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I would begin by this actual subject what is the homosexuality. At the time where the homosexual couples ask to obtain the
same rights that the married couples and where the gay prides to increase, it is important to clear things up on a spiritual
view point.
It is not the gays as humans that it have to be rejected, but the practice itself. God says, by the Apostle Paul's mouth
in 1 Timothy 2 : 4 : 'Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.'. It is for these reasons
that we, christians, have not to turn one's back on these persons on the pretext that they do not think as us, but we have
to love them as the Lord tells us : 'But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward
shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest : for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil. Be ye therefore
merciful, as your Father also is merciful.' (Luke 6 : 35 - 36), but also : 'Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if
he thirst, give him drink : for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head. Be not overcome of evil, but overcome
evil with good.' (Romans 12 : 20 - 21). If I said enemies about the gays, it is because they are considered as some enemies
of the good, so also our enemies. To go back on our love for our enemies, I likewise would to say that we have not the right
to reject the gays because we do not know the God's plan for them, but we have to talk them about God and pray for them :
'I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men.'
says the Apostle Paul in 1 Timothy 2 : 1.
What we have to categorically reject is the homosexual practice. Here is what the Bible says : 'For this cause God gave
them up unto vile affection : for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature : and likewise
also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which
is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.' (Romans 1 : 26 - 27), and also :
'Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.' (Ephesians
4 : 19). What is the most shocking is that some preachers (priests or pastors) approve this practice and also bless some homosexual
couples, as they would do it for a wedding between a man and a woman. Very often they add that if those two persons love each
other it is the most important and, I suppose that they all base themselves on the biblical chapter about the love in 1 Corinthians
13. But they look forget the God's judgement about the sexual lasciviousness. The Bible is very clear about this subject,
the homosexuality deserve the death : 'If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed
an abomination : they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.' (Leviticus 20 : 13). Of course, this
judgement is the same for the lesbians. Some people will certainly say that it was a verse in the Old Testament and that the
Lord Jesus Christ came later for save us by His grace, but the same judgement is also write several times in the New Testament.
We read, in Romans 8 : 5 - 8 : 'For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after
the Spirit the things of the Spirit. For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Because
the carnal mind is enmity against God : for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. So then they that
are in the flesh cannot please God.'. For a precise description about the works of the flesh, here is what God says through
the Apostle Paul :'Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these : Adultry, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envyings, murders, drunkeness, revellings,
and such like :of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall
not inherit the kingdom of God.' (Galatians 5 : 19 - 21). God is more clearer in 1 Corinthians 6 : 9 - 10 : '... Be not deceived
: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminates, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, nor thieves,
nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.', but also in Ephesians 5 :
5 : 'For this ye know, that no whore monger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance
in the kingdom of Christ and of God.'.
By the light of all these verses, it looks evident that the preachers who bless these homosexual couples not take into
account of the God's judgement for this practice and it is really sad. All this logically drive to that some gays to turn
to God, but in which way ? As much as they think that they are blessed by God because nobody talked to them of the Lord's
judgement, they will unfortunately continue to follow a wrong way. All what I would like to say to these persons, it is to
read the Bible and ask to God to understand what is write. God also exhort them in Leviticus 18 : 22 : 'Thou shalt not lie
with mankind, as with womankind : it is abomination.'. The word is strong, indeed, but it is in this way that God call is
People and change the tortuous hearts. He also says in Romans 13 : 12 - 14 : 'The night is far spent, the day is at hand :
let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light. Let us walk honestly, as in the day;
not in rioting and drunkeness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ,
and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.'. The works of darkness are, of course, all what is opposite
to what God asks to His People. 'For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication
: that every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour; not in the lust of concupiscence,
even as the Gentiles which know not God;' says Paul in 1 Thessalonians 4 : 3 - 5, in other words to abstain from all what
God does not accept. Peter adds in his first Epistle in the chapter 2, verses 11 and 12 : 'Dearly beloved, I beseech you as
strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul; having your conversation honest among the
Gentiles : that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify
God in the day of visitation.'. That means that we cannot be christian and live as the Gentiles. So, God who hate the sexual
lasciviousnesses, can certainly not call a gay as to be His child, that does not make sense. That is why He says : 'Proving
what is acceptable unto the Lord. And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.'
(Ephesians 5 : 10 - 11) and He adds in Colossians 3 : 5 - 7 : 'Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication,
uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry : for which things' sake the wrath
of God cometh on the children of disobedience : in the which ye also walked some time, when ye lived in them.'.
So, there is one thing to say to the gays. To the ones who call themselves christians, I am sorry to tell you that you
not listened what the Lord says in His Word, because He is clear. If you live as the Gentiles, in the flesh, you are not some
real christians and you will be severely judged by God, because the homosexuality deserve the death. So, if you really want
to please to God and obey to His wish, turn away from your practice, confess your sins, God will forgive you and give you
the strength to resist to the temptation. He gives you a promise in 2 Corinthians 6 : 17 : 'Wherefore come out from among
them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you.'. So, there is two solutions
: or you are some real christians and go out from this horrific practice that is the homosexuality, or you are still gay,
but there, you are not some real christians.
For finish, I would like to add that the gay prides are really dangerous, because they give a wrong image to the children,
the one who is opposite of what God teach us in His Word. The aim of the parents is to give a good education to their children.
So, how some demonstrations such as the gay prides can hope help the families ? At the present time, it is already not easy
to give a good education to one child, so show them some people who are not much dressed and who kiss so easily another person
of the same sex on the lips can destabilize them and very probably make of them some marginals later.
By the light of all that, it is good to repeat that we are in the last times and that we, christians, must denounce the
homosexuality who make some big damages in the actual society. The gays themselves say that they want to inform as much as
possible of people, particularly amoug the youth, of their way to live. So, let's have also ourselves the courage to do it
in the name of our God because, in the Judgement Day only the ones who will have gave their spiritual lives to God, to sincerely
confessed their sins in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, will be saved.
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