Ok I’m just gonna say it. LGBT activists trying to shut up the churches, or even take over the churches, because being taught about sin somehow hurts them…need to be stopped. Churches that knuckle under…guess you like that Harlot who is so rapidly building her counterfeit religion a bit more than you like Jesus. How dare you fail the lost so profoundly. Equal rights does not mean never getting your feelings hurt, never having a disagreement, never losing a job for poor performance, or a guaranteed love card so you always feel complete. I have had to disinvite…stop..most of my “Christian” links on Facebook. It was just to get memes that were uplifting, maybe a saying for the day,,,I would never base my theological safety on people I don’t know. Every link now is how we must “love our neighbor” and never upset a gay person because that is the most unforgiveable sin, that churches, and individual Christians and families, must be” inclusive.” I sure never heard Jesus, or Peter, or Paul say that sinning (besetting sin) and playing church at the same time was OK. So let’s have some facts. Sin. To commit a sin is a singular act, but that’s not why God is separate/far away from us. We as a race are fallen. We chose rebellion over God, Every human born has a sin nature, it isn’t as if God is sitting around waiting for our first sin to strike us down (or strike us out of the Book of Life.) He already knows we will sin. Romans 3:23 For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. 2 Peter …3 In their greed, these false teachers will exploit you with tales they have concocted. The longstanding verdict against them remains in force, and their destruction does not sleep. 4For if God did not spare the angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell, delivering them in chains to be held in gloomy darkness until their judgment; 5if He did not spare the ancient world when He brought the flood on its ungodly people, but preserved Noah, a preacher of righteousness, among the eight; 6if He condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction, reducing them to ashes as an example of what is coming on the ungodly: 7and if He rescued Lot, a righteous man distressed by the depraved conduct of the lawless 8(for that righteous man, living among them day after day, was tormented in his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he saw and heard; 9if all this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials and to hold the unrighteous for punishment on the day of judgment. 10Such punishment is specially reserved for those who indulge the corrupt desires of the flesh and despise authority. Bold and self-willed, these men are unafraid to slander angelic majesties .… 1Yet not even angels, though greater in strength and power, dare to bring such slanderous charges against them before the Lord.… And what was to be our attitude towards those of the world, not knowing the saving grace of the shed blood of our Lord, Jesus Christ? 2 Corinthians 5:19-21 19that God was reconciling the world to Himself in Christ, not counting men’s trespasses against them. And He has committed to us the message of reconciliation. 20Therefore we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were making His appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ: Be reconciled to God. 21God made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.… And how are we to treat besetting sin within the members of a church? 1 Corinthians 5:10 I wrote you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people. 10I was not including the sexually immoral of this world, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters. In that case you would have to leave this world. 11But now I am writing you not to associate with anyone who claims to be a brother but is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or a verbal abuser, a drunkard or a swindler. With such a man do not even eat.… Christians are called to living for God and not for the world. Any of it. As well, we are to always be studying, praying, etc. so that those who preach a false gospel are obvious to us and can be called out, their false gospel stopped. Did you read the part about the whole Jesus died for our sins thing? That means every sin. That means that even the lost have had the sin debt paid. Your debt is paid, you only need to believe. This is our message even to those who are our enemies, with a different world view…We know the way to freedom… believe, and live. Putting human mercy above Godly mercy, and changing the very fabric of belief in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior to a wishy washy, God loves everyone philosophy, will kill any church in the long run, but not before some absorb and accept such ideas, which will lead them to eternal damnation. The pattern for salvation messages reaching people today is pretty much as it has always been,, person to person. The idea that letting someone sit in a church pew deciding if they are going to join,,if no one bothers them about that pesky sin thing, so the church feels socially justified, and might,,just might,take in a bit more money for the church, is such deadly poison I just want to weep. Or throw up. I indeed blame pastors and church boards for this nonsense, whether it be for sexual sin, greed, drug abuse or having a swindler’s mindset. The scope of the “acceptable” sin is not the problem, changing the Word of God resulting in rebellion and death is. “Gay” activism.. is actually nothing more than a return to a pagan mindset which does not acknowledge any righteous rulership in any sphere. It demands that all actions be considered morally the same. It seeks to dominate and stifle any opposition. Often one who preaches this inclusivity is ok with infidelity, pedastry, pedophilia, bestiality, polygamous relationships, incestuous relationships, euthanasia and abortion, transgenderism/ gender morphing.. Anything that mocks straight relationships, God, and human authorities. (How often are these pro LGBT decisions not by the will of the people but by a single judge or panel of judges? Not very democratic is it?) As long as they can do what they wish. The fact is using up our children as sex objects, killing others, and setting rules to kill off anybody old or sick is the least compassionate, most bestial way to live that I can think of. People lie about sex. They lie about who and how often, how much they are watching pornography and what secret desires they might have., and make their story fit whatever will suit them at the time. We want to appear perfect in the eyes of any who might judge us, from current lovers to our family. Given this, we often excuse sexual sin in others, as we cannot bear to look at ourselves too closely. Therefore, labeling oneself as gay, and the current variations, is more of a political stance, a group membership to give us power..and access to our favorite kind of sex, than the nearly separate race of evolved and superior lifeforms some activists want to project themselves as being. We are all just human beings with a sexual nature and ways of expressing it, mostly in the dark corners of our mind and the dark rooms where sin plays out. And to never admit to the terrifying loneliness all of us feel. Think I am too strong on this, to see the whole do as thou will thing as one piece, and not just “protecting” gay Americans from big bad old conservative meanies? How many gay people have desperately clung to the” party line” even on extremely divisive issues just to feel they belong somewhere? These ministers of Satan have done their work well, having separated an entire class of people from anything real, righteous, life affirming, or godly. And now they want to take over the wide variety of churches called Christian in this country, to eventually silence the opposition. Here is the truth, God loves you. Yes, you, Mr. and Miss Gay America. He died for you, but rose again, resurrected, so His gift is not just the death but also the life, resurrected life. If the Spirit touches you, and you are moved in your heart and call on Jesus, believe in him, and accept him as Lord and Savior, you are a new creature, in Christ, a member of the Body of Christ, acceptable and forgiven. The journey from there, learning to pray and read and learn scripture, how to live a holy life, in spite of sin, which we all still commit as the old man takes us over, learning to do as all gentiles have been admonished since the time of James the brother of the Lord ..it will be a different journey for each of you. Acts 15:20 But that we write to them that they abstain from things contaminated by idols and from fornication and from what is strangled and from blood. The journey from desiring the things of the world (idols) and insisting on sex as the only pleasure in this world can take many paths. Same sex desire, like any other, is deep seated. Friendships and relationships that may include legal arrangements..marriage and children, must take into account a new reality. The world’s rejection can be hard to take. Jesus did say to count the cost… This is where a good church, believers rooted in the Word of God, can help you in ways you never imagined, Uplifting, giving a hand of friendship, and teaching you how to live, and what to do when you fail. Because. ..we all fail. And no, the focus should not be on preaching about sexual immorality as unforgivable, you are washed just as clean as any other sinner. The very first generation of gentile Christians taught mostly by Paul (so focus on Paul's’ letters) went through everything you are going through, they are the bedrock of our growth and preaching across the entire world. May the voices of the past give you guidance and comfort today. Not false comfort, but the true peace that passeth understanding that comes with knowing Christ. |
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