Zach Lambert's Sermon Concluded

Well, greetings and welcome to The Dividing Line. We are continuing our review and response of Zach Lambert's sermon on what he called homophobia and transphobia. Personally, I have very little respect for people who use either term.

They are simply meant to, again, create emotion rather than any type of serious interaction. But pastor in Austin, Texas, and I'm going to assume you've seen part one, so we're not going to do all the introductory stuff.

He has made some comments on Twitter since the program last time. Obviously, I don't expect that he ever would have, ever would actually listen to what we're saying, take the time to do so. But he is aware of the people have made him aware of the fact that we are doing this response.

Interestingly enough, I'm looking here about his, he's saying wonderful things about Rachel Held Evans and Matthew Vines, David Gushie. Yeah, here it is. Yeah, here's on October 24th, honored to be mentioned alongside two great friends and coworkers like Matthew Vines and David Gushie.

James, I pray God sets you free from your obsession with trying to build walls to keep people out of God's family. You are not a gatekeeper for Jesus. Set that burden down and follow the way of Jesus, the one who made room at his table for anyone who wanted to sit with him, especially those pushed aside by others.

As soon as you draw a line to exclude people, Jesus goes to the other side of that line with them and invites you to join him there every time, quoting Carlos Rodriguez. And of course, as all false teachers, Zach Lambert is a false teacher because if you pretend to speak for Jesus and you cannot even say the word repentance, you will stand before that judgment seat utterly condemned.

That's what Zach Lambert needs to be told. And he won't listen to me, but maybe someone else, because you can, anybody can pick and choose what they want about Jesus from the Bible. I've debated all sorts of folks.

I remember so clearly when I debated John Dominic Crossan, one of the points that I made in my presentation was that these people, and I think I mentioned this two days ago, they searched for the historical Jesus.

They looked down that well, and lo and behold, they find Jesus staring back at them. He looks just like them because you're picking and choosing what of the data you will accept. And that's what Zach Lambert does.

He's not giving you a biblical understanding. He's not, he is not concerned to go, this is my authority. This is the word of God. And I want to know everything that says, and I want to handle it right.

No, he does not care less about that. It's pick and choose. And that's what we're gonna see today. Even though he's said he's giving you a biblical presentation today, we discovered that eunuchs are actually a sexual minority and, but we got to get through it.

So let's, I'm going to, I did not even close the program. So we are exactly where we were when we finished off last time. Oh no, that should be correct. That's why I couldn't hear it before. I would imagine this should get to us.

We did not test it. We should have, but we're going to test it live right now. Let's see if it works.

We don't believe that because it's cool or popular. As I've already said, it's a position so unpopular that it's gotten us kicked out of a bunch of things. We think LGBTQ plus people should be fully embraced and included in the church because.

We see it in scripture. We see it in scripture. People will make that claim. And you know, he may actually think he sees it in scripture. But if you are not seeking to believe all that scripture teaches in a harmonious fashion, then you're not seeking to believe what is in scripture at all.

And if you do not see the fundamental clarity of the negativity of scripture towards certain behaviors that are destructive to man, then you're not listening to scripture. So you may grab a little, a verse here and a verse there and a verse there, try to tie them together in some way.

Every cult and ism has ever done that. That's the distinction between those who seek to honor the entirety of God's word and those who have decided to subjugate the word of God to external sources, which is what's happening here.

We believe the words and actions of both Jesus and the first church amount to a complete rejection of homophobia and transphobia, as well as a complete acceptance of sexual and gender.

Minority. So let me show you. So I hope you recognize what you have here is unqualified. I mean, there are all sorts of areas of discussion that people that even affirming people have that recognize you can't do this.

This is full throttle, 100%. We're going to ignore the fact that even homosexual scholars admit that there is not a positive word to be found anywhere in scripture about homosexuality, that everything is universally negative.

They've decided we're going for all of it. We're not only going to say there's nothing sinful about it's good, it's right. And you think you can establish that in scripture? Of course you can't, you're not even trying.

