One more time…
If you are a true born anew disciple of the Lord Jesus Christ? A true child of God and not a child of disobedience, a child of the world, a person serving the world, and Satan? Let’s stop using the worldly letter amalgamation that numbs and deflects from the truth. And the same regarding certain worldly accepted words. Written or spoken without real thought given. Because the use of letters, or a word, rather than the actual defining terms lessen, diminish, deflect, and water down the truth. What these various acts really are.
Let’s stop using the excuse it takes too much time to speak them, or write them. Even Aretha Franklin sang the word “respect,” rather than using mere letters in describing the theme of that song eventually. But professed Christians can’t say or write “homosexual,” or “bisexual,” or “transgender” in speaking about or writing about this sexually perverted, sinful, and immoral state of our culture?
Lazy or just enjoying fitting in with the wrong side in this spiritual war?
Well, which is it?
We either stand boldly and correctly for the truth or we don’t. And no one, not even well-known professed Christian writers such as Mr. Brown who writes (in the article below these comments of mine) about standing boldly in this situation, but who also refuses to use the proper words falls short. Attempting to either appease, fit in, or he’s lazy in refusing to type out the actual words for the actual immoralities, perversions, and sins against God, against nature.
Do we write MATD for murder, adultery, thieving, and drunkenness?
Or LPBUD lying, proud, blasphemy, and unsound doctrine?
And the sin, the immorality of homosexuality, bisexuality, and transgenderism are not the same as using NASA instead of writing out the National Air and Space Administration. There is a difference in how we use letters instead of words. And it is the WORLD that has determined and designated the use of letters to numb, gloss over, become thought-less about in their usage rather than using the actual words defining specific acts and sin.
Or do we, if we care if we’re the Lord’s take the time to either write out or speak those words?
Why are we such eager and willing contributors to the decline, erosion, demise, and destruction — the corruption and perversion of the English language? Are we really THAT lazy now we can’t even speak clear words? Speak or write the correct words? As they are meant, defined, need to be known?
Do we want to fit in with the world and not have to speak the gospel? Let others know what is in the word of God? Be different? Be separate from the world not only in our belief but in our language as well?
What is it? It’s either laziness or fear and a desire to appease, please the world, and not have to address the truth. What else is it if we’re objective and ruthlessly honest with ourselves?
Do you honestly think in heaven Jesus is saying to God the Father “LGBTQ+,” or using the word “gay” in referencing the sin and abomination of homosexuality in His mentioning the sin of so many here on earth? Or does the Lord always use the proper words, the right words, the words that go directly to the heart? The truth? Not mincing words, not appeasing the world.
It rankles my spirit to hear anyone, especially professed Christians say “mother nature,” which is a purely PAGAN declaration. Do not make light of this. It’s 100% PAGAN to speak of “mother nature” and let’s not shrug and say it’s not meant to cause any harm, it’s no big deal. It’s PAGAN. Our language does matter. And likewise, to utter or write the word “gay” in meaning HOMOSEXUAL? Why? Because the world does it and likes it, approves of using that word rather than the true English descriptor?
Do we truly honor and glorify God in all things as we are instructed or are we so dominated in worldliness at this point we are unrecognizable in our speech from those in darkness? In the snare of the Evil One?
We’re at war folks. As I’ve written ad nauseum for many people. I mention it continually because it is the greatest, largest, longest-running, highest casualty MOST IMPORTANT war ever waged and fought.
Yesterday, June 6th, a very important date that ought not to be forgotten, was the 77th anniversary of the D-Day landings on the beaches of Normandy, France. With nary a mention. Anywhere. Thousands of young men assumed a great duty. Did what they believed was right. And sacrificed themselves for a way of life. And now they are almost forgotten by the overwhelming majority of Americans and those in the West who now prefer to elevate fascism, socialism, communism, and every sin under the sun attempting to remove the right to free speech, to remove the right of freedom of religion.
