SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 6/8/2014 10:59 PM
My Worship Time
Focus:
How The Lie of Evolution has affected Sexual Morality
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: 1
Thessalonians 4:3-8
Message of the
verses: “3 For this is the will of
God, your sanctification; that is, that you abstain from sexual immorality; 4
that each of you know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and
honor, 5 not in lustful passion, like the Gentiles who do not know God; 6 and
that no man transgress and defraud his brother in the matter because the Lord
is the avenger in all these things, just as we also told you before and
solemnly warned you. 7 For God has not called us for the purpose of impurity,
but in sanctification. 8 So, he who rejects this is not rejecting man but the
God who gives His Holy Spirit to you.”
I think that it was in 2011 when I first became serious
in studying about creation, creation that the Bible talks about. I read and then lead a Bible Study on a book
that John MacArthur wrote entitled “The Battle for the Beginning.” One of the statements from that book that I
hope that I never forget is that evolution is impossible, it cannot
happen. MacArthur even said that God
could not make evolution work, and I believe this statement.
I have to say that this SD will be a bit different than
most of the ones that I write because I am not really following a set amount of
verses from the Bible even though this subject fits in well with our study of 1
Thessalonians 4:3-8, which is why I quoted them at the beginning of this SD.
One may wonder why I would say that evolution effects
sexual morality when evolution is a theory about the origins of the earth. I believe that this “theory of evolution”
came straight from Satan, and Satan has a lot of time to develop the things he
wants to develop many years before they actually become a problem, and in this
case they are a great problem. I am not
too familiar with a trial that took place many years ago that had to do with
the teaching of evolution, but I am sure that there is plenty to say about that
trial on the internet. This was the beginning of the downfall of teaching in
schools in our country. When I was in
the eighth grade I was first introduced to evolution and it was at that time
that I told my parents that did not want to attend church anymore because I
believed in evolution, and this is one of the purposes of this lie, to make
people think that there is no God, and God did not create the world’s as
Genesis describes it. If there is no God
and if things just happened by some kind of accident then we are not
accountable to God. While attending our
Church service this evening I listened to a missionary who ministers in
downtown Chicago. He stated that he was
told that by someone who did not want to hear the teachings of the Scriptures
that “we are past that kind of thing because we know that there is no God who
created us.” This is a very dangerous
teaching that will cause people not to believe in God and then because of their
unbelief they will spend eternity in hell.
Perhaps you can begin to see why it is not hard to
understand why evolution can produce sexual immorality for if man is now the
highest chain on the evolution rung then all sex is, is something only for
pleasure with whom every you desire to have it with. This too will get a person into trouble. Now I want to quote from John MacArthur’s
sermon on this subject in conclusion to this SD. I will have to break into the middle of his
sermon but once we see the whole quote it will be understood.
“The church has literally imbibed
[consuming] this. And when you go back and look at the roots of it all, you
really could start with Charles Darwin. Once the thinking of Charles Darwin,
which I believe was certainly spawned by Satan, invaded the world and said,
"We are not the creatures of God, we are simply the products of
chance," then all morality was questionable. If we are nothing but the
result of a collection of atoms that occurred sometime in the past or something
that crawled out of some primeval ooze somewhere, then there is no real
morality. Charles Darwin influenced people like Karl Marx who took Darwinian
evolution to its logical extreme politically and he influenced people like
Sigmund Freud who took Darwinian evolution to its extreme in terms of
psychology and personal behavior. They influenced people like Friedrich
Nietzsche who decided that really there was no God, God was dead, family life
was unimportant. All that was important was pleasure and fulfillment.
“The influence philosophers like Bertrand Russell who mocked all
Christian values and along came people influenced by them. Margaret Sanger who
founded Planned Parenthood, Ernest Hemingway, probably the most classically
famous Hedonist in western culture. Havlok(?) Ellis (?), Margaret Mead, Alfred
Kinsey, Masters and Johnson, Hugh Hefner, and they all flow out of that same
basic line of philosophical thinking. What you have is a sexual revolution
produced by atheistic, hedonistic, pleasure mad, anti family, homosexual, pornographic,
perverted people. It starts, as it were, supposedly in the environs of science
and philosophy, it ends up in behavior. And mix that kind of behavior with
alcohol and drugs and you have the American culture. And what is so frightening
about it is that the church doesn't seem to be aware of what's happening and it
jumps on the self-fulfilling, feeling good bandwagon, unwittingly capitulating
to the philosophy of atheists and evolutionists.
“And I guess we would have to say that in Paul's time the kind of
behavior that existed there would have been as bad, and as I said earlier maybe
worse, there was no shame attached to immoral behavior at all in Paul's time.
No shame attached to any sexual conduct at all. There was in that society a
plethora of prostitutes, concubines, mistresses, homosexuals, pedophiles,
transvestites, temple harlots, adulterers and adulteresses and they abounded in
that culture. In fact, it was from that very mass of people that the churches
were plucked. Paul says to the Corinthians, "And such were some of
you." What? "Fornicators, adulterers, homosexuals, effeminates."”
There are a couple of things that upset me when I think about
evolution. First of all it is a lie,
second this is partially the reason that our country is in the trouble that it
is in. Thirdly it is believed by many
born-again believers because they are too lazy to dig into the truth of
Scripture to find out it is a lie.
Lastly it can undermine other doctrines found in the Bible, for if they
tear this one apart, then what will stop them from tearing others apart.
Answer to our last
Bible question: “To Egypt” (Genesis
12:10).
Today’s Bible
question: “Who were the first persons,
other than Joseph and Mary, to hear that Jesus had been born?”
Answer in our next
SD.
6/8/2014 11:33 PM
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