The Gospel for Desparing Modern Man

[Music][Music][Applause]uh thank you brother Harrison that was abeautiful testimony and I reallyappreciate the emphasis on righteousnessby faith and gaining victory over sinand it's just wonderful to see how Godhas been at work in your life and justthe joy of baptizing your father andseeing him being born again as well thatmust been brought great joy to your lifeand to your heart so uh it's myprivilege to come and share with youhere this evening um and I'm going to betalking uh really kind of following onwhat brother Harrison was talking aboutuh we didn't plan these these uh talkstogether um but as we come through whatI want to share tonight you'll see thatum we're both kind of following along avery similar theme which is essentiallythat um to be saved we are to receivethe righteousness of Jesus Christ and soum I'm going to uh I had three parts totonight's talk but it's cut down to twoso um I'm going to talk about Satan'scomplication and God's loving resolutionand uh this is how it relates to thesexual Revolution happening all aroundus here today I invite you to Bow yourheads with me invite the presence of theHoly Spirit once again heavenly fatheras We Gather here tonight in this houseof worship uh father I want to thank youthat you did not send your son into theworld to condemn the world but thatthrough him the world might be saved andso father tonight we ask for thepresence of your Holy Spirit uh Jesusyou promised if we ask we shall receiveand so tonight we're asking that youwill give us this the gift of yourspirit uh father not just to be presentbut to uh transform and renew ourthinking to soften our hearts to bringus conversion and conviction aresh andto lead us in the way of lifeEverlasting so Lord speak through me andspeak for me this is my prayer in jesus'nameamen so I just want to start out bysummarizing what I was going to say inmy first 15 20 minutes which is thisthat God's ideal plan for the human racefor human sexuality in the Human familywas ultimately for biological males tobe married to biological female femalesin monogamous heterosexual lifelongcommitted marriages and for thosemarriages to be blessed with children umthrough which the world will be subduedand God will be represented in allcorners of the earth as we are hisambassadors here on Earth and so thatkind of very brief summary of my first15 minutes let's move on to how Satanmucked things up and I want to talkspecifically tonight about what hashappened in the West in the last 70years in our lifetime and so I want totalk talk about Satan's complication howSatan brought um through a spanner inthe works in the west to take us frombeing societies based on ajudeo-christian foundation to societiesthat are based on something very verydifferent and we're going to see howthis leads to the Paradox of the modernlgbtq movement and the philosophy ofDespair that our modern Western youngpeople are inhabiting today so um wewant to go back to France which is umspeaking from an English perspectiveright I may be biased in this but umsome good things did come out of Francethat was William the Conqueror becausehe left France but in 1066 but if we goback to the1960s there were some Frenchexistentialist philosophers name nameswere Michelle Fuko ja Dera and Jeanfranois leut they are they were knowncollectively as the Frenchexistentialists and they had these thesethese views that there was no purpose nomeaning in life and in order to umattain purpose or meaning you had to actupon yourwill and so if I help an old lady acrossthe road or if I choose to push her infront of a truck both those actions aremorally equivalent because I'm choosingto act upon the will and that's how Iself authenticate my otherwisemeaningless existence well um out oftheir views come something uh that wasarticulated and we now know that asbeing postmodernism now postmodernism ishard to Define Maybe by Design but it isa rejection of modernism which is theintellectual movement that dominated thewest from the mid 19th to the mid 20thcenturies and it is also a rejection ofmodernity and it rejects the possibilityof objective Universal knowledge so Pmodernism rejects the um the dichotomybetween the objective Universal and thesubjective personal and what it does isit moves the center and the locus ofTruth away from the word of God as beinga universal absolute it moves the locusand the focus of Truth to being yoursubjective lived experience and to yournarrative and to what Oprah wines mightsay is your truth so postmodernism movesus quite drastically um philosophicallyso um they there are two essential umprinciples ofpostmodernism one is a radicalskepticism about whether objectiveknowledge or truth is possible sopostmodern philosophy prefers constructcultural Construction ISM and moralrelativism so all truth is tied to yourcultural frame of reference and so umout of this idea um modern theories wecome to them a bit later um but say umcritical race Theory would argue thatthat um race is a social construct andto a large extent it is because there isonly one race the human race and thedifferentiations that we've artificiallymade are the results of satanicdeceptions coming into Humanity but whenit comes to gender the gender theoristsalso Al argue that gender is a humansocial