It will not be long dear ones, I do not know the timeframe, only God knows, only Jesus knows, only the Holy Spirit knows — I do not believe even the angels in heaven know — the time when in America we will have to exist as believers have in Communist China, Iran, most other places on earth. In secret worship. Secret gatherings. I seriously doubt as I see the disintegration, the erosion, the way things are going where in the near future we will be permitted to have open and free true Bible-teaching, Bible-preaching, Bible-centered, expository preaching of the WHOLE word of God, the truth, the light, the way, and the life. And Christians, already enemy #1 in America, will come under persecutions, trials and tribulations most can’t conceive of and refuse to acknowledge.
Sadly, far too many go about in darkness regarding the events unfolding all around them. Not paying attention. Leaving the whole armour of God scattered about their personal room, hanging on the back of a chair, not wearing it all every moment of every day in this ongoing, never-ending until the Lord returns a second time, escalating spiritual war.
Let’s use the right words, the correct words, the right language about all things, shall we?
Not conforming to the world but being seen and known to be different, separate, not fearing being peculiar, not fearing the truth, and becoming much more fluent and discerning, knowledgeable in the word of God. Equipping ourselves. Being bold in a defensive posture. Ready to DEFEND the faith, DEFEND the truth, DEFEND the word, DEFEND why we believe as and what we believe.
Not fearing a thing.
Because we are God’s and the Lord Jesus Christ’s!
Knowing how the story — all history as it has been known ends.. Satan, a created being, lest we forget that and it seems many do, the devil a created being loses. His fallen angels lose. All those in darkness ensnared, enslaved by him refusing the light lose.
They all lose, unlike any group that has ever lost anything in the history of eternity.
And if we remain steadfast? Faithful? True to the word? Enjoined in the battle? Wearing the full armour of God (because we know the equipment we’re wearing and have confidence, becoming second nature, our TRUE nature, in the outfit, the parts comprising that whole armour) we receive the crown, the reward of eternal life in heaven.
But it does not come automatically.
We are never saved by any works, only by the free gift of grace by God, but that does not mean we put it in neutral and cannot be distinguished from the world and we do not need to daily exercise our spiritual selves as so many concern themselves with physical exercise. We need to spiritually exercise as if we’re the younger Arnold Swazenneggar vying for another Mr. Olympus title as the most physically fit specimen on earth.
We might not attain being the most spiritually fit and healthy individual on earth, but we can’t sit idle. We can’t expect to be filled and equipped one day a week. We can’t expect it to be automatic. The word of God, our spiritual nourishment, our food, our water, our life-giving means does not automatically fill us just as we must seek out food, prepare it, making it properly, and ingest it in order to keep our physical bodies alive and healthy. We must do all the more when it comes to SPIRITUAL food, SPIRITUAL nourishment. Especially in these increasingly darker, eviler days. The physical, the temporal will end. Yet we place more time and emphasis on it than we do the spiritual, which is eternal. Let us pause and ponder that a bit, shall we?
Pray for the saints. Pray deeply, hugely, fervently for all the saints of this earth. To be well equipped. to stand firmly and boldly. To resist the wiles of the devil. To pray more and better. Not necessarily longer, but not amiss and less of self and more of others. Praying for us, praying the we, not just the me.
And spending more time diving into and ingesting, eating of the word of God.
Rather than the toe-dipping nibbling so many appear to do.
From the latest information gathered and shared? Only 6% of the population of America possess a Biblical worldview. Only 6% at this time. While almost 60% profess to be Christian. And almost 70% are in favor of homosexual marriage and transgenderism.
According to the most recent information compiled from the Barna Group, a Christian survey and polling organization only 9% of Christians surveyed said they read the Bible daily. Over the preceding decade, the percentage remained fairly steady at around 13.7% saying they read the Bible daily. In one year’s time, from 2019 to 2020 that dropped by 5%. An unprecedented decrease in all the years of gathering such information.
And this is from those professing to be Christians!
