Any school going teen raised within
the confines of Historic Christian worldview will consider gay marriage as an
aberration. But LGBTQ movement is gaining traction in every nook and corner
of our world. This unholy movement will continue to assault the traditional
heterosexual marriage (between a male and a female). So our next generation may
even consider gay marriage at par with the monogamous heterosexual marriage.
Given this existential reality, we who
subscribe to Historic Christianity should be concerned with another entity. Not the
secular world, but another entity.
Beware of the enemy within!
““Watch out for false prophets, who
come to you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly are voracious wolves,” says the
Bible about the enemy within (Matthew 7:15, NET).
The enemy within could be far more dangerous
and destructive than the enemy outside our domain. In this context, the enemy
within is the group of Christians who actively endorse the LGBTQ agenda. Call
them the Progressive or Liberal or the Postmodern Christians.
Do not be deceived when you observe
Pastor Joel Osteen and his wife attend Lady Gaga’s gay pride event, “Joel
Osteen has fallen so far down into apostasy that his seared conscience doesn’t
even alert him anymore when trouble is on the horizon, such was the case on
Monday night at the SiriusXM and Pandora merger event in New York City. Joel
and his wife Victoria were in attendance at the Lady Gaga Pride concert
featuring drag queens, amazingly foul language and the endless glorification of
the LGBTQ+P for Pedophile agenda. It seems that the Osteens had no problems at
all attending such an event, which is not surprising considering how they have
been creeping ever closer to supporting same-sex marriage.”1
It’s a known fact that Pastor Joel
Osteen tacitly endorses the LGBTQ agenda, “On October 2, 2013 Pastor Osteen
joined Josh Zepps on HuffPost Live for a more relaxed and intimate interview.
Zepps read a piece that he liked
from Osteen’s new book: “It doesn’t matter who likes you or doesn’t like you, all that matters is that God likes you. He
accepts you, he approves of you.” Zepps followed up by asking if that included
homosexuals.
“Absolutely,”
Osteen insisted, “I believe that God breathed life into every person and
that every person is made in the image of God and you have accept (sic) them as
they are, on their journey. I’m not here to preach hate or push people down.””2
(Emphasis Mine).
God loves everyone, sinners
included. Therefore, God loves homosexuals. But God does not approve of the
practice of homosexuality. In other words, God loves the person, who is a
homosexual but detests the practice of homosexuality.
So when Pastor Joel Osteen says that
God approves of homosexuals, he seems to say that God approves of
homosexuality, but nothing could be further from the truth.
Sincere yet naïve Christians who may
adore celebrity preachers like Pastor Joel Osteen should beware of such false
teachings.
The secular world may force its
LGBTQ agenda into our domain. This is expected of them. But instead of
remaining true to the Bible, a significant portion of Christian denominations
and its leaders, especially the celebrity preachers whom many Christians adore,
endorse sins and declassify them as acceptable practices. In the process, these
people try to usurp God from HIS throne. But God cannot be usurped. What God
termed a sin will always remain a sin. Of course, I am referring to LGBTQ
practices.
We who worship the living God should
have the mind to reject such teachings because such teachings contradict the
Word of God. If we endorse homosexuality because we blindly accept the
teachings of these heretical celebrity preachers, we tread on dangerous ground.
So beware of the enemy within!
The future, however, seems to be
bright for those who remain true to God’s Word.
Nancy Pearcey quotes Andrew Sullivan
to assert that the support for LGBTQ agenda among our younger generation is
reducing. Here's an excerpt of Andrew Sullivan's article from Nancy Pearcey's Facebook page:3
Andrew
Sullivan (homosexual columnist) says support for trans ideology is going down
For the first
time, we’re seeing a sharp drop in tolerance of “LGBTQ” people among the
younger generation. This is an entirely new phenomenon. It used to be the young
that spearheaded toleration and inclusion. Now they’re suddenly bolting in the
opposite direction:
“The number of
Americans 18 to 34 who are comfortable interacting with LGBTQ people slipped
from 53 percent in 2017 to 45 percent in 2018 — the only age group to show a
decline,” according to the annual [GLAAD] report. And that is down from 63 percent
in 2016. “36 percent of young people said they were uncomfortable learning a
family member was LGBTQ in 2018, compared with 29 percent in 2017, and 24
percent in 2016. 34 percent were uncomfortable learning their doctor was LGBTQ
vs. 27 percent a year earlier. 39 percent were uncomfortable learning their
child had a school lesson on LGBTQ history vs. 30 percent in 2017.”
Or check this
out: 62 percent of young men regarded themselves as “allies” of LGBTQ people in
2016; only 35 percent now say the same — a near-halving of support. Women
“allies” have dropped from 65 to 52 percent.
The turn began
in the year that the Obama administration — with no public discussion or
congressional support — imposed critical gender theory on America’s high
schools, determining sex to be whatever a student says it is. The imposition of
trans ideology by fiat on the entire country’s young — along with severe public
stigma for those with even the slightest questions — was almost textbook left
authoritarianism. Well meant, perhaps. But dictatorial.
Even GLAAD,
the culture police for the gay left, concedes that the transformation of the
gay-rights movement into a trans movement steeped in critical gender theory in
the past few years is likely the reason... GLAAD vows to crack down ever more
firmly on those who aren’t fully onboard with its agenda. The last thing GLAAD
would do is ask itself if it is actually exacerbating the problem, and that the
redefinition of almost everyone’s sex and gender to accommodate less than 1 percent
of the population is why this resistance is happening....
Kids are not
stupid. They know they are being propagandized. This poll suggests the backlash
has arrived, and it will likely grow."
Endnotes:
1https://www.nowtheendbegins.com/little-monsters-joel-osteen-wife-victoria-honored-guests-lady-gaga-pride-concert-new-york-city-monday-night/
2https://www.huffpost.com/entry/joel-osteen-larry-king-homosexuality_n_4591090?guccounter=1
3https://www.facebook.com/nancy.pearcey.7/posts/10157425523754241
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