construct and it varies fromsociety to society and some gendersocieties May emphasize two genders andsome may emphasize maybe 20 genders sothe social constructivist view uh thatcomes out of of postmodernity it affectsour children in our schools today thesecond principle that comes out ofpostmodernity is listed on the screenthere is that societies are areorganized primarily by the powerful inor into identity groups and to socialhierarchyand we know this is to a large extenttrue but those hierarchies only servethe interests of the powerful and theelites who in turn Define what isknowledge and what is acceptablebehavior and what is acceptableknowledge and what you can and cannotsay within that given society and so outof that principle later on we have theprinciple of intersectionality which isa subset of critical race Theory sothese are the two driving principles ofpostmodernity now there are fourimplications to this one isthat all meaningful boundaries are to beproblematized and blurred becauseallegedly all boundaries only serve thepowerful in the Elites in society andthey exploit the oppressed and so thatis why we've seen in the last 70 yearsin the west a blurring of almost everyboundary that we know of and it'sinteresting that in the flood um increation we realize that life ispossible because God made distinctionsbetween the water above and the waterbelow between the land and the seabetween night and day and between maleand female and life is only possiblewith thosedistinctions and in the flood God erasedthe distinction between Earth and seaand water above and water below and mostlife came to a shuddering halt now wesociologically cannot change uh nightnight and day we cannot change Earth andsea we cannot change water above andwater below but we are doing our best todissolve Human Society now in the westby blurring the boundaries between maleand female and just as God overrodethose distinctions in the flood leadingto um the loss of almost all human lifethe the The Logical implication is thatour societies are going to implode as weblur the distinctions that God has setup in the creative order so the first umapplication of postmodern theory is thatall meaningful boundaries are to beblurred secondly that language isactually the tool of the oppressors andit must be deconstructed in order toallow the oppressed to construct andexpress their own knowledge and toachieve P power via language thatlegitimizes their selves within Societyfrom their unique perspective modern inmodern philosophy philosophical terms umwe know we know this is a standpointepistemology which is I see the worldfrom my perspective you see the worldfrom your perspective if you're anoppressor and I'm oppressed that meansthat my my perspective is morelegitimate than yours perspective and sothat's how the general theory Works inin in critical theory uh the nextprinciple that comes along is that allcultures are equal that uh no culture issuperior to another it is thereforeimpossible to critique your own Societyfrom within why because the Master'stools will never Dethrone the master inany given Society this is how the theoryworks are you following me on this nowwe're going to see the implications ofthis in a few minutes and theimplications are pretty profound and thefourth principle that comes out ofpostmodernity is that the individualthat is you as a person you are replacedby a group identity once you divideSociety into the oppressed and theoppressors then you it is your job yourjourney of Discovery to find youridentity not as a Christian in JesusChrist to all who believed he gave thepower to become the Sons and Daughtersof God John 1 and vers2 created with aHeavenly purpose for an eternal futureno uh within this atheist worldview ofpostmodernity um your identity is nowdriven by the sociological group thatyou choose to identify withlgbtq are classical groups ethnicminorities are classical groups umreligious minorities are some othergroup identities that are out therethere are many group identities and somegroup identities are viewed asinherently good and some groupidentities are viewed as inherently evilthat's how these hierarchies ofprivilege and oppression work withinpostmodernity and modern day criticaltheory nowpostmodernity comes out of adisillusionment with what happened inEurope in the 19 uh 1910s about 1945World War I and World War II see thephilosophers in if you if you watch areyou familiar with aan Lee the series anof Green Gables yes yes and if you watchthat series all those the stories thosekids growing up in somewhere in umPrince Edward Island there's always thethe the prospect of the latesttechnology coming into the village thetelephone arrives indoor toilets arriveheating arrives the vehicle arrives andand the the the the theme throughoutthat series is that technology isbringing inevitable human progress andthat was the idea in the west all upuntil1914 and after the horror of of thefirst world war and of the second worldwar and to give you a scale of thehorror on the first day of the battle ofthe S the British army lost 50,000men 50,000 men more than we lost I thinkalmost the same as Vietnam maybe fromfrom America the BR Brits lost that umin the first day the scale of theslaughter washorrendous and so postmodernismrepresents a disillusionment