I came
upon the above statement, and it led me to contemplate whether the statement
was true or an erroneous statement designed to deceive. I believe it is the latter. In fact, it is a part of the LGBT agenda that
is meant to depict the Christian faith and church as a bigoted body that seeks
to demonize and victimize persons within the gay culture. The statement itself is meant to put the
average Christian in a box marked with the labels of hater, bigot, and
intolerant, automatically putting him in a defensive position. But I caution each believer not to fall into
that pit of deception, for is a technique of manipulation, intimidation, and
deception used by Satan, the father of all lies.
The major problem found
within this statement is the faulty assumption that the Christian Church, that
is the body of believers in Jesus Christ, are guilty of singling out
homosexuality as being a far greater sin than the sin of adultery. In so doing, they have already ensnared
themselves to put themselves at odds with even their own present agenda. They see themselves as victorious in the
latest Supreme Court decision to change the definition of marriage from being
between a man and a woman to any two people who profess to love one
another. So now, according to their own
agenda, it is not just married heterosexuals that are guilty of adultery, but
now the “married” homosexuals can be deemed as committing the sin of adultery. Under their own newly defined marriage, those
who stray are just as guilty of committing adultery as any married heterosexual
couple. Therefore, adultery, according
to their own agenda, is an equal opportunity sexual immorality act, and can no
longer be looked upon as an only heterosexual sin. Welcome to the band wagon, you just jumped on
it.
There are many today who profess to be Christians yet they
have deceived themselves into thinking that there are many paths to God, that
they can deny the Bible as the true word of God, deny the deity of Christ, deny
that Jesus is the only name under heaven through whom salvation can be found,
and all the while, they still profess to be a Christian. They even set themselves up as being wiser
than God, and therefore they can decide for themselves what is or is not
sinful, setting the wisdom and knowledge of God aside as being inferior to
whatever man may decide.
They have taken the truth of God, “He that loveth not
knoweth not God; for God is love.”, and turned it upside down to mean that
“Love is god.” They have ignored Jesus
entirely when He said that if you are to enter the Kingdom of God
As I previously said, even some professing Christians have
joined in with those who seem to think they can decide what is or is not sin
for themselves based either upon their own opinion, or the opinions asserted by
the present culture or society. They
have, in their own minds, decided that “love is god. They truly believe that sin should not be
confronted as sin, for that is being “judgmental” and it is very unloving to
say anything that might make anyone feel uncomfortable about their thoughts,
words, or deeds. Even the “sin” word is
an offense to their feelings. Some of
the post Christian churches of today have dropped the word sin from their
vocabulary, and exchanged it for the word “mistakes.” There now, doesn’t that make you feel much
better about yourself? You no longer
need to humble your self before the Lord, acknowledge your sins, and ask His
forgiveness, for you no longer sinned; you have only made mistakes, and
everybody does that. Hey, no one even
lies anymore; they only “misspeak.” No
need for forgiveness there. Even the
conscience of the natural man has gotten so seared, even “mistakes” no longer
bother the conscience, and we more or less live by doing whatever is pleasing
to ourselves.
The problem is not that the church focuses on homosexuality
and not adultery. The problem is that we
don’t want to be confronted with the sin in our lives at all, whether it’s
sexual immorality or any other sin. No,
no, that is not loving! Here is the
biggest lie, and we in the church carry the biggest burden of guilt, for we, of
all people should know better. We
“think” we are being caring and loving to one another by not confronting the
sin that is right there in our midst. I
pick homosexual immorality, not because it is worse than any other form of
sexual immorality, but simply because that is what was singled out in the
original statement on the poster. We
think that if we “disagree” with God’s word, it is the “loving” thing to do to
agree with, condone, and exalt the behavior as not wrong, but good and right. There that puts a bandaid on it, covers it
up, removes all the stigma, makes everyone feel good about themselves, and
everyone can ignore it (and any other sin), and going on living a merry little
life where you’re okay, I’m okay, and everything’s just hunky dory; eat, drink,
and be merry, for tomorrow you may die.
Here’s the dilemma; all the lying that we do to one another doesn’t
change God or His ways one bit.
Here’s where those unintended consequences enter upon the
scene of life. Yes, for now we will
still stay focused on the sin of homosexuality, but we could replace it within
anything that God says we are to resist the temptation to get involved in any
sin, not to give us a list of does and don’ts, but to protect us from the
destruction that it surely, without a doubt, brings upon us. Maybe you have a friend or relative that
struggles with that sin in their life.
You don’t want to appear insensitive, hurtful, hateful, or intolerant so
you “lovingly” agree with them that it is merely a different lifestyle, and
there is absolutely nothing wrong with it.
In the reality, whether man believes is God or not, He is ultimately
responsible unto God. But you and I,
with our flattery lips, we help lead them right down the path of destruction to
their eternal damnation. Why have we done this?
All along, we were thinking about ourselves, not them. All because we want to “fit in” and look like
the rest of the world, we didn’t want to take the risk that we might rejected
and hated in the eyes of the world because we tried to tell them that sin was
going to ultimately destroy them and separate them eternally from God. No, it was far easier to say “no sin here
Sweetypie;” “there are no consequences for choosing to disobey God.” We have thrown out the truth that God says we
are to love the sinner, but hate the sin.
No, No, it’s much easier for you and I to “appear” as being so loving in
the eyes of the world. It’s too risky to
our own self esteem to at least tell them the truth of Jesus’ love for them,
and let them have a chance to go to Him, acknowledge sin, repent, ask
forgiveness, and through faith by grace receive Salvation through Him. It may
“look” loving in the eyes of the world to condone the sin and not confront
it. But ultimately, from a biblical
world view, in the eternal true love sense, what matters is at least telling
others about Jesus and His plan of salvation.
Then, their response is between themselves and Jesus. Yes, we need to get it straight. Love is not god; God is love for He gave His
only begotten Son that whosoever would believe on Him might have life
everlasting.
True problem that exists in the church is not the deception
represented by the statement in the poster.
Rather, it is the failure of the church today, not only to confront sin,
but more often a failure to act as a place of healing and support for one
another in the struggle to resist and overcome the sin in our lives. Unfortunately, many churches are so involved
in being places of the “health, wealth, and feel good messages” or activists
for social justice “works”, that the good news of the Gospel of Jesus Christ
has almost been shoved out the back door as an unloved stepchild, something
that is practically an embarrassment and a symbol of shame rather than the
glory and power of the Lord.
Oh that we would delight in the Lord
and in His message of love that He has for all, not wanting any to perish in
their sins, but being saved through grace because of His mercy and forgiveness
towards us if we will but choose to believe and receive Him as Savior and Lord. Let us seek the wisdom of the Lord that we
may not be deceived ourselves by the powers and principalities of this world,
nor be complicit in contributing to the deception and destruction of others. Let us truly love others as Christ has loved
us, not counting ourselves as being self righteous for all have sinned and
fallen short of the mark of God’s perfection, but count the sacrifice of Jesus
as having paid the full price for our sin debt.
Trusting in His righteousness as we receive through faith and we are
cleansed and made whole by the blood of Jesus, for by faith through His mercy
and grace we are saved, and not by any works of our own. “That I may know Him, and the power of His
resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being made conformable unto
His death; If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the
dead. Not as though I had already
attained, either were already perfect; but I follow after, if that I may
apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.” (Php. 3:
10-12)
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