Haggard Ends Restoration Process with Overseers

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Fri Feb 08, 2008 3:08 pm Agree: 3   Disagree: 0

Rand,

To say a homosexual's sin is more grievous than an adulterer's is just another form of idolatry. Much of what you will hear from professing Christians is a rant against homosexuality, yet the glancing eye of a heterosexual toward the opposite sex is often dismissed. Jesus made it very clear that if we lust in our heart that person has already commited the sin. It's a heart issue.

So, just as I would counsel the homosexual to repent and turn from sin, I would also counsel those unbelievers and professing Christians (who think they're OK with the Lord) to repent and examine their hearts for idolatry or unbelief. If our heart is not dead to sin, turning from all sin - even the appearance of sin - and desiring the Lord to the point of forsaking our old life (hetero- or homo-sexual immorality), we will not see the Kingdom of God. God is NOT a respecter of persons.

As to your comments about never being able to have sex with a man even if you marry him, you have MISSED the beauty and power of the Gospel. In Christ, we are bought with a price, and our life is not our own. He changes our desires of being slaves to sin to servants of righteousness. We have our fruit to holiness, because the surrendered Christian is abiding in Christ and we will have the mind of Christ and the teaching of the Holy Spirit. Our fruit, our works, our desires... change! You won't find it grievous to not live the homosexual lifestyle.

Read Romans 6: For he that is dead [In Christ] is freed from sin....Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord...For sin shall not have dominion over you...Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness? Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness...What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death... But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.

Homosexuality is a sin just as is lying and unbelief. Rand, forsake everything you have (in your heart, first - the fruit will come) to follow Jesus. He will lead and guide you. The Holy Spirit will teach you and change your desires. He is the same powerful, awesome, and might God as always has been. He defeated the power of death AND sin... believe, repent, forsake, and abide. Trust in Him and He will bring it to pass.

I pray the Lord blesses you with the grace He gave me to repent and overcome my abominable sins, through the blood of Jesus. I consider myself chief of sinners, but for the grace and cleansing blood of Christ to wash away my sin... thank you, Jesus!

1Ti 1:15 This is a faithful saying... that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief.