Sin of Sexual Perversion

Introduction: God's Word to Our Nation and the Mountain of Sin

0:01 Our study in the word of God this evening will be in reality a further continuation of that word which we began to consider on the first evening of our conference, God's word to our nation. And I wish publicly to express to Pastor Lutz and the men who with him are responsible for ordering the life of this conference, including its ministries, for their willingness to accede to my request that I be given liberty to carry on this theme. It was not my original intention. It was not even the intention when I asked leave to extend that ministry for one night to think that in all likelihood this theme will carry through with us to the final evening of my part in the conference. It is a wonderful thing to know that the Spirit of God, who is the God of order, is also the God who at times works in ways that we cannot predict. And I am confident, as much as I can be without any claims to direct revelation or to having heard a voice from an angel,

1:24 that God has indeed guided us in this mutual decision to consider together in these evenings this one great day of our life. It is a great burden from the scriptures, God's word to our nation. In our previous studies, I have sought to set the subject in a biblical context, disclaiming any direct revelation from God, disclaiming any direct equation between Israel and the church, and then setting before you from the scriptures a justification for taking up such a theme. Amen.

2:02 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 nation at this time is a word on the one hand of scathing rebuke and denunciation, for our national sins, and a summons, a regal call to repentance and reformation on the other hand. And then as we began to open up this theme, I sought to use the analogy of a mountain range with its foothills, its main major peaks, and then those high mountain peaks that jut up above the others.

3:30 And any sin has nature. It is a mountain range. And it is my concern and burden to address the word of God to those great high peak sins of our nation, which I suggested can be ranged under two very simple headings, our sins of putrid moral degeneration and our sins of horrible religious apostasy. And under that first heading last night, we had only time to do so, time to direct your attention to the first aspect of our putrid sins of moral degeneracy namely the unrequited blood of the murdered multitudes and i've been encouraged with the number of you who have come to me and express that perhaps for the first time you have seen from the word of God and its cumulative testimony how indeed our nation is guilty of blood and how the unrequited blood of the multitudes of the murdered literally cries to heaven pierces through to the ear of God upon the throne of God that that blood may be requited even with the proper

The Second Peak: Unrestrained Sensuality and Sexual Perversion

4:55 just taking of the law of God life of murderers or by the direct judgment of Almighty God. Tonight I want to look at the second aspect of this great first mountain of our sins of putrid moral degeneracy, namely our unrestrained and unashamed abandonment to sensuality and sexual perversion. Along with the unrequited blood of the multitudes of the murdered, I submit to you that a sensitivity to biblical teaching leads to this conclusion that another of our greatest national sins is to be putrid. It is our unrestrained and unashamed abandonment to sensuality and to sexual perversion. There are many in our day who say something like this. If there is indeed a God, and if that God does indeed take any cognizance of the affairs of men upon the face of the earth, then should he not take any cognizance of the affairs of men upon the face of the earth?

6:16 Then should he not take any cognizance of the affairs of men upon the face of the earth? Surely that God is concerned with larger issues than what goes on in people's bedrooms, what goes on in the furtive meetings of individuals in motel rooms. If there is a God, and if he is aware of what goes on, and if he is concerned, surely he is concerned with larger issues than someone's sexual preferences and sexual preferences. Well, is that so? Is that perspective in any way reflective of the teaching of the Word of God? What I want to attempt to prove to you tonight from Scripture is this, that when any city, any nation, any large segment of humanity abandons itself with shamelessness to sensuality and sexual perversion, that city, those cities, that nation, those groups of people call down upon themselves the frightening judgment of Almighty God. We saw in our study

Sodom and Gomorrah: A Cry to Heaven

7:36 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 of the family of Noah. But in all of the record of all of the degeneracy which brought about the universal flood, which blotted out the entire race, the language of sin crying to heaven is never once used. For the next time it occurs, it occurs in

8:57 Genesis chapter 18. And I want you to turn to that passage with me. What is it that once again constitutes a voice that pierces the ear of God upon His throne and brings God down out of heaven? In order to deal with the occasion of that cry. In Genesis chapter 18, the answer is given to us in very clear language. Three angels have visited Abraham, the father of the faithful. By a careful reading of the entire 18th chapter of Genesis, it becomes clear that one of those angels is the angel of Jehovah. That is, Jehovah Himself is the one who comes in visible form and appearance. He receives the worship of Abraham. He speaks

9:56 in the first person in the name of Jehovah. And as He speaks to Abraham, He says these words. Genesis 18 and verse 20. And Jehovah said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great.

