God, I'm on my knees again
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God, I'm begging please again
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I need You
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Oh, I need You
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Walking down these desert roads
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Water for my thirsty soul
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I need You
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Oh, God, I need You
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Your forgiveness
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Is like sweet, sweet honey
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On my lips
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Like the sound of a symphony
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To my ears
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Like holy water on my skin
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Dead man walking slave to sin
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I wanna know
About being born again
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I need You
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Oh, God, I need You
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So take me to the riverside
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Take me under baptize
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God, I need You
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Oh, God, I need You
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'Cause God's forgiveness
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Is like sweet, sweet honey
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On my lips
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Like the sound of a symphony
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To my ears
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Like holy water on my skin
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I don't wanna abuse Your grace
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God, I need it every day
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It's the only thing
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That ever really
Makes me wanna change
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I don't wanna abuse Your grace
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God, I need it every day
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It's the only thing
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That ever really
Makes me wanna change
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Your forgiveness
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Is like sweet, sweet honey
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On my lips
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Like the sound of a symphony
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To my ears
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Like holy water
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Your forgiveness
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Is like sweet, sweet honey
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On my lips
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Like the sound of a symphony
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To my ears
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Like holy water
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on my skin
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It's like holy water
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on my skin
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Like holy water
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Your forgiveness
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Is like sweet, sweet honey
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On my lips
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Like the sound of a symphony
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To my ears
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Like holy water
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on my skin
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Father of kindness
You have poured out grace
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You brought me out of darkness
You have filled me with peace
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Giver of mercy
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You're my help in time of need
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Lord, I can't help but sing
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Faithful You are
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Faithful forever You will be
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Faithful You are
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All Your
promises are Yes and Amen
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All Your
promises are Yes and Amen
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Beautiful Savior
You have brought me near
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You pulled me from the ashes
You have broken every curse
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Blessed Redeemer
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You have set this captive free
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Lord, I can't help but sing
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Faithful You are
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Faithful forever You will be
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Faithful You are
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All Your
promises are Yes and Amen
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All Your
promises are Yes and Amen
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I will rest
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In Your promises
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My confidence
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Is Your faithfulness
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I will rest
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In Your promises
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My confidence
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Is Your faithfulness
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Faithful You are
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Faithful forever You will be
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Faithful You are
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All Your
promises are Yes and Amen
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Faithful You are
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Faithful forever You will be
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Faithful You are
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All Your
promises are Yes and Amen
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All Your
promises are Yes and Amen
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All Your
promises are Yes and Amen
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Falling in love
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With Jesus
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Falling in love
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With Jesus
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Falling in love
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With Jesus
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Was the best thing
I've ever, ever done
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Falling in love
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With Jesus
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Falling in love
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With Jesus
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Falling in love
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With Jesus
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Was the best thing
I've ever, ever done
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In His arms
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I feel protected
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In His arms
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Never disconnected
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In His arms
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I feel protected
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There's no place
I'd rather, rather be
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Falling in love
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With Jesus
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Falling in love
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With Jesus
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Falling in love
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With Jesus
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Was the best thing
I've ever, ever done
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In Your arms
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I feel protected
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In Your arms
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Never disconnected
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In Your arms
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I feel protected
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There's no place
I'd rather, rather be
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There's no place
I'd rather, rather be
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There's no place
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I'd rather, rather be
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So I went down to my
study to pray this morning,
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as I do every day
and every Sabbath.
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I got a few paces into my prayer
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and God said,
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"Boy, I need a change in plans."
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Said to Him, "What
are you talking about?"
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He said,
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"You need to
write another sermon."
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I said, "Another sermon."
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I looked at my
watch and I'm getting.
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I said, "I have an hour."
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He said, "Don't
worry about the time.
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I need you to
write another sermon."
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I said, all right,
"Lord, You're boss."
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And when you work for God,
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there isn't a whole
lot of argument you can do.
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It's just like, okay.
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So I sat down for an hour
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notes that I'm still
getting familiar with,
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came rolling off the computer,
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the end of that hour,
five minutes or whatever.
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So it wasn't what we were going
to have on this last Sabbath
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of the school year.
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We'll get to that sermon.
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There's another,
Sabbath coming up in May.
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Well, we'll have it then.
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And if you're a
student and moved away,
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just watch us on live stream,
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we'll wrap up
that marriage series.
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But it occurred to
me as I was praying,
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you know, Dwight,
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that little 11 year
old asked you a question.
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It's true.
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You were going to go
into same sex marriage
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and the pope.
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And you're going
to deal with a broad
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and kind of a global theme.
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But that 11 year old
asked you a question.
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I think you owe it to her
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to answer the question.
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So as humble as it is,
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she may be watching right now,
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she may be here, I don't know.
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I'm going to do my best
to answer that question.
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So Dwight, but what
question are you talking about?
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Well, a bunch of
you weren't here,
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I'm sure last week.
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So let me just read the letter.
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It came to me just few days ago.
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It says, "Dear
Pastor, that's my name.
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The Bible says things
against being LGBTQ plus.
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I am bisexual.
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Does that mean I
won't go to heaven?
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I don't want to put
anything before the Trinity,
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but I also don't want
to give up my feelings.
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Could you do a sermon on God
and the LGBTQ plus community?
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It will help a lot.
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Thank you very much.
God bless, happy Sabbath.
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"And then a
signature that I can't read.
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Some of us have that problem.
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"PS, please forgive
any grammar, spelling
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or punctuation mistakes.
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I'm only 11."
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I gulped at 11,
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you gotta be kidding me.
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Who told her she
was bisexual at 11?
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You know how that stuff happens?
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Kids at school.
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Hey, you like boys, don't you?
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Yeah.
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You like girls too, don't you?
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Yeah.
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You know what that makes you?
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You are bisexual.
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Never heard of that before.
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No, that's what you are.
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By the way that's
how social media works.
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Bisexual.
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That's what you are.
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An 11 year old believes it.
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I'm bisexual.
Can I go to heaven?
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Wow.
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What a question
for an 11 year old
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to have to be asking.
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That was a tender letter.
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And I want to answer
that as best I know how,
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but I dare not
move into this answer
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on pages that are hardly dry yet
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without talking to
Jesus that we just sang about.
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In His arms
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we need to be and stay,
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dear Jesus.
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Eleven years old,
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if you're not the only
one asking that question?
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So what's the answer?
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We have just a
few moments together.
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And as we think
out loud together,
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think with us
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the mighty third
person of the Godhead
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interject his thoughts as well.
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We humbly pray in Jesus' name.
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Amen.
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Can you go to
heaven if you are bisexual?
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Yes, you can.
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Why?
00:18:01.64\00:18:02.98
Because Jesus loves you.
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That's why, and
if you accept Him
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as your personal savior
00:18:05.75\00:18:07.48
and you offer Him your life,
00:18:07.52\00:18:10.42
you can trust Him
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to fulfill the
greatest promise in the Bible.
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Let's just put a
text we can all week.
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The greatest text in
all the Bible, John 3:16,
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come on, let's read
it out loud together.
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"For God so loved the world
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that He gave His
one and only Son,
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that whoever believes
in Him shall not perish,
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but have eternal life."
00:18:31.21\00:18:33.17
That's a powerful promise.
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There's not one
caveat attached to it.
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There's not
one... There's not one...
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Well, one condition,
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except if you believe in Jesus.
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That's it.
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You will not perish.
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You believe in Jesus, you
will live forever and ever.
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Amen.
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That's it. That's the
gospel. We all know it.
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Now the same writer John
00:19:02.27\00:19:04.27
puts it even more
simply in 1 John 5:12,"
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Whoever has the Son has life,
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whoever does not
have the Son of God
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does not have life."
00:19:15.45\00:19:17.99
The only precondition here
00:19:18.02\00:19:21.22
is you have Jesus, that's it.
00:19:21.26\00:19:24.09
You have Jesus, you have life.
00:19:24.13\00:19:25.46
You don't have
Jesus, you don't have life.
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You got a problem with that.
00:19:27.70\00:19:29.03
Is it too simple?
00:19:29.06\00:19:30.40
No, it's the gospel.
00:19:30.43\00:19:31.77
It's what we,
00:19:31.80\00:19:33.13
that's what we have to
keep reminding ourselves
00:19:33.17\00:19:34.50
is what we grew up with.
00:19:34.54\00:19:36.24
Of course, Jesus loves me.
00:19:36.27\00:19:38.14
And if I invite
Jesus into my life,
00:19:38.17\00:19:39.67
He will come in
and He will offer me
00:19:39.71\00:19:41.04
a very personal
friendship with Him.
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Eleven year old,
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I'm telling
you, Jesus loves you.
