The only One who can satisfy the human heart
In this work I share with you some Bible verses for healing homosexuals.
The Bible condemns homosexuality as a sin and a person has to know this before he
or she makes a turn-around from this sin- or else there's no need to do it.
I share with you some "animation" salvation tracts.
I share with you a little of what the church says, I deal a little with guilt
for those needing healing, and I share some links at the bottom of this page.
Christ is all-powerful and He can heal you if you really trust Him. He will do
His part but you also have to do your part as well. There are some links to
testimony pages at the bottom of this webpage to those who have accepted Christ and have
successfully overcome the sin that once enslaved them.
If you are a repentant homosexual the Lord and I encourage you to be an overcomer. Here
is what the good Lord says:
"Look! Here I stand at the door and knock. If you hear me calling and open the
door, I will come in, and we will share a meal as friends. I will invite
everyone who overcometh to sit with me on my throne, just as I was victorious
and sat with my Father on his throne. Anyone who is willing to hear should
listen to the Spirit and understand what the Spirit is saying to the churches"
"And the One sitting on the throne said, "Look, I am making all things new!" And
then He said to me, "Write this down, for what I tell you is trustworthy and
true." And He also said, "It is finished! I am the Alpha and the Omega- the
Beginning and the End. To all who are thirsty I will give the springs of the
water of life without charge! All that overcometh will inherit all these
blessings, and I will be their God, and they will be my children"
A Look At Some Old Testament Scriptures
(verse 22) "Do not practice homosexuality; it is a detestable abomination"
(verse 23) "A man must never defile himself by having sexual intercourse with an animal,
and a woman must never present herself to a male animal in order to have intercourse
with it; this is a terrible perversion.
(verse 24) "Do not defile yourselves in any of these ways, because this is how the
people I am expelling from the Promised Land have defiled themselves.
(verse 25) As a result, the entire land has become defiled. That is why I am punishing the
people who live there, and the land will soon vomit them out.
(verse 26) You must strictly obey all of my laws and regulations, and you must not do any of
these detestable things. This applies both to you who are Israelites by birth and to
the foreigners living among you.
(verse 27) "All these detestable activities are practiced by the people of the
land where I am taking you, and the land has become defiled.
(verse 28) Do not give the land a reason to vomit you out for defiling it, as it will
vomit out the people who live there now.
(verse 29) Whoever does any of these detestable things will be cut off from the community
of Israel.
(verse 30) So be careful to obey my laws, and do not practice any of these detestable
activities. Do not defile yourselves by doing any of them, for I, the LORD, am your God."
The term "sodomy," comes from the city of Sodom whose inhabitants practiced homosexual
perversions that caused God to rain fire and brimstone on their city in the days of Abraham.
This term has for thousands of years been synonymous with this ungodliness.
You can read the story for yourself in the Bible. It is located in
"There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of
Israel. Thou shalt not bring the hire of a whore, or the price of a dog, into the
house of the Lord thy God for any vow: for even both these are an abomination unto
the Lord thy God"
"And there were also sodomites in the land: and they did according to all
the abominations of the nations which the LORD cast out before the children of Israel"
King Josiah of Judah Cleaned Up His Nation:
A Look At Some New Testament Scriptures:
The Teachings of Jesus Christ:
How was it in the days of Lot?
Jesus indicated that in the last days there will be world wide homosexuality
and violence.
"A healthy tree produces good fruit, and an unhealthy tree produces bad fruit.
A good tree can't produce bad fruit, and a bad tree can't produce good fruit.
So every tree that does not produce good fruit is chopped down and thrown into the fire.
Yes, the way to identify a tree or a person is by the kind of fruit that is produced."
When Jesus was asked questions about marriage He went straight back to the defining
passages in Genesis that says that marriage is between a male and a female and it is meant
to be life-long in duration. He saw the creation accounts in Genesis as authoritative in His
day. And what is authoritative for Jesus is authoritative for Christians also.
