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1
We Are in a Fight that Cannot be Ignored
  • Most Christians are unaware of the strong push to
    justify Homosexuality by
    the leaders of our age. (Isa 520-21)

2
We Are in a Fight that Cannot be Ignored
  • (Isaiah 520-21 NKJV) Woe to those who call
    evil good, and good evil Who put darkness for
    light, and light for darkness Who put bitter for
    sweet, and sweet for bitter! 21 Woe to those
    who are wise in their own eyes, And prudent in
    their own sight!

3
We Are in a Fight that Cannot be Ignored
  • While living in Lincoln, Nebraska I learned of a
    highly coordinated effort at several
    levels to "re-educate" our society about
    homosexuality.

4
We Are in a Fight that Cannot be Ignored
  • While living in Lincoln, Nebraska I learned of a
    highly coordinated effort at several
    levels to "re-educate" our society about
    homosexuality.
  • The National Education Association (NEA) had
    powerfully used its funds and influence to push
    the homosexual agenda in the public Schools.

5
We Are in a Fight that Cannot be Ignored
  • Some parents I knew who were a part of the
    "Traditional Values Coalition" were publicly
    branded by the state NEA and the local principle
    had orders to be told whenever she arrived on
    school grounds were her own children attended!

6
We Are in a Fight that Cannot be Ignored
  • Some parents I knew who were a part of the
    "Traditional Values Coalition" were publicly
    branded by the state NEA and the local principle
    had orders to be told whenever she arrived on
    school grounds were her own children attended!
  • In our own state this year there were many school
    systems that observed a Gay and Lesbian week.

7
We Are in a Fight that Cannot be Ignored
  • The forces of government are increasingly
    equating "Gay-rights" with "Civil-rights".

8
We Are in a Fight that Cannot be Ignored
  • Consider the actions of our own president " A
    half-century after President Harry S. Truman
    declared his commitment to civil rights before a
    largely black crowd gathered at the Lincoln
    Memorial, President Clinton last night pledged
    similar solidarity in the battle for equal rights
    for gay and lesbian Americans." - Washington
    Post 11/9/97

9
We Are in a Fight that Cannot be Ignored
  • I received an e-mail today about an impending
    bill that will include ALL sexual orientations.

10
We Are in a Fight that Cannot be Ignored
  • There is a bill on the fast track in the U.S.
    Senate ( 909) that would not only criminalize
    free speech but provide elevated protection to
    pedophiles.

11
We Are in a Fight that Cannot be Ignored
  • There is a bill on the fast track in the U.S.
    Senate ( 909) that would not only criminalize
    free speech but provide elevated protection to
    pedophiles.
  • The bill is euphemistically called The Local Law
    Enforcement Hate Crimes Preven-tion Act.

12
We Are in a Fight that Cannot be Ignored
  • I call it The Pedophile Protection Act.

13
We Are in a Fight that Cannot be Ignored
  • I call it The Pedophile Protection Act.
  • It was exposed as such when an amendment to
    exclude pedophiles from special legal
    protections, offered by Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa,
    was rejected by the Democrats in the House
    Judiciary Committee.

14
We Are in a Fight that Cannot be Ignored
  • Rep. Alcee Hastings, D-Florida, admitted from the
    House Floor that this bill put 547 forms of
    sexual deviancies listed by the American
    Psychiatric Association, which he referred to as
    all of these philias and fetishes and isms,
    on the same level of elevated protection as race
    ... religion ... gender ... or disability.

15
We Are in a Fight that Cannot be Ignored
  • Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, a former appellate
    judge on the House committee, clari-fied further
    ...We just rejected an amendment to including
    pedophilia

16
We Are in a Fight that Cannot be Ignored
  • Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, a former appellate
    judge on the House committee, clari-fied further
    ...We just rejected an amendment to including
    pedophilia
  • Boy scouts have been forbidden by the Interior
    department (in the Clinton Administration) from
    helping clean up the
    national state parks because they do not allow
    for homosexual scout leaders!

