Faith Baptist Church
4258 Botetourt Road
Fincastle, Virginia 24090
(540) 473-2325
Ephesians 5:22-24 & Colossians 3:18
This morning we will speak about the second assault on our status as a nation under God; the assault on marriage.
Having the recipe for freedom, as we spoke of last week, [Tem 204] cannot guarantee sustained freedom. Freedom must be earned, and then it must be defended, not only from outside attacks, but also from within. We have to stand up and let our God given consciences be made known. Satan will work through malcontent people to undermine and usurp the very authority needed in order for freedom to be protected and defended. The peace doves and bleeding hearts will do all within their power to turn our weapons of protection into plowshares and pruning hooks, a passage in Isa.2:4, but a passage that will not come to pass until Christ has set up his Millennial Kingdom, a kingdom that comes only after the rapture of all believers in Jesus Christ, and the seven year tribulation period. Mankind should try to avoid war, but not at the cost of its’ citizens national freedom. There will not be a time of universal peace until Jesus Christ sets up his kingdom, and until then we will need a strong and ready military.
Also from within our nation there are people who will do all they can to tear apart the institution of marriage.
Where is Our Moral Compass?
A client nation upholds marriage and family as a divine institution. Marriage is given to mankind by God. Neither the state, nor its people can redefine God’s institution of marriage. God is the one who declares that a man and a woman should be joined for life, both legally and spiritually as one under God.
In marriage fidelity is expected as each spouse honors the other. He loves her and provides for her, and he protects her, and in their marriage he initiates the environment of love, authority, freedom, and virtue. She in turn biblically submits herself to him as unto the Lord, Eph.5:22-24; Col.3:18. The freedom she had as a single girl to go anywhere she wanted at anytime; to make any choices she wanted to make anytime, now is changed, and so it his freedom. They are as one in marriage. God calls her to abide by his headship, Gen.3:16, and to do so first as a gesture of her love for Christ, and to demonstrate her respect for her husband’s God appointed position. Please remember that the husband’s position in the home is God appointed, not self-appointed. To disrespect the position is to go against God’s formula for a happy home and a happy marriage and a happy society.
I am preaching the Bible here, not popular culture. You know, we’ve gone a long way away from the biblical standard. Many women and men of the world detest God’s word in this teaching, and this has lead to juvenile delinquency, divorce and fighting, murder and poverty. Prov.18:22 “Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favor from the Lord.”
When wives are treated with respect and kindness by their husbands these wives should thank God for their husbands. Husbands should likewise love their wives who respect them and honor them and thank God for a good wife. A nation where this mutual respect is not seen in the home is a nation on a downward spiral toward divine cursing. As the home goes, so goes the nation. We reap what we sow, and this is the law of God.
It is a shame when a state or a nation has to vote to protect the divine institution of marriage as being between one man and one woman, but this is what is happening. We have to protect this institution.
As of now Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, New York, New Jersey, Hawaii, New Mexico, Washington, and Washington D.C has legislation or councils as in the case of Washington D.C. to adopt amendments to make gay marriage legal.
Mankind has to have the moral compass to know that marriage between two people of the same sex is twisted and is a great perversion, Rom.1:24-28. The moral compass in America is being over taken by an evil magnetism of relativism. Any thing goes has become our standard of morality today. Prov.12:15; 14:12. As Judges 21:25 said...
“every man did that which was right in his own eyes.”
Many in our nation are more concerned about clean air and clean water than they are about clean minds and pure homes.
God Ordained Marriage for Children’s Sake
Ps.127:3 “Lo, children are an heritage from the Lord and the fruit of the womb is his reward.” Children are a heritage from the Lord because they are made in the image of God and they come through God’s institution of marriage and family.
Two men cannot have children and two women cannot have children. One of the God’s main principles for the institution of marriage is the continuation of the human race. That there would be procreation stemming from the love shared between a man and his wife, Gen.3:16, Gen.9:1. And those children are under the authority of their parents, Eph.6:1-3.
The children born to that marriage have the right to a father and a mother, and they need a father and a mother. The exception of not having one or the other should never be the basis for a ruling on whether a child should have both gender parents.
Radicals always try to rule by the exception, and not by the standard.
Some say a gay couple can do just as well as a straight couple in raising children, but I disagree and so do most child psychologists. Two women may try, but no boy can learn to be a godly man as well as a boy who has a good mother and a good father figure. And the same goes for a girl. She needs to have a good mom to share with her things a man cannot share with her. And she needs to have a good dad for her sense of security and belonging. Both boys and girls need to see mom and dad to understand how to get along with the world. They can learn the lessons to follow as well as the ones to avoid.
