Biblical Sexuality (A Response to Canadian Bill C-4) | Pastor Daniel Batarseh

If you have your Bible in your hands today, would you meet me

in the book is second? Peter chapter 2?

2nd, Peter chapter 2. And just place a marker at verse

7 for now. And join with me in prayer, one

more time. Lord, we need your help.

We need your help unpacking and understanding your word.

We ask that you would help us. To comprehend your mind in your

heart. You're perfect.

Unchanging will Lord, humble us sober.

Us, equip us, encourage us warn us.

Whatever is necessary for your people to be more like your son.

we ask Lord that those who are here who might have objections

or stand in opposition to your rule that they would sense the

weight of the truth and it would cause them To turn to you.

We ask, oh, God. That you would Encourage your

people in these days. So that we would feel bold and

courageous to stand for you, Lord, we trust in you, we love

you. You are everything to us.

And we pray o God, that this word would be translated into

obedience as we respond to it. In Jesus name, we pray.

Amen. Some of you may not be aware but

today we join with the efforts of many pastors around North

America, who have decided to dedicate this Lord's day to

Proclaim, what the word of God says about the will of God

concerning sexuality and identity.

The reason for this collaborative initiative is to

respond to a recent law that has been passed in Canada.

Which not only attacks the biblical standard for sexuality,

but it even threatens those who would persuade others to believe

it. Here's why what we're doing

today is very important. This bill known as bills C4 has

been passed and it essentially claims that the belief in God's.

Unmistakably clear? And holy standard for sexuality

is a myth, and that is not a word.

I am using, that's a word that they have used.

And I just want to read to you a portion of the Preamble of this

legal document, quote, whereas conversion therapy causes harm

to society because among other things, it is based on and

propagates myths and stereotypes about sexual orientation.

Gender identity and gender expression, including the myth

pay attention, including the myth.

That heterosexuality cisgender, gender identity, and gender

expression that conforms to the sex assigned.

To a person at Birth are to be preferred over other sexual

orientations gender identities, and gender Expressions.

Let me translate that if you believe that.

Sexual relations. Should be exclusively expressed

and experience between a man and a woman within the confines of

marriage or that your gender is assigned to you.

At Birth, you are adhering to a myth.

This is an attack on the truth. This is an assault on God's

decree, and his design for his creation.

Additionally, this law criminalizes what is labeled as

conversion therapy now, when the majority here, conversion

therapy, what their imaginations race to is.

Generally some grossly used methods that can be labeled even

as torturous means such as shock treatment or some kind of drugs

that are given and some kind of strange methods to try to change

someone's Behavior. We are in agreement that if

there's any inhumane way to coerce somebody to be something

else that's wrong. That is wrong because no other

means no other method. No other two on other

instrument, other intimidation or manipulation can truly

change. Someone we as a gospel people

believe, only Christ can change. You only the gospel can change

you. And so we are in agreement that

if you're To force yourself or for someone else to bend them

into shape that is not right? And that is not what Christians

stand for. But that is not what this bill

is trying to make illegal. and if it is, then they have done an

extremely poor and irresponsible job to Define it.

Because when you see the description of conversion

therapy in the legal documents, it is so Broad and so vague, it

can easily include pastoral counseling Preaching of the word

of God. Evangelizing, or even one on

one. Witness Through the Bible to win

a heart to Christ. And you even have some parents

now in that Nation who are greatly concerned that they can

be in trouble for trying to do their Duty as a parent and teach

them what the word of God says about who they are.

What marriage is really about and what is Honorable to God.

Concerning sexuality, And so today with all that being said,

we want to clarify what the culture May deem as a fairy

tale, is actually God's perfect and unchanging will for his

creation. And this is not just a flex from

the government. There is a penalty, there is a

penalty of your actions. If your activity Fits under

their description of conversion therapy.

You want to know what it is to 25 years in prison?

And so either they clarify what they mean, or they are

deliberately making this a broad description so that so that

Christians among others? Can be silenced against the

narrative. That is trying to be pushed into

a generation. At first we thought that we were

going to have to pause in our series and second Timothy to

address this which we were willing to do.

But by God's Providence this subject I realized fits

perfectly with our main text as we are going through second

Timothy together. Because we've been hearing week

after week after week. Paul, telling Timothy that as we

approach the return of Jesus Christ, there will be greater

times of difficulty because there will be an increase and

intensifying of immorality and unrighteousness.

