I am finding so much hope from the messages on abuse. My now thankfully ex-husband. He abused me for 13 years, and when I finally left he and 2 friends raped me. I have been dealing with suicidal thoughts for so long! Thank you for dealing with such difficult topics. I dont feel so alone and broken.

Yes, Jesus did not address homosexuality, at least not specifically. In his story about the rich man and Lazarus, Jesus did say "they have Moses and the prophets; let them listen to them." "Moses and the prophets" includes the section from Leviticus that Pastor Jeremy read; but, more importantly, it includes God's promise of a Savior and His plan to forgive all sinners who believe that promise.

Good points. Ty for sharing those verses. This video is very helpful. We are all sinners. We need to encourage and support each other, not judge and hate each other. It’s important to have a compassionate, understanding, empathetic view of others so that we can spread God’s love, share His Word and help serve and support others when they need it. We all sin and we all have struggles in life. Let’s get through it together.

Thank you. Facts are important to get across and to put emotions aside. God bless.

Thank you for teaching on this tough subject. In the world we live the acceptance and actual push for this way of life is so prevalent but my guide, The Bible tells the real truth. Forgive all of us for all of our sins.

One genuine question as a Christian, I did not finish the video so not sure if this is addressed. how is it okay for us to condemn homosexuality nowadays and no longer condemn divorce which Jesus clearly states at sermon at the mount? My point is not that we should condemn both but that we are inconsistent and hypocritical and what parts of the Bible we treat as law that applies today and what does not. I think as we evolve as Christians we decide which parts of the Bible we no longer need to follow literally and judge people over and I hope many years from now we will look at how we treat and view LGBT communities and think wow we were really dropping the ball there. If I am wrong may Jesus have mercy on me, I’m trying to do his most important command, love your God above all else, love your neighbor as yourself

Pastor Jeremy, it's curious how you start this video, with a reference to 'The Wizard Of Oz': I've met Judy Garland (a few months before she died). None of these labels-'gay'-'straight'-'bisexual'-etc.-actually describe how we stand before God. Jeremiah 17:9. There is something wrong with all of us (we have desperately wicked hearts), not just 'gay' folks. But the passage that speaks most tellingly about homosexuality; which is too often overlooked, but is astonishingly true is (drum roll, please): Romans 1:26-27. This, of course, is referring to the sin of idolatry. Who wrote wonderfully about this, and would later repent of 'being gay', and confess Jesus as his Lord and Saviour, was Oscar Wilde in his novel-'The Picture Of Dorian Gray'.

Thanks for the video. ❤

What does God say? That’s the focus. Amen.

I needed this clarification. Thank you.

Thank you for sharing. The more I listen to God's word, I become more compasionate to people and especially to God. God bless you all. | Preğa Militisto

Thank you for sharing GOds word on difficult topics

Thank you. At 65 still Suffering.

People who dont want to hear wont hear even when you lay out the facts for them.

In terms of "practicing homosexuality" Jesus also addressed that if we hate someone in our heart or lust after someone, it is as good as commiting murder or adultery. Sin starts in the heart and we have the choice on whether we want to act on it and ask forgiveness and for a new heart.

Thank you for covering a topic that most churches and pastors avoid and ignore.

I like your calm and collected delivery and even as an atheist I can see the benefit to Christians returning to their holy book to see what it actually says. In terms of homosexuality, Christian teaching couldn't be further from my conception of gay rights but maybe it's also a matter of proportion; I read somewhere that there are 5 or 6 references to homosexuality in the Bible and more than 3000 references to poverty. Maybe your God is more concerned with the latter. I would be.

Is the device you reading from a iPad?

Just... why? Why base your entire life around a god that may or may not exist and a book written over 2,000 years ago?

Great advice!

Ya know i had a conversation about this subject with a work mate, and im pretty sure i confused em, so thanks for helping me understand it more so if i ever get the chance to talk about it again with them, hopefully i can explain it better (:

"Is Homosexuality Wrong?" I haven't seen any evidence to support that view. Do you have any supporting evidence for that position?

Thank you for this message and all the supporting Bible verses.

To me taking little clips of passages doesn't say anything "clearly"...look at each passage in full. Not just a few verses back to back. I am currently struggling with these thoughts and feelings myself and if anything...this video may have pushed me farther away from what many "christian" pastors/leaders teach. I don't know that they have it right. And this, although he claims it is clear, it is NOT> I'm open to discussion, but if you're going to use the Bible to back your teaching...do not just take a few verses here or there and call it a "passage"...it isn't the full picture. It is mearly a snippet taken out of context.

