Sermon Tone Analysis

PRAYER

A - God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, we praise you!

You are good, You are Holy, You are Righteous, You are Loving.

Your Word is Truth, Your Word is Infallible, Your Word is Eternal.

We come before you today to worship You for you are worthy.

C - We confess LORD that we can sometimes be caught up with the times rather than the God who created time itself.

We confess that we can be sinfully judgemental over others.

We confess that we can sometimes let our feelings dictate our understanding of truth rather than letting your Word lead us.

We confess that we sometimes misuse the bodies you have blessed us with.

T - Therefore we thank you for your patience to us.

We thank you for your Spirit in us.

We thank you that you are long suffering with our foolish hearts and that you have sent your Son to redeem our thoughts, emotions, and bodies as well as our souls.

We thank you that your Word is living and active and full of power.

S - Do not leave us in our sinful state Father.

Change our hearts to be ever hungering for You, for Your glory, for our obedience to you even when it is hard.

Transform us by your Word and not by this world.

Be with this poor preacher today and let his words firstly bring you glory and praise, and secondly bring life and hope to those who hear.

INTRO

What are your pronouns?

How do you identify?

Where are you on the LGBTQIA+ spectrum?

Is your organization inclusive?

Are you providing a safe space?

These are the questions that we are being faced with as a society right now.

MESSAGE

God’s Creation

Gender and sexuality are and have always been relevant in the Bible.

Genesis has very clearly given us the sexual template in the beginning

Genesis shows us the created order and function of two sexes in reproduction

Genesis shows us the wickedness of mankind in sodom and Gomorrah

Leviticus and Deuteronomy gives us rules and laws concerning sexual sin

The OT historical books tell tails of sexual sin and punishment/outcome thereof

Proverbs tells us of the lack of wisdom in sexual sin

The Prophetic books regularly compare Israel’s idolatry to prostitution

The historical books record the fall of the kingdom and at least one main reason was the kings sexual sin

The New Testament affirms the OT in form and function of human sexuality

Jesus himself explains and even deepens our understanding of Gods holiness in physical sexuality

The rest of the NT writers regularly warn against sexual deviancy

The only acceptable outlet or practice of sexual behaviour is inside the covenant marriage union of one man and one woman

According to scripture human creatures are strictly binary.

Genesis has very clearly described humanity as being either or and not a range thereof

God brought Adam all creatures so he could see the need for a counterpart.

God gives these roles, calls them good, and blesses them.

The Old and New Testaments agree regarding gender being binary

Nowhere in scripture are non-binary genders mentioned.

if you want to argue this point you simply don’t know your Greek and Hebrew and therefore I dismiss your argument altogether !!

Lifestyles outside the created gender roles are actually condemned by scripture

Science PROVES the Bible to be accurate

DNA and Chromosomes

Humans binary sexuality is good and right and to be guarded and celebrated.

God says it is good outright

Genesis (God) established, blessed, designed it

OT scripture celebrates it, cherishes it, guards it

Jesus in the NT only continues to confirm this view

NT authors, inspired by the HS continue this push

Biblically speaking heterosexual monogamous marriage is the ONLY proper context God designed for our gender and sexuality to be practiced.

Anything outside of that is sin.

Humanity's Curse

Genesis 3.

Sin is what causes a person to desire and do what is contrary to God’s desire or purpose.

We are created to worship and if we are not worshiping God we still worship something

any sexual practice or identity outside of Gods created order is sin

Sexual sin is not the only and is not the worse sin

but sexual sin is sin

The curse affects the physical, mental, and emotion of the individual as well as the soul.

When mankind was cursed it effected every part of who we are

Physically we now get sick, old and die

Mentally our minds have been darkened

we think wrongly

we suffer anxieties, fears, doubts

emotionally we are disconnected and left wanting

designed for relationship with God and left hollow

All of this culminates in wrong living… For everyone!!

Food addiction - eat our thoughts / feelings

Drug addiction - where we numb / drown our thoughts / feelings

Entertainment / Work addiction - where we busy ourselves from our thoughts / feelings

Rage / Depression / Anxiety - where we give ourselves over to our thoughts and feelings

Sexual Sin - where we seek overt indulgence in our thoughts / feelings / desires

and the longer humans exist in this fallen state the more innovations we will create to “save ourselves” from the consequences of our wrong thoughts, feelings, and failing bodies!!

Because of the fall we …

have sinful sexual desires

practice sinful sexuality

seek to justify ourselves in this sinful behaviour

Satan (and the world) offer the same lie regarding gender and sexuality that he did about fruit.

The lie is this: - (Jon’s Translation)

Genesis 3:1–6 (ESV)

1 Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the Lord God had made.

He said to the human, “Did God actually say, ‘You shall not practice sexuality nor change your gender’?” 2 And the human said to the serpent, “We may practice sexuality inside the context of marriage, 3 but God said, ‘You shall not practice sexuality or gender outside of this context for it will lead to death’ ” 4 But the serpent said to the human, “You will not surely die.

5 For God knows that when you do your eyes will be opened, and you will experience a new sense of self and pleasure that God seeks to keep from you” 6 So when the human saw that the sexuality was pleasurable, and that it was a delight to the body, and that the experience was to be desired to make one wise, the human practiced and did as it wanted and also encouraged others to do the same.

The lie is this: “God does not have your best interests at heart”

He is keeping something from you

He is not letting you be our true / authentic self

He is wrong!!

Your thoughts, your desires, your emotions, YOU are right

Do what you want to do for there will be no consequences

The truth is when we live outside of Gods plan we experience…

Depression / Suicide / Self Harm

Medical Issues / sterility / performance inability / pain

STI / Incontinence / Tears and infections

Biblically speaking because of the fall all of us are broken, twisted, and deceived.