Why Do You Call Me, Lord?

 Luke Chapter 6, verse 46 in the Bible (any bible, any version) is a very interesting verse that I believe many Christians skim over without letting the words sink in. First of all just to be clear, I will list that same verse as written in many different but popular versions so you can see it isn't difficult to understand regardless of what account you read.

• American Standard Version (AVS) "And why do ye call Me, 'Lord, Lord,' and do not the things which I say?"
• Amplified Version (AMP) "Why do ye call Me, 'Lord, Lord,' and do not practice what I tell you?"
• Easy to Read Version (ERV) "Why do ye call Me, 'Lord, Lord,' but you don't do what I say?"
• English Standard Version (ESV) "Why do ye call Me, 'Lord, Lord,' and do not what I tell you?"
• Phillips Version (Phillips) "And what is the point of calling me, 'Lord, Lord,' without doing what I tell you to do?"
• King James Version (KJV) "And why call ye me, 'Lord, Lord,' and do not the things which I say?"
• New International Version (NIV) "Why do ye call Me, 'Lord, Lord,' and don't do what I say?"
• The Voice Version (VOICE) "What good is it to mouth the words, 'Lord, Lord,' if you don't live by my teachings?"

It should be abundantly obvious by the many versions I listed that Jesus, if speaking today, would have been saying something like, 'Why do you even bother calling me Lord or calling me your Savior, or why even believe you're Mine or have any part with Me when you're not doing or obeying anything I've said, taught, instructed, or commanded?'

It's also obvious by this same verse that Jesus IS NOT speaking to the world or anyone outside of genuine Christianity because "the world" consists of atheists, agnostics, non-believers, hypocrites, pagans, and infidels, and these do not address Jesus as their "Lord." Jesus, therefore, is speaking to the only group of people that claim Jesus as Lord and Savior of their lives! He's directly speaking to 'Christians'. Every person who pronounces Jesus as their Lord should carefully consider this admonition. Scripture explains why it is so very important to not only be "hearers of the Word but doers also" (James 1:22). AND THAT because, Luke 6: 47-49 " Whoever comes to Me, and hears My sayings and does them, I will show you whom he is like: He is like a man building a house, who dug deep and laid the foundation on the rock. And when the flood arose, the stream beat vehemently against that house, and could not shake it, for it was founded on the rock. But he who heard and did nothing is like a man who built a house on the earth without a foundation, against which the stream beat vehemently; and immediately it fell. And the ruin of that house was great.” And again, if we simply interpret this in simple terms is saying:

'Whoever hears what Jesus has said and actually does what He has told us to do, is like a man whose faith runs deep and is built on the bed-"Rock" (Jesus).  And when any trouble of any kind rises to shake that man's faith he will not be moved because his faith was built on TRUTH (Jesus). But if a man's faith is built on any other belief, philosophy, religion, ideology, creed, teaching, or doctrine, when he is tested by any trouble of any kind he will fall and his fall will be great because his belief and faith were not invested in Jesus ... the solid Rock.

Another interesting scripture that ties into the one above, and is of an even greater concern is from Matthew 7:21-26 Jesus is speaking,  “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?’ And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness! Jesus is warning, not even the person claiming to be a Christian will enter heaven ... only those who do the will of God will enter, or in other words, only those believers who not only have heard the Word, but do it. OBEDIENCE TO GODS WORD IS NECESSARY TO ENTER HEAVEN. A person must be a doer of the Word not just a hearer. Examine this verse carefully!! Since Jesus is speaking to people "claiming" to be Christians because they are addressing Him as Lord, He is literally telling them "I never knew you" AND HE'S CASTING THEM AWAY even though these are those among us who prophesied in His Name. They even cast out demons in His Name. And they did many wonders in His Name, yet Jesus is telling them He doesn't know them? How can that be? What distinguishes them from any other person claiming Jesus as their Lord because these did the same thing yet they are rejected by Jesus? What happened?" Jesus gives us the answer, "depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness." They were turned away, even though they claimed Jesus as Lord and even though able to prophesy, cast out demons etc. they KNOWINGLY, WILLFULLY, AND DELIBERATELY DISREGARDED AND REFUSED TO DO AS JESUS ASKED. They were disobedient! They may have worshipped Him in word, but their deeds proved otherwise. They despised and defied Gods law, not wanting to obey by surrendering to Gods Word and HIS will.

