Truth Magazine

By Heather Harshbarger

I am fortunate to have Christian parents. My parents love the Lord and help each other in every way so they can reach the ultimate goal of heaven. I have been blessed to have Christian grandparents as well. They have taught me, loved me, and shown me the importance of being a Christian in God’s family. I see through their lives how much easier it is to serve the Lord with a Christian spouse. Also, even as I am young, being together with young people my age that are Christians makes a big difference! I do not want to spend my life with someone who does not love the Lord. So, one reason I want to many a Christian is because of the example I have been shown (I Tim. 1:5; 5:2; Eph. 6:1-4).

Someone Who Loves the Lord and Cares About My Soul

I want to marry a Christian because I want to share my life with someone who loves the Lord and who cares about my soul. The simple fact that we have things in common about everyday things will make things brighter and better. I know that people who do not marry a Christian can convert them. This is shown in I Peter 3:1 when Peter speaks of wives being good examples to their husbands so “they may be won without a word by the behavior of their wives.” Philippians 3:17 also speaks of the worth of a good example. I would like to marry a devoted Christian be-cause he will have the same morals and beliefs shaped by the teachings of the New Testament which will help us both to lead a Christian life. It is difficult but not impossible to do right by yourself. I do not want to wake up every Sunday morning and not be able to go to worship with my husband. No doubt, we all need encouragement. I need encouragement every day, and I want to find comfort from my husband as I do in the Lord as well. I just pray that we will have already decided to follow Jesus.

Someone to Help Me Raise Godly Children

I want my children to grow up loving to serve the Lord. There can be different beliefs between a husband and wife about moral issues such as drinking, dancing, and mixed swimming if one is not a Christian. Children lean young. They know things when we do not know they are capable of knowing, and they see things when we do not know they are capable of seeing what we do. They pay attention. If we, as members of God’s family, do not raise children up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord, who will? In the case of someone not marrying a Christian, when the children grow up, there will come a time when they will be asked to a swim party, a junior high school dance, or a “party.” Who will give the answer? I want to share my life with a devoted Christian who loves my soul and someone who will work together with me so that we can encourage and lift each other up.

Someone Who Respects Me As A Christian

I see even as a teenager how much easier it is to date a Christian because he will respect me as a Christian at all costs. I do not have to explain and defend why I believe what I believe, or fear how he will treat me. A devoted Christian will keep God’s commandments regardless of the cost (Eccl. 12:13). Ephesians 5:25-28 teaches how a husband is to love his wife even as Christ loved the church, and how a husband is to love his wife as his own body. This is even to the extent that he would give his life for her. This is a reason I want to many a Christian boy. I want to be respected and loved as a Christian and a wife.

To Make Our Home a Center of Christian Activity

Having a Christian family will enable us as Christian parents to do things together as the Lord wills. As a Christian family, it would be easier to help teach others. That is one of our Christian obligations. In the Great Commission we are told, “Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age” (Matt. 28:19-20). Also, we can pray together. Without prayer, we would be without hope. And I would like to be married to a devoted Christian with whom I can pray. We, as Christians together, could pray together, study the Bible together, visit together, entertain in our home together, and most importantly, love the Lord together.

To Serve the Lord and Reach Heaven Together

Deuteronomy 6:5 teaches us, “Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might.” In verse 7, we are taught to teach our children with all diligence “when you sit in your house and when you walk by the way and when you lie down and when you rise up.” This shows the importance of doing his will all the time. With a Christian husband, we can walk in the way of the Lord in everything that we do. Without a Christian husband, it would be difficult to do everything that the Lord commands us. I pray that in our home, we can say, “As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord” (Josh. 24:15). It is important to be married to a devoted Christian and not a Christian in name only.

The ultimate goal of all is to reach heaven, and I believe that a Christian husband will help to do just that. I want a husband that I can help to encourage, and someone with whom I can share my thoughts and beliefs as a Christian. Husbands and wives who are faithful Christians experience the greatness of married love. God insures us of our happiness now and for eternity if we put the Lord first. “And he said to him, `You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind” (Matt. 22:37).

