Riff's Christian Journal

Any Christian when asked the question “do you love Jesus?” they will almost always respond with a “yes”. Fair enough, and that is the answer that all Christians should give. The problem is, it may not be true. Here is why.

Look at these verses and answer the question again.

In John 14: 21 we read:

²¹ He who has My commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me. And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and manifest Myself to him.”

Then in John 14: 23, 24 we read:

“If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him. ²⁴ He who does not love Me does not keep My words; and the word which you hear is not Mine but the Father’s who sent Me.

Do you keep the commandments of Jesus? Here is a test. In Matthew 19: 4 – 6 we read:

⁴ And He answered and said to them, “Have you not read that He who made them at the beginning ‘made them male and female, ⁵ 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’?  ⁶ So then, they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate.”

There is more meaning in these verses than you see at first glance. You see, the family is a type of example of the relationship between Jesus and the Church. There are times when Jesus is referred as the bridegroom and the bride is referred as the Church. And a good explanation of the relationship between the two can be found in Ephesians 5: 22 – 33.

As Christ is the Bridegroom and the Church is the Bride it is an ordained relationship done so by God, and this relationship is not to be separated as Jesus explained in Matthew 19. The marriage between the two is to be between a man and a woman. Anything else is to separate what God has joined together.

As we see in secular society, and among many Christians being accepting of, the separation of marriage to include the unholy union of two people of the same-sex is also an attempt to separate the Church from Jesus. This is in defiance of the command by God that what He has joined together no one should tear apart.

To say that a traditional marriage is not to be just between one man and one woman is to say that we will not obey the commandments of Jesus as we do not love Him enough to obey Him because we want to have marriage to be something that we want, or will agree to, and not what Jesus has commanded us to believe in and obey.

So, the question is still this. Do you love Jesus? If you believe that traditional marriage does not need to be just between one man and one woman and that two people of the same-sex can come together to form this example between Jesus and the Church or even just agree that it is OK to do so, then you would have to say that your answer is ‘ NO ‘ , you do not love Jesus, or you are just ignorant of what the Word of God says and are only going by what someone else, not God, has told you to believe.

Remember, Jesus said, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word“. Are you willing to keep His Word? Then you will have to stand up against homosexual marriages and say that this goes against what God has ordained and you will not agree to it being the norm in today’s society.

No matter how much this may hurt you, or even that it may hurt people you know and love because of this decision, you must take the stand that marriage is to be between one man and one woman and this relationship, ordained by God, is not to be torn asunder. If you cannot do this then you will have to say that you do not love Jesus and you will not have him to rule over you.

⁴ And He answered and said to them, “Have you not read that He who made them at the beginning ‘made them male and female, ⁵ 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’?  ⁶ So then, they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate.”

So, then, do you really love Jesus?