Identity
Good Morning,
Genesis 1:11 “And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.”
vs. 12 “And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.”
Genesis 1:21 “And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.”
Genesis 1:24 “And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.”
Notice the phrase "after his kind."
All of us are well aware of the attacks our culture regularly throws at America. America, our beloved, great country, is being attacked and mocked. Statements such as, “My country ‘tis of thee, sweet land of liberty…” are being removed from our culture. Globalism and (using an older term) unilateral perspective toward the world tears away the very idea of unique nations and promotes us to be one, they try to break down those unique boundaries of national loyalties. This line of thinking is the cause of the destruction of wonderful cultures and people across the world. In History stories, we read about the French, Germans, Austrians, and other people of other nations, and we look with admiration on these unique people groups. All of these people and cultures are being assaulted as much or more than America.
We are being robbed of our national distinctives.
Follow my thinking here:
• One ripple of this globalistic thinking is surfacing in our churches. There were once Nazarene, Baptist, or Pentecostal churches, but now we have community churches, fellowships, vineyards or branches — identities are being eliminated.
No one knows what another church believes, what sets them apart, or what they truly are.
• Likewise, gender identities are being attacked and eliminated. We now live in a culture in which speaking about manliness or something regarding a character trait of your gender (whether a feminine woman or a masculine man) is attacked and treated as a narrow-minded, bigoted slander.
In reality, we have pine trees and palm trees; we love them both; each tree is unique and distinct. There is nothing wrong with being who we are. Eliminating the boundaries, lines, and divisions is a work of Satan’s slow destruction of the work of God. I do not have to hate others to enjoy being who I am. I am a left-handed Norwegian who lives in America, and I love it; but I would expect a Japanese person to love Japan.
Women ought to glory in their feminine creation. Men ought to love being manly. There is nothing wrong with lines.
When you think of "Cajun food,” you do not think of European cuisine. When you think of lumpia, no one imagines a group of Mexicans cooking. We are different. We are unique, and we ought to enjoy being that way.
In the beginning, God made all kinds of trees and animals; He then created a man and a woman. They were different from one another, and God said that it was good.
Ecclesiastes 3:11 “He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.”
Let God be God and Creator. He made us; He made the nations, and He made two genders which are easily identified from birth in all mammals. Let us keep our identity!
Pastor