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<channel><title><![CDATA[Triumphant Ministries Toowoomba  - Blog]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.overcomingandunderstandinghomosexuality.com/blog]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blog]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 01:35:27 +1000</pubDate><generator>Weebly</generator><item><title><![CDATA[LEGAL NOTE TO READERS]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.overcomingandunderstandinghomosexuality.com/blog/legal-note-to-readers]]></link><comments><![CDATA[http://www.overcomingandunderstandinghomosexuality.com/blog/legal-note-to-readers#comments]]></comments><pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2020 22:46:45 GMT</pubDate><category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.overcomingandunderstandinghomosexuality.com/blog/legal-note-to-readers</guid><description><![CDATA[NOTE TO READERS  Books written by myself K Malligan are not directed to LGBTQ persons, I respect the freedom and lives of these people in the earth. I of Triumphant Ministries Toowoomba give all peoples of the earth the freedom to believe and follow whatever a to z religion or belief they want. My audience is to those who NO LONGER for whatever reasons don't want their definition of sexuality. THE RIGHT TO FREEDOM OF THOUGHT, CONSCIENCE AND RELIGION IS RECOGNIZED IN ARTICLE 18 OF THE ICCPR.This  [...] ]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<h2 class="wsite-content-title" style="text-align:center;">NOTE TO READERS</h2>  <div class="paragraph"><span style="color:rgb(83, 83, 83)">Books written by myself K Malligan are not directed to LGBTQ persons, I respect the freedom and lives of these people in the earth. I of Triumphant Ministries Toowoomba give all peoples of the earth the freedom to believe and follow whatever a to z religion or belief they want. My audience is to those who NO LONGER for whatever reasons don't want their definition of sexuality. THE RIGHT TO FREEDOM OF THOUGHT, CONSCIENCE AND RELIGION IS RECOGNIZED IN ARTICLE 18 OF THE ICCPR.</span><br /><br /><span>This blogs and books contains the opinions and ideas of its author. They are not given away or sold or distributed with the understanding that neither the author/me nor the Christian Ministry Triumphant Ministries Toowoomba the publisher is engaged in rendering medical, health or other professional advice or services.&nbsp;</span><br /><br />The strategies outlined in the books are my personal journey, <strong>my</strong> testimony of healing <strong>my</strong> desire to walk away from lesbianism so as to heal from <strong>my </strong>causations of same-sex attraction. I say it was <strong>my </strong>choice to walk away from lesbianism. The books may not be suitable for every individual; and are not a guaranteed or warranted information to produce any cure or promise same sex desires will end.&nbsp;<br />&nbsp;<br />No warranty is made with respect to the accuracy or completeness of the information contained herein. If the reader requires such advice or services, a competent registered professional should be consulted.<br />&nbsp;<br />Both the author/myself and the ministry specifically disclaim any responsibility for any liability, loss or risk, personal or otherwise, which may be incurred as a consequence, directly or indirectly of the use and application of any of the contents of the books, the teachings the prayer strategies or blogs; any books by the author/myself and Triumphant Ministries Toowoomba recommends.<br />&nbsp;<br />Triumphant Ministries Toowoomba does not claim cure of homosexuality. But believes in line with the teaching of The Bible, the Holy Scriptures that say:<em> &ldquo;Don&rsquo;t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God&rsquo;s kingdom? Do not be deceived: No sexually immoral people, idolaters, adulterers, or anyone practicing homosexuality, no thieves, greedy people, drunkards, verbally abusive people, or swindlers will inherit God&rsquo;s kingdom.&rdquo;</em> <strong>1 Corinthians 6:9-10&nbsp;</strong><br />&nbsp;<br />Therefore,<em> &ldquo;...I say, let the Holy Spirit guide your lives. Then you won&rsquo;t be doing what your sinful nature craves.&rdquo;</em> <strong>Galatians 5:16</strong><em> "For this is the will of God, your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality; that each one of you know how to control his/her own body in holiness and honor, not in the passion of lust like the Gentiles who do not know God." </em><strong>1 Thessalonians 4:3</strong><br />&nbsp;<br />Like my other books and the teachings with prayer strategies I give keys that have come out of years of repentance, restoration, healing and deliverance as to how I believe what the bible teaches. Years of being taught how to get beyond bondages and blockages so I could heal and overcome. So, I could walk in the Spirit of Christ Jesus to live by the ways of The Kingdom of God than the ways of my carnal flesh and its desires and the desires of same-sex love.<br /><br />I believe there&nbsp; is eternal life in The Kingdom of Heaven in the next life after death, an inheritance in God&rsquo;s Kingdom. Therefore I have not gone back into lesbianism when life sucks!&nbsp; I believe if I did I would be as one of those who are considered as acting unrighteous (1 Corinthians 6:9-10) and would forfeit my eternity with Christ Jesus to end up in the lake of fire. Love and sex is not worth eternal death in hell, besides my life is soo much better as one who is no longer a homosexual, I have had healings and blessings that have made me appreciate the greatness of The Power of Christ Jesus.</div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Did Jesus Speak Against Homosexual Living?]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.overcomingandunderstandinghomosexuality.com/blog/did-jesus-speak-against-homosexual-living]]></link><comments><![CDATA[http://www.overcomingandunderstandinghomosexuality.com/blog/did-jesus-speak-against-homosexual-living#comments]]></comments><pubDate>Sat, 02 Jun 2018 05:08:45 GMT</pubDate><category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.overcomingandunderstandinghomosexuality.com/blog/did-jesus-speak-against-homosexual-living</guid><description><![CDATA[ mto m they ofed&#8203;&#8203;&#8203;&#8203;Did Jesus Speak Against Homosexual Living?He probably did privately talk about homosexual activity, homosexual marriage and homosexual fornication in the time He was on earth. He cautioned against sensuality, fornication, idolatry, lustful intent of the eyes, evil thoughts, and deceit. By experience we know&nbsp; these are strongholds in homosexual lust.I have written twelve books on the subject of homosexuality; and in the pursuit of am I able to be a [...] ]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span class='imgPusher' style='float:left;height:0px'></span><span style='display: table;width:592px;position:relative;float:left;max-width:100%;;clear:left;margin-top:8px;*margin-top:16px'><a><img src="http://www.overcomingandunderstandinghomosexuality.com/uploads/9/4/7/8/9478566/editor/img-1920.jpg?1527917214" style="margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 10px; border-width:1px;padding:3px; max-width:100%" alt="Picture" class="galleryImageBorder wsite-image" /></a><span style="display: table-caption; caption-side: bottom; font-size: 90%; margin-top: -10px; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: center;" class="wsite-caption"></span></span> <div class="paragraph" style="display:block;"><br />mto m they ofed<br />&#8203;<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><strong>&#8203;<br /><br />&#8203;<br />&#8203;<br />Did Jesus Speak Against Homosexual Living?</strong><br /><br />He probably did privately talk about homosexual activity, homosexual marriage and homosexual fornication in the time He was on earth. He cautioned against sensuality, fornication, idolatry, lustful intent of the eyes, evil thoughts, and deceit. By experience we know&nbsp; these are strongholds in homosexual lust.<br /><br />I have written twelve books on the subject of homosexuality; and in the pursuit of am I able to be a committed lesbian Christian I have found no legality.&nbsp;<br /><br />If you are serious about finding<strong> your </strong>truth, you can find my teachings online, either free or for a small price <span style="color:rgb(102, 102, 102); font-weight:400">(See on page above Prayer Strategies and Books).</span> To rewrite my scriptural belief in this blog it would be a three-hundred-page book so I will keep it brief, and I want to answer the question and to make mention of a certain blog and book author. &nbsp; &nbsp;<br /><br />Having same-sex attraction and having the desire to be intimate and live in a relationship in or out of marriage when it is a real aspect of one&rsquo;s person-hood seems so ridiculous to me for God not allow us to enter at death Jesus Christs New Jerusalem. After all most of us have felt this way since we were very young, we have been sinned against, cursed by the kingdoms of the G/gods and this proclivity is now real!&nbsp;<br /><br />But God! After all, Jesus said we are to <em>&ldquo;love the Lord your God with all your heart and all your strength and with all your mind&rdquo;</em> <strong>(Luke 10:27)</strong>. <em>&ldquo;If you love me you will keep my commandments.&rdquo;</em> <strong>(John 14:15) </strong>If we cannot win the battle with ourselves first, then how do we intertwine in the spiritual man/woman who lives above the lusts of the flesh, the ways of the world and the kingdom of darkness.<br /><br />Anyway, I guess it also seems ridiculous to not let liars in or idolaters in the gates, when we know everyone is guilty of idolatry and lying in some form or another. But God and after all, He makes the rules, and He defines what takes the form of sexual immorality, what takes the form of lying and what takes the form of idolatry. Of course, we know it is not as black and white and cut and dry as Jesus judges the hearts of any person with same-sex attraction or who is a liar or idolater when they die or live.<br /><br />But now let me answer the question did Jesus speak on homosexuality? Well, Jesus speaks indirectly on unlawful sexual intercourse. So, I believe inclusive is homosexual love in His conversations and in the book Revelation. This New Testament book is spoken by Jesus Christ to an angel then the angel speaks to Peter. In this book, Jesus Christ declares the persons who will be in that city and the persons who will be outside its walls.<br /><br /><em>&ldquo;But outside are the dogs, and the sorcerers, and the fornicators and the murderers, and the idolaters and everyone loving and making a lie.&rdquo; </em><strong>Revelation 22:15</strong><br /><strong><em>16.</em></strong><em> <strong><u>I, Jesus</u></strong> sent My angel to testify these things to you over the churches. I am <u>the Root and Offspring of David, the bright and morning Star</u>.&rdquo;</em> <strong>(Revelation 22:15-16)</strong><br /><br />Jesus is the author of Revelation, and He did speak on sexual sins, He is the First and the Last who was dead and now is the I Am who is alive forever and ever. When He ascended into Heaven sorcery was still sorcery, fornication was still fornication, murder was still murder, idolatry was still idolatry, lying was still lying, theft was still theft, incest was still incest, and I believe homosexuality was still homosexuality.<br /><br /><em>&ldquo;And when I saw Him, I fell at His feet, as dead. And He put His right hand on me, saying to me, Do not fear. I am the First and the Last, <strong>18.</strong> And the Living One; and I became dead; and, behold, I am living forever and ever. Amen. And I have the keys of Hades, and of death. <strong>19.</strong> Write the things you saw, and what things are, and what things are about to occur after these things.&rdquo;</em> (<strong>Revelation 1:17-19)</strong><br /><br />Jesus does not even want anyone to add words or rewrite Revelation thinking they know better, yes, not to change its content one bit. If one does He has issued a plague and whoever takes away words He has issued a striking out of the Lamb&rsquo;s Book of Life <strong>(Revelation 22:17-19)</strong>.