Posted on 12/10/2022 6:12:07 AM PST by ducttape45
The Repentance of Pastors Is The Only Hope For America: Trusted Church Leader Responds To The Dis-Respect For Marriage Act" Trusted Church Leader Responds To The Dis-Respect For Marriage Act
After receiving full Congressional approval on Thursday, the so-called Respect For Marriage Act, officially rejecting God’s definition of marriage, now awaits President Biden’s enthusiastic signature.
Despite claims by Biden that the Respect For Marriage Act brings the United States “one step closer on our journey to build a more perfect union,” trusted ministry leaders and religious freedom advocates are warning of the legislation’s legal and Biblical ramifications.
“This shows that our nation is veering off a cliff toward godless immorality,” Jenna Ellis, a vocal Christian and Constitutional Law Attorney, said Thursday. “The thing that is the most shocking out of this is not that the leftists—who have never cared or had any respect for marriage, for God, for America, for the US Constitution—would have passed this type of such a disrespectful, unconstitutional act, but that 39 Republicans also joined in the house and 12 Republicans in the Senate.”
The “silver lining,” Ellis underscored, is that the (Dis)Respect For Marriage Act is plainly unconstitutional, and therefore, it opens itself up to being challenged by Religious Freedom legal centers such as Alliance Defending Freedom and others.
“If you have read the Constitution at all, and I encourage you to, it’s a very, very short document; there is no power given to the US Federal Government at any level, the Congress, the executive, or the judiciary to determine domestic relations issues, including the redefinition of marriage against the will of the states,” she insisted. “It is a state issue in terms of regulating marriage.”
“In terms of the Constitution, that is very clear, that’s very settled,” Ellis stated, stressing that the real issue is: “What do we do as Christians who are faced with an increasingly immoral society?”
A Culture-Destroying, Systematic Attack
Jack Hibbs, the Senior Pastor of Calvary Chapel Chino Hills, boldly addressed the Biblical consequences of the legislation when it was passed by the House of Representatives.
“[Study] anthropology, sociology, and the history of cultures throughout the ages of man, and you will see many correlations that lead to their destruction,” Hibbs wrote on Facebook. “There is one issue that is always the last manifestation before a culture or a nation is destroyed, or conquered, or judged by God, and that is aberrant sexuality and the worship of sex and the removal of the ancient foundations that God has established.”
“There is no greater institution than that of marriage as invented by God in Genesis chapter 1:26-28,” the pastor explained on the social media platform Thursday. “This godless and aimless government that we are currently under – voted today to insult and to offend Almighty God. This flagrant and destructive decision seals the coming judgment of God upon America for her godlessness and her evil doing. Galatians 6:7 says, ‘be sure of this God shall not be mocked.’“
In an interview with Ellis on The Jenna Ellis Show, Pastor Hibbs elaborated on why he believes this decision by Congress to be so destructive.
“What we’re looking at is a radical overreach. This is a driven by emotion, pure cultural issue. It fails in science, it fails in history, and of course, it fails Biblically,” he said on the podcast. “It will destroy [our] culture.”
“What we’re seeing now is a systematic attack—this is no doubt satanic stuff, doctrines of demons in this devilish age that we’re in—to undermine everything that is Biblically true,” Hibbs argued. “If it’s marriage, if it’s the life of an unborn child, if it’s the nuclear home—whatever is Biblically given by God and foundational for the nation—it is under attack.”
At What Point Will The Pastors Stand?
Turning his attention toward the church, Hibbs spoke to the pastors, questioning the decision of many to yield to the claim that marriage is a secular, political issue (rather than a pre-political institution and God-designed institution).
“If pastors [won’t] stand for Genesis one, the very first chapter of the Bible… when will a pastor stand?” Hibbs asked. “Biblically, if people would read the Bible, from Genesis to Revelation, it’s crystal clear that God says male, female, husband and wife, and from that blessing, children are produced. So God does say it. In fact, Jesus even reinforces it.”
“I cannot find one place in scripture where a pastor can biblically say we can’t get involved. I see the exact opposite,” he explained.
“We must not let the state invade a religious institution created by God because of fear. We can’t do that. We’ve got to stay true to God rather than man,” he urged. “Pastors need to get a backbone and decide to believe and to teach and to preach the Word of God.”
“The voice that people need to hear is the Bible. When pastors take a stand, congregations like ours at home, get energized, and they get involved in the culture,” the Calvary Chapel Chino Hills pastor described.
“This is the only hope. It’s not in the statehouse. It’s not in the White House. Believe it or not, the answer is in God’s house,” he continued. “We need pastors to realize this is the last ditch effort.”
“My plea is to the Christian and to the pastor today, mostly to the pastor. Will you throw off the yoke? Is it a board that’s intimidating you? Is it your pay? Trust God! Is it somebody that’s influencing you in such a way that you’re not obeying God?” Hibbs questioned. “I think we need to have a massive Spirit lead—It’s got to be God, it can’t be some conference—where men of God in the pulpit get on their face, seek out God, and get marching orders. That’s the only hope for America right now. That’s the only hope.”
