And with many other words he testified and exhorted them, saying, “Be saved from this perverse generation.” (Acts 2:40)

A Perverse Generation

Sin is not new. It has been in the world since Adam and Eve ate of the forbidden fruit in the Garden of Eden. Satan lost no time in destroying the minds of nearly every soul on earth when God destroyed all life in the flood, except for Noah and his family. The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. Paul illustrated the depravity of the human mind when he described for the Romans how God gave men up to the lusts of their hearts, to dishonor their bodies for vile passions. Women exchanged the natural use of what is against nature. The men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust for one another. A perverse world filled with those who committed what is shameful because they did not retain God in their knowledge.

Marriage was created by God when he formed Adam from the dust of the ground and Eve from a rib of Adam. The Lord created male and female for the purpose of a holy union that would bring children into the world. Jesus declared that His Father made male and female in the beginning. He further said that when a man divorces his wife and marries another, he commits adultery. The one who marries the woman commits adultery. What Jesus declared was that the difference between a husband and a wife is the gender of male and female. Throughout scripture, the husband is the male party of the marriage, and the wife is the female party of the marriage. This is the only union that can produce children. Two men cannot produce a child no more than two women. It is a natural impossibility for children to be created outside the law of God.

A recent headline suggests a man is on trial for the death of his husband. It seems incredulous at the perverseness of a generation would accept and promote the agenda of a perverse view of marriage. The irrationality of such a suggestion reveals how the world’s mind becomes polluted by accepting an impossibility. Common sense cannot answer the conundrum of ungodliness when men use language that exposes their ignorance. Calling a man a husband does not make a man a husband. A perverse world is a generation that is crooked in its thinking. To pervert a thing is to distort its purpose. Man was not created for man, and woman was not created for woman. Biology proves that. God created male and female, and only through the creative process of a man and woman can a child be created. There is no deviation in the creation of children, but only a perversion of the union of man and woman.

When a nation turns away from God, it begins to make its own laws. The stupidity of human reasoning is that they try to create something that God has established cannot be changed. When men burn in their lusts for men and women burn in their lusts for one another, it does not alter the established created plan of male and female. At best, they only make themselves to be fools. Jesus died to establish the truth God created in the beginning and turn the hearts of a perverted generation back to the Father. Peter told those gathered in Jerusalem to save themselves from a perverted generation. That generation began with Adam, and it continues to this day. The challenge is finding hope in a broken world through the grace of God and restoring the principles of male and female as designed by the Creator. It is sad a man was murdered and a life lost. Sin never brings anything good.