And we spent one message. If you've been to this church

long enough, you know, that we have addressed this subject

head-on multiple times, there was one morning, where we spoke

on the objections, the main objections that people bring up

concerning our belief that since such as homosexuality is, in

fact, a sin. And we spend another day

together, discussing how this crazy behavior, and these

beliefs is not disconnected but Deeply connected to God's

passive wrath on a society that has continually rejected him as

Supreme and sovereign. But I want to come to this

subject with a different angle. I want to come to this subject

mainly to address what the attitude of Believers should be,

and what our actions should be, as we are moving faster and

faster into a world. That is not only upholding

corruption. but will now persecute those who are

consecrated unto Christ, Remember what Paul said and

warned about last week that as we come to those final minutes

of the last hour of the last day, there will be a greater

absence of heartfelt Thanksgiving to God.

That there will be an absence of gratitude to the source of all

good and perfect things and amazingly enough after speaking

about those who would be ungrateful, he says that there

will be also an increase. Of those who would be Unholy.

And that's the portion where we find ourselves today as this day

is dedicated to speak about a real life illustration for you

and I about how unholiness will spread will spread into the

mainstream. And how Unholy is will not only

be tolerated, but it will be praised and not only will it be

praised, but it will threaten those with persecution who would

stand against it from the highest form of human authority.

That we know this is not a light thing.

This is a serious thing and this demands us as a people who have

been called the Salt and Light to know how to appropriately

respond. Two things that are coming to

this nation sooner than later. And so I want to speak briefly

about the attitude of the believer and we're going to look

here in 2nd Peter chapter 2 beginning in verse 6.

If by turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes he

condemned them to Extinction. Making them an example of what

is going to happen to the ungodly and if he rescued

righteous lot greatly distressed by the sensual conduct of the

wicked for as that righteous man lived among them day.

After day, he was tormenting his righteous Soul over their

Lawless Deeds that he saw and heard.

These verses describe to us that the annihilation of Sodom and

Gomorrah which is recorded in great deal in the Book of

Genesis was not merely mentioned so that we can have in a

historical account of how God and his righteousness displays

his wrath against iniquity. No, no Sodom.

And Gomorrah represent. Way more than that, Sodom and

Gomorrah according to these verses. the Holy Spirit teaches

us that it serves it serves as an example of what will come to

Future Generations that even though sin may be legalized and

even though it may be normalized, The wrath of God,

for those who praise it and practice, it is imminent.

Is imminent, Sodom and Gomorrah stand, as Memorials of societies

and Nations and cities that would uphold that which is

perverted and twisted and corrupt, it stands as a warning.

To people who would look back at this document, who would look

back at this unchanging word and say, this is what God will do

and the Lord Jesus himself on more than one occasion.

Has reference to Sodom and Aura in order to teach and illustrate

about the final judgment. In fact, let me take it further.

The Lord, Jesus Christ himself was at Sodom and Gomorrah and

gave approval of God's wrath upon those cities.

Sodom and Gomorrah sobering, reminder that.

Those sinful societies may be distracted by sophisticated

planting and building marrying and selling God's righteous.

And holy judgment is on its way. But that's not the reason why

we've come to this text this afternoon.

That's not the main point. Our purpose is to examine why

rather how lot is mentioned. That in the midst of this sin

soaked city called Sodom. There was a man by the name of

lat. Who's actually righteous and

interestingly enough. The righteousness of lot is not

defined To Us by his deeds, but it is described to US based on

his inner attitude, concerning the evil around him.

In other words, his righteousness is given to us.

It's told to US based on what he felt Because how your heart

reacts and responds and what your thoughts say reveal what

Christ has done to it. And what do we see here that he

was greatly distressed by the sensual conduct of the wicked

and he was tormenting his righteous Soul over their

Lawless Deeds. Now, if you've read the Genesis

depiction of lot, this this is kind of troubling because lot

made Monumental mistakes while. Living in Sodom that would make

it very difficult for anybody to be convinced to even call them a

good person. Never mind crowning him as

righteous three times as Peter does here.

And as difficult as this may read a scene though, may seem

irreconcilable. We have to understand that the

Apostle here is not trying to convince us that lot was

morally. Perfect.

But what he is trying to tell us is that he was not completely

contaminated by the dominating sin of his day. one way that is

proven is by the hospitality that lot shows to those heavenly

guest in contrast to the gang of men that wanted to rape them

instead, Yeah, he was influenced.

There was a level of compromise but through this commentary, we

understand that this man was not totally lost to the degree that

he could not determine what was right and what was wrong.

And although many people use lot to point to a negative example,

to point as an example of a worldly Christian here.

I see and we should see together that there is some positive

instruction that we can gain from the life of lat.

Here's my question to This afternoon.

May I ask you today, what the sin around you is doing to your

soul. Are we as God's righteous people

broken over? The lostness that our generation

is swimming in. Is there a sense of concern of

the coming judgment? That will be poured out on those

who bury themselves in greater and deeper Darkness as Bill see

four layers, another blanket of iniquity upon the nation of

Canada, Are we stirred to watch a people swimming in their filth

as God's forgiveness stands on the shore of Grace?

