Three Biblical Actions to Take During 'Pride Month' - Dale Partridge
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In this episode of Real Christianity, I m going to be talking about 3 biblical actions that every Christian can take during Pride Month. All that coming up right now on Real Christianity. In this episode, we re going to talk about the three biblical actions to take during pride month.
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In this episode of Real Christianity, I'm going to be talking about three
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biblical actions that every Christian can take during Pride Month. All that coming up right now.
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thanks for joining me on this episode of real christianity as you probably know this is an
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audio and video ministry of relearn.org today as i mentioned in the cold open we're going to be
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talking about the three biblical actions to take during Pride Month. One thing I wanted to mention
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before we get started is I have the newest edition, if you're watching the video here
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of this episode, the newest edition of The Manliness of Christ. This is an updated and
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revised edition. I've added a new chapter called The Sin of Effeminacy. I've also added a foreword
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And it's a new, we actually updated the typeset
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so that it's actually a bigger book, more pages.
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So if you're listening, I'd love for you to check out
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the new updated version of the manliness of Christ. And this version as of right now is
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only available on Amazon and it's available in print worldwide. So if you go to Amazon,
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you can get yourself a copy. All right. So I want to talk to you about the issues of Pride Month
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that are facing average ordinary Christians across the globe. This isn't something that's
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happening only in the West. This is obviously happening in Australia, parts of Europe, Canada,
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South America. So this is a coordinated issue around the globe.
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So for the next 30 days, the world will be saturated what I call the rainbow Ramadan,
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right? Ramadan is the Islam practice of a 30-day prayer and fasting, but this is really
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the gay community's version of that. It's a 30-day celebration of debauchery, and Christians are going
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to be forced to shield their eyes of their children, shop at different stores, hide them
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from pride parades, and keep them away from the sodomy and the sexual deviancy that is all over
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the place during the month of June. Now, companies, we know, government agencies, sports teams,
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celebrities are all going to be bowing down to the LGBT sex God. This is what we're seeing every
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year. Actually, if you've seen that funny meme of the black gentleman that's hiding behind the tree,
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there's a version of that. He's wearing a rainbow suit. And it said, woke companies excited for
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June 1st. And it was like May 31st on the top. This is what they do. They're excited to promote
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this sinful, sodomy, perversion, distortion of sexuality for 30 days. And they do so because
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they know that they will win more dollars from a particular group of people because Christians
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stay silent. So what are Christians to do? What lessons can we learn from this season?
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How can we think biblically about this idea of, quote,
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So in this episode, I'm going to be rattling off
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just three brief points to help you stand boldly for Christ,
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and how to dispense gospel truth to the gay community.
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Okay, so I'm going to give you three points.
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Number one, number one is love condemns sin.
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Now, in a world of hyper-normalizing homosexuality, we need to be regularly reminded that homosexuality is not normal.
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And it is clearly condemned by God in the scriptures.
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if a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination. They shall
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surely be put to death. Their blood is upon them. So if we say that it's not absolutely wicked,
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deserving of some degree of punishment, according to scripture at this time to the God's old
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covenant people, it was worth capital punishment of death. We need to realize that that is
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essentially the position of God on the matter. I was reading an article, or maybe it was actually
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just some Twitter feeds, but it was talking about how prior to 1962, the vast majority of the United
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States, sodomy was illegal. And the vast majority, I don't know, maybe it was like 45 of the 50
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states. And prior to that, it was even dealing with capital offenses in a handful of states.
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And so it's not that long ago that we were dealing with sodomy according to scripture,
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in the sense of having punishments and crimes, breaking of laws to have a man sleeping with
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another man. Jude 1.7 says, quote, just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which
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likewise indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desire, serve as an example by
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undergoing a punishment of eternal fire, end quote. First Corinthians 6.9-11, another passage
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says, quote, or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God?
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do not be deceived, neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate,
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nor homosexuals, nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will
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inherit the kingdom of God, end quote. So ultimately scripture demonstrates that it's
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loving to define and condemn sin. We know this, right? It's loving to define and condemn stealing.
