There is a church, who knows if there are more, in Texas where some of the leadership in the church and town are part of a swinger's club. This is not the pastor or pastoral staff to my knowledge. There is at least one deacon involved. There are several church members also involved. These couples show up at a designated location for orgies. Husbands and wives swap partners. Illicit sex is openly flaunted and experienced by people who also sit in Bible studies and worship services with no remorse.
The church is not the building. The church is the people of God called out. The Ekklesia. These "church people" openly committing adultery and fornication is an orgy in the church. How could this be? It is unclear if the pastoral staff knows about it. It is common knowledge among many in the pews and the sinful behavior does not stop. The deacon has reportedly had many ex partners and broken up marriages. How can he still be a deacon? How can he still be a member in good standing?
I am stunned. This is beyond belief. Blatant hypocrisy. How could it be. How could these people gather for Bible study and worship, all the while planning their next sex escapade.
Orgy is defined as a wild part containing excessive drinking and unrestrained sexual activity. It's beyond my comprehension that supposed Christians would openly engage in such behavior. It is hard to believe that pagans would do this. Unbridled lust rules the day. A sex crazed society gone mad.
I do not know the name of the church. I do not know the pastor. What I can tell you is the watering down of solid Bible preaching over the past several decades and the entertainment driven church philosophy is raising carnal congregations.
I sat at a hopstil today visiting with two gentlemen I love dearly. One told me his pastor has not preached in the several years he has been in pastor position. I am not sure what the pastor does but my friend said it is not preaching. In well over five years the man told me he had never heard his pastor even mention the world hell. Not once. When is the last time you heard an old fashioned hell fire sermon? For some it might have been awhile. What about a message on adultery, fornication, homosexuality or orgies? I bet it has bene awhile.
How could hypocrites sit under a steady diet of preaching and teaching the word of God and not either get convicted and repent or quit coming all together. If the word is watered down it does not pierce and penetrate the conscious or the soul. To live in the vice of sin openly and yet to gather for worship and hold positions of leadership is beyond my ability to comprehend.
I am thinking of my high school Sunday school teacher who loved us boys. He ministered to us outside the church as well in our class. He and his wife often had us in their home and took us boating on the lake. He had an affair on his wife and divorced her. He lived a double life nobody knew about. I am thinking of another prominent church member and town leader who also had an affair and left his wife. He acts like nothing ever happened. I am thinking of another prominent leader who had multiple affairs on his wife. He even feigned repentance. Come to find out his outrageous behavior continued. Another marriage broken up and many people hurt along the way.
I think of the volunteer of a ministry living with his girl. When I found out I demanded one or the other move out. I did not even lead that ministry. Did others not know? Did no one have the courage to say living together outside marriage is sin? Are we afraid of offending?
No matter how the times change and the elite try to redefine morality that does not change God. His law is set. It will not change. Sin is still sin. An affair is till adultery. Sleeping together and making love is till fornication when done outside the confines of marriage. Same sex couples and marriage is still homosexuality. Child molestation, incest, and rape are still sins. Sin is sin. I did not write the rules but I will not change them just to get a crowd for worship. Sin is still sin.
If people have heard about this orgy who are members have they gone to their pastoral leadership? Have they gone to other deacons and elders? In the Corinthian church they dealt with morality issues. Sexual immorality to be exact. A man was involved in sexual intercourse with his mother or stepmother.
1 Corinthians 5:1 (NKJV)
1 It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles--that a man has his father's wife!
When Paul learned about this did he turn a deaf ear and a blind eye not wanting to upset anyone or the attendance. He called for the person to be "delivered over to Satan" and to "purge out the old." This is not easy. It is never easy to call someone into account about their sin.
I can hear the howling masses shouting through the internet, Matthew 7:1 (NKJV)
1 "Judge not, that you be not judged.
Such people fail to recall Matthew 7:13-23 (NKJV)
13 "Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it.
14 Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it.
15 "Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves.
16 You will know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes from thornbushes or figs from thistles?
17 Even so, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit.
18 A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit.
19 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.
20 Therefore by their fruits you will know them.
21 "Not everyone who says to Me, 'Lord, Lord,' shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven.
22 Many will say to Me in that day, 'Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?'
23 And then I will declare to them, 'I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!'
It is not judging when you see the fruit. You can see the fruit of a person's life and deduce what kind of person they are. Many profess faith in Jesus but their lives testify a far different story. Which is it? Do we just listen to what people say and never watch how they live?
Something is very wrong when church members live in hypocrisy. Either they have never truly been saved or they are like the prodigal son living in rebellion. Either way they are called into account and repentance.
You would think the anointed worship, preaching and teaching of the Bible would be used by the Holy Spirit to convict, break and bring people to repentance. You would think a desire for holiness would permeate the hearts of the people of God. Holiness is an old fashioned notion. Holiness is antiquated among people who call themselves progressive. If we are progressing why are there over 50 registered sex offenders where I minister 4 of them being women. Why are crime rates so high if we are progressing. Why do some people in the pews act just like pagans. Why does sexual immorality happen among church people.
The sex orgy among people in that church must be confronted. That deacon must be called into account along with all the others. If they are unwilling to repent then they should be purged. Church of the living God whomever you are - there must be a cleansing. We are called to live holy lives.
1 Peter 1:15-16 (NKJV)
15 but as He who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct,
16 because it is written, "Be holy, for I am holy."
It is time for the bride of Christ to repent and cleanse herself. Jesus has not waited this long to come back for a spotted, defiled and polluted bride. May holiness win the day. May sinners repent and come clean before Jesus. May the lost, even if they have deceived themselves that they are saved, repent and cry out to Jesus. May hypocrites be broken and find the mercy and unfailing compassion of Jesus. May those bound up in sin find deliverance and freedom in Jesus. May God's people live like we are God's people.
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