Pleading for them to come and experience his life and his

favor. By simple Act of Faith.

Do we feel pain this afternoon or we know I'm going to get to

that in a moment? Do we feel pain?

Because we are witnessing a people who are blindly walking

towards a cliff, with their fingers in their ears, as God

has through many faithful, people crying through them to be

healed of their blindness, in to turn from self-destruction.

Is there any any sense of disturbance?

Because you see lot made a lot of mistakes.

He made a lot of disappointing decision in his life, but we are

told according to this text that there is one thing.

He did not allow himself to get to and that is to be completely

desensitized to the evil around him.

This man did not become numb because lawlessness was normal.

There was a sense of excruciating, agitation and deep

trouble, while living in Sodom. And the reason why I bring this

before us this afternoon, I want to let you know ahead of time

that this message is not going to answer the objections to the

common arguments against what we believe.

This is going to be intensely practical and a call for us to

Simply Be in tune with the heart of God.

You see what we discover about our thoughts, what we discover

about our internal attitude, concerning the outrageous

behavior, and beliefs that is being promoted is an indicator

of the health of our souls. Let me tell you, let me tell you

this way, I know of people and I have read already of comments of

professing Christians, that would be much more angry about

what I am preaching on today than about the sin that will Dan

people for eternity. So let me say something that may

shock you if our Spirits are not stirred, if we're not Disturbed,

if this, if this kind of news, if this plunging into deeper sin

is not something that shakes us to a certain degree, then we

might be one step closer to a warning that Paul gives to

Christians. And that warning is found in the

book of 1st Corinthians chapter 6, beginning in verse 9.

And here is what Paul says to Christians.

Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the

kingdom of God? Do not be deceived?

Do not be deceived, neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters

nor adulterers, nor men who practice, homosexuality, nor

thieves nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers nor

swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.

Here's the charge that the holy spirit gives to a church.

Do not be deceived and the charge to be free from deception

is twofold. The primary charge is for people

who think that they can live in habitual.

Unrepented sin, and still think that they are headed for heaven.

Paul's charge here is to remind his readers that it is

impossible to claim salvation in Jesus Christ, because that

salvation will cause you to hate your sin, reject your sin and

pursue all in the snow. You may fail along the way and

it is impossible to say that you can embrace the cross while

embrace your favorite sin. It doesn't work.

It doesn't make sense that is either proof that you have not

understood the gospel to begin with OR that your profession is

false. And this scripture is deeply

concerning to those who believe that you don't have to repent in

order to be saved. Which is popular in our day.

But moreover, this command to not be deceived to remain in the

light to remain free from trickery and lies is not

limited. It's not limited to the

potential convincing and justification of my own sin.

In other words though, we can be deceived and though we can

justify particular habit or love for something of the flesh.

We can also be deceived by the Fate about the fate of those who

are promoting or defending their own particular sin.

Because as celebrities come out as laws are implemented in order

to soothe the consciences of Sinners and to silence the

Heralds of righteousness. As family members and friends

that we dearly love invite us to support their ungodly sexual

Pursuits and beliefs. We got to guard our hearts.

Because the normalization of such sins mixed with the

pressures of persecution added with the conflict of The

Emotional turmoil of not wanting to lose touch with people that

we truly care about can make lies much more appealing.

Yeah. Maybe maybe maybe I'm wrong

about this whole understanding of sin.

Some of the nicest people, I know are in monogamous same-sex

relationships. In fact, people that identify as

gay or nicer than most Christians.

I know, Can God really reject the people who are only living

by impulses that they feel like they have been born with.

Is that just is that right? How can something?

So pure like love and falling in love.

Be deemed as evil and as an Abomination.

I'm not sure. I'm not sure I can worship a God

who believes that. So, I still believe in God, but

I have my mental scissors out and I'm just going to cut out

the parts that might contradict, or I would do a very great

Injustice to the Bible, to convince my idea of who God is.

You know what, my call to you. This afternoon is It's not to

give you statistics from what psychologists say about the

lifestyle of those who are living in skewed, sexual conduct

is to Simply ask you to be careful and to charge you not to

be deceived. Do not be deceived. because even

a righteous man, like Loft with all of this praise concerning,

what he felt was challenged even with this great righteousness

roaring within him, even such a man Came to a low point in his

convictions. And the only way you can see it

is, when you go to the account for yourself.

So turn to Genesis, 19 and fast-forward to verse 16.

Genesis 19. Let's read from verse 15, rather

as morning dawn, the Angels urge lot sang Up, take your wife and

your two daughters. Who are here, lest you be swept

away in the punishment of the city?

This is astounding. This is like wow.