We’re not at war folks? And we don’t need to equip ourselves? Be vigilant and continually aware? We don’t need daily nourishment from the word of God? A healthier prayer life? Really?
Because everything around us has been improving so much, eh?
Come on folks, friends, dear ones, those reading this professing faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. Let’s put those things occupying our hands, our minds, our lives so much down a bit and picking up with our hands, our hearts, our eyes, our spirits the word of God a bit more…a lot more.
For the times demand it.
Just the way it is. Would I like a perfect world? All this to be different? Surely, but it isn’t. I live in the reality of this disintegrating, fallen, eroding sin-filled world in which people overwhelmingly mock God, deny God, blaspheme against our Lord, spit on the Bible, love the darkness, love their wickedness, love sin and I am also of the mind they have been given over to their reprobate, wicked, sin-filled, consumed of self and temporal lusts, pleasures, and earthly pursuits. We’re living in Romans 1 and other direct word or word passages, chapters, books of the Bible. We are living in BIBLICAL TIMES folks. How many pause to stop and realize that in the course of their day? We’re living in Biblical times. For our Lord Jesus Christ has not returned yet a second time though we look to heaven for that, waiting patiently, serving the Lord here on earth has He measures out to us, or we ought to be doing so.
Subscribers, regular visitors, frequent readers who have been around this place over the past 10 plus years, or even only for a bit know I take the liberty of replacing the numbing, mindlessness, dumbing down, appeasing the world letter designations everyone quickly glosses over and I remove those and take the time to type out the proper words in every article reprinted here. Also, if new? I do not ascribe to the world’s dictates either in their generalized accepted statement the use of capital letters denotes anger. Here they merely denote emphasis. Period. Nothing more. No anger here. So, please, do not misunderstand.
I do this because I am more concerned in pleasing God the Father, pleasing the Lord Jesus Christ, not grieving the Holy Spirit, and being true to the word of God than I am in pleasing any man or woman.
If not very familiar, or new here, I just want you to be aware of this action I take.
And I hope if you are a disciple of the Lord Jesus Christ if you are a child of God and not a child of disobedience, not a child of the devil’s that you will take a few moments to ponder your language usage. Do you substitute or omit or add when the right word does well and good? Do you speak worldly? Or according to the word of God?
Ask yourself this…would the apostle Paul on Mars Hill, or any place he was in front of people speaking resort to appeasing the crowd before him? Or would he be moved and given words by the Holy Spirit upholding godly things, spiritual truths? What is in the word rather than what is in the world?
Nothing has changed over the course of history. Other than technology and increased human knowledge. But human nature has not changed one iota. Why then do we alter our speech, our writing so to conform to the world rather than conforming to the will of God, which is His word?
Lastly, it was 40 years ago, when I wasn’t even transformed and renewed of mind and spirit by the grace of God, not 20 years ago as Mr. Brown writes about a conservative commentator, it was 40 years ago that from my observations of living in Southern California I told people there was coming a time, and sooner than later, in America, in which homosexual marriage would be accepted and legal. In which homosexuality would be embraced and accepted. This from my observations of being in a job in which I worked with homosexuals, the food industry, restaurants, and I witnessed their language, their attitudes. And how accepting of them the people of California were and knew it was only a matter of time before all of America embraced this sin. This is also where I learned firsthand in my daily working with these folks the word “gay” to describe them is one of the greatest oxymorons and misnomers today. There is NOTHING “gay” about a practicing homosexual. I would urge all people, and especially disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ to stop using that word to describe a homosexual person. Let’s use the correct words, shall we? Without fear. Desiring more to please God than be pleasing to, conforming to this world.
I was laughed at. Ridiculed. Told I was nuts. Told I was just some un-hip Midwestern hick that was living with out-of-touch values. Way back then…
Even when I mentioned this to my wife when we were first dating over 35 years ago she thought I was nuts and didn’t know what I was talking about. (If you ever happen to meet her, or do know her, ask here and she will confirm what I am writing here).
