Sin of Sexual Perversion

Driving home: righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people.

The analogy of a mountain range with foothills, major peaks, and high peaks is used to categorize national sins, with sexual perversion being one of the highest peaks of 'putrid moral degeneration.'

And that justification resides basically in what we would call a biblical theology of God's relationship to the nations. And then last evening I suggested that if there is any text in all of scripture which constitutes the essence of the word of God to our nation at this time, it is that text found in Proverbs 14 and verse 34 in which the writer of the Proverbs declares, righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people. And having looked briefly at the meaning of those words, I deduced this principle, that if sin is a reproach to any people, then surely the word of God to our...

2:02 - 3:30 Read in full sermon

In this part of the sermon: He turns to Genesis 18-19, highlighting that the 'cry' of Sodom and Gomorrah's sin was so grievous it brought God down to judge. Martin refutes interpretations that minimize the…

The vivid imagery of Abel's innocent blood turning into an eloquent voice crying to God is used to show how certain sins pierce God's ear and provoke His judgment.

of this subject of innocent blood and how it affects God that God used for the first time in His Word the vivid imagery of the innocent blood of Abel turning into an eloquent voice which cried to God Himself. In Genesis chapter 4, God said to Cain, Your brother's blood cries unto me from the ground. As we read on in the book of Genesis, we read the tragic account of the degeneracy of the human race. The degeneracy that reaches the place recorded in Genesis 6 where God says, I am grieved that I ever made man. And God commits Himself to blot out the entire existing human race with the exception ...

7:36 - 8:57 Read in full sermon

Driving home: That which caused almighty God to bring down fire and brimstone, and literally to rain hell out of heaven upon the sins of the blames, was this unashamed, this unrestrained, this unembarrassed abandonment to sensuality a…

The figurative language of God 'coming down to see' the sin of Sodom is explained as God accommodating Himself to human understanding, despite His omniscience, to communicate the reality of His response to grievous sin.

And because their sin is very grievous, I will go down now and see whether they have done altogether according to, and this word is the same root word in the Hebrew as we have in Genesis 4, according to the cry of it which is come unto me. And if not, then do not. I will know. Here Jehovah informs Abraham that a cry has once more reached his ear. And it is this cry that has brought God down from heaven in the person of the angel of Jehovah. Jehovah Himself to see if indeed the cry accords with reality. Now granted all of this is figurative language. sense that god doesn't need to come down to ...

10:17 - 11:41 Read in full sermon

Driving home: When people give themselves to homosexuality. The passage says the land becomes defiled. The nation becomes defiled. And like a rat, God will have feathered to tickle the throat of this nation until it vomits out the inh…

The graphic language of God using Israel's conquest as a 'feather in God's hand to tickle the throat of the land of Canaan, that it might wretch and vomit out the inhabitants' is used to illustrate the severity of God's judgment on nations defiled by sexual sin.

And when they defied that law of their own institution, God uses graphic language. He says that Israel's conquest of the land. The land of Canaan was but the feather in God's hand to tickle the throat of the land of Canaan, that it might wretch and vomit out the inhabitants of the land. That's the gross, sickening language of Jehovah.

28:25 - 29:01 Read in full sermon

Driving home: i say my dear fellow believers our nation has a whore's forehead and we've lost the ability to be ashamed and the testimony of the word of god from genesis clean through into this passage and on into the epistles is that…

The prophet Jeremiah's imagery of a 'whore's forehead' that refuses to be ashamed is used to describe the nation's loss of natural shame regarding sexual sin, comparing it to a prostitute openly parading her sexuality.

they were not ashamed god says thou hast a whore's forehead thou refuses to be ashamed what is it like when a woman takes her most noble faculty of sexuality and dares to parade it and sell it on 40 seconds you in new york city something has died in that poor soul of native natural shame surely if she's going to do that she'll do it in the dead of night she'll do it in the shades and shadows not in broad daylight before the rude stare of who can look upon her when a woman has come to that place god says she has a whore's forehead that refuses to be ashamed and i i i say my dear fellow believer...

39:08 - 40:29 Read in full sermon

In this part of the sermon: He provides contemporary examples of the nation's unrestrained and unashamed abandonment to sensuality, from advocating incest to the widespread acceptance and propagation of…

The example of preachers rationalizing their initial contact with pornography by claiming they needed to 'know what it is' to denounce it, illustrating how even spiritual leaders can fall into temptation.

At first, you just came to the edge of it to look in out of innocent curiosity, you called it. Some of you who are preachers, you began to look into it under the guise, how can I denounce it if I don't know what it is? That was your first contact with pornographic movies. Your first contact with pornographic literature.

47:15 - 47:38 Read in full sermon

In this part of the sermon: He provides contemporary examples of the nation's unrestrained and unashamed abandonment to sensuality, from advocating incest to the widespread acceptance and propagation of…

Sexual perversion is described as 'chains' that bind individuals, comparable to heroin and alcohol addiction, to emphasize the powerful grip of these sins.

and pay your three bucks used to it at the con. or five bucks whatever it costs you're constantly looking this way and that way when you go to that haunt where you look at your girly magazines you're constantly living that fearful frightening experience of wondering who's going to see me when will the lid be blown off perhaps i'm talking to teenagers who have been sucked into the idea that well it's all right to fool around with girls if you're a girl as well as you still have an interest in boys and vice versa am i speaking to boys and girls and men and women who now sitting here tonight know...

48:10 - 49:33 Read in full sermon

The point: Determine by the grace of God to be a Daniel, not defiling yourself with the sins of your companions, and pray for your teenage friends caught in sin.

Martin recounts his childhood memories during WWII, including his sister's fear of being bombed after Pearl Harbor, to illustrate a past national crisis and God's deliverance, contrasting it with the current moral crisis.

And some of you children don't know what this is like. I lived during the Second World War. I was old enough to read the papers. We used to sit about the table and wonder, will God allow the Japanese to come to the West Coast?

64:26 - 64:41 Read in full sermon