17
We Are in a Fight that Cannot be Ignored
  • I have in my possession excerpts from a
    government training video where a man
    explains from the Bible that homosexuality is not
    wrong!

18
We Are in a Fight that Cannot be Ignored
  • I have in my possession excerpts from a
    government training video where a man
    explains from the Bible that homosexuality is not
    wrong!
  • There are many churches who now say homosexuality
    is not a sin. There are even homosexual
    churches that exist.

19
We Are in a Fight that Cannot be Ignored
  • I have in my possession excerpts from a
    government training video where a man
    explains from the Bible that homosexuality is not
    wrong!
  • There are many churches who now say homosexuality
    is not a sin. There are even homosexual
    churches that exist.
  • What does this mean to the Christian?

20
We Are in a Fight that Cannot be Ignored
  • We need to know what the Bible teaches.

21
We Are in a Fight that Cannot be Ignored
  • We need to understand that ours is not a
    political battle, but a spiritual one. (Jn 1836)

22
We Are in a Fight that Cannot be Ignored
  • (John 1836 NKJV) Jesus answered, My kingdom
    is not of this world. If My kingdom were of this
    world, My servants would fight, so that I should
    not be delivered to the Jews but now My kingdom
    is not from here.

23
We Are in a Fight that Cannot be Ignored
  • We need to answer the arguments advanced by those
    who justify sin. We need to teach our children
    how to answer these things. (2 Cor 104-5)

24
We Are in a Fight that Cannot be Ignored
  • (2 Corinthians 104-5 NKJV) For the weapons of
    our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for
    pulling down strongholds, 5 casting down
    arguments and every high thing that exalts itself
    against the knowledge of God, bringing every
    thought into captivity to the obedience of
    Christ,

25
What does the Bible teach about homosexuality?
  • The Old Testament condemned homosexuality.

26
What does the Bible teach about homosexuality?
  • The Old Testament condemned homosexuality.
  • The cities of Sodom openly practiced
    homosexuality. (Gen. 191 -7)

27
What does the Bible teach about homosexuality?
  • (Genesis 191-7 NKJV) Now the two angels came
    to Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in
    the gate of Sodom. When Lot saw them, he rose to
    meet them, and he bowed himself with his face
    toward the ground.

28
What does the Bible teach about homosexuality?
  • 2 And he said, Here now, my lords, please turn
    in to your servants house and spend the night,
    and wash your feet then you may rise early and
    go on your way. And they said, No, but we will
    spend the night in the open square. 3 But he
    insisted strongly so they turned in to him and
    entered his house. Then he made them a feast, and
    baked unleavened bread, and they ate.

29
What does the Bible teach about homosexuality?
  • 4 Now before they lay down, the men of the
    city, the men of Sodom, both old and young, all
    the people from every quarter, surrounded the
    house. 5 And they called to Lot and said to
    him, Where are the men who came to you tonight?
    Bring them out to us that we may know them
    carnally.

30
What does the Bible teach about homosexuality?
  • 6 So Lot went out to them through the doorway,
    shut the door behind him, 7 and said, Please,
    my brethren, do not do so wickedly!

31
What does the Bible teach about homosexuality?
  • God specifically forbid it. (Lev. 1822)

32
What does the Bible teach about homosexuality?
  • (Leviticus 1822 NKJV) You shall not lie with
    a male as with a woman. It is an abomination.

33
What does the Bible teach about homosexuality?
  • Homosexuality would receive the death penalty.
    (Lev. 2013)

34
What does the Bible teach about homosexuality?
  • (Leviticus 2013 NKJV) If a man lies with a
    male as he lies with a woman, both of them have
    committed an abomination. They shall surely be
    put to death. Their blood shall be upon them.

