MARRRIAGE (& human sexuality) ACCORDING TO JESUS – Matthew 19:1-9
Today, pastors in North America and beyond, have joined in unity of purpose to proclaim to courts, parliaments, legislatures, and magistrates, their obligation and accountability to Jesus Christ, on matters pertaining to marriage and human sexuality. We echo the summons of Holy Scripture which declares (Ps 2:10-12a) “Now therefore O kings, be wise; be warned, O rulers of the earth. Serve the Lord with fear and rejoice with trembling. Kiss the Son, lest He be angry, and you perish in the way, for His wrath is quickly kindled...”. Today, January 16th 2022 according to bill C-4 recently unanimously passed in Canadian parliament, Christian pastors who preach the Biblical truth on God's design for marriage and sexuality to the exclusion of all profanation of the same, are breaking the law. Our neighbors to the north have adopted the following language into their body of criminal law: “...Conversion therapy causes harm to society because, among other things, it is based on and propagates myths and stereotypes about sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression including the myth that heterosexuality, cisgender identity, and gender expression that conforms to the sex assigned to a person at birth are to be preferred over other sexual orientations, gender identities, and gender expressions.” What is conversion therapy according to newly adopted Canadian law?...: “A practice, treatment or service designed to: a) change a person's sexual orientation to heterosexual b) Change a person's gender identity to cisgender c.) change a persons gender expression so that it conforms to the sex assigned to the person at birth, d.) repress or reduce non-heterosexual attraction or sexual behavior..” This edict continues with language so broad and nebulous that one can reasonably conclude from a basic reading of the legislation that what I am about to preach this morning is now illegal in Canada. Thus I stand in solidarity with my brethren across the border to defy the anti-Christ edicts of tyrannical authorities and to call them to repentance along with any of our own leaders so inclined lest they perish in the way when the One True Sovereign over all nations summons kings to His court on the great day of reckoning...