The Disastrous Fruit of the Sexual Revolution

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The effects of the sexual revolution have been disastrous, and your kids are the ultimate victims. It's time for The Line of Fire with your host, biblical scholar and cultural commentator, Dr. Michael Brown. Your voice for moral sanity and spiritual clarity. Call 866-34-TRUTH to get on the line of fire. And now, here's your host, Dr. Michael Brown. Welcome. Welcome to the broadcast, Michael Brown.

So glad we could have this time together. If you'd like to call in, if you have a question of any kind, 866-34-TRUTH, 866-34-87884. Are you ready for an eye-opening broadcast? Are you ready to have your, oh, what can I say? Your heart burdened, your eyes open, your emotions stirred.

Yeah, that's exactly what's gonna happen. But as always, friends, my pledge to you as your voice for moral sanity and spiritual clarity is we will not get your blood boiling unless we get your faith rising. So, I'm gonna present some things that are upsetting, that are concerning, that are grievous, that some of you are experiencing in your own lives and the lives of your kids.

But God is at work and there is redemption. That is where we start. Okay. What prompted this, as I very much live in these realities, the things I'm talking about, it's not like something new that I'm hearing for the first time. But I was annotating my next book, finishing the endnotes for, not my next book coming out, but the next book I finished writing.

So, two books from now. And I was looking for a video clip, which we're gonna show you in a bit. And again, it is heartbreaking and you'll be hearing it on the radio, but those watching, it's more heartbreaking to see.

And I'll paint a picture for everyone listening. But I found out that there was a book on the same subject as the video I was looking for. So, I ordered the book, got it over the weekend. I showed it to Nancy, I thought, what in the world? Nothing new.

Nothing I was unaware of in the least. In fact, I've got a stack of books sitting here on my desk and the stack could be, I don't know, it's a few inches high now, a couple inches high. It could be a couple feet high, probably, if I brought in all the books like this. I had children's readers, but many of them are in storage.

So, I just got some of the more recent ones. So, I'm gonna share that with you. But first, we're gonna go back in history, before the sexual revolution of the 60s, before the Kinsey volumes that sparked so much of this in the 40s and the first Playboy magazine in 53. Let's go back in American history. You know, we often hear these days about the many wrongs in our history and things that we did that were evil and unchristian, but there was a lot that was Christian, there was a lot that was good, there was a lot that was right. This is from my book, Saving a Sick America, and I put on my reading glasses here. All right.

This was from 2013. New York City announced an aggressive, comprehensive, and quite graphic curriculum that would consist of one full semester of sex ed in sixth or seventh grade, beginning with kids as young as 11 and in ninth and 10th grade. So, I said I'm gonna go back in American history. First, some of the bad stuff from 10 years ago.

If you got little ones around, you may want to put some music on to distract a bit. High school students go to stores. This is part of the curriculum from 2013 out of my book, Saving a Sick America. High school students go to stores and jot down condom brands, prices, and features such as lubrication. Teens research a route from school to a clinic that provides birth control and STD tests and write down its confidentiality policy. Kids ages 11 and 12 sort quote risk cards to rate the safety of various activities, including intercourse using a condom and an oil-based lubricant, all kinds of explicit sex acts.

Teens are referred to resources such as Columbia University's website Go Ask Alice, which explores topics like sexual positions, sadomasochistic sex play, phone sex, and more. This is a curriculum for children, New York City 2013. Now, let's contrast this. Oh, Noah Webster's Blue Black Speller, first published in 1783.

Are you ready? With its opening sentence declaring, no man may put off the law of God. This was a reader for children in our schools in America. Good children must fear God all day, love Christ all way, parents obey in secret pray, no false things say, mind little play, by no sin stray, make no delay in doing good. This is one of the readers for little children in America in our first century or so of existence, a century plus of existence. So yes, it was for a Christian population understood, but it was unashamedly using Bible and Bible truths in the teaching and training. Now, I'm not saying you can introduce this in public school today where you've got diversity, you do it in a Christian school for sure, but in public schools, but this was in public schools back then.