with thepromise that technology will improveHumanity's existence rather thanimproving us morally all that technologydoes it gives us the means to kill eachother moreefficiently and so there there was adisillusionment with um technology therewas a disillusionment with democracybecause democracy led to Adolf Hitler itwas a disillusionment with with KL Marxbecause that led to the horrors of thegulag under Stalin and there was adisillusionment with technology ingeneral and so this postmodern um Theoryor philosophy that has has overtaken theWest to a large extent today itrepresents a loss of meaning and purposeand is essentially a philosophy ofDespair at the underlying HumanCondition it's a philosophy ofDespair that with all our advancementsall it means is that we just become morewicked the more we advancesociologically economically politicallyor technologically all it does is itincreases our capacity for evil and itdoes not result in a change of the humanheart so we actually care for oneanother within our societies and sopostmodernism is a reaction to thehorrors of what happened in Europe inthe 1910s through to the 1945 and theend of World War II in postmodern Theorynothing has purpose or meaning now thisis the dominant philosophy in the westtoday we inhabit a philosophy of Despairin the west all the subsets ofpostmodern postmodernity such as logicalpositivism the the other things thatBranch out from it these are attempts tofind meaning within a philosophicalworld that denies the possibility ofmeaning and this is the philosophy thatis in our schools it's in our cultureit's in our movies and as we're going tosee it's in the music that I youngpeople are listeningto it's a philosophy of Despair wherenothing has meaning now in the Divinecreation uh creation is filled with aDivine Purpose we heard earlier thisweek that God created Humanity not sothat um we're not just the climax ofhumanity but we serve a broader purposeand So within within the creation umworldview that we find in Genesis 1through3 sexual intimacy is not theending and of itself but God gives ussexual intimacy in order to deepen thelove relation ship within a divinelyappointed marriage and also to bringabout children with all the hope and joythat they represent and it is in havingchildren that we gain a deeperappreciation for our heavenlyfather you when you have children youstart to learn the meaning of sacrificeand self-denial and doing good forsomebody else when you have children youstart to understand how God viewsyou that as I go astray growing up andmy parents prayed over me and wanted thebest for meand when you have children and theystart going astray and you're prayingover them you start to get a glimpse ofthe father in the parable of theprodigal son and so God gives uschildren in order that we might betterappreciate God's love and his grace foreach one of us and so in the in theDivine Way of of of of thinking in thethe worldview that we have fromscripture um the sexual act is not anend in of itself it is a means by whichGod reveals things to us about ourselvesit is a means by which the marriage isstrengthened and deep deepened it is ameans by which we have children wepropagate the human species and wesubdue the Earth and have dominion onthe earth and it's also the means bywhich God grows our characters and fitsus for eternity so there are many thereare many purposes in the biblical modelfor for the sexual act that go WayBeyond the sexual actitself but from a postmodern perspectivenothing philosophically has purpose ormeaning or an endgoal therefore the sexual act is the endin and of itself it doesn't lead toanything anything because nothingintrinsically leads to anything inpostmodernism postmodernity the sexualact is the end in and of itself now whatdoes that mean well that means that thesexual act is has the most intimateexpression possible of yourself um thusbecomes the end in and of itself whichis why there is a fierce focus on sexualidentity for modern man because withoutit man isnothing it's the ultimate expression ofyou within a postmodern worldview inwhich we now inhabit inhabit andtherefore there is nothing beyond thatso your sexual identity now becomes thelocus and the focus and the center andthe grounding of everything that isimportant in your life are you followingthis okay so modern man is caught in animpossibleParadox the search for meaning of modernman comes within our rejection of God'splan for humansexuality and the search for meaningwithin the lgbtq movement is denying Edby the sexual revolutions underlyingphilosophical premise which is thatpostmodern postmodernism is true thatnothing has intrinsic meaning that lifehas no meaning or purpose that life isfutile so ultimately this is the tragedyof what we see on the streets of Americatoday postmodernism is the Cradle ofDespair that gives birth to the sexualRevolution and the search for meaning inthe sexual Revolution is denied by theunderlying philosophy of despairit's atragedy it's an absolute tragedy peopleare searching for meaning within aphilosophical worldview that denies thepossibility of meaning and we're goingto Plum ever greater depths of physicalactivity and physicaldepravity trying to find thatsatisfaction but as mck Jagger sang YouCan't Get NoSatisfaction there is no satisfactionwhen