09/01/2024
Has God changed His mind about so**my and other s*xual sins?
Many Scriptures in God’s Word state so**my is an abhorring sin before His Throne in Heaven. Such is the case with S***m and Gomorrah, where the Bible records these words, “And the LORD said, Because the cry of S***m and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous,” Genesis 18:20.
How wicked were these cities? The Bible says the men of S***m wanted for Lot to send the two angels out so they could “know them”, as they said, “Where are the men which came in to thee this night? bring them out unto us, that we may know them,” Genesis 19:5.
Know in the Hebrew language means intimacy, for example the Bible says, “And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD,” Genesis 4:1.
Can you imagine the wicked men of S***m wanting to have s*x with the angels that visited Lot? The Bible says, “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.”
While I was a chaplain in prison, one of the courses I taught was “Sexual Idolatry”. In the video accompaniment series, every testimony of men that went into a homos*xual relationship stated that it started with p**n and then escalated to a homos*xual activity. Paul stated in Romans God gives you over to your sin, when you refuse to turn from it, “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: 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,” Romans 1:26 -27.
However, it does not end here. When I was a chaplain on death row, every offender I interviewed who were serial ra**st and murderers, said that it all started with p**n. Satan is a mastermind. It begins with a seed of a thought that is planted in the mind and before long, it turns into an action.
P**n is polluting our land. Men use to have to “sneak” around to watch p**n, but now it streams into their homes through the internet. Jesus said, “Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery: But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart,” Matthew 5:28-29. If you watch p**n, you are committing adultery. Your wife has every right to divorce you. Also, when men watch p**n, they view a woman as an object to be used and not who God created them to be.
The Bible states, “Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge,” Hebrews 13:4. It also states that fornication is a sin that will lead to an early death as believers in Christ, “Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body,” 1 Corinthians 6:18.
Why would God judge a believer who indulges in sin? Because a believer’s body is the temple of the Holy Ghost. It was meant to be a place of worship and when you contaminate your body with the filth of p**n, or other forms of s*xual activities outside of marriage, you have destroyed the place of worship in your life. This is why God said, “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 3:17.
This includes bringing your sin into the house of God! It is one thing to pollute your body with filth, while it is another to pollute God’s house.
There were many things in Bible that were brought under grace, as believers in Christ, but God has not changed His mind about adultery, fornication and homos*xuality. By the way, if you are indulging in one of these activities and God is not dealing with you, this simply means that you are not His child. Because, “For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth,” Hebrews 12:6. However, it also states, “But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons,” Hebrews 12:8.