In the spiritual senses, marriage in the HOLY sense is the 'final' joining of ALL believers to Christ.
What we currently have here, in the flesh, is that. These are fleshly positions that we take on, and have little to do with "real ordinance" which is our forthcoming final ceremony with our Spiritual Husband.
Homosexuality can be a reverse spiritual observation. In the spiritual senses, it is the "attempted" bonding that transpires with the "man of sin, the tempter" with "men of faith."
That is spiritual homosexuality. What we observe in the fleshly external sense, is that. Fleshly lusts,
as a reflection of a more dire internal state.
What I might ask myself in these equations is this. We know that where The Word is sown, THEN the devil (or his own) springs up IN MAN to deceive. So, we have "a Word" or two against homosexuality (or any other sin in the flesh for that matter) and then ARISES in conjunction with the internal workings of the adversary, the external actions of AN INTERNAL ISSUE
of Satan working adversely to Gods Words.
THIS is the TRUTHFUL source of all lusts and sins.
The action isn't so much then one of the external actions,
but of the internal adversary working in such. Even if such men discontinue their external actions, unless and until they learn that such desires are not GODLY, but are of a source that is NOT THEM as Gods children, they will continue to be plagued because they can't disassociate, and will continue to have to deal with that lust, that the adversary brings, even while they try not to be "enslaved" by it in the external sense.
Our "heterosexual" lust is not ONE BIT DIFFERENT in this regards. No, not one little bit. Jesus condemned "us" just as fast as you think Jesus condemns them. Matt. 5:28, for example.
To get at the "heart" of sin, and what we see "reflected" in the world, we have to look PAST the dynamics of the final exterior "actions" of sin in the flesh, and SEE what goes on behind the flesh curtains. It is NOT as it appears on the surface.
All external sin actions are a reflection of the FINAL actions of the real INTERNAL tensions and adversities
between Gods Words and Satan/devils. What we see on the outside
is NOT what it really going on. What is really going on with "homosexuality"
is TWO DEVILS pawning TWO flesh men. But
you CAN'T SEE the real culprits who are behind the flesh curtains. You only see the "exterior or external actions" of two vile
unseen entities controlling their flesh SLAVES. Again, not one bit different than any man who looks at a women and LUSTS in his heart for them, sexually,
which same problem every last heterosexual MAN deals with or has to deal with, if they are HONEST. And this "lust" can also just as easily result in heterosexual MEN being pawned in the same way with illicit women. It's no different of an activity. It is only directed differently, to a woman rather than a man. I can't really "relate" to the latter at all, but I can certainly "sympathize" with it, if I am seeing my own evil lusts accurately. I just know it's demonic in nature. And this "helps" me stop it in it's tracks, MOST of the time. Not always. These are powerful "things." These spirits of LUSTS. Sometimes the harder you try, the worse it will get.
I often have to just turn to God in Christ and implore Him to have them STOP IT. And that usually works.
For the record, I do not subscribe to any notions that there is such a theological animal as
"HOLY" sex as it pertains to any sexual actions. Procreation of the flesh between men and women DOES produce Gods temporal Intentions for clay shells, but such bodies produced are only meant to be temporal clay shells, which same are "vile" and part of our mutual plantings in dishonor, corruption and weakness. There is nothing "holy" about any of it. Anyone who thinks they have 'holy' sex is just masquerading their sexual lust as holy. I have heard just about every form of "old school" holiness preaching about "what is proper sex" and what is not in a marriage. All of that is just hot fleshly air of some preachers trying to insert and intrude their own ideas of "holy sex" and jump into bed with my wife and I, where their noses don't belong. Get outta my bed. Only my wife and I sleep there, thank you. And we both know it is our mutual sexual lusts for each others, and we rather quite enjoy ourselves in our mutual but purposefully confined lusts, to and with each other. Sorry.
1 Corinthians 7:
4 The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife.
5 Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again,
that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.
Incontinency = lack of control
We have our "sexual relationship" precisely so our "lack of control" doesn't end up :tempting: and thereby, "controlling" us and we'd fall into a more dire pit of control, without responsibilities.
In the end, I recognize that it is God who has bound "all" people to the spirit of disobedience. That makes all of our disobedience particular to the person, and things we individually have to deal with, whatever those particulars happen to be with any innumerable number of variations of the spirit of disobedience. It could be just as easily greed, or envy or hatred
or HYPOCRISY or whatever. The list of these "spirit" forms of disobedience is quite lengthy, and played out before our eyes, continually at every turn.
But the real problems remain, internal, in all.
So, in short, we are to love these people, regardless of what (or more precisely WHO) they are BOUND to. I am NOT going to be led to bless any persons sin, particularly my own, or to try to brand it holy, even less.
I don't know what it's like to have THEIR particular LUST problems. I do have my hands full with my own problems. The last place I'll be found standing in is hypocrisy, which I believe Jesus condemned first and foremost. When "my" obedience is complete, I'll let you all know. That ain't happened yet.
Pardon me for speaking frankly. I am "bound" to Spiritual Law, Romans 13:8-10. My vile flesh doesn't get this law and never will, nor do I expect it to.
One can love the sinner, and HATE the sin. Especially when they start hating their own sin, seeing from whence it comes.
As to God bless homosexuality? It ain't gonna happen. Can two people of the same sex love each others? Uh, yeah. And I do respect that. I have no issues with civil union between two people of the same sex. It's NOT a religious issue, it's a civil union. I personally would not condone such "church" unions, as it is nothing more than branding another form of sex as holy, which same we've DONE for "our own" lusts already. I object to that whole notion, of "holy sex." When King Solomon had numerous wives and countless concubines, am I going to call and count all of that HOLY? Uh, no.
These "men" were nothing more than "rich primates" in that activity, who could afford to play out their sexual lusts with numerous women, such wealth and wives literally "beaten" off the backs of the poor by their contributions to such idiotic extravagances.
1 Kings 11:
2 Of the nations concerning which the Lord said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall not go in to them, neither shall they come in unto you: for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods:
Solomon clave unto these in love.
3 And
he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines: and
his wives turned away his heart.
Solomon, in this way, was a SLAVE
to his own filthy lusts run amok.
What others do in bed is simply not my business
and I DON'T CARE. I have better things to do than thump some other people for their sin while I am also a sinner.
THAT is the pit of hypocrisy.
The flesh of every last person you'll ever see on earth is a planting in dishonor, corruption, weakness and a natural body. Yours and mine is no exception. There is no changing it into something that it ain't. IF there is HOPE for change for us, then there is also HOPE for change for them, as believers. I can extend that HOPE by sharing Jesus Christ with and to ALL people, regardless of their state of "sinship."
Some of the worst sinners on earth, you'd never see "their sin" on the outside of the cup. They may be sitting right next to you in church, apparently normal on the outside, and entirely "doctrinally" compliant.
John 8:15
Ye judge after the flesh; I judge no man.