<br /><br />That&rsquo;s harsh just for altering the words of a book you get cast into hell. So, don&rsquo;t be deceived, besides being kind compassionate and merciful, He is fierce out of His Holy Places and He has a lake that burns with fire and sulfur, <strong>(Revelation 21:8)</strong> here it's just for whoever writes their version of Revelation.&nbsp;<br /><br />Just because there were no red letter words by Jesus does not mean He did not talk about it. He did speak on homosexuality in other Books of the New Testament for they are written by The Spirit of Christ Jesus. The Spirit moved men&rsquo;s minds to write them; it is the spirits of darkness that have perverted the Gospels and the Epistles by bringing in the various translations. &nbsp;<a href="https://www.thoughtco.com/books-of-the-bible-700274"><u>https://www.thoughtco.com/books-of-the-bible-700274</u></a><br /><br />The Spirit of Christ Jesus is part of the Godhead and is a Spirit of Truth; He has authority to cause a man to write as if He is Jesus. Jesus left us His Spirit and said Holy Ghost would bear witness and teach us and tell us all things that He did, that He spoke on and taught. The Holy Spirit would also tell us what was not recorded in the gospels if He deemed so<strong> (John 20:30-31, 21:25)</strong>.<br /><br />He is the Law He is The Word (Bible) made flesh, and He gave the laws, so homosexual sex is included. So even if He did not mention the homosexual word in the Gospels, He did in other books.&nbsp; Most definitely He spoke straight forth in the Epistles and the other books of the New Testament. He did say homosexual sex was not to be practiced as one who was His Priest and King in Covenant with Him was not to partake in practice or allow the proclivity to rule as a lust of the flesh to obey its demands.<br /><br />Therefore, it is safe to say that in the Gospels and the epistles the sin of homosexual lust and homosexual fornication and homosexual idolatry is condemned by Jesus. We are warned, corrected and cautioned not to transgress into these actions. See the list of scriptures on verses on sexual sin at <a href="https://www.thoughtco.com/bible-verses-about-sexual-immorality-699956"><u>https://www.thoughtco.com/bible-verses-about-sexual-immorality-699956</u></a>&nbsp;<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;<br />Jesus spoke on immoral behavior in divorce because of adultery <strong>(Matthew 5:32, 19:9)</strong>, the adulteress who He told to sin no more <strong>(John 7:53) </strong>and looking on a woman lustfully<strong> (Matthew 5:28)</strong>. But remember, Jesus spoke and did much that was not recorded <strong>(John 20:30-31, 21:25)</strong>. Yes, He did not speak on the proclivity or homosexual gender identity or sexual orientation other than the eunuch. But the same reason he did not speak on bestiality incest or pedophilia <strong>because He had no intention of changing His laws to approve of these conducts.</strong><br /><br />I&rsquo;d say in His wisdom there are many reasons for not recording the topic or the laws against the behavior. Anyway, how would one obey, or show their love or desire to serve or prove any topic by study; or how would one learn to surrender what is dear to them or learn or live sacrificially if the command was clearly written in the Gospels &ldquo;thou can now engage in homosexual love and sex.&rdquo;<br /><br />God approved behavior is written <strong>as</strong> God&rsquo;s laws governing sex and is just that, <strong>His, </strong>do I like it, no I still will not to marry. These are Covenant stipulations for how a king and a priest can act in His Kingdom and in His presence. <strong>His </strong>Priestly handbook both Old and New Testaments show us what is prohibited or approved. What pleases Him and how to take hold of His Covenant giving knowledge of how He writes the laws on our hearts to obey them.<br /><br />He says immorally defiles us <strong>(Matthew 15:18-19; Mark 7:21-22)</strong> especially if we act out our homosexual desires, also if we engage in any acts on the following list below and those mentioned in previous notations of scriptures.<br /><br /><strong>&ldquo;Leviticus 18:6-23</strong><br /><br /><strong>Verse 6 &nbsp; - no sex with a close relative</strong><br /><br /><strong>Verse 7 &nbsp; - no sex with your mother</strong><br /><br /><strong>Verse 8 &nbsp; - no sex with your father&rsquo;s wife</strong><br /><br /><strong>&#8203;Verse 9 &nbsp; - no sex with your sister</strong><br /><strong>&nbsp;<br />&#8203;Verse 10 - no sex with son or daughter&rsquo;s daughter</strong><br /><br /><strong>&#8203;Verse 11 - no sex with daughter of your father&rsquo;s wife</strong><br /><br /><strong>Verse 12 - no sex with your father&rsquo;s sister</strong><br /><br /><strong>Verse 13 - no sex with your mother&rsquo;s sister</strong><br /><br /><strong>Verse 14 - no sex with your fathers or bothers wife</strong><br /><br /><strong>Verse 15 - no sex with your daughter in law</strong><br /><br /><strong>Verse 16 - no sex with your brother&rsquo;s wife</strong><br /><br /><strong>Verse 17 - no sex with both a woman and her daughter</strong><br /><br /><strong>&#8203;Verse 18 - no sex with your wife's sister while she is alive</strong><br /><br /><strong>&#8203;Verse 19 - no sex with her while she is on a period</strong><br /><br /><strong>Verse 20 - no sex with your neighbor&rsquo;s wife</strong><br /><br /><strong>&#8203;Verse 21 - no sex with a priestess of the temple or giving the kid to Moloch in ritual</strong><br /><br /><strong>Verse 22 - <strong>no sex with the same sex</strong></strong><br />&nbsp;<br /><strong>&#8203;Verse 23 - no sex with an animals&rdquo;</strong> [internet sourced 26/05/18]<br /><a href="http://www.overcomingandunderstandinghomosexuality.com/blog"><u>http://www.overcomingandunderstandinghomosexuality.com/blog</u></a><br /><br />None of these laws above list have been fulfilled, especially same-sex sex. Why, because the New Testament still has various prohibitive laws concerning sex with same-sex.<br /><br />The Eunuch is not the homosexual. Homosexuals are referred to in different versions as abusers of themselves with mankind, effeminate, sexual perverts, unclean, sodomites and catamites.<br /><br />&nbsp;<em>Arsenokoitai</em> homosexual, <em>malakos arsenokoitai</em> feminine homosexuals, this includes catamites and male prostitutes. <strong>(Leviticus 18:22, 20:13; 1 Corinthians 6:9-10; Romans 1:26-28, 32; 1 Corinthians 6:9-11; and 1 Timothy 1:8-10)</strong>. You can read my book <em>Is The Eunuch The Homosexual</em> this is informative, and I reveal the differences.<br /><br /><font size="3"><strong>Please realize the list above is Covenant laws for sexual conduct.</strong><strong> You cannot say that Jesus has fulfilled all these laws because He never spoke in red letter about them or have not seen these as a subject in the gospels. It cannot be said that they are all now acceptable permissible and validated.</strong></font><br /><br />So, the argument of Jesus did not specifically speak on homosexuality does not make it ok to do so. Neither is it a valid statement or an argument to use; it is biblical studied negligence and ignorance.<br /><br />To clear this up, the young boy servant that was healed by Jesus <strong>(Luke 7:1-10)</strong> could not have been the centurion&rsquo;s lover boy. This man loved the nation and built them a synagogue. So, it is safe to say this man was a God-fearer. One who would have attended synagogue, known Torah and known the laws above. Safe to say he kept the law of <em>no sex with the same-sex </em>- no same-sex - no boy sex<em>. </em>I hardly think these Jews would be advocating for this man if he was engaging in homosexual acts and pedophilia with a same-sex boy!<br /><br />This is a valid thought: what Jew was going to admit publicly his or her same-sex desires? They knew they were forbidden by law to have sex with same-sex partners. Torah observant Jews also knew homosexuality was idolatry, the worship of the creature than the Creator.&nbsp;<br /><br />It would appear Jesus had no intention of changing His laws about being an active homosexual; I&rsquo;m sure He would have mentioned it if He did. He certainly freed women up from under the bondage of heresy and error as evidence is behind every mention about women in the Gospels. There is no mention of same-sex love as in homosexuality other than the eunuch, but these are those born inter sex. (See blog on <em>Is the Eunuch the Homosexual</em> on this site)<br />&nbsp;<br />So again, none of the list of laws above have been fulfilled because of Calvary and again, just because Jesus did not speak on them in red letter does not make them permissible.<br /><br />John Pavlovitz writes most of the time poignantly and below he has this to say defending same-sex love and marriage. Yet he fails to realize that same-sex behavior is listed with <strong>seventeen (17) other laws governing sex</strong>.<br /><br />Furthermore, comments about stoning to death adulterers and disrespectful teens when we all know that Jesus has fulfilled the penalty of death having died on a tree at Calvary <strong>(Romans 5:10; 1 Corinthians 15:3)</strong>.<br /><br />&ldquo;They&rsquo;ll frequently refer to the book of <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Leviticus+18:22&amp;version=NIV"><u>Leviticus</u></a>, claiming it says that &ldquo;homosexuality&rdquo; an <em>abomination</em> (a flawed talking point as we&rsquo;ll discuss later)&mdash;and ignore the surrounding verses commanding that&nbsp;<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Leviticus+20%3A9&amp;version=NIV"><u>disrespectful</u></a>&nbsp;teens and those having <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Leviticus+20%3A10&amp;version=NIV"><u>extramarital</u></a> sex be stoned to death&mdash;along with hundreds of requirements and punishments, most of which they declare irrelevant to their present lives. It&rsquo;s becomes a highly selective use of the text.&rdquo; ( <a href="https://johnpavlovitz.com/2017/07/21/no-gay-lesbian-bisexual-transgender-not-sin/?utm_campaign=coschedule&amp;utm_source=facebook_page&amp;utm_medium=John%20Pavlovitz"><u>https://johnpavlovitz.com/2017/07/21/no-gay-lesbian-bisexual-transgender-not-sin/?utm_campaign=coschedule&amp;utm_source=facebook_page&amp;utm_medium=John%20Pavlovitz</u></a> ) [internet accessed 26/05/18]<br /><br />Pavlovitz writes so emphatically, heartfully and so believable that people receive his seductive writing <strong>(1 Timothy 4:1)</strong>. The ignorant of Bible knowledge, laws, doctrine and those ignorant of the intertwining of the Bible from Old to New has to have running revelations. Then to add, we are in a ratified Covenant meaning what was in the Old Covenant comes over to the New Covenant would receive his posts errors and perversions of scripture, and they can be classed as damnable heresies <strong>(2 Peter 2:1)</strong>.<br /><br />We know the kingdom of darkness is the source of heresy and error and perversion of the gospel. They scheme to conquer by bringing in the division in the churches via doctrine and any other way they can divide -&nbsp; gossip slander, etc. They cannot get us to change allegiance or to renounce Jesus and join some occult group or become a witch, sorcerer or Satanist, so they infiltrate us with heresy and divide us and they work to turn us one against each other to split to divide the church .<br /><a href="https://www.cgg.org/index.cfm/fuseaction/Library.sr/CT/PERSONAL/k/556/Damnable-Heresies.htm"><u>https://www.cgg.org/index.cfm/fuseaction/Library.sr/CT/PERSONAL/k/556/Damnable-Heresies.htm</u></a><br /><br />He further goes on to say in his blog post:<br /><br />&ldquo;They&rsquo;ll try to say that Jesus opposes the LGBTQ community, when he <em>never once</em> corrects, cautions, or condemns anyone based on their gender identity or sexual orientation. In this case, we&rsquo;re supposed to believe the unspoken damnation is implied when in reality these people are making Jesus say things he never said&mdash;simply because <em>they</em> want him to say it.