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Dr. Jim Garlow is a lifelong pastor who most recently served in San Diego, California, and now leads Well Versed, a ministry dedicated to bringing biblical
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Created Male and Female: Biblical Foundation 0:00 Back here in the well versed small group series on chapter 11, sexual orientation and gender identity.0:08 Well, there's a new phrase we use this day, the word SOGI. What in the world is SOGI? Never heard of that till recently. Well, it stands for sexual orientation and0:20 gender identity. SOGI laws have been coming upon cities all across America. Large metropolitan areas, tiny town SOGI laws, sexual orientation0:32 and gender identity. What on earth is that? Well, before we answer the question, let let's just go to the scripture. What does the Bible have to say about this issue of male versus female?0:45 The Bible says we were created male or female. Intriguingly enough, that's the first thing that was ever said about you. If, your parents had a sonogram and they0:57 took a glimpse of you, they said, wow, it's a boy or it's a girl. Or if before sonograms, it's a boy. It's a girl at the point of birth. In other words, the it you stop being an it at that1:09 point, and you were known as a he or a she from that point on because you were born either male or female. That's the way the scripture lays it out. In fact, let's just stop there for a moment and take a1:21 look at this. In Genesis, we're we're we're we're made as male and female. The next thing that happens is marriage in Genesis. The next thing happens, now we're up to Genesis 4,1:33 procreation. And if you take a look at what the enemy has done, what Satan has done, the first thing he did was come after the third 1. That's procreation, abortion, kill the1:45 babies. Jesus gives life, but Satan comes to kill, steal, kill, and destroy. So he kills life. So he attacked the third 1. Remember the first 1 was male and female were made? The second1:57 1 is marriage, male and female come together. The third thing in Genesis is procreation, babies are being born now. And so the enemy comes after the third thing first, an abortion, babies are being killed. Then Satan2:09 turned his attention to marriage. Let's destroy the definition of marriage. And then let's come back now into the first thing and let's destroy the notion of gender specificity2:21 that we're born male and female. The fact is, God establishes very clearly we're born male or female. Some people try to claim, well, there's 52 different2:33 options. No. There are 2. Some people say, well, we're gender fluid. No. There are 2. You were either born anatomically, you were born male or you were born female.2:45 Some wanna say, well, I was born with this predilection. I was I was born homosexual. No. You were not born a homosexual at all. The fact is what happens2:57 in studies where there are twins involved, you have twins, identical twins, 1 might be homosexual, 1 might be heterosexual, but they're identical twins from the exact same DNA.3:09 So if you were born a particular way, then both would have to be either heterosexual or both would have to be homosexual because they have identical DNA. There's no evidence scientifically or otherwise that a person3:21 is born that way. Now the factors that cause 1 to become homosexual, that that's more complex than we're gonna go into right now. But now here's what's happening in culture. SOGI comes along, sexual orientation and3:33 gender identity. So that now, if someone says, I feel like a girl today, you gotta call me she. My name is no longer Tom, it's Thelma, and you better call me3:45 Thelma because I say I'm Thelma. And so now in some places, you can be fined 125000 dollars or fines up to 2500003:57 if you call somebody a he who wants to be called a she. It's whatever I self identify. Is that ludicrous? Let me tell you what. You mostly, you don't know this about4:09 me, but I play for the Los Angeles Lakers. Now it's a deep dark secret. You didn't know this, so just now. I play for the Lakers. I've been playing for the Lakers for quite a few years. I'm I'm 1 of their star4:20 players. You just didn't realize that till right now. You know why I know I am? Because I say I am. I self identify. Now my my my my weight happens to be the same as those guys in4:32 height. But I don't have the right height, I got the right weight, and I have no basketball skill at all. But I self identify as an LA Lakers, so you've gotta you gotta treat me with that kind of respect that I'm a part4:43 of the LA Lakers. You would say, Jim, that's ludicrous. You're exactly right. It is ludicrous. We don't self identify. We're born certain ways. But yet what has happened in the political correctness4:55 of our culture on SOGI law, sexual orientation and gender identity, it