LivePrayerDaily Devotional for Monday October 1, 2018
Did you know that the parents of Jesus were two lesbians?
(Genesis 18:16-19)
***DAILY PERSONAL PRAYER FOR YOU: Lord, thank you for meeting my daily needs as you have promised in your Word. I look to you and your alone for my sustenance through life, and thank you for your faithfulness. Please help me to be a good steward of the funds you entrust into my care during this life, and give me favor in my finances, and wisdom in my decisions. In the name of Jesus I pray...AMEN!
Did you know that the parents of Jesus were two lesbians? Maybe you didn't hear, but a "Christian church" in Iowa had a living Nativity scene last December and will again this December, featuring two women instead of a man and a women starring as Joseph and Mary.
"It's not very groundbreaking at all to use the youngest baby in the congregation to play the role of Jesus. The parents just happened to be two women," said Rev. Linda Butler, pastor of St. Timothy's United Methodist Church in Cedar Falls, Iowa. "They were playing the role of the Holy Family, not necessarily Mary and Joseph. We never referred to the moms as Mary and Joseph. We referred to them as the Holy Family."
The Wesley brothers and the powerful men of God who were the patriarchs of the once great United Methodist Church (For the record, I was raised in and saved in the United Methodist Church. While I have not been part of that denomination for over 25 years, I still pray for this denomination that each day is losing its Biblical roots.). They have to be rolling over in their graves! Sadly, there are more "churches" that would support this type of blasphemy than denounce it!!!!
Last week, a report came out showing an incredible rise in cases of HIV amongst young black men who are choosing to engage in homosexual acts with other men. What the homosexual activists don't tell you about are the health and emotional consequences of those men and women who choose to engage in these types of unnatural, unhealthy, and deviant, sexual acts. HOMOSEXUALITY DESTROYS LIVES!
Every week, Liveprayer ministers to men and women who are in the bondage to homosexuality. We deal directly with the lives of people destroyed by this sinful activity. It infuriates me to hear CNN's Don Lemon, MSNBC's Rachel Maddow, CNN's Anderson Cooper, and other openly gay newscasters and hosts cheerleading the homosexual agenda in this nation ON AIR and WITHOUT SHAME. They are helping to affirm those in this destructive bondage, while leading innocent men and women into an addiction that will ultimately destroy their lives.
It also disgusts me that all of the secular media, including those at FOX News, including national conservative hosts like Beck, Limbaugh, Hannity, and Ingraham, never forcefully speak out against homosexuality and often support it! Limbaugh paid homosexual activist Elton John $1 MILLION to sing at his 4th marriage several years ago.
The mainstream media agrees and promotes the homosexual lifestyle, and label anyone who disagrees with this perverted choice of sex as a homophobe and intolerant. For many on the right politically, they don't want to disrupt their "business," just like they will never speak out against a satanic cult like Mormonism since it isn't good for "business."
My friend, the United States is a modern day Sodom! The fact is, if you read the Scriptures, study the history of the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, we have a level of sin and wickedness above and beyond anything they were guilty of. Not only has this nation now embraced the sin of homosexuality, we also legally protect infanticide, killing over 4,000 innocent babies every single day! IF GOD DOESN'T JUDGE THE UNITED STATES FOR ITS SIN AND WICKEDNESS, HE OWES SODOM AND GOMORRAH AN APOLOGY!!!
Let me say right up front, sin is sin in God's eyes. No sin is greater than another. The sin of homosexuality is no more, or no less a sin than murder, adultery, stealing, lying, gossiping, or gluttony. THE REASON THIS SIN IS BEING SINGLED OUT AND ADDRESSED IS BECAUSE THOSE WHO COMMIT IT ARE PROUD OF THEIR SIN AND PROMOTE IT AS AN ACCEPTABLE LIFESTYLE!
People who commit adultery do NOT have parades to celebrate their sin. People who commit murder do NOT have political action committees to make murder legal. People who steal do not have high school clubs and try to teach children that stealing is acceptable behavior. Homosexuality is a SIN in the eyes of God and is something to be ashamed of, NOT proud of.