&rdquo; ( <a href="https://johnpavlovitz.com/2017/07/21/no-gay-lesbian-bisexual-transgender-not-sin/?utm_campaign=coschedule&amp;utm_source=facebook_page&amp;utm_medium=John%20Pavlovitz"><u>https://johnpavlovitz.com/2017/07/21/no-gay-lesbian-bisexual-transgender-not-sin/?utm_campaign=coschedule&amp;utm_source=facebook_page&amp;utm_medium=John%20Pavlovitz</u></a> ) [internet accessed 26/05/18]<br /><br />Identity and Orientation differ from actions of homosexuality. Why does this man fail to see and realize the gods and goddesses and their kingdoms are cloaked behind the deception of homosexuality (See my book<em> The Homosexual Spirit</em>). He is seduced himself by them, one kingdom of the water spirits have inroads into his life!<br /><br />Regardless, He knows that homosexual lust will be a part of us that has to be guarded. He knows it is to be brought under the Spiritual Power of walking in The Spirit of Christ Jesus. This way we do not fulfill that homosexual lust of the flesh <strong>(Galatians 5:16) </strong>that dwells in us.&nbsp;<br /><br />Sexual sins like same-sex encounters in my belief are included in the mention of fornication by Jesus. Also when He spoke on sexuality in marriage, the two different sexes becoming one to be God&rsquo;s original intent. As a man with a woman is to be the only acceptable natural union and marriage <strong>(Matthew 19:4-5) </strong>therefore this speaks against homosexual love. So it is logical to say the opposite is forbidden and He is speaking against homosexuality. Regardless of Him knowing the causation's or the curses that outwork the formation of homosexuality I say He does not allow us to live active homosexuals. He would have released us I&rsquo;m sure of that if He intended to do so, but it appears not so by my studies.<br />&#8203;<br />To say Jesus never corrects, cautions or condemns homosexual love is not so as Revelation is one of Jesus Books; a testimony of Jesus Christ <strong>(Revelation 1:1-2)</strong>. He spoke against the gods and goddesses of this age in Revelation and these are the lying force and the root causes behind homosexual lust and the proclivity and for those who want to be transgender - the opposite sex because of such physical, mental, sexual and emotional abuses.<br /><br />Jesus is the Spirit of Prophecy, and He proclaims that nothing unclean can enter His gates to reside in His New Jerusalem eternally. Anything anti-Christ or anti-Christian in character cannot enter in, and this means to me no practicing lesbian or gay man can enter in.<br /><br />I don&rsquo;t make the laws; I don&rsquo;t have authority over who can enter into the city of Righteousness but God The Father, God The Son and God The Spirit do. If I did let me tell you, I would allow Christ obedient homosexuals to enter the gates for eternity. I still think to date regardless of what I know "God is it really such a big deal?"<br /><br />I am going to answer that question one day, by knowledge I know many why's, but my heart does not marry up with all these truths, lol I'm still in survival mode of saving my soul from hell. Don't get me wrong I'm over the lesbian personality and the lusts but if I could get into heaven as a lesbian Christian my preference would be to be that way again.<br /><br />Be blessed and be a blessing&nbsp;<br /><br />&#8203;Kathleen Malligan</div> <hr style="width:100%;clear:both;visibility:hidden;"></hr>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Idolatry - The Big Lie.  Chapter 5]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.overcomingandunderstandinghomosexuality.com/blog/idolatry-the-big-lie-chapter-5]]></link><comments><![CDATA[http://www.overcomingandunderstandinghomosexuality.com/blog/idolatry-the-big-lie-chapter-5#comments]]></comments><pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2018 06:22:29 GMT</pubDate><category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.overcomingandunderstandinghomosexuality.com/blog/idolatry-the-big-lie-chapter-5</guid><description><![CDATA[       IDOLATRY - THE BIG LIETo make an issue out of sexuality;To make an issue out - I just have to express myself;&nbsp;&#8203;To make an issue out of the reasons you are gay or lesbian;&nbsp;To make an issue out of the worship of the creature rather than the Creator is a BIG LIE you have believed to validate your ways of life.&#8203;When the rubber hits the road - it is the sin of IDOLATRY. This will exempt you from entering in as The Bride of Christ.&ldquo;For where your treasure is, there y [...] ]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div><div class="wsite-image wsite-image-border-none " style="padding-top:10px;padding-bottom:10px;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;text-align:center"> <a> <img src="http://www.overcomingandunderstandinghomosexuality.com/uploads/9/4/7/8/9478566/published/img-2068.jpg?1526020165" alt="Picture" style="width:455;max-width:100%" /> </a> <div style="display:block;font-size:90%"></div> </div></div>  <div class="paragraph" style="text-align:justify;"><u><strong>IDOLATRY - THE BIG LIE</strong></u><br /><br />To make an issue out of sexuality;<br />To make an issue out - I just have to express myself;&nbsp;<br />&#8203;To make an issue out of the reasons you are gay or lesbian;&nbsp;<br />To make an issue out of the worship of the creature rather than the Creator is a BIG LIE you have believed to validate your ways of life.<br /><br />&#8203;When the rubber hits the road - it is the sin of IDOLATRY. This will exempt you from entering in as The Bride of Christ.<br /><br /><br /><span>&ldquo;For where your treasure is, <span style="color:rgb(255, 0, 0)">there your heart will be also. &ldquo;The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are healthy, your whole body will be full of light. But if your eyes are unhealthy, your whole body will be full of darkness</span>. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness!&rdquo; </span><span style="color:rgb(17, 17, 17); font-weight:400">Matthew 6:21-23</span><br /><br /><span>&ldquo;But <span style="color:rgb(255, 0, 0)">seek first his kingdom</span> and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.&rdquo; </span><span style="color:rgb(17, 17, 17); font-weight:400">Matthew 6:33</span><br /><br /><span>&ldquo;For everything in the world&ndash;the lust of the flesh,<span style="color:rgb(255, 0, 0)"> the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life&ndash;comes not from the Father but from the world</span>.&nbsp;The world and its desires pass away, but whoever does the will of God lives forever.&rdquo; </span><span style="color:rgb(17, 17, 17); font-weight:400">1 John 2:16-17</span><br /><br />Salvation is based in faith, better put FAITHFULNESS. It is COMMITMENT to the ways of Jesus Christ. Not loyalties to any created creature (same sex).<br /><br />&#8203;Truth will be suppressed and you will spiral into the LIE to give your life to the realities of your attractions rather than the giver of life and life eternal.<br /><br />&#8203;Romans 1 hits the bulls eye and if any scripture that tells all about not being allowed to be a practicing homosexual it is these scriptures. If you want to prove is your salvation real, study Romans 1, and study it again and again and again for it will point you to life and the true worship of a Holy God.<br /><br />&#8203;I consider myself a student of The Word,&nbsp; I've studied, I've searched yet I cannot find the way to remain a lesbian or to be in a committed lesbian relationship serving Christ Jesus.&nbsp;<br /><br />It just amounts to idolatry, and I am not prepared to forfeit eternity for the love of another woman or at that sexual intimacy.<br /><br />&#8203;We are better off exchanging our right to life to know our salvation is real than to go to our death beds having exchanged it for the lie and the wrath of God.<br /><br />&#8203;<br /><br />__________________________________________________<br />Chapter 5<br />__________________________________________________<br />&nbsp;<br />Now it is established in <strong>Chapter 4 </strong>(See also appendix 1) that homosexuality is a sin and is a transgression of the law, so we cannot <span style="color:rgb(102, 102, 102); font-weight:400">cherish the identity to retain the image of darkness. We cannot remain the same or</span> stay&nbsp; a practicing homosexual then&nbsp; believe we will receive eternal salvation. Truth is we are to be sanctified and born again to be renewed in the spirit of our mind.<br />&nbsp;<br />It is a false doctrine to believe we can be married as a gay man or a lesbian and in some cases remain a transgender person. Regardless of denomination, doctrine or worldly opinion, His Truth is absolute and can be found as absolute not fact. Truth can be found if you seek, and if you ask you will most assuredly find &lsquo;The Truth.&rsquo; Discernment also can be known, just ask and He will reveal Truth.<br />&nbsp;<br />Is your salvation real? Yes No - Oh But!<br /><br />&#8203;I believe it is real if you are not confessing you are going to remain a practicing gay or lesbian Christian till you die, of course there is grey area here. However, I believe you have to want the desire to know the Truth; and to want to become a Disciple of Him and His Word, not just thinking you are saved and can live as you please - after all gay is real !!!&nbsp;<br /><br />How long will this take? It is always personal and your journey is not gauged on others.<br />&nbsp;<br />Does He understand where you are? Absolutely and will give grace, mercy, understanding into your life. His healing and restoration He will bring. Therefore, all sin structures He brings to death that fortify homosexuality and or your transgenderism if it is demonically based on lies and curses. Even if that takes many, many years as it will take years and years and years He will set you free of the chains of darkness and the lies of the soul. <br /><br />Spirits and Satan are real, and they hate Christians and if that means they have to tell you however they can that you can remain married or practicing (fornicating) homosexual Christian, that's the plan.&nbsp; To deceive you and take your soul to hell with them;&nbsp; they want retribution and vengeance. Truth is they hate The Father and Jesus for casting them to the earth and out of that abode so they hate you and will conform you to unrighteousness in payback.<br /><br />People can make biblical arguments reasoning's and doctrines that practicing Christian gays, lesbians, and (deceived) transgender persons will inherit eternal life. However, Jesus does not say this in His overall teachings, Himself being The Word. He is Holy and nothing unholy can get in the gates, regardless of belief and the imputed robe of His righteousness.<br />&nbsp;<br />Jesus has never had a power problem; neither has He ever said all things were not possible to those who follow as one of His Disciples. Especially in the pursuit of becoming His spiritual king and priest so as to overcome the world, the flesh and the devil. It happens, it takes along time but you do lose the desire for same sex living.<br />&nbsp;<br />The beauty is, you can come to Him as you are and let Him outwork your salvation for as long as it takes. Being willing to change or not willing to change is not an issue, as He will work out your salvation according to His plan of working out your salvation and your sanctification so to abide in Him.<br />&nbsp;<br />Today there is proof that He transforms and can bring to death all sin and change a heart that was same-sex attracted to a heart of a king and a priest. Remnants attractions remain but they don't have power over you to obey them, you become dead in your sin and alive unto Christ and faithfulness to Him is your priority rather than getting off with lovers and getting love.<br />&nbsp;<br />His Word is an ongoing reminder that Salvation is fought for, and no matter who we are we have to pick up a cross and deny ourselves daily to follow after Him and to ensure our election is real.<br /><br />&#8203;So keep praying and proving is your salvation real, ETERNITY IN HELL is not worth lust or same sex love or any sin.<br />&nbsp;<br />May this booklet bring repentance, forgiveness and the beginning of a walk of restoration healing and transformation?<br /><br />&#8203;May you come to the place you speak off your former self and start to embrace His Power and Love to receive the identity in His Word?<br /><br />May you receive newness of His life and drink from His One Spirit until you know that you know your salvation is real.&nbsp;<br />&nbsp;<br />Be blessed and be a Blessing.<br />&nbsp;<br />Agape Kathleen Malligan.