Gay Marriage?

Marriage as a God-Instituted Covenant

Dearly beloved friends. We are gathered together in the sight of God and in the face of this congregation. To join together this man and this woman and holy matrimony. Which is an honorable estate instituted of God in paradise in the time of man's innocency.

Signifying unto us the mystical union that is betwixt Christ in his church. Which holy estate Christ adorned and beautified with his presence. The first miracle that he wrought in Cana of Galilee and is commended of st. Paul to be honorable among all men.

And therefore is not to be enterprised nor taken in hand unadvisably lightly or wantonly to Satisfy men's carnal lust and appetites like roots root beasts that have no understanding but reverently discreetly advisedly soberly and in the fear of God.

Duly considering the causes for which matrimony was ordained one was the procreation of children to be brought up in the fear and nurture of the Lord and praise of God. Secondly was ordained for a remedy against sin and to avoid fornication that such persons as Have not the gift of continence might marry and keep themselves undefiled members of Christ's body.

Thirdly for the mutual society help and comfort that the one ought to have of the other both in prosperity and adversity. Into which the Holy Estate these two present persons come now to be joined. Therefore if any man can show any just cause why they may not lawfully be joined together.

Let him speak now or else hereafter hold their peace wedding vows for the night 1552 book of common prayer. We've come a long way, baby. Haven't we? Or as Dylan would say the times they are a changing.

I Mean, what was the last time you even heard the bands the proclamation of if anyone in the congregation knows anything about these couples? So they should not be married. Don't let them be married. That was announced in Protestant and Catholic churches for the prior three weeks.

Redefining Marriage in Dictionaries and Culture

Noah Webster in his dictionary 1828 said this about marriage. It is the act of uniting a man and a woman for life. Wed lock. Marriage was instituted by God himself for the purpose of preventing promiscuity of the sexes for promoting domestic felicity and securing the maintenance and education of children.

Time goes on. Marian Webster recently said it is the mutual relation of husband and wife the institution by where men and women are joined in the special kind of social and legal dependence. Time goes on and a little bit more of the God talk comes out.

Cambridge Dictionary says of today the legally accepted relationship between a woman and a man in which they live as husband and wife and Now online in Carta dictionary says listen to this. It is a legal relationship between spouses a Illegally recognized relationship established by a civil or religious ceremony between two people who intend to live together as sexual and domestic partners.

And as time goes on from the Bible, here's what the Bible says about marriage to 1555 to 1832 and down today We get a redefining of the concept of marriage. You don't like something just redefine it. If it's too narrow just spin it.

For further demonstration of that I found this week online. If you have marriage, which is honorable and sacred by God, and you don't really like it because it's too exclusive. Then just put a different vocabulary word in front of it an adjective matter-of-fact and change it all.

We have now mixed marriages. A Marriage between two people who are of different religious backgrounds. We have civil marriages. Don't want to have all the God talk then just have a marriage with a magistrate that was in 1889 1900 we have common-law marriage.

You don't really have to get married. Just live together for so long. Everybody will just assume that we have shotgun marriages. A marriage forced or required because of because of pregnancy in 1929. That was in the dictionary 1971 open marriages.

Partners are open to do whatever they want outside of marriage. And now we have gay marriage as We know of this last week. Yesterday 40 years ago. Some say that was the day when America lost her innocence.

I'm not so sure last week is the week or the day where Massachusetts turned her back on marriage and lost her. Goodridge vs. Massachusetts Department of Public Health four to three gay marriages. Chief of Chief Justice Margaret Marshall said this and she was the majority opinion writer and she said quote the marriage ban.

Works a deep and scarring hardship on a very real segment of the community for no rational reason. Did you get that? First of all the God-ordained pact between a man and a woman to be married and only for them to be married is now called A marriage ban.

I think of Isaiah chapter 5. Woe to those who call evil good and good what evil it's all upside down. Furthermore basically, I think what she was saying is gay marriage is good. And if you don't believe so then you are cuckoo.

More than that. There's no rational reason to do anything else. Rational you are hysterical. You are homophobic. You are a fundamentalist you are Tyrannosaurus rex. You're a dinosaur. You're a troglodyte.

You're you're not rational. You don't think if you believe something like that Martin Luther said if we are correct and right in our Christian life at every point. But refuse to stand for the truth at a particular point where the battle rages and we are traitors to Christ.