Thank you for your insight into God's Word. I appreciate it.

People ask me all the time “Should gay men be allowed to get married” And I always say “Yes *AS LONG AS THEY FIND THE RIGHT WOMAN* “

Very handsome preacher man! Anybody else notice the piercing blue eyes??? ❤❤❤

I just discovered your videos Pastor Jeremy! Am pretty much enjoying it!!

Well I'm not Gay but I have been drunk and had sexual relations out side of marriage. Sad to learn I am not welcome into the Kingdom. We all sin and I don't think Jesus has favorite sins. I disagree with this post. It seems to go against the New Testament. Just like the ten commandments we don't get to pick and choose. I respect your point of view but I have many Gay friends who live much more pious lives than so called strait people. He who is without sin should cast the first stone.

I am a devout Christian I would like to make that perfectly clear before I say what I'm about to say i DO NOT believe homosexuality is a sin, if you do that's fine but who are we to condemn or judge the LGBTQ+ communities throughout the world? That is for god to do not us mere mortals god sees all the good things you do and surely through his grace and his forgiveness for our sins while in the mortal realm all the good things we do will out way the bad. God loves ALL his creations and that includes the LGBTQ+ community, each of us have our own relationship with the lord our own little arrangement with him if you like, I have mine you have yours so let's just follow his lead and love and respect everyone regardless of wether we agree with them or not. God bless and keep safe

Live your life stop letting people trying to tell you what to do just be happy

Find God in your heart. Then follow that, regardless of any religious writings. Religious writings are always secondary to your relationships with God in your heart. It's the one true place where God will not let you down. Religious writings, on the other hand, can and do let people down all the time because much of it is so arcane, and therefore open to various interpretations. That's why religious people are always arguing about what God says, what God means. So follow your heart. That's where you will always find out what God intends.

Every sexuality can be a sin depending on the circumstances in which you're doing it.

Thanks Pastor Jeremy 🙏🏼🙏🏼

You don't practice homosexuality, it's a part of you.

I personally think you can apply Matthew 19 to homosexuality, certainly in our age. Here Jesus talks about marriage, as designed by God, being uniquely between a man and a woman. Thanks for the video.

Are you not going to bring up the fact that verse in particular was TRANSLATED incorrectly back in 1976

No. Not in the Bible, not in our conscience. Next question please.

A very difficult subject...thank you for clarification on this subject...

Thank you for that inspiring and blessed video. I have a daughter, my youngest who is gay and lives with her girlfriend and I worry for her soul I don't know how to talk to her about it!

So as a bisexual (tho gay inclined) femboy can I get a TL;DR on this?

With regard to why Jesus did not address homosexuality, you stated that "He felt that he didn't need to". Because apparently you know how Jesus felt? Jesus IS God. And God knows the entirety of the human story, including what is currently going on right this very minute. Meaning: Jesus knew what we would be doing, and thinking, and saying here in 2022 while he was physically walking the Earth as a flesh and bone human being. He KNEW that the topic of homosexuality would be so widely focused on and discussed and debated. He KNEW that it would be a topic of much confusion and disagreement, even amongst Christians. So I sincerely doubt that He didn't address the topic because "He felt He didn't need to." No one down here on Earth knows why Jesus didn't address the issue. Of course people will speculate the reason of His silence regarding homosexuality. Some speculations will make more sense and most likely be closer to the actual truth that the one you just threw out.

Thank you for showing that Jesus died for us and there is hope for the lost when they come to God for forgiveness and deliverance. I thank God for giving you the grace to shed light in this truth. Bless you!!

Is it someone’s moral duty to believe in the truth. Hence should you convert people. also hence they should counter convert you if they believe in something else.

Not at all

Praise Lord Jesus that I accidentally found this channel and thanks Pastor Jeremy for your wonderful sharing/message… sad to say i have lots of friends who are dealing with identity crisis/spiritual issue, I can surely tell that I also found you as the right person coz it’s been a while that I’m seeking for help… May I know your email address and share me some more sharing so that i can use that for sharing to my friends. That would be all for now. God bless us all more🙏

My translation for 1 Timothy 1:10 says perverts I'm confused, witch translation is he reading?