If you are not obeying His Word, Jesus is not your Lord. You can Prophecy, speak His name, confess you're a Christian, never miss a church Sunday, use His Word and make the devil flee, have biblical knowledge, preach or teach, be the most generous person, tithe as you choose, go to prayer meetings, volunteer in a hospital, go on mission trips, etc. but if you aren’t a DOER of Gods Word, not just a listener, hearer, or reader, and DON'T OBEY what scripture teaches, is Jesus really your Lord? 

If you don't do what you know to do, its a sin (James 4:17). This verse is meant to make  the need to obey God and is often referred to as the "sin of omission." A sin of omission is a sin of inaction, or not doing something related to God’s law. How can inaction result in sin? Is there really such a thing as a sin of omission? Hearing brings knowledge, but James confirms that knowledge is useless if no action is taken after learning it. If we are to properly follow God, knowledge cannot be the final step. In Romans 1:18-23, Paul applies this concept to people who claim to know God but fail to follow His laws. Speaking of these people in verse 21, Paul writes, “Although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God.” As a result, these people “became futile in their thoughts, and their foolish hearts were darkened.” Here we see a sobering example of people who had the knowledge of God at their fingertips—they knew who He was! Yet their knowledge was useless because it did not cause them to change the way they lived. Clearly, it is not enough to simply have knowledge of God and His way. We cannot be scholars only, failing to put His precepts to proper use in our lives. God requires that we put knowledge into action. Ultimately, everyone who learns the knowledge of God and His way of life through the Word must also choose a life of obedience to that knowledge.

Until He Comes,

-Pat-

The Spirit Of Jezebel

Let's start with who is  Jezebel? Jezebel was the name of an ancient queen of Israel and notoriously one of the most evil women in the Bible. Jesus criticized the church at Thyatira in Revelation 2:18-29 for tolerating “that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess.” Jesus words were both then and now a revelation of what "spirit " Jezebel was and what animated her teaching. According to additional ancient text we know Jezebel was a power-hungry, violent, non-believing prostitute, and a teacher of the Baal religion. Normally we don't think of Jesus as intolerant but it is clear, that whatever He didn’t tolerate two thousand years ago, He still doesn’t tolerate today, “Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and forever” (Hebrews 13:8 NKJV).

Unfortunately, "the spirit" of Jezebel is thriving and has reared its ugly head in America. Her spirit is a fierce energy that seeks to destroy those her oppose "her." Today we use the term JEZEBEL to describe an impudent, shameless, or morally unrestrained person which we see materializing in new areas of our society.

Within my own living memory, American society once paid lip service to Biblical standards of sexual behavior. Now, unmarried cohabitation and unwed motherhood have become acceptable. No one blinks an eye when people flaunt multiple sex partners. Virgins are a rare find. The appalling number of sexual predators that make national headlines shouldn’t surprise anyone. They practice recently accepted behaviors on a still-unacceptable scale. Homosexuality, once acknowledged as a sin, has sadly become a political cause. It has invented the term “homophobia” to imply that any opposition can only come from an irrational fear. No earlier society, no matter how tolerant of homosexuality, ever included homosexual relationships in its definition of marriage. Not even the ancient Canaanites thought of gender fluidity. But now males “identify” as female and females “identify” as male. Newspaper editorials advise high school girls to get used to the presence of a person with a penis in their locker rooms so as not to make the transgendered uncomfortable. Sin is becoming less and less forbidden in these areas. How did we wind up here? The 

Every cell in everyone’s body proclaims what sex they are. It's imprinted in our chromosomes! XY= boys and XX= GIRLS.

