Lesbian, Gay, Bi-Sexual, Trans-Gender or Straight.  Jesus loves you.  He has a plan for you.

Yes there is hope for LGBT people.  No you were not born gay...or whatever.  But Jesus Christ died for you too, for the sin that you commit and I commit we are redeemed by the blood of Christ.  His goal is to live through you, and show his love through you.

Life is not based on your sexual choice, your life does not revolve around being LGBT or anything else.  My life does not revolve around being straight...and married with a wife.

It revolves around healthy, Godly, relationships, and the sanctification of your lives as you live unto God.  If you have not heard this message before.  There is hope in Jesus Christ for eternal life.

There is hope for LGBT and Straight people to be sanctified through the indwelling of God's Holy Spirit.

God is no respecter of persons.  He judges us all as under sin and in need of salvation, which He provided through His sacrifice on the cross.

No temptation has taken you but that which is common to man.  You are not special because you chose to be gay.  Saying that anyone sins because they were born that way is true...but only because it is sin that we all are born with, you have the choice to continue in sin and deny God's presence in your life and conscience.  Or you can choose to repent and lay down the unsatisfying obsession with sexual sin...whether LBGT or Straight.  We all must answer to the same God.

If you choose Christ...then He will deliver you and give you eternal hope, which is not even comparable to the tribulations you go through here in your short lives.

You are a child of God created in the image of Christ.  Don't waste your life away in the bondage of repeated sin...which holds you in this worldly understanding of yourself.  You are much more than LBGT or Straight.  You are an eternal soul...whose destination is determined by what you do with the TRUTH.

TRUTH...find it in God's Word.

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Facebooker Response...from the guy who posted this video.

We obviously are poles apart politically and religiously. There are plenty of LGBT believers. I firmly believe God loves them as they are. And they deserve to be treated with dignity and respect, and treated equally, not specially.

And it is the attitude of LGBT youth as sinner spoken by many people in power, politically and religiously, that can make a gay teenager feel isolated, not accepted and filled with anxiety. That's what leads to gay kids killing themselves. We need to be communicating that they are loved for who they are, not that they are "different" and destined to eternal damnation.

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The Strong Watchman: Precisely.  God is no respecter of persons.  If I have sexual sin in my life...God wants to deal with it...whether it is Lesbian, Gay, Bi-Sexual, Transgender, or Straight...it is sexual sin.

God makes it clear in His word how He feels about sexual sin.  Pay attention to Verse 27 in particular.

Romans 1.

18The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness,

19since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them.

20For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse.

21For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened.

22Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools

23and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.

24Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another.

25They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.

26Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones.

27In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.

28Furthermore, since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, he gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done.

29They 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,

30slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents;

31they are senseless, faithless, heartless, ruthless.

32Although 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 the message here is...it's not too late.  Of course God loves them just how they are...but He does not love my sin and your sin.  We can not have it both ways.  We can not pick and choose what we want God to be...when He has clearly revealed Himself through His Word...and how He feels about sexual sin is VERY VERY clear.  No matter what your orientation.

Peace.  I am not picking on any one person or group...we are all sinners, falling short of the mark.  That is why Jesus Christ died for your sins and mine.

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There is nothing more real to any human being than to discuss with them the reality of eternal life.  We can not sugar coat their sin and tell them that they are NOT going to HELL.  The same way I can not justify my sin and expect NOT to go to HELL.

The only solution is Christ. For Lesbian, Gay, Bi-Sexual, Trans-Gender and Straight.  Christ died for all men and women and seeks to bring them again to Him to make them whole and release them from the bondage of sin.  What could be wrong with that?

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Facebooker Comment: So based on verse 27, I guess it's okay to be a lesbian!

Facebooker Comment: Well here is the crux of our disagreement. I believe with all of my heart and soul that homosexuality is not a sin! And homosexuals are not sinners by virtue of their homosexuality.

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The Strong Watchman: Look at Verse 26...perhaps you should read the whole context.

It does not matter what you believe if God's Word says different. As you can see...dear reader...there is much fogginess when the issue of sin comes up...in the mind of sinners.  As I am a sinner saved by the grace of God and the free gift of salvation, still struggling every day myself as a sinner...God gives us one day at a time to deal with what we are ready to deal with...but His long-suffering of sin will not last forever...there will come a time of judgement when the sinner has died making a choice to reject God...it is the most lamentable sadness ever.  Eternal sadness.  AS their soul will spend eternity with the choice made here.

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UPDATE:

Facebook Guy says...I reject that God's word says differently, no matter what bible passage you quote. The Bible needs to be understood in the context of when it was written. Do you believe that adulterers should be executed?

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My Reply: Really?  How convenient for you.  Did you see me calling for execution?  I call for repentance from sin.

The bible is timeless.  Gay is gay.  What do you think "men with men working that which is unseemly" means?

Do you think that gay men were not doing the same unseemly behavior when this was written?   There is nothing new under the sun.  Your excuse for sin is just that...an excuse.

You can not argue with God and win.  His Word says what it says.  Period.  If you deny belief in a part of God's Word and accept the rest...you are in danger of judgement.  By God...not by me.

It is not a matter of whether God loves them or not.  But whom God loves he chastises like a good father.  Which I seriously doubt many of these homosexual folks had...a good father that is.

God should be feared for His righteousness and holiness.  He does not approve leaving off the natural use of the woman and plugging holes that were never meant to be plugged.

The same for men.  It is both physically damaging and quite ignorant to think that this kind of behavior can be classified as normal.

Adults can do what they want...but don't call it love when the action is mutually destructive to one another's natural parts and function.

God did not make the anal orifice for sexual gratification.  He made it for the defecation of the bowels.   For the natural removing of human excrement.

What good is it to stick things in a place where things are supposed to come out?  This is love?

God made people to pro-create and multiply to populate the earth.

How does this happen naturally when men are with men...and women are with women?   It simply does NOT.  Any logic to assert otherwise flies in the face of morality and common sense.

The perversity of sexual sin is never justifiable in the eyes of the Holy God which we serve...willingly or unwillingly you will bow before him.

If you deny Him He will deny you.  God made a way for humanity to escape the judgement...but He also gave them the choice to engage in their destruction and perversion.  It is a choice.

The conversation began and continues on Facebook...here.

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