And this next effort is, remember this is a Dallas grad, but that doesn't, that really doesn't say much about Dallas. People have asked me since the last program, do you think they're anti lordship stuff and things like that, you know, no emphasis upon repentance.

So like they think maybe, maybe I, I suppose that's, that's a possibility, but normally when people go to this radical level, all that stuff becomes fairly irrelevant.

What I mean, we're going to start by looking at the words of Jesus. In Matthew 19, Jesus has asked a question about divorce. Now some claim divorce was permissible by the husband for any reason. And some said it was only legal in certain situations.

Now remember it's framed this way because wives could not legally divorce their husbands in this culture. Women couldn't really do anything in this culture. And so these questions are being asked to Jesus and Jesus says this, I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife except for sexual immorality and marries another woman commits adultery.

And the disciples said to him, if this is the situation between.

Can I just stop for a moment? You might say he's right in the middle of reading something. Yes, but what didn't he read? What didn't he read? He's, he's, he's in Matthew 19, right? And he, he just said transphobia.

Oh, it's, you know, the Bible leads us to. So why don't you just take a Bible and turn to Matthew chapter 19. And, uh, he, he starts with verse nine for some reason. Huh? What, what came before that? Well, it's true.

The Pharisees have answered. They've asked Jesus. They've, they've tried to draw Jesus into the battle that was going on at that time period. Uh, in first century Judaism, uh, between Shammai and Hillel, the two different schools in regards to the nature of divorce and whether you could divorce your wife for any reason, or whether there are limitations given by the Mosaic law.

Jesus's response doesn't get read. I wonder why? Well, because Jesus's response is utterly 1000 opposed to both homosexuality and transgenderism. It's impossible to read otherwise. So he doesn't even bother to read it.

What does Jesus say? And he answered and said, have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female? Oh, but he says there's three genders. Well, Jesus says male and female and said, for this reason, a man shall leave his father and mother.

Oh, father and mother have actual meanings. Yes, they do. And be joined to his wife. Wife has an actual meaning. A man cannot be a wife. A woman cannot be a husband. A man has a wife and a woman has a husband, but you can't have a man who has a husband.

Or a woman who has a wife. Hmm. This reason, a man shall leave his father and mother be joined to his wife and the two shall become one flesh. That is the only marriage, Zach, that God honors. That's Jesus's words.

You don't believe that. Just admit it. I think you just need to come out and just be very, very open. I don't believe any of this stuff. So they are no longer two, but one flesh, what therefore God has joined together.

Let no man separate. There's a foundation of marriage and it cannot be for two men and two women. Not possible. Those are the words. That's what comes before the section. He jumps over the utter refutation of his entire position to try to create what you're going to listen to.

Cultural eisegesis. Scripture twisting on steroids. Scripture twisting on steroids.

A husband and wife, it's better not to marry. This response from the disciples is so chauvinist, right? They're basically like, if I can't divorce my wife anytime for any reason, I'm just not even going to get married.

It's not even worth it. Followers of Jesus, man. But as he often did, Jesus uses their response to make a bigger point. Verse 11 is how he responds. But Jesus said to them, not everyone can receive this saying, but only to those who it has been given.

For there are eunuchs who were born that way. And there are eunuchs who have been made that way by others. And there are those who choose to live like eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. Let the one who is able to receive this, receive it.

Now Jesus mentions three different kinds of people who his statement about divorce does not apply to. And he uses the word eunuch.

Each time. So what is a eunuch? His statement on divorce does not apply to it. Why? Because they can't engage in sexual activity that they don't get married. That's it. Eunuchs, as the text points out, eunuch actually was normally used as a political term.

It didn't first have a priority. Its priority meaning was primarily political. Uh, if you had a harem, you didn't, you want to have a man in control of your wives, um, who couldn't be sneaking his own children into the process.