A Charge to Respond Biblically

The battle is raging. And in front of you all this morning I want to obey some of my last few sermons. The pastor should live what he preaches. You should at least strive to do that and so I'm going to obey in front of you now in front of all of you to see that.

I want to obey the Commands that I've been preaching from Paul out of the book of Ephesians as we've been going verse by verse to be angry. I want to obey that one. And I also want to obey the command that it talks about not letting unwholesome words proceed from your lips.

But instead give words for edification for need for benefit. When there's a need that the church has then we are supposed to speak grace to fill that God's honorable state of marriage. His holy matrimony is being sullied.

And I'm mad I'm angry. And I was sitting having breakfast this morning. Wasn't this morning? Although I had was sitting having breakfast this morning as well, but it was Friday. I was working on Ephesians chapter 4 had most of the message done and I thought here this is raging around us.

What are we to do? How do we respond? Panic attack. Get the Valiums call your senators. There's a variety of things that you could do good or bad. So let's take this hour. Not a technical hour, but let's take the rest of the time and I want to give you a charge from pastor to the congregation.

Now, how do you live in a society like this and it's not going to get any better. I think it's going to get worse before it gets better. And what will you do? It'll be one thing to lose our tax exemption because we won't marry sodomites.

As the Bible Bible would call them. I mean what a travesty they've taken the word gay and now we can't use it anymore. You could say oh boy the Jeffries have a gay marriage. They're just happy and they love each other and they're bright and cheerful.

You can't say that anymore. Can you? You're making some good word and tweaked it into negative. Sorry, that wasn't in my nose the epitome of a gay marriage. Sad and I want to give you a charge you say well, yeah, you just have to say sodomites.

Listen to what God called Israel. Specifically Jerusalem Revelation 11 8 and their dead bodies will lie in the street of the great city, which mystically is called Sodom and Egypt. Where also their Lord was crucified Sodom.

It's the corruption. What do we do? Well, let me give you several for this morning. And again, I want this to come right out of Ephesians chapter 4. I could just stop but as as you live your life and you say I just as soon finish Ephesians 4 and get there before Thanksgiving etc, etc.

But sometimes you just have to put the halt on and say what does God say in a time like this? How do you respond? I would say this if you heard about that this week and said, oh who cares God will work it out.

I think that's the wrong response. If you said I can't believe this the world is crumbling and I'm worried and anxious about my grandkids. That was the wrong response. What are we to do? How are we to act?

Recognize This as an Attack on God, His Word, and Christ

Let me give you that charge this morning with several Charges from Scripture number one. Recognize firstly that this is an attack upon God and his word. Especially an attack on Jesus Christ. So if you have an outline today, this is point number one.

This is an attack upon God his word and Jesus Christ. And I don't know about you, but if your wife is getting attacked, I don't think you just stand there and kind of watch. The issue is not it is best for a child to grow up with a dad and mom in the home.

Although it's true. The issue is not The judiciary now taking away the legislative Branches job and kind of spinning over into making law at the judiciary level. That's not the issue. The issue is not well tradition.

The issue is not Financial. The issue is this is an attack upon the person and work of God. And once you abandon the authority of God and therefore his word. Every man will do what is right in his or her own.

What? No authority except the authority that we have inherently and what you have is chaos. Maybe you have friends like I do who have said even this week what's okay by me as long as they don't hurt anyone.

Whatever is done in the privacy of their own home. They're born that way. Those are issues, but those are not the issue. The issue is the nature and integrity of our great God. It is an attack upon God and his nature with twin tower like significance.

God ordained marriage. God created marriage. God established marriage. God designed marriage. Marriage reflects God. If you attack marriage you attack the Bible and you attack God. Listen to what the 1552 book of common prayer goes on to say to the couple in front of the church.

I Require and charge you as you will answer at the dreadful day of judgment when the secrets of all hearts shall be disclosed. That if either of you do know any impediment why he may not be lawfully joined together in matrimony that she confess it.

For be ye well assured that so many as be coupled together. Otherwise than God's Word doth allow are not joined together by God. Neither is their matrimony lawful. It may be lawful in the state's eyes, but it is not lawful in God's eyes.

Turn to Hebrews chapter 13 and let's just take a look at this passage for a moment. And we'll talk about how we respond to people and we don't have to be angry With sin, but we can still stand up for the truth and stand up for God.

