Should Christians join BLM? Should they support BLM? Should they kneel in sympathy to BLM? How should Christians respond to the riots? What does God say should be the answers to these questions? The link is to a lengthy sermon with instruction for Christians. Only a portion is quoted here:
“First of all, one option would be to join Black Lives Matter, join their cause, because, after all, Black lives do matter; of course, they do – created in the image of God. And those who have suffered deserve our support, and they do; and they have suffered injustice, and they have. So should we just join Black Lives Matter to affirm these things? ‘Can we join out of sympathy? Can we join out of compassion?’ That’s not really the question. The question is, ‘Can we join, and in joining express love to God?’ because whatever we do for our neighbor is subsumed under loving God with all our heart, soul, and mind. ‘Can I join Black Lives Matter? Can I be a part, if not a member; can I be a part of their function?’ They are disruptive. They are rebellious. They are radical. They are anti-authority. They are Marxists. They are atheistic.
“What are their guiding principles? Let me read them to you. In their own document we read this: ‘Black Lives Matter is transgender-affirming. We make space for transgender siblings. We do the work required to dismantle cisgender’ – which mean biological sex – ‘and uplift transgender Black folk, especially transgender Black women who continue to be disproportionately impacted by trans antagonistic violence.’ They are transgender-affirming. According to Deuteronomy 22:5, transgender behavior is an abomination to God.
“Also, this is their declaration: ‘We are womanists rather than feminists.’ Quote: ‘We build a space that affirms Black women and is free from sexism, misogyny, and environments where men are centered.’ End quote. Transgender-affirming and wanting to pull down the leadership of men. According to the Word of God, man is the head of the woman, as God is the head of Christ. The man has the responsibility of leadership. That’s an anti-God idea. Another paragraph – and there are many more: ‘We are queer-affirming. We gather to free ourselves from the tight grip of the belief that all are heterosexual.’ They gather to put an end to the notion that everybody needs to be heterosexual.
“In he same book of Leviticus, where the Lord says, ‘I am the Lord; be holy,’ chapter 18, verse 22 say, ‘You shall not lie with a male as one lies with a female; it is an abomination. In the next verse it says it’s the same as having intercourse with an animal. Chapter 20 of Leviticus, verse 13, exactly the same thing. Romans chapter 1.
“Here’s a quote from Black Lives Matter: ‘We are intentionally amplifying that the particular experience of violence that Black queer transgender, gender nonconforming women and intersex people face, there can be no liberation for the Black people if we do not fight for these people.’ This is an organization designed by Satan to use the suffering of some people as the means to destroy their lives, to destroy morality, conscience, the family, and even the church, and replace it with behavior that is immoral, perverse, abominable, soul-destroying, family-destroying, marriage-killing, and culturally disastrous. Bottom line: those documents are anti-God, anti-Scripture, anti-Christ. This is an organization that is the enemy of God. Do you really believe that going down that path is going to do anything to lift up a culture? It has nothing to do with the color of anybody’s skin. Go down that path and it’s the path of absolute total destruction. Wipe out the law of God in the heart, give people immorality as a standard, destroy the family, take the message of the gospel out of the church, and the only possible restraint left is the police to try to stop the flood.
“I can’t be a part of that because 2 Corinthians is very, very straightforward. Listen to what the Lord says, 2 Corinthians 6:14, ‘Do not be bound together with unbelievers; for what partnership have righteousness and lawlessness, what fellowship has light with darkness? Or what harmony has Christ with Belial, or what has a believer in common with an unbeliever? Or what agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; just as God said, “I will dwell in them and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. Therefore, come out from their midst and be separate,” says the Lord. “And do not touch what is unclean; and I will welcome you, and I’ll be a father to you, and you shall be sons and daughters to Me,” says the Lord Almighty.’
“So that leads to chapter 7, verse 1: ‘Therefore, having these promises,’ – of being sons and daughters to God – ‘beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.’ We’re back to Leviticus again. You can’t be a part of something that is designed by Satan to destroy the only institutions that can uphold sanity in a society. Are we surprised that since that philosophy, that worldview, has assaulted the law of God, assaulted the family, has corrupted the church that now they want to get rid of the only remaining restraint which is the police?”
The bottom line is that BLM is anti-Christian, and no Christian should support it.
3:43 pm on September 7, 2020
