Judging Sodom

by Prophet Dr. David Owuor

FINALLY, IF THERE IS any one thing that the church can lay her hands on and say what this is it that says it all about the GODHEAD, then it is the eternal holiness of our FATHER. The Holy nature of the GODHEAD is as eternal as HE is. And that can only imply that from the eternity of the eternities to the eternity of the eternities, only the holiness of GOD never changes. It is this very yardstick of holiness that HE has perpetually advanced towards the church, to the extent that without holiness nobody will ever be able to see GOD.

14 Make every effort to live in peace with everyone and to be holy; without holiness no one will see the LORD (Heb 12:14).

Outside the realm of holiness, the church has no future with the LORD because HE IS HOLY (Lev 20:26).

Many times when the LORD chooses to relate closely with HIS chosen people as the church, that relationship is often governed by a living covenant. Because Israel had such a covenant with JEHOVAH all their lives were principally tailored to the provisions of that covenant. The church too enjoys a covenant relationship with the LORD to the extent that she lives in full observance of all the articles of the provisions of that covenant. However, central in this covenant that the GODHEAD enacts with HIS elect, is the benchmark of holiness.

Owing to this unchangeable standard of holiness, many times the people who have a covenant relationship with the LORD run into some serious headwinds. Such was the case when Sodom and Gomorrah blatantly went out on a sinful spree that saw them embrace not only sexual sin but also homosexuality and defilement. After engaging in a serious rampage of revelry, the people of Sodom and their counterparts in Gomorrah decided to take it a notch higher by enacting sexual sin as an acceptable mode of living. This turned that whole place into hell since it was no longer habitable even with the slightest morals to nature. This is what drew some serious condemnation from the higher echelons of power above.

The Bible puts it clearly that the sin of Sodom became so heinous that it drew an outcry unto the LORD. And when the LORD heard the sobbing of HIS remnant righteous few, then owing to the gravity of that complaint, heaven's courts made a determination on that matter. The LORD decided that because of the gravity of the Sodom sin, HE would have to come down HIMSELF as the GODHEAD in order to make a further determination whether the case filed against Sodom was commensurate with the atrocities on the ground.

When GOD THE FATHER HIMSELF came down as the GODHEAD, HE met Abraham and fellowshipped with him on the matter of Sodom's sin. While the rest may be history, we however cannot loose sight of the historic beating that Sodom took for her sinful act.

Sodom and Gomorrah was literally obliterated and wiped out of the face of the earth by deadly burning sulphur. This has since served as a standing order and lesson that whenever the GODHEAD HIMSELF visits in HIS holy nature, it is just inevitable that HE must dispense the righteous judgment of GOD. The question then becomes, 'Could it be true that the reason the GODHEAD HIMSELF chose to come down into the Church at the Mega Kisumu Revival is because the church has committed the Sodom kind of sin'!

Different schools have presented different analyses with some projecting that the sin of the present-day church may be estimated to have surpassed the heinous act that drew such a widescale condemnation on Sodom.

Many right-thinking Christians will today agree that it is true the present-day church [deserves] a harsher punishment than Sodom, because she is the beholder of the Holy Spirit. By the time Sodom and Gomorrah was running into serious problem with the law of GOD, the Holy Spirit had not been released as the Counsellor and Teacher of humanity against sin.

For the church, there will not be any excuse to commit the heinous sin of Sodom and Gomorrah because the Holy Spirit has already been released to Counsel her. Today's church is very well aware on which way to follow in order to navigate herself clear from homosexuality, nudity, immoral dressings, falsehood, etc, etc. And yet she still chooses to walk this road that Sodom followed and ended up in serious trouble with the GODHEAD.

It doesn't take much to project that a failure to heed GOD's law of holiness will lead today's church into a worse judgment than Sodom.

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