Holy and Miraculous Lord Jesus, heal me from bad languages and unhealthy behavior. Grant me full strength O Lord and revive my heart, body and mind. Amen and Amen and Amen

Amen, thank you pastor

The book you're referring to says that Noah had kids at 500 years old, an entire sea parted, a snake was talking and someone turned to salt. Credibility issue??

Please do a message on what jehovah witness believe I don't believe they are the right religion

Thank you for this message

My friend Eddy hanged himself when he was 12,ys old bc he was a boy but he did not feel like one and he struggled immensely . He would tell me how he felt and how he cried alot bc he hated how he was so confused and just wanted to be "normal" like us. In school kids would kick him in the balls so he would cry then the kids would laugh and say "see you have balls", in Sabbath school class he had to sit in a special spot in the corner while the rest of us sat where we pleased. I know he did NOT make that decision to be sooo messed up but why won't a preacher who preaches Love not address it and i dont understand why not. So as long as this situation isn't addressed in church, hate and judgement will never go away. Who might Jesus be referring to in Matthew 7:23? And pastor you need to study up on Sodom and Gomorrah theres so much more to those city's your congregation needs to know. your lumited knowlege in Scripture shows sir wake up

How does one know what Jesus means maybe he really don’t think that

great message pastor the Bible tells us AMEN

The description of homosexuality as a lifestyle is a blatent oversimplification of human sexuality in general and homosexuality in particular. Such indoctrination of the collective societal psyche is paramount to the self validating delusion of heterosexuality possessing moral validity. The reason that we never hear the term " heterosexual lifestyle " is because there is no need to catogorize heterosexuality with such descriptively inherent connotative oversimplification in order to subconciously justify contempt and hatred through the stone of subjective comparison.

This is great, guys! Just a technical note: it is bad camerawork to place the lens at crotch level so we can literally see the wear-marks on the inside of the pastor's jeans. And considering the topic... Anyway, keep up the very good work.

1 Timothy 1:10: The words which your version of the Bible translates as "homosexual" is, as you say, "ἀρσενοκοίταις" (arsenokoitais), which, is made from two parts, "man" and "marital bed" or simply "bed". The King James version of the Bible translated this word as "them that defile themselves with mankind". Commentaries from this time made no connection between this phrase and homosexual practices. Some people, in relatively recent times, have chosen to understand "mankind" to mean "men", which, of course, it does not, referring, rather, to all humanity. Your translation appears to be based on poor scholarship, misunderstanding and prejudice. To say that Paul may have invented this word with the meaning of "homosexual" is to rewrite history, as arsenokoitais came to be understood as referring to homosexual practices only many centuries after the death of Paul. Romans 1: This reference is never used by any mainstream, theologically literate pastor/preacher/priest to speak against homosexuality, as the chapter is clearly referring to apostates and their return to previous forms of non-Christian worship. What is condemned by this chapter is apostasy, not homosexuality. Jude 7: What your version of the Bible refers to as "perversion" is, in the KJV, translated as "going after strange flesh". The original Greek text for "strange flesh" is "σαρκὸς ἑτέρας" - literally "flesh not of our kind" - hardly a reference to homosexuality but, rather, a reference to pursuing "foreigners/outsiders". Your blithe assertion that this was a common term referring to homosexuality bears, in my opinion, no contemporaneous validity. I believe, rather, that you are referring to the usage of the English word "perversion" which, in the relatively recent past, most particularly in the USA, had come to be used as a euphemism for homosexuality. This refining upon individual words in a translation, without reference to the original text, is an error that one would not expect from any serious scholar of scripture, most especially as there are other references in the Bible to the sins of Sodom and Gomorrah (e.g. Isaiah, Jeremiah and Ezekiel), none of which references is in accord with your stated understanding. Leviticus: One can understand this to be irrelevant to Christianity. It is a collection of so-called Mosaic laws, yet scholars now understand that this was written over a period of centuries, by various authors, rather than being handed by God to Moses. It was a creation of man, and this was reinforced by Christ Himself when he gave His Two Commandments. The second of these two commandments makes it very clear that much of Mosaic Law is rubbish. One has but to read the 613 laws of Moses to appreciate that a distinct number are not in conformity with this second commandment: the one calling for the killing of disobedient children seems singularly at odds with the second commandment, no less so is the one which requires a woman to leave the house for a week whilst menstruating (particularly if the weather be inclement), to mention but a couple. You would appear to have a strange understanding of Christianity when you say that if one were to disregard Mosaic law one would be able, for example, to have sex with one's neighbour's wife: it disregards entirely the Two Commandments of Christ, which we are told are the basis of all law and the prophets. 1 Corinthians 6:9: To save time and energy may I just refer the reader to my comment on 1 Timothy. You would seem to be reasonably versed in "evangelical" theology, but that is very different from being well versed in Christian history and theology. Whilst your arguments may succeed within that "evangelical" world, from a Christian perspective, they lack merit - if you hold your belief about homosexuality to be true, and you are a true Christian, I suggest you find valid scriptural support before bruiting about an opinion which will injure many, however satisfying it may be to "evangelicals".

