Jesus The Judge, The Gospel And The Beloved Son - [Luke 3:15-22]

Living Sacrifice and Renewal of the Mind

Paul writes to the Romans I appeal to you therefore brothers by the mercies of God. To present your bodies as a living sacrifice holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind.

By testing you may discern what the will of God is what is good and acceptable and perfect. Paul basically says in light of what I've done for you and giving you the Lord Jesus and his righteousness. Granted you redemption forgiveness of sins.

Proven that by the resurrection of Jesus. Your whole lives should be my whole life should be a sacrifice to the Lord. And he gives the warning as well. He says don't be conformed to this world. Don't think after the world's thoughts don't buy into the world's system as they try to pummel you with advertising and media.

Sadly for us we are a persuadable people. Advertising works commercials work and the world has a constant bombardment. Not of godly things not of Bible verses not of Christ centered theology. But of things that are anti God anti Christ.

And so dear Christian from social media television to everything else we have to guard ourselves. Paul wrote to the Corinthians be watchful stand firm in the faith act like men be strong. Let all that you do be done in love.

One of the things we have to watch out for is our minds. Being conformed to this world. And I want you dear Christian to think through things in a biblical way. Paul writes for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh.

But have divine power to destroy strongholds. We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God and take every thought what? captive to obey Christ. And our society today has bombarded us with all kinds of issues swirling around sexual immorality from adultery to fornication.

That's true, but these days from homosexuality to Transgender and LGBTQ and every other part of the immoral alphabet soup. There are activist teachers trying to jam this down the throats of children. There are activist Doctors who are doing the same in hospitals putting it under the banner of gender affirming care.

Make no doubt about it even in Rosalie's book called transgender Marxism. They are trying to destroy and to tear down and to abolish what they call heteronormal normal activity. Men women. No difference.

God nature no difference. In some ways it reminds me of Mary Shelley's book Frankenstein and one of the premises of Frankenstein the book is if you have science and Data and empiricism at such a high level, but you divorce it from ethics and God and Morality you get something called Frankenstein.

I Looked at this week about the intentional bombardment of this sexual immorality. These are different days or weeks or months where certain immoral activity is promoted. A gender pride day. A romantic spectrum awareness week.

A romantic visibility day international a sexuality day. Ace weeks. Bisexual awareness week. Celebrate bisexuality day. Gender fluidity visibility week. Drag day. International day against homophobia transphobia and biphobia.

International day of pink intersex awareness day intersex day of remembrance. Lesbian day lesbian visibility day. National coming-out day. Non-binary awareness week non-binary people's day pansexual day pronouns day.

Trans awareness month trans awareness week. Transgender day of remembrance. Trans day of visibility. Transparent day zero discrimination day. What goes through your mind when I read that? What do you think of biblically?

When I say those things. Do you say well, I just should probably go along to get along. You say well, this isn't really a big deal. Society is getting better. Are you afraid? Are you mad? Are you sad?

Politics aside. Persecution aside. I would like you to congregation to think rightly about these issues. And so normally we're in the gospel of Jesus according to Luke marching through but once in a while will deviate from Luke.

I think we've been in Luke maybe for about 20 messages. We're in chapter 3 certain things will come up that I want to address in today's one of those days. So today we're going to look at this issue because I want you to think biblically.

Because it's good to make sure we have our minds not conformed to this world, but renewed by the scripture. So the outline today is very simple. But let me give you my purpose first. My purpose is I want you to think rightly about these things as a Christian would think about these things through the lens of the Bible.

That's my main goal because that's how God is honored. That's the response to God's salvation that he's given to you freely and fully in Christ that you then think the right way. That you have thoughts that are commensurate to your Savior.

The outline is simple. I'm going to give you many lies that you might be tempted to believe if it wasn't for Jesus in the scripture. Lies that you might be tempted to believe and each lie has an implication.

The main implication is don't believe it. But lies that you're tempted to believe when it comes to Sexual immorality specifically transgenderism homosexuality at hell. Lie number one that individual transgender people and individual homosexuals are our enemies.

That's lie number one that they're your enemies. I'd like you to take your Bible and turn to Matthew chapter 9. People are not our enemies. We are to love sinners like Jesus loved us. They are image bearers.

They have souls they have spirits, and I want you to love other people. I want you to be considerate. Thoughtful kind. I did not say you celebrate sin. I did not say you applaud sin and put it on center stage.

