Clothing, hairstyles, paint and nail polish colors, foods, types of preferred vehicles, music, what to watch on television is TRENDY. Morals or lacking such, believing and following lies, adopting and living with strong delusion in utter darkness, sin and abomination before God is not TRENDY — it is SIN. It is enmity with God. It is turning from the Lord, from the Word of God, from the foundations the world was created upon and almost every culture and society that followed was predicated on. Until so much corruption, perversion and sin entered into them they fell. Just as all this world is fallen.

Only now we have permitted human sexuality, a lack of a moral compass, tossing aside all the foundations of life on earth to become TRENDY. 

What happened to teach your children well? That isn’t only Scriptural the world professes that ought to be the norm, the rule, the path to pursue. Songs have even been written about it.

The silence from those professing to be true disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ, those professing to be true Christians is DEAFENING! Such silence, such shrugging, such looking the other way, or such appeasement and compliance [it begins with the subtly of using the words of the world rather than standing boldly against such an onslaught and speaking, writing the proper words and definitions. It begins with simple compliance to the world and grows from there. Beginning in speech. In such behaviors] is screaming volumes as most refuse to utter a word of the Word to anyone. Anywhere. At any time. There is no correction of those saying or writing or believing things that are totally wicked, immoral, unrighteous, or just plain wrong. The so-called Christian church is being inundated by evil. And this is being permitted to happen. Homosexual transgender so-called pastors, church leaders, worship leaders, or so-called members of the body of Christ.

Are you kidding me! Such immorality needs to be cast out of the church, out of the body, and allow the Lord to deal with all of it hereafter. This ought not to be permitted to exist within the church. To grow and multiply.

It’s in so-called Christian private schools, in churches, in Bible colleges, seminaries, theology schools. It’s in homes. It’s become an infection few if any are willing to diagnose, innoculate and provide a vaccine for.

Most follow the path of least resistance. The path of appeasement believing following lies lead folks into the light and to truth and it’s loving to be so. To permit a person to remain in darkness, to placate their delusions, their lies, their confusion is not love. It is the exact opposite. If we truly love people who are lost? Immoral? Refusing the light, refusing the Lord, refusing to believe ALL OF THE BIBLE — EVERY WORD — and then confess their sin, repent of their sin [this is NOT mere remorse, repentance is much deeper and is to be LASTING. A NOT GOING BACK TO the sin experience aided by the Supernatural power of the Spirit of God — through a genuine, sincere, true faith in the Word of God and all that is contained therein] and commit their life to the Lord. Being renewed of mind and spirit, truly transformed by the Spirit of God to love the Lord our God with all our heart, mind, soul, body and being. To serve the Lord. To come to the knowledge we are sojourners here, mere pilgrims. We are to be the Lord’s. Not this world nor the prince of the air that rules on this fallen, lost, corrupted, perverse world.

Trendy? Our youth are more concerned with being socially accepted for lies, darkness, evil, sin, perversion, immorality? And they do this to merely “fit in” today?

Please.

Wise up.

These are the last of the last times.

This is not about bell-bottom pants, a certain haircut, a certain pair of shoes or boots, which band is now the hot band, who is now the hot actor or actress, which nail polish color is the in one, or any other such banality and insanity.

This is about going to either heaven or hell. Where an individual’s spirit and soul will reside for eternity.

This isn’t like going out in a few years and buying a few gallons of then ew trendy paint color and painting your bedroom, your bathroom. The kid’s rooms.

We’re at war folks. The most meaningful, deadly, longest highest causality war in world history. And it’s only escalating. And all of this is part and parcel.

Do not remain silent. Certainly to not appease or concern yourself with pleasing the lies and liars, pleasing and being accepted by evil, sin, and the darkness.

Time to suit up in the full armour of God [see Ephesians 6 ESV, if unfamiliar] gird those loins! And engage in the war if you have been thinking you could be a bystander. A spectator. There will be no spectators in heaven…or hell…and those are the only two final destinations for any individual soul that has ever lived, is living, or is yet to be born.