<br /><br /></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Law! is my salvation real I HAVE SAME SEX ATTRACTION? - Chapter 4]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.overcomingandunderstandinghomosexuality.com/blog/the-law-is-my-salvation-real-i-have-same-sex-attraction-chapter-4]]></link><comments><![CDATA[http://www.overcomingandunderstandinghomosexuality.com/blog/the-law-is-my-salvation-real-i-have-same-sex-attraction-chapter-4#comments]]></comments><pubDate>Fri, 02 Mar 2018 21:11:29 GMT</pubDate><category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.overcomingandunderstandinghomosexuality.com/blog/the-law-is-my-salvation-real-i-have-same-sex-attraction-chapter-4</guid><description><![CDATA[       &#8203;I want to make clear that we do not earn our salvation by keeping laws. We cannot add our works or anything to grace of the gift of salvation. But I believe we are required to keep commandments in the grace of the empowering of The Spirit of Christ Jesus. To have sin structures brought to death that cause us to lose the victory as to why we go back and break laws again.Jesus knows our hearts and only He can Judge any person on that day of judgment. Overcoming and understanding our  [...] ]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div><div class="wsite-image wsite-image-border-none " style="padding-top:10px;padding-bottom:10px;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;text-align:center"> <a> <img src="http://www.overcomingandunderstandinghomosexuality.com/uploads/9/4/7/8/9478566/th0hct9t62_3_orig.jpg" alt="Picture" style="width:auto;max-width:100%" /> </a> <div style="display:block;font-size:90%"></div> </div></div>  <div class="paragraph" style="text-align:justify;"><br /><br /><font size="4">&#8203;I want to make clear that we do not earn our salvation by keeping laws. We cannot add our works or anything to grace of the gift of salvation. But I believe we are required to keep commandments in the grace of the empowering of The Spirit of Christ Jesus. To have sin structures brought to death that cause us to lose the victory as to why we go back and break laws again.<br /><br />Jesus knows our hearts and only He can Judge any person on that day of judgment. Overcoming and understanding our same sex attraction is not as cut and dry as I believe I repent I renounce I want to get into heaven.<br /><br />In my pursuit of understanding can I be a practicing lesbian according to the bible, I can never get past laws written in Leviticus 18:22 and Leviticus 20:13 -&nbsp; "You shall not" as these are listed with <u>other</u> "you shall not" of His list of unlawful sexual relations and or sexual practices.<br /><br />I would not have believed it was sin except the law said. Sure He understands causations and backsliding and fortified strongholds and spirits of darkness. But, I'm not addressing that in this book "is my salvation real?"<br /><br />&#8203;The intro to this chapter 4 I'm teaching laws exist about acting out SSA.</font><br /><br /><font size="4"><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight:400">"You must obey my laws and be careful to follow my decrees. I am the Lord your God.</span><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight:400"> </span><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight:400">5. <u>Keep my</u> decrees and laws, for the person who obeys them will live by them. I am the Lord."</span></font><br /><br /><font size="4">&#8203;Leviticus 18:<br />Verse 6 &nbsp; - no sex with close relative<br />Verse 7 &nbsp; - no sex with your mother<br />Verse 8 &nbsp; - no sex with your fathers wife<br />&#8203;Verse 9 &nbsp; - no sex with your sister&nbsp;<br />&#8203;Verse 10 - no sex with son or daughters daughter<br />&#8203;Verse 11 - no sex with daughter of your fathers wife<br />Verse 12 - no sex with your fathers sister<br />Verse 13 - no sex with your mothers sister<br />Verse 14 - no sex with your fathers bothers wife<br />Verse 15 - no sex with your daughter in law<br />Verse 16 - no sex with your brothers wife<br />Verse 17 - no sex with both a woman and her daughter<br />&#8203;Verse 18 - no sex with your wife's sister while she is alive<br />&#8203;Verse 19 - no sex with her while she is on a period<br />Verse 20 - no sex with your neighbours wife<br />&#8203;Verse 21 - no sex with priestess of the temple or giving kid to Moloch in ritual<br />Verse 22 - <strong>no sex with the same sex&nbsp;</strong><br />&#8203;Verse 23 - no sex with an animal<br /><br /><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight:400">Verse 29 "Everyone who does any of these detestable things&mdash;such persons must be cut off from their people.</span><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight:400"> </span></font><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight:400"><font size="4">30. Keep my requirements and do not follow any of the detestable customs that were practiced before you came and do not <u>defile</u> yourselves with them. I am the Lord your God."</font><br /><br /><font size="4">&#8203;Because there are still laws against homosexuality in new Testament, verse 22 has not been fulfilled, therefore, it is still not permissible. Acting out because of the strength or causations, or for how long you can remember being same sex attracted does not nullify His laws.<br /><br />When a woman is a serial adulterer it is not just about sex. There has to be something a miss with her character, it is corroded.&nbsp; Also she has to be driven by unclean spirits that fortify her lusts and drive to meet her void.<br /><br />Strongholds exist in all rebellion to the above laws of sexual relations. Especially if we are finding no victory or making excuses why we just have to keep having sex with our father, mother, uncle, aunt, dog, horse, neighbour's wife, or our children or our same sex partner(s).&nbsp;<br /><br />&#8203;When we go back to Leviticus 18 verses 1 to 4, Jesus tells us to heed&nbsp; laws by saying "You must obey my laws and be careful to follow my decrees. I am the Lord your God.</font></span><font size="4"><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight:400"> </span><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight:400">5. Keep my decrees and laws, for the person who obeys them will live by them. I am the Lord." He makes it quiet clear by saying "you must."<br /><br />&#8203;Reasoning comes forth in verses 7 and 8 below and consequences for breach from 9 to 15 means He is serious - no means NO, zero, zilch, nil, none - do not!<br /><br />&#8203;Leviticus 20:</span><br /><br /><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight:400">Verse 7 &nbsp; - <u>Consecrate yourselves and be holy</u>, because I am the Lord your God.</span><br /><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight:400">Verse </span><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight:400">8 &nbsp; - Keep my decrees and follow them. I am the Lord, <u>who makes you holy</u>.<br /><br />&#8203;Verse 9 &nbsp; - No cursing mother or father - death<br />&#8203;Verse 10 - No committing adultery - death<br />&#8203;Verse 11 - No sexual relations with fathers wife - death<br />Verse 12 - No sexual relations with daughter in law - death<br />Verse 13 - <strong>No sexual relations with same sex - death</strong><br />&#8203;Verse 14 -&nbsp;</span><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight:400">No marrying both daughter and mother - death<br />Verse 15 - No sexual relations with animal - death<br /><br />&#8203;We know Jesus died and took the literal death penalty, however there is a spiritual principle here that these sins are wicked to Him and worthy of death. His rules are to keep the camp or you can say the city clean. Jesus said in verse 23 "</span><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight:400">Because .... all these things, I abhorred them." Not even liars or idolaters or perjures or thieves can live in this city.<br /><br />&#8203;"</span><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight:400">You are to be holy to me</span><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight:400"> because I, the </span><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight:400">Lord</span><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight:400">, <u>am holy</u>,</span><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight:400"> and I have set you apart from the nations</span><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight:400"> to be my own."&nbsp;<br /><br />&#8203;His laws define His character, and He tells us what is clean and unclean, what is holy and what is profane. He defines what is holy behaviour and what is unholy behaviour in the "thou shall not" above. </span><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight:400">Homosexual acts are not holy behaviour, neither is bestiality or incest.</span><br /><br /><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight:400">&#8203;How do we fight this, how do we say "you got it wrong." How do we say "why did you group homosexuals with incest perpetrators, adulterers, bestiality and temple sacrifices of babies, when it is so real, and gay lives matter?"<br /><br />&#8203;If only my flesh knew why it has to be such a big deal in getting into heaven having died in a same sex attraction relationship or marriage. Maybe it is as simple as: His ways, His rules, His heavenly city, His Throne, His Lordship - Him Boss, He decides as He Holy.<br /><br />I guess the bottom line then is - Accept Him or Reject Him, and the choice ours.<br /><br />&#8203;As you read below it will be clearer as to why the laws against same sex relations of the old are still operative in the new.<br /><br />&#8203;One more truth of the promise of this New Covenant<br /><br />&#8203;"</span><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight:400">But when the righteous turns</span><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight:400"> from his righteousness, and does injustice; according to all the abominations that the wicked do, he does; shall he live? All his righteous that he has done shall not be remembered in his treason that he has betrayed, and in his sin that he has sinned-in them he shall die.".<br /><br />&#8203;Even though Jesus is our righteousness, the above verses of Ezekiel make mention treason and betrayal is to Him if we act out in those particular sins (any of the list above). If we do act out in these manners that righteousness of Christ seems not to be for account but to our condemnation (die)&nbsp; - for walking in the flesh (Romans 8:1-2).&nbsp;</span></font><br /><br /><font size="4"><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight:400">"...Turn and&nbsp; be made to turn from all your transgressions, and iniquity shall not be a stumbling block to you. 31. Cast away all your transgressions from you by which you have transgressed in them; and make for yourselves a new heart and a new spirit; for why will you die, O house of Israel?&nbsp;</span><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight:400"> Ezekiel 18:24, 30-31<br /><br />&#8203;Its good we can return and find mercy and get the chance to repent before we do die.</span></font><br /><br /><font size="4"><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight:400">Be blessed and be a blessing.</span></font><br /><br /><br />Chapter 4<br />_______________________________________________________________________________________________________<br />&nbsp;<br /><em>Sanctify them by Your Truth, Your Word is Truth&rdquo;</em> <strong>(John 8:31-32)<em>.</em></strong> <em>&ldquo;When The Spirit of Truth comes, He will guide you into all the Truth; for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak, and He will declare to you the things that are to come.&rdquo; </em><strong>(John 16:13)</strong>.<br />&nbsp;<br />The laws in the Law shows us what sin is and it is laid down for sinful ones as all sin is lawlessness <strong>(1 Timothy 8:1-10)</strong>. The Word writes the standard, and the knowledge of sin is the law or written laws of His righteous requirements for us to live by in His Kingdom.<br />&nbsp;<br />&nbsp;<br /><em>&ldquo;Everyone practicing sin also practices lawlessness, and sin is lawlessness.