Pink and Blue: God's Design for Gender

``Our culture is in the midst of a revolution. It's not one fought with guns and bullets, it's fought with words and Internet technology. And here is what our culture says, you will either conform to the new norm, or you will be crushed. And so the church the culture is saying to the church, compromise your convictions or we will crush you. [00:24:05] (28 seconds)  #CultureWarOfWords

He said, genetics never change. Feelings, however, can and do change. You'll hear the media say of these surgeries, regret is rare. But they're not reading my inbox, which is full of messages from transgender individuals who want the life and body back that was taken away from them by cross sex hormones, surgery, and living under a new identity. After detransitioning, I know the truth. Hormones and surgery may alter appearances, but nothing changes the immutable fact of your sex. Nothing. God made each gender distinct but equal. [00:48:36] (46 seconds)  #SexIsImmutable

God created Adam, and he gave his life dignity and mean meaning. And then God created Eve. And the bible says that God created her as a helper. Now, we hear helper, we hear subordinate. That's that's what we hear. But the Hebrew word for that is the word that means someone who comes alongside. It's almost like it would be a word that would have been used for animals that pulled something like two oxen that pulled a plow in tandem. It's someone who comes alongside that person. It's not someone who's underneath. [00:49:21] (37 seconds)  #HelperMeansAlongside

Transgender people are confused. They are not criminals. I think when we see someone who we we are alarmed at this transition, at this change that they are going through, And we think that they are are going to somehow do something to our children. Many, the vast majority of them are certainly not in the category of pedophile. I'm afraid that sometimes we categorize all of them in those sort of categories. That's not helpful for us as believers to do. [00:51:48] (33 seconds)  #TransPeopleNotCriminals

This topic is a defining topic for the Church. This week and next week, I believe, are really battlefront topics for the church of the Lord Jesus Christ. We have to get this right. But I need you to know this. When we come to the biblical answer to the absolute truth, and remember that's how we started this whole series of messages that there is absolute truth. When we come to the absolute truth of what scripture says about this, we are going to find ourselves in confrontation with a culture that rejects these truths. [00:23:25] (39 seconds)  #DefiningChurchTopic

Now, in that moment, your entire body and everything about you was determined by the creator of the universe, that you were planned by him, that you you you your life was laid out by him. And one of the things that is so reassuring about understanding that we're not just some random accident and some accumulation of cells, but that we were intentionally created by God is to understand that he has a plan and a purpose for every life, whether it is male, whether that life is male or female. God planned you as you are. [00:33:56] (45 seconds)  #CreatedWithPurpose

Here's what we need to understand and what I I'm really trying to press for people to leave understanding. God made you and God doesn't make mistakes. I could put that on the that's that's the simplest way that I could put that. I have no idea how I could simplify that anymore. And at a spiritual level, this this whole movement is rebellion and defiance against a holy God. [00:37:40] (34 seconds)  #GodDoesntMakeMistakes

You see, what God was doing was awakening in Adam's mind and his heart that there was complementarianism in creation. That God had already created male and female of every species of animal. And so, God awakens in Adam this reality that there is complementarianism. There is male and female in every species of creation. And Adam begins to realize, but I'm alone. [00:29:20] (35 seconds)  #ComplementarianCreation

So, I wanna make it real simple to begin with. The Bible teaches us first of all that the creator determined my gender, and the creator determined my gender at conception. Just as God created Adam to be a male, and he created Eve to be a female, God does the same thing in every human being that is born on this planet. [00:31:31] (37 seconds)  #GenderSetAtConception

And I wanna say this to you. As much as I want to stand strong and convictional on the issue that God made two genders, he made on only two genders, and that gender is set and established for you at conception, as followers of Jesus, we are not to be we are not to be unloving, especially the people who have a mental illness. And and I want to sorta I really tried to walk a line this week, and it's a fine line of speaking the truth in love. There is truth here, but we also do not want to be unkind to people who have a form of mental illness or who are emotionally or mentally confused. [00:41:00] (45 seconds)  #SpeakTruthInLove