Hebrews chapter 13 verse 4. God is the one who was ordained marriage. Albeit, it was kind of an interesting Marriage for Adam you take a nap and wake up and God said here's your wife. You're married. That was interesting.

I know but God is the one who has designed marriage and marriage Can be encapsulated in Hebrews chapter 13 verse 4 at least our view of it at least our our mindset of marriage. And he says with with the command form.

Let marriage be held in honor among all. And let the marriage bed. Let the sexual bed be undefiled for fornicators and adulterers. God will judge. Marriage is to be held in honor among all another word for honor.

Valued exact same Greek word precious. Marriage by society in the church an individual should be looked at as something that's precious and costly and wonderful. Respected dear it's dear to your heart.

It's precious. You think of Christ his first miracle at Cana at the wedding? He thought it was precious. Yet man, what does man do anything that God says is good. It's turned upside down. Carl Henry said man refuses to honor God in his revelation and Formulates a life and worldview perspective more congenial to a standpoint of revolt.

In other words, God doesn't really did God really say. Have you thought about it this way. For those of you who have come in for premarital counseling and for marriage. I yell I like to say things like this.

Everything we do in the worship service. You can have a hand in in terms of picking songs and everything else. But number one above everything else. This is a worship service. Marriage is a worship service so everything from Men wearing proper attire to women not having low-cut dresses to singing songs about Christ that are God honoring everything else.

We are getting together to worship. It's not about us. It's about God this is a worship service so everything fits underneath that rubric of worship and We when we come for a wedding we celebrate the goodness of God, right?

That's exactly what we do God. You're good. We celebrate you that you give gifts not only eternally through Christ your son, but also temporarily. Temporarily rather the issue is not for me. Do I love homosexuals?

The answer is yes. I must. Jesus was the one who was even accused by the Pharisees that guy just hangs out with prostitutes and tax gatherers and Every other kind of low-life scum in the society's view.

He hangs without hangs with him all the time. He does. We are to love people like that, but I when I come to worship God and celebrate him I don't need to celebrate and endorse gay marriages. Beloved if you think the gay society only wants us to accept them.

You've got another thing coming just like alongside with the Palestinians just want their own state. They don't want their own state. They want at all. They want no Israel state and the same thing here.

It's just one inch at a time. How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time and first it's civil unions and then it's marriages. Now. I must celebrate those I Cannot. I'm bound by the Word of God. What am I to do?

God is the one being attacked. Listen to Psalm 138 verse 2 in the King James translation. I will worship towards thy holy temple and praises thy name for the loving-kindness and for thy truth. Listen for thou has magnified thy word above all by me.

God your word. It's like who you are with your justice and all your attributes and your character in person the loveliness the dread. Deadfulness. I just love you. Like I love your word. Carol Moseley Braun said.

The news article said she was Democratic presidential hopeful. I Don't think that's the case, but she said in the candidates for him in Oklahoma and I quote I don't see any differences between interracial marriages and same-sex marriages in quote.

Well, my response in my notes is open your Bible. You can marry anyone of a different gender doesn't matter what their skin colors like. But you can't marry anyone for the same sex when God defines it in a different way.

Ask yourself the question what makes adultery sin? What makes fornication sin. What makes homosexuality sin this capricious God up there saying yes. You can't know you can't and I don't want what's good for you.

No. Number one is because God said so and he spoke with finality and clarity and with exactness and preciseness. But number two is because God wants to protect the goodness for his plan. It's with sex and marriage.

It's not because he just random. Think about it. God made all these things and they call them good and even called it very good and that include Adam and Eve together physically. Turn to Ephesians chapter 5 as we look at this idea that the Lord is attacked and we need to stand up and there's a Variety of things that we can do.

I'll get to later. But beneath it all this is an attack upon Christ. The father ordains marriage. Christ says yes. I commend it by showing up and look at what the Spirit of God does. He shows the close illustration between Christ and his church through a husband and wife.

I have all my own views, but they're all irrelevant. What does God say? Ephesians chapter 5 verse 23. By the way, I'm so thankful that I have the Bible to preach because I don't know what I would say every week up here.

And I know you wouldn't be here to listen Ephesians chapter 5 verse 23 for the husband is head of the wife as Christ also head of the church. He himself being the Savior of the body. But as the church is subject to Christ, so also wives ought to be to their husbands and everything.