That's the point I'm making. All right. Oh, let us see here. 1824 edition of Noah Webster's Blue Book says this, lesson one, no man may put off the law of God. My joy is in his law all the day. Oh, may I not go the way of sin.

Let me not go the way of ill men. The last lesson states, as for those boys and girls that mind not their books and love not the church in the school, but play with such as tell tales, tell lies, curse, swear and steal, they will come to some bad end and must be whipped till they mend their ways. Obviously, corporal punishment was part of the lifestyle then. I'm just contrasting then to where things have gone as a result of the sexual revolution.

Let's see. Webster's Reader was used throughout the land containing pages of moral warning, exhortations based on Proverbs, passages from Jesus' Sermon on the Mount, a short recap of the history of creation, and a closing moral catechism. Webster, art thou a young man seeking for a partner for life?

No, this does not say a sex partner. Obey the ordinance of God and become a useful member of society, but be not in haste to marry and let thy choice be directed by wisdom. 1836, the first McGuffey Reader was published which taught the ABCs along with Bible verses. This reader was looked at as an eclectic reader which combined instructive axioms and Proverbs, fundamentals of grammar and selections of the finest English literature. 1892, Kansas Teachers Union declared, if the study of the Bible is to be excluded from all state schools, if the inculcation of the principles of Christianity is to have no place in the daily program, if the worship of God is to form no part of the general exercises of these public elementary schools, then the good of the state would be better served by restoring all schools to church control. So, if you're going to get rid of these Christian foundations, better put the schools back under the control of the church. How about, again, the New England Primer?

I downloaded the 1777 edition. Here's the ABCs. A. In Adam's fall, we sinned all. B. Heaven to find the Bible mind.

C. Christ crucified, for sinners died. And on and on. You get the feeling. All right. Now, let's get to the book that I ordered and got over the weekend titled, The Hips on the Drag Queen, go swish, swish, swish, by Little Miss Hot Mess.

Yeah, by Little Miss Hot Mess. And some of the pages here. Okay, tell you what. Rather than read through this book, a little bit different from In Adam's fall, we sinned all, or Christ crucified, for sinners died.

Learning the ABCs is meant to be read to toddlers and little children. I mean, what can I say? The pictures and the normalizing of this.

Let's watch a video where these very words now are put to life. And I'm going to describe what you're going to see. There's a man. He's shaving his beard. He's putting on glitter. Then he's putting on this whole drag queen outfit. And there's a sign he has on the wall behind him. I'll tell you the content of that in a moment. But let's just take a listen.

And those watching, take a look. Getting ready for work. A meticulous process that involves shaving, glitter, hairspray, and a wig.

But instead of performing in a nightclub, the venue is the Brooklyn Public Library in Park Slope at 10 o'clock in the morning. Who wants to be a drag queen when they grow up? Little Miss Hot Mess, who is ready for a story, is the host of Drag Queen Story Hour. This one is called Worm Loves Worm. Talking, singing, and reading.

We can both be grooms. To an audience of preschoolers, toddlers, and their caregivers. The hips on the drag queen go swish, swish, swish, swish, swish, swish, swish, swish, swish. All right, the the place is packed.

The library is packed. Kids sitting on the floor. Toddlers, little children, mothers holding babies in arm as they swish their hips. Listen, this is not watching a clown perform. This is a man who is dressing up as a woman who is promoting perversion and I have a hope that in posting this video and in talking about it during the show that some of you get burdened to pray for this man. That he would really encounter the Lord. A lot of us did a lot of foul things before we were saved. Some of us were very self-righteous, churchgoing hypocrites, legalistic judges. Others were blatant sinners like me shooting heroin using LSD and stealing money from my own father.

Others were somewhere in between. Others involved in all types of perverse acts that you'd be ashamed to even talk about. God had mercy on us and Jesus died for the worst of sins so I don't condemn this man. I said let's pray for him.

But this is child abuse and the parents are either massively ignorant or complicit in this. And how does this guy speak of himself? What's his self-identification?

