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Homosexuality
& Lesbianism
God Loves
You & Wants to Set You Free
by
Pastor John Hamel
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Table of Contents
Learning
to Properly Interpret the Bible
Paul's
Warning to Those Who Engage in Unnatural Lust
Jesus
Didn't Address Homosexuality in the Gospels?
Gay
Sex Between Consenting Individuals Harms No One?
The
Terminal Generation of the World
Every
Minority Status Should Be Outraged
Homosexuals
Are Introduced, Not Birthed, to Immorality
The
Selfish, Unloving Practice of Acceptance
Heaven
Doesn't Make Shipping Mistakes
The
Believer's Prayer of Deliverance
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Learning
to Properly Interpret the Bible
"For this reason
God gave them over … to vile affections and degrading passions. Their
women exchanged their natural function for an unnatural and abnormal
one... The men also turned from natural relations with women and were
set ablaze … with lust for one another – men committing shameful acts with
men and suffering in their own bodies and personalities the inevitable
consequences and penalty of wrongdoing…” (Romans 1:26,27 Amplified
Bible)
I once turned on a Christian TV program to hear a teenage “Bible Study Leader” say, “The
Bible says absolutely nothing about homosexuality or lesbianism. It’s
a matter of choice. God leaves it up to us.”
Apparently she was
not referring to the Bible God wrote. The One you just read above.
Another time I
heard the TV Talk Show host, Phil Donahue, gleefully exclaim, “The word
‘homosexual’ isn’t even in the Bible!”
I thought to
myself, “You’re right Phil,
it isn’t. But the subject certainly is.”
The words “homicide” and “Capital
Punishment” aren’t in the Bible either, but the subjects are. The
Bible says if you commit one, you will definitely experience the other. (1Timothy 1:9;
1Peter 4:15; Revelation 21:8; 22:15)
The Bible-illiterate
teen Bible
study leader and the ignorant talk show host would be well served by
reading the following Bible verses. If you’re as confused as they
are, you would be, too. (Genesis 8:21; 19:1-11; Leviticus 20:13;
Deuteronomy 23:17; 1Kings 14:24; 15:12; 22:46; 2Kings 23:7; Joel 3:3; Ephesians 5:3,4; 2Timothy 3:1-3, 13; 2Peter 2:7-22;
Jude 1:7-19)
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The
Apostle Paul's Solemn Warning to Those Who Engage in Unnatural Lusts
"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 ... shall inherit the
Kingdom of God. And such were some of you but ye are washed, ye are
sanctified, ye are justified in the Name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit
of our God." (1Corinthians 6:9-11)
Notice
in verse 9 the references to "effeminate" and "abusers of
themselves with mankind."
These
are specific references to effeminate men, male prostitutes, sodomites,
female prostitutes and lesbians. They are specific references to
self-polluters who submit themselves to evil spirits through unnatural
lusts.
Today's
"relevant" Christians are too often submissive to the worldly temptation of underrating
the peril which results from immoral, homosexual and lesbian
behaviors.
The Apostle Paul
made it perfectly clear that they "shall not inherit the Kingdom of
God" without repentance.
This leaves them in
the dangerous position of being without a Covenant with Holy God, leaving
them with no guarantee of provision or protection, running the risk of
premature death and ending up in the now "archaic" yet very real
place called Hell.
The Bible which God
authored is exceptionally clear. “Thou shalt
not be with mankind as with womankind: It is an abomination.”
(Leviticus 18:22)
Someone
always pipes up, "That's part of the Old Testament and it does not
count today."
Of
course, the Bible response to such foolishness is, "For I am the Lord,
I change not..." (Malachi 3:6)
God
does not change His eternal views of what is moral and what is not, in order
to become more relevant to the modern Church. His plain and clear views on
immorality extend throughout all generations and are clear in both the Old
and New Testaments.
Holy God actually considers homosexuality and lesbianism
to be as abominable as bestiality. It carries the same penalty.
(Leviticus 18:23)
The curse of the Law
of Sin and Death not only prevails upon individuals who accept homosexuality and lesbianism as
normal, but it also prevails upon all Nations who do so. (Leviticus 18:25;
Proverbs 16:25; Ezekiel 18:20; Romans 6:23)
The
Supreme Court of the United States declaring homosexual marriage to be legal
does not make homosexual marriage moral in God's eyes. America
is paying for this defiant decision.
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Jesus
Didn't Address Homosexuality in the Gospels?
