 I'm sick and tired of y'all using the Bible to veil your homophobia, right? Because in the same section of the Bible that y'all love to quote, which is Leviticus, you know, it also says that you shouldn't wear mixed fabric. And it also says you shouldn't wear each shellfish either. This young man, this young gay man is angry. He's angry with us. So he says he's angry with the Bible. I wouldn't even imagine. But what he's really angry with is just himself. Let's just be clear. People in the homosexual community tend to be a little more angrier, depressed, obviously suicidal, especially if we start talking about those in the trans community. But let's just deal with just regular old good old fashioned garden variety homosexuality. This is a lifestyle that never lends itself to happiness. Now he's raising this point. He's bringing up the Bible to impugn Christians for saying or for not saying anything about those that eat shellfish or certain dietary issues that are brought up in Leviticus and for those who don't get on people for wearing certain fabrics that are outlined or prohibited in Leviticus. The issue is though, there are certain things in the Bible that are prohibited for just a specific time or a specific people. There are things though, however, that may have been prohibited at the time for Israel under the law, which is what Leviticus is covering. But some of these same prohibitions such as homosexuality were prohibited prior to the law, as well as after the law. And I don't see y'all coming after the seafood eaters and the pescatarians with the same anger that you do homosexuals. And I don't see all the fashionistas that show up to church being put out the church and ridiculed the same way you do the gay people. Remember, it's in Genesis 2 where God outlines his design for the man and the woman. In Genesis 2, 24, he says, for this reason, a man, the Hebrew word for man is ish shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife. Isha is the Hebrew word. Of course, in this case, it is Ishto, which is his wife or his woman. So it's clear, God's design is for man to be with woman. As a matter of fact, it's the only design that actually works. It's the one that will further the human race. You can put 100 gay men on an island. Come back 100 years later, you won't have anyone there. You can put 100 men on an island with 100 transgender men who want to be women. I guess you call them trans women. And guess what will happen in 100 years? Same thing, nothing. But you put 100 men with 100 women, you're going to have a community that's still alive, thriving with older men, younger boys, older women, younger girls. You'll have a society continuing. Why? Because that's the way that God designed it. And then what you'll also find in the Bible is that you'll find that Jesus also reiterates this. He says it in Matthew chapter 19 verse 5. He says, and for this reason, a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, which is his Gnaeche, which is his wife, his woman. So it's clear. Even God's natural order, whether it be in Leviticus, whether it be in Genesis, whether it be in Matthew, is still for a man and a woman to be wed together, not for a man to be with a man or woman to be with a woman. And so just because it is spoken of in Leviticus, then guess what? That doesn't necessarily mean that it is outlawed anywhere else because other things were outlawed. The reason why we don't speak about eating certain food, wearing certain clothing items, because those were intended for Israel and Israel only. Also with his argument is that it's not even so much that, yes, I'm wrong. No, it's that, well, they're wrong too. Why don't you get on them? Johnny did it. Why don't you get on him? What about him? What about her? The issue should not really be what someone else's sin is or whether we're dealing with it. We don't go before a judge. We don't go before a court of law and say, yes, I broke the law, but this person also did something else. Yes, I was speeding your honor. I was doing 75 in the school zone, but this person over here that you didn't pay to do, what about him? He was parked illegally. That's not the issue. What about you? What about your sin? And so his issue really isn't so much so his sin. It's the fact that he didn't want to be judged for his sin. Now I'll be fair. There are times where Christians and even non-Christians, folks who call themselves Christians also will attack, demean, belittle people who are in the homosexual community and not do so for people who are committing other sins. That does happen. We won't pretend like it doesn't, but that doesn't absolve a person in the sin from that particular sin. There are those that will even deal with folks of a different sin, whether it be heterosexuality, that's rampant, whether it be cheating, lying, what have you, or homosexuality, and they'll do so with an unloving and unforgiving heart. That's not right at all. That part, I understand and I hear you and I wish that the church would do a better job of that, but that's still no reason to attack the church because what we never really see is we don't see them attacking Islam for doing the same thing. They tend to have more respect for people even if they're attacking them if they are of another religion or if they are atheists, but it's just against attacking Christianity. Why? Because we serve the only living God. We don't turn down heart surgery, brain surgery, or any other surgery that is needed because the person that gave us the diagnosis did so in a mean fashion, was not nice, was not kind, was not polite. No, the truth is the truth, and if you don't deal with it, it will kill you. Same thing here. Let's just say hypothetically, I am of the belief that it is in the sin. It's a sin and it's in the Bible and so on and so forth. Then it would seem to me that the church is exactly where I'm supposed to be, right? Now, the hypothetical that he uses, obviously he knows it is. He knows at least according to the Bible that it is a sin. Really what it is, and this is what we've always found, that you just don't care. I don't care or what you may do is you might try to, there are some that will try to impute the Bible by saying that's not what it says, that's not what it means, which by the way, it's the same tactic Satan used and so if they want to do so, let's just go to the scriptures and just go to what Paul says and folks are going to say, well, Paul didn't say that Paul didn't mean that or this is a word that was added. Yes, the word homosexual was added, but not what was described. What was described in the Bible has always been what it was described. Today, modern vernacular will cause us to give a new term to it, but let's say what Paul says. Paul says in 1 Corinthians chapter 6 verse 9, or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom and what he does is he goes down a list of different sin and so for this person who was worried about what about these people? What about that person? What about the person that's committing this sin? What about the person that's committing that sin? Well, Paul is calling all of those out and he also calls out your sin. He says, do not be deceived, neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, that's a soft man, nor homosexuals, and this word that's used here is the Greek word arsenicoitai, which is a combination of words was also found in Leviticus. This is men bedding men, men bedders, men who bed or sleep with other men. And so obviously the description is found in the New Testament as well. And so we cannot ignore it. And so homosexuals, nor thieves, nor those that covet, nor drunkers, nor violers, nor swinglers, no one that are, no one's that's practicing any of those things, those that make a lifestyle, those things, especially those that are, that do so unrepentantly, will inherit the kingdom of God. That is just clear. Now to his point, he makes a very good point and I agree, where should the homosexual be in the church? Where should the drunkard be in the church? Where should the addict be in the church? Where should the liar, the thief, or the coverageist person be in the church? There should be a bunch of people in the church full of sin. Why? The same thing with the hospital. What do you find in the hospital? Sick people, folks that get well. But at the same time there are also folks that show up there at the hospital and end up dying. There's a morgue at the base, typically in the basement of a hospital. There are people that will come to church and will die. They will come and they will listen because they did not come to be changed. They came made for a ceremonial religious reason. But our job is to come together as a body and to deal with sin, deal with our hearts and to grow closer to God. That's not his issue. His issue rather is don't judge me for what I'm doing and I'll leave you alone. But to his point, no one should be upset that homosexuals are in church. They should be upset though if homosexuals are in church and not being called to repent and they're not being called to change or if they are in church and are behaving with the same in the same manner they were prior to or outside of the church. Well, that's a problem. That we will not allow. So miss me with the whole it's in the Bible crap because you're fully in your homophobic. So a couple of things before we leave. Miss you with it's in the Bible crap. Okay, fine. A couple of things. You're gonna miss heaven. Forget us missing you. You are going to miss God all together. And you say that because we are full of whatever. Well, listen, you are full of pride. You are full of anger. You are full of violence. You are full of wickedness. And so God is going to deal with that. You're not uncommon what you're going through because such such were all of us who prior to coming to Christ, we were the same way full of a lot of stuff. And yet there's a lot of the we still need to get rid of a lot of sin that still needs to be taken out of us a lot of pride and so forth. I would ask you to get rid of that as well, because you're not going to be able to you can hear it, but you won't receive the truth. And the last point is to say that we're homophobic. No, I don't know anyone that's afraid of homosexuals. No one. What we are is we are God phobic feel phobic. We are afraid of God in two ways. One afraid of what he can do because the Bible says Jesus says do not fear him who can kill you would fear him who can kill you and then after killing you send you to hell. That's God. But because of this awe, this other fear, this awe, that because of the tear of the Lord, we persuade men, we persuade men like you and those who are heterosexual. We persuade everyone to place their faith in Christ. That's the only way that you can avoid having to face an angry God at judgment day. Amen.