35
What does the Bible teach about homosexuality?
  • The New Testament condemned homosexuality.

36
What does the Bible teach about homosexuality?
  • The acceptance of homosexuality by a culture is
    described in its steps away from God! (Rom.
    126-32)

37
What does the Bible teach about homosexuality?
  • (Romans 126-32 NKJV) For this reason God gave
    them up to vile passions. For even their women
    exchanged the natural use for what is against
    nature. 27 Likewise also the men, leaving the
    natural use of the woman, burned in their lust
    for one another, men with men committing what is
    shameful, and receiving in themselves the penalty
    of their error which was due.

38
What does the Bible teach about homosexuality?
  • 28 And even as they did not like to retain God
    in their knowledge, God gave them over to a
    debased mind, to do those things which are not
    fitting 29 being filled with all
    unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness,
    covetousness, maliciousness full of envy,
    murder, strife, deceit, evil-mindedness they are
    whisperers,

39
What does the Bible teach about homosexuality?
  • 30 backbiters, haters of God, violent, proud,
    boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient
    to parents, 31 undiscerning, untrustworthy,
    unloving, unforgiving, unmerciful 32 who,
    knowing the righteous judgment of God, that those
    who practice such things are deserving of death,
    not only do the same but also approve of those
    who practice them.

40
What does the Bible teach about homosexuality?
  • (Rom 126) - against nature (para phusin) vile
    passion (degrading passions of dishonor).

41
What does the Bible teach about homosexuality?
  • (Rom 126) - against nature (para phusin) vile
    passion (degrading passions of dishonor).
  • (Rom 127) - men working unseemliness indecent
    act, shameless act.

42
What does the Bible teach about homosexuality?
  • (Rom 126) - against nature (para phusin) vile
    passion (degrading passions of dishonor).
  • (Rom 127) - men working unseemliness indecent
    act, shameless act.
  • "Receiving in themselves that recompense of their
    error which was due." This can so vividly be
    seen, among many diseases, ex. AIDS

43
What does the Bible teach about homosexuality?
  • (Rom 128) - "reprobate mind" (Vine a mind of
    which God cannot approve, and
    which must be rejected by him). NAS "depraved
    mind."

44
What does the Bible teach about homosexuality?
  • (Rom 128) - "reprobate mind" (Vine a mind of
    which God cannot approve, and
    which must be rejected by him). NAS "depraved
    mind."
  • (Rom 132) - "Worthy of death.

45
What does the Bible teach about homosexuality?
  • (Rom 128) - "reprobate mind" (Vine a mind of
    which God cannot approve, and
    which must be rejected by him). NAS "depraved
    mind."
  • (Rom 132) - "Worthy of death.
  • There is no question what this sin brings! (1
    Cor. 69-10)

46
What does the Bible teach about homosexuality?
  • (1 Cor. 69-10) - Do you not know that the
    unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God?
    Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor
    idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor
    sodomites, 10 nor thieves, nor covetous, nor
    drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will
    inherit the kingdom of God.

47
What does the Bible teach about homosexuality?
  • Effeminate (malakos Thayer-effeminate. of a
    catamite, a male who submits his body to
    unnatural lewdness).

48
What does the Bible teach about homosexuality?
  • Effeminate (malakos Thayer-effeminate. of a
    catamite, a male who submits his body to
    unnatural lewdness).
  • "abusers of themselves with mankind" - denotes
    homosexuality.

49
What does the Bible teach about homosexuality?
  • Effeminate (malakos Thayer-effeminate. of a
    catamite, a male who submits his body to
    unnatural lewdness).
  • "abusers of themselves with mankind" - denotes
    homosexuality.
  • "Be not deceived" - Do not be led astray by
    plausible talk to cover up sin and change it into
    something respectable and acceptable.

