I suggest you listen to this episode without my introduction. The episode speaks for itself. It is not my intention to throw stones at pastors and church leaders -  but to simply tell the truth for the greater good of the church. Thank you!

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It's a call based on concern for him - not to hurt him. Please listen.

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For years, decades, the evangelical church treated homosexuality as almost a sin not covered in the cross. And acted as if there were no born-again believers who struggled with same-sex attraction. The silence was damaging. I've lived through it. Sprinkle is exposing it, and eyes are being opened within the evangelical framework to the truth. But there's a problem: Sprinkle's remedy is making it worse. Evangelical leadership doesn't realize it because it is oblivious to what caused the problem in the first place: not understanding the core doctrine of ongoing personal sanctification, which applies to all born-again believers, including themselves as leaders. You can't teach what you don't know and don't implement yourself.  God used the writings of a man who lived more than 300 years ago to teach me: Puritan John Owen.  He would be heartsick to see the condition of today's evangelical church. Just allowing Sprinkle in the door is an example. 

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This episode is the fourth in a series.  I point out that Sprinkle categorizes humanity in general as gay and straight, and Christians as either gay or straight, which is non-biblical and damaging to the health of secular society and the church. Also, his defining same-sex attraction as a sexual orientation that is not sinful falls short of the Greek word that is translated into English as sin. It is hamartia, meaning to miss the mark or taking another direction. Any thought, desire, memory, or action that falls short of God's moral laws and creation ordinances of sexuality, gender, and marriage "misses the mark" and is sin - even when not carried out in behaviors. I use Romans 1:18-28 to debunk Sprinkle's idea that same sex attraction is not a sin, and to also debunk that it is an attraction. How? By quoting the verses that define sex attraction as missing-the-mark desires of lust that inflame the person. I liken same-sex attraction to a hungry lion waiting to devour another person through same-sex sex - by using body parts that God never intended to be used as sexual organs. Treating same-sex attraction as neutral leaves the door open to that "lion."  And like any hungry lion that is set to devour a human being as a meal, it has to be put to death. And with it comes putting to death the gay as a marker of identity. And it is the purpose of this podcast.  

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I just finished recording Part 2. If you have not listened to the initial episode and Part 2, I recommend checking out the first one and then Part 2. However, it won't hurt to begin with this episode and backtrack; I provide a review of what I covered in preceding episodes. 

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In the first episode, of which this is the second of a series, I explained that the Upside-Down Kingdom Bible is packaged in the New International Version and published by Zondervan. It contains commentary from a cadre of men and women on social issues, relating them to Scripture and Scripture to them. Justin Sprinkle is the general editor and provides commentary on sexuality and gender. I believe in the importance of this series in that pastors, elders, teachers, deans of seminaries and Bible schools, presidents of denominations, and directors/staff of parachurch organizations will be responsible before God if they allow what I read to you from the Upside-Down Kingdom Bible to gain a footing in their churches, seminaries, schools, and organizations, as well as counselors and authors.  And I am speaking to parents as well: You are responsible before God to make sure your children understand God's definition of sexuality and gender. So, please take this series seriously.   

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I believe this episode, the first of a series, may be the most important I record... because it speaks to the well-being of the evangelical church, or what used to be known as evangelicalism. I am committed, using my life journey knowing what it is like to be driven by evil desires that crave sex with another man (not a sexual orientation), to proclaim God's moral laws and creation ordinances of sexuality, gender, and marriage - which the idea of the gay Christian perverts and Preston Sprinkle perverts in the Upside-Down Kingdom Bible. I believe in the importance of this series in that pastors, elders, teachers, deans of seminaries and Bible schools, presidents of denominations, and directors/staff of parachurch organizations will be responsible before God for allowing what I read to you from the Upside-Down Kingdom Bible to gain a footing in their churches, seminaries, schools, and organizations, as well as counselors, authors, and  Christian publishers. And I am speaking to parents as well: You are responsible before God to make sure your children understand God's definition of sexuality and gender. So, please take this series seriously. 

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The verse that I couldn't find is Psalm 34:22. I was trying to locate it in the New American Standard Bible (NASB) I keep next to my computer. This morning, I checked it out in the NASB I keep next to my chair in the living room - and there it was. The NASB I keep next to my computer is the 1995 version; the one in my living room is the 2020 version, and I find it a more powerful translation of Psalm 34:22. I explain why in this episode. 

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Less than an hour ago, I listened to Back to Chicago My Babylon. It was one of the first episodes that I recorded for this podcast. It had been over a year since I had listened to it, and I realized that I had omitted what I had found when I returned: AIDS had claimed many of my friends, and someone I had considered more than a friend. I omitted it because I felt too guilty to face the fact that I was alive, which is the update.  

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I've asked myself that question. And it's a question that every Christian needs to ask themselves. In this episode, I take you on my journey of coming to the truth that I loved my sin more than I loved God, what I did about it, and where I am today loving God. I pray it will both challenge and encourage you. 

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