Compassion for the transgendered would require helping them to accept and celebrate their actual 'at birth' assigned sex. Anyone who dares say so anymore draws down progressive Jezebel hatred. We don’t burn babies alive at  pagan shrines anymore, no, we kill them before birth in abortion clinics! And woe to anyone who dares to interfere with a mother’s “right to choose.” The reality is, there is never A RIGHT to purposely take a life. Women are campaigning and arguing for the right to kill their own offspring with no consequences. Now we've arrived at the point where some politicians even refuse to allow protection to babies that survive the abortion process. They show a Jezebel anger at the idea that killing babies amounts to murder. Our own dictionaries refute their obstinate opinion! MURDER: the unlawful premeditated killing of one human being by another. Notice the keyword unlawful? THIS IS WHY they want a law that makes premeditated abortion legal, it's so they can escape the guilt of being labeled or judged as a murderer as Jezebel was! God said no murderer will ever enter heaven (Galatians 5:21).

The spirit of Jezebel, apparent in the "woke" section of society is also attempting to destroy true masculinity in men by belittling and condemning them by what the 'wokes' definition of masculinity is. God never intended for men to have control over or oppress women as is "their" definition:  power-hungry, narcissistic, violent, aggressive, selfish, or angry.  These thing are not true masculinity though Jezebel's spirit, which has infiltrated today's society, would have you believe men fit this description and therefore need to be stripped of their roles as leaders and  basic men. Jezebel's spirit is ranting about masculinity as if it were inherently toxic. They seem more interested in punishing men. But the true meaning of "masculinity" carries with it courage be the head, to guide, to lead, to have strength, toughness, assertiveness, and boldness, without lording it over another. If the head of the family, the one who leads at the helm, can be made to feel less of a man, the foundational strength of the family will cease to be and the family will crumble. What more could the spirit of Jezebel and Leviathan want? And then you have women. God never intended for women to have control over or oppress men either. In a marriage, women are to walk alongside the man, not behind him. She is to be a supportive figure for him, who in turn, honors and respects her supportive position.

Unfortunately, under the influence of the spirit of Jezebel, sin seems like a good thing anymore. That which was (past tense) once deemed evil is now acceptable and that which used to be considered good and wholesome is now regarded as unacceptable. Sadly, the Church in general has not made a strong, collective, response to any of the social upheavals over the last several years.  Vast segments of the American church have taken a page from the teaching of Jezebel of Thyatira. They condone sin in the name of compassion and thus Jezebel is alive and well in many American churches. They point to Jesus’ compassion but fail to live up to his example. In the only gospel story directly concerned with sexual sin, Jesus showed great compassion to the woman taken in adultery. But his last words to her were, “Go and sin no more." True believers should not tolerate abortion, homosexuality, transgendered men or cross-dressers in women's bathrooms or in our schoolrooms. As believers and doers of Gods Word, we must take a stance and come against "her" and every foul spirit before she /they consume our families, churches, and workplaces.

Until He Comes,

-Pat-

 

Evil is Good and Good is Evil? Since when?

 

I have lived on this earth through enough revolutions to have observed the following:

Once a generation of "yes ma'am, no ma'am. Yes sir, no sir."

We progressed to, "right, wrong ... well, maybe."

Then we arrived at, "if it feels good do it."

To finally today, our morality has become, "what's right is wrong and what's wrong is right." We are calling that which is evil; good, and that which is good; evil.

Have we really fallen so far from our once moral integrity to have completely abandoned truth for fiction?

Unfortunately, this certainly seems to be the case and the Bible has something to say about this prevailing societal attitude. Let's look at it.

Isaiah 5:20 says, "Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter" (KJV)

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Let's begin with the very first word from this verse, woe. The bible specifically indicates throughout scripture the word woe" was used by JESUS to represent His righteous anger. Our Webster Dictionary describes the word woe as meaning misery, sorrow, distress, or trouble. Before any admonition, any instruction, any other word, Isaiah begins his sentence with WOE! Sounds serious, doesn't it? There is a warning of certain consequences as a result of a particular credence. Calling evil good and good evil could certainly describes today's culture saying that what is right is wrong and what is wrong is right; that black is white and white is black; bitter is sweet and sweet is bitter. The world has reversed what is evil and what is good. This is one of the many ways of sin, the reversal of values.

