God made the man, and then He made the woman to be his help meet.
And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it… And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him. And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; and the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man. And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. (Genesis 2:15-24)
Adam affirmed what God had done, saying , “Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.”
Jesus reaffirmed what God did in regards to marriage in Matthew 19 & Mark 10.
The Apostle Paul affirms that marriage is between a man and a woman in 1 Corinthians 7.
Many so-called leaders in the Church today don’t agree with the Apostle Paul, Jesus, or the Almighty God about marriage. What a fearful place to be!!!
My questions to you are: Who are they to you? What do you believe? Who are you following? What do you condone? What do you hold true? Whose side are you on?
Men and women outside the Church share their opinions about “Same Sex Marriage” as they are inclined to do. But in the Church? No person, in the Church, has any right to speak or teach anything contrary to God’s Word.
The sin of homosexuality is an abomination before the Lord. The wrath of God abides on sin. Any person in the Church that agrees with “Same Sex Marriage” needs to confess their sin to God and turn from their wickedness.
The love of God compels us to speak the truth in love. People need to be instructed; some need to be warned. Will you bear His reproach and speak His truth through His love?
To all of us in the Church, we would all do well to heed the Apostle Peter’s warning in 2 Peter 2: 1-3:
But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction. And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of. And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.
The scripture is clear – God condemns the sin of homosexuality.
Leviticus 18:22
Leviticus 20:13
Judges 19:22-23
Romans 1
1 Corinthians 6:9-10
1 Timothy 1:9-11
Jude 1:7
People in the Church that believe contrary to what I am saying are not reading their Bibles. They are willingly ignorant, or deceived.
As Paul spoke in 2 Timothy 4:1-4, “I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom; Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long suffering and doctrine. For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.”
Do you have itching ears?
Those in the Church would do well to hear about how God hates sin – all sin! The Apostle Paul lays it down in 1 Corinthians 5. Would we be willing to follow God’s leadership, and walk in His ways?
God, through the gift and sacrifice of His Son, Jesus Christ, has delivered us from the power of sin, making us holy, to walk in his holiness all the days of our lives! Thank the Lord for his abundant grace and tender mercies!