We Need Boldness and Truth In This Hour
In 2 Timothy 3:12, the apostle Paul warns that prior to the return of Christ, “all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.”
Pastor Hibbs highlighted that while persecution arises from speaking Biblical truth, when we stay silent, we are working against a society this is in desperate need of salvation and forgiveness through Jesus Christ.
“If we’re really going to be believing the Bible, then we know persecution is coming. People are not going to pat us on the back for taking a stand for righteousness; they are going to hate us,” he reiterated. “Do we really want to follow Jesus? Be winsome, loving, but by all means, not only preach the gospel, preach the full counsel of God. If we do that, we are going to be hated and loved, just like Jesus was. That’s our goal, to be just like Jesus.”
“We’ve got the truth. Paul said that we hold this incredible treasure in earthen vessels, our lives. And this is the hour for us to not get combative or argumentative about things, but we are to give an answer to everyone right with respect and decency. For what reason? To win them to Jesus,” he implored. “It doesn’t help anybody to pat them on the back and say, it doesn’t matter what you do with your sexual life. It does matter! But if we lie to them… then we never bring them to the point that they need the love of God and the forgiveness that you and I have found in Jesus.”
Thoughts? Comments? Be kind and respectful please.
If the Apostle Paul were around today and looked at the state of the Church in America, we would be getting a letter.
I literally had a church leader tell me they wouldn’t stand against the state forcing them to close and limit services because they were worried about losing their 501C3 status.
Good article.
That ship has sailed!
Our nation paid a price for the evil of slavery ... 100s of thousands of Americans paid with their blood and limbs ... the nation has just recently mended from our civil war.
Since the CW, we have murdered millions of babies in the womb. We have legislated perversion. We have failed to protect the innocence of our children. Pedophiles are gaining political power. Legislators no longer represent what is good for the people.
It took a civil war to remedy slavery. In that war, the northern states held industrial, financial and military advantage over the south. Today, anti-Christ forces in our nation hold industrial, financial and military advantage over Christians and over those who support a republican form of government as outlined in the Constitution.
Not sure how our 'once republic' will finally end - but it wil end. God will not be mocked!
I dare say, if the Apostle Paul were around today, we'd get a lot more than a letter. I think he would channel the prophets of old, Jeremiah, Jonah, Ezekiel, etc, and give this nation the rebuke it so desperately needs. Not that anyone in leadership would listen, but I'd love to see their faces when he would say, "Yet forty days, and Nineveh (America) shall be overthrown."
Amen
Good read, thanks.
I would like to see the list of Republicans that voted in favor of this abomination.
God bless Jack Hibbs! He tells it like it is.
I'd say we've had two additional CWs. One in the 60s and now another one.
The 60s were a little hotter than now....but in 2020 it was pretty iffy as to what was going to happen next.
But to the issue of the legalized murder of the unborn....we're going to pay for that. In fact, I do think we're paying for it now.
The battle for the soul of America is a spiritual battle. The Lefts policies are largely anti-Christian, and Christians have been on a slow and steady retreat for decades. Defending Christian values on a secular level against satanic forces is ineffective.
God bless Jack Hibbs! He tells it like it is
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My church is one of those that succumbed to gubermint edict during the china virus scam. They lost me or I lost them during this “new normal”. Started listening to Jack Hibbs over the past year or so. He definitely tells it like it is. No sugar-coating so to not offend “certain” christians.
In a way my separation from my church has been a good thing because I don’t want luke warm ministry. I am still saddened how effectively the government was able to trample on churches and how willingly the churches went along with it.
It will not do for pastors to preach against the latest perversions of human sexuality - transgenderism and homosexuality. Before these surfaced as the latest Thing, two other perversions became widely settled within the rank and file of the Church: abortion and serial divorce and remarriage.
The general acceptance of these amongst Christians gave away the farm spiritually, and paved the way for current agendas of sexual perversion. It is rare to find pastors today who will routinely preach against abortion, and virtually none preaches against divorce. Cowardly pastors fear the financial consequences for themselves and the congregations they ostensibly shepherd.
Authentic repentance among pastors would necessarily include the following:
Luke warm Christians are promised a special place in hell. I wonder if they are aware of that?
Why would anybody suggest that only Pastors are in need of Repentance?
Amen to that.
Agreed. However, it is unlikely that this can happen apart from a prior repentance on the part of bona fide Christians. This, too, is unlikely apart from a similar repentance by pastors.
Why would anybody suggest that only Pastors are in need of Repentance?
Hmmm. Well the pattern of rebuke in the Old Testament is primarily upon the leaders of Israel, whose corruption results in corruption within the flocks over which they are shepherds. Similarly, St. Paul forsees a future apostasy amongst Christians as catalyzed by a prior apostasy of the Church's shepherds (cf. Acts20:30).
So, it would seem that repentance by the pastors is a necessary but (by itself) insufficient condition for national repentance.
Your wish list will never happen brandy. Oh you may have a couple of preachers that might like the idea but I suspect most people who actually attend a church won’t tolerate what you are demanding. Hard core christians such as you envision are few and far between today.
I never even thought of this, but YES. Those who should be leaders but don’t, need to step down or step it up. Great post.
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