Genesis 1:27-28 (NKJV) So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. Then God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
To Christians, the infallible Word of God is our yardstick for measuring what is right and wrong in society. His Word is a lamp to our feet and light unto our path. It is what leads us onto the right path in life; choosing to ignore it will only lead us away from the path of righteousness and to compromise with the world. Not only is the Bible the authority in the life of every believer of Jesus Christ, but it is also the handbook for all humanity because God is the God of all creation. Therefore, the Bible has the authority to speak into the current confusion regarding gender issues and deliver people out of the deception of the devil aimed at destroying the next generation.
God made Adam and Eve to be partners for life. The Bible starts with a marriage between a man and a woman and ends with the church being the bride of Christ in the Book of Revelation. Therefore, biblical marriage is always about a man and a woman, and there is absolute gender clarity in God’s creation. God did not create transgender; it only happens because we live in a fallen and broken world.
However, because of the redemption work of Jesus on the cross, there is hope that we can live differently from the world. The new creation realities, or the born-again experience, is what enable us to live differently from the world. Because we have God’s nature in our spirit man and the fruit of the Holy Spirit, we are empowered by the Holy Spirit to live an abundant and victorious life. Having knowledge of this truth will set us free, though during our time on earth, we will constantly need to enforce the victory of Jesus and push back the forces of darkness.
2 Peter 1:2-4 (NKJV) Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord, as His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue, by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
The key to overcoming passionate and illicit sexual desires, whether natural or unnatural, is found in these few verses. We can overcome temptation and walk in godliness because God’s divine power—the same power of the Holy Spirit that raised Jesus from the dead—resides in us.
Sermon Series: Natural or Unnatural? (PART 1 Gender Confusion)
我们有能力战胜
创世纪1：27-28 神就照着自己的形像造人，乃是照着他的形像造男造女。神就赐福给他们，又对他们说，要生养众多，遍满地面，治理这地。也要管理海里的鱼，空中的鸟，和地上各样行动的活物。
对基督徒来说，上帝的话语是我们在社会中衡量是非的标尺或准线。祂的话是我们脚前的灯，是我们路上的光。它引领我们走上人生的正途; 一旦我们选择忽视神的话语，我们就会偏离公义的道路，与世界妥协。圣经不仅是每个耶稣基督信徒生命中的权威，它还是全人类的生命手册，因为上帝是所有被造之物的上帝。因此，针对性别问题，圣经有权柄直斥当前的混乱，并将人们从旨在毁灭下一代的魔鬼的欺骗中解救出来。
神让亚当和夏娃成为生命的伴侣。圣经从一男一女的婚姻开始，到启示录中教会成为基督的新娘为止。因此，按照圣经，婚姻从来都是关于一个男人和一个女人。在神的创造中有绝对清晰的性别。神没有创造变性人。它之所以发生，是因为我们生活在一个堕落破碎的世界里。
然而，因着耶稣在十字架上的救赎工作，我们有望活得与世人不同。新造之物的事实，或称“重生的体验”，使我们能够活出与世俗不同的生命。因为我们的灵人和圣灵的果子里面自带上帝的品性，于是我们就有圣灵的赋能活出丰盛而得胜的生命。知道了这个真理将使我们自由。当然，我们还在世上的日子里，我们将需要持续地使耶稣的胜利生发出果效，逼退黑暗势力。
彼得后书1:2-4愿恩惠平安，因你们认识神和我们主耶稣，多多地加给你们。神的神能已将一切关乎生命和虔敬的事赐给我们，皆因我们认识那用自己荣耀和美德召我们的主。因此他已将又宝贵又极大的应许赐给我们，叫我们既脱离世上从情欲来的败坏，就得与神的性情有分。
面对炽烈而不正当的情欲—无论自然的还是不自然的—克服的关键就在这几节经文之中。我们能够克服诱惑，敬虔行事，是因为神的神圣大能，就是那将耶稣从死里复活的圣灵的能力，而今正住在我们里面。
讲章系列:自然或非自然?(第一部分 性别困惑)