Guardian of Truth XXXIX: 6 p. 18
March 16, 1995

By Jason Hosfield

Picture yourself inside the largest room you can think of. Maybe its a sports stadium, a concert hall, the auditorium in your church building, etc. Now imagine all of the lights being turned out. It is pitch black. You cannot see your hand in front of your face. The darkness completely envelops you till you almost feel suffocated. Now, in the middle of this vast, dark room, someone strikes a match. It is still very dark, but you can still see the match burning brightly from anywhere in the room. Just that small pin-point of light is bright enough to be seen in the middle of all that darkness.

This world in which we live is like that huge, dark room. All of its sin and immorality can engulf us to the point that we can not see any hope at all. Those of us who are young people are affected with this just as much as older people.

One example of this is in school. We would be naive if we were not aware of all of the problems that a young Christian must face at school. With all of the false ideas that are taught (evolution, humanism, “safe sex”), all of the immoral acts that take place (immodesty, drugs, alcohol, dancing), and all of the pressures and temptations to sin, school certainly can be a very dark place spiritually.

I would like to say up front that I am not as familiar with the problems and challenges of school life as most other young people. My parents have been teaching me at home since I was in the fourth grade. I think that this is a great alternative for parents who want to ensure their kids a decent education without having to deal with the immorality that is part of the public school system in many places. But in talking with friends who go to public school I have learned what a young Christian must face in being a part of it, and, besides, the same basic temptations face us in school or out of school (1 In. 2:15-17).

A Christian needs to realize that he can be a light in this darkness. Jesus tells us in Matthew 5:14-16,

Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid. Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house. Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.

Paul also wrote in Philippians 2:14-15, “Do all things without murmurings and disputings: that ye may be blame-less and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world.” Just like the match in that dark room, you can shine as an example in the middle of all the darkness you face at school. There are, however, many things you must do in order to be a better light to the world around you.

Remember Who You Are

Everything that is worldly is darkness. If we expect to follow God, then we must leave the world and its darkness behind. John wrote in 1 John 1:5-7, “God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth: but if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.” If we have been cleansed by Christ’s blood, then we must leave the darkness that we were walking in before.

Too many young Christians are reluctant to refuse worldliness when they become children of God. So many want to live for Christ on Sunday and live for the world the rest of the week. But you and I need to realize that we cannot possibly expect to be lights in the world if we continue to walk in its dark ways of sin. Peter described these kinds of people in 2 Peter 2:20-22,

For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning. For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.

This is a disgusting picture, but it illustrates what God thinks of a Christian who still lives like the world.

A young Christian needs to remember who he or she is at school. You need to remember that you are a child of God. God has rescued you from the darkness of the world, and made you one of his children of light. Do not break his heart by turning again to the world and its sin. Simply make the decision to reject all of the immoral and sinful indulgences that you come across and remember to keep yourself “unspotted from the world” (Jas. 1:27).

Choose Your Friends Carefully

I am sure that we all have heard a lot of talk about peer pressure. It is one of Satan’s most powerful forms of temptation. Almost all of the enticements that Christian students fall into  whether they are drugs, alcohol, sex, or stealing  are a result of giving in to peer pressure.

It is a fact, though, that all of this can be avoided by simply being cautious about whom one chooses for friends. A person’s friends can either build him up or tear him down. It depends on what kind of people they are.

Solomon warned his son about falling in with the wrong crowd in Proverbs 1:10-18.

My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not. If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause: let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit: we shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil: cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse: my son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path: for ‘heir feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood. Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird. And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.

This passage sounds a lot like the gang problems in our day, doesn’t it? We see the same kinds of enticements: violence, money, comradeship. Yet so many teen-age deaths are a result of gang-related incidents. They truly “lie in wait for their own blood.” This is all because young people choose the wrong friends. Paul wrote in 1 Corinthians 15:33, “Be not deceived: evil company corrupts good habits” (NKJ).

What then should one look for in a friend? We need to ask ourselves, “What kind of a person is he/she?” “What is this person’s goal in life?” “How does this person spend his/her time?” “What does this person do for amusement?” “Will this person be the kind of friend that will help me get to Heaven?”

Do not let your light grow dim by choosing friends that will weaken you spiritually. Savor the relationships you have with fellow Christians. Those will be the most rewarding and most helpful to your faith.

