We are based upon the Word of God, the Truth of God, and the Plan of God. Our mission and our purpose is to follow the admonition of Jesus Christ, when He said, "'FEED MY SHEEP!'" - John 21:16.
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I've been told by many people that I interpret the Bible one way, and they interpret the Bible another way.
They say, "you believe one way, and I believe another."
Yet, when I prove to them - with God's living word - just what the Bible truly teaches us, they reject the living TRUTH of God by their own interpretation. They will argue with the Holy Bible to make it say what they want it to say, instead of what it actually says. Certainly, because they want their interpretation to mean more than our LORD God's!
The reason why!? Because they have their own traditions and customs that they have become familiar with and have fully embraced as a lifestyle.
Such as KEEPING CHRISTMAS.
Yet, "HEAR THE WORD WHICH THE LORD SPEAKS TO YOU, ... learn not the way of the heathen, ..." - Jeremiah 10:1, 2, KJV.
The word heathen is the Hebrew word gôy, meaning "regularly in the OT, any people in contrast to [the House of Israel]: the Gentiles, pagan."
Friends, if you do the ways of the heathen - then guess what!? You're a "heathen."
Those who refuse to accept the living TRUTH OF GOD, as well as any reputable secular historical FACTS, are simply people who "' in vain they worship[Him], teaching as doctrines the commandments of men'" - Matthew 15:9.
Of such, our Lord Jesus Christ will say to them, "' I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!'" - Matthew 7:21-23.
Now, whose people are they!?
None other than followers of Satan the Devil! - cf. Matthew 13:24-30; John 8:44; 1 John 3:10.
Most of whom call themselves a "Christian" - who fully embrace Pagan/Catholicism (most without even realizing it!), even "de-facto idolatry" - are but serving Satan the Devil! NOT ALMIGHTY GOD!
In the eyes of the LORD God, they are but fakes!
God's Spirit has no part with them.
And sadly, showing them what God's living word truly says about it won't make much difference - cf. Matthew 7:6. They fully accept the lying vain traditions and customs of man. They like the fact that their interpretations make them feel good!
Friends, taking up your cross (Mark 8:34), of which our Lord Jesus Christ speaks, is NOT embracing this world's "Christianity" - which is a religion of Satan the Devil's - cf. Genesis 3:4; 2 Corinthians 4:4. It is taking upon yourself the burden of living AGAINST this world for the namesake of Christ Jesus!
Sadly, this present evil world - on the whole - REJECTS the LORD God, and they embrace Satan the Devil!
And, what I have come to witness, the churches of God along with their ministers have become weak (cf. Revelation 3:15-16), they more than often compromise not wanting to offend anyone (especially their members) with the living TRUTH OF GOD!
They want to be welcoming to all - and indeed the Lord our Savior's Church isWELCOMING TO ALL! Yet, the churches of God don't want to offend anyone by calling out the sins that many are embracing so as not to lose members or offend this world -cf.
Here is something which Minister Michael C. Garrett wrote concerning Revelation 3:14-18 -
"The Message in all of these two chapters [Revelation chapters 2 & 3] is that some of the people who think they are of the members of the churches of God will indeed have to go through the end-time trauma! Some church people are going to go through hell! I mean that in the allegorical sense. 'CHANGE YOUR WAYS!' "MAYBE CHANGE YOUR CHURCH'!? "MAYBE CHANGE YOUR CHURCH LEADERS'!?" 1
God's servants NEED to be bold in speaking the truth of God, and if the truth cuts, then so be it! Whether they reject the truth or defend their sins and continue to live in them - cf. Hebrews 4:12. See also: Ezekiel 2:5; Jeremiah 5:21; Matthew 10:14; Acts 17:30; Romans 1:19-20.
Most times they will attack the true servants of God who are trying to warn them. When judgment comes, it will be accounted for on both sides - cf. Romans 14:12. For the true servant of God who boldly (cf. John 12:24-25) spoke God's living TRUTH, along with the one who defended their sins.
So, to be clear: any honest, astute, and sincere BIBLE STUDENT should understand that X-Mas is pagan - right down to the core! All of its customs and traditions can be traced back to pagan cults, rites, and their deities! Its very origin is from Satan the Devil!
Also, the new year DOES NOT begin in the dead of winter! The LORD God's new year begins in the spring - which represents new life! In fact, more than likely, Mary became conceived with our Lord Jesus in December and was born in the fall - possibly on the Feast of Trumpets!?
In fact, the X-Mas tree is but another heathen custom! Notice -
"For the customs of the peoples are futile; For one cuts a tree from the forest, The work of the hands of the workman, with the ax. 4) They decorate it with silver and gold; They fasten it with nails and hammers So that it will not topple. 5) They are upright, like a palm tree, And they cannot speak; ..." - Jeremiah 10:3-4, 5. See also - Isaiah 41:7; 44:9-17; 46:5-7.
"It was akin to the ancient Asherah Pole – which was a sacred tree (or pole) that stood near a Canaanite religious altar as a symbol of honor to the goddess Asherah – hence Semiramis. So, indeed, there are similarities between this world’s modern Christmas tree and what God is telling us through the prophets Isaiah and Jeremiah. The Christmas tree is a symbol. The evergreen tree was a symbol of life and fertility and was a custom of – ancient Sumerians – as well as the ancient Egyptians, the Babylonians, the Chinese, as well as other ancient peoples." 2
Our peoples who go to their religious gurus to try and get around the living TRUTH OF GOD will certainly be held accountable for finding new ways to embrace lies - cf. Romans 1:30.
The TRUTH OF GOD is the plain truth that cannot be denied!
The facts are thus: in this world that we are living in - it's either God's Way or Satan the Devil's way.
"' I call heaven and earth as witnesses TODAY against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; THEREFORE CHOOSE LIFE'" - Deuteronomy 30:19.
Sadly, there are far more followers of Satan the Devil in this end-time than true servants of the LORD God.
People that truly love and believe God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ (cf. John 14:15), who have gone through the process of being called, learning, and growing in God's grace and knowledge WILL REPENT from their error and OBEY GOD! But our peoples who have been presented the truth of God and REJECT it, are dooming themselves!
