Sermon(Deut 13:6-11): The merciful God

The original Korean text: https://blog.naver.com/stevision/50025251915

 

 

 

>> 6 If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son, or your daughter, or the wife of your bosom, or your friend who is as your own soul, entices you secretly, saying, “Let us go and serve other gods,” which neither you nor your fathers have known, 7 some of the gods of the peoples that are round about you, whether near you or far off from you, from the one end of the earth to the other, 8 you shall not yield to him or listen to him, or shall your eye pity him, nor shall you spare him, nor shall you conceal him; 9 but you shall kill him; your hand shall be first against him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people. 10 You shall stone him to death with stones, because he sought to draw you away from the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, but of the house of bondage. 11 And all Israel shall hear, and fear, and never again do any such wickedness as this among you. (Deut 13:6-11) <<

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Let's suppose that you have a lovely daughter. If a rapist tries to rape your daughter, are you going to just look on? And are you going to have mercy on the raper ablaze with sexual desire and let him rape her? Are you going to sacrifice your beloved daughter to satisfy the raper's sexual desire? Let's suppose you have a beloved son. Are you going to just look on when a serpent is approaching him? There is a lion with terrible fangs. If the lion is about to kill your lovely wife, are you going to just look on when you have a rifle?

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The viper is dangerous because it has poison fangs, and the lion is dangerous because it has threatening fangs. Some shapes or forms are dangerous to humans, therefore sometimes Devil uses them to make humans fall into sins. Sometimes when a human being is conceived, Devil makes the conceived human have the appearance fit for the instrument for attacking the humans if the human is not God's possession, or one of God's people. So Devil makes some humans really man-like women or really woman-like men. Devil makes many people fall into homosex through them. Therefore all of man-like women or woman-like men who, rejecting commandments of God, obstinately do homosex are almost 100% Devil's tools. Of course, the Devil may not have ability to regulate the human figure. However he has the ability to seize the mind of those whose appearances are abnormal so as to use them as his tools.

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Let's say that there is a true child of God among those who are man-like women or woman-like men. Then they will obey God's words and will never do the dirty homosex. Of course, there may be some people who did homosex because of their appearance but repent their sins and live a normal life again. It is an exceptional case.

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What attitude should we take in this case? Should we admit their homosex because they have such appearances? That's what the Devil is after. Devil raises the question of appearance to legalize homosexuality, and creates an atmosphere friendly to homosex, dragging many psychotic patients with normal appearance into the dirty homosex. Therefore we Christians must regard those stubborn homosexuals, who do homosex on the pretext of their appearance, as Devil's tools, and stop their wicked deeds. By what right can we drive them from the society, for they, too, have freedom? We normal people have the right to live in a clean environment! And it is our responsibility to promote an atmosphere in which our descendants can live a righteous life, rejecting filthy human habits. Therefore the homosex-exterminating-movement is the self-defense of us normal people. If homosexuals say that they have the freedom to live a dissipated life, we can say that we expel their dirty deeds from the society in order that we may keep our right to happiness.

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Today's biblical text says that Israelites should stone him, who entices them to renounce the God of Israel and to serve other gods, to death, even if he is one of their family or a close friend. However the Bible says God is merciful. >>The Lord passed before him, and proclaimed, "The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness. (Ex 34:6)"<< Are you confounded by the fact that this merciful God gave Israelites a stern order that they should stone even a woman enticing people into idolatry to death even if she was a wife of one's bosom? You must not be so. God instructs us not to feel pity for those who entice us into the wrong way, but to kill them ruthlessly and without listening to any of their excuses, because he is our Father full of mercy, pity and faithfulness. The reason why he ordered Israelites to kill them without regard to any circumstances was that they belonged to the Devil. God gives us the instruction that we should mercilessly stone them to death under any circumstances because we'll surely come to the eternal death if we hearken to and follow the servants of Devil. In other words, they'll never obey God's words and give up their wrong thoughts and come to God, so God advises us not to have mercy on them but to pass a cruel judgement upon them.

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Today's words of God are not confined to the matter of serving foreign gods. The same strictness of the judgement apply to those who keep almost all of God's commands but refuse to keep one teaching concerning something. Therefore we must treat harshly some people who reject one of biblical teachings obstinately. A man, named Michael Servetus, was being burnt at the stake in Geneva, Switzerland, in the days of the Reformation. It was Calvin who played a leading role in the burning of this man. Both of them were devout. Servetus could admit that only the Father was the God, but his understanding did not allow him to believe in the Trinity. (He denied the Triune God openly.) Calvin had to burn his close ally of faith. Calvin just obeyed the verse >Deut 13:6< that a man who rejects the right teaching and tries to teach a wrong doctrine to others must not go unpunished even if he is our intimate friend. Bible commands you to remove evil without fail even if the author of the sin is your own brother, your own son, or your own wife.