is so bad. Here's here's some people I've met. I've met Barronelle Stutzman, a florist who has been fined,SOGI Laws: Coercion and Real-World Impact 5:06 taken to court, and she still may lose everything she has. A nice, wonderful, happy grandmother. But along comes the government and says, if you don't agree and support and affirm certain5:18 behavior, we're gonna come in and fine you. I've I've met Blaine Adamson. He's out of Lexington, Kentucky. Here is a t shirt manufacturer, and he says, I don't wanna affirm certain things by my business.5:30 Oh, but the government comes and says, no. You have to affirm certain things. I I've also had the privilege of meeting Elaine Hugeland, a photographer. And along comes the government said, you have to affirm certain5:42 things because sexual orientation and gender identity laws, it is it's coerced and forced upon us. And then comes along the revisionist theologians who had an epiphany5:55 about 40, 50 years ago, and suddenly took 2000 years of New Testament history and 5000 years of biblical history, and they redefined it all. Revisionist. So now they6:06 do away any passage that has to do or speaks to homosexuality. Oh, no. They've had an epiphany. They understand that every theologian for the last several thousand years is wrong. The Bible didn't6:18 really mean it. And what do they do to the text? They take, for example, the Genesis 19 text, Sodom and Gomorrah. They said, well, the sin of Sodom and Gomorrah was not really homosexuality. It was6:30 inhospitality. Now inhospitality was a serious sin in Eastern culture. There's no denial of that. And as a part of the story, no denial of that. But in Jude 7 there's only 1 chapter in Jude. Jude 7, the6:42 way it interprets it you know what it interprets? Jude chapter 7, and that's coming off of the Genesis 19 passage. It says, it's because of their sexual perversion. Guess what?6:54 That's what was wrong in Sodom and Gomorrah. And then on top of that, they come along with Leviticus 18 and Leviticus 20. And there it speaks specifically about the inappropriateness7:06 of male with male and female with female. And you know what people say? They say, well, that can't be wrong anymore because it also speaks of certain things like pork. It speaks of things like shellfish.7:19 It speaks things of you shouldn't wear clothing with mixed fibers in it. And because of that and and we don't follow that anymore, then it must be fine, the practice of homosexuality, or we shouldn't even7:31 have mixed seeds. And and since these things are not practiced anymore, therefore, any reference to homosexuality, that can't possibly be wrong because7:43 these aren't followed anymore. How naive. How unrealistic in understanding the text. A basic course in hermeneutics 1 0 1,7:54 how to interpret the text. Some of the things that are referred to in the Old Testament have application only to the Jewish people in a set time, and it's clear even why. Sometimes, some8:06 of these things referred to had meaning in among ancient pagans, and they said, we don't want you practicing that particular way. Sometimes in the Old Testament, it will have ceremonial8:18 laws as opposed to moral laws. Things that continue straight on through. 1 of the things that continues straight on through the Bible, guess what, Is that homosexuality, the practice or the act8:30 of it, is not allowed. Now, let's make a distinction right now. I wanna make a clear clear distinction between the homosexual movement that forces us on and that nice homosexual you work next with8:42 next to it at work. We understand the huge difference. There are many wonderful people, who we call friends, who may see themselves defined as homosexuals. That does not change the8:54 reality of the forcefulness of this agenda being crammed down the throats of every single every single 1 of us. And so we find that what is carried through is that the that theScripture's Clear Stance: Addressing Revisionism 9:06 practice or act of homosexuality is not acceptable all the way through the Old Testament and the New Testament as well. In fact, let's just distinguish right now between the orientation. Let's see9:17 somebody who is oriented as homosexual and the practice or the act of homosexuality. This is what's addressed in scripture. This 1 is not. This is9:29 not addressed in scripture. This is the practice or the act of homosexuality. Someone said, well, I was born that way. Well, you know what? Most of us all were born with9:41 proclivities towards wrongdoing. Every 1 of us. In fact, most healthy heterosexual males I know were born with a proclivity towards polyamory. What's that mean? They feel like they can be9:53 involved sexually in love with multiple women. That's why pornography, for example, is so prominent. That's why, for example, affairs often happen much more men involved than than