Carl
Lentz, the controversial leader of Hillsong Church in New York City, has
made the statement that Jesus Christ did not address the subject of
homosexuality in the Gospels. His argument is if Jesus didn't make an issue
of homosexuality, we should follow His example and not make an issue of
homosexuality either. Mr. Lentz has issued a challenge for any Christian to
show him where Jesus addressed homosexuality, in any way, in the Gospels.
The
fact is, when Jesus condemned Sodom and Gomorrah, a bastion of
homosexuality, He was condemning the homosexuality that damned those two
cities and their sinful occupants. (Matthew 10:15)
When
Jesus put His stamp of approval on heterosexual marriage between a male and
a female only, He was indeed condemning homosexuality. Jesus made it clear
that marriage and sexual relationship was to be between a male and female
only, never between a male and a male, or a female and a female. When
addressing the Pharisees concerning this, Jesus was clearly setting the mold for
God-ordained marriage and human sexual relationships. (Matthew 19:4-6)
Jesus
Christ boldly and continually referred to and underscored all of the
teachings of Moses. (John 5:45-47) Moses openly and clearly condemned
homosexuality without reservation. (Leviticus 18:22; 20:13)
By
condemning Sodom and Gomorrah, making it clear that heterosexuality is the
only acceptable norm with Holy God and underscoring Moses' teachings on the
subject, Jesus Christ clearly condemned homosexual relationships and
homosexual marriage.
Something
else Mr. Lentz is unaware of, or deliberately and deceitfully overlooks, is
the fact that all of Paul's revelations on the sin of homosexuality and
lesbianism, of which he wrote to the Churches at Rome and Corinth, were
given to him by visitation and direct revelation of the Lord Jesus Christ.
This means Jesus Christ actually appeared to the Apostle Paul and directly
taught him that homosexuality and lesbianism are sins that will be judged by
Holy God. (Galatians 1:11-12)
The
Apostle John's teachings against homosexuality in the Book of Revelation
were also delivered to him directly by personal visitation of the Lord Jesus
Christ. (Revelation 1:9-10; 21:27; 22:14-15)
Therefore,
it is nothing less than Bible-illiteracy or dishonesty to state that Jesus
did not address homosexuality in the Gospels. Jesus Christ not only directly
addressed homosexuality in the Gospels, but He did so throughout the Epistles and the Book
of Revelation.
Let
us also never forget that it was Jesus Christ Himself Who turned the cities
of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, along with its immoral inhabitants, as a
generational warning to all who should choose the LGBT lifestyle. (2Peter
2:4-6)
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Gay
Sex Between Consenting Individuals Harms No One?
The former top psychiatrist of John Hopkins Hospital
and School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland has stated that transgender
persons whose genitalia have been surgically altered suffer a suicide rate twenty
times higher than the general population.
The
National Health and Nutrition Exam Survey 3 reports nearly twenty percent of
homosexuals attempt suicide, compared to less than four percent of
heterosexuals.
LGBT
teens and young adults have one of the highest rates of attempted suicide.
At the same time, suicide
is the leading cause of death amongst gay and lesbian youth across America.
Gay
suicide statistics concerning youth and transgender people are absolutely
shocking. This is because every time an immoral homosexual act is committed,
the human conscience throbs with guilt and sorrow.
Researchers
report a staggering twelve percent of urban gay and bisexual men attempt suicide.
This is a rate three times more often than the average American adult
male.
The
risk of suicide amongst the gay and lesbian community is over two hundred
percent more likely than amongst the heterosexual population. Again,
this is because the human conscience throbs with conviction when these types
of sins are committed.
Health
24.Com, a UK study, reports that homosexuals and lesbians are fifty percent
more likely to suffer depression and engage in substance abuse than the rest
of the population.
The
International Journal of Epidemiology 20 (1997) reports, "The life
expectancy for gay and bisexual men is eight to twenty years less than that
for heterosexual men in general." More recent reports now indicate that
has been increased to twenty-four years shorter lifespan on average than
heterosexuals.
On average homosexuals die in their mid-40s to early 50s.
Others
argue that homosexuality and lesbianism is acceptable and healthy as long as the
relationships remain monogamous. However, the Journal of Sex Research
reveals, "The model range for the number of sexual partners ever (of
homosexuals) was 101 to 500."
This Journal of Sex Research
discovery reveals that
homosexuals are far more promiscuous than heterosexuals despite all untrue
reports that "homosexuality is a monogamous affair which cannot harm
anyone."