 

In today’s perverse society free from all moral restraint this is how it is possible that many things that were considered bad/evil/corrupt/and unacceptable earlier in our existence are now hallowed as alternative life style, tolerance of being different, a fact of life, deemed "normal" and so on. Cheating on your wife/husband theoretically is considered bad, but in practice it is accepted and it is considered not too bad. There are sites where you can specifically be set up with another married person for sex in secret. Open marriages are encouraged. Poly amorous marriages and swapping partners with friends is now popular etc. Virginity is a shame to the youth these days and they are taught to lose it as soon as possible, and by any means. Swing clubs are the hottest thing while orgies are organized privately or in swing clubs. Pedophilia, homosexuality, and transgenderism are considered "simply diverse lifestyles" and the moral side of society must embrace it otherwise they are accused of some phobia or racism. The rich can literally order up any-age boy or girl through sex trafficking rings or order an extravagant perverted, deviant encounter on the once, exotic, Epstein Island. The world has reversed what is evil and what is good when the Bible warns in layman's terms: 

WOE!!! A boy is not a girl and a girl is not a boy (transgenderism) when: "in the beginning, God made them male and female and to go forth and multiply" (Genesis 1:27) 

WOE!!! Homosexuality is a sin when "it is an abomination for a man to lie with another man as he does a woman" (Leviticus 18:22, Romans1:27). 

WOE!!! To harm a child (molestation, sex trafficking, misleading, dupe, entice) brings judgment when, "Whoever causes one of these little ones which believe in me-to stumble, it would be better for them to have  a millstone hung around their neck and cast into the depths of the sea." 

WOE!!! Perversion is altering something from the original course. And it is wrong when men sleep with men "working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error" (Romans 1:29).  I could go on forever with the list.

People say that bad is good and good is bad the way they disregard the bible’s warnings and principles. On account of these the wrath of God is coming and we are soon to enter Judgement. For God, sin is sin whatever it is: the liar is just as a great sinner as an immoral person or an alternative life style propagator, or an adulterer etc. It would be easy for anyone to convince themselves using false reasoning that the written word of God does not apply to us because of our particular circumstances. So , how could we make it work for us? “Twisting the Scriptures” (2 Peter 3:16) ( 2 Timothy 4 : 3 ). “For their will be a period of time when they will not put up with the wholesome teaching. But according to their own desires they will surround themselves with teachers to have their ears tickled.” They will turn away from listening to the truth and give attention to false stories.” Today's society reflects that mentality; they have made amendments to what God has defined as “ good” and “ bad” based on their personal preferences. The demands of acceptance rather tolerance, tells you that society in general has taken a position of saying that what is bad in God’s eyes is good, and what is good is bad.

The peaceful neutrality that Christ taught is poo-pooed, and churches promote political parties and politicians as the solution to mankind’s problems; God’s Kingdom is not mentioned. (Daniel 2:44; Matthew 24:14) The wholesale abandonment of Biblical standards regarding sexual morality has not led to the happiness and freedom that are promised by adherence of such “freedom”, but rather to confusion, unhappiness, disease and societal decay. Satan implied, when he spoke through a serpent to Eve in the Garden of Eden, that mankind would be happier independent of God, and setting their own standards of right and wrong (Genesis chapter 3). Satan’s lies were exposed but he has not changed his tactics; he continues to promote independence from God as the only way to happiness, in essence, telling people that what God considers good is bad, and bad good.

The consequences of such rebellion are plainly seen today, and worsening rapidly. The choice is ours to turn around, repent of our sins in this godless society or continue down the path of spiritual annihilation into an eternal separation from God, independent of God, without hope, without chance, without change, without joy, without meaning, without Light, lost in the darkness of despair, without purpose, without meaning, in a world of those who chose to love themselves, make their own rules despite hearing the truth over and above a love for the Creator... Romans 1:25 "Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen."

