Rainbow Rebellion

When God calls sodomy (homosexuality) or the female counterpart (women living in unnatural relations) forbidden, it is so, not because God was random and capricious in his judgments (Romans 1:17-32) He was no whimsical tyrant who ebbed and flowed with the weather and tide. Adultery is sex out of it's proper context (marriage between a man and a women). Homosexuality is both adulterous and out of God's natural order, for He created the World to flourish and humans (image bearers) to take dominion, for which he gave both the context (marriage/family) and order (male and female whom complement each other in marriage).

This, in God's order, is where humanity prospers, it is simple and God declares it good (Genesis 1:31). Sin and rebellion is both complex and chaotic. It is a living judgment. It. does. not. work. period. It is not good. It is unnatural. Will engaging in sin bring temporal happiness?... sure, but these same actions will lead only to long-term judgments, both earthly and eternal.

Don't believe the happy-clappy, virtue signaling lies during "Pride" month. All Sexual identities and actions outside of marriage are both sinful and destructive. This is stated, in Scripture, with both deadly somberness (for the sinner) and real, eternal hope (for the repentant). Change and return to God's created order will happen to those, each individual, who comes to their senses and repents unto God for their rebellion, accept that Christ paid the price for their sin and transfer their allegiance from their almighty feelings to the One, true and almighty God. This is the way to live. IT is the way to be truly free, learning to be male and female, as God created us to be, in the relationships which make orderly sense.

For God created the real Rainbow as a real and permanent sign that there is real judgment for real rebellion. (Genesis 9) There is also real mercy (and change) for the one who believes God and trusts in Him who took on the flood of God's Judgement in our place, the Lord Jesus Christ. This is God's promise.

Genesis 1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.

Genesis 1:31 And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good

Malachi 3:7 From the days of your fathers you have turned aside from my statutes and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you, says the Lord of hosts.

Written by Eric Anderson, Pastor, Pastor of Lifespring Church, Crosby MN

Check out Eric’s Common Slaves site here.

Not So Convenient “gods”

By every materialistic standard set by modern western civilization (once Christendom) that reveals human flourishing, you would think that our time is the best time to bring children into this world. It is not so as indicated by the abortion rates and the demand for more sacrifices to the great god of convenience- the self.

Ask anyone what’s wrong with the world and they’ll never say we have spiritual issues, but rather that we don’t have enough equity, peace, comfort, security, healthcare, or earth-care. Always material never spiritual. It’s always answered with not enough human control over nature and the self.

But, the self is un-selfed when we pursue material wealth while neglecting our spiritual health. When we long after the self we get only ourselves in the end-- for however long that will last. We are un-selfing ourselves by not having children and by neglecting our spiritual health.

I’m reminded of one of the greatest questions ever uttered in history: “For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?” Mark 8:36

What’s wrong with the world? We are losing our souls and taking other souls with us.

Between Righteousness and Sin

I’ve been confronted quite a bit as of late regarding the idea that this world is going to pot. I would expect such non-sense from the secular world, but why in the world am I hearing it from other Christian brothers and sisters. In fact, why has a section of the Church subscribed to such an eschatology? I’m not sure how this belief will bring glory to God on earth as it is in heaven, but I came across this FaceBook entry by P. Andrew Sandlin that ought to give good and thinking Christians insight to the matter.

In the Bible, the conflict is never between physical and non-physical; it’s between righteousness and sin. Sin is the problem; materiality is not the problem. The most evil being in the world is pure spirit, and the godliest man who ever lived (Jesus Christ) lived and died and rose again in a body. If you don’t care about the material world, you don't care much about the Gospel, because the Gospel is about reversing the evils that sin introduced into the material, created world.

-P. Andrew Sandlin

The root of the matter is gnosticism, and it must be rooted out. Gnosticism has lowered the defenses of Christian institutions and churches which has allowed other ideologies such as cultural Marxism to creep in. It’s clear, more now than ever, Christians need hermeneutics and worldview training.