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WORLDLINESSWORLDLINESSWORLDLINESSWORLDLINESS Homo: “‘The same,’ prefix commonly used to form modern words, from Gk. Homos ‘one and the same,’ also ‘belonging to two or more jointly,’ from PIE *somos (cf. Skt. Samah ‘even the same.’” Sexuality: “The state or quality of being sexual.”

Why Is Homosexuality Worldliness? Gen. 1:27-28, “So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; MALE and FEMALE created he them. 28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, BE FRUITFUL, AND MULTIPLY, AND REPLENISH THE EARTH, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.” God’s Design: A Man (Male) & A Woman (Female) The Lord’s Design Did Not Change In The New Testament Homosexual Relationships Are Unfruitful (In More Ways Than One – I Cor. 7:2) Mt. 19:4-5, “… HE WHICH MADE THEM AT THE BEGINNING made them MALE and FEMALE 5 And said, For this cause…”

Why Is Homosexuality Worldliness? Gen. 2:18-24, “And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for HIM…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 Therefore shall A MAN leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his WIFE : and THEY shall be one flesh.” God’s Design: A Man (Male) & A Woman (Female) Why Preach Against Homosexuality? Ecc. 8:11, “Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.”

Why Is Homosexuality Worldliness? Gen. 19:1-2, “And there came two angels to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom : and Lot seeing them rose up to meet them ; and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground; 2 And he said, Behold now, my lords, turn in, I pray you, into your servant’s house, and tarry all night,...” God Condemned It From The Long Ago Gen. 19:4-5, “But before they lay down, THE MEN OF THE CITY, even THE MEN OF SODOM, compassed the house round, both old and young, all the people from every quarter: 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.” Cf. II Pet. 2:7-8

Why Is Homosexuality Worldliness? Gen. 19:1-2, “And there came two angels to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom : and Lot seeing them rose up to meet them ; and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground; 2 And he said, Behold now, my lords, turn in, I pray you, into your servant’s house, and tarry all night,...” God Condemned It From The Long Ago Gen. 19:4-5, “But before they lay down, THE MEN OF THE CITY, even THE MEN OF SODOM, compassed the house round, both old and young, all the people from every quarter: 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.” Cf. II Pet. 2:6-8 II Pet. 2:6-8, “And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes CONDEMNED THEM with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly; 7 And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked: 8 (For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;)”

Why Is Homosexuality Worldliness? Cf. Jude 7, “Even as SODOM and GOMORRHA, and the cities about them in like manner, GIVING THEMSELVES OVER to FORNICATION, and GOING AFTER STRANGE FLESH, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.” God Condemned It From The Long Ago NKJV, “…having given themselves over to SEXUAL IMMORALITY and GONE AFTER STRANGE FLESH,…” NIV, “… gave themselves up to SEXUAL IMMORALITY and PERVERSION …” NASB, “… in the same way as these indulged in GROSS IMMORALITY and WENT AFTER STRANGE FLESH,…”

Why Is Homosexuality Worldliness? Lev. 18:22, “ THOU SHALT NOT LIE WITH MANKIND, AS WITH WOMANKIND : it is ABOMINATION.” NKJV, “ YOU SHALL NOT LIE WITH A MALE AS WITH A WOMAN. It is AN ABOMINATION.” NIV, “ DO NOT LIE WITH A MAN as ONE LIES WITH A WOMAN ; that is DETESTABLE.” NASB, “ YOU SHALL NOT LIE WITH A MALE as ONE LIES WITH A FEMALE ; it is AN ABOMINATION.” God Condemned It From The Long Ago

Why Is Homosexuality Worldliness? Lev. 20:13, “If A MAN also LIE WITH MANKIND, as HE LIETH WITH A WOMAN, both of them have committed AN ABOMINATION : they shall surely be put to death ; their blood shall be upon them.” NKJV, “If A MAN lies WITH A MALE as HE LIES WITH A WOMAN, both of them have committed AN ABOMINATION …” NIV, “If A MAN LIES WITH A MAN as ONE LIES WITH A WOMAN, both of them have done what is DETESTABLE...” NASB, “If [there is] A MAN WHO LIES WITH A MALE as THOSE WHO LIE WITH A WOMAN, both of them have committed A DETESTABLE ACT...” God Condemned It From The Long Ago

Why Is Homosexuality Worldliness? Deut. 23:17, “There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor A SODOMITE of THE SONS of Israel.” NKJV, “There shall be no ritual harlot of the daughters of Israel, or A PERVERTED ONE of THE SONS of Israel.” BBE, “No daughter of Israel is to let herself be used as a loose woman for a strange god, and NO SON of Israel is to GIVE HIMSELF TO A MAN.” ASB, “There shall be no prostitute of the daughters of Israel, neither shall there be A SODOMITE of THE SONS of Israel.” God Condemned It From The Long Ago

