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Yom Kippur, 2007

Love a homosexual? You MUST be kidding?!

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…a “Day of Atonement” message, a Yom Kippur reminder of just who Jesus IS

 

Take a deep breath because this may be hard to read.
Ready? Are you sure? Ok then…

 

I have no love for deviants AT ALL. They are depraved disgusting wicked sinners. I have NO DESIRE to speak to them, EVER. I cannot even look at them. Get the idea here?

 

Psalm 531-3

53:1 The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.”
They are corrupt, and have done abominable iniquity.
There is no one who does good.
53:2 God looks down from heaven on the children of men,
to see if there are any who understood,
who seek after God.
53:3 Every one of them has gone back.
They have become filthy together.
There is no one who does good, no, not one.

(my emphasis)

 

Now, before you get upset with me, may I remind you that you find them abhorrent as well? Jesus loves them, not me; not you. Yes, that is what I said. You do not love those who commit the sin of homosexuality or any other similar deviance. Let me explain it is so important you understand your own heart in this…

 

Psalm 51:6

Behold, you desire truth in the inward parts.

You teach me wisdom in the inmost place.

 

In my flesh the best I can manage is a revolting pity for a homosexual. But I am not God am I? You are not either are you? Let Yahweh be true and every man a liar, as scripture says. And God says we do not love.

Will you try to take any credit from God? "It is God who has made us, and not we ourselves", Scripture tells us. And we would both be there too, in the flames, deserving every second, with them, but that Jesus cares, very, very, very much for them, for you.

God cares enough to send you to speak to them even when you really despise their sin, despise them. And that is why you must still talk to them when you can. They are deceived and blind, sick and self destructive, repulsive and degenerate: just like I am; just like you are.

In this season of self examination we must consider carefully what we believe about ourselves, what our motives are in reaching the lost and what we should hope to gain by it. So I speak to the lost, in much fear and with great trembling, knowing I don’t deserve to be forgiven any more than they do. It is to the glory of Jesus that we do so.
So speak to them, just like any other deceived sick depraved sinner. I hate what I see in others and in homosexuals. I hate sin. It reminds me of my sin. It reminds me I should be going to Hell too. It brings me once more back to that place of gratitude, and for that I speak to those sick, repulsive wicked people, those people just like me. For we all deserve, I deserve, to spend that awful eternity in Hell and the Lake of Fire, the Second Death.

You deserve to spend an eternity in Hell too. Tremble and be very glad if you are rescued. Be very afraid if you are not. You have good reason to fear… you deserve it.

I don't preach the Gospel to homosexuals for any other reason than to Glorify Yahweh in their rescue. THAT IS IT. God is the One who deserves our praise for He alone loves; He alone cares. Our paltry “concern” is a lie next to the LOVE of Jesus. They, those DESPERATELY WICKED people, I, you, are still headed for Hell, but for Jesus.

Jesus rescued me from my sin, they can be rescued also; He managed to save you also, if you are His. And it is God's Glory to save them if they will repent and trust Him to do so. But if they will not, they shall, still deserving it, enter Hell stepping by the bloody sacrifice of Jesus. He who so desired to save them, save us, that He suffered in our place, in their place, in your place would have them repent; It is Him they have rejected. And there will be no other way for any one; Jesus alone is our Savior and Sacrifice.

 

Jesus alone is the Promised one.
Jesus is that promised Covenant to the People and the only Light to the Nations; ONLY JESUS SAVES.

 

So open your mouth in the hope that Jesus will bring Glory to Himself once more, bring Glory to His Father in Heaven; that God will save another one of us, those who so justly deserve NOT TO BE RESCUED. But stop trying to con yourself into believing you love them. It is to the Glory of Jesus that you are honest about your motives, for He ALONE IS WORTHY of Praise. Jesus alone has shown what Love is; Jesus alone is the worthy Messiah.
 

Let the Glory of Jesus be your only motive as you seek the lost while you still can.

 

Not yours.

 

This is whom Isaiah prophesied concerning, this same Jesus, Yeshua, the Messiah...


Isaiah 42:6-7

I, Yahweh, have called you in righteousness,

and will hold your hand,
and will keep you,
and make you a covenant for the people,
as a light for the nations;

to open the blind eyes,

to bring the prisoners out of the dungeon,
and those who sit in darkness out of the prison.

 

HalleluYah!

 

Patrick J Burwell
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Footnotes :

(1) Jeremiah 17:9, (2) Romans 3:4, (3) Psalm 53:3 (4) Psalm 100 (5) Isaiah 42:6-7


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