Baptist pastor comes out as transgender in zoom sermon, gets fired and sues church

Big difference between a church (building and organizational parameters) which is of this temporal existence meaning temporary necessity and the church whose names are written in heaven and is eternal.

Hebrews 12
22 But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to an innumerable company of angels, 23 to the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are registered in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect, 24 to Jesus the Mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better things than that of Abel.

 

A man claiming to be a sexual woman, and a woman claiming to be sexual man, is another type of homosexuality. All homosexuality is spoken against in the scriptures, both new and old testament. There is Satan and the demons and they always are exerting their sway over the minds of mankind. to influence them and pull them away from what God has said.
First one is then actually man lusting after other man (pretending to be a woman but really they are a man, man with a man). For trans people also look at how they act out, they are highly sexualized and passionately obsessed and proud of it (gay pride worldwide is a thing) , their whole being and identity is caught up in this. I as a man I don't constantly obsess over my masculinity, and tell other people you must accept me, but for them this is how they center their entire life.

That passion is not of the Father, (God), it is of the world.

1 John 2:16-18
New King James Version
16 For all that is in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not of the Father but is of the world. 17 And the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides forever.

Deceptions of the Last Hour
18 Little children, it is the last hour; and as you have heard that the Antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have come, by which we know that it is the last hour.

1 Corinthians 6:8-10
New King James Version
8 No, you yourselves do wrong and cheat, and you do these things to your brethren! 9 Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, 10 nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God.

11 And such were some of you. But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.

 

Our medical doctors don't consider it a mental illness anymore, they used to .
What does that say about the mental condition of those forcing society to accept homosexuality as normal and good? Which is an abomination unto the LORD thy God.

Deuteronomy 22:5
A woman must not wear men's clothing, and a man must not wear women's clothing, for whoever does these things is detestable, abomination unto the LORD thy God.

A woman must not wear men's clothing, nor a man wear women's clothing, for the LORD your God detests anyone who does this.

Jesus taught us God made them male and female, so for them to act out different is rebelling against God.

 

abomination definition,

NOUN

1. a thing that causes disgust or hatred.

Our society today is an abomination unto the Lord our God, world society through time has been and is abominable to God, it is why Christ does this for us.
He choose us out of the world, we are not of the world. Or another interesting way to read is perhaps more scriptural, because we are not of the world, HE chose us out of the world....as God the Father, He had foreknown us as His people before our birth. Romans 8

And we wont share it's doomed fate.

18 “If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you.

19 If you were of the world, the world would love its own. Yet because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

20 Remember the word that I said to you, ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you. If they kept My word, they will keep yours also.

 

Sodom and Gomorrah was not destroyed by any man, but by God. Society does not recognize the evil. And it spreads like gangrene in society. I do think there are different levels of hell awaiting the dead.

Deuteronomy 32:22
For a fire is kindled in My anger, And shall burn to the lowest hell; It shall consume the earth with her increase, And set on fire the foundations of the mountains.

 

Another wrong unscriptural thing this Baptist pastor did, was sue believers in court. Paul warns the church not to sue other believers in court.
No ifs ands or buts... Paul clearly states that this is shameful, and if your true to the Christian faith you will rather accept the wrong, v7.
Christians who sue Christians before the unbelieving world's unrighteous courts and not before the saints, are utter failures in the faith.

You should rather let yourself be cheated.
Of course toward this particular pastor would apply Matthew 18, and so the church would treat this person as a 'tax collector and heathen unbeliever' outside of the church, which is proved by the actions done.

15 “Moreover if your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault between you and him alone. If he hears you, you have gained your brother.
16 But if he will not hear, take with you one or two more, that ‘by the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.’
17 And if he refuses to hear them, tell it to the church. But if he refuses even to hear the church, let him be to you like a heathen and a tax collector.


1 Corinthians 6
Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the saints? 2 Do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world will be judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters? 3 Do you not know that we shall judge angels? How much more, things that pertain to this life? 4 If then you have judgments concerning things pertaining to this life, do you appoint those who are least esteemed by the church to judge? 5 I say this to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you, not even one, who will be able to judge between his brethren? 6 But brother goes to law against brother, and that before unbelievers!

7 Now therefore, it is already an utter failure for you that you go to law against one another. Why do you not rather accept wrong? Why do you not rather let yourselves be cheated? 8 No, you yourselves do wrong and cheat, and you do these things to your brethren! 9 Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, 10 nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God. 11 And such were some of you. But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.