A Divergent Culture

What is trending on Facebook; "Why do most churches focus on Homosexuality when adultery made God's Top Ten List."

To answer this question let's look at the confusion in this statement compared to what God's word says about it.   First is the flawed disbelief that if God did not say it clearly and explicitly in his Ten Commandments then it is not required of us to obey.  This statement assumes that the whole word of God from Genesis to Revelation is just a work of fiction and the only thing that really maters is what you want to believe.  Bible believing and practicing churches believe in the whole inerrancy of scripture and should never cater to a popular culture of acceptance when it is clearly spoken out against in the word of  God.  1 Corinthians 6:9 speaks against homosexuality Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God?  Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor the idolaters, nor adulterers, nor the men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.  Notice that adultery is mentioned before homosexuality in Paul's statement to the Corinthians.  Paul the author singles out homosexuality which is a form of adultery among the Corinthians during this time in the Apostolic Church.   It is clear that there is nothing new or hip about the sin of Homosexuality.  The only difference between then and now is a diluted moral value in our culture similar to one described in Sodom and Gomorrah.  It was a sin back then and during Paul's time and will continue to be a filthy dirty sin during our time.  

To be gay and proud of it is a cultural war chant of those who think it is hip and new.  It has grown strong in popularity due in part to us Christians lacking holy zeal to rebuke it with love and respect through God's word. Homosexuality, pornography, drunkenness, lewd comments. perverse talk are all forms of Adultery.  If you do not believe me then read God's word.  He did not leave it out of the ten commandments He expressively put it in there.  These sins and those not mention here are at the core of violating God's seventh commandment.  Leviticus 18:20-23 explains plainly the sin of adultery, and homosexuality right in the ten commandments.  And you shall not lie sexually with your neighbor's wife and so make yourself unclean with her........You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination. The sin here is the desire to be unclean to demoralize God's creation through perverse and deviate acts contrary to the word of God.

Today's culture thinks that there are human rights in homosexuality that can be claimed here.  On what moral basis do they claim that? First let us look at what a "right" is.  The New Webster's Dictionary defines a right as: to that which one is morally and legally entitled. If we are to address what is moral then we only have to look at what God's word says. He tells his chosen people to go in and cleanse the land of the Canaanites uncleanliness for it has defiled the land.  God is referring to the sexual immorality they practice and his warning to the Israelites to cleanse the land before inhabiting it.  The outcome was to their own demise later by not following God's word.  We would do well to listen to God's warning for his chosen people.

 To our shame we have allowed the Supreme Courts recent ruling of legalizing same sex marriages.  Let us be clear and sound the the trumpet of battle, or draw a line in the sand as Jesus did with false pharisees of his time.  It is time for this nation to repent and it would take the prayerful action of many Christians to get on their knees and ask God to change the moral virtues of the people for it to change this nation's hedonistic direction.