America Adrift: The Impending Moral Armageddon—Is Gay Marriage Really That?

America Adrift: The Impending Moral Armageddon—
Is Gay Marriage Really That?
Study Guide

Martin Luther:
“If I profess with the loudest voice and clearest exposition every portion of the truth of God except precisely that little point that the world and the devil are at the moment attacking, I am not confessing Christ, however boldly I may be professing Christ. Where the ________ rages is where the loyalty of the _______ is proved, and to be steady on all the battlefield besides [everywhere else besides the point of conflict] is merely flight and disgrace if he flinches at that point.” (emphasis supplied)
- Sandy Rios predicts a “moral Armageddon.”
- Psalm 119:_____ —“It is time for you to _____ , O LORD, for they have ________ your law.” (NIV/NASB)
- General Tommy Franks, retired Supreme Commander of Iraq invasion:
  “[If that happens], the Western world, the free world, loses what it cherishes most, and that is [the] freedom and liberty we’ve seen for a couple of hundred years in this grand experiment that we call democracy.”
  —Newsweek commentary: “Gen. Tommy Franks, on his belief that if the United States is hit with a weapon of mass destruction that inflicts large casualties, the Constitution would likely be discarded for a military form of government.” (11-03)
- A century ago: “National _________ will be followed by national _______.” (7BC 977)
- Q: What kind of people would cry out Psalm 119:126?
  A: The people described in Isaiah 51:____
  - NLT: “Listen to me, you who know right from wrong and _______ my ____ in your hearts.”
  - Revelation 14:12
“Is Gay Marriage Really That?”
- How ________ this subject is for all of us—how ________ it is for some of us.
  - We feel the tension between God’s compelling love for all of us as sinners and his unmitigated wrath against all of our sins—sexual and non-sexual.
  - Calvary is the measure of how deeply God feels about both!
Where does ______ stand?
- The Seventh Commandment of his Moral Law: “You shall not commit ________ .” Exodus 20:14
- And what is “adultery?” God answers in Leviticus _____
- ______ sexual relationship (physical or mental) outside of the marriage between a man and a woman, a husband and a wife.
- Further biblical corroboration:
  - Genesis 2:21-25—the definition of marriage that has been normative and operative for human civilization from the very beginning!
  - Matthew 19:4-6—Jesus’ warning not to tamper with the divine definition of marriage
  - Ephesians 5:31-33
- But can these passages be “reread” or “reinterpreted” to include “monogamous sexual partners?”
  - Recent study in Netherlands—where gay marriage has been legal—found that the average homosexual relationship lasts only _____ years, and that gay men have an average of ______ sexual partners per year outside of their “primary” relationship. (James Dobson newsletter, 9/03)
  - Romans 1:24-27
  - Genesis 19:4, 5
  - Ezekiel 16:49 (but include v. 50—same Heb. word as Lev. 18:22)
- Which is why there is I Corinthians 6:9-11—what you were before Jesus washed you, saved you and set you free!
- Therefore, the compelling issue is not your _______ orientation, but rather your __________ orientation.
- Martin Luther:
  “But some might say, ‘Waiting for marriage is unbearable and aggravating!’ They’re right. It’s very similar to other difficulties requiring patience that believers must face, such as fasting, imprisonment, cold, sickness and persecution. Lust is a serious burden. You must resist it and fight against it. But after you have overcome it through prayer, lust will have caused you to pray more and grow in faith.”
“Come to me”—Jesus Christ

Answers: battle, soldier, 126, act, broken, apostasy, ruin, 7, cherish, law, volatile, painful, God, adultery, 18, Any, 1.5, 8, sexual, spiritual