Pastor John Piper, founder of Desiring God and former pastor of Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota, warns people against the dangers of same-sex relationships and other lies Satan wants people to believe.
"[Satan] is a murderer and a liar. His aim is to kill people — forever. He is a lion who devours (1 Peter 5:8). Partly by pain, partly by pleasure. But always by deception — just as with Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden," Piper writes on his website.
Satan is so deceitful that Piper describes him as a "supernatural monster who orchestrates the kidnapping, enslaving, and thousand-fold drugging, selling, raping, and killing of girls around the globe."
Not only that. Satan also forces the "murderous cultural decision" that "the practice of sodomy is delightful, not deadly."
Same-sex relationships and marriages are so widely accepted nowadays that people mistakenly assume there's nothing wrong with it. But Piper argues that it's an "abdication of truth and love," so people are destigmatising something that should not have been regarded as good in the first place.
Satan "is a murderer. And his main weapon is deception," adds Piper. "Sexuality is one of his main killing fields. The carnage that Satan is causing is literally indescribable. Therefore, we must search for words to describe the horrors of the tragedy around us. For it is flaming with destruction worse than any inflammatory words can express,' he says.
Piper understands that those who engage in same-sex practices want others to acknowledge that what they are doing is acceptable. But the pastor says giving one's seal of approval over something that is wrong is not acting out of love.
"It is a gracious thing when a culture puts signs in front of destructive behaviors that read: Don't go there; it is shameful," he says.
