Posted on 07/05/2015 11:29:34 AM PDT by Kaslin
“Remember what I told you: ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will persecute you also. If they obeyed my teaching, they will obey yours also.”
– John 15:20
The push back has begun. Christian business owners, lawyers, parents, judges, county clerks, organizations, universities, hospitals, adoption agencies and other individuals and groups have been given an ultimatum by five unelected, unaccountable liberals in Washington, D.C.: “You must now obey us and disobey God. You must pretend, with us, that sin-based same-sex ‘marriage’ is an actual thing.”
To which we say, “Not on your life.”
“Or our own.”
Absolute truth is a stubborn thing. Attempts at marital alchemy notwithstanding, the highly contentious, wholly contemptible 5-4 “gay marriage” opinion (and that’s all it is, an opinion) released last week by five pagan extremists in black robes is altogether illegitimate and should be treated as such.
From a moral, biological and legal standpoint, the court’s majority opinion in Obergefell v. Hodges is a complete farce. It’s an absurd missive, a bohemian word salad that was roundly, and rightly, condemned by the court’s four dissenting justices. “The Supreme Court of the United States has descended from the disciplined legal reasoning of John Marshall and Joseph Story to the mystical aphorisms of the fortune cookie,” mocked Justice Scalia.
These “five lawyers,” as Chief Justice John Roberts called them, can no more suspend the laws of natural marriage, than can they suspend the laws of gravity. “[D]o not celebrate the Constitution,” wrote Roberts. “It had nothing to do with it.”
This opinion, which has been branded “the Dred Scott of marriage,” has not changed, one iota, the fixed and immovable reality that the institution of marriage, an institution as old as mankind itself, is, and shall forever remain, centrally defined by its binary male-female requirement.
Indeed, as the four dissenting justices noted, the majority failed, at every level, from a precedential, historical, moral and, perhaps most importantly, a constitutional standpoint, to make the case for redefining marriage – something no man can do.
So how should we Christians react to this haughtiness – to this rebellion against God?
God’s word tells us how to react: “But Peter and the apostles answered, ‘We must obey God rather than men.’” (Acts 5:29)
Many of us have long warned that this day would come, and it has arrived. In the Spirit of Daniel the prophet and MLK the reverend, we Christians must now engage, as relates our peaceful response to the imposition of counterfeit same-sex “marriage,” in widespread civil disobedience. It’s the right thing to do. In fact, it’s a sin if we don’t. “So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.” (James 4:17)
There are those who will prefer the path of least resistance and will cite, out of context, various Scriptures in order to avoid the possible persecution that may come as a result of obedience to God. For example: “Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God.” (Romans 13:1)
To be clear, under our constitutional republican form of government, “We the People” are “the governing authorities,” and our elected officials in Congress and the White House are the hired help. They are subject to us, and we are all subject to God, Who is the Final Authority.
These nine unelected, unaccountable justices on the U.S. Supreme Court are appointed and confirmed by the elected officials we hire to represent us. Five of the nine have now presumed to defy both the sovereign will of tens of millions of “We the People” who engaged the constitutional process and voted to defend the immutable definition of marriage, as well as, and more importantly, the sovereign will of God Almighty, the very Author of marriage itself.
Central to Christianity, and clearly delineated throughout both the Old and New Testaments, is the unambiguous and timeless proposition that any sexual practice outside the bonds of true man-woman marriage constitutes sexual immorality and results in separation from God. This, of course, includes sexual acting out between members of the same sex, whether or not such acting out is tied to the novel notion of so-called “same-sex marriage.”
So let’s see if we can make this abundantly clear. Christians, true Christians – regenerate, Bible-believing Christians who strive their level best to maintain fidelity to the word of God and honor His commands – will not, indeed cannot, participate in, approve of, facilitate or encourage certain behaviors deemed by the Holy Scriptures to be immoral or sinful. This is both our constitutionally affirmed human right and our Christian duty.
It is not so much that Christians wish, willy-nilly, to call homosexual behavior, polyamory, fornication, adultery, bestiality, incest or any other disordered sexual proclivity “sinful.” It is, rather, that we must. For the true Christian, God’s objective truths will always trump man’s subjective desires.
And so this opinion, let’s call it “Kennedy’s folly,” will result in, must necessarily result in, widespread civil disobedience – disobedience of the sort we haven’t seen since the civil rights struggles of the 1950s and ’60s.
For 2,000 years, whenever such conflicts have arisen, Christians have placed the laws of God above the laws of man.
What makes you think we’re about to change now?
As many in the early church refused to bow a knee to Caesar in worship, so, too, will many modern Christians refuse, under any circumstances, to obey any court opinion or man-made law that presumes to make sin obligatory.
