ACT For America: Our own TV program!

Brigitte Gabriel’s ACT for America is getting Cable TV airtime donated to them. The catch: they have to come up with the money to produce the show.

Folks this is awesome! Imagine a politically incorrect anti-Jihadist organization dedicated to exposing the negatives about Islam having airtime to educate America. Again, THIS AWESOME!

JRH 6/8/10
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Our own TV program!

Brigitte Gabriel
Sent: Jun 8, 2010 at 11:46 AM

How to fight political correctness in the media?
How about our own television program!!

You read it right—so please read on!

ACT! for America is poised to launch its own TV program going into 40 million homes in the US.

We have been given, FREE OF CHARGE, cable TV airtime for 26 half-hour weekly programs.

The company giving us this free airtime, worth $300,000, owns cable networks that go into 40 million homes.

They also own state-of-the-art webcasting technology which will allow us to broadcast these half hour shows on the web in high quality, increasing our viewing audience. So even people who don’t get the cable channels on which the show will air will still be able to watch them!

Our plan for the show is a news/issues/talk format, with additional segments on ACT! for America activities, projects by chapters, legislative action alerts, and more.

Imagine what we could have said and done on our own show in the aftermath of the Ft. Hood jihadist attack. Imagine what we could be broadcasting to people about the proposed mosque at 9/11 “ground zero.” Or the “Gaza Flotilla.”

Imagine the truth we could get out without having to go through the filter of the politically correct media!

But to make this TV program a reality, I need your help.

While we have been given the air time, we must raise the money to produce the shows. A typical show of this kind costs $50,000 to produce, but we have ways to do a high-quality production for only $11,500 per show.

This means we have to raise $299,000 to produce all 26 shows—which will be aired not once, but twice, for a total of 52 showings!

To date we have raised $125,000 for production, so we’re 42% of the way there.

To raise the additional $174,000 I have designated the month of June as “ACT! for America Media Month.”

• We need 1,000 people who will make an average one-time gift of $50.


• We need 500 people who will become Patriot Partners with a monthly commitment averaging $15 a month for one year.

For some of you who would like to sponsor an entire show for $11,500 we want to give you this opportunity—and recognize you on the air by crediting you “This show made possible by the generous contribution of (your name).”

If we can reach these goals, the total amount donated and pledged will be $140,000. I am confident we can raise the remaining $34,000 from donors at events we will be having in the next few months.

Can I count on you to respond today—even this very minute?

• To make a one-time gift online, simply click here.


• To become a Patriot Partner, please click here.

Our online donation process is safe, simple and secure.

• If you prefer to mail a contribution instead of donating online, you can print out a reply form by clicking here.

This is an historic moment for us. Words alone really can’t describe what this means.

No other organization in America doing what we do, committed to combating the threat of radical Islam and global jihad, has its own television program.

Through cable TV and the web, we have the potential to reach millions of people with an unfiltered, unvarnished, “non-politically correct” program.

But we can’t make this golden opportunity a reality without your help.

As a special “thank you” to every person who responds to this appeal, I will send to you an autographed DVD of our very first program. This will be in addition to the gift you will receive based on the amount of your monthly or one-time gift (these are described on the online donation page).

Those who sponsor one or more programs will be acknowledged on the program in whatever way they choose and receive an autographed DVD of that program.

In the years to come, when ACT! for America’s presence is everywhere on TV and radio, you’ll be able to point with pride to your autographed copy of the FIRST television program we ever produced or the show you sponsored.

A program made possible with your generous financial support. This could well become a collector’s item.

So please, don’t delay. The sooner we raise the funds for production, the sooner we can be on the air.

• To make a one-time gift online, please click here.


• To become a monthly contributing Patriot Partner, please click here.


• To print out a reply form to mail a contribution, please click here.

Thank you in advance for helping us make this historic opportunity a reality. I am humbled every day by the generosity and volunteerism of our ACT! for America members like you.

Always devoted,

Brigitte Gabriel
President and CEO, ACT! for America

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ACT for America is an issues advocacy organization dedicated to effectively organizing and mobilizing the most powerful grassroots citizen action network in America, a grassroots network committed to informed and coordinated civic action that will lead to public policies that promote America’s national security and the defense of American democratic values against the assault of radical Islam. We are only as strong as our supporters, and your volunteer and financial support is essential to our success. Thank you for helping us make America safer and more secure..