While Jesus did not specifically teach on homosexuality, His establishment of
the Genesis passages as the fundamental passages on marriage (even more fundamental
than the Law) leaves no doubt as to the outcome.
"And He answered and said to them, "Have you not read that He who made them at
the beginning "made them male and female"
"But from the beginning of the creation, God "made them male and female"
Once people in any society get their eyes off of Jesus and His absolute Word, the Bible,
then they start building their house upon the sand of relativism.
Here is what Jesus had to say:
24"Anyone who listens to My teaching and obeys Me is wise, like a person
who builds a house on solid rock.
What the Early Church Taught:
You could say that the Old Testament scriptures don't apply to us anymore. We are
Christians. We are no longer under the law. But that is not what the early Church said.
In Acts chapter 15, there was a council of Jerusalem where they got together, where
the early apostles got together, and said what rules do we want to place on the
Gentile converts? What part of the Law of Moses do we want them to observe? And
they came out with a letter to the Gentiles.
In it, it says,
"For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit, and to us, to lay upon you
no greater burden than these necessary things: that you abstain from things offered
to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality. If you keep
yourselves from these, you will do well"
Galatians Chapter 5:19-21 has this to say:
"And don't forget the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighboring towns,
which were filled with sexual immorality and every kind of sexual perversion. Those
cities were destroyed by fire and are a warning of the eternal fire that will punish
all who are evil"
"The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and
wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness, since what may be
known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. For 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.
For 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. Although
they claimed to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the glory of the immortal
God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.
Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual
impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. They exchanged the
truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the
Creator- who is forever praised. Amen.
Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged
natural relations for unnatural ones. In 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.
Furthermore, 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. 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, slanderers,
God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they
disobey their parents; they are senseless, faithless, heartless, ruthless.
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"
The early church folks considered any act of homosexuality to be fornication.
"Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor
effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, ...shall inherit the kingdom of
God. And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye
are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God"
True freedom
Rev. Merlin R. Carothers had this to say in his book:
"True praise is the natural response from a heart that has
been forgiven. Forgiveness is a necessary foundation for
praise- it holds the key to our entire relationship with God.
No one knows our nature better than God who made us. He
knows we are disobedient, and that our disobedience separates
us from Him. He longs for a restoration of our broken
relationship, and since He knows He can't depend on us to do anything
right, He decided a long time ago to depend on Himself instead.
Our disobedience deserves death, so God let His own Son, Jesus
Christ, die for us. Thus our debt is paid and God's system of forgiveness has been set up.
"Forgiveness" means to give up the claim to compensation
from an offender. We are the offenders. Based on what Jesus
has done, God gives up all claims to repayment from us. He
holds nothing against us. It sounds so simple, but it is obvious
that we don't understand it fully. If we did, we would be
overwhelmed with gratitude and filled with joy for the rest of
our lives. Most of us undervalue God's system of forgiveness.
We can only be thankful that He doesn't!
The plan of redemption is designed to restore our relation
with God, but it doesn't work unless we accept it. You would
think that the idea of being set free from all guilt would thrill
us- instead, we balk- because our part in the system
involves admitting that we are wrong. I think the hardest
thing we human beings do is to admit that we can't do
anything right. We do almost anything to keep from swallowing
our pride and accepting what God has done for us.
Part of the reason is that we have been taught from
childhood to "do our own share"- earn our own way. We are
proud to be "self-made," and to say, "Look at Joe, look at
Susie- they've made something of themselves in this world."
Pride in our own accomplishments separates us from God.
We want to handle things on our own, and we struggle along
until our problems and pain become unbearable. Even then, we
try to resist God's solution and say, "I'd be ashamed to come to
God like a beggar. I'll wait till I get myself out of this mess first!"
Some of us try a half-hearted confession. We say we are
sorry, but our actions deny our words, and we go right back to
doing what we did before. A vital ingredient is lacking in our
repentance- the element of surrender to God's will. Surrender
means to give up oneself into the power of another. To do
anything less in our relationship with God is only to kid
ourselves. It probably means we aren't really sorry for doing
wrong, but only for getting caught.
