“We’re All Sinners” – A perversion of Truth

For those who want to deny the word of God as it applies to the sexually perverse movement in our culture:

"This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed." [John 3:19-20]

AND

"Why is my language not clear to you? Because you are unable to hear what I say. You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies." [John 8:43-44]

AND

"Or do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor men who have sex with men nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God." [1 Corinthians 6:9-10]

While

"all have sinned (past tense) and fall short of the glory of God" [Romans 3:23]

that fact does not obscure the reality that we are called to stop sinning, to take off the old, and to put on the new. Sin which remains unrepented from (stopped, ceased) remains unforgiven. And the sexually immoral, the idolaters, homosexuals, thieves, the greedy, the drunks, those who slander and those who cheat are particularly lifted up as EXCLUDED from the Kingdom of Heaven.

To say “we all sin,” while true, is not a biblically defensible position for tolerating sin in others. We are to call each other out from our sins.

To misuse the biblical phrase “judge not” to avoid attending to the condemnation of sin in scripture is to ignore the later part of that same passage that instructs us to FIRST first take the log out of own eye, and THEN WE WILL SEE CLEARLY TO TAKE THE SPECK OUT OF OUR BROTHER’S EYE. (Matthew 7:5) It is not a condemnation on judgement! It is a condemnation on judging others before we have repented of that same sin. The one judging is called a hypocrite not because he or she is a sinner but because they have not first attended to removing that sin from their own life.

This is that to which Paul is referring in Romans 1 and 2 when he addresses those who have not repented of their homosexuality. He is not discussing the state of the church in general. Read carefully:

“The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness, since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them… [Romans 1:18-19]

This is NOT an accusation of all the members of the church at Rome. It is meant to reveal to them why and upon whom the wrath of God is being revealed (some of whom are likely in their midst). It is accusative of those who refuse to respond to God's righteous and corrective word. In short those who refuse to obey.

Romans 1:21-22 “their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools…Not all of the folks in the church at Rome, just some.

Why? Because they thought they knew better than the Lord God Almighty. 

Just. Like. Adam. And. Eve.

Who are these people? They are the 

“women (who) exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones” Romans 1:26.

They are the men (who)  

also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another.” Romans 1:27

What else did these people do? (Romans 1:29-31) They became filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They were full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They were gossips, slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invented ways of doing evil; they disobeyed their parents; they had no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy. 

This is the description of those who refuse to repent of their sexual immorality. Because, often, along with sexual immorality, come these other character traits.

But the judgement really comes at the end of the chapter:

Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them. [Romans 1:32] 

The condemnation is on their refusal to repent. The condemnation is also upon “those who approve of such things.”

Which brings us to the “sexual revolution” we see in the GLBTQIA++ movement today. The refusal to acknowledge: the cross dressing (Drag Queens); the transsexuality; the homosexuality; the bisexuality; the object sexuality; and the queerness, as sexual sin encourages a refusal to repent which results in their just condemnation.

Christians, those who truly are Christians, accept this as condemnation on all unrepentant sin and dare to announce that God’s judgment is just. They accept the correction directed toward themselves and humbly make the changes they need to make to their lives, so that they are then are able to help other remove the "specks" in the eyes of their GLBTQIA++ friends, family member, colleagues, neighbors, and fellow pew warmers.

To say “we’re all sinners” is an incomplete truth. 

All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. [Romans 3:23]

But we are about changing that character weakness by the power of the Holy Spirit. Not codifying it as something which needs to characterize our lives...And never something that is to be celebrated!