Sermon Outline

Title: The Distinctiveness of Gender and Marriage

Speaker: Pastor Paul Chappell

Bible Reference: Genesis 1:26-28

Introduction
 

  1. Attacks on Morality 
  1. Enticements to Lust 
  1. Enticements to Homosexuality

Romans 1:27–28
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, to do those things which are not convenient;

1 Corinthians 6:9
9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,

Isaiah 5:20
20 Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
 

  1. Attack on the Maker
  1. God Determines Gender Identity

Genesis 1:27
27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

Mark 10:6
6 But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.

Psalm 139:14
14 I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.

  1.  Satan Causes Gender Confusion

John 8:44
44 Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it. 
 

  1. Attacks on Marriage

Genesis 2:21–24
21 And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;
22 And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.
23 And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.
24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

  1. God Established Marriage

Matthew 19:5–6
And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?
Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

  1. Satan Attacks Marriage

Romans 6:12 
12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof. 

Conclusion
 
Five Ways to Strengthen Our Families and Society

  1. Walk under God’s Control – Possess Our Bodies – 1 Corinthians 9:7
  2. Model and Encourage Our God-Given Roles – Proverbs 31, Ephesians 6
  3. Love Our Spouse with a Christ-Like Love – Ephesians 5
  4. Beware of Social Engineering, Media, and Corporate Dogma which Tolerate Every Lifestyle but the Biblical Lifestyle – 1 John 2:16
  5. Make Sure You Have Turned to Christ for Forgiveness and Salvation – Acts 4:12, Romans 6:23