The article I quote from Christianity Today in this video is titled, "Jesus was the God-Man, not the God-Superman." It is one of the worst articles I've ever read by theologians who claim to be Bible-believers. They argue Jesus had doubts because, temporarily, Jesus believed the Devil, He doubted God's plan, and He must doubt in order to save us. Ironically, the authors host a podcast called "Slow Theology." You got that right! And, another irony is that the article was published on April 1, 2021, which is April Fools Day! But, unfortunately, they weren't joking.

According to 2 Thessalonians 1:3-12, How does Hell glorify God?

How does Hell glorify God?

According to Isaiah 66:15-24, why does hell glorify God?

“15 For behold, the LORD will come in fire, and his chariots like the whirlwind, to render his anger in fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire. 16 For by fire will the LORD enter into judgment, and by his sword, with all flesh; and those slain by the LORD shall be many. 17 “Those who sanctify and purify themselves to go into the gardens, following one in the midst, eating pig's flesh and the abomination and mice, shall come to an end together, declares the LORD."

v.18-21 – 2. Just.

"18 “For I know their works and their thoughts, and the time is coming to gather all nations and tongues. And they shall come and shall see my glory, 19 and I will set a sign among them. And from them I will send survivors to the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, who draw the bow, to Tubal and Javan, to the coastlands far away, that have not heard my fame or seen my glory. And they shall declare my glory among the nations. 20 And they shall bring all your brothers from all the nations as an offering to the Lord, on horses and in chariots and in litters and on mules and on dromedaries, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, says the Lord, just as the Israelites bring their grain offering in a clean vessel to the house of the Lord. 21 And some of them also I will take for priests and for Levites, says the Lord."

"22 “For as the new heavens and the new earth that I make shall remain before me, says the LORD, so shall your offspring and your name remain. 23 From new moon to new moon, and from Sabbath to Sabbath, all flesh shall come to worship before me, declares the LORD. 24 “And they shall go out and look on the dead bodies of the men who have rebelled against me. For their worm shall not die, their fire shall not be quenched, and they shall be an abhorrence to all flesh.”

Dean Inserra, Lead Pastor of City Church in Tallahassee, FL and SBC Executive Committee Trustee, says, "...the goal for the Christian with same-sex desires is not heterosexuality, but holiness." But is this biblically accurate? Absolutely not!

My Response: 1) Dean's big issue is that he's practicing anthropology and calling it theology. He has asked, "homosexuals," "Can you stop being gay?" and based on their answer, he has formulated his empty rhetoric, "God has called you to be holy not heterosexual." But, there is no other holy sexuality except for heterosexuality. Every single person who has ever been created, based on God's design of male & female, is a heterosexual. But some suppress this truth in unrighteousness. Yet, our feelings do not define our sexuality.

Our Designer, God, defines our sexuality. And Genesis 2:20-25 says that God made Adam, and then made Eve from Adam for Adam, and for this reason, "a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh" (Gen 2:21-24). God's design is clear: male and female sexuality in its entirety is for the pursuit of biblical marriage. And telling Christians whose flesh tells them they're "gay" that they are not heterosexual is unbiblical and is a denial of God creating them male or female.

2) God's design, not our fleshly desire, is the only prerequisite for marriage. Christians who desire sexual and/or marital intimacy should pursue biblical marriage regardless what their flesh tells them. For, "It is not good that the man should be alone..." (Gen 2:18). God literally created males and females for the two to become one flesh, to come together in the covenant of marriage.

3) The Bible says that singleness is good to pursue for the sake of Christ's kingdom, but it takes a gift from God (Matt 19:11; 1 Cor 7:7-10). The Christian who is having same-sex desires does not have the gift of singleness. Therefore, he or she should reject the flesh & cultivate desires for God's design, & should pursue opposite-sex friends, in hope that he or she will one day marry an opposite-sex Christian. Why? Christians should hate their flesh and love God's design. Christians should order their lives according to God's design. And desiring marital intimacy means God's design for you is to pursue biblical marriage.

