 beginning in verse 21.

For although and this is talking about this is after there.

It's talking about the suppression of truth and unrighteousness.

For although they knew God they did not honor him as God or give.

Thanks to him.

But they became futile in their thinking and their foolish hearts were darkened

claiming to be wise they became fools and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for

images resembling mortal man and Birds and animals and creeping things

therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity

to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves because they exchanged the truth about God for a

lie and Worshipped and served the creature rather than the Creator who was blessed forever.

Amen for this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions for their

Women exchanged natural natural relations for those that are in contrary to nature and the men

likewise gave up Natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another

men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error and

Since they did not see fit to acknowledge God God gave them up to a debased mind To

do what ought not to be done.

They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness evil covetousness Malice,

they are full of envy murder strife deceit maliciousness.

They are gossips slanderers haters of God insolent haughty boastful

inventors of evil disobedient to parents foolish faithless heartless

ruthless.

Though they know God's righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to die.

They not only do them but give or but give hearty approval to those who practice them.

They affirm them.

You're not allowed to even talk to them about therapy or anything else, you know to change

Their minds you must affirm them as they are.

So what should we do?

How should we?

View these people.

I think firstly you have to be, you know, especially for the children you have to be just stricken with

compassion and sorrow, I mean it's The damage that's being done.

And we need to keep in mind as we've talked about for many weeks that every single person is an image bearer.

They are image bearers of God.

And what does that mean?

That means ultimately that they have a soul.

That they're going to appear in front of God one day and they're gonna have to give an answer for what they did.

What they believe concerning the Lord Jesus Christ.

So the first thing we need to do is we need to present the gospel to them.

It doesn't really matter.

It doesn't matter where they are on the gender spectrum.

However, you want to look at that?

They need to hear the gospel.

They need to hear that.

We're all sinners.

They need to hear that.

There's forgiveness for sin.

And Their sin is no worse than our sin.

I would say it's an art.

It's a waste of time to get in an argument about gender fluidity.

What we want to do is we want to give the gospel why because right there in Romans chapter 1 it says it is the power of God

to salvation.

There's no biological argument you can make that's going to dissuade someone from their

course of action.

What they need is the transforming power of the gospel and when you think about

this, I mean It's just it's it's hard to imagine

this kind of thing becoming More and more prevalent but if the

federal government now is issuing these kind of guidelines, how long is it going to be before and Some of this has

already taken place in our schools, right even here in Massachusetts with

Different bathrooms different guidelines in California, you know a

Child can declare themselves to be of the opposite sex so that they can use the opposite

sex bathroom and You know, I just wonder what that is like for a depraved high school boy,

you know to have that opportunity the these are just Bizarre

Times that we live in and so our goal is I mean, I certainly think it should frame or it should

help inform how we how we view social issues when it comes to

Our vote and whatnot.

But more importantly we need to just be aware that these things are out there.

We need to be aware that these issues are out there and so that we can talk with

As I said some compassion about the issue, but we also just have to bring the truth to bear.

I don't think it would do any good to point out the fact that.

You know, I mean all the all the negative things that I would like to say about it.

What does do some good is to just say listen?

This is what the Bible says.

The Bible says that all men and women are sinners.

That we all stand condemned before a holy God and that our only hope of Escaping God's judgment

is belief in the Lord Jesus Christ.

When Paul writes You know and he's detailing he has this detailed list of all the people who are

condemned when he's talking to the Corinthian Church.

What does he then say to them?

He says and such were Some of you and if not for the grace of God,

we might have had parents.

We might have lived in a time I mean, I my parents would have certainly had no Concept of this if I would have

said something like well, I'm actually a girl.

You know, I I don't know how my mom would have reacted but I I'm pretty confident it wouldn't have gone well

for me.

But now we live we live in a date and time where people are so Separated from the truth where

parents are so ignorant of what's in the Bible.

Where this kind of thing makes sense to them because they've given themselves over they pushed aside the truth of God.

They want to believe that there is no God or if there is a God that you know, he he never gets mad.

He's never upset about anything and any kind of behavior is equally perfectly acceptable as any other behavior.

So what do we do in that kind of construct in that sort of world situation?

Again, we have to bring the Bible to bear it.

We have to trust that whatever somebody's situation is.