you philosophically inhabit auniverse that denies the possibility ofmeaning or purpose or an end goal toanything and so the the the Frantic thefrenetic the almost despairing umMadness of the rush into the sexualRevolution is is the attempt to findmeaning on the part of young peopletoday who may not who may or may notrealize it may not be able to articulatein such a way but the entire sexualRevolution from the 60s onwards wasbirthed by a philosophy ofDespair this is the tragedy of The HumanCondition in 2020s Americait's an absolute tragedy now anyphilosophy of Despair cannot last forlong postmodern Theory mutated in the1990s to focus on power Societies in insociety out of which arose a number ofwhat we call critical theories those arelisted in no particular order postcColonial studies was one of the first tocome out critical race Theory um startedat Harvard um with Professor Bell uhdisability in fat studies lgbtq studiesqueer Theory and the dominant version totoday is critical gender Theory now thisis an atheist perversion of God's Divineintent for Humanity born of a philosophyof Despair that is destroying childrenand young peopleworldwide we're involved in a spiritualbattle here it isn't just a battlebetween the French philosophers of the60s and Jesus Christ from 2,000 yearsago every Temptation from Satan is a lieall these thoughts that are put intoyoung people's minds are coming fromSatan this is a spiritual battle betweenChrist and Satan for the future of ouryoung people and the young people ofAmerica and it's not just a matter ofcounseling and it's not just a matter ofof therapy it's a matter of rebuking thedemons that are driving this process inthe individual's life because we'reinvolved in combat with Satan for theEternal futures of our youngpeople to be created in the image of Godmeans among other things that we havethe ability to reproduce the four stagesof trans transtion are the social suchas the pronouns the psychological toovercome inherited Psy um um umtransphobia as it's called the thirdstage is the hormonal transition bywhich you'll never have children againand the fourth stage is the surgicaltransition the top and bottom surgery asit's called and once you go down thatpath there is no comingback you can never regain the ability tohave children and to be engaged inreproduction or even normal sex life orany kind of sex life uh once you've gonedown that transitionnow if the ability to reproduce is agift of being created in the image ofGod then um mutilating children actuallyrecreates them in the image of Satanbecause Satan's Angels cannotreproduce so we're defacing the image ofGod in his creation and put churning outyoung people who now have bear the imageof Satan in their bodies because they'velost the ability toreproduce they have no impact on mentalhealth emotional wellness and they havea lifetime of expensive medical bills tolook forwardto this is a satanic battle that we'reengaged in it's Christ against Satanit's the great controversy being livedout in every psychotherapists or physPhysicians Consulting roomtoday but nothing as we say nothinghappens in a vacuum and there is aloving resolution to this problem noperson Remains uninfluenced by theexternal forces that shape our societyso if we if if we drill down as we aredoing a bit here tonight and we lookbeyond the the chaos the abandon and thepain of the lgbtq community we come tothe heart of the matter now criticalrace Theory and critical gender Theoryare the bitter fruit of the underlyingatheist Central critical theory which isthe application of postmodern Theorywhich was birthed out of Frenchexistentialism and is essentially aphilosophy of nihilistic despair nothingmatters you don't matterI don't matter if I live if I die youhave no purpose the mountains don't carethe universe simply does not care thisis the philosophical foundation on whichthe sexual Revolution is built thehumanity has no intrinsic purpose lifehas no meaning there are no moralabsolutes nothing's ultimately right orwrong whether you live or die it mattersnot nothing matters nothing has meaningnothing has purpose I don't matter andyou certainly don'tmatter this is the philosophical trapthat the mire in which the moderngeneration is unwittinglycaught but part of the good news of theGospel is that God reaches us where weare amen and we we kind of drilled downand drilled down and and we drilled downI want to say tonight that there's anessential agreement tonight todaybetween the the most radical LGBTactivists on the one side and Disciplesof Jesus Christ on the other and theessential agreement is this is thatwithout God Humanity has nopurpose now the lgbtq activists may havetaken us through critical theory and thecritical um areas of study I've listedon the screen here in the last 50 yearsthey may have got started from theBedrock of Despair said we're going totry and find a meaning in the humansexualexperience but if your entire philosophyis based on on on a foundation thatnothing has meaning You'll Never Findmeaning in the house that youbuilt so we can agree with every PrideParade Pride Parade marcher today that alife apart from God has nomeaning we're in essentialagreement we're not at philosophical warwith you when we drill down tophilosophical Bedrock we agree 100% withthe