Homeschool Helpers

Newsletter
Issue 167, November 8, 2010
From Homeschool Helpers
In association with Pass It On Ministries

By Dan L. White

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1. The news is full of this item: the pastor of a Christian mega-church in

Conyers, Georgia, has announced he is gay.

People continually repent and leave the homosexual lifestyle and there are
ministries whose full time efforts are dedicated to helping people do just that.
When a person stops living that lifestyle, though, it never makes news. When
someone declares he is going to leave his wife and children and intensify that
lifestyle, he makes national news.

I wonder why this is.

So a pastor of a mega-church announces he is gay. Exactly what does that mean?

First of all, it means he is a very depressed person. Study after study has shown
that people who shatter the seventh commandment have shattered lives. This is
true whether or not they live in Jamaica, where being "gay" is considered sodomy,
or in Sweden, which encourages such behavior. That mental depression is not just
a societal factor. It is a fact of life. Anyone who lives a life of breaking the seventh
commandment against sexual sin, whether a prostitute, an office gigolo, or a
homosexual, leads a cursed life.

Lev 26:14-16
(14) But if you will not listen to Me, and will not do all these commandments,
(15) and if you shall despise My statutes, or if your soul hates My judgments, so
that you will not do all My commandments, so that you break My covenant;
(16) I will also do this to you: I will even appoint terror over you...

That's why this 52 year old pastor, husband and father of four is making this step.
He is miserable and thinks this move will end his misery. All he is doing is
compounding his agony, seven times over.

Lev 26:18
(18) And if you will not yet listen to Me for all this, then I will punish you seven
times more for your sins.
It also means there is a one in five chance he carries HIV, a fatal disease. If he
doesn't have it now, there is a good chance he will catch it. He is pretty well
doomed to a shortened, miserable life. That's not gay, that's gray, the ashen
pallor of a dying person. And after that comes the lake of fire.

His church is being labeled in the news as a mega-church. The church has 1200
members; so by today's standards, it's not mega, nor is it mini. That group is now
in a very unsettled situation. Most Christians, of course, do not study their Bibles
at all. There will be some in the group, though, who have read the verses about
sodomy and believe what God says. Others will be in the love camp, where God
loves you with unconditional love, no matter what you do. They view anyone who
disapproves of sodomy as a legalist, trying to earn salvation by obedience.

Amo 3:3
(3) Do two walk together, unless they have agreed?

If you do not know the answer to that question, I will tell you - two cannot walk
together unless they agree. That group will split. Those who believe the Bible will
be called hate-mongers. Those who disbelieve the Bible will say they have love.
Obviously they do not love God, though, since they are directly calling Him a liar,
because He repeatedly condemns sodomy.

How did that church get into this position?

Pro 29:18 MKJV

Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keeps the law, happy is
he.

The people had no vision. They were not attuned to God's law, so they never saw
this coming.

I remember listening to the sermons of a philanderer at the Feast of Tabernacles

many years ago. The man had a reputation for being an outstanding speaker, and
indeed, at one point in his life I thought he was one of the most profound
speakers. However, there had been a change. His voice was good, his delivery
was smooth, but he had nothing spiritual to say. Then it came out that he was a
philanderer who fooled around with fatuous females. He could not teach spiritual
lessons because he was not following God's spirit. His sermons stank.

The same thing would have been totally true of all the messages that this man
gave. Sodomites do not give spiritual sermons.

Luke 6:45 WEB

(45) The good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings out that which is
good, and the evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings out that which is
evil, for out of the abundance of the heart, his mouth speaks.

All those people who listened week after week to messages from this man were
just getting gussied up garbage. Anyone who was spiritually walking with Christ
would have seen through him. Someone who was communing with God daily
would have been led out of such a lawless congregation long ago.

The fact is, though, there is a lot of gussied up garbage going out as sermons.
Lawlessness is packaged as love.

Amos 8:11-12 WEB

(11) Behold, the days come," says the Lord Yahweh, "that I will send a famine in
the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of
Yahweh.
They will wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east; they will
run back and forth to seek the word of Yahweh, and will not find it.

We are not quite there yet, but almost.

What kind of messages do you listen to? Do they only talk about God's love for
you and not urge you to show your love for Him by obeying His law and standing
up for what's right? Listen carefully to what is said. Are you hearing inspiration or
indulgence? Are you hearing diligence or dalliance? Are you hearing obedience or
tolerance?

John was a disciple and buddy of Y'shua, the Christ. John knew Him very well.
John's gospel is written in a more personal manner than the other three gospels.
And John said this.

1Jn 5:2-4 WEB

(2) By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and keep
his commandments.
3) For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. His
commandments are not grievous.
For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has
overcome the world: your faith.

There is no way this Georgia pastor was preaching that. In fact, almost all
preachers don't preach it. In the verbiage of modern Christianity, love is a
euphemism for disobedience. Preachers don't exhort their people; they just
excuse them.

Listen carefully to what you hear. Critique every message. Is it coming from the
spirit of obedience to God or from the paycheck of the pastor? This Georgia pastor
is the edge of the wave. Within a generation, the churches will be full of
homosexuality, just as they have been filled with divorce in the last generation.
Christ's followers will not be part of it. Christian homeschoolers have set up the
pattern of not following the group, but following Christ directly. That practice will
serve them well in the coming years.