And so it was a political thing, but notice Jesus's words, born that way, hence, uh, some kind of genetic problem, some kind of a developmental problem, something like that made that way by men that did happen, especially in war.

Though there were some men who did that to gain a political position. Um, we're not talking about origin here, but origin sort of did that, but not for the same reasons. Uh, and then those who choose to live that way.

So all we're talking about here, we're not talking about sexual minorities. We're talking about, and, and give, and if you actually read Matthew 19 in its context and read the first part first, Jesus has already said, there's two genders.

He's trying to make three genders out of it. Um, that's why he didn't read the first part and deal with it and deal with it in context. But he knows it's there, by the way. I don't even know how, how do you stand in front of, of a, of people in something called a church and manhandle the scriptures like this?

I don't even know. I don't know. I don't know how it works. Um, but he's talking about either those who are incapable at birth, that's a fallen state. The intersex situation would fit into that, even though there's nothing, nothing, nothing in the term eunuch that has anything to do with intersex.

There's nothing. There's nothing about, uh, eunuchs were not allowed into the congregation of Yahweh. And while the reasons for that was they were the people that were to bring about the Messiah. So there had to be a continuation of that line.

Um, but it was considered a disqualifying thing. And then there's a prophecy in Isaiah that even they would be, uh, given the message. And we see the fulfillment with Philip being sent to the Ethiopian eunuch, but, and then the other one says the other category is those who choose to live that way.

So celibacy is a possible choice. Um, as Paul says elsewhere, uh, and, and expands upon what that, what that might mean primarily in only speaking to the Corinthians, but it, it is, it is there. It's a, it's not in the central.

If you were to lay out the central message of the new Testament in regard to the family, celibacy is not a key element of that. It is off on the side and it's always focused on. So I can go, you know, minister to the tribes in Africa or something along those types of situations.

There's nothing here about homosexuality. There is nothing here about unrepentant homosexuals. There's nothing here about transgenderism. There's nothing here about any of these things. Um, but it is amazing.

Once a whole Bible interpretation is no longer your, your, your goal, you can turn any text into the foundation of an entire dogma. Look what Rome does with Mary. I mean, there are so few texts to try to work with and they've built a massive effort at edifice on every single one.

Everything includes, including some that actually aren't about her anyways. Uh, revelation 12, for example,.

The Bible eunuch is an umbrella term used to describe someone in the sexual and gender.

Minority baloney, pure, utter baloney, just laughably foolish baloney. That is not what it's about. It's primarily political. It has to do with not being able to mess up your King's harem. So yes, there is a sexual aspect, but it's not a sexual minority.

This is absolute cultural isogesis. It's twisting the scriptures. He's got to sit there. It's just so clear. No, what is so clear here is not even the Jehovah's witnesses are as bold as you are. Not even, not even the heretics, those, the, the, the, the historically well-known ones.

You're the new kind, but that's pure baloney. So sometimes eunuch refers to people who have.

Been castrated either voluntarily or against their will. This happened for a variety of reasons. So sometimes people were castrated actually because of a job. People believed in the ancient world that eunuchs had no sex drive, castrated people had no sex drive.

And so they were more trustworthy. And so they would be castrated before going to work in like finance or in like a house of royalty or something like that. Sometimes it was done as punishment because a young boy did not exhibit enough masculine characteristics by a certain age.

And so he would be castrated. And then sometimes it was done voluntarily. Somebody chose to do it to themselves or have it done because there was a disconnect they felt between their sexuality and gender, a condition.

Where do you get that? Back it up. Back it up. You're taking absolutely recent gender studies drivel and trying to cram it into the ancient world. You're not the first one to do it. Boswell did it years ago.

Well, when I say years ago, we're only talking last half of the last century. But still, it's a completely modernistic thing. We don't really believe this anymore. So we need to come up with Bible 2 .0 and we're going to rewrite it according to our interpretation of things.

That's how they do it. And we now call gender dysphoria. Oh, by the way, that's why Zach Lambert will not debate this. Like I said, I offered to come to him. No cost. No honorarium. Right there. His own church.

