Well, Happy New Year readers of The Dunamis Word. I trust that God blessed and is blessing each of you with comfort and joy in this New Year.
Evidently, the devil is stirred up once again to attack and take to task anyone who dare say that homosexuality is a SIN.
Pastor Kim Burrell in her New Year's Eve service preached that homosexuality is a perversion and that it is a sin..Now the liberal elite and others are jumping out of the woodwork to claim that Kim and what she teaches is wrong...
Now, I will say for sure, Kim is problematic. I have documented her love for the late "Prince", even having called him "anointed" and her lingerie posing on the video of her song "Sweeter" on THIS BLOG. I don't have too much confidence in Kim, but not too much more of a complaint either. She is somewhat like a broken clock, but with that said... even a broken clock is RIGHT twice a day!
Well, she is RIGHT about this one, and I certainly stand by her. Here is her video and the part that sent some up in arms and her recent public address regarding the issue:
Although I was busy doing many other things, I happened to read the commentary of a blogger on the Huffington Post (the most liberal news possible). He was stating and explaining away the biblical thought and teaching that homosexuality is a sin and wrong. He, like most, attempt to draw a sharp contrast between Old Testament and New Testament command and morality, assuming that New Testament morality somehow overlooks that homosexuality is wrong and or a sin and that all things, including the sin of homosexuality, can be chalked up to the "grace of God".
Like most that hold his position, he has no clue as to what God was saying either in Corinthians or Romans and ultimately, if left to him and others with his views, homosexuality would be some sort of unregulated activity among men, that "God just doesn't care about one way or another"
In my opinion, sentiments such as the one's espoused display that there is simply no or very little understanding or truth or how we come to understand and define truth. If something can be wrong, as the critic readily points out to every one that speaks and preaches against homosexuality, then something can be right as well. The question is, how does the critic know that what they believe is right? In fact, how does the critic know that what Burrell, I and others like us, believe is wrong? What is the basis for their understanding of truth, right and wrong?
Here is my response to the Article:
Obviously, because the homosexual rite expanded so vastly under the last 4 years of the Obama administration, the assumption has been that anyone who defies this sin and those who promote this sort o sin is out of touch with reality. I beg to differ vastly.To the writer of the article: No, you can't get an amen from me because you are espousing GARBAGE!!!The problem is that you don't believe that homosexuality is SIN. Well, IT IS!!! It is sin because as the pastor said, it is a perversion of truth.The issue of truth, right and wrong are at issue here.Now, I suspect that your idea of truth and what is true is flexible to the degree of what you "agree" to be truth or what makes sense in your mind. That is called subjectivism. Under subjectivism, or relativism, truth, right and wrong, is only stacked up to your opinion or the opinion of a group. Close examination of this paradigm reveals that relativism is the most confused way to understand the world. Why? Because noone creates their own world of truth. Truth exists whether outside or inside of your world. For example, gravity works in your house just like mine. With the exception of building an anti-gravity chamber, gravity exists everyplace and in every time frame here on earth. No matter how you attempt to avoid it, it simply is. So there are some overarching truth's that just are. Truth, whether your opinion of it is true or not, is called objective truth.How one comes to know truth, right or wrong is called epistemology. Christians believe that the only way we can know truth is through God. We believe that God has imparted the ability to know and discern truth, right and wrong into man, as a part of his design. Truth can be "known" and or perceived. With that said, peole can be oblivious to that truth for an number of reasons including 1- self deception and 2- actual deception. Either way, this is what it means to be "blind" or blind to sin.In your article, you take time to say that Kim Burrell's statements and worldview are wrong, because you interpret truth to mean something different than what she is saying. Only where is YOUR basis for what you believe to be true? Is that a product of your mind, or a declaration of God or something outside of yourself? If you are right, what is the basis for your view? The Christian has ours, but where is yours? Is it a convention of your mind or the mind of others? Then by what means and what is the determining factor if you or any who agree with you is right?Now, this does not mean that you and others with your opinion cannot perceive truth as it pertains to sex. Both you and I would agree that any so called "love" that a pedophile has for a child is wrong and that acting out upon their inclinations, whether seemingly invited to do so or not, is vile and sick. There is nearly total agreement upon that. However, you are "blind" to the application of the same standard towards homosexuality because you are "blind" to that sin. In fact, from reading the article you would have to believe that homosexuality is simply a "diversity" or even an innate part of the being of them that are homosexuals. Again, where is the basis for any of that, IF that is what you would hold as true.To the point: Your acceptance of homosexuality as right and or acceptable with God is not rooted in God's word, nor is it consistent with HIS grace as you contend. If we examine your premise, we find that your basis appears to come from your own mind. There is no more than what you feel and what others around you who accept what you feel and believe and aspire to. There are many people, who we perceive as "good" that are blind to sin to one degree or another and that is usually because they are either "deceived" into their actions or that they "love" their sin. A heterosexual adulterer or fornicator is in no better position. Most in this sin do it because they "love" the sin of adultery to some degree to continue to do it. No matter how many adulterers around them agree to say that it is OK, the adultery is still wrong, and it is still sin. Believe me, the adulterer feels "good" about his adultery while he is in it, considering it, and acting out upon it, but none of that makes his acts and or actions right.The fact is that in the Christian worldview, GOD is the ultimate authority and truth giver. HE has delivered instructions regarding sex and sexuality establishing clear boundaries both according to his word and nature. He has also set up a standard whereby the world and humanity exists. This is called natural law. The world (that is biological life) could not exist with same-sexism.In addition, we can study the correlation between health and sexuality to find that homosexuality has a physiological and psychological consequence that are undesirable to varying degrees.God has defined sex, love and sexual activity as acceptable between men and women not to kill our joy, but to enhance and increase it.Because what she and others faithful to truth teach, is contrary to homosexual desire does not make her wrong. Her preaching and the preaching of others is the greater display of LOVE because LOVE intervenes and does not allow wrong to continue to harm and defile.
