Marriage is under fire. And it is far worse than most preachers on television will tell you. They want you to believe that it mostly under attack by activist judges that seek to redefine marriage and a community of perverse individuals rallying under a rainbow colored flag. But if our sight is so limited to only recognize this attack on marriage, we have missed so much. When our eyes are wide open, it is obvious that the marriage bed in our day and age is under attack from every side. And while it is the homosexual agenda we hear so much about, the heterosexual agenda is far more dangerous.
Yes, marriage is under fire from every side. It is under attack by those who do not save themselves for marriage and those who act as if telling out children to do so is naive. It is under attack by those who end their marriage even when their spouse has not done anything that the bible suggests is a proper reason for divorce and it is under attack by those who encourage such divorces. It is under attack by those who seek to fill our lives with explicit images whether their delivery method is a store on the interstate or a website on the internet and it is under attack by those who receive and view such material. It is under attack each time a young Christian decides to date someone that has no relationship to Jesus or when a young adult marries such a person. It is under attack each time someone cracks a smile at a joke which disparages marriage and makes it out to be an awful estate. It is under attack each time anyone makes his or her spouse into nothing more than a means to their own satisfaction or pleasure. It is under attack each time a boyfriend and girlfriend decides to move in together in order to save some money and each time their friends rejoice with them in their decision. It is under attack each time a spouse refuses to admit their sins or to forgive their penitent spouse. It under attack each and every time a feminist rallies against the idea of a woman’s godly submission to her husband or every time a chauvinist uses that idea to treat his wife without respect and honor. It is under attack every time a spouse begins an adulterous affair and every time anyone refuses to be intimate with their spouse in order to manipulate their spouse. It in under attack every time a dirty thought races through a man’s mind and every time an impure notion runs through a woman’s head. It is under attack each time a couple weds without truly seeking to learn what God’s designs for marriage are. It is under attack every time a couple removes themselves from the true source of love and forgiveness by not attending church and fellowshipping with other Christian couples and singles. Yes marriage is under fire.
And yet the preachers on TV will still tell you that the homosexual agenda is biblical marriage’s most dangerous foe. But this preacher will tell you otherwise. The homosexual agenda is quite obvious in its intent to reshape marriage and therefore is much easier to fight. The heterosexual agenda is much more subtle, moving inch by inch into immorality, leaving biblical marriage in the dust. Yes, subtle sin is always ultimately most deadly. And that is the way the heterosexual agenda works.