And it leaves our society with a lot of questions because these issues are being raised on an almost daily basis for a couple of younger generations. And somehow the church has to speak truth into this. Is there such a thing as even male and female? That's that's what our culture is is asking. Is there is there any definitive answer to that to that question? What does it mean to be masculine or feminine? Does the Bible have anything to say about this? And I believe that it does. [00:22:43] (39 seconds)  #ChurchSpeakOnGender

God had taken the previous six days to form everything that he had made. And on that sixth day, God came to the pinnacle of his creation, to the one creature that he would make that would bear his unique stamp as the image of God, and he forms the man and the woman on this sixth day of creation. [00:25:46] (26 seconds)  #MadeMaleAndFemale

Now let me ask you this. Do you would you educate teenagers with a coloring sheet, or would you educate preschoolers with a coloring sheet? This is down to the most basic level of what is going on in our culture. Folks, coloring sheets are indoctrination on this issue. So if you ever see that, do not do not take it lightly. Because what they are trying to do is infiltrate the minds of four and five year olds to confuse them about their gender and to confuse them about the truth about what God says about gender. [00:36:53] (44 seconds)  #ProtectKidsFromIndoctrination

For six consecutive days, the Bible says that God made things and he looked at it and said, it is good. I mean, every day, God God made light and God said, and the light was good. And then God creates the sun, the moon, the stars and God says steps back says, it's good. And god creates the fish, and god creates the birds, and god creates the mammals, and god steps back and says, it's good. But for the first time, god says something is not good. [00:27:20] (29 seconds)  #CreationDeclaredGood

And that single cell, that single egg begins then to multiply cells. And in every single cell, right down to the cellular level, whether it's the cells of my skin, the cells of my of my organs, the cells of my muscles, my bones, my brain, every single cell in my body, in Bob's body has the X Y chromosome. And ladies, every single cell in your body has the x x chromosome. It is an inescapable, unavoidable scientific fact that affirms what the bible says, that God creates male and female. [00:33:10] (46 seconds)  #ChromosomesDetermineSex

But this is the truth. We have moved this issue of gender from biology to psychology. Gender is in in the culture, in the cultural debate, gender is no longer an issue of biology, but psychology. And when when gender is an issue of psychology, then it can go off in a thousand different directions. But here's the problem. The problem is this. Puberty is not psychology. It's biology. It is a biology biological reality. [00:41:46] (41 seconds)  #KeepGenderBiological

God is the one who determines whether or not you are male or female. God determined their gender, and God determines our gender. And that happens biologically. We know now in in 2021. That happens at the moment of conception. At that very moment, you were either formed with us you were formed with a series of chromosomes. We understand that that that those that strand of chromosomes is your DNA. But a part of that is you either received an XX chromosome or an XY chromosome. [00:32:08] (45 seconds)  #SexDeterminedAtFertilization

they'll say something like this. Well, I I have a male body, but I have a female brain. I I I'm a female brain trapped in a in a male body. That is absurd. That that's what that it's absurd. Because scientifically, is no such thing. Science has done research on this and down to the cellular level, and it is absolutely unequivocally false to say that. It's not true. There's not an x x brain and an x y body. It doesn't happen ever to anybody. Never has. And it never will because it's the way God formed us at creation. [00:34:51] (46 seconds)  #NoFemaleBrainInMaleBody

She wanted to be someone new, someone different. There is a way for transgender people to be someone new and someone different. But it's not by transition. It's by transformation. It's not by physical alteration. It is by spiritual regeneration. And what we need to remember is that these are people for whom Christ died. [00:53:07] (32 seconds)  #TransformationNotTransition

My answer to that is this. No. Gender is not like light and dark in creation. Gender is like dead and alive in creation. You either are or you aren't. There's not a little bit of dead and a little bit alive. You're either alive or you're dead. You're either male or you're female. [00:46:25] (27 seconds)  #GenderIsEitherOr