&rdquo;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </em>&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>1 John 3:4</strong><br />&nbsp;<br />&nbsp;<br /><em>&ldquo;All unrighteousness is sin, and there is a sin not unto death.&rdquo;</em> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; <strong>1 John 5:17</strong><br />&nbsp;<br />&nbsp;<br /><em>&ldquo;Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law,&hellip;&rdquo;</em>&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>1 John 3:4 (KJ)</strong><br />&nbsp;<br />&nbsp;<br /><em>&ldquo;What shall we say then? Is the Law sin? May it never be! On the contrary; I would not have come to know sin except through the Law; for I would not have known about coveting if the Law had not said, &ldquo;YOU SHALL NOT COVET.&rdquo;</em> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Romans 7:7</strong><br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br />In reflection to the above; how do we know what a sin is? We measure it against a written law. Therefore, if I being a man lie with a man as with a woman I am breaking a law that says <em>&ldquo;If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination.&rdquo; </em><strong>(Leviticus 20:13)</strong> To add here both of them have broken this law and broken the first law that joins man and woman together as one flesh <strong>(Genesis 2:24)</strong>.<br />&nbsp;<br />&nbsp;<br />All scholars teach that to understand what the Gospels and the Letters write we need to see how the Old interprets the New and the New interprets the Old; and reveal the relationship between that content and its content. The Old Testament interprets the Biblical tradition practiced in the New.<br />&nbsp;<br />&nbsp;<br />The New will point to the laws in the Old Testament, in particular against practices of homosexuality and sexual immorality. Remember <strong>2 Timothy 3:16-17</strong> all scripture is used for righteous instruction Hebrew teach this also.<br />&nbsp;<br />&nbsp;<br />In the Law, there are various laws against homosexuality and incest and adultery and bestiality but are there any laws written down in the New to say,<br />&nbsp;<br />&nbsp;<br /><em>&ldquo;You [masculine] shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination.&rdquo;</em> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<strong> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Leviticus 18:22</strong><br />&nbsp;<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br /><em>&ldquo;If a man lies with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination.&rdquo;</em>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;Leviticus 20:13</strong><br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br />&nbsp;<br />No, but the New does read, if we are led by the flesh and or are walking in the flesh we are under law made for sinners and all acts of unrighteousness (<strong>Romans 7:7; 1 Timothy 1:8-10)</strong>. The New is pointing to the laws in the Old Testament.<br />&nbsp;<br />&nbsp;<br />The New is telling us if we are led by the flesh and <strong>Galatians 5</strong><strong>:19</strong> lists sins of the flesh as adultery, fornication, lustfulness and <em><u>things like these</u></em>. These things alike are, homosexual acts and homosexual fornication / adultery and the effeminate that are the <em><u>things like these</u> </em>as written as law. Therefore, we will come under laws that will be measured up against our works of the flesh.<br />&nbsp;<br />&nbsp;<br />Our actions have a consequence for breach, so we will receive <em>&ldquo;the due penalty&rdquo; </em>written in <strong>Romans 1:24 </strong>and <strong>Ephesians 2:20 </strong>becoming cursed children due to spirits of darkness at work for our disobedience<strong> (Ephesians 5:5-6; 2 Peter 2:14; Romans 2:8)</strong>.<br />&nbsp;<br />&nbsp;<br />We cannot deny that there are laws in both Testaments that tell us what transgression(s) we have committed while being led by our sinful flesh. These laws are carried over and are within this Melchizedek Priesthood of the New Blood Covenant.<br />&nbsp;<br />&nbsp;<br /><em>&ldquo;But <strong>if you are</strong> led by the Spirit, you are not under law.&rdquo;</em> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; <strong>Galatians 5:18 </strong><br />&nbsp;<br />&nbsp;<br /><em>&ldquo;&hellip; the works of the flesh are clearly revealed, which are: adultery, <strong>fornication,</strong> uncleanness, <strong>lustfulness,</strong> <strong>20.</strong> Idolatry, sorcery, hatreds, fighting&rsquo;s, jealousies, angers, rivalries, divisions, <strong>heresies</strong>, <strong>21.</strong> envying&rsquo;s, murders, drunkenness, wild parties, and <strong><u>things like these</u></strong>; of which I tell you beforehand, as I also said before, that the <strong>ones <u>practicing</u></strong> <strong>such things</strong> will not inherit the kingdom of God.&rdquo;</em><strong> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Galatians 5:19-21</strong><br />&nbsp;<br />&nbsp;<br />So of course if you are controlled by The Spirit of Christ Jesus you will not be acting out in fornication or lying with a man as with a woman or vice versa laying with a woman as with a man.<br />&nbsp;<br />&nbsp;<br />You will have proven Truth, studied to show yourself approved. You will be drinking from the Truth, The One Spirit, not the false teachers and prophets and doctrines of devils having itching ears to suit your lustful self.<br />&nbsp;<br />&nbsp;<br /><em>&ldquo;And we know that the Law is good, if anyone uses it lawfully; <strong>9.</strong> Knowing this, that law is not laid down for a righteous one but for lawless and unruly ones, for ungodly and sinful ones, for unholy and profane ones, for slayers of fathers and slayers of mothers, for murderers, <strong>10.</strong> For <strong>fornicators, for homosexuals,</strong> for slave-traders, for liars, for perjurers, and if any other thing opposes sound teaching.&rdquo;</em> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; <strong>1 Timothy 1:8-10</strong><br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br />Recall,<br />&nbsp;<br />&nbsp;<br /><em>&ldquo;It is easier for heaven and earth to pass away then a little bit of the law to fail and or lapse.&rdquo; </em>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>Luke 16:17</strong><br />&nbsp;<br />&nbsp;<br />His laws are still operative even though we are in this Covenant dispensation. They are not written in the Gospel&rsquo;s or the Epistles as they are unfulfilled laws from within the Laws writings and other books of the Old Testament. There is no need to rewrite these particular commands in the New Covenant writings because,<br />&nbsp;<br /><em>&ldquo;We do not nullify the Law through faith? May it never be! On the contrary, we establish the Law.&rdquo;</em> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; <strong>Romans 3:31</strong><br />&nbsp;<br />&nbsp;<br /><em>&ldquo;all Scripture is God-breathed is profitable for doctrine and <strong>instruction in righteous</strong> <strong>living</strong>.&rdquo;</em> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; <strong>2 Timothy 3:16 NASB</strong><br />&nbsp;<br />&nbsp;<br />As many have stated to understand what the Gospels and letters proclaim, we need to see it against the background of the Old Testament.<br />&nbsp;<br />&nbsp;<br />Therefore, to understand what Paul meant by walk in The Spirit and you will not fulfill the lusts of the flesh <strong>(Galatians</strong> <strong>5:16),</strong> and evident written lusts are idolatry, uncleanness and fornication and things alike such as homosexuality. We need to read the laws in the Old Testament against lust, uncleanness, homosexuality and fornication and sodomy.<br />&nbsp;<br />&nbsp;<br />Recall what the New Testament, New Covenant writes in <strong>Ephesians 5:5-6</strong>:<br />&nbsp;<br />&nbsp;<br /><em>&ldquo;<strong>For be knowing this</strong>, that every <strong>fornicator</strong>, or <strong>unclean one</strong>, or <strong>covetous one</strong>, <strong>who is an idolater</strong>, has no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. <strong>6.</strong> Let no one deceive you with empty words, for through these the wrath of God comes on the <strong>sons of disobedience</strong>.&rdquo;</em><strong> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Ephesians 5:5-6</strong><br /><br />As many writers have said that The Old Testament is not an outdated document; or of no use to us in the Messianic Priesthood Blood Covenant.<br />&nbsp;<br />&nbsp;<br />Because Paul rejected the Old Testament Law as a <u>means of salvation and righteousness,</u> he did not reject the Old Testament as irrelevant. But he quoted, referred and applied and taught from it within his teachings. These scriptures were what they used before Paul&rsquo;s teaching letters had circulated, they still used the Old Testament, yes every book.<br />&nbsp;<br />&nbsp;<br /><em>&ldquo;What shall we say then? Is the Law sin? May it never be! On the contrary; I would not have come to know sin except through the Law; for I would not have known about coveting if the Law had not said, &ldquo;YOU SHALL NOT COVET.&rdquo;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </em><strong>Romans 7:7</strong><br />&nbsp;<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br /><em>&ldquo;We do not nullify the Law through faith? May it never be! On the contrary, we establish the Law.&rdquo;</em> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; <strong>Romans 3:31</strong><br />&nbsp;<br />&nbsp;<br /><em>&ldquo;But we know that the Law is good, if one uses it lawfully, realizing the fact that law is not made for a righteous person, but for those who are lawless and rebellious, for the ungodly and sinners, and for the unholy and profane, for those who kill their fathers or mothers, for murderers and <strong>immoral men</strong>/women and <strong>homosexuals </strong>and kidnappers and liars and perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound teaching, &hellip;&rdquo;</em><strong> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; 1 Timothy 1:8-10</strong>&rdquo; <strong>1.</strong> [Malligan, 16:2014]<br /><em>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</em><br />1.&#8203; <strong>Malligan, K. <em>is my salvation real I HAVE SAME SEX ATTRACTION?</em> [Triumphant Ministries Toowoomba, Queensland, 4350]</strong></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[SECURE IN CHRIST? is my salvation real I HAVE SAME SEX ATTRACTION? - Chapter 3]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.overcomingandunderstandinghomosexuality.com/blog/secure-in-christ-is-my-salvation-real-i-have-same-sex-attraction-chapter-3]]></link><comments><![CDATA[http://www.overcomingandunderstandinghomosexuality.com/blog/secure-in-christ-is-my-salvation-real-i-have-same-sex-attraction-chapter-3#comments]]></comments><pubDate>Wed, 28 Feb 2018 06:30:31 GMT</pubDate><category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.overcomingandunderstandinghomosexuality.com/blog/secure-in-christ-is-my-salvation-real-i-have-same-sex-attraction-chapter-3</guid><description><![CDATA[       &nbsp;&nbsp;&#8203;"NOT EVERY ONE THAT SAITH UNTO ME, LORD, LORD, SHALL ENTER INTO THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN; BUT HE THAT doeth THE WILL OF MY FATHER WHICH IS IN HEAVEN." Matthew 7:21-23Jesus said His will in these words "if you love me keep my commandments" and also "teach them to obey everything I taught you."&#8203;"Who gave Himself for us, that he might REDEEM US FROM ALL INIQUITY, and PURIFY unto Himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works." Titus 2:14&#8203;I do believe our securit [...] ]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div><div class="wsite-image wsite-image-border-none " style="padding-top:10px;padding-bottom:10px;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;text-align:center"> <a> <img src="http://www.overcomingandunderstandinghomosexuality.com/uploads/9/4/7/8/9478566/th0hct9t62_2_orig.jpg" alt="Picture" style="width:auto;max-width:100%" /> </a> <div style="display:block;font-size:90%"></div> </div></div>  <div class="paragraph">&nbsp;&nbsp;<br /><font size="4">&#8203;"NOT EVERY ONE THAT SAITH UNTO ME, LORD, LORD, SHALL ENTER INTO THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN; BUT HE THAT <u>doeth</u> THE WILL OF MY FATHER WHICH IS IN HEAVEN." Matthew 7:21-23<br /><br />Jesus said His will in these words "if you love me keep my commandments" and also "teach them to obey everything I taught you."