they just married women, for10:04 example. Why is that? They just sort of feel like they'd be involved a lot. That's a that's a predilection or a tendency or proclivity of many men. But we don't have to act out on that proclivity. We don't have to act10:16 out on it. And so we don't do we may be born that way, but it doesn't mean we have to act that way. The scripture speaks specifically to action or or practices. And so Leviticus 18, Leviticus10:27 20, even so some of the things are unique to the Jewish culture or something had to do with with pagan practices is that don't do it. But for that reason back then, the fact the act aspect of homosexuality continues10:38 through all the Bible and and through the New Testament as well. Let's go to Romans chapter 1. That's another classic passage on Romans chapter 1. What are the revisionist historians do with that 1? They say, well,10:50 Paul just didn't know about modern day loving relationships, between monogamous homosexuals. He just was ignorant of the reality of the day's capabilities for relationships. How11:02 how foolish was Paul? He wouldn't know that. Or they say, well, what he's really referring to is ancient pagan temple practices. Nowhere does it say that at all. It11:14 specifically says the act of homosexuality. Or they'll take up the first Corinthians passage or the first Timothy passage where it speaks of it. And they'll say, now that can't possibly11:25 refer to nice men in loving relationships with each other or nice women. It has to refer just to dirty old men. So they redefine it. They go all the way through, and they try to do11:37 away with all these references in the scripture that says the act or the practice of homosexuality is sin. You say, Jim, why are you talking about it? I I don't like talking about it. I don't like talking about any11:49 kind of sin. This gets forced upon us by people who demand that we accept it. It it suppose suppose all the gamblers, suppose all the gluttons, let's suppose all the gossips, let's suppose all the adulterers12:01 and fornicators, all formed organizations and demanded we accept it, their practices. Well, then we'd have to rise up against that and say, no. The Bible says that stuff is wrong. It's not just 112:13 sin homosexuality. It's the 1 sin that is forced and coerced on all of us to accept in some way. Now having said that, how do we respond back? Number 1, like Jesus.12:25 How did Jesus respond back? In John chapter 1 verse 14, full of grace and truth. And he put it in that order. Some people are good at responding in grace, they're loving, but they don't bring any truth. Some12:37 people are good at responding in truth, but they don't bring any grace. They just wanna beat up on everybody. Neither by themselves are good. Together, grace, that's loving and caring.12:48 Truth, you still bring the authenticity of scripture to the table. You don't back off your position, But you do so, you know, I pray a winsome, loving, magnetic way with a sense of grace, and the13:00 goal is always to redeem. In fact, Paul writes, when he writes about homosexuals and their practice, he says, some of you were like that. In other words, you got set free. That's the glorious good news. The good news is13:11 he he he transforms us. The the great news, he doesn't leave us the way we were. He transforms all of us regardless of our sin. And says, you know what? The grace of Christ Jesus can forgive you,13:23 and the power of the Holy Spirit can transform you, and you can begin to walk away from the kind of sins you used to manifest. So how do we respond to those struggling with same sex attraction the same way that Jesus13:35 did? In grace and in truth. Keep them both and keep them in balance.13:45 Wow. That is, a winning combination the way Jesus did it. The perfect balance between grace and truth. Mhmm. And I want to read 1 quote here from page 101. It says the greatest13:57 commandment has not changed. It is still to love. At the same time, we are to boldly speak the truth to them in love. Love does not mean to be silent. The greatest love is spoken withResponding with Grace and Truth 14:09 truth and compassion. And sometimes that means it's tough love. And you guys remember this verse, first Corinthians 13 13, which says, and now these 3 remain faith,14:20 hope, and love. And the greatest of these is love.14:24 And the good news is that the gospel sets us free of all sins, including the practice of homosexuality. He forgives us and sets us free of all sins.14:35 The good news is he forgives us of our sins, but the great news is that he doesn't leave us that way.In this video 0:00 Created Male and Female: Biblical Foundation5:00 SOGI Laws: Coercion and Real-World Impact9:00 Scripture's Clear Stance: Addressing Revisionism14:00 Responding with Grace and Truth
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