Posted on 07/28/2021 10:44:13 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
God doesn’t whisper on sexual sin. His love for sinners keeps Him from doing that. He doesn’t whisper on sexual sin—because He doesn’t whisper on His love for sinners.
God isn’t ashamed of the Gospel. He isn’t embarrassed by His Word. He isn’t anxious about telling people good things that might offend them. God isn’t afraid to tell the truth about sexual sin.
God isn’t tempted to lie about pornography, fornication, adultery—and especially, homosexuality, and transgenderism.
He loves sinners too much for that. God isn’t tempted to hide His love, mercy, and grace from homosexual and transgender people. God isn’t like you and me. God loves LGBTQ people more than we do. So we should act like it.
Our culture celebrates homosexuality and transgenderism. Our neighbors celebrate and parade evil as good and good as evil. Therefore many Christians are increasingly tempted to become sympathetic or supportive of homosexuality and transgenderism.
A few days ago, a person sent me a message asking:
“On the topic of sin and homosexuality I wanted your Biblical perspective as I work with many gay married people and I never know how to respond. [I] understand the Bible says acting on homosexual behavior is a sin same as hating your neighboor. [I] understand the Bible defines marriage as a man and women. So then how are homosexuals who have come to Christ then to carry out there lives? Are they to watch heterosexual people have marriages and families only bc the Bible defined it that way? Seems heart breaking.”
Judging from some of the comments by professing Christians on my recent Instagram post about homosexuality, many professing Christians are tempted to disagree with what the Bible says about homosexuality and LGBTQ issues.
According to the Pew Research Center, 54% of professing Christians believe homosexuality “should be accepted”, and only 38% believe it should be discouraged.
This is because many professing Christians believe they love LGBTQ people more than God does.
In my reply to the person who messaged me about homosexuality, I suggested it isn’t heartbreaking to suffer for Christ—it’s more heartbreaking to suffer for sin.
It’s not heartbreaking when people deny themselves from homosexuality—it’s heartbreaking when people deny Christ for homosexuality. It’s heartbreaking when anyone—including me—denies Christ for sexual sin.
It’s hard, not heartbreaking, to follow Christ. Jesus said:
“If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it. For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul?” (Matthew 16:24)
It’s not heartbreaking when LGBTQ people gain Christ and lose the whole world. It’s heartbreaking when they gain whole world and lose Christ.
But too often, we hate LGBTQ people too much to tell them that. The Bible says, [love] does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth (1 Corinthians 13:6).
It’s not loving to lie to LGBTQ people. It’s not loving to encourage people to commit sexual sin. It’s not loving to encourage people to reject who God made them to be. God created us as male or female because He loves us. He commands us to be fruitful and multiply because He loves us. He created Eve for Adam because he loves Adam. And he created Adam for Eve because he loves Eve.
God created women to be “helpers fit for” men because he loves men and women. He didn’t create men to be “helpers fit for” men. And He didn’t create women to be “helpers fit for” women. That’s because He loves us. Therefore, we hate LGBTQ people when we encourage them to be what God hasn’t created or loved them to be.
If we refuse to tell LGBTQ people the truth, we’re refusing to love them. If we want to love LGBTQ people (and all sinners) like God does, we would tell them suffering temporarily in this world by obeying God is better than suffering forever in hell, separated from His holiness by disobeying God.
The Bible doesn’t whisper about sexual sin. God doesn’t whisper about His hatred for homosexuality and transgenderism—because He doesn’t whisper about His love and grace for repentant LGBTQ people.
God loves LGBTQ people more than we do. So let’s believe what He says in the Bible. After all, if we do not believe what the Bible says, we do not believe in Jesus Christ.
Originally published at Slow to Write.
Samuel Sey is a Ghanaian-Canadian who lives in Brampton, a city just outside of Toronto. He is committed to addressing racial, cultural, and political issues with biblical theology, and always attempts to be quick to listen and slow to speak.
Don’t woke me. But please wake me when it’s over.
Using the terms they invented for themselves is certainly not loving them in a Godly manner.
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;
And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
2 Timothy Chapter 4:3-4
It’s a confusing piece. The second half sounds very different from what I was expecting from the first half, and I think people who didn’t read it all the way through will come away with the wrong impression.
