What lover of God’s Word is not presently mourning the loss of the age-old foundations (Is. 58:12) of Judeo-Christian moral standards? Is this not a time to heed the words of James: “Be miserable and mourn and weep; let your laughter be turned into mourning and your joy to gloom” (James 4:9)?
But this is not just political theater; it’s personal. This is decision time for the many struggling Christian men and women all across America who believe acquiescing to their same-sex orientation will make them happy: “There is a path before each person that seems right, but it ends in death. Laughter can conceal a heavy heart, but when the laughter ends, the grief remains” (Prov. 14:12-12). Solomon says there is a time to be silent and a time to speak. What time is it in America? It is time to speak the truth in love (Eph 4:15).
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ReplyDeleteIt is so much easier to speak in fragments of truth than to do the hard work of 'rightly dividing' or 'accurately handling,' or 'cutting straight' the Word of God. The hard sayings of Jesus are 'hard,' to be sure. But we must reconcile God's holy character. righteousness, and absolute justice with His love, mercy and grace. 2 Timothy 2:15
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ReplyDeleteThe old scenario of the frog in the kettle is the strategy that seems to have been most effective by those who wish to minimize their real guilt before the One True God. It matters not whether it is an unbeliever who bristles at the idea that he or she must give an account before the Holy God of the universe, whith Whom they have no relationship; or, whether it is someone who claims to be saved from their sin, but does want to submit to the Lord Jesus' absolute right to determine their "right" from their "wrong." The gradual exposure to progressively more deviant lifestyles and behavior has apparently worked, both in society as well as in much of Christian circles.
Sin will always cost you more than you want to pay, and will stay around longer than you want it to stay...unless you allow yourself the pain of recognition of your sins and their cost--to you personally, to others around you, and particularly to God Himself--and then seek cleansing from your sin and dying again to the self-centered activities and attitudes that set up the sin in the first place.
Jesus told the man at the Pool of Bethesda as well as the woman caught in adultery who was brought before Him for judgment that they should "sin no more..." Those two examples should give us pause before we attempt to minimize our sin, or anyone else's.
Stan