Peter Barnes | Romans 1:26-27
SERMON NOTES
THE APOSTASY OF THE HOMOSEXUAL CULTURE
(Romans 1:26-27)
– ancient Greek and Roman culture was infused with homosexuality. Julius Caesar, for example, was a homosexual.
1. Homosexuality is indecent.
– 1:26-27; Nero had two homosexual ‘marriages’
– Lev.18:22; 20:13
2. Homosexuality is unnatural.
– 1:27; John Boswell tried to argue that Paul is only against homosexual acts by heterosexuals
– male and female is natural (Gen.1:27-28; 2:23-25)
– California has banned state research into cures for homosexuality; there are anti-homophobic programmes in NSW schools; the US State Department now uses ‘parent one’ and ‘parent two’, not ‘father’ and ‘mother’.
– Dean Hamer’s ‘gay gene’ of 1993 was found to be fraudulent
3. Homosexuality is destructive.
– 1:27; maybe AIDS, but even without that, it is a miserable and unhealthy lifestyle
– but God can convert them (1 Cor.6:9-11)