In a bizarre statement, Jakes said in an interview with the Huffington Post, that the issue of homosexuality is “complex.” I wonder how he came to the conclusion that God forbids it as complex? Everywhere in the Bible it is identified as sin, and people in the church are not allowed to participate in it, and neither of course are those in the world, who are called to repent from it.
Even more strange, instead of using the Scriptures that actually deal with homosexuality, he goes to the head covering verse. He said, “Paul spends a lot of time wrestling back and forth, trying to understand should a woman wear a head covering, should you cut your hair. I mean, they grappled back then and we’re grappling now because we’re humans and we are flawed and we’re not God.”
That's one of the strangest suggestions I've ever heard about Paul. There is nothing in the Scriptures that points to Paul wrestling with it. That's pure projection and imaginary ideas imposed on the text by Jakes. Evidently it's Jakes that is wrestling with it. Paul was very clear on it.
To tie this made up argument to homosexuality is really weird. There is no other way to describe it. Jakes has been convinced by someone to come out on the side of homosexuality; something he may have supported all along, and just waited for the Supreme Court to legalize same-sex marriage before revealing his real beliefs on the subject.
Worse, Jakes even goes further by saying homosexuals should seek out "churches" that reinforce their sinful way of living.
“LGBT’s of different types and sorts have to find a place of worship that reflects what your views are and what you believe like anyone else,” he asserted.
That's ugly. First, if people alleging to follow Jesus Christ were to embrace these lifestyles and acceptable, they wouldn't be a place of worship, they aren't even a church. They're simply the world meeting in a building on Sunday.
According to Jakes, “The church should have the right to have its own convictions and values; if you don’t like those convictions and values [and] you totally disagree with it, don’t try to change my house, move into your own … and find somebody who gets what you get about faith.”
Talk about worthless gibberish. No church has a "right to its own convictions and values." The apostles and Jesus Himself in the book of Revelation write to the churches and tell them what they need to do to correct wrong living and wrong thinking. It's an outrage and outright lie by Jakes to suggest such a thing.
Jakes wasn't done with his ignorance and/or rebellion yet. He went on to say that politics "do not need to reflect biblical ethics." This in spite of the fact Jesus, in the Great Commission, ordering the apostles to teach the nations to observe all that He had commanded them.
Matthew 28:19-20
19 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:
20 Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen.
In total disregard and disobedience to that command from Jesus Christ, Jakes said this: "Once you begin to understand that democracy—that a republic actually—is designed to be an overarching system to protect our unique nuances, then we no longer look for public policy to reflect biblical ethics.”
This is the height of rebellion and deception. If the Holy Scriptures, the very Word of God revealed and communicated to us by the Holy Spirit, aren't to be the standard of public policy in the nations, than there is nothing left but anarchy and totalitarianism.
He further puts his foot in his mouth when he concludes this: “We need a neutralized government that protects our right to disagree with one another and agree with one another.”
This directly contradicts the command of Jesus to teach all the nations they are to observe or obey all of the commands and laws of God as revealed in the Bible.
He even claims the "government," because it has "atheists, agnostics, Jews, all types of people, Muslims," paying taxes, means it "cannot reflect one particular view over another just because we’re the dominant group of religious people in [this] country because those numbers are changing every day.”
So different people groups pay taxes in America, and more of them are coming into the country, somehow means to Jakes we are not to teach the commands of Jesus Christ to them, and that the laws of God as revealed in the Bible aren't to be used a legal guidelines.
There is no such thing as a "neutralized government." When God gave His laws, all people from all nations were expected to obey and honor His law. Period. (Exodus 12:49; Leviticus 24:22; Numbers 15:16; Numbers 15:29; Deuteronomy 31:12)
Leviticus 24:22
Ye shall have one manner of law, as well for the stranger, as for one of your own country: for I am the Lord your God.
All the verses listed above say the same thing. Everyone one is to obey the commands of God; including every nation. That's the extraordinary command and expectation Jesus Christ requires of His people.
We're going to hear a lot more of this from deceived and confused people of influence, who see the battle about to be engaged in on a number of fronts, and are cowering in fear and rejecting the commands of the very God they claim to serve.
Also of great importance, is people like Jakes are now going to make homosexuals and others with rebellious, deviant lifestyles, feel comfortable in sin, which will lead them to go to hell and the eternal lake of fire. Evidently Jakes has no problem with that. I do.
His viewpoint and influence will also encourage some churches to accept this evil into their midst, even though Paul, by the Holy Spirit, said to not allow immorality to be even named among you, meaning the church.
But among you there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed, because these are improper for God’s holy people. (Eph. 5:3 NIV)
It doesn't get any clearer than that. Homosexuality is immoral, and no one has the authority to tell the church and other people they can accept this sin among them. To do so is to completely disobey God.
Jakes is arrogantly rejecting the very commands of Jesus Christ. Those who have allowed him to have his show on their "Christian" TV networks need to take it off the air.
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