Saturday, September 05, 2015

Bible-less Christians

My brothers and sisters in Christ, I beg you to get on your knees and cry out to God to save this nation from impending ruin! The wrath of God is building.

MSN.com 9/5/2015 GRAYSON, Ky. (AP) - Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis will spend Labor Day weekend in isolation at the Carter County Detention Center with her Bible and her clear conscience. At least three same-sex couples will spend the weekend planning weddings after finally receiving the marriage licenses they asked for months ago but were denied because Davis believes gay marriage is a sin. The Rowan County Clerk's office issued the licenses to same-sex couples on Friday under threat of jail time or fines if they didn't comply with a federal judge's order. While the licenses were freely given, the drama surrounding the clerk does not appear to be ending anytime soon. Davis met with her attorneys in jail Friday and told them she would "never violate her conscience or betray her God." U.S. District Judge David Bunning has said he will not release Davis unless she agrees to obey his order. Davis' attorneys said the only way she would relent would be to change Kentucky's state law so that marriage licenses are not issued under the authority of the county clerk. They claim the licenses that were issued were not valid. Kim Davis' husband, Joe, said his wife will stay in jail "ever how long it takes," noting that she has held a Bible study at the Rowan County Detention Center every Monday night for the past few years. "She's not going to resign, she's not going to sacrifice her conscience, so she's doing what Martin Luther King Jr. wrote about in his Letter from the Birmingham Jail, which is to pay the consequences for her decision," said Mat Staver, one of Davis' attorneys and founder of the Florida-based legal group Liberty Counsel. Davis' attorneys said the licenses issued Friday are not "worth the paper they are written on" because Davis did not authorize them.

Hey, America! Do you remember when our elected legislative officials told you that the gay rights movement would never interfere with your Christian beliefs? Nor would there ever be any laws passed that could/would force Bible believing Christians into a position of compromising their beliefs to maintain their present lifestyle? Now that you know that was a lie, my next question is, are you willing to go to jail for what you believe? Are you willing to never violate your conscience or betray your God?

[Hebrews 13:1-8; 15-16] A grandfather was delivering his grandchildren to their home one day when a fire truck zoomed past. Sitting in the front seat of the fire truck was a Dalmatian dog. The children started discussing the dog’s duties. “They use him to keep crowds back,” said one child. “No,” said another. “He’s just for good luck.” A third child brought the argument to a close. “They use the dogs,” she said firmly, “to find the fire hydrants.” I was reading a few comments on Facebook about Kim Davis and one of then struck me hard as to the thinking of “Christians” in America today. It started: “I am a lesbian and a Christian…” and immediately I thought to myself, “You can’t be; it doesn’t work that way!” In essence this woman, like so many others demanding their right to live alternative lifestyles and still claim to be following God, is saying, “I am a Bible-less Christian.” You are a god unto yourself, sitting in the front seat of my God’s universe looking for any honest God-fearing Christian to dump on. God told me there would be days like this, but to hang in there, He is always with me.

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