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MY NIECES WEDDING!?
indianabob:
Hey Jimi,
I've read all the responses up to page 3 and there has been lots of valid advice and counsel, some corrective and some liberating so I have just one final comment to offer.
The calling we have received has many purposes of course, but among them is to gain an understanding of just how weak and carnal we all are and to learn how much we need God in our daily lives. So, if you attend the wedding and if God decides that you were wrong, then God will correct you and you will learn the lesson that God intended for you to learn.
The purpose of the calling is NOT only to work hard to be perfect in this life. The greater purpose is to start each day over when we wake up and to understand that if we have repented of our past sins and errors of yesterday that we now have a clean slate, as all of our past sins are washed away by the sacrificial blood of the savior.
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We are starting out clean and new and at least for a few minutes can face our God with open eyes and with a clear and clean conscience and talk to God as a beloved son speaks to his own father, fearing nothing.
So then if you decide to attend the wedding out of love for your niece and some problems develop from that decision, you have an advocate with the Father in the person of our Elder brother, our chief counselor and our Lord Jesus the Christ.
Put it all in his capable hands and relax and don't take unnecessary concern.
Kindly offered, Ole Indiana-bob
--- Quote from: jeetkunejimi on August 27, 2016, 06:22:29 PM ---Hi all, I have a small dilemma and I'm wondering if anyone on the forum can help me. My niece is getting married next year and she has sent me an invitation, the seeming problem is that she's marrying another woman :o. I feel in my heart that I should have no problem going and supporting her on a very important day to her and her partner but, I also feel uneasy that I will also be in some way supporting gay marriage... which I don't. I feel that it's important that I show her how much I love her and also how much I love her mother, (my sister of course) who will expect me to attend along with my brother who is also a very strong Christian believing as I do.
I will of course be making my own decision as will my brother but, it's always good to seek wise counsel. Thanks for any constructive and scriptural input that any of you may have that could help me decide.
God bless :).
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cheekie3:
jeetkunejimi -
--- Quote from: jeetkunejimi on October 21, 2016, 11:31:34 AM ---Thank you all for your comments. If I may I will state some things.
Have any of us ever socialized with unmarried hetrosexual couples, can you ever go to their anniversaries or any other celebrations of their relationships because they simply do not have a piece of paper that states they belong to the government? Because they haven't stood in the hallowed halls of Christendom (modern day babylon) and recited words that are not in scripture. Going to my nieces gay wedding isn't about me sanctioning lebianism, (I most certainly do not sanction such behaviour) it's actually about me showing my love for my niece. She has CHOSEN a certain lifestyle that as we should all know, there before the grace of God Almighty go I.
Her life is the result of a whole different set of circumstances than ours, and she has reacted to those circumstances with what faculties she had at the time of each choice. We all do the same, what else can we do? We're no better on our own, none of us are anything without Christ in us [John 15:5]. This is God's plan and this is what we all do. We're all where God wants us right now every second of every day. Jesus did not come to condemn us all but to save us all via him, via his shed blood, via his unconditional love for us all shown at the cross.
I'm going to take a leaf out of 'Indianabob's' book and if God is going to punish me for showing my love to my niece then I'll take my stripes like a man and move on. Somehow I don't think that He will. I don't believe that the God I love and try hard to serve even though I'm merely flesh & blood would want me to ignore people who are not elect. He wouldn't want me not to care and show my love for those who don't know Christ or have rejected him.
I'm prepared to show my love to those who know not, care not, and love not. I serve the God who has all this in hand. I'm not in a special club, I'm a member of a very, very, big family... God's family. I may not be the prodigal son but, I don't want to be a miserable, jealous, self-righteous elder brother either. Amen.
God's will be done on earth, just as His will is undoubtedly done so in heaven (think about that statement long and hard).
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I do not know how I would react if a member of my family were to wed as your niece is.
We know that Our Heavenly Father looks at the intents of our hearts.
We are to be 'His Living Letters', as 'His Witnesses'.
If it was one of my three sons, whom I love very much - I would probably want to have a heart to heart with him - and explain and confirm that I do not approve. If my son had made up his mind, I probably would attend his wedding, as he is my son, as my love for him is greater than what others may think, and greater than his lifestyle choice.
As you have sought advice, and His Guidance, I am sure that He will burden your heart and mind, to do what He wants you to do.
Kind Regards.
George
Porter:
jeetkunejimi, do you really want the advice given here? Or are you trying to justify a way to make going to the wedding ok? Who you trying to convince, us or yourself? It really seems like you made up your mind before you ever posed the question.
What did Christ say about loving others more then Him?
Matthew 10:34-37 “Do not think that I came to bring peace on earth. I did not come to bring peace but a sword. 35 For I have come to ‘set a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law’; 36 and ‘a man’s enemies will be those of his own household.’[e] 37 He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me. And he who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me.
Loving Christ more then others will cause division. Jesus never said it would be easy.
Dave in Tenn:
If the sword He came to bring in Matt. 10 is the same sword in Heb_4:12:
For the word of God is living and operative, and keen above any two-edged sword, and penetrating up to the parting of soul and spirit, both of the articulations and marrow, and is a judge of the sentiments and thoughts of the heart."
...then we might want to consider why it is sharper than a two-edged sword. Careful wielding it.
It seems to me that more than just Jeetkunejimi have pre-determined what they will do...or at least think they have. Jesus is Lord. He will judge the works of all men rightly. We are a web-forum.
lilitalienboi16:
--- Quote from: Dave in Tenn on October 21, 2016, 08:18:46 PM ---If the sword He came to bring in Matt. 10 is the same sword in Heb_4:12:
For the word of God is living and operative, and keen above any two-edged sword, and penetrating up to the parting of soul and spirit, both of the articulations and marrow, and is a judge of the sentiments and thoughts of the heart."
...then we might want to consider why it is sharper than a two-edged sword. Careful wielding it.
It seems to me that more than just Jeetkunejimi have pre-determined what they will do...or at least think they have. Jesus is Lord. He will judge the works of all men rightly. We are a web-forum.
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Dave, i have always considered us to be much more than a web forum. We are members of His body, and even amongst us as in no where else, in this the House of the Living God, are living pillars and grounds of the truth.
God bless,
Alex
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