4) Dean is treating the sin of homosexuality as a special sin, for he would not apply his logic to other sins. For example, imagine saying to a Christian who is having trans desires, "Your goal is holiness, not living according to your God-designed sex." Or, telling a Christian who has desires to steal, "Your goal is holiness, not working hard." Not only should Christians who have same-sex desires totally reject them, they should also seek to cultivate desires for opposite-sex Christians, to lead to biblical marriage. *By "cultivate," I don't mean lust. Rather, I mean cultivate desire for one day cutting a sexual covenant of marriage with an oppositive-sex Christian.

In other words, the goal is holiness, but this holiness, for the Christian who is having same-sex desires, includes cultivating heterosexual desires and pursuing heterosexual marriage, because it is God's design for us, since He created us male or female, and these Christians do not have the gift of singleness. If they had the gift of singleness, they would not be talking about their "same-sex attraction" or struggling with it.

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SOURCES:

1) ERLC Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8VS4c_X1S4

2) Pure Book: https://amzn.to/3IGtvT1

3) Florida Baptist Witness Article: https://cdn.coverstand.com/9717/118555/118555.1.pdf

Sources

[1] Bart Barber, “What Do You Think About Slavery?” Accessed June 10, 2022, https://web.archive.org/web/20221202072353/https://www.fbcfarmersville.com/bartfaq.aspx.

[2] Bart Barber, “The Bible and Slavery,” December 15, 2014, Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20210512011554/https://sbcvoices.com/the-bible-and-slavery/.

[3] Bart Barber, “Why the Slavery Question is Important,” December 20, 2014, Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20210613145146/https://sbcvoices.com/why-the-slavery-question-is-important/.

[4] Barber, “Why the Slavery Question is Important,” Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20210613145146/https://sbcvoices.com/why-the-slavery-question-is-important/, Comment Section.

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[6] Bart Barber, “How You Begin and How You End Up: Two Different Things,” October 3, 2008, Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20220601193723/https://praisegodbarebones.blogspot.com/2008/10/how-you-begin-and-how-you-end-up-two.html.

[7] Bart Barber, “The Dawning of Emancipation,” December 19, 2014, Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20210509015921/https://sbcvoices.com/the-dawning-of-emancipation/.

[8] Bart Barber, “I’d Rather Be Abraham’s Slave Eliezer Than,” December 16, 2014, Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20210613134807/https://sbcvoices.com/id-rather-be-abrahams-slave/.

[9] Barber, “I’d Rather Be Abraham’s Slave Eliezer Than,” Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20210613134807/https://sbcvoices.com/id-rather-be-abrahams-slave/, Comment Section.

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[12] Bart Barber, “Why We Find It Difficult to Talk About Slavery,” December 12, 2014, Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20210613152925/https://sbcvoices.com/why-we-find-it-difficult-to-talk-about-slavery/.

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[21] Michel Martin, “Slave Bible from the 1800s Omitted Key Passages that Could Incite Rebellion,” December 9, 2018, https://www.npr.org/2018/12/09/674995075/slave-bible-from-the-1800s-omitted-key-passages-that-could-incite-rebellion.

1 Corinthians 10:16 - "The cup of blessing that we bless, is it not a participation in the blood of Christ? The bread that we break, is it not a participation in the body of Christ?"  We partake in the blood of Christ and the body of Christ when we partake of the Lord’s Supper with faith. The big debate in church history has been over whether we literally (transubstantiation taught by Roman Catholicism), half-literally (consubstantiation taught by Martin Luther), spiritually (spiritual presence taught by John Calvin), or in memory memorial view taught by Ulrich Zwingli), partake of Christ.

Both the Memorial view and the Spiritual Presence view are permitted based on our church's confession of faith, the Baptist Faith and Message 2000.

