What IS the Gospel of Jesus Christ?

 

Whereas some believe the gospel is found in the definition of what is a true Christian, the definition of a true Christian (among many defining characteristics) isn't just someone who believes they can be free from sin but someone who is indwelt by the Holy Spirit of God.

Unless one is born again (John 3:3) they can't see the kingdom of God let alone conquer their sins.

Desiring to be free from sin is obviously to be coveted but it's not the gospel.  

Our being free from sin is a consequence of believing the true gospel which is that we believe that Christ is the Son of God, The Creator, who came into the world to die for our sins and by faith, God, the Holy Spirit indwells us by God's grace.

Having made Him Lord of our lives.  We now walk in the Holy Spirit, purifying ourselves and growing in Christ to a mature stature towards the resembling of Christ's perfect moral standard, by God's grace and power.

We're saved by grace alone, through faith alone, and in Christ alone.   It is a gift of God and not of our merit or "good" works.

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"Born this way'ism" is a lie

https://youtube.com/shorts/PFenIT-V8jI?si=lP5CdqSGHVpEvqrj

Is homo attraction sin? (Orientation, born this way, etc.)  All that is a lie. Homo attraction isn't the same as hetero attraction.

The Bible calls it unnatural. Lust can come from attraction. The attraction to a painting, flower, etc. IS a natural attraction. 

One can change their mind on what once attracted them.

Can you change your mind on finding attraction in a flower? But can you change your mind about being attracted or infatuated to people. I believe we can.

To say it can't be done for homosexuals is to believe in the false "born this way'ism" being taught in the culture.  Even if an attraction persists, the grace of God will continue conforming a renewing mind to change. There can be no more attraction to money, women, sexual lust, lying, cheating, etc.  We wait on Him, until we're healed and/or until He comes!

Are we willing to believe it?

1 Corinthians 6:9-20:

9 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 nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God.11 And such were some of you; but you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.

FLEE SEXUAL IMMORALITY

12 All things are lawful for me, but not all things are profitable. All things are lawful for me, but I will not be mastered by anything.13 Food is for the stomach and the stomach is for food, but God will do away with both of them. Yet the body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord is for the body.14 Now God has not only raised the Lord, but will also raise us up through His power.15 Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take away the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? May it never be!16 Or do you not know that the one who joins himself to a prostitute is one body with her? For He says, “The two shall become one flesh.”17 But the one who joins himself to the Lord is one spirit with Him.18 Flee sexual immorality. Every other sin that a man commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral man sins against his own body.19 Or do you not know that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own?20 For you were bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body.

"Conversion Therapy" ain't a thing!

 

From the article in Christianity Today:

"The leading activists on this issue – those the government is trying to placate – are quite clear that they want it to target conversations and ideas they don't like," he said.

"They want a kind of LGBT blasphemy law. This is profoundly illiberal."

He added, "Jayne Ozanne says she wants 'gentle non-coercive prayer' to be criminalized as part of this Bill. But it is obvious to most people that gentle non-coercive prayer is not conversion therapy."

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In the UK, they're looking to continue pushing a clandestine "blasphemy law" on religious free speech and as always, what goes on in other places, ends up here in the US.  

The truth is that the phrase, "Conversion Therapy" isn't Biblical.

There's no such thing as conversion therapy!  This is another play on words the enemy uses in order to attack truth.  I'm not sure where the term got its start but it's meant to slander the idea that one can be free from a homosexual lifestyle.

The falsehood of "born this way" which can never be validated yet often repeated in the culture cannot survive as long as scores of testimonies exist of people leaving homosexual lifestyles.

But if you do a simple search on most social media platforms, you'll find people who have walked away from homosexuality and have found freedom in their organic and natural identities as men and women.

The secularist narrative doesn't want people to be aware of this nor do they want the church doing what the church is supposed to do by reaching into people's lives, and discipling them into the mind of Christ where power, purity and reality exists. 

If freedom is possible in Christ (as per 1 Corinthians 6: 9-10) then what else is the culture lying about?  There are so many lies in the culture which continue on just to derail the healing of our society.

The culture of death cannot allow this.

And the same goes for those suffering from many other areas in their lives where they need clarity and empowerment.

Christ has come to set us free, and the road is the way of TRUTH.