The Offensive Belfast Gay Pride March

The capital city of Northern Ireland was once again entertained to the grossly insulting spectacle of gay pride taking over the central thoroughfares of the city.  Not that this freedom of assembly and of expression is wrong in itself, but is rather something that is to be protected whether we agree with it or not.

However, the fact that this offensive and immoral parade was funded by the state and its agencies was disappointing to say the least.  Our government, local and regional, in Northern Ireland have given its sanction to sodomy; on top of that the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) has also in the past given funding to support such disgraceful behaviour, behaviour that is offensive to Almighty God and to His people.

Yet, this public display of sodomy did not go off unchallenged because an interdenominational groups of believers held a service of witness and evangelism at the from of the City Hall gates when six men preached the Word.  Of the six, it was great to hear a message from one preacher for all those who watched and/or supported the Gay Pride march, telling them that God loved them and wanted to save them.  The other speakers had a message only for those who were His people, and no one else.  It seems to me that the vast majority of those at the parade were not God's people, so the message as presented had no relevance whatever to them.  Christ was not interested in them at all; He was only interested in His people.

Yet the Gospel of Jesus Christ is for all the world because the Saviour Whom it preaches is the Saviour of the world.  He is "the Lamb of God Who takes away the sin of the world," (Jn.1:29).  It was no less than the world that "God so loved," sending "His only begotten Son what whoever believed in Him should not perish but have eternal life," (Jn.3:16).  The God of the Christian Gospel - there is no other Gospel (Gal.1:6,7) is the God who is not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance, (2 Pet.3:9).  This is the God and this is the salvation that all mankind needs; and how thrilling it is to hear a Gospel being preached that is big enough to embrace the whole world with a message of salvation that is sufficient to save it.

Thank God for that preacher and thank God for such a wonderful message.