If this in serve as a warning I don't know what will verse 16

but he lingered But he lingered so the men seized him and his

wife and his two daughters by the hand, the Lord being

merciful to him and they brought him out and set him outside the

city. What's so disturbing about Lots?

Hesitation is that this is not the first time he was told that

judgment was coming. The Angels Came Today before the

Angels arrived and told them before.

The fact, in fact, the whole day passed by whole evening, a whole

night, And he even witnessed Supernatural intervention from

these angels, causing blindness to come about to these men who

are at his door trying to receive these guests for their

sensual Pleasures. Lot saw that with his own eyes

and yet still, he feels this hesitation to leave.

Sodom, can you imagine that? Can you imagine that?

There's a man here, who is lingering, as there is sulfur

ready to be rained, upon his own home.

And the question to ask is why the hesitation, why are you even

leering? Why are you even

second-guessing, why are you not already left?

The only way to get the the pure interpretation is to understand

the sequence of events and right before this, right before we are

told that he was lingering and waiting and contemplating and

pacing back and forth wondering if he should do it. was that he

tried to persuade his sons-in-law to join him and they

rejected it He tried to convince him that judgment was coming.

He tried to tell them that God's Wrath is going to be poured upon

because the sin of Sodom has become a cry to the heavens.

Would you join me to escape the wrath of God?

Would you join me to know the mercy of God?

You see, we see a man here who is lingering because he realizes

some of his own family. Will not join him.

He lingered. Because he knew that the

decision to separate himself would cause him to Forfeit

relationships and even the fortune that primarily attracted

him to Sodom in the first place. This is why this man who do and

Peter, we are told was stirred because of his sin around him

also lingered because it really came close to home.

And it challenged his emotional attachments, the history that he

had with these people. And here we see an example of

what can happen to even the righteous in Sodom.

This is why I'm charging you to be careful because what we're

hearing, as a preview with our neighbors up, north is just a

glimpse of the aggression. And the persuasion that will

come from an ungodly Folk. and my concern is, That this will

cause a greater divide in the minds and hearts of those who

claim to be professing Christians.

There for my call this morning is simply this continue to

Anchor yourself. Continue to align yourself and

the posture of your heart to God's heart concerning

concerning righteousness. Holiness his will and his

purpose is for those who believe on his son, and those who reject

his son, And God's attitude is not limited to abhorrence God's

attitude towards even these grotesque sins.

Is great affection for them to be saved.

It's great affection for them to actually come to the knowledge

of Christ. But no effective action can be

made until we have laid the foundation of the right thoughts

and attitudes about the whole thing to begin with.

And I'm not here just to clarify that God condemns such Behavior

because I can point that from Genesis to Revelation and I hope

I hope all of us in here who love God's word already are

convinced of that. But what I want to charge you is

to be careful of the tide of deception that is coming.

And it's already here. But also of the right attitude,

not just the defensive but the offensive not just a hideaway in

our bunkers. But to go out into the streets

of Sodom so to speak and to bring out as many people as

possible to escape God's Wrath and to know his embrace, And so

the attitude that I'm charging you today is to be free from

deception and to be sensitive to the Holy Spirit as you, soak

yourself in the word of God, surround yourself with the right

people and continue to bring every opinion.

Every law, every form of entertainment.

Every popular coming out video every false, Christian to the

scriptures, Because it's amazing.

What we will see. When the temperature really gets

hot. It's amazing to see where people

will stand when there will be a price to preach this word.

You've been warned. You have been warned.

But I want us to retract. I want us to pull back from

Genesis 1916 to see to see a few things about how we can not just

Not just guard our hearts, which is vitally important, but also

to win the hearts of others. Come back to verse 12 of Genesis

19. Genesis 19 verse 12, we read

Genesis 19:12

that the men said to lot these angels.

Have you anyone else here sons and lost Sons daughters, or

anyone you have in the city, bring them out of the place for

we are about to destroy this place because the outcry against

its people has become great before the Lord and the Lord has

sent us to destroy it. You know, it's so amazing.

The main point of lot story in Sodom is actually how God

honors. The prayers and intercessions of

his uncle Abraham, that's what is you come to the conclusion of

this chapter and what you learn is that God was faithful to

Abraham standing in the gap for his nephew.

But in the midst of that main plot, we read here that lot

himself receives a commission. He receives instruction, he

receives a call. And before this moment in lot

story he wasn't very exemplary and the way he related to a

morally shattered City because when you come to verse 1, look

how we are introduced to lat the two angels came to Sodom in the

evening and lot was sitting in the gate of Sodom when lot saw

them Heroes to meet them and bowed himself with his face to

the Earth. There's no detail on the Bible,

that's my accident. The fact that we are told that

lot was sitting at the gate is much more significant than him,

maybe waiting for guest, that's not what's Happening Here.

