Proponents of homosexual behavior are fond of declaring that “Jesus never said anything about homosexuality.” This is patently false. Such a statement demonstrates ignorance of important truths central to the Person of Jesus Christ.
1). Jesus made it quite plain that His purpose was not to destroy the law, that is, subvert it, dissolve it, or deprive it of its force (Matthew 5:17). Rather, He came to fulfill it. This fulfillment was accomplished, primarily, in His personal and vicarious obedience to the law on behalf of the elect. Yet there remains a certain accomplishment of it when Jesus takes up the law of God and sits in judgment of all men on the last day (Revelation 20:11-15). Does the law include Leviticus 18:22 or not? If so, how do we justify any statement that implies that Jesus subverted it?
2). Jesus is the second Person of the Trinity. This means that He is in full accord with God the Father and the Holy Spirit. If the question is asked; “Who gave the law” (i.e. the Levitical law) to the people, we answer that it was God. But God must, necessarily, have been acting in concert with the other two Persons of the Godhead, the Spirit and the Son. In John 10:30 Jesus declares plainly that He and His Father are one. Therefore, when we hear the words of God the Father, in Leviticus, are we not also hearing the words of God the Son? Is there a division between the members of the Trinity when it comes to certain laws? Was Jesus, being the second Person of the Trinity, apt to deprive of its force that which the first Person affirmed as law?
It is true that the word ‘homosexual’ is not recorded as coming directly from Jesus' human mouth. Yet the Apostles, under the influence of the Holy Spirit, declare it to be sinful. Since the scripture is given by the inspiration of God, it must be in keeping with the mind of the Lord Jesus. When God speaks Jesus also speaks, as one! Since the Scripture is God-breathed, and since Jesus is God the son, the Scripture, all of it, is Christ breathed as well.
There is absolutely no indication that the Lord Jesus Christ opposed the sexual prohibitions of the Old Testament. In fact it would be an incredible blasphemy to say that Jesus degraded the law in any way or endorsed sexual immorality in any form!
1). Jesus made it quite plain that His purpose was not to destroy the law, that is, subvert it, dissolve it, or deprive it of its force (Matthew 5:17). Rather, He came to fulfill it. This fulfillment was accomplished, primarily, in His personal and vicarious obedience to the law on behalf of the elect. Yet there remains a certain accomplishment of it when Jesus takes up the law of God and sits in judgment of all men on the last day (Revelation 20:11-15). Does the law include Leviticus 18:22 or not? If so, how do we justify any statement that implies that Jesus subverted it?
2). Jesus is the second Person of the Trinity. This means that He is in full accord with God the Father and the Holy Spirit. If the question is asked; “Who gave the law” (i.e. the Levitical law) to the people, we answer that it was God. But God must, necessarily, have been acting in concert with the other two Persons of the Godhead, the Spirit and the Son. In John 10:30 Jesus declares plainly that He and His Father are one. Therefore, when we hear the words of God the Father, in Leviticus, are we not also hearing the words of God the Son? Is there a division between the members of the Trinity when it comes to certain laws? Was Jesus, being the second Person of the Trinity, apt to deprive of its force that which the first Person affirmed as law?
It is true that the word ‘homosexual’ is not recorded as coming directly from Jesus' human mouth. Yet the Apostles, under the influence of the Holy Spirit, declare it to be sinful. Since the scripture is given by the inspiration of God, it must be in keeping with the mind of the Lord Jesus. When God speaks Jesus also speaks, as one! Since the Scripture is God-breathed, and since Jesus is God the son, the Scripture, all of it, is Christ breathed as well.
There is absolutely no indication that the Lord Jesus Christ opposed the sexual prohibitions of the Old Testament. In fact it would be an incredible blasphemy to say that Jesus degraded the law in any way or endorsed sexual immorality in any form!