Why Is Homosexuality Worldliness? I Kings 14:22-24, “And Judah did EVIL in the sight of the LORD, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they had committed, above all that their fathers had done…24 And there were also SODOMITES IN THE LAND : and they did according to all the ABOMINATIONS of the nations which THE LORD CAST OUT before the children of Israel.” This Is Why God Has Removed Nations! What Happened To Sodom & Gomorrah? What Happened To The Benjaminites (Judges 19-20)? What Happened To Rome? What Will God Do To The U.S.A.? God Condemned It From The Long Ago

Why Is Homosexuality Worldliness? I Kings 15:11-12, “And ASA did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD, as did David his father. 12 And HE TOOK AWAY THE SODOMITES OUT OF THE LAND, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.” Since The Destruction of Sodom (Gen. 19), All Who Commit The Sin of Sodom Are Referred To As Sodomites. I Kings 22:45-46, “Now the rest of the acts of JEHOSHAPHAT, and HIS MIGHT THAT HE SHEWED,…46 And THE REMNANT OF THE SODOMITES, which remained in the days of his father Asa, HE TOOK OUT OF THE LAND.” God Condemned It From The Long Ago

Why Is Homosexuality Worldliness? II Kings 23:3-7, “And the king (Josiah, 22:1, 3) stood by a pillar, and made a covenant before the LORD, to walk after the LORD, and to keep his commandments…5 And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; them also that burned incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven…7 And he brake down the houses of THE SODOMITES, that were by the house of the LORD, where the women wove hangings for the grove.” “The Sodomites” Were Put Away By “Good” Kings! God Condemned It From The Long Ago

Why Is Homosexuality Worldliness? Rom. 1:21-32, “Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but BECAME VAIN IN THEIR IMAGINATIONS, and THEIR FOOLISH HEART WAS DARKENED. 22 Professing themselves to be WISE, they became FOOLS, 23 And CHANGED the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things. 24 Wherefore God also gave them up to UNCLEANNESS through THE LUSTS OF THEIR OWN HEARTS, to DISHONOUR their own bodies between themselves : 25 Who CHANGED the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen…” The New Testament – It Is “Against Nature”

Why Is Homosexuality Worldliness? Rom. 1:21-32 cont., “…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...31 Without understanding, covenantbreakers, WITHOUT NATURAL AFFECTION, implacable, unmerciful: 32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that THEY WHICH COMMIT SUCH THINGS ARE WORTHY OF DEATH, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.” The New Testament – It Is “Against Nature”

Why Is Homosexuality Worldliness? Rom. 1:21-32 The New Testament – It Is “Against Nature” Creatures Became God They Professed To Be Wise, But Were Foolish The Truth Became A Lie Man Became Women (Vice Versa) “Dishonoring Their Own Bodies Between Themselves” They Practiced Homosexual / Lesbian Relationships And Believed The Deluded Idea That It Was All Honoring God! It Is NOT Genetic : They “ Became Vain In Their Imaginations ” They “ Changed ” Things / “ Unto Vile Affections ”

Why Is Homosexuality Worldliness? I Tim. 1:9-10, “Knowing this, that THE LAW is NOT made for a righteous man, BUT for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers, 10 For WHOREMONGERS, for THEM THAT DEFILE THEMSELVES WITH MANKIND, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is CONTRARY to sound doctrine.” The New Testament – It Is “Against Nature” NKJV, “…for FORNICATORS, for SODOMITES …” NASB, “…and IMMORAL MEN and HOMOSEXUALS …” NIV, “…for ADULTERERS and PERVERTS …”

Why Is Homosexuality Worldliness? I Cor. 6:9-10, “Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God ? BE NOT DECEIVED : neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor EFFEMINATE, nor ABUSERS OF THEMSELVES WITH MANKIND, 10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.” The New Testament – It Is “Against Nature” BEFORE Their Conversion

Why Is Homosexuality Worldliness? NKJV, “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.” The New Testament – It Is “Against Nature” BEFORE Their Conversion

Why Is Homosexuality Worldliness? NASB, “Or do you not know that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God ? DO NOT BE DECEIVED ; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor EFFEMINATE, nor HOMOSEXUALS, 10 nor thieves, nor [the] covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, shall inherit the kingdom of God.” The New Testament – It Is “Against Nature” AFTER Their Conversion I Cor. 6:11, “And SUCH WERE some of you: but YE ARE WASHED, but YE ARE SANCTIFIED, but YE ARE JUSTIFIED in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.” BEFORE Their Conversion

Why Is Homosexuality Worldliness? II Tim. 3:12-14, “Yea, and all that will live GODLY in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution. 13 But EVIL MEN and SEDUCERS shall WAX WORSE and WORSE, DECEIVING, and BEING DECEIVED. 14 But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them.” It Is Ungodly Fifty Years Ago - Homosexuality Was Illegal! Was Marginalized! Was Not Politically Correct! However, Where Are We Today?