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We want to define it and we want to condemn it.
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It's loving to define and condemn murder or adultery or pedophilia.
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Therefore, it's certainly loving to define and condemn homosexuality
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when society is hell-bent on the gayification
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I'm just gonna talk about it because it was so funny.
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me trying to buy something that's not gay in 2023.
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And it's this truth that almost every brand and every company changes their logos and it's this
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absurd reality. And so it's Christian's duty during this month, especially to define and
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declare homosexuality and its other perverted expressions as sinful, wicked, detestable acts
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that will lead to a life of what? Well, a life of pain and misery and ultimately a life eternally
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in hell. And so we need to be willing to have those conversations. That's point number one
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is that love condemns sin. It's willing to condemn sin. Number two, I called lessons from
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Globo Homo. All right. Yesterday, a pastor from Washington, DC posted a picture of the rainbow
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flag flying high in front of the J. Edgar Hoover building, which is the FBI headquarters.
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and my friend Josh Dawes commented on the photo
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the first thing conquerors do once they overtake a country
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They're trying to display their dominance of that particular area.
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And so during a period when Christians might feel disheartened that, you know, our nation
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is irreversibly lost to paganism, there's a vital lesson for us to grasp here as Christians.
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In just one generation, with just less than 3% of the population, our country, the LGBT
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community has absolutely dominated the nation. It only took that long, less than 3% of the population
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in about 30 to 40 years, really in terms of an active push. But this means that biblical
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Christians who make up, you know, currently the stats say around 60% of America identifies as
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Christian, but I'm going to say that about half of that really identify with a biblical worldview.
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So, say you have 35%, 30% of America, that's a ginormous number that has an absolute reality
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of taking back the dominating influence in our country in just 30 to 40 years.
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It's something that has got us into the position that we are.
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And if we don't take on this fight, you're essentially handing this battle down to your
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children and grandchildren. And so it's going to simply require an entire generation of Christian
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parents who will raise godly children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
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These are kids who need to understand biblical marriage and are ready to defend with eloquence
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and accuracy, theological accuracy, biblical gender, sexuality, and marriage.
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We grew up in a generation, if you're in your 30s or 40s,
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that didn't require such theological literacy and depth as a child.
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But this generation is dealing with a perversion and distortion of the truth
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And so, we need to be catechizing our kids to basically spot the counterfeits when they arise in their life.
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And so, more than that, it requires Christians to essentially reassert Christianity, the truth of scripture, to every dimension of life, proclaiming that Christ is king.
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And so, what I'm talking about is taking Christ into the public square.
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I actually talked about, I might still write this book.
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I actually wrote maybe, I don't know, 10 or 15 pages.
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And I've just kind of left it in my Google Docs.
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But I've thought about writing a book called Coming Out as Christian,
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So I'll probably write that at some point.
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But we need to bring Christianity outside of the church into education and entertainment
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and politics and economics and into the arts and into the media.
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essentially declaring that Christ is king over all of it.
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quote, there is not a square inch in the whole universe
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Jesus said that all authority has been given to him
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And in addition to that, he says that the gates of hell
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We have to see that that image is that the gates of hell is on the defensive and that the church
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is on the offensive, kicking in the gates of hell. I heard Joel Webin talk recently about
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the gospel being the battering ram that's kicking in the gates of hell. And Jesus says that the
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gates of hell will not prevail against his church. And so we have to recognize that if all authority
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has been given to Christ, North America is Christ. The West is Christ. Europe is Christ. And we
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Americans here in the US are Christ's body in this place. We are his representatives. We are his
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flock. And we must fight for righteousness with greater passion than the LGBT community fights for
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their sin. This is a key factor because so many, the reason that companies modify themselves for
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the LGBT community is because the LGBT community is more willing to fight for their sin than
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Christians are willing to fight for the truth. That is absolutely the problem. Quiet, costless
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Christianity is continuing to be overpowered by people who are
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willing to speak about lies more than we are willing to speak and
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defend the gospel of Jesus Christ. Number three, no law, no
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repentance. Okay, so we live in a time where most Christians
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proclaim an impotent gospel. Because many believers reject
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the doctrines of grace or aka Calvinism, they believe that
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salvation is about persuasion of a person's, quote, free will. When
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you have that, essentially, you believe that coming to faith is
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about persuasion, rather than the sovereignty of God over
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salvation through the proclamation of the gospel. And
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as a result, what happens? Well, people become winsome, they
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become persuasive. And this is how we got the pragmatic church movement, where you get a lion
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and smoke machines and a rock band on the stage in hopes that you might persuade people to Jesus.