10:17 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 see he fills heaven and earth god is omniscient he knows all things concerning all there is to know at one given point in time and yet to speak to us and to communicate the realities in a manner that we can understand and grasp god accommodates

11:41 himself to us and says to abraham abraham i have heard a cry from my throne in heaven the cry has come up from the cities of the plains sodom and gomorrah and abraham i am now come down to see if indeed the facts of the case accord with the measure of this cry the cry is great it is a grievous cry of grievous sin but i will come and establish by my own visible presence whether or not the cry accords with reality then we read on into chapter 19 of the experience of the angels as they come chapter 19 and the two angels came to sodom and eve and lot sat in the gate of sodom and lot saw them and rose up to meet them and he bowed himself down with his face to the earth and he said behold now my lords turn aside i pray you into your servant's house and tarry all night and wash your feet and you shall rise up early and go on your way and they said no but we will abide in the street all night and he urged them greatly

13:03 and they turned in unto him and entered into his house and he made them a feast and did bake on bread and they did eat but before they lay down the men of the city even the men of sodom compassed the house round both young and old all the people from every quarter and they called unto lot and said unto him where are the men that came unto you this night bring them out unto us that we may know them and that knowing was not the knowledge of social introduction it was an appeal that they might have these men to enter into illicit abominable homosexual practices with them how do we know that read on in the subsequent context and lot went out unto them to the door and shut the door after him and said i pray you my brethren do not so wickedly what they desired was wickedness and the precise nature is indicated in verse eight behold now i have two daughters that have not known man they are virgins they have never entered into sexual intimacy let me i pray you bring them out unto you and do to them as is good in your eyes only

14:31 unto these men do nothing then we read the sad history of the resolute determination of these men inflamed with their aggressive beastly lust they are not satisfied to take even these two virgins and to abuse them and make them their playthings for the night and they would have fame laid hands upon these two visitors forcefully had not the angels struck them with blindness then you know the subsequent history how god forcefully removes lot and is sadly from the would cities and after he reiterates they dispersed their team for we will destroy his place because the cried over them this works great people the lord and long hard sehen just sculpted scissors maybe not additions something he had never done before the human history abdominali really rained hell along from heading it's only it's just a moment để and destroyed the cities of the plains. Now, what was the most aggravated sin of Sodom and Gomorrah? There are some clever manipulators of the Bible who say,

15:52 well, if you think it was abandonment to sensuality and sexual perversion, you're all wrong. And then they quote in a cavalier way the remark of the prophet Ezekiel in chapter 16, verses 46 and 48, in which certain other of the sins of Sodom are underscored in another context, pride and fullness of bread and indifference to the needy. And then they proceed to say that these were the great sins, inhospitableness, not homosexuality. My friends, that is a perversion of the word of God, for when we turn to the inspired comment, upon this incident in the book of Jude, it is very clear what the crowning sin of Sodom was, according to the inspired penman of the New Testament. For here we read in the book of Jude and verse 7, Even as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities about them, having in like manner with these given themselves over to fornication, and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire.

17:20 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 and to sexual perversion. The cities of the plains had come through the various stages of this abandonment and this commitment to perversion. They had passed through the stage in which these sins were merely tolerated, while it was known that they were, to use contemporary jargon, carried on in the closet. And from the state of toleration, they had become an acceptable form of behavior. And it's at the point that they become an acceptable form of behavior, that they become a contagious form of behavior. For on that evening, it was not only men, but it says men and boys.

18:35 And not just from one pocket of the city, not just from the Greenwich village, not just from the pockets of the cities of our nations, where the perverts are known to congregate, from every single quarter of the city. From toleration, to acceptance, to militant, aggressive propagation of their perverted lifestyle, until, until they were now so evangelistic about it, they would impose it upon two wayfaring men. And when the sin reached that point, God says, enough. The cry that has come to heaven is indeed worthy of my response in frightening judgment. And so God performs this strange act of judgment, and rains down what in scripture, is used as the very symbol of eternal fire. Hell is described as the lake of fire and of brimstone, and God rains hell out of heaven upon the cities of the plains, to make it manifest to all mankind from that point onward, the holy hatred of his soul,

20:03 to this kind of abandonment to sensuality, and to sexual perversion. Now you may ask the question, why is this so, Pastor Martin? Well, you remember yesterday when we asked the question, why does God hate innocent blood? The answer was found in the language of Genesis 1, for in the image of God made he him.

