SEPARATING WHEAT FROM TARES: BORN AGAIN = NO HOMO TOLERANCE
J. Grant Swank, Jr.
Take note. The denominations giving credence to practicing homosexual lifestyles are those churches that do not preach being born again.
Their pulpits have been bereft for decades of the gospel call, that is, for an individual to confess his sins directly to Christ Jesus, come into a conversion experience and thereby consecrate his life to the Lord’s will.
The born again experience is basic to living the Christian life for it is the start to living the Christian life. Jesus said in the Gospel of John, chapter three, that unless an individual is born again, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.
That means being born again is basic. It’s fundamental. In other words, it’s a must if one hopes to go to heaven. Yet there are countless pulpits that never touch the basic gospel message provided by none other than Jesus Christ. Therefore, it is those denominations that are going headlong into endorsing the practicing homosexual lifestyle.
The United Church of Christ, for example, has made homosexuality its basic “gospel message.” It has used every means possible to preach this apostasy. The same can be said for the Episcopal / Anglican Church and the United Church of Canada. The same for the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America (note that the term “Evangelical” in that title is a misnomer for that Protestant group has gone in favor of practicing homosexual lifestyles which is utterly contrary to the evangel message of being born again).
Those clergy and laity within the above stated churches who do not agree with the liberal denominational party line are those clergy and laity who believe in a personal experience with Christ, namely, being born again. Those individuals then have found their churches robbed from them as the apostates have taken over their pulpits and pews.
However, wherever there is a denomination preaching strongly the biblical message of being born again one will not find any tolerance whatsoever for the practicing homosexual lifestyle. It is anathema. Such denominations include the Assembly of God, Baptists, Lutheran Church / Missouri Synod, Church of God, Free Methodist Church, Wesleyan Methodist Church, Salvation Army, and the Christian and Missionary Alliance.
Naturally, within those born again preaching groups there is the call to homosexuals to the alternative lifestyle of being born again. If a person claims to have a homosexual tendency, he is most welcome in the born again preaching congregations. However, he is urged to be born again and then remain celibate, that is, not acting on his homosexual leaning. Some even claim to being divinely relieved of the homosexual tendency.
Wherever the born again conversion experience is laid out biblically before the hearers there are persons coming into the experience. As they come to know Jesus Christ personally, they come to know His Word personally.
They thereby feed upon the divine relation. As they do so, they learn from the Holy Scriptures God’s abhorrence of homosexual activity. Therefore, they take on the biblical perspective. As these individuals are multiplied throughout the evangelical churches, they increase the call to holiness, the intolerance of homosexual lifestyles, and the evangelistic mission of bringing still others into the born again experience.
When churches rely on positive thinking preaching alone, liturgy alone, aesthetics alone, ritual alone, there is no call to a personal encounter with the Lord by being born. Now into that vacuum has moved the satanic surge of accepting practicing homosexuality as legitimate, even divinely blessed.
In other words, for years these theologically liberal sanctuaries have not been giving forth the basic tidings set forth by the Savior. Therefore, the demonic has taken over with one of the most horrific tolerances from hell — practicing homosexuality as condoned, even smiled upon, by the divine.
In all of this God is presently separating the wheat from the tares. This is in preparation for Judgment Day when the wheat will be called out to spend their eternities in heaven while the tares will be cast into an everlasting fire.
FOOTNOTE:
ANTI-HOMOSEXUAL PASSAGES IN THE BIBLE
Leviticus 18:22: "You shall not lie with a male as one lies with a female; it is an abomination."
Leviticus 20:13: "If there is a man who lies with a male as those who lie with a woman, both of them have committed a detestable act; they shall surely be put to death. Their bloodguiltiness is upon them."
Romans 1:18-32: "For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, because that which is known about God is evident within them; for God made it evident to them. . .For even though they knew God, they did not honor Him as God, or give thanks, but they became futile in their speculations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing to be wise, they became fools. . .
"Therefore God gave them over in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, that their bodies might be dishonored among them. For they exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. . .
"For this reason God gave them over to degrading passions; for their women exchanged the natural function for that which is unnatural, and in the same way also the men abandoned the natural function of the woman and burned in their desire towards one another, men with men committed indecent acts and receiving in their own persons the due penalty of their error.
"God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do those things which are not proper, being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice. . .without understanding. . . and, although they know the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, they not only do the same, but also give hearty approval to those who practice them."
