January 2004

 
January, 2004

31 ST MEMORIAL OF ROE V WADE

Folks, instead of going to Washington , D.C. , to commemorate the 31st memorial of decriminalized child killing (Roe v. Wade), let us consider going to the places where babies are killed and to the courts that ushered us into this culture of death. Fr. Francis McCloskey has made up his mind that after 30 years of marching in Washington , D.C. , enough is enough! He will be joining the saints in Bridgeport , CT , as they conduct an Ecclesiastical Court outside the federal courthouse in that city. We're asking you to do the same. Ask God to put creative ideas into your mind and heart as to how He would have you speak for those who cannot speak for themselves. We will be mourning 31 years of unabated child slaughter (45 million dead children) this Roe Memorial Day, January 22, 2004 . Call your churches. Speak to your pastors.  Exhort them to come out to the streets of your city. Yes, compel them to make their theology become biography at the gates of hell. We are done with the low living of Republican and Conservative politics. It is up to us, the Church of Jesus Christ , to fight this battle and fight we will! 

We won't hesitate in the presence of the adversary. We won't flinch in the face of sacrifice. We won't negotiate at the table of the enemy.  We won't ponder at the pool of popularity or meander in the maze of mediocrity. We won't give up, let up, or shut up until we have stayed up, prayed up, paid up, and preached up for the cause of Christ and His unborn children. We will go till He comes, give till we drop, preach till all know, and work till He stops us. We will not bend a knee to the politics of this day, but proclaim Jesus Christ as Lord. When He comes for His own He will recognize us – our banner will be clear. Give ‘em heaven, Saints!

Flip with pastors in Connecticut who have caught the vision.

2003, THE YEAR OF THE HOMOSEXUAL

There can be no doubt about it now. The year 2003 has been a nuclear explosion for the expansion of the radical homosexual agenda. Almost every television sit-com has a homosexual character, always portrayed as funny, bright, and sweet. Even commercials are playing the sexual diversity card. Almost every major corporation has instituted “same sex” medical benefits. Our schools have become primary agents to press the homosexual lifestyle into the hearts and minds of our kids. Our local, state, and federal governments have all bowed and kissed the face of this deadly idol. And one had better never say a contrary word about homosexuality on our college campuses. You do at the risk of your own life. Yes, 2003 is a year that will go down in infamy. It will forever be remembered as “the year of the homosexual.”

Five years ago one could never have imagined the inroads that homosexuality would make into the culture of America . When I was in college in the ‘70s we studied about homosexuality in Sociology 101 under the title of “abnormal psychology.” Yes, homosexuality was placed right alongside those who liked to have sex with dogs, tail pipes of cars, cadavers, ad nauseam. Today the American Pyschiatric Association treats homosexuality like it is the noblest sexual practice on the face of the earth. What has happened?

The Bible tells us that because we exchanged the truth about God for a lie, that God's wrath would be revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness (Romans 1:18 -32). We in America have arrogantly cast God behind our backs and attempted to remove Him from our history, our law, our government, and our culture. Because we have, God Himself has turned us over to shameful lusts and to a depraved mind to do what ought not to be done. Women have exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. Men have also abandoned natural relations with women and are inflamed with lust for one another. Men are committing indecent acts with other men, and are receiving in themselves the due penalty of their error. AIDS anyone?

When the Supreme Court of the United States of America found (in one of the constitutional penumbras?) that homosexual sodomy was, from this day forward, a new constitutional right, all hell broke loose! In one fell swoop, this court threw out God, His Law, 4,000 years of history, and its own past precedent, to declare sodomy, in all of its perverse forms, a constitutional right! In its June 26 th rendering of Lawrence v. Texas, the Supreme Court unleashed the very fury of hell upon our nation.

What came next was a cascading sequence of events from which our culture will not recover.

1. $3.2 million was allotted by the state of New York to establish an all homosexual high school in New York City . It is named after dead homosexual activist, Harvey Milk. Its purpose is to educate a group of about 130 mixed up kids who believe they were born to be homosexual in a nonthreatening environment. Of course this is a lie – no one was ever born to be a homosexual!

Yet, the state of New York has bought into the lie hook, line, and sinker. It has created a “MOST FAVORED STUDENT” status for the homosexual. By devoting a school to practicing homosexuals, it is cementing into the minds of our kids that homosexuality is a good thing, to be protected above all else. How do our kids overcome this? 

2. Next came the ordination of Rev. Eugene Robinson as a bishop in the Episcopal Church. Rev. Robinson is a practicing homosexual who left the wife of his youth and his children for a homosexual lover. That's right! The Episcopal Church of New Hampshire now has an adulterous practicing homosexual as its bishop. Men in the pulpits are being turned over to a depraved mind. The United Methodist Church is close behind this rush to legitimize and normalize homosexual sodomy. If the Church is fumbling with this issue, what should we expect from our government? When there is a fog in the pulpit there will always be a mist in the pew. 

3. Evidence of that mist has been reflected in the decisions made by our “born-again” evangelical President. George W. Bush has done more for the promotion and legitimization of the homosexual lifestyle than any President before him. Several openly homosexual men serve on the White House staff – more than ever served on Mr. Clinton's staff. President Bush appointed Michael Guest, an outspoken homosexual, to be the United States Ambassador to Romania . Guest is presently living with his partner of six years, Alex Navarez, in the official U.S. residence in Bucharest .