The Theological Ground: The Image of God

20:32 Well, this is the same answer to this question. Why is there that in God? Which is so violently provoked in his holy nature, when there is this abandonment to sensuality, and in particular to perversion, in which sexual distinctions are blurred, and ignored, and blatantly rejected, in the most intimate expression of that sexual distinction, namely, sexual intimacy. Well, the doctrine of the Bible, or the doctrine of the image of God, is again the answer.

21:10 For when we read in Genesis chapter 1, that God said, let us make man in our image. In our image let us make man. Do you remember what the scripture says? In the image of God created he him.

21:29 Male and female created he them. Mankind created in the image of God is created male and female. And in a way that I confess, I am not prepared to expound. This much is true.

21:51 There is something in the distinctiveness of maleness and femaleness, masculinity and femininity, that answers to that which is in God, himself. He is one God. We believe in the great truth. There is but one true and living God.

22:14 And yet, our Bibles teach us, within that one God, there is Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, so that the Spirit can commune with Father and Son, and Son with Spirit and Father, and Father with Spirit and Son. One God. And yet, within the one there is three. And in a way that I would not dare attempt to unravel with precision, surely there is something of this perspective in God making man in his image male and female, so that anything that obliterates that distinction, and in particular, that which obliterates it at its citadel, the sexual union, is defunct to mighty God. It is in a sense an attempt to march up to the throne of God and re-dictate the very structure of man creating, God creating man in his own image. This holy antipathy of God to sexual perversion and to licentiousness again, is picked up and expanded and underscored

Mosaic Law: Abominations that Defile the Land

23:41 in the Mosaic legislation. And I ask you to turn now to Leviticus 18 as a specimen passage. Leviticus chapter 18. The great concern of God is articulated in verse 2.

24:05 Speak unto the children of Israel and say unto them, I am the Lord your God. After the doings of the land of Egypt wherein you dwelt, you shall not do. And after the doings of the land of Canaan where I bring you, you shall not do. Neither shall you walk in their statutes.

24:37 And then in verses 6 through 18, God gives specific directions that all fall within the realm of laws against incest. Laws against certain marriages within certain blood relationships. Laws against incest verses 6 through 18. Verse 19, God gives a prohibition of what we would call an unnatural sexual activity.

25:16 Verse 20, He speaks against adultery. Verse 21, He speaks against the sin of offering up children to heathen idols as blood and burnt sacrifices. And then in verse 22, notice the clear prohibition. You shall not lie with mankind as with womankind.

25:44 It is an abomination. Thou shalt not lie with any beast to defile thyself therewith. Neither shall any woman stand before a beast to lie down thereto. It is confusion.

26:00 God is very explicit in prohibiting all forms of sexual perversion, all forms of sensuality, all forms of adopting the policy of theérie. But He says, I shall not lie to you and to you as to that which is not a sin. He says, You have not been anointed as a beast. Now, He says, I shall not lie to you and to you as to what I will do.

26:32 But why is it that you are not anointed as a beast? Why do I not obey? Why do I not obey? You know, I have a desire to be anointed as a beast.

26:43 Well, God gives the reason in the following verses, and I ask you to follow again as I read verse 24. Defile not yourselves in any of these things, for in all these things the nations are defiled, which I cast out from before you. And the land is defiled, therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land vomits out her inhabitants. You therefore shall keep my statutes and my ordinances, and shall not do any of these abominations, neither the home-born nor the stranger who sojourns among you. For all these abominations have the men of the land done that were before. And the land is defiled, that the land vomit not you out also when you defile it, as it vomited out the nation that was before you. Oh, dear people, hear the word of God.

27:59 The nations in the land of Canaan were pagan, non-covenanted nations. The law they had. That was the law inscribed upon their moral consciousness as creatures made in the image of God. And yet from that law they were to know that these activities were sin.

28:25 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.