<br /><br />&#8203;"Who gave Himself for us, that he might REDEEM US FROM ALL INIQUITY, and PURIFY unto Himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works." Titus 2:14<br /><br />&#8203;<span style="color:rgb(102, 102, 102); font-weight:400">I do believe our security in Christ means we </span>continue to remain in Him, that we not become shipwrecked (1 Timothy 1:19) or turn aside after Satan (1 Timothy 5:15) or go back and walk no more with Him (John 6:66).<br /><br />&#8203;I realize we have strongholds of sin, fortified area's that go back to our childhood or adulthood of whenever. So we backslide and or do not get or keep the victory in these area's.<br /><br />&#8203;Life will continue to throw us, even after years of healing and self discovery. Enemy will prowl around and strategize to bring us back under old sin habits, and never think you have arrived and would not do that again as you can fall! Pains of life happen so we can and do go back to the comfort of old comforts; drinking, drugs, sex or whatever it may be for you. Also we may think "no I can handle a one off, I won't get any bondage because I know Jesus." That's a lie, as sooner or later you will be drinking more and more or doing a little more and more drugs or sleeping around again!<br /><br />Think about this: when we draw back with <u>a full knowledge</u> with no driving circumstances and again become entangled, we are then overcome and the latter can be worse (2 Peter 2:20-22). It is here Jesus warns us "IT HAD BEEN BETTER FOR THEM NOT TO HAVE KNOWN THE WAY OF RIGHTEOUSNESS, THAN, AFTER THEY HAVE KNOWN IT, TO TURN FROM THE HOLY COMMANDMENT DELIVERED UNTO THEM."<br /><br />So lets hope and pray we do not become so ensnared or willful by drawing back into sins that entangle us again. Let's pray that nothing unforseen happens that we did not have the opportunity to return back to the faith and we end up dead!<br /><br />&#8203;Consider, if one thinks they are saved and turns away from Christ returning to push "his or her luck" thinking once saved always saved, one has forgotten the words "take heed" or "beware."&nbsp; We have to wake up and pay attention to what the Word of God implies, least we neglect our salvation (Hebrews 2:1).<br /><br />&#8203;Demas loved the present world (2 Timothy 4:10), "love not the world, neither the things that are in the world." (1 John 2:15)<br /><br />&#8203;Believing in Jesus is not a once and forever. False teachers exist, spirits seduce and mislead, and, we get mixture in teachings of truth and error. Think about pedophiles, why would they care about losing salvation if it was once saved always saved? If they had forgiveness of sin for each time they raped children, why would they want to stop?&nbsp;<br />&#8203;<br />&#8203;They may be upright in many ways, living their version of Christianity. We know they are in the church and some frauds do hide behind religion, but that does not mean their salvation is real. Therefore, do you think it is fair they call themselves Christians yet abuse children and are able to get into heaven? Then why would God say it was fair for you to break His instructions in righteous living and or His commands and or His laws and be allowed into heaven? &nbsp;<br /><br />&#8203;If the Bible taught once saved always saved then the warnings are useless and many verses are unnecessary. Also, all teachings on losing your salvation would just amount to winds of doctrine. Then what? We could all do what we want because we just have to believe and we just have to have faith in the finished works of Calvary and receive the free gift!<br /><br />&#8203;Eternal salvation is to precious to leave in the hands of teachers, pastors and so on. This is why we are asked to bear fruit and show ourselves approved so as not to become ashamed by rightly dividing the word of truth (2 Timothy 2:15) .The risk is to high not to prove if your salvation is real, or what could make you hear the words "depart from me" for being a worker of iniquity or being sucked in by a damnable heresies (2 Peter 2:1).&nbsp;<br /><br />&#8203;A willful sinful life or an anointed holy life, the choice is ours! I am not addressing the proclivity of same sex attraction, just the acting out. I do not believe Jesus would cast anyone into outer darkness because they were same sex attracted. Yet I believe He wills for us to enable Him to weaken the desires and look at it as a lust of the flesh that needs to be brought under His Power so as to remain dead to this desire/lust.<br />&#8203;<br />&#8203;His holiness and ways are not our human ways. When you consider the Old Testament of His requirements of being a Levitical Priest it reveals His character, His conditions and His Holiness. Do I like His demands - not at all, but it is His city and His New Jerusalem and He says who may enter in, not me!&nbsp;<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:400"><font color="#3f3f3f">"Awake, awake, Clothe yourself in your strength, O Zion; Clothe yourself in your beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city; For the uncircumcised and the unclean Will no longer come into you." Isaiah 52:1</font></span><br /><br />&#8203;Keep reading and most of all, do your own research, and pray for the right roadmap for the truth on this doctrine..<br />&#8203;<br />&#8203;Be blessed and be a blessing.</font><br /><br /><strong><font size="4">Chapter 3</font></strong><br />____________________________________________<br />&nbsp;<br />It is the truth to say if we <strong>do not</strong> follow His plan of salvation as His Word is Truth we do not have real salvation.<br />&nbsp;<br />Jesus warned us there are many ways of salvation and many other Christ&rsquo;s who will come using His Name and or another anointing saying follow me this is the way walk in it <strong>(Matthew 24:5, 11, 24; 1 Timothy 4:1)</strong>.<br />&nbsp;<br />There are many false ways written as doctrine and by denominations that claim the way of salvation and eternal life.<br />&nbsp;<br />Truth can be found that we are not saved just because we prayed a sinner&rsquo;s prayer, or by confessing and believing Jesus is real, or by taking Jesus into our hearts.<br />&nbsp;<br />This is not according to the overall truth of His Word and especially if we do not follow in the Spirit of The Word and or The Spirits teachings <strong>(1 Corinthians 12:13)</strong>, His specific plan for eternal salvation that our name be not blotted out <strong>(Revelation 3:5)</strong>.<br />&nbsp;<br />As Jesus said, <em>&ldquo;every plant my heavenly Father planted not shall be rooted up&rdquo;</em> <strong>(Matthew 15:13)</strong>. Therefore, if you obey a different gospel, you will not be saved <strong>(Galatians 1:8-9, Matthew 7:21)</strong>.<br />&nbsp;<br />This is confirmed where we read a sign and a wonder or a miracle in His Name does not give witness that the spirit behind such things is Christ Jesus&rsquo;s Spirit <strong>(Matthew 7:21-23; 2 Thessalonians 2:9-12)</strong>.<br />&nbsp;<br />Jesus said He was not associated with those who drank a different spirit and who taught a different gospel <strong>(2 Corinthians 11:4)</strong> or who did signs and wonders and cast out devils <strong>(Matthew 7:21-23; Luke 13:27)</strong>.<br />&nbsp;<br />He tells us in <strong>1 Timothy 4:1</strong> that there are doctrines of devils not of The One Spirit we are to drink <strong>(1 Corinthians 12:13)</strong>. <em>&ldquo;Many will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own liking, and will turn away from listening to the truth...&rdquo;</em><strong> (2 Timothy 4:3-4)</strong>.<br />&nbsp;<br />Truth is He will not accept another gospel, another path of salvation other than what has to be sought out and found written within the Truth, the Word and given by The Spirit of Christ Jesus. For we that worship Him are to worship Him in Spirit and in Truth <strong>(John 4:24)</strong>.<br />&nbsp;<br />The Word is our instruction manual on how to worship Him. How to serve Him, how to be holy, how to be purified and sanctified. How to follow Him, how to obey Him and how to know Him. And how to be dead to sin, how to overcome the world, the flesh and the devil and remain alive in Christ.<br />&nbsp;<br />The instruction manual will answer any question, and we are expected to have a love of This Instruction Manual that we do not become deceived, that we are not handed over to any delusion any false way of salvation <strong>(2 Thessalonians 2:10-11)</strong>.<br />&nbsp;<br /><em>&ldquo;Straight is the gate and narrow is the way that leads to life, and only a few find it&rdquo;</em> <strong>(Matthew 7:14)</strong>. Five wise virgins and five foolish virgins <strong>(Matthew 25:1-2)</strong>. Many are called, and few are chosen <strong>(Matthew 22:13-14)</strong>.<br />&nbsp;<br />&ldquo;<em>Therefore, my brothers and sisters, make every effort to confirm your calling <u>and</u> <strong>election</strong>. For if you do these things, you will never stumble.&rdquo; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</em><strong>2 Peter 1:10</strong><br />&nbsp;<br />To be in Christ is to be part of the Body of Christ, part of the Church, who holds fast the teachings of Christ Jesus <strong>(1 Corinthians 12:12-14)</strong>. As we have believed, repented we are to be baptized into Him in such a way that progressively it is no longer I that live but Christ that lives in me. So that He infuses a new life and a new power to overcome sin, the world and the devil, to know Him and His will and His ways <strong>(Ephesians 4:4-5) </strong>to follow after Him.<br />&nbsp;<br />We are to become begotten through the Word of God <strong>(1 Peter 1:23)</strong>; to be in study of the Word <strong>(2 Timothy 3:14-17; 2:15)</strong>. Especially to test and approve all things by the Holy Spirit and The Word <strong>(Romans 12:12; 1 John 2:27)</strong>. The Spirit and The Word must bear witness <strong>(1 John 5:7; Hebrews 4:12-13)</strong>, <u>NOT</u> inner voices!<br />&nbsp;<br />There is only one faith <strong>(Ephesians 4:5)</strong> delivered to the saints <strong>(Jude 3)</strong> the doctrine that is learned <strong>(Romans 16:17)</strong> the sound teaching <strong>(1 Timothy 1:10)</strong> and the good doctrine <strong>(1 Timothy 4:6)</strong>.<br />&nbsp;<br />When we deviate from Truth, it becomes another gospel and it can lead to damnation <strong>(1 Timothy 1:9-10; Romans 1:26-27; Matthew 7:13-14; John 14:6; Matthew 25:41)</strong>. These false doctrines have the spirits attached, and one can become seared in the conscious for following deceiving spirits and things taught by demons <strong>(1 Timothy 4:1-2)</strong>.<br />&nbsp;<br />Truth is we are to follow the way of salvation written in His Word, or our salvation is not real, &nbsp;<strong>(Mark 16:16; Acts 2:38, 22:16; Galatians 3:27; 1 Peter 3:20-21)</strong>.<br />&nbsp;<br />&nbsp;<br />&nbsp;<br /><br />&nbsp;<br />&nbsp;<br />&nbsp;<br />&nbsp;<br />[Internet Citing's on chapter; Price. Brad, First Corinthians, 525:2010] <a href="http://www.abiblecomentary.com/"><u>www.abiblecomentary.com</u></a><br />&#8203;</div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[CHAPTER 2 - is my salvation real I HAVE SAME SEX ATTRACTION]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.overcomingandunderstandinghomosexuality.com/blog/chapter-2-is-my-salvation-real-i-have-same-sex-attraction]]></link><comments><![CDATA[http://www.overcomingandunderstandinghomosexuality.com/blog/chapter-2-is-my-salvation-real-i-have-same-sex-attraction#comments]]></comments><pubDate>Mon, 26 Feb 2018 06:01:25 GMT</pubDate><category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.overcomingandunderstandinghomosexuality.com/blog/chapter-2-is-my-salvation-real-i-have-same-sex-attraction</guid><description><![CDATA[       I listen to various teachings on YouTube or on Podcasts and of late heard a woman say that salvation is a free gift, that we did not have to do works to keep it. We did not have to do anything to secure our eternal salvation. She said not to add any of our righteous acts to ensure we get in and we could never lose it as it was a gift, regardless of sin structures."For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eterna [...] ]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div><div class="wsite-image wsite-image-border-none " style="padding-top:10px;padding-bottom:10px;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;text-align:center"> <a> <img src="http://www.overcomingandunderstandinghomosexuality.com/uploads/9/4/7/8/9478566/th0hct9t62_1_orig.jpg" alt="Picture" style="width:auto;max-width:100%" /> </a> <div style="display:block;font-size:90%"></div> </div></div>  <div class="paragraph"><br /><font size="4">I listen to various teachings on YouTube or on Podcasts and of late heard a woman say that salvation is a free gift, that we did not have to do works to keep it. We did not have to do anything to secure our eternal salvation. She said not to add any of our righteous acts to ensure we get in and we could never lose it as it was a gift, regardless of sin structures.