Pastor Don Mackintosh, tackles a difficult topic of sexual freedom that has come about our society in the last few decades. He discusses whether or not, this major change in our thought process has been and will be beneficial to us as a country.

<p>Pastor Don Mackintosh, tackles a difficult topic of sexual freedom that has come about our society in the last few decades. He discusses whether or not, this major change in our thought process has been and will be beneficial to us as a country.</p>

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Weimar University

Don Mackintosh

The Equality Act & Christian Hedonism

And some of the news has impacted the Christian church, at least some people think it will.

Father in heaven, thank you today we can come into your house, thank you we can hear wonderful music, and thank you for our choir, for our, the ministry of music of the young people and those leading them.

And bless us today as we study, in Christ's name, amen.

So delight thyself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.

Christianity is to be the most pleasurable existence you could find on the planet.

And you either believe that or you don't believe that or you're coming to believe that, I don't know where you are in the continuum, but the testimony of scripture is that in your presence is fullness of joys and at your right hand are pleasures forevermore.

And 1 of the songs we sang was, when we all get to heaven, what a day of rejoicing that will be.

But the Bible says, no, don't wait till you get to heaven, start rejoicing right now.

In other words, live a life of pleasure in the present.

So I want to talk about that because there are different visions.

There's another vision that was presented in Congress this past week called the Equality Act, which was decidedly and markedly positioning itself actually against the Bible's vision of pleasure.

So we now have 2 options and 2 ideas concerning pleasure.

We have a die vision And this option has been voted for by many in Congress, enough now to send it to the Senate.

And they have to have at least 10 people from the Republican side vote for this to be passed.

And I don't know when that's gonna happen, but it'll come up.

So pray for your senators, maybe call your senators as well.

And Some are concerned because they think this is going to impact faith-based hospitals and insurers.

Those that don't believe in gender transition therapies are going to be asked to violate their beliefs.

And children could seek to change their gender without parental knowledge or consent, so they're worried about that.

And they're especially worried that actually in the language of the bill, positions from Scripture are actually being called out.

The sex stereotype that marriage should only be between heterosexual couples was called out in specific language in the bill.

In other words, the Bible itself is being specifically mentioned in this bill.

So we have to choose between the pleasure principles of the Equality Act and the pleasure principles of scripture.

Now 1 guy who is a representative from Florida got up this last week and I was interested, I was watching C-SPAN, which I like probably better than any other channel because you're actually watching something that's happening, it's real.

And he said, he got up, this is the representative from Florida, Unlike most speeches you'll hear from the floor today, I'm going to start with the truth.

And he says in his speech, Deuteronomy 22 5 says that a woman must not wear men's clothing nor a man wear women's clothing for the Lord your God detests anyone who does this." Everybody was like, what?

He continues, Now this verse isn't concerned about clothing styles, but with people determining their own sexual identities.

It's not clothing or personal style that offends God, but rather the use of one's appearance to act out or take on a sexual identity different from the 1 biologically assigned by God at birth.

This time, people started shouting, trying to shout him down.

When men or women claim to be able to choose their own sexual identity, they're making a statement that God did not know what he was doing when he created them.

Then he closes out by saying whenever a nation's laws no longer reflect the standards of God that nation is in rebellion against him and will inevitably bear the consequences.

So you know I could probably put some scriptures up there like I did that go along with his other statements.

He created the male and female, Genesis 128, and also Daniel 5, a nation that was involved in gross sexual immorality and using the actual vessels from God's temple actually went down right then.

Now, right after that another representative got up and said, what any religious tradition describes as God's will is no concern of this Congress.

Then another man got up, another representative got up and says, it was because of you and people like you that my forebears were slaves.

It was because of you that there was segregation.

It was because of you that I had to sit at the back of the bus.

And I don't want to hear anything more from you, or basically from what?

So last week was a very biblical week in Congress.

And how many of you think that this teaches us something?

It teaches us this is what the discussions are and they're going to come out.

How many of you want to know what the Bible says about pleasure?

You know what the Equality Act says if you're watching.

It basically says your pleasure comes from what Freud introduced way back in 1905.

Unregulated sexual activity with dignity is the key to happiness.

In other words, you can have any kind of sex with anybody you want in any way, and you must be treated with respect and dignity, that's the key to happiness.

And so Freud said, you know, basically sexuality is the big deal.

And he was the first person with the vestige of scientific language.

I don't think he really did much science, but a vestige of scientific language.

He tried to elongate sexual satisfaction from the cradle to the grave.

By saying, when you're born and you breastfeed, that's a sexual act.

Then, next, after that, you have the anal stage, which that's another sexual type situation, said Freud.

They begin to masturbate, which is a good thing, he says.

And then next, you have the time of latency.

And then you move to marital relations within the marriage.

And this then spans the entire lifespan, and at every stage, the number 1 goal is sexual pleasure.

This, everything else Freud said was like forgotten.

All of his views and psychotherapy and everything else, everybody goes junk, junk, but this 1 everybody somehow still likes.

Unregulated sex with everybody and sexual activity as the highest pleasure through your whole life.

Not only that, they go beyond Freud and now they say Others now see sexual identity as a matter of personal choice or preference that must be respected, regardless of what one's biology is.

And now, sex is not just an activity, it is an identity.

My identity is only determined through the lens of sexuality.

Now, when I was working as a nurse, sometimes I'd go into people's rooms and they say, oh, are you a male nurse?

And I would say, is it really not that obvious?

I mean, I'm like, so I'd show them the hair on my chest.

Anyway, so that's the closest I came to identifying with my sexuality in that way.

But people are very aware of this, and this has been the big deal, and this was actually and is the big deal with this Equality Act.

In fact, in the media it says, look, the continued view of gays, lesbians, and bisexuals as sinners is a decision, it's a choice, it prioritizes scattered passages of ancient texts over all that has been learned since, as if time stood still, and if advances of science and knowledge meant nothing.

In other words, you need to follow the science and not the scriptures.

How many of you have ever heard this argument before?

And you need to bow to the enlightenments of modernity.

And this has been the rhetoric that's been actually increasing since 2015.

No religious liberty arguments can be brought forward, it says in this bill.

In the past, they used the Religious Freedom Act to protect themselves in cases, and they used this, but really what that is, religion is bigoted, it's uninformed, in other words, you're stupid and you're also bigoted, and you're actually lethal to society, and we can't have it anymore, and you can't use religious liberty as a defense.

So how should Christians respond to this number of books that I read in preparing for today's message?

The Equality Act & Christian Hedonism

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