Hello, John and Doves,
To the LGBT lot...
Let’s get better today!
It is written,
1Come, let us sing to the Lord!
Let us shout joyfully to the Rock of our salvation.
2Let us come to him with thanksgiving.
Let us sing psalms of praise to him.
3For the Lord is a great God,
a great King above all gods.
4He holds in his hands the depths of the earth
and the mightiest mountains.
5The sea belongs to him, for he made it.
His hands formed the dry land, too.
6Come, let us worship and bow down.
Let us kneel before the Lord our maker,
7for he is our God.
We are the people he watches over,
the flock under his care.
If only you would listen to his voice today!
8The Lord says, “Don’t harden your hearts as Israel did at Meribah,
as they did at Massah in the wilderness.
9For there your ancestors tested and tried my patience,
even though they saw everything I did.
10For forty years I was angry with them, and I said,
‘They are a people whose hearts turn away from me.
They refuse to do what I tell them.’
11So in my anger I took an oath:
‘They will never enter my place of rest.’”
Psalm 95 NLT
It is also written,
6When we were utterly helpless, Christ came at just the right time and died for us sinners. 7Now,
most people would not be willing to die for an upright person, though
someone might perhaps be willing to die for a person who is especially
good. 8But God showed his great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners. 9And since we have been made right in God’s sight by the blood of Christ, he will certainly save us from God’s condemnation. 10For
since our friendship with God was restored by the death of his Son
while we were still his enemies, we will certainly be saved through the
life of his Son. 11So now we can rejoice in our wonderful new relationship with God because our Lord Jesus Christ has made us friends of God.
Romans 5:6-11 NLT
As
we come to realize that our salvation rests on our own choice of Jesus
Christ (Yeshua HaMashiach) as our Savior, we recognize our
responsibility to our Benefactor.
It is written,
Avoiding Sexual Sin
12You say, “I am allowed to do anything”—but not everything is good for you. And even though “I am allowed to do anything,” I must not become a slave to anything. 13You
say, “Food was made for the stomach, and the stomach for food.” (This
is true, though someday God will do away with both of them.) But you can’t say that our bodies were made for sexual immorality. They were made for the Lord, and the Lord cares about our bodies. 14And God will raise us from the dead by his power, just as he raised our Lord from the dead.
15Don’t
you realize that your bodies are actually parts of Christ? Should a man
take his body, which is part of Christ, and join it to a prostitute?
Never! 16And
don’t you realize that if a man joins himself to a prostitute, he
becomes one body with her? For the Scriptures say, “The two are united
into one.”
17But the person who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with him.
18Run
from sexual sin! No other sin so clearly affects the body as this one
does. For sexual immorality is a sin against your own body. 19Don’t you realize that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, who lives in you and was given to you by God? You do not belong to yourself, 20for God bought you with a high price. So you must honor God with your body.
1 Corinthians 6:12-20 NLT
I am not quoting all there is to say on this subject, but only what you can bear with faith.
For it is written,
Great Examples of Faith
1Faith is the confidence that what we hope for will actually happen; it gives us assurance about things we cannot see. 2Through their faith, the people in days of old earned a good reputation.
3By
faith we understand that the entire universe was formed at God’s
command, that what we now see did not come from anything that can be
seen.
4It
was by faith that Abel brought a more acceptable offering to God than
Cain did. Abel’s offering gave evidence that he was a righteous man, and
God showed his approval of his gifts. Although Abel is long dead, he
still speaks to us by his example of faith.
5It was by faith that Enoch was taken up to heaven without dying—“he disappeared, because God took him.”
For before he was taken up, he was known as a person who pleased God. 6And
it is impossible to please God without faith. Anyone who wants to come
to him must believe that God exists and that he rewards those who
sincerely seek him.
7It
was by faith that Noah built a large boat to save his family from the
flood. He obeyed God, who warned him about things that had never
happened before. By his faith Noah condemned the rest of the world, and
he received the righteousness that comes by faith.
8It
was by faith that Abraham obeyed when God called him to leave home and
go to another land that God would give him as his inheritance. He went
without knowing where he was going. 9And
even when he reached the land God promised him, he lived there by
faith—for he was like a foreigner, living in tents. And so did Isaac and
Jacob, who inherited the same promise. 10Abraham was confidently looking forward to a city with eternal foundations, a city designed and built by God.
Hebrews 11:1-10 NLT
~Blessings,
Mike