July 21, 2009 God Sets the Rules
God condemns and punishes those who violate the sanctity of the human body, which is the Temple of the Holy Spirit (see passages below). However, God never killed a man or a woman for having a legitimate (sanctioned by holy matrimony) heterosexual relationship, but He has wiped out entire communities (including the children) for the homosexual activities of the adults. The men of Sodom sought homosexual relations with Lot's guest (Ge. 19:4-5) and God destroyed the entire region, because the entire region had forsaken God's plan for intimacy. I guess God would be charged with a hate crime in our sick society today. God has given us laws and the devil is corrupting them.
Christians Are Compassionate
Just as we are to be compassionate to the adulterer and offer him salvation through Christ, we are to have compassion for the homosexual and offer him salvation through Christ. We do not have the right to put approval on promiscuous heterosexual relations nor homosexual relations, since God has set the rules for sexual behavior.
Our Body Is Temple Of Holy Spirit
1 Corinthians 3:16-17
(16) Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
(17) If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.
1 Corinthians 6:18-20
(18) Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
(19) What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
(20) For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.
God Condemns Homosexuality
Romans 1:26-27
(26) For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
(27) And likewise also the 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.
Leviticus 18:22
(22) Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.
Upward and Onward in Christ,
Pastor David L. Gould