I tell you what, it was I didn't even spot it on the video until my team pointed it out. There he's got like a plaque on his wall where he lays out who he is. I am a bad stuff coming, just a warning. I am a lessee butch pervert girlfriend, bulldagger sister, dyke and proud.

Let me read that again. This is on his wall in the video as he's about to go to a library with little children. I am a lessee butch pervert girlfriend, bulldagger sister, dyke and proud. If that's not perversion, I don't know what is. And to parade that in front of little children is absolute perversion. This is where the sexual revolution has brought us. This is where the casting off of right and wrong has brought us. This is where the throwing away the standards of God and the wisdom of God. This is where it has brought us.

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Before I take your calls, a few other books that I just had, very accessible, that weren't stored in boxes so I could find them. Okay, how about this one? Who Are You? The Kid's Guide to Gender Identity. And of course, you know who you are. You may have a sex assigned at birth, but people get that confused with gender.

You weren't born male or female, you had a sex assigned at birth. I remember reading about this stuff maybe 15 years ago and thinking, what are they talking about? Now it's just normal language and it's in children's readers. Or, oh, let's see this one. Neither. Oh, what's that about?

Little cute little bird or ducky on the front cover and what's that about? Well, maybe you're neither. Could it be that you're neither male or female? What kind of you? I'm both. You can't be both. You must be neither. I'm neither. Oh, so, okay. For instance, impressionable little children have no concept whatsoever about sex or sexuality. And even with gender roles, all kinds of confusion. How about this one? Pink is for boys.

Pink is for boys. Friends, this is why we've been shouting for years. This is why we've been raising our voice, not shouting at people. In fact, I was so blessed, maybe you're listening today, but I was preaching at the congregation we helped found many years ago, FIRE, so my home base ultimately, and hadn't been there in a long time, was preaching. And afterwards, a number of you came up to me and thanked me for the show, listen regularly.

Your spouse listens regularly. But to the one woman that met you, your husband, and your son at the service, telling me with tears how listening to the show from the start when we first went on there in 2008 has changed your perspective and has given you a love and burden for those who identify as LGBTQ. And as they start coming into the church and finding freedom and forgiveness and new life that you want to be there as a spiritual mom for them, you want to be there to reach them. You want to be there to help them. And just blessed to hear that heart. And that's what I'm seeking to get into the hearts and minds of everyone.

I'm not shouting at people. I'm grieved over a sinful, destructive agenda that is hurting children, that is negatively influenced in society, that is bringing us to the point where you've got lawsuits now from 18-year-old girls who had their breasts removed at 13 and were put on hormones that did irreversible damage to their body just because they were going through a time of psychological confusion. I mean, it is medical malpractice on steroids. It is social madness, for sure.

For sure. So, here's another one. The gay ABCs.

Little toddlers learn the alphabet with this. You say, well, what are the end results? The end results are countless kids who are deeply confused, who are making terrible life choices that are irreversible. The results of the sexual revolution more broadly in terms of promiscuity, in terms of kids born out of wedlock, in terms of sex just being recreation and not associated with procreation, so put aside homosexuality and all that. The facts have been many, many broken lives.

A generation that's lonelier than ever, and of course there are other factors, the rise of social media and how that plays out in things, but more depressed than ever, more suicidal than ever, more self-hating than ever, more insecure. You just go down the list, and a lot of this is a direct fruit of the sexual revolution. Friends, please hear me. God's ways are best. It's not a matter of us trying to enforce our morality on everyone, so your neighbor is a guy and his girlfriend lives there. It's not for you to say, well, you're going to hell because you're sleeping with your girlfriend. No, it's your role to be a neighbor and love that person, love that couple, get to know them, and as you're able to bring the gospel to them. Yeah, at certain points sin comes up, but there's the living together may be the least of the issues. That means it's what they do, and it's not even a big deal to them.

You know, they've slept around a lot, now they want to be more committed, and they're thinking about getting married, and never mind, they're taking good steps. It's not a matter of us enforcing our morality, being the morality police driving through our neighbor like, hmm, this shirt, I don't know, that skirt's a little too short. No, we're not the morality police. We're not doing what the morality police actually do in a country like Iran or Saudi Arabia, where they do drive around.