I did not say that at all. I said that you should love them and care for them. Part of love is not celebrating sin part of love. We'll see today is telling people the truth but we're discussing this today because Many people are demanding acceptance and endorsement, and this is lies at the epicenter of the cultural upheaval we have in America today, and I would argue of course that it is hate speech to not talk about this to not tell people about sin.

John the Baptist although we saw last week he preached repentance it cost him his head when he talked about sexual sin. Matthew chapter 9 of course this book about Jesus the king everything about it shows us that Jesus is the king of kings and Lord of Lords, how does Jesus deal with sinners?

Arms length stiff arm. Matthew 9 10 and as Jesus reclined at table in the house behold. Many tax collectors and sinners Came and were reclining with Jesus and his disciples. Matthew the tax collector is told by Jesus to follow him and all of a sudden that means no more tax collecting.

No more skimming off the top and so Matthew was going to hold a big feast a big party. To say I have to go this is my farewell part farewell party and also I want to introduce you to Jesus and lots of tax collectors and Sinners were reclining even that word there behold in the ESV is making you try to picture it in your mind's eye.

Here's Jesus with all these really low lifes and and degenerates and people that are on the lowest of the list. Tax collectors and sinners were considered people that were like prostitutes. Awful folks.

You could think that they're like terrorists. They're they're people that whoever you think is the lowest on the on the totem pole socially. They're the outcasts. They're the riffraff. They're the lowlifes.

This reminds me of the parable of the prodigal son tax collectors and sinners were coming near Jesus to listen to him. This man receives sinners and eats with them and. So Matthew has this great feast and the text says they're reclining.

Like what are they doing? They kind of sleep at the table if you normally ate you would just sit like we would sit. But if it's a big feast, it's if it's Thanksgiving kind of feast you kind of lay down and you have your your left elbow down and you eat with your right hand and just a way of closeness and familiarity and and love.

And Matthew has this big reception in his house. Luke 5 says I've been forgiven. I know who the Messiah is. I want you to know too. It's like this evangelism party. I think sometimes in Christian circles, we have pampered chef parties and Tupperware parties, but those may be for different reasons.

I Can't wait for my old business of co-associates to meet this Jesus. And so I'm going to open up my house. Mark says there were many tax collectors and many sinners. Tax collectors were Jewish people hired by Rome to exact Taxes from the Jews to give back to Rome so they were despised and sinners.

I mean, we're all sinners. Yes, but here in the Gospels sinner means people that are Gentiles. They don't care about the law Jews that say I don't care what the Bible says. I don't care what the Pharisees say.

We're not going to obey any of these things and these people these degenerates these lowlifes are eating with Jesus. He's reclining with them in the most intimate way. Over dinner. I Mean the Pharisees are freaking out.

I Mean he's eating with tax collectors and sinners verse 11. And when the Pharisees saw this They're not getting too close because you'd hate to get ceremonially defiled, right? They said to his disciples they didn't even ask Jesus why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?

It's not a real question and then birds of a feather Flock together. He's just like them. The only way you eat with people like this is if you're like them. You don't run around eating with tax collectors and sinners unless you are one.

Luke 5 adds that they began grumbling at his disciples. I mean, this is enough. Jesus is going around doing things. But this is enough is enough. I'm offended. Pharisees, of course, they were the exact Dean fastidious mustard seed tithing cumin.

Offering let's get everything separated down the best we can and you know what they could care less if anybody became forgiven they didn't care that the. That the scribes and the excuse me that the tax collectors and the sinners Needed forgiveness they cared about being ceremonially unclean.

Why is he eating and drinking with tax collectors and sinners? Verse 12. But when he heard it The question wasn't to Jesus, but he heard it and he said those who are well have no need of a physician. But those who are sick go and learn what this means.

I desire mercy and not sacrifice. For I came not to call the righteous but sinners. When Jesus is around people. Who know they need righteousness who know they need forgiveness who know they're ungodly.

He's kind and compassionate and what we might call nice. And when he's around people like the Pharisees and the scribes who think they're righteous on their own self righteous. He blisters them. I can still think of my mom if I'm about ready to disobey when I'm about 10 years old and she'd say son.

You're gonna get a blistering. Except Jesus does it with his words and you can think of Matthew 23 later. Whoa, do you scribes and Pharisees? Whoa, do you blind fools and you serpents a brood of vipers?