sexualRevolution you ain't going to get anysatisfaction in what you're doing ifyou're built on a foundation of futilityanddespair so there is essential agreementbetween Christians and lgbtq activ iststoday without God our hopes our dreamsour loves our successes our failures areintrinsically meaningless and we can allagree on this without God the philosophyof Despair that haunts the modern lgbtqmovement haunts theheart now I grew up in England so I'mgoing to quote an English pop song hereyou heard maybe some of you heard of thethe rock group Queen they had a leadsinger called Freddy Mercury he wasdying of AIDS he sang at the Live Aidconcert in in 1985 he was he died of ageshortly thereafter and uh one prettymuch one of the last album they releasedhad a song in it called The Show Must GoOn And I want to read the lyrics to thatsong because this perfectly captures theDilemma that the sexual Revolution findsitself in the song goes like this emptyspaces what are we living for abandonplaces I guess we know the score on andon does any body know what we arelookingfor another hero another mindless crimebehind the curtain in the pantomime Holdthe Line does anybody want to take itanymore The Show Must Go On The ShowMust Go On inside my heart is breakingmy makeup may be flaking but my St smilestill stayson whatever happens verse three I LeaveIt All To chance another heartacheanother failed Romance on and on doesanybody know what we are living for Iguess I'm learning I must be warmer nowI'll soon be turning around the cornernow outside the Dawn is Breaking butinside in the dark I'm aching to befree now that became and it still is oneof the most popular rock anthems thatare sung in rock concerts around theworld even today The Show Must Go On itis often played near the end of rockconcerts many of Queen's rock songs aredesigned to be sung by you know 880,000people in a stadium this is one of theirmost famous songs The Show Must Go Onand they wrote this when Freddy Mercurywhen they recording this song he couldbarely function in the recording studiohe was about to die from HIV a relatedcomplications andso I wantto that's where we are as our modernsociety just look at the last line ofeach verse does anybody know what we arelooking for does anybody want to take itanymore does anybody know what we areliving for inside in the dark I'm achingto befree this is the anthem of a doomedgeneration of a doomed philosophy thatsays to our young people there is nopurpose there is no meaning nothing isright nothing is wrong do what you caneat drink and be merry for tomorrow youdie and then you see what happen happensafter that but the truth of the matteris we all yearn to matter do wenot we learn we yearn to see and to beseen we yearn to hear and to be heard weyearn to accept and to be accepted weyearn to be vulnerable without the fearof rejection which is why divorce issuch a painful thing it's okay if a workcolleague doesn't like you but if yourspouse of 20 years turns their back onyou that cuts you to the very corebecause they know everything about youand they're saying you're not worthstaying with it's why divorce is sopainful for so many people and beyondthat we yearn to love and to be lovedand so the Cry of the human heart assuch fundamental odds um with thephilosophy of Despair that gave birth tothe sexual Revolution is unheard todayby an uncaringuniverse so we must make achoice we need to make a choice when wecome down to that that Bedrock of commonunderstanding that nothing has meaningnothing has purpose apart from God youcan either go One path which is thelgbtq movement and seek meaning andpurpose in a world that philosophicallysays it's never going to happen but Iwant to share with you tonight there isanother path that you can take and thatis the path of the Gospel of JesusChristen there is another path you cantake you see I stand here yes as apastor and and so forth we we acquiretitles like like um bar appear here onthe the bottoms of ships these days butI stand before you as a broken humanbeing with inheriting Tendencies to evilwith the capacity to hurt and thecapacity to be hurt just like everybodyelse here tonight and watching online Istand before you tonight with my ownpersonal Brokenness knowing that God isgood amen you know that one of my onemost famous verses in the Bible at leastfor me is this so taste and see that theLord is good now if I were to ask you todescribe ice cream to somebody who'snever tasted ice cream how would youdescribeit I'd say well it's like sweetmargarine now does that really cutit no no I mean it's hard to describeice cream to somebody who's never tastedit now children all around the world ifyou give them an ice cream comb theyknow whatever culture they're from theyknow they have to lick it you know I'venever seen a child take a pair ofChopsticks or a spoon to an ice creamcone it's instinctive we all love uhmost people love ice creambut the same is true ofGod you have to taste and see that Godis good for yourself it's not justenough to hear about God or to preachabout God it's not just enough to singthe song Amazing Grace we have toexperience God's grace for ourselvesonly when we experience God forourselves can we know that he isgood and so we're talking here about aphilosophy of Despair which is writtenby men