Courageous Clarity about Corrosive (LGBTQ) Lies
"The biblical truth is that homosexuality and transgenderism are found in the flesh, forbidden in the law, and overcome in the Savior." Rosaria Butterfield
In an age when many, even some Christians, downplay the toxic and demonic spread of sin, Rosaria Butterfield presents 9 minutes of bold clarity in line with 2 Corinthians 10:3–5,
3 For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. 4 The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. 5 We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.
This is well worth your time.
Sin spreads like a spiritual disease. Rosaria treats it with medical kindness. Treatment can sting a little, but a lot less than death!
We are called to courageous love in holding accountable the lies of sin and those trapped by them in the church.
Christ’s church does not celebrate or tolerate sin–we cut it out!
Listen to Paul’s instructions for a house cleaning in Corinth and reflect on the way the church is being tempted to handle sin in our day. The comparison is scary.
1 Corinthians 5 It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that even pagans do not tolerate: A man is sleeping with his father’s wife. 2 And you are proud! Shouldn’t you rather have gone into mourning and have put out of your fellowship the man who has been doing this? 3 For my part, even though I am not physically present, I am with you in spirit. As one who is present with you in this way, I have already passed judgment in the name of our Lord Jesus on the one who has been doing this. 4 So when you are assembled and I am with you in spirit, and the power of our Lord Jesus is present, 5 hand this man over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh,, so that his spirit may be saved on the day of the Lord.
6 Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little yeast leavens the whole batch of dough? 7 Get rid of the old yeast, so that you may be a new unleavened batch—as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. 8 Therefore let us keep the Festival, not with the old bread leavened with malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
9 I wrote to you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people—10 not at all meaning the people of this world who are immoral, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters. In that case you would have to leave this world. 11 But now I am writing to you that you must not associate with anyone who claims to be a brother or sister a but is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or slanderer, a drunkard or swindler. Do not even eat with such people.
12 What business is it of mine to judge those outside the church? Are you not to judge those inside? 13 God will judge those outside. “Expel the wicked person from among you.”
“Christ is never loved till sin be loathed.”
-Thomas Watson