I begrudingly check the headlines every morning because I know what I’ll find: the consequences of sin on the human race. This morning I find this:“Rev Al: Support gay marriage”.
The Rev. Al Sharpton called on black religious leaders Saturday to support same-sex marriage, even if that means having to put aside their own beliefs.
To do otherwise, he told supporters of his presidential candidacy at the Emanuel AME Church in Harlem, would renew threats to civil rights and play right into the hand of the president.
To state the obvious, Al Sharpton cares little about God’s word, but he’ll have to answer to Him for that.
Nowhere in Scripture will Sharpton or anyone else find an endorsement for homosexual behavior. They will find, however, many prohibitions against it. Why, then, is a so-called preacher of the Gospel of Jesus Christ endorsing activity which the eternal God explicitly forbids?
Because Sharpton is one of the people God warns believers about:
For Satan himself transforms himself into an angel of light. Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also transform themselves into ministers of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works. 2 Corinthians 11:14 and 15
That so-called men of God in churches allow the blatantly unrighteous into their pulpits is a mockery of God. “Preaching” a social gospel of lies that perpetuate racial and class division is truly an abomination.
As believers set apart by God, cleansed and justified by the blood of Christ, believers are called to be holy. Sharing the Gospel in a fallen world is our commission and great privilege. Political rhetoric and power grabs fall away; God’s word endures forever.
Does Sharpton really believe he’s a follower of Christ? He says, “The issue is not who you go to bed with, the issue is whether you have a job when you get up in the morning.”
Last year when he was informed by an abortion protester that real Christians don’t support abortion rights (which Sharpton does) he said, “It is time for the Christian Right to meet the right Christians.”
I wrote a couple of columns about this ungodly man and others who style themselves “Reverend”, in Irreverent Reverends I(can you find the typo?) and Irreverent Reverends II.
I want to remind Al Sharpton what God says about people like himself:
For certain men have crept in unnoticed, who long ago were marked out for this condemnation, ungodly men, who turn the grace of our God into lewdness and deny the only Lord God and our Lord Jesus Christ. Jude 4
While he’s at it, he may want to read this one, too:
Not everyone who says to Me, “Lord, Lord,” shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. Many will say to Me in that day, “Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?” And then I will declare to them, “I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!” Matthew 7:21-23
God is merciful, but His wrath is just.
