First they came for the Jews
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for the Communists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for me
and there was no one left
to speak out for me.
-Pastor Martin Niemöller
This poem shows what happens when people compromise principles for the fear of speaking up.
Lot was such a man, the New Testament calls him righteous as to his standing before God but the book of Genesis pictures him as compromising his testimony before his fellow man.
As sodomy and other sexual perversion continued to escalate in the town of Sodom there was a man who knew God was raised in a godly home and said absolutely nothing. Not one word. In the process of time did his accommodation of evil, his silence, his trying to get along with everyone spirit win over the town? No ! The town was destroyed, his wife died, his married daughters died, his sons in law’s died, he ended up in a drunken stupor involved in a incestuous relationship with his two remaining daughters. So much for accommodation...
We are called to be salt and light to our culture and if we like Lot see the evils going on around us and do nothing to confront the culture our end as a culture will be no different.
Maybe God had placed righteous teachers and has given you a sphere of influence not for accommodation but for confrontation. We as God’s people need to make a stand.
If not now, when?
If not for this cause, which one?
If not you, then who?
The Day of Silence is an event designed to support a lifestyle (homosexuality) that God condemns in Leviticus 18:22 saying,
"Do not lie with a man as one lies with a woman; that is detestable."Romans 1:27 says,
“...and in the same way also the men abandoned the natural function of the woman and burned in their desire toward one another, men with men committing indecent acts and receiving in their own persons the due penalty of their error."This is God’s Word and how God feels. We as teachers cannot support that which He has condemned. By not taking a stand we take one, our neutrality speaks volumes. Let's honor our Lord and stand for His Word.
Now that prayer is gone. Evolution is the norm. Perversion is accepted and promoted, Don’t be surprised if they come for you.
-Pastor Phil Kwiatkowski is Vice President of Ministries at Pacific Garden Mission and Senior Pastor at New Hope Community Church in Palatine, Illinois
