Understand this please and allow it to filter into your heart, your mind and your soul.
When you accept God into your life, through Christ Jesus, you become dead unto sin, unto the world. You are a new and separate being. Now alive instead of dead. But understand this, we are still human, we are still within a corrupted body and it will seek to take governance over you. In Romans chapter six it explains this. For again you must realize that all the books of the Bible were written unto to those that counted themselves to already be saved by God’s Holy grace. In verse twelve it says this:
“Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.”
Now allow that to sink in for a few moments.
A sin that has dominion over you and it operators through lust. There are many sins that operate through lust if not all. A good share of them are sexual in nature though. Now when we turn from sin, when we repent, that sin losses total control, but it is still an issue that we must confront time to time so it will not come back over us. These are a few sexual lusts, . Fornication includes masturbation, lusting after and coveting after someone in a lustful manner. Adultery is any sex between male and female that is outside the bonds of marriage, as well as homosexuality. These are all sins and according to the verse above we are not to let it have “reign” over us.
When these sins become predominant in someone’s life then it is their master it has control of them. If this is the case then if you were saved your salvation goes into question to the point that it can be lost and God will break you from the vine.
2 Peter 2:20 – For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.
John 15:6 – 6 If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.
Jesus Christ pronounced it Himself. If you do not abide in Him and let sin be your master then you shall be broken off by God, given to men and the cast into the fire. Christ Himself!
Not me, or one of those that wrote the books of the Bible in letters and sent them out to the world, which were inspired by the Holy Ghost, but Jesus Christ.
Yet thousand question this, if not millions. Many thinking they are one with God and His Son, when Jesus makes it clear this is not so. I just don’t know what to say beyond this other than good luck with your choices, especially when you go and formalize your wish to live in sin with a legal document.
Homosexuality is not a sin: see all the gay Christians! You are far from God.
I suggest you REALLY read the Bible for once in your life. See Romans Chapter 1, Leviticus 18:22, 1 Corinthians 6 (especially verse 11 here where it states ” And such were some of you” note it is in PAST tense).
Also you made it clear that they are “Christian” Homosexuals. per the Bible this is their fate per the glorified form of Jesus Christ Himself:
Revelations 3:15 I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. 16 So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.
It is through love that God has tasked me to reach out the the “lukewarm.” To cause them to think, to make them awaken to the fact that Jesus Himself will spit them from the Body of Christ, which means they shall not be welcomed into the eternal life. What shall their, and possibly your, fate be if you do not tear the scales from your eyes?
Isaiah 66:24 – And they shall go forth, and look upon the carcases of the men that have transgressed against me: for their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched; and they shall be an abhorring unto all flesh.
I do not judge as you have done unto me, I teach those willing to hear the truth of Jesus Christ my Savior. Also NEVER read a New International Version of the Bible. I suggest a New Living Translation if you cannot handle read King James
I suggest you read the Bible. Then you might be able to accept Biblical Christianity, and your gay brothers and sisters in Christ.
I read it daily and I love all people and through that love wish them to life a truly happy eternal life. This life is merely a testing ground. A test they, at this time, have failed. They and those that support them have chosen a path that could lead to eternal pain and sorrow. They must face the pain here of turning away from homosexuality. Just as you must face the pain that you are living within and have embraced from Satan the father of all lies. Your reply to me points this out. You relied to quickly. Refused to research to think, to learn if by chance you could be wrong, which you are.
This moment is a divining factor in life. This moment will decide if you get to serve God for billions upon billions of year, or suffer the fate mentioned above for billions upon billions of years.
This is out of love that I tell you this. Do I expect you to change this moment? No I do not, but if you do not change you will remember this day when the book of your life is read as you stand before God as He sets upon the Great White Throne looking straight into your eyes. I love I beg you to ponder, to think, to truly pray. I named only 3 parts of the Bible that mention the sin they have chosen as their enslavement. It also mentions your enslavement. I Lord I pray to you allow her to see your glorious and precious light and allow that light to shine upon the real world and let her see the lies she has so passionately embraced. Please allow this child you have sent to me to help her see that I am a reflection of You and not the lie she holds onto so dearly. I ask this in the name of Jesus Christ the true Savior of those lost to the lies… AMEN
On the contrary, you must face the pain of turning away from your homophobia. You read the Bible in a homophobic way, ignoring its message of Love and the correct translations and interpretations of the passages generally used by homophobes. May God cure you of your homophobia. May you not be permanently lost to the lies.
Having once considered being Homosexual that does not make me a homophobe.
No, it is your homophobic interpretation of the Bible that makes you a homophobe. You see gay people, and react in horror, which is not the way to respond to your sisters in Christ.
I see gay people and weep to be accurate. I consider several to be dear friends and am filled with sorrow that I will not be able to talk and visit with them on my millionth birthday that I have invited them to, hoping and praying they see they light and can attend, but know they may never be able to do so due to a previous engagement.
So you imagine that you know that we go to Hell. Take the log from your own eye!
Again you show your lack of true knowledge of the Bible. Only those guilty of the same sin judge, those that act from scripture to this:
2 Timothy 4: 1 I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom; 2 Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine. 3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; 4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables. 5 But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry. 6 For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand.
today I have reproved, I have rebuked, and truly exhorted. Allow these words to sink in and ponder them. Just know that it is best not to take too long. These will be my last for I know you will reply for you are determined to make your words the last words. Take my prayer over you to heart for it was given in true and compassionate love. Be well Clare, I hope in time to see you at my millionth birthday, but will understand if you can not attend.
Oh, I doubt I am going to Hell with the homophobes, but thanks anyway.