Our peoples that continue to keep and celebrate this Satan-made lie which is called "Christmas" need to REPENT and turn away from this pagan custom.
REPENT and seek the kingdom of God and His righteousness. □
Commentary: Familiar Traditions - People are used to holding onto their religious traditions over truth and facts because familiar traditions are comfortable to people - but regardless, it doesn't make it truth. [...]
In the last ‘A Morning Bible Study’ we spoke of ‘Just What Is the Holy Spirit?’ Here we will be talking about Water Baptism – and more specifically, proper water baptism. When someone finally comes to recognize and understand that they have been living a life contrary to the holy immutable Law and very purpose of their Creator, what should they then do next!?
On the Day of Pentecost, and when the Day of Pentecost had fully come in the year A.D. 31, the apostle Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, stood with the eleven and raised his voice to the crowd in which many of them had a part in the conviction and murder of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. And even though the crowd was amazed and perplexed, saying to each other, “Whatever could this mean?” Many others mocked them, calling them drunks! Still, after the words given by the apostle Peter, many were filled with guilt and shame asking, “Men and brethren, what shall we do?”
Here is the inspired answer given:
“ …’ REPENT, and let every one of you BE BAPTIZED in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit’” – Acts 2:38, New King James Version.
In the last study, we posted Minister Michael C. Garrett’s inspired sermon “A Willingness To Change.” A real repentance necessary for salvation. But the next step, as stated to us in Acts 2:38, is proper baptism. Let us look into the living word of God and learn of real and proper baptism, its purpose, and why it is a REQUIRED step in God’s Master Plan… From the Beginning for salvation.
Sadly, there is much confusion in this religious world concerning baptism. Some churches of this world merely sprinkle, and others merely pour only a small amount of water over someone; still, others practice complete immersion into the water. Yet, what does God’s living word instruct us in regard to this commanded practice!?
The method most often used throughout the majority of this world’s “Christianity” is sprinkling. The word sprinkle does occur in God’s living word – in the New Testament – but only a couple of times. And only in connection with the blood of our Lord Jesus Christ – never does it refer to baptism. Pouring is also referred to several times – but again, not in regard to baptism.
The very word baptize is not an English word per sē. The word is from the Greek word baptizō. The word means complete immersion. It says in Matthew that Jesus ‘came up out of the water.’ And John the Baptist was baptizing there at the Jordan – because ‘there was much water there.’ There was no sprinkling or dropping water droplets on a child – or something of that nature. They were actually going down into the water waist deep – as I was baptized at the Fort De Soto Park, North Beach in St. Petersburg, Florida in the Gulf in 2013.
Therefore, sprinkling and pouring are not forms of proper baptism. Now, many Protestants would disagree. The Unger’s Bible Dictionary, which was gathered together by Merrill F. Unger, a known Baptist – claims that “baptism is not essential for salvation.” 1 Yes, they “immerse,” but they incorrectly teach “[we] do so as a symbol of having been saved, not as a requirement for salvation” (as well as the fact that they DO NOT keep the LORD God’s commanded holy and immutable Law) – he writes concerning baptism –
“The word “baptism” is the English form of the Gr. baptismos. The verb from which this noun is derived ─baptizo─ is held by some scholars to mean “to dip, immerse. But this meaning is held by others to be not the most exact or common, but rather a meaning that is secondary or derived.” 2
Understand, our Lord Jesus Christ commanded baptism for salvation. It wasn’t just a request! It wasn’t as the Baptists say, “just a symbol of having been saved, not as a requirement for salvation.”!
“’ Go therefore and make disciples[meaning, teach]of all the nations, BAPTIZING THEM in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. 20) teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I AM with you always, even to the end of the age.’ Amen” – Matthew 28:19-20; see also Acts 2:36-42.
1) Even though our Lord Jesus Christ had no sins to repent of, was He baptized by John!?
“Then Jesus came from Galilee to John at the Jordan to be baptized by him. 14) And John tried to prevent Him, saying, ‘I need to be baptized by You, and are You coming to me?’
15) But Jesus answered and said to him, ‘Permit it to be so now, for thus IT IS FITTING for us to fulfill all righteousness.’ Then he allowed Him” – Matthew 3:13-15.
Why was He baptized?
He was baptized for an example for us to follow. Notice –
“For this you were called, because Christ also suffered for us, LEAVING US AN EXAMPLE, that you should follow His steps: 22) ‘Who committed no sin, Nor was deceit found in His mouth.’” – 1 Peter 2:21-22.
How does our Lord Jesus’ baptism prove to us that He was immersed?
“When He had been baptized, Jesus CAME UP immediately FROM THE WATER; …” – Matthew 3:16.
2) When Philip the Evangelist baptized a man of Ethiopia, a eunuch of great authority. Did they both go down into the water?
“So he commanded the chariot to stand still. And both Philip and the eunuch WENT DOWN INTO THE WATER, and he baptized him” – Acts 8:38.
So, there would have been no reason whatsoever for Philip to “go down into the water,” except that there was no other way to immerse the eunuch into the water.
The above examples plainly show us that complete immersion in water was the method practiced by the living Church which our Lord Jesus Christ founded. And that is the method we are to practice today.
3) What is the purpose of baptism? What does it mean?
The meaning of baptism symbolizes the death and burial of each repentant believer – a spiritual conjoining into the death of Jesus Christ. Through this baptismal death, the believer becomes a partaker of the crucifixion and death of Jesus Christ, and His blood is applied as full payment for his or her sins. Rising up out of the water is symbolic of being conjoined into the resurrection of Jesus Christ. When the believer comes up out of the watery grave of baptism, he or she rises to newness of life. In order to become a new person, each baptized believer must be begotten with the Holy Spirit through the laying on of hands. The believer is then led by the Holy Spirit to walk in loving obedience to God the Father and faith in Jesus Christ.
It demonstrates to the LORD God one’s willingness and desire to permanently put away his or her old life and begin a new life of OBEDIENCE TO GOD. And, let us make sure we understand this clearly.
4) AFTER our Lord Jesus’ suffering and death FOR OUR SINS, what happened to His dead physical body!?
