What's a Christian to Do? - Part #2

     When the cooks back is turned, the water starts to boil.  As I have been preoccupied by many things, I turn around to check how things are progressing in the homosexual landslide and I find that things are quickly heating up.  Due to her religious beliefs, a woman in Kentucky has been sentenced to jail because she would not issue a marriage license for homosexual couples.  Loosing her job would be unfair yet understandable, but to be sentenced to jail!?  Ladies and gentleman, the pressure is on and we need to be prepared to stand for truth and be willing to suffer for it.  The water is boiling.  The question is, how will be respond?
     In my last article, I listed four responses we can have to this growing acceptance and applause of sin:
1) Ignore it
2) Conform to it
3) Become enraged by it
4) Respond Biblically
In review, we highlighted the first three but only lightly touched on what it would look like to respond Biblically.  Through this article, it is my hope to dig into God's Word and examine what His blueprint is as we act in response to these days which are growing darker.

A Proper Prospective

    The pattern of progression strategically planned out by the homosexual party to bring conformity of societies to there desires, starts with tolerance.  After tolerance comes acceptance with praise soon to follow.  Due to the vocal and deceptive nature of homosexuality, many young people are not only giving mental consent to homosexuality but are now participants.  After participation is reached, it is now criminalization for everyone who would seek to oppose this new sexual revolution.  It is a sad and startling reality, but in America we are in the foothills of this moral landslide.
      First we need to understand that God is in control.
      Second, we need to use the window wipers of God's Word to keep the windshield of our minds clean from the lies and logical twisting that could destroy our foundation of Truth.

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

Romans 12:2 

     And last but not least, it is time that we "entrust our souls to a faithful Creator."  

"If he did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a herald of righteousness, with seven others, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly; 6 if by turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes he condemned them to extinction, making them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly; 7 and if he rescued righteous Lot, greatly distressed by the sensual conduct of the wicked 8 (for as that righteous man lived among them day after day, he was tormenting his righteous soul over their lawless deeds that he saw and heard); 9 then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment..." 

1 Peter 2:5-10

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"For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal."

2 Corinthians 4:7

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"Therefore let those who suffer according to God’s will entrust their souls to a

 faithful Creator while doing good.

1 Peter 5:19

Prepare
     Like an unsuspecting city is easily conquered, if we do not prepare for what lies ahead as we perceive the army of opposition approaching, it will be to our shame and folly.  When an army goes to war, it has a battle plan.  But that battle plan does them no good if they do not understand who the enemy is and how they are advancing.  We need to be prepared to understand.  The enemy is not men and women who are homosexual but rather "the ruler of this world" and the plan that is being executed is filled with tactics that existed long ago.  First we need to go to God's Word.  However, I have listed out some other resources that I have found to be helpful in helping me understand the ins and outs of this debate.  Please take some time to check into them.

Voddie Baucham on "Gay is Not the New Black"
Voddie Baucham on "Applying Biblical Truth to the Homosexual Debate"
No Compromise Radio:
Homosexuality - Part 1
Homosexuality - Part 2
Homosexuality - Part 3
Homosexuality - Part 4
* Scroll all the way to the bottom of the page.
Audacity Love can't stay silent 

     Once you have your battle plan, it's time to stand.

Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might.  Put on the whole

 armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil.

Ephesians 6:10-11

  
  But if you step out onto the battle field, be prepared to suffer. 

"For it has been granted to you that for the sake of Christ you should

 not only believe in him but also suffer for his sake..." 

Philippians 1:29  

Proclaim
     Just so you know, there is one way to stay perfectly safe and comfortable in this war zone.  There is a key that would unlock a life of peace and rest.  Just stay silent.  It's not criminal to think that homosexuality is wrong,  it's just criminal to express that opinion.  But can true love stay silent?  Souls are on the line folks!!!  Love is most loving when love speaks the truth.  You can choose to be silent but that is the most hateful thing you could possibly do.
     In closing, I would like to leave you with this thought, speaking the truth will cost us something.  Men can take our rights, our liberty and they may even deprive us of our jobs and equality but they can't touch our hope.

Conclusion

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,  to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you, who by God’s power are being guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. In this you rejoice, though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by various trials, so that the tested genuineness of your faith—more precious than gold that perishes though it is tested by fire—may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

1 Peter 1:3-7

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And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose. For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. And those whom he predestined he also called, and those whom he called he also justified, and those whom he justified he also glorified.

     What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can befn against us?  He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things?  Who shall bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies.  Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised—who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? 

 As it is written,

“For your sake we are being killed all the day long;

we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.”

No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers,  nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Romans 8:28-38