The true forgiveness that restores our relationship with
God hinges on our surrender to His will. Without it we will be
like a runaway child who decides to come home when things
get rough out in the world. He may say, "I'm sorry I ran away,
and I want to come home. But I don't like your rules- I want
to be independent, and I'm going to wear my hair and my
clothes the way I like and do what I want."
Have you treated God like that? Do you say, "God, I'm
hurting now, and if you'll get me out of this mess, I'll try not to
do it again"? If you are not really sincere, God reads your secret
thoughts: "But I like doing what I'm doing, and I'll keep on
with it as long as I get away with it..."
We won't be able to have a close relationship with God that
way, any more than a restless runaway will be content to stay
with Mom and Dad for very long.
In contrast, the Bible tells a story about a father-son
relationship that was completely restored. The son took his
inheritance and left home. He lived in luxury in a far-off
country until his money ran out and his friends left him.
Hungry and alone, he begged a farmer for work and was
allowed to feed the pigs. He ate what the pigs left and slept
with them. It was not a very pleasant way of life, and one day
the boy came to his senses and realized he had done wrong. In
his father's house, even the servants lived in comfort and had plenty to eat.
Deeply regretting his mistake, he knew that he had spent
his inheritance and no longer had a right to be treated like a
son. But he decided to ask his father for a job on the farm. He
was willing to do the most menial labor. With that in mind, he
hurried home, and when his father came to meet him, he cried
out, "I have sinned against heaven and you, and I am not
worthy of being called your son!"
Instead of scolding him, the father was overjoyed. He
embraced him, dressed him in new clothes, and placed rings on
his fingers to signify that he was a rightful heir and son. Then
he gave orders to kill a fatted calf for a big homecoming celebration.
In the same way, God waits for each of us to return from our
land of disobedience. When we admit that we have done wrong
and are ready to let God order our lives, His response is like the
father's in the story. He rejoices that we have come home,
clothes us in new robes, and calls for a great celebration,
because "my child who was lost has been found."
The Father's forgiveness is waiting- but some of us won't
return home to accept it. What if the prodigal son had been
sorry for his wrong-doing, but never came home to ask his
father's forgiveness? There are some very unhappy people who
bitterly regret the condition their lives have fallen into, and
who cry with remorse for their guilt, but who will not ask God's forgiveness.
Judas was like that. He regretted his betrayal of Jesus and
tried to pay back the thirty pieces of silver he had received for
his act of treason. When that didn't work, his guilt drove him to
hang himself. He never heard the words of Jesus on the cross:
"Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do..."
Are you so burdened by guilt that you try to destroy
yourself? Psychiatrists say that unresolved guilt causes a
self-destructive urge. We try to punish ourselves by becoming
alcoholics, over-eaters, drug-users, or criminals.
We may think we are too undeserving to be forgiven, and
our sins too terrible for God to accept us. some of us may not
understand that God wants to forgive us, but more often it is
pride that makes us unwilling to accept God's full pardon. We
want to take the responsibility for repayment on ourselves, and
refuse to admit that God's forgiveness is the only remedy for
our guilt.
There are some of us who take only the first step. We admit
our faults to God and ask Him to forgive us, but somehow we
are unable to believe that He does. Over and over again we say
that we are sorry, never believing He heard us. Can you
imagine the prodigal son in the story coming to his father: "Oh,
Dad, I have sinned, please forgive me." Without waiting for a
reply, he repeats, "Oh, Dad, I have sinned, please forgive me."
Every day he cries it, over and over again, never accepting that
his father forgave him the first time.