Pharisees we're well tax collectors. They're they're sick. Of course the mission statement of y 'all of all mission statements. It's a trustworthy saying deserving of full acceptance that Christ Jesus came into the world to what?

Save sinners. Paul said among whom I'm foremost. Why does he say this simple analogy. Go back to the text again those who are well have no need of physician. But those who are sick, I mean the Pharisees are sick too, but they think they're Righteous so they don't need to go to a doctor.

And what would you think of a doctor who never wanted to be around sick? People. This particular doctor doesn't wait for the sick people to come to him. He goes to the sick people sovereign grace. Of course the Pharisees need righteousness, of course, they are ungodly, but they just didn't acknowledge their need but the sinners and in tax collectors did.

Matthew did. Doctors go to physically sick and spiritual doctors go to those who are spiritually sick. The great physician of the soul the Lord Jesus. A Doctor doesn't say I can't go to you and help you because I might risk contamination.

Although that's not always true. When I was in the hospital with kovat for those 16 days I'd get a phone call and I thought it was the cafeteria because they would also call and it would be the doctor and The doctor said before I come in and talk to you.

I don't want to be in there very long. And so I'm going to ask you all these questions now on the phone I'll quick gown up and then come in and just talk to you for a few seconds. Jesus goes to the sick people.

I Know the name of sorrows. What a name for the Son of God who came ruined sinners to reclaim. Hallelujah, what a Savior? How can you condemn a doctor for going to sick people? One writer said the new thing in Christianity is not the doctrine that God saved sinners.

No, Jude would have Jew would have denied that it's the assertion that God loves and saves them as Sinners, this is the authentic and glorious doctrine of true Christianity. It's a simple analogy doctors go to sick people, but he says something else here, too Verse 13, but go and learn what this means.

What's that trying to convey to the Pharisees you teachers of the Bible should know this. He's not saying go off on a journey and learn it. It's it's a it's a blast. It's it's Sarcastic go learn this you should know this.

You're the teacher of the Bible. It's right there in Hosea chapter 6 and you don't know anything about it. It's a rebuke. Just a slap in the face. Why don't you go learn what Hosea 6 6 means. I delight in loyalty rather than sacrifice and in the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.

You should be concerned about the souls of these people. And you could care less. They're image bearers. That's very interesting. Luke adds something because sometimes people will say Jesus associates with sinners tax collectors sinners ungodly people and it's just for fellowship and he just Accepts them as they are in that sense and never calls them to repentance or faith in him.

Listen to Luke 5 a Parallel account and Jesus answered and said of them. It is not those who are well that need a physician, but those who are sick. I've not come to call the righteous but sinners to Repentance.

See how much Jesus loves them. Of course, he associates with sinners. He came down to do that very thing. Of course, he eats with sinners and tax collectors. Yes, that's true. But what does he do when he's eating with them?

He calls them to repentance. Because he loves them unlike the Pharisees unlike the scribes unlike the religious leaders who just avoid he. Jesus has fellowship table fellowship intimate fellowship, but calls them to repentance.

For while we were still helpless at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. Makes me think of my own salvation. Does it not your you think of yours. God demonstrates his own love toward us and that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us.

Spurgeon said there's nothing in you to make him love you, but he left heaven's throne for you. Don't you want that for other people to Jesus deliberately associating with the ungodly. I think that's by the way a good charge for Bethlehem Bible Church.

We have Bible studies and home groups and prayer meetings and I wanna and All kinds of things. Fine good. I like that. One of the reasons why I go to the gym is just so I can be around other people who?

Aren't you people church people. I can evangelize and talk and Bite my tongue when they swear at me or whatever they do. CT said said someone to live within the sound of a church or a chapel bell. I want to run a rescue shop within a yard of hell to love them to be kind to them our best neighbors.

For 15 years before they move with lesbian neighbors. And one time I remember Kathy said to me. I'd like you to come to the hospital. I have knee surgery and would you come and visit me? I said not as a neighbor, but as a pastor and that means I'm going to read the Bible and pray for you.

She said okay. And so I go there and I read the Bible and I pray and I preach Psalm 22 my god my god. Why have you forsaken me? It's kind. It was wonderful. I prayed Kim was with me. But it's not just friendship.

