We live in a world that is full of people crying out for social justice. Things like the feminist movement that evolved into gender equality. Which will never be fully achieved, because it is impossible. Though I have noticed that the BBC now has a bigger percentage of female news presenters than male. Maybe it is time for men to stand up and protest for equality?
People can now choose what gender that they would like to be known as. This is strange, because when born we are either male or female. That is the way God created mankind, so that through marriage to each other children are born through opposite sex relationships. There is only one way for children to be born, the male sperm fertilises the female egg. That is the design of the Creator God.
This is rebellion against God. Yes, people have the right to choose their gender pronouns, maybe they don’t have the right for this idea to be written into law. This is taking personal sin and making it a corporate sin of a nation. This is gender equality taken to the extreme. It actually dispenses with the feminist movement altogether, as there is no need to stand up for women’s rights.
The world has gone mad with the naming of a condition they have called, ‘Gender Dysphoria.’ It reminds me of the words of the serpent in the Garden of Eden; “Did God really say.” Did God really say that you are a male? Did God really say that you are female? Gender Dysphoria is an attitude of the mind, an attitude of the flesh. Without the correct direction it can become a mental illness, that needs to be treated as such.
Instead of corrective training, the world says that we must accept that people feel like they should be a member of the opposite sex. This feeling of dysphoria is not a new phenomenon. I knew of a couple of people in the 1970’s that had undergone sex changes. Saw many men that dressed in women’s clothes. Women that dressed in men’s clothes was not such a strange idea back then.
God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. God blessed them; and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth.” Genesis 1:27-28
As a teenager I had thoughts that maybe I should have been a girl; this because most of my best friends were girls and I seemed to get on with them more that the boys. I did not have Gender Dysphoria. Although in these days they probable would tell me that I did. I never wanted to be a girl I just liked having girls as friends. I am glad that I have two great children a boy and a girl. I am blessed to have helped them grow up knowing who they are as far as gender is concerned.
In todays societies of Western Europe and USA children as young as Four are encouraged to entertain the idea that they have been born as the opposite sex. In the UK a teenager who had gender transforming surgery (sex Change) was murdered by other teenagers. Reasons for this are unknown. Think about this, someone at the age of sixteen had already changed sex, by undergoing long therapy and treatment to get to the point of surgery!
Instead of reaffirming the wrong thought processes of this young boy, the therapist and parents should have been reaffirming the physical fact that he was a boy. He was born a boy; he was a boy. That he would grow into a man and become a father of boys and girls. Through undergoing a sex change he would never be able to father children, or give birth to children. Maybe have a whole life of mental anguish.
It is not loving to reaffirm someone’s Gender Dysphoria. It does not help them to know who they are and what they could become in the real world. It only creates more mental illness. They will find it harder to fit into society. The worlds solution is to try to change society to accept and fit around a minute minority of people. This is just pandering to sin.
For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, slanders. Matthew 15:19 NASB1995
Sin is sin, it does not matter if one lies, murders, steals or commits adultery. In the idea of affirming Gender Dysphoria is an evil thought that proceeds from the heart of man. People get these thoughts, it is true but we are told by God to resist the devil and he will flee from us. We can do this as Christians, but those without Christ cannot. The prince and power of the air, the devil is at work in the hearts and minds of the people of the world. Right to the tops of governments.
I know of Christians who struggle with their sexuality. Some battle for years before finding peace. Some give in to the urges of their minds. To condemn people for their sin is not love, it is not right. We are to love them as God loves them, but not affirm that they are OK in their sin. Love helps to build people up in the truth and turn away from sin. To do otherwise is not right, it becomes a sin for those who think that they should love people and allow them to stay in their sin.
‘for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but divinely powerful for the destruction of fortresses. We are destroying speculations and every lofty thing raised up against the knowledge of God, and we are taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ, 2 Corinthians 10:4-5
We as Christians should not bow to the political correct ideas of the world. The world has enough people to support their ideas. We have been consecrated, set apart from the world. In the world but not part of the world. Yet some Christian organisations are falling into line with the evil ideas of the world. Some are making considerations about how they can fit the worlds ideas into their Christian beliefs, coming from the thoughts showing love. To not stand upon and declare the truth is not love.
To call out the sin and show the path to forgiveness is love. The world will call this hate speech. They are lying to protect their thought processes. To point out error and lead to truth is love. There is only one path to righteousness. There is only one way to forgiveness and wholeness That is through Jesus Christ. His blood was shed to cleans us from all sin. Jesus is the way, the truth and the life.
People in sin have an attitude that there is only one life, I have to do what is needed to feel joy in it, no matter what! They need to know that only in God’s presence through the forgiveness of sin, there is fulness of joy. Without a heart and spirit transplant people will remain lost in the sin of the ways of this world.
Moreover, I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; and I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. Ezekiel 36:26 NASB1995
Stay blessed, stay strong and keep the faith.
Charlie
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