[wbarmy]

While in my first tour of duty in the AF, I spent a lot of time with two of the men in my team. One was an atheist and one a homosexual.

After I left, quite a few years later, one of them contacted me with news. He had become a Christian and the other had given up the homosexual lifestyle and found a wife.

Both of them wanted to contact me because they had given me a load of **** for four years, and I did not shift my stance. If I had wavered, their souls might be on my hands.

[chuckles]

Amen! I have a ton of stories similar to these, but this one just came to mind. I recently gave a message on a Wed. night service on this very subject. My father in law has had a problem digesting Luke 14:26. He just couldn't get it. He was stuck on the love Jesus taught for one another and missed the meaning of the verses. He was a compromiser. He allowed his children to get away with murder because he loved them. They each have had a tough life and one is even dead. multiple marriages, divorces, alcohol and drugs,....the whole nine yards. He just told me I didn't know how he felt as I wasn't a father yet and I would understand later. My daughter is now 29 years old and doing well. All of my wife's siblings are miserable.

Jesus made it clear that we are to follow Him FIRST! If you love your child, would you really allow them to fornicate or experiment with Satan's toys just because you can't say no? All children WANT limits. It shows that you love them and care for them. When no one says NO!, they will just put the pedal to the metal and corkscrew into the first mountain available.

Christians have been conditioned over the years to "not judge" lest ye be judged. That just means we can't judge a soul, but we are to judge sin and flee from it! When a Christian sees open sin, he/she should point it out. We should be able to give the reason it isn't an act of love to allow a person to harm themselves. There are so few people that actually read and practice the Bible today, "real" Christians are kicked to the curb and the world is spinning into the abyss. For me, the reason America has sunk to the level it has is we are obsessed with all the wrong reasons to vote when we should be looking to vote in the most Bible believing Christians we can. Even the Republicans are trying to shut us out by not emphasizing social issues. IMO, if we elected Christians, the other problems would take care of themselves. As in the Bible, when Israel had a bad king, slavery and ruin followed. A Godly king brought blessing and plenty. If you have a chance to see the DVD on Isaiah 9-10 prophesy, do it. It pretty much explains what we have done to ourselves and how are too stiff necked to repent and bring revival to the land. We will have to be crushed under God's punishment to bend out knee to God. These principles are universal from your relationship to your family and friends and to your country and the world. 911 happened in 2001. Sept 2008 was seven years later and the beginning of the economic crisis. Sept 2015 is seven years later. If we haven't repented yet, what will the next "crisis" be? We have had plenty of time, we just haven't. I would imagine Iran will have a nuke or 2 by then. I wonder where they will test them? Is a nuke attack enough to bring us back to God? I fear we will see. Is killing our babies and marrying sodomites that important? Leviticus 18:22 tells us what God will do to a country that accepts sodomy. Is abortion the same as sacrificing to Molech? I don't want to find out. If the church would raise awareness of these things, perhaps we could repent in time. Most churches don't even preach against sodomy anymore. Some have gay deacons and others say why preach to the choir?

Well, because the choir needs to know what God thinks of it, that's why.