The woman doesn't have the burq, or the hijab, or whatever it is, and not properly covered. No, we're not seeking to do that. We will fight for the lives of the unborn, and do our best to advocate laws accordingly. We will seek to work to reverse the disastrous Supreme Court decision that normalized same-sex, quote, marriage, redefine something that's fundamental to society, because we believe overall that you're now legislating for society as a whole in a wrong, and negative, and destructive way. The fact is, if we stay with male and female, he created them, having great compassion on those who struggle with gender identity, especially with the massive confusion that's being put on them from these drag queens, and a thousand other sources.

If we hold to male and female, he created them, then you don't have these endless deviations, and endless gender-prone, preferred gender pronouns, and so on and so forth. If we hold to the sanctity of marriage, and set something beautiful and sacred within marriage, then you're not going to have all the illegitimacy, you're not going to have ultimately all the kids in fatherless homes, you're not going to have all of the destructive, negative things that come out of that. God's ways really are best.

You're not going to have sexually transmitted diseases. You're not going to have that, because God's ways are best. They're life-giving. That's what we've come to learn as his followers, that he made us, and his laws are for our best. And when we conform to them, it brings life.

It brings life. Let us undo the disastrous effects of the sexual revolution by living out, modeling God's ways, and presenting those to a confused world. And may those that we have spoken against in terms of their agenda, may they come to know the grace and love of God. We'll be right back.

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Any question of any kind, I am very happy to interact with you today. But I say this last thing. I said at the beginning, we won't get your blood boiling unless we get your faith rising. The pushback is continuing because many people, well-meaning people, sincere people, didn't want to be bigots, didn't want to be homophobes, got a family member, that's same sex relationship, and they're nice people, hardworking, and devoted, and good neighbors, and all. Why should we tell them that their love isn't valid? Who are we to say that it's not real marriage?

Why are we so hung up on our way of doing things? And I want to be tolerant that some of you, you want it to be accepting. Hey, you know, your niece, she's a sweetheart of a girl. She's finally happy in this relationship with another girl.

And in fact, the other girl had a baby, you know, and now they're going to raise that kid together, and it's beautiful. I don't want to be a bigot. I don't want to, you know, isn't this like another form of racism? So you ended up saying, okay, I support that, and went to the, it was a little different for you, but the same-sex wedding, and you met a lot of lesbians and gays there. They were nice people. And why should, why are these Christian fundamentalists so bigoted and so hateful and so homophobic and so transphobic and so narrow-minded?

Not to mention misogynist. Why are they so hung up? But see, you didn't sign up for where it went. You didn't sign up for the drag queen shaking their hips to little children saying, who wants to be a drag queen when you grow up?

Giving them some kind of image that that's a cool thing that you want to do. So you didn't sign up for that. You didn't sign up for your 14-year-old daughter coming home from school crying because there was a boy in her bathroom. You didn't sign up for your 15-year-old daughter coming home traumatized because she had a change in the presence of a boy who stripped down before playing on the same sports team with her. What? What? The Charlotte Observer years ago said that kids would just have to get used to the presence of, you know, other genitalia in their locker room. I mean, it's absolutely perverse statement.

The Charlotte Observer made the comment. This is the thing that our present administration, for whom we pray, our present administration is championing this as children's rights, transgender rights. You didn't sign up for any of that. And you are among the many millions of Americans saying enough is enough.

Then you're finding out that that trash, like I mentioned in some of these books, in a sophisticated way, is being taught to your kids in schools that are being indoctrinated with this. You think, whoa, whoa, time out. Time out. This is not what we signed up for. The revolution is underfoot. It's underway. It's at hand.

It's happening. But the church must lead the way. We must be the salt. We must be the light. We must be the moral conscience of the society.

We must be the ones ultimately working with others of different backgrounds. If I was in Montgomery County now, pushing back against the no opt-out policy, so they're going to teach some of this perverted stuff to our kids. Montgomery County, where we used to live in Maryland, they're saying you can't opt out. You can't opt out.

