That was a critical point in Jim Jones "Ministry" (And I put Ministry in quotations for a reason!). Every true born again Christian (there are no other kind) immediately got up and left. Or they would have if left if the Holy Ghost was dwelling in their heart.
And every true American Who heard the Supreme Court's ruling ion gay marriage is going to reject it - no matter what the cost.
Although the times are a little different now than they were in the 1500s, the following quote from Charles Surgeon seams appropriate:
I think the following quote from Pastor Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892) is appropriate:
"We
admire a man who was firm in the faith, say four hundred years
ago...but such a man today is a nuisance, and must be put down. Call
him a narrow-minded bigot, or give him a worse name if you can think of
one. Yet imagine that in those ages past, Luther, Zwingli, Calvin, and
their compeers had said, "The world is out of order; but if we try to
set it right we shall only make a great row, and get ourselves into
disgrace. Let us go to our chambers, put on our night-caps, and sleep
over the bad times, and perhaps when we wake up things will have grown
better." Such conduct on their part would have entailed upon us a
heritage of error. Age after age would have gone down into the infernal
deeps, and the pestiferous gobs of error would have swallowed all.
These men loved the faith and the name of Jesus too well to see them
trampled on...
It
is today as it was in the Reformer's days. Decision is needed. Here
is the day for the man, where is the man for the day? We who have had
the gospel passed to us by martyr hands dare not trifle with it, nor sit
by and hear it denied by traitor, who pretend to love it, but inwardly
abhor every line of it...Look you, sirs, there are ages yet to come. If
the Lord does not speedily appear, there will come another generation,
and another, and all these generations will be tainted and injured if we
are not faithful to God and to His truth today. We have come to a
turning-point in the road. If we turn to the right, mayhap our children
and our children's children will go that way; but if we turn to the
left, generations yet unborn will curse our names for having been
unfaithful to God and to His Word." (Source)Recommended reading and listening:
Mark Levin: The Supreme Court 'Doesn't Deserve Your Respect Ever Again' [Video included] - cnsnews.com
"Give Honor to God, and to Our Lord and Savior Barack Obama."
Our Nation Laid In God's Balance, by Dr. Joel Beeke
Why Persecution Is Coming To The Church In America, by Pastor Kevin Swanson
When Government Tries To Be God, by Dr. David P. Murray