Some gays say they should have equal rights including the right to marry. They do have the right to marry, but not of the same sex. Some folks may want the right to drive their cars in the opposite lane of traffic, but we cannot and should not change the laws to allow them to do this. Look at the chaos that would happen if we allowed this. The thousands of years of marriage traffic going in one direction of one man and his wife has allowed civilizations to grow and mankind to continue to exist, but to allow the few to cause this direction to be changed is to open a virtual Pandora’s Box of radical unalterable changes. These changes will alter our lives in a way that will forever change the face of America, and the face of the family. If a person is emotionally involved with someone else then there would be nothing to stop them from becoming a married unit, even if it’s two or three people or more. If you were to say you love someone and because of this no matter what gender the relationship consist of, you should be able to marry them, then marriage is gone. This is not opening up marriages to others, it is redefining marriage to be something else than God, the creator of marriage designed. God created marriage. It is his definition, not ours.
With today’s new definition of marriage; now sodomites and polygamist, who are fornicators and adulterers, defile the human body and soul which God created.
These reprobates [which the word reprobate means to be void of moral judgment] are now acquiring the same societal status God only intended for a man and his wife. If a society refuses to reflect God’s design for marriage and the home, then God will leave that society to its own decay.
When laws fundamental to an orderly secure society are broken down for the few, and in this case a group clearly living a life of sodomy according to the Bible, then anything goes. Somewhere along the line those who are elected to serve us have got to stop radical groups from taking over our country. We have had some poor national political leaders. I suppose this is because the radicals of yesterday are not the rulers of today.
Some think expanding marriage to gays will actually help to strengthen marriage.
Expanding marriage to homosexuals will not slow down the tide of AIDS or promiscuity among homosexuals. A recent study in the Netherlands, where homosexual marriages are legal, where it is said to be the most “gay friendly” culture in the world states that those homosexual men have a hard time honoring their marriages. A British medical journal reports these relationships last on an average 1.5 years, and these gay men have an average of eight partners a year outside of their gay marriages.
Though heterosexual marriages are suffering with way too much divorce this is no cause to change marriage law. It is the people who need to change, not the laws. The gay community does not have to have marriage to feel like they are a part of society no more than millions of singles feel they need marriage to be a part of society. It is not the government’s responsibility to make people feel good about themselves. Self-esteem is not the governments to grant to its citizens.
There is a new marriage movement which is quietly, stealthily, growing in the new definition of marriage. This movement is called polyamory where groups of people marry each other as one marriage.
Here you could find a group of people in one marriage. The benefits for families include tax breaks, child care breaks, social security benefits and health care. These tax breaks and spending programs would break the government. Some professors at our nations leading universities are promoting this new form of family concept to their law students and future societal leaders and others. As we close this segment in our study we should be thinking about God’s take on all of this, lets be reminded of Lam.4:6, “For the punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the punishment of the sin of Sodom, that was overthrown as in a moment, with no hands laid on her.” This iniquity of Sodom was homosexuality.
Israel as a client nation to God would be judged more severely than Sodom. God saw Israel’s sins and they were more of an offense to him than the offenses of Sodom and Gomorra. Where “much has been given, much is required” is a divine principle of accountability toward God. I fear our nation has failed to see her accountability before God. Some might say this is an unloving message, and yet if we do not speak out against this abomination then we must ask ourselves, do we want to be known as the new Sodom and Gomorra, and if so how soon will God strike us as he did them? Liberation theology promotes embracing what God deplores. Now you tell me, who is their father? I believe Satan is their father.
We are in a battle whether we like it or not. Sinners are rallying around the banner of equality for all, but the right to commit abominations has nothing to do with equality. It has everything to do with the degradation of a people, and it has much to do with the fall of a nation. When Christians take a stand supporting the word of God the devil’s crowd will always take a stand supporting the opposing will of man. When Christianity appears to the world as being radical in its speech or actions it is usually thought to be so by those who are so far removed from the most basic human rational and biblical revelation. Romans 1:18-32 lucidly explains the elements of free will that leads to the immoral degeneracy of a people. When a people will no longer acknowledge the supremacy of God to set the standards via his righteous word, then a vain imagination will envelope those people. A blackout of the soul will bring about a mind void of moral absolutes. This is more than a case of situation ethics, it is an in your face anarchy which begins covertly toward God, and then overtly toward those who uphold the biblical establishments in high esteem.
A client nation must protect marriage.