We'll debate this issue based upon scripture. And he's not going to do that because this kind of drivel is indefensible. Can you imagine us doing cross-examination? Oh, Zach, you said that Eunuch is a sexual minority.

Can you establish that from scripture? He's not going to want to do that. He's not going to want to even try. Zach, why didn't you read the first part of Matthew chapter 19 where Jesus says, there's only two genders?

Yeah, it wouldn't go well. Well, other times in scripture,.

Eunuch refers more broadly to intersex people. And then still other...

Where? Did you skip that part? Didn't have it in your notes? Where? I'd like to know where. Just point us to where that is. You just used a modern genetic term. You've heard the term hermaphrodites. That's overarching.

It's not necessarily always, you know, I had my genetics book here last time talking a little bit about that element of things. But where do you get that? I'd like to know where you got that in scripture because you didn't happen to sort of mention.

Eunuch refers to people who choose to remain celibate for a variety of reasons. But here's what I want us to really understand about this passage. Jesus is acknowledging people outside of the more common cisgender heterosexual constructs.

Doing nothing of the kind. Doing nothing of the kind. Even if you try to sneak in an intersex thing, that's after the fall. He has just said in Matthew chapter 19, at the creation, two genders. Nothing about sexual minorities, nothing about gender issues, nothing about...

It's all being read into the text without anything in the context. This is absolute manhandling of the scriptures. It's horrible. Shameful. And that's why he won't debate it because he knows you put this kind of manhandling of the text up against someone who's walking through the text and honoring it and it doesn't look good at all.

It doesn't look good at all. This position requires... Remember what happened when I debated Barry Lynn? This is a long time. This is almost 23 years ago now. And here's a guy, he's been on the ABC, CBS, NBC.

He's been on all the news shows and doing all this stuff. People have been throwing softballs to him. They don't know anything about the Bible, so they can't really challenge him. If they want to challenge him, they don't want to challenge him because they're leftist like he is.

He's been getting tossed softballs forever. He gets into a debate. He figures he's probably debating. He probably didn't do any preparation for it. He figures he's probably debating some backwoods hick and not someone who teaches Greek and Hebrew.

And he absolutely face-planted. By the end of that debate, he was so angry. He was yelling at the audience. He tried to sue us to suppress the videos of the debate because he knew he had absolutely lost, right?

It was horrible. That's why these folks won't debate. They can't. They know that the claims they're making are cobbled together and would not withstand cross-examination at all.

And he's not doing it in a condemning way. He's just saying, Unix exists. This is reality. Or to put it another way, Jesus is recognizing sexual and gender minorities. So listen, if you're listening to this and you're a sexual and gender minority, a member of the LGBTQ plus.

Community. See what just happened here? I mean, it's astonishing that someone can do this with a straight face. But he has just taken a historical category of Unix and he has now expanded that having stuck it, having read into it, he now uses it to explode open anybody in the LGBTQ plus community.

Jesus was affirming you. I don't ever want to stand before Jesus and answer for lying about him like this. I mean, this, wow. Talk about a burden that you will have to bear. Here's a man with light. It'd be better if he did not have a degree from Dallas.

It really would be. Here's a man who has been given light and given the tools and to use it to promote such darkness. This is such beautiful proof that Jesus sees you,.

That Jesus talked about you, and that he radically includes you in his family. Because you see, those listening to Jesus in this statement, they would have been reminded of an Old Testament prophecy about Unix.

Sexual and gender minorities, you see, were one of the most vulnerable populations in the ancient world. And because of that, scripture says they cried out to God for help. I hope you hear what's going on here.

Vulnerable minorities, and they cried out to God for help. Wow. Again, you're taking modern categories with modern, primarily Marxist, origination, and you're trying to cram them back into a completely different context.

Now, he's going to go, like I mentioned, there is the prophecy of the day coming when the Unix who have been, not by bigotry, but by God's command. I don't know that he even tries to explain that. But by God's command, excluded from the congregation of Israel, when there is going to be a message for them.

