Don’t Fall for Satan’s Gaslighting!
If we say that we have fellowship with Him, and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin. 1 John 1:6–7
Some of the devil’s most pervasive gaslighting in our day has to do with sexual immorality. To the world that buys into Satan’s lies, whatever consenting adults do in private cannot be called a sin. Is it OK for unmarried people to share the same bed? Can a man marry another man? Can a woman become a man? The ungodly world not only says “yes,” but accuses you of hatred and bigotry if you say otherwise.
The Christian who knows and follows God’s Word on these matters is not standing on opinion. The same God who made us and redeemed us has not left any doubt about his plan for sexual purity. Jesus said, “Have you not read that He who made them at the beginning `made them male and female,' and said, `For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh'? So then, they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate.” (Matthew 19:4-5)
The Bible warns about gaslighting on the topic of sexual purity: “Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.” (Ephesians 5:5-6) We do no one any favors by approving of actions that God calls sin. However, the Bible also warns against judgmental pride. Jesus had compassion on sinners of every kind, and sought out those who lived in open sins in order to gain them for heaven, through repentance and faith in His name. Our own purpose in staying true to God’s Word in matters of sexual purity is to gain as many souls for the Lord as we can, through the Gospel of Christ crucified for sinners.
Chief of sinners though I be, Jesus shed His blood for me;
Died that I might live on high, lived that I might never die,
As the branch is to the vine, I am His, and He is mine.
The Lutheran Hymnal 342:1