“And if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. 11) But if the Spirit of Him [God the Father] who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead WILL ALSO GIVE LIFE TO YOUR MORTAL BODIES through His Spirit [which] dwells in you” – Romans 8:10-11.
Only His begotten children who are truly filled and led by the Spirit of God will be in the first resurrection. “For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, THESE ARE [CHILDREN] OF GOD.” – vs. 14.
PRAISE THE ETERNAL OUR GOD!
If we have the indwelling of God’s Spirit in us when we die, then “in the twinkling of an eye, at the LAST TRUMPET” we will be resurrected through the power of that same Spirit which dwells within us – at the second coming of Jesus Christ! Notice, just what happened to our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ’s mortal body will also occur to the begotten children of God! –
“For I [the apostle Paul] delivered to your first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, 4) and that He was buried, and that He rose again THE THIRD DAY according to the Scriptures” – 1 Corinthians 15:3-4.
Without getting into this subject here – the majority of this world’s “Christianity” teaches that our Lord Jesus was resurrected on a Sunday morning! No, He wasn’t!
He died on what we call a Wednesday afternoon, and He was resurrected on what we call a Saturday afternoon. And He was in the tomb three days and three nights. Not one-and-a-half days, like the people of this world believe. They keep Friday – they call it Good Friday – and then Easter Sunday – the rising of the sun. Well, Easter is not a part of the religion of the Bible. For more information, please read our articles “The Firstfruits From the Earth,” as well as “Are You But A Traditionalist?”
5) As stated, is baptism symbolic of one’s death, burial and resurrection!?
Notice here what Minister Michael C. Garrett writes – quoting God’s living word –
“There in [Acts] 2:38 – ‘repent and be baptized, for the remission of sin in the name of Jesus Christ. And you shall [not maybe] receive the gift of God’s Spirit.’ And that starts out as a small “seed.” A very small amount of God’s Spirit. But then with time that knowledge starts to grow in you, the understanding starts to grow in you, God’s Spirit starts to grow in you, the fruits of God’s Spirit starts to grow in you – because Christ is in you!
… if we’re doing the things we need to do, Christ lives in us! And He starts to remake us – and I like to say, He starts changing us from the inside out. You know, you can be baptized – in fact, some people get baptized every day, because they take a bath. And you can clean up the outward skin, but unless you have God’s Spirit, you’ll never get the inside cleaned up. And I’m talking about inside your mind – or as we sometimes say, heart. And that’s where you need God’s Spirit, inside of you, changing you – and making you into a new creature. … Destined to become eternal members of the family of GOD and the kingdom of God. That’s the goal! That’s what we all should be striving for. …
[Romans 6:4] “Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death …” – and baptism is a symbolic death. Meaning, if you go underwater, you are at risk of dying. And so we are saying when we submit to baptism, “I am submitting to the very thing which happened to Jesus Christ.” Remember verse 3 – “…as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death?” You coupled yourself, you joined yourself, you joined yourself with Jesus Christ! “…that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory [and the power] of the Father, even so, we …” - if we submit to baptism if we submit to having the laying on of hands and the prayer, and we receive God’s Spirit. “…also should walk in newness of life.” CHRIST IN YOU equals newness of life equals New Covenant equals eventual eternal life! Now, folks, this was a Message which was NEVER taught …
Verse 5 – “For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, …” – meaning, we’ve went through the process: 1) Being called. 2) Learning. 3) Repentance. 4) Baptism. We’re making this path, and eventually, we get to the step of baptism. “For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death [meaning baptism], certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection.” - Folks, that is the ultimate Good News of the New Testament! The Gospel! …
Verse 6 – “knowing this, that our old man …” – the carnal person. What does that mean!? It just means the natural human being. It’s not a bad word, it’s not a cuss word, and it’s not a dirty word. Carnal means you’re just a natural human being. You’re just flesh and blood. Devoid of God’s Spirit and God’s knowledge. Knowing that your old self “…was crucified [or put to death] with Him, that the body of sin might be [destroyed], that we should no longer be slaves of sin.” – we should walk in newness of life, as it says, following the example of Jesus Christ! …
Verse 7 – “For he who has died [meaning baptism, receiving God’s Spirit] has been freed from sin.” – and it doesn’t mean that you’ll never sin again. What it means is that you’re freed from the death penalty of sin. …
Verse 8 – “Now if we died …” - meaning we have been baptized, going through this progression of marching towards the kingdom of God, “…with Christ, we believe [or we know] that we shall also live with Him.” … this is the crux of the promise of the New Covenant! This is the goal that all of us should have!
Verse 9 – “knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no longer has dominion over Him.”
Verse 10 – “For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God.” – He’s not going to have to go through that again. He already did it! And He did it perfectly, you can’t do it any better than that! Verse 11 – “Likewise you also, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, …” – meaning, sin will not have the power of death over you. “…but alive to God [through] Christ Jesus our Lord. 12) Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts. 13) And do not present your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, …” but rather, here’s the key, “…but [yield] yourselves to God as being alive from the dead, …” – because you’re going to follow the example of Jesus Christ! He walked out of His tomb, became eternal. Someday you’re going to walk out of your grave, be changed for all eternity, or some people might still be alive as physical human beings – and some people will – and be instantly changed. “…and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. Verse 14 – “For sin shall not have dominion over you, …” – that’s the goal!” 3
“buried with Him IN BAPTISM, in which you also were raised with Him through faith in the working of God, who raised Him from the dead. 13) And you, being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses” – Colossians 2:12-13.
So indeed, getting properly baptized clearly shows that we have come to the grave realization of our own sins, lusts, our own wretchedness. It is an acknowledgment that our old self must die so that we might rise to live a new life of spiritual OBEDIENCE to God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ through Their Spirit. It shows the LORD God our ultimate surrender to Their will.
Have you been baptized? If so, was it done by immersion as God commands? Have you truly repented? Do you know what repentance is?
If you were baptized by immersion, did you fully understand that you were actually being “buried,” and that you were to be a “new you” as you emerged from this watery “grave”?
Did you have hands laid upon you and prayer given for the receipt of the gift of the LORD God – the Holy Spirit?
If you did not properly fulfill all these requirements for baptism that we have covered here in this and other studies, then your baptism was not valid in the eyes of the LORD God!
