God’s Not Ok with It

A Letter to Pastors

Dear Pastors and Elders,

My faith built up over years of pursuing God and the persistent prompting of the Holy Spirit has compelled me to write this letter to Pastors and Church leaders. I am grateful for those that have answered the call to the ministry and realize how difficult it can be to minister to people. It is especially difficult during these last days however I must exhort you; I must challenge you and I fear there must be some criticism of where we are as a church and where our leaders have failed to warn their flocks appropriately. Some pastors and church leaders have challenged their flock well but many have not and I hope these words God has laid on my heart will stir something in you if you are not already stirred.

Nations including our own over the past century have come to a point where they have redefined what is evil as good and what is good is being called evil and bigotry. Today criminals go free and victims live in fear. Perversion is rampant, children are victimized, and infants sacrificed. Our leaders are trampling on moral ground and most churches are content to step back under the false pretense that they don’t want to seem political. These are moral issues and if they are not the jurisdiction of the church then what is?

It was 30 years ago I remember participating in the Hike for Life; many churches banded together across the country to oppose abortion. Now we no longer hike for life and when Roe vs Wade was overturned not many church celebrated it by name and at best watered it down by saying we are for all life and left it at that. When the Defense of Marriage act was over-turned merely a whimper could be heard from the church.

In the last few years our world has gone down the slippery slope from redefining marriage and the family, to redefining what a boy and a girl is to actively teaching grade schoolers how to masturbate and middle schoolers how to pleasure their homosexual partners. They are coming after children and confusing their gender and then giving them life shortening hormone treatments followed by genital mutilation surgery.

We have well surpassed the point where God is grieved to now being in the hands of an angry God. If you wonder just how angry or say God is merciful and would not get angry you might wan’t to look at Matthew 18. It says if you lead a child astray it would be better to have been slowly drowned as your organs burst and bones shatter in the depths of the sea. You may say, “Well I agree those things are wrong, but we still live in the freest, greatest nation in the world.”

To you pastors and church leaders, many of you have left your flock with this false sense of security. Many in your church believe that there is a private life and a public life. They think that I live my faith privately but in my public life I must meet its requirements. God does not look down from heaven, glance at his watch and say “Ok, it between 9 and 5, I’ll come back after 5pm and see what you are up to…” There is no such thing as a private and public life. In Acts 4 when told to not speak about Jesus, Peter said “Is it right to obey you and not God?” Doing as you are told will not stand at the judgement seat, and there are many things which Jesus is not Ok with.

If you are a teacher told to use LGBTQ curriculum and you fail to redact it God’s not Ok with it. If you are a super-intendent, principal or school secretary directed to order curriculum with enhanced sexual education, LGBTQ history or other perverted content; Jesus is not Ok with it. If you are a teacher instructed to direct students claiming a different gender to a counselor without informing their parents; Jesus is not Ok with it. Parents sending their children to such public schools are failing to follow the command in scripture “train up your children in the way they should go!” and pastors suggesting that such impressionable children and teenagers may be missionaries of the gospel are feeding them to wolves. Churches should instead support homeschooling resources or even add a local Christian school to their mission fund so it may become affordable rather than promote such nonsense.

If you are in the Business World or Government and are directed to change your pronouns or how you address someone; well the bible says that God made them male and female and to acknowledge anything else is to place them before God and break the first commandment, God is not Ok with it. If you are a police officer directed to keep the peace at a drag show with kids or Drag Queen reading time, or school board meeting defending pornographic literature; to protect those that should be arrested for perverting children, God is not Ok with it. If you are a Judge, DA, etc well no God is not Ok if you put man’s law before His. The list could go on but finally if you support politicians or parties that promote or support prochoice and abortion or transgender identity or same sex marriage; you are sinning and no He is not Ok with it.

This nation, this USA, isn’t as free and great as you may think, because if we were actually living by God’s principles refusing to participate in what goes against God’s principles our experience wouldn’t be so free nor would it feel so great. Our struggle is against these principalities and powers and if we are not standing firm where the battle rages then we are not standing at all. Pastors if you are not warning your church and calling them to stand you are leaving them in danger of God’s wrath and you have failed. You may say we only preach the gospel however the law is part of the gospel and without it at best the world wonders what they need to be saved from and at worst the church is merely a place for self-help motivational speaking.

Wake up church, pastors call your people to radical living and warn them of God’s wrath. Make straight the paths and fill in the valleys and blow down the mountains set up against God, His ways and His anointed.

A Messenger of Yeshua Hamashiach,

DCA

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Christian Response to Cake for a Gay Marriage

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A Christian bakery owner is under fire for refusing to make a wedding cake for a homosexual couple participating in openly gay marriage ceremony.  The couple alleges that the bakery owner told them “they were abominations to the Lord”.   Scripture tells us that Jesus was full of both grace and truth. If this statement with the term abomination was used then that wouldn’t have been with grace, however the baker has indicated that he didn’t make such a statement. There are many issues here:

1. For Christians there is no separation of faith and life. We are not to have a public business face and private Christian face.
2. Eph 5:11 “Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them.”  We are to take no part in deeds contrary to God’s moral standards and purposes.