00:19:45.15\00:19:46.58
If you invite
Him into your life,
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you got the best
days of your life,
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straight in front of you,
00:19:50.82\00:19:52.39
because there's a lot more
that comes beyond being 11.
00:19:52.42\00:19:55.89
And you're going to love it.
00:19:55.92\00:19:59.56
The maker of all
things loves and wants me.
00:19:59.59\00:20:01.96
We've been reminding
ourselves all this year.
00:20:02.00\00:20:04.07
He is our forever friend.
00:20:04.10\00:20:05.87
Yes, girl, wherever
you are, whoever you are.
00:20:05.90\00:20:10.34
Jesus loves you
and me whoever we are,
00:20:10.37\00:20:14.01
wherever we are from
00:20:14.04\00:20:15.48
and whatever
orientation we identify with,
00:20:15.51\00:20:18.75
He loves me.
00:20:18.78\00:20:20.35
The Bible does not speak
00:20:20.38\00:20:21.72
about sexual orientation at all.
00:20:21.75\00:20:23.22
The Bible has no
knowledge of sexual orientation.
00:20:23.25\00:20:25.52
We invented that in our culture,
00:20:25.55\00:20:28.16
in our world today.
00:20:28.19\00:20:30.43
In the Bible, there
are only two orientations.
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Orientation one,
sinner, orientation two, saved.
00:20:33.56\00:20:38.57
Those are the only
orientations the Bible knows.
00:20:38.60\00:20:41.17
You're either a
sinner or you're saved.
00:20:41.20\00:20:43.41
There's not a third, not fourth.
00:20:43.44\00:20:45.47
They're just two.
00:20:45.51\00:20:48.54
And we are all guess what?
00:20:48.58\00:20:49.91
We're all born
00:20:49.94\00:20:51.28
into the orientation of sinners.
00:20:51.31\00:20:54.35
Every single one of us.
00:20:54.38\00:20:57.32
Don't stare at
the person beside you,
00:20:57.35\00:20:58.69
but you're
sitting beside a sinner.
00:20:58.72\00:21:00.06
Don't look just, just
kinda understand that.
00:21:00.09\00:21:04.09
That's the
orientation we were born with.
00:21:04.13\00:21:05.46
And guess what?
00:21:05.49\00:21:06.83
Our savior Jesus
came down to this earth
00:21:06.86\00:21:08.20
to become one who was born
with our orientation of sinner.
00:21:08.23\00:21:13.50
You see, that's
what I'm going to be
00:21:13.54\00:21:14.87
because that's who you are.
00:21:14.90\00:21:16.24
And I'm going to live
life like you live it,
00:21:16.27\00:21:17.67
and I'm going to face
life like you face it.
00:21:17.71\00:21:19.77
And I'm going to, I'm
going to, by the grace
00:21:19.81\00:21:21.61
of my Almighty Father,
00:21:21.64\00:21:24.91
I'm going to be
victorious for you,
00:21:24.95\00:21:26.82
so that my victory
will be your victory.
00:21:26.85\00:21:28.95
My triumph will be your triumph.
00:21:28.98\00:21:31.65
And I'm going to move you
from the orientation of sinner.
00:21:31.69\00:21:33.92
And I'm going to move you
into the orientation of saved.
00:21:33.96\00:21:40.23
Wow.
00:21:40.26\00:21:41.60
Look at this,
00:21:41.63\00:21:42.96
that's what the Book of Hebrews
00:21:43.00\00:21:44.33
is trying to tell us.
00:21:44.37\00:21:45.70
And these are
two beautiful lines,
00:21:45.73\00:21:47.07
don't ever forget these,
00:21:47.10\00:21:48.44
whether you're
11 years old or not.
00:21:48.47\00:21:49.80
Don't forget these words,
00:21:49.84\00:21:51.17
"For this reason,
Jesus had to be made
00:21:51.21\00:21:52.54
like you and me,
00:21:52.57\00:21:53.91
fully human in every way."
00:21:53.94\00:21:55.28
What does that, how
many ways was He fully human?
00:21:55.31\00:21:57.28
Help me out
here. What does it say?
00:21:57.31\00:21:59.51
Fully human in every way.
00:21:59.55\00:22:01.28
Fully human in every way
00:22:01.32\00:22:02.78
in order that He might become
00:22:02.82\00:22:04.29
a merciful and
faithful high priest
00:22:04.32\00:22:06.86
in service to God,
00:22:06.89\00:22:08.26
and that he
might make atonement,
00:22:08.29\00:22:10.26
it's talking about Calvary.
00:22:10.29\00:22:11.99
He might make a atonement
for the sins of the people.
00:22:12.03\00:22:14.66
How many here are sinners?
00:22:14.70\00:22:16.03
Every hand goes up.
00:22:16.06\00:22:17.40
How many times have you sinned?
00:22:17.43\00:22:18.77
I lost count.
00:22:18.80\00:22:20.14
But does Jesus'
death cover my sins?
00:22:20.17\00:22:22.40
The answer is absolutely.
00:22:22.44\00:22:24.71
Which sins?
00:22:24.74\00:22:26.07
All sins.
00:22:26.11\00:22:29.28
If you were born with
the orientation of sinner,
00:22:29.31\00:22:31.48
I have good news for you.
00:22:31.51\00:22:32.98
Somebody left heaven
and came down to this earth
00:22:33.01\00:22:35.18
and became just like
you and just like me,
00:22:35.22\00:22:39.55
and then beat the devil,
00:22:39.59\00:22:44.56
beat the devil at his game,
00:22:44.59\00:22:47.76
and gave His
life as a sacrifice,
00:22:47.80\00:22:49.26
an atoning sacrifice
00:22:49.30\00:22:52.33
for the sins of the people.
00:22:52.37\00:22:53.90
That's why I go two
pages over to Hebrews 4,
00:22:53.94\00:22:56.54
"For we do not
have a high priest
00:22:56.57\00:22:58.47
who is unable to
empathize with our weaknesses.
00:22:58.51\00:23:00.48
It's good news.
00:23:00.51\00:23:02.68
Good news.
00:23:02.71\00:23:04.05
But we have one
00:23:04.08\00:23:05.41
who has been
tempted in every way,
00:23:05.45\00:23:06.78
just as we are
yet He did not sin.
00:23:06.82\00:23:10.52
A better news
00:23:10.55\00:23:12.19
because He's
been tempted like us,
00:23:12.22\00:23:13.99
but even better news,
00:23:14.02\00:23:15.36
He didn't fall
like I keep falling.
00:23:15.39\00:23:17.66
He did not fall.
00:23:17.69\00:23:21.13
Yeah, He did not sin
00:23:21.16\00:23:22.50
so let us then, oh, I love this.
00:23:22.53\00:23:23.87
Let us approach
God's throne of grace
00:23:23.90\00:23:25.60
as we've been doing
this morning at worship
00:23:25.63\00:23:27.40
with confidence, they just
sang about that confidence,
00:23:27.44\00:23:31.54
with confidence so
that we may receive mercy
00:23:31.57\00:23:33.91
and find grace to help
us in our time of need.
00:23:33.94\00:23:38.61
And because Jesus
faced all our temptations,
00:23:38.65\00:23:42.15
but was
victorious over the devil.
00:23:42.18\00:23:44.02
We can go to Him
and we can ask Him
00:23:44.05\00:23:45.85
to give us the same
power and the same victory.
00:23:45.89\00:23:50.36
I'm asking you, is
that good news or what?
00:23:50.39\00:23:53.29
Come on, tell me, is
that good news or what?
00:23:53.33\00:23:56.06
Of course, it is.
00:23:56.10\00:23:59.93
Did Jesus experience
sexual temptations like we do?
00:23:59.97\00:24:04.14
The answer is, but of course.
00:24:04.17\00:24:08.78
Of course He did.
00:24:08.81\00:24:11.85
Did Jesus experience
same gender attraction?
00:24:11.88\00:24:15.15
We cannot answer
that specific question,
00:24:15.18\00:24:18.12
but I believe it is fair to say
00:24:18.15\00:24:20.06
that Jesus experienced
sexual attraction as we do.
00:24:20.09\00:24:23.56
Or these Bible assurances
are really quite meaningless.
00:24:23.59\00:24:27.80
You're just
playing word games with us.
00:24:27.83\00:24:30.30
Our sexuality
00:24:35.37\00:24:39.24
is an explosive power within us.
00:24:39.27\00:24:41.24
And we were created
with that explosive power.
00:24:41.28\00:24:44.35
Is sexual attraction a sin.
00:24:44.38\00:24:49.15
Can't be.
00:24:49.18\00:24:51.59
Can't be.
00:24:51.62\00:24:53.19
I had somebody write me
and say, well, you know what?
00:24:53.22\00:24:55.22
I wouldn't, I wouldn't
push that one too hard.
