What Cries Out To God?

A Play Depicting Jesus As A Gay Man Performed At A Packed Church In California

Last Days
Posted November 20, 2009 at 8:13 pm

A play depicting Jesus as a gay man was performed in front of a packed church sanctuary in California last weekend. Only a handful of protesters demonstrated outside of The Church of the Foothills in Santa Ana, California during the performance. The play, which is entitled "Corpus Christi", depicts Jesus as a gay man living in the 1950s in Corpus Christi, Texas. This is yet another sign of how close to the last days we actually are.

The "pastor" of The Church of the Foothills, Michael Holland, made the following comments regarding the decision by his church to host the play....

"The Bible does not condemn homosexuality as an orientation, it condemns certain homoerotic acts which had nothing to do with people being in love, like we're doing today."

"Jesus was about love and inclusion and affirming people as children of God, and that's what we're doing tonight."

The Church of the Foothills has hosted same sex marriage rallies in the past and held the very first same sex wedding in the Tustin area back in June.

Just what in the world is going on when the vast majority of Christians are no longer shocked to hear about a play that depicts Jesus as a homosexual? Just what in the world is going on when that play is actually performed inside a packed church?

The truth is that a huge number of churches have completely abandoned the Bible and have instead surrounded themselves with "pastors" and "priests" who will tell them whatever they want to hear.

In 2 Timothy 4:3, the apostle Paul told us that days like these would come.... “For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear.”

One passage that made me scratch my head and think, what does this passage mean in Romans 9:29. Regarding Israel, Isaiah said, "Unless the Lord Almighty had left us descendants, we would have become like Sodom, we would have been like Gomorrah."

It is a complete travesty for anyone to depict Jesus as a gay man. From a theological perspective, this seeks to destroy Jesus’ death on the cross. How so? If Jesus was gay, then He died for His own sins. He did not live the righteous and perfect life that the bible talks about.

While speaking to His critics, Jesus said, “Which one of you convicts Me of sin” (John 8:46)? Peter said of Jesus that He committed no sin, nor any deceit was found in His mouth (1 Pet. 2:22). Paul echoed the same thing by stating, “God made His Son, Jesus who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf” (2 Cor. 5:21). The author of the Book of Hebrews writes, that Jesus the High Priest was holy, innocent, undefiled and separated from sinners (Heb. 7:26). And then the one disciple who was closest to Jesus had this to say: “Jesus appeared to take away our sins, and in Him is no sin” (1 John 3:5).

Jesus was not gay and nor did He ever have any homosexual or heterosexual sinful thoughts. If Jesus had just committed one sin, His death on the cross would have been for His own punishment, not anyone else’s. Therefore, what Jesus becomes is nothing more than a moral philosopher – one of many for people to choose from to fit their worldview.

Now having said this, let’s go back to the passage in Romans 9:29. When Paul quoted from Isaiah 1:9, what did Isaiah mean, when he stated, “If God had not left a remnant, we would than be like Sodom and Gomorrah?”

Well go to the first chapter of Isaiah and look with me at the context. Both Judah and Jerusalem were in a state of moral rebellion. As a result, Isaiah was told the write the following:

2 Hear, O heavens! Listen, O earth!
For the LORD has spoken:
"I reared children and brought them up,
but they have rebelled against me.
3 The ox knows his master,
the donkey his owner's manger,
but Israel does not know,
my people do not understand."
4 Ah, sinful nation,
a people loaded with guilt,
a brood of evildoers,
children given to corruption!
They have forsaken the LORD;
they have spurned the Holy One of Israel
and turned their backs on him.
5 Why should you be beaten anymore?
Why do you persist in rebellion?
Your whole head is injured,
your whole heart afflicted.
6 From the sole of your foot to the top of your head
there is no soundness—
only wounds and welts
and open sores,
not cleansed or bandaged
or soothed with oil.
7 Your country is desolate,
your cities burned with fire;
your fields are being stripped by foreigners
right before you,
laid waste as when overthrown by strangers.
8 The Daughter of Zion is left
like a shelter in a vineyard,
like a hut in a field of melons,
like a city under siege.

God says that Israel was a sinful nation that had turned its back on God (v. 4); sin had permeated their head, heart, foot – thus their whole being (vv. 5-6), and left nothing but wounds, welts and open sores. When the people are polluted, so goes the county, cities and fields or lands (v. 7).

When such a moral degeneration takes over a nation, what’s next? JUDGMENT. Therefore, in the very next verse, Isaiah writes, “Unless the LORD Almighty had left us some survivors, we would have become like Sodom, we would have been like Gomorrah” (v. 9).

What happened to Sodom and Gomorrah? God visited the people of these cities and destroyed them all except for Lot and his family. Isaiah said, “If God did not have His own remnant – a group of people who were really His and sold out to live righteous and holy lives – then everyone would be destroyed and we would all end up like Sodom and Gomorrah.”

Now here’s something else you need to keep in mind. Two things cry out to God. First, the cries of God’s people calling for mercy and deliverance (Exod. 3:7). Remember reading where Israel was in bondage to Egypt and the taskmasters were ruthless in their dealings with them? God said to Moses, “The cry of My people have reached heavens’ door and I am going to use you to bring them deliverance.” And God did.

But watch this – there is a second cry that goes out to God that He will not ignore as well. The cry of sin for justice. Just as God’s people cry out to Him for mercy and deliverance, so sin cries out to God for justice and punishment.

When God confronted Cain about the whereabouts of his brother, Abel, and Cain said, “Who?” God said, “Don’t tell me that. “The voice of your brother’s blood is crying out to me from the ground” (Gen. 4:10). Abel’s blood that his brother Cain and spilled was crying out to God for justice.

Now watch this: When the two angels of God visited Sodom and confirmed what they had already known to be true, they said to Lot, “Get everyone who belongs to you out of there. For we are about to destroy this place, because their outcry has become so great before the Lord that the Lord has sent us to destroy it” (Gen. 19:12-13).

With Abel, the spilling of his blood cried out to God for justice; with Sodom the spilling of their sins cried out to God for punishment.

So Paul quotes from Isaiah and says, “If God did not have His own people whom He has called out from the world and labeled them as His remnant, we would all be punished and destroyed like Sodom and Gomorrah.”

You see folks, Jesus cannot over look sin. That’s why those in the gay movement want to make Jesus out to be gay so in their minds Jesus has to overlook their lifestyle. But Jesus is God – holy, perfect, undefiled from sin – and as a result, He does not overlook the cries of sin that voice publicly for punishment.

Only the remnant will be spared, like Lot and his family was. It saddens my heart that some churches have forgotten this and have embraced the theology of the Left-Wing Gay Church agenda and have abandoned the authority of the bible. They have twisted the scriptures, sadly unto their own destruction (2 Pet. 3:16).