Cripple Islam Before it Goes Nuclear?

John R. Houk
© June 7, 2010

Sujit Das wrote a rather lengthy essay about the dangers presented by a nuclear armed Islamic nation with emphasis on psycho-Iran.

Das takes the analogy of the anger felt by Americans when Japan sneak attacked the Pearl Harbor Naval base in Hawaii on the “Date that will live in infamy” – December 7, 1941. Political correctness was definitely NOT a part of America’s cultural fabric. After war was declared on Japan, Japanese-Americans (mostly U.S. citizens) were placed in internment camps out of fear of loyalty to the then hated nation of Japan. That was a definite injustice to Americans citizens of which a minority of Japanese descent actually did still honor the Japanese Emperor as a god.

The Allies of WWII had decided that the only outcome of the (assuming they would win) would only be complete and unconditional surrender of the Axis Powers. Because of Churchill’s desperation of Great Britain being the only nation that had not been overrun by the Nazi war machine, the principle Allied powers agreed to concentrate on defeating Germany first. (A good argument could also be made for Stalin’s desperation since the Nazis had driven to the USSR Capitol City of Moscow; however history paints a traitorous picture of the WWII Soviet Allie in which the Communist State became the new European threat.)

After Nazi Germany’s unconditional surrender Japan had not collapsed to the point of accepting unconditional surrender and occupation. Many thought forcing Japan into an unconditional surrender would be at least a year or two away from Germany’s surrender. Britain was tired. The principle representation of the British in the Pacific Theatre was the Australians. The Soviets never formally declared war on Japan until it was obvious the Japanese would ultimately be defeated. In addition the Soviets had more of an agenda of shoring up their future defense which included making Eastern Europe a collection of fiefdom’s under the command of Soviet Communist political and military instruments. France had been occupied by the Nazis nearly from the beginning of WWII until an American led invasion of mostly Americans and Brits began the liberation of France on D-Day June 6, 1944.

It was fairly obvious that America’s resources and human lives would be the tap source for completing the subduing of Japan. In the course of WWII America had developed the ultimate weapon in history – atomic (nuclear) weaponry. Two Atomic Bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki brought about Japan’s complete and unconditional surrender to a quick culmination. The last bomb was dropped on August 9, 1945 and the Japanese Emperor broadcast Japan’s acceptance of terms of unconditional surrender on August 15, 1945.

(In order to head off the whiners of the horror of America using nuclear weapons on a nation that was about to lose anyway; I am aware that current scholarship paints a picture that the Hiroshima bomb may have been unnecessary and that communication misinterpretation from the Japanese led to the definitely unnecessary bombing of Nagasaki.)

The obvious corollary Das makes in his essay is that the Islamic terrorist attack of September 11, 2001 was also a sneak attack that angered Americans. The biggest difference is that Japan was a visible sovereign nation and the Islamic terrorists are transnational clandestine organizations with near zero attachment to a sovereign nation. Das’ point is the Global War on Terror (GWOT) has been ongoing for quite some time and in today’s perspective will continue for an indefinite amount of more time. In the mean time rogue nations like Iran will undoubted acquire nuclear weapons and use them because of the psychology of the mindset of the Muslim mind, especially the Twelver Shia mind of Iran.

If Iran, a Sunni nation like Pakistan or the nuclear use of transnational Islamic terrorists will undoubted result in a nuclear response from the probable targets of Israel and/or America. In strategic terms the most efficient way to end radical Islam is to wipe out that which is the primary symbols of Islam – the Muslim holy cities of Mecca and Medina. Das’ further point is he is playing a role of a person providing a warning to nations like Iran (or perhaps transnational Islamic terrorist supporters) that a nuclear strike with the purpose of destroying Israel and Jews will have long term consequences that could lead to the very acts of nuking Mecca and Medina to render Islam a minority religion without roots to remain militant. The concept is based on Muslim lore that one Ibn Ubayy took hold of his prophet Mohammed who wanted to exterminate the Jews of Banu Qaynuqa for resisting a 15 day siege. Ibn Ubayy gave Mo a veiled threat in which Mo thought it better to back down to Ibn Ubayy than to go against his request. Das is thus saying to Radical Islam and to Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in particular to look up and realize that a Holocaust of Jews will result in the destruction of Islam.

