How will you Honor Gay Pride Month?

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Response to comment [from an atheist]: "Some of us have guns too."

Sinful passions are stirred by the law of God.

What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.

But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead [Rom. 7:7–8].

"Let me try to bring out the meaning a little more clearly: What shall we say then? Is the Law sin? Away with the thought! On the contrary, I should not have been conscious of sin, except through law; for I had not known illicit desire (coveting). But sin, getting a start through the commandment, produced in me all manner of illicit desire. For apart from the Law sin is dead.

Paul, you recall, began his argument way back in the sixth chapter of Romans with this expression, “What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin?” Now again he says, “What shall we say then? Is the Law sin?” In the first part of this chapter Paul seems to be saying that law and sin are on a par. If release from sin means release from law, then are they not the same? Paul clarifies this. He says, “Perish the thought!” Paul will now show that the Law is good; it reveals God’s will. The difficulty is not with the Law; the difficulty is with us. The flesh is at fault.

Paul becomes very personal in the remainder of this chapter. Notice that he uses the first person pronouns: I, me and myself; they are used forty-seven times in this section. The experience is the struggle Paul had within himself. He tried to live for God in the power of his new nature. He found it was impossible. The Law revealed to Paul the exceeding sinfulness of sin. The Law was an X-ray of his heart. That is what the Law will do for you if you put it down on your life. The Word of God is called a mirror; it reveals what we are. If you have a spot on your face, the mirror will show it to you, but it can’t remove the spot. However, God has a place to remove it:

There is a fountain filled with blood
Drawn from Immanuel’s veins;
And sinners, plunged beneath that flood,
Lose all their guilty stains.

The Law reveals the exceeding sinfulness of sin. The Law is not at fault, but the old Adamic nature is the culprit. The admonition of prohibition contained in the Law makes clear the weakness of the flesh. It shows we are sinners.

Here in California a test was made some time ago. A mirror was put in a very prominent public place, and the test was to see if men or women looked at themselves more. I felt it was an unnecessary test; I could have told them that women looked at themselves more. But unfortunately, the test proved otherwise. We all like to see ourselves. We all like to look in a mirror—except one: the Word of God. We don’t like to look in that one because it reveals us as sinners, horrible, lost sinners."
McGee, J. Vernon: Thru the Bible Commentary. electronic ed. Nashville : Thomas Nelson, 1997, c1981, S. 4:691-692

Response to comment [from an atheist]: "John W, there are a lot of unpleasant people on here. Plenty of bigots, plenty of offensively ignorant people. I used to think that SerpentDove takes the cake, but I'm starting to think it might be you..."

What does ethnicity have to do with sexual perversion? Deut. 22:22–29.

Response to comment [from a Satanist]: "Consensual sex between adults harms no one and isn't anyone's business but those involved..."

It is God's business.  He created you (Ge 1:1; 2:4,5; Pr 26:10).  You are responsible to him (Matt. 10:11–15).  Homosexuality is a crime (Lev. 18:22, 1 Kin. 14:24, Lev. 20:13, Rom. 1:24, 26, 27) We do not honor it.

"...To say otherwise is bigotry, among other things. End of story."

The Satanist would love for you to believe that that is the end of the story. He's wrong. You are free to act wickedly for a time. You are not free to avoid the consequences of your actions (1 Cor 6:9, 2 Th 1:9). You live in God's universe. Are you opposed to gravity, too, Satanist?

Response to comment [from an agnostic]:  [Sodomite celebrations] "...[M]any of us will just be entertained with the fact that such celebrations annoy you so much."

Payday someday (1 Co 6:9).

How will you Honor Gay Pride Month?