Objections to Sexual Identity, Part 3

The point: Prepare your hearts for worship by quieting yourselves before God and allowing glorious truths to seep into your souls.

Describes the practical challenges faced by parents with young children (changing diapers, feeding) during the break, illustrating the need for the half-hour interval.

Number one, the growing child population, the baby boom, which is just one continuous boom, boom, boom around here. And a number of you have many domestic concerns that you have to take care of, all the way from changing diapers, depositing children, cramming a banana down their throat. And it's very interesting. If you've never walked down the rear hallway of the Phase II auditorium between Sunday school and church, do it sometime.

1:49 - 2:18 Read in full sermon

The point: Be prepared to respond biblically to friends and acquaintances who advocate for individual liberty in sexual identity and roles, especially concerning motherhood and family structure.

Compares the modern concept of motherhood, where women quickly return to work after childbirth, to a cow dropping its calf and returning to its business, highlighting the perceived crassness and unnaturalness of prioritizing career over child-rearing.

Go back into the workforce, even though she has little children. She says, the state is obligated to provide for the care of my children and not stand in my way of my full development of my personhood. And, dear people, that's the driving force behind the whole daycare movement. That's the driving force to get away from the so-called nuclear family and to leave it such that any woman can, just like a cow drops her calf, and soon can go about her business, as long as somebody has a pail with a false, and I've seen the calves sucking at those rubber teats from a pail, and then the cow can go bac...

25:44 - 26:51 Read in full sermon

In this part of the sermon: Martin expounds Romans 1:18-32, demonstrating that God's general revelation in creation clearly teaches fixed lines of human sexual identity and function. He argues that rejecting…

Describes observing house wrens fiercely protecting their young in a nest, even chirping defiantly at humans. This illustrates the natural affection and instinct for parental care that God has embedded even in animals, contrasting it with the 'without natural affection' mentioned in Romans 1:30.

apparent natural affection, unmerciful. And when you think of the unnaturalness of killing, of killing the fruit of one's womb in the womb, into the jaw of the room, and we love, bend over, you don't see them in eating them. We know certain animals have an instinct to eat their young in points of danger. I know that. But in this analogy, to see them sitting there, and then when they hatch, all day long, papa fluttering in and out, and I tell you it's comical, because when we go over and try to sneak up and look out the window, we see their eyes, as it were, you can almost read the defiance, as...

38:59 - 40:20 Read in full sermon

Driving home: It says in Judges 21-25 every man did that which was right in his own eyes. And you read the book of Judges and it's horrible.

Illustrates the breakdown of society if individual liberty were applied to objective standards like gas measurements or apple weights. This shows that common agreement on fundamental standards is necessary for society to function, extending the argument to moral and ethical realms.

In 2 Timothy 3 1 and following 2 Peter 2 10 and following Jude verse 7 and following you read what happens when men begin to live. What would happen next week if you went to fill up your tank with gas and you said 10 gallons please and your needle was on empty and after the man said 10 gallons in charge and you saw it only moved about a 16th of an inch off empty and you had your gauge checked out and it was fine and you find out the guy only put in a gallon and you went back and said hey I asked for 10 gallons and he said well you know I just was feeling kind of bound by this notion that a gal...

52:59 - 54:04 Read in full sermon