Tuesday, June 18, 2013
Punishment of Idolaters
Dear Friends,
A reading from Saint Paul’s Letter to the Romans (1:16-27):
For I [Paul] am not ashamed of the gospel. It is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes: for Jew first, and then Greek. For in it is revealed the righteousness of God from faith to faith; as it is written, “The one who is righteous by faith will live.”
The wrath of God is indeed being revealed from heaven against every impiety and wickedness of those who suppress the truth by their wickedness. For what can be known about God is evident to them, because God made it evident to them. Ever since the creation of the world, his invisible attributes of eternal power and divinity have been able to be understood and perceived in what he has made. As a result, they have no excuse; for although they knew God they did not accord him glory as God or give him thanks. Instead, they became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless minds were darkened. While claiming to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for the likeness of an image of mortal man or of birds or of four-legged animals or of snakes. Therefore, God handed them over to impurity through the lusts of their hearts for the mutual degradation of their bodies. They exchanged the truth of God for a lie and revered and worshiped the creature rather than the creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.
Therefore, God handed them over to degrading passions. Their females exchanged natural relations for unnatural, and the males likewise gave up natural relations with females and burned with lust for one another. Males did shameful things with males and thus received in their own persons the due penalty for their perversity.
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As we are approaching summer it is getting warmer with the temperature here around 20 degrees Celsius. Everything is growing very well.
Below you will find the message of Our Lord, the Son of God, given to Father Melvin. Jesus spoke to him these words,
“I call you to follow the law of God My brother Melvin and all My brothers and sisters who are part of the Church I founded on St. Peter and the Apostles. You are not to follow the false ideas of the world but look to Me, your Redeemer, and follow what I have taught you. Saint Paul in his writings teaches you all what I have taught him. Do not worship idols as so many do these days. The idols that many follow today are all kinds of pleasure, sports, watching television and many other things. Many have rejected Me and are perverted and follow the ways of the world. Saint Paul shows how horrible homosexuality is in the words above. Homosexuality is a perversity and this is My teaching. Anyone who lives in a homosexual relationship and perform all these homosexual acts cannot be saved. They have to stop all this and live as celibates and follow the commandments. There are many who have this leaning who live the way I lived when I was on earth. I lived as a celibate and had no sexual relationship with anybody. That was not because I was leaning towards homosexuality, but that was the way I chose to live. Those who live that way will indeed be saved and it will be My pleasure to welcome them into heaven. I love you all so come follow Me.”
Father Melvin