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Pastor Robert W. Lyons, Jr. has an intense passion to do the will of God. His desire for true ministry is evident through his vision for Holistic personal development in the body of Christ. Word of Faith is embarking on a journey to proclaim the uncompromising gospel to a generation that has been over looked and neglected.
Tuesday, August 16, 2005How much changes when one gets saved?
In light of some conversations that have been taking place in our congregation, I thought that I would put this question out for everyone to sound off your input.
"If a homosexual gives their life to Christ, should their tendencies and mannerisms from when they were homosexual still remain in them"?
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When one get saved it's a daily process and struggle because your're fighting with spirit and flesh but when one get saved and delivered from a thing such as homosexualality,they shouldn't have any thoughts or tendencies about another man. Just like a person can be delivered from cigarette smoking and crack cocaine and don't have thoughts about smoking. You have to surround yourself around different people and do things different. God is the creater of many things and everything that he created was right w/o mistakes. God did not create a man to be with another man nor did he create woman to be with woman. The things people do is based on the choices that they make. When God speak a thing it's already done and his word will not return void.
A person can be saved for years but if that person dont feed his/her spirtit with GOD food(the word) he/she will never change.The same when people go to church for years every Sunday but still act as evil as ever, they haven't renewed there mind. God's word work together you cant take one scripture and change it to whatever you want it to be just to justify what you're doing. Confront your issues, repent and ask for deliverance.
When a person gets "saved" there should be a transformation in that person. They would have had to of made up in their mind that they were GOING to be a different/changed person. So if they started out a homosexual and they see this as sinful they will seek out the process to becoming right again.
But if they are a homosexual and don't believe they are in error then they won't change without God. And God isn't going to force his way on anyone.
To answer your question, "How much changes when one gets saved?" I'd have to initially say - EVERYTHING!!! The Bible declares in 1 Corinthians 5:17, "If any man be in CHRIST, he IS a NEW CREATURE: old things are passed away; behold all things are become NEW!" However, I must also say that it is a daily process. A lot of people expect a sort of "microwave phenomenon" to happen. In other words, they expect a change overnight, in which I know that "with God ALL things are possible," but the majority of the time it just doesn't happen like that. One must, after the point of conversion, continue to study and "eat" the Word of God, join a Bible living, Bible believing, Bible preaching Body of Believers (Church) and continually commune(pray) with God in order for any manifestation or evident change to take place.
Each person's salvation is between them and God. Some people are instantly delivered and some people go through a process. Some both.
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Let me speak from FIRSTHAND experience. My brother was saved and delivered from being gay in August. I saw him in person two weeks after his salvation and he was delivered from his mannerisms. Praise the Lord. It was an amazing miracle after 14 years of prayer. However, he asked our mother, do I have to get married now. He went to the word and saw that God values singlehood as evidenced by Paul. This does not mean that one day the Lord won't change his heart and and him get married, but it was too much for him to process overnight. So his salvation is genuine, his effiminate nature is gone, but he is not ready to run out and get a girlfriend. His desire is to get to know the Lord and seek His will. As the body of Christ, we have to be careful about judging others salvation and fruit. A new seed has to be watered and grow. While my family did not condone homosexuality, we loved my brother into the kingdom. Church youth groups had spent enough time condemning him for being girly from a young age so he didn't need more rejection from church people. Now that our family has loved him and his friends, he has told his friend he is no longer gay and is a Christian. And my mother and my brother are ministering to his old friend. Hallelujah!!!! << Home ArchivesMay 2005 June 2005 July 2005 August 2005 September 2005 November 2005 December 2005 July 2006 August 2006 September 2006 October 2006 November 2006 February 2007 |