Your kids have to be there or they'll be penalized for missing a lesson. I would join with the Muslims there protesting against this. And if there were atheists protesting against it, just as a matter of principle, we would join together to fight that common cause. And I would do it with respect for the religious convictions of the Muslims.

And I would do it without trying to criticize the atheists and say, well, how can you have morals if you're an atheist? No, I would stand side by side for the common good. Just like if there's an earthquake or a hurricane or some natural disaster, you work side by side.

It doesn't matter who the people are. There's somebody trapped in that building. Let's go dig them out. Let's go try to help them before they die. And you might be digging side by side with someone who's a member of a cult and someone who hates organized religion.

But you work side by side by side for those things. But ultimately, when it comes to changing the minds of a society, when it comes to changing the laws, when it comes to changing perspective, the church has to lead the way. Otherwise, what will happen is we push, push, push, but it's natural weapons. 2 Corinthians 10, Paul said that we live in this flesh. We don't fight in the flesh. We live in the world.

We don't fight the way the world fights. Our weapons are spiritual. We overcome evil with good. We overcome hatred with love. We overcome falsehood with truth.

We overcome the flesh with the spirit. So we're ultimately fighting a different war in a different way, one that doesn't intimidate through numbers and screaming and yelling, but turns people's hearts through love. We may turn out in numbers, but our numbers are not going to be shouting epithets and ugly things and insults and mocking. No, we'll be speaking the truth, but we'll be doing it in love.

Paul writes in Colossians 4 that our speech will be seasoned with salt and full of grace. That's what we'll do. And hopefully we'll draw people to Jesus. And then as their, their very lives are changed, they will become lasting advocates.

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Those discouraged, those living in rough regions, states, difficult school districts, tough spiritual environments, God's on the move. Things are happening. Be encouraged. All right, we go to the phones.

We'll start in Louisville, Kentucky. Brian, welcome to the line of fire. Hey, thanks, Dr. Brown. Appreciate you having me on. Just had a quick, I'm kind of hearing an echo, but I'll try my best to do the question. Hopefully I'm still coming in clear to you. Yeah, you're clear to us, yep.

Good deal. I was going back and forth with an Orthodox Jewish friend recently, and he brought up a couple of verses, and I'll say them if you want to bring them up when you go to answer. One is 1 Chronicles 16, 15 through 16, and the other was Deuteronomy 29, 29, but I think there are a lot of other verses that go along with what he was arguing, that it says the Mosaic covenant was going to be eternal, or that's how it was spoken of, and how do we, I didn't really have an answer for him, how do we as Christians deal with, because obviously we know that Paul writes, you know, the Mosaic covenant comes to an end.

How do we deal with those texts? Yeah, so they're great questions. In fact, there are many, many verses that speak of the Sinai covenant being forever, for all generations, et cetera. Deuteronomy 29, 29, a very well-known verse, the secret things belong to the Lord our God, but that which is opened and revealed belongs to us and our children forever.

So, no doubt that's how it was laid out. So, do you have your Bible around? Do you have your Bible anywhere in sight? Yeah, let me grab one.

Let me grab it, yeah. Jeremiah chapter 31, verses 31 to 34, Jeremiah 31, verses 31 to 34, God says that days are coming that he will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah that will not be like the covenant he made at Sinai, because the people of Israel broke the covenant. Instead, this time he'll put his Torah, his teaching in their hearts and minds. You won't need to teach your neighbor anymore saying, know the Lord for everyone would know him because he will forgive their sins and remember their wicked deeds no more, right? So, in short, breaking that down, what that means is first, it's going to be different. So, it was an eternal covenant which was broken over and over and over.

The ten tribes scattered going into exile, the two southern tribes going into exile, they're being restored but still in a broken decimated way. Then ultimately, the sin reaching such a point of rebellion that the second temple was destroyed has never been rebuilt. So, the new, either we've been without atonement and scattered under God's judgment on a national level for 2,000 years or God has instituted the new and better covenant.

