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Nothing is so unfair to a homosexual
man or lesbian woman than to say to them, "You were made that
way." To suggest such is to remove all hope of change. The
average lifespan of a male homosexual, if he does not contract
AIDS, is 43 years. If he does, that is reduced to 39. (Family
Research Institute.) Does the Heavenly Father purposely create a
class of individuals with that kind of reduced life expectancy?
To teach such is to breed despair and gloom, and to suggest that
homosexuals and lesbians are second-class citizens.
THE TRUTH IS THAT GAY INDIVIDUALS
ARE CREATED WITH THE SAME INTRINSIC VALUES AS ALL OF GOD'S
CREATION. They are neither better nor worse. Equality is one of
our Father's attributes. To have respect of persons is called
sin. The Bible says that such a person is a transgressor of the
Law. There is no sin that will reduce you to a midget
personality more than prejudice.
Since God made us all and made us
equal, we all possess the same capacity. We are capable of many
creative and beautiful things. Our hands can make a lovely
object or write a life-changing poem. We can create works of art
or magnificent buildings. The human brain is a wonder of wonders
and reigns over a body of many dreams, visions, and skills.
Nothing in this wealth of abilities
quite compares with the possession of pro-creation. We can join
the God of Eternity who made all things to enjoy by creating a
life in our own image as He did the first man. Our sons and
daughters actually bear the genes of our physical person. We
create new life in partnership with Almighty God. To suggest
that He made a class of people whose sexual design lacks this
ultimate motive is to reduce those individuals to less than full
expressions of God's creative ingeniousness. God is not unfair
to anyone.
Jesus Can Make All Men Whole
The message of the Holy Bible is one of Hope for all. Every man
has sinned and come short of the glory of God. There are no men
or women who can reflect the image of God unless their life is
changed by the redeeming power of Jesus' blood. Every human on
this earth must meet at the same place beneath His cross. There
are no celebrities in the real church of Jesus Christ. The
person who thinks he's better than the homosexual is only
fooling himself.
We all need the wholeness in Jesus
Christ and we can all have that wholeness or holiness. Jesus
said to a very religious man named Nicodemus, "Ye must be born
again." (St. John 3:7b). Many great scholars have tried to
explain or grasp the greatness of this statement. All have
failed. It's unexplainable! You can only experience this great
spiritual reality. It is to be made a brand new creature by a
supernatural act of Divine grace. The effect is the same in
every life. The person is transformed. "Therefore if any man be
in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away;
behold all things are become new." (II Corinthians 5:17).
It doesn't matter whether we are
talking about a prostitute, liar, drunkard, adulterer,
fornicator, homosexual, or simply a good moral person. The grace
of God has the same effect on every individual. The experience
of this mercy from God will occur in different fashion and a
different time schedule, but the same God loves and grants mercy
to all men equally.
Hope For The Homosexual
Every homosexual man or lesbian woman can be completely changed
and made whole by Jesus Christ. There are three simple things
you must do. Remember, these are the same things everyone else
must also do. Again, you are no different. (I'm writing this in
the singular as directed to you.)
First: You must confess to God the
Father that you are a sinner. You cannot blame your sinful state
on someone else regardless of how much they may have furthered
your problem. Many of you were molested by an older person or
betrayed by someone who befriended you. Don't blame anyone any
longer but come to God confessing your personal failures and
sins. Leave everyone else to answer for themselves. "All have
sinned and come short of the glory of God." (Romans 3:23). This
means all.
The best therapy an individual can
receive is to come clean with themselves and God. Quit hiding
behind excuses and finger pointing. To come clean with yourself
and God is a lot like what your homosexual friends call, "Coming
out of the closet." The difference here is that you want to be
free, not bound, in that lifestyle any longer. God wants you out
of the closet and out of bondage to a destructive immorality.
Second: Repent of every sinful act
in which you have participated. To repent means to be sorry for
that act and to turn from all future involvement in the same.
Repentance is the result of a person who looks at their sins and
becomes repulsed by them. It means you are sick of them and
truly ready to go no more into the dens where they are
practiced.
Jesus' first message was very
simple. "Repent, the kingdom of God is at hand." The Biblical
church in the New Testament was made up of all kinds of people
who had repented (turned around) and experienced His washing.
"Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom
of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor
adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with
mankind, Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers,
nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. And such
were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but
ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the
Spirit of our God." (1 Corinthians 6:11).
Third: Believe in the cleansing
blood of Jesus Christ and accept that cleansing blood in your
life. The old hymn still has the right message, "What can wash
away my sins? Nothing but the blood of Jesus." Jesus didn't come
to condemn you. He came to save you. You alone can condemn
yourself, and you do it by continuing in the same course of
unclean living.
The Blood of Jesus is the most
powerful spiritual power known to man. When you confess you are
a sinner, turn from your sins, and cast yourself in His
purifying blood, you will be made a new creature. It may be hard
to believe such an incredible thing, but the Bible and church
history are full of evidence. This writer was a foul, unclean
creature until Jesus made me whole. I have known thousands of
others who had a similar encounter with Jesus Christ.
The Holy Spirit said, "If we say
that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie,
and do not the truth: But if we walk in the light, as he is in
the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of
Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin. If we say that
we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in
us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive
us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness." (1
John 1:6-9).
If you cannot do the three things
above because you have no heart for doing them, then please do
one thing as you consider the other three. Read the book of St.
John on your knees at least three times. Pray one prayer as you
honestly and carefully read this book. Pray, "Let me see that
Jesus that John wrote about." Don't look for a vision or a
picture, but look for a Biblical inspiration of the Jesus who
lives in the Scripture. As you see Him you will then be able to
do these three things absolutely necessary to being made whole.
Jesus, as you see Him in the Scripture, will convince you to
surrender yourself to Him.
There is Hope for you to be whole.
When you get to heaven we will be
neither male nor female. Sex is an intimacy of the earthly
family unknown in the Heavenlies. Spiritual intimacy in our
future hope is on such a Godlike level as to forever remove all
desire or design for the experience we call sex. We will exist
on a plane of such glorious fulfillment that earthly things will
pass away. It will be a shame if anyone places physical
satisfaction so important that they miss the Heavenly Hope of
our future reward. |