00:24:55.26\00:24:58.73
It could be a sin.
00:24:58.76\00:25:00.10
No, no, no.
00:25:00.13\00:25:01.46
It cannot be a sin.
00:25:01.50\00:25:03.90
Jesus experienced
attraction. Guess what?
00:25:03.93\00:25:06.13
He's in the wilderness,
40 days and 40 nights.
00:25:06.17\00:25:08.17
Guess what?
00:25:08.20\00:25:09.54
The devil shows up
at his weakest moment
00:25:09.57\00:25:10.94
and says, I got
three temptations, boy,
00:25:10.97\00:25:13.48
you're going to
love these three.
00:25:13.51\00:25:14.84
Were they attractive?
00:25:14.88\00:25:16.51
Yes or no. Of course.
00:25:16.54\00:25:18.45
If they were not attractive,
00:25:18.48\00:25:19.81
they would not
have been a temptation.
00:25:19.85\00:25:21.98
We call them temptations
because they were attractive,
00:25:22.02\00:25:25.05
hugely attractive to him.
00:25:25.09\00:25:28.62
Don't tell me that
00:25:28.66\00:25:29.99
Jesus did not face the
full force of attraction.
00:25:30.03\00:25:33.56
Did Jesus experience attraction?
00:25:38.20\00:25:39.93
Absolutely.
00:25:39.97\00:25:42.37
That's why when it
comes to sin and sinning,
00:25:42.40\00:25:44.71
we really need
a lot of help from
00:25:44.74\00:25:47.24
and power from our Lord Jesus.
00:25:47.28\00:25:50.18
Our minds, our
hormones, our chemistry
00:25:50.21\00:25:53.38
in that, in that wild cocktail
00:25:53.42\00:25:55.92
that we've been created
with explode inside of us,
00:25:55.95\00:25:59.45
particularly when you're young.
00:26:02.52\00:26:03.86
They can get real
old, there's no problem.
00:26:06.76\00:26:12.27
There's no
explosion and no fire.
00:26:12.30\00:26:15.47
When you're young,
00:26:15.50\00:26:18.31
I'll just get back at
some of you that's all.
00:26:18.34\00:26:21.84
But when you're young,
00:26:21.88\00:26:23.71
about 11 or so or
21 or so or 41 or so,
00:26:23.75\00:26:28.48
doesn't matter what
your orientation is,
00:26:28.52\00:26:29.85
if your orientation is sinning,
00:26:29.88\00:26:31.22
you've got
explosions inside of you.
00:26:31.25\00:26:34.09
You don't think
Jesus was touched
00:26:34.12\00:26:35.49
by the infirmity
of our attractions.
00:26:35.52\00:26:37.99
Of course, He was.
00:26:38.03\00:26:39.36
Jeremiah asked a question.
00:26:45.87\00:26:47.64
It's a good question to ask.
00:26:47.67\00:26:49.00
Jeremiah, 13:23,
00:26:49.04\00:26:50.54
"Can an
Ethiopian change his skin
00:26:50.57\00:26:52.14
or a leopard its spots."
00:26:52.17\00:26:53.78
Is that a sin to
have skin changes?
00:26:53.81\00:26:55.78
Is that a sin for the
leopard to change its spots?
00:26:55.81\00:26:57.81
Of course not.
00:26:57.85\00:26:59.18
But this is asking
a rhetorical question.
00:26:59.21\00:27:00.62
Can an Ethiopian change his skin
00:27:00.65\00:27:02.18
or a leopard its spots?
00:27:02.22\00:27:03.55
No.
00:27:03.59\00:27:04.92
"Neither can you do good
00:27:04.95\00:27:06.29
who are
accustomed to doing evil."
00:27:06.32\00:27:07.66
Guess what? We need help.
00:27:07.69\00:27:09.12
That's the deal, we need help.
00:27:09.16\00:27:10.83
We cannot change
our sinner orientation.
00:27:10.86\00:27:14.03
It just, we just cannot do it.
00:27:14.06\00:27:17.40
No possibly.
00:27:17.43\00:27:18.77
So Jesus, by the way,
who defeated our same enemy
00:27:22.20\00:27:25.14
while He was here and
by His death on the cross
00:27:25.17\00:27:27.71
died to deliver us.
00:27:27.74\00:27:29.54
Only Jesus has the power to
save from that sin, any sin.
00:27:29.58\00:27:34.22
And that's why Jesus,
00:27:34.25\00:27:35.58
when he said,
Hey, boys and girls,
00:27:35.62\00:27:36.95
I want to teach you how to pray.
00:27:36.99\00:27:38.32
Our Father who art in
heaven, hallowed be Your name,
00:27:38.35\00:27:39.69
lead us not into temptation,
00:27:39.72\00:27:41.22
but deliver us from
evil or the evil one.
00:27:41.26\00:27:43.83
That's why Jesus said,
I need you to pray that
00:27:43.86\00:27:46.09
because you're going
to face the evil one.
00:27:46.13\00:27:48.26
You're going to face attractions
00:27:48.30\00:27:49.90
that could pull you in
00:27:49.93\00:27:51.27
where you never want to go.
00:27:51.30\00:27:53.23
So pray every day.
00:27:53.27\00:27:54.60
Lord, lead me not
into temptation today.
00:27:54.64\00:27:56.44
Deliver me from the evil,
deliver me from the evil one.
00:27:56.47\00:28:01.24
But is it a sin?
00:28:01.28\00:28:02.61
Come on, Dwight,
answer the question?
00:28:02.64\00:28:03.98
Is it a sin
00:28:04.01\00:28:05.35
that this 11
year old says, listen,
00:28:05.38\00:28:06.95
tell me, is it a
sin to be bisexual?
00:28:06.98\00:28:11.09
Is it a sin to be straight?
00:28:11.12\00:28:14.42
Is it a sin to be gay?
00:28:14.46\00:28:17.56
Is it a sin to
feel the attractions
00:28:17.59\00:28:19.69
of a lesbian?
00:28:19.73\00:28:22.60
Is it a sin to be transgender?
00:28:22.63\00:28:26.60
If I have those attractions,
am I automatically now lost?
00:28:26.63\00:28:32.11
No, you are not.
00:28:32.14\00:28:34.38
The attractions are not sin.
00:28:34.41\00:28:38.45
Jesus felt the fury of
three withering assaults.
00:28:38.48\00:28:43.99
Don't you dare tell
me it was nothing to Him.
00:28:44.02\00:28:46.79
It was everything to Him.
00:28:46.82\00:28:49.12
And He fell to the ground dying.
00:28:49.16\00:28:52.59
That's how bad it was.
00:28:52.63\00:28:55.96
I don't resist
sin to that degree.
00:28:56.00\00:28:59.83
Now, when we pray
that prayer every day,
00:28:59.87\00:29:01.54
Jesus is able to do just
that, deliver us from evil.
00:29:01.57\00:29:04.51
He honors our free choice.
00:29:04.54\00:29:05.94
He doesn't kick the door down.
00:29:05.97\00:29:07.31
I'm here now, you
will do what I tell you.
00:29:07.34\00:29:09.28
No, you want to do that
girl, boy, you want to do that?
00:29:09.31\00:29:13.01
Okay.
00:29:13.05\00:29:14.52
You're playing with
dynamite and it'll kill you.
00:29:14.55\00:29:18.12
If you don't come
to me, it'll kill you.
00:29:18.15\00:29:21.66
But we have to take
the Bible at its word.
00:29:21.69\00:29:24.33
And what does Jude 24 declare?
00:29:24.36\00:29:26.23
A tiny little book
just before Revelation,
00:29:26.26\00:29:28.73
now to him
00:29:28.76\00:29:30.10
who was able to
keep you from stumbling
00:29:30.13\00:29:32.80
and to present you
before his glorious presence,
00:29:32.83\00:29:36.20
without," what?
00:29:36.24\00:29:37.57
What's that word,
00:29:37.61\00:29:38.94
"Without fault.
00:29:38.97\00:29:40.31
He can keep you from stumbling."
00:29:40.34\00:29:41.71
You do not have to
yield to those attractions.
00:29:41.74\00:29:44.88
He can keep you.
00:29:44.91\00:29:46.25
Dwight, He can
keep you from stumbling.
00:29:46.28\00:29:49.88
This isn't just good
news for an 11 year old.
00:29:49.92\00:29:51.99
This is good news
for every human being
00:29:52.02\00:29:53.66
on this planet.
00:29:53.69\00:29:55.02
He can keep us from
stumbling without fall.
00:29:55.06\00:29:57.29
And by the way, with great joy
00:29:57.33\00:29:58.79
to the only God,
our Savior be glory,
00:29:58.83\00:30:01.20
and majesty and
power and authority
00:30:01.23\00:30:02.96
through Jesus Christ Our Lord,
00:30:03.00\00:30:04.33
before all ages
now and forevermore,
00:30:04.37\00:30:06.97
that all the
people say amen, amen.
