Wednesday, 3 July 2013

When I speak of Sin


I am very cautious when I speak about sin to the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenderd community because to many Christians have muddied the waters so to speak.
Specifically they have made homosexuality out to be a “special sin” nothing could be further from the truth.
As I see it we can safely say homosexuals are not sinning, unless they are committing the same sins any other person in the world are committing. The same holds true for the whole LGBT community.
Psalm 139:13-15 reads,
“For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. 
I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; 
your works are wonderful, I know that full well. 
  My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. 
When I was woven together in the depths of the earth,...” 
To me this means God knew before we were born our very genetic make up. He knew weather we would be gay or strait and he allowed us to be born.
God says to every man and woman that has ever been born, gay or strait,
“for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 
 and are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus. 
 God presented him as a sacrifice of atonement, 
through faith in his blood. 
He did this to demonstrate his justice,
 because in his forbearance he had left the sins committed beforehand unpunished
 he did it to demonstrate  his justice at the present time, 
so as to be just and the one who justifies those who have faith in Jesus.”
                                                                                                  Romans 3:23-26
Jesus said,
“ ...."I am the way and the truth and the life. 
No one comes to the Father except through me.” 
                                                                                             John 14:7
I as a Christian believe John 14:7 they are the words of Jesus, and that statement compels me to reach out to all people everywhere offering them the Love Christ gave to me.
I believe the words of Paul to the Ephesians when he states,
For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith--
and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God--  
not by works, so that no one can boast. 
For we are God's workmanship, 
created in Christ Jesus to do good works,
 which God prepared in advance for us to do.
                                                                                       Ephesians 2:8-10
We cannot work our way to heaven. We cannot be good enough to stand before God and say ‘I deserve to enter your heaven because I am a good person’.
We must confess our sins to Christ and accept His free gift of eternal life. We must believe the words of John when he writes,
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins 
and purify us from all unrighteousness.  
If we claim we have not sinned, 
we make him out to be a liar 
and his word has no place in our lives. 
                                                                                1 John 1:9,10
Jesus gives us a choice. Believe he is who he say’s he is, the one and only Son of God who came to die for our sins, or reject Him and accept the other option, that He and his followers have created the greatest lie in history.
The choice is yours.
All I am asking you, who ever you are, what ever your lifestyle, ethnicity, or your position in life is to consider what I have written above. Then if you believe it pray this prayer,
Dear Heavenly Father.
I believe that Jesus is your One and only Son. That he came to earth to die for my sins. 
Please forgive my sins today and come into my heart and life. 
Show me you will for my life from this point on.
                               In Jesus name I pray
                                       Amen.
If you’ve prayed this prayer in all sincerity, I urge you now to start reading the Bible and ask God to lead you to a Church where the Bible is preached in all its fullness.

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