Husbands love your wives just as Christ also loved the church just as. Look at the mirror. Look at the model. Look at the reflection and gave himself up for her then he might cleanse her. Now things are just switched from husbands and wives.

To Christ in the church having cleansed her by the washing and water with the word. He might present to himself the church in all her glory having no spot or wrinkle or any such thing. That she should be holy and blameless.

Now back to the temporal so husbands ought to also love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it just as Christ also does the church.

See just weave in and out for this cause a man shall leave his father and mother shall cleave to his wife and the two shall become one flesh and. To put the exclamation point on there this mystery of the husband and wife.

Marriage reflecting the glory of God in the Son through the church. Mystery is great, but I'm speaking with reference to Christ and the church. The war is against Jesus Christ because here we see even with a husband and a wife.

It frail and fragile and sinful it still represents the body of Christ being loved by the Son. And gay marriage denigrates that destroys it and is blasphemous. We are in a war. If you don't sense that then maybe today will be the wake-up call.

If you'd like to write your senators, right if you'd like to call call, but the issue is not politics. The issue is redemption. Second Corinthians chapter 5 verse 20. Therefore we are ambassadors for Christ as though through God were in treating through us.

We beg you on behalf of Christ be reconciled to God. That's what our response should be here they're attacking Christ. So what do you do attack back? Fight fire with fire. No, we preach the gospel. We have a redemptive agenda and the bad news is I guess it's good news in a sense because it's biblically true.

But the bad news is that preaching the gospel needs to start in this church. I'm convinced that the number one place where we should start evangelism is in the church. You say well, you know gay marriage and I'm not sure and I'm not that I don't know your heart only Jesus Christ does.

But if you can't stand up for the Son, then I need to question. Are you saved to begin with? James 5 says people in the church stray and we have to turn the sinner from the error of his way that God uses us.

To preach the gospel to those in the church. I'm sure it's true in this church. But other churches as well. If you're a wife and you see your husband attacked physically or verbally, what is your gut instinct?

What do you do? You stand up for your wife. That would be a gay marriage. You see you stand up for your husband. There's something in you that wants to stand up for truth. Do not just shrug it off anymore.

This is just an attack. It's only gonna get worse and You can just say it's going to get worse, but you need to say this is an attack and a front on God in this character. Let's keep going. Number one, what should we do recognize that it's an attack upon Jesus Christ.

Do Not Be Surprised by the World’s Hostility

Number two don't be surprised if you got up last week and said I Can't believe this happened you got on the phone or the internet said you would never believe what happened. I'm bewildered. I'm befuddled.

I'm I'm just you know amazed and and confused and I what is going on. If I could push the envelope if you said that that's sin. No, I do. What. Let's find out first Peter chapter 4. There's a command not to be surprised and if I fall short and I typically.

Or I often fall short in this one. Then what does the scripture say. I love what Cal Thomas said this week he said. It is not as if the ruling by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court permitting the marriage of same-sex couples came as a surprise if Massachusetts doesn't care about sexual practices of some of its politicians.

Why should it care about what some of its lesser citizens do? That's just temporarily. How about eternally. God has already built into the Bible for us. Don't be surprised when things go haywire. This isn't heaven.

Aren't you glad this is in heaven? This is good when you get to heaven all the goodness on earth. Comparatively will seem like a veritable hell in con in comparison. You'll say I thought that was good on earth.

But comparatively it's nothing on the flip side for unbelievers might I add Hell their life on earth that they think is a hell. Will seem like heaven compared to win their eternal condemnation comes clean look at first Peter chapter 4 written by Peter the Apostle written for a suffering struggling church that needed to learn this a fact Jesus Submitted through suffering the church must submit through suffering.

First Peter chapter 4 verse 12. Beloved pastoral heart. Do not be surprised. Present imperative. Never ever ever be surprised. Don't ever do it one time. Never be surprised. Don't be flabbergasted. Don't be dumbfounded.

Don't say what's going on. I can't believe that just happened. I should have had a VA Twilight Zone doo-doo-doo-doo. Don't ever do that. Never doesn't leave one loophole. Don't be surprised at the fiery ordeal among you.

It's right in your midst. Which comes upon you for your testing as though some strange thing were happening to you. Your feelings want to say boy, this is so weird. I can't. This is strange but use your mind and drive that engine of the mind so the caboose of your emotions follow and say.

