The only sinner who can successfully battle his sins is a justified sinner.

Which means we fight against our sexual sins,

heterosexual and homosexual, from a relationship, not for a relationship.

Only a justified sinner convinced of God's love can overcome sexual sins.

John Piper turns to Romans 1 24 to 28 to explain why in this episode of Light and Truth. This sermon was originally

preached at Bethlehem Baptist Church on October 11th, 1998.

The physical, social, personal origins of homosexual disordering of our sexuality has virtually no bearing on whether it is good.

Because in a world where everything is disordered,

DNA is disordered,

hormones are disordered, hormones are disordered, families are disordered.

Nothing would be right or wrong because everything is rooted in disorder.

Physically based things may be good or bad.

Depending on this, naturalness,

the mark this, this crucial what is natural is not what is rooted in

fallen nature like cerebral palsy Paul in

what is natural is what God ordained to be before the fall.

That's natural.

We must, as a people and a society,

have a higher criterion of natural or good than what springs out of our

fallen brokenness. Examples physically based aggressive tendencies may lead to

violent behavior, but we don't condone them.

Physically based lethargic tendencies may make a person lazy and neglectful,

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