</font><br /><br /><span style="color:rgb(35, 34, 31); font-weight:100"><font>"For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life. John 3:16</font></span><br /><span style="color:rgb(35, 34, 31); font-weight:100"><font>Jesus answered and said to her, "If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, 'Give Me a drink,' you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water." John 4:10<br />&#8203;But the free gift is not like the transgression. For if by the transgression of the one the many died, much more did the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one Man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many. Romans 5:15<br />For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 6:23<br />He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him over for us all, how will He not also with Him freely give us all things? Romans 8:32</font></span><br /><span style="color:rgb(35, 34, 31); font-weight:100"><font>Thanks be to God for His indescribable gift! 2 Corinthians 9:15<br />For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; Ephesians 2:8" </font><font size="1">1.</font></span><br />&nbsp;<br /><font size="4">&#8203;I agree salvation is a gift, and it is not by works but grace of the gift.&nbsp; But what do you do with the following verses.&nbsp;</font><br /><br /><span style="color:rgb(68, 68, 68); font-weight:400">Nothing impure will ever enter it, nor will anyone who does what is shameful or deceitful, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb's book of life.<strong> Revelation 21:27</strong><br />If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy that person; for God's temple is sacred, and you together are that temple.&nbsp;1 <strong>Corinthians 3:17</strong><br />We must pay the most careful attention, therefore, to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away. </span>2<span style="color:rgb(68, 68, 68); font-weight:400">For since the message spoken through angels was binding, and every violation and disobedience received its just punishment, </span>3<span style="color:rgb(68, 68, 68); font-weight:400">how shall we escape if we ignore so great a salvation? This salvation, which was first announced by the LORD, was confirmed to us by those who heard him.&nbsp;<strong>Hebrews 2:1-3</strong><br />But among you there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed, because these are improper for God's holy people. </span>4<span style="color:rgb(68, 68, 68); font-weight:400">Nor should there be obscenity, foolish talk or coarse joking, which are out of place, but rather thanksgiving. </span>5<span style="color:rgb(68, 68, 68); font-weight:400">For of this you can be sure: No immoral, impure or greedy person-such a person is an idolater-has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. </span>6<span style="color:rgb(68, 68, 68); font-weight:400">Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of such things God's wrath comes on those who are disobedient. </span>7<span style="color:rgb(68, 68, 68); font-weight:400">Therefore do not be partners with them.&nbsp;<strong>Ephesians 5:3-7</strong><br />The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; </span>20<span style="color:rgb(68, 68, 68); font-weight:400">idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions </span>21<span style="color:rgb(68, 68, 68); font-weight:400">and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God.&nbsp;<strong>Galatians 5:19-21</strong><br /><br />&#8203;<font size="4">Those are just some verses, if we cannot lose our salvation by not allowing Jesus to work in us and bring our sins to death, then how do we become the overcomer. If we continue with cherishing our sins and not allowing Him to sanctify and demolish strongholds of sin, we will struggle and have no victory.<br />&#8203;<br />&#8203;When I write about being truly born again, I mean that we allow the workings of The Spirit of Christ Jesus to bring us out of the carnal man to crucify its lusts and desires. To heal the old man, then bring us forth to live in the new man.&nbsp; So He can enable us to live by The Spirit who keeps us dead to sin and alive unto Christ where we will not fulfil the lusts of the flesh. There will come a day when we refuse to act out sin even if we have not the anointing, as we have been sanctified and renewed by the washing of The Word.<br /><br />"Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the <u>Spirit shall of the spirit reap life everlasting</u>. And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not. <strong>Galatians 6:7-9</strong><br /><br /><strong>Colossians 3:5-6</strong> tells us to mortify our members; he that <u>does the will </u>of God abides forever says <strong>1 John 2:15-17</strong>.&nbsp;<br />&#8203;<br />&#8203;There is so many scriptures that imply that we can lose it if we continue to live in rebellion and a willful foot in both camps. The sinners prayer is not fire insurance.<br /><br />Recall there is the bride and the wedding guests at the banquet. Guests appear saved but just not to be brides, they would be considered least in the Kingdom. The 10 virgins all had oil, but, 5 did not have enough, these would be the guests.<br /><br />Consider also, there is a person who gets to the banquet and is asked to leave for not being dressed. There is also those who Christ said I never knew you, and they said but we did signs and wonders and cast out devils. Jesus called them workers of iniquity and said depart from me into everlasting darkness!</font></span><br /><br /><span><span>&ldquo;But when the king came in to see the guests, he noticed a man there who was not wearing wedding clothes.</span></span> <span><span>12&nbsp;He asked, &lsquo;How did you get in here without wedding clothes, friend?&rsquo; The man was speechless.</span></span><br /><span><span>13&nbsp;&ldquo;Then the king told the attendants, &lsquo;Tie him hand and foot, and throw him outside, into the darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.&rsquo; <strong>Matthew 22:11-13 <font size="1">2.</font></strong></span></span><br /><br /><span style="color:rgb(68, 68, 68); font-weight:400"><font size="4">&#8203;I think we should know that we know our living and our understanding of scripture avails us eternity.&nbsp;<br /><br />&#8203;Be blessed and be a blessing and test and approve all teachings and doctrines.</font></span><br /><br />Chapter 2<br />___________________________________________________________<br />&nbsp;<br />"The following statements are Biblical Truth:<br />&nbsp;<br />Outside of our relationship to Jesus Christ we were led around by <em>&ldquo;the prince of the power of the air&rdquo;</em> <strong>(2 Corinthians 4:4</strong><strong>)</strong> and the&nbsp; lust of our flesh <strong>(Romans 1:26; 1 John 2:16; Galatians 5:19-21)</strong>.<br />&nbsp;<br />Therefore, the <em>&ldquo;god of this age had blinded our minds&rdquo;</em> <strong>(2 Corinthians 4:4)</strong> to continue in our homosexual practices of fornication cross-dressing and sins alike as sin is of the devil <strong>(1 John 3:8-9)</strong>.<br />&nbsp;<br />The Holy Spirit brought faith into our hearts to believe in Christ and to seek and search out the truth of our attractions; this is what you are doing now by reading this booklet. We know that all truth can be established by using The Word of God, The Bible <strong>(Romans 10:17)</strong>.<br />&nbsp;<br />When we came to Christ with our same-sex attraction and or our desires to cross-dress and or be the opposite sex, we were technically born again but not fully born again. As we had not entered into the outworking of our salvation, the sanctifying of our body and soul <strong>(2 Peter 1:5-11; 1 Thessalonians 5:23-24; John 17:17)</strong> that we actually be truly born again to secure our eternal salvation.<br />&nbsp;<br />Truth is we become <em>&ldquo;born of The Spirit&rdquo;</em> but our birth comes by &ldquo;The Incorruptible Word of God&rdquo; <strong>(1 Peter 1:22-23)</strong>. We are <em>&ldquo;saved by The Spirit&rdquo;</em> but the salvation comes through The Gospel <strong>(1 Corinthians 15:1-2)</strong>. The Holy Spirit cleanses the heart yet He does this by The Word <strong>(John 15:3; John 17:17)</strong>.<br />&nbsp;<br />The Spirit of God purifies us, and this is done by <em>&ldquo;obedience to the truth&rdquo;</em> <strong>(1 Peter 1:21)</strong>. He also sanctifies us, and sanctification comes by acceptance of the truth <strong>(2 Thessalonians 2:13)</strong>, The Word of God <strong>(John 17:17)</strong>.<br />&nbsp;<br />We are led by The Spirit of Christ Jesus, and the leading comes through God&rsquo;s Word <strong>(Psalms 119:105)</strong>. We walk by The Spirit of Christ Jesus when we obey The Spirits teachings <strong>(Philippians 3:16)</strong>.<br />&nbsp;<br />It is the truth to say that God does not have a plan of salvation for one person and a different plan for another person. There is not one for homosexuals and one for ex-homosexuals. His method of salvation is for both Greek and Jew, slave or bond <strong>(Galatians 3:27-29)</strong>.&nbsp; All must obey the same plan of salvation as written in The Word as God is no respecter of persons. The Word is The Final Authority.<br />&nbsp;<br />No one is saved unless he or she hears <strong>(Romans 10:14-15)</strong> and believes <strong>(Hebrews 11:6)</strong>. Repentance is necessary <strong>(Luke 13:13; Acts 2:38) </strong>so is confession<strong> (Acts 8:37)</strong>. Truth is, when it comes to conversion we must all believe and be baptized <strong>(Mark 16:16) </strong>immersed in water<strong> (Romans 6:1-5) </strong>to wash our sins away<strong> (Acts 22:16) </strong>to begin the new life in Christ<strong> (Romans 6:4)</strong>.<br />&nbsp;<br />From the time of <strong>Acts 2</strong> all persons who believe and receive Him are to follow His plan of salvation and work out their salvation <strong>(Philippians 2:12)</strong>.<br />&nbsp;<br />Because we have been rescued from this evil age, and the domain of darkness and sin <strong>(Galatians 1:4; Colossians 1:13; Romans 6:18) </strong>as we have redemption through His blood the forgiveness of sin<strong> (Ephesians 1:17)</strong>. We have all partaken of the bread of life <strong>(John 6:35) </strong>and drink the same everlasting water <strong>(John 4:13) </strong>being part of the one true vine <strong>(John 15:1) </strong>and are parts of His body <strong>(1 Corinthians 12:12-13)</strong>.<br />&nbsp;<br />He is able to complete in us the work He began <strong>(Philippians 1:6)</strong> when He set us apart for good works <strong>(Ephesians 2:10)</strong>, for sanctification <strong>(John 17:17; 1 Thessalonians 4:3; 2 Peter 1:2-4) </strong>and to be made in the image of Jesus Christ His Son <strong>(Romans 8:29)</strong>.<br />&nbsp;<br />Now having the power within to remain dead to sin but alive unto Christ<strong> (Romans 6:10-12) </strong>we are able to ask for His Counsel and Ability and Power to bring all residual sin structures and strongholds from our past and present to death<strong> (Romans 8:13) </strong>as we are alive in Christ <strong>(Romans 6:11; Colossians 2:13; Ephesians 2:5)</strong>.<br />&nbsp;<br />We are commanded by various laws to <strong>become </strong><u>truly born again</u>. Also to be made holy by the washing of the water of The Word that He might present to Himself us, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing that we be holy and blameless <strong>(Ephesians 5:26)</strong> on the day of our appearing before Him." 3<font size="1">.