A Generation at Risk
First, I want to express my sincere and profound apology to this generation. Previous generations have passed on a monster that is devouring you. So, it is proper and fitting that this message begins with repentance and truly a begging of forgiveness for what we have done and not done when it comes to placing your future hope in jeopardy. Far too many chose their comfort, peace and affluence at the expense of your future.
Here is the state of the Union Address young people. Our nation has revoked our covenant of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness and replaced it with a covenant of death that has produced the culture of death that is savaging this generation.
Good has become evil, evil has become good and evil has been codified into law. There is growing tyranny in our government and moral anarchy influencing far too many citizens in our beleaguered land. We are moving from a free nation and slouching towards Sodom, socialism, and on a fast track towards communism.
The Anti-Christ powers that be, which believe in statism (government as god), understand that in order to amass power to regulate its citizens, they must weaken the family. Sexual decadence has been one of the means to undermine, faith, family, and freedom by those who seek tyrannical control over the masses
As my late son, Jeremiah Thomas, pointed out in his video, the culture of death, which consists of abortion, homosexuality, and suicide has unleashed much devastation upon your generation. Over 65 million, one third of your entire generation, has been murdered by abortion with the sanction of the state and the silent consent of much of the church. 25 million have died by AIDS and other STDs and now suicide stalks the young of our bloodstained land. The toothpaste is out of the tube and the question that needs to be answered here is there an antidote to the poison ill-affecting your generation?
To access the answer, however, we need to understand the nature of the problem we are facing. How one sees a problem determines how one goes about solving it. If a doctor does not through a series of tests make a correct diagnosis of the disease, it does not matter what cure he prescribes. It will not help the patient. In some cases, the cure could even be even worse than the disease and prove fatal. This is an apt picture of the state of our nation.
Abortion and its twin evil, the homosexual agenda seeks to wrap its perversion and blood shed in the American flag. Utilizing principles of marketing and psychology “Gay” activists have been developing a three-pronged strategy to lower America‘s resistance to their evil agenda: Desensitize … Jam … and Convert.
Paul Rondeau describes this strategy in Selling Homosexuality to America. “Desensitization is described as inundating the public in a continuous flood of gay-related advertising, presented in the least offensive fashion possible,” he says. “Jamming is a psychological terrorism meant to silence a dissenting opinion.” Conversion “means the conversion of the average American's emotions, mind, and will, through a planned psychological attack, in the form of propaganda fed to the nation via the media.”
Biblically, God paints an entirely different picture. The acceptance of homosexuality means the burning out of man. Historically, rampant homosexuality has been one of the social malignancies that has preceded the fall of nations (Greece, Rome, etc.). All they that hate God and his wisdom love death (Proverbs 8:36). In other words, since our nation abandoned “One Nation Under God,” we have chosen death to solve our economic and moral problems.
Working through media, entertainment and public institutions the powers that be are taking a deathstyle that God calls sin, an abomination, and they are magically turning it to good by massively deceiving your generation. And here’s the thing young people, they must have you either as an active participant or at least sympathetic to their perverted cause due to one inescapable truth. They cannot reproduce. You are the target because without you, their agenda cannot survive. Their future survival is in your hands, since all they reproduce is death, darkness, and despair.
The other way they convince your generation that this chosen lifestyle is completely normal and the ones who object are abnormal is through slick sloganeering campaigns like “love wins,” “gay pride,” or “gay Christianity.”
Biblically, love is not a feeling or a sentiment, it is the fulfillment of the law of God. It is centered in the will, not emotions. Love wins when truth makes free. Humility exalts when pride repents. God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble. Jesus is a friend of sinners, but the homosexual in rebellion to God’s standard of sexuality refuses to admit it is a sin. How can Jesus befriend them?
I’ll close this article with a passage of Scripture. 1 Corinthians 6:9-11 states, “Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you. But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.”
Do not be deceived church. It is critical that we respond correctly to the challenge posed by the homosexual agenda. There are two responses that are needed and necessary. As an agenda, it must be opposed and resisted by those who name the name of Christ. Why, because we are mean, hatemongers this agenda accuses us of being? No, because this agenda is being influenced by the Evil One who has come to kill, steal, and destroy and if we care, we must love people enough to tell them the unvarnished, unpopular truth.
When we deal with individuals, however, that maybe struggling and knows it is sinful lust, we must come alongside to help them find the love, salvation, and deliverance they need in Jesus’ mighty name!
IN KING JESUS’ SERVICE,
Pastor Rusty Thomas, American Reformation Church
