Justifying Sin

The Christian News headline read, “Presidential Candidate Pete Buttigieg Asserts of His Homosexuality: ‘Your Quarrel Is With My Creator’”

All Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg does is justify giving in to temptation. If you applied the same logic he used for homosexuality to substance abuse, then a heroin or cocaine addict and alcoholic would be justified for using.

Buttigieg has fallen into the common trap of thinking and believing that what comes “naturally”, i.e. feels good, must be right and therefore righteous.

Buttigieg doesn’t seem to realize that the struggle with temptation is a war against the evil one, not with God. Conceding that war gives the victory to Satan, not to our Lord.

Moses chose, “to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season; Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompence of the reward.” (Hebrews 11:25-26)

This is what Moses understood that Buttigieg doesn’t. Buttigieg’s focus is on the pain of the righteous struggle with temptation and the pleasure of sin in giving into temptation. Righteousness doesn’t always feel good. Sin invariable does. But all of that is for a brief season. Moses chose to “suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season”. Buttigieg has chosen the opposite.

It is a choice between short term sinful pleasure or eternity of righteous joy and bliss. One you can have right now this very minute, the other is delayed gratification. It’s your choice.

Buttigieg said, “My marriage to Chasten (His husband) has made me a better man.”

He also doesn’t realize that sin usually comes with a benefit. It must or otherwise there would be no point to temptation if it was all pain and misery. But any benefit of sin is temporary, temporal and with a price too big for any human to pay.

There is one very accurate and profound statement made by Buttigieg. He said about rejecting homosexual temptations, “puts you at war not only with yourself, but with your Maker.”

Buttigieg is at war with himself and His maker.

When someone consciously turns against the will and wishes of God and makes sin their own, God will give them up, “to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts “ and “unto vile affections” and “even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient” (Romans 1:2:24, 26, 28)

Buttigieg has been fooled into thinking he is right with his choice. He has experienced no retribution from God, he has plenty of people to justify his actions and to support his decision. But his worldly decision has spiritual consequences. Sometimes that bill isn’t collected until after death, when it is too late.

Read Ezekiel 18. God doesn’t want anyone to die. He always wants us to repent and return back to Him.

“Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel? For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord God: wherefore turn yourselves, and live ye.” (Ezekiel 18:30-31)

Pray for Pete Buttigieg.

Bill Hitchcock