For any church that professes to the world that it "loves Jesus," and is yoked to Him as their Lord and Saviour, to be truly obedient to His commandments, which come with the authority of God the Father and affirmed by the Holy Spirit, you cannot tolerate sexual immorality! This includes adultery, premarital sex, extra-marital sex, transgenderism, polyamory, bestiality, sodomy, pedophilia, pornography, and homosexuality, to name a few. You cannot be "Christian" while simultaneously being an advocate of, participating in, or advocating for what sexual immorality is - SIN!
The Body of Christ must warn its members that those who refuse to repent of these sins will "not inherit the kingdom of God!" (1 Corinthians 6:9-11). This is the warning that Satan desperately wants to suppress. What's more, the father of lies wants to suppress the truth that sexual immorality is not "love," it's lasciviousness. It's not "an alternative lifestyle," it's an abomination. It's not "progress," it's perversion. It's not "special," it's satanic. It's not "good," it's gross. It's not "equality," it's evil. It's not "cool," it's condemned by God. In the light of God's holy Word: Any man, woman, boy girl, who refuses to repent of such sins, and is a 'member' of a church group that professes itself to be "Christian," must be disciplined by its leadership in the manner in which the Apostle Paul directed: to be "delivered unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus" (1 Corinthians 5:5). The end result in the life of the sinner who is called to repentance will either be genuine repentance and restoration into the fold of God's people or eternal condemnation.
The same rule applies, not just to individual people, but to individual denominations or churches themselves
A church that fails to repent, fails to discipline, and fails to guard the testimony of Christ, by accommodating these sins, even advocating for those guilty of propagating them, is clearly not a church at all, but what the bible refers to as a "synagogue of satan" and "well without water" (Revelaton 3:9; 2 Peter 2:17). Such a denomination or church must, by the Body of Christ, be cutoff from among their fellowship unless and/or until such a time as when that denomination or church openly repents. Until such a time, they must be marked/exposed for "the unfruitful works of darkenss" they are proponents of and as the "wolves in sheeps clothing" that they are (Ephesians 5:11; Matthew 7:15). Some will hear the truth and repent. Many more; however, will scoff at the warning and be found as reprobates on the "broad road of destruction" with the world. (Matthew 7:13)
Discipline To Please God, Not Man
In either case, while the objective of the Body of Christ is to ensure a spiritual cancer is removed from infecting the life and testimony of the people of God, the necessary discipline always is carried out with the hope that faith and repentance, in the life of the one disciplined, will bring about repentance and faith in Christ - with evidence of an obedient life to follow. The salvation of the soul and restoration should always be our desire for sinners, but even above that desire, we must seek to glorify God by our words and deeds. We must live to please God, not man, and Brethren, we can do this by trusting in and obeying His holy Word. What every Christian needs to understand is this: every sexual sin comes from a lying spirit - a demonic influence upon the hearts and minds of men, women, boys and girls who rebel against God, against His commandments, and against His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. The anger they respond with to those who warn them to repent, command even, is a response directed to Christ as if to say to Him, "you could not safe yourself so, how could you save me? Besides, I'm fine the way I am!" It is gross idolatry because, in living out a lie, they reject Christ by doing two things in particular: #1: They “change the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man..." (Romans 1:23). How so? By worshiping themselves, by putting themselves in the place of God, and doing so in such gross perversions, that they proceed with their ungoldy lifestyles in direct rebellion against the ultimate image of God Himself - the Lord Jesus Christ (Colossians 1:15). #2: They proceed, in the vanity of their minds, in a form of ultimate selfishness/greediness, meaning that they rob God of His glory by refusing to worship Him, refusing to bow down before Him, and refusing to obey Him. Depravity of heart sets in, and so they have their "understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart: who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness" (Ephesians 4:18-19). So much so, that they lie down with the very image of themselves, in the vanity of their darkened minds: "men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet” (Romans 1:27).
So, men with men, women with women, boys with boys, and girls with girls, in their sexual immortality and darkened minds, are declared by God to be "alienated from the life of God." This is the opposite of what false teachers and false churches continue to regurgitate, even in the "name of Christ," in this wicked and adulterous generation. They are nothing but liars and false teachers who represent a recapitulation of satanic lies. You can even hear the hissing serpent's voice in them:
"it'sssss ok, you're jusssst expresssssing love for eachother, it'sssss your right to choossssse to lovvvvve whoever you wannt to. God knowsssss your heart, He'ssssss undersssssstanding of your choicessssss, and you can be ssssssaved and ssssssstill be a transsssssexual, homossssssexual, ssssssodomite, and enjoy yourssssssself. Don't lissssssten to thossssse who tell you to repent, they jussssssst don't undersssssstand. Asssssss I told Eve, God hassssss not sssssaid you sssssshould not take of the fruit, He jussssst knowssssss that if you do, you'll be like Him and He doessssssn't want to share the truth with you ssssssso, noone undersssstandsssss like I do what it feelssssss like to be judged for only doing what feelssssss normal sssssso, jusssssst keep doing what'sssssss normal to you and jusssssssst disregard the warningsssssss of those foolish Christiansssssss who keep telling you it'ssssss a ssssssssin!"
Jus as the lies of Satan cannot stand; the sexual immorality of this wicked generation cannot stand!
God will judge, in the eternal fire of His wrath, all who advocate for these sins. The only hope and the only message to those held captive by these sinful lifestyles is the Gospel of Jesus Christ! Repent, believe the Gospel, and obey it by following Christ who is "the Way, the Truth, and the Life!" (John 14:6). Amen.
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