But the men of Sodom
were exceedingly wicked
and sinful against the LORD...
And they called to Lot and said
to him, 'Where are the men
who came to you tonight?
Bring them out to us
that we may know them carnally...
For we will destroy this place
because the outcry against them
has grown great before the face
of the LORD, and the LORD has
sent us to destroy it!" But to his
sons-in-law he seemed to be joking...
Then the LORD rained brimstone
and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah,
from the LORD out of the heavens.
Genesis13:!3; 19:5,13,14,24
God is patient, but do not expect God to be patient forever, there is a time when His patience is over, His patience is not our permission. We can know that history and the culture of today has had and has an influence upon us, but we cannot excuse ourselves that we sin due to that fact. When the elect of God is finally complete, then and only then will Jesus Christ return and take home with Him all of God's children from the grave and those who are still alive. Some expect a rapture of the Church, but there is no Scriptural proof of that, only that Jesus returns on the last day, and that day God's patience has run its course. We do not know who the elect are, we preach the Gospel to all and allow God to draw to Him His elect. Until death or our meeting with the Lord on the last day we have our lives to account for, and when we have received knowledge of those things that have influenced us, the Church, we are obliged to do something about that sin. Period! Over time exponentially man has become worse in their sins, and they have transferred the honor which is due to God to material objects, such as wood, stone, and to man, and further even more than that they have become so pious that they worship emotions, and even evil spirits as god in satisfaction of their lusts. Yes, through impiety, and lawlessness, men have been lead astray, even to worship the stars, as those those inanimate objects had some power as a god. Yet, the word of God is not unknown, it is everywhere if one was to look, they would be led to God even by the trees, the universe; yet, God is not hidden, as they would like Him to be: No! they continue in their ideologies and those ideologies have affected you and me.
Feminism has been one such assault against God as they in every way they could have as one of their main contributions towards modern feminism was to try to eliminate heterosexuality and the nuclear family altogether. This was stated by Kate Weigand who is a feminist historian. December 12-18, 1994 a meeting entitled "The contribution by religions ot the Culture of Peace" organised by UNESCO and the Centre UNESCO de Catalunya that took place in Bacelona, Spain declared in 23 tenents:
#4: We understand that culture is a way of seeing the world and living in it. It also means the cultivation of those values and forms of life which reflect the world-views of each culture. Therefore neither the meaning of peace nor of religion can be reduced to a single and rigid concept,just as the range of human experience cannot be conveyed by a single language.
#6: Religions have contributed to the peace of the world, but they have also led to division, hatred, and war. Religious people have too often betrayed the high ideals they themselves have preached. We feel obliged to call for sincere acts of repentance and mutual forgiveness, both personally and collectively, to one another, to humanity in general, and to Earth and all livings beings.
On the surface those tenants do not sound so bad, right? Can't we just get along? Ha! We can't, people do not want to give up their culture, they have no desire to be tolerant, but that is the program that this group desires to achieve. Inf act under Article 1: Meaning of tolerance 1.3: Tolerance is the responsibility that upholds human rights, pluralism, (including cultural pluralism), democracy and the rule of law. It involves the rejection of dogmatism and absolutism and affirms the standards set out in international human rights instruments.
Pluralism is that each and every one has their own truth and we are not to impose upon that truth. This has led to pluralism being applied in the Christian community. Let us see how that has worked out? Looking back a few years I will use some facts obtained by the Alan Guttmacher Institute and Planned Parenthood's Family Planning Perspectives.
Worldwide (1996) Abortions: 42 Million
Number of abortions per day: 115,000
United States:
Abortions per year: 1.37 Million
Number of abortions per day: 3,700
The yearly number has now grown as of 2010 to over 1.5 million abortions per year. This growth has grown from 1900 where reported abortions was 17 per year.
Who is having abortions?
- In 2007, 84% of all abortions were performed on unmarried women (CDC).
- Women between the ages of 20-24 obtained 33% of all abortions; women between 25-29 obtained 24% (CDC).
- 50% of U.S. women obtaining abortions are younger than 25; women aged 20-24 obtain 33% of all U.S. abortions and teenagers obtain 17% (AGI).
- In 2007, adolescents under 15 years obtained .05% of all abortions, but had the highest abortion ratio, 768 abortions for every 1,000 live births (CDC).
- 47% of women who have abortions had at least one previous abortion (AGI).
- Black women are more than 4.8 times more likely than non-Hispanic white women to have an abortion, and Hispanic women are 2.7 times as likely (AGI).
- 37% of women obtaining abortions identify themselves as Protestant, and 28% identify themselves as Catholic (AGI).
- At current rates, nearly one-third of American women will have an abortion (AGI).
Divorces by Christians is greater than non-Christians, more than 51%. Homosexuality has increased both for male and females, more children today are running free with no or very little supervision. Yet, we claim that Christianity is growing. It may be in number, but not in devotion to God. So how is all this femininity and demasculation of men working out? Not so good! Men, you and I are at fault! We have allowed the authority given to man to be the authority for the household, to be the leaders in the Church, to women who have not been given this authority. This is not to defame women in any way, in fact, many are smarter, have greater skills, and are capable of holding down jobs that were assigned to men in the past. So what? It is the Bible who claims our allegiance, and it is the Bible that we claim to follow, so follow! We should not look to the world for acceptance, that we are to ignore God's word in favor of the prevailing culture. Men take the responsibility, in love, in God's love, and be the man of the house, and women be the woman of the house. It is not that women can or cannot work, for there is a place for that to occur and the Bible is clear that at times a women such as to be found in Proverbs chapter 31 does work, brings in money, but in all this she finds favor as a wife. We all share as to how culture and history, especially of those who are opposed to Christianity and to God have affected us, we are to blame, but now the blaming is over, we must "hunker" down and do what the Bible declares for us to do. We live life, we enjoy all that God has given us, and we trust Him for everything, so trust Him is this matter, it is from Him.
Again, these words are tough, tough to even write and I know some will cavil, object, and turn away, but you are not turning from me, you are objecting to the rule of God, to the Supreme God, to the Providential God, to the God of mercy, to the God who came to save. The writer of Ecclesiastes had this to say: "I know that whatever God does, it shall be forever. Nothing can be added to it, and nothing taken from it. God does it, that men should fear before Him. that which is has already been, and what is to be has already been; and God requires an account of what is past" (Ecclesiastes 3:14-15).
When you make a vow to God,
do not delay to pay it;
For He has no pleasure in fools.
Pay what you have vowed--
Better not to vow than to vow
and not pay.
Ecclesiastes 4:4-5
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