This is series of
articles designed to help professing Christians to turn from their wicked ways
and get back to following New Testament ethics.
Compromise is increasing in the church.
Popular opinion among churchgoers is often in stark contrast to the very
words of Jesus on many issues.
Christians need to know the word of God and get back to using it as a
reference book when they are faced with important decisions.
The week I am reposting an article that I wrote several
years ago. It is still true now just as
much as it was then.
Some Christians say that “safe” sex education is important
because more and more teenagers are getting pregnant and contracting STDs at
younger and younger ages. They do not
want to teach abstinence only because that would “impose their faith” on
others. Real Christians could never
believe in making sinful, sexual suggestions to children. They will never believe in giving any advice
about sin except to condemn it and to help bring people out of it. Romans 13:14 says, “Put on the Lord Jesus
Christ, and MAKE NOT PROVISION FOR THE FLESH, TO FULFILL THE LUSTS
THEREOF.”
II Timothy 4:2, 3 says, “Preach the word; be instant in
season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and
doctrine. For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but
AFTER OWN LUSTS SHALL THEY HEAP TO THEMSELVES TEACHERS, having itching ears.” 1 Timothy 4:16 says, "Pay CLOSE
ATTENTION to yourself and to your TEACHING; persevere in these things; for as
you do this you will INSURE SALVATION both for YOURSELF and for THOSE WHO HEAR
YOU."
This “safe” fornication education plants dirty, lustful thoughts into the minds
of children. Sin should be treated like
deadly poison and the minds of children should be treated as if they are the
most precious, valuable, and vulnerable thing on the planet. “When lust has conceived, it bringeth forth
sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.” (James 1:15) Therefore, there is no “safe” sin. If you imply that there is, then you are
being deceitful even if you’re giving factual information. Suppose a man had a disease that his knows
will soon become deadly and painful, and there is complete cure that his doctor
knew would work. Would this doctor
lecture him about over-the-counter pain medicines as if that were a
satisfactory alternative? Would he give
him a lollipop to make him feel good?
“But among you there must not be even a HINT of sexual
immorality, or any kind impurity, or of greed, because these are improper for
God’s holy people. Nor should there be
obscenity…” (Ephesians 5:3, 4) “Have
NOTHING TO DO with the fruitless DEEDS OF DARKNESS, but rather expose
them. For it is shameful even to mention
what the disobedient do in secret.”
(Ephesians 5:11, 12) Ephesians
4:29 says, “Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only
what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may
benefit those who listen.” The “safe” fornication
advocates should have their mouths washed out with soap and water.
Proverbs 22:6 says, “Train up a child in the way he should
go and when he is old he will not depart from it.” It sometimes seems like passages like this
need not be in the Bible. Isn’t this
obvious? Not to some people. They think that sometimes it’s better to
train a child in the way he shouldn’t go.
God had the foresight to see that Satan would twist their minds.
A real Christian would never put a stumbling block in the
way of a sinner. (Leviticus 19:14b) Not only do the false Christians corrupt
their own children, but they arrogantly force this disgusting teaching on our
children at our expense (through taxes).
If someone causes a Christian child to sin, it would be better for that
person to be thrown into the sea with a millstone around his neck. (Matthew 18:6-9) II Peter 2:14 says, “Having eyes full of
adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart
they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children”. II Peter 2:17-19 says, “These are wells
without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of
darkness is reserved for ever. For when they speak great swelling words of
vanity, they ALLURE THROUGH THE LUSTS OF THE FLESH, through much wantonness,
those that were clean escaped from them who live in error. While THEY PROMISE
THEM LIBERTY,
they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome,
of the same is HE BROUGHT IN BONDAGE.”
It does not matter whether the statistics show that this
“safe sex” teaching “works”. Pregnancy
and STD prevention are not worth the price of leading children down a path of
sin. What an unholy bargain with the
devil this is! No man can serve two masters: for either he will HATE the one, and love the
other; or else he will hold to the one, and DESPISE the other. (Matthew 6:24) A good tree cannot bring forth evil
fruit. (Matthew 7:17) Some may say, “Teenagers are going have sex
anyway, so we may as well reduce the suffering and negative economic impact of
it.” But the Bible says, “So from now on
we regard no one from a worldly point of view.” (II Corinthians 5:16) This passage, taken in context, shows the
difference between someone who has only head knowledge of what the cross means
and one who really believes it in his heart.
“For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in
simplicity and godly sincerity, NOT WITH FLESHLY WISDOM, but by the grace of
God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to
you-ward.” (II Corinthians 1:12)
Some people say that I am self-righteous for saying these
things. What could be more
SELF-righteous than saying, “I’m going to be a virgin until marriage, but I am
going to teach children how NOT to be a virgin.”? Romans 1 says that “God gave them up to
uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonor their own bodies
between themselves” because they know “the judgment of God, that they which
commit such are worthy of death”.
They also say, “how dare you judge me?” (Matthew 7:1 says, “Judge not lest you be
judged.”) I am not judging, but
warning. If someone wants to warn me of
something that I am doing that will cause me to go hell so that my soul will be
saved, then they should by all means do so.
I can take it. Judging means
passing sentence on someone (compare verses 47 and 48 of John 12). Jesus said, “Ye judge after the flesh; I
judge no man.” Putting filthy ideas into
someone’s mind is passing a sentence on them.
“For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the
measure you use, it will be measured to you.”
God will allow Satan to put filthy thoughts and sickening lustful urges
into their flesh forever. “God is not
mocked. For whatsoever a man soweth,
that shall he also reap.” (Galatians 6:7)
Whatever deeds you have done, you will receive the same in your own
body. (II Corinthians 5:10, Galatians 6:8)
There is, however, something that you should teach your
children to put on to protect themselves.
It’s the armor of God. “For we
wrestle NOT against FLESH and blood, but against PRICIPALITIES, against POWERS,
against the RULERS of the darkness of THIS WORLD, against spiritual WICKEDNESS
IN HIGH PLACES.” (Ephesians 6:12)
To anyone reading this that claims to be a Christian and is
still not convinced, I would say this:
How can you believe in suggesting to a child a way to commit
a sin that Jesus Christ had to be beaten, whipped, and nailed to a cross
for? Could you look a bloody, exhausted,
battered Jesus in the eye and still say that this is the right thing to
do? In order to be saved, you must
believe in the simple, common sense idea that it is always good to teach good
things, and always bad to teach bad things.
Unless you change and become like a little child, you will never enter
the kingdom of heaven. (Matthew 18:3) “Therefore, get rid of all moral filth and the
evil that is so prevalent, and humbly accept the word planted in you, which can
save you.” (James 1:21) “Wherefore come out from among them, and be
ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will
receive you,” (II Corinthians 6:17). “Whosoever is a friend of the world is the
enemy of God…cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double
minded.” (James 4:4, 8)
