Gender Identity

Announcements

Thanksgiving Meal: November 20 after morning worship

Update on George Blackmon and Jim Parsons

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Introduction

God Has Created Us Male and Female according to His Perfect Plan

Genesis 1:26–27 ESV

26 Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” 27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.

Man Perverts and Rejects God’s Perfect Plan

Judges 2:16–19 ESV

16 Then the Lord raised up judges, who saved them out of the hand of those who plundered them. 17 Yet they did not listen to their judges, for they whored after other gods and bowed down to them. They soon turned aside from the way in which their fathers had walked, who had obeyed the commandments of the Lord, and they did not do so. 18 Whenever the Lord raised up judges for them, the Lord was with the judge, and he saved them from the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge. For the Lord was moved to pity by their groaning because of those who afflicted and oppressed them. 19 But whenever the judge died, they turned back and were more corrupt than their fathers, going after other gods, serving them and bowing down to them. They did not drop any of their practices or their stubborn ways.

Southern Baptist Journal of Theology, Volume 13 Did Jesus Die for Joan?

All sin is weird and perverted. The fact that any of it (especially our own) seems “normal” to us is part of what we need the gospel for.

Gender Fluidity in all it’s forms is a rejection of God’s Plan for male and female:

Deuteronomy 22:5 ESV

5 “A woman shall not wear a man’s garment, nor shall a man put on a woman’s cloak, for whoever does these things is an abomination to the Lord your God.

We Must Demonstrate Both Grace and Truth to Those Enslaved by Gender Ideologies

John 1:14 ESV

14 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.

2 Timothy 2:24–26 ESV

24 And the Lord’s servant must not be quarrelsome but kind to everyone, able to teach, patiently enduring evil, 25 correcting his opponents with gentleness. God may perhaps grant them repentance leading to a knowledge of the truth, 26 and they may come to their senses and escape from the snare of the devil, after being captured by him to do his will.

Love Them like Christ

2 Timothy 2:24 ESV

24 And the Lord’s servant must not be quarrelsome but kind to everyone, able to teach, patiently enduring evil,

Ephesians 4:32 ESV

32 Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.

Tell Them the Truth

2 Timothy 2:24–25 ESV

24 And the Lord’s servant must not be quarrelsome but kind to everyone, able to teach, patiently enduring evil, 25 correcting his opponents with gentleness. God may perhaps grant them repentance leading to a knowledge of the truth,

Call Them to Repentance

2 Timothy 2:25 ESV

25 correcting his opponents with gentleness. God may perhaps grant them repentance leading to a knowledge of the truth,

Proverbs 11:30 ESV

30 The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, and whoever captures souls is wise.

Psalm 51:13 ESV

13 Then I will teach transgressors your ways, and sinners will return to you.

Help Them in Obedience

2 Timothy 2:26 ESV

26 and they may come to their senses and escape from the snare of the devil, after being captured by him to do his will.

Galatians 6:1–2 ESV

1 Brothers, if anyone is caught in any transgression, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness. Keep watch on yourself, lest you too be tempted. 2 Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.