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What does the Bible say about homosexuality? Wicked people distort the Scripture to rationalize their filthy perverted deeds, saying, "The Bible does not oppose homosex." It is outrageous! "You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination. (Lev 18:22)" "If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall be put to death, their blood is upon them. (This means that all gays must be put to death.) (Lev 20:13)" "Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed for ever! Amen. For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. Their women (lesbians) exchanged natural relations for unnatural, and the men (gays) likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in their own persons the due penalty for their error. (Rom 1:24-27)"

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My brethren, what must be our attitude against those who do that perverted deed of homosex in a democratic age? All of those who do such dirty deed must be put to death in the days of theocratic nation of Israel. We can't kill them now in Korea, but we should take a firm stand on such a dirty perverse culture instead. We must say plainly, "If you do homosex, you'll certainly go to hell. The government must give a severe punishment to those filthy perverts who are destroying individuals, homes, and society. We must keep young people from such dirty perverse culture." And we must expel from the church those abominable theologians whose soul was sold to Devil, and who assert the harmlessness of homosexuality, saying, "The church should allow homosex." They must be stoned to death if they lived in the old days (in Israel).

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Brethren, please open your eyes wide! Those who stubbornly refuse to obey God's words and commit homosexuality are Devil's tools. We must not, out of pity, overlook their deeds and let them spread the dirty homosex culture. Why do you have compassion for the wicked humans who are destroying individuals, families, and societies? Are you going to permit a lion to kill and eat your children because the hungry lion is so pitiful? Will you let lethal venomous serpents crawl about to bite people? Keep this in mind: those who reject God's words and commit sins are children of Devil. "You are of your father the Devil, and your will is to do your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and has nothing to do with the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks according to his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies. (Jn 8:44)" "Be sober, be watchful. Your adversary the Devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking some one to devour. (1 Pet 5:8)" "But I am afraid that as the serpent (the Devil) deceived Eve by his cunning, your thoughts will be led astray from a sincere and pure devotion to Christ. (2 Cor 11:3)" "He who commits sin is of the Devil; for the Devil has sinned from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the Devil. (1 Jn 3:8)"

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I saw a professor of theology at a prestigious university saying of >homosexuals' human rights< in the preaching. And a netizen who planed to enter a theological graduate school criticized me for campaigning against homosexuality on the Internet. A theology student, in a discussion in a theology lecture, assumed a friendly attitude toward homosexuality that we should admit their own lifestyle. Some feminist theologians are very friendly to homosexuals. So how much more people would there be, who think homosexuals are not harmful, among the laity? Maybe some homosexuals, disguising their identity, have infiltrated Christianity quietly and are campaigning for gay rights now. (Who can deny it? See their fruits!)

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It is like Middle Ages when many Christians overlooked the danger of the popes and supported them while the anti-Christs were sitting on the throne of the pope and destroying the church. It is like Middle Ages when the deceitful demonic spirit covered the spiritual eyes of the clergy and the laity so that all of the people of God were thoroughly hypnotized by the Devil. There are gay-clergymen in the United States - the worst of the worst situations. Of course theologians, pastors and lay leaders are campaigning against homosexuality. However, if we look at the progress so far, the dirty perverts are not likely to succumb to the gentle reproach and give up their sexual perversion. We must expel the filthy humans immediately from the church, and deprive them of their divine office. And we must sternly scold those who side with the wicked perverts in the church and drive also them all out of the church if they reject the right teachings. Denominations that side with the dirty sexual habits must be declared heretical in the name of the whole Christianity. And Christians must become one and expel all dirty perverts from all mass media. We must put pressure on the government not to allow weird things such as sex-change and marriage of homosexuals.

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Those who, speaking of God's mercy and love, say that the church should admit the perverted habits of the homosexuals are either manifest servants of Devil or foolish Christians who have been deceived by Devil for a while. Man of Holy Spirit admits that the God, who commands his children to remove the evil thoroughly, is a merciful God. He orders us to thoroughly punish the filthy homosexuals because he is truly a merciful God.

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May the abundant blessings of God be upon those who join the movement to expel dirty homosexuality from the society. May the heavy punishment of God be upon those self-styled Christians who ignore biblical teachings and try to defend homosexuality, from now on.

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Chong Tack Kim

                                    - Dongtoma Sunshine Church -

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