God's Word has told me I should be ready for this and and I must be. I can't be surprised and bewildered. Literally stop thinking a thing alien. No. You say well easy for Peter to say. Easy for Peter to say at the time Nero the man who loved to kill Christians who loved to take Christians and wrap him up.

In an animal skin it was decaying. Throw him out to the lion. So they would just eat them up all the more take Christians and impale them on stakes. Put pitch and tar over them and light them for their candles at their parties at night.

The Nero who most likely set Rome on Fire and blamed the Christians and so Christians are being beheaded and killed by Nero left and right. By the way. That's what I think is the best thing at the Worcester Art Museum is that little bust of Nero and right at the bottom after.

It says Emperor of Rome 54 to 68 AD. It said killed by suicide. The fire either already happened for these dear people or it was about to happen. This is so good for me, I don't have to say. Oh, Massachusetts laws this.

Only what if I should have done this if only we should expect this and we should expect more. About this one first. John 3 13 from the beloved disciple do not marvel brethren if the world hates you the The world hates me like my mom said she said I couldn't believe it.

I was 40 years old before I Figured out that there are some people in this world that don't like me at all. Take me to be 40. Need to be 37, but you know is this it? We shouldn't be surprised. John 15 18 Talking to his man if the world hates you.

You know that it has hated me before it hated you. If you were of the world the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world. Therefore the world hates you and we think in Christianity if we can just get people to love us.

They'll love the gospel too. That is that is foolish. I'm successful. They'll love Jesus. I've got a good job. They'll love Jesus. I've got a good relationship in the community. They'll love Jesus. No, they will hate Jesus if you preach the real one.

Till God changes their hearts. Jesus said went on in John 15 20. Remember the word that I said to you a slave is not greater than his master if they persecuted me. They will also persecute you if they kept my word.

They will keep yours also. We're to expect it and so the next thing that comes down the pike that's all weird. You can just say I know the Bible says don't be surprised and God help me not to be On the positive side.

Do Not Worry Because God Is Sovereign

Let me give you number three. What should we do as a church number one church? We should say this is an attack upon God number two. We should say to ourselves. We shouldn't be surprised. Number three, we shouldn't worry because God is sovereign.

We have a loving sovereign God and we ought not worry. We are to be anxious for what? Headline news. We are to be anxious for well, come on the world says you can be anxious. Anxious for nothing. Philippians 4 says I want you to turn to 1st Timothy chapter 6.

I'd like you to. Well while you're turning there ask yourself this question when God heard the four to three ruling last week. What did he do? He stopped first of all wringing his hands because he realized he couldn't overturn it.

Secondly, he just thought oh if I just could have been three to four if I just would have had that other person with their Free will repent and I just I just I just so wish it would have happened. Oh, please up there stomping his foot like No, what was God doing?

Now There are some pastors in the audience and you can imagine what it must be to be like a pastor. But pastoring is hard and I'm not saying this because I want any mercy, but it's important for the text.

First of all, you have to live with your own self in your own sin. Then you have to live with everybody else's then you have satanic attacks invisible warfare. That's going on. And if Jesus says I love my church and I build it Satan's going to say I'm going to destroy it at all costs.

And there's all these issues going around and so Paul writes to Timothy as a pastor. And if you were going to try to encourage a pastor, what would you say at the very end of the letter? It's all gonna work out.

No problem. Keep your chin up. You think that's bad you should have seen what I've gone through. What does he say, you know what Paul says to Timothy at the end of at the end of verse Timothy in chapter 6.

He said God is not worried when it comes to your pastoral ministry. I want you to know one thing Timothy. You may be worried. You may be nervous anxious. But God is not worried and beloved. The same thing is true today.

Look at this passage, it's so wonderful. It's a praise of God that serves as a reminder to Timothy. God is on his throne and no one or no thing or know-how is going to not give. Look at the language hardly any other language like this except 2nd Timothy chapter 4 verse 2.

I Chuck verse 1. 1st Timothy chapter 6 verse 13 is what I want to look at though right now I charge you in the presence of God. With God as your witness Who gives life to all things? I mean he brings up God and he just gonna start talking about how wonderful he is and of Christ Jesus Who testified the good confession before Pontius Pilate that you keep the commandment without staying or reproach until the appearing of our Lord?