50
What does the Bible teach about homosexuality?
  • Homosexuality is included with those who are
    "abusers of themselves with men." (1 Tim. 110)

51
What does the Bible teach about homosexuality?
  • (1 Timothy 110 NKJV) for fornicators, for
    sodomites, for kidnappers, for liars, for
    perjurers, and if there is any other thing that
    is contrary to sound doctrine,

52
What does the Bible teach about homosexuality?
  • Homosexuality is fornication (Jude 7).

53
What does the Bible teach about homosexuality?
  • (Jude 17) - as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the
    cities around them in a similar manner to these,
    having given themselves over to sexual immorality
    and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an
    example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.

54
What does the Bible teach about homosexuality?
  • Those who practice any sin cannot go to heaven!

55
What are the arguments used to justify
homosexuality?
  • "The Bible is a reflection of the culture of that
    time. Our culture is now different!

56
What are the arguments used to justify
homosexuality?
  • Miller begins with a lengthy dismissal of the
    Bible's relevance to the question of marriage in
    the first place.  "Let's try for a minute to take
    the religious conservatives at their word and
    define marriage as the Bible does," Miller
    suggests.  If so, she argues that readers will
    find a confusion of polygamy, strange marital
    practices, and worse.

57
What are the arguments used to justify
homosexuality?
  • She concludes  "Would any contemporary
    heterosexual married couplewho likely woke up on
    their wedding day harboring some optimistic and
    newfangled ideas about gender equality and
    romantic loveturn to the Bible as a how-to
    script?"  She answers, "Of course not, yet the
    religious opponents of gay marriage would have it
    be so."

58
What are the arguments used to justify
homosexuality?
  • What is "culture"? It is a system of values!

59
What are the arguments used to justify
homosexuality?
  • What is "culture"? It is a system of values!
  • God expects all men to put away the sins of the
    flesh and put on the fruits of the spirit. (Gal
    519-25)

60
What are the arguments used to justify
homosexuality?
  • (Galatians 519-25 NKJV) Now the works of the
    flesh are evident, which are adultery,
    fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, 20
    idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions,
    jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish
    ambitions, dissensions, heresies,

61
What are the arguments used to justify
homosexuality?
  • 21 envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and
    the like of which I tell you beforehand, just as
    I also told you in time past, that those who
    practice such things will not inherit the kingdom
    of God. 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love,
    joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness,
    faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control.
    Against such there is no law.

62
What are the arguments used to justify
homosexuality?
  • 24 And those who are Christs have crucified
    the flesh with its passions and desires. 25 If
    we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the
    Spirit.

63
What are the arguments used to justify
homosexuality?
  • Most people who accept homosexuality do not
    believe in the inspiration of the Bible!

64
What are the arguments used to justify
homosexuality?
  • Most people who accept homosexuality do not
    believe in the inspiration of the Bible!
  • Many are excited about the "Gay-Rights" movement
    because they correctly see an opportunity to
    persecute Christians.

65
What are the arguments used to justify
homosexuality?
  • "Homosexuals are born this way. They did not
    choose this lifestyle so it cannot be a sin.

66
What are the arguments used to justify
homosexuality?
  • "Homosexuals are born this way. They did not
    choose this lifestyle so it cannot be a sin.
  • If they can prove an inborn nature the Bible
    would still tell us to not practice this desire!
    The alcoholic desires to drink even after
    becoming a Christian he simply puts this desire
    away and refuses to act upon it. (Rom 813-14)

67
What are the arguments used to justify
homosexuality?
  • (Romans 813-14 NKJV) For if you live according
    to the flesh you will die but if by the Spirit
    you put to death the deeds of the body, you will
    live. 14 For as many as are led by the Spirit
    of God, these are sons of God.

68
What are the arguments used to justify
homosexuality?
  • There is no proof that homosexuality is inborn.

69
What are the arguments used to justify
homosexuality?
  • "The Bible teaches that homosexuality is right!
    My interpretation is just as good as yours.

70
What are the arguments used to justify
homosexuality?
  • "The Bible teaches that homosexuality is right!
    My interpretation is just as good as yours.
  • We must examine the scriptures and always be
    ready to test everything we believe.
    (Acts 1711)

71
What are the arguments used to justify
homosexuality?
  • (Acts 1711 NKJV) These were more fair-minded
    than those in Thessalonica, in that they received
    the word with all readiness, and searched the
    Scriptures daily to find out whether these things
    were so.

