When the gospel is presented as “Come to Jesus to be right” instead of “Come to Jesus to be done righteously before God,” it should come as no surprise that people do not go to Jesus. If he is not the goal of his repentance, then he will not be considered the ultimate goal of his faith. They’ll just trade one idol for another and think they’re Christians for that.
What the gay community needs to hear is not that God will restore them, but that Christ can make them their own. Right now, maybe they never will be? (for lack of better words), but may be holy (1Cor 1. 30). We must remind others (and ourselves) that Christ finally calls them to himself, to know Christ, to love Christ, to serve Christ, to honor Christ, and to exalt Christ forever. When he has become the goal of his repentance and the object of his faith, they are justified before God the Father, and the Holy Ghost gives them the power to deny any sin, whether sexual or otherwise.
- As I mentioned earlier.
- We don’t want people to simply exchange idols under the pretext of walking in the faith.
- Someone who tries to seek heterosexuality and not Christ is as far from a position before God as someone who actively seeks homosexuality.
- Faith in the news? Orientation? Instead of knowing the living God.
How does temptation change the true gospel? The day after Jesus saved me, I felt like a new person and the same person at the same time. I was always very attracted to women (and in many ways I still am). I visited churches in the hope of being encouraged. Hoping to remember the power of the gospel in the light of my temptations, but instead I had heard the lie that ”liberation” meant that I should not feel the same temptations, that at my coming to Christ, I should be free. to feel like the old me.
But thank God for the scriptures, in them I read about Christ and how he was tempted in everything, but without sin (Hebrews 4:15). Imagine the crisis I experienced when I realized that God was also tempted; and how, if this is the case, I will judge my position with God not by my temptations, but by how I will respond to my temptations (1 John 3. 9).
The heterosexual gospel? It creates a space of great discouragement for those who are in Christ and attracted to the same sex, mainly because it implies that going to Christ means that you will be right, if the temptation of the same sex always results in Be a present and coherent reality, the logical assumption is that you are still the same person, the person who may not really know God because you are always tempted by sin.
But looking at Christ, we know that this is far from the truth, whether they are married or single, Christians who are tempted by the same sex are not less Christian so, if so, they can be the type that Jesus is. . Very deeply understanding. These are the people whom Christ has called to ascend to his throne of grace to get help at the right time, which is for all of us every day (Hebrews 4:16).
God did not come first to make men and women attracted to the same sex completely heterosexual, nor to marry them; Christ came to make us righteous in Dieu; By making us righteous before God, we are satisfied in God. a reason. Because He proclaims to the world that Jesus came so that all sinners, homosexual and heterosexual, can be forgiven for their sins to love God and rejoice in Him forever.