When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice:
but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.
Proverbs 29:2
Edmond Burke, a famous British parliamentarian and political writer once said; “All that’s necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing.” This certainly was demonstrated during the late 1930s. All of Europe was horrified when Nazi Germany’s Adolph Hitler also known as “Der Fuehrer”, marched his troops into Austria and annexed Czechoslovakia. So intimidated were the Europeans that they did absolutely nothing. In fact Britain’s then Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain said “Maybe” many of my countrymen seem to feel, if we ignore those who oppose us, it will just go away.” Of course history goes on to demonstrate that the exact opposite happened. Hitler continued to grab power until most of Europe was subverted, and millions of lives were lost to his wickedly despotic tyranny. With the exception of a courageously determined response from Britain’s new Prime Minister Winston Churchill, along with help from America and the Allied forces, Hitler would have overran the entire world.
This is exactly the position that America finds herself in today in reference to what has become the explosive issue of marriage and the family. Presently America is in the throws of a cultural revolution that has as its ultimate goal the capture of her psychology with the intent to reconfigure it to the spirit of Postmodernism. The forces of evil have made great strides in their attempt to subvert the God ordained institution of marriage and family. These forces have manifested themselves in a liberal agenda fueled by a postmodern religious philosophy called Secular Humanism. Secular Humanism is any system of thought or action based on the nature, interests, and ideals of man. It is a modern, rationalist movement that holds that man is capable of self-fulfillment, and ethical behavior without recourse to supernaturalism. In other words man is capable of determining standards of morality without deistic absolutism. This pseudo philosophy asserts that all worldviews and lifestyles, including male and female homosexuality are valid. There is really no such thing as sin except in cases where somebody else’s views and/or lifestyle choices are criticized. Reason and rationality are really just cultural biases, and truth¾especially God’s truth doesn’t exist.
One very important aspect of postmodern thought is relativism, which states that all values or judgments are relative, differing according to the diversity of the human status quo. In other words there is no absolute truth. That is to say that there is no set standard of spirituality, morality, and/or reality. Relativism says that truth isn’t fixed by external reality, but is decided by the group or individual for him or herself. Gen.3:5 Truth becomes manufactured, rather than discovered. Judg.17:6 As a consequent result of this mindset, the biblical definition of marriage and the traditional role of the family have been targeted for extermination. The spirit of perversion is now dictating policy in the public square, and as a direct result, America is in a spiritual, economic, and moral decline of epic proportions. All of this has led us into the quagmire of attempting to legitimatize homosexuality by redefining marriage and the family to include this perverse lifestyle. Through his supernatural ability to skillfully access the various grotesqueries of human nature, the enemy of all that is right and good, has successfully sodomized the American culture.
From the very moment of its genesis, a conspiracy was launched against the human race. This plot has as its targeted goal the complete eradication of humanity through the elimination of marriage and the family. Contemporary evidence of this is more prevalent now than it has ever been. The advocates of the liberal homosexual’s agenda attempts to legitimatize homosexuality through its recent judicial invasion of the institution of Holy Matrimony, embodies the proof of this in their over forty years push. It must be understood by all, especially the Believer in Christ, that to allow both male and female homosexuals legal access to the marriage covenant is flat out wrong. We must remember and reemphasize the reality that God has designed marriage to propagate and perpetuate humanity in the earth. In His original plan for humanity, man was commanded to “Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it.” Gen. 1:28a. This speaks directly to what I call the Dominion Mandate, and humanity’s ability to reproduce itself in the earth. When the sexual act in particular is considered in terms of the homosexual lifestyle, our ability to procreate is heinously repudiated, and viciously distorted into a satanic vitiation of said act. First of all, it must be understood that the sexual act, including all that pertains to it, is sacred, and is exclusively confined to the marriage covenant. Therefore God has outlawed this act when it is participated in outside of the parameters of the God ordained relationship of marriage. Gen. 2:21-24. Furthermore, God declares that “Marriage is honorable in all: and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.” Heb.13: 4. This means that marriage is to be held in the highest esteem by both those who are married and single, but particularly by those who are married.
