2. How now should we live? 1 Chron 12:32
Men who understood the times and knew what Israel should do-
David had just come to be the king.
NIV

3. 1. Base your beliefs on the Word of God
2. Balance truth with mercy
3. Look for ways to speak the truth in love

4. Marriage Amendment Tuesday 5/8/12

5. 1. Base your beliefs on the Word of God

6. Blessed is the man who…
Walks not in the counsel of the ungodly,
Nor stands in the path of sinners,
Nor sits in the seat of the scornful;

7. 2 But his delight is in the law of the LORD,
And in His law he meditates day and night.

8. 3 He shall be like a tree Planted by the rivers of water, That brings forth its fruit in its season, Whose leaf also shall not wither; And whatever he does shall prosper.

9. 4 The ungodly are not so, But are like the chaff which the wind drives away.

10. 5 Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, Nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.

11. 6 For the LORD knows the way of the righteous, But the way of the ungodly shall perish.

12. Gen 2:21-24
21 And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall on Adam, and he slept; and He took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place. 22 Then the rib which the LORD God had taken from man He made into a woman, and He brought her to the man.

13. Gen 2:23-24
23 And Adam said: "This is now bone of my bones And flesh of my flesh; She shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man."
24 Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

14. Marriage Amendment Tuesday 5/8/12
Marriage is one man and one woman for one life time according to God’s design.

15. Marriage Amendment Tuesday 5/8/12
What about the homosexual position? Is it an acceptable alternative lifestyle?

16. Lev 18:22
22 You shall not lie with a male as with a woman. It is an abomination.

17. Rom 1:26-27
26 For this reason God gave them up to vile passions. For even their women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature. 27 Likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust for one another, men with men committing what is shameful, and receiving in themselves the penalty of their error which was due.

18. 1 Cor. 6:9-11
9 Do 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,

19. 10 nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God.

20. Marriage Amendment Tuesday 5/8/12
What about the heterosexual people who are living together but not married? Is that an acceptable alternative lifestyle?

21. 1 Cor. 6:9-10
9 Do 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,

22. 1. Base your beliefs on the Word of God
Marriage is between one man and one woman.
Homosexuality is not an acceptable alternative lifestyle
No other domestic legal union should be
recognized as equal to marriage

23. Marriage Amendment Tuesday 5/8/12
Vote FOR the marriage amendment
There has been a lot of fog and misinformation abounding as we move toward this vote.
Base your belief and theyby action on the Word of God.
There is no evidence that this vote will lead to increased domestic violence or that it will harm chidren.
You never do wrong by doing right.

24. 1. Base your beliefs on the Word of God
2. Balance truth with mercy
Basing your beliefs on the Word of God is only 1/3 of the issue to know how to live…Don’t stop at just believing right.

25. Prov 3:3-4
3 Let not mercy and truth forsake you;
Bind them around your neck, Write them on the tablet of your heart, 4 And so find favor and high esteem In the sight of God and man.

26. 1. Have principles AND love people 2. Have convictions
WITHOUT being caustic
3. Have passion
AND seek peace
Is homosexuality a sin? No more than hate. Sin is the problem not it’s many faces… David Seamon

27. 1 Cor. 6:11
11 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.
One of the easiest ways for me to balance truth and mercy is to remember that God had mercy on my….i was in that list, but God washed, sanctified, and justified me because of Jesus. He’ll do that for ANYONE who comes to Him in repentance and belief.

28. 1. Base your beliefs on the Word of God
2. Balance truth with mercy
3. Look for ways to speak the truth in love

29. Eph 4:15
15 but, speaking the truth in love , may grow up in all things into Him who is the head — Christ —

30. 1. Wonderful opportunity to speak about God
2. Take a stand, but do it without anger
3. Look for ways to speak the truth in love
4. Eternity is in the balance

31. How now
should we live?

32. 1. Base your beliefs on the Word of God
2. Balance truth with mercy
3. Look for ways to speak the truth in love

33. Marriage Amendment Tuesday 5/8/12
Vote FOR the marriage amendment
Balance this truth with mercy
Speak this truth in love looking for ways to use this opportunity to engage the culture with the good news of the Gospel
Get out and vote your Biblical values
Understand we like all were sinners saved by grace. Hate sin, not it’s many faces
Use this opportunity to engage this culture with the Good News of Jesus

34. How now
should we live?
Are you saved? Have you been washed, sanctified, justified by the blood of Jesus?
Have you been speaking the truth but not in love?
Have you been afraid to speak the truth?
Lord help us be people who know the times and know what to do and do it.