Until He Comes,

-Pat-

A Punch In The Face

 

I once heard someone once say,  “It's all fun and games until you get punched in the face.” This "someone" was referring to a series of financial problems that had taken him from success to near pauper status. Life can hand us a series of unexpected disappointments like an unforeseen divorce, a business failure, a devastating health report, or bankruptcy, etc. When faced with such "punches," unfortunately many throw up their hands in defeat by allowing depression and a defeatist attitude to take up residence within themselves. It is so very important to remember at our worst times Almighty God has a plan for our lives and His plans are never derailed. In Jeremiah 29, the prophet Jeremiah warned his people of coming judgment and impending invasion. The nation of Judah was about to be 'punched in the face'. But God’s plans were undeterred, and Jeremiah reassured them of their eventual return and restoration to the land. “‘For I know the plans I have for you,’ declares the LORD, ‘plans to prosper you… plans to give you hope and a future declares Jeremiah 29:11 (NIV). At the very time of trouble, when the enemy attempts to invade, or at the moment the doctor announces a poor prognosis, none of us can see beyond our crippling circumstances! Personally, just last week I was smacked in the face with my sister's cancer diagnoses. It took me by surprise. It took everyone by surprise including her. The prognosis doesn't look positive. It's important to plan and prepare for life, but if your plans have suffered a setback, if your present situation has shattered before your eyes, don't let discouragement overtake your mind. Your heavenly Father loves you. He knows all about it and His plans will unfold with grace and mercy, in His timing.

I can further speak from the seat of experience in this matter. Few of you know where I "was" and "where" I am now.  I've had setbacks in my life like any of you ... I've been laid off. I've felt the pain of divorce. I've lost all my possessions and had to start over from ground zero.  I've been homeless, literally hungry without any food, without health coverage, without a plan, feeling overwhelmed and lost. But nothing has been a bigger punch to my face than that of my physical neuropathy, the genetic nerve disease I inherited called CMT. You see, CMT never punched me in the face until I was in my 50's. I thought I was going to get through life and live gracefully to a ripe old age. My body let me down! Oh, I recovered from all those other things I listed because by nature I'm a fighter.  I wasn't about to let problems overwhelm and defeat me. I fought and scraped my way out of everything with God's eye on me. But when CMT took my ability to drive a car, to ever walk again, to tie a shoe, loosen a bottle cap, or left me only able to type blogs with one finger, I knew this punch was bigger than me. I knew there was no way to restore the nerves where I would feel anything with my feet or hands again. Physically I was and am defeated.  But my hope, my faith, my life does not rest in what my body can do or perform.  It lies in the Almighty God Who has a plan for me, a plan to prosper and give me hope for the future! When I learned I had CMT, and what it meant for my future as it progresses through my body robbing me of balance and touch, I cried out to God, "What good am I now? I can't help people anymore.  I love helping people. What will I do?"  Came the voice, "WRITE."  That's a blog for a different time, but I questioned God. "Write?  Write what?  I'm no author.  I can't write!" Long story short, God simply wanted me to share in words what He has fed me throughout my walk with Him and occasionally share a personal life story that He arranges to touch people.  Thus, Sunday Blogs began in 2011. Much to my amazement, I can proclaim this truth, "I can do all things through Christ which strengthens me."  However, there was an important lesson God revealed to me through this punch to the face  And what a lesson!  

My body may have let me down, but what the enemy meant for bad, God turned around for good. My CMT diagnosis was a blessing in disguise despite how that may seem from everything I wrote.  Having this debilitating condition has allowed me a "time-out" from going my own way, it's been a much-needed shift in perspective, allowing me to see how I was really neglecting God by making my time MY TIME. I can honestly say this disruption has given me the opportunity to fulfill what God planned for me all along that I had neglected. The lesson has been a tough one, but one that opened my eyes to really understand that it is in the darkest of times we can see the smallest light of God. God was always there ... when I ignored His urging for me to write, when I spent all my hours of each day on me, each time I promised I would give Him tomorrow, but always failed. Selfishness separated me from God.  I'm thankful there is nothing through which I can cheat God now. I have all kinds of time to converse with Him, praise Him, read His Word, listen to His voice, to study scripture, to write, and share my faith ....The essence of the Christian life is in obeying and worshipping God and helping others. God has given each of us important gifts for those purposes. We all have something to offer. Like the three men in 'Jesus Parable of the Talents, our gifts may be great or small.  But no matter how big or small our talents, abilities or wealth, we are required to put them to good use.  God gave them to us for the purpose of serving Him and serving other people. Even if we get knocked down, God can turn anything bad into good if we are willing to offer ourselves for His service.  

