Daily Devotional for Tuesday June 1, 2010

The Repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell

(Ephesians 2:10; Acts 4:12)

The repeal of "don't ask, don't tell." This week, the US Senate will follow the House and vote to repeal the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy, allowing those who choose to commit homosexual acts to serve openly. The vast majority of military experts feel this will end up having a detrimental effect on our nation's military. Sadly, this is just the latest chapter of the radical homosexual agenda that is being unleashed upon this nation with the full support of President Obama and those in his administration who are on the opposite side of God on every major spiritual issue of our day.

That radical homosexual agenda is destroying this nation. What have I told you for years now? If you tell the lie long enough and loud enough, people will accept it to be the truth. Never has that been more evident than in the relentless campaign by the homosexual community to make their choice of deviant sexual relations acceptable and mainstream.

The war to keep the sin of homosexuality from becoming accepted and condoned, even celebrated, has been lost! So you still think this is a Christian nation? Over the past 40 years prayer and Bible teaching have been taken out of the public schools, we legally slaughter over 4,000 innocent babies a day, gambling and pornography are now socially acceptable, profanity is no longer considered bad language, Jesus, the Bible, and the Christian faith are openly mocked while the cults and false religions of the world are now revered and protected, we have changed God's definition of what marriage and the family is, places that call themselves churches and men and women who call themselves pastors don't even believe the Bible and operate in complete rebellion to God's Word, and the sin of homosexuality is now considered an acceptable mainstream lifestyle choice!!

Hello! Christians! Do you think it is time we wake up???

How could all of this have happened in such a short period of time? Simple. Men and women who God called to lead his church and people have failed to do so. Many of them deny the inspiration, inerrancy, and Truth of the Bible and have led people to accept and condone what God clearly calls sin. Others have chosen to preach a gospel of motivation and prosperity that tickles the ears of the masses and garners them huge followings of people who don't want to hear about sin and sacrifice, only how to be successful and rich by this world's standards.

Never before has our silence and failure to lead been as evident as in the war we have lost regarding making the sin of homosexuality an acceptable mainstream lifestyle choice. Don't believe me? Dear Abby is now on board stating that it is OK to be gay.You say big deal, who cares what Dear Abby says? It is just another example of a long standing cultural icon who has reinforced that this choice of sexual activity is acceptable and even desirable!

Why are we seeing the soul of this nation being ripped to shreds? Men and women God called to lead who led the church into their own little subculture, apart from mainstream society. We retreated behind the four walls of the church into the comfort and prosperity of the "Christian trough," something satan was only too eager to let us do since it removed the "salt" and "light" from the marketplace and left it to his wolves to ravage.

Now when we step out of our comfortable little subculture back into the real world, we are faced with babies being slaughtered, men marrying men and women marrying women, porn and gambling everywhere you turn, filthy language accepted as normal conversation, all of the media vehicles being used to carry Satan's lies to the masses to insure their souls will end up in hell, and parades to celebrate a sin like homosexuality!!!

I love you and care about you so much. The sad fact is, we can't turn back the hands of time. Things are never going to be the way they used to be. Those days are gone and over. However, in the wake of this gross and unbridled sin are the destroyed lives of real people who bought the sweet lies of sin and are now paying the price for their rebellion to God. This is a new opportunity for the church and for God's people to be the true hope and answer for those who are still breathing, whose lives have been devastated by sin, and who yearn for the peace and joy that can only come from having a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.

A byproduct of all this sin is the coming wrath of God and great persecution on the church and God's people. This is the time when all of the ways we have figured out to divide ourselves will no longer be important, when those who serve the Lord for mammon will fall away since it will no longer be profitable, and those who aren't serious about their faith will run from it. Left will be a faithful remnant whose citizenship is not of this world and whose goals are not earthly but Heavenly. It is this faithful group who will help bring in a great harvest of souls as the final moments of human history unfold.

My prayer for you today is that you become more bold in your witness for Christ. Don't emulate some of these so-called leaders who have been programmed by their business handlers to never even utter the name of Jesus so people aren't offended and book sales aren't hurt. It is at the name of JESUS that every knee shall bow and every tongue confess Him Lord! The Bible proclaims that there is only ONE NAME by which men are saved, the name of JESUS! If we are ashamed of Jesus, He will be ashamed of us.

In a nation and world that has rejected our Lord and His Truth, now more than ever He needs each one of his true followers to stand for Him. Yes, this nation is no longer a Christian nation, and yes the war to stop the sin of homosexuality from becoming mainstream has been lost, but when this world as we know it comes to an end, lies like homosexuality will be defeated and the TRUTH will be standing!!!

In His love and service, Your friend and brother in Christ, Bill Keller