72
What are the arguments used to justify
homosexuality?
  • There are those who will wrest the scriptures to
    fulfill their own lusts. (2 Pt 316)

73
What are the arguments used to justify
homosexuality?
  • (2 Peter 316 NKJV) as also in all his
    epistles, speaking in them of these things, in
    which are some things hard to understand, which
    untaught and unstable people twist to their own
    destruction, as they do also the rest of the
    Scriptures.

74
What are the arguments used to justify
homosexuality?
  • "If you deny practicing homosexuals membership in
    your church then you are bigoted and hate-filled
    just like those who hated blacks in the 1950's.

75
What are the arguments used to justify
homosexuality?
  • "Since I have been saved by the grace of God you
    must accept me as I am because once I am saved I
    cannot be lost.

76
What are the arguments used to justify
homosexuality?
  • "Since I have been saved by the grace of God you
    must accept me as I am because once I am saved I
    cannot be lost.
  • The grace of God is not a cover for sin. (2 Pt
    218-19)

77
What are the arguments used to justify
homosexuality?
  • (2 Peter 218-19 NKJV) For when they speak
    great swelling words of emptiness, they allure
    through the lusts of the flesh, through lewdness,
    the ones who have actually escaped from those who
    live in error. 19 While they promise them
    liberty, they themselves are slaves of
    corruption for by whom a person is overcome, by
    him also he is brought into bondage.

78
What are the arguments used to justify
homosexuality?
  • "Once saved, always saved" is a false doctrine.
    (Gal 54)

79
What are the arguments used to justify
homosexuality?
  • (Galatians 54 NKJV) You have become estranged
    from Christ, you who attempt to be justified by
    law you have fallen from grace.

80
What should we do in this current culture?
  • Defend the truth without shame. (Jude 3)

81
What should we do in this current culture?
  • (Jude 13 NKJV) Beloved, while I was very
    diligent to write to you concerning our common
    salvation, I found it necessary to write to you
    exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith
    which was once for all delivered to the saints.

82
What should we do in this current culture?
  • The time is coming where our jobs may be at stake.

83
What should we do in this current culture?
  • We need to know what is right and stand there!

84
What should we do in this current culture?
  • We need to know what is right and stand there!
  • Protect your family from these new "evangelists.

85
What should we do in this current culture?
  • We need to know what is right and stand there!
  • Protect your family from these new "evangelists.
  • In school your child has great pressure put upon
    them to accept this lifestyle.

86
What should we do in this current culture?
  • We need to know what is right and stand there!
  • Protect your family from these new "evangelists.
  • In school your child has great pressure put upon
    them to accept this lifestyle.
  • With this age of "openness" there is a greater
    danger of "recruiting" young
    people by convincing them they are gay.

87
What should we do in this current culture?
  • Be prepared to show love to those in this error
    with the intent of converting them! (2
    Tim 224-26)

88
What should we do in this current culture?
  • (2 Timothy 224-26 NKJV) And a servant of the
    Lord must not quarrel but be gentle to all, able
    to teach, patient, 25 in humility correcting
    those who are in opposition, if God perhaps will
    grant them repentance, so that they may know the
    truth, 26 and that they may come to their
    senses and escape the snare of the devil, having
    been taken captive by him to do his will.

89
What should we do in this current culture?
  • Let us not be sidetracked into a political battle
    but rather let us redouble our efforts to preach
    the gospel! (Rom 116-17)

90
What should we do in this current culture?
  • (Romans 116-17 NKJV) For I am not ashamed of
    the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God
    to salvation for everyone who believes, for the
    Jew first and also for the Greek. 17 For in it
    the righteousness of God is revealed from faith
    to faith as it is written, The just shall live
    by faith.
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