Until He Comes,

-Pat-

The Deception Of Homosexuality

 

Throughout Biblical scripture, God uses "marriage" between a man and a woman as an analogy of His love for us. That is evident by His desire for friendship with us and by His plan for us to be spiritually wed in His divine life for all eternity.  God created man (male) AND woman (female) instituting a union (marriage) as a covenant between them both. Through this covenant union, God gave them miraculous power and directed them to be "fruitful" and go forth and "multiply." By creating the miraculous ability to be "fruitful" they now possessed a powerful capability to "create"  by bringing forth children, multiplying, and filling the earth as God desired!

It is recorded in scripture that one of God's creations, a particular, beautiful, and powerful angel (Lucifer), defied God and fell from grace. After his fall from heavenly places, he became known as SATAN (the Devil). Satan's rebellion included an envy of us because WE were made in God's image and likeness and had been given the power to create as our Father has the power to create. Lucifer at the time wanted to be like God in that he also wanted power to create. But Lucifer was not given that gift. Satan couldn’t be like God and he was wroth, so he went to battle with the creation that God loved most -- human beings who are created in God's image and likeness. Attacking humans is very satisfying for the devil because to him, it's like personally getting back at God for not giving Satan what he wanted. Satan cannot create, but we can! God gave us the miracle to bear other little humans! Satan's goal is to steal God's children and turn them into his children because he cannot make his own!

Satan hates what God loves. He hates you. He hates marriage. He hates families. In his rebellion against God, Satan begins at our very core by seeking to destroy marriage and family. How? By his attempted deception and mockery that there is nothing backward, wrong, or sinful with homosexuality (a same gender union) and convincing people homosexuality is the same union of love between two people in a straight relationship. It's a trap. Even today Satan has continued to deceive and fortify this lie by confusing and introducing the new crafty, cunning lie of transgenderism! Satan wants you to believe you can be your own god and choose want you want, changing the divine order assigned by God. In this way, Satan openly mocks God's creation, attempting to "undo" what God created.

If Satan can hoodwink us into believing a boy can be a girl and a girl a boy, we will more readily accept the fraudulent concept of homosexuality. Remember, God told the M-A-N and the W-O-M-A-N to "be fruitful and multiply." Let's use that scripture as a reference to break down and defunct  Satan's forgery! A female represents the "fruitful" of God's equation. The male represents the "mutiply"er. Here are two scriptures that illustrate that. In the book of Luke Chapter 1verse 42, Elizabeth, when seeing pregnant Mary, the mother of Jesus, exclaimed: "Blessed is the FRUIT of thy womb" (women are fruitful, children are the fruit). Then, In Genesis Chapter 17: verses 4-6 God told Abraham that He would  make him the "father of many nations" (men are the MULTIPLY'ers of humanity). These two scriptures alone set the clear rules of the roles for males and females upon this earth to create offspring.

A physical "union" between homosexuals cannot naturally  produce "fruit" (children). A male pretending, desiring, or wanting to be female can never bear a child. He is fruitless as a so-called woman. God said, "be fruitful." A man can wear a dress, wear makeup, put on a wig, or wear lipstick and high-heels. He can even run a tube that's hidden under his shirt from a jug of milk which leads to his chest nipple and pretend to nurse a baby (as is being done in today's society) but that man will never lactate! He will never have a womb. He will never bear a child. He will never have a menstrual cycle because he is male.  In the same sense, a female cannot naturally impregnate and "multiply" the human race. That requires sperm. She may dress as a man, want to be a man, look masculine, bind her breasts to hide them, she might even be a great mechanic, plumber, roofer, or carpenter, but there's one "tool" she lacks which is necessary for multiplying... a penis.

Satan hates those committed to the marriage covenant God ordained between a male and female because it can do the most to further the Kingdom of God. The future of the Church passes through the family. If Satan can destroy families, He can destroy God’s Church.  John 10:10 tells us this about Satan, "The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly." Satan schemes to destroy God's creative plan was defeated by the death of Jesus on a wooden cross more than 2,000 years ago. Through His death and resurrection, Jesus has made abundant grace available to all of us, even the greatest of sinners. All sin can be forgiven if you turn your life to Jesus, asking forgiveness through repentance and the desire to change. Even if you would like to change but don't have the strength to stop, JESUS GIVES YOU THE POWER THROUGH HIM to end all physical lust moving in the wrong direction. If you are serious, God will remove that desire from you so then you are able to live as He wants. The Bible instructs, "Be sober, be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may  devour" (1 Peter 5:8). 

