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7 Deadly Questions Question 4. Remember these questions are only deadly if you DON'T ask them!

(Many may react to this title.  Please read it through and read the scriptures.  Than ask God to speak to your heart, mind and soul.)

Question 4 1 Corinthians 6:9, John 3:16-17 Does God hate homosexuals?       Jesus came not to condemn, but to free us from condemnation!
“16 “For God loved the world so much that he gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life. 17 God sent his Son into the world not to judge the world, but to save the world through him.” (John 3:16-17 NLT)

 “Don’t you realize that those who do wrong will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don’t fool yourselves. Those who indulge in sexual sin, or who worship idols, or commit adultery, or are male prostitutes, or practice homosexuality,” (1Corinthians 6:9 NLT)

Before America divided over slavery most of the major denominations had divided.  By refusing to seek God’s wisdom the Church failed to lead society.  We must decide just who is God.  Does God have the final say?  We may have the right to ask the question but will be obey God?

Some have questioned my sanity or wisdom in talking about this.  But that is the problem.  As the people of God we are called to teach the Truth that others can be free!

Many try to word study their way out of the issue but several places  in the Bible are very specific that homosexuality like so many other things is sin and destructive and deadly.  It is a sin just as worshipping money, stealing, adultery and those who allow addictions to turn them from God!



Sexual sin is seen in different ways:
Fornication – an unmarried person having sex with someone of the opposite sex.
Adultery – a married person having sex with someone of the opposite sex they are not married to.
Homosexuality – literally means “of uncertain affinity” and means having sex with someone of the same sex.
All are wrong and all are sin.  Jesus even takes it so far to say that if you are thinking about having sex with someone it is a sin.  That is why pornography is a sin.
“But I say, anyone who even looks at a woman with lust has already committed adultery with her in his heart.” (Matthew 5:28 NLT)

If we deny homosexuality is a sin we do two terrible things.
First we call God a liar!
Second we leave those who live a homosexual lifestyle without hope!  If the Church says homosexuality is okay they are left without
t the hope of redemption because they believe they do not need it!  WE WILL BE JUDGED SEVERLY FOR THIS!  For to steal hope is to steal someone’s soul.

Does that mean God hates homosexuals?  Does that mean we should?  GOD FORBID!

God loves all sinners so much that He was willing to let His only and precious Son be slaughtered by us and for us!  Not merely killed, but slaughtered for you!  Because of you!

God makes a distinction between the sin and the sinner.  God hates the sin that destroys and perverts us, that makes us a slave to our desires and fears.  That separates us from Him.
But God is able to look beyond the chains to see the pains in the hearts of those who are bound by them.  The men who tortured Jesus were not good people doing bad things.  They were lost and horrific people who enjoyed the suffering of others, but Jesus forgave them because He loves them!

We have no right to hate those whom God loves!  In the Lord’s Prayer we ask for God to forgive us as we forgive others.  We are to love those who sin and call them to the love and redemption of Jesus Christ who loves them most!

We forgive because we are forgiven!  We love because we are loved!

To hate or be repelled by a sinner is as much a sin as homosexuality.  We, like our Lord, must not condemn but seek to lead them to the God who loved us enough to give His own Son for them.  We must love God enough to love them!  For we are warned:
“If someone says, “I love God,” but hates a Christian brother or sister, that person is a liar; for if we don’t love people we can see, how can we love God, whom we cannot see?” (1 John 4:20 NLT)


Next lesson:  Acts 17:26, Genesis 11:9 Did God color me?      
Race is a wall we build to keep others away!




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