Dear friends, greetings from West Central Florida.
Just What Is the Unpardonable Sin?
A great servant of God from Ndhiwa, Nyanza, Kenya, who is a member of the COJCOM, volunteered to translate our online booklet “Just What Is the Unpardonable Sin?” into Kiswahili.
Sasa, napenda kuuliza swali kwa nyote kutafakari - kufikiria, wazo. Ni nini mbaya zaidi - mbaya zaidi - kitu cha kutisha zaidi na cha kutisha ambacho mwanadamu anaweza kufanya!? Sasa, hili ni swali kubwa.
Now, of course, it could always be refined. It could use some grammatical re-wording in some places. But, we feel that he did A GREAT JOB! And we thank the LORD God always for him!
Some of the religious lawyers – the people who were highly involved in the doctrines of the Jewish Church, way back when – were asking Jesus a question. And they were tempting Him, trying to trick Him.
“’ Teacher, what is the great commandment in the law?’”
And Jesus responded by quoting from the Book of Deuteronomy, “’ You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’38) This is the FIRST and GREAT COMMANDMENT.’”
Verse 39 – “’ And the SECOND [or principle] is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ 40) On these TWO COMMANDMENTS hang all the Law and the Prophets.’” – the writings of the Bible. The two great divine principles – ‘love the LORD your God with all your heart, mind, and soul. And ‘love your neighbor as yourself.’
And neighbor here just doesn’t mean the person living next to you – or within your neighborhood, or even just the “members” of your church. It’s referring to all other people.
With this in mind, notice something we published on our website in October 2020:
“ … I dare say the opposite can be said – since Jesus said, ‘By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another’ – ‘by this shall all men know that you are NOT My disciples IF you DO NOT have love for one another.’ The mirror image.
And so, when you – or somebody – shuns; throws away; refuses to converse with someone, for whatever reason, you are demonstrating –
1) You do not have any love.
2) You are NOT a disciple of Jesus Christ.
If you would turn to Romans, chapter 13. There are many places in the New Testament that talk about this principle.
Verse 8 – “Owe no one anything …” – except the FIRST COMMANDMENT – “ … except to love one another, for he who loves another has fulfilled the law.” – and in one place he calls it ‘the royal law.’
Verse 9 – “For the commandments, ‘You shall not commit adultery,’ ‘You shall not murder,’ ‘You shall not steal,’ ‘You shall not bear false witness,’ ‘You shall not covet,’ and if there is any other commandment, are all summed up in this saying, namely, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ 10) Love does no harm to a neighbor; …’”
So, when you bully someone who is trying to keep God’s holy Feast of Tabernacles – and then you even go further and gossip and or tell falsehoods; repeating unsubstantiated lies – becoming a gossipmonger –and God’s living word says, “Love does no harm to a neighbor,” isn’t that working harm to your neighbor – if you try to bully them and spew hate, refuse to socialize, giving them a cold shoulder!?
And he continues, “ … therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.”
You want to know how to be a Christian – show love, respect, and loyalty – to your fellow human beings.
Verse 11 – “And do this, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep; for now our salvation is nearer than when we first believed. 12) The night is far spent, that Day is at hand…” – referring to the Day of the LORD, what Minister Michael C. has dubbed the ‘end-time trauma.’ “ … Therefore let us cast off the works of darkness, …” – and shunning is a work of darkness! “ … and let us put on the armor of light. 13) Let us walk properly, as in the day, not in revelry and drunkenness, not in lewdness and lust, not in strife and envy.” – and you can add, ‘not in shunning of those people who should be our Christian brothers and sisters.’
Verse 14 – “But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, …”
If you would turn to Galatians, chapter 5. Another place where Paul spoke about this topic. Think about Paul himself as the recipient of shunning. He was shunned by the Jewish religious people who were the majority of the religious people of his day. And when Paul became a follower of Jesus Christ, he was shunned and hated and they tried to murder him, too! Where before they cheered him on when he persecuted the Church of God – now, they were trying to murder him!
Verse 13 – “For you, brethren, have been called to liberty; …” – religious freedom.
Now, time out! If you have been called to religious freedom, then why are some of you following the commands and the dictates of your so-called church leaders!? Instead, departmentalizing, and saying such things as, “Well, he’s not from our church!” When, in fact, that organization is one big conglomeration!? I contend that you’re NOT in a form of religious freedom, but you are in a form of bondage.
“ … only do not use liberty as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another. 14) For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ 15) But if you bite and devour one another, …” – isn’t that what shunning is!? Biting, hurting, harming. “ … beware lest you be consumed [destroyed] by one another!”
Verse 16 – “I say then: Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.”
The human nature tendency is for so-called church leaders to lash out with hatred, or contempt, for anyone who doesn’t believe what they believe – either religiously or politically. And then they try to get all of the other congregants – the other church members – to do and feel the same way.
If you would turn back to Matthew, chapter 5. Again, directly the words of Jesus Christ! You can’t argue with the words of Jesus Christ – you either do them, or attempt to follow them, or you walk contrary to them, it’s one or the other. And if you’re walking contrary to the words of Jesus Christ – you have no hope of eternal salvation. That’s just the plain truth of it all.
And sadly, this so-called leader of that organization who had put himself down to speak on the Fifth Day of God's holy Feast of Tabernacles got up at the podium and focused his assault (because it wasn't a godly message) on me! Reading from the Book of Luke, chapter 13, verses 26-30, he looked up directly at me and said, “I could name a name. ...” And then he looked over at his wife, as she was shaking her head, adding, “but I won't.”
How, dear Lord Jesus, is this bully “leader” and his cronies going to escape gehenna fire!?
Verse 43 – “’ You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ 44) But I say to you, love your enemies, …’”
Now, doesn’t that go completely against the theme of shunning!?
“’ Love your enemies’” – not shun them. “ … ‘bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you, 45) that you may be[children]of your Father in heaven; for He makes His sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. 46) For if you love those who love you, …’”
And let’s change this a bit – ‘if you only love the people in your particular sub-group, you’re cronies’ … “ …’ what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors[the publicans]do the same?’”
