Rev. S.T. Butler Sr.-Pastor
on February 3, 2019, 1:05 am
Is It Ever Okay?
Sermon Notes 02/03/2019
Have you heard of Lady Gaga?
Well this is a female musician who stops in the middle of her concert to attack the Vice-President saying his support of a Christian School is not Christian! And that she is a good Christian with the ability to judge the Vice-President personally.
Why the attack? The Christian School in question stands on the solid rock of Scripture and Lady Gaga doesn’t like that. WOW. What else can I say?
Foul mouthed and scantily clad, is this Christ like behavior?
We can see the answer in Scripture, and no it’s not, not now or ever.
Wait, has she spent so much time with the Vice-President and his wife as to know them personally?
Scripture being The Bible, the very Word of God.
The only truth that will teach us the way we should live.
If, by any chance, you are somehow confused allow me to clarify with this sadly very unpopular truth, there is no such thing as a Democrat, liberal, progressive or LGBTQ Christian.
Hear and understand, we are either an obedient Christian or we are not.
We are either living as Yeshua lived or we’re not.
Have we confessed our sins to Our Holy and loving Father in Heaven?
Have we repented of those sins, that is turned from the sins of our old life?
Have we accepted Yeshua as our personal Lord and Savior thereby now living in obedience to God’s will. “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.” II Corinthians 5:17 ESV.
This verse tells us that if someone has called on The Name of The Lord and truly surrendered their will to that of Yeshua, then that old life of sin is dead and a new life in Christ has begun. Once the old life has been put to death a person cannot continue in whatever sin that had them ensnared. And to believe otherwise is to deny the perfect sinless life and nature of Yeshua.
That is exactly what these so-called “Progressive Christians” want, to present Yeshua as being accepting of and affirming of their sin matched with an anything goes approach to what they call “worship”. Anything that may disagree with their standard of faith is condemned as hateful and name whatever nasty, ugly title they want to throw at you. This hate extends to The Bible, so much so there have been people file lawsuits against the publishers of Bibles claiming that The Word of God is hate speech!
The real problem with their “open and affirming worship” is they deny the sinless life Yeshua lived and by doing so they deny Yeshua as the perfect sacrifice without blemish. For Yeshua to “affirm” homosexuality is to go against His Father and He would become guilty of rebellion the very same sin that Satan is guilty of!
And this is the evil lifestyle they want call “Christianity” and they want to drag as many down with them to the depths of Hell as they can.
Sorry, did that offend you? Tough.
I don’t want anyone to suffer an eternity in Hell, and that is a serious burden to make sure I always tell the truth based solely on The Bible.
How many times do we need to have these people tell us that true Biblical Christianity is repressive and old fashioned before we simply accept that by their words and deeds they judge themselves.
Lady Gaga and all of those who advocate special privileges for those who live in open rebellion to The Word of God get so angry in part because they know they are wrong and the closer they come to being exposed the louder they get with the mainstream media outlets joining in with them in a sour chorus of evil is good and good is evil.
They advocate the murder of the unborn claiming it a “choice”. It’s a child in God’s eyes.
They demand that all bow down and affirm the LGBTQ lifestyle even when Gods Law clearly tells us it’s a sin.
So please humor me for a moment and consider a world without Gods Law and without Gods Law where would mans law be...you do know that mans laws are based on Gods don’t you? Look to nations and peoples that don’t have The Word of God to guide them.
• Theft – Why not? No law saying it’s wrong…
• Pedophilia – Well there are some trying to push for acceptance of even this…
• Murder – The most dangerous place is in the womb…
• Rape – Human trafficking – Incest – Slavery – Liars - Homosexuality
How much of this happens today with the clear knowledge of Gods Laws?
How much more if we allow those who the God to remove His Laws from the public forum?
What we need to communicate to the world is that as Christians trying to live as Christ we cannot affirm anything that goes against The Word of God.
This does not mean we hate.
This does not mean that we act in hate.
This does not mean you will see us rioting in the streets because we can’t get our way.
This does not mean we speak ill of those who disagree.
This does mean that we vote our faith.
This does mean that we will vote for candidates that promote Christian values.
This does mean that we don’t vote for pro-abortion candidates.
This does mean that we don’t vote for pro-deviant candidates.
Jude 1:21-23 teaches us to “Keep yourselves in the love of God, waiting for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ that leads to eternal life. And have mercy on those who doubt; save others by snatching en them out of the fire; to others show mercy with fear, hating even the garment stained by the flesh.”
To “Love the sinner”, as we have often been told, is to tell them the truth.
Don’t lie to people by telling them it’s okay to defy God, about anything.
So here is the only choice: Love the sinner - be honest and share The Word of God as written.
Love the sin – condemn those trapped in sin to Hell for all eternity.
You live with the choice, but remember: we are here in this body for a little while, eternity is a whole lot longer.
In conclusion, if you know anyone trapped in a sin, any sin, always tell them the truth. Gods Word holds the one truth, anything else is a lie pure and simple. But love? Yes, always correct in a loving Christ-like fashion. Never mean. Never hateful but always, always truthful. In the Name of Yeshua.
"Here is the patience of the Saints: those here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus." Rev. 14:12 (Geneva 1560)
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