{"id":36866,"date":"2022-09-13T13:14:03","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T18:14:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/my-boyfriend-is-saved-baptized-and-goes-to-church-but-he-likes-to-dress-up-in-womens-clothes-what-the-bible-says-about-that\/"},"modified":"2022-09-13T13:14:03","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T18:14:03","slug":"my-boyfriend-is-saved-baptized-and-goes-to-church-but-he-likes-to-dress-up-in-womens-clothes-what-the-bible-says-about-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/my-boyfriend-is-saved-baptized-and-goes-to-church-but-he-likes-to-dress-up-in-womens-clothes-what-the-bible-says-about-that\/","title":{"rendered":"My boyfriend is saved, baptized, and goes to church, but he likes to dress-up in women&#039;s clothes. What the Bible says about that&#8230;&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-content\">\n<p>In this day and age, so many things are seen as permissible and perceived as &ldquo;individual rights&rdquo;.&nbsp; To say something contrary is seen as being prejudiced and closed minded.&nbsp; The Bible however is very straightforward and clear on some subjects.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;A woman shall not wear man&rsquo;s clothing,<strong> nor shall a man put on a woman&rsquo;s clothing<\/strong>; for whoever does these things is an <strong>abomination to the LORD<\/strong> your God.&rdquo; Deuteronomy 22:5 (NASB)<\/p>\n<p>It is difficult when someone we love acts in a way that is contrary to what the scriptures dictate.&nbsp; When&nbsp;there&nbsp;is &ldquo;Thus sayeth the Lord&rdquo;, we must stand by what the LORD tells us.&nbsp; By the same token, we must remember that we are all sinful and therefore we have <strong>love for other sinners<\/strong>, but<strong> <\/strong>we must<strong> hate sin<\/strong>.&nbsp; We can love a sinner by &ldquo;<strong>speaking the truth in love<\/strong>&rdquo; (Ephesians 4:15), showing them respect and praying for them (1 Timothy 2:1).&nbsp; At the same time, &nbsp;we must hate sin by <strong>refusing to condone, ignore, or excuse it<\/strong>. Romans 6:1,2 tells us &ldquo;&hellip;Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? By no means! We are those who have died to sin; how can we live in it any longer?&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this day and age, so many things are seen as permissible and perceived as &ldquo;individual rights&rdquo;.&nbsp; To say something contrary is seen as being prejudiced and closed minded.&nbsp; The Bible however is very straightforward and clear on some subjects. &ldquo;A woman shall not wear man&rsquo;s clothing, nor shall a man put on a woman&rsquo;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/my-boyfriend-is-saved-baptized-and-goes-to-church-but-he-likes-to-dress-up-in-womens-clothes-what-the-bible-says-about-that\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;My boyfriend is saved, baptized, and goes to church, but he likes to dress-up in women&#039;s clothes. What the Bible says about that&#8230;&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}