A prisoner wrote me who had spent most of his life behind
bars. He had been to five reform schools, eleven prisons and
countless jails. On the outside he could never be good enough to
stay out of trouble, and he was convinced that God was
punishing him for being bad by putting him in prison again
and again. Finally, he reached the conclusion that the only
way to get out and stay out was to make himself good enough to
earn God's favor. So he began to read a Bible ten to twelve
hours a day in his cell. "A thousand times a day I asked God to
forgive me, and just as many times I tried to fight off the devil,"
he wrote me. "I thought God was a wrathful judge, and I was
sure He didn't love a sinner like me."
Someone gave him the book, Power in Praise, but he
thought the writer was a nut for suggesting he should thank
God for putting him in prison. He continued the struggle to
make himself worthy of God's forgiveness until, finally, one
day he was too exhausted to keep fighting. Sobbing helplessly,
he admitted his failure, "Lord, You'll have to forgive me,
because I'm all fought out. If You want me like I am, come get
me, God, and do what You like with me. But please don't hold it
against me that I can't try to please You any more."
His pillow was wet with tears, but that night he slept like a
baby. "The Lord and I are good friends now," his letter
continued. "He's the best cell partner a guy can ask for. The
words, "Praise the Lord" even come to me in my sleep. Jesus is
all right. He does love me. He is so real and such a friend when
we give Him credit for what He did for us on the cross."
When we want to pay for our own sin, we refuse to give
Jesus the credit for what He has done. We want God's forgiveness
on our terms. Our guilt is an unnecessary burden, carried
only because we are too prideful, too self-willed to lay it down
in God's waiting hands. God's father heart yearns for us. He
says, "My child, I know what you have done. I know every ugly
act, every evil thought. You have sinned against me and
others, but I forgive you. Come home. Let me clothe you and
feed you and shower you with blessings. Let me love you and
heal your wounds and your broken heart."
Our rejection of His forgiveness may not be so obvious. We
may say we admit our wrongs and accept His forgiveness, but
behave as if we are paying the penalty for our own sins. Many
people in that category become Christian workers. They give
their lives in service to God as pastors, Sunday school teachers,
lay leaders, nuns, or priests, but they labor more out of a sense
of duty than of love, and know little joy in serving Christ. All of
us, at one time or another, behave like that.
Try to imagine the prodigal son coming home to his father
saying, "Dad, I know you forgive me, but I don't deserve a
homecoming party. You'll have to celebrate without me. I'm
unworthy of living in your house and eating at your table, so
I'll stay out in the barn. I promise to slave from sunrise to
sunset to make up for the inheritance I wasted. I have no right
to be happy ever again. You'll be proud of me, Dad, for the way
I pay you back for the horrible thing I did."
Does that sound pious and self-sacrificing in your ears?
How do you think it sounds to God when He's already made
other arrangements to take care of our guilt?
We may look "good" in the eyes of others as we play the
martyr's role, paying God what we feel we "owe" Him. But that
isn't what He wants from us. We are refusing to give Christ
credit for canceling our debts. We are rejecting Him as our
Savior, and it is pride, not humility, that motivates us.
David addressed himself to God, saying,
"You don't want a sacrifice; if You did, how gladly I would do it! You aren't
interested in offerings burned before you on the altar. It is a
broken spirit You want- remorse and penitence. A broken
and a contrite heart, O God, You will not ignore"
What a tremendous load rolls off our back when we learn to
accept God's forgiveness completely. Our need for it should not
be a source of despair, but of rejoicing. Only a heart that has
been forgiven understands the love of God. The more we are
forgiven, the more we love Him, and the more we are able to
praise Him. Then we can sing with David,
"What happiness for those whose guilt has been forgiven! What joys when sins are
covered over! What relief for those who have confessed their
sins and God has cleared their record ... So rejoice in Him, all
those who are His, and shout for joy, all those who try to obey Him"
is the One who made it
(Words of Christ in red signifying His blood)
(Words of Scripture in purple signifying His royalty)
(Revelation 3:20-22).
(Revelation 21:5-7).
(Leviticus 18:22-30).
Genesis 19:4,5,12,24.
Deuteronomy 23:17,18 (KJV).
(1 Kings 14:24).
