Foremost cleric, Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye, has condemned the same sex marriage that has been made legitimate in some countries, saying such should not be introduced in Nigeria.
Pastor Adeboye, who is General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), described same sex marriage as anathema to God's will and instruction, saying the will of God for human beings is to be fruitful, replenish and multiply on earth, and anything contrary to that is devilish.
The renowned Christian cleric who spoke at the New Year thanksgiving organized by the Joint Christian Mission of the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, said same sex marriage was capable of wiping out human race within just 20 years of its practice.
He said, "How can a man who marries a fellow man produce a child? And how can a woman who marries a woman produce a child? If this evil is allowed to stay, there will not be new born babies again in the world.
"As the older generation dies, would there be new generation to succeed? Even plants and animals have new generation to succeed them."
Adeboye therefore called on those who indulge in the sacrilegious act to repent and turn to God, stressing that "like poles repel, while unlike poles attract."
While praying for peace and stability of the country, Adeboye enjoined all Nigerians to walk in the ways of God this year and shun all evil acts which may attract the wrath of God on the nation.
He also urged the people to walk in the light of God and forsake acts that are traceable to darkness, saying "darkness is bad, it is evil. It produces poverty, hatred, sorrow, bareness and loneliness."
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Finally someone put it in a nutshell. This pastor I admire for having what it takes to the the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. I saw a billboard in NYC of two men embracing to kiss each other. I was raised in the US to believe that sodomy is evil, now the US is saying that sodomy is good. NO, NO the devil is busy because he knows his time is short and that GOOD has already won.
Finally someone put it in a nutshell. This pastor I admire for having what it takes to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. I saw a billboard in NYC of two men embracing to kiss each other. I was raised in the US to believe that sodomy is evil, now the US is saying that sodomy is good. NO, NO the devil is busy because he knows his time is short and that GOOD has already won.
This is just the beginnings of evil. As we know, the time is short. We can see evil all around. Countless children are murdered each day through abortion. Murders at the places that we once thought were safe; schools, colleges, movie theaters and churches. And now, the attacks on the God ordained sanctify of marriage and family. Our hope is only thru Jesus Christ!!!!
The pushing of homosexuality by various governments is indicative of the general moral state of the countries whose governments are pushing it.
It's a good indicator of how long that country is going to last. When sexual morals disappear, other morals such as "do not lie", "do not steal", etc. quickly fall as well.
Most nations/peoples start with strong morals. Not just in sex, but in everything. There was a time when the Romans and Greeks honored marriage and honored truth. Then each degenerated. First, it was the fringes of their societies, then enough of the mainstream abandoned sexual morals that the cultures couldn't function effectively. They fell from within, then without.
Take the Greeks. If the Greeks were as strong as they were under Alexander, would the Romans have been able to take them over? But by the time the Romans came on the scene as a military power, the Greek culture had largely become hedonistic and decadent.
The Romans, Greeks, Etruscans, Aztecs, Incas, Amorites, Mayans, and a multitude of other cultures abandoned morals and it was not long before they passed from history. The western Roman Empire came apart from within. The Incas and Aztecs by the 1500s had degenerated to where they preyed upon their own subjects. When the Spaniards arrived, harsh as they were, the subject peoples chose the Spanish and revolted. Neither Cortez nor Pizarro could have taken either empire with ~50 men without popular support. The Amorites were given 400 years to repent by God, and when they had degenerated into raping their kids and burning them alive on brass idols, the Lord took them out. The Mayans were destroyed by a drought, and apparently because of what they'd done to others around them, no one was going to help when their crops failed.
This type of degeneration, first in sex, then in other morals, we've seen with culture after culture in this world. Culture starts strong, becomes immoral, then the culture dies, or is conquered, or both
There is a peculiarity today in that it's a world-wide degeneration. Today, with the exception of China and a handful of pockets elsewhere, the entire world's morals are crashing. Not one country or people, but the world in general.
This appears unique to our time.
But is it? The Bible says of the people in Noah's time in Genesis 6:5: "Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. Luke 17:26-27: "26 “Just as it was in the days of Noah, so also will it be in the days of the Son of Man. 27 People were eating, drinking, marrying and being given in marriage up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all."
The prediluvian world didn't last, either. When they became evil "continually", the Lord destroyed the world.
The current situation in the United States with homosexuality is a lesson on what can happen when women cease to be a civilizing influence on a culture. In the late 1970s through the 1990s, women were taught in school a number of feminist doctrines that amounted to "do what you want", "care nothing for others."
As a result, what is called Generation X, those born from 1965 to 1985, mostly abandoned marriage. This was the result of the women deciding they wanted to party, sleep around, use drugs, get drunk, etc. Some are partying still after 25 years. They abandoned God, they abandoned the church, they abandoned the religious training they had received as kids. It shouldn't be a surprise that a group that abandoned morality of all kinds would push a host of alternative lifestyles. Most GenX women gravitated to unofficial polygamy, by choosing the 10% to 20% of men that had few or no morals like they did. By 2000, it was estimated that the average woman had 5 STDs and most men had never had one. Most GenY children are by the same small group of fathers.
Most GenX men, conversely, wanted to marry and have families. Most were not able to, the women not wanting to marry. Thus there is a tremendous schism between the men and the women, with the men essentially holding the culture together, a role that used to be done by American women.
First the women pushed sex outside of marriage. Then they pushed living together outside of marriage. Now they push homosexuality. And other morally-wrong behaviors. A look at statistics for false claims filed by women for rape (30% to 50%), sexual harassment (90%+), abuse (90+%), indicates that the loss of sexual morals results in a loss of other morals, such as telling the truth and doing what used to be called "doing the right thing."
When I was a kid, it wasn't uncommon for contracts to be sealed by a handshake. Now, it's hundreds of pages to try to get each party to do what was agreed upon.
When marriage is abandoned, it's historically been a progression into the sewer. Lie, cheat, steal, murder, etc. It's happening now to the U.S. and E.U., particularly in the E.U. with 4 times as many violent crimes per 100,000 people than the U.S.
In 2009, the party dominated by the women's viewpoint, the Democrats, passed H.R. 1913, which would have made 200+ deviant sexual practices into legal minorities, including pedophilia. Every attempt to stop it was blocked in the House of Representatives. The Senate, fortunately, listened to 500,000 angry letters and shelved the idea.
The very fact that it passed, despite what it would do to people, said something dire about American civilization.
That schism between good and evil in the American culture is eventually going to split the nation like it did in 1861. There is no middle ground between good and evil. Evil gets used to having its own way and will not accept any restrictions upon it.
It may break up the E.U., as well. That stark difference between good and evil may well create an insurmountable obstacle to getting anything done.
Well said pastor!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!