It's telling people the truth in a kind way speaking the truth in love. Jesus did this often. He goes to Zacchaeus's house and they grumbled he's gone in to be the guest of a man who's a sinner. I just want you to know God saved you as a sinner.

Christian Disagreement Is Not Phobia

God saves other people as sinners and people aren't our enemies. Number two. The second lie you might be tempted to believe that if you disagree with mainstream media. That you're a bigot and tolerant and trans-o-phobic or homophobic person.

Disagreement does not mean you're trans-phobic. Even yesterday, I read Jamie Lee Curtis said it's the religious people that are the ones who are so trans-phobic. It's an ad hominem attack. Homophobia is defined by the Kinsey Institute of New Report on sex as fear dislike or hatred of homosexuals.

Dear Christian, I hope you're not afraid of homosexuals. I hope you're not hating homosexuals, and I hope you don't dislike them. But phobia means irrational fear. There's no irrational fear. There's no fear at all.

The only thing we do is we call sin sin in ourself and in others. Psalm 33 the Lord loves righteousness and justice. Psalm 99 the king in his might loves justice. Proverbs 15 the way of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord, but he loves him who pursues righteousness.

And so don't back down from loving people and telling people the truth just because they call you names. I'm not going to back down from loving people. Lie number three. Since homosexuals and transgender people are supposedly born that way.

They're not responsible for their behavior. And of course, by the way, this goes for any sexual sin and not just in this category, but any sexual sin. I'm just born that way. I'd like you to take your Bibles and turn to Romans chapter 1.

Are people really. Not responsible for their behavior because they're born that way after all to err is human. In 1991 Simon Levea the Salk Institute in 1992 University of California 1991 Northwestern University and in 1993 the National Cancer Institute of Maryland all came up with different studies trying to say people are born with certain propensities therefore they're not guilty of any kind of Shame or sin or guilt?

We know the Bible teaches each person is tempted when he's lured and enticed by his own desire and. And whether you're born with a propensity to idolatry born with a propensity toward covetousness born with a propensity toward fornication bored with a propensity toward adultery or homosexual or anything else it's from Adams sin, and it's our own nature and that doesn't mean we're not guilty just because.

This is how we're born. We're born torqued and tainted. Romans chapter 1. Of course we understand this passage that it teaches everybody's responsible to God and no one has an excuse. And of course it's the love of God.

It's the kindness of God the goodness of God to show us that so we know we have to have a Savior if. You don't know you're sick. You don't know you have a Savior if you think well. I'm without excuse.

I need help, but I've heard God's merciful Romans 118 for the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth God's indignation and holy displeasure against sin his wrath.

It's revealed because people are trying to hinder Who God is and suppress who God is and and restrain and hold back? What truth do they suppress verse 19 for what can be known about God is plain to them.

Because God has shown it to them. What's the substantiation? What do you mean for his invisible attributes namely his eternal power and divine nature have been clearly perceived? Ever since the creation of the world in the things that have been made so they are without excuse.

This is for every single person. Not just sexual sinners, but every single person you go outside, and you take a look and you think you know what? I don't know everything about God by looking. But I know many things and God says with natural revelation you are without excuse no apology.

You can't get to Judgment Day and say God. I didn't. I didn't know that you existed Verse 21 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.

And what God does is if you're not responding to revelation and acknowledging that there is a God. Then there are consequences, and it's like the dimmer switch on your light bulb. Just keeps getting darker and darker and darker and darker.

Claiming to be wise they became fools. Kind of makes you just not be able to think properly so much so verse 23 exchanged the glory of the immortal God for Images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things you don't acknowledge God as God.

Well, we're born worshipers if we can't worship. God. We're going to worship a person. We're going to worship a beetle. We're going to worship something else. Dear Christian everybody's responsible for their own sins and so just to say I'm born a certain way.

That doesn't mean it's true lie number four tolerance of sexual sin. Including homosexuality and transgenderism and everything else shows that a society is evolving for the better. We're more open. We're more free.

We're more tolerant. We're more educated. When sexual sin runs rampant in a culture it shows the consequences of their sin not that it's getting better. Let's continue to move on in Romans chapter 1. That's why I think we're living in the last days both literally and of course in time.

It's getting worse and worse and worse, and what are the consequences of sinful rebellion? Probably the worst thing that could ever ever happen is God judging by divine abandonment hardening men's hearts.

