The attacks on Christianity and the belief system in Christ has been being attacked from every which way. Be it from changing the definition of what marriage is. Marriage is defined directly in the bible as between a man and a woman to go out and be fruitful and multiply. Jesus reaffirms this relationship " Haven't you read," he replied, "that at the beginning the Creator 'made them male and female,' and said, 'For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh' ? So they are no longer two, but one. Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate." Matt 19: 4-6
Quite simply homosexual marriage is not compatible with God's word. God is unchanging for eternity. Now as Christians we are still to love the sinners, but at the same time we are to get them to open their heart to Jesus. Now there's been a lot of push from some emergent movements to accept those of homosexuals and even promote them to the leadership within the Church. The reason this is incompatible is that when you truly accept Jesus you are to be transformed and turn from your sins. One thing forgotten within the Church today that I see is repentance. We are still to recant our sins as only he that was pure can wash away our sin with his blood. Now one can be homosexual and become a Christian, but by the glory of Christ when they become filled with the holy spirit they would turn from their sins. Having an openly practicing homosexual as a preacher or in a leadership role seems a bit of an oxymoron. Our fallen world though has come to accept these abominations as truths and guidance. But it was all predicted in the bible we were given warnings that there would be false teachers the wolves in sheep's clothing to lead the flock astray.
Facebook has been abuzz recently with a preacher stating God says nothing about the Homosexual lifestyle, on the contrary God has quite a few things to say and none of them are in favor of such practice. Leviticus 20:13 is pretty clear: "If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them." Lev 20:13. Not sure if the pastor somehow missed this verse in seminary and for good measure this particular verse Leviticus 18:22 Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination. Since God is never changing in his ways we know to this day as it was like in the days of Lot and Noah we know it is still an abomination. Speaking of which did you know that it has been foretold that the world would return to the days of Noah and Lot in the end times. Our world and society has made what is evil good and no one is the wiser. We praise abortions, yet beg that we don't kill murderers. Some double standards of society today, where it is good to kill the innocent, yet we spare the evil from their crimes. We allow the homosexuals to show their pride in our streets and allow them to condemn scripture as heresy against their lifestyle. Biblical scripture is becoming condemned as hate speech. We saw and heard the outcry from gay groups when Phil Robertson quoted Corinthians, all the sudden he was gay-public enemy # 1. I could bring up the recent Mozilla CEO crisis also where Eichen was forced to step down due to a private donation he made in 2008 to Prop 9 in California which by the way the people of California voted in favor for 52%-48% and their sitting governor and attorney general refused to defend.
Would people be as supporting of the whole same sex agenda if they knew gay rights activists wish for the removal of age of consent laws? I will throw an example in here of the 19 year old Florida cheerleader that was "dating" a 14 year old. How the public was an outcry that the 14 year old's parents and state of Florida were bringing charges against the 19 year old. I am sure if it would have been a guy we would have been hearing he should have known better than messing with a younger girl, but because it was a two girls all the sudden we are being discriminatory based on sexual preference. You know how they preach it's between consenting adults: well funding for quite a bit of the gay-rights movement can be traced back to NAMBLA. So wouldn't a group promoting underage relations want to have some end game in play. Well going back to 1987 one thing on the bucket-list for Gay activists was the elimination of the age of consent. So lets see a known pedophilia group does major fund-raising for Gay-rights and we the public are supposed to believe they don't want to indoctrinate our children. We all know the end game of NAMBLA is elimination of all age of consent laws so they can have their way with young confused boys. The fact the world has been so accepting of indecency and calling it good, while calling anyone against it evil shows how the prophetic clock is ticking.
So in concluding as Christians we are still called to love the sinner and hate the sin, but at the same time we are to share the word of God and pray for those lost in sin to come to forgiveness with the Lord Jesus Christ. Accept that the Son of Man came and shed his blood on the cross for the sins of the world and accept the holy spirit and be transformed away from the sinful life style. Only in him are we saved from sins.
What better way to end than with this section of scripture.
"If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.
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| Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also." |
John 15:18-20
Marantha,
Eric
Amen!!
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