America stands upon the brink of a decision this day with eternal consequences - whether she will openly embrace the sin of homosexuality and protect it with her laws, or whether she will hold to her Godly heritage.
But first let's be clear about a few things. True Christians - those who have given their lives to Jesus Christ and follow His teachings - do not hate homosexuals, nor do they fear them. True Christians hate homosexuality and fear the consequences to their society and nation. There is an enormous difference between the sinner and the sin itself, for each of us are sinners by nature. Christians hate homosexuality because God hates it. This is ABUNDANTLY clear and easily shown from His Word throughout both Old and New Testaments. God hates all sin, yet loves all sinners and desires deeply for us to come to Him in repentance and humility, but the choice is given to each individual.
Likewise, Christians recognize that marriage is an institution created and ordained by God - not Man! From the very beginning of Creation this has been so. It is specifically and explicitly designed to join one man and one woman in a life-long bond that produces offspring and, by its very nature reflects Who He is, who we are, and portrays deep spiritual truths about our relationship to God in ways which specifically require one man and one woman. This too is affirmed throughout both Old and New Testament and in the words of Jesus Himself repeatedly.
Human history is littered with the wreckage of nations that have abandoned God's moral laws and, specifically, His design for marriage. From the time before the Great Flood, to Sodom and Gomorrah, to Egypt, Greece, Rome, and so forth, one of ... perhaps THE primary trigger of the downfall of each of these empires was their abandonment of God's Laws - and homosexuality in particular. More specifically though, it is not the just immorality in general that portends the destruction of a nation, for there is always sin present in every nation. Rather it is the point at which the nation's leadership begins to publicly, officially, and even legally protect and promote such immorality. For THIS is the point at which the nation's leadership has openly and officially defied God, His design, and His laws.
Such a nation cannot long endure, and history bears this out.
America was founded upon God's laws and rose to greatness because she proudly proclaimed the Lord as her Source, Protector, and Light. Though children have been taught otherwise in public schools for decades now, even a cursory review of the actual writings of our Founding Fathers proves this in abundance. Yet in recent decades, America has increasingly drifted from her roots and her God. Her governing institutions have been systematically eradicating every public proclamation of her reliance upon God and set about erasing all traces of her historic roots in His Word (The Bible). Steadily, America's populace has softened to, not just the presence of, but the "normalcy" of homosexuality and begun to openly embrace and even promote it. I have watch with both sadness and horror, the percentages of the population opposed to open, legal, homosexual unions plummet. In many places, the majority opinion is no longer held by those who understand and respect God's design and Word. Not long ago every state in the Union held laws against homosexual acts, and the very idea that the legal institution of marriage could be perverted to apply to homosexual "unions" was so unthinkable that virtually no such legal definitions were thought necessary. But recent history has seen many states have to pass laws or constitutional amendments defining and protecting marriage as God designed it and requires.
Today however, even those states' efforts to protect the historical, Biblical definition and institution of marriage has come before the highest court in our land and are in imminent danger of being struck down permanently. Today, having already slidden far down this slippery slope of immorality and defiance of God, America stands upon the last precipice ... her last opportunity to turn back, or at least postpone, an official, legal embrace of defiance against God's most sacred institution. If America's government officially states that homosexuality is not only acceptable but protected and even promoted by law, we will have taken that last fatal step of defiantly slapping the face of God and daring Him to render judgment unto us as He did the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah ... along with every other great nation in history in who's footsteps we now tread. I emphasize again that the downfall of Sodom was not simply the sin of homosexuality, but the open condoning of it by its leadership.
In the first chapter of Romans, the Holy Spirit, through Paul the Apostle, lays this out with precision and clarity:
"For this reason God gave them up to vile passions. For even their women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature. Likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust for one another, men with men committing what is shameful, and receiving in themselves the penalty of their error which was due. And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do those things which are not fitting; ... who, knowing the righteous judgment of God, that those who practice such things are deserving of death, not only do the same but also approve of those who practice them." -- Rom 1:26-32 (emphasis mine)
That last line highlights the point here ... they not only do such things but also "approve of those who practice them".
And as George Mason1 so aptly stated at the Federal Convention of 1787,
"As nations can not be rewarded or punished in the next world they must be in this. By an inevitable chain of causes & effects providence punishes national sins, by national calamities."
This is it America. Before you lies the same choice that lay before the ancient Israelites 4 millennia ago:
"And if it seems evil to you to serve the Lord, choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord." -- Joshua 24:15
To paraphrase a line from the movie Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, "You must choose. For whereas the true cup will give you eternal life, the false cup will bring death."
Choose wisely America. For Heaven's sake ... choose wisely.
- Tim -
1. [George Mason: Virginia delegate to Constitutional Convention, often regarded as "the father of the Bill of Rights"]↩
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