Verse 47 – “’ And if you greet your brethren only, …’”
Same idea – ‘if you’re only going to show respect towards your so-called church brethren’ … “…’ what do you do more than others? Do not even the tax collectors[the publicans] do so? 48) Therefore you shall be perfect[or complete – spiritually mature is what the word means], just as your Father in heaven is perfect.’”
Obviously, Jesus Christ does not support the idea of shunning – or showing hatred and contempt for others!
And then, Matthew, chapter 7, verse 12.
“’ Therefore, whatever you want men to do to you, …’” – which means ‘to show respect and concern.’ “ …’ do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.’” – and the basic foundation of the Message of God to all human beings!
Shunning is a terrible sin. And many of you are part of church groups that participate in that – and I know this to be true. And, if the other leaders or congregants of these church groups allow one of their own to get away with spewing hate and shunning they are just as guilty in the eyes of Almighty God and Jesus Christ!
Be a true lover of men, not a shunner. And yes, there are times when we just need to grin and bear it. Our Lord Jesus tells us, “’ Therefore, by their fruits you will know them’” – Matthew 7:20. And the apostle Paul lists those “fruits” – both the fruits of the flesh and the fruits of the Spirit – Galatians 5:19-23. And certainly, if it warrants “note those who cause divisions and offenses, contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and avoid them” – Romans 16:17.
We should indeed shun evil. Notice –
“ … ‘Have you considered My servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, one who fears God and shuns evil?’” – Job 1:8.
The word shun here in the King James Version is escheweth (sûr) meaning, to turn away, depart, or leave.
Also, we are to “shun profane and idle babblings, for they will increase to more ungodliness” – 2 Timothy 2:16.
Suggested Sabbath Day Services
Here is our suggested Sabbath day service for our scattered brethren and friends around the world:
And certainly, a great many of our peoples can see – including many secular experts – that the U.S. dollar will eventually be replaced with the Chinese Yuan as the key reserve currency for international trade and commerce. And a rising foundation that is already being laid by the European Community, will unite ten nations (or rather kingdoms; as God sees kingdoms) in EUROPE which will quickly begin to exert not only a major economic, but a political, religious, and military power upon the Western world. And the very power and strength of this final resurrection of this “Holy” Roman Empire will not only startle the Western hemisphere but will certainly be a catalyst for the Islam nations to unite into an Islamic confederation of nations – known in Scripture as ‘the king of the South’ – cf. Daniel 11:40.
Yet, be not deceived, friends. People of the Far Right Wing and in the evangelical Christian community put great stock in a series of books which were written about a couple of decades ago called the “Left Behind” series which speaks of an end-time “One World Order.” The Bible actually mentions none of that! Be sure to read our free no-obligation online booklet “The MARK of the BEAST” describing - from the Word of God - what the ‘mark of the beast’ is.
Within the United States of America – and news which is certainly prophetic; which I spoke of in an article “A Dying Nation.” The resident Joe Biden signed into law the improperly titled ‘Respect of Marriage Act’ And, CBS reported the following:
December 13, 2022
President Biden signed the Respect for Marriage Act, a bill that protects interracial and same-sex marriages, into law at a ceremony at the White House on Tuesday. “Marriage is a simple proposition: who do you love and will you be loyal to that person you love? It’s not more complicated than that,” Biden said at the ceremony.
Well, my fellow Americans – it is actually less complicated than that – marriage, according to our CREATOR, is ONLY to be between a male and a female! Truly, anything else is sinful!
This abominable bill will hurt our religious rights and enshrines something that is AGAINST GOD!
Mr. Resident Joe, this bill will not ensure happiness – it will only make sinful misery much more easier and acceptable – because God’s living word tells us “for every matter there is a time and judgment, though the misery of man increases greatly” – Ecclesiastes 8:6. The Lord our God’s holy and immutable LAW is for humanities good –
“’ And now, ISRAEL, what does the LORD your God require of you, but to fear the LORD your God, to walk in all His ways and to love Him, to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul, 13) and TO KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS OF THE LORD and His statutes which I command you TODAY for your good?’” – Deuteronomy 10:12-13.
Minister Michael C. Garrett, in his latest sermon “The MARK of the BEAST”, spoke of the very phrase – ‘which I command you today …’ –
Notice Deuteronomy 30 – “which I command you today.” Verse 18 – “’ I announce to you today …’” We hear that phrase quite a bit. It’s like, all of us come to a point sooner or later where we must make a decision. And when that decision is placed before us, we must decide. Which direction are we going to go!? So many people never go beyond just listening to God’s messages given by us or others. There is a certain responsibility to each of us, that when God places before you His word – “today,” “here,” “now” – you’ve got to make a decision.
Verse 11 – “’ this commandment which I command you today …” it is a sense of urgency.
So, God places before you a choice. “’ I call heaven and earth as witnesses today against you, …” and you have to make that choice THIS DAY. There’s an old expression: ‘poop, or get off the toilet.” 😄
Despite the living word of God telling us that LGBTQ+ is sinful and that we shouldn’t even condone it – cf. Romans 1:18-32), as we reported in our November 18th Letter, the Mormons – the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints – officially endorsed the improperly titled “Respect for Marriage Act.” (See: ‘East Bay Times - Mormon Church voices support for same-sex marriage law’ along with ’14 News - Mormon church supports legislation for gay marriage’).
After Barack Hussein Obama II became a resident of our White House, in violation of his oath of office and an impeachable act, he stated that his Administration would not enforce the Defense of Marriage Act! Furthermore, he fully supported his Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton’s push towards LGBTQ+ matters around the world. As far as resident Joe Biden, he had been a vocal supporter of the Defense of Marriage Act – until the strings from his puppet masters were attached! Notice his flip-flopping –
Throughout the 2000s, Biden claimed that same-sex “marriage was a “state issue” and repeatedly stated that marriage was “between a man and a woman” (See: ‘Grabian.com - Meet the Press Video’ as well as ‘Newspapers.com – Amendment unnecessary, Delaware senators say’).
Resident Joe Biden is falsely claiming that he is the first major leader of the free world to support same-sex “marriage”!
As President Donald J. Trump brings to light – resident Joe Biden has flip-flopped!