00:30:07.00\00:30:10.51
Yeah, but is it a sin?
00:30:14.04\00:30:15.38
No, no sexual orientation,
00:30:17.98\00:30:22.58
no sexual attraction is a sin.
00:30:22.62\00:30:27.16
Okay.
00:30:27.19\00:30:28.52
Let me follow it up
with, with this question.
00:30:28.56\00:30:30.86
Then is it a sin to act
on our sexual attractions?
00:30:30.89\00:30:35.93
Well, that depends.
00:30:35.96\00:30:39.20
The Bible is clear
00:30:39.23\00:30:41.64
that our creator
has chosen for us
00:30:41.67\00:30:43.27
to live out our
sexual attractions
00:30:43.30\00:30:45.41
inside the protective
walls of a one flesh marriage
00:30:45.44\00:30:49.44
between a man and a woman.
00:30:49.48\00:30:53.62
The command from
the maker of all things
00:30:53.65\00:30:55.42
who loves and wants me
and loves and wants you
00:30:55.45\00:30:58.65
is a command
00:30:58.69\00:31:00.79
because he knows
exactly how you and I are wired.
00:31:00.82\00:31:05.89
I had this great
iPhone in my hip pocket.
00:31:05.93\00:31:07.83
It always is with me everywhere.
00:31:07.86\00:31:09.53
Don't ask me to
explain to you an iPhone.
00:31:09.56\00:31:11.50
Don't ask me to defend you
the circuitry of an iPhone.
00:31:11.53\00:31:14.44
Don't ask me to
repair an iPhone.
00:31:14.47\00:31:16.44
I know diddly-squat.
00:31:16.47\00:31:17.81
I just know this thing works.
00:31:17.84\00:31:19.54
And do you know why?
00:31:19.57\00:31:21.31
Somebody designed it.
00:31:21.34\00:31:23.95
There's somebody on
this planet who says,
00:31:23.98\00:31:27.05
"Hey, that's nothing
to me. I designed it.
00:31:27.08\00:31:28.65
It's supposed to work that way.
00:31:28.68\00:31:30.02
And when it doesn't
work, I can fix it."
00:31:30.05\00:31:32.05
Somebody designed it.
00:31:32.09\00:31:34.59
I'm not the designer.
00:31:34.62\00:31:35.96
If the designer says
00:31:35.99\00:31:37.33
you don't do
this with an iPhone,
00:31:37.36\00:31:38.69
I don't do this with an iPhone.
00:31:38.73\00:31:40.06
Why? Because the designer knows.
00:31:40.10\00:31:42.10
Our creator, the
maker of all things
00:31:42.13\00:31:43.80
who loves and wants us
00:31:43.83\00:31:45.70
knows exactly how
we've been designed.
00:31:45.73\00:31:47.87
It's not His fault.
00:31:47.90\00:31:49.80
He knows it.
00:31:49.84\00:31:51.17
That's a good
thing. He knows it.
00:31:51.21\00:31:52.77
And given the post-fall world
00:31:52.81\00:31:55.61
where all has been scrambled
00:31:55.64\00:31:58.31
by this dark
fallen prince rebel,
00:31:58.35\00:32:03.35
the old serpent named
devil, the devil and Satan.
00:32:03.39\00:32:06.39
Thanks to this
scrambled up world,
00:32:06.42\00:32:08.59
everything is in confusion now.
00:32:08.62\00:32:11.89
That doesn't mean
the creator doesn't know
00:32:11.93\00:32:13.26
how to fix an iPhone.
00:32:13.29\00:32:14.73
That doesn't mean the creator
doesn't know how to handle sex.
00:32:14.76\00:32:16.73
He knows how to
handle sex. I made sex.
00:32:16.77\00:32:18.70
I made you to be attracted
00:32:18.73\00:32:23.47
and I know that it will kill you
00:32:23.51\00:32:26.24
if you don't come to me.
00:32:26.27\00:32:28.14
If you do not give me your sex,
00:32:28.18\00:32:31.88
it will kill you.
00:32:31.91\00:32:33.38
I promise you.
00:32:33.42\00:32:34.75
I will not kill you.
00:32:34.78\00:32:36.58
I will let you kill yourself.
00:32:36.62\00:32:39.29
I have to, it's free choice.
00:32:39.32\00:32:41.42
The moment I put my
hand, oh, you can't touch her.
00:32:41.46\00:32:44.76
She's chosen this way.
00:32:44.79\00:32:46.36
Moment I reach out,
Dwight, you can't touch him.
00:32:46.39\00:32:48.63
He wants it this way.
00:32:48.66\00:32:51.47
We play by the same rules.
00:32:51.50\00:32:54.54
He can't touch you
either when I have you.
00:32:54.57\00:32:59.11
No.
00:32:59.14\00:33:02.51
This is like Joseph.
00:33:02.54\00:33:05.01
Joseph, who, by the
way, is a powerful symbol
00:33:05.05\00:33:09.02
of the Lord Jesus.
00:33:09.05\00:33:10.39
Now the maker of all things
00:33:14.09\00:33:15.72
knew he would
need to be protected
00:33:15.76\00:33:17.29
of this explosive power.
00:33:17.33\00:33:20.03
One flesh union
between partners.
00:33:20.06\00:33:21.46
He said that inside that,
00:33:21.50\00:33:22.83
inside those walls
you'll be just fine.
00:33:22.86\00:33:24.63
Which by the way,
speaking of one flesh is why...
00:33:24.67\00:33:28.44
We'll get to Joseph in a second,
00:33:28.47\00:33:29.80
is why Paul writes
this in 1 Corinthians.
00:33:29.84\00:33:33.27
Now he's writing to a people
00:33:33.31\00:33:34.64
who live in a port
of sea, a sea port city.
00:33:34.68\00:33:37.71
Oh man, seaport
cities tend to be cities
00:33:37.75\00:33:40.32
that attract about
everything on the planet.
00:33:40.35\00:33:42.82
Corinth was no, no exception.
00:33:42.85\00:33:45.32
I mean, promiscuous now
to, for my 11 year old friend,
00:33:45.35\00:33:48.89
promiscuous means that which is,
00:33:48.92\00:33:51.33
that which is
commonly agreed is,
00:33:51.36\00:33:54.46
is living way outside
the bounds of morality.
00:33:54.50\00:33:59.07
Corinth was promiscuous.
00:33:59.10\00:34:01.10
And so Paul goes and
plants a church in Corinth,
00:34:01.14\00:34:03.64
and then he writes
this letter to them.
00:34:03.67\00:34:05.04
He says, guys, I've
been thinking about you,
00:34:05.07\00:34:06.68
how you doing?
00:34:06.71\00:34:08.04
And here's what he
says in this letter.
00:34:08.08\00:34:09.54
Watch this.
00:34:09.58\00:34:10.91
Do you not know?
00:34:10.95\00:34:12.28
Yo, you guys
don't understand this
00:34:12.31\00:34:13.95
'cause it's been
just a little while
00:34:13.98\00:34:16.02
since you've turned from
pagan to the believer in Christ.
00:34:16.05\00:34:18.29
Don't you know that
00:34:18.32\00:34:19.65
your bodies are
members of Christ himself?
00:34:19.69\00:34:21.66
Shall I then...
00:34:21.69\00:34:23.02
See this body belongs to Jesus.
00:34:23.06\00:34:24.39
He bought it at the cross.
00:34:24.43\00:34:25.76
Shall I then take
the members of Christ
00:34:25.79\00:34:28.06
and unite them
with a prostitute?
00:34:28.10\00:34:30.60
Never.
00:34:30.63\00:34:31.97
Now what part of my body
00:34:32.00\00:34:33.34
is the member that
Paul's talking about?
00:34:33.37\00:34:34.70
It doesn't take rocket
science to figure that out.
00:34:34.74\00:34:37.67
And Paul is
saying, you don't do that.
00:34:37.71\00:34:40.14
You don't couple to her.
00:34:40.18\00:34:45.05
Outside the
protective walls of a marriage
00:34:45.08\00:34:48.15
between a man and a woman,
you don't couple with people.
00:34:48.18\00:34:53.56
You know, hook up.
00:34:53.59\00:34:57.33
You got to give your
body to become one flesh
00:34:57.36\00:35:00.30
because one flesh still works.
00:35:00.33\00:35:02.03
Do you want to be one
flesh with a prostitute?
00:35:02.06\00:35:03.57
No. I only wanted
to have an evening.
00:35:03.60\00:35:05.47
Well guess what?
00:35:05.50\00:35:06.84
You're one flesh there
for the rest of your life.
