“For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.” — Romans 1:16
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The Bible reveals two ways which people are following to get into heaven. One way, the true way, is God’s way. God’s way into heaven is the way of peace and truth and righteousness. It is the only way approved of God. This way centers in the Lord Jesus Christ who said: “I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by Me” (John 14:6). The Bible declares that there is another way. “There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death” (Prov. 14:12).
There are so many popular ways today filled with lost multitudes all over the land, such as the way of morality, the way of respectability, the way of religion, the way of churchianity, the way of baptism, the way of christening, the way of confirmation, the way of penance, the way of confession, the way of “doing the best I can”, the way of self, the way of education, the way of philosophy, the way of false isms and cults that crowd the street. Little wonder then when we speak to people about the way of salvation, that so many have asked, “How can I know which is the true way? There are so many different ideas and so many religions.”
But there is ONE difference between God’s way of salvation and man’s way, and that difference is found in a Person, the Lord Jesus Christ. You will notice that man leaves Christ out of the center of his way. You will discover that the modern false cults and isms demote Christ to a mere man and add something to what He has already done for your salvation and mine. We become children of God through a supernatural birth. Jesus said to Nicodemus: “Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God” (John 3:3). Jesus also said, “Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again” (John 3:7)
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Shame On This Irresponsible Generation – II
The right to commit Sodomy is not a basic human right.
The right to contract and spread disease is not protected by the Constitution. !!
The Sin of Sodomy
Sodomy which is known in modern English as homosexuality is empathically different than other sins. It is an abomination and confusion in the sight of God: which is abhorrent, detestful and repulsive. It poses an enormous threat to family, health, the hope of bright future for the coming generation. Yes, Sodomy is the reflective of our sinful nature and need to be repented of. And it can not be excused based on arguments which say, “ I was born that way.” The proponents of Sodomy undermine the severity of this sin by a seriously flawed understanding of Romans One. They advocate a new and popular narrative, a point of view warmly being embraced by many of the evangelicals, but it is not derived from a meaningful or proper exegesis of Scripture.
In the book of Romans 1 the sin of Sodomy is listed as one among many other sins, such as “.. … disobedient to parents, unthankful, debate, deceit, boasting covetous, ….without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection (Sodomy) implacable, unmerciful….”
To contend that debate, deceit, boasting, greed, disobedient to parents or other sins are equally depraved is to completely miss the point of Romans 1. Sodomy impacts the deepest level of human behavior, even as something as basic and fixed as gender, and its purposes to affect the human species. It wickedly perverts the natural order of God. Yes, the seriousness of the sin should not be diminished as equal with other sins. Sodomy is destined for destruction, of fire and brimstone being rained upon it (Genesis 18-19) or being vomited out of the land (Leviticus 18). God has given us all a sense of right and wrong within our consciences. We rightly have the sense that some actions are more evil than others. even while our consciences have been influenced by the corrupting influence of sin, and nowhere more so than when we excuse or own sin. Moreover, our relative ordering of sins can be skewed by our own sinful desires. However, the principle that some sins are more heinous than others, not just in their effects on humans but also in the estimation of God, is God-given. Had there not been such sense within our moral compass, society would have been more perverse than it already is.
On moral plane nobody actually lives in the belief that all sins are equally severe. Indeed, often it is those who argue in connection with homosexual practice that all sin is equal that get particularly upset if one compares homosexual unions to incest, bestiality, and pedophilia. They do so precisely because they regard incest, bestiality, and pedophilia as “really bad”, and don’t want homosexual behavior to be associated with them. Such a reaction, however, is already a concession to the obvious principle that some sins are worse than others.Not a day goes by that people don’t regularly assess some actions as greater wrongs than others. Not only is the belief that all sins are equal to God in all respects manifestly absurd to human logic and experience, but also the great Christian traditions agree that some sin is worse than others.
Sodomy is a heinous sin to God and never spoken of in Scripture but in a most unfavorable light. Surely one is not doing any favors for the Sodomites, for the culture and society at large by diminishing the actual weight of this sin by equalizing it with lesser sins. Bearing in mind that is not to say that all sin does not separate us from God. It does! Yes, sins differ in their significance and God regards the sin of Sodomy as particularly grave and wrong. Those self-righteous churches and their leaders do need redemption as much as those who are engaged in Sodomy.
Only Sodom and Gomorrah were cities destroyed by fire and brimstone, because of the wickedness of the sin of Sodomy. Other cities had sins and sinful people but we don’t see God raining fire down from heaven for those cities. “But why only Sodom and Gomorrah?” One may ask. When the depth of moral depravity sinks below a certain level, punishment ceases to be individual but national. God restrains His judgment on the wicked until that point for the sake of the righteous among them. It was on this basis that Abraham bargained with God to save Sodom and Gomorrah- Genesis 18. Sodomy is a sign that the sin of individuals or nations is ‘Full’. It is the culminating evidence of human apostasy and hostility towards God – Romans 1:18-32. “...they which commit such things are worthy of death.” Sodomy arises in history every time as civil and moral apostasy. It is an end-of-the age phenomenon, which marks the final decline of a people.
All sin is equal in the sight of God. Any sin no matter what it is, separates us from God. But all of them are treated differently by God’s standard. Any sin posses consequences that the sinner must live with on earth. It only takes one sin to prevent a person from Heaven. The difference in degree of sin have a grater impact on humans, as it affects how we relate to each other. Sodomy breaks down the kind of love that God wants us to have with each other. It continues its breakdown by affecting other areas of our lives – disease, family life (procreation, role model for children), longevity etc.
Correct your stance regarding the gravity of this sin of Sodomy. It is emphatically different than other sins. It poses an enormous threat to family, health, and even to the propagation of the gospel. “Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that commits fornication sineth against his own body.” 1st Corinthians 6:18
The authorities have made it clear that they criminalize God’s commands regarding Sodomy, and end our freedoms of speech and religion. It is cowardly to downplay the Bible’s clear condemnation of the homosexual life style. We must defend God’s word, and our freedom to speak God’s Word. We must also not shrink from the fierce battle we are currently in. That does not mean that believers should restore to violence or act in a way destructively. We must protest only with civil actions, with our voices, votes, and with our wallets.
God does not make Sodomites, they make themselves!
From The Peoples Gospel Hour Staff