A Biblical Response To Homosexuality, Pt 1 Series

B. This bond between a husband and wife is expressed through the sexual relationship. Although the relationship goes beyond sex, it is this sexual union that expresses the oneness that God intended for the husband and wife.

Sex is God’s invention. It is He who created human beings male and female; He who told the first pair to be fruitful and to multiply.

Sex has a specific and wonderful function in human experience. While pleasurable and exciting, sex is designed as a bonding experience: an expression of union and oneness to be known by a man and woman who commit themselves to each other for life.

Outside of this context of lifelong union, and outside the context of intimate self-giving, sexual activity will be destructive rather than constructive.

C. In the New Testament, Matthew 19:4-6 validates what the Old Testament says on this subject. When asked about the subject of divorce, Jesus said,

"Have you not read, that He who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh? ’ So they are no longer two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate."

Jesus condemned the Pharisees for not knowing the truth of Genesis 2. Not only did Jesus emphasize that relationships are to be between males and females, He specifies that relationships are to be between one male and one female, for an entire lifetime. Men and women are perfectly fitted to meet one another’s needs.

To break, distort, corrupt, manipulate, destroy and pervert this area is one of Satan’s greatest pleasure.

Leviticus 18:22-29

A. Leviticus contains God’s instruction given to Moses during the two months between the completion of the tabernacle and Israel’s departure from Mount Sinai. More than 50 times it affirms that its contents are God’s direct words and revelation to Moses for Israel, which Moses subsequently preserved in written form.

B. Two-fold purpose:

1. to instruct the Israelites and their priestly mediators about their access to God by means of atoning blood

Chapters 1 – 16 is about the way we access God through atonement through sacrifices. It leads up to the Day of Atonement

2. to make God’s standard of holy living for his chosen people

Chapters 17 – is about moral standards and instructions about worship – obedience and consecration, etc.

C. Holiness

The people of Israel were to be wholly separated unto the Lord. In all features of their individual and corporate lives, this people who bore God’s name was to be holy.

Many of the features of Old Testament Law, particularly those having to do with dietary and other elements, had no underlying moral basis. The people were given those laws to help establish a distinction between them and all the other peoples of the world.

Such laws reminded Israel that she was a people of God, and because of that relationship, was to be different from others.