Is It Lawful For a Man to Marry a Man
Is It Lawful For a Man to Marry a Man?
There is confusion here – churches do not agree
Matthew 19:3-9
And He answered and said,
1. He who created them from the beginning . . . the most basic premise
a. Jesus begins with God
b. Jesus believed in the Old Testament
c. They exchanged the truth of God for a lie
d. Served the creature rather than the creator
i. Suppressed the truth in unrighteousness
ii. Wrath is revealed against all ungodliness
Authority of Scripture – “teach against it but . . .”
Idolatry hand in glove with immorality.
Idols= extension of fallen man’s hear and ideas
2. MADE THEM MALE AND FEMALE
a. Not good for man to be alone – society from time immemorial has been and will be heterosexual
b. Can a man/woman compliment a man/woman?
c. In a homosexual relationship genders mirror each other
3. FOR THIS REASON . . .
a. Morality – reason
i. God’s plan
b. Foundation of life
i. Procreation
1. Social scientist: most healthy is father & mother
2. This is what should remove this from a civil rights issue.
c. Immorality
i. Desire/action: action is the issue
1. gene for alcoholism
ii. drugs, STD’s, unwanted children
Doesn’t morality mean that you appeal to some authority to decide which desires should be suppressed and which shouldn’t?
An attack on that desire is seen as an attack on them.
4. A MAN SHALL LEAVE HIS FATHER AND MOTHER AND BE JOINED TO HIS WIFE AND THE TWO SHALL BECOME ONE FLESH
If you whittle down the definition of marriage to free personal choice and love, then why should it exclude:
§ Gays and lesbians
§ Polygamy
§ Adults and minors
Who is it hurting? It is about individualism and moral relativism.
Sexual orientation includes acting on desire in their expanded definition. Created with inalienable rights;
Equal is equal
Love is love
Fair is fair
*Marriage is so much more.
5. SO THEY ARE NO LONGER TWO, BUT ONE FLESH.
a. One – covenant (not a contract)
b. Covenant marriage produces protection at the deepest level
c. Commitment – hard work – loyalty – truth
i. Looking back – present – looking ahead
Divorce – why haven’t we learned?
-Mervyn’s closure
-State worker in Sacramento
-Cost to children
-prison population
-single moms without work, working and left child at home to fend for self.
6. WHAT THEREFORE GOD HAS JOINED TOGETHER, LET NO MAN SEPARATE
-moral statement
-judgement
7. Because of your hardness of heart Moses permitted you to divorce your wives; but from the beginning it has not been this way.
- Protect women
- Confusion of the sexes - Compassion
How do they become homosexuals?
Should we expand this confusion?
8. And I say to you, whoever divorces his wife, except for immorality, and marries another woman commits adultery.
- Say that at a PFLAG meeting.
Do you trust the LORD? His word?