Response to Marriage Rights

Let me preface this by saying personal opinions are like armpits most everyone has two and they usually stink. That said here is my opinion followed by a 2 min reaction by Russell Moore the of The Ethics & Religious Liberties Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention to the Supreme Courts ruling. 

I don't agree with the ruling by the SCOTUS today, but it doesn't change anything in my life nor does it change the way I live for Jesus. I love how Russel Moore put it in his response that the Supreme Court cannot put Jesus back in the grave!

It is up to us as followers of Christ to continue to stand for what we believe and to not compromise our morals. As a follower of Christ we must still show love to all people and we must still call sin what it is, an abomination before the One True God. 

All are welcomed and loved by God and should be by us, His children. However, we should give the same answer to all those who are accused of sin that Jesus gave the woman found in adultery (this includes all of us). Neither do I condemn you. Go and sin no more. Telling someone that their behavior is sin is not condemnation of the individual, only the sin. We are all guilty of sin and many refuse to admit they are sinning, but that doesn't change the facts in God's eyes. 

Marriage will not make the people in the gay and lesbian community happy anymore than it has for straight people who have had marriages that ended in divorce. Not all of them will end in divorce. Some will last a lifetime until death do they part, but they will not be blessed by God. 

The only thing that will make us truly happy is complete reliance on a most Holy God! 

D.A. Carson penned in his work The Cross and Christian Ministry, "The only thing of transcendent importance to human beings is the knowledge of God. This knowledge does not belong to those who endlessly focus on themselves. Those who truly come to know God delight just to know him." 

Where is your delight? Where is your happiness? 

If you haven't already seen it take a moment and watch Russel Moore's reaction to the Supreme Courts Decision: