09/29/2026
DON'T BE SO SURE.
CNN is reporting that LGBTQ migrants are being deported from the United States to third countries where their sexuality may place them in danger.
Before Christians decide that suffering inflicted upon LGBTQ people must somehow represent the righteousness or judgment of God, perhaps Scripture itself should make us slow down.
S***m was already described as wicked in Genesis 13:13.
Yet in Genesis 14, when Chedorlaomer carried away the people and possessions of S***m, Abraham did not say, "They are wicked. Let them suffer."
Abraham went after the captives.
Scripture says:
"And he brought back all the goods, and also brought again his brother Lot, and his goods, and the women also, and the people."
Genesis 14:16 KJV
Then, when God's judgment of S***m approached in Genesis 18, Abraham did something else remarkable.
He interceded.
He asked:
"Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?"
Genesis 18:25 KJV
Abraham knew S***m was wicked.
But knowing that S***m was wicked did not require Abraham to become S***m's enemy.
And then there is Jonah.
Jonah knew Nineveh was wicked. God knew Nineveh was wicked too.
But when Nineveh repented and God showed mercy, Jonah became angry.
That should frighten every religious person who has ever become more comfortable with another person's destruction than with God's mercy.
And Paul gives us another warning.
Romans 1 does not exist without Romans 2.
"Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself..."
Romans 2:1 KJV
So whether you hold a traditional Christian understanding of sexuality or an affirming one, Scripture leaves us with a warning:
Don't be so sure.
Don't be so certain that because you believe someone else is wrong, everything done against that person suddenly becomes right.
Don't be so certain that another person's sin makes your contempt holy.
Don't confuse moral conviction with permission to harm.
And don't presume that because judgment exists, you have been appointed to administer everything you believe that judgment should look like.
"The secret things belong unto the LORD our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever..."
Deuteronomy 29:29 KJV
There are things God has revealed.
There are things God has not.
And when God has not told us everything, humility is not compromise.
It is obedience.
Knowing that someone is in sin does not give us permission to despise God's mercy toward them.
We must never call evil good.
But church, be careful.
We must never call good evil either.
Almost Sunday. Always JESUS.