I just finished a fantastic read by Peter Jones. Entitled The God of Sex, the subtitle explains his theme further — “How Spirituality Defines Your Sexuality.” Really good stuff and highly recommended. I believe that Canon Press will be offering it sometime soon.
And this leads to some additional observations on this general subject. I have in recent posts been describing abortion as the bloody sacrament of the secularists. And I do believe that the innocents in that particular carnage are the sacrifice made to the deified god of orgasm. Put another way, sexual pleasure, detached from the fruitfulness of marriage, is one of the greater gods in their particular pantheon. At one end autonomous sexual pleasure is demanded, and at the other end we see that the demand was made in earnest. 40 million abortions means that there had to have been at least forty million orgasms, and our cultural leaders still think the trade-off well worth it.
This is no incidental matter. I have been making a big deal out of the pomosexual revolution. Does this mean that I am obsessed with sex, and that I think that sexual sin has to be epicenter in the earthquake of all sinning? No, not at all, but to explain this I have to make a distinction I have made before. There is a difference between Scripture’s treatment of refugees from the world and its treatment of apostles from the world. When it comes to refugees, whores are closer to the kingdom of God than are respected theologians are (Matt. 21:31). In this set up, theology is worse than adultery. But there are other set ups. Sometimes adultery is far worse than theology (Prov. 30:20; Luke 2:46).
So here is the bottom line:
“He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?” (Micah 6:8).
Notice three great things required here — justice, mercy, and walking humbly with God. This appears to be the basis for the Lord’s teaching on the weightier matters of the law, with Him varying the language of the third “weightier matter.” In Matthew, He describes it as faith or faithfulness, and in Luke it appears to be “the love of God.”
“Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone” (Matt. 23:23).
“But woe unto you, Pharisees! for ye tithe mint and rue and all manner of herbs, and pass over judgment and the love of God: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone” (Luke 11:42).
What would justice, mercy and faith say about devouring a widow’s house for the sake of putting a highway through there? And how would that compare to a teenage boy looking lustfully at a Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue? Do justice, mercy and faith have any sense of proportion? Of course they do. The former is a gross violation of the weightier matters of the law and the latter is not. But what would they say about a man ditching his wife and five kids to chase after some pomohomo action? What would they say about millions of men arranging to have their own children chopped up into little pieces so that they can be fathers of many orgasms instead of fathers of children?
Sex is at the center of our identity. God made us as sexual beings, male and female He created us. That means that when we are serving Him, sex and sexual identity are right at the center of our obedience. And when we are in rebellion against Him, rebelling against justice, mercy, and love, sex has to be right at the center of that also. Milton follows the Scriptures well when he shows that the first sin was the eating of the forbidden fruit, and not anything related to sex. But he also shows great wisdom when he has our fallen parents falling into a deranged copulation immediately.
And this is why sexual rebellion is high defiance against the weightier matters of the law, and cannot be taken lightly. Not all sexual sin is sexual rebellion.