00:35:06.87\00:35:08.24
Do you like that thought?
00:35:08.27\00:35:09.60
No.
00:35:09.64\00:35:11.11
Well, that's
what I'm telling you.
00:35:11.14\00:35:12.47
Paul writes to the Corinthians,
00:35:12.51\00:35:14.78
knock off this hooking up stuff.
00:35:14.81\00:35:16.44
You don't, you
keep your body pure.
00:35:16.48\00:35:20.25
Why?
00:35:20.28\00:35:21.62
Because as he
says here in verse 19,
00:35:21.65\00:35:22.98
don't you know that
your bodies are the temple,
00:35:23.02\00:35:24.95
the temples of the Holy Spirit.
00:35:24.99\00:35:26.32
Every one of you is
a little mini temple.
00:35:26.35\00:35:27.92
Why does the Holy
Spirit need a temple?
00:35:27.96\00:35:29.42
Because The Holy
Spirit has no form.
00:35:29.46\00:35:31.89
If he were standing
right here and he is.
00:35:31.93\00:35:34.23
He said, Dwight,
you can't touch me?
00:35:34.26\00:35:36.97
I'm talking to you right
now, boy, you cannot touch me,
00:35:37.00\00:35:40.67
but I need your
body to be my temple.
00:35:40.70\00:35:44.01
I need a heck.
00:35:44.04\00:35:45.37
I need headquarters on this,
00:35:45.41\00:35:46.78
this, this fallen
culture and world.
00:35:46.81\00:35:49.11
You'd be my headquarters.
00:35:49.14\00:35:50.48
I'm going to live in you.
00:35:50.51\00:35:52.05
That's what Paul is saying.
00:35:52.08\00:35:53.42
Don't you know that
00:35:53.45\00:35:54.78
your bodies are the
temples of the Holy Spirit,
00:35:54.82\00:35:56.15
who is in you, whom
you have received from God?
00:35:56.18\00:35:58.42
You are not your own.
00:35:58.45\00:35:59.85
You were bought at a price.
00:35:59.89\00:36:01.59
Let's talk about Calvary.
00:36:01.62\00:36:03.49
I'm standing here at
the foot of the cross.
00:36:03.53\00:36:05.56
They just sang about a Jesus.
00:36:05.59\00:36:07.30
I'm falling in love with you.
00:36:07.33\00:36:08.76
Why? Because He emptied Himself.
00:36:08.80\00:36:10.80
He took on my orientation
to the max and he said,
00:36:10.83\00:36:14.90
in your strength I
defeated the enemy,
00:36:14.94\00:36:20.64
and then I died as
a substitute for you,
00:36:20.68\00:36:22.94
so you will
never die, not forever.
00:36:22.98\00:36:27.45
Come to me.
00:36:27.48\00:36:28.95
She who has me has life.
00:36:28.98\00:36:30.85
He who has me has life.
00:36:30.89\00:36:32.62
Come to me.
00:36:32.65\00:36:34.82
Therefore, honor
God with your bodies.
00:36:34.86\00:36:37.39
No, we're all under that.
00:36:37.43\00:36:39.09
In fact, when Mrs.
Potiphar comes to Joseph
00:36:39.13\00:36:41.26
and she said, boy,
let's sleep together
00:36:41.30\00:36:42.83
because you are a handsome.
00:36:42.86\00:36:44.20
And it says he
was very handsome.
00:36:44.23\00:36:45.87
So she says, you
are attractive to me.
00:36:45.90\00:36:47.67
I hope I'm attracted to you.
00:36:47.70\00:36:49.34
When she says, sleep with me.
00:36:49.37\00:36:51.17
Then Joseph has one answer.
00:36:51.21\00:36:52.71
How then could
I do such a thing,
00:36:52.74\00:36:54.78
such a wicked thing
00:36:54.81\00:36:56.24
and sin against
you, Mrs. Potiphar's
00:36:56.28\00:36:58.28
that what he says?
00:36:58.31\00:36:59.65
I'm sinning against you.
00:36:59.68\00:37:01.02
How could I sin
against Mr. Potiphar
00:37:01.05\00:37:02.38
who is not even in
the house right now?
00:37:02.42\00:37:03.75
How can I sin against me?
00:37:03.79\00:37:05.12
No, he doesn't say any of that.
00:37:05.15\00:37:06.49
He says, how can I
do this great wickedness
00:37:06.52\00:37:07.86
and sin against God.
00:37:07.89\00:37:09.56
Once you have a
friendship with Jesus,
00:37:09.59\00:37:12.06
you belong to somebody.
00:37:12.09\00:37:13.86
Paul says, don't give
your body to a prostitute.
00:37:13.90\00:37:16.13
What are you thinking?
00:37:16.16\00:37:18.13
You want to be one
flesh with her, with him.
00:37:18.17\00:37:21.17
You don't want to
be one flesh with him.
00:37:21.20\00:37:22.54
I'm telling you, it
may be fine tonight,
00:37:22.57\00:37:25.21
but you going to
feel bad in the morning
00:37:25.24\00:37:28.11
and all the showers you
take won't wash it away.
00:37:28.14\00:37:32.31
You don't need to be hooked up.
00:37:32.35\00:37:35.58
You stay with me.
00:37:35.62\00:37:38.62
Wow.
00:37:38.65\00:37:39.99
Joseph has given us
a little example here.
00:37:40.02\00:37:42.42
Yeah, but Dwight, you
know what, okay, okay.
00:37:42.46\00:37:44.33
Thank you. Thank God for Joseph.
00:37:44.36\00:37:45.89
But I'm going to
tell you something.
00:37:45.93\00:37:47.60
Pastor, I hope
you're listening to me
00:37:47.63\00:37:48.96
this 11 year
old is saying to me,
00:37:49.00\00:37:50.33
I hope you're listening to me
00:37:50.37\00:37:51.70
because I want to
tell you something,
00:37:51.73\00:37:53.07
that is not fair.
00:37:53.10\00:37:54.44
God created me
with my attractions
00:37:58.04\00:38:00.48
and I should have the right
00:38:00.51\00:38:01.84
to live out those attractions
the way that is natural for me.
00:38:01.88\00:38:05.81
Girl, I want to
tell you something.
00:38:05.85\00:38:07.18
You are absolutely right.
00:38:07.22\00:38:09.12
It is not fair.
00:38:09.15\00:38:11.45
It is not fair at all
that a powerful rebel angel
00:38:14.46\00:38:17.29
has come down to this earth.
00:38:17.33\00:38:18.66
And because Adam and Eve
00:38:18.69\00:38:20.03
surrendered
their rulership to him,
00:38:20.06\00:38:23.47
this planet is now
under his dominion,
00:38:23.50\00:38:25.90
this old serpent
called the devil and Satan.
00:38:25.93\00:38:28.57
No, you are right,
girl, it is not fair.
00:38:28.60\00:38:33.48
But the devil now
plays havoc with our emotions
00:38:33.51\00:38:36.14
and our
chemistries and our attractions
00:38:36.18\00:38:37.75
and our behaviors.
00:38:37.78\00:38:39.11
He is a terrible task master.
00:38:39.15\00:38:40.75
And once he gets a hold of us,
00:38:40.78\00:38:42.18
now I'm telling
you with all the fangs
00:38:42.22\00:38:44.35
and the claws he has,
00:38:44.39\00:38:46.05
he will not let go
unless somebody intervenes.
00:38:46.09\00:38:49.52
Of course, it's not fair.
00:38:52.99\00:38:55.10
You are absolutely right.
00:38:55.13\00:38:57.30
The devil is for
one dark passion,
00:38:57.33\00:38:58.87
and that is to force,
to deceive every creature,
00:38:58.90\00:39:01.50
the intelligent creation of God
00:39:01.54\00:39:03.84
into a life under
the devil's control,
00:39:03.87\00:39:05.64
far away from living in
control of our own attractions.
00:39:05.67\00:39:09.91
He said, ah, you're
going to listen to me.
00:39:09.94\00:39:11.71
You understand me?
00:39:11.75\00:39:13.08
I am your Lord.
00:39:13.11\00:39:14.95
You didn't tell me that.
00:39:14.98\00:39:16.58
But I'm telling you, you
have accepted my rulership.
00:39:16.62\00:39:20.39
You behave now as I tell you,
00:39:20.42\00:39:22.96
and the more you behave,
the more I hold you tight.
00:39:22.99\00:39:28.46
Of course, it's not fair.
00:39:28.50\00:39:30.10
It wasn't fair
for Jesus as single.
00:39:30.13\00:39:33.03
Was He heterosexual?
00:39:33.07\00:39:34.40
Let's just assume
He was, He was a Jew,
00:39:34.44\00:39:36.07
red blooded Jewish male.
