Will you lament with me over the lost
son, who has left his father and squandered his inheritance? He has
said “I will break with the reasoning of my father, and I will do
it as I will and in the way that seems right to me.” To the
amazement of all their neighbors, the son left in a pompous march,
celebrating his new found “freedom” from his father's
corrections. This was not the first wrong choice that the son has
made. On the contrary, it has been a slow descent, further and
further from the will of his father. And yet, the son's path has been
marked with points of blatant disobedience. Many who watched warned
the son, others cried out that the son should return the inheritance
and just leave, while others still encouraged him to take the
inheritance so that they could join him in his celebration. The
father knew the impending consequences of such actions and warned his
son. These consequences have been clearly demonstrated by others in
history. But he never imagined that it would ever happen... his son
has left reason and dignity and has chosen to make a way for himself
and others to indulge in unfit pleasures at the expense of the
inheritance from his father. The father and all his friends will hope
for the son to come to his senses and return to sanity. Many of the
father's friends have volunteered to go and rescue his son before it
is too late. The son refused all of their help and is determined that
he will make his own way.
So, as you can extend your imagination,
the father and son here are representative of the government of the
founding fathers of the United States of America, while the son
represents the government of those in the latter half of the age of
this nation. The father's wealth was from the concentrated efforts of
Christian Liberty that birthed the nation and formed the foundation
for government for greatness in this land. The founders often
recognized the dangers that loomed in the future if the government
should fall under control of corrupt people. They understood that
this irresponsibility could come about if the people themselves
failed to elect righteous men, and that this could happen, if the
people began to be ignorant of the Creator, who endowed men with
their rights.
So in this latter half of the age of
the nation, a few of the failures of the government pertain to the
extending of the Supreme Court's bounds to become a
“Super-Legislative-Executall” power. So from a time at the
beginning where the founders recognized that the Supreme Court could
have its opinion, they would ignore its decisions because it was not
the Legislative branch and certainly not the Executive branch. Now,
it appears that the Supreme Court is assuming those powers, and the
people don't know any better. The attacks upon the Christian
principles over this period include Education (promotion of
macro-evolution, and attack on school prayer), Parenting (abortion),
and the Family (degradation of traditional marriage, by the inclusion
of homosexual “marriage”). These were enacted for the benefit of
the minority rather than the protection of the majority. Just a
reminder, the nine jurors on the supreme court are not elected by a
ballot presented for the vote of the people.
There are those who confuse the
personal grace that is offered through Jesus Christ with a supposed
need for the government to not deal severely with offenders. In other
words, those who found the government recognized that the duty of
government was to punish the offender. But they also demonstrated
grace in encouraging the offender to repent and pursue God's
forgiveness before they were to soon meet Him face to face via
capital punishment. So in today's mixed up sentiments, they would
accuse Thomas Jefferson of homophobia. Jefferson recommended
castration for a man caught in sodomy. So rather than punish such a
man, today's government has not only declared it to not be wrong, but
now has legalized a “marriage” license for it.
Then there are those who would say that
references in the Bible to “homosexuality” refer to those acts
that are performed against someone's will or without love for the
other person. Just because two people consent to a crime does not
make it right.
So today, we have leaders (Supreme
Court Justices, and at least one President) who must read the
founding documents without understanding the authors' intentions (nor
the Creator's). Consider this portion of the Declaration of
Independence:
“We hold these truths to be
self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed
by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these
are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these
rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just
powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of
Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the
People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government,
laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in
such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety
and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long
established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and
accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed
to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by
abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long
train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object
evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their
right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide
new Guards for their future security.”
Today's justices have declared the
folly of a few to be legal and part of the “pursuit of Happiness”,
while ignoring that the Creator's given right to pursue happiness
does not include the degrading of their bodies in homosexual
behavior.
Today's justices must believe that the
term “Creator” means whatever each person wants it to be, whether
it be “Evolution/Big Bang” of the atheistic worldview, or “Allah”
of the Islamic worldview, or “Self” of the satanic world view,
but certainly not only the “Creator” of the Judeo/Christian
worldview, who was in the original intent.
I would like to share the passage from
1 Corinthians 6:9-11. It offers clearly the consequences of sin, but
also suggests the remedy:
“Or do you not know that wrongdoers
will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the
sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor men who have sex
with men nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor
swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. And that is what some of
you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were
justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of
our God.”
I want to say to any readers from the
homosexual community or supporters who may have suffered this far
into this writing that Christians are not mad at you, for we all have
failed God. We are not mad at you for what has happened in the
supreme court. For we recognize that the father of lies, Satan, is a
deceiver and has blinded and blindsided us all at one point. Just
know that you are loved by God, who gave His Son, Jesus, as a payment
for our sin debt. But also be warned that we must all give an account
before God of our lives.
If you want freedom, your choice is in
Christ. If you want to enjoy God's Freedom from Sin for Eternity,
repent and put your faith in Jesus' saving work. If you want to
“enjoy” freedom from God, then stay the course, and you shall be
granted “freedom” from God for eternity.
For those in the “Diversity &
Inclusion” movement, I hope that I will receive your welcome,
because my worldview has now been relegated to the scrap pile by
authorities. Or are you welcoming only those whose diversity is the
same as yours?
In conclusion, I lament for what is
happening in our nation. As my Pastor first put it, “I am first a
Christian”, then I am a citizen of this land. For Christians, our
first citizenship is secured in heaven, where moth, nor rust destroy.
But for this time and place, I am also a citizen of the United States
of America, and I will not lay down to let it fail. I will work and
wait for the return of the son who has strayed. I will live
courageously as a citizen, a husband, and a father. But foremost I
will live courageously. I repent from my sin. And I will war against
the forces that seek to destroy America by separating it from its
heritage in Christianity. We desperately need God's mercy now during
this age of Grace before this world enters into the age of God's
wrath.