And all these folks, instead of seeing that fulfilled in the inclusivity of the gospel call to repentance for all people. See, he doesn't have the repentance part. And you could blame Dallas for a part of that if you want to.

But he doesn't have the repentance part. This man is one of the most glowing antinomians that's ever walked the planet. The mosaic law has no meaning whatsoever for him. It does not represent God's holy being, his holy nature.

I don't even know how he even bothers to try to interpret the things Jesus said about the goodness of the law, or Paul said about the goodness of the law. We don't do away with the law, we establish the law, blah, blah, blah.

I don't know how he deals with any of that, I'll be honest with you. But he's going to take prophecy of that coming day when male, female, Jew, Gentile, Scythian, Freeman, whatever, all stand on one level ground at the foot of the cross.

And he's going to turn that into something about sexual minorities and unrepentant LGBTQ rebels against God's way, getting to be a part of the family of God. You can't twist scripture more fully than what you're getting right now.

It is astonishing. And here is how God responds to the prophet Isaiah in the Old Testament.

For this is what the Lord says to the eunuchs who keep my sabbaths, who choose what pleases me and.

Hold fast to my covenant, to them I will give within my house and its walls. Didn't that covenant.

Include something like repentance and following of God's ways, not us telling God what to do?

A memorial and a name better than sons and daughters. I will give them an everlasting name.

That will endure forever. I think that's fulfilled in the book of Revelation, where we have that name put upon us because we are in Christ. And to be in Christ is to be repentant and to have turned from your evil ways.

And covenant faithfulness and that covenant includes the acceptance of Christ's lordship and his right to define who we are. It's all those things. And Zach doesn't believe in any of that anymore. None of it.

But we're going to claim it anyway.

Now notice it doesn't say that God is going to fix these eunuchs. He's going to change these eunuchs. He simply says if they follow him, they will be welcomed into his home and into his eternal family.

So listen, if you're someone who is experiencing gender dysphoria or who identifies as non-binary, I want you to really listen to that promise. God says even when you don't feel like you fit neatly into the category of sons and daughters, he promises to give you a name better than sons.

And daughters. You know what makes this absolutely despicable? Because it is. It's despicable. If you don't find this despicable, then I don't think you're understanding what's going on. The promise from Isaiah is fulfilled in the church of Jesus Christ.

And the hope that is offered here is a hope of redemption and a hope of fulfillment of God's commands. And you have a man taking a text that he has torn out of Matthew chapter 19, the eunuch text, and ignoring the reality that Jesus had started that sermon off, that answer off, sorry, that answer off, by referring to the created order.

And that from the beginning, God made them male and female. That this is God's... See, the despicable thing about this is the message you have for people, the small number of people who experience gender dysphoria, and that's not the transgender stuff.

But for the people who really are looking for a message of hope and are willing to be repentant, the message of hope is God made you the way you are. Therefore, there is reason for you to strive to be what God has made you to be.

You see, the message of these folks is, stop. You get to define who you are. And that leads to utter destruction. Utter destruction. That's what's so despicable about people who pretend to be speaking for Jesus, yet ignore the only words we have from him or twist them into an absolute pretzel.

It is despicable.

Is unbelievable. That is beautiful. And the promise keeps going. These, I will bring into my holy mountain and give them joy in my house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and sacrifices will be accepted on my altar for my house will be called a house of prayer for all nations.

I love that it ends by saying that. My house will be called a house of prayer for all nations. Everyone is welcome. Did you know that's the exact same phrase?

Everyone is welcome. Who will obey his law and his covenant? Who will repent and turn to him? He takes all that out and turns it inside out as a result. It's so obvious and clear. And yet we're seeing it all around us.

Is that Jesus yells out as he flips over the.

Tables of oppression and marginalization, the temple courts just days before he's killed on the cross. My house will be a house of prayer for all nations. That's what he yells out. Because there is room for anyone in God's house.