The Greek word for honorable is timios, and could be translated “costly”. In other words, everyone who is married is to value his/her marital relationship so highly that they will avoid defiling or dishonoring the marriage “bed” by keeping themselves from any kind of sexual relationships before getting married, and from any adulterous relationships while married. Premarital sex (fornication), sodomy, prostitution, and homosexuality are all included in the Greek term pornous, and like adultery will fall under the judgment of the Thrice Holy One. Revelation 21:8. Again, God has commanded humanity to reproduce after its own kind, and has given it the power of procreation. Both the male and female are anatomically and biologically designed to facilitate human reproduction. The genitalia of both the male and the female are complimentary to that end. The man is equipped with a pair of testicle glands, which are housed in the part of his anatomy known as his scrotum. These glands produce a creamy white milky substance called spermatozoa. The sperm in a man is also known as his “seed”. A man’s seed are the progeny or children that God has put in him. Thus, every generation of man has been produced by the preceding generation of men. Every man’s house is within him via his sperm or seed. This is why when a man is murdered all of the people in that man are also murdered, and will never come forth.
Likewise, the woman is anatomically designed to receive the male spermatozoa via the part of her, called the uterus or, as it is commonly called, the womb. The woman has what is called “eggs,” which are stored in her ovaries located in the fallopian tubes. Whenever a man and a woman come together in sexual intercourse, the man climaxes, and ejaculates his sperm into her womb. If and when the sperm meets the egg, the sperm will fertilize the egg, and at least one child will be produced. The woman becomes pregnant, and goes through a gestation period, and at the end of nine months gives birth to their baby. Hence, one of the functions of the marriage covenant is to allow both the man and woman to legitimately engage in sexual intercourse for the express purposes of conveying their love for one another to each other, and to reproduce after their own kind, according to the biblical mandate.
One of the greatest paradoxes of modern times is the irrational notion of men that promote the homosexual lifestyle who say that they feel like a woman trapped inside a man’s body. Nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, many women are now beginning to assert that men must begin to get in touch with the feminine aspect of themselves. This kind of thinking is very ironic, since the Bible teaches that after putting him into a deep sleep, God took one of Adam’s ribs from his ribcage, and made a woman, and brought her to him. Gen.2: 21-22 In other words, all that has ever been feminine in the man, God has already taken out of him, and presented it to him in the form of a woman. Only when a man gets married, will he be able to access his feminine side
Homosexuality is a satanic perversion and egregious refutation of all that God intended as sacred to the marriage covenant. First of all, one has to ask: How do two men, or two women participate in the sexual act? The very thought itself is a study in extreme absurdity. The kind of love, which a man and a woman express to each other during the sexual act, is known as erotica. It is erotic passion expressed through the physical conduit of sexual intercourse. The anatomical and biological design of human physiology doesn’t allow for same sex erotica. What happens to a man’s sperm after it is ejaculated into another man’s rectal cavity or for that matter, into any other orifice in his body? Remember that, the sperm is a man’s seed or his offspring, his progeny, his children. The homosexual act cannot produce children. In fact, this act treats the spermatozoa as waste material, since it is ejaculated into a man’s fecal material. The homosexual act is a horrendously horrific mockery of the original command to be fruitful and multiply, and the sacredness of the marriage covenant. One would have to be psychologically and emotionally imbalanced to consider homosexuality to be legitimate, especially within the framework of Holy Matrimony.
One of the definitions of the word “wicked” is “twisted”. Any person who seeks to justify homosexuality is psychologically and emotionally twisted, because homosexuality is literally the very personification of wickedness. Hence, the Lord of the entire universe has declared both male and female homosexuality to be a fundamental abomination in His sight. Lev. 18: 22; 1st Cor. 6:9-10 The word “abomination” means something that is full of hatred and loathing, something disgusting and detestable. God is saying that homosexuality is disgusting, detestable, and loathsome to Him. God loathes homosexuality!!! Conversely speaking, God loves all of those who find themselves held captive to the homosexual lifestyle through the spirit of perversion, and has made available the provision for their salvation and deliverance.
Having said this, it is my endeavor to remind Believers everywhere of their individual moral responsibility to support the sanctity and perpetuity of marriage and the family. If no one else in the entire world will stand up for the marriage covenant the Body of Christ should and must. After all, God uses Holy Matrimony as an analogy to demonstrate the relationship between Christ and His Church/Bride. Hence, there is an incumbent responsibility upon every member of the corporate Body of Christ to uphold the covenant of marriage both publicly and privately. Publicly we must become both active and vocal in defense of what is most dear to our Father’s heart. We must realize and understand that we do have a civic responsibility to participate in the electoral process of the country in which we live, and the form of government that we are under.