Be Concerned About Others

Many young people do not realize what an opportunity they have at school to influence the lost. A Christian at school is surrounded by souls who will be lost without the gospel. Yet too often young people ignore their chances to shine their light on someone who does not know God. We need to realize that it is the duty of a Christian to teach others the Word of God.

We cannot hope to bring others to Christ, however, unless we are concerned about the condition of their souls. This was the very reason that God sent Christ to this earth. John 3:16 tells us, “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” God was concerned about the souls of men. Paul said that he taught the Ephesians “with tears” (Acts 20:31). He was concerned about those he was preaching to.

You and I need to be concerned about those around us. We cannot just live our own little lives and not give one thought to the spiritual welfare of anyone else, especially when we know people who desperately need God in their lives. The Bible says in James 4:17, “Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.” If we know of some spiritual good that we can do someone, but ignore the opportunity, we are guilty of sin.

There are two ways that we can influence others for Christ. One way is by example. Paul told Timothy in 1 Timothy 4:12, “Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.” People will be more inclined to take what you say seriously if you personify it in your own life first. This is very important! Ezra saw the importance of this in Ezra 7:10. “For Ezra had prepared his heart to seek the law of the Lord, and to do it, and to teach in Israel statutes and judgments.” Notice the order: he sought God’s law, he did it, and then he taught it. Jesus did the same thing. Luke wrote in Acts 1:1, “The former treatise have I made, 0 Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach.” He did it, then he taught it. The first step in bringing others to Christ is to study and obey the word of God for ourselves.

The second step is to bravely take the gospel of Christ to those who need it. Jesus commanded in Mark 16:15, “Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.” Everyone in the world has a need to know the good news of the gospel, and it is our responsibility to take it to them.

There is no doubt that we will meet with opposition. We will become unpopular at times. We will be made fun of. We will be verbally abused. We might be physically abused. There are many in our nation who are trying to get all religion out of the schools. Those who want to share God’s word with others are being harassed and persecuted. But we must not let it stop us. Jesus teaches us in Matthew 5:10-12, “Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness’ sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.” Nothing should discourage us from taking the gospel to the lost. We will find that the benefits will far outweigh the hardships.

Conclusion

Too often young people hide their lights from the world. They are afraid to let people know that they are Christians. Make the decision to let your light shine at school! Re-member, the light from that little match did not light up that huge hall, but it could be seen. You will not convert your whole school tomorrow, but if you are the example you should be to others, you will be noticed!

Guardian of Truth XXXIX: 6 p. 9-10
March 16, 1995

By Deborah Halbrook

Everyone has his own idea of success. Some think success is having a lot of money or marrying the best looking man or woman. For me, success involves three main things. They are: my family, religion, and respect for others.

First, I hope to have a family. I would like to marry and raise children. If I do, my parents’ present actions will help me to be successful in being a good wife and mother. Although when I first get married I would like to work, my career is not too important because after having a child I would like to stay home and raise him. Some people think it is an insult for a woman to be a homemaker. I strongly disagree with this, and I would like to stay home and raise my children. I think that staying home to raising children is a privilege. My mother is a homemaker, and I know that she is proud of being one.

If I become a wife and a mother, religion will be very important in my life, as it is now. I will take my children to church and live a Christian life as my parents do. We will not ever do something we know is wrong just because everyone else is doing it.

Last of all, I believe success involves respecting others. Not talking behind peoples’ backs and always being honest will earn my respect and respect from others. These are the things that, in my opinion, add up to success.

(My daughter, Deborah, made this short speech on “Success” as a part of her induction to the Soar Chapter of the National Junior Honor Society at the West Columbia Junior High School in April c f 1994. She prepared this speech without any help from her mother or me. Because of her quiet personality, I was surprised at her boldness in expressing her Bible-oriented values and goals in life before a large audience of peers, parents, and teachers. I hope she will not be embarrassed to see her words in print, knowing that other young ladies may be encouraged to rise above the social, media, and educational influences which denigrate the roles of a godly wife and mother. Ron Halbrook)

Guardian of Truth XXXIX: 6 p. 22
March 16, 1995

By Johnie Paul Edwards

Much, today, is being said about homosexuality and so called “gay rights.” “The Gay 90’s,” as it’s now being called, has focused much of the world’s attention on “gays” and homosexuals. From the media, to the “oval office,” much has been said. Yet, it is time that we concern ourselves with what the Bible says about homosexuality! Does the Bible say anything about homosexuality? The answer is yes, and let me add, that everything it says is so!

