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Religious Freedom - President Obama - God's Law

At this year’s White House Easter Prayer breakfast, President Barack Obama said, “On Easter, I do reflect that as a Christian, I am supposed to love.” He then said, “I have to say that sometimes, when I listen to less than loving expressions by Christians, I get concerned. But that’s a topic for another day.” Many in the audience began to laugh and clap. As he began to say, “Where there is injustice,” he started to smugly laugh and then continued to say, “I was about to be raw. I’m pulling it back.” He went on to say that, “Where there is injustice, we defend the oppressed. Where there is disagreement, we treat each other with compassion and respect. Where there are differences, we find strength in our common humanity, knowing that we are all children of God.”

At one point he quoted Pope Francis who had, at one time, called for Christians to see God in all who are oppressed and discriminated against. Obama said that, “Isn’t it how Jesus lived? Isn’t that how he loved? Embracing those that were different. Serving the marginalized. Humbling himself to the last.” He continued to say that, “This is the example we are called to follow. To love him with all our hearts, mind and soul and to love our neighbors, all our neighbors, as ourselves.”

Apparently this speech reflected Obama’s views regarding the Religious Freedom Laws passed in Indiana and Arkansas. White House spokesman Josh Earnest said that the president found such laws to be “unthinkable.” So, having this attitude of apparent disgust for these Christian business owners who hold fast to their religious moral beliefs, he then therefore feels the need to mock them while those in attendance applaud. This was supposed to be an event that honors Christ’s sacrificial death and resurrection. Does he really know what that means?

As Obama stated, Christ commands us to love our neighbors as ourselves. However, he did not command us to act like them when they sin. He did not command us to help them in their endeavors to sin. He did not command us to celebrate with them when they sin. We are to love them by engaging them with the truth. We are to love them enough to lose all that we have in order to be a reflection of the God that is in us - a God that hates sin.

Actually, Obama may have misinterpreted the Pope’s intent when he called for Christians to see God in all who are oppressed and discriminated against. Christians know God and despise unfounded discriminatory behavior directed toward anyone. Yet, if that behavior is actually in direct conflict with the Laws of God, then that said behavior must be rebuked. It is not discriminatory to do so. Christians must follow and obey the Laws of God which are above and beyond any laws of man. They have never changed and never will change regardless of the current desires of mankind.

Sure, we can, as Obama stated, “treat each other with compassion and respect.” However, we are not all the same, as Obama would want us to be, as he stated, “Where there are differences, we find strength in our common humanity, knowing that we are all children of God.” By trying to lump us altogether in one pot, he wants us then to all believe the same, to act the same - even if it is in direct violation of God’s Laws. What he wants is for everyone to be of one mind, acting in one accord, obeying the laws of mankind - whatever they happen to be at any given point and however ungodly they are, and then to call us all “children of God.”

It seems that the god of Obama not only loves the sinners, he also loves and condones the desires of the sinners. The celebration of Easter should have reminded these attendees of the reason that Christ died on that cross. His death was to pay for the sins that we have committed which are the Laws of God that we have broken. What are they? Read the Bible. It describes what sin is - committing adultery, blasphemy, thievery, hatred, envy, etc., and the list goes on. The Bible says that homosexual behavior is wrong. We can’t revise the Bible to exclude the items that we no longer like. Do we have the authority to change the Laws of God? Never. We are bound, as Christians, to obey these Laws. No amount of mockery by even our nation’s president should rock us from our Christian stance.

Jesus did not teach that we should all act and believe the same things. He came to cause division. He came to rebuke the sinners. He called Christians to stand apart from what he called evil. He called Christians to be different from the rest of the world by recognizing and overcoming the temptations that we have for worldly lusts that once given in to - is sin. How do we recognize sin? By reading the Word of God which explains what sin is.

Is Obama a Christian as he states? I cannot delve that far into the heart of a man to know whether he is or isn’t. Only God has that ability. At the same time, I know that not everyone who calls himself a Christian is actually saved. Does the fruit of his actions and speech reflect the God of the Bible? Does he seem to have a real disdain for the Laws of God? Does he love God’s chosen people? Has he chosen to protect or abandon God’s chosen people? It may not be currently correct in the eyes of the world to choose Biblical Laws over the laws of what is now considered culturally correct laws, but a Christian would do so to the detriment of their businesses, their political offices, their friends and even their families. Does this sound like something our current president would do? No. He mocks Christians. He quotes and then twists the meanings of scripture to suit what mankind chooses to lust after. He unapologetically lies.

As true Christians, choose to stand apart from the world. Choose to obey God’s laws. Choose to trust and acknowledge Christ and let Him direct your paths as you travel down this road of life. Seek to know the mind of Christ. Trust in His Word and let Him guide you in all that you think, do and say that others may know and understand that you are truly different from the rest of the world.

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