My son is a 24-year-old Christian. He just told me that his college art class was shown pictures of gay couples in long-term relationships. What do you think his course of action should be? Am I still a slave to sin?
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Well, it's time to bring it
on with the email questions
that you all have sent in.
And Pat, this first one comes
from Charmaine who says,
"my son is a
24-year-old Christian.
He just told me that
his college art class
was showing pictures
of gay couples
in long-term relationships.
My son has to write
a report on this.
He's shocked and all
he could say is, what?
I was wondering if
he could do something
to protect his rights.
He shouldn't have to go to
school and have to watch that.
What do you think his
course of action should be?"
That's tough.
You know, in the old days,
you'd see immediately
they go to court and
say that his rights were
being taken away from him.
Unfortunately, the
court has now said
that homosexual rights are
a constitutionally protected
area.
So what's he going to do?
I'm afraid that what
he's going to have to do,
he could write a report
saying that this wasn't art
and expressing the fact
that why it wasn't good.
And I think that would be the
way to go, but he's in a bind.
I mean, we're
looking in a culture
that is just going to pot.
And it has given itself over
to bizarre types of sexuality.
And it-- it isn't that people
didn't practice these things
throughout history,
it's just that they--
they didn't get a
constitutional sanction.
I mean, 100 years ago, this
would have been unthinkable.
So what does your son do?
I really don't think he
could win the law case.
He could drop out
of the art class,
but he wants to be an artist.
And that's what they
are imposing upon him.
I really-- you ask
me, what would I do?
I think that's the best way to
do it is to see those pictures
and criticize why
they aren't any good
and why they're not good art.
And if he's good enough at
it, he might get a good grade.
You know, he might not
be getting an art degree.
Because if you're at a
liberal arts college,
you have to take an
art class anyway.
So I mean, you
know-- find another--
But you're exposed
to these things.
Look at Mablethorpe.
I mean, all that awful stuff,
and they were putting it
in museums with taxpayer money.
I mean, it was just terrible.
But that's the way
they were doing it.
This is Michelle, who says,
"I feel Jesus in my heart.
I know He watches over me.
I feel His love, but I still
sin even though I don't want to.
Am I still a slave to sin?"
Well, the Bible says
he that is born of God
does not continuously sin.
Of course you will sin.
Of course you will
have temptation.
Of course you will fall.
You know, John Wesley
said that there
isn't a day that
goes by that I don't
plead the blood of Christ.
We need the blood of Christ.
And we walk in the light,
as he is in the light.
We have fellowship
with one another,
and the blood of
Christ continuously
cleanses us from all sin.
So you are not going
to be free from sin
until the day you
die and you become
transported into a new world.
So we are in the
flesh, and the flesh
is always warring against us.
And what we need to
do is to put to death
the deeds of the flesh, and
that we might live for the Lord.
And that's the process
of sanctification.
So as you walk
down the line, you
will get closer and
closer to Jesus.
That's their goal.
Is that all?
I think that's all the
time we have for now.
Well folks, thank you so
much for being with us.
I hope I didn't give
you a downer today.
I was just-- we've got to
face the world that's there.
Well, I think maybe
the question to be asked
is how should we then live
with the rest of this.
Well, we're going to win.
I want to say that, just
because I'm an eternal optimist.
In Jesus Christ, we win.
Well, we leave you today with
a power minute from Jeremiah.
Here's the winner.
"Call unto me,
and I will answer you and show
you great and mighty things,
which you do not know."