The puppet masters who control resident Joe Biden certainly didn’t want that gaffe (and yes – we are “subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and the authorities [including resident Joe Biden and Kamala Harris] are appointed by God.” – Romans 13:1. Servants of God are to respect our governing authorities because they exist by the very will of God. Even though the Biden/Harris Administration is implying that it is good and normal to practice perversions and to change marriage into an unholy thing! All because his constituents want it. We continue to pray for our leaders – cf. 1 Timothy 2:1-3.
Our Lord Jesus Christ teaches us –
“’ But FROM THE BEGINNING OF CREATION, God ‘made them male and female.’ 7) ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife,8) and the two shall become one flesh’; so then they are no longer two, but one flesh. 9) Therefore what God has joined together, let no man separate’” – Mark 10:6-9.
So, from the very beginning of creation marriage is between a male and a female.
Concluding Comments:
The apostle Paul – under the inspiration of God’s Spirit – wrote, after explaining to us that we are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with all the saints and members of the household of God. For this reason -
“ … I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for you Gentiles ─ 2) if indeed you have heard of THE DISPENSATION OF THE GRACE OF GOD which was given to me for you, 3) how that by revelation He made known to me the mystery (as I have briefly written already, 4) by which, when you read, you may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ), 5) which in OTHER AGES was made known to the sons of men, as it has now been revealed by the Spirit to His holy apostles and prophets: 6) THAT THE GENTILES SHOULD BE FELLOW HEIRS OF THE SAME BODY, AND PARTAKERS OF HIS PROMISE IN CHRIST THROUGH THE GOSPEL, 7) of which I became a minister according to the gift of the grace of God given to me by the effective working of His power” – Ephesians 3:1-7.
Yes, brethren, we, both of the House of Israel and the Gentiles, in the New Covenant, in the DISPENSATION OF THE GRACE OF GOD which was given to the apostle Paul for us, is truly a gift of the grace of the LORD God! We have an online article in two languages on His Master Plan from the very beginning! (See: “From the Beginning… God’s Master Plan” as well as “Tangu mwanzo… Mpango Mkuu wa Mungu”).
THIS EARLY MORNING I woke with a profound fullness of the grave sickness that has enveloped this nation. I watched on the news, weeping with grief, as an abominable Dylan Mulvaney strolled through the hallways of our White House, where in times past great men such as Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, and Ronald Reagan walked. Or, what about the Biden/Harris Administration assigning the position of deputy assistant secretary in the Office of Nuclear Energy to Sam Brinton! – and still, yet, the resident Joe Biden inviting drag queens to our White House advocating that drag is for our “children”!? It’s truly enough to cause bile to come up into your throat!
In prayer, I brought this up before the Majesty of our great and awesome Creator God this morning. And the thoughts of SODOM came to mind. Why were Sodom, Gomorrah, and the other cities of the plain destroyed!? Certainly, homosexuality along with all sexual immoralities was rampant in other cities of the world at that time!? Yet, unlike Sodom and Gomorrah, they were not destroyed. Why were they not!?
We learn from God’s living word – the Holy Bible – that Sodom and Gomorrah were very flourishing cities! –
“ … ‘ They ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built; …’” – Luke 17:28.
Our Lord Jesus telling us that those cities had a great economy. Truly, Sodom and Gomorrah were at such a crossroads of materialism, pleasures, and prosperity, that its citizens, like our nation today, were blind to their grave SICKNESS!
Like it was in those two booming towns, here in America where are the God-fearing, bleeding red, white, and blue Americans weeping for our nation!? Are they still yelling at their televisions as they watch Fox News!? Where are the petitions to have the resident Biden impeached!? – if nothing more than allowing our southern border to be wide open! Well, like it was in those cities, there is growing in our nation a greater number of individuals not having any respect or knowledge of the true LORD God! In the end, there weren’t even ten people of any good moral character –
“Then he said, ‘Let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak but once more: Suppose ten should be found there?’” – Genesis 18:32.
In the end, only Lot, a nephew to patriarch Abraham, was deeply grieved by the deplorable social sickness, and the immoral lifestyles, in which the cities of the plain were engaged in.
The prophet Ezekiel WARNS us in this two-fold prophecy –
“’ As I live,’ says the Lord GOD, ‘neither your sister Sodom nor her daughters have done as you and your daughters have done.’” – the Lord God here originally speaking concerning Jerusalem. In this end-time speaking concerning modern-day Israel and modern-day America and the British Commonwealth, the nations from which the once British Commonwealth was formed. Our great nations are committing such sins neither the original Sodom nor her daughter cities had done!
“’ Look, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: She and her daughter had PRIDE, fullness of food, and abundance of idleness; neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.’”
And indeed, our Lord Jesus says, “’ For you have the poor with you always, …’” – certainly in this present evil age. But He adds, “ … ‘and whenever you wish you may do them good; …’” – Mark 14:7.
We certainly had the wealth in the U.S. and the U.K. at one time to ‘strengthen the hand of the poor and needy’! Didn't we!?
Emma Charlton wrote in 2018 –
“Almost one child in every seven across the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) live on extremely low income and the share rising in many countries. …
The OECD says redistributing benefits and helping parents to find stable, full-time employment are key to addressing the issue. If all parents from poor families were in paid employment, the poverty rate for individuals in households with children would fall from 11% to less than 6% on average. …
The UN’s special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights has recently investigated poverty levels in the UK. Despite rising employment levels, economic growth and pockets of wealth, a fifth of Britons remain in poverty. …
UNICEF said 5.4 million children died from mostly preventable causes before their fifth birthday …” 1
Here in the U.S. The number of unemployed persons rose by 48 thousand to 6.01 million in November, while the number of employed decreased by 138 thousand to 158.5 million! 2
I witness in our cities of the great United States of America, innumerable churches on nearly every street corner in every community. Yet, in these same communities where these innumerable churches reside, I see the terrible suffering of our poor, our widows, and our orphans! What about these some 1,500 megachurches in the U.S. alone!? Certainly, they rake in an average of some $6.5 million each year!? As Rock legend, Steve Miller sings - where are these megachurches to help “feed the babies who don’t have enough to eat. Shoe the children with no shoes on their feet. House the people livin’ in the street. Oh, oh, there’s a solution”! Here’s the solution – follow the command of our Lord Jesus Christ! “’ And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.’ This is the first commandment.[the first FOUR of the Ten Commandments] 31) And the second, like it, is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’[the last SIX of the Ten Commandments]There is no other commandment greater than these’” – Mark 12:30-31.