Three times you'll see God gave them up in this section. Verse 24 therefore God gave them up in the lust of their hearts to impurity to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves. You can see the order can't you if you're not going to acknowledge God as God and you're going to worship an idol.

Then you're going to end up worshipping yourself and sex. Psalm 115 says those who make idols will become like them. And this is not just God letting people go. This is God positively Intensifying what they want if that's what you want.

That's what you want. Uncleanness impurity verse 24. This is everything. From spouse swapping to pornography from heterosexual to homosexual. It's all there. Abandoning people to more sin because they exchange verse 25 the truth of God for a lion.

Worshipped and served the creature rather than the Creator who is blessed forever. For this reason here's the second giving them up. God gave them up to dishonorable passions. And now he's choosing to tell us How far things have spiraled down when even the women exchange natural relations for those that are contrary to nature and Then likewise gave up their 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 of their error. Paul is basically saying I don't care that in the Greek culture homosexual love is at the pinnacle. It's the peak. It's the best kind of love.

I don't care if it's in the Roman culture 13 out of 14 Caesars or homosexual. It doesn't matter. There's another one in verse 28. God gave them up again. 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.

When sexual sin is rampant in a society. It is not a sign of flourishing. It is not a sign of society getting better. Maybe this is the one I really wanted to talk about line number five a lie that says we're better than those sexual sinners like transgender Homosexual etc.

We're better. Oh, we would never fall to such grave sin. Take a look at Romans 1 29. You see all these they there it's going to be they and Romans chapter 2 us. Romans chapter 2 you. They I mean not us they're filled with all manner of unrighteousness.

They're full of envy murder strife, etc. They are gossips. I mean that's them that's not us. They're slanders. They're haters of God. They're insolent. They're haughty. They're boastful. They're foolish.

They're faithless. They're heartless. They're ruthless Verse 32 though they Know God's righteous decree. That those who practice such things as I've they not only do them. But they give hearty approval to they to them who practice them.

I mean, they're celebrating. They're applauding. They're saying what is evil is good. And what is evil good is evil. And by the way, all the stuff that he's talking about in chapter 1 its temporal judgments.

It's not even eternal judgment. That's coming in chapter 2. I mean, I'm not like that. I haven't fallen to those sins. That's that's not me. I Mean, I have a Midwest work ethic and I work hard and and I pay my bills and I'm nice to people and I'm not like them.

Chapter 2 verse 1. Please never read Romans 1 without reading chapter 2. Therefore you we've gone from a to you. Therefore you have no excuse. Oh, man, every one of you who judges for in passing judgment on another you condemn yourself because you the judge practice the very same things.

Oh, I'm not Chan transgender, I'm not like these people. Well, you might as well say to yourself Basically Him Must well be. Because when you're saying them them them them they they they they they you go what they do is wrong what they do is wrong.

It's not righteous. It's not just that means what Paul says in Romans 2 1, you know, what righteousness is. You know what justice is, you know, it's right and you know, it's wrong. And do you keep the law?

Do you stand before the law as blameless if you know right and wrong take a look at your own life. Say well, I would never stoop to those things. But every sins against the thrice Holy God and if you commit adultery even in your heart It is a sin against God.

I was riding my bike I know this was several years ago and I was riding past Kimball's dairy where people are getting these huge. You know ice creams and stuff and it did flash through my mind for a second.

I'm burning 1 ,000 calories while you're eating 5 ,000. And a wasp then flew into my mouth and stung me three times. I could not believe that I didn't have the wherewithal to not bite it and crush it just to kill it.

And so I have to stop. I'm taking Benadryl. Do I have to get my EpiPen and everything else? I'm like man the wasp sting in the mouth story. The wasp sting in our spiritual mouth is Romans chapter 2 verse 1.

They they they they they if you know, they are sinful. What about you? Does anybody here really think we're somehow better than other persons who are sinning and the answer is We do. I do. I know it's wrong.

You know, it's wrong, but we do. We know we're not supposed to. They need a Savior, I mean We're okay. I mean, it's the sexual sinners from homosexual to transsexual to everything else. They're rejecting natural revelation.

That's bad. I Don't want to be rejecting special revelation the Bible. Go down to chapter 2 verse 13. And of course Paul is trying to show all unbelievers that they all need Mac. They all need righteousness whether you're a moralist or whether you're a pagan.

