GR said:
...there is nothing good or righteous about sexual deviance.
But what did David say?
1 ¶ A Psalm of David, to bring to remembrance.
Jehovah, rebuke me not in thy wrath; neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.
2 For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand cometh down upon me.
3 There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine indignation; no peace in my bones, because of my sin.
4 For mine iniquities are gone over my head: as a heavy burden they are too heavy for me.
5 My wounds stink, they are corrupt, because of my foolishness.
6 I am depressed; I am bowed down beyond measure; I go mourning all the day.
7 For my loins are full of burning, and there is no soundness in my flesh.
8 I am faint and broken beyond measure; I roar by reason of the agitation of my heart.
9 Lord, all my desire is before thee, and my sighing is not hid from thee.
10 My heart throbbeth, my strength hath left me; and the light of mine eyes, it also is no more with me.
11 My lovers and mine associates stand aloof from my stroke; and my kinsmen stand afar off.
12 ¶ And they that seek after my life lay snares for me; and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and meditate deceits all the day long.
13 But I, as a deaf man, hear not; and am as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth.
14 Yea, I am as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth are no reproofs.
15 For in thee, Jehovah, do I hope: *thou* wilt answer, O Lord my God.
16 For I said, Let them not rejoice over me! When my foot slipped, they magnified themselves against me.
17 For I am ready to halt, and my pain is continually before me.
18 For I will declare mine iniquity, I am grieved for my sin.
19 But mine enemies are lively, they are strong; and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied:
20 And they that render evil for good are adversaries unto me; because I pursue what is good.
21 Forsake me not, Jehovah; O my God, be not far from me.
22 Make haste to help me, O Lord, my salvation.
67 ¶ Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word.
68 ¶ Thou art good, and doest good; teach me thy statutes.
69 ¶ The proud have forged a lie against me: but I will keep thy precepts with my whole heart.
70 Their heart is as fat as grease; but I delight in thy law.
71 ¶ It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.
Please don't misconstrue what I'm saying to mean that sexual deviance
in itself is good. But what comes from it for the righteous, the learning of the statutes of the Lord,
is good. The affliction that David bore from his sexual deviance brought David closer to the Lord. And that is good.
God works
all things together for the good of those who love Him.
But it is not as if we say, "Let us do evil, that good may come of it." Not at all. But good
does come out of evil, if none other good than the demonstration of God's attributes, His longsuffering and His wrath.
Romans 9:17 For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh,
Even for this same purpose have I raised thee up, that I might shew my power in thee, and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth.
Romans 9:22 What if God, willing
to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:
All the wicked and the corrupt of the world will demonstrate God's righteousness. Of course, there are those who find fault with this. But Paul says ...
Romans 9:20 Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God?