"Then the king summoned all the leaders of Judah and Jerusalem.
And the king went up to the Temple of the LORD with all the people of Judah and
Jerusalem, and the priests, and the prophets- all the people from the least to
the greatest. There the king read to them the entire Book of the Covenant that
had been found in the LORD's Temple. The king took his place of authority beside
the pillar and renewed the covenant in the LORD's presence. He pledged to obey
the LORD by keeping all his commands, regulations, and laws with all his heart
and soul. In this way, he confirmed all the terms of the covenant that were
written in the scroll, and all the people pledged themselves to the covenant.
Then the king instructed Hilkiah the high priest and the leading priests and
the Temple gatekeepers to remove from the LORD's Temple all the utensils that
were used to worship Baal, Asherah, and all the forces of heaven. The king had
all these things burned outside Jerusalem on the terraces of the Kidron Valley,
and he carried the ashes away to Bethel. He did away with the pagan priests, who
had been appointed by the previous kings of Judah, for they had burned incense
at the pagan shrines throughout Judah and even in the vicinity of Jerusalem. They
had also offered incense to Baal, and to the sun, the moon, the constellations,
and to all the forces of heaven. The king removed the Asherah pole from the LORD's
Temple and took it outside Jerusalem to the Kidron Valley, where he burned it.
Then he ground the pole to dust and threw the dust in the public cemetery.
He also tore down the houses of the sodomites that were
by the Temple of the LORD, where the women wove coverings for the wooden idols"
(2 Kings 23:1-7).
"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- until the morning Lot left Sodom. Then fire and burning sulfur
rained down from heaven and destroyed them all. Yes, it will be "business as
usual" right up to the hour when the Son of Man returns."
(Luke 17:28-30).
(Matthew 7:17-20).
(Matthew 19:4).
(Mark 10:6).
25Though the rain comes in torrents and the floodwaters rise and the winds
beat against that house, it won't collapse, because it is built on rock.
26But anyone who hears My teaching and ignores it is foolish, like a person
who builds a house on sand.
27When the rains and floods come and the winds beat against that house,
it will fall with a mighty crash"
(Matthew 7:24-27).
(Acts 15:28-29, NKJV).
"When you follow the desires of your sinful nature, your lives will produce these evil
results: sexual immorality, impure thoughts, eagerness for lustful pleasure,
idolatry, participation in demonic activities, hostility, quarreling, jealousy,
outbursts of anger, selfish ambition, divisions, the feeling that everyone is wrong
except those in your own little group, envy, drunkenness, wild parties, and other
kinds of sin. Let me tell you again, as I have before, that anyone living that sort
of life will not inherit the Kingdom of God."
(Jude verse 7)
(Romans 1:18-32).
"Now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a
brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard,
or an extortioner, with such an one no not to eat...Therefore, put away from
yourselves that wicked person"
I Corinthians 5:11, 13 (KJV).
1 Corinthians 6:9-11 (KJV).
Is found in
The empty tomb
(Luke chapter 15)
(Luke 23:34 KJV)
(Psalm 51:16, 17). It is a proud and unbroken heart that insists on paying for
its own sins. Jesus said,
"Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest"
(Matthew 11:28 KJV). There is no heavier burden in this world than trying to carry
the penalty for our own sins. As long as we do, we will never
know God's forgiveness. We will never know the joy of a
cleansed heart. Our relationship with God can never be a close
one. Our praise can never become more than empty words.
(Psalm 32:1, 2, 11).
Quoted from Merlin R. Carothers, Bringing Heaven Into Hell, Fleming H. Revell Co.,
Old Tappan, New Jersey, 1976, pages 5-11
Introduction
I. What the Bible says
Old Testament Scriptures
New Testament Scriptures
II. How To Heal From Guilt
III. What the church says
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Gay Marriage?
Holding Out the Word of Hope
Assemblies of God theologians wrote a great position paper that pits biblical truth
against a sinful lifestyle. Here is their paper: