So much
of the church loves to excoriate certain sinners and to condemn certain sins
with an effervescence they do not seem to have for their own sins. The gay
community receives more than their share of righteous indignation. And the sin
of homosexuality is openly used to make heterosexual sins seem normal and
somehow within the realm of acceptable sins, doctrinally speaking. You see,
heterosexual sins come redemptive ready while homosexual sins must be completely
eradicated and forsaken before God can even deal with you.
But if
we see things without a specific sin bias, then what I take away is the
spectacular fallen nature of man. Jeffrey Dahmer would go to a gay men’s bar
and seduce some unsuspecting gay man to come back to his apartment. Dahmer would
drug that man, strangle him to death, and spend the night with the corpse and
do things to it. In the morning he would dismember it including slicing of his
genitals and beheading it and after consuming some of those “delicacies” he
would save them inside his refrigerator for later use.
Can it
get any worse? And yet here is the part which juxtaposes the unvarnished fallen
nature of man against the glory of Christ’s redemption. That same man, Jeffrey
Dahmer, came to faith in Jesus Christ and was gloriously saved. Repulsive,
disgusting, abhorrent, abominable, foul, and even creepy. And yet Jesus loved
Him and drew that man to Himself and by faith made Him His own child.
Many
people would say such a monster did not deserve God’s salvation and love. Yes,
I would say the same thing. The monster known as Rick Frueh did not deserve it
either.
Rom.5: 7 For
scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some
would even dare to die.
8 But God commendeth his
love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
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