00:39:36.10\00:39:37.54
It was not fair for
Jesus to have to come down here
00:39:37.57\00:39:39.94
and to hold it,
00:39:39.97\00:39:41.34
to resist the
powerful attractions
00:39:41.38\00:39:44.38
that the human is created
with and never to be married.
00:39:44.41\00:39:47.55
That was not fair either.
00:39:47.58\00:39:49.62
You want to talk about fairness.
00:39:49.65\00:39:50.99
It hasn't been fair
for anybody since we fell.
00:39:51.02\00:39:54.46
There's no way
00:39:54.49\00:39:55.82
we can play that
card in front of God.
00:39:55.86\00:39:57.19
It's not fair.
00:39:57.23\00:39:58.56
And you have to let me do it.
00:39:58.59\00:40:01.63
He says, I don't play that card.
00:40:01.66\00:40:04.10
It's illogical.
00:40:04.13\00:40:06.87
This isn't about fairness now.
00:40:06.90\00:40:09.57
This is about
getting out of here.
00:40:09.60\00:40:12.54
You're either going to
be a sinner orientation,
00:40:12.57\00:40:15.61
or you're going to
be a saved orientation.
00:40:15.64\00:40:17.88
And I'm begging you
00:40:17.91\00:40:19.25
while we have time
00:40:19.28\00:40:20.62
move from here to here.
00:40:20.65\00:40:25.32
But the Bible is
very clear about this.
00:40:25.35\00:40:28.42
And if we act out
our sexual attractions
00:40:28.46\00:40:30.76
outside of marriage,
between a man and a woman,
00:40:30.79\00:40:33.96
the creator says,
00:40:34.00\00:40:35.33
listen, listen,
you got to trust me.
00:40:35.36\00:40:36.70
I invented the iPhone.
00:40:36.73\00:40:38.07
I invented your
beautiful, beautiful system.
00:40:38.10\00:40:40.74
Even though it's out of whack,
00:40:40.77\00:40:42.10
it's still under my power
00:40:42.14\00:40:45.04
to sustain and to nourish.
00:40:45.07\00:40:48.58
If you disobeyed,
00:40:48.61\00:40:50.28
what I've told you
is a deadly danger,
00:40:50.31\00:40:54.62
you are sinning.
00:40:54.65\00:40:57.32
You are sinning
00:40:57.35\00:40:59.05
and you are staying
in the sinner orientation
00:40:59.09\00:41:01.76
when I'm trying
to get you out, girl.
00:41:01.79\00:41:04.33
I'm trying to get you out, boy.
00:41:04.36\00:41:05.69
I'm trying to get you
out of that orientation.
00:41:05.73\00:41:08.66
Oh, I'll just wait.
00:41:08.70\00:41:10.03
I'll have a little bit of fun.
00:41:10.07\00:41:11.40
And then when I get
older, I'll just switch.
00:41:11.43\00:41:14.37
No, you won't.
00:41:14.40\00:41:16.00
You will not switch.
00:41:16.04\00:41:17.37
I don't care what
you mean by switch.
00:41:17.41\00:41:18.74
You will not switch.
00:41:18.77\00:41:20.54
The longer you live
00:41:20.58\00:41:22.38
under the
dominion of the dark rebel,
00:41:22.41\00:41:25.45
the deeper his claws go
in your mind and your body.
00:41:25.48\00:41:30.22
And he says, I have you.
00:41:30.25\00:41:32.79
Don't believe him.
00:41:32.82\00:41:34.49
He doesn't have you.
00:41:34.52\00:41:36.02
Jesus died for the right
00:41:36.06\00:41:38.19
to say, she's mine, he is mine,
00:41:38.23\00:41:42.70
don't touch him.
00:41:42.73\00:41:44.07
It's a sin.
00:41:49.10\00:41:50.44
In fact, a very
bright New Testament scholar
00:41:50.47\00:41:53.21
who teaches at a
rather Ivy league school
00:41:53.24\00:41:56.31
called Duke University.
00:41:56.34\00:41:58.98
He wrote the book,
00:41:59.01\00:42:00.35
The Moral Vision
of the New Testament.
00:42:00.38\00:42:01.72
His name is Richard Hays.
00:42:01.75\00:42:05.25
He has a big chapter in
the middle of that book,
00:42:05.29\00:42:07.56
dealing with ethics.
00:42:07.59\00:42:08.92
He's an ethicist.
00:42:08.96\00:42:10.29
And to the 11
year old, I'm saying,
00:42:10.33\00:42:11.66
an ethicist is somebody
00:42:11.69\00:42:13.03
who studies the behavior
00:42:13.06\00:42:14.40
that flows from
being a follower of Christ.
00:42:14.43\00:42:16.93
So he has a whole chapter
on what he calls homosexuality.
00:42:16.97\00:42:21.47
It's very interesting.
00:42:21.50\00:42:24.21
He grew up with the gay friend.
00:42:24.24\00:42:26.17
They went to Yale together.
00:42:26.21\00:42:27.54
This friend did
not believe that,
00:42:27.58\00:42:29.64
that he needed her holding
00:42:29.68\00:42:32.58
on his same gender attractions.
00:42:32.61\00:42:35.85
And so the friend lived his life
00:42:35.88\00:42:37.69
and he's still
friends with Richard Hays.
00:42:37.72\00:42:40.66
And then along the way,
the friend became a Christian.
00:42:40.69\00:42:43.06
The friend
started reading literature
00:42:46.16\00:42:47.60
that says, hey, the
Bible actually allows you
00:42:47.63\00:42:49.66
to have this
attraction, you're okay.
00:42:49.70\00:42:51.73
The friend read that literature.
00:42:51.77\00:42:53.10
And he's a bright
mind, went to Yale,
00:42:53.13\00:42:54.47
and he says, you know what?
00:42:54.50\00:42:55.84
This is disingenuous.
00:42:55.87\00:42:57.21
This kind of logic is just bonk.
00:42:57.24\00:43:00.41
However it impinges on my life.
00:43:00.44\00:43:02.41
I will accept the
authority of this word.
00:43:02.44\00:43:06.11
He died of AIDS,
00:43:06.15\00:43:08.45
But he died a
believer in the Lord Jesus.
00:43:08.48\00:43:11.79
So Richard Hays is
not describing something
00:43:11.82\00:43:13.99
he has not
experienced with a friend.
00:43:14.02\00:43:16.79
Anyway, Richard Hays said,
00:43:16.83\00:43:18.16
"Hey guys, there are
only five or six passages
00:43:18.19\00:43:20.26
in all the scripture."
00:43:20.30\00:43:21.63
That's it?
00:43:21.66\00:43:23.00
This is not a huge conversation
in scripture at all.
00:43:23.03\00:43:25.80
But he says, "If you take
those five or six passages,"
00:43:25.83\00:43:28.70
and he carefully
examines all of them,
00:43:28.74\00:43:31.11
he says, the
Bible speaks with a...
00:43:31.14\00:43:36.64
The Bible's command is univocal.
00:43:36.68\00:43:39.11
Now I'm talking to
my 11 year old friend
00:43:39.15\00:43:40.62
and we don't use those,
00:43:40.65\00:43:42.05
that kind of
wording when we're 11,
00:43:42.08\00:43:44.29
but univocal means,
speaks with one voice.
00:43:44.32\00:43:47.22
All right?
00:43:47.26\00:43:48.59
So he says, I've
looked at all these,
00:43:48.62\00:43:50.29
these five or six
passages very carefully.
00:43:50.33\00:43:52.59
And I can tell you
that the Bible is univocal.
00:43:52.63\00:43:55.50
It speaks with one voice
00:43:55.53\00:43:57.20
in its
condemnation of same gender sex,
00:43:57.23\00:44:01.07
what Richard Hays
calls homoerotic behavior.
00:44:01.10\00:44:05.44
Now those are two big words
00:44:05.47\00:44:06.81
that 11 year old
doesn't have to worry about.
00:44:06.84\00:44:08.81
But that's what he's
saying is you're acting it out
00:44:08.84\00:44:11.28
same gender sex.
00:44:11.31\00:44:12.88
The Bible is
univocal in condemning it.
00:44:12.91\00:44:16.05
There's no question.
00:44:16.08\00:44:17.65
I don't care how
many books get written
00:44:17.69\00:44:19.25
in a desperate effort to
change but you can't change it.
00:44:19.29\00:44:22.56
The brightest
minds on earth know.
00:44:22.59\00:44:24.23
And the Bible refers
to such activity as sin,
00:44:28.70\00:44:31.47
but the very good news is
00:44:31.50\00:44:33.40
that Jesus offers us the power
00:44:33.44\00:44:35.07
to live above any and all sin.
