Enabling Wrong Doing

                               

Question: If your parents approved of everything you wanted to do when you were 13 years old, would they have been loving? No, of course not. Love doesn't mean approval! Love doesn't mean enabling people to do what is wrong.  Love means You are STANDING IN THE WAY OF WHAT'S WRONG. If you approve of everything your child wants to do, you're not loving, you're unloving. You're an enabler. In fact, there is a passage from the Bible that everybody reads at their wedding, but nobody obeys, it is 1 Corinthians 13. Here is what Paul said about love: Love does not rejoice in wrongdoing. Love rejoices in the truth. Love always protects. Love always perseveres." You don't protect people when you approve of the wrong they're doing, you're doing the opposite! Hear me. In fact, Jesus who went to the cross for us gave us one new command. Do you know what that is? It is this: "A new commandment I give you, to love one another as I have loved you" (1 John 13:34). How did Jesus love us? He sacrificed Himself for us. So what is love for us?? It means sacrifice. It doesn't mean approval.

You know, when people fail to tell others what they know to be true it's because they don't want to hurt your feelings. They are afraid you'll get mad. They feel you might get your friends to disapprove of them, or you might cut them off forever. Do you know what people like that are doing? They are enabling you to do what is wrong. And a lot of times we withhold the truth because we don't want people mad at us. And do you know why we do that? We want to take the easy way. We will sacrifice them for our benefit rather than sacrificing ourselves for their benefit. That's what love is! To sacrifice yourself for the benefit of others! So you need to tell people what the truth is even if it means losing them forever. LOVE does not mean approval. Thomas Sowell once said, "When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear." How often do we tell people what they want to hear? Oh, we don't want to risk the relationship, right? What kind of relationship do you have anyway if you can't tell them the truth? 

When, as Christians of faith, we know someone's actions or beliefs are biblically wrong, we are to speak the truth in love. I recently witnessed this within my own family. Oh how it hurts to see 2 people you love drifting apart. When you see one following and standing on Christian principals and the other actually agreeing blindly to worldly concepts opposite of Biblical truth it's hard to watch. Oh how clever Satan is to ever convince us wrong is right and right is wrong. Approving a persons homosexuality is not loving that person, it enables them to believe wrong is right. Approval of an abortion is not loving that person, it enables them to believe wrong is right. So many people are mistaken that if they approve of another persons sin they are actually doing Gods will by "loving one another." This is a deception of Satan! Yes, we are to love everyone BY TELLING THEM THE GOSPEL TRUTH of these matters. Jesus told the truth and they killed Him!

It's interesting to note, scripture tells us in Paul's writings, that the devil actively blinds the minds of those who don't believe in Jesus. Notice, Paul was not speaking about the eyes when he refers to blindness. He's telling us our minds are kept in the dark from truth, from God's spoken Word WHEN WE DON'T BELIEVE JESUS. The Bible testifies that "Jesus was the WORD made flesh." Not believing therefore, means you don't believe THE WORD (the Bible), for the Word clearly states homosexuality is wrong (Leviticus 18:22) and literally calls it an abomination. It's mentioned again in the New Testament Romans 1:26-29, explaining how men change from lusting after women over to lusting after men. It's written. God said it in the Old and New Testament. If you are of the mindset (an actively blinded mind) to this truth, you are not loving that person you are enabling them to continue in the error of their way. The same holds true if you follow the crowds worldly concept regarding abortion when God has something to say about this again in both the Old and New testament. Abortion is the shedding/murder of innocent blood and once again God refers to it as an abomination (Proverbs 6:17). God knows every spirit/baby BEFORE WE ARE EVER FORMED IN THE WOMB because He is our creator (Jeremiah 1:5) and Psalm 139 refers to Gods involvement in the development of a fetus. Exodus 21:22-23 refers to the pregnant woman and the fetus as 2 separate lives. God tells us we are more than just a clump of cells. Satan has convinced the blind you are a clump of cells and nothing more. We are given life/a spirit at the moment of conception!

For those who say they are Christians yet support the worldly concept God made homosexuals the way they are have been tricked, deceived, and manipulated by Satan himself and have called the WORD of GOD (Jesus) a liar when He has said and showed us differently as I pointed out in the scriptures above. By "accepting" this lie, you are enabling sin and encouraging the person to remain there in that sin. The same goes for those who approve of abortion. Abortion is murder. Murder is different than killing. Murder is INTENT! Killing can be an accident. Murder is never an accident. Abortion is something thought out, an act one INTENDS to do: "Get this thing out of me." "If my parents find out, I'm dead." "I'm too young to be a mother." "My husband cannot find out this isn't his." "I know I'm in my 9th month but I've changed my mind. I don't want it now." All these are INTENT to do harm and end a life, and that is murder!

If you say you are a Christian, if you say you believe God's Word (do you even read it thoroughly?), if you pray for others, if you go to church each week, if you wear a crucifix around your neck but still believe homosexuality is okay, abortion is okay, if you  believe, follow, or vote for those that promote those sins you are assisting an evil work across this nation. I would encourage you to read the Bible more thoroughly and ask God to forgive the path you've been on and quickly turn to truth, READ THE BIBLE, research these subjects, renew your mind, and come to the light. Don't allow yourself to be closed minded. Only darkness hates light. Don't run from light. Read the Bible, know the Bible. See if what you believe agrees with or contradicts God's Word. Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God (James 4:4-8). If another Christian,  spouse, friend, or even a family member asks why you support such anti-biblical ideas, they are doing so out of love. At least have a conversation. Don't close your mind. Don't shun or push them away. After all, they are sacrificing themselves. It's called love.

Until He Comes,

-Pat-