The Bible teaches that as Believers we must be submitted to all governmental authorities. Rom. 13:1-7 This includes performing our civic responsibilities as citizens of the state. As Christians we live under a democratic form of government, and we have a dual citizenship. Phil. 3:20 Our primary citizenship is in Heaven, however, we live in this present world, and as Christian citizens we must walk circumspectly. We must know and understand that both the Church and the state are institutions of God. Our spiritual obligations belong to Christ and the Church. Our other obligations belong to institutions that existed long before the Church. Matt. 22:21 Contrary to popular contemporary thinking, human government is a divine institution. The Believer must realize that he is a member of a spiritual institution called the Church, and as such is under the law of God. He is also a member of a divine institution called the state and is subject to its laws. The Church is a spiritual institution: the state is a secular institution. Both the saved and unsaved are subject to the laws of the state. God has established three institutions, which control our lives. They are the family (Gen. 2:18-25), the civil government (Gen. 9:1-7), and the Church (Acts 2). In each of these institutions there are authorities to which we must willingly submit in order that God’s will may be performed both in our individual and corporate lives. However, it must be understood that submission to all authority is mandatory whether the ruler is righteous or wicked. 1st Peter 2:17-18. Hence, there is an incumbent responsibility upon every member of the Church in America to exercise his or her constitutional right to participate in the electoral process. In order to do this effectively we must become acquainted with the political issues of the day. We must research who is currently in authority, who aspires to be so, and we must proactively pray for all of those who are in authority.
Ironically Paul wrote these instructions to Believers who lived in Rome, the capital of the great Roman Empire. During that period of time, the form of government under which they lived was an absolute dictatorship. The emperor had the power of life and death over every citizen in the empire, and there was no recourse to appeal. Nero, a man so wickedly sinful and bloodthirsty that to this day his name is still synonymous with lust, murder, cruelty, and corruption was the emperor of Rome. Under his authority Rome, the capital of Italy was in a state of perpetual turmoil. It is commonly reported that Nero set the city of Rome on fire, and blamed it on the Christians. During his tenure as emperor, Nero murdered his stepfather’s son, and his own mother. He murdered two of his wives and a mistress. He had his mentor poisoned, and finally after being declared an enemy of the state, he committed suicide. Truly this is a prime example of what happens when the wicked are in authority. The people will definitely mourn. Yet it was under these circumstances that the first century Church was instructed to be subject to the state.
Juxtapose that form of government against the form of government under which the contemporary Christian in America lives, and you will discover that there is no comparison. Our government is a constitutional democracy that allows its citizens the right to a voice in the public square. We have a constitutional right to vote, because ours is a form of government, which is of, for, and by the people. If the electoral process should inadvertently endorse the wicked or unrighteous person(s), our form of government has checks and balances that will immediately expose and impeach said person(s). It is an absolute shame on our part that we have allowed the enemy to practically overthrow the institution of marriage in this country. The problem comes from the fact that very few of the leadership in the Body of Christ will actually stand up to the intimidation tactics employed by homosexual activist. Ironically, it is by exercising their constitutional rights as United States citizens, through their adoption of the legal stratagems of the late civil rights movement, and their appeal to the juggernauts of liberalism such as the ACLU, that homosexual activists have been able to successfully manipulate the legislature to do their bidding.
This has happened, because the framework through which the Church sees itself is utterly flawed. It is true that we are to live simple, quiet, and peaceable lives, but this doesn’t mean that we are to allow everything that we stand for to be trashed, mocked, and ridiculed without a fight. Jesus told His disciples then and now “Behold I give unto you power to tread upon serpents and scorpions and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing by any means shall hurt you.” (Lk.10: 19) The word “power” used twice in this verse has two different meanings. The first word “power” in the Greek is exousian and is translated “authority.” The second word “power” in the Greek is dunamis, and is translated “ability, efficiency, and might.” The enemy has ability, but has no legitimate authority to exercise that ability. This means that we are the ones who have the real authority in the earth, and as Believers in the Lord Jesus Christ, we should never capitulate to any form of intimidation. 2nd Tim.1: 7 Amp.