29:01 The lands of Canaan, the nations of Canaan, that's the language of the passage, had become defiled. And polluted for these things. National sins that provoked God to bring national judgments. As then, so it is now.

29:30 Even though our nation has the light of special revelation in the possession of the word of God. And in the preaching of that word. Even if we did not have the light of special revelation. When a nation gives itself to the kind of sexual perversion, the kind of sensuality forbidden in this chapter, adultery, indifference to proper laws concerning incest, insensitivity to the sanctity of the one-to-one marriage sanctuary of a husband and a wife.

30:10 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 inhabitants of this land.

30:36 Whether he causes us to be vomited into a grave of atomic dust. Whether he causes us to be vomited into a grave of atomic dust. Whether he causes us to be vomited into the hand of a foreign totalitarian power. Whether he causes us to be vomited out into the disruption and disintegration of civil and racial war.

31:02 I do not know. I am no prophet. But I am a preacher of this book. And this book says these sins defile the land.

31:16 And this book says these sins defile the land. And this book says these sins defile the land. And this book says these sins defile the land. And this book says these sins defile the land.

31:22 And this book says these sins defile the land. And this book says these sins defile the land. And this book says these sins defile the land. And this book says these sins defile the land.

31:24 And this book says these sins defile the land. And this book says these sins defile the land. And this book says these sins defile the land. And this book says these sins defile the land.

Romans 1: God Gives Them Up to Vile Passions

31:28 And this book says these sins defile the land. And this book says these sins defile the land. And this book says these sins defile the land. And this book says these sins defile the land.

31:30 And this book says these sins defile the land. And this book says these sins defile the land. And this book says these sins defile the land. Legislation is being pushed through to give open, self-confessed, practicing homosexuals full acceptance at every level of social, economic, educational life, and even religious life.

31:55 So the great debate in many denominations centers around the ordination of homosexuals. And already in some places we have proceeded beyond mere toleration and mere acceptance to aggressive propagation and forced seduction. How long will it be before the feather tears? Touches the front of this nation. Add to the testimony of Genesis 18 and 19, the testimony of Leviticus chapter 18, the clear teaching of Romans chapter 1. We move out of the Old Testament into the New. The great theme of this epistle is the exposition of the gospel, which is the power of God unto salvation.

33:11 A gospel which sets forth a righteousness of God to be received by faith. But the dark backdrop of that righteousness of God is the filth and the unrighteousness of man. And most of you, I'm sure, are familiar with the basic thread of argument in Romans chapter 1. Beginning with verse 18, the apostle declares that the wrath of God is, present tense, there is a coming wrath. He talks about it in chapter 2. There is a coming day of wrath, but there is a present manifestation of divine wrath.

33:51 The wrath of God is revealed from heaven, and it's revealed against all ungodliness, and that which inevitably follows from ungodliness, all unrighteousness of men who hinder the truth in unrighteousness. And then he goes on to declare in this context, The situation in which men had only the light of general revelation, what they could know of God by looking at his handiwork, the heavens which declare his glory, and the firmament which shows his handiwork, day unto day under speech, and night unto night shows forth knowledge. And what has man done with that revelation God has made of himself? Paul says he has turned away from it, and he has turned instead to silliness. He has turned to the idols and beasts, and as a result of it God has acted in judgment. Verse 24, Wherefore God gave them up, now notice, God gave them up in the lusts of their heart unto uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves.

35:07 For that they exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshipped instead of God. serve the creature more than the creator who is blessed forever amen for this cause god gave them marvelous insights with respect to total sexual liberation that's what we're being told our day has received we are that has chased away the dark shadows of the terrible mentality with regard to sex we've received the light of true benevolence and compassion that invites all of the perverts to come out of the closets and to declare an alternate lifestyle and we are told even in evangelical circles by certain so-called evangelical leaders such as mollencott and hardesty and her ilk it is a matter of recognize heart

36:24 homosexuality, whether between men or women, as a fiery style, because we have now got to see that all of this homophobia is for the darkness of our past perspectives and influences. Is that what the word of God says? Look at the language. For this cause God gave them up unto fire, for their women changed the natural use into that which is against nature, and likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned their lust one toward another, men with men, working unseemliness and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was due.

