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August 30, 2022 8:00 am
So we got a double problem in that we deserve judgment and we lacked the righteousness that God requires.
Well, the Bible says Christ is the answer to that, he shed his blood and offered that life up as a sacrifice to a holy God to satisfy, to turn away the wrath of God from sinners like the Bible is clear that the transgender worldview is Blake close to the Christian view but as Christians. What should we tell people we encountered who are struggling with gender confusion behind a bill right on the truth, Paul Goodpaster, Don Greene is continuing the series titled, the Bible, and transgender is as he continues teaching God's people. God's will done. Some of us may have loved ones who identify as transgender. But we struggle with loving still wanting them to know God's love what we do will bill these issues certainly do put us in a pickle. Sometimes in our personal relationships. But my friend let me just encourage you with this. Yes, we want to speak gently. We want to speak tenderly to these people who may be hostile to what we have to say, but understand that they need the truth just like you did before you came to Christ, you were in some kind of manner of sin of your own and someone came and told you about Christ and I are so grateful for that person who shared things. Maybe when you are hostile or indifferent. When out your turn to be a a vessel of grace to be one who is bringing Christ to someone who needs to hear it even if they don't want to hear the word at the time, you simply share Christ with them in the power the Holy Spirit and trust God to do his work in their hearts and God will bless you for it.
Thanks, Don.
You are certainly more valuable truth in store as we learn what to say to those who identify as transgender friend.
Let's join our teacher now from the truthful bull I have spent several weeks in the past couple of months teaching a series titled, the Bible, and transgender is and I have spoken that series based on the text of Scripture and from some very important presuppositions.
You see I am a Christian pastor and I am committed to the truth claims of the Bible and the truth claims of Jesus Christ.
I'm speaking this message today. This particular message today in an effort to speak to those who might identify with the transgender community.
In one way or another and I ask you to hear me out as I speak and to give me the benefit of 45 minutes of your time and to listen with a receptive ear even if it ultimately you would decide that you don't want anything to do with what I have to say what you have to lose to hear something outside of your worldview for just a short time you see the Christian worldview. The worldview of the Bible is more than simply a critique of the sins of man and the failures of man. The worldview of Christianity gives clarity and it gives hope to transgender people, even as it says that there is a truth claim that overrides and contradicts it and it's that truth claim to you personally that I want to speak here today something very important to say and recognize as we as I say these things is that I recognize and I realize that transgender people are not all of one cloth transgender people are different from one another, just as Christian people are different from one another. You are not a monolithic group.
You're not all the same and it would be foolish for any person to speak to you in a way that assumed that you were all alike. Many of you have never even heard about Christ.
You never truly heard about him heard of someone recently who didn't even know what the word sermon met heard of others when someone was speaking to them about Christ and the cross that it was new to them.
They had never heard of that and I realize that there would be many who would identify with the transgender worldview who were in that condition of not even being aware of what the gospel of Jesus Christ is and what it says to you, I want us tell you who Jesus Christ is today what his claim is on your life.
That's not all. I mean, there are others in the transgender world transgender community if you will, that knowingly reject Christ, perhaps based on prior negative religious experience. Your experience of Christianity was negative and turned you away from Ed, we could all relate to that, to 1° or another is not just the world that sinned and fallen short of the glory of God the Church of Christ has sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. I would encourage you to look past that and to look to Christ himself. But in that. I would also want to say this, that in some of your rejections of Christ some of your pursuits of the transgender world for some of you. We need to be honest and to state clearly that your intentions are destructive that your intentions are to destroy things that have been built up that your intentions are are wicked against even Christian people and to you. I would encourage you to reconsider and to think about the ultimate outcome of what you are pursuing because the judgment of God is a real thing, in the judgment of God on those who knowingly reject Christ and are wickedly against him is especially severe and so I give to you a word of warning, even as I speak here today.
Yours is not one of ignorance. Yours is one of conscious intention to be destructive of the created order. The goddess established you're in a position of particular danger. My friend, but beyond that, I would also say this is I recognize that some of you are truly hurting in life and your existence is miserable because of this conflict that you feel inside of yourself.
Perhaps you even tried to or pursuing D transition trying to go back to that from which you came in, I would have you that hurt in the midst of your transgender experience to know this is that a gracious God offers you the mercy of a lifetime. The mercy of eternity and it's that that I want to share with you in particular here today, so there's multiple applications, all coming in the same message and all that just let you kinda sort out where you fit in on the scale of those things. What I ask you to do is to hear me out because I am truly speaking to you as a friend, even if you don't perceive me that way.
As we begin I am speaking to your well-being.
I'm speaking to help you. I'm speaking to offer you the greatest gift that could possibly be offered to you is my privilege to be able to do that here this morning and I would say that if someone has given you this message on an audio link or via CD or in a video link there trying to be your friend to their trying to minister to you and giving you this so I encourage you to respond well to them as well. You know, for many of you, I would recognize and imagine that it's hard for you to trust anyone because I know that many of you are in your position with a history of having been abused by people that you trusted people that hurt you when you were vulnerable.