who are long dead and who don'toffer you anything or from that thatJunction point where we have to makethis decision am I going to follow thephilosophy of Despair and into thesexual Revolution or am I going to tasteand see that there is a living God whois good tome and that's the decision everybodymust make for themselves so what is thisgood news well first and foremost let'sgo back to thescripture what were we what was what isour Human Condition apart from God it isthis for while we were still what at theright time Christ died for TheWho indeed rarely will anyone die for arighteous person though perhaps for agood person someone might actually dareto die but God proves his love for usthat while we were what Christ died forus much more surely then now that we'vebeen justified by his blood will we besaved through him from the wrath of Godfor if while we were what enemies wewere reconciled to God through the deathof his son much more surely having beenreconciled we will be saved by his lifeand notice this description of FallenHumanity we are weak we are ungodly weare sinners we are enemies of God apartfrom God this is our Human ConditionPaul goes on to say it just a bit in afew verses later he says therefore justas what sin came into the world throughone man and death came through sin andso spread to All Because all have sinnedtherefore just as one man's trespass ledto condemnation for all so one man's Actof righteousness leads to justificationand life for all so the description ofhumanity in the Book of Romans umparallels what we find in the in thephilosophy of Despair that dominates thestreets today we are helpless we areungodly we are sinners we are enemies ofGod and we are condemned and we aredoomed to Eternal death that is TheHuman Condition apart from God that isThe HumanCondition and thesolution the solution is not found inany preachers preaching it's not foundin a philosophical treatyit is the Gospel of Jesus Christ and thegospel is this Romans 5:12 and 18 itsays but now apart from law therighteousness of God hasbeen uh disclosed and is attested to bythe law and the prophets therighteousness of God through what faithin Jesus Christ faith in Jesus Christfor all who believe for there is nodistinction since all have sinned andfall shorty of the glory of God they nowjustified by his grace as a gift throughthe Redemption that is in Christ Jesuswhom God put forward as a sacrifice ofatonement or reconciliation by his bloodhow is it effective through faith he didthis to show his righteousness becausein his Divine forbearance he had passedover the sins previously committed itwas to prove at the present time that hehimself is righteous and that hejustifies the one who has what faith inJesusChrist so our Salvation our search formeaning is not found in N of ourselvesit is found in the cross of Calvary andwe receive that salvation not throughany works of our own but repeated herein red through faith in Jesus Christthose who believe it is effectivethrough faith we are just the ones whohave faith in Jesus are Justifiedaccording to Romans here we receive asus as uh Harrison said earlier wereceive the righteousness of JesusChrist we receive his righteousness byfaith as the foundation for ourSalvation so what happened on Calvarywhere according to the Apostle Paul inCalvary you were Justified that is youwere declaredrighteous that is innocent of all thewrongdoing of your of your life we werereconciled to God on Calvary God provedhis love for you and for me or someversions say he demonstrated his lovefor you on Calvary Colossians 1:20 Godmade peace with Fallen Humanityreconciling all things including me andyou unto himself on Calvary we wereredeemed as we were brought back fromslavery to sin the wages of which iseternal death and we were completelyforgiven by God we were crucified withChrist he became a sin for you and I andhe died in our place because of Calvarybecause of Calvary to those who receiveJesus Christ and his death by faith oursin is taken away and the guilt we arereleased from the sins of our past wemay consider ourselves as of today deadto sin the wages of which is death weare no longer subject to the second orthe Eternal death that the scripturetalks about Satan no longer hasAuthority or power over you you are freefrom the fear of death you are free fromslavery to sin and you free from slaveryto Satan himself we were healed onCalvary of our sin condition and we areno longer condemned we are now we arenow friends with God and for those whoare in Christ Jesus there is thereforeno condemnation beautiful promise fromthe book of Romans there this is some ofthe beautiful stuff that happened on Calhe didn't just die for us a lot ofthings happened on the cross ofCalvary and we receive this byfaith is not based my salvation yoursalvation is not based on the fact thatI confess confession is a gift that Godgives us repentance is a gift that Godgives us when the holy spirit moves uponour heart but the basis for yoursalvation and my salvation is the deathof Jesus Christ on Calvary our part isto receive the righteousness of Jesus byfaith to trust that what he did onCalvary was for me and for you to trustthat his sacrifice is was and alwayswill be all sufficient to provide thegrace to cover all my sins in my entirelife now because