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The Spiritual Roots of Homosexuality
The Spiritual Roots of Homosexuality
Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither
were thankful: but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart
was darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, and
changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to
corruptible man, and to birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping things.
Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their
own hearts, to dishonor their own bodies between themselves: who changed
the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more
than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen. Romans 1:21-25
We see in these verses that both sexual perversion and idolatrous religion
have their roots in the rebellion of the creation against the Creator. As soon
as man turned his back on his Creator, he began a perverted love affair with
the creation. This spiritual perversion began to manifest in the natural as
sexual perversion. Mans rebellion against God resulted in an arrested
development that can be seen in both spiritual and sexual manifestation. It
is for this reason that there is such a strong affinity between homosexuality
and the spirit of religion and why the churches are filled with homosexuals in
need of a message and an anointing that will deliver them. Let us examine
the relationship between spiritual and sexual perversion.
For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did
change the natural use into that which is against nature. Romans 1:26
And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their
lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and
receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was meet. Romans
1:27
In the spiritual parallel, to move into the fullness of the stature of Christ is to step
out of the female aspect of God (the Bride) into the male aspect (Sonship) for the
purpose of ministry or spiritual reproduction. Many Christians reject Sonship,
resist the message of the Kingdom and refuse to grow into a mature identity with
the man Christ Jesus. Instead of becoming conformed to his image and growing
unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ: that
we henceforth be no more children, they would rather relate to Jesus as a
female in the same way that a homosexual man desires to relate to men in a
feminine mode rather than asserting and identifying with his own masculinity.
Even as Sodom and Gomorrha and the cities about them in like manner giving
themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh Jude 7
In this passage Jude is comparing spiritual rebellion with the sexual sins of
Sodom and Gomorrah. These sins, fornication and going after strange flesh,
must be seen in a spiritual light to get the deeper meaning and to understand the
spiritual parallel. In spiritual application, the "strange flesh" is actually the flesh
of Jesus
We see in this scripture that, in the mind of God, Sodom and the sins of the
Sodomites have a spiritual significance that has nothing to do with sexuality.
It was not homosexuals that crucified Jesus but rather the old pharisaical
order.
The sexual manifestation is merely an outward sign of something much more
offensive to God: the religious system of man (Judaic in Jesus' day and now
Christian in our day).
God has compassion on homosexuals. God's wrath is aimed at the spiritual
homosexuals that populate the "great city" referred to in this passage. That
city is the Jerusalem that is "below" or in the realm of carnality which Paul
contrasts with spiritual Jerusalem that is "above" (Gal 4:25-26).
In the mind of God, the Jerusalem that is below is spiritually synonymous with
the whore, Babylon, and as we can see here, with Sodom and Egypt. They all
speak of a place where God's people are held in bondage -- not to secular
authority but to fleshly religious authority and to their own attachment to that
authority.
They also speak of a place that will crucify those who, like Jesus, proclaim
the truths of God's kingdom .
But Lord I was good (Romans 3:10) I was a Christian, I was pro
life, I was against gay marriage, I was a conservative and the Lord
who kindly say, Depart from me, I never knew you