In the Das essay there is also an indication that Ahmadinejad is nuttier than Mohammed because Ahmadinejad is so dedicated to Twelver theo-political ideology of the return of the hidden Twelfth Imam that all warnings and logical thinking before nuking Israel will not be heeded. Twelver theo-political ideology believes the Twelfth Imam will return after great chaos threatens Islam. If Das is correct then you can see the path that Ahmadinejad will take regardless of repercussions and consequences.

JRH 6/7/10

Suicide Activists on the Gaza Flotilla

The media calls the ships boarded and detained to Israel the Freedom Flotilla. I assert a better description is the Terrorist Flotilla.

Suicide Activists on the Gaza Flotilla

Dangerous Stakes

Leslie J. Sacks writes about radical Islamic Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan leading Turkey into a confrontation with Israel over the Terrorist Flotilla that attempted to infiltrate Gaza.

Something to think about as you read the Sacks article: Turkey is officially an ally of America and a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) which established under American leadership shortly after WWII to confront the Communist threat of the former Soviet Union. War weary free Europe put all its security cards into American military might (actually nuclear might) as a shield to prevent Soviet expansionism that threatened to leap frog from its Communist empire that included Eastern Europe.

Erdogan’s confrontational posture toward Israel could actually lead to war with Israel. What would the Obama Administration do if Turkey and Israel engage militarily? What will the Obama Administration do if Turkey suddenly lines up Islamic terrorists such as Hamas and Hezbollah? What will the Obama Administration do if Turkey joins rogue nations Iran and Syria in their ultimate agenda of the utter destruction of Israel and probable Second Holocaust of Jews? After all, Turkey has used genocide in the past to preserve an Islamic Turkish nature of their nation in the past: Armenians, Greeks, Assyrian Christians and history of Turkish perpetrated genocide.

JRH 6/6/10

Truth vs. Taqiyya

Brigitte Gabrielle informs about the Insani Yardim Vakfi (IHH – Humanitarian Relief Foundation in English) terrorist affiliation to the Terrorist Flotilla.

JRH 6/4/10
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Truth vs. Taqiyya
The Gaza Flotilla was no “Love Boat”

Sent by: ACT for America
Sent: June 4, 2010 10:33:21 AM

On Wednesday, ACT! for America President Brigitte Gabriel wrote an op-ed that has appeared in at least two online publications. You can read it below.

Brigitte is also doing numerous radio interviews and will likely be doing some TV interviews as well.

In addition, a statement issued yesterday from the Israeli Prime Minister is a must-read for anyone who wants to know what the “international community” and the “establishment press” won’t tell you.

The leadership of ACT! for America understands very well that Israel is on the front lines in the struggle against radical Islam and global jihad. This is why Brigitte is doing what she can to get the truth out and why we are notifying members in selected states about pro-Israel rallies.

Radical Islamists are more than willing to deceive the gullible because they believe they are in a war against the “infidels,” and that sharia law sanctions this “taqiyya.”

Whether it’s Islamists claiming they are merely “humanitarians”…or the “Ground Zero Mosque” imam cooing in English about “interfaith dialogue” while he rejects such dialogue to Arabic-speaking audiences…or the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) claiming it is a “human rights organization” when in fact it is an American propaganda group for the terrorist organization Hamas…

…Americans need to wake up to the realities of taqiyya.

The Homosexual Debate Continues

John R. Houk
© June 3, 2010

Steven said:

I actually said Matthew 7:1-5, not Matthew 5. It's going to be pretty hard to wiggle out of that one.

My initial response also referenced to another person’s comment that there exists Christian homosexual activists:

Oops. In any case it is still a case for Jesus condemning homosexuality as a sin. As to the "News Flash": I know. To Nicholas: indeed there are Christian homosexual activists however a homosexual who claims to be a Christian is not a Biblical Christian. Rather that is a Progressive Christian that does not believe the Word of God is Divine Scripture... See More. Progressive Christians are into the Moral Relativity thing and indeed are closer to Secular Humanism than to Biblical Christianity.

