Forbidding to marry and the fruits thereof
Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;
Forbidding to marry, [and commanding] to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.
---I TIMOTHY 4.1-3
I remember when I started high school in Milwaukee, Wisconsin there was a drama team that was acting a virtual wedding. As a freshman I really thought it was something as this high school was a middle to upper class white private school and the exaltation of education and sports was the main criteria. There was also a class called "Theology". I remember getting a "D" in that and it was a terrible difficult study for me. It was reading The Good News Bible and I knew nothing of the scripture. That has all changed now since I am thankfully in Christ Jesus.
One thing I do remember in that particular school was a lot of chaos and confusion for me. One minute you were supposed to be holy and the next we were having mixer dances and there was all manner parties and the gears were switched into experimenting with boyfriend and girlfriend activities. Then you had to get into sports one way or another or you were looked at as if there was something wrong with you. So I tried my best to comply with the wisdom of the world and found it incredibly unfruitful.
It was the beginning of a new generation where education, sports, and excelling were the main purpose in life. If you weren't heading for college to get a "degree" in general you were considered somewhat of an underachiever. It is also a generation of what I have come to known as a generation that is "forbidding to marry".
Forbidding to marry has encouraged a generation of fornication which now has grown into a generation of proud single parents, lesbians, bisexuals, transgenders, and has thrown the natural use aside while embracing all manner of lasciviousness and lechery. Marriage and weddings have just turned into another traditional party where you dress up, make a show of yourselves, make covenants of mistrust (called "prenuptial agreements"), get drunk, and get on with your "career". And don't forget those "bachelor parties" just prior to the celebration.
A culture great of flesh
Now we can skip all of that and embrace dishonor toward God. But then what do you expect from those who exalt the flesh and that don't fear God? God is not in their thoughts! We have what is called "friends with benefits". If you don't know what that is LOOK IT UP. We are now a generation of basically animals or perhaps what could be described as brute beasts. Here's the new fruit thereof:
- Proud single parents (usually mothers)
- divorce and remarriage
- children juggled between mom's, dad's, step parents,...
- fornication
- adultery
- mental illness
- legal drugs
- illegal drugs
- drunkenness
- government aid and poverty
- various other perversions
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are [these]; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told [you] in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
---GALATIANS 5.19-21
How are we doing? Are we honorable and undefiled? Or are we defiled and dishonorable? Selah.
To many of you this message is not in your interest. It's actually out of your element. Ignore it then and embrace God's STRONG DELUSION and pay attention who the next pope is going to be. Don't even bother to COMMENT.
Marriage is still honorable with God
Even while man seeks to reinvent government and even reinvent God's word forever settled in heaven marriage is still honorable. Those who dishonor God can do so at their own peril. Those of us who know this we have the mind of Christ. Even so, come Lord Jesus:
Marriage [is] honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
---HEBREWS 13.4
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