"' IF you love Me['if you are loyal to Me']KEEP MY COMMANDMENTS'" - John 14:15.
“’ And they were haughty and committed abomination before Me; therefore I took them away as I saw fit’” – Ezekiel 16:49-50.
According to a 2017 article by Raymond O’ Lenic in Our Economy -
“While traditional churches are losing members left right and center, mega-churches – as they’re being called – are growing around the world. … And all this is big business. According to CNN, the US mega-churches bring in on average about $6.5 million each year. They sell DVDs, self-help books and receive big donations from their congregations. Some open ‘franchises’, or new churches, all over the world – promoting themselves in the same way a major brand would.” 3
So, there you have it! The whole fabric of these cities was rotten right down to the core! In Sodom, it was chic to proudly announce whether one was lazy or slough. And, like in this nation, in which a larger majority of our peoples are “living off the government” rather than holding down a job.
In Sodom, Gomorrah, and the other cities of the plain it no longer shocked their sensibility if one saw a homeless person impoverished, or the worship of a modern-day false idol – such as Beyoncé. All of these lifestyles and practices were tolerated! Not one person was picketing their White House! They announced in their cities, as we do now – “We can rest easy tonight, because our families are validated and because now we’re allowed to love who we love, which sounds odd to say, but Americans can now love who we love”!
Like Sodom, Gomorrah, and the other cities of the plain, the Creator of the heavens and earth, the ultimate Judge, see all our sins. The LORD God looks down from Their thrones and sees our dying nation. Americans are legalizing, legitimizing, validating, and endorsing everything we once held to be a “mental illness.”
Like Sodom became, the United States of America (as well as the United Kingdom and her Commonwealth Nations) are now at the point in which social and sexual values are not bound by any stable spiritual or social rule – lifestyles can be whatever each individual wants. Rules and laws are being passed for people of these abominable lifestyles in record numbers – like Californication’s new Pedophilia Law SB 145, which “would exempt from mandatory registration” as a sex offender “a person convicted of certain offenses involving minors if the person is not more than 10 years older than the minor and if that offense is the only one requiring the person to register.” The measure would allow a judge to decide if an adult who engages in oral or anal sex with a child must register as a sex offender if that person is within ten years of the age of the victim. With every turn of the corner, every television commercial, and nearly every teacher in nearly every school, the phrase “No one has the right to tell you what to do or be!” is echoing loudly! Like Sodom, our social atmosphere is permeated with sex abuse!
And here in America, it’s not just the “swinging” or LGBTQ+ (and now they’ve added additional letters, IA – intersex and asexual) life. It’s the “get and do what I want” life!
Friends, God Most High’s – the CREATOR OF ALL LIFE – Law issues forth boundaries to what He deems “right” and “wrong” in actions and attitudes. And, unlike the fact that I discovered that our new kitchen light didn’t come with an instruction manual – we humans did! It’s called the HOLY BIBLE! In the pages of His living word, He gives commands and direction to His Way of wholesome, healthy, righteous social and spiritual needs and goals.
Gutter Societies
Our societies are truly in the depths of what can be labeled a “gutter society.” And what we are witnessing in our nations in ‘this generation’ is truly just the tip of our gutter societies within our cities.
Sexual perversions were so universal in Sodom, Gomorrah, and the other cities of the plain, that the males, young and old tried forcing their perverted sexual relations on others. Sound familiar!?
“Now before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, both old and young, all the people from every quarter, surrounded the house. 5) 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’” – Genesis 19:4-5.
It wasn’t just the “bad” section of town that carnally wanted Lot’s guests. Notice, “people from every quarter.” And certainly, within our societies, we are being conditioned, and in many cases forced, to accept these abominable lifestyles! There are a growing number of people being prosecuted for what they are calling “homophobic or transphobic hate crime” 4 So often, a person can now be jailed for not using a proper pronoun to address a transgender person!
“And they said, ‘Stand back!’ …and came near to break down the door” – vs. 9.
Even today, a great many try and deny that any sexual assault was involved in this incident! These false ministers continue to proclaim that “God was just angry over the Sodomites’ inhospitality to strangers.” The context, however, is undeniable what their intentions were – a sexual assault. In America every sixty-eight seconds, an American is sexually assaulted! This is a staggering rate! 5 Like what America HAS BECOME – the Sodomites were not ashamed of their social or sexual values and actions. With their smug and self-assured PRIDE, the inhabitants came to accept what to them was an “enlightened” and “free morality.” Again, they screamed in their streets, ““No one has the right to tell me what to do or be!” They became enraged against Lot when he told them of their wickedness – cf. Genesis 19:9.
The “closet door” is off its hinges!
Was it just homosexual practices alone that contributed to the utter destruction of Sodom, Gomorrah, and the cities of the plain!?
The truth is all types of sexual perversions were “out of the closet”! It was notoriously common to PARADE about in public streets PROUDLY announcing your sexual preference and lifestyle! And we certainly are witness to this in the U.S. and the U.K. – cf. Over $200K being spent on drag queen shows at NYC schools, records show!
And like Lot, all true Christians should be gravely concerned about what is happening in the modern-day nations of Israel! There is no respect or any right standard, or naturality!
One of our Lord Jesus Christ’s brothers, Jude, clearly reveals that the Sodomites were “giving themselves over to SEXUAL IMMORALITY and gone after strange flesh” – Jude 1:7. It truly means to be utterly sexually unchaste – which included all types of sexual immoralities and unlawful lusts.
The Living Bible translates this verse, “And don’t forget the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighboring towns, all full of lust OF EVERY KIND including lust of men for other men. Those cities were destroyed by fire and continue to be a warning to us …” – Jude 1:7, TLB.
Those cities were awash with lesbians, incest, Beastiality, pedophiles, swapping, bisexuality, homosexuality, sadomasochism, and every other deplorable and debased perverted sexual immorality that mankind has conjured up!