Approximately
two percent of the United States population engages in homosexuality, yet it
accounts for sixty-one percent of all new HIV infections. This small group
of Americans is the only risk group which has been steadily increasing in HIV infections
since the early 1990s.
The
U.S. Center for Disease Control reports homosexual men are 44 to 86 times
more likely to be diagnosed with HIV than heterosexuals.
If
homosexuality is "a monogamous affair and doesn't harm anyone,"
why is the percentage of HIV and aids infection so outstandingly higher
amongst homosexuals than amongst the heterosexual population?
The
National LGBT Cancer Network in its report "Anal Cancer, HIV and
Gay/Bisexual Men" is quoted as saying, "Among men who have sex
with men (MSM), the incidents of anal cancer is significantly more prevalent
and increasing annually." The same article states, "Current
estimates are that HIV negative MSMs are 20 times more likely to be
diagnosed with anal cancer." See their website at www.cancer-network.org.
The
Gay and Lesbian Medical Association reports that women who engage in
lesbianism are at a documented greater risk for breast cancer, alcoholism
and obesity.
The
American Journal of Public Health reports that lesbian and bisexual women
have a much higher level of reproductive and overall general health problems with
bad outcomes.
The
Journal of Social Service Research 15 (1991): 41-59 reports, "Incidents
of domestic violence amongst gay men is nearly double that of the
heterosexual population."
Research
and medical reports, even those conducted by homosexual and lesbian researchers,
reveal in staggering ways that homosexuality is not at all a monogamous
affair that harms absolutely no one.
Given
only these limited medical and research statistics, it is beyond comprehension how anyone
can believe that homosexual sex between consenting individuals harms no one.
The
Bible clearly states that curses never come without a cause. (Proverbs 26:2)
"God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts,
to dishonor their bodies between themselves: who change the truth of God
into a lie & worship & serve the creature more than the Creator...suffering in their bodies
& personalities the inevitable
consequences & penalty of wrongdoing…"
(Romans 1:24-25,27 Amplified Bible)
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The
Terminal Generation of the World
God and Satan both
know the generation
that accepts homosexuality and lesbianism as normal will be
the terminal generation of this
world!
When all the men go
off with the men and all the women with the women, there will be no more
conception. This would mark the end of human procreation.
Wouldn’t Satan
just love that? He hates God and nothing pleases him more than the
destruction and the elimination of the apex of God’s precious creation - humanity.
Have you ever stopped
to realize if the Animal Kingdom practiced this abomination there’d be
no more “makin’ bacon” or eggs? There would
be no more animal reproduction and ultimately no more meat, fish or poultry.
If the Plant and Vegetable Kingdom suddenly began to
oppose nature in such a way, there’d be
no more trees, shrubs, herbs, seeds, fruits or vegetables.
Why is it that the lowest forms of
creation seem to have more sensibility than a certain two percent segment of the highest form of
creation?
Satan has blinded their eyes and they love
his darkness more
than God's light.
"And
this is the condemnation, that light has come into the world, and men loved
darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For everyone that
doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds
should be reproved. But he that doeth truth cometh to the light..." (John 3:19-21)
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Every
Minority Status Should Be Outraged
Everyone who
qualifies for genuine Minority Status should be outraged by his or her
culture being equated with sexual immorality.
Homosexuals and lesbians are
not Minorities, they are sinners who must be delivered, forgiven and saved by Jesus’
Blood.
Ethnic groups are
born that way and cannot change what they are.
"Can an
Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots?" (Jeremiah 13:23)
The
implied answer here is "No, ethnic groups cannot change the way they
were born."
However, homosexuals
and lesbians can and do change all the time.
I have never known a former
Black, White, Hispanic, Asian, Oriental, Indian, Hebrew, etc. Yet I do know former
fornicators, adulterers, homosexuals and lesbians who have all been changed
by the power of Jesus Christ.
The
Apostle Paul also acknowledged that homosexuals and lesbians can be changed,
washed and sanctified.
"Know
ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the Kingdom of God? Be not
deceived: neither fornicators, idolaters, adulterers, nor effeminate
(homosexuals), nor abusers of themselves with mankind (lesbians), nor
thieves, drunkards, revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the Kingdom of
God. And such were some of you: but you are washed, you are sanctified, you
are justified in the Name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our
God." (1Corinthians 6:10-11)
It
is an outrageous insult for homosexuals and lesbians to justify their
immorality by equating themselves with the legitimate Minority Status of
others.
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Homosexuals
& Lesbians Are Introduced, Not Birthed, to Immorality
Many, if not most
homosexuals and lesbians, in defense of their behaviors, insist that they
are birthed into a lifestyle of homosexuality and lesbianism. They insist
that physiologically and genetically there is a vast difference between
homosexual men and women and their heterosexual counterparts.
However, the
National LGBT Cancer Network, in an attempt to downplay increased breast
cancer and ovarian cancer statistics amongst lesbians, states,
"Certainly there is no physiological or genetic difference between
lesbians and heterosexual women." See their website at www.cancer-network.org.
Homosexuals
and lesbians simply cannot have it both ways.
Not
only are homosexuals and
lesbians not birthed into that lifestyle but they can almost always remember the very person or situation that introduced them to
their sin.
In
our opening text we read, "For even their women exchanged the natural
use for what is against nature. Likewise also the men, leaving the natural
use of the woman, burned in their lust for one another, men with men
committing what is shameful, and receiving in themselves the penalty of
their error which was due." (Romans 1:26,27)
The
Bible clearly states that lesbians and homosexuals changed themselves.
God
did not change them.
The Bible says it is human beings who
change their God-given natural sexual desires in exchange for unnatural sexual desires.
Homosexuality and lesbianism are not acts of nature, culture, environment
or genetics.
Homosexuality and lesbianism
are matters of choice - human
choice and misuse of God-given free will.
The
Bible entirely eliminates all argument, human reasoning and justification for
wrong sexual choices made by free moral agents.
The
Bible makes it clear that all human beings are born with a knowledge of God
as well as a conscience which dictates right and wrong. (Romans 1:18-21)
This
means the conscience of every LGBT individual tells them their behavior is
wrong, yet they continue to defy God regardless.
The
decision to disobey human
conscience and become a homosexual or a lesbian involves tremendous risk.
Unnatural behavior opens one up to supernatural,
demonic oppression. There are not
only destructive physical and emotional consequences for homosexual behavior
but there are spiritual consequences as well. Opening oneself up to
unnatural behavior opens oneself up to demonic possession, oppression
and/or
obsession.
During
His Earth Ministry, Jesus Christ spent no less than one-quarter of His time
teaching His disciples the Doctrines of Satanology
and Demonology, as well as casting untold numbers of unclean spirits out of
bound and suffering human beings.
Many
of the unclean spirits that entered into those people were initially allowed
access by human beings who had deliberately changed their natural sexual
desires in exchange for unnatural sexual desires.
This
type of rebellion always opens
the door for demonic activity.
Sometimes
individuals bound by homosexual or lesbian spirits need the help of an anointed
Christian layperson or Christian Minister of the Gospel, who knows their authority
in Christ, in order to be set free from those unclean spirits.
Certainly
a psychiatrist cannot help an individual who has been involved in immorality
to the extent that they have become oppressed by demon spirits. Unless a
psychiatrist is a Born Again Believer in Jesus
Christ who understands his authority in Christ, he or she is extremely
limited in what help they can offer individuals who are bound in sexual
sin.
Psychiatrists
themselves commit suicide four times more often
than the average white male.
Deceived
people do not realize they are deceived because they are deceived.
Do
not allow yourself to be deceived. Homosexuality and lesbianism create a
dangerous playground for unclean spirits
and the individual involved with them needs Christ's
help.
Fornicators
can make the decision to stop fornicating.
Adulterers
can make the decision to stop being adulterers.
In
the same way homosexuals and lesbians can make the decision to stop engaging
in homosexuality and lesbianism.
Even
as it is a matter of choice to be bound by sexual sin, it is a matter of
choice to be free from sexual
sin.
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The Selfish, Unloving Practice of Acceptance
Do not allow liberal politicians and
Bible-illiterate religious
leaders to convince you the Bible is wrong and you were born that way. If
one was born into this type of unnatural behavior God would be unjust in judging it
and punishing it as immorality.
Homosexuality
and lesbianism are not "a journey" we encourage others in as
Pastor Brian Houston of Hillsong Australia has stated. Homosexuality and
lesbianism are sins according to the Bible and no one has the authority to
soften or spin what the Bible refers to as "sin."
The
Bible refers to homosexuality not as a birth trait but as an
"abominable" sin which will separate the guilty from the presence
of God forever.
"But
the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and
whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their
part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the Second
Death." (Revelation 21:8)
Holy
God calls these sinful, immoral persons “dumb,
greedy dogs” because they never stop to think about what is right and what
is wrong. They do as they please. (Isaiah 56:10-11)
Immoral
persons or "dogs" have no Covenant with God, no inheritance and
are not allowed to enter the gates of Heaven.
