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Is it Loving to Be Yoked with Sodomite Activists in a Gospel Performance?
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| Posted by: davidnabbey |
Monday, February 20, 2006 3:00 AM |
Is it Loving to Be Yoked with Sodomite Activists in a Gospel Performance?
Part 1 of Vision Forum’s Inquiry into the ‘Edge of the Spear’ Controversy
There is a school of thought which teaches that to love rebellious children, you withhold punishment, tolerate their behavior, and seek to reason them into faithfulness. The Bible describes this not as love, but as hatred.[1] It warns us that the way to deliver the soul of the child from Hell is through loving non-toleration of sin and the application of biblical discipline.
Similarly, there is a school of thought that teaches that the best way to love unrepentant sodomite activists is to hire them to be Gospel communicators, to yoke with them in Gospel productions, and to give them a national platform to advance their agenda of death and desolation to the Gospel itself. This approach has not only been modeled by the leaders at Every Tribe Entertainment, but it has been communicated by numerous writers in defense of the decision to keep homosexual-activist Chad Allen as lead actor in the Gospel film End of the Spear, notwithstanding the fact that Every Tribe Entertainment has made it clear in public interviews that they were given the option of releasing him from the project.
In my opinion, these actions and communications reflect theology by emotion, rather than theology by Scripture.
The first problem seems to be that Christians have been desensitized to the utter wickedness of the sin of homosexuality.[2] (Can anyone seriously imagine discussions about showing love to an unrepentant, active Klansman, Nazi, or racial bigot cast in the role of playing Martin Luther King, by allowing one of them to play King in a biographical film about his life?) Our love affair with pro-homosexual Hollywood, our entertainment choices, and our unwillingness to stand against the immoral political decisions of our leaders and judges who have brought homosexuality out of the closet and paraded it before our children, has desensitized us to the nature of the sins.
Furthermore, the rising influence of pornography, adultery, and divorce within the church, rather than spurring repentance and revival, has culminated in the widespread acceptance of a sort of relativism concerning moral crimes. (For example, during an interview on KSLR radio in San Antonio, Steve Saint made the point that if he was to come down hard on Chad Allen, a similar response would have to be taken toward one of the other actors on the film set who met and engaged in adultery with a Panamanian woman during the filming of End of the Spear.)
It should be remembered that homosexuality is a moral crime for which the Lord required his people to subject offenders to capital punishment.[3] We should be reminded that, though the punishments have differed from century to century, it has been the unanimous opinion of Western law for nearly two millennia that sodomy is a moral perversion and a punishable crime. Furthermore, homosexuality is not just another sin. It is a special type of sin of which God describes the practitioners as being in the final stages of reprobation and under the severe judgment of God.[4] Finally, the Bible warns us and patterns for us the reality that toleration of such behavior in society invokes national judgment.[5]
How then do we love the unrepentant homosexual activist? Stay tuned to my next blog.
[1] “He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes” (Prov. 13:24).
Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. (Prov. 22:15)
The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame. (Prov. 29:15)
[2] “Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.... Ye shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments, and shall not commit any of these abominations; neither any of your own nation, nor any stranger that sojourneth among you: (For all these abominations have the men of the land done, which were before you, and the land is defiled;) That the land spue not you out also, when ye defile it, as it spued out the nations that were before you. For whosoever shall commit any of these abominations, even the souls that commit them shall be cut off from among their people. Therefore shall ye keep mine ordinance, that ye commit not any one of these abominable customs, which were committed before you, and that ye defile not yourselves therein: I am the LORD your God” (Lev. 18:22-30).
If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them. (Lev. 20:13)
[3] “Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.... Ye shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments, and shall not commit any of these abominations; neither any of your own nation, nor any stranger that sojourneth among you: (For all these abominations have the men of the land done, which were before you, and the land is defiled;) That the land spue not you out also, when ye defile it, as it spued out the nations that were before you. For whosoever shall commit any of these abominations, even the souls that commit them shall be cut off from among their people. Therefore shall ye keep mine ordinance, that ye commit not any one of these abominable customs, which were committed before you, and that ye defile not yourselves therein: I am the LORD your God” (Lev. 18:22-30).
If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them. (Lev. 20:13)
[4] “For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness; Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them. For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things. Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen. For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet. And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them” (Rom. 1:18-32).
[5] “Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil” (Eccl. 8:11).
Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD: and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance. (Ps. 33:12)
Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have despised the law of the LORD, and have not kept his commandments, and their lies caused them to err, after the which their fathers have walked: But I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem. (Amos 2:4-5)
For thus saith the LORD unto the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live: But seek not Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal, and pass not to Beer-sheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel shall come to nought. Seek the LORD, and ye shall live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and devour it, and there be none to quench it in Bethel. Ye who turn judgment to wormwood (curse, cursed or poisoness), and leave off righteousness in the earth, (Amos 5:4-7)
Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live: and so the LORD, the God of hosts, shall be with you, as ye have spoken. Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be that the LORD God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph. (Amos 5:14-15)
I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies. Though ye offer me burnt offerings and your meat offerings, I will not accept them: neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts. Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols. But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream. (Amos 5:21-24)
....for ye have turned judgment into gall (poison), and the fruit of righteousness into hemlock (curse, cursed or poisoness).... (Amos 6:12)
Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD: And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek (to search out by implication through prayer and worship; to strive after), the word of the LORD, and shall not find it. In that day shall the fair virgins and young men faint for thirst. (Amos 8:11-13) |
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