That's an awful position for anyone to be and so what I have to say to you is a message of mercy from a gracious God, who can be trusted no matter what anyone has done to you in the past it was our Lord Jesus Christ, who gave this gracious invitation that you can believe and trust when he said come to me all who are weary and heavy laden, and I will give you rest. It's that rest that I want to offer to you here this morning. You see the Bible tells us that there is a gospel and what the word gospel means is this.
It's a word that means good news and it's a word of good news to everyone in the world that would hear it.
The good news that God would bring to everyone that would hear his word with an open and receptive heart. The gospel is described in the Bible like this where a man named the apostle Paul said these words in first Corinthians chapter 15 he said no. I make known to you to my brethren, the gospel which I preached to you. Many went on and said what the gospel was said that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and that he was buried, and that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures.
Now why would that matter to you too.
Why is the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Good news and that's what I want to explain to you and to help you see how it applies to you, even within your transgender life in your transgender world what it means for you and what its significance is for you. I believe that everybody ought to be able to hear this at least once in their lifetime to hear such wonderful news that you are to be able to hear it at least once explained clearly in a sympathetic way from someone who on behalf of Christ is seeking your spiritual good.
Why would you want to hear that and listen and be able to assess it for yourself. That's what we want to do here in the brief time that we have here this morning and we need to walk through why we even need good news because there is some bad news that is embedded in Scripture for all of us will start here with with the first point that I would make to you that I would share with you here this morning, it's that God is holy God is holy see the Bible tells us that God is the creator of heaven and earth that he existed before time began, and everything that we see as a result of the direct creative power of God that he spoke the world into existence and that this God who is sovereign over all that he reigns that he rules these master overall that it's that God, in whom we live and move and have our being. You can see that in the book of acts chapter 17. If you want to look it up later in your Bible or something particularly unique about this God something special about him that makes him different from us.
The Bible tells us that this God is his holy. He is morally perfect.
He is good in an absolute sense. So good that he cannot tolerate anything in his presence that is inconsistent with his own righteous character. He's holy in the sense also that he is separate from man. He is separate from his creation. Even though he is active in creation is completely different and distinct from it and so great and holy and mighty is he that Scripture says holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts, the whole earth is full of his glory. So this is who God is and this is the God in whom we live and move and have our being. And you might ask the question was that have to do with me. I don't even care about God.
What difference does it make that God is like that. I want nothing to do with him. Well, my friend. It's not quite that simple for you see this God is not only holy.
He's also a judge and he is the final judge of the entirety of mankind, of every man woman and child that ever lived. Every man woman and child will stand before this holy God.
The Bible says also in acts chapter 17 says that God is now declaring to men that all people everywhere should repent because he has fixed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness through a man whom he has appointed, having furnished proof to all men by raising him from the dead. You see, there is a real day of judgment that is coming that every one of us will stand before this holy God and give an account to him for the way that we've lived. Judgment is coming to all you my transgender friend will one day stand before a holy God and he will require an account from you for the way that you've lived your life now you might say, somewhat, what do I have to fear. Why is this even pertained to me I don't even believe in that God balance. Not quite not quite that simple fact that you don't believe in him does not change the reality of his existence, and it is not change or alter in any way shape or form. His intention to bring judgment upon all men, that all men will give an account to him, and that includes you and you cannot exempt yourself from that judgment by denying his reality doesn't work that way. Because of that my next explanation. My next point for you as a particular relevance for you or second point here this morning is that you are sinful you are sinful and that's a problem to say that your sinful is simply a way of saying we could say in in readily understandable language is that you don't meet the standard that God requires neither do I frankly see God requires perfection to enter his presence. And anyone who lacks perfection will face his judgment. Jesus said in Matthew chapter 5. You are to be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect. My friend, my transgender friend, even if you're sympathetic to that worldview.
Even though you don't practice it yourself. You need understand something really important.
It is precisely at this point that you have reason to fear because you do not meet God's standard of perfection. Scripture describes you. In this way, as it describes all men not simply you and a transgender world.
What is said to all men, including the people that are listening to me as I get this message here today. You do not meet God's standard of perfection.
You're not a basically good person that simply has a conflict inside of your soul. See, the Bible says that your very nature, the very person that you are at the very core of who you are is depraved is hostile to God is dead in trespasses and sin and that there is not a spark of righteousness in you. Just like there was not one in me in a prior time in my life. See, the Bible says in Romans chapter 3 that there is none righteous, not even one, there is none who understands, there is none who seeks for God.
All of turned aside, together they have become useless. There is none who does good.
There is not even one.
Their throat is an open grave, with their tongues they keep deceiving my friend this is a tremendous problem for all of us in a particular problem for you is your hearing me as I'm speaking directly to you is that this is a biblical description of what you're like inside, apart from Christ you're not righteous you don't understand. You don't seek for God. You don't do good in your throat is an open grave. That's really serious. Why is that such a problem.
