WHY DO YE STONE US?      DO 2835  12/92

         (Letters #2835 and 2837 were given in response to a message Dad received from a church leader who was advising us to modify our stance regarding our sexual freedoms in order to become more acceptable to the System.)

         1. With this new wave of persecution, we are of course again being asked questions about our sexual freedoms as they become more and more widely known through the exposure that our enemies have given our lit. Again, the Enemy has overstepped himself, and thinking to tribulate us, he has done much more to help us in enabling us to stand up and proclaim God's truth through His Word. To answer any of the questions on our sex beliefs, we have to go back to the fundamental issue as to what is basically wrong with nudity and sex.
         2. The subject goes back as far as the very beginnings of man. Men and women were created naked and with visible sexual parts. Why didn't God immediately cover them up and say, "No, no, you must stay dressed and hide these parts because they're evil, and using them is also evil!" Why did Adam and Eve not consider that nudity and sex were evil until the Devil told them so?--As is brought out by the Words of the Lord when He returned to the Garden of Eden for His usual fellowship with Adam and Eve, after their disobedience to His commandment not to eat of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. They had made themselves aprons of leaves to hide their sexual parts and had hidden themselves from the approaching presence of the Lord, saying, "We were afraid and hid, because we are naked." (See Gen.3:7-11.)
         3. And immediately the Lord asked them the primary question which is basic to the whole issue: "Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil?" Here we go back to the basic, fundamental question of what is good and what is evil. Were their bodies really bad? Were their sexual parts really evil? Isn't that the way God made them to begin with? Didn't God tell them to be fruitful and multiply? (Gen.1:28). And in order to comply with that, they would certainly have to have a lot of sex, as well as nudity. They certainly could not be fruitful and multiply without sex! So what then was wrong with sex after the Fall which had not been wrong with it when they were first created?
         4. It was a totally new concept after the Fall. Before that, they didn't even know they were naked. It was perfectly natural to them to be naked. And of course upon seeing each other, it was perfectly natural to be inspired with sexual feelings and to want to have sex.
         5. If it was wrong to be naked, then why did God make them naked in the first place? And why were they not even conscious of being naked and never forbidden to be naked? "God saw every thing that He had made, and, behold, it was very good" (Gen.1:31). God intended for them to be naked to begin with and to have all the sex they wanted, and as many children as they wanted, which they obviously did, and had sex before the Fall!
         6. This is what the Bible says! And this is the basis for our belief that sex is God's gift to us, that He's the one who created it and all of its pleasurable sensations, and that He expects us to enjoy it! Yet our self-righteous enemies condemn us and accuse us of being wicked sinners because we thank God for His gift of sex and because we're not ashamed of the bodies He has given us and because we have been freed by His grace to enjoy sex as He intended for us to!

Why Are Sodomites so Accepted in Today's Society?

         7. While they reject and condemn the pure, simple, Godly, Scriptural stance we've taken regarding sex, they readily accept the absolutely abnormal and perverted relationship of "men with men" (Rom.1:27) in the filthy habit of anal sex of the homosexuals--or as God called them, the sodomites--and which the Mosaic Law condemns with such fury, that society was supposed to stone to death any sodomites! (See Lev.18:22; 20:13.)--But who today are cloaked with the modern, legitimate sexual term of "homosexuals." Even many churches today are accepting the sodomites and legalizing the so-called "marriages" of "men with men, working that which is unseemly" (Rom.1:27), which God said would result in the affliction of their own bodies, God's curses of diseases such as AIDS.
         8. Why is society, why are governments, why are even churches willing to accept these vile sodomites who are so harshly and angrily condemned by the Scriptures? The Jewish kings in the Old Testament who did not destroy the sodomites were condemned and severely rebuked because they had not destroyed all the sodomites in the land, which was the commandment of God through Moses in the Laws of Moses (Deut.23:17; 1Kgs.14:21,24; 15:11-12; 22:45-46; 2Kgs.23:3,7).
         9. Here is a real sin! According to God and His Word and His laws, sodomy is a vicious, vile, filthy, perverted, horrible sin, the most vile of all sins outside of self-righteousness! And if there were ever any people who are self-righteous, it is the sodomites!--Brazenly bragging about their sodomy and demanding recognition and privileges and government benefits!
         10. In this wicked and evil generation of all kinds of iniquity and every kind of vile sin, why are these sodomites, who are contemptible in the eyes of God, suddenly so accepted? Why are they being accepted and exonerated and pitied and recognized by laws and churches, these filthy men even being accepted as pastors of churches? Why?
         11. Because this is a very evil day, that's why! These are the Last Days, of which God said, "Evil men and seducers will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived!" (2Tim.3:13). These are the days of which Jesus said, "Because iniquity will abound, the love of many shall wax cold!" (Mat.24:12).