It's not the hearers of the law Romans 2 13 who are justified before God. But the doers of the law will be justified if you can perfectly obey God. Why would he judge you for anything? But since you can't perfectly obey God you need a Savior.

You need Jesus as righteousness. The fact that we can judge what a sin is in other people Shows that we know what's right and wrong and we need to take a look at our Selves. Spurgeon wrote another man's sin cannot excuse you.

You must stand upon your own feet. At the Day of Judgment you must yourself make a personal appearance. Do you not see that the only righteousness you claim is a partial righteousness and the fact you claim?

It is a mission that you are not perfect that you have committed some sins by saying I'm better than another person. Everyone needs Christ's righteousness. It's kind of like the hypocrisy hypocrisy of someone saying This whole LGBTQ thing is so wrong and vile and wicked and then at night they go to their computer and watch pornography.

Paul knows we're self-righteous, and that's why he gives the wasp beasting in the mouth. Chapter 2 verse 1. Martin Luther said I Find that I cannot preach self-righteousness down. Men will boast in what they can do and mistake the path to heaven to be a road paved by their own merits.

Deception, Repentance, and the Hope of Change

Not besprinkled by the blood of the atonement of the Lord Jesus Christ. Line number six. It's very difficult to be deceived. When it comes to homosexuality Transgender and other sexual sins, it's difficult to be deceived.

That's a lie because it's easy to be deceived. Turn your Bibles to first Corinthians chapter 6. I know you know the passage and one of the reasons I'm preaching this message is because. It's easy for us to buy in.

It's easy for us to buy in when we have relationships children parents friends Associates fellow students, it's easy for us to buy in when people in our life who are Christians are judgmental Fundamentalistic hard to be around and our lesbian and other friends are kind compassionate have a community and are welcoming.

It's easy to be deceived. Matter of fact, what does Jeremiah 17 9 say the heart is desperately wicked deceitful above what? If I were to give you an assignment go around the world. Here's a million dollars find me the ten most deceitful people in all the world the most deceitful things.

You should come back at the number one list my own heart. That's why we need to have our minds renewed by the by the word not conformed by the world. Bombarding bombarding bombarding bombarding Dallas Brown she was at her house for about a week and a half a few weeks ago and Once in a while, I wanted to watch the football game and she said I have not seen a commercial for like 15 years.

I said, I'm sorry to taint you but I just kind of want to watch this football game. And just what they're saying and just the information and of course, you know from Instagram to tick-tock. To Twitter to Facebook to all these things.

It just is coming through movies through sports through I mean, it's just a non-stop flood. And by the way You are Influenced. All right, if I have to say if I say something about Homosexuality then I have to couch it and say all these things and how I'm not homophobic and I'm not this and I'm not that.

Just to make sure people don't get the wrong idea. It's easy to be deceived. And what does Paul do with the Corinthians? He says in chapter 6 verse 9. Do you not know the unrighteous will not inherit the King of God?

Do not be deceived. If it wasn't easy to be deceived why write that? Neither the sexually immoral nor the idolaters nor the adulterers. Nor men who practice homosexuality literally two words there in the greek the active and the passive.

Nor thieves nor greedy nor drunkards nor revilers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of heaven. The church of Corinth thought they knew everything but what they didn't know that Paul had to remind them.

It's easy to be deceived. And there's no need to be deceived when we have scripture. It's easy to be deceived. I'll say it to you. It's easy for you to be deceived because it's easy for me to be deceived.

We're creatures. We're we're influenced. Maybe the last lie line number seven. Sexual sinners can never change. Homosexuals can never change. Transgender can never change. Put in the whatever lgbtq thing you want in there hetero.

Homo doesn't matter to me. There's a big thing going around the world and it's a condemnation of conversion therapy. Where someone says I struggle with homosexuality. I don't want to do that anymore. What kind of program can I be in some type of conversion therapy?

I'm not here to argue any kind of conversion therapy. Except the one conversion therapy I do know about and that is god can convert people by sovereign grace and completely change them. I don't know what they teach in other conversion therapy, but I do know that if a person who's in Veloped with sexual sin thinks to themselves I can never be helped.

It's a tragedy. Look at chapter 6 verse 11 in first corinthians Jesus turns water into wine and sinners into saints. And if there weren't more gross sinners in corinth, I don't know where they would be.