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What God Wants You to Know 6/4/2014 7:49:51 AM
This blog is an excerpt of the forthcoming book, "From the Down Low to the Most High" God the Holy Spirit instructed me to write a love letter. He said "I want you to write 10 things every homosexual should know. He has titled this book. To God be the glory who is yet willing that none should perish First of all God wants you to know that He is LOVE!
His very character IS THAT OF LOVE. "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believes on Him should not perish but have everlasting life. John 3:16
In reading this scripture one can also see the God of sacrifice and standard. He gave but we must not only believe that he gave but WHO He gave... His only begotten Son Jesus Christ. He paid the ultimate price to redeem mankind from sin in order that we may be reconciled back to God the Father. It is through the acceptance of this redemption that we are made right with God and set apart for God. As we grow in the grace God gives, we grow in knowledge and understanding. This love relationship is built up by learning and meditating on the word of God. Acts 20: 32 records, "... it is by the word that you are built up and given an inheritance among those who are sanctified."
Therefore, just as we desire intimacy, fellowship - relationship God does not want us to take His grace in vain. He is a jealous God.
Sometime ago, God made this very plain to me through a vision and then directing me to a passage of scripture. In this vision I was standing in the narthex of my church and I observed a group of women who appeared to be angry. They left the church and I went to ask them to return. As I opened the door I saw a huge billow of black smoke and fire consuming everything in sight. The women frantically turned to run back inside the church. Once inside, they looked for some place to hide. As I watched them I said: There is no place to hide. I was then led to read the fourth chapter of the book of Jeremiah. Reading verses 1-4, my attention was drawn to verse 4. This verse reveals the wrath of God flaring up and burning like fire because of the evil done by the people of God. It ends by saying that no one will be able to quench it.
The Matthew Henry commentary on Jeremiah states that sin must be put away out of God's sight, for the heart is open before Him. The only way to put sin out of the sight of God is put sin out of our lives! How you may ask? Only by the empowerment of the Holy Spirit sent by Jesus Christ to comfort, guide, reprove and correct. It is a moment by moment,day by day journey on our way to a real and eternal destination.
As we journey, we must share God's love. We must teach in love and meekness and not hostility. We must teach truth and deliverance and we must not compromise the word of God. Without repentance we are open to the snares of the enemy and ultimately the wrath of God.
Secondly, there is no way to get a round the fact that there are wages for sin.
"For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ our Lord." Romans 6:23
Wages are simply payment for work or services rendered. If we continue in sin, we work in opposition to God's will. Just as in our everyday jobs and careers, we expect to be paid. we also desire benefits and even bonuses. If necessary we will even brush up on our knowledge and skills through more educating, training and networking. The bottom line is who expects to work in any given labor and not get paid. Well sin is labor... a labor of the flesh and there is a pay day coming.
Now - here comes the BIG question. Is homosexuality a sin? The answer is yes, just as fornication and adultery is a sin. Not because of my opinion but because the word of God says so. I must add that because God allows choice one has the choice to live in sin but never the right to change or blaspheme His word. Let's review some scripture to see what God's position is on the matter
* Don't you realize that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who lives in you and was given to you by God? You do not belong to yourself for God bought you with a high price, So you must honor God with your body.
I Corinthians 6: 19-20
* Do not have sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman; that is detestable - Leviticus 18:22 (Please read this entire chapter. This outlines the sexual acts which are an abomination to God.
*Or don't you know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Don't be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral. nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals, nor abusers of themselves with mankind. I Corinthians 6:9
But you may say I'm not a Christian. I must say, I must plead with you to consider your eternal destination. Please repent of your sin and ask Christ to come into your heart to be born again (read Romans 6;23 and
Romans 10: 10-13. Although judgment begins with the household of God, judgment will come to everyone.
* "And it is appointed unto man once to die, but after this the judgment." Hebrews 9:27
*"For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ that everyone receive the things done in his body according to that he hath done whether it be good or bad. II Corinthians 5:10