37:28 Where is the God of the world? Where is the God of the world? Where is the God of the world? Where is the God of the world? Where is the God of the world? Where is the God of the world? Where is the God of the world? Where is the God of the world? Where is the God of the world? Where is the God of the world? Where is the God of the world? Where is the God of the world? Where is the God of the world? Where is the Ives Problem coming from? This text has the answer. Where is that new strain of venereal disease coming from?

37:40 Romans 1 and Verse 27, melts these words of Jesus, receiving, that is due is already tragedy is, Verse 32 says they know, such conduct deserves the Judgement of God. Who ? The Judgment of God. And this is why I use the word cheap, pejorative way of speaking shameless not only practice the same and without disdain in other words when perversity becomes shameless that's the height of degeneracy and you find this theme though time will not permit us to trace it out you find it in the prophets particularly with jeremiah one sample is jeremiah 6 15 and the prophet says were they at all ashamed when they committed abomination nay

39:08 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 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 for these things the wrath of god comes upon the sons of disobedience

The Shamelessness of Our Nation's Perversion

40:29 and surely then god's word to our nation is this sin is a reproach to any people and not only is the sin of the unrequited blood of the multitudes of the slain our national reproach but this unashamed this abandonment to sensuality and perversion is our national sin and ought to be our national shame and brings us as a nation to the very brink of even further judgments from the Almighty. I will not pollute your ears by speaking in great detail of the clear indications that we have come to this position of unrestrained and unashamed abandonment to sensuality and perversion. Suffice but a few clear examples. When men who are supposedly intelligent, trained in our so-called best universities, can write and have published books advocating constructive incest, and when they are given prime time

41:53 to sit on national talk shows to give a justification for their book and a polemic for the possibility that a from the joy of the world. They say our sin is a national sin for which we must hang our heads and blush. When perverts lose all shame and brag that this is come-out-of-the-closet time, and not

42:49 only openly identify themselves by name, but gather together in groups and in causes and march through our streets. No longer do we have the power to judge. No longer any sense of shame for their perversion. I say, dear people, we must hang our heads and blush.

43:14 Don't let the word gay ever be used upon the lips of a Christian. It is a euphemism to take off the edge of the horrendous nature of the perversion of homosexuality. Call a sodomy to gays! They are not gay!

43:44 They have the patience within! And the fo- The communication and adultery are a way of life in all the avenues of so-called entertainment. The movies, the theater, the TV, the theme of the lyrics of popular songs. I say this is our national sin.

44:18 When male and female virginity are laughed upon and mocked. When male and female virginity are laughed upon and mocked. When male and female virginity are laughed upon and mocked. When skin magazines are a multi-billion dollar business, both those appealing to women as well as to men, when the TV becomes the personal X-rated movie screen, no sooner does videocassette, the videocassette become a marketable thing, when the number one item is X-rays.

44:52 And our schools take upon themselves to show pornographic movies and slides and give pornographic literatures to preteens, when verbal titillation and double innuendo have become part and parcel of almost every social context. When a man who seeks to keep a pure mind must almost live with his eyes upon the picture. When a man who seeks to keep a pure mind must almost live with his eyes upon the picture. When a man who seeks to keep a pure mind must almost live with his eyes upon the picture.

46:02 When a man who seeks to keep a pure mind must almost live with his eyes upon the picture. Of our national sensuality and perversion, I would be willing to make the statement without claiming prophetic insight that there are more than a few within the sound of my voice tonight, boys, girls, men, women, even preachers, who have not been able to withstand this climate. That whirlpool of sensuality and perversion. That swirls around you with ever-increasing fierceness and power.

47:15 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.

47:38 How can I denounce it if I'm ignorant of it? I had a right to speak from the matrix of real knowledge. I would not be surprised if I'm speaking to more than one adult and possibly more than one preacher who this night is an addict to pornography. You're an advocate to pornographic movies, you spent the last two, three, four years, constantly looking over your shoulder to make sure no one sees you slip in them.