Now, the counter argument, so that's just blatant. You just show them that and say it was an eternal covenant and because of our sin, we broke it so God is going to give us a better covenant, right? One that will operate differently that we won't be able to break the same way.

So, that's the first thing. Second thing you point out, as I do in volume four of Answering Jewish Rejections to Jesus, if you will go through all of the references, every single reference to forever for all generations in the five books of Moses, you will see that roughly three quarters of them could only be observed with a temple standing and a functioning priesthood and Jewish self-governance in the land. Meaning that through most of our history, we have been completely unable to perform almost all, three quarters of the quote forever commandments. So, either we've been left bereft and under judgment with no atonement and inability to observe the Torah or God has replaced it with something better. So, the counter argument is, well hang on, he's still going to put his Torah in our hearts.

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Here again is Dr. Michael Brown. Welcome back to the Line of Fire. If you don't have my app, you may have a question like Brian's and wonder about so many issues, and what about the Second Coming or the Rapture, or what do you believe about Jehovah's Witnesses, or should we go to a same-sex wedding?

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We put out the materials for your benefit, not for ours, so please take advantage of them. Okay, so let me go back to Brian in Louisville. Now, what's cute is you said it's a quick question, and you asked it very concisely. It's a big answer, right?

You know, it's a quick question, but it's a big answer. So, here's the counter question that a religious Jew would raise. You show them Jeremiah 31 verses 31 to 34, all four verses quoted completely, following the Septuagint version, in Hebrews 8, and then in part in Hebrews 10.

I've often mentioned this, but this is the longest single passage in the entire Hebrew Bible, quoted in the New Testament. So, it's interesting that it's the New Covenant promised to the House of Israel and Judah. A traditional Jew would say this, it's the same Torah. The difference is that whereas the Sinai Covenant was something we could break because it was external, that this is now internal, and God will give us the ability to keep it.

These are my words, paraphrasing what a traditional Jew might say, and that's the difference. It's the same Torah. It's the same Sabbath observance. It's the same dietary laws. It's the same commandments, but now we're going to automatically obey.

Well, hang on. We know that Torah teaching has many, many meanings in Scripture. It can mean a specific law. This is the Torah of the burnt offering, right? This is the specific instruction concerning the burnt offering. It can just mean teaching, like Proverbs 3, B'ni Torah ti atishkach, my son, don't forget my teaching.

It can be used in numerous, numerous different ways. In fact, when a traditional Jew refers to Talmud Torah, the study of Torah, he's talking about all of rabbinic literature, right? And Torah can just mean things that you have to learn to get divine insight on. There's a famous Talmudic story about a rabbi with his disciple. The disciple follows him everywhere, even to the bathroom. Well, this is Torah, too.

I have to learn, like how you live. That's Torah. So, Torah can have a wide range of meanings. It doesn't specifically or explicitly or only mean the content of the five books of Moses. In fact, that's not even the primary meaning.

When it's normally spoken of Torah Moshe, the Torah of Moses or things like that, it's referring to the legal content within the five books as part of the Sinai Covenant. The point is, it clearly changes, the content clearly changes in the New and Better Covenant. For example, if your sins are forgiven once and for all, your iniquitous deeds forgiven and no longer remembered, then why do you need a day of atonement? Why do you need a day of atonement?

For what purpose? There are rabbinic traditions that state in the world to come that the only sacrifices that will be offered will be Thanksgiving offerings. Thanksgiving offerings. In other words, you won't be having sacrifices for blood atonement because there won't be sin. What about all the laws concerning the dead? What if no one's dying anymore? So, obviously, there are certain changes.

There are even some rabbinic traditions that would indicate that foods that are now prohibited will be permitted in the world to come. So, all that to say, the change in circumstances also necessitates a change in content and what exactly that looks like is not spelled out there. So, bottom line, when your religious Jewish friend comes up with great verses and says this is to continue forever, you can say actually because there are continued failure and Jeremiah being one of the last major prophetic voices before Israel's fall, before Judah's fall, that Jeremiah seeing the failure of the people under the Sinai covenant now prophesies a new and better covenant which will not be like the Sinai covenant. Certainly, in its nature in terms of one being external, the other being internal, but also, friends, also in terms of some of the content, in terms of some of the content which will necessarily change. All right, hey, thank you for the call.

