Culture and religion both often get it wrong when it comes to our sexuality. This message focuses on how that relates to homosexuality.

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3. “Born-again Christians are more likely to dis-
approve of homosexuality than divorce.”
unchristian

4. “The vast majority of Christians say that
homosexuality should not be considered a
legitimate lifestyle and strongly reject church-
sanctioned weddings for same-sex unions.”
unchristian
However, only a minority of born-again believers
(39%) embrace Jesus’ teaching that divorce is a
sin except in the cases of adultery.”

5. “However, only a minority of born-again believers
(39%) embrace Jesus’ teaching that divorce is a
sin except in the cases of adultery.”
unchristian

7. Any fair-minded observer of american culture and the
american churches must note the incredible speed with
which this issue has been driven into the cultural
mainstream.
Al Mohler

8. The challenge for the believing church now comes down
to this: do we have a distinctive message to offer?
Al Mohler

9. “Many people in the gay community don’t seem to have
issues with Jesus but rather with those claiming to re-
present him today. It’s very much an ‘us-versus-them’
mentality, as if a war has been declared. Of course
each side thinks the other fired the opening shot.”
peter, a 34 year-old gay man

11. passage #1: genesis 19
But before they retired for the night, all the
men of Sodom, young and old, came from all
over the city and surrounded the house.
genesis 19:4
5 They shouted to Lot, “Where are the men who
came to spend the night with you? Bring them out
to us so we can have sex with them!”

12. passage #1: genesis 19
They shouted to Lot, “Where are the men who came
to spend the night with you? Bring them out to us
so we can have sex with them!”
genesis 19:5

13. passage #1: genesis 19
So Lot stepped outside to talk to them, shutting
the door behind him. “Please, my brothers,” he
begged, “don’t do such a wicked thing.
genesis 19:6
Look, I have two virgin daughters. Let me bring
them out to you, and you can do with them as you
wish. But please, leave these men alone, for they
are my guests and are under my protection.”

14. passage #1: genesis 19
“Look, I have two virgin daughters. Let me bring
them out to you, and you can do with them as you
wish. But please, leave these men alone, for
they are my guests and are under my protection.”
genesis 19:7,8

15. passage #1: genesis 19
Meanwhile, the angels questioned Lot. “Do you
have any other relatives here in the city?” they
asked. “Get them out of this place — your sons-
in-law, sons, daughters, or anyone else.”
genesis 19:12

16. passage #1: genesis 19
“For we are about to destroy this city completely.
The outcry against this place is so great it has
reached the LORD, and he has sent us to destroy it.”
genesis 19:13

17. passage #1: genesis 19
Then the LORD rained down fire and burning
sulfur from the sky on Sodom and Gomorrah.
genesis 19:24

18. passage #1: genesis 19
He utterly destroyed them, along with the other
cities and villages of the plain, wiping out all
the people and every bit of vegetation.
genesis 19:25

19. passage #1: genesis 19
SOme ungodly people have wormed their way into
your churches, saying that god’s marvelous grace
allows us to live immoral lives. THe condemnation
of such people was recorded long ago, for they
jude 4,7

20. passage #1: genesis 19
have denied our only master and lord, Jesus
Christ...Don’t forget Sodom and Gomorrah and their
neighboring towns, which were filled with
immorality and every kind of sexual perversion.
jude 4,7
Those cities were destroyed by fire and serve as a
warning of the eternal fire of God’s judgment.

21. passage #1: genesis 19
Those cities were destroyed by fire and serve as a
warning of the eternal fire of God’s judgment.
jude 4,7

22. passages #2 & 3: leviticus
Do not practice homosexuality, having sex with
another man as with a woman. It is a detestable sin.
leviticus 18:22

23. passages #2 & 3: leviticus
If a man practices homosexuality, having sex with
another man as with a woman, both men have
committed a detestable act. They must both be put
to death, for they are guilty of a capital offense.
leviticus 20:13

24. passages #2 & 3: leviticus
Any and every person who curses his father or
mother must be put to death. By cursing his father
or mother he is responsible for his own death.
leviticus 20:9

25. passages #2 & 3: leviticus
Obviously, the law applies to those to whom it was
given, for its purpose is to keep people from having
excuses and to bring the entire world into
judgment before God.
romans 3:19

27. passage #4: Judges
Now in those days Israel had no king.
judges 19:1

28. passage #4: Judges
While they were enjoying themselves, a crowd
of troublemakers from the town surrounded
the house.
judges 19:22
They began beating at the door and shouting to the
old man, “Bring out the man who is staying with you
so we can have sex with him.”

