Meanwhile, also in England, a woman named Gemma Watts has been convicted of homosexual assaults on four girls and is believed to have assaulted at least forty others.
What do we learn from these horrific stories?
The claim has been that homosexuals resorted to the abusing of others only because they were forbidden to practice their unnatural passions openly. Well that argument is effectively disproven by the fact that there has been an increase in this kind of event since homosexuality has been “decriminalized” and then legalized. It is hard to get reliable figures, because the pro-homosexual news media suppress them; but it appears that the number of homosexual rapes is increasing dramatically.
Here is lesson one, giving approval to unnatural desire does not satisfy the lust, it inflames it.
The second lesson comes further down in the story about Reynhard Sinaga. When asked about the verdict handed down by the court (life in prison with no release for at least 30 years), Sinaga’s father said, "We accept the verdict. His punishment fits his crimes. I don't want to discuss the case any further."
We do not read of honesty like that very often. I hurt for that father; his pain is evident. I appreciate his willingness to see his son treated justly. Too many parents today make excuses and ask the justice system to set aside justice and give something less than a just sentence.
Let us take these two lessons to heart.
We will not reduce our sinful desires by giving in to them. Many a fool has thought (in regard to many different sins), “I’ll do it just a little bit.” It does not work. Just as each victory over temptation helps us to win another victory over temptation, each time we give in to temptation we are feeding the evil within us. Feeding evil desires always increases the evil within us. So, whatever your temptation may be, do not give into it thinking to satisfy it. We should kill sin, not feed it.
And let us always affirm justice, even when it is handed down against someone we love.
1 Corinthians 6:9-10 (ESV) Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, 10 nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.
1 Corinthians 6:18-20 (ESV) Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body. 19 Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, 20 for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.
Romans 13:13-14 (ESV) Let us walk properly as in the daytime, not in orgies and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and sensuality, not in quarreling and jealousy. 14 But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires.
Colossians 3:5 (ESV) Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.
Deuteronomy 16:19-20 (ESV) You shall not pervert justice. You shall not show partiality, and you shall not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and subverts the cause of the righteous. 20 Justice, and only justice, you shall follow, that you may live and inherit the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
1 Samuel 3:11-14 (ESV) Then the LORD said to Samuel, “Behold, I am about to do a thing in Israel at which the two ears of everyone who hears it will tingle. 12 On that day I will fulfill against Eli all that I have spoken concerning his house, from beginning to end. 13 And I declare to him that I am about to punish his house forever, for the iniquity that he knew, because his sons were blaspheming God, and he did not restrain them. 14 Therefore I swear to the house of Eli that the iniquity of Eli’s house shall not be atoned for by sacrifice or offering forever.”
1 Samuel 3:18 (ESV) And he [Eli] said, “It is the LORD. Let him do what seems good to him.”
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