Steven I have to go back to Matt 7: 1-5. Without being there yet I am not concerned that there is an implication that Jesus did not consider the acts of homosexuality is not a sin as I demonstrated in the SlantRight.com post.

Steven the “Judge not, that you are not judged” is typical Secular Humanist hypocrisy. Let’s expand the reading of Matt. 7: 1-5 to include verse six:

1 “Judge not, that you be not judged. 2 For with what judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with the measure you use, it will be measured back to you. 3 And why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye, but do not consider the plank in your own eye? 4 Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me remove the speck from your eye’; and look, a plank is in your own eye? 5 Hypocrite! First remove the plank from your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.
6 “Do not give what is holy to the dogs; nor cast your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you in pieces. (NKJV)

I don’t have to worry about wiggle room! I answered this in John 15: 1-17. To revive the memory the Father is the Vinedresser and Jesus is the Vine. Humanity is the branches and the fruit. The lesson is in judging the branch and the fruit. If the branch and the fruit are not good they are pruned. Pruning the vineyards in agriculture means the branches and fruit renew from the life of the vine into good fruit. You are correct in assuming Christians are not to be judgmental as in heaping condemnation. Jesus came to Save the world not condemn it, but those who disbelieve are condemned already.

14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, 15 that whoever believes in Him should not perish but[a] have eternal life. 16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. 17 For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.
18 “He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 19 And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 20 For everyone practicing evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed. 21 But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be clearly seen, that they have been done in God.” (John 3:14-21)

So you see Christian judgment is about judging the fruit to better one’s self in the Light of Christ or to not fellowship with one who refuses the Light and rather chooses the darkness. Homosexuality would be a lifestyle that is part of the darkness. Is a homosexual condemned in their darkness? Not necessarily! The purpose of the incarnation of God as the Son of Man to pay the debt of Adam choosing self over the Light of God is to make the Light visible to those in darkness. Therein lay free will: There is a choice between remaining in the darkness or moving toward the Light.

Please note that verse six of Matt. 7 continues the thought of Jesus:

“Do not give what is holy to the dogs; nor cast your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you in pieces.

The thought of not casting what is holy to dogs and swine implies an individual ruled by his flesh (sarx) which entails the compelling self-capacity to eat one’s own vomit or to consume with joy any edible morsel a swine will be delighted to ingest.

Reading the same Chapter Seven of Matthew the point is driven home:

15 “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves. 16 You will know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes from thornbushes or figs from thistles? 17 Even so, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. 18 A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit. 19 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 20 Therefore by their fruits you will know them. (Matt. 7: 15-20)

Those who dilute or abandon the Word of God are false prophets (no animosity intended, just an observation according to the Word of God). Jesus tells us with great certainty for Believers to judge the fruit in order to know if they are in darkness or the Light. Believers are to point those in darkness toward the Light rather than condemn a person in the bondage of darkness. Once the Light is shown it is up to the individual to choose to remain in darkness (e.g. homosexuality) or journey toward the Light.

In a way you may actually be correct about “wiggle room” but not in the way you intended.

JRH 6/3/10

Homosexuality: Disagreement and Unintentional Anger

John R. Houk
© June 2, 2010

These thoughts were inspired by a theo-philosophical disagreement between me and my son Steven over “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” (DADT). This kind of discussion is very polarizing. Secular Humanists (of which homosexual activism is a subset) and Biblical Christians are very intransient of what is good and bad. It is the modern battle of Moral Relativity versus Biblical Morality. In the political spectrum the former tends to be termed “Progressive” (a sanitized way to say Liberal and Leftist). The latter tends to be termed Conservative (in this case the Conservatives of the Christian Right). Progressives typically demonstrate the Christian Right with disdain. The same is true of the Christian Right toward Progressives. To each side of the spectrum the termed concepts are fight’in words. Fight’in words oft times leads to ad hominem insults from both sides of the political spectrum. I am not going to presume to speak for my son on the use of ad hominem attacks however I have to admit I have as guilty as anyone in the ad hominem attack format.

I am praying our disagreement remains cordial even if it is an emotional matter.

Below is my son’s response to my stand on NOT repealing DADT which is an emotional matter.

Below is my son’s response to my stand on NOT repealing DADT which is followed by my thoughts.

“Sundays, wearing mixed fibered clothing, women speaking or teaching, sex during menstruation and eating pork or shellfish, among many other things. The bible is full of many ridiculous things.”

