Today I want to talk about the Kinsey Report and the sexual revolution from Romans 1.
In the first episode I talked about and framed up why Romans 1 is so important to us, but
today I'm going to pick it up at Romans 1.18 and talk about the fact that there is this
regression to sin, that if we don't repent, God gives us over.
God says, look, you can have it your way.
If you want to have sex with a bunch of guys, you want to have sex with a bunch of gals,
if you want to continue to have relationships that you know are improper, or maybe you don't
even know they're improper, but you're just living the life, man, God's going to let you
do that.
He allows you to do that.
But he's always crying out.
He's crying out to us that we might know him, that we might follow the kingdom way.
So let me pick it up in Romans 1 at verse 18 and read some key verses here in this passage.
Verse 18 says, For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness
of truth, men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness.
So let's just stop there.
So the beginning of any area of sin in our life is suppressing the truth, and it's interesting.
This is actually a classical Greek word, which means to hold down.
It's the idea of a helmsman with his hands on the rudder of a ship who is fighting to
keep the boat in a particular direction.
So the idea of suppressing the truth is the idea that we know the right thing.
Our conscience tells us the right thing to do, but we fight that.
We battle against that like a helmsman guiding a ship against the current.
So he talks about suppressing the truth, and Satan is always about suppressing the truth,
men and women.
So when we see what's happening today with big media, big God, big pharma, and the censoring
even of free speech, that is the beginning of communism, quite frankly.
That's the beginning of socialism and a dictatorship, because every dictatorship, every communist
regime that's ever been, the first thing they do is they suppress the truth.
And that's what we do as individuals, too.
So when you see a culture that's suppressing the truth, that is not allowing free speech,
not allowing truth to be spoken, you're seeing what has always been Satan's tactic.
So Jesus said that Satan comes to steal, kill, and destroy, but that I came that you
might have life and have life that's more abundant.
So there's this contrast between God's truth, which sets us free, and Satan's way of dealing
with us, which is always going to be bondage.
I mean, when you study Exodus, the book of Exodus is about bondage.
Pharaoh is a type of Satan, and he has the people of God in bondage.
Moses is a type of Christ.
Moses comes to set the captives free, a precursor to the Messiah Christ that would come thousands
of years later.
And so in our lives, it's also true, Christ comes to set us free.
That's why Jesus said, you shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free.
But that's why Romans 1 is so important, because all of this rebellion begins, first
of all, in verse 18, with suppressing the truth.
Well, it doesn't stop there.
Verse 19, because what may be known of God is manifest in them, for God has shown it
to them.
For since the creation of the world, his invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood
by the things that are made, even as eternal power in Godhead, so that they are without
excuse.
So he's saying that the next step is that God has shown us the truth, but we don't want
to believe it.
We don't want to view it.
We don't want to experience it, but God has made it clearly seen.
And I live in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and it's beautiful.
Almost every day, we can see the snow-capped mountains, evidence of God's creation.
Verse 21, because though they knew God, they did not glorify him as God, nor were thankful,
but became futile in their thinking, and their foolish heart was darkened.
Professing to be wise, they became fools, and changed the glory of the incorruptible
God into the image made like corruptible man, and birds, and forfeited animals, and creeping
things.
And therefore, God gave them up to uncleanness, in the lust of their hearts, to dishonor their
bodies among themselves.
So suppressing the truth is the beginning.
is a futility of thoughts where we can't even know what truth is. I'll give you an example
of that. You know, outside, on my way home, I always come to the stop sign, and I come
to stop lights all the way home, and I stop if it says red, and I go if it's green. Well,
that's an example of truth. In other words, I'm trusting that when that light is green,
that other people are going to follow the law. This is man-made laws, but it's like
the laws of God, and they're going to stop. So, I don't worry about what's happening
with the traffic on the right or what's happening with traffic on the left. I just
go straight because the light tells me it's green, so it's safe. But if I decided to
say, well, you know, I don't really like stop lights. I don't really like green, yellow,
or red lights. I'm going to do whatever I want to do. And so, I'm going to suppress
the truth. I'm going to suppress the law in unrighteousness. Well, think what starts
to happen. What starts to happen is I don't know what's going to happen each time I
come to the light because there's other people out there that still believe in the
law. They're still following that. So, it's red. The light says red on my side. It's
green on their side, but I don't really want to follow the law. I don't care about
the law. I want to do my own thing, and I want to get home five minutes faster. So,
I just drive my car right through the intersection, and then bam, I'm in an accident. And so,
that's what happens. That's where you suppress the truth. You're going to talk about futility
of thinking, and you're going to have a whole lot of devastation in your life. And
that's why I want to talk about the sexual revolution and the Kinsey Report because when
we see a society going in the direction of what Romans 1 says, it's devastation for
everybody in that culture. So, our passage says that God gives people over to uncleanness
and the lust of their heart. Well, in 1948 and in 1953, a two-part cultural phenomena
took place with the publication of the monumental works of Alfred Kinsey on male and female
sexuality. Sexual behavior in the human male and sexual behavior in the human female were
published, and it took the entire culture in America by a firestorm. One writer writes,
quote, more than any other documents in history, they have shaped Western society's beliefs
and understanding of what human sexuality is. The New York Times hailed Kinsey as the
father of the sexual revolution. According to an article in Esquire magazine, Kinsey
was the, quote, patron saint of sex, whose books set in motion the first wave of the
sexual revolution, end quote. The Kinsey Report on sexuality inspired Hugh Hefner and his
Playboy magazine. Hefner wrote in his first issue, quote, we believe we are filling a
publishing need only slightly less important than one just taken care of by the Kinsey
Report. The Kinsey Report and books exploded upon the American culture. Writing in Harper's
magazine, Albert Deutsch explained, quote, the Kinsey survey explodes traditional concepts
of what is normal and abnormal, natural and unnatural in sex behavior. Now I don't have
time to go into all of the different aspects of what the Kinsey Report said, but I'll give
you one example to give you example for all the others, and that is this. The report said
that 75% of men were involved in sex before marriage or immorality after marriage, and
that was like, what? 75% of, quote, unquote, Christian America men were involved in sex
outside of marriage, and people believed it as fact. It just was, it was in every magazine.
