Stone Me, Not The LGBT

I am the one that is supposed to get stoned, for the fierce confession, expression, and demonstration of my faith in Christ in season and without season. Even when it is not convenient and a degree or law is passed to bar me from exercising my faith, I do without fear or favor what the Holy Spirit moves and bids me to do, declaring to this generation or anyone, the goodness of the Lord, the present and the future reward of faith in Jesus Christ, and the reward for being children of this world as I am directed, because I am so broken to the point it is ‘not I but Christ,’ totally dependent on the Lord and His leading. I am the one who is out of this world, for although I am in this world, I am not of this world and I do not do as the world. I am the one who is supposed to face persecutions and tribulations for not bowing to golden images, mammon, money nor conform to the dictates of this world but declaring and standing for the truth regardless of the consequences. (Daniel 3:8-30, 6:7-23; Acts 7; Acts 16:16-40; Luke 23:13-48; Acts 24).

My faith in Jesus, the joy and peace thereof of my salvation and the brunt of the cross is my choice, and that choice does not have to stand in the way of other peoples making and living their own life choices in this world as long as theirs also do not infringe on my own right and they are not a threat to my life and properties. There is nothing wrong if through my prayers the Lord hearkens and raise righteous leaders over the citizens. Still, others who do not believe have the right not to be exiled from their own countries or be punished for the lives they choose to lead. Israel was a theocracy, yet in 1 Samuel 8, the elders of Israel demanded to Prophet Samuel’s displeasure that he made for them a king to judge them like other nations instead of the prophet’s sons. Prophet Samuel prayed unto the Lord about it, and this was God’s response:

 

“And the Lord said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee: for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them.” ~ 1 Samuel 8:7

You are so upset that people are ‘transgending’ from man to woman and vice versa, and you want the government to stop them; are they changing the way you created or made them? Oh, they are marrying man to man, and woman to woman; are they reversing the natural order or violating the institution you set in place? Unlike Prophet Samuel, obviously you are not praying, but have allowed selfishness, hate and rage to overtake you; is the Lord Baal that you should punish people whose choices violate the Lord’s order but neither take away your own right  and liberty nor are they a threat to your life and properties for Him? Civil authority has the responsibility to provide a level playing ground for citizens to live and exercise their rights as long as such individual’s right does not infringe on the rights of others and do not constitute a threat to the lives and properties of others.

For believers, although faith is a force, faith is not by force, I should not manipulate and use, except by the Lord, civil authority to stop other peoples’ right of choices. Rather, it is my sole responsibilities to pray for all people for Jesus died for the world, that all may come to the knowledge of Him, profess, confess, and demonstrate my faith and godly values in/to my communities. It is my calling to preach, rebuke, and foretell the coming judgments of the Lord both to citizens and those in authority and not force it, let the Lord do the conviction and conversion. But because in this generation I seek and want to keep my praises and not offend my friend, my cousin, family member or anyone else for that matter, I have relinquished my “go ye” responsibilities to civil authority while I now focus on bogus lifestyles with ease even as I am showing less Christ-like in my own daily living. I get the government to do my job because I cannot afford a day in court or jail, let alone years in prison like Apostle Paul (Acts 24) as it will mean disrupting my tight schedule and itinerary of religious activities and vacations. I rant and whine about government giving tiny handouts to the poor and low-income earners of my society, whereas I have been far bigger a burden and user of the government as a system and enabler for me to continue to take and hoard wealth and live my religious life at ease while systematically robbing and excluding others to poverty. I see no need for me to have anything, let alone all things in common with others, even when the Kingdom of Heaven I am professing and claiming to be looking forward to has no place for factions (Acts 4:32-35; Galatians 3:28-29).

I am the one who supposed to lead my children in the way they should go so that when they grow up they don’t depart from it (Proverbs 22:6), but I have become too busy with religious activities, going all over the place and not be in my children lives to do my part. The pursuit of fame and the things of this world have caused a negligence of my responsibility. Then I have turned and blame the society, the world as if I know not that the world is as the field of Wheat and must grow together with the tares/weed until the harvest (Matthew 13:24-30). I want to control and use the government to root out the tares, trying to put myself in the place of the owner of the field, desperate to get rid of the tares even when the harvest is not yet and not even Jesus’s to decide, let alone mine. Yes, little leaven leavens the entire lump (Galatians 5:9), but that, although true also for the bigger society, is primarily for the church – the body of Christ. How come I am not audacious to do in the church and among (would be) citizens of the Kingdom which actually begins from my own life and temple of the Holy Spirit, to keep it pure and holy for the Lord, that which I am trying to get civil authority to do in the society. I can’t look a brother or sister in the face and prayerfully say, ‘brother/sister, that which you are doing or about to do is not pleasing to the Lord,’ but I want to let civil authority do it for me. In Genesis 4:1-15, the Lord God placed a ‘seven-fold vengeance’ to whoever kills Cain mark on Cain. Cain was cursed by the Lord for killing his brother Abel. But that did not mean that anyone should have to kill Cain. For if I use civil authorities to punish for the Lord those who do not live for Him in this world today, what more punishments await them in the end, at the appearing of the Lord. I should better be careful, lest I become partaker in another man’s doing or worst still, stand multi-fold of the coming rewards of such doings.

I have become too complacence, lost in the lust of this world, I call political meetings in the name of prayers. I have left the love and passion of my faith and now, being shallow, depend totally on the government not just to create enabling environment before I can practice my faith, but to also force others to not live their choice lifestyles. I just want to serve God the easy way even though the Scriptures say, “Woe to them that are at ease in Zion” (Amos 6:1). Even though it has been perhaps a period where the church had (entered) her rest in certain regions of the world, for my complacency, the fanfare is over, and the odds are up. I have to henceforth constantly seek and embrace grace to continue in the fight of faith for my Kingdom inheritance (Judges 8:28; Judges 2:11-14; 1 Timothy 6:12-16; Zechariah 4:6-10).