Why Is Homosexuality Worldliness? II Tim. 3:12-14, “Yea, and all that will live GODLY in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution. 13 But EVIL MEN and SEDUCERS shall WAX WORSE and WORSE, DECEIVING, and BEING DECEIVED. 14 But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them.” It Is Ungodly Cf. Lk. 16:8, “And the lord commended THE UNJUST STEWARD, BECAUSE HE HAD DONE WISELY : for THE CHILDREN OF THIS WORLD are in their generation WISER THAN THE CHILDREN OF LIGHT.” Why Are So Many Deceived By This Ungodliness?

Why Is Homosexuality Worldliness? II Tim. 3:12-14, “Yea, and all that will live GODLY in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution. 13 But EVIL MEN and SEDUCERS shall WAX WORSE and WORSE, DECEIVING, and BEING DECEIVED. 14 But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them.” It Is Ungodly Although This Sin Is Practiced By Relatively Few, They Are Demanding Their “Rights” And Recognition In Society! Why Are So Many Deceived By This Ungodliness?

Why Is Homosexuality Worldliness? II Tim. 3:12-14, “Yea, and all that will live GODLY in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution. 13 But EVIL MEN and SEDUCERS shall WAX WORSE and WORSE, DECEIVING, and BEING DECEIVED. 14 But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them.” It Is Ungodly To Learn That God Loves Them (I Tim. 1:15; Cf. Jn. 3:16)! To Learn That We Love & Pray For Them (I Tim. 2:1-2; Eph. 4:14-15)! To Learn & Practice The Truth That Saves (I Tim. 2:3-5)! What Are Their “Rights”?

Why Is Homosexuality Worldliness? “Psychiatrists Claim That Sexual Preference Is Genetic, And Therefore God Is Responsible For Homosexuality!” Propaganda Used To Justify Homosexuality Rom. 1:26-32, “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,… WITHOUT NATURAL AFFECTION,…32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that THEY WHICH COMMIT SUCH THINGS ARE WORTHY OF DEATH, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.”

Why Is Homosexuality Worldliness? “They Wrote The Bible Without Modern Science.” Propaganda Used To Justify Homosexuality I Tim. 6:20-21, “O Timothy, KEEP THAT which is COMMITTED TO THY TRUST, avoiding PROFANE and VAIN BABBLINGS, and OPPOSITIONS OF SCIENCE FALSELY SO CALLED : 21 Which SOME PROFESSING HAVE ERRED CONCERNING THE FAITH. Grace be with thee. Amen.” Cf. II Tim. 3:16-17 NKJV, “…avoiding THE PROFANE and IDLE BABBLINGS and CONTRADICTIONS of WHAT IS FALSELY CALLED KNOWLEDGE …”

Why Is Homosexuality Worldliness? “ Homophobia ” Propaganda Used To Discourage Its Condemnation “— n intense hatred or fear of homosexuals or homosexuality. [C20: from homo (sexual) + -phobia] ‘homophobe – n homo’phobic – adj” Mt. 22:37-39, “…39 And THE SECOND is like unto it, THOU SHALT LOVE THY NEIGHBOUR AS THYSELF.” Cf. 7:12 (Rom. 13:10) Rom. 12:9, “Let LOVE be without DISSIMULATION. Abhor that which is EVIL ; cleave to that which is GOOD.” Cf. I Jn. 4:18-19 World English Dictionary

The Good News (Mk. 16:15-16 ; Rom. 1:16-17) This Sin (Like All Sin) Can Be Overcome! (Jn. 8:31-32; Rom. 6:16-18; I Cor. 10:13; Phil. 4:13) The Corinthians Overcame It (I Cor. 6:9-11) Rom. 12:1-2, “I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that YE PRESENT YOUR BODIES A LIVING SACRIFICE, HOLY, ACCEPTABLE UNTO GOD, which is your reasonable service. 2 And BE NOT CONFORMED TO THIS WORLD : but BE YE TRANSFORMED BY THE RENEWING OF YOUR MIND, that ye may PROVE what is that GOOD, and ACCEPTABLE, and PERFECT, WILL OF GOD.” All Sin Requires Repentance (Acts 17:30-31; II Pet. 3:9)!