Our most basic challenge is dealing with the controversial issues of the day; however, we must realize that our earthly assignment is to bring the influence of the Anointed One to bear upon these issues. Matt. 5: 13. Ours is the task of overthrowing the psychological and emotional strongholds that the enemy has set up in the minds of the people. Through written, vocal and peaceful dissent, we must refute all arguments, theories, sophisticated reasonings, and every proud and lofty thing that sets itself against the true knowledge of God. 2nd Cor. 10: 3-5. This is a perpetual struggle, and we must be willing to endure until the psychological and emotional makeup of humanity is completely led captive into submitted obedience to the Anointed One. We have also seriously compromised our position in the earth by blending with the culture. This has happened to us, because we have refused to renounce our earthly heritage. We have allowed the earth to distract us by capitulating to our personal carnality. Subsequently, we have developed an earth dweller mindset, and as a consequent result, we have lost both our personal and corporate distinction.
We must remember that we are under the Dominion Mandate. The Dominion Mandate is basically divided into two aspects. First, there is the Cultural aspect of the mandate. Through the New Birth experience God has called and restored man back to his rightful place over His creation as its Federal Head. According to the Genesis record Adam; the first man, was originally created to be God’s vice regent over the created order. His purpose was to propagate humanity in perpetuity in the earth. He was also to subdue and dominate the earth and every living creature in it. Through this aspect of the Dominion Mandate man is to use every resource available to him in order to express the image and likeness of his Creator in the earth. This means that we are to discover truth through the sciences, to apply truth through technology, to interpret truth through the humanities, to implement truth through commerce, and to transmit truth through education. The second aspect of the mandate is called the Great Commission or the Evangelistic Mandate. Matthew 28:18-20 declares: And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, “All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world.” Amen. There is a comprehensive imperative in this statement, which when defined means that we are not only to lead individuals into conversion, but entire nations as well. This means that we are to use every available resource to make all nations Christian nations. We are to teach the nations to obey everything that Christ has commanded us. The intended effect of the execution of this command is to superimpose the image and likeness of God upon all of humanity. Hence, Christianity would become the universal culture. This is why the only way to be relevant to the culture is to live lives that are counter to the culture. Num. 14: 21; Matt. 5:13; Rom. 8:5-8; Phil. 3:18-19
On the other hand, there are those of us who believe that we are to have nothing at all to do with the world. In our ignorance we interpret the expression “in the world, but not of the world” to mean that we are to refrain from all worldly activities. However, we must understand that we live in this world, and if we are to live an effective life in the world, we must actively work to influence the system of government under which we live. This means that in addition to prayer, we must use all of the rights and resources that we have as citizens of the state to exert the influence of the Anointed One over it. Noted marketing research and statistical analyst, George Barna has observed that American society is crumbling at multiple points — economically, politically, educationally and morally. He states “Christians are not sufficiently armed for the struggle.” I believe the reason for this is because; the enemy has effectively dumbed down the Believer’s spiritual discernment and intellectual abilities down through his/her habitual, however unconscious, support of philosophies and activities, which contradict the Christian faith. This renders the Believer woefully incapable of demonstrating the relevance of the Christian perspective to the issues of the day.
Privately we must model what marriage and family really means to both our spouses and our children. The Bible is replete with instruction concerning the administration of marriage and family. I believe that the cornerstone of both the Kingdom of God in particular and society in general is the institution of marriage and family. The question that we as Christian spouses and parent(s) must rhetorically ask is; “If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?” Psalm 11: 13 Verily, our response to this question will determine both the direction in which our country will go, and the fate of our way of life. One thing is certain; divorcing our spouses, abandoning our wives and children, and the wholesale murder of our progeny through the heinous evil of abortion must stop immediately, if not sooner. It is imperative that we renounce the self-life and recapture the meaning of self-sacrifice. Rom. 12:1 The state in which both the Church in particular and the nation in general find themselves is directly related to our lust for self-gratification. We must come back to our first love, resubmit our lives to Him, and return to the assignment to which we were called. This requires that we sacrifice our several theological, denominational, and ethnological differences on the altar of Christian unity. Eph. 4: 1-6 It is only through these means can we escape the extraordinarily inexplicable phenomenon of “When the Wicked Rule.”
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