We have a right to a personal relationship with the Father because we are "heirs" to ALL that the Father has to offer. We have a "Will" paid for by the blood of Jesus. His "Will" has been executed and handed down to us in writing as the New Covenant or New Testament. All of God's promises to us are there for us to see. It is all there for us today because it is the only Covenant we have today. God will keep His Word and all we have to do is believe enough in our hearts to receive it. Praise the Lord!

God has given us an opportunity to practice our love for Him by practicing our unconditional love for one another. He has established the covenant of marriage between a man and a woman to illustrate the marriage covenant He has with us. God has commanded us to love Him, our neighbor, and ourselves. We get to practice, practice, and practice loving each other, while we await the return or His Son, Jesus.

Marriage is a sanctified and holy covenant. He gave it to us, so that we might replenish the earth. God expects us to reproduce in our own image and likeness as human beings, but according to His will. Anything that was created to reproduce and does not, God destroys. He first destroyed all but eight people from His original plan because of sin. Then He destroyed the power of sin itself in the next phase of His plan in order to realign mankind to His will. God always does first in the natural and then in the spiritual (1Cor 15:45 -47).

There are a couple of things that must be explained before the importance of the marriage covenant, in the eyes of God, can be understood. The first is that sin is never tolerated by God. When someone sins, death is assigned to them (James 1:15 and Ecclesiastes 8:11). The second is that marriage is forever. God does not approve of divorce, period. Divorce is a sin because you have broken your vow to God. He allowed people to divorce because of the "hardness of their hearts" (Mark 10:4-5). God established the marriage covenant between a "man" and a "woman" first and between them and Himself second. The vow made at the wedding ceremony is spoken to each other and to God. God warns us not to break our vows to Him (Ecclesiastes 5:4-6).

God's plan for marriage is a vowed relationship between a man (not a male) and a woman (not a female). Only a man and woman have reached the maturity level to be married. As the late, Dr. Edwin Louis Cole stated so well in his excellent book, "Maximized Manhood," "being a male (or a female) is a matter of birth, but being a man (or woman) is a matter of choice." A male may desire to marry a male and a female may desire to marry a female, but a man only marries a woman and a woman only marries a man. This is God's plan and it is the only plan carried out within Christian churches. Anyone or any organization can make up wedding ceremonies and state phony vows. God only recognizes wedding vows made in accordance with His Word.

God established the family unit. A husband and a wife are a family. They do not need to have children to become a family, they already are a family. Children are blessings from God that are added to the existing family. As we should certainly know by now, when children are added to relationships outside of marriage and therefore, outside of a family, they do not make that relationship a family. Children do not make families. Families make children.

•  Just a side note; isn't it interesting that society calls the children born outside of marriage illegitimate. The illegitimacy is not the child, but the sinful relationship between the male and female involved.

•  When a male and a male or female and a female are living in a sinful homosexual relationship with each other, a relationship which God calls an abomination in his eyes (Leviticus 18:22; Romans 1:26-28; I Corinthians 6:9; Ephesians 5:9-12; Jude 1:7; etc.), God does not and will not recognize it as a marriage. The whole world knows this, therefore, they must remove God from their lives in order to have what they want. They can call their abominable relationship anything they want and even pass laws to enforce it, but God will never recognize it.

Christians (people who have freely accepted Jesus as their Lord and Savior and follow His teachings), will never recognize or accept homosexuality as approved by God. Homosexuality in leadership of a church certainly defines that church as a NON-CHRISTIAN church. Whose teachings are they following? They do not have a Jesus church, they have a "please us" church.

So that I am not misunderstood, I must clarify this one major point, homosexuality is an act, it is a perverted sexual act in the eyes of God. This is written in scripture, it is not a topic for debate for Christians, it is a fact. It is also a fact that people are not homosexual or homosexuals, people are people and God loves everyone of us. God loves us so much that He sent His only begotten Son to die for us, so that we could be in relationship with Him once again. We cannot be living in sin and living in relationship with God. Make the choice for yourself, no one can make it for you.

Homosexuality is a sin, it is an act, not a person. (To compare homosexuality with a race of people is absurd.) All sex acts are done by choice, on the part of at least one participant. No one has to have sex as though they are some kind of out of control animal (excluding the mentally ill; and I am not talking about rape or incest which are sins and abominable in the eyes of God also). If someone wants to describe themselves by their sexual act preference, then that is their business. However, for Christians, any and all sexual acts outside of marriage are sinful.

If someone chooses to believe they are born as anything other than a male or a female, then that is their business. If someone wants to belive that they have some "gene" that predisposes them or makes them want to perform homosexual acts, then that is their business. We all have free will, God gave it to us all to use as we see fit. However, God did clearly state how we were created and if we choose not believe it, so be it.

God is not a liar. The choice comes down to whom do you believe. Make a choice, choose life or choose death, but recognize it is a personal choice. God's Word is the same today as it was 2000 years ago and it is not going to change because of popular demand. God has a plan for us all and we all have a right to choose to be a part of it or not.

God's plan for mankind in the relationship of marriage is to reproduce children. What is reproduced from homosexuality, let alone pedophilia or beastiality? Is it life or death? Whatever you choose, it is your business. You can choose to ignore His Word or even dismiss God from your life, but there will be consequences. "Because the sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil" (Ecclesiastes 8:11). You will surely reap whatever you sow in due season.

God does not leave room for doubt in His Word. He included in His Covenant everything we need to know about marriage and family. He had it written down in the New Testament. It is found in Ephesians 5:22-33 through 6:1-4. He defines the husband as the "head of household" and He defines the roles that the wife and the children have in the marriage and family relationship.

•  Marriage is ordained by God Himself.

•  Your vow is to your spouse and to God, "do not make a vow to God and break it" (Ecclesiastes 5:4-6).

•  God has only one rule for marriage, "do not be unequally yoked together with a non-believer" (II Corinthians 6:14). If you are both Christian, then you are married to the "right" person.

•  The love you have for each other comes directly from God (Romans 5:5). Whenever you feel you no longer love each other, it's because your relationship with God has changed and you are no longer willing to accept His love to pass on to your spouse.

•  Marriage is a partnership

•  Both spouses have equal rights in the eyes of God. However, when an agreement cannot be reached, on anything, then the Head of the Household has the final say. If he is wrong, then allow the Holy Spirit to correct him. The Holy Spirit will not have to correct him too many times before he will be willing to listen to his spouse.

•  The husband is the head of household

•  The "Head of Household" anointing is real. You have the authority and power to lead and protect your family from all attacks of the enemy. This includes sickness, disease, addictions, as well as, poverty and debt.

•  He is head of the wife as Christ is head of the church.

•  The wife is NEVER the head of the household. If the husband is missing, then Jesus fulfills that role. Husbands are not called to be mothers, and wives are not called to be fathers. The Church should be providing the role models for the missing fathers and mothers.

Love is the key to a God kind of family.

•  Husbands love your wives. Parents love your children. The best way to love them is to raise them in admonition to the Lord.