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The purpose of this study is to understand. With perfect spiritual understanding comes powerful love and appreciation for the truth of God and of Christ.
If homosexuality is a sin, then there has to be a lie involved. Something that’s being said about it, or propounded, that’s not true. If it’s a sin, then it’s promising something it cannot deliver, and must have, at the very core of its being, the devilish intent to steal, kill and/or destroy (render ineffective) whoever it touches.
John 10:10 The thief comes not but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I am come that they (who believe on me, who the devil wants to steal from, kill and destroy) might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.
I believe that the two most importantly deceitful lies upon which the attempt to legitimize homosexuality is based are the following:
Lie #1: Homosexuals are born that way.
Lie #2 Homosexuality simply means having affectionate feelings for a member of the same sex.
This study is intended to explore the truths which these two lies war against.
Man, you are not born into homosexuality. Practicing homosexuality is never “being true to who you are.”
Genesis 1:27, 28 So God created man in His own (spiritual) image, in the image of God created He him; male and female created He them. And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moves upon the earth.
Man was created in the image of God as a two part being. It takes a male and a female to make the whole, according to these two verses. When God created man in His own image, He instilled His spirit into the very nature of that first man and woman, and it was that creation that was meant to be male and female. It was that creation that was designed to be fruitful and to fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over every other living creature.
This is how man was created by God to be, and this is what the enemy of God wants to nullify. This is the evil of homosexuality, which travels in an unnatural and unfruitful direction. No homosexual is content, but deep inside feels out of place. Though a homosexual can enjoy peace, it is always in spite of homosexuality, and never because of it. And no matter how many laws are enacted legitimizing homosexuality, that homosexual influence will always lead man away from the peace and fulfilling fruitfulness he/she so earnestly desires.
Homosexuality is not fruitful, or fulfilling. It is dishonorable and unnatural.
Romans 1:24-17 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonor their own bodies between themselves; Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the created thing more than the Creator, Who is blessed for ever. Amen. For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections; for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature. And likewise also the man, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; man with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was just.
This “truth of God” refers back to the passage in Genesis 1, that God made them male and female. In this section in Romans, homosexuality is referred to as unnatural, meaning contrary to what is natural. Here God calls homosexual desires “vile,” meaning dishonorable. It is impossible that a person comes out of the womb as a homosexual. The unnatural influence of homosexuality is something that enters into first the mind, and then into the heart of an individual..
James 13-15 Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted by God; for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither does He tempt any man; But every man is tempted when he drawn away of his own lust and enticed. Then when lust has conceived, it brings forth sin; and sin, when it is finished brings forth death.
Lust is the desire to be filled with that which cannot fill or fulfill. Wanting to eat a whole bag of potato chips for supper might be put under this category, since potato chips cannot sustain the human body. Homosexuality only leaves a person wanting, and cannot reproduce itself; it produces nothing productive, and falls under the category of lust.
(A note here: temptation is not sin……in order for temptation to become sin, it must take root in the heart of man and be played out, be acted upon. A person does not sin simply because he/she is presented with the strong desire; else would Jesus be a sinner, because he was “tempted in all points such as we are, yet without sin.” (Hebrews 4:15))
I indistinctly remember the period of time during which the sexual desire for women began introducing itself into my mind, and then blossomed into my heart (oh how I would I’d had the wisdom and power of Christ in me during that time!). But I can very distinctly remember when the homosexual desire entered into my mind, and tempted me. More than once. This desire was not an innocent, affectionate feeling of brotherly love. It was an overtly sexual desire to explore sex with another man.
A person under the influence of a homosexual spirit is not to be despised or condemned, but rather loved. He or she is the one being attacked by mankind’s common enemy, Satan. He or she is the one suffering, being stolen from, being destroyed from within.
I Samuel 20:17 And Jonathan caused David to swear again, because he loved him; for he loved him as he loved his own soul.
Here is a powerful affectionate feeling a man can have with another. Yet there is no homosexuality here. Jonathan loved David like he loved his own soul. Does that sound sexual? Rather, it is intensely emotional and personal ….. there’s no sexual desire involved.
I Thessalonians 4:9 But as touching brotherly love (phileo), you need not that I write unto you, for you yourselves are taught by God to love (agapao) one another.
The affectionate desire a man can have for another man, or a woman for another woman, is something that God Himself, in His perfect love, provides for us. What He does not provide is strong sexual desire for a member of the same sex. Satan offers that, and calls it love. It is not love; it is not even affection. It is sexual lust.
If a person influenced by homosexuality is reading this, I want you to understand, God wants you to have affectionate feelings for others, both men and women. He desires you to have many deep, intimate, affectionate, honest relationships. But He does not desire you to be overcome by sexual lust toward members of the same sex. (Of course I could write this to and about lustful heterosexuals too).
Homosexuality is defined by the perverted, unnatural sexual desires played out in a person’s life; not by the caring, emotional affections shared by two individuals of the same sex.
If a man wants to live with another man, because of his affection for that man ….. that is not homosexual. College students do that all the time, and we don’t think it’s homosexual. There is nothing untoward or improper, in the eyes of God, about affectionately emotional same-sex relationships.
When a man wants to marry another man, making him his wife (or become the wife) ….. that’s unnatural. When a woman wants to be the husband in a relationship….that’s unnatural. It’s contrary and detrimental to nature, and can never result in fruitfulness. Rather, it is vanity of the soul, and by nature it destroys the fruitfulness God has always intended for the man He made in His own image. (This fruitfulness includes, but is not limited to, reproduction).
Upon the above two lies, that a homosexual has no control, but “is made” that way; and that homosexuality is simply the sharing of affection between two members of the same sex……the whole homosexual argument in the world today is based.
The answer to these lies is Jesus Christ and the love of God which is found in the spirit of Christ. Everyone I know and fellowship with has sin in their lives, as do I also; but we do not justify our sin. Rather, we seek Christ, our justification from sin. Until a man admits to the sin, he will not be freed from it.
I John 1:9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
But also understand this:
I John 1:8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
I have had wonderful spiritual fellowship, and honest brotherly affection with practising homosexuals…..who thought their homosexuality was unnatural, and a sin. Who wanted to be delivered from it. Some were delivered, some have not been delivered to this date. Love isn’t something that’s shared with another because it’s deserved, but because it’s needed. Let us love every man, every woman with the powerful love which the spirit of Christ provides and fills us with, but let us never compromise the truth of God and of Christ.
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