It's been a problem because God is holy because God is a God of truth of absolute truth, and he does not allow any deception or any lies or anything like that in his presence, nor the ones who practice such things and so we find that there is a terrible problem here that is of of consequence a goes beyond our lives. You see, my friend.
See God is an eternal God, and a violation of his character is sin against him. As a matter of eternal consequence is something that requires eternal judgment, lasting everlasting condemnation because it's not simply that we lie to one another and maybe we heard each other humanly in the process. A holy God sees that and rejects it and charges it because it's a violation of the very nature that he is in this coming judgment as we all marched down the aisle toward judgment with God were carrying the weight of deception, a weight of sin, a weight of rebellion and indifference to God that were going to show up on judgment day what you expect to happen to you when that cons that can't go well for you my friend dislike it couldn't go well for anyone in this room it's listening to me. Scripture makes us very, very evident it. It's very burdensome thing to say things like this out because I'm concerned not only for the glory of God. But I'm I'm concerned for the reality of your eternal soul because the Bible says that those who die in sin, will face eternal death.
Scripture says in second Thessalonians chapter 1 says this the Lord Jesus will be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels in flaming fire, dealing out retribution to those who do not know God and to those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.
These will pay the penalty of eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his power. This is pretty serious.
That's not like God didn't tell us in advance about his intentions to judge the world know a friend I want to be really clear here in terms of what I'm saying to you your sin against God is more than being transgender although it does include that you see it's it's a bigger problem than the way that we choose to live life in a way that we choose to represent ourselves before men were even the way we choose to think about ourselves, those things are involved, but it's a bigger problem than that. And that's what you really need to understand see your sin is the fact that you live for yourself not for Christ. Your sin is that you have not love Christ or known him see you are like I once was your lost in your sins have separated you from God and that you are your dwelling in darkness in your moving forward to a judgment from a God that you do not know and who is declared his intention to judge people just like you what of what an awful place to be in. It breaks my heart to think about it. It truly does and you see friends. I can understand the situation because I was there to.
I was never transgender but I was a center rebelling against God, who had no use for God. I I had no desire for his word, no desire for Christ. I was once lost. Also so I speak to you as one who's been there in the realm of my own manifestation of sin, you might say, how is there any good news when we are like that when there is judgment coming and we can undo the consequences of our sin. My friend let me tell you, you cannot work your way out of that situation, you cannot suddenly get religion and fix it because your account carries a debt of sin and guilt that you do not have the power to forgive. You can't forgive it.
You don't have the power to wash away. How, then, is there any hope where can we go for good news.
Let's get to the good news, then the good news in the third matter that I would share with you this morning is this is that Jesus Christ is the Savior.
He is the Savior of the one and only the Savior of the world. The only Savior that the world knows there is no salvation for you in your transgender worldview. There is no salvation for you a monster transgender friends. There is no salvation for you among those who would affirm you in your life chosen lifestyle. There is no hope in that you need to come to Christ defined the only hope that can deliver you from eternal judgment and the wonderful thing about the message of the gospel. The wonderful thing about Jesus Christ is this is that Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners just like you and sinners just like me and sinners just like the ones that are hearing me in this room here this morning. You see the eternal son of God took on the body of a man and thereby gave meaning to our physical flesh in our physical existence, the eternal son of God became man so that he could identify with men, and he had a specific reason for doing that in grace and mercy. He was coming to save people just like you from sin city.
Unlike all of us.
Christ actually did live a perfect life he lived a perfectly righteous life in complete obedience to this holy God, and he did so as the eternal son of God. He was God himself in human flesh and Jesus said in the Gospel of John chapter 8 is that I always do the things that are pleasing to my father, Scripture says maybe you've heard the verse John 316, the God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son so that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. You see, this is a command that comes with a promise attached. The command is repent and believe in Christ, receive him unconditionally. The promises complete forgiveness of all of your sins, complete welcome into the family of God complete heaven forever with him so my friend in the name of Christ.
I call upon you to repent of your sins and believe in Christ for eternal salvation plead with you, as the apostle Paul said, I beg you on behalf of Christ, to be reconciled. The Bible says that all of us have fallen short of the glory of God.
And that's why we need a Savior, Jesus Christ, and whether people believe in him now or not they will one day stand before him. So our role is to help others embrace his love and truth now, so they too can discover true freedom in Christ. Join us next time.
On our next program as pastor Don Greene continues this informative series titled, the Bible, and transgender is him right here on the truth pulpit but now Don's back your in studio with a closing message will bill this whole matter of transgender-ism is something that just breaks my heart. The world says it's a matter of freedom and self identity. But the truth is is that it's a matter of false advertising in many lives and families are being torn apart by it's hard to find clear answers my friend and that's why were offering the complete pulpit series for free at our website.
The truth pulpit.com thanks Don and friend that's all the time. We have built right will see you next time. For more from the truth pulpit as Don Greene continues teaching God's people. God