God's Views Versus Man's Views!

         12. Just look at how the views and thoughts and even laws of man are completely contrary to the Laws of God! Look at man's horrific legalization and justification of abortion! Mothers today are killing their innocent babies literally by the millions in almost every country on Earth! The Lord says, "In thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor innocents: I have not found it by secret search, but upon all these!" (Jer.2:34). Why is so little protest being made about abortion, the ruthless slaughter of tiny innocent babies before they're even born?

Freedom Through the Law of Love

         13. Now let's get back to the issue of sex. We are delivered completely from all of the old Law, and the only law that Jesus taught was to love God and to love your neighbor, that's all! He said, "On these two commandments hang all the law and all the prophets" (Mat.22:37-39). We've just got to keep those two commandments, to love God and your neighbor as yourself, which are one and the same, and together we call them the Law of Love, the only commandment we now have to keep.
         14. All of the many Scriptures on "all things" make it very clear that whatsoever is done in love is not sin, is no longer considered sin. After all, what is sin? "Sin is the transgression of the Law" (1Jn.3:4). But now that we are saved by Jesus and freed from the old Laws of Moses, the only law we have to keep is Christ's Law of Love! "For ye are not under the Law, but under grace! For the Law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ! Ye are dead to the Law by the Body of Christ, and are married to another, even to Him who is raised from the dead! Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the Law, for the Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the Law of sin and death!" (Rom.6:14; Jn.1:17; Rom.7:4; Gal.3:13; Rom.8:2). Whatsoever is done in love to try to help people because you love them--how can this be sin? If that's a sin, then love is a sin.

Only Loving Things Are Lawful!

         15. (Maria: If "to the pure all things are pure" and "all things are lawful unto me," and if, under this Law of grace and Love, extramarital sex and all of these other things are lawful, then where do things like sodomy fit in?) Well, I'd certainly say you're carrying it a bit too far to try to include sodomy there! If you are truly pure and loving, you wouldn't do such things, because they're definitely not good for you physically or spiritually, and they're hurtful. Just because "all things are lawful" unto us doesn't mean that we can go around murdering or killing or torturing people! That's not love!
         16. (Maria: So those verses actually mean that only loving things are lawful?) Yes, if you're pure, you will do only pure things, and if you're loving, if you have real love, you will only do loving things. If you're pure, then all you do is pure. If your heart is pure in the Lord, you certainly wouldn't want to do anything impure or bad or cruel or vicious or filthy. But "he that is filthy, let him be filthy still!" (Rev.22:11). And sodomy is definitely filthy!
         17. So the Law of Love doesn't mean you can just do anything and whatever you want to do. It means that you will only want to do pure, kind and loving things. It couldn't mean anything else. And if you're pure in heart, if you're saved and filled with the Lord's love and are only seeking to help and be a blessing to others, then you won't do unloving, impure things. "Love worketh no ill to his neighbor: therefore love is the fulfilling of the Law" (Rom.13:10).

Who Said Nudity and Sex Were Bad?--The Devil!

         18. Nudity and sex were obviously received without question in the days of Adam and Eve. So where then did this question arise about nudity and sex being something bad, evil and wicked? Well, it's quite evident from what God asked Adam and Eve when He came to talk to them. He said, "Who told you you were naked?" In other words, "Who has told you that it is something bad or evil to be naked?--Or that there's something wrong with your sexual parts that they shouldn't be shown?--That there's therefore something evil about sex?"
         19. Who first taught man that it was bad and evil to be naked, and that sex was evil? Well, it's obvious from the story in Genesis of Adam and Eve that it was Satan! It was the Devil who originated the doctrines which have become standard doctrines of the churches against nudity and sex in all forms, condemned by society and programmed into the laws that way by the churches!
         20. Who then has been encouraging this idea of nudity and sex being evil? Who originated it but Satan himself in opening the eyes of Adam and Eve with a knowledge of supposed evil in the matter of nudity and sex. The Devil has carried this on as his primary campaign against man and his ideas of sin ever since.--To condemn nudity, God's beautiful creation of man, and the sexual organs of men and women as something to be ashamed of and something that is evil, and therefore implying, of course, that sex is evil.
         21. If sex is evil, why did God create it? If nudity is evil, why is that the way God made men and women to begin with? God created your body, He created the sexual organs and He commanded men and women to have sex--to "be fruitful and multiply!"
         22. But man today has turned things around completely, and normal sex is considered evil while sodomy is being encouraged, accepted, blessed and even glorified! This sure is a case of "that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God!" (Luke 16:15). Why has everything become so backward and wrong-side-out and upside down that man today and self-righteous hypocritical society accept with open arms the most vicious, vile, wicked, evil, filthy, sexual sin of all?--Sodomy! The wicked are now condemning the righteous as wicked!

