Thursday, July 16, 2015

GO AND SIN NO MORE



In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error. Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done. They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy. Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them. 

- Romans 1:27-32 (NIV)


Romans 5:8 says, "But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us." God wants those who are practicing homosexuality to come to Him, repent, and turn from their sin. He loves them and wants them to come to them just like the woman who was caught in the act of adultery in John 8 and would say to them "GO AND SIN NO MORE (John 8:11)".


Don’t you realize that those who do wrong will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don’t fool yourselves. Those who indulge in sexual sin, or who worship idols, or commit adultery, or are male prostitutes, or practice homosexuality, or are thieves, or greedy people, or drunkards, or are abusive, or cheat people—none of these will inherit the Kingdom of God. 

- 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 (NLT)

** If you are living the kind of life listed above, Heaven is not your eternal destination, hell is because the Bible says the wages sin is death (hell) but if you come to Jesus and turn from your sin, you can be cleansed as verse 11 explains:


Some of you were once like that. But you were cleansed; you were made holy; you were made right with God by calling on the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God. 

- 1 Corinthians 6:11 (NLT)

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