I Corinthians 6:9: "Do you not know that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived, neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals, nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, shall inherit the kingdom of God."
Take note. The denominations giving credence to practicing homosexual lifestyles are those churches that do not preach being born again.
Their pulpits have been bereft for decades of the gospel call, that is, for an individual to confess his sins directly to Christ Jesus, come into a conversion experience and thereby consecrate his life to the Lord’s will.
The born again experience is basic to living the Christian life for it is the start to living the Christian life. Jesus said in the Gospel of John, chapter three, that unless an individual is born again, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.
That means being born again is basic. It’s fundamental. In other words, it’s a must if one hopes to go to heaven. Yet there are countless pulpits that never touch the basic gospel message provided by none other than Jesus Christ. Therefore, it is those denominations that are going headlong into endorsing the practicing homosexual lifestyle.
The United Church of Christ, for example, has made homosexuality its basic “gospel message.” It has used every means possible to preach this apostasy. The same can be said for the Episcopal / Anglican Church and the United Church of Canada. The same for the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America (note that the term “Evangelical” in that title is a misnomer for that Protestant group has gone in favor of practicing homosexual lifestyles which is utterly contrary to the evangel message of being born again).
Those clergy and laity within the above stated churches who do not agree with the liberal denominational party line are those clergy and laity who believe in a personal experience with Christ, namely, being born again. Those individuals then have found their churches robbed from them as the apostates have taken over their pulpits and pews.
However, wherever there is a denomination preaching strongly the biblical message of being born again one will not find any tolerance whatsoever for the practicing homosexual lifestyle. It is anathema. Such denominations include the Assembly of God, Baptists, Lutheran Church / Missouri Synod, Church of God, Free Methodist Church, Wesleyan Methodist Church, Salvation Army, and the Christian and Missionary Alliance.
Naturally, within those born again preaching groups there is the call to homosexuals to the alternative lifestyle of being born again. If a person claims to have a homosexual tendency, he is most welcome in the born again preaching congregations. However, he is urged to be born again and then remain celibate, that is, not acting on his homosexual leaning. Some even claim to being divinely relieved of the homosexual tendency.
Wherever the born again conversion experience is laid out biblically before the hearers there are persons coming into the experience. As they come to know Jesus Christ personally, they come to know His Word personally.
They thereby feed upon the divine relation. As they do so, they learn from the Holy Scriptures God’s abhorrence of homosexual activity. Therefore, they take on the biblical perspective. As these individuals are multiplied throughout the evangelical churches, they increase the call to holiness, the intolerance of homosexual lifestyles, and the evangelistic mission of bringing still others into the born again experience.
When churches rely on positive thinking preaching alone, liturgy alone, aesthetics alone, ritual alone, there is no call to a personal encounter with the Lord by being born. Now into that vacuum has moved the satanic surge of accepting practicing homosexuality as legitimate, even divinely blessed.
In other words, for years these theologically liberal sanctuaries have not been giving forth the basic tidings set forth by the Savior. Therefore, the demonic has taken over with one of the most horrific tolerances from hell — practicing homosexuality as condoned, even smiled upon, by the divine.
In all of this God is presently separating the wheat from the tares. This is in preparation for Judgment Day when the wheat will be called out to spend their eternities in heaven while the tares will be cast into an everlasting fire.
FOOTNOTE:
ANTI-HOMOSEXUAL PASSAGES IN THE BIBLE
Leviticus 18:22: "You shall not lie with a male as one lies with a female; it is an abomination."
Leviticus 20:13: "If there is a man who lies with a male as those who lie with a woman, both of them have committed a detestable act; they shall surely be put to death. Their bloodguiltiness is upon them."
Romans 1:18-32: "For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, because that which is known about God is evident within them; for God made it evident to them. . .For even though they knew God, they did not honor Him as God, or give thanks, but they became futile in their speculations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing to be wise, they became fools. . .
"Therefore God gave them over in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, that their bodies might be dishonored among them. For they exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. . .
"For this reason God gave them over to degrading passions; for their women exchanged the natural function for that which is unnatural, and in the same way also the men abandoned the natural function of the woman and burned in their desire towards one another, men with men committed indecent acts and receiving in their own persons the due penalty of their error.
"God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do those things which are not proper, being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice. . .without understanding. . . and, although they know the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, they not only do the same, but also give hearty approval to those who practice them."
I Corinthians 6:9: "Do you not know that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived, neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals, nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, shall inherit the kingdom of God."
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