The gate was much more than just the entrance and the exit from a

city, the gate, according to the Bible proves to us that this was

the location of cities where there will be transactions made

where legal things are done and were civil and religious

sometimes authorities will come to make such transactions or

deal. So, what does that tell us about

lot? Lot.

Did not just move to Sodom lot became over time.

A civil Authority. In Sodom.

He became a leader to a certain degree, he might have even been

elected to this position, which is deeply concerning, if this

man has righteous convictions because how is it that they're

allowing this man to be in the position of making and

determining decisions. When they stand in Polar,

Opposites concerning their worldview, So lat, yes, he was

righteous in his emotions, but lot here is showing a level of

compromise because he was able to blend in with the society.

And this is how we are introduced to him.

And then we come down to here and we realize that at this

point, his Outlook was Sanctified, it was transformed

and it was changed upon the revelation of Heavens

perspective and the Eternal understanding of what's

happening in Sodom, you understand.

This is where everything was altered from.

This is where everything really really change and put them into

a new gear. This is what launched him into a

new way of relating to those that he had no problem living

with to a certain extent. The fate of his co-workers, his

friends, his extended family, awakened him to reach out with

the truth and to no longer attempt to put all his efforts

to try to blend in as much as possible.

What changed him what God said about them?

What changed them and understanding of their future,

if they remain in a state of rebellion against God, what

stirred him? Truth.

And you see regardless of what kind of position he had in his

culture, no matter what, kind of even decisions he was making for

the apparent, well-being, for his people.

Lot proves here that he was governed by a Heavenly law.

Lot here proves that he was motivated and moved by

Constitution. Known as the word.

More than anything else and that is exemplary because I want to

tell you today that no matter how much the criminal code in

Canada changes and no matter what kind of developments may

happen in our own country. The mission and the message of

our faith will never change. Never I was talking to a friend

last night who is in Canada and we were discussing this this

bill and I had asked him well what's your local church doing?

What are the church? What are you hearing about the

churches? And how are they responding to

this? I know of some who are choosing

to preach behind the pulpit in order to even pay a price for

declaring God's word. But what's going on here?

Told me, well were there, but many of the pastors have come

together and have sent a letter to the government to clarify

what they mean by. Conversion there.

They want to know because it's just too ambiguous and so we're

waiting on their response. I said well that's wise and I'm

sure that's helpful. But in later on as I went to bed

late at night, I thought to myself.

Well, even if they get an answer, does it really matter?

It doesn't even if conversion therapy includes penalizing,

those who would declare the word of God or if it excludes it and

you can exercise your religious freedom, all you want, the

mission doesn't change, the message will never change

whether it's a legal or illegal God's word remains forever true.

So what does it matter? What does it matter?

And here we see that this man of a prominent position, dropped,

any cares or concerns about how he was going to be seen or what

kind of things were going to happen to him because he's been

convinced at this time through these Heavenly Messengers that

God's word is triumphant. No matter what kind of laws are

resistance, they come up with God's will will be accomplished

and no man can withstand it. And so, he moves.

And he moves forward to do what God told him to do.

And maybe this play the same faithfulness.

Moving forward made pulpits, be found faithful.

Make people the people of God be true to the witness of the

scriptures. So let it be known, let it be

known on this day. That God has created man in his

own image. Male and female he created them.

No one has the authority to dictate or alter the sex that he

or she has been assigned to at conception.

Such an attempt on any level is an assault on the sovereignty of

God. As we have been all intricately

woven in our mother's womb by his perfect, Divine wisdom as

our creator. And though the rampant campaign

of homosexuality and in a long spectrum of other expressions of

skewed, sensual conduct is becoming a norm and is trying to

attack marriage and sexuality. Let's go further understand that

this push for transgenderism and to be known as different things

that don't make sense, even to science and biology.

We're going to a new level, it's not just trying to alter

sexuality is trying to alter reality.

And here's the understanding. If there is anybody who is

living in a fantasy? It's not the Christian who has a

biblical worldview. It's the people who try to

believe something about themselves or others that is not

even consistent with science. And although the instructions

from the Heavenly Messengers, provide Insight of how God

clearly condemns such ways of thinking and how it is an

Abomination and is worthy of judgment, how it is a stink to

the nostrils of a holy God. It is also not void of Hope.

Because we were told here in verse 16.

That he lingered. Yes.

But early on he was told to go and rescue as many people as

possible before leaving You know what I find.

So amazing about that. Think very carefully about how

this story is written and given to us.

When these angels and verse 12 here say have you anyone else

here sons and lost Sons? Daughters are anyone you have in

the city, bring them out of the place, you know, what's so

incredible? There is an omission of a

certain quality. Because when Abraham interceded

for his son or rather his nephew and not just his nephew.

