DO YOU MOCK GOD'S PLAN?
I am amazed at how people who say they believe the Bible take little notice of it. They tolerate homosexuality in the name of loving everyone. That sounds so good, and of course we love each person, but we cannot condone the act because it mocks God’s eternal plan.God said: “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him” (Genesis 2:18 ESV). Who was this helper? Was it another man? No, we all know that God created a “woman,” a “wife,” and a “mother” so together they could be fruitful and take dominion over the earth (Genesis 2:22-24 and 3:20). He planned for the woman to complement the man, not duplicate him. Any deviation from this plan is a smack in God’s face, the One who intricately designed and created us.
But THERE IS MORE yet! After God brought the woman to the man, He stated that “the man and the wife” (the two opposite sexes) were to become “one flesh” (Genesis 2:24). This Scripture is quoted again in Matthew 19:4-6 and Ephesians 5:31, 32 and it goes on to say: “This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.”
God lifts marriage to a very high place, far higher and more sacred than we understand with our human minds. He chose marriage to portray the oneness of Christ and His bride, the church. Notice that she is called His “bride” and “the Lamb’s wife.” (Revelation 19:6-9 and 21:2, 9). The marriage relationship reveals this picture of Christ and His bride to the world.
Christ is the fulfillment of the sacrificial lamb which always had to be a male lamb (Exodus 12:5) and the church for which He sacrificed His life is His bride.
To distort this picture is sacrilege.
Blessings from Nancy Campbell
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