Come on Steven, we are both Americans. I stand with Biblical Morality and the Word of God. It is the agenda of Secular Humanism and homosexual activism to paint Biblical Morality as bigoted. It is the Biblical Christian agenda to paint homosexuality as deviant according to the Word of God not the judgment of men (quite the misogynist huh).

You were in the “Extra Mile” long enough to know that the Old Testament examples you used are of the Law of Moses. Jesus did not come to end the Law and Prophets but to fulfill them. The meaning is Grace eliminates ritual laws. The Law exposes sin. Sin leads to death (i.e. separation from God). Grace defeats sin. Ergo the curse of the Law is of no affect by the Blood of Christ.

The sex act of homosexuals is as bad as the sex act of heterosexuals outside of wedlock. The point is it leads to sin and sin activates the curse of the Law which again leads to separation from God (i.e. death). The Word of God is not ridiculous; it is of the Divine Creator.

And so as an American I have just as much right to be an activist for Biblical Morality as you do for homosexual activism, right? Don’t get mad, be glad in your beliefs and eternity will decide. I think God is right, you think the words of humanity are right mostly likely because of Objectivity. Welcome to America.

“Can you show me one quote from the Bible where Jesus condemned homosexuality? One mention of it? Nothing at all? hmmmmmmm...


Matthew 7: 1-5 clearly demonstrates in the words of Jesus how you should deal with homosexuality.”

Show you one quote from the Bible in which Jesus condemns homosexuality, eh? Of course you and I know the conceptual word of “homosexual” as we know today was neither in the ancient Hebrew of the Old Testament or in the Aramaic and Koiné Greek of the New Testament. In the Old and the New the act we call homosexuality today was described. The description was always in the sense of not the natural order of the Creator’s design.

Now you want a specific quote where Jesus condemns homosexuality. Let’s see. Since the act was described and not in a specific word form (as translated into English anyway), using objective logic it would follow that Jesus’ reaffirming of the Law as an exposition of sin that one is delivered from as the of the Good News of the Kingdom of God that is available to all who choose to believe (subjectively) Jesus is the Son of God and Risen Savior.

Let’s look at a few objective verses in the Gospels that the conclusion is not a plus for homosexuality as a God-Kind of Life affirmation.

Since you brought it up we should look at all the Beatitudes of Matthew 5 rather than just verse 7. Or at least the Beatitudes that begin with “Blessed are”.

1 And seeing the multitudes, He went up on a mountain, and when He was seated His disciples came to Him. 2 Then He opened His mouth and taught them, saying:
3 “Blessed are the poor in spirit,
For theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
4 Blessed are those who mourn,
For they shall be comforted.
5 Blessed are the meek,
For they shall inherit the earth.
6 Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness,
For they shall be filled.
7 Blessed are the merciful,
For they shall obtain mercy.
8 Blessed are the pure in heart,
For they shall see God.
9 Blessed are the peacemakers,
For they shall be called sons of God.
10 Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness’ sake,
For theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
11 “Blessed are you when they revile and persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely for My sake. 12 Rejoice and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

Now I am certain you ended with verse 7 because it says, “Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy”. The topic is homosexuality. The implication is someone who is merciful will obtain mercy. The question becomes, Mercy from what?

Let’s back track to verse 6 which says, “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, For they shall be filled.” Righteousness is described as right standing with God. Righteousness implies that having right standing is in a position of union with God. Those who hunger and thirst for right standing with God will be filled with that right standing. Since the Law exposes same sex acts as something that is sin (i.e. separating from God), one who purposely and knowingly break the Law is no longer under Grace but has chosen the penalty of the Law and separation from God. Righteousness joins with God, sin separates from God. If one hungers and thirst for Righteousness a choice to be joined with God is the lifestyle to be filled with.

Now the person who is a homosexual activist or a secular humanist will counter with something like, “Who are you to judge right and wrong or Righteousness and sinfulness?” In that sense I am nobody. There is only one Judge and that is God Almighty. However Jesus warns us to judge a person’s lifestyle not to condemn it, but rather to either present the Good News of Christ’s Deliverance or to avoid a reprobate that is determined you cannot be an influence in life.

