The following student report was submitted by Ambassador League Agent Luke W. during the 2009-2010 League.
Mission: Research on Homosexuality
Adam had no partner and God said it is not good for man to be alone; the Lord then created the woman. Man and woman find joy in a marital relationship. King of Israel Solomon declares:
"Come out, you daughters of Zion, and look at King Solomon wearing the crown, the crown with which his mother crowned him on the day of his wedding, the day his heart rejoiced." (Song of Solomon 3:11)
The design of marriage brings joy to the heart. God provides the perfect way to live and to love.
In the Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis, the demon Uncle Screwtape moans that Satan's army cannot yet (emphasis added for irony) create anything good so all they can do is make parodies of the real thing. Homosexuality rejects the good of God for the imitation put out by the Evil One.
When you deny God of Creation, the Divine Match Maker, the body opens itself to boundless lust. Paul writes of the godless and depraved mind:
"Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion." (Romans 26:28)
Relations outside marriage ignore God's design; homosexuality rejects it out of hand. The Christian needs to respond with truth and love in this once perfect, now perverted world.
God's wrath is coming against all ungodliness. The Christian is saved from judgment. Remembering that we were called out from the coming wrath, the Christian should spread light and not heat.
We must learn how to minister to this age by looking at the Christ. As Jesus drew near Jerusalem he cried:
"If you had known, even you, especially in this your day, the things that make for your peace!! But now they are hidden from your eyes. For the days will come when your enemies will build an embankment around you, surround you and close you in on every side and level you and your children to the ground; and they will not leave in you one stone upon another, because you did not know the time of your visitation." (Luke 19:41-44)
Before He was to be the victim of the darkest sin in the history of the world where a perfect God would be killed, Jesus wept for the people who were about to do it to Him. The Messiah who cried was the same Messiah who was present at and before creation, the one who was the Word at the beginning and who hangs the world upon nothing and sets the stars to shine and give light to the night. He wept as he was calling out judgment. In his wrath the heart of God flowed into human tears. Do we really understand what it means that Jesus wept?
When Christians warn of that final day and the sins like homosexuality that draw the wrath of God we must learn to weep like Jesus. Numerous times Paul wrote that he wept over a church. In our modern day ministries we need become men after God's own hearts like David. If we do that, then we too will cry.
D.L. Moody, the famous evangelist of the late 19th Century, never made it through a sermon about Hell without breaking down in the middle of it. Light, not heat, must be applied to the issue of homosexuality. Love, not anger, must be displayed in the debate for the hearts of men – wrath does not preclude love.
