Jesus and Elton John

 

British pop legend Elton John is no stranger to the provocative, just look at some of his wild fashion and his openly gay lifestyle before there was a modern LBGT movement. John also has a colorful opinion of Jesus. He said in separate interviews that “Jesus was a compassionate, super-intelligent gay man” and that Jesus would “be in favor of gay marriage.”

It makes you wonder if he was going for the world record for the most heretical statements in one breath. As outlandish as it might sound, there are many LBGT affirming churches today that aren’t far from the same message as “The Rocketman”. It’s a sad and strange day when the preacher and the pop star are saying the same thing about Jesus to support their sin. In fact, I recently heard a man defending the gay lifestyle say, “Well, Jesus never condemned homosexuality, so Christians shouldn’t either.”

How should we respond to that claim biblically? First, it is true that Jesus never condemned homosexuality in the Gospels, however He certainly never condoned it either. Those making this argument are actually committing a fallacy known as the “argument from silence.” That’s when someone wants to make case based on what’s NOT been said, which requires no evidence at all.

Are we to believe that any action is permissible unless Jesus specifically forbade it? The goal of the Gospels was not to give us a comprehensive list of sinful activities, and there are many obvious sins that are not found in the “red letter” sections of the Bible. Kidnapping, for example. Jesus never specifically said that kidnapping was a sin, yet we know that stealing children is wrong. Drug use is another one.

Second, it’s clear that Jesus affirmed the Genesis model of marriage and sexuality between one man and one woman. In Mark 10:6-9 and Matt. 19:4-6 Jesus quoted from Genesis, “Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”

Third, Jesus condemned ALL sexual immorality which falls outside the confines of God’s intended design in marriage. In Matt. 15:19-20, Jesus said, “For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, slander. These are what defile a person.” Sexual immorality here in this verse is an umbrella term which would include – adultery, fornication, homosexuality, porn and any other sexual sin. Moreover, these specific sins are condemned and listed in other passages (see 1 Cor. 6:9-10, Rev. 21:8, Rom. 1:24-31, Lev. 20:10-13, and Gen. 19).

There is simply no way the LGBT lifestyle can be supported by the Bible. With that being said, there is a tendency in the church only to hammer down exclusively on homosexuality, when all forms of sexual perversion are equally sinful and destructive. We would do well in the church to remember we all stand equally condemned as sinners, even if our sexual sin of choice isn’t homosexuality. At some point, we’ve all looked lustfully upon another and according to Christ that makes us adulterers at heart (Matt. 5:28).

God loves the homosexual. Jesus reached out to the five-times divorced woman at the well who was shacking up with another man (John 4). The Lord has the power to set free and save the porn addict. If you are trapped in a sexually immoral lifestyle – it’s time to repent, turn to Christ and be cleansed. The love, healing and fulfillment you are seeking is found only in Jesus. He will save you from yourself.