WORDS: What did Jesus say

Phil Membury is right when he states that the LGBT lifestyle is a choice. He is right because such a lifestyle is a sin, and all sin is a matter of choice, and has been for 2,000 years now. This applies to all sins of choice that Mr. Membury practices as well, even though they may have nothing to do with said lifestyle. And Henry Makovec is also right when he suggests that these so-called Christians have better things to do than single out the LGBT lifestyle as being somehow worse than all the other sins that people practice everyday. And yes, among these folks are pastors and pew-potatoes, most of whom do not even bother to deny it anymore. Instead, they simply try to find some person, or group, that has done, or are still doing, what the public deems are worse sins than theirs, and they yell and scream until all the attention is drawn away from them and is focused on the “bad sinners” as if there were good and bad sinners.

Jesus came into the world to save (deliver) sinners from all their sins, not just select sins. If He thought that some sins were worse than others, He might have focused more on the worse ones, but such is not the case. It says about Him in 1st Jn. 3:5,6,8,9: “And you know (at least you should know) that He was manifested to take away our sins (all our sins, not just the so-called big ones), and in Him there is no sin. Whoever continues in Him does not sin (does not practice willful sin of any kind), and whoever does sin has not seen Him or known Him. He who commits sin is of the devil because the devil has sinned from the beginning. The Son of God was revealed that He might destroy the works of the devil. Whoever is born of God (born again) does not commit sin because His seed remains in him and he cannot sin because he is born of God…”

Clearly Jesus came to destroy the power of all sin in the lives of individuals who are being called of God, and you cannot rightly call yourself a real Christian unless your daily lifestyle reflects that truth — among others. If you are practicing any kind of willful sin, you are of the devil, and you need to learn how to be genuinely saved according to the Word of God.

BILL JOHNSON

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