Faith Is for Weak People by Ray Comfort

Author:Ray Comfort [Comfort, Ray]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Tags: REL017000, Apologetics, REL067030, REL030000
ISBN: 9781493417599
Publisher: Baker Publishing Group
Published: 2019-04-29T16:00:00+00:00

Jesus and Same-Sex Relationships

In an article titled “17 Things Jesus Christ Said about Homosexuality,” the author listed the word nothing and synonyms for nothing seventeen times.1 The seventeen-point point was that Jesus doesn’t say anything about a same-sex union being a sin. Therefore, it must be morally acceptable.

Jesus was also silent about rape and kidnapping, but His silence doesn’t mean these things are condoned by God. Yet Jesus did say that rape, kidnapping, and same-sex relationships are morally wrong, as summed up in His statement: “Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill” (Matt. 5:17). He upheld the entire teaching of the Old Testament moral law. Nothing was to be abolished or ignored, and God’s law says that these things are sinful.

The moral law demands the death sentence for those in same-sex relationships; it also demands death for rapists, kidnappers, and adulterers (see Lev. 20:13; Exod. 21:16). That same merciless law waits for judgment day. The law will flash like lightning, and its fearful wrath will roll like thunder.

In 2017 a Peruvian crowd watched helplessly as a cow was caught in a fast-moving river during massive flooding. But the crowd became horrified when they spotted a poor woman who was also caught in the mudflow. Then something amazing happened. A huge container jammed against a bridge, temporarily holding back the mud and debris and allowing the woman (and the cow) to stagger to safety. After their rescue, the container was swept away by the mudflow.2

The entire human race is caught in a river that will sweep them into death and hell. But the mercy of God is like that container. It appeared in the person of Jesus Christ so that we would have a chance to escape the horror of impending death. But the time will come when God’s patience runs out. That should give us a continual sense of urgency.

Most of the world thinks all is well between earth and Heaven, but we are merely in the eye of the hurricane. Outside of the eye of mercy, wrath reigns:

O LORD God, to whom vengeance belongs—

O God, to whom vengeance belongs, shine forth!

Rise up, O Judge of the earth;

Render punishment to the proud.

LORD, how long will the wicked,

How long will the wicked triumph?

They utter speech, and speak insolent things;

All the workers of iniquity boast in themselves.

They break in pieces Your people, O LORD,

And afflict Your heritage.

They slay the widow and the stranger,

And murder the fatherless.

Yet they say, “The LORD does not see,

Nor does the God of Jacob understand.”

Understand, you senseless among the people;

And you fools, when will you be wise?

He who planted the ear, shall He not hear?

He who formed the eye, shall He not see? (Ps. 94:1–9)

Our duty is not to let sinners—any of them—“be themselves” in their lives of sin. We must warn them of God’s wrath.

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