The lesson is to read the entire article before concluding what the author is trying to say.
May FReepers unfortunately, form their conclusion by simply reading the headline or a few sentences of an article.
I do not believe this is a christian post. God does not love people who are committing sexual perversion. That is a fact!
Just who knows the mind of God?
“For even while we were yet enemies of Him, he died for us...” Not my words — that would be from the Apostle Paul in a letter he wrote to some friends in Rome.
My apologies sir, but God loved everyone enough to die for their salvation... no matter what their favorite sin is... heck, He even forgives the folks hanging around in the churches every week that still have couple of pet sins they keep around...
As I understand it, God DOES love these people, but not their sin & he actively urges them to get away from that sin, whatever it is.
Religion no longer defines right and wrong.
Language gives us away. Terms like good and evil are no longer used for a reason.
Morals no longer exist - in so far that they no longer have a bearing on the laws and policies, organization of society, and social taboos.
Today we have moral relativism even among Christians.
We live with ethics, which are man made, situational dependent, and no more than what feels good and the mob approves of.
The philosophy of Nietzsche is alive today. If you want to know about modern culture, read his writings.
I love my granddaughter and I don’t want some pretend female with a penis in her bathroom at school. She has rights, too. Apparently the courts are blind to this.
Has Samuel ever published God’s email or phone number so others can talk to Him.
He does
in the sense He does not want anyone to be lost
But He is not a respecter of persons, meaning no one is exempt from His laws, no matter who they are
God made an “exemption” from His laws for every single person, Jesus Christ, which allows God to remain both perfectly just, and allow His love for us to safe us
Because God was not going to ignore being Just and punishing sin to save people, God is and will not be mocked
The solution is belief in Christ, He is the only way any person can escape perfect judgment
The Lord does not conflate sin and sinner.
Christ's purpose was to die for the sins of all men. He died for sinners. While on the cross He said about those who crucified Him, "Father forgive them for they know not what they do." Luke 23: 34
God loves sinners! We may not - but God extends His love to the most vile of human beings. The question ultimately becomes whether a person receives Christ into their life and repents of their sins.
"But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us." Romans 5:8
"For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life. For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through Him." John 3:16,17
Grace and truth are the heart of the gospel. It's not one or the other - it's both God's (grace & truth). Here's what I see as a good example of God's grace and truth:
"Then the scribes and Pharisees brought to Him a woman caught in adultery. And when they had set her in the midst, they said to Him, “Teacher, this woman was caught in adultery, in the very act. Now Moses, in the law, commanded us that such should be stoned. But what do You say?” This they said, testing Him, that they might have something of which to accuse Him. But Jesus stooped down and wrote on the ground with His finger, as though He did not hear. So when they continued asking Him, He raised Himself up and said to them, “He who is without sin among you, let him throw a stone at her first.” And again He stooped down and wrote on the ground. Then those who heard it, being convicted by their conscience, went out one by one, beginning with the oldest even to the last. And Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst. When Jesus had raised Himself up and saw no one but the woman, He said to her, “Woman, where are those accusers of yours? Has no one condemned you?” She said, “No one, Lord.” And Jesus said to her, “Neither do I condemn you (grace); go and sin no more (truth).” - Romans 8:3-11
If we're to be like Christ, we will be challenged to love the sinner and hate the sin.
If it’s from the Christian Post, it’s bound to be confusing. Too many warring philosophies in that group.
And remember, heretic Russell, formerly of the Southern Baptist Convention, went their to work after trashing the SBC .
God is love. And he loves us all. But he will allow us to die in our sins and go to hell for eternity, if we do not accept him and his Word, because the price for sin was paid already, by Jesus, and it would be unjust to allow those who refuse to accept Jesus’s sacrifice to go to Heaven. But he still loves the sinner. (Romans 5:8 But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While ... were still sinners, Christ died for us.)
The Almighty addressed the issue of the sexually confused and sluts of both sexes. He emphasized His point at Sodom.
Are you talking about the words that they redefined for themselves?
Well, they didn’t redefine “LGBTQ”; they purely invented that one as well as the words they stand for (save “G”, and to a degree “L” with respect to an island in the Aegean Sea). It certainly is bad enough that they redefined too many words as is.
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