It was on newscasts for the next 10 years, and many would say, and I would say that the
statistics back this up, that by around 1962 or 63, the Kinsey Report was key in what became
known as the sexual revolution on especially the university campuses in America. The problem
was, and this is always a problem in American journalism, no one checked the studies by
Alfred E. Kinsey, because actually his reports were skewed. He lied about his findings, and
at the time simply made up data that he published. Kinsey admitted that he set out to destroy
the
biblical Judeo-Christian view of marriage and sexuality, even if it meant lying in his
data. According to the Irish Times, Kinsey believed in the rape of children. Over 300
children were molested in his studies. Bestiality, sadomasochism, along with his wife, they regularly
had sex with their clients and their researchers. Between 1938 and 1963, over 18,000 persons
were interviewed for their sex histories. What came to light later, though, was that
they were not a random selection, but rather were chosen only after being interviewed.
In other words, Alfred E. Kinsey knew what he wanted. He was looking for a certain type
of sexual history for him to use, but he presented it as though it was random samples.
Rather than a true sample of society, Kinsey and his team chose a large percentage of convicted
sex offenders, prisoners, and prostitutes for their research. But the damage was done.
The sexual revolution in America had begun, and it was never waned since.
So here's an example of suppressing the truth, futility of thinking, and out-and-out
bad reporting. Himself a pedophile, bisexual, and voyeurist, Kinsey's false reports and
deceptive research has, according to Drs. Judith Reisman, Dr. John Cort, and Gordon
Muir been catalytic to, and I quote, the rise of divorce, sexual promiscuity, sexually
transmitted diseases, illegitimate births, cohabitation, pornography, homosexuality,
sadomasochism, rape, child molestation, sexual crimes of all types, family breakup, endemic
violence, etc. They can all be attributed to the scandalous research undertaken by Kinsey.
Kinsey's research was never checked, and only in the last 20 years has it actually
come to light through research about what he actually did. Kinsey, the academic community
of that time, and the media suppressed the truth in unrighteousness, leading to uncleanness
and the lust of the heart to dishonor their bodies among themselves. So those are pretty
dramatic facts, you guys, about what happened. But this uncleanness and the lust of their
hearts is also what we now call the hookup culture, which is here we are in the third
millennium and we see the hookup culture such a prevalent part of the youth culture today.
According to statistics on STD, that means sexually transmitted diseases, half of all
sexually active people will get a sexually transmitted disease by the time they reach
25. Women are more at risk than men. New data published by the CDC estimates that on any
given day in 2018, one in five people in the U.S. had a sexually transmitted infection.
It's called an STI. More than 500 million people across the globe between the ages of
15 and 49 are estimated to have a genital infection with herpes simplex virus, HSV,
or herpes. Jesus said, the enemy comes to steal, kill, and destroy, but I have come
to give you life and more abundantly. This is devastating information, men and women.
It's destructive. And the proper response is to say, it's not okay. It's just unnatural.
This is not God's best way for us. So I want to challenge you today as you're hearing this
information that you would stay with us as we look at the next episode, because we're
going to take another step in this journey of how we can begin to live lives along the
guardrails that God has for us. But this is important. This is super important. And the
enemy and the media will do anything possible to shield us from this kind of knowledge.
And young people need to hear this. We need to be communicating this in our schools. We
need to be communicating this in our churches. So in the next episode, I'm going to be talking
about unnatural passions. Stay with us and may this challenge you and your understanding
and importance of a Christian worldview.