We were designed to comprehend God and our relationship to God as his children in the context of us being mind, body, and soul as we relate to God in Spirit. Our sexuality, as an integrally woven part of our being, was designed to intersect with all of these aspects of our being.
That is why Scripture has strict guidelines so that the sexual aspect of our being accomplishes its purpose of playing a role in uniting us with God himself, even as it unites us across male and female and brings flavor to our human existence.
God is not merely interested in saving the soul, but in redeeming our whole being. And so the redemption of our sexual identity is part of that salvation now and forever. Even in the new heaven and new earth we will have bodies that will be recognizable as men and women, even as the resurrected Jesus was recognizable as a man to those who he met before his ascension.
Even while there will not be the act of sex in the new heaven and the new earth leading to pro-creation, our identities as men and women will operate into eternity and have meaning into eternity. As Revelations teaches that every tribe and nation will be represented in heaven, so human distinctives ordained by God will be represented in our redeemed bodies including the first human distinctive created and ordained by God – the God created sexes of male and female operating in the God-ordained genders of man and woman.
And so in the Kingdom of God, we are designed to find joy in how we were made in God’s image in the sexes of male and female operating in the genders of man and woman. So it is essential that we appreciate the sexual identity that God has endowed us and submit to the understanding of our sexuality that God has endowed us with in his Word.
That is why Scripture has strict guidelines so that the sexual aspect of our being accomplishes its purpose of playing a role in uniting us with God himself, even as it unites us across male and female and brings flavor to our human existence.
God is not merely interested in saving the soul, but in redeeming our whole being. And so the redemption of our sexual identity is part of that salvation now and forever. Even in the new heaven and new earth we will have bodies that will be recognizable as men and women, even as the resurrected Jesus was recognizable as a man to those who he met before his ascension.
Even while there will not be the act of sex in the new heaven and the new earth leading to pro-creation, our identities as men and women will operate into eternity and have meaning into eternity. As Revelations teaches that every tribe and nation will be represented in heaven, so human distinctives ordained by God will be represented in our redeemed bodies including the first human distinctive created and ordained by God – the God created sexes of male and female operating in the God-ordained genders of man and woman.
And so in the Kingdom of God, we are designed to find joy in how we were made in God’s image in the sexes of male and female operating in the genders of man and woman. So it is essential that we appreciate the sexual identity that God has endowed us and submit to the understanding of our sexuality that God has endowed us with in his Word.
The heterosexual man operating in sexual sin seeks validation for his manhood, not in God and in the joy of being made in God's image, but in sexual conquests. This "player/womanizer" man and another man who feels he is something other than heterosexual both share a crisis in their sexual identity, the latter being in a more advanced state of identity crisis than the former.
The neo-gnostic post-genderists in the church like Paris Jennel Williams would bow in moral deference to the secular, cultural marxist, and sexual leftist culture allowing its “wisdom” to over-ride Scripture. They would attempt to put a Christian gloss over the leftist agenda to remove gender by also somehow claiming to care about sexual holiness without caring about gender holiness. In the name of protecting sexual identity as something "too important" to define, they have actually anointed themselves as being important enough to try to redefine sexuality away from how Scripture has defined it.
What Paris and her ilk don’t understand that sexual unholiness and gender unholiness are fruit from the same tree, both related to each other, both feeding into each other. Sexual unholiness expresses a crisis of sexual identity in its more nascent stage that becomes gender unholiness in a more advanced stage of a seared conscience. It is only by being humble to what Scripture teaches about sex and gender holiness that our sexual identities are redeemed as God intended them to be.
What does it mean for the church to have the confidence and clarity to reject the neo-gnostic post-genderists, to speak into to the confusion of sexual identity in all of the ways that it manifests itself? I want see the church find its way out of its current confusion to enthusiastically and passionately present the truth of Scripture as the answer to the crisis of sexual identity of our time.
What does it mean for the church to have the confidence and clarity to reject the neo-gnostic post-genderists, to speak into to the confusion of sexual identity in all of the ways that it manifests itself? I want see the church find its way out of its current confusion to enthusiastically and passionately present the truth of Scripture as the answer to the crisis of sexual identity of our time.
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