Theologically, this is not even a debatable issue. All through the Bible, from the Old Testament through the New, homosexuality is defined by God as a sin. PERIOD. God calls it an ABOMINATION! I have heard the tortured theological arguments homosexuals have made, but there is absolutely NO WAY to change the fact this act is a sin.
Just because there is now a homosexual version of the Bible where they have literally changed the passages that call this act a sin, that DOES NOT change God's inspired, inerrant Word. Just because there is a fast growing homosexual denomination-the Metropolitan Community of Churches- that does NOT change the fact God calls this act a sin. THERE IS NOTHING THAT CAN CHANGE THE FACT GOD CALLS HOMOSEXUALITY A SIN!!!
The two greatest lies the pro-homosexual community has put out are: 1) homosexuality is something that you are "born with"; 2) 10% or more in our society are homosexual. First, modern science has CLEARLY rejected and been unable to prove that ANYONE is "born gay." IT IS A CHOICE! PEOPLE CHOOSE TO ENGAGE IN HOMOSEXUAL BEHAVIOR! LIKE ALL SIN, ONCE YOU DO IT LONG ENOUGH, IT MAY SEEM "NATURAL," BUT IT IS STILL A CHOICE THAT YOU MAKE.
You are born with black skin or white skin. Taking your pants off to have sex is a CHOICE! Also, all legitimate studies done by the non-homosexual community clearly show that less than 1% of the population EVER engage in this type of sexual sin!!!
I love you and care about you so much. The fact is, this nation has bought into and embraced the sin of homosexuality just like the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah did. In Genesis 19:24,25 the Bible says, "Then the LORD rained down burning sulfur on Sodom and Gomorrah-from the LORD out of the heavens. Thus he overthrew those cities and the entire plain, including all those living in the cities-and also the vegetation in the land." If this is how God judged these cities for their sin, what will He do to this nation???
The church better wake up and realize that while they have been building great buildings and getting fat, satan has been busy using the sin of homosexuality to rip out the soul of this nation. As much of an abomination as homosexual churches are, equally as abominable to God are regular churches that accept homosexuality as a normal lifestyle!
We live in a free society. If people who have chosen to engage in homosexual activity want to have their own schools, their own churches, their own television network, they have every right to. It is about time the church wakes up and realizes that those who promote this sin are bold and are stopping at NOTHING to get their message out to the masses. THAT is why I am always talking about how the church, those who know Christ as their Savior, have got to quit preaching to the choir and start taking the hope and love of Christ to the world at large.
As those who follow Christ, we also have a responsibility to pray for those who are in this bondage, for God to open their hearts to the truth of His Word, and to turn from their sin. Until Jesus returns, we will always have those who choose a perverted form of sex with those of their own gender, just like we will always have those who choose to pervert sex by having it outside of the bonds of marriage. While we can never accept their choice since it is clearly against God's Word, we must pray for them, just like we must pray for everyone who is battling sin in their life.
For those reading this who are currently fighting homosexuality, let me tell you that God has never stopped loving you, and is simply waiting for you to turn from your sin and come back to Him. We serve a God of deliverance from sin, a God of forgiveness, and a God of restoration. Millions have turned from the sin of homosexuality and found complete restoration and fulfillment in living a life according to God's plan. What He did for someone else, He can do for you! I pray today that you hear these words, and choose to find freedom from your sin today. That freedom is only a prayer away.
I have told you often that we are not due God's judgment, we are OVERDUE God's judgment! This nation has not only embraced and glorified and made mainstream the sin of homosexuality, but we also embrace all forms of sexual perversion, we practice infanticide, and we worship and bow down to every false god and idol man has dreamed up. Our only hope is to turn back to God, beg Him for forgiveness, and pray He is merciful. If we don't, why would we not expect God's wrath had judgment when the United States is far worse than Sodom ever was!
In His love and service,
Your friend and brother in Christ,
Bill Keller