Thought Quotient

Mass. Senate Repeals Gay Marriage Barrier

What’s going on in Massachusetts will eventually impact the whole country. This sets a legal precedent which will go all the way to the supreme court and they have shown in the past a tendency to rule liberally on these cases. What will the impact be? Sure there will be financial, political ramifications from sanctioning homosexual marriage, but the most impacting change will be cultural. Will society allow pastors to preach the Bible passages that speak of this kind of behavior as a sin? I find it hard to believe that if homosexuality is seen as a civil right in marriage legislation, that the gospel of Christ (that clearly teaches something contrary to that) will be allowed to be freely preached. Will society be tolerant of a church that teaches something contrary to what ‘the state’ or ‘the courts’ have legislated as a civil right? Common sense tells us that it will not. We can look to recent history in Canada and other countries to see what is in store for us.

At the heart of this issue is who God is, and who we are. Does God give us instruction in His word to make us miserable, to rob us of any joy and fun in life? Why are the verses about homosexuality in the Bible? Sin is sin and when we stray from the life that God has called us to and created us for, we are unsatisfied no matter how we try to convince ourselves otherwise. Sharing God’s word on this subject is not intolerant or hateful, just as warning a child not to eat candy for three meals a day is not intolerant or hateful. What we didn’t want to hear at one time, only served to protect us from dreadful consequences later (unless going to the dentist to fill cavities or pull teeth sounds like fun to you). Unfortunately, the consequences of rejecting Christ and His word are far greater. So the loving thing is to share God’s word knowing that some will come to a personal relationship with Jesus than to not share and have none come to a relationship with Jesus. Do we give people what they want to hear because it’s easy …which will lead to tragedy? Or do we give people what they need to hear which will not be without resistance…but will lead to life?

Max Lucado can say it better than I…

Many don’t understand God’s anger because they confuse the wrath of God with the wrath of man. The two have little in common. Human anger is typically self-driven and prone to explosions of temper and violent deeds. We get ticked off because we’ve been overlooked, neglected, or cheated. This is the anger of man. It is not, however, the anger of God.

God doesn’t get angry because he doesn’t get his way. He gets angry because disobedience always results in self-destruction. What kind of father sits by and watches his child hurt himself?

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