Are You Gay?

The same thing has happened to the word ‘Christian’ that has happened to the word 'gay.’ The word gay is truly defined as a cheerful, bright, and happy mood. But do you want to be called gay in the times we are living in? Of course not, because the meaning of the word has just been totally perverted into something that has nothing at all to do with the real, original meaning. What a shame that this has been allowed, and somehow we have all just stood there and watched that perversion take place. So I can’t say that I’m gay, when in reality I should be able to do so. I mean, I am happy and have a bright outlook and so forth, but because of the perversion of the word I will have to forego using the term 'gay’ because of the connotation that it now has. The same is true with the word 'Christian.’ What is called Christian now has little to do with what or who was called Christian in the Bible. Those who were referred to as Christians in the Bible were those who held to “the faith that was once delivered to the saints” (Acts 11:26; Jd. 1:3). That faith was simply based on a true and real deliverance from the state and condition of sin by the POWER of the baptism that Jesus died and rose to provide, along with a taking on of the divine nature of Christ through true faith in what he has done for us (Jn. 7:38,39; Acts 15:8,9; I Cor. 6:11; Tit. 3:5). Not only so, but the Christians of the Bible knew that there was no new birth apart from that same Spirit baptism, accompanied by the heavenly sign of speaking with other tongues (II Cor. 5:17; I Cor. 12:13; Acts 2:4; Acts 10:44-46; Acts 19:1-6). And “the faith that was once delivered to the saints” absolutely included the truth that one must CONTINUE keeping sin out of their heart and out of their life if they truly hope to obtain eternal salvation (Mat. 5:8; Mat. 24:12,13; Gal. 5:19-21; Eph. 5:3-7; Philip. 3:10-15; Tit. 2:11-14; Heb. 4:1,11; Heb. 12:14; I Pet. 1:3-9; II Pet. 2:20,21; I Jn. 3:2,3,6-8,15; Rev. 21:8,27). Go ahead, look those verses up and read them.

But anyone can be a 'Christian’ today by “getting saved” through “accepting the Lord as their personal savior,” etc. Sounds good except that none of that is in the Bible, and there is no heavenly witness to back up any of the claims of being born again into the body of Christ; only the witness of man alone, which the Bible clearly condemns (Prov. 28:26; Jn. 5:31,32; Jn. 15:26; Acts 2:4; I Jn. 5:6,9,10). Most of the Christian 'faith’ of today is one that allows for sin to remain in the hearts of 'believers;’ and as if that was not perverse enough to the true Gospel, salvation is received right up front when someone 'gets saved,’ and is guaranteed through eternity though one remain a sinner. Wow! That not only SOUNDS sick, that has a really sick FEEL to it as well. Are you kidding me?? If you take the time to read the scripture references in the first paragraph, as well as those in this whole article, you will see exactly what I am saying and why. The whole “sinners saved by grace” mentality is just plainly the sickest lie that has ever been told. The only people on earth who are being saved by grace, are truly born again believers who are remaining pure from sin before God (Rom. 13:10-14; Col. 3:1-6; Heb. 3:6,12-14; Jd. 1:4-6). Anyone who is presently in sin is not saved by ANYTHING, grace included. What happened to the knowledge that sin separates from God? (Rom. 6:23; I Cor. 6:9,10; Rev. 20:6) God sent his Son to suffer and die for you and I in order to accomplish what the old testament law could not - GET SIN OUT OF THE HEARTS OF MEN!! (Heb. 10:4; Heb. 9:13,14; Rom. 6:1,2; Gal. 2:17; I Jn. 3:2,3). Any supposed 'faith’ that does NOT accomplish that in the life of the 'believer’ is a Gospel other than the one that Jesus died for, and that he and the apostles preached. Period! Well friend, there is plenty more that could be said to the same effect here, but this is surely enough to explain why I’m just not very comfortable about being identified with the term 'Christian’ as it is defined today. I think Jesus is better than that. I'm a believer. Amen.