It is a grave mistake to see a judge or any law take it into their hands authority that only rightfully belongs to the churches. While I think the judge was well meaning, it is not his authority to command this man to attend one church or another. The crime committed was an assault and he was within his rights and authority to punish according to that. If we permit such things as this, then one day they will come and order you against your own conscience.
This we should not allow, even if it seems to go in our direction. Keep the carnal sword out of the hand of churches and the ecclesiastical sword out of the hand of the state. The state has authority over mens bodies. The church over the souls of men.
If it were not for the accused suggesting this sentence himself, I would be wholly against such a ruling being a violation of a separation of church and state.
That president also supports murdering the unborn up to the point of birth. The world has gone mad. They legalize the worst and most deformed of sexual immoralities and raise their hands to slay innocent blood.
On a positive note, I sat next to a man on an airplane who was lost, but the Lord opened his heart to hear the truth of Scripture.
Let's consider how we can stir our own hearts and those of others to preach the Gospel everywhere we go. I know I need that encouragement myself and have seen the Lord bless one-on-one preaching as well as open-air preaching.
What is significant about this is NC is defending itself by saying that this lifestyle is not a Title XII protected class. There are dems who are trying to change that.
If this passes, then even more persecutions against believers will come. Let us be wiling to suffer the loss of all things for the gospel and for righteousness.
We must abandon the idea that if a commandment is not repeated in the NT then it doesn't apply. With that reasoning we could condone beastiality and incest. This way of thinking also shows a misunderstanding of the covenants and what is continual and what is not.
God's grace doesn't remove the moral requirement of the moral Law of God. Christians today need a deeper understanding of the relationship between the Law and the Gospel, they need to understand the threefold nature of the Law in the OT. There is a moral, civil, and ceremonial Law.
It is still wrong for a Christian to worship other gods, make images of God, steal, murder, covet, et. Everyone agrees on that. It is true of the 4th commandment as well.
Even a poor sailer is a seaman in fair weather. It's the real mariner who can sail in rough waters. Praise God that against the tempest of temptations you are keeping faith in the Lord Jesus. He is worth brother, he is sufficient, and we adorn the doctrine of our savior in such ways.
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