North Carolina
residents will vote this week on the Marriage Protection Amendment. A vote for the bill will put into law the
definition of marriage as being between one man and one woman. The activity of many Christians who support
it reminds me of the vote against liquor sales in our city. Every election season, professing Christians
would rally to make certain that there were no alcoholic beverages sold within
the city limits. However, a significant
number of those professing Christians consumed alcoholic beverages that they
bought just outside of the city limits.
Many of them were guilty of adultery, fornication, flagrant lying, and
cheating, among other sins, but they rose up “righteously” indignant that
anyone would opposed them. They would
write letters to the editor filled with hatred and even death threats against
people on the other side of the issue.
What was even worse is that most of them seldom did anything significant
for God when they were not involved in the fight for a dry city. The only other activity I observed them
getting excited about was excommunicating a pastor and driving him and his
family out of the city broken and depressed.
The hypocrisy of it all was revolting.
To be honest, I wish that the Marriage Protection Amendment
had never been drafted. The reason is
because it is another attempt to legislate what Christians refuse to fight for
on their knees. Further, just like the “temperance”
Christians in our city, the majority of Christians in North
Carolina do not actually practice true Christianity. They attend church meetings, but do little
else to publicly express the character of Christ through their lives. They do not reach out to the poor. They do not express love for lost souls. In fact, they do little to be the salt and
light that Christ said His church ought to be.
The truth is that throughout our nation hypocrisy is rife among
professing Christians and most churches are little more than religious social
clubs. Therefore, instead of ministering
to homosexuals, witnessing to them, and being an example of Jesus Christ and
His love, they choose to pick a fight with them by introducing legislation. I’ve been a Christian for over 34 years and I
have never witnessed or heard of anyone delivered from darkness and brought
into the kingdom of God
by legislation.
Let me make several points perfectly clear. Adultery and fornication is illegal in our
state. Public drunkenness and driving
while drunk is also illegal. Any Christian
supporting this amendment that does these things is a hypocrite. I will go further and say that if you do not
love lost souls and regularly witness the love of Christ to them, including
homosexuals, and you support this amendment, you are a hypocrite. If you want to rid the world of sin, no matter
what that sin is, then it is imperative to express true Christianity to
sinners. You should also do your part to
make certain that church meetings are spiritual events where people can find
deliverance and forgiveness. If you
support this amendment and you have been involved in causing strife in your
church, you are a hypocrite.
By now, some individuals reading this may be screaming, “Who
does he think he is?” I will tell you
who I am. I am a man called by God to
preach, teach, write, and otherwise present the truth. When I was a young man, I would sit back expecting
the elder minister to stand and speak against hypocrisy. I have now become old enough that there is no
one I can pass on the responsibility onto.
It’s my turn now; my turn to step up to the responsibility and stand up
for truth, to take the heat, and all else that comes with the job. I do not intend to let such hypocrisy present
itself on my watch and thus be guilty of dereliction of duty.
Now that I’ve got the religious faction significantly
outraged, I will go on record as supporting the Marriage Protection
Amendment. The reason is because now
that the position has been brought to the forefront, I have no choice but to
support it. It is perfectly clear in
God’s Word that He is opposed to all sexual sins including homosexuality. The eschatological scriptures reveal that it
will be the prevailing sexual sin of the last day’s society. Of course there will be rampant adultery and
fornication as well, but those sins are the unlawful and sinful exercise of
natural affection. Homosexuality is the sinful
exercise of unnatural affection. But I
am not going to lecture the secular homosexual because it is not the sin I am
focusing on in this article. I am going
to deal with professing Christians that support homosexuality.
First, realize that we are in the last days before the
coming of Christ. We are warned by
Christ and the writers of the New Testament that certain things will occur
before the appearing of Christ. Two
events will be the great and final deception and the great and final
apostasy. Acceptance of homosexuality as
normal sexual behavior will be a key element in the great and final deception
and subsequent apostasy. There are many
elements of godliness that will come under militant attack when the spirit of
homosexuality is accepted by the majority of professing Christians. We are now seeing homosexual bishops,
pastors, and Christian musicians. In
fact, I have a very good source in the Christian music industry that declared
the genre is becoming increasingly prevalent with professing Christian homosexuals.
The standard defense that professing Christian homosexuals
and their supporters give is, “This is the way God made me.” I believe that it is the ultimate insult to
God to declare that He makes the Body of Christ to commit sex with someone of
the same sex. God is perfect and
everything He does is perfect. A
Christian that commits adultery sins grievously against the Body of Christ. He or she ought not to blame God for
that. How much worse damage is done to
the Body of Christ when a Christian commits homosexuality? I could post many scriptures, but it is
sufficient to post only this passage.
“Now the body is not for sexual immorality but for the Lord,
and the Lord for the body. And God both raised up the Lord and will also raise
us up by His power. Do you not know that
your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and
make them members of a harlot? Certainly not! Or do you not know that he who is
joined to a harlot is one body with her? For "the two," He says,
"shall become one flesh."
But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him. Flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a man
does is outside the body, but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his
own body. Or do you not know that your
body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God,
and you are not your own? For you were
bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which
are God's.” (1 Cor 6:13-20 NKJV)
The truth is that God only created two people, Adam and
Eve. Everyone else that has lived on
earth since were procreated by a father and mother. This world is under a curse of sin and
everything, including birth, is affected by it.
I have no doubt that people are born with proclivities that are against
the nature of God. I was born with a
violent temper, among other flaws. That
does not mean that I can be angry, hateful, and even violent because “God made
me that way.” The glorious message of
Christ is that when we truly, and I emphasize the word truly, surrender to God,
accept the sacrifice of Christ, and believe in our hearts of hearts that He is
Lord, and that God has raised Him from the dead, we will be saved. At that point, we become new creatures in
Christ. Some of the old hereditary proclivities
may remain, but that is where the Holy Spirit comes in. The Holy Spirit is the Divine Nature that
comes inside to dwell with our nature.
His job is to conform our nature so that it is like the nature of
Christ. Concerning myself, I don’t know
if His job will ever be complete.
However, I no longer have a violent nature and most of the other
hereditary flaws that I had are now gone.
The reason is quite simple.
Scientists, even secular ones, call DNA
the Book of Life. Christian scientists
declare that it was written by God. I
believe that sin alters DNA so that we are
not born with a godly nature. If a
person surrenders his or her life fully to God, he cleanses our nature from the
sinful traits that we accumulated while a sinner. The work of the Holy Spirit is to correct the
altered DNA we were born with so that our
nature will become as the nature of Christ.
Many homosexuals have been delivered and set free from homosexuality
because of God’s love and the Holy Spirit’s work. There are billions of individuals over the
course of history since the Resurrection of Christ that have been set free from
sin and their natures were completely changed.
God loves everyone, including homosexuals. His message of love, deliverance, and
forgiveness has been muted today by hypocritical and faithless Christians. It is not going to get better, but
worse. There is still time for people to
receive the gift of salvation and break free from the chains of sin. The only requirements are that a person must
have the desire to be free, fully surrenders his or her life to God, and to the
subsequent work of the Holy Spirit. That
is the Gospel that delivered and saved me.
It is the Gospel that I have lived by these past 34 years. It is the Gospel that I intend to defend and
continue living by until I depart this world or Christ returns. If you are a true Christian, you believe the
true gospel of Christ. According to the
Apostle Paul, all other “gospels” and “christs” are false and the one who
preaches such is accursed.
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