Although, I do not like the phrase “means of grace” because Rome teaches that the sacraments actually save those who partake of them. The proclamation of God’s word indeed saves sinners due to the Holy Spirit’s work with the proclamation of God’s word, transforming their hearts and their faith. And the Holy Spirit also uses the proclamation of God’s word to strengthen the faith of Christians in their hearts and minds. In other words, the word of God is different from the words of men. And the Holy Spirit takes this Word, preached through the Lord's Supper and baptism, and saves and sanctifies sinners, beginning and bringing to the finish, salvation in them.

Furthermore, you do not have to participate in the sacrament to be saved or sanctified because God saves by grace through faith in Christ with the preaching of the word. God does not save through the Lord’s Supper or Baptism or the Word. Rather, God saves with the Word. The Holy Spirit takes the word and applies it to those who have faith in Christ. However, participating in the Lord’s Supper with your brothers and sisters in Christ on a regular basis, helps to sanctify us. As does hearing the word preached, praying the word, memorizing the word, seeing new believers baptized, etc.

The Word is preached through the Lord’s Supper, because it’s a drama given to us by God to communicate truth! The same is true of baptism. The Lord’s Supper preaches the word of God, and the Holy Spirit applies that word to those who participate in faith, believing the word preached, and He sanctifies us, matures us—whether that Word is preached through preaching, singing, the Lord’s Supper, Baptism, reading the Word, praying the Word, etc.

To summarize, the Lord’s supper is an ordinance or sacrament that reinforces our faith, joins Christians together, and sets us apart from the world who does not observe the Lord’s Supper with us. And as we partake, we preach to one another 1) We all need Jesus. 2) We all have received Christ through faith. 3) Christ is returning soon to wage war on His enemies and set up an eternal kingdom in the New Heavens and New Earth.

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INTRO STATS: Abortions in the United States (From all abortion providers in all states.  *The 620,327 stat from the CDC does not include CA, MD, and NH) 

862,320 – 2018

916,460 – 2019

930,160 – 2020

*Guttmacher Institute, Formerly Planned Parenthood's Research Arm https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1363/psrh.12215

INTRO ILLUS: A year or so ago, I was in the local AT&T Mobile store here in town, near Walmart. I was working on getting a new phone because mine was no longer supported. It took about an hour. While I was waiting, two employees started talking about abortion. Each said, “It should be a woman’s choice whether or not she keeps her baby.” They kept using the term “baby.” I calmly spoke up and said, “If an embryo is a baby, you cannot kill it.” That ended the discussion in its tracks. Because if any embryo is a baby from conception, and it is, then every miscarriage is the death of a baby and every abortion is the murder of a baby. 

We all know this; that is why we weep over miscarriages. We do not weep over what the embryo would become; we weep over what it was from conception…a very small baby! A very small image-bearer!

The Bible teaches that. . .

1. Regardless of age or location, men, women, and children are made in God's image (Genesis 1:26-28).

2. Jesus was truly human from conception (Luke 1:26-41).

3. David was truly human from conception (Psalm 139:13-16; Psalm 51:3-6).

4. All humans are truly human from conception.

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INTRO: Remember Our consciences are the inner courts in our hearts that hold us accountable to the right and wrong we believe. But our consciences are only good at judging us if they are well-informed by Scripture, and we’re repenting and believing in Christ. Sin has warped all creation, including our consciences. We need Jesus! For, apart from turning to Christ to cleanse our evil consciences, they will not be biblically informed by the Holy Spirit, to where our consciences can accurately and faithfully judge us, keep us from harm, and spur us to loving obedience and faithfulness to God.

Think of your conscience as like playing a new sport or game for the first time. You begin, and you do not know the rules. But, as you play, your conscience is informed what the rules are, and you begin to change how you play as you’re better informed.

How do we do all things to the glory of God?

We do all things to the glory of God by. . .

v.23 - 1. Being helpful and encouraging.

v.24 - 2. Exalting our neighbors above ourselves.

v.25-27 – 3. Not seeking the world’s approval.

v.28-30 – 4. Not needlessly wounding other people’s consciences.

v.31-33 – 5. Limiting our freedom for God’s glory and the salvation of many.

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