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SCRIPTURES PRINTED IN RED ARE WORDS SPOKEN BY JESUS
ABOUT HOMOSEXUALITY
BIBLE STUDY & PRAYER WRITTEN BY
PASTOR JANICE L WILLIAMS
BIBLE STUDY
FOR
WEDNESDAY,
FEBRUARY 8th-15th, 2012
We extend Valentine's Day Greetings to all on Tuesday, February 14th, 2012[Valentine's Day, February 14th, is a traditional day in the USA, for sending a card or gift, to some one you love.
According to some traditions, it is named for a Roman priest
martyred during the reign of Cladius II. The priest was arrested and
imprisioned for marrying Christian couples and otherwise aiding
Christians who were at that time being persecuted by Claudius in Rome.
Helping Christians at that time was considered a crime.]
FIRST LET'S LOOK AT SOME WORD DEFINITIONS
1. diplomatic representative: a diplomatic official of the highest rank sent by one country as its long-term representative to another
2. official representative: somebody who serves as an official representative of someone or something. In Christianity - we [Christians] serve as representatives of Jesus. We are advocates of the doctrine of Jesus Christ.
2 Corinthians 5:20 (NLT) * 20/So we are Christ’s ambassadors; God is making his appeal through us. We speak for Christ when we plead, “Come back to God!” 21/For God made Christ, who never sinned, to be the offering for our sin, so that we could be made right with God through Christ.
The topic of homosexuality seems to be such a sensitive and even taboo subject to discuss by many people. However, as followers of Jesus Christ, the living Word of God, it is our responsibility to know what the Word says about this subject;
especially since it is so prevalent in society today as Jesus indicated it would be right before His second coming to Earth. Luke 17:28-37 NLT * 28/“And the world will be as it was in the days of Lot. People went about their daily business—eating and drinking, buying and selling, farming and building— 29/until the morning Lot left Sodom. Then fire and burning sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all. 30/Yes, it will be ‘business as usual’ right up to the day when the Son of Man is revealed. 31/On that day a person out on the deck of a roof must not go down into the house to pack. A person out in the field must not return home. 32/Remember what happened to Lot’s wife! 33/If you cling to your life [THE LIFE YOU LIVED BEFORE YOU WERE RESCUED BY JESUS & RECEIVED SALVATION], you will lose it, and if you let your life go, you will save it.
I'M GOING FORWARD WITH JESUS & I WON'T LOOK BACK!!!
34/That night two people will be asleep in one bed; one will be taken, the other left. 35/Two women will be grinding flour together at the mill; one will be taken, the other left.” 37/“Where will this happen, Lord?” the disciples asked? Jesus replied, “Just as the gathering of vultures shows there is a carcass nearby, sothese signs indicate that the end is near.”
[review weekly bible study #31 "About the Rapture"]
IN THE BOOK OF LEVITICUS CHAPTER 18, OUR HEAVENLY FATHER CLEARLY DEFINES SEXUAL IMMORALITY AND STRAIGHTFORWARDLY TELLS US WHAT HE WILL DO TO THE NATIONS WHO TURN THEIR BACK ON HIS STATUTES & DECREES. TAKE A QUICK LOOK AT JUST A FEW SCRIPTURES FROM LEVITICUS 18:22, 24, 25, 27, & 28 NIV, BELOW:
THE PROPHET ISAIAH PROPHESIED AGAINST JUDAH AND JERUSALEM FOR TURNING THEIR BACK ON GOD.
Isaiah 3:9 NIV * The look on their faces testifies against them;
they parade their sin like Sodom;
they do not hide it.
Woe to them! They have brought disaster upon themselves.
Romans 1:24-32 NIV
24/Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. 25/They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen. 26/Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. 27/In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error. 28/Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done. 29/ They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, 30/slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; 31/they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy. 32/Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them.
BUT THANKS BE TO JESUS CHRIST WHO DIED FOR THE SINS OF THE WORLD AND USHERED IN A LOVING, FORGIVING, NEW COVENANT OF GRACE AND MERCY BETWEEN GOD AND MAN; THOSE WHO ACKNOWLEDGE THEIR SINS AND REPENT CAN BE FORGIVEN, SAVED, DELIVERED, HEALED AND SET COMPLETLY FREE.
Romans 5:6-8 NKJV * 6/ For when we were still without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. 7/ For scarcely for a righteous man will one die; yet perhaps for a good man someone would even dare to die. 8/ But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Romans 8:1-7 NIV
Life Through the Spirit
1/Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, 2/because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives life has set you free from the law of sin and death. 3/For what the law was powerless to do because it was weakened by the flesh, God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh to be a sin offering. And so he condemned sin in the flesh, 4/in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. 5/Those who live according to the flesh have their minds set on what the flesh desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires. 6/The mind governed by the flesh is death, but the mind governed by the Spirit is life and peace. 7/The mind governed by the flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so.
PLEASE REVIEW AGAIN WEEKLY BIBLE STUDIES:
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PRAYER
Father God, we come to You in Jesus name saying thank You for forgiving us our sins. Thank You for Your loving kindness, patience, grace, and mercy. We praise You and honor You. We bless Your Holy name. Lord today we lift up to You all of those who are crying out to You for deliverance from homosexuality. We bind all unclean sexually perverted spirits of darkness attacking those desiring to be free from this bondage and all other unclean bondages. We cancel your assignments against them. We command you evil spirits to take your hands off of God's property! We set captives free of homosexuality. Peace stand still in the minds of those who have been tormented.
Heavenly Father we ask for the cleansing blood of Jesus and the maintenance power of the Holy Spirit, to cleanse and rest upon all of those who are right now receiving miraculous deliverance from You. Lord empower them to take a stand for You and not turn back.
Father God we ask that You would send saved friends to surround those being delivered; loyal friends, that possess knowledge and understanding of their struggle and of Your overcoming Word to feed them in times of need. Send friends who will eagerly and freely give spiritual support and encouragement to them in their walk with you.
Oh Lord you know the needs of every individual crying out to you reading this prayer. We ask that you supply those needs over and above anything we could think or ask for You to do. In Jesus name we pray and give thanks with grateful hearts. Amen
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