The Revolution To Remake The
Family
Pastor David L. Brown, Ph.D.
Sermon Delivered 11/05/06
Ecclesiastes 8:11-13 "Because sentence against an evil work
is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is
fully set in them to do evil. 12 Though a sinner do evil an
hundred times, and his days be prolonged, yet surely I know
that it shall be well with them that fear God, which fear before
him: 13 But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither
shall he prolong his days, which are as a shadow;
because he feareth not before God."
I will begin today’s message by telling you a little bit about
the Babylonian Talmud. Let’s begin with the word Talmud
(Hebrew: תלמוד). The Talmud is a collection of ancient
Rabbinical writings consisting of two parts, the Mishnah and the
Gemara, which record the opinions of the Rabbis pertaining to Jewish
law, ethics, customs and history. There are two Talmuds: The
Palestinian Talmud (c. AD 400) and The Babylonian Talmud,
which is more extensive and thus more highly esteemed. So, why am I
telling you this? The answer is, there has only been one other time
in history when same sex marriage exhisted. As I understand it,
according to the Babylonian Talmud, one of the features of
society in Noah's time was same sex marriage.
Why should that concern us? Turn in your Bibles to
Matthew 24:36-39 But of that day and hour
knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father
only. 37 But as the days of Noe were, so shall also
the coming of the Son of man be. 38 For as in the days
that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying
and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,
39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so
shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
Turn to the parallel passage in Luke 17:26-27
"And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days
of the Son of man. 27 They did eat, they drank, they married
wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered
into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all."
If there is any doubt in your minds that we are living in the
"last days" you should rethink your position! We are walking down
the same slippery path that many European countries, Canada and now
Mexico have walked down. But…
For years, when you thought of family it was a male husband who
was the head of his home (Ephesians 5:23).
He went to work and was the primary breadwinner. The mother was
primarily a "home maker" or housewife (Titus 2:5).
The husband protected his wife and his children. In fact, the dad
would even watch over a grown daughter until she was given to the
man she would marry.
All that changed in the 60’s and it had nothing to do with
homosexuality. Hugh Hefner came onto the scene promoting his
hedonistic, pleasure-oriented, recreational sex philosophy
focused on personal enjoyment, instead of biblical sexual
relationships within the confines of marriage and only with your own
spouse.
About that time, fornication came out of the closet, fueled by
two things. First came the introduction of the
birth control pill. Secondly, there was a
proliferation of unsupervised, recreational dating. Rock & Roll
added fuel to the fire of hormone driven youth and parents abdicated
their responsibility to supervise their children. The public school
became the focus of young people and not the family or the church.
Promiscuity, which had been there all the time, but was subdued and
kept in the closet so to speak, came bursting out of the closet big
time.
What happened next was the acceptance of heterosexual
cohabitation. This is where the accepted definition of the family
came under attack and began to change. Larry Vincent of World
magazine put it this way - "Cohabitation began shedding its
stigma, leading to a revolving door family structure that
often left children fatherless and economically deprived."
Then, by the 1970’s we began to commonly hear the phrase, "single
parent" families, which usually referred to a mother rearing
children without the benefit of marriage and without the presence of
the biological father, (though different men were often in and out
of the woman’s bedroom).
Here’s how Dr. Erwin Lutzer sums it up in his eye-opening book
The Truth About Same-Sex Marriage – "Gradually, the
notion of a family with a father, mother and children, all living
under the same roof, became something of a relic of a bygone era…"
for the most part. Thus, the definition of "family" underwent its
first change, and it had nothing to do with the homosexuals. But,
the success of fornicating heterosexuals in "freeing" themselves
from biblical morality signaled to the homosexual community that it
was time for them to break the bands of biblical constraint.
Homosexual Activists Marshall Kirk and Hunter Madsen reveal the
approach they would follow in "coming out of the closet." Here’s how
they put it -- "Almost any behavior begins to look normal if
you are exposed to enough of it."
The homosexual crowd cares nothing about the truth! They will lie
if it will advance their cause. But, remember, the Bible is clear.
We are all to tell the truth. The 9th of the 10 Commandments tells
us that we must not lie, or more specifically we are not to "bear
false witness" (Exodus 20:16). Or as
Colossians 3:9 says, "Lie not one to
another…." However, homosexuals do NOT play by the rules! You cannot
believe a thing they say! Eric Pollard, the militant homosexual and
founder of ACT-UP, writes that lying was a part of the
strategy of homosexual activists. He said Hitler was the
model. "By cleaver and persevering use of propaganda, even
heaven can be represented as hell to people and conversely, the most
wretched life as paradise." In fact, homosexuals will lie
and their sympathizers will swear to it because their goal is to
force us to accept their sinful perversion as normal.
I studied psychology as a part of my social science major for an
undergraduate degree. I can tell you that when I began attending the
University in 1968, homosexuality was classed as psychiatric
illness! By 1970 the homosexuals were coming out of the
closet. Part of their strategy was to strongly encourage
homosexuals to talk about gays and gayness as loudly and as often as
possible. Of course this is completely contrary to the
Scriptures - Ephesians 5:12 "For it is
a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in
secret."
