Further Thoughts on JM Video Topic

So in the last video I was in a bit of a rush. Someone was coming over and I needed to get that taken care of and so there was. There was something I didn't really address that I would like to address and it's tough question.

It's a tough question. If you didn't see the last video you need to go see what John MacArthur said basically, he answered a question That was sent in to grace to you as to how a Christian parent should respond to an adult child who professes themselves to be homosexual and What he did is he made differentiation between one who professes to be a Christian and one who does not has that differentiation must be made and And Then addressed the one who makes a self-profession of faith within the context of church discipline.

Specifically first Corinthians chapter 5 and we looked at that text but as I've thought about it, I realized that what really Bothers people I think about what dr. MacArthur said is that it requires us to have a fundamentally different view not only the nature of the church, which I did address but likewise of The primacy of the Lordship of Christ in our life than most people actually have.

The Cost of Discipleship and the Sword of Christ

On the screen you see the words that Jesus gave in Matthew chapter 10. Do not think that I came to bring peace on the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword for I came to set a man against his father and a daughter against her mother and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law and a man's enemies will be the members of his household a Old Testament fulfillment text.

Which Jesus interprets in the words of he who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me and He who loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me and he does not take his cross and follow after me Is not worthy of me he who has found his life will lose it and he who has lost his life for my sake will Find it.

This is obviously The Radical reorientation of Christian discipleship. Now once again, I can't even begin to address Those who are anti Lordship easy grace people because they're so far off Biblically from the gospel here that these words don't make any sense to them within their within their context.

The Gospel Divides Families and Demands Repentance

So leaving that false view aside What we see here is a call to all believers and That to be a Christian to take up one's cross to follow after Christ is a radical involves a radical reorientation of everything in our lives not only Inwardly as we consider our own hopes and dreams and our possessions and our relationships and everything else.

But all the relationships we have outside of ourselves including father and mother Jesus as I the gospel will divide the gospel will Radically change your relationship with other people and here's an example of it.

Yes, you you call for repentance your adult child who professes to be a Christian and Of course as dr. MacArthur said if he doesn't profess to be a Christian well, it's obviously just further need for evangelism at that point, but if this person professed to be a Christian and I'm assuming That and I think dr. MacArthur was assuming this too That the person saying this is not saying please help me.

I Don't want to experience this. I don't I I don't want to exame the Experience these same-sex attractions. Would you help me to live a holy life? Would you help me to? Reorient myself along those lines the assumption that I had and I think the dr. MacArthur had is that we're talking about someone who says I'm a Homosexual and I am going to allow myself to be defined by my desires and I am NOT going to change.

It is in that light that his words Are to be understood and that all of us must agree that the words that he gives as harsh as he may be are not as harsh as what Jesus said and And so in that context the gospel divides just as it would divide us between anyone who Would for example live in any type of open sin Unrepentant a husband who abuses his wife or his children a husband who engages in Heterosexual adultery, whatever else it might be who's Stealing from his company and will not stop all these things would likewise be unrepentant sins though none of them would be the same thing as being so changed inwardly as to Create this kind of a of a perversion of one's relationship.

The Lordship of Christ Above Every Earthly Relationship

But the point is this as hard as it may be. There would come a time when one would have to one would just be forced to Put the relationship of the lordship of Christ before any other relationship and if you have a father a Mother a son a daughter Who Refuses to Follow the lordship of Jesus Christ while claiming to be a follower of Christ.

There comes a point in time where separation is necessary. That's what first Corinthians 5 says that's what Matthew chapter 10 says and There's no way around that. The only way to get around that is to abandon the lordship of Christ, which is exactly what we see in the liberal denominations today.

The lordship of Christ has no meaning in those denominations where his word is no longer considered authoritative and so Taking up the cross is a radical thing. The world can't understand it. We should we should recognize that we should understand they can't they can't understand and these liberals who?

Who mock what dr. MacArthur said, you know, they don't understand the concept of taking up the cross. But we need to understand it and we need to be able to enunciate it to others that we have a requirement we have a Duty that is incumbent upon us because of the price that has been paid for our very souls.

We belong to someone else. We we have bowed the knee to the lordship of Christ and that lordship has responsibilities in this world. Hopefully we'll understand that. Hopefully this has been a useful addition to what we already said in the previous Video.

Thanks for watching.