"Blessed
are they that do His commandments, that they may have right to the Tree of
Life, and may enter in through the gates into the City. For without are
dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and
whosoever loveth and maketh a lie." (Revelation 22:14-15)
The
present, popular, God-defying, anti-Bible practice of welcoming homosexuals
into family, Church and social settings does great harm to everyone,
particularly the sinful ones. It undergirds the "normalization"
of that which God says is reprobate, loathsome and abnormal.
"And
so, since they did not see fit to acknowledge God or approve of Him ... He
gave them over to a base and condemned mind to do things not proper or
decent but loathsome." (Romans
1:28 Amp)
Acceptance
leads the sinful one to wrongly believe that they need not repent for their
error and that God will not judge them for it.
Therefore,
it is selfish and
unloving for a compassionate Believer in Jesus Christ to not warn
homosexuals, lesbians and transgender people of pending, yet avoidable
judgment.
After
all, there is a Hell to shun and a Heaven
to gain. True love would tell them so.
"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 (homosexuals, lesbians,
etc.) ... shall inherit the Kingdom of God." (1Corinthians 6:9-10)
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Heaven
Doesn't Make Shipping Mistakes
Some insist, “God
made me this way. I’m a man in a woman’s body,” etc.
That ridiculous
argument won’t hold up on the unbeliever’s Judgment Day,
anymore than it will on the Believer’s Judgment Day.
You did not get past "Heaven’s Quality Control Center” during a sloppy work
shift.
Nobody in Heaven let you get shipped
down to Planet Earth in the wrong body as it was late Friday afternoon and
they did not want to take the time to correct their mistake because they
wanted to go home early.
God personally saw
to it that your spirit-man was put in the
right physical body.
You
cannot change your God-given chromosomes and DNA by denying what you are,
pretending and dressing as if you are something else or even by having your genitalia
customized.
Ask God to forgive you for blaming Him for the
wrong moral decisions you've made. He didn’t make you that
way. You can remember the very individual who introduced that sin into your life.
So snap out of it. Take
control of your life back.
Tell Satan that he is not oppressing you with unclean spirits of
immorality and
unnatural lust any longer.
Say, “Jesus, I choose You as my Lord, Savior, Liberator and
Deliverer. Deliver me from this sin. I’m
miserable each time I commit it. I have no joy. I want a real
family.”
He will do exactly as you ask. He loves you deeply
and He wants to set you free.
He promises if you run
to Him, and not away from Him, with
your problem, He will receive you and not cast you away. He will forgive
you and deliver you from your dilemma.
"All
that the Father giveth Me shall come to Me; and him that cometh to Me I will
in no wise cast out." (John 6:37)
"For
whosoever shall call upon the Name of the Lord shall be saved and delivered
from the penalty and the punishment of their sin." (Romans 10:13)
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The Believer's Prayer of Deliverance
If
you have been dominated and controlled by LGBT thoughts
and/or behaviors and Christ is your Savior, unleash the following faith
command against those evil spirits who are oppressing you and they will
flee.
"I
bind the rulers of the darkness of this present evil world, demonic
principalities and powers, including homosexuality / lesbianism.
Satan, I break your power against my mind and my body in the Strong Name of
Jesus Who rose from the dead. Loose me and let me go free. I am not a
homosexual. I am not a lesbian. I am not a transgender nor am I
bisexual. I am a pious creation of a Holy God
and I bow my knee to Him alone. I call myself free
from every immoral behavior in the Name of Jesus Christ Who raised from
the dead."
Every
time Satan tries to return with the lie that you are still bound, simply open
your mouth and say, "I cast down these wicked vain imaginations and I
call myself free from homosexual and lesbian spirits in the Name of Jesus
Whom God raised from the dead."
"For
though we walk in the flesh we do not war after the flesh: for the weapons
of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of
strongholds: Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth
itself against the knowledge of God's Word, and bringing into captivity
every thought to the obedience of Jesus Christ." (2Corinthians 10:3-5)
Keep in mind,
homosexuality and lesbianism are not the unforgivable
sin.
Someone
once said in rebellion, "Jesus loves me just the way I am."
I
responded, "Jesus does loves you even as you are, but He does not leave
you the way you are. He gives you power to
change and to be free."
Oh,
yes! God loves you and He wants to set you free.
Be blessed ... John and Barbara Hamel
See the JHM
Books "Why
A Loving God Allows Judgment" and "God
Is Holy. You Are Holy."
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