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Subject: simply not aware of these scriptures? |
Bible Note: Megiddo, You said: ".....it's important to remember who is speaking in some of the later books of the New Testament. Do I dispute the words...NO I do not. But there is a specific context for some fo these statements." Yes, there is a specific context for some of these statments of Paul. However, there is no doubt, he gives the specific context: 1 Corinthians 5 1 It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named[1] among the Gentiles--that a man has his father's wife! 2And you are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he who has done this deed might be taken away from among you. 3For I indeed, as absent in body but present in spirit, have already judged (as though I were present) him who has so done this deed. 4In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when you are gathered together, along with my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, 5deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus. "Now you say we should not even keep company with them...or did you quote that scripture for another reason...because if you believe that then there is no way to approach what we would call salvation for them? " Please pay close attention to all that Paul says. It does indeed apply to all real churches of Jesus Christ. You are not denying my words, this scripture is God's word. Paul deals with your concern about the homosexuals that have not yet come to Jesus' Church. Again I say, once a person has come, the first step is repentance. If they have repented, they should not feel comfortable with a life style of sin. They must also be held accountable by their church and be willing to submit to the church's rebuke. A person that truly wants God to change them looks forward to having that testimony of how God delivered them from sin. This is how we overcome the devil: Rev 12 11And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death. Paul seeks a change in them so they may become "overcomers": 9 I wrote to you in my epistle not to keep company with sexually immoral people. 10Yet I certainly did not mean with the sexually immoral people of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or idolaters, since then you would need to go out of the world. 11But now I have written to you not to keep company with anyone named a brother, who is sexually immoral, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner--not even to eat with such a person. 12For what have I to do with judging those also who are outside? Do you not judge those who are inside? 13But those who are outside God judges. Therefore "put away from yourselves the evil person." "If you believe that they will not be saved as homosexuals..then there is nothing more for you to do with them...so be it...GOd will judge them....so move on...let them be...and teach your children well." Again, they do not have to remain homosexual. You seem to assume that they cannot change. But look at what Jesus said: Matt 19 25When His disciples heard it, they were greatly astonished, saying, "Who then can be saved?" 26But Jesus looked at them and said to them, "With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible." "Does that sound reasonable- or will you play God's wrath...GOd's punishment upon those you find abominable?" No. God wants to change them from the inside out. Pastor Glenn |