By Ron Halbrook

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Introduction 2. God gives life clarity, sin brings darkness Selfish, stubborn men question God & Bible Impact on morals: fornication, adultery, incest, polygamy, & homosexual sin 4

Introduction 3. Darkness falling on gender identity & roles British Children’s Commission survey for ages offers 25 gender identities such as gender fluid, demi-girl, & tri-gender (Daily Mail, ) 5

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Introduction 3. Darkness falling on gender identity & roles “Here’s a List of 58 Gender Options for Facebook Users” (CBS News, ) 7

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9 = Accepting one’s biological sex

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Introduction 3. Darkness falling on gender identity & roles New bathroom signs reflect confusion 12

Introduction 4. God’s Word on gender identity & roles God made gender with a purpose Defying gender roles defies God’s purpose The gospel reinforces true gender roles Gender perversion is moral perversion 13

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17 26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

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19 29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat. 30 And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so. 31 And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

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22 18 And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him. 19 And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof. 20 And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him.NEEDUNIQUE COMPANION

23 21 And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; 22 And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man. 23 And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.

24 24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. 25 And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.

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27 6 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.

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29 14 And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life: 15 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

30 16 Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.

31 17 And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; 18 Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field; 19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

32 5 And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men which came in to thee this night? bring them out unto us, that we may know them.

33 24 Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven; 25 And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.

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35 22 Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination. 23 Neither shalt thou lie with any beast to defile thyself therewith: neither shall any woman stand before a beast to lie down thereto: it is confusion. 24 Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you: 25 And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants.

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37 5 The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the LORD thy God.

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39 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.

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41 26 For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus. 27 For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. 28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.

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44 22 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. 23 For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.

III. The Gospel Reinforces True Gender Roles B. Gender Roles Serve God’s Purpose in the Home Child blessed by father’s leadership & mother’s tenderness 45

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48 13 For Adam was first formed, then Eve. 14 And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression. 15 Notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety.

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52 1 The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.

53 16 They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.

IV. Gender Perversion Is Moral Perversion A. Men Defy the Truth about God Claim God made them deviant & accepts it  God does not make men alcoholics, adulterers, or sexual deviants— they choose to sin (Ja. 1:13-15) 54

IV. Gender Perversion Is Moral Perversion A. Men Defy the Truth about God Claim God made them deviant & accepts it  Birth defects: hermaphrodite or intersex— born with characteristics of both sexes but only one reproductive capacity— solved by surgery & counseling 55

IV. Gender Perversion Is Moral Perversion A. Men Defy the Truth about God Claim God made them deviant & accepts it  Emotional imbalance: gender dysphoria or gender identity disorder—identify oneself with sex opposite to birth & anatomy— solved by counseling 56

57 2 By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments.

IV. Gender Perversion Is Moral Perversion B. Men Pervert the Truth about Love Claim freedom to love anyone  Can love anyone as a friend: not the same as sexual love in marriage  Can love animals: perversion to marry them like Barbarella Buchner (DailyMail.com ) 58

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IV. Gender Perversion Is Moral Perversion B. Men Pervert the Truth about Love Claim freedom to love anyone  Can love bridges: perversion to marry them like Jodi Rose (Huffington Post Weird News ) 60

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IV. Gender Perversion Is Moral Perversion C. Some Go from Gender to Species Perversion Norwegian lady Nano Er Katt “claims she was ‘born in the wrong species’… she is cat trapped in a human’s body” (New York Daily News ) 62

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Invitation 2. Darkness falling on gender identity & roles 3. God’s Word on gender identity & roles God made gender with a purpose Defying gender roles defies God’s purpose The gospel reinforces true gender roles Gender perversion is moral perversion 65

66 16 And now why tarriest thou? arise, and be baptized, and wash away thy sins, calling on the name of the Lord.