But for the righteous with his nephew and mind, he had been

pleading for who the righteous the righteous.

What if there's this amount of righteous?

What if there's that amount of righteous?

What if it comes down to this amount of a handful of

righteous, the righteous, the righteous, the righteous, and

God affirms, and confirms, I will Spirit, if there are this

many righteous this many righteous.

But then when these these representatives of God come they

tell Lat, have you anyone else here sons of lost Sons,

daughters or anyone? You have in the city?

I don't see the righteous. I see anyone who is willing to

escape the wrath of God. I see anyone who is willing to

take on the warning and apply it with sobriety and obedience.

I see God's grace here that it's not just the righteous who could

have escaped. But even those who would simply

by faith, trust in the message that lot would Proclaim And so,

yes, we must stand firm and clearly Define how the Bible is

against such things, but at the same time, we must also offer

the hope that change is possible.

A transformation is available. And here's the thing, when we

come to this, we realize that lot obeys that instruction, the

message of what's coming without compromise.

He was faithful in what he said. And what's so amazing here is

that it provides an example that we must have the balance of the

wrath of God in the glory of God in his goodness.

That marriage is so needed. And so I want to also say let it

be known that if there's anybody anybody that might feel trap

that might feel so overpowered by particular sin that, you

know, even in your conscious, God condemns There is hope for

you. That Jesus Christ.

Truly wants to see you saved forgiven and renewed by his

blood. and if you just but trust that what you are seat them,

what you are enjoying prematurely and what you think

is actually going to satisfy that void, If you just convince

yourself enough that this is wrong, and you see what God says

about it, you're one step closer to Hope and change.

And as you call upon Christ, not only will he deal with your

Eternal destination. He will transform you.

Now, he will Infuse you with the person of the Holy Spirit to

such a degree that you can Rise Above The Temptations and the

impulses of your flesh. This gospel is so powerful.

And so real, that it actually supernaturally, Alters your

reality. But you must repent and believe.

Stop trying to use and muster up all your strength to convince

yourself that God approves of it.

He doesn't approve of it, he disapproves of it, but he so

loves you that in that state, he is willing to save you.

And so throw yourself at his feet with whatever strength you

have left with whatever Measure of Faith that you have give it

to him. Instead of trusting in a false

lie that will damn you and even destroy you in this life.

Lat shows us that although he had failed in the past, he is in

this moment. Swimming Upstream while the rest

of the culture. His neighborhood is workplace

are headed in the other direction.

Don't be ashamed of the Gospel. But we see something else.

Not only does he prove to us that he was governed by a

Heavenly order by Heavenly law, by Heavenly perspective.

He was willing to engage others with the truth.

Notice, what he does here after he's told and asked if there's

anybody else in verse 14. So law went out and said to his

sons-in-law who were to marry his daughters up.

Get out of this place for the Lord is about to destroy the

city, but he seemed to his sons and law to be jesting.

Notice we're lot. First goes when he learns about

what God is about to do. His family was his first mission

field. He could have gone anywhere but

he goes to those who have married his daughters and though

the message may have been difficult to hear and though it

would have put a great risk to how they would have viewed him

and related him from this moment on this man was not convinced

about the temporal. He was operating by the eternal.

And so, he was compelled by a truth that he knew that they

needed. And so he visits them.

And you have many good-hearted Believers today who are

overwhelmed by even even the thought of approaching somebody

that they dearly care about that they love.

And to present them with the gospel because of this

particular sin being so sensitive to truth And that is

only because a culture is praising it and calling people

Heroes to those who would embrace it and declare it.

So it does make it a little bit more difficult, but I want to

tell you something, it's not as complicated as you're making it

seem to be. I have a hunch that if you saw

Paul preached the gospel to a homosexual, it wouldn't look

much different than how he would preach to a thief.

Because all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of

God. All are in need of his grace.

Whether it's You jumping up from this, Cliff to this cliff and

you fall here or you fall there, it doesn't matter.

We all fall short of the glory of God.

And so though your personal history may be twisted and dark,

you know, how to preach the gospel to somebody who is

outside of Christ? It's the same message, it's the

same truth, it's the same remedy.

It's the same cure. The same cure for the drunkard,

the same solution for the South. Righteous Pharisee the same

direction the way for the person who is caught up in Pride, or

lust or Envy is the same thing for the homosexual for the

transgender, for the one who was lost in, how they even

understand their own bodies. It's no different.

So, this man communicates this truth, so plainly.

So clearly, But in Lots case, the tone of his delivery was

urgent and the theme of his message was judgement because at

any moment that sky was going to be lit up by Heavenly Fire.

And so it was very brief and very direct.