I hope that was helpful. Okay, I realized after one of the shows last week, I'd said I was going to read content to you, a quote from one individual and he was rebuking me for my view that according to the Bible, that we will be here as believers through whatever tribulation, great tribulation is to come and that God will preserve us from his wrath, right? He can shield us, he has ways of doing it. He found a way to, he didn't take Noah off the earth, did he? No, he gave him an ark to survive. Noah was in the flood, was he not? Noah and his family experienced the flood. They just had an ark to live through it, but they experienced the flood. Lot and his family saw the fire fall on Sodom and Gomorrah, Lot and his two daughters.

His wife, of course, died and the sons-in-law, or the ones betrothed to the daughters. They died, they didn't take Lot's warnings, the angel's warnings seriously, but they just went nearby. They weren't taken out of the earth, they just went nearby and the children of Israel were right in Egypt. You got Israelites over here, Egyptians over here, and the plagues fall on the Egyptians and then fall on the Israelites. So, God knows how to protect his people, God knows how to keep his people. In the end of Isaiah 26, God says to his people, come away, come inside here, come inside here to get out of the way of judgment until it passes by, all right? So, that's there, that's in Scripture.

God knows how to preserve the godly, but what this fellow said was completely outrageous and I want to draw attention to it. I'm not mentioning a name, I'm not trying to mock a person, but he rebuked me for saying, isn't Christ's suffering on the cross enough and why would God leave us here to suffer? How dare you think that God would leave us here to suffer?

Oh, hang on, hang on for a second. This is meant to be solid biblically based theology, so to all the parents who've gone through the agony, which I cannot imagine, of going through the agony as a believer, of watching your child die of a dread disease, why didn't God rapture you out first? Why didn't God not let that happen? I'm not saying he sent it as a blessing, I'm saying you lived through that hell, you went through that.

To all of you who, as I speak right now, you are bedridden or you are on your job, but you are in physical agony and have lived with agony for years. Somehow this theology that God won't let you suffer or go through any tribulation, somehow that theology hasn't worked out too well for you. To the millions of Christians through the decades who have been slaughtered for their faith, who have been butchered, who have been beheaded, who have been buried alive, who have been starved to death, who have rotted in miserable prison conditions for decades until they die, who have had their own children taken away from them, who at this moment are suffering deprivation and threat of death for their faith, somehow God didn't take them out first. It's one thing to say God will not pour out his wrath on his children.

I believe that. So as we are here in times of tribulation, testing, the wrath of Satan, the wrath of man, that always comes our way. It'll just intensify as we get closer to the end. And when God's judgment and wrath is poured out in a sinning world, he'll protect us from that wrath.

We agree. Some of you say he'll take us out in the rapture. I say he'll protect us right here. But we agree he'll protect us from his wrath. But the idea that we're somehow exempt from suffering or that Jesus died on the cross exempts us from suffering. And I'm telling you, the wording was that blatant, that ugly, that wrong headache.

Who comes up with that? Unless everything's just going great in your life and you live in a country like America where you're not faced with a death threat from following Jesus. But friends, Jesus says it, John 16 33, in this world you will have tribulation.

But be encouraged, I've overcome the world. Paul preaches it with Barnabas in Acts 14, in Antioch. What does he say? He says, you must go through many tribulations to enter the kingdom of God. What does Paul write in Romans 5? That we grow through tribulation.

Character is developed. What does he say in Romans 8? What shall separate us from the love of Christ? Tribulation?

No, no. We're made for this. John writes in Revelation 1, I John, you're a companion in the tribulation and kingdom and suffering that are ours in Jesus. And at the very least, all of this includes persecution, hatred, rejection, maybe imprisonment, maybe death. Certainly it includes those things. This part of our life in God. What a bizarre idea that Jesus suffered on the cross means we don't have to suffer. No, it means we receive forgiveness for our sins and grace carry us in the midst of suffering. Another program powered by the Truth Network.