Great video!

We share. God the Holy Spirit works understanding.

Jesus did speak about homosexuality. Those words from Paul are God-breathed. All Scripture is God-breathed. Jesus is God. Paul's words are from Jesus. All Scripture is from Jesus. Both the Old Testament and the New. It was Jesus who flooded the earth, destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, and set the plagues on Egypt. It is a trick of the devil to deceive people that they are two different divinities.

You betcha!

The bible talks about religion sex , so you read the right tekst but pretending it totally wrong , because in this time was temple sex , sodom and Gomorra the sin was not the homosexual act .

Let God Be True and everyman a lier. It is written: God loves us all unconditionaly, you can't do a thing to make Him not love you. However, You are incharge of how please He is with you . Please have ears to hear and eyes to see what God say about homosexuals, lesbians... We pray you will acknowledge God and the Holy Spirit will lead and guide you into all truth. Leviticus 20:13 “‘If a man also lie with mankind as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination. They shall surely be put to death: their blood shall be upon them. Romans 1:26-32 26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: 27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet. 28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, I pray you choose truth, and Rightiousness according to God Almighty's standards.

Yes you should read the bible

It's not my problem if I displease God. It's pathetic that God has to create hell just to make us confirm to its standard. It's also pathetic that it wants us to worship on our knees. I think God is just lonely. I suppose a billion or so years will do that to anyone. Hell or not, I don't give a damn. I'll do what makes my boyfriend happy. God can be as angry, wrathful or indifferent as it chooses. The moment it has to inflict pain to make me repent, it loses the argument forever. Anybody who has any other opinion, is equally as valid as my own.

When are these "biblical experts" going to stop calling "homosexuality" a SIN? Homosexuality is a state, condition or orientation as opposed to an ACT. The same is true of heterosexuality. It too, is a state, condition or orientation, NOT AN ACT. As such, either orientation cannot be sinful.

Lord, take it away...

The fact that you start this off with WICKED says it all. What should happen to gay people, in your opinion?

God created man and woman, not man and man or women and women....

It's so wrong God created man and woman no guys sry

What does scripture say?!

I was trying to explain this very message to someone that I use to date that practicing homosexuality is a sin that will keep you out of heaven. Her defense was no sin is greater than another. At that point I gave up.

Hi there, atheist here! Came here to be a dick and laugh at people, but I found a very clear, and straight to the point video about what the scripture says on the matter.

Jesus said a man should leave father and mother and cling to his wife not his husband

Are you gay Pastor?

The framing of the question says it all. Hopelessness.

Is homosexuality wrong? Yes it is. If you are not homosexual then nothing is wrong.

As a homosexual woman, I've lived all my adult years happily with my same-sex attraction because I know there's nothing wrong with it. I accept my attraction to other women, and as a result of accepting my same-sex attraction, my homosexuality has only ever brought me happiness, fulfilment and joy and I've never had to suffer a single suicidal thought because of my homosexuality. I feel so lucky to not only live in a country where I don't have to face persecution and possibly death penalty for something harmless that I can't control, but also to have been raised by a single mother who loves me for who I am. I send my happiness and love to all my fellow homosexuals out there, no matter if they're being forced by religious nonsense to struggle with themselves or if they're comfortable like me with how they are. ♀❤♀🏳‍🌈♂❤♂

Romans 1:27 “And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.” Romans 1:28 “And even as they did not like to retain Elohim in their knowledge, Elohim gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;” Romans 1:29 “Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,” Romans 1:30 “Backbiters, haters of Elohim, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,” Romans 1:31 “Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:” Romans 1:32 “Who knowing the judgment of Elohim, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.” Leviticus 18:6-23 The Scriptures Laws of Sexual Morality 22. ‘And do not lie with a male as with a woman, it is an abomination. COVENANTHBREAKERS………… Question please where in Abraham's covenant does it condemn that showing that it makes them ...COVENANTHBREAKERS Thank you Bless you