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Is God tolerant of our sexual sin?

That's the topic this week.

My name is Pastor Mark Driscoll.

I've been teaching through the Bible for,

I think this is the 26th year, and I'd like to teach through books of the Bible

we're in the book of Genesis and we hit Genesis 18 and 19 this week the story of

Sodom and Gomorah.

And God's word isn't just about what happened,

but it's about what always happens.

And God's word isn't old.

It's timeless, so it's always timely. old it's timeless so it's always timely and it's really curious I tend to

pick books of the Bible about a year in advance lay out my preaching calendar and

what I've found for 26 years is that if you're in the scriptures what happens in the

culture absolutely is confronted by the scriptures and it's no different. We'll get

to it in a moment but the story of Sodom and Gomorah is one in which people are judged by God if you believe the storyline of the Bible for sexual sin and what's happening right now is in the culture there is a very loud very heated

conflict and debate regarding human sexuality and what would be called transgenderism,

homosexuality, and the gender spectrum.

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