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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. 1Cor6:9-10
Jesus did not alienate the sinner. The question of whether
homosexuality is a sin is not mine to answer. The bible gives the
answer. Fornicators, adulterers, idolaters, the covetous,
drunkards, and thieves as well as those who abuse mankind are also
sinners. We all have at least one problem before we come to
Christ and the worst might just be judgmentalism. At any rate in
my way of thinking the sin is associated with a spirit. We could
be born with the spirit or we could pick it up. In my life I had
a spirit of anger that I was born with just like my father and a spirit
of lust which I picked up at a very early age. So for me the real
question is about deliverance and being set free rather than badgering
someone with the fact that homosexuality is a sin. There are many
very good people whom I have known that are homosexuals just as there
are many good alcoholics and fornicators. What I choose to do is
lift up Jesus Christ, pray for salvation through being born again, and
deliverance. It is the work of the Holy Spirit to convict of sin,
mine to boast in the cross. Deliverance took me thirty-two years being a Christian. But one afternoon I vomited those spirits up and I lost the appetite to sin and I no longer struggle like I did for all those years. I have often pondered what I did to get delivered and I will share some of them with you. Life style is very important. After a traumatic experience caused by my bipolar disease and the spirit of lust dwelling in me, I began to change my life. Instead of being busy all the time with good things, church related things, I began spending most of my time in my yard with nature, my bible, and silence and solitude. I read the word of God over and over and over. I prayed often, fasted, and dissociated myself from television, secular music, sports, and all literature, christian or otherwise. I stopped going to the beach and to pools to avoid the near occasion of sin. I did my best to avoid visual sexual stimulation. Yet for all of that it took me seven years before God delivered me: seven years! Who am I to judge anyone. I've lived alone for five years now and I live a spiritual life. My house is clean, no clutter, no dishes in the sink, I cook for myself, do my laundry every week, and am a good employee at work. I have had a ministry at a nursing home for thirteen years and it is a safe ministry for me. There is no physical attraction, only love. Writing is my other ministry and it comes through silence, by way of revelation and I seldom read the bible. Things that I experience cause me to reflect on scripture and what God would say and all the years reading the word bears fruit. God downloads the scripture and I look up the text, chapter and verse, and quote it accurately. What does this have to do with homosexuality? Everything. Whatever spirit you may have inherited from birth or picked up through living in the world, it takes a lifetime to be free and forsaking the world for Christ. If having seen Jesus you wish to be perfect, then sell what you have give to the poor, take up your cross and follow Jesus. The rich young ruler thought it was too much to ask, how about you? amen |