Check out John 15: 1-17 (Yeah I know it’s lengthy so bear with me.)

1 “I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser. 2 Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit He takes away;[a] and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit. 3 You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. 4 Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me.
5 “I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing. 6 If anyone does not abide in Me, he is cast out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned. 7 If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will[b] ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you. 8 By this My Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; so you will be My disciples.
9 “As the Father loved Me, I also have loved you; abide in My love. 10 If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love.
11 “These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be full. 12 This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. 13 Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends. 14 You are My friends if you do whatever I command you. 15 No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I heard from My Father I have made known to you. 16 You did not choose Me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father in My name He may give you. 17 These things I command you, that you love one another. (Emphasis mine)

The demanding question becomes, “What is fruit?” The Greek word for “fruit” in John 15 is karpos. The context is that which grows from a vine. Grape vines that produce the best fruit are well tended and their flavor improves as the years go by. I doubt Jesus was giving a lesson in agriculture so we must assume it is a metaphor of a spiritual message.

Jesus calls himself the vine. Jesus is the Son of God and Son of Man. As the Son of God it is an indication Jesus is the co-equal person of One Godhead. Hence Jesus is the same yesterday, today and forever. Jesus is eternal and the creation of all that exists is by His Words (John 1: 1-5, 10-14, 16-18). In essence Jesus is the life-giver. If you are a fruit growing on the Vine that is Jesus Christ, then you are in right standing with God.

Jesus is the Word and the Spirit of Jesus (AKA Holy Spirit) spoke through certain men under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit; ergo it follows that Galatians 5: 22-26 are the Jesus infused Word of God. The “fruit” (karpos) is the exact same word Jesus spoke as the Son of Man (roughly 33 years in the flesh) in John 15. (If you have a red letter Bible, I am saying it is in red – the redeeming and cleansing Blood of Jesus.)

22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law. 24 And those who are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. 25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. 26 Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.

The God-Kind of fruit then is the person that works in love (agape: God-kind and not eros: sensuous sex), joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. The Word of God voiced through the Apostle goes on to say against such fruit of the spirit (or Spirit, depending on the expositor) with Jesus as the Vine there is no LAW. Jesus fulfills the Law.

Interestingly the fruit that rots and is worthy of disposal is of the flesh (sarx) or corporeal existence. That which will not grow on the Vine-Jesus:

19 Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery,[a] fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, 20 idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, 21 envy, murders,[b] drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. (Galatians 5: 19-21)

Clearly the Word of God in the New Testament which is the fulfillment of the Law in Christ whose Grace through faith in the Son of God and His Resurrection states actions of the flesh (sarx – bodily desires) which pertain to willful disdain of the God-Kind of Life lead to unrighteousness (wrong standing with God) rather than Righteousness (right standing with God)

This brings us to the clincher of the Word of God on works of unrighteousness of which one is homosexuality described as:

26 For this reason God gave them up to vile passions. For even their women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature. 27 Likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust for one another, men with men committing what is shameful, and receiving in themselves the penalty of their error which was due. (Romans 1: 26-27)

No matter one uses fallacious arguments of biology to dip into the realm of moral relativity, Biblical Morality is clear that a homosexual lifestyle leads to unrighteousness which separates from God rather than Righteousness which is the right standing increasing union with God.

Now I realize there is a fine line of standing for what is right and heaping condemnation when the freeing Grace of Christ should be emphasized. Saying that I am going to presume that a majority of homosexuals execute acts of unrighteousness in the privacy of their home and are otherwise upstanding taxpaying citizens. There are a significant number of homosexuals who flaunt debauchery in public in such places as San Francisco and New York City.

Also the topic discussed is homosexuality. That does not let other people off the hook who are heterosexuals while leading a profligate life. Sin separates from God – period. Not one person is righteous in their own self. It is the journey that is striven to complete with the ups and downs, going off the ditch to the left or the right and then getting back on that straight road that leads to God in Christ. Thank God for Christ Jesus who has given humanity a choice to be free from the penalty and condemnation of the Law in His Redemptive act of death, burial and Resurrection as man and God simultaneously being our intercessor to the Father.

Allow me to end with verse 8 of the Beatitudes in Matthew 5:

Blessed are the pure in heart, For they shall see God.

JRH 6/2/10