Because there is a seat for everyone at God's.

Table. And because God's family is all inclusive. All inclusive, remember for these folks means undefined by any of the characteristics and commandments found in scripture. So instead of the reality, which is scripture lays out for us what the family of God looks like, the holiness of the church, the commandments of God, all the rest of that.

That's all gone. Now you get all inclusiveness, which means there is no definition at all. And that's a destruction. That's the destruction of the church.

For the first church, this radical inclusion of a sexual and gender minority wasn't just theoretical. It was actually something that they explicitly practiced. So look with me at Acts.

Chapter eight, starting. So what have we done so far? We have taken a term, we've twisted it, we've now created an entire category, sexual gender minorities. This, this is despicable manhandling the word of God.

It's horrific. I repudiate it. And that's why he won't debate it because this would collapse so fast in a debate. That's the only reason folks, you got to understand it's the only reason he won't do it because he knows it too.

He said he spent more time preparing this, this sermon than any other. Well, it takes a long time to put together this thin, a thread of lies and make it sound believable. That does take some effort. There's no two ways about it.

So now we've totally messed up both Isaiah 54 and Matthew 19. And hey, we've used the term eunuch. Let's go find another use of it. There aren't very many. And let's talk about the Ethiopian eunuch.

Verse 26 says, now an angel of the Lord said to Philip, go south to the road, the desert road, that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza. So he started out and on his way, he met an Ethiopian eunuch, an important official in charge of all of the treasury of the Kandik, which means queen of Ethiopians.

This man had gone to Jerusalem to worship and on his way home was sitting in.

His chariot, reading the book of Isaiah, the prophet. Okay. Now let's, let's just stop there for a moment. Um, and think about who this man is. He is a very important individual. He possesses the Jewish scriptures.

So he is, he fits into the category of what we call the God fearers. Uh, we see them a number of times in Acts. We see that God had been active in the lives of people. Um, you know, uh, the Centurion that, that Peter's going to encounter and, and Lydia and those scriptures had gotten outside of Israel because the Jews had gone outside of Israel.

That, you know, the Roman, the peace of Rome had allowed for that distribution of things. Now he's reading the scripture. So he knows, he knows what the scriptures say. And he knows that as a foreigner and as a eunuch, he cannot be a part of, he cannot experience this process of proselytization so as to become a Jew.

And yet he still travels all the way to Jerusalem to worship. Now he could not, he would know again, possessing the scripture. He literally, you have any idea how rare it would have been for a high level official in Ethiopia to possess the scrolls?

I mean, that's freaky weird, but certainly that means he was very well aware of what is in those scrolls. So he knows he is attracted to the monotheism. You know, the polytheism of the people has never been satisfying to anybody.

There is something very attractive about simple monotheism. There's one God who created all these things. This, this world testifies of his glory. And, um, you know, that, that's what Romans 1 tells us that, that revelation gets through.

Men know there is one God. He made us to be able to see that. And so here is a man who knowing his condition will not allow him to be a proselyte convert, still goes to God's house of worship. And he can't enter into the courts.

He can't do things like that. He has to be out in the courts for the Gentiles and, but he wants to be near where worship is taking place. That is pretty amazing. Uh, and we see that a couple of times in Acts where God had been preparing people in that way.

So here's, here's our Ethiopian unit has nothing to do with sexual minorities. This guy isn't an LGBTQ plus advocate, anything like that. He's got a chariot and he is wealthy and he's powerful.

Now, Philip, he's one of the main leaders in the first century church. He's told by an angel of the Lord to go meet this person who becomes known as the Ethiopian unit. Now, like I said, a moment ago, there were lots of reasons that someone became known as a unit, but what's most important to understand is that they were in this sexual and gender minority.

So we have to keep,.

We have to keep repeating the lie because the text is not going to tell us this because you gotta keep, you gotta keep telling people what they need to be finding in the text because they're not going to find it there on their own.