00:44:35.10\00:44:38.87
That's why Paul is
teaching his friends in Corinth.
00:44:38.91\00:44:41.14
Yo, guys, I'm telling you,
I got some good news for you.
00:44:41.18\00:44:45.58
I know your lifestyle.
00:44:45.61\00:44:46.95
I know what your
orientation was before,
00:44:46.98\00:44:49.02
but I got good news for you.
00:44:49.05\00:44:50.39
Watch this. This
is 1 Corinthians 6:9.
00:44:50.42\00:44:52.99
Same chapter we were
just in a moment ago.
00:44:53.02\00:44:54.86
Hey guys, I'm writing to you,
followers of Jesus Christ now.
00:44:54.89\00:44:57.93
"Do you not know
00:44:57.96\00:44:59.29
that wrongdoers will not inherit
00:44:59.33\00:45:01.13
the kingdom of God?"
00:45:01.16\00:45:03.06
Well, I think we knew that.
00:45:03.10\00:45:05.00
"Do not be deceived:
00:45:05.03\00:45:06.94
Neither the sexually immoral..."
00:45:06.97\00:45:08.70
Ooh, that just kind of takes
in the whole human race on it.
00:45:08.74\00:45:11.97
"Neither the sexually
immoral nor idolaters,"
00:45:12.01\00:45:15.81
well, that's that fits for us.
00:45:15.84\00:45:17.18
We can do say yep.
00:45:17.21\00:45:18.55
"Nor adulterers."
00:45:18.58\00:45:20.12
Ooh, it doesn't
matter your orientation.
00:45:20.15\00:45:23.69
It's just adultery.
00:45:23.72\00:45:25.05
You're doing sex
00:45:25.09\00:45:26.42
outside of the
protective walls of marriage.
00:45:26.45\00:45:28.12
Oh man,
00:45:28.16\00:45:29.89
"Nor men who have sex with men,"
00:45:29.92\00:45:32.43
oh that's pretty clear now,
00:45:32.46\00:45:36.43
but it didn't stop there,
00:45:36.46\00:45:37.87
"nor thieves, nor the greedy,
00:45:37.90\00:45:42.00
nor drunkards,
00:45:42.04\00:45:43.37
people who had their
appetites out of control,
00:45:43.41\00:45:45.57
nor slanderers,"
00:45:45.61\00:45:47.01
that would be gossipers.
00:45:47.04\00:45:48.84
Fortunately they're no gossipers
00:45:48.88\00:45:50.58
in our little
faith community here,
00:45:50.61\00:45:53.21
but he's going after them.
00:45:53.25\00:45:56.65
That's good news, nor
slanderers, nor swindlers.
00:45:56.69\00:46:01.02
Thank you for that
great children's story.
00:46:01.06\00:46:05.79
None of these will
inherit the kingdom of God.
00:46:05.83\00:46:08.86
Now what we do,
00:46:08.90\00:46:10.27
some people who
like to go to this text,
00:46:10.30\00:46:12.33
they take only one
line, men having sex with men.
00:46:12.37\00:46:15.10
Ha-ha.
00:46:15.14\00:46:16.47
This is what I'm
here to champion.
00:46:16.50\00:46:18.71
Why?
00:46:18.74\00:46:20.84
If you're Paul, that's
not what you were championing.
00:46:20.88\00:46:23.45
You gave a laundry
list of dirty clothes.
00:46:23.48\00:46:26.82
And you said, this is all of us
00:46:26.85\00:46:30.09
describing himself I'm sure.
00:46:30.12\00:46:31.75
Now, watch this.
00:46:35.46\00:46:36.93
There's that laundry with list.
00:46:36.96\00:46:38.86
None of these will
inherit the kingdom of God.
00:46:38.89\00:46:40.80
But that is what
some of you were.
00:46:40.83\00:46:46.10
You were that.
00:46:46.13\00:46:48.57
Do you know what it
means when it says you were?
00:46:48.60\00:46:51.14
That means you
are no longer that.
00:46:51.17\00:46:54.18
Do you see that?
00:46:54.21\00:46:55.91
He didn't say you are
that, he says you were that.
00:46:55.94\00:46:59.55
Well, hey, run me,
00:46:59.58\00:47:00.92
run that list by
me again, Dwight.
00:47:00.95\00:47:02.35
No, you run through yourself.
00:47:02.38\00:47:04.65
You already saw the list.
00:47:04.69\00:47:06.15
He says you were
that, but you were washed.
00:47:06.19\00:47:10.96
Somebody cleaned you up.
00:47:10.99\00:47:12.76
You were sanctified.
00:47:12.79\00:47:14.30
That means you were set
aside for God's exclusive use.
00:47:14.33\00:47:17.50
You were justified
00:47:17.53\00:47:18.87
that mean
somebody took your place.
00:47:18.90\00:47:20.70
And if you believe in Him,
00:47:20.74\00:47:22.07
all your sins, your
entire past is washed away.
00:47:22.10\00:47:24.57
Your sins are forgiven.
00:47:24.61\00:47:25.97
You are justified in the
name of the Lord, Jesus Christ
00:47:26.01\00:47:28.24
and by the spirit of our God.
00:47:28.28\00:47:31.61
Man, this is not bad news
00:47:31.65\00:47:35.25
because every one of us
00:47:35.28\00:47:36.62
has been born in
the sinner orientation.
00:47:36.65\00:47:38.25
This is good news.
00:47:38.29\00:47:39.62
He's just reminding us
that because of Jesus' death,
00:47:39.65\00:47:41.59
we can move from
sinner orientation
00:47:41.62\00:47:43.19
to saved orientation.
00:47:43.22\00:47:44.96
Is that bad?
00:47:44.99\00:47:46.46
No, that's good.
00:47:46.49\00:47:47.96
That's the only
orientation that counts
00:47:48.00\00:47:49.70
for Paul.
00:47:53.70\00:47:56.04
Wow.
00:47:56.07\00:47:58.34
That's a powerful promise
00:47:58.37\00:48:00.51
that though we are all tempted
00:48:00.54\00:48:01.88
to act out our
sexual attractions
00:48:01.91\00:48:03.68
outside of God's
plan for marriage.
00:48:03.71\00:48:06.58
And though we have all fallen
00:48:06.61\00:48:07.95
in acting out those
forbidden, same gender
00:48:07.98\00:48:10.72
or opposite gender
sexual attractions.
00:48:10.75\00:48:14.26
This cuts both ways.
00:48:14.29\00:48:15.62
There is no ISO here.
00:48:15.66\00:48:17.56
This is a, you see the list.
00:48:17.59\00:48:19.69
It's all of us.
00:48:19.73\00:48:21.06
And Paul
mentions the Holy Spirit
00:48:25.30\00:48:27.70
right there at the end.
00:48:27.74\00:48:31.34
That's it.
00:48:31.37\00:48:32.71
That's the goal
that God has for you.
00:48:32.74\00:48:35.01
Hey, listen, that's the
vision God has for you and me.
00:48:35.04\00:48:38.45
Jesus says, I want to move you
00:48:38.48\00:48:39.81
from sinner orientation
to saved orientation.
00:48:39.85\00:48:43.02
Would you be willing to move?
00:48:43.05\00:48:45.25
If I do it, would you
be willing to go with me?
00:48:45.29\00:48:48.02
But, of course, my Lord,
my body, mi casa es tu casa.
00:48:48.06\00:48:53.56
My house is your
house. My body is your body.
00:48:53.60\00:48:56.56
Come on in.
00:48:56.60\00:48:58.60
I'll treat it the
way you help me treat it.
00:48:58.63\00:49:02.90
I'm not asking you to
take away my attractions.
00:49:02.94\00:49:06.74
That would be like saying,
take me out of this world.
00:49:06.78\00:49:09.34
No, no, no.
00:49:09.38\00:49:10.71
He doesn't want to
take you out of the world.
00:49:10.75\00:49:12.48
He wants to
leave you in the world
00:49:12.51\00:49:14.12
because as a friend of his,
00:49:14.15\00:49:15.88
you're going to
make a difference
00:49:15.92\00:49:17.25
wherever you go.
00:49:17.29\00:49:18.62
So yes, young lady,
00:49:21.46\00:49:24.03
it is possible that
an 11 year old child
00:49:24.06\00:49:26.19
can begin to...
00:49:26.23\00:49:28.50
Who is beginning to wonder
00:49:28.53\00:49:29.86
whether she is bisexual or not.
00:49:29.90\00:49:31.67
It is possible for that
11 year old child to know
00:49:31.70\00:49:35.04
one that Jesus
loves and wants her.
00:49:35.07\00:49:37.54
And two that HE'S promised
to keep her living in a way
00:49:37.57\00:49:42.41
that will be faithful to
His lordship in her life.
