Self-Control

Homosexuality is not modern. It’s been around for a very long time. Some suggest that it is because of homosexuality that God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding towns. “Now the men of Sodom were wicked, great sinners against the Lord” (Genesis 13:13).

And the angels who did not stay within their own position of authority, but left their proper dwelling, [God] has kept in eternal chains under gloomy darkness until the judgment of the great day—just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desire, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire (Jude 6-7)

I know this is a volatile subject, but the only reason it is (in my opinion) is because people want to do what they want to do—and they don’t want to be told they’re wrong in wanting what they want.

·         Fat people don’t like hearing that they need to diet and exercise!

·         Lazy people don’t like hearing that they need to get off their butts and work!

·         Gossips don’t like hearing that they need to shut up!

·         Heterosexual fornicators don’t want to be told how they’re hurting people emotionally and that they need to stop “screwing around”—people continue living sexually unrestrained lives and will insist abortion is a right and don’t want to be told that murdering babies is horrific!

·         Adulterers don’t like hearing that they need to stop tearing up families and can’t marry the one they committed adultery with, thus legitimizing their behavior.

Yes, addictions are real, but too often people want to do what they know they shouldn’t because: THEY WANT TO DO IT!!!!!

Like Jeremiah’s day, the people didn’t know how to blush (Jeremiah 6:15; 8:12). This is one proof that people generally haven’t changed. In the book of Judges the conclusion is offered a few times that because there was no king, people did want they wanted no matter if it were well-pleasing to the Lord or not (Judges 17:6; 18:1; 19:1; 21:25). Their behavior made them happy, and that’s all that was needed.

The bottom line? We don’t like being told anything—which means we loathe authority. We’d rather go along the highways of life texting and drinking and speeding … and we’ll let anyone “have it” who’d actually try to stop us.

And … we don’t like self-control. We’d rather do what it is we want to do.

And THIS is the issue with regard to homosexuality. Immature thinkers don’t want to be told that they can’t do something: so they’re going to fight and scream until you leave them alone. And, yes, THIS is also the issue with regard to liars and gossips; baby murderers and whores.

Rejoice, O young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth.
Walk in the ways of your heart and the sight of your eyes.
But know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.

Ecclesiastes 11:9