Was It Any of Lot’s Business?
by Terry Wane Benton
I got a note from someone telling me that the LGBTQ causes do not and should not concern me. That is like saying, what they are promoting in schools and through political causes does not concern me. Well, it does! You see, sin is a spiritual disease that spreads by people like me saying nothing, turning our heads while they keep spreading it. It's like letting someone contaminate the minds of children with socialism and communism while we say and do nothing about it.
They are making it our business on two fronts:
- They are spreading sin among innocent, unsuspecting minds, without our permission or approval, and then trying to shame us into silence if we say something.
- It is our business to identify sin in any form that it is advanced and expose it (Ephesians 5:11).
We cannot do this by saying nothing. Besides, the enemy is not living by the rule of saying nothing. They are promoting sin, which destroys the true potential of glorifying God. The gospel is for every person of every nation. Jesus made spreading the remedy of sin His business, and in turn made it our business to point out the malady (sin) and present the good news of the available cure in Jesus. When Lot was only a small minority in Sodom and Gomorrah, was it any of his business how the people had become so wicked till it was knocking on his door?
The time to recognize it is our business is not when it comes knocking on our personal doors, but long before that point. Sin is the problem, the gospel is the remedy. No one wants a remedy until they are confronted with the fact that they have a serious spiritual problem.