If the ancient church, through the power of the Holy Spirit, was able to face the lions in hopeful anticipation of joining Jesus, then we, too, under the same Spirit, will face anything today’s pagan left can threaten.
In the ongoing culture war, it seems there are no rules of engagement. The secular left will accept nothing short of unconditional surrender. That is to say, the pagans demand that we Christians abandon the biblical worldview altogether, and adopt their own.
This will never happen.
In his “letter from the Birmingham jail,” Martin Luther King Jr. famously declared, “One has not only a legal, but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.”
“A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law or the law of God,” he explained. “An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law.”
An unjust law is, in point of fact, lawlessness.
One can imagine nothing more “out of harmony with the moral law,” than the twisted and oxymoronic notion of so-called “same-sex marriage.”
And so, Mr. Kennedy, our answer is no.
Come what may, we will not obey your unjust lawlessness.
Civil-Disobedience is what cowards DO...
INSTEAD OF REVOLUTION..
If Civil Disobedience fails, nullification is next.
there’s nothing cowardly about facing the possibility of ending up in brutal prisons
>>Civil-Disobedience is what cowards DO...
>>INSTEAD OF REVOLUTION..
And how many enemies of freedom have you shot today?
But I do agree that overly-polite civil disobedience is useless. We need to protest in a way that someone has to at least clean up after us.
God ordained marriage between a man and a woman. Humans cannot change it into something else.
May God give us all the grace to stay true to Him and His Word.
[[There are those who will prefer the path of least resistance and will cite, out of context, various Scriptures in order to avoid the possible persecution that may come as a result of obedience to God.]]
Just saw a message- a powerful one, this morning about following God regardless of the consequences- whatever the cost- it was given by two brothers on the short lived ‘flip this property’ when they were canned by HGTV after GLADD began a campaign of hate and smear against the brothers for speaking out against gay marriage-
It’s a very powerful message- and well worth the watch:
http://www.intouch.org/watch/whatever-the-cost
The SCOTUS has chosen to follow Satan rather than God. This is big, because it speaks on behalf of the Federal Government, and it has just declared war on Christians.
As a Christian, this time is a time I have thought about most of my life. This is something that has been predicted for thousands of years.
Christians will be turned on in the final days before Christ returns again.
I know of no better indicator that there is a living God, than the fulfillment of prophecy.
Those who scoff at the existence of the God of the Universe will now do so in the face of persecution. They will do so ignoring that this time was written about thousands of years ago.
Folks, this is all happening very quickly.
Get yourselves right with God.
You first.
By doing what?
Very well said, especially your last sentence
Thanks Kaslin. I appreciate it. I agree with your emphasis.
I would say that parents who pulled their children out of gov’t schools and homeschool is push back. That’s been going on for years, if not decades.
there’s nothing cowardly about facing the possibility of ending up in brutal prisons
So you’re AFRAID?... Courage is being afraid but DOing IT anyway..
Quite frankly, it won’t happen. Those that might are either too old or too comfortable. Sure you’ll see isolated incidents, but the cancer is insidious. It is folly to believe there is any particular “target”. It’s everywhere.
Besides. This is what the Corporations want and it is, therefore, exactly what they will get.
Remember. Corporations are now people and people valued more highly than Americans.
So who does exactly what? I don’t mean conclusory, impossible statements (i.e. impeach the Supreme Court, etc), I mean a real practical “this is what we do and this is who does it.”
While this is nice on paper, it is all just whistling past the graveyard. Ain’t gonna happen.
Yeah well .. I agree with you but Corporations seem to have a special power.
The undesirables must be identified and removed. They stink and are a blot on our progressive society. But, let’s do it legally. Then in the name of law, we can mark them, shut down their businesses, force them out of work, pack them up and ship them off to the camps so we don’t have to see them, and where work will set them free.
They don’t exist. What happens to them in the camps is irrelevant; as long as our progressive brave new world does not have to see them or acknowledge their existence or non-existence.
You first.
Thats what Judas said..
If you want a revolution, you can't start with Molotov cocktails. Civil disobedience builds widespread support, which we need. It puts on a show of ordinary, dignified, peaceful people putting themselves in the way of a violent, unreasonable State. Onlookers view it from the outside, seeing civilized folks like themselves treated roughly.
At the early stages, attacks by revolutionaries with guns make the not-fully-committed alarmed. They don't yet understand the violent folks' aims. They don't yet trust them, because in all fairness, who knows where folks with guns will go next, if you don't know them in their more . . . linear moments?
Human nature is the reason changes only happen in stages.
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