29. passage #4: Judges
They began beating at the door and shouting to the
old man, “Bring out the man who is staying with you
so we can have sex with him.”
judges 19:22

30. passage #4: Judges
The old man stepped outside to talk to them.
“No, my brothers, don’t do such an evil thing. For
this man is a guest in my house, and such a thing
would be shameful.”
judges 19:23

31. passage #4: Judges
“Here, take my virgin daughter and this man’s
concubine. I will bring them out to you, and you
can abuse them and do whatever you like. But
don’t do such a shameful thing to this man.”
judges 19:24

32. passage #5: romans
So God abandoned them to do whatever shameful
things their hearts desired. As a result, they did
vile and degrading things with each other’s bodies.
romans 1:24

33. passage #5: romans
They traded the truth about God for a lie. So
they worshiped and served the things God created
instead of the Creator himself, who is worthy of
eternal praise! Amen.
romans 1:25

34. passage #5: romans
That is why God abandoned them to their shameful
desires. Even the women turned against the
natural way to have sex and instead indulged in
sex with each other.
romans 1:26

35. passage #5: romans
And the men, instead of having normal sexual
relations with women, burned with lust for
each other.
romans 1:27
Men did shameful things with other men, and as a
result of this sin, they suffered within
themselves the penalty they deserved.

36. passage #5: romans
Men did shameful things with other men, and
as a result of this sin, they suffered within
themselves the penalty they deserved.
romans 1:27

37. passage #5: romans
Since they thought it foolish to acknowledge
God, he abandoned them to their foolish
thinking and let them do things that should
never be done.
romans 1:28

38. passage #5: romans
Their lives became full of every kind of
wickedness, sin, greed, hate, envy, murder,
quarreling, deception, malicious behavior,
and gossip.
romans 1:29

39. passage #5: romans
They are backstabbers, haters of God, insolent,
proud, and boastful. They invent new ways of
sinning, and they disobey their parents.
romans 1:30

40. passage #5: romans
They refuse to understand, break their promises,
are heartless, and have no mercy.
romans 1:31

41. passage #5: romans
They know God’s justice requires that those
who do these things deserve to die, yet they do
them anyway. Worse yet, they encourage others
to do them, too.
romans 1:32

42. passage #6: I timothy
We know that the law is good when used
correctly.
9 For the law was timothy 1:8 people who do
I not intended for
what is right. It is for people who are lawless
and rebellious, who are ungodly and sinful, who
consider nothing sacred and defile what is holy,
who kill their father or mother or commit other
murders.

43. passage #6: I timothy
For the law was not intended for people who do
what is right.
It is for people Iwho are lawless and rebellious,
timothy 1:9
who are ungodly and sinful, who consider nothing
sacred and defile what is holy, who kill their
father or mother or commit other murders.

44. passage #6: I timothy
It is for people who are lawless and rebellious,
who are ungodly and sinful, who consider nothing
sacred and defile what is holy, who kill their
father or mother or commit other murders.
I timothy 1:9

45. passage #6: I timothy
The law is for people who are sexually immoral,
or who practice homosexuality, or are slave
traders, liars, promise breakers,
I timothy 1:10
or who do anything else that contradicts the
wholesome teaching 11 that comes from the
glorious Good News entrusted to me by our
blessed God.

46. passage #6: I timothy
or who do anything else that contradicts the
wholesome teaching that comes from the
glorious Good News entrusted to me by our
blessed God.
I timothy 1:10,11

47. passage #7: I corinthians
Don’t you realize that those who do wrong
will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don’t
fool yourselves.
I corinthians 6:9

48. passage #7: I corinthians
Those who indulge in sexual sin, or who worship idols,
or commit adultery, or are male prostitutes, or
practice homosexuality, or are thieves, or greedy
people, or drunkards, or are abusive, or cheat people
I corinthians 6:9,10
—
— none of these will inherit the Kingdom of God.

49. passage #7: I corinthians
— none of these will inherit the Kingdom of God.
I corinthians 6:10

50. passage #7: I corinthians
Some of you were once like that. But you were
cleansed; you were made holy; you were made right
with God by calling on the name of the Lord Jesus
Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
I corinthians 6:11

51. The Word became flesh and made his dwelling
among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of
the One and Only, who came from the Father, full
of grace and truth.
john 1:14

52. For everyone has sinned; we all fall short of
God’s glorious standard.
romans 3:23

53. “I’m going to quote the Bible now, not myself, that
[homosexuality] is wrong, it’s a sin. But there
are other sins. Why do we jump on that sin as
though it’s the greatest sin? . . . Jealousy is a
sin. Pride is a sin. All of these things are sins.
billy graham
But homosexuality is also a sin and needs to be
dealt with and needs to be forgiven, and that’s
why Christ came and died on the cross.”

54. “But homosexuality is also a sin and needs to
be dealt with and needs to be forgiven, and
that’s why Christ came and died on the cross.”
billy graham