April 24, 2022
HOT SEAT: God, Gender, & Sexuality
- __________ is not the same as __________.
- Your ______________________ is not the foundation of your identity.
God & Gender Identity LGBTQIA+
(Romans 12:1-2 NIV) Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship. Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.
1. Our bodies are ____________________.
(Psalm 139:14 NLT) You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body and knit me together in my mother’s womb. Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex! Your workmanship is marvelous—how well I know it.
2. Our bodies are ___________________ by God and for ____________.
(Genesis 1:27-28 NIV) So God created human beings in his own image. In the image of God he created them; male and female he created them. Then God blessed them and said, “Be fruitful and multiply.
3. We are all prone to ___________________, ___________, and __________ against God.
(Genesis 3:1 NIV) Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?
Genesis 19:4
Leviticus 18:22 NIV
Leviticus 20:13 NLT
1 Timothy 1:8-11 NLT
Mark 10:5-9 NLT
Romans 1:24-30 NLT
(1 Timothy 4:1-2 NLT) Now the Holy Spirit tells us clearly that in the last times some will turn away from the true faith; they will follow deceptive spirits and teachings that come from demons. These people are hypocrites and liars, and their consciences are dead.
(Revelation 2:20 NIV) Nevertheless, I have this against you: You tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophet. By her teaching she misleads my servants into sexual immorality.
4. We are all in need of ___________________.
(1 Corinthians 6:9-11 NLT) Don’t you realize that those who do wrong will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don’t fool yourselves. Those who indulge in sexual sin, or who worship idols, or commit adultery, or are male prostitutes, or practice homosexuality, or are thieves, or greedy people, or drunkards, or are abusive, or cheat people—none of these will inherit the Kingdom of God. Some of you were once like that. But you were cleansed; you were made holy; you were made right with God by calling on the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
(Luke 9:23-24 NIV) Then he said to them all: “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me. For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will save it.
5. We all receive a _______________________.
(2 Corinthians 5:17 LB) When someone becomes a Christian, he becomes a brand new person inside. He is not the same anymore. A new life has begun!
(Romans 6:6 NIV) For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body ruled by sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin.
What Now?
- Admit _____________.
(Psalm 51:1 NIV) Have mercy on me, O God, according to your unfailing love; according to your great compassion blot out my transgressions.
- Allow _____________________.
(Job 11:13-16 NIV) Yet if you devote your heart to (God) and stretch out your hands to him, if you put away the sin that is in your hand and allow no evil to dwell in your tent, then you will lift up your face without shame; you will stand firm and without fear. You will surely forget your trouble, recalling it only as waters gone by.