Is not trivia
It is not a made up story
It is a factual event
With significance
Of His mindset
Similar to Sodom and Gomorrah
It reveals the cost of unchecked sin
A Levite was on a trip
He wouldn’t stop in a foreign land
He traveled late til he reached
A town of his own homeland
Gibeah of Benjamin Tribe would suffice
The Levite waited for help
At the center of town
Hospitality was finally afforded
But the townsmen tracked him down
With evil homosexual intent
They would not relent
In a questionable act
His concubine companion
The townsmen of Gibeah
Were relentless and ruthless
The sin at Gibeah
Even more gruesome
Throughout the land
The perpetrators were demanded
But the Benjamite tribe doubled down
They protected their sin
They were willing to fight
For their homosexual, raping
And murdering brethren
They were not willing to surrender them
They intended no accountability for sin
The men of Israel inquired of God
They were His agents
On the third day they did win
But victory came at a cost
Israel lost more men than did Benjamin
The nation paid a terrible price
For unchecked sin
It’s interesting to note that both
I have no doubt
That Paul learned well
The cost of unchecked sin
Caused by Benjamin
In the Lesson of Gibeah
Flee sexual immorality! Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the person who is sexually immoral sins against his own body. Don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought at a price. So glorify God with your body. 1 Corinthians 6:18-20 CSB
For this reason God delivered them over to disgraceful passions. Their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. The men in the same way also left natural relations with women and were inflamed in their lust for one another. Men committed shameless acts with men and received in their own persons the appropriate penalty of their error. Romans 1:26-27 CSB
And because they did not think it worthwhile to acknowledge God, God delivered them over to a corrupt mind so that they do what is not right. They are filled with all unrighteousness, evil, greed, and wickedness. They are full of envy, murder, quarrels, deceit, and malice. They are gossips, slanderers, God-haters, arrogant, proud, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, senseless, untrustworthy, unloving, and unmerciful. Although they know God’s just sentence—that those who practice such things deserve to die—they not only do them, but even applaud others who practice them. Romans 1:28-32 CSB
