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How do I find and hold How do I find and hold How do I find and hold How do I find and hold a biblical conviction? a biblical conviction? a biblical conviction? a biblical conviction?

Romans 1

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1. …about homosexuality and why?

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• One man, one woman, one flesh is

1. …about homosexuality and why?

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Genesis 1:27–28 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule

• ver the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over

every living creature that moves on the ground.”

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Genesis 2:18-24 The LORD God said, “It is not good for the man to be

• alone. I will make a helper suitable for him…”

So the LORD God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man’s ribs and closed up the place with flesh… For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.

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Matthew 19:4–6 “Haven’t you read,” he replied, “that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’ and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’? So they are no longer two, but one. Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate.”

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• One man, one woman, one flesh is
• Sex outside God’s design

and

1. …about homosexuality and why?

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Leviticus 18:22 Do not lie with a man as one lies with a woman; that is detestable.

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Romans 1:25 They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.

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Romans 1:26–27 Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.

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1 Corinthians 6:9–11 Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.

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1 Corinthians 6:9–11 And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

• One man, one woman, one flesh is
• Sex outside God’s design

and

• We must interpret

by Scripture

1. …about homosexuality and why?

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“I think it important to state clearly that we do, in fact, reject the straightforward commands of Scripture, and appeal to another authority… We appeal explicitly to the weight of our own experience and the experience thousands of others have witnessed to…to accept the way in which God has created us.”

• Timothy Luke Johnson

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• 2. …to those who struggle with same-sex attraction?

• Your feelings do not

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• 2. …to those who struggle with same-sex attraction?

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Colossians 3:1–4 Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things above, not

• n earthly things. For you died, and your life is now

hidden with Christ in God. When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.

“My primary identity didn’t have to be defined by my feelings or sexual attractions. My identity was not ‘gay’ or ‘homosexual,’ or even ‘heterosexual, ’ for that matter.” But my identity as a child

• f the living God must be in Jesus

Christ alone.”

• Christopher Yuan

“I had always thought the

• pposite of homosexuality was
• heterosexuality. But actually, the
• pposite of homosexuality is
• holiness. God never said,

‘Be heterosexual, for I am heterosexual.’ He said, ‘Be holy, for I am holy.’”

• Christopher Yuan

• Your feelings do not
• Your desires need not

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• 2. …to those who struggle with same-sex attraction?

“Every Christian wrestles with thoughts we can’t quite understand and feelings we never

• wanted. This is not a homosexual

problem, this is a human problem.”

• Kevin DeYoung

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Genesis 4:7 “If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must master it.”

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Galatians 5:16–18 So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the sinful nature. For the sinful nature desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the sinful nature. They are in conflict with each other, so that you do not do what you want. But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under law…Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit.

“Choosing Jesus didn’t answer all my questions. In particular, how would I deal with my natural, unshakable attraction to women? I knew the Bible was clear: What I wanted was off-limits. But I didn’t understand why. How could love, intimacy and companionship be forbidden by this loving, intimate and companion-seeking God? Thus I had to learn my first lesson of the Christian life: how to

• bey before I understood.”
• Rachel Gilson

• Your feelings do not
• Your desires need not
• Obedience precedes

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• 2. …to those who struggle with same-sex attraction?

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Romans 1:5 Through [Jesus Christ our Lord] and for his name’s sake, we received grace and apostleship to call people from among all the Gentiles to the obedience that comes from faith.

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• 3. …to those who do not struggle with it?

• Deal with

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• 3. …to those who do not struggle with it?

Romans 2:1 …you are condemning yourself, because you who pass judgment do the same things.

“Something else happened. Ken and his wife, Floy, and I became friends. They entered my world. They met my friends…When we ate together, Ken prayed in a way I had never heard before. His prayers were

• intimate. Vulnerable. He repented of his sin in front
• f me. He thanked God for all things. Ken's God was

holy and firm, yet full of mercy. And because Ken and Floy did not invite me to church, I knew it was safe to be friends.”

• Rosaria Butterfield

• Deal with
• Talk and pray

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• 3. …to those who do not struggle with it?

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2 Timothy 2:23–26 And the Lord’s servant must not quarrel; instead, he must be kind to everyone, able to teach, not resentful. Those who oppose him he must gently instruct, in the hope that God will grant them repentance leading them to a knowledge of the truth, and that they will come to their senses and escape from the trap of the devil, who has taken them captive to do his will.

• Deal with
• Talk and pray
• Love for the

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• 3. …to those who do not struggle with it?