Why Do You Stone Us?

         23. So as Jesus said, "For which of our good works do you stone us?" (John 10:32). And in the case of the woman caught in adultery He said, "Let him that is without sin cast the first stone" (John 8:7). The self-righteous, hypocritical Scribes and Pharisees who took up stones to stone Jesus to death on several occasions knew they really had no just cause and no specific evidence with which to accuse Him. Later on, of course, they finally became so infuriated at Him because of His popularity and His fame and His teachings against the hypocritical self-righteousness of their supposed law that they planned to kill Him, and finally did.
         24. But you'll find in the 23rd chapter of Matthew what He thought about these hypocritical, self-righteous Scribes and Pharisees who were condemning Him to death. He called them "whited sepulchres full of dead men's bones, cleansing the outside of the platter, but the inside was filthy."--A whole chapter in Matthew spent on finally denouncing the Scribes and the Pharisees, the hypocrites. He called the religious leaders hypocrites, supposedly the most righteous of all the religious people of their day, who killed Him for it just a week later because they couldn't stand His exposs any more!
         25. So to our accusers I say: For which of our good works do ye stone us? Don't just make a general condemnation of us for supposed evils and sins which the world has been encouraged to condemn today, while letting others go ignored and even be encouraged.
         26. The System is guilty of the most wicked, filthy and abominable sins of all! They not only tolerate them, but encourage and glorify the evildoers! The heroes of today are the sodomites! They're put on television and exalted and glorified, and the good people are accused of not helping them. Now it's a righteous act to encourage the sodomites, when in the Bible it was a righteous act to stone them to death!
         27. So who's right?--Those who righteously, according to the Word of God and the Laws of Moses, stoned sodomites to death, and God, Who wiped out their whole cities and nations?--Or those nations of today who encourage sodomy by tolerating it, exalting it, recognizing it, accepting it, legalizing it, helping it, paying government benefits to it and accepting its wicked practitioners into the priesthood of its churches!
         28. So you who rebuke me, I in return rebuke you as the sinners. Not me! Not us! You're the sinners! You're the wicked! You're the ones who tolerate the worst sins of all in this wicked and adulterous generation, which is going to be judged soon and is now being judged with curses such as AIDS and economic curses, crime, curses of war, curses of every kind, judgments of God, natural disasters! Even your own children are drug-ridden, confused and suicidal. God is wreaking havoc upon the Earth because man has wreaked havoc with man, according to the Word of God!
         29. We can no more be reconciled with the mores and morals of modern society than they can be reconciled with God and His Laws. We're not conformed to this world, but we are transformed by the renewing of our minds and the reconciling of our spirits to the will and the Laws of God! (Rom.12:2). The world hateth us because it hated Him and still hates Him! (John 15:19).
         30. So think not that the world will ever receive us, not even the worldly church of today. But those who are true Christians and truly love the Lord will sooner or later recognize that we are right and will love us.--Those that are His, but never the world! They will even kill us, thinking they are doing God service! (John 16:2). We only expect the worst from man!
         31. "Choose ye this day whom ye shall serve! If Baal be God, then serve him; if God be God, then serve Him! As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord!" (Josh.24:15; 1Kg.18:21). Hallelujah! God bless and keep all those who love Him and His Word and His Law of Love!--In Jesus' name, amen!
         32. --As Martin Luther stood on his convictions of God's Word at the Diet of Worms when he was on trial for preaching salvation by grace: "Here I stand! I can do no other!"--And was therefore excommunicated by the church and condemned to death for heresy! So be it!
         33. --But where will you stand at the Great Day of the Judgment of God!? God have mercy on you sinners! I'm saved by His Loving grace!--NOW!--What about you?--Will ye still stone us?--Come die with us, or some day you may wish you had!


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