So you have to provide that. You see how this works? Um, sadly you'll find this in a lot of churches. I mean, I just, I just remember a particular context in a church that I was a member of. It wasn't anything like this subject, but it was time to preach on tithing and it was amazing what you could find in scripture when you had a multi-million dollar budget to, to, to try to subscribe.

Um, and so you'd sort of have to tell people what they were going to be finding so that they could find it because if they're actually using the interpretive methodologies that you use normally, they wouldn't be finding it.

And so that's sort of strange. And so you just have to keep putting it out there and it's another way of twisting the scriptures. And because of that, he would not have been.

Allowed to even enter the temple in Jerusalem, much less worship there. Jewish law strictly.

Forbid it. So think about this. Jewish law or God's law? Hmm. Like I said, this man's a glowing antinomian. I mean, um, I don't hear the slightest respect for God's law. Uh, I, I don't, I don't know how he could ever, uh, handle Psalm 119 for example.

That's pretty bad. Yeah. Um,.

Yeah. The Ethiopian unit travels about 1500 miles from Ethiopia to worship God in the temple in Jerusalem. Only to be turned away, only to be told no one wants you here. Okay. Um, where do you get.

That? There's nothing in the text about him being turned away. Do you think this man was so stupid that he had, he had spent the money to obtain the Jewish scriptures and to even read the Jewish scriptures and he didn't know what they contained and he didn't know what God's law said.

This is all making stuff up for the sake of a narrative. It's eisegesis reading in the text stuff that isn't there. Nothing tells us an ax that he was going. He was so sad because he thought he was going to get to offer.

He knew he didn't, didn't expect that. He's not stupid. That's not what it's about. This text is not about gender minorities. It's not about oppression. It's not about any of these things. Stop twisting the scriptures to your own destruction.

It's not about any of these things. Listen to what it's really talking about only to be called unclean and.

Defiled and an abomination because of his sexual and gender minority status. I mean, again, it's.

Just like people, you've got to understand rich, rich is ready to lose his mind in the other room. And that's because most of the people watch this program. You go to Bible believing churches, you go to churches where the word of God is shown respect.

You've got to understand, sadly, this is what you get in the majority of seminaries today. I hate to tell you, but this is what you'll get in majority of seminaries. It is an abusive, abominable twisting of the scriptures.

But once you don't believe that this is a consistent whole, once you don't have the view of scriptures that Jesus had, then you got to do something with it. And the only way to get around it and then still fulfill all of your weird social justice stuff is just pick and choose, pick and choose.

And that's what you got here. So you're now taking a text, which is about the focus, by the way, if you're wondering. Here and then in Acts 10, this is Luke giving us certain aspects of how the Holy Spirit forced the Jewish church out of its, this is only for us attitude.

You know, Peter's going to have the sheet lowered down three times, smack him in the head, don't call what I've called clean, unclean. And here God's supernaturally transports. He's Star Trek's. He uses the enterprise's transporter to get Philip to a place to proclaim the gospel to someone that yes, a Jerusalem Jew would not think would be worthy of that.

That's what it's about. It's about the gospel going out to Gentiles and to twist it and to pervert it into something about sexual minorities is astonishing. It's astonishing. Put yourself in his shoes for a moment.

Think about how he must have felt. He travels for weeks in pursuit of this God he's been reading about. And when he arrives, the people representing this God completely shun him.

Let's play the victim card. Let's get the emotions going. Let's hope they don't notice that I'm cramming all this into the text and nowhere is it even hinted at. Not even hinted at.

Now for many of you in the LGBTQ plus community, you don't have to imagine that you've experienced it firsthand. But even after all that, this man is still reading the Bible on his way home. Isn't that incredible?

He's still pursuing God, even though he's been told.

You can never be included. Again, pure fantasy. He's been told he can never be included. He came expecting one thing, got something else, and they were so mean and they're terrible. And there's nothing in the text that says anything like what he's saying at all.