When Can We Become Lawbreakers?

As a follow-up to the last post concerning the episode of Grey's Anatomy, I preached a sermon last night centered around Romans chapter thirteen. I posed the question "When Can We Become Lawbreakers?" We looked at how the authorities were established by God and how we are to be in subjection to their rules. However, I told them when a moral conflict arises, God trumps government. This became of particular interest to me when I began hearing the possibility of HR1913 being signed into law by our President. This will more than likely pave the way for a hate speech bill that would put preachers in a legal bind. If this happens, God help us to take our stand on what the Bible says. As Peter and the apostles said in Acts 5:29, "we must obey God rather than men." If you want to listen to the sermon, check it out in my sermon links to the left.

They are pushing their agenda!

Last night on Grey's Anatomy, a show which I do not usually watch, part of the episode centered around a father having a discussion with his daughter who was a lesbian. He was trying every way possible to convince her that the type of lifestyle she was living was sinful. He pulled out passages dealing with the gross immoralities of Sodom and Gomorrah (Gen. 19; 2 Pet. 2:6-7; Jude 7), the commands of the Mosaical Law forbidding homosexuality (Lev. 20:13) and Paul's description of their behavior being unnatural (Rom. 1:26-27). Despite his best efforts, his daughter kept quoting the words of Jesus from the Sermon on the Mount, as well as the command to love one another, but she was using them out of context.

It shows to me that people can twist the Scriptures to their own benefit. Even though those in a homosexual relationship are going against God's Word, they will still find a way to make it appear that those who oppose such actions are being judgmental. Politicians are pushing such agendas to eventually make it where even communication about their behavior being sinful (yes, even from the pulpit) would be considered hate speech. What they don't understand is that we do love them. We love their souls, and we want them to be saved. Peter said the Lord doesn't wish for anyone to perish, but He instead wishes all people would repent (2 Pet. 3:9). How would it be considered hate speech when we tell someone who is a gay or a lesbian that Jesus showed all of us how much love God has for us by dying on the cross for our sins?