Jesus Christ, so here's Timothy. I've got all these commands of pastoral ministry chapters 1 2 3 4 and 5. How am I going to do it? There are days in my office. I just put my head down and say oh god. I can't be a pastor.

I can't minister like this. I can't take care of everybody's needs. I don't know all these things. You're like help me. Well, here's the help verse 15. Talk about the appearing of Christ, which he will bring about at the proper time.

He who is the blessed and only sovereign the king of kings the Lord of Lords who alone possesses immortality. And dwells in unapproachable light who no man has seen or can see to him be honor and eternal dominion.

Amen. He says first of all, he's coming back at the proper time. Jesus wins and we win with him in him. Then he calls him a sovereign. He's the blessed and only sovereign if you ever heard of that word dynasty.

That he has a dynasty the king does that's a different word for sovereign than we normally have but it means a powerful one who has a dynasty and. Then he's he says he has possesses in verse 16 Immortality it means.

The Greek word is no death. Ah Athena toss it means no death. He never dies and he dwells in holy Transcendent the effulgent glory of God the Shekinah. He dwells in that which is all good. But then look at that one little word tucked in verse 15.

He who is the blessed he who is it. He who is the blessed the blessed one. What does that mean you ever thought about that? You know how you ever just read the Bible and just like doing the Evelyn the Woodhead speed reading course.

You're trying to get through to get your you know. It's five chapters a day keeps the devil away and you're just trying to zip through and you never stop to just pay attention. The blessed one. What does it mean?

Happy? Fulfilled content. It's in what one commentator said quote when used in reference to God it describes his lack of unhappiness. Frustration and anxiety. He is content satisfied at peace fulfilled and perfectly joyful.

While some things please him and other things do not nothing alters his heavenly contentment. He controls everything to his own his own joyous ends. Isn't that amazing? Nothing exists that doesn't exist the way that God wants it.

God is not sweating. God is not wringing his hands. I remember there was a Mennonite man who was in Pennsylvania and he used to hold his kids at night when they wake up with bad dreams. He would sing this little song called everything's alright in my father's house.

So I thought you know what? I'm gonna start singing that to our kids. He would scream in the middle of the night and I'd go pick him up and just kind of rock them in my arms. Hold them not tight enough to crush them, of course.

But just tight enough so they would feel my arms and my biceps wrapped around them super tight with with with with just Tender care yet firm love and I would sing that song. Everything's alright. That's what it means when God is called the Blessed One.

He's content. God is not up there worrying. He's calm. Why which attribute would let him be calm in all these circumstances? His sovereignty. He is sovereign and he rules over all. If there's one Adam of the universe that he's not sovereign over then he's not sovereign.

Listen to what the Westminster Shorter Catechism said about his sovereignty his eternal purpose according to the counsel of his will. Whereby for his own glory he has for ordained whatsoever comes to pass.

Psalm 115 he is in the heavens and he does whatsoever. What he pleases. God has called the Lord the Most High the King the only sovereign the Almighty. He sits on the throne. He has reigned dominion ruled the Cree commands.

He ordains. There is no such thing as an accident. There's no such thing as chance. There is no such thing as serendipitous fortuitousness, I Don't know what that is either, but it sounded good. I don't think those words go together from the human perspective.

It might be serendipitous. Are lucky God is sovereign and he controls everything on the other side of that if you think of it this way God's plans cannot be frustrated. It's in Isaiah 14 Verse 27 for the Lord Almighty has purposed who can thwart him his hand is stretched out and who can turn it back.

God ought not to do that. Stop that God. About Daniel chapter 2 verse 20. Praise be the name of God forever and ever. He changes times and seasons. He sets up Kings and deposes them. He gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to the discerning.

Proverbs 21 1 the King's heart is like the channels of water in the hand of the Lord. He turns it wherever he wishes. How do you think prophecy could ever be fulfilled because God's sovereign hand is driving that.

You say well, that's fine. I understand that God's sovereign over everything but what about sin? The day that it dawned on me through the Spirit of God and illumining my mind that God was sovereign over sin.

It changed my life. Now it's sin to call marriage Something different than God called it. It is sin to say this is something that was good. And then the chief. The majority writer says it's a marriage ban.

That's all sin. Gay marriage is sin. So, how can I process that God is sovereign over sin? That God would ordain it that God would allow it if that's easier word for you that God were permitted. Once you bow your knee that God is sovereign over sin.