4. On October 14, 2003, President Bush sent a letter to the Metropolitan Community Church (MCC) in Los Angeles congratulating homosexual activist Rev. Troy D. Perry on the occasion of MCC's 35 th anniversary. MCC is the largest homosexual denomination in the nation with churches in virtually every state. Its basic tenet is that one can be a practicing homosexual and a Christian at the same time. This lie, spawned in hell, is leading to the early death and eternal damnation of thousands of young men and women. The Metropolitan Community Church would be better named “The Synagogue of Satan.”

In the letter to Perry, President Bush stated, “By encouraging the celebration of faith and sharing God's love and boundless mercy, churches like yours put hope in people's hearts and a sense of purpose in their lives . . . rejoice in God's faithfulness to your congregation.” Even the President of the United States of America is legitimizing homosexuality. It isn't love to send people to an early grave and to their eternal damnation. But it is good politics according to Karl Rove.

5. What came next was “the kiss.” Mickey Mouseketeers Brittany Spears and Christina Aguilera exchanged an openmouthed kiss with a washed-up, elderly, Madonna (who looks like about 150 miles of bad road) at the MTV Music Awards. The whole world was watching as the Word of God was being blasphemed on national television. Our kids are getting the hint – sodomy is cool!

6. Just last week the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled that homosexual couples are legally entitled to wed under the state constitution. Chief Justice Margaret Marshall wrote, “Barring an individual from the protection, benefits, and obligations of civil marriage solely because that person would marry a person of the same sex violates the Massachusetts Constitution.” This ruling is so patently absurd it defies all logic. The Constitution of the state of Massachusetts has been in existence for 387 years, and no one has ever found homosexual sodomy to be a protected right by the state.

Make no mistake about it. Homosexuality is an all-out frontal assault on the God of the Bible. The first human institution set up by God in the Bible was the institution of marriage. God blessed it. He even gave away the very first bride. Before church government and civil government there was the institution of marriage. It is the absolute bedrock of the family. It is a union between a man and a woman where God makes out of two, one. There is no other human institution given by God which precedes this one.

It is out of this union between a man and a woman that godly offspring are brought forth. This is God's desire. This was and is His purpose in creation. Any attack on the institution of marriage is an attack upon God Himself. Homosexuality is an outrageous attack upon God, His plan, and His purposes in creation. It is inspired by the devil and will lead to death those who practice it and the nation that approves of this behavior.

In the midst of these advances of the radical homosexual agenda in 2003, God pulled back the covers and exposed the lie of homosexuality for what it truly is and what it truly does. The tragic figure of Michael Jackson paints for us a portrait almost too sickening to view.

MICHAEL JACKSON – THE TRAGIC TRUTH ABOUT HOMOSEXUALITY

With all of the advancements of the radical homosexual agenda this year, God Himself has begun to unveil the absolute horror and bondage of the homosexual lifestyle. He has done it through the tragic life of Michael Jackson.

It appears that Michael Jackson will finally receive his demon-inspired death wish. He's been caught. In many and various ways he has been pleading with authorities and with this nation to stop him from his homosexual abuse of young boys. That's right! His TV interview earlier this year was an open invitation for authorities to apprehend him and stop the homosexual abuse he has been inflicting upon, who knows how many, young boys for years.

He can't stop himself. Homosexual lust has so totally absorbed and enslaved his mind, body, and spirit that he found no way of escape. He was afraid, very afraid, of what he might do to even one of his own children if someone did not stop him. He never minced words about enjoying sleeping with young boys. He made it startlingly clear. He was confessing but no one was listening, unless it was to make a joke of him.

Michael Jackson is an open, professed, confessed, homosexual who is on the prowl for young boys to satisfy his own lust. The problem is, lust always breeds more lust. Lust can never be satisfied. It can only be fed with one word – “MORE.”

Anyone ever addicted to drugs, booze, or pornography knows the word – “MORE.” Just a little bit is never enough. The addiction begins to consume all your time, money, and energy. It becomes the only thing you think of. It becomes your only “friend.” It demands your absolute allegiance. It is a demonic murderer that cares nothing about you or anyone else. It just wants to be fed. It always brings with it death.

Michael Jackson is a slave, though no one sees his chains. Like the demoniac in Mark chapter 5, who railed among the tombs with no one able to control him, Michael Jackson is being ripped apart by demons, from within and from without. All the world can see it, yet he has no one able to help.

He has no hope to stop himself, and utter despair has seized his soul. Yes, he is suffering the consequences of his self-chosen way, but don't we all? He is sick of the deep hurt he has inflicted, not only upon himself, but upon others to satisfy his unbridled, demonic lust. His psychic readers, counselors, and drugs have offered no escape.

He is crying out! He has been crying out, for someone to stop him before he begins to kill. He is not in control. The last thing he needs right now is for his parasitic friends, who love to kiss-up but never to wound (Proverbs 27:6), to try and convince him that he's really not such a bad guy after all. He is absolutely shipwrecked with no anchor for his soul. An all too understanding media and a politically correct judiciary cannot perform the surgery necessary to fix Michael either.

He needs a Savior. His only hope is Jesus Christ. Yes, like the demoniac in Mark chapter 5, he can be set free and restored to his right mind only by Christ. Jesus can take the tragedy of Michael Jackson's life, and the devastation he has wrought on the lives of others, and make it something beautiful. He is the only one who can.

In the midst of all of these remedial judgments from God upon our nation, we must remember at the beginning of this new year that our God (Jesus) longs to be merciful to us.  Yes, He disciplines those he loves to be sure.  But He does it to refine us – to make us more like Him.  He desires that we live for "His glory” – not our own, that the world might know that He is a mighty King, and the only One able to save us from our sins.

We were born for a time such as this, Saints.  ". . . let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us.  Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, scorning its shame . . . ."  Hebrews 12:1-2.

Keep storming the gates,

Flip