48:10 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 known only to god and to yourself and if others are involved by way of sexual dalliance only they know that you sit here tonight in the frightening chains of sexual perversion and next to heroin and to alcohol there are no chains that i've ever had to deal with in a pastoral setting like the chains of sensuality my friend is there any word for you there is a word for you that word comes to us so clearly in first corinthians chapter 6. in verse 9 paul says

God's Word to the Individual: Judgment and Hope

49:37 know he not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of god be not deceived the first word of god to you is this don't listen to what you're being told experts and fornicators and there he uses the general greek word for all kinds of sexual impurity from which we get our english word pornography pornea be not deceived neither clean fornicators

50:23 nor adulterers nor women nor adulterers nor fanciers nor adulterers nor felonies nor adulterers nor effeminate nor losers of themselves with men nor thieves nor covetous nor drunkards nor revilers nor extortioners shall inherit the kingdom of god what is the word to you sitting here tonight might be available in this area you had a binge with your girly magazine and you're here in your chain what's the first word of god to you it's this either those chains are broken or you'll go to hell and you better take that seriously don't you listen to what the world says that your chains are the symbols of your liberty they are chains that will chain you and into hell don't evangelical who tell you that self is a viable christian activity who tell you that response actual or

51:47 less practice is a viable you know an expression of of lifestyle the word of this and perversion you'll sink into hell you've been spared when the temptation comes and when you're bombarded from the radio and the tv and in the school and by your peers try this and little bit and try that and when you're tempted to go the first step in the direction of sensuality and perversion hear the word of god deceive that will chain me and take me to hell but now the second word of god to you is in the verse that follows and such were some of you you mean there's hope why pastor martin you said there's no hope that's right no hope while the chains are there

53:08 no hope while you defy god's norms of sexual purity as a single person as a married person i don't care what your psychological orientation may be if you are not heterosexual oriented if you are giving yourself man with man woman with woman be not deceived therefore you think you are going to happen check your mind and make appropriate it you must be true to yourself and get out of this life and become true and see what you can see it in your life your mind and be true to yourself and be true to yourself and be true to itself are utterly inconsistent with being an heir of the kingdom of god a man of the kingdom a man of the kingdom of god the man of the kingdom of god is not a man but a man of all reality you are a man of the beyond you are a man and that's why you have to keep on being a man until you the person you are and then you will not have a chance to be a man of all life and that is just what is going to take you I don't care what anything else you do because you should just stay in that world and just take care of the rest of us in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God. The Lord Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit. The Lord Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit. What had happened?

54:25 There in this sink of iniquity, this center of commerce and pagan thought and pagan worship, whereas a very part of your worship of the heathen deities, one would commit acts of sexual impurity and fornication. What had happened? A humble, hook-nosed Jew came and began to preach about Jesus of Nazareth. Began to preach about this Jesus who authenticated his claims by his life and by his works, who was impaled upon a rock, a Roman cross by the decree and purpose of God, who there upon that cross bore the sins of his people, bore sins of every kind and stripe, who went from that cross into a grave, who broke the bars of death and came out from that grave and ascended to the right hand of the Father and received of the Father the promise of the Spirit and sent him forth upon men, he says, such, were some of you. But having come into contact with the message concerning the Lord Jesus Christ, you've been washed, you've been justified, and furthermore, you heard that he gives the gift of his Spirit

55:51 to all who believe upon him. Yes, he sovereignly regenerates by the Spirit unto faith, but the Bible everywhere teaches that it is to the regenerate, believing, believing sinner that the gift of the Spirit is given when he believes on the Lord Jesus. And in the power of that indwelling Spirit, he can now see his chains broken and fall at his feet and rise a free man, a free woman. If you're here tonight bound by various dimensions of our national sin of abandonment, to sensuality, and sexual perversion, there is hope for you. And that hope is not in trying to sell your conscience a bill of goods, that your sins are not really sins, they are, but it's to flee to the fountain open for sin and uncleanness. Fall down before the Son of God like blind Bartimaeus and cry, Son of David, have mercy. Have mercy upon me.

God's Word to His People: Prayer, Reproof, and Influence

57:08 What wilt thou that I do unto you, Lord, change? To which he will say, I will be thou free. What can we do as a people? I've tried to answer the question to the individual, but what can we, the people of God, do?

57:36 Well, ultimately, dear people, the greatest thing you can do is stop playing games with free time, and ask God at any cost to make you a Jacob, an Israel who knows how to wrestle with God. The greatest thing you can do is to become a wrestler with God for the outpouring of the Spirit of God upon our poor, bound, hell-deserving nation. And I don't say that as something pious to get on to something more practical. No.