One of the first targets of the radical homosexuals was the
American Psychiatric Association. Every year, for three years, they
made a huge ruckus for the purpose of disrupting the APA’s annual
meeting. One year one of the radical homosexuals grabbed the
microphone and yelled - "Psychiatry is the enemy incarnate.
Psychiatry has waged a relentless war of extermination against us.
You may take this as a declaration against you." In 1973 the
American Psychiatric Association removed homosexuality from its list
of psychiatric illness and reclassified it as normal behavior. It
should be noted that this was the first time in the history of the
organization that a scientific society ignored scientific data and
yielded to the demands of a militant group.
With this victory under their belt, the media soon cooperated
with the homosexual strategy. Sitcoms, movies and documentaries were
all calculated to make homosexuality took normal. They began to
portray themselves as victims and underdogs whose perversion needs
special privileges and protections.
A BIG part of the Gay agenda was to make anyone who was anti-gay
look nasty. In fact in the book, Unveiling the Gay Agenda,
the two homosexual authors write – "We intend to make the anti-gays
look so nasty that average Americans will want to disassociate
themselves from such types." The homosexual’s goal is to portray
themselves as normal, just another option. Homosexuals Kirk and
Madsen say, "It makes no difference that the ads [portraying
homosexuals as icons of normality] are lies, not to us…."
Finally, the capstone of the radical homosexual agenda was
realized when in 2001, the National Education Association adopted a
resolution to indoctrinate school children to accept and affirm
homosexual behavior as normal. When word leaked out, the motion was
"tabled" but quietly implemented without official member approval.
This is how we got to where we are today.
- The Arguments Homosexuals Use Against Us
Let’s begin with one of the main lies that are being used to
convince us that we should accept homosexuality as normal…
Here’s how they present their false argument: "If it can be
established that homosexuality is caused genetically rather than a
chosen lifestyle, then homosexuality cannot be immoral."
This reasoning is utterly false. We are all responsible for
our behavior, even if we are genetically motivated. No one can
say that their genes have rendered them helpless robots, incapable
of human choice about their behavior. As Dr. Erwin Lutzer points
out, "no matter what influence our genetic makeup has on us, we
cannot use this as an excuse for a lack of accountability and
responsibility." Here’s why. We are all born with certain
predispositions. Since the Fall of Adam and Eve into sin, we all
have a predisposition to sin. We are born sinners! However, even
though that is the case, "So then every one of us shall give account
of himself to God." Romans 14:12. God
will judge sinners. He expects us to abhor that which is evil and
cleave to that which is good (Romans 12:9).
That is a BIG lie. Pastor Darrow and I went to a conference where
two, one time homosexuals, gave testimony how God freed them from
homosexuality. Turn in your Bibles to 1
Corinthians 6:9-11 "Know ye not that the unrighteous
shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither
fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate,
nor abusers of themselves with mankind, 10 Nor
thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor
extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. 11 And
such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified,
but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the
Spirit of our God."
The civil rights movement had to do with people being born black
having the same rights as people who are born white. While I do not
care much for the Reverend Jesse Jackson, I agree when he points
out, "we must unhitch the supposed connection between civil rights
and homosexual rights. After all, no black person can abandon his or
her blackness, but many people have abandoned their sexual behavior.
The "civil rights" argument is bologna!
Some who profess to be Christians claim that they can be in
active homosexual relationships with God’s approval. One such
alleged "Christian" is Marsha Stevens. She is a practicing
homosexual. That is one of the reasons we do not sing her song "For
Those Tears I Died" (also, the song is not theologically accurate).
One of the reasons I do not allow Gaither songs to be sung here is
because he endorsed the homosexual immorality of Marsha Stevens. The
Bible is clear, active homosexuals are not saved and will not be in
heaven. I refer you back to 1
Corinthians 6:9-11.
That is completely contrary to the teaching of the Bible. I point
you first to Psalms 97:10 "Ye that
love the LORD, hate evil: he preserveth the souls of his saints;
he delivereth them out of the hand of the wicked." Now turn to
Proverbs 8:13 "The fear of the LORD
is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and
the froward mouth, do I hate."
While tolerance has emerged as a national value, so
to speak, people don’t understand what the original meaning of
tolerance was. It meant that people should be free to believe
what they wanted to believe. However, today people define it as
freedom to do whatever you want to do. Those who preach
toleration, demand that we accept all behavior, no matter how
demented, immoral, unnatural and bizarre. The homosexual lobby
defines tolerance as the requirement to endorse homosexual behavior.
You can clearly see their agenda when you see how they went after
the Boy Scouts of America because they refused to allow homosexuals
to be Scout leaders. It cost the BSA dearly. Let me put it simply
for you – What God condemns in His Word, we must NOT tolerate.
In conclusion, I would like to remind you that the family, that
is one man married to one woman seeking to have children, is the
backbone of any society. Regardless of the homosexuals’
intimidation, we must stand strong for the Biblical Family.
[Resource material for this message came primarily from The
Truth About Same-Sex Marriage by Erwin W. Lutzer. You should
read this book]
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"Neither
is there salvation in any other: for there is none
other name under heaven given among men, whereby we
must be saved."