This means that Sodom, Gomorrah, and the other cities of the plain had sunk to their final coup of their “sexual revolution.” Many are asking, has America sunk to her deepest depths of sexual perversions!? Could pedophilia soon be legal? Pedophiles are now beginning to seek equal rights by claiming that their desire for children is a sexual orientation no different from heterosexuals or homosexuals.
The LORD our God’s Law concerning sex and marriage is largely being ignored or blatantly rejected! And as I stated earlier, there is growing in our nation a greater number of individuals not having any respect or knowledge of the true LORD God – or the Law of God! We have grown PROUD and HAUGHTY!
There is coming a TRAGIC OUTCOME!
Then, as now, individuals or whole groups of people, approach others with all kinds of lustful notions. Having been an over-the-road truck driver for twenty years I can affirm this! I was accosted on multiple occasions throughout those twenty years.
Sadly, this world’s abominable agenda wants to eliminate Almighty God and Jesus Christ from every aspect of our societies. They don’t want to have any Bible studies – or even the mention of a Holy Bible. Well, guess what, the LORD God has taken Their blessings off of the house of Israel and the house of Judah! Our nations – as a whole – has invited the LORD God to leave! You know, there was a CBS News report back in 2018, which reported a mom of a Californication shooting victim reportedly saying to the cameras, “I don’t want prayers… I want gun control!” Sadly, I believe this to be the sentiment of the population! – TODAY! This world as a whole is in essence saying, ‘We don’t want God!’
And now, in ‘this generation,’ with this growing “woke” culture and its sister “cancel,” our children are increasingly becoming ensnared with these abominable lifestyles and attitudes of selfishness. And it is growing – as it grew in Sodom, Gomorrah, and the other cities of the plain. To the very point where they could not perceive the grave damages that their perverted ideas and actions were doing to the wholesome natural development of their children, much less themselves and others.
The result of the Sodomites’ way of life plunged the people into increasingly distorted debased human character. In fact, throughout the United States, I have personally witnessed mankind’s utterly debased character! And I see our progeny becoming even worse.
As I once spoke about – the fact that if God doesn’t punish our nations for our grave sins – then He must apologize for the utter destruction of the cities of the plains. God isn’t righteous for one generation and not for the next; God is not judgmental for one generation and not the next – the apostle Paul in Hebrews states, “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.” And, God is fair to every single human being – cf. Rom. 2:11.
Not Lost, Just Wandering
Our Lord Jesus Christ, in His example, says, “…’ Do you suppose that these Galileans were worse sinners than all other Galileans, because they suffered such things? 3) I tell you, no; BUT UNLESS YOU REPENT YOU WILL ALL LIKEWISE PERISH’” – Luke 13:2, 3. And the same can be said of those Sodomites! In fact, our Lord Jesus comments on this very thing; concerning those who outright willingly reject the living word of our Eternal God vs those who are ignorant of His living word, “’ But I say to you that it shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom in the day of judgment than for you’” – Matthew 11:24. More tolerable for the land of Sodom because there is coming help from the LORD God for the Sodomites! They are not lost! And there is hope for anyone who is caught in similar sins today!
Truly, the ancient land of Sodom, Gomorrah, and the other cities of the plain – just like the vast majority of mankind who have ever lived, were allowed by Almighty God to be blinded to our CREATOR GOD’S Law and awesome potential for human existence.
“’ Behold, the LORD’s hand is not shortened, That it cannot save; Nor His ear heavy, That it cannot hear. 2) But your iniquities have separated you from your God; And your sins have hidden His face from you, So that He will not hear’” – Isaiah 59:1-2.
The LORD God – the great and awesome family of God – has allowed all mankind to reap the consequences of their own way under the influence of Satan the Devil’s way of lust, greed, and self-aggrandizement.
The destroyed cities of the plain will have more mercy from the LORD God because they sinned in ignorance. Whereas many in the time of our Lord Jesus – and a growing number in ‘this generation’ – who profess to know Him, do not obey Him!
A WARNING FOR US TODAY!
Certainly, as the ancient cities of the plain didn’t start out as immorally as they ended – the great United States of America did not begin in utter sexual immorality! Jeffrey Ludwig writes in the American Thinker –
“The decline in sexual morality we see in our era did not begin in the year 2000. Today's "sexual revolution" is expressed by our being told by the highest court in the land that homosexual marriage can and must be married and by women being encouraged to abort children as a "right." In today's society, drag queens reading to little children in libraries is considered delightful by many. Further, vast numbers of people consider one's sex designation psychological and not biological, and, increasingly, parents encourage their little children to "choose" which sex/gender they want to be. …
These trends are the result of a series of developments that have been ongoing for more than 100 years. Sexual fantasies and desires were depicted by Sigmund Freud as repressed, and in their repressed unconscious influence on the personality, these desires and fantasies were leading to neurotic and psychotic behaviors in society. …
Situation ethics came into being during the 1960s regarding Christian sexual morality with the writings of Joseph F. Fletcher, an Anglican theologian. Non-marital sexual intercourse could be accepted if the parties believed in Jesus Christ and really loved each other, even if not married. This view is generally held by liberal churches today, even if it does not appear on their websites under "Our Beliefs." …
This breakdown in the moral order regarding human sexuality is not just a difference in values between some sectors of the population and others. Rather, it is a difference in values between fallen mankind and the Author of the moral law Himself. If it exists in what formerly was called Christian America, then judgment is likely to follow.” 6
The fate of Sodom, Gomorrah, and the other cities of the plain should be a warning to all! The events which shattered those cities more than 38,095 years ago – some believing that ancient Sodom is the excavated Bab edh-Dhra – the LORD our God warns us – “as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them in a similar manner to these having given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are set forth AS AN EXAMPLE, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire” – Jude 1:7.
Our beloved apostle Peter writes – under God’s inspiration –
“and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, MAKING THEM AN EXAMPLE to those who afterward would live ungodly” – 2 Peter 2:6.
Friends, it is a crystal clear example!
Let us as a nation, and even more so as an individual “ …’ Repent, and believe in [obey]the gospel’” – Mark 1:15. □