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And when you become winsome, people tend to eliminate the bad news, which makes the good
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news so good. And what they do is they refrain from telling people about God's law. They refrain
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from telling people about God's law. And more than that, they refrain from telling people about
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their inability to keep that law, their guilty standing before that law, and the eternal
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consequences of breaking that law. This is probably the most absent piece of the modern gospel today.
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You see, when you fail to tell people the bad news, the bad news that
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God's moral law has jurisdiction over their life because they are creatures made by the creator
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and that they are guilty of breaking that law. What we do as Christians, as people,
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is we compare ourselves to the moral standing of another person. Well, I'm better than that guy.
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When reality, we should be comparing ourselves to the standard of God for righteousness,
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which is his moral law. And when you look at the 10 commandments, you quickly realize that you
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cannot keep them, that you've broken all of them and that you, maybe not all of them because not
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everybody's a murderer, but we do know that Jesus talks about hatred in the heart is a similar sin.
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But what I'm saying is that when you compare yourself to God's moral law, you realize that
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And this is important in the preaching of the gospel.
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When you fail to tell people the bad news of their guilt
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and shame before the jurisdiction of God's moral law,
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That is that when sinners don't see the gravity
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they cannot appreciate the righteousness of a savior.
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They cannot appreciate the desperate need that they have to be found righteous, and they want
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a way to get that righteousness. And the only way to make an unrighteous person righteous is to
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receive an alien righteousness. You need to receive a righteousness from someone who has
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kept the law that will give you their righteousness. And this is what Jesus Christ does through faith.
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He pays for your sin as your substitute, dying on your behalf, and then gives you his righteous
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record of perfectly keeping the law through faith. The terror of the law is what drives people to
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grace. This is what the Bible teaches. You always see the apostles preaching the law,
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making sure that nobody believes that they can earn salvation through obedience or morality
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They would afflict a person with the truth of the law
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to bring them to their knees in sorrow, shame, and guilt.
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And this is how we must communicate to the LGBT community.
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around righteousness on gender and sexuality and marriage.
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We can't withhold the very thing that produces guilt that leads to repentance. Again, no law,
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no repentance. And this is what's absent in most of the preaching of the gospel
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in the modern day. And so remember, it's not about persuasion, it's about proclamation.
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And when it's God who changes the heart, all you have to worry about is being faithful
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and has a right to demand how you ought to live.
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That's your great need in humanity is to be found righteous,
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with people is that everybody has an understanding that they need, they have something to be forgiven
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for. They just don't know who they need to be forgiven by. And so there's this conscience that
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people have, that they are struggling with guilt and shame, but they don't know where to put that.
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And the only way to really remove that guilt and shame is to come to the cross. And so yes,
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We simply need to present a bad news, good news gospel,
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So in the end, the Christian hope for Pride Month
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around issues of homosexuality and transgenderism,
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they need to lay that pride at the foot of the cross.
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And so we need to be willing to walk in those steps.
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and bring back the dominating influence over the world
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What they want to do is they want to be able to sin
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where everybody can see without shame or guilt,
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without any condemnation, that's what they want.
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They want sodomy and transgenderism and perversion
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to convince your children and your family that it's normal.
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No, we need to push that back into its dark hole
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and you must submit and receive Christ as Lord.
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and how you as a Christian can really engage on this issue.
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