A number of years ago she told me, “You know when you told me about homosexuality becoming accepted, normalized in America, and homosexual marriage allowed I thought you were crazy and didn’t know what you were talking about, but now I see you knew what you were talking about.”
I’m no prophet. Hardly. Not even close.
I’m nothing but God’s and Christ’s.
I’m living dust living in this form for a while. Before being transfigured and perfected in Christ. I’m nothing. Except to God, except to Christ, except the Holy Spirit. Dust. A speck.
I’m nobody and no one listens to me, as they should not. They should only truly listen to God, to the word of God, and cross-reference anything a man might say, a woman might say against the word of God. Like a Berean when it comes to such matters.
I’m just a vessel. A misshapen one. A weak one. A man who sinned greatly and more so in my life than I believe most have and as a result, I have a deeper appreciation for Jesus’ sacrifice for my sin. A deeper thankfulness to the Lord, as I thought for the majority of my life I was beyond redemption and condemned to eternal hellfire for my sin. Beyond hope. Beyond love. Beyond mercy and forgiveness.
But no person is beyond the saving grace of God. Beyond the forgiveness of sin by the Lord Jesus Christ, and beyond the Holy Spirit working in them to transform them into a new creature, renewing their mind and spirit. Not even a person who sinned greatly as I did. Or even more, than I did.
No one is beyond that amazing Supernatural thing to happen to them. If they confess their sin, repent of their sin, believe in the Lord, believe in the word, and embark on a daily life of being a true disciple of the Lord Jesus Christ.
No sin is so great it cannot be washed away and made whiter than snow in the atoning blood of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Find a Bible today. No matter who you might be. Open it. Do more than merely read it like a book.
Dive into its pure living waters. Immerse yourself. Clean yourself in the word. Nourish yourself in the word.
Observe. Make ready. Equip yourself and do not be caught unawares as the virgins (see Matthew 25) with empty oil lamps…
Ken Pullen
Monday, June 7th, 2021
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June 04, 2021
By Michael L. Brown
Reprinted from ASKDRBrown
It was about 20 years ago that a conservative commentator stated that, because the homosexual movement could not grow by reproduction, it had to grow by seduction. Understandably, this incurred the ire of homosexual activists, as if their main agenda was the sexual seduction of others, including children. What this conservative commentator should had said was this: “The homosexual movement cannot grow by biological replication, so instead, it puts its emphasis on ideological indoctrination.” That would remain true to this day.
To be sure, this is not a subject I would prefer to address right now, nor is it a subject that I ever cared to address.
But what are we to do when the so-called Equality Act is staring us in the face, with the potential of gutting religious freedoms in favor of radical lesbian, homosexual, bisexual, transgender, and queer+ goals?
Or when, “A clip of a ‘Blue’s Clues’ song celebrating Masturbation and Genital Amputation Month went viral over the weekend heading into June”? (“Blue’s Clues” is a children’s cartoon.)
Or when the description to a recent Matt Walsh broadcast reads, “Today on the Matt Walsh Show, PBS has teamed up with the New York City Department of Education to bring drag queens and children together. We will discuss the never-ending efforts to groom and sexualize children today.” What are we to do?
Or when female Olympic athletes are complaining about the prospect of competing against biological men? (In the words of the Belgian weightlifter Anna Vanbellinghen, “I understand that for sports authorities nothing is as simple as following your common sense, and that there are a lot of impracticalities when studying such a rare phenomenon, but for athletes the whole thing feels like a bad joke.”)
What are we to do when a Jewish Temple in Chicago announces a June lecture by a rabbi titled, “Is God Transgender?” (For my response to this same rabbi back in 2016, see here.)
Or when Marvel comics celebrates the 80th anniversary of Captain America by introducing a brand new superhero, Aaron Fischer, who is homosexual? (Yes, this was timed for homosexual pride month as well, Fischer making his appearance on June 2. Also, for the record, there are already websites devoted to subjects like this: “Twenty-Five of my favorite lesbians and bisexual women in superhero comics. The characters cover the full range of heroes, anti-heroes, villains, and supporting cast.” And should I point out that lots of kids read comic books?)
