Brothers and sisters, in 2014 a man named Matthew Vines published a book called God and the Gay Christian, in which he argued that the Bible does not forbid committed homosexual “marriages.” Why do I mention this? Simply because our passage tonight deals with the same phenomenon. The basic idea is this: a man doesn’t want to hear the word of God, and so he both carefully solicits it and yet at the same time rejects it. Such is the sad case of Matthew Vines, who spent four years studying the Bible to determine that it forbids only evil homosexual relationships but allows for homosexuality within the context of a committed “marriage.” This phenomenon is nothing new. Almost 3000 years ago, Ahab solicited the word of God, and changed his behavior based on what it told him. Yet he didn’t really want to hear it, and he didn’t really follow its instructions. Despite his show of finding out what God thought, and his attempt to do what God required, he still met the death which God had decided to visit upon him. What we will see tonight in this text is simply that the word of God destroys the man who defies it. It destroyed Ahab, and it will destroy those who, like Matthew Vines, refuse to listen to and obey it.
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Caleb Nelson grew up in Ft. Collins, CO. Born into a Christian home, where he eventually became the eldest of 11 children, he has been a lifelong Presbyterian. He professed faith at the age of six, and was homeschooled through high school. He then attended Patrick Henry College...
