Today we are going to look at what the Word of God has to say about homosexuality. I am so fed up with all of the untruth that is being spewed about this subject! Here are some of the verses that address this directly:
1 Tim 1:8 We know that the law is good when used correctly. 9 For the law was not intended for people who do what is right. It is for people who are lawless and rebellious, who are ungodly and sinful, who consider nothing sacred and defile what is holy, who kill their father or mother or commit other murders. 10 The law is for people who are sexually immoral, or who practice homosexuality, or are slave traders, liars, promise breakers, or who do anything else that contradicts the wholesome teaching 11 that comes from the glorious Good News entrusted to me by our blessed God. New Living Translation
1 Kings 14:24And there were also sodomites in the land: and they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the Lord cast out before the children of Israel. KJV
Jer 6:15 Are they ashamed of their disgusting actions? Not at all—they don't even know how to blush! New Living Translation
Rom 1:26 For this reason God gave them over and abandoned them to vile affections and degrading passions. For their women exchanged their natural function for an unnatural and abnormal one, 27 And the men also turned from natural relations with women and were set ablaze (burning out, consumed) with lust for one another — men committing shameful acts with men and suffering in their own bodies and personalities the inevitable consequences and penalty of their wrong-doing and going astray, which was [their] fitting retribution. AMP
These Scripture references are to show us unequivocally what GOD thinks about this! Romans 1 shows us that this did NOT change with the New Covenant! To God sin is, always has been, and always will be, SIN! The GOOD NEWS of the New Covenant is found in John 3:16-18:
16 For God so greatly loved and dearly prized the world that He [even] gave up His only begotten (unique) Son, so that whoever believes in (trusts in, clings to, relies on) Him shall not perish (come to destruction, be lost) but have eternal (everlasting) life. 17 For God did not send the Son into the world in order to judge (to reject, to condemn, to pass sentence on) the world, but that the world might find salvation and be made safe and sound through Him. 18 He who believes in Him [who clings to, trusts in, relies on Him] is not judged [he who trusts in Him never comes up for judgment; for him there is no rejection, no condemnation — he incurs no damnation]; but he who does not believe (cleave to, rely on, trust in Him) is judged already [he has already been convicted and has already received his sentence] because he has not believed in and trusted in the name of the only begotten Son of God. [He is condemned for refusing to let his trust rest in Christ's name.] AMP
What IS the Good News? Jesus already paid the price for sin. The ONLY sin that will keep someone from Heaven when they leave this earth is the sin of rejecting Jesus! Does Jesus hate homosexuality? YES! Does Jesus hate those who practice it? ABSOLUTELY NOT!!! He loved them enough to die for them, AND YOU! Does He condone it? ABSOLUTELY NOT!!! Sin will always keep us from intimate fellowship with Him and may cause people to turn their back on Him altogether. Sin will affect this life and everything to do with it, but it has no effect on the eternal destiny of those who have received Jesus of Nazareth as Lord and personal Saviour. You may not like to hear that, but it IS the TRUTH! AMEN! Here is a new song from Hillsong about the New Birth and Baptism called "Beneath The Waters (I Will Rise)"! Let's RISE!
Shalom in Him!