And though we should not shy away from judgment in our

presentation. And though we should not fail to

be urgent. There is also the importance of

including the present reality of what the gospel will do in your

life. Meaning, when you look back at

what Paul said to the Corinthians and that text that

we read that, those who practice, such things will not

inherit the kingdom of God, that's not where he ended it.

That's not where he put the period mark.

He did not just present the gospel.

Truth to those, including those in and strange sexual behavior.

He didn't just say, you're not going to go to heaven.

If you practice these things you come to verse 11.

Let me read in 1st Corinthians 6 and such were some of you.

And such were some of you but you were washed, you were

Sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus

Christ. And by the spirit of God, And so

Paul sandwiches this truth. Yes, you can be deceiving thing.

You could hold onto your sin and inherit eternal life but he also

concludes by saying, but that is not who you are today.

He's speaking those who have been changed implying, what that

we have to tell people that Christ can actually change you.

We're not just telling people that if you don't stop, if you

don't change, you're going straight to hell.

We're telling people, this gospel is so unique, there's

nothing like it that upon Faith. You can actually receive a

supernatural strength that can alter your very desires.

That can cause you to love God to such a great degree that you

will love him more than what your flesh.

Craves for day in and day out. One of my first friends that I

have when I became a Believer confessed to me that he

struggled with same-sex attraction.

I mean, I was a brand new believer.

I was still figuring out simple Doctrine and this came to me and

I thought to myself, Lord, you threw me in the deep end.

But in that moment, there was a Grace.

Because, because why would I react to a certain way?

With this sin? When all sin is is going to be

condemned? And so, I just began to ask

honest questions to this person who I could not tell was

struggling with such things because he seems so righteous in

his convictions and his practice in his worship, and I asked him

honesty, why aren't you living there?

Because you're telling me that you can't wait to be married to

a woman and have children? Why?

Why is that the case? And he had told me without

hesitation, he told me without stuttering that my love for

Christ is greater than my love. Sin.

Jesus Christ is so beautiful to me.

He's so wonderful. He had saved me that the

satisfaction I have in knowing that I'm walking in his will is

greater than whatever lust can be quenched That's the gospel,

that's the gospel. And we have to be clear and so

let me be intensely practical here.

Do we have anything in our hearts?

That's prayerfully planning to sit down with people that we

know that we love to say, I got to tell you something that I

would tell anybody else, who is outside of the knowledge of

truth that has saved my soul. And do you know, have to kick

down the door open? Like a lot might have had and

panic lie. Tell them that they have to run.

Sometimes in certain occasions, that is necessary.

All I'm asking you to do and I can give you, I can't give you

actually five steps to how to do it.

I can't because every person is different.

Every situation is unique. Every Dynamic Demands.

A different kind of wisdom though.

The message is the same all I'm asking you today is why are you

so intimidated? Why are you so fearful to have a

conversation with that person? Because the most unloving thing

that lock could have done in response to this invitation to

see other people come with him, was to not say anything.

Let me just put this into perspective.

How would you feel about lat? If after reading verse 12, he

was told by these angels, the invitation is open, bring

whoever is willing to come. Go and judgment is delayed, so

that he can do this. How would you feel if he had

responded? I don't know. see my son's and

other kind of agree with that and they're married to my

daughters and I don't want to make it awkward.

I don't want it to be uncomfortable.

If they ask me, I will say something but I don't think I'm

going to introduce it because I don't want to step on anybody's

toes. And so I appreciate that but,

you know, I'm going to just trust God.

Can you imagine that? And the verses of Genesis 19

that being given to us? Be honest.

How would you feel about it? And so I extend extend that

lustration to examine our own Hearts.

Why are we so afraid of giving a truth that can supernaturally

transform somebody? Why can a people be so bold

about telling you and me and our children that there is 60,

something different gender identities without blushing.

Why can gay organizations go on YouTube and jokingly say we're

coming for your children but you and I we squirm when we think

about the idea of sitting across the table from somebody, we went

to school with this. I got to tell you about a truth

that changed me and it can change you.

If Canada and any other government is going to be, so

aggressive me the church in righteous fierceness.

Reach the Lost. And guess what?

The response of such people in our lives.

Whether stranger of familiar, friend is not our

responsibility. I want you to notice what they

say at the end of verse 14, but he seemed to his sons-in-law to

be jesting. What is sad?

Sad, sad conclusion. Here lot storms into this house

and he sits his sons-in-law. Then he goes, I got to tell you

what, I just learned judgment is coming.

This place is going to be turned into Ash.

And as they're listening, they start laughing.

And the reason why they're laughing is not because he

delivered it in a humorous manner, it's because what he was

saying that the content seems so absurd, so silly, so, out of

touch with reality that they thought it was a myth, Sound

familiar. That was a joke.