That once they get saved if God is gracious and saves them that he will transform them.

It's not our job ever, you know in your home.

With your wife with your husband.

With your brother and sister in Christ.

It's not your job to play the Holy Spirit and transform them.

Tell them the truth in love and God will transform them.

That that's what he does.

But I just think this is.

It's become more and more Prevalent and more and more kind of

being force force fed to us as a Natural

and the normal thing.

Well, there's nothing Natural or normal about it in many cases.

It's just It really is heartbreaking.

No four -year -old has the wherewithal the sense to kind of make these sort of decisions any comments

or questions.

Charlie.

Well, I'm with the the brangelina child.

See what I did there.

You know the the little girl wanting to be a boy same kind of thing, right.

Because two older brothers and you know, he just wanted she just wanted to fit in, you know.

And you just can't you can't help but think is there a problem?

You know, maybe mom was making too many movies, you know, who knows where they're not getting enough of the

individualized attention and so to get some they're like, you know what I'm going to identify with

these guys and and like listen, I knew a lot of Kids growing up

girls who?

For whatever reason were more tomboyish fact.

I there was one girl.

I'll never forget Jodi poet.

Because she knocked out One of the biggest bullies around, you know, and and I just remember

going.

You know, but and Jodi was a serious tomboy and I think she wound up having like eight kids or something like that.

So, you know, I don't know it.

Yeah.

I just think you know kids go through phases.

That's what they do.

I mean if you were a kid, how many weren't kids here just raising.

You know you went through you went through phases.

And so to just kind of seize on this sort of phase and go we don't know what to do.

Well, I mean it could be as simple as you know, just a cry for some attention

and.

And I think there are I think there are a number of issues.

I mean if you've got you know, well our boys went through a phase where they were painting their nails.

Well, maybe because they saw mom painting their nails or maybe that you know, there's just something in the home.

That's not quite right, right?

And but I think it's so important for Dads

to think well I need to spend time both with my sons and my daughters for moms to think I need to spend

time with my You know daughters and my sons.

I mean nobody's more Special than the other one, you know, and they don't need my attention more than the other one.

It would be folly for the mom to say well, I don't need to spend any time with the boys.

We Have male and female parents for a reason, you know, we need the influence of both.

So yeah, I think that's definitely a good point other thoughts or closer.

Go ahead.

Excellent raise them up in the way.

They should go train them up in the way.

They should go not in the way.

They want to go, you know.

Which is that's what the world says train them up how they want to go, right?

And it's you know, well, it's just amazing.

We need to close but yeah, you know, I was talking about Massachusetts earlier and I remember reading an article when they started doing this whole

Bathroom deal and they had an expert who testified in the state legislature that

children know their sexual identity as early as four years old and I'm just like

I'm telling you.

I'm I'm not the prophet.

My cousin was a prophet.

No, that's not true.

But what is happening and what we're going to see here as this becomes more and more accepted and as we have experts saying

listen.

They know their sexual identity at the age of four.

Well, if you know your sexual identity then logically You can

give consent.

We are going to see I don't know when but probably sometime in my children's lifetime this

idea of pedophilia being normalized, you know, so what be and

and that you know that they'll name it as a Preference and not a crime that doesn't really

doesn't really surprise me.

My children have gotten much older all of a sudden no, but it doesn't surprise me because if you'll recall it was about let's

see 40 45 years ago that homosexuality was a mental disorder

you know and now you know, it's almost like it you're a better person if you're gay, so I Shouldn't

say gay homosexual.

I mean, this is the world we live in suppress the truth elevate the lie.

This is this is where we live.

Anyway, we need a closing prayer father.

Again difficult issues sad issues.

We just pray for those children.

Just think about the things that they're.

That parents are bringing upon their children in the lives that they will live the confusion

father we would pray that the gospel would come to many folks in this kind of

situation even as we have Just so much.

It's really not Confusion it's elevation of a lie father against you rebellion

against you and Lord.

We pray that you would raise the proclamation of the truth to such a

level that many would Come to know you and would repent of their Wrong

thinking their false thinking Father strengthen us in our homes make us better mothers and

fathers let us never give in and let our kids choose to

Rebel and to affirm then that rebellion Lord we pray for these things in Jesus name.