ofCalvary the wrong slidethere our part is receive therighteousness of Christ by faith Iquoted this verse earlier very famousverse for God so loved the world that hegave his only begotten son thateverybody who believes in Him may notperish but have everlasting life I'vememorized in a different version to thisindeed good god did not send the soninto the world to condemn the world butin order that the world might be savedthrough him let's paraphrase this forGod so loved you that he gave his onlybegotten son so that if you believe inhim you will not perish but you willhave eternal life he will lift you outof this philosophy of despare the Cradleof the sexual Revolution that says thatnothing matters when you die that's itand there's nothing nothing significantto your life God says no I'm sending myson into the world for you I did notsend my son into the world to condemnyou but I sent my son into the worldthat you might be saved for eternitythrough him through his life his deathand his resurrection in John 1:12 tothose whobelieve to all who to all who receivedhim who believed in his name he gave thepower to become the children of Godand so to members of the LGBT communitymany of whom are alienated from theirparents many of whom have been kickedout onto the streets many of whom havebeen have experienced hostility andabuse at the hands of the their widerfamilies many of whom for instance liveunder the streets Under The Archers therailway archers the major cities thereis the promise of a new family thatyou'll have a heavenly father and toevery broken heart that has been woundedfrom the abuse and the and the and thehorror that's been visited upon it thereis a promise I will give you a new heartand to every person who has you knowslept with how many people I know it'san old Trope that promis cuy but to acertain extent it is true and every timeyou sleep with somebody then they moveon to somebody else so that sense ofrejection and will anybody love me forwho I really am there's the promise Iwill never leave you nor forsakeyou and we start reading the promises ofGod to members of the LGBT community ina whole new light because the promisesof scripture relate to the heart cry ofthe members within that communityin a particular way and in a largersense to all of us here tonight will wemake mistakes going forward yes but weare saved not by our own obedience butby The Obedience of Jesus Christ and weas Adventists need to remember thattherefore just as one man's trespass ledto condemnation for all so one man's Actof righteousness as the life of JesusChrist leads to justification and lifefor all so for every Adventist who maybe sitting here tonight or watchingonline and says I have no assurance ofSalvation because I messed up today ifyou're in a covenant relationship withthe Lord Jesus Christ there's a promiseof forgiveness tonight but yoursalvation is not based on you living aperfectly sinless spotless life from nowuntil you die your salvation was earnedon Calvary by the only one who ever haslived the perfect spotless sinless lifeand so tonight I'd encourage you whetherwe're in Adventists and straight whetherwe're non Adventist and a part of thelgbtq community to fix Our Eyes UponJesus on what he has has done for us inCalvary and to receive his righteousnessby faith I'm going to trust you Lordthat when you said all these thingsabout what happened at Calvary I'm goingto trust you that it applies tome and I'm therefore every day I'm goingto ask God to create me a clean heart ohGod and put a new and a right Spiritwithin me except a man be born again hecannot enter the kingdom of God as wasso um articul expressed earlier thisweek it is somehow it is a terriblething to to say to somebody that hassame sex attraction uh just don't actupon it and you'll be okay because lifeis a series of constant I want it Idon't want it I want it I don't want itand this is constant struggle going inand we forget the we we deny the powerof God to give us a born-againexperience to be a new man or a newwoman in Jesus Christ where the old hasgone and behold there is nothing leftbut thenew create in me a clean heart oh God Iput a new writing Spirit Within Methe Apostle Paul talks about thispromise of God of his work in our liveshe saysi confident of this that the onewho began a good work in you will bringit to completion by the day of JesusChrist that means I may still strugglewith some attractions I may stillstruggle with some Tendencies but Godknows and he's the Potter and I'm theclay and he's going to keep shaping meand prepare me for the eternity andbecause only he knows my future he'sgoing to prepare me and shape me so thatwhen I eventually do die I know my my myname is in the Lamb's Book of Lifebecause I'm a work in progress and he'sresponsible for getting me across theFinish Line notme we daily ask for the mind of JesusChrist the Apostle Paul said it this waylet the same mind being you that was inChrist Jesus and we could talk a lotabout this but essentially to have themind of Christ is to be filled daily bythe Holy Spirit as Harrison said a fewminutes earlier we do not teach oncesaved always saved as Adventists weteach from scripture that you are oncesaved then you are daily saved every daywe surrender Our Lives to the lordshipof Jesus Christ every day we ask