3. Mt 5:19 says that if we ignore God’s law and teach others that its OK to ignore Gods law we shall be considered least in the kingdom of heaven. We are not to act in such a way that we leave any impression that any part of God’s law is something to be ignored. While everyone coming for cakes has some sin in their life this is a step further because the cake itself would be participating in an act of open rebellion to God’s law and design for marriage and therefore its creator would be doing so as well. Such a participation would constitute an infraction against the commands from God in scripture and here in Mt 5:19.  I have seen this justified by comparing it to a gun shop owner being responsible for the murder committed by a customer who bought a gun.  However just because someone buys a gun doesn’t infer that they are going to commit murder.  It is not the same thing as providing services for an event in direct opposition to God’s word since you know how it will be used beforehand.  Another example would be if I am a contractor and a gentleman’s club wants me to build their stage I would have to refuse; participation in or enablement of behavior contrary to the Word of God is not justifiable.
4. We are to extend grace and avoid enacting a judgement against others. The word judgement has two meanings; it is either a statement indicating a determination regarding correctness or it can mean a prescription of action to be taken, a prescribed penal response. We are to avoid penal responses and we are to avoid coming to our own determinations regarding correctness. But we are not to remain silent about God’s already stated “judgments”, His statements about whether something is right or wrong. Telling someone, making a public statement or taking a public action in line with God’s commands and design is not making a judgement our-self it is informing someone of God’s judgement. It might not be received well as people want to rebel and don’t want to have God’s word point out that they are in opposition to God and that God considers their actions wrong. But it is necessary because Romans 7:9-13 shows us that the law is part of the gospel. The good news is not so good unless we are aware of its contrast with the bad news of our sin.

It is clear from the law in Genesis 2:24 and reiterated by Jesus in Matthew 19:5 that marriage is between a man and a woman.  Further 1 Cor 6:9-11 indicates that those practicing homosexuality will not enter the kingdom of heaven.  I have people in my life that fall into this category and they are people I love very much.  Problem is since the law acknowledges same sex marriage and many in society either are indifferent or now are in support of this those practicing feel as if this “life style” is now legitimate and they will never think twice about it.  This if frustrating because it encourages those I love to continue on a path which puts them at odds with God and His law and under the penalty described in 1 Corinthians 6.

I suppose if it comes down to a judicial ruling or specific legislation compelling Christian’s to render services in support of such an immoral practice, as long as no one is physically in danger, than I believe the moral responsibility would transfer to those forcing compliance. Until such time or circumstance we are compelled to follow God’s principles and policies first.

 

Is All Sin the Same?

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Does the Bible say that all sin is the same?  I can’t think of a specific verse which makes this statement so where does this idea come from?  I believe this idea is drawn from several passages.  The first being the Sermon on the mount where Jesus addresses the ideas of justifying one sin because of a similar yet more heinous sin.  The religious leaders had given them instructions but Jesus was contradicting their teaching.  Jesus would say “You have heard that it was said”.  Jesus was essentially saying that its not about finding a way which is convenient for you, the measure is holiness for God said “Be holy because I am holy”.  In the Sermon on the Mount Jesus compares murder to hating your brother and even being angry with your brother.  Jesus seeks to squash justifying sin but does not mean to infer that sins are equally bad or unacceptable. To do so ends up with the same problem; it minimizes sin and opens doors that shouldn’t be open. For example; If I am attracted then why not flirt and since it’s all the same and we are consenting adults then what’s wrong with the next step of adultery.  The second place is in 1 John.  In this epistle John calls the church to purity and holiness.  The focus here is on the doctrine of regeneration.  It is expected  that if a person is truly born again they will not make a practice of sin but abiding in Christ will be transformed into His likeness.

Matt 5:21-22 21 “You have heard that it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not murder; and whoever murders will be liable to judgment.’ 22 But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother will be liable to judgment; whoever insults his brother will be liable to the council; and whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be liable to the hell of fire. ESV
1John 3:15 Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him. ESV
James 2:10-11 10 For whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become accountable for all of it.  11 For he who said, “Do not commit adultery,” also said, “Do not murder.” If you do not commit adultery but do murder, you have become a transgressor of the law.   ESV

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How Should Christians Respond to Bin Laden’s Death

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I personally will not be going out into the street and celebrate but I am not going to judge those that do either. There are many imprecatory psalms that call for justice against the wicked and celebrate their judgement. The bible doesn’t call for us to be stoic but acknowledges our feelings and at times calls for us to express them while at other times calls for reservation. Read more of this post