Persevering In Spite of Persecution

The Phil Robertson Controversy

Some people, pretending to be wise say “There is no God…”

“You act so wise. You actually become a fool. You know what you do? You suppress the truth about God by your wickedness. And you know what

happens? His wrath is poured upon you. Don’t believe it? First they say there is no God. Get Him out of your mind. Then they bow down to birds, animals and reptiles and each other and the first thing you see come out of them is gross sexual immorality. They will dishonor their bodies with one another – degrade each other. Is that going on in the United States of America? Look around. God’s not there. We have all the answers. Don’t hurt a bird or an

animal and boy is there some immorality going on around here…

The Phil Robertson Controversy

…Therefore because they did not retain the knowledge of God He gave them over to shameful lusts. Women exchanged natural relations and were

inflamed with lusts for one another and the men were inflamed with lusts with each other. Women with women, men with men. They committed

indecent acts with one another and they received in themselves the due penalty for their perversions. They were full of murder, envy, strife with

hatred. They are insolent, arrogant, God-haters, they are heartless, they are faithless, they are senseless, they are ruthless. They invent ways of doing evil.” Then, holding up his Bible, Mr. Robertson concluded, “That’s what you have 235 years (roughly) after your forefathers founded the country.”

- YouTube: Duck Dynasty’s Phil Robertson Speaking

What Others Are Saying About Phil Robertson

“The 67-year-old reality celebrity denounces gay people as ‘insolent, arrogant, God-haters…”

“Conservative “Duck Dynasty” patriarch Phil Robertson was caught flapping his gums in an anti-gay tirade three years before his suspension for similar

remarks.”

Phil Robertson on Sin

Phil was asked: “What constitutes sin?”

“Start with homosexual behavior and just morph out from there. Bestiality, sleeping around with this woman and that woman and that woman and

those men,” he says. Then he paraphrases Corinthians: “Don’t be deceived. Neither the adulterers, the idolaters, the male prostitutes, the homosexual offenders, the greedy, the drunkards, the slanderers, the

swindlers—they won’t inherit the kingdom of God. Don’t deceive yourself. It’s not right.” – Phil Robertson, GQ Interview

Bloomington, IN

Bloomington, IN“It was an emotional night in

City Hall that ended with council members receiving a rare standing ovation from

the public as they joined the fight backing same-sex

marriage.” – City council backs couples’ rights, Lindsey

Erdody

Bloomington, IN“…held back tears as she said it

was touching to see other people express their opinions on sexual orientation, unafraid of being heckled by others in the crowd, which wasn’t true years ago. ‘That is such an incredible sign of progress,’

Zietlow said.” – Charlotte Zietlow, Former Council Member

1 Cor. 6:9-11Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God?

Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God. And such

were some of you. But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.

(NKJV)

It is not possible to avoid offending everyone, so don’t even try.

Political Correctness (PC): “a term that describes language, ideas, policies, and behavior seen as seeking to minimize social and institutional offense in

occupational, gender, racial, cultural, sexual orientation, religious belief, disability, and age-related contexts.”

Important Principles to Remember

It is not possible to avoid offending everyone, so don’t even try.

Galatians 1:10 (NKJV) 10 … do I seek to please men? For if I still pleased men, I would not be a

bondservant of Christ.


The truth is offensive.

The only thing that fears honest investigation is error (because honest investigation will expose it). - Unknown



Galatians 5:11 (NKJV) 11 And I, brethren, if I still preach circumcision, why do I still suffer

persecution? Then the offense of the cross has ceased.



Isaiah 8:14 (NKJV) 14 He will be as a sanctuary, But a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense

To both the houses of Israel, As a trap and a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.



Psalm 118:22 (NKJV) 22 The stone which the builders rejected Has become the chief

cornerstone.



John 14:6 (NKJV) 6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to

the Father except through Me.



Luke 4:28 (NKJV) 28 So all those in the synagogue, when they heard these things, were filled

with wrath,

Matthew 13:57 (NKJV) 57 So they were offended at Him. But Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not

without honor except in his own country and in his own house.”



Matthew 15:12 (NKJV) 12 Then His disciples came and said to Him, “Do You know that the Pharisees were

offended when they heard this saying?”



Matthew 11:6 (NKJV) 6 And blessed is he who is not offended because of Me.”


Never be asdhamed of what the Bible teaches.

1 Peter 4:16 (NKJV) 16 …if anyone suffers as a Christian, let him not be ashamed, but let him glorify God in

this matter.



1 Peter 3:16 (NKJV) 16 having a good conscience, that when they defame you as evildoers, those who

revile your good conduct in Christ may be ashamed.



2 Timothy 1:8 (NKJV) 8 Therefore do not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me His prisoner,

but share with me in the sufferings for the gospel according to the power of God,


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