How Should Men Regard The Bible?

Why are we making our appeal to the Bible? Is homosexuality to be declared right or good on the basis of public opinion? Our plea has always been, and must remain, that the Bible is the inspired Word of God, and that it is our pattern for all that we do in his service. Just exactly how should men regard the Bible?

Men Should Regard the Bible as the

Divinely Inspired Word of God!

The apostle Paul said, “All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness” (2 Tim. 3:16). Men spake from God, being moved by the Holy Spirit (2 Pet. 1:21). Notice how the Thessalonians received the Word of God in 1 Thessalonians 2:13, “For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.”

Inspiration is that supernatural influence of the Holy Spirit on the writers of the Bible which guaranteed the total trustworthiness and authoritativeness of their productions. Such inspiration was both plenary (i.e., extended to all parts of the Bible) and verbal (i.e., extended not only to the thoughts of the writers but also to the very words they employed).

The implicit claim to inspiration is contained in many Bible statements. David said, “The Spirit of the Lord spake by me, and his word was in my tongue” (2 Sam. 23:2).

Jeremiah said, “Then the Lord put forth his hand, and touched my mouth. And the Lord said unto me, Behold, I have put my words in thy mouth” (Jer. 1:9). Paul told the Corinthians, “Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. Which things also we speak, not in the words which man’s wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual” (1 Cor. 2:12-13).

Let us come to regard the Bible properly, as the divinely inspired, final and authoritative Word of God  heaven’s instrument to save and sanctify men. Let us approach the Bible with the attitude of Samuel, “Speak Lord; for thy servant heareth” (1 Sam. 3:9-10. May we say, as the Psalmist of old, “Teach me, 0 Lord, the way of thy statutes; and I shall keep it unto the end” (Psa. 119:33).

What Does The Bible Say

About Homosexuality?

Now that we have learned to respect what the Bible has to say, let’s see what it says about homosexuality.

Homosexuality is an Abomination!

The Lord told Moses, “If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them” (Lev. 20:13). The word “abomination” suggests something “disgusting; an abhorrence.” For a man to lie with a man to practice homosexuality is disgusting; it is something that God hates! The concept that God hates anything is foreign to some’s concept of God. Yet, there are some things which are extremely abhorred by him (cf. Prov. 6:16-19). The punishment for this homosexual abomination, under the law, was death!

Homosexuality and Romans 1

In Romans 1 Paul is discussing the deplorable sinful condition of the heathen nations. In verse 18, he begins by saying, “For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness.” In verses 21-22 we see that whenever God is rejected, people become foolish in their actions. Paul said, “Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools.” When people cease to respect God, they will soon lose respect for their own bodies! Paul goes on to describe their actions in verses 26-27. He said, “For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was meet.” From Romans 1 we learn a number of things concerning homosexuality:

Homosexuality is Uncleanness, Impurity

(Rom. 1:24)

Uncleanness is a work of the flesh (Gal. 5:19), and Paul said, “they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God” (Gal. 5:21). Under the law, to eat certain foods, touch a dead body, and certain body conditions and diseases, made one unclean or impure. Homosexuality is a sin that pervades the whole body and makes it unclean.

Homosexuality is a Passion or Dishonor

(Rom. 1:24)

The word “dishonor” suggests to despise, suffer shame, or entreat shamefully. To practice homosexuality is to shamefully treat one’s body (cf. Rom. 1:28). Paul asked, “What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s” (1 Cor. 6:19-20). Rather than shamefully treating our bodies, by practicing homosexuality, we must glorify God in our body, which is God’s! There are seemly and honorable indulgences of sexual affections (cf. 1 Thess. 4:4; Heb. 13:4).

Homosexuality is Against Nature (Rom. 1:26-27)

Homosexuality is contrary to the nature of man and against natural production. It is against man’s instinctiveness. The natural, as from the beginning (Matt. 19:4-5), is a man with a woman, not a man with a man or a woman with a woman! Nature itself teaches us that homosexuality is wrong. The animal kingdom even knows better! Homosexuality being against natural production, rules out a person being born a homosexual!