for theinfilling and the baptism of his holyspirit to transform our characters everyday we ask for the mind ofChrist that his mind guide our thinkinghis mind gu our decisions his mind willguide our our tastes our appetites andthat he will sanctify us day by day andso like Newton one day we can say I'mnot the man I want to be but by God'sgrace neither am I the man that I usedto be and we can all see that progressin our lives as we draw closer to Jesusand I keep we keep our eyes fixed on himJohn1416 Jesus promises us this he says andI will ask the father and he will giveyou another Advocate to be with youforever it's the promise of the HolySpirit to all who ask in the name ofJesusChrist and that Holy Spirit does manythings in our lives but one of thethings he does is he fits us for heavenabove he changes our characters changesour attitudes changes our and ourappetites so the Apostle Paul can go onto say but now you've been freed fromsin and enslaved to God the advantageyou have is sanctification that is todaythe end is eternal life for the wages ofsin is death but the free gift of God iseternal life in Christ Jesus ourlord so we have to make a decision don'twe when we drill down to thephilosophical bed uh foundation of thesexual Revolution and the lgbtq movementit's essentially a philosoph of Despairnothing has meaning nothingmatters Freddy Mercury sang it like thatlet me just put on the screen those fourlines there are almost the anthem formodern Western youth does anybody knowwhat we are looking for does anybodywant to take it anymore does anybodyknow what we are living for but insidein the dark I'm aching to befree and this Cry of despair the searchfor meaning the search for identity thesearch for significance in our modernsocieties expressed through the plethoraof sexual identities that are popping upall over theplace is the Cry of the human heart formeaning and purpose the desire to beloved and to love to see and to be seento accept and to be accepted to knowthat I matter and thetragedy the tragedy of the pride paradesof the Western world today is thatnobody's going to find it where they'relooking fortoday so we can choose we can either godown the path of the sexual Revolutionand we're going to find ourselves caughtup in this Paradox I'm looking formeaning within a philosophy that saysmeaning is not possible or tonight I canaccept the Gospel of Jesus Christ and Ireceive his righteousness by faith Ireceive the righteous of Christ by faithand I receive the gift of eternal lifeMoses put it this wayit says I call Heaven and Earth towitness against you today that I haveset before you life and death blessingsand curses choose life so that you andyour descendants maylive God is not willing that any shouldperish God is not willing that anyshould perish regardless of what theysay their sexual orientation or theirgender identity may be God did not saythat eternal life was only for theheterosexuals in straight marriageshe wants eternal life for every partevery member of the human race includingme and including you and he's made itpossible for every member of the humanrace to turn from a philosophy ofDespair to turn to a philosophy ofLife he's made it possible for all of usto drink freely of the Water of Lifethat we may have love and joy and hopeand peace and gentleness andself-control within our characters thethings this world cannot give us youcannot buy in Walmart you cannot buy andAmazon these are things only God cangive it's the fruit of the Christianexperience it's not just I have a hardlife today than I would look forward toEternity tomorrow God says I willtransform your experience of Life todayyour life may be black and white I'llturn it into be gloriousTechnicolor and so God says to ustonight choose life whoever you may bewherever you may be regardless of yourpast regardless of the philosophy thatyou were raised with regardless of whoyou've slept with or want to sleep withGod is still appealing to you tonightchoose life so that you and yourdescendants maylive it's a beautiful appeal from theLord Jesus Christ choose life so thatyou may live is open to all so I want toinvite you tonight you know our time isalmost up here but I invite you to Bowyour heads with me if you're watchingonline I'd like to invite you to Bowyour heads with me and we're just goingto invite the Lord Jesus Christ into ourlives tonight[Applause]Jesus I've heard a lot aboutyou sometimes you're a swearword sometimes Jesus people have whackedme over the head with yourname but Jesustonight I wanthope and I wantmeaning and I wantforgiveness I want the shap washedaway and I want a purpose and a futurewithhope tonight LordJesus I'm sorry for the mistakes I'vemade and what you did on Calvary was forme and I accept it by faith tonight I'mgoing to trust youJesus that when you come again you'regoing to come looking forme tonight Lord Jesus give me yourmind fill me with your spiritguide me in the path I shouldwalk grow me and wash away the works ofthe Flesh and replace them with abeautiful Harvest of beauty and joy inmylife tonightJesus I'm that lost sheep and I'm cominghome to you the Lost Shepherd thank youfor loving me walk with me from this dayforward and when you come again in theClouds Of Glory Jesus please look for mein your holy name I ask amen[Music]