While every homosexual has the right to liberty, life and the pursuit of happiness, every Christian and those who don;t agree with the homosexual lifestyle has that right as well. I will fight for the rights o all, including the homosexual, but I will not be subject to honor and or even endorse any lifestyle that is sinful and contrary to the Word of God. One does not have to be a homosexual to have an undesirable lifestyle. There are plenty of heterosexuals that live undesirably and in sin...but be clear, all sin and all sinner, those who practice sin, will NOT enter the Kingdom of God.
Don't hate the message or the messenger. Hate the sin. For every homosexual there is help and hope and it begins first with denying self and building a relationship with Christ. HE can set you or any sinner free from their sin. Jesus has come that we might LIVE, and he has no pleasure in our death and unhappiness.
Don't be deceived. God says LIVE and live according to HIS word!
Blessed!
The problem with Kim as I see it is not her message. That, to me should never be apologized for, if it is biblically correct. However. Kim, in her singing courts the unsaved and even homosexuals.
ReplyDeleteDoes anyone remember when she sang with the late Whitney Houston? Or when she was on promotion with Kirshnar Lewis, a gay producer? Or how about her love for the late PRINCE, even calling him "anointed"?
The problem is not that she made a mistake in the past and used bad spiritual judgement. The problem is that she never cleared the line through public repentance. She simply picks up from where she is and begins to talk. There is no reconciliation and the context of her message is contrary to her history. This is confusing not only to the believer, but to the unsaved persons that she has courted to be and become what she is now.
Now, too many of these singers, pastors and entire churches are in the same boat. They have held parties and associated with the world, even allowing folk who they would claim are not saved, to sing, administrate and even preach to them.
It is not only inconsistent to talk about the very same ones that you were running with and infatuated with just a little while ago but it is hypocritical to the highest degree to do so.
Watch out. It's not over. For money and contracts, our gospel personalities have done a lot of things that Solomon warned against. Now we are snared by the words of our own mouth and by the agreements that we have made by striking hands with the wrong people.
It's too late to cry over this now. Crying and mourning should have been made while it was day and while there was time to correct it. As I and other bloggers tried to point out, this was wicked from the beginning and it is more wicked now.
Lord help all of them that have courted and flirted with the world. The FIRE is being turned up now, for sure!
Thank you Pastor Burnett for this concise assessment and commentary on this whole situation. While Kim did speak biblical truth regarding the sin, her credibility has been compromised/damaged by past actions, decisions and statements.
ReplyDeleteAnd yes, delving (binding) oneself significantly into the "gospel industry" can be quite treacherous and has shown that many must compromise or fall or tow the company line to stay in the good graces of that "system" which can often mandate that they join in unholy alliances or alliances contrary to the gospel they sing about and profess to believe.
Absolutely right. Then most of us act as if we have to "line up" to decide what we want to affirm as truth. Well truth should have been affirmed all along the way. We need to hold forth truth all day everyday.
DeleteThese artists, such as Tasha Lockhart was upset because Kim was being "attacked" and noone was taking a stand. Well, where was she or any of them when this lady was admiring Prince or getting cozy with secularism in her music?
What is happening is that these have been blinded by self-pursuits and really thought that it would not come down to the thought that they would actually have to be different than the world. Sad but true reality is that the world, talk and fake all it likes, does NOT like us who stand or the cause of Christ, righteousness and truth.
If they did not like Jesus, what makes them think that we can sing and dance good enough to make them like us? We are the one's twisted in our thinking on the issues.