Homosexuality is Unseemly; That is,

It is Indecent (Rom. 1:27)

Paul spoke of love in 1 Corinthians 13:5 and said that it “doth not behave itself unseemly.” Homosexuality is unseemly, indecent, shameful behavior! To engage in homosexuality, as the heathen nations did, is to reject God and God in turn rejected them! (Rom. 1:28). Homosexuality has been called by some a sickness. Paul does not agree! He clearly views homosexuality as sin (Rom. 1:23), a transgression of God’s law (1 John 3:4).

Homosexuality Violates God’s

Plan for Marriage

Jesus spoke of God’s plan for marriage in Matthew 19:4-5. “And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?” Jesus tells us that God’s plan from the very beginning was for one man to marry one woman. When God said, “it is not good for man to be alone” (Gen. 2:18), he made a woman! (2:22). “Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh” (2:24). Paul, because of immoralities said, “Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband” (1 Cor. 7:2). God blessed Adam and Eve and said unto them, “Be fruitful, and multiply” (Gen. 1:28).

Homosexuality is Unrighteousness and Those

Who Practice Such Shall Not

Inherit the Kingdom of God

Paul told the Corinthians, “Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God” (1 Cor. 6:9-11). The phrase “abusers of themselves with mankind” is translated “homosexuals” in the NKJV. The unrighteous, like those guilty of homosexuality, shall not inherit the kingdom of God; that is, they will not be able to enter into heaven. You might also notice, from this reading, that homosexuality is an “abuse” or a misuse of the body.

Homosexuality is Defiling

Paul speaking of defilement said, “For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for men stealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine” (1 Tim. 1:10). Not only is homosexuality defiling, but it is “contrary to sound doctrine.” The word “defile” suggests to soil, desecrate, pollute, or stain. Paul’s point is that homosexuality is defiling! We need men and women, boys and girls, today who are like Daniel of old, who “refused to defile himself’ (Dan. 1:8). Daniel “purposed in his heart,” that is he “put” it in his heart, or planned, not to defile himself! Jesus said of heaven, “And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb’s book of life” (Rev. 21:27).

To Practice Homosexuality is to

Go After “Strange Flesh”

Jude, speaking of Sodom, Gomorrah and other cities of immorality, “suffered the punishment of eternal fire” for “going after strange flesh” (Jude 7). These cities, in the condemnation which befell them, serve as examples of what happens to those who disobey God. “Strange flesh” suggests a departure from the law of nature, and refers to that which is contrary to nature; seeking after other or different flesh (cf. Rom. 1:27). The sons of Aaron offered “strange” fire, “which he commanded them not,” and they died before the Lord (Lev. 10:1-2). The fire they offered was “strange,” it was unauthorized fire! Homosexuality is unauthorized sexuality! The ashes of these ancient cities should serve as an example to those who live ungodly (2 Pet. 2:6).

The Sin of Homosexuality Can Be Forgiven

Some of the Corinthians were unrighteous, guilty of homosexuality, and such like (1 Cor. 6:11). Notice that Paul said, “And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God” (1 Cor. 6:11). A homosexual, like any other unrighteous person, can be saved. The remedy of evil passion, or lust, is provided in the gospel of Christ (Rom. 1:16). Peter preached, “Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost” (Acts 2:38). Jesus said, “He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned” (Mk. 16:16). Notice how Paul addressed the Corinthians, who had been guilty of homosexuality, after their obedience to Christ. “Unto the church of God which is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all that in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours” (1 Cor. 1:2).

Homosexuality and the Value

of Righteous Living

Solomon said, “Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people” (Prov. 14:34). Ten righteous souls would have delivered the ancient city of Sodom (Gen. 18:23-32). Since less than ten righteous could be found, two angels went to Sodom to visit and warn Lot of the impending destruction (Gen. 19:1ff.) and “the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire … and he overthrew those cities” (Gen. 19:24-28). You see, these cities were filled with homosexuality. Righteous living would have spared the now “lost” city of Sodom! Paul asked, “Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God?” (1 Cor. 6:9) Homosexuals must leave their wicked ways, serve the God of heaven, and restore righteousness to our nation!

Guardian of Truth XXXIX: 5 p. 12-14
March 2, 1995