What are we to do when someone you know goes from being a married heterosexual woman (and mother) to identifying as a lesbian to then getting into a relationship with another man, with each of them switching genders?
Or when, in one night, answering lesbian, homosexual, bisexual, transgender, and queer+ based questions at a conservative Baptist church, a father asks how to maintain a good relationship with an adult son, who suddenly came out as gay, then just as suddenly, started to dress like a woman? And a couple asks for wisdom in dealing with their 19-year-old granddaughter, who just came out as lesbian and announced that she’s “marrying” her partner? And a middle-schooler asks what to do when her teachers promote homosexual activism but will not allow her Christian views in the class? And two high-school teachers ask what they should do if they’re required to use transgender pronouns for their students? And another woman asks about whether she should attend a same-sex wedding? What are we to do? (For the record, we were only able to answer a small number of the questions submitted. And this in just one night at one local church.)
On June 2, I received an email from Tim Wildmon of the American Family Association. He wanted all of us to know that Amazon Prime refused to carry the importance, well-researched, compassionately presented documentary In His Image: Delighting in God’s Plan for Gender and Sexuality.
I know this documentary well since I hosted it for AFA, and I can attest to what a fine production it is. As Wildmon wrote, “I am disgusted at the hypocrisy and callousness. Amazon Prime offers every kind of degrading material imaginable—including hardcore pornography and an entire lesbian, homosexual, bisexual, transgender, and queer+ movie collection—but refuses a fair-minded film that is well-researched, has world-class production values, and whose touchstones are truth and compassion for hurting people.” And Amazon allowed no appeal for the matter. Case closed!
The truth be told, the examples in this email could be multiplied by 100 (literally), and we would still not be scratching the surface of the aggressive agenda we are facing, from the schools to the courts and from the movies to social media.
And like it or not, it is coming to a church near you. (Keep your eyes out for a new propaganda movie based on some incredibly weak theological and linguistic arguments, called 1946. But the poor arguments won’t stop the propaganda from spreading. For my related video response, see here.)
All of this, then, brings me back to my initial statement, namely, that lesbian, homosexual, bisexual, transgender and queer+ activism will not grow by biological replication, in other words, by having large families (which is a major factor in the worldwide growth of the more conservative branches of Islam, Judaism, and Christianity). Instead, it will grow by ideological indoctrination, seeking to change hearts and minds, thereby encouraging more people to affirm, embrace, or explore non-heterosexual identities and practices.
That’s why it was reported by Gallup in February that, while only 1.3 percent of Americans born before 1946 identified as lesbian, homosexual, bisexual, or transgender and just 2.0 percent of Americans born between 1946 and 1964 identified as lesbian, homosexual, bisexual, or transgender, 15.9 percent (!) of those born between 1997-2002 identify as lesbian, homosexual, bisexual, or transgender. The indoctrination is working.
More specifically, “The vast majority of Generation Z adults who identify as lesbian, homosexual, bisexual, or transgender — 72% — say they are bisexual. Thus, 11.5% of all Gen Z adults in the U.S. say they are bisexual, with about 2% each identifying as homosexual, lesbian or transgender.”
So, the vast majority of these Gen Z adults who identify as lesbian, homosexual, bisexual, and transgender say they are bisexual, which points more to experimentation or confusion or breaking the norms than it does to a deep, innate sense of being different. And this, in turn, points back to the fruits of the sexual revolution, in particular, the effects of lesbian, homosexual, bisexual, transgender, and queer+ indoctrination and activism.
And this leads back to my question, what are we do to? Do we sit by, passively and idly, or do we push back?
If we love God, if we love our families, if we love our country, if we love our freedoms, we only have one choice.
That means that, while we continue to reach out to lesbian, homosexual, bisexual, transgender, and queer+ individuals with compassion, we resist their agenda with courage. We have no other choice.
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