More Tolerable for the Land of Sodom and Gomorrah
In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit! Glory to Jesus Christ! Glory forever!
The verses in this photo, Mark 6:7-13, tell how, when Christ sent out His disciples to preach and heal, some cities and towns wouldn't receive them. To those towns and cities, the disciples were told to shake the dust off their sandals as a sign of the curse on them: it would be "More Tolerable for the Land of Sodom and Gomorrah" on Judgment Day than for those cities. Why? What was the great sin they committed?
Without a doubt, the homosexual act that the men of Sodom tried to commit against the Lord's messenger-angels was one of those sins: from this story, the term "sodomy" has come to mean homosexual acts. But this wasn't the only gross sin! In Ezekiel 16:49-50 we read - "Behold, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: pride, fullness of bread, and prosperous ease was in her and in her daughters; neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy. They were haughty, and committed abomination before Me: therefore I took them away as I saw good."
So, along with committing "abomination" (i.e., homosexual acts), the prophet Ezekiel lists pride, gluttony and "prosperous ease" - enjoying the luxuries of this world while allowing "the poor and needy" to starve. Pro-LGBTQ pseudo-Christians often use these verses to turn attention away from homosexual acts and toward the other sins, but all of these sins are equally sinful.
But there exists an opposite extreme, being overly judgmental: In Mark 9:38-41, we read about the disciple John telling Jesus - "Teacher, we saw someone who doesn't follow us casting out demons in your name; and we forbade him, because he doesn't follow us." In a parallel passage, the brothers James and John asked Jesus if they should forbid someone who was casting out demons in Jesus' name and call down fire from heaven to destroy the cities of Samaria that did not receive the disciples (Luke 9:49 & 54). In both texts, Jesus replied - "Don't forbid him, for there is no one who will do a mighty work in my name, and be able quickly to speak evil of me. For whoever is not against us is on our side." And in Luke, Jesus added - "Whoever is not against us is for us."
Jesus ate and drank with prodigals and sinners. He forgave the woman caught in adultery with the words - "Neither do I condemn you: go and sin no more." He even forgave Peter who had denied him three times. The Lord is always ready to forgive if we are willing to repent and turn from our sins.
Some will then say, "Jesus accepted people just as they are, so you should accept me just as I am." There is a grain of truth in this, among the chaff: the Lord does indeed accept us just as we are... but He doesn't expect us to remain just as we were! As He told the woman caught in adultery - "go and sin no more."
Another excuse that some will bring up is "God made me like this" or that they were "born that way," especially these days in regard to homosexuality, lesbianism or transgenderism. But this flies in the face of known scientific fact: there's no genetic difference between them and normal people, the overwhelming majority of these folks have succumbed to the mass psychosis of current LGBTQ propagandizing: there are many stories of previously normal teenagers being exposed to LGBTQ indoctrination in the schools, then several of them together declaring that they are "trans" and demanding hormonal treatment or even sex change operations. The tragic aspects are that they will not only be sterile for the rest of their lives but that the rate of suicide of this group is shown to be ten to twenty times higher than the rest of teenage population.
The ideology behind this is relativism: there is no objective truth or reality, you can have your truth and I can have my truth; you can have your reality and I can have mine. Taken to its logical conclusion, it leads to solipsism: I am the only one who really exists as a rational, thinking person; everyone else is merely an object for my utilization. Perhaps this explains the sharp increase in autism spectrum young people today because this is characteristic of their thinking too.
But this ideology of relativism is an oxymoron: "Everything is relative, there are no absolutes, and that's the absolute truth! [So therefore there are no rules for my sexual behavior, I can do whatever I want.]" This is absurd: it is logically impossible to say that there is no absolute because that's an absolute statement. Therefore the obverse must be true: there is an absolute, there is a God. Objective truth and objective reality really do exist. The only difficulty is discovering what or who IT or HE is. It isn't easy, but it also isn't impossible.
Someone once said - "Ask, and you will receive; search, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you." Guess who? Jesus Christ, that's Who! It's recorded in Matthew 7:7 and Luke 11:9. It won't happen, though, all by itself. It won't fall into your lap, you have to ask, seek and knock: "you gotta wanna." If you don't want to change (and most people just don't), you won't change. You must seriously search for the truth. Then, He promises, you will find it.
In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit! Christ is among us! He is and ever shall be!
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