Good News For Gays – Our Condition, What Is Love? & What About My Feelings?
Posted by Jason Delgado on Jul 1, 2013Reforming Baptist blog with a timely post that addresses three main points:
1. We are all sexually broken
…how do you argue from a book that these people don’t think is authoritative? How do you show them that their sexual preference is sinful and unnatural? First of all, the Spirit of God has to convince them of that, second of all, you need to frame the context in the gospel because it’s the power of God unto salvation. Quoting verses isn’t good enough, you need to give them the good news while you explain to them their own brokenness. Yes, the gospel has the power to save people from homosexuality, even if it doesn’t completely eradicate their same sex attraction.
2. What is love?
If love is a human right, then who granted that right? Rights are derived from someone or something with greater authority than the one with the right. Who or what is greater than humanity that has granted that right? If you’re honest with yourself, either all the talk about rights, love and marriage are totally meaningless or they get their meaning from God. 1 John 4:7 Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loves is born of God, and knows God.
Love is an attribute of God and therefore it finds its significance and rightful expressions as God dictates and demonstrates. God says of love that it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth (I Cor. 13:6). Jesus said that God’s Word is the truth (John 17:17). So, to say that you “love” someone of the same sex in a sexual way is not love as God defines it. It is a distortion of love.
3. What about my feelings?
What you practice reveals what controls you and who is your Master.
But the gay person might say: “I’m gay, I cant help it, I’m born that way!”
Our response should be: “I know, but you can be born again a different way!”
We were all “born that way” as Lady Gaga sings.She’s part right and yet tragically wrong. She doesn’t take into account of the fall and its effects and certainly offers no hope of salvation except to just embrace one’s fallen condition as the way God made us – which is a lie.
But the gay person might say: “I’m gay, I cant help it, I’m born that way!”
Our response should be: “I know, but you can be born again a different way!”
We were all “born that way” as Lady Gaga sings.She’s part right and yet tragically wrong. She doesn’t take into account of the fall and its effects and certainly offers no hope of salvation except to just embrace one’s fallen condition as the way God made us – which is a lie.
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