00:49:42.44\00:49:47.18
So I want to say to you, girl,
00:49:51.69\00:49:53.02
thank you for
sending me your note.
00:49:56.69\00:49:59.49
It was helpful for me.
00:49:59.53\00:50:02.73
And I know that
you probably guessed.
00:50:02.76\00:50:05.80
I've been praying for you.
00:50:05.83\00:50:08.07
Can't read your name,
but I'm praying for you.
00:50:08.10\00:50:10.11
You're not too young
00:50:13.58\00:50:15.68
at 11 to decide to honor
your maker and your savior
00:50:15.71\00:50:20.08
and offering Him, I
love you back, Jesus.
00:50:20.12\00:50:25.89
Eleven's the perfect
age to cry out to Him.
00:50:25.92\00:50:28.52
I love you back,
00:50:28.56\00:50:30.63
Lord, maker of all things.
00:50:30.66\00:50:33.40
That's true.
00:50:36.43\00:50:37.87
I've got to warn you.
00:50:37.90\00:50:39.97
Your friends
may make fun of you.
00:50:40.00\00:50:41.34
Or they're the ones perhaps
that even planted this seed
00:50:44.84\00:50:46.78
in your mind in the first place?
00:50:46.81\00:50:49.04
They may make fun of you.
00:50:49.08\00:50:51.15
And if you have friends
00:50:51.18\00:50:53.11
who are living
out their same gender,
00:50:53.15\00:50:54.92
sexual attraction with others,
00:50:54.95\00:50:57.19
they may try hard
to change your mind
00:50:57.22\00:51:00.59
and tell you,
you can never go back
00:51:00.62\00:51:02.49
to what Jesus wants you to be
00:51:02.52\00:51:03.93
and how Jesus wants you to live.
00:51:03.96\00:51:05.46
You can't go back. This is it.
00:51:05.49\00:51:07.13
This is what you're stuck with.
00:51:07.16\00:51:08.50
You are this now for
the rest of your life.
00:51:08.53\00:51:10.83
Do not believe them.
00:51:10.87\00:51:13.90
Do not believe them.
00:51:13.94\00:51:16.47
That's a lie.
00:51:16.50\00:51:20.08
That doesn't mean your
attractions won't go away
00:51:20.11\00:51:22.64
if you're old enough
to know what they are.
00:51:22.68\00:51:24.21
But it means you don't have
to act on those attractions.
00:51:27.32\00:51:31.75
Jesus didn't.
00:51:31.79\00:51:35.09
You don't have to either.
00:51:35.12\00:51:36.46
That is what some of you were.
00:51:40.10\00:51:43.73
But now, you move
from sinner orientation
00:51:43.77\00:51:47.94
to saved orientation.
00:51:47.97\00:51:50.44
Paul is saying, stay there.
00:51:50.47\00:51:54.64
This is his temple
00:51:54.68\00:51:57.75
up here, here all the
way down is his temple.
00:51:57.78\00:52:03.32
Take good care of his house.
00:52:03.35\00:52:05.12
I'm proud of you 11
year old friend of mine.
00:52:08.92\00:52:12.99
And I'm praying
for you real hard
00:52:13.03\00:52:16.40
because I happen to believe that
00:52:16.43\00:52:17.77
Jesus has some very
special plans for your life.
00:52:17.80\00:52:19.27
I don't know who you are aware
00:52:19.30\00:52:20.64
or where I should
be looking right now,
00:52:20.67\00:52:22.07
but I guess I could
be just pretty much safe
00:52:22.10\00:52:24.01
in looking at you and saying,
00:52:24.04\00:52:25.81
I believe Jesus has
some very special plans
00:52:25.84\00:52:28.31
for your life.
00:52:28.34\00:52:29.94
Don't sell yourself short.
00:52:29.98\00:52:33.95
You were bought with a price.
00:52:33.98\00:52:37.05
You belong to the
King of the universe
00:52:37.09\00:52:41.86
who will take you on a trip
00:52:41.89\00:52:46.09
that you will never
regret for as long as you live.
00:52:46.13\00:52:51.60
So listen.
00:52:51.63\00:52:53.57
Do you need somebody to talk to?
00:52:53.60\00:52:54.94
Give me a call.
00:52:54.97\00:52:56.30
You know where you can find me.
00:52:56.34\00:52:58.61
Give me a call. We can talk.
00:52:58.64\00:53:02.14
Maybe your parents don't know,
00:53:02.18\00:53:05.55
bring them along.
00:53:05.58\00:53:07.78
We can talk.
00:53:07.82\00:53:09.62
I'd be glad to visit with you
00:53:09.65\00:53:11.22
because this much I know,
00:53:11.25\00:53:14.26
Jesus dearly loves you
00:53:14.29\00:53:18.46
and so do I.
00:53:18.49\00:53:22.40
Let's pray.
00:53:22.43\00:53:24.20
Oh God.
00:53:24.23\00:53:26.60
Oh God,
00:53:26.63\00:53:29.70
thank You for Jesus.
00:53:29.74\00:53:32.27
What else can we say?
00:53:32.31\00:53:36.24
He's our only hope
00:53:36.28\00:53:38.55
He is our only help.
00:53:38.58\00:53:40.12
And we call out to You.
00:53:43.59\00:53:46.02
We are the
orientation of sinner,
00:53:46.05\00:53:48.79
we call out to you,
00:53:48.82\00:53:53.29
move us Jesus
00:53:53.33\00:53:57.57
to your life
00:53:57.60\00:54:00.44
as you lived it
00:54:00.47\00:54:03.07
on this planet right now.
00:54:03.10\00:54:06.64
Oh, by the way, Jesus.
00:54:06.68\00:54:10.95
We love you back.
00:54:10.98\00:54:15.15
Amen.
00:54:15.18\00:54:16.52
O Love that will not let me go
00:55:11.34\00:55:16.75
I rest my weary soul in thee
00:55:16.78\00:55:22.22
I give thee back the life I owe
00:55:22.25\00:55:27.62
That in thine
ocean depths Its flow
00:55:27.66\00:55:32.36
May richer, fuller be
00:55:32.39\00:55:36.77
O Light that follows all my way
00:55:41.24\00:55:46.71
I yield my
flickering torch To thee
00:55:46.74\00:55:52.21
My heart
restores Its borrowed ray
00:55:52.25\00:55:57.62
That in thy
sunshine's blaze Its day
00:55:57.65\00:56:02.72
May brighter, fairer be
00:56:02.76\00:56:06.83
O Joy That
seekest me through pain
00:56:11.67\00:56:17.27
I will not
close my heart To thee
00:56:17.31\00:56:22.81
I trace the
rainbow Through the rain
00:56:22.84\00:56:28.48
And feel the promise Is not vain
00:56:28.52\00:56:33.46
That morn shall tearless be
00:56:33.49\00:56:38.33
O Cross that liftest up my head
00:56:42.63\00:56:48.27
I dare not ask to fly from thee
00:56:48.30\00:56:54.08
I lay in dust life's glory dead
00:56:54.11\00:56:59.81
And from the
ground There blossoms red
00:56:59.85\00:57:04.82
Life that shall endless be
00:57:04.85\00:57:10.03
I want to take an extra moment
00:57:17.67\00:57:19.00
to thank you for
joining us in worship today.
00:57:19.03\00:57:20.84
It's by the continuous
support from viewers like you
00:57:20.87\00:57:22.90
that we're able to
bring you this program.
00:57:22.94\00:57:24.77
Today, I want to
invite you though
00:57:24.81\00:57:26.14
to share with us
00:57:26.17\00:57:27.51
how this
ministry has blessed you.
00:57:27.54\00:57:29.11
I get inspiring
notes, emails from viewers,
00:57:29.14\00:57:31.51
literally all over the world
00:57:31.55\00:57:32.88
telling me, look, Dwight,
00:57:32.91\00:57:34.25
God has been
blessing me this way.
00:57:34.28\00:57:35.62
He's been doing this.
00:57:35.65\00:57:36.99
I would love to
hear from you as well.
00:57:37.02\00:57:38.35
Just visit our website,
00:57:38.39\00:57:39.72
you know it, newperceptions.tv
00:57:39.75\00:57:42.06
and click on the contact
link at the top of the page.
00:57:42.09\00:57:44.36
Send me a note.
00:57:44.39\00:57:45.73
Let me know what
God has been doing
00:57:45.76\00:57:47.33
right now in your life.
00:57:47.36\00:57:49.16
Once again, thank you
for being with us today.
00:57:49.20\00:57:51.87
I hope you join us
right here next time.
00:57:51.90\00:57:53.80
And until then,
00:57:53.84\00:57:55.20
may the God of
grace journey with you
00:57:55.24\00:57:57.01
every step of the way.
00:57:57.04\00:57:58.67