And the liars, unrepentant, immoral, sexually immoral, pretenders, those at enmity with God, those that corrupt and pervert the Word, those that reject Christ will not find themselves in the former destination. Not according to me — according to the Word of God. Try spending more time there…

 

Ken Pullen

Monday, November 29th, 2021

ACP — A Crooked Path

 

New Study Reveals The Startling Rise of Gen Z’ers Identifying as Lesbian, Homosexual, Bisexual, Transgender, or Queer (AUDIO)

 

11/24.2021

By John Stonestreet & Kasey Leander

Reprinted from BREAKPOINT

 

 

Earlier this year, a Gallup poll announced that “one in Six Gen Z-ers Identify as Lesbian, Homosexual, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer.” That was a significantly higher number than ever reported in any previous years. Then, last month, a new survey released by Arizona Christian University reported that about 39 percent of 18 to 24-year-olds claim the label.

Even granting that polling data should always be carefully studied and, often taken with a grain of salt, that’s a shockingly high number. And, in addition to challenging Christians about how much the culture around them has changed, these numbers also challenge the way people have been taught to think about sexuality and, specifically, cultural assumptions about sexuality.

For years, the main idea driving activism around sexual orientation was that gay and lesbian people were “born this way.” Since, went the argument, no one is attracted to someone of the same gender through any fault of their own, we must let them be who they truly are and love who they want to love. And we must, the argument continued, erase any notion that heterosexuality is “normal,” and homosexuality is not.

That idea proved quite persuasive, especially the more it was portrayed in song, film, and television. Millions of dollars went to research looking for the genetic causes of same-sex attraction. Though such causes were never found, professional activists were successful in conflating sexual decisions with already protected classes of race, sex, and disability. Even as it has become more and more obvious that sexual orientation is not fixed, the idea that it is is an innate, unchangeable component of identity has already served its purpose, shifting the moral norms of society and establishing this new way of thinking about sexuality. So, today, most Americans either believe that sexual orientation is something not chosen or that it is something that should never be questioned.

However, polls like this one should make us question what many in our culture now take for granted about sexual orientation. Otherwise, how can the explosion in self-identified lesbian, homosexual, bisexual, transgender, and queer youth be explained?

The obvious answer is: it can’t. We either have to keep foolishly pretending that nearly 40 percent of young people have always been homosexual, lesbian, bisexual, or (especially now) transgender, or we must admit that our ideas about sexuality have consequences for others. After all, it didn’t take long for the other letters in the ever-growing acronym to ride the success of this strategy. So today, anyone who defies traditional “sexual norms” is given elevated moral status, considered “courageous” and experts on all kinds of things, and basically given a free pass not afforded to anyone else. Given the new social climate, is it any wonder young people want to join those ranks, at least on a subconscious level?

As one of my colleagues pointed out recently, a teen who identifies as “bisexual” doesn’t actually have to do anything to gain a status boost. They can keep dating people of the opposite sex or not date at all. They can be sexually active or not. It’s the label that does the magic. It’s no accident that the B and the T in the acronym have seen the most growth.

Even if the social costs of identifying as a sexual minority are lower than ever (and the benefits higher than ever), the consequences for young people are severe. For one thing, young people are constantly taught to see every relationship they have as potentially sexual. Among other things, this robs them of platonic friendships, especially with members of the same sex. C.S. Lewis famously wrote that “few value (friendship) because few experience it.” This has become even more true today for the loneliest generation on record.

To be clear, people’s sexual desires almost never feel “chosen.” Though the research has not fully eliminated any biological or genetic factors in same-sex attraction, there’s no justification for treating it as immutable (much less for treating gender dysphoria that way). However, given all of the cultural pressure to assume such things, it’s clear that merely believing the right things about sexuality is insufficient for eliminating someone’s same-sex attraction or gender dysphoria. To put it differently, this generation has been thoroughly catechized into anthropological confusion, literally changing the definitions of normal and abnormal, of moral and immoral, of who we are and what we do.

The sexual choices people make create, reinforce, and amplify their sexual feelings. It’s a vicious cycle that mirrors the Apostle Paul’s words, “To set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace.”

Though the Gospel doesn’t promise instantly repaired sexual desires, it does tell us to “be transformed by the renewing of [our] minds.” In a culture obsessed with sex, drowning in loneliness, and careening towards self-harm, it’s good news that renewing our minds is even possible. We must point a generation of confused youth toward the compassion and clarity of this much better story as if their lives depend on it, because they do.

Resources:

The Imago Dei and Liberalism
Chuck Colson | BreakPoint | December 28, 2011

Is Transgenderism Logical?
Joseph Backholm | BreakPoint | June 25, 2020

Transgenderism and Biblical Theology
Timothy D. Padgett | BreakPoint Articles | June 28, 2019