Week 2

What does the Bible say about LGBTQ+?

 

If you are a follower of Christ, God’s Word should determine your stance on everything. 

 

What does God’s Word say?

 

Genesis 19:4-5

Before they had gone to bed, all the men from every part of the city of Sodom—both young and old—surrounded the house. 5 They called to Lot, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so that we can have sex with them.”
 

Genesis 19:24-25 

24 Then the Lord rained down burning sulfur on Sodom and Gomorrah—from the Lord out of the heavens. 25 Thus he overthrew those cities and the entire plain, destroying all those living in the cities—and also the vegetation in the land.

 

Jude 7 

7 In a similar way, Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding towns gave themselves up to sexual immorality and perversion. They serve as an example of those who suffer the punishment of eternal fire.

 

God destroyed Sodom & Gomorrah to show his wrath against their unrepentant sin.

 

Leviticus 18:22

Do not have sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman; that is detestable.

 

Leviticus 18 is giving the Hebrew people a moral code to live by that the earlier inhabitants of their new land (the Canaanites) did not abide by which brought about their destruction.

 

Leviticus 20:12

13 If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination;

 

Homosexuality is forbidden in God’s standard of morality for His people, the Israelites.

 

Romans 1:24-27 
24 Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, 25 because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.

 

26 For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; 27 and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.

 

These men and women refused to make God the center of their life so God gave them up to live in their wickedness, of which we see includes homosexuality.

 

1 Corinthians 6:9-11
9 Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, 10 nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. 11 And such were some of you. 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.

 

Any unrepentant sin that you are unwilling to turn from is characteristic of those who will not inherit the kingdom of God. 

 

1 Timothy 1:8-10

8 We know that the law is good if one uses it properly. 9 We also know that the law is made not for the righteous but for lawbreakers and rebels, the ungodly and sinful, the unholy and irreligious, for those who kill their fathers or mothers, for murderers, 10 for the sexually immoral, for those practicing homosexuality, for slave traders and liars and perjurers—and for whatever else is contrary to the sound doctrine.

 

The practice of homosexuality is contrary to godly behavior. 

 

Genesis 1:22-24
22 Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man. 23 The man said, “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman,’  for she was taken out of man.”

24 That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh.

Here, God institutes and defines marriage as one man and one woman. 

 

 

 

Ephesians 5:22-23
22 Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord. 23 For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church

Ephesians 5:25
25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her

Ephesians 5:31-32 
31 “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.” 32 This is a profound mystery—but I am talking about Christ and the church. 

 

Marriage is a representation of the union between Christ and the Church. The man represents Christ while the female represents the Church. Homosexuality mars the image and purpose of this union. 

 

Christ’s response to sin:

 

1 John 1:8-9

If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.

 

Romans 6:23
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

 

John 3:16-17
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

 

John 10:10

The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.