Today,
a Battleaxe continues the discussion of Adam, Eve, and homosexuality.
GOD is impartial, and the same condemnation and provisions for
salvation are made on behalf of both heterosexuals and homosexuals.
Sinners must change to exist before GOD in spirit, rather than in
flesh, for there are many conditions and considerations that change
the godliness of otherwise lawful conduct. Ones duty to GOD is to
change their affection for others, rather than their affections
change their duty to GOD. Belief in social privilege as completely
the expression of human process and substance denies the effect and
power for human life from fixed mechanical process and natural laws
as well as from unchanging aspects of divine truth. Many of the
present day demonstrations on behalf of homosexuality are not genuine
expressions of divine intent. It is as if a committee of those
desiring orange juice at breakfast conducted increasingly disruptive
and violent protests demanding that apple trees also produce orange
juice. Their marches and placards declare there are clear violations
of economic opportunity; practices of bias, discrimination, and
prejudice; and a withholding of benefits to various groups in the
larger population (e.g., those drinking grape juice, grapefruit
juice, and tomato juice at breakfast). Insisting that science and
technology actually can meet the challenge, the apple growers offer
the o-j-lovers the “emperor’s
new clothes” requiring that the agitators be warned that the new
juice product may have the aroma, calorie count, color, and flavor of
apple juice. The ministry of Jesus Christ is not man-made, and does
not center in human desire, or what may be accomplished through
finite self-will (willpower); rather, the origin and focus of the
salvation being offered to all are divine prerogative, eternal
purpose, and the sovereign will of GOD. It is written: 1st
Corinthians 3: 16-23, King James Version (KJV): 16 Know ye not that
ye are the temple of God, and that
the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? 17 If any man defile the temple
of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which
temple
ye are. 18 Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth
to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.
19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is
written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness. 20 And again,
The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain. 21
Therefore let no man glory in men. For all things are your’s;
22 Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or
death, or things present, or things to come; all are your’s;
23 And ye are Christ’s;
and Christ is
God’s.
THE
GOLDEN ARROW: He came unto his own, and his own received him not.
But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons
of God, even to them that believe on his name: Which were
born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of
man, but of God. (John 1: 11-13, KJV)
THE
DOUBLE DAGGER: Adam, Eve, and Homosexuality (03/27/2020); The Fall
of Mankind (05/16/2019); Responses To Clergy Scandals (03/28/2019);
Discernment And Godly Love (06/26/2018); Natural and Spiritual Law?
(06/30/2016); Gender, Sex and Christian Beliefs? (05/18/2016); The
Judgment Against Sodom? (04/10/2015)
THE
BATTLE AXE: Adam, Eve, and Homosexuality (03/27/2020)—(5.)
1st
Corinthians 6: 17-20, KJV: 17 But he that is joined unto the Lord
is one spirit. 18 Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is
without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against
his own body. 19 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of
the Holy Ghost which is
in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? 20 For ye are
bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your
spirit, which are God’s. Fornication is the defilement of spirit
substance through sexual joining. Because our appetites and
emotional commitments as living persons on the earth may corrupt and
defile our relationships with divinity, the operations of human
self-will can condemn mankind to irreversible separation from the
Creator. Desire appears in the living as a focusing of consciousness
and self-will in response to appetite, emotion (e.g., anger, fear,
guilt, shame, sorrow), material objects, operations of mind (e.g.,
fantasy, recall, carnal reason, thought), experiences of sensation
(e.g., hearing, seeing, tasting, touching), and operations of sin.
Even so, the authority, dominion, and power of consecrated spirit are
not to be despised, ignored, overthrown, or suppressed.
(6.)
Ezekiel
18: 20-23, KJV: 20 The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son
shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father
bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous
shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon
him. 21 But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he hath
committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and
right, he shall surely live, he shall not die. 22 All his
transgressions that he hath committed, they shall not be mentioned
unto him: in his righteousness that he hath done he shall live. 23
Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? saith the Lord
GOD:
and
not that he should return from his ways, and live? Just as a
community may display a statue in the town square, and does not
automatically encourage blasphemy, ungodliness, and the worship of
idols, all sexual expression has not been labeled by GOD as “original
sin” and the transgression of divine law. Among mankind, the
judgment of sexual conduct continues to be liberal and tentative, for
there are many points of subtlety (i.e., barely visible differences;
sudden shifts in meaning and value). Sexual behavior always occurs
on many different levels (emotional, physical, psychological, and
spiritual) all at the same time. Thus, because of its intent to
express love, holding hands and a kiss on the cheek (oral sex) may
have enduring power for both partners in a relationship who desire to
express continuing innocence and sexual desire. Christian belief,
redemption, and salvation acknowledge multiple operations on behalf
of mankind that can be carried out only by GOD. Included are
atonement, forgiveness, Incarnation, rebirth, redemption,
resurrection from the dead, and the
second death.
Conforming to the standards generated by GOD, who is immortal,
incorruptible and invisible, requires that the living receive
inseparable aspects from the makeup of divine fullness (e.g., faith,
holiness, longsuffering, lovingkindness, wisdom, wrath against sin).
While divinity is active
presence, and
may appear on the earth using human form and flesh, divinity remains
spirit, and may indwell the consciousness and self-will of the
living.
(7.)
Galatians 5: 16-24, KJV: 16 This
I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of
the flesh. 17 For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the
Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the
other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would. 18 But if ye
be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law. 19 Now the works of
the flesh are manifest, which are these;
Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, 20 Idolatry,
witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions,
heresies, 21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such
like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you
in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the
kingdom of God. 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace,
longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, 23 Meekness, temperance:
against such there is no law. 24 And they that are Christ’s have
crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. Sin opposes the
continued existence of divine law, the Lawgiver, and of the divine
order that establishes the universe. In the same way authentic human
existence now imposes gender, mortality, and other aspects of human
makeup that can not be permanently altered or removed by mankind, the
presence and process of life
essence
(breath; spirit; word) imparted from divinity to mankind in Creation
does not allow full human control of existence, life, personhood, and
purpose. For mankind to exist as a companion of GOD in fruitful
relationship also requires that men are to display the image of GOD,
and to resemble, reflect, and reveal the character and likeness of
Jesus Christ.
(8.)
Romans 6: 12-16, KJV: 12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal
body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof. 13 Neither yield
ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin:
but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead,
and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God. 14
For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the
law, but under grace. 15 What then? shall we sin, because we are not
under the law, but under grace? God forbid. 16 Know ye not, that to
whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to
whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto
righteousness? Many mistakenly understand the liberty granted by
divinity to mankind through grace to be a suspension of all demands
for discipline; for restriction; and for rule through divine law,
sacred practice, and the observance of consecrated principle.
Sinners who become developing Christian believers may continue to
desire approval and endorsement of self-assessment, peer review, and
their own strivings to obtain vainglory. Human emotions and feelings
of love do not consecrate self-expression and operations by the
flesh. The focus of men and women to have lawful relationships in
society (same sex marriage) is very different from the process of
transformation for eternal life that is being advanced by divine
fullness (we also say, divinity; the Godhead; the Father, the Son,
the Holy Spirit). The issues of being born again and becoming
mature/ripe for harvest by the Lord at his appearing (we also say,
the Advent; the Rapture; the Second Coming) pertain to the permanent
dominion and ownership of Creation, not merely to the privilege for
sexual expression within the celestial precincts or among the living
on the earth.
There
is far more that should be said, correctly examined, and spiritually
apprehended. (For example, (9.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyAyVT8asxQ.)
Even
so, I trust this fragment will be useful. Be it unto you according
to your faith.
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