They thought it was void of any true substance.

And so they totally dismissed it and they even mocked and scorned

it welcome to 2022. You don't think Sodom and

Gomorrah as an example, just look up and see who our

neighbors have become. But the reason why they thought

he was jesting is important to understand.

You see a lot lived so long among them as one of them that

his testimony had no power. There is no weight to it.

This man here was so camouflaged with the sodomites and those who

lived in Gomorrah that when it came time to actually deliver

something of spiritual value. They could not even receive it

with a hint of seriousness. And so this is what I want to

tell us that if this world is going to criticize us for

believing something in the Bible to be a myth.

May they not criticize us. For being crazy and out of touch

because we don't practice what we preach.

Let them call us whatever they want to call us.

But may they criticize a consistent people?

May they criticize a people that apply this word in every area in

life and not just in a way in which you want to just manifest

your anger because you feel like there is a organization or a

narrative that's coming for your kids, for example.

It's a myth. We don't believe what you're

saying, because we don't believe you believe what you even

believe in? Because look at this, this and

this and that. So lot lost his testimony.

That is a great danger for many Believers today.

But I have to also say this that you would be amazed to know the

excuses that people will have in wanting to reject the truth and

you'd be amazed to know how desperate they will become an

even accusing you. Right?

And you accusing me I've being imperfect vessels, giving them

the permission to continue to live in their own way.

But lot here proves to us that faithfulness to God.

Is necessary despite the reaction response of those

around us. So I have two things for you

closing this message, and I have a feeling that there are going

to be a lot of questions, which is fine.

Could spend the next hour if you want answering them.

Now, But I have a very simple straightforward message for all

of us for ever is watching as well.

Let your heart remain soft. Let your heart remain in tune

with the heart of God. I've been told many years ago

that there was somebody. That wasn't coming to her youth

group at the time and when asked why they said well brother,

Daniel believes that abortion is a sin.

And that homosexuals are not right with God.

It's kid, I think was like 14. Stay in this book.

Fear God trust in his judgments no matter what is swirling

around you and secondly me that attitude by the grace of God.

Not cause us to be fearful but to be active in our faith.

And to see the signs of what's Happening including Bill C4, and

only for it to be a greater motivation to sit with people

and to preach the gospel. Even if they have to throw you

in jail for 5 years, You know, it's so amazing here in verse 16

that lot only added more injury to his testimony when he was

lingering. Can you imagine?

I mean it doesn't say but I can just imagine what his

sons-in-law thought. You just told us last night that

judgment was coming and you're hanging around here, sweeping

your floor. So that lost urgency could have

even affected his testimony even more.

And that is why I praise God for the pastors across North America

were behind pulposus. A, if that's how you're going

to, that's how you're going to criticize the word of God, that

will declare all the more Don't lose your urgency as as lot did.

Stay, prayerful, ask God for opportunities, and Open Hearts,

and just believe that the gospel is enough.

That there doesn't need to be tricks.

And there doesn't mean little things to try to manipulate

somebody's way of thinking just present Christ and watch him

change a desperate Soul, he has to be ready to answer objections

and you can find that message on YouTube.

Yes, be ready to give statistics if you need to, but the

substance of our message, the substance of the Christians

conversion therapy is Christ and Christ Alone.

Simple enough, but many Christians are making it

complicated. And many Christians are ready to

compromise. So may this church be found

faithful and whatever is coming down the pike.

Let's pray. Louis, thank you for how your

message encourages us to have a certain attitude.

And actions ready to be implemented.

In a day where people are being swept up into greater deception.

Lord, we ask that our own Hearts would not become numb.

Numb, in a way that it might cause us.

To be an active and we asked, oh God that no matter how close

this deception and people conforming to The Narrative of

this day, no matter how close it comes to home.

May we love you more than our family.

They would love you more than our friends may.

We love them enough to pray fully present the truth as he

would. Anybody else?

That we know there's an O Christ.

We asked oh Lord, that are watching world would see a

church that. So believes what they preach

that they're willing to pay a price for it.

Especially for the nation of Canada.

We ask the Lord if it's possible to extend the freedoms that they

once enjoyed but Lord if that has has come to an end, we ask

Lord that you would embolden ministers and congregations.

That would show the world that we love you, too much to change

this message. And we want you to come to the

truth, even if we have to be punished for it.

We asked, oh Lord. That is we feel the Temptations

in the doubts that might creep into our hearts.

That it would quickly be extinguished by the truths that

we heard today, and the truths that we will discover, as we

continue to study your word. Find his faithful find his true.

Find us to be true, ambassadors of Jesus Christ.

For we know that this world desperately needs it.

We give you all the glory for your wisdom, this afternoon, and

your name we pray. Amen.

Can we stand and Worship the Lord together?