Satan wants to  beguile and devour you with his lies, deception, and tricks. He convinces you that no where in God's Word does it mention the word "homosexuality." In that, Satan tells the truth BUT he is smooth.  He also mixes lies with the truth to more easily fool you. The truth is, the word homosexuality never appeared in our vernacular until the 1890's so it is true that word does not appear in Biblical writings. However, a description of the act of  homosexuality does appear in more than one location in the Bible including both the Old and New Testament, and of course Satan is not going to acknowledge or tell you that. But I will. Below are a few scriptures from the Old Testament and New Testament that cannot be misinterpreted. It has been God's decree from the beginning of time until this present day as HIS WORD declares "is the same yesterday, today, and forever." IT NEVER CHANGES because it is truth.And truth remains consistent.

OLD TESTAMENT:

1) Leviticus 18:22 GOD SPEAKING ... "Do not lie with a man as you do with a woman; it is an abomination." (an abomination is something disgusting, detestable, abhorrent, repugnant, distasteful and unacceptable)

2) Leviticus 20:13 GOD SPEAKING ... "If a man lies with another man as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination, they shall be put to death; their blood is upon them."

THERE THEY ARE. There is no way around them; there is no ambiguity!

NEW TESTAMENT: for those that argue "that's the Old Testament. It's obsolete."

(ladies you're included) 

Romans 1:23-27...

3) For this reason (verse 23 exchanging the glory of our immortal, incorruptible God into something debase) God gave/ gives the homosexual up to vile passions. Scripture says, versev26 "even women changed the NATURAL use into that which IS AGAINST NATURE through the lust of their own heart, to dishonor their bodies between themselves (describing lesbians) who CHANGED THE TRUTH OF GOD INTO A LIE and worship and serve the creature (the body) more than the Creator who is blessed forever. Amen."

4) Likewise, verse 27 "also the men, leaving the NATURAL USE of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; MEN WITH MEN (describing homosexuals) working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompense of error which is due them."

Unfortunately, even in the face of the truth of God's Word as shown in the scriptures above which clearly describe same gender sexual  relationships of homosexuality and lesbianism, people will still remain obstinate and blinded by Satan's deception, refusing to change their opinions or beliefs and continue on the road to perdition unless they repent and turn away from their misdeeds. 

Until He Comes,

-Pat-

Listed are a dozen additioal Bible references:

1. AMPLIFIED: "Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit or have any share in the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate [by perversion], nor those who participate in homosexuality."

2. CHRISTIAN STANDARD: "Don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s kingdom? Do not be deceived: No sexually immoral people, idolaters, adulterers, or males who have sex with males."

3. EASY BIBLE: "People who do wrong things like that will never belong to God's kingdom. You surely know that. Do not think that people like this will receive God's good things: People who have sex in wrong ways. People who worship idols. People who have sex with anyone that they are not married to. Men who have sex with other men."

4. ENGLISH STANDARD: "Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality"

5. HOLMAN CHRISTIAN STANDARD: "Don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s kingdom? Do not be deceived: No sexually immoral people, idolaters, adulterers, or anyone practicing homosexuality"

6. INTERNATIONAL STANDARD: "You know that wicked people will not inherit the kingdom of God, don’t you? Stop deceiving yourselves! Sexually immoral people, idolaters, adulterers, male prostitutes, homosexuals"

7. JUBILEES: "Know ye not that the unjust shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not err: neither fornicators nor idolaters nor adulterers nor effeminate nor homosexuals"

8. KING JAMES: "Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind"

9. LEGACY STANDARD: "Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals"

10. NEW AMERICAN STANDARD: "Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals"

11. NEW AMERICAN READERS: "Don’t you know that people who do wrong will not receive God’s kingdom? Don’t be fooled. Those who commit sexual sins will not receive the kingdom. Neither will those who worship statues of gods or commit adultery. Neither will men who sleep with other men."

12. NEW INTERNATIONAL: "Or do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor men who have sex with men"

... and there are dozens and dozens of other bibles who agree