58:19 The greatest thing you can do is to cry mightily to the God who alone can turn away this terrible tidal wave of uncleanness. But then if your prayers are sincere when you rise from your knees, you must rise determined to do what the scripture says in Ephesians 5.11, have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them, ye are light, walk as children of light. I'm sick of hearing Christians saying of this movie or that movie, well it wasn't too bad, had only one steamy. It wasn't too bad, only had a half a dozen curse words. What in the name of God has happened to our consciences? How can you sigh and cry for the abominations of our nation?

59:29 What so-called reformed Christians watch and allow their children to watch on TV, in which their consciences are made dull to the high standards of morality. The high standards of sanctity and purity, touching the sexual relationship and touching our identity as males and females in the image of God, determined as a Christian father in the light of the challenge of this morning, as for me and my house. I don't care if my kids whimper. I don't care that they're ignorant of this program and that program and the other.

60:27 To say. In this sea of sensuality. Have the spiritual fortitude to rear back on your hind legs. And if you cannot exercise a godly control over the TV so that you can face the day of judgment with a good conscience, then get rid of the thing.

60:49 And determine never to have it in your home again.

60:53 And then the third thing we as the people of God can do is to exercise every legitimate influence consistent. With our civil liberties on the one hand and our gospel priorities on the other. And don't detach what I say from those two qualifications. Do everything you can do consistent with your civil liberties and responsibilities and with your gospel priority.

61:30 You see, the devil loves to get people using up all their time in a good. Cause to keep them from the best.

61:39 And it's much easier to spend an hour agitating in some organized movement against pornography than it is to spend an hour on your knees crying to God for the Holy Ghost to come down upon the preachers of this land and make the word effective to purge the sea of pornography. You see my point.

62:08 Do everything you can do consistent with your civil liberties and responsibilities and gospel priorities. And then ultimately let's touch what is the softest spot in the heart of God, his glory. When you pray, say our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. And oh, what glory would come to God.

62:41 If. When the purveyors of filth have, as it were, come to the position where they sit back and fold their arms with glee and look over the scene of our national life and gloat that they have won the day, what glory it would be to God to raise up his mighty arm. And when the enemy has come in like a flood to see the spirit of our God, raise a stand. And pray, oh God, for the glory of thy name, your name that is sanctified and hallowed when men respect your laws of sexual purity, when men regard your standards of purity and uprightness in every facet of male-female relationships. Oh God, can you stand to see your glory stained? Oh God, can you bear to see your glory? Oh God, can you bear to see your glory completely besmatched in our national life?

63:46 Oh God, vindicate.

63:51 May we thus cry to God. What is God's word to our nation? I say it is essentially, fundamentally, a word of denunciation for our aggravated national sins. The sin of unrequited blood.

64:12 The sin of unashamed abandonment to sensuality. Sexuality and sexual perversion. Dear people, that's my nation.

64:26 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?

64:42 Will we be bombed? I can remember my sister crying the day President Roosevelt made the announcement of the invasion of Pearl Harbor. She sat upon my dad's knee, and I sat next to her, and she broke into convulsive weeping and said, Daddy, are we going to be bombed?

65:01 Some of us remember the mighty deliverances God brought to our nation in that war.

65:10 We thank God for his grace and kindness. But you dear young people, listen. This isn't going to go on forever unless something changes. And it can start with you.

65:26 Some of you precious children. Some of you precious teenagers can determine by the grace of God to be a Daniel. You will not defile yourself with the sins of your companions at school and on the block. And wherever you may associate with them, you can begin to go off into your closet and pray for those teenage friends of yours you know.

65:51 Many of them, their heads blown half the time on their pills and on their pot and on their boots. And girls who aren't even, who are hardly into their teens, brag about their affairs with the fellows. I know. I've got a 19-year-old daughter and an 18-year-old daughter, and they tell me what the language is and what the conversation is all about.

66:20 Oh, may God touch the hearts of you dear young ones. May he touch the hearts of you parents. And dear pastor friend, let me ask you in closing. Can you preach on this sin with a clear conscience?

66:39 Can you? Or does that very question cause a little bit of redness to creep up the back of your neck?

66:48 Your wife doesn't know the stuff you look at when she's gone to bed. Oh yes, you got that cable service TV ostensibly to get the good educational programs.

67:02 But God knows and you know what you've been using it for. My friend. Come out of that wall of hypocrisy.