</font><br /><br /><strong>1. 'Citing Electronic Resources&nbsp;<span style="color:rgb(102, 102, 102); font-weight:400">https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/topics/Salvation,-As-A-Gift &nbsp;</span></strong> <span style="color:rgb(102, 102, 102); font-weight:400">[Online accessed 26/02/2018]</span><br /><strong>2.&nbsp;</strong><span style="color:rgb(102, 102, 102); font-weight:700">'Citing Electronic Resources&nbsp;</span>https://www.biblica.com/bible/niv/matthew/22/ [Online accessed 26/02/2018]<br /><strong>3.</strong> <strong>Malligan, K. <em>is my salvation real I HAVE SAME SEX ATTRACTION?</em> [Triumphant Ministries Toowoomba, Queensland, 4350]</strong></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[QUESTION ever "is my salvation real I HAVE SAME SEX ATTRACTION?"]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.overcomingandunderstandinghomosexuality.com/blog/is-my-salvation-real-i-have-same-sex-attraction8885141]]></link><comments><![CDATA[http://www.overcomingandunderstandinghomosexuality.com/blog/is-my-salvation-real-i-have-same-sex-attraction8885141#comments]]></comments><pubDate>Sun, 18 Feb 2018 00:47:55 GMT</pubDate><category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.overcomingandunderstandinghomosexuality.com/blog/is-my-salvation-real-i-have-same-sex-attraction8885141</guid><description><![CDATA[       I've had to go back to ground myself in truth, to validate some answers as I've had to look again so as to deal with deceptive contrasts. I've read "is my salvation real, I HAVE SAME SEX ATTRACTION" and thought, why not share it in a blog, one chapter at a time.&#8203;Reason I've read my own book is I've been licking my wounds overshadowed by darkness and asking questions I never asked earlier in my faith. Menopause, dealing with incidents of family abuse, expectation hangovers of being i [...] ]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div><div class="wsite-image wsite-image-border-none " style="padding-top:10px;padding-bottom:10px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-align:center"> <a> <img src="http://www.overcomingandunderstandinghomosexuality.com/uploads/9/4/7/8/9478566/th0hct9t62_orig.jpg" alt="Picture" style="width:auto;max-width:100%" /> </a> <div style="display:block;font-size:90%"></div> </div></div>  <div class="paragraph"><br /><font size="3">I've had to go back to ground myself in truth, to validate some answers as I've had to look again so as to deal with deceptive contrasts. I've read "<em>is my salvation real, I HAVE SAME SEX ATTRACTION" </em>and thought, why not share it in a blog, one chapter at a time.<br /><br />&#8203;Reason I've read my own book is I've been licking my wounds overshadowed by darkness and asking questions I never asked earlier in my faith. Menopause, dealing with incidents of family abuse, expectation hangovers of being in ministry and general judgment by the church folk and the leaders and ministers has had its toll. The church's treatment of gays and lesbians has also made me want to fight for gays, for rights and their acceptance and understanding as I've been so misunderstood, feared or whatever!!!&nbsp;<br /><br />&#8203;Contending for the faith, loving Jesus more than you love fellow men and women or family is a truth. Plus, not agreeing with sexual immorality and knowing how to walk in all this and still remain sane is not that easy!!!<br /><br />In the midst of all this madness I purchased an EBook, T<em>he Bed Keeper A Biblical Case for Gay Marriage.</em> Much focused on the subject of the Eunuch; and it is written by Brian Anthony Bowen a gay Christian.<br /><br />&#8203;I disagree with his teachings, and still can not agree that the Eunuch is the homosexual. As I believe, the eunuchs that were made that way were castrated to be impotent, and, to be sexually turned off women for the purpose of no sex drive for their role in society.<br /><br />Those born that way as I understand this eunuch has chromosomes, gonads, sex hormones or genitals that do not fit the typical picture or definition of a natural born male. The female whose reproductive system or genitals that differ, so she does not fit the typical definition of a natural born female, these are the intersex.&nbsp;<br /><br />I believe they have a case before Christ and even have grace to have reassignment surgery but to label the homosexual as a the eunuch I think not. There are to many other scriptures that forbid the behaviour of homosexuality in New Testament.<br /><br />&#8203;See blog below I<em>s the eunuch the homosexual? </em>If you have not read the book I'm blogging, please do so to refresh your mind and heart; it has four chapters 30 pages.<br /><br />Be blessed and be a blessing&nbsp;<br />&#8203;Kathleen</font><br /><strong>_______________________________________________________________________________________________________<br /><font size="4">Chapter 1</font></strong><br /><br />"<u>Firstly,</u> let's establish the Biblical truth there is an existence of spiritual kingdom<strong>s</strong> of darkness that influence our lives, the world we live in, and the churches attended. <strong>1.</strong> <a href="http://prophet-tv.dyndns.tv/books/debo/THE_WATER_SPIRIT_KINGDOM.htm"><u>http://prophet-tv.dyndns.tv/books/debo/THE_WATER_SPIRIT_KINGDOM.htm</u></a><br />&nbsp;<br />This is clearly written in scripture <strong>(Matthew 4:8-9)</strong> as those who do not follow Christ Jesus are <em>&ldquo;under the course of this world&rdquo;</em> <strong>(Ephesians 2:2) </strong><em>&ldquo;the god of this world&rdquo;</em> <strong>(2 Corinthians 4:4) </strong><em>&ldquo;the dominion of Satan&rdquo;</em> <strong>(Acts 26:18)</strong> <em>&ldquo;a domain of darkness&rdquo; </em><strong>(Colossians 1:13)</strong>.<br />&nbsp;<br />The angels that went with this now Ruler of this world were cast out of heaven and these have established principalities, powers, spiritual wickedness in high places and rulers of darkness <strong>(Ephesians 6:12; Revelation 12:4-9; Ezekiel 28:12-18)</strong>.<br />&nbsp;<br />Now we understand the&nbsp; devil is <em>&ldquo;the ruler of this world&rdquo;</em> <strong>(John 12:31</strong><strong>)</strong>. He is called the devil or Satan who deceives the whole world <strong>(Revelation 12:9)</strong>, and who is the god of this world <strong>(2 Corinthians 4:4)</strong>.<br />&nbsp;<br />When we are born again, we are considered children of God <strong>(John 1:12-13)</strong> children of light, no longer to be under the dominion of darkness <strong>(1Thessalians 5:5).</strong> We read in scripture <em>&ldquo;what fellowship does light have with darkness?&rdquo;</em> <strong>(2 Corinthians 6:14)</strong>. Therefore, we are not to be in fellowship or agreement with the kingdoms of darkness.<br />&nbsp;<br /><u>Secondly</u>, let's establish the truth that sin gives the kingdoms of darkness access into our lives being either Christians or non-Christians <strong>(1 John 3:7-9)</strong>. With this comes curses of God to the children of disobedience <strong>(2 Peter 2:14) </strong>because of sin. What is sin? It is the transgression of the laws of God <strong>(1 John 3:4)</strong>.<br />&nbsp;<br />The Word writes that spirits of darkness work in the sons of disobedience <strong>(Ephesians 2:2)</strong> and wrath of God comes on children of disobedience <strong>(Colossians 3:6; Ephesians 5:6)</strong>. Recall that no one gets the title of child of God unless he or she believes, receives and baptized in Christ Jesus being sealed with The Holy Spirit <strong>(John 1:12; Ephesians 1:13)</strong>.<br />&nbsp;<br />This is why we who name the name of Christ Jesus as our Lord are called to depart from all unrighteousness <strong>(2 Timothy 2:19-21)</strong>. That means depart from all lawlessness or in other words from disobedience to the laws in The Word of God.<br />&nbsp;<br />Grace is there if we transgress we can repent, confess our sins and He is just to forgive us and cleanse us from all unrighteousness of curses and spirits attached <strong>(1 John 1:9; Revelation 3:19)</strong>.<br />&nbsp;<br /><u>Thirdly</u>, let's establish the truth that Christ did not come to annul the laws of the Old Testament unless He fulfilled them <strong>(Matthew 5:17-19, 22:40; 1 John 3:4)</strong>. Christ came to ratify the Old Covenant to bring many laws into the New Covenant; a better Covenant <strong>(Hebrews 8:10; Ephesians 6:1-3; Romans 7:12; Romans 3:31)</strong>. <em>&ldquo;Do we than make void the old Covenant through faith? God forbid: Yea we establish the Old Covenant.&rdquo;</em> 2. [cited in Crews, 2015]<br />&nbsp;<br />Without laws, there is no transgression <strong>(Romans 4:15)</strong>. Therefore this is why sin is the transgression of the law <strong>(1 John 3:4)</strong> This is why, the law has jurisdiction over a person as long as he or she lives <strong>( Romans 7:1)</strong> and for through law is the full knowledge of sin <strong>(Romans 3:20)</strong>.<br />&nbsp;<br />So it now can be said that disobedience makes our actions lawlessness <strong>(Matthew 7:23)</strong>. The breaking of any unfilled law from Old or New Testament brings consequences of our actions <strong>(2 Corinthians 10:6; Ephesians 5:3-6; 1 Corinthians 11:31-32)</strong> for delighting in unrighteousness <strong>(Romans 1:18)</strong>.<br />&nbsp;<br />No one can serve two masters either he will hate the one and love the other or he will be devoted to one and despise the other <strong>(Matthew 6:24)</strong>. We cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons; you cannot partake of the table of the Lord and the table of demons <strong>(1 Corinthians 10:21)</strong>. <em>&ldquo;Don&rsquo;t you know that when you offer yourselves to someone to obey him as slaves, you are slaves to the one to whom you obey?&rdquo;</em> <strong>(Romans 6:16)</strong><br />&nbsp;<br /><em>&ldquo;Little children, <strong>make sure no one deceives you</strong>: the one who practices righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous: <strong>8.</strong> <u>The one who practices sin is of the devil</u>: for the devil has sinned from the beginning. The Son of God appeared for this purpose, to destroy the works of the devil. <strong>9.</strong> No one who is born of God practices sin because His seed abides in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.&rdquo;</em>&nbsp; <strong>1 John 3:8-9" <font size="1">1.</font> [Malligan,6:2015]<br /><br />&#8203;<font size="1">1.</font> Malligan, K. <em>is my salvation real I HAVE SAME SEX ATTRACTION?</em> [Triumphant Ministries Toowoomba, Queensland, 4350]</strong><br /><br />&#8203;</div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[LGBTQ AND THE CHURCH]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.overcomingandunderstandinghomosexuality.com/blog/lgbtq-and-the-church]]></link><comments><![CDATA[http://www.overcomingandunderstandinghomosexuality.com/blog/lgbtq-and-the-church#comments]]></comments><pubDate>Sun, 11 Feb 2018 06:54:41 GMT</pubDate><category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.overcomingandunderstandinghomosexuality.com/blog/lgbtq-and-the-church</guid><description><![CDATA[ LGBTQ AND THE CHURCH&nbsp;We all know that Jesus had to break a lot of molds, mindsets, false theology, false doctrines and teachings to set not only women free but those under the bondage of false doctrines of the Pharisees and Sadducees teachings.This gives us a premise to show just because one has been to seminary or is ordained as Reverend, Priest, Pastor or ............., does not make their interpretations of Scripture correct or Biblical. Same goes with a denomination like Baptists, Angl [...] ]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span class='imgPusher' style='float:left;height:0px'></span><span style='display: table;width:auto;position:relative;float:left;max-width:100%;;clear:left;margin-top:1px;*margin-top:2px'><a><img src="http://www.overcomingandunderstandinghomosexuality.com/uploads/9/4/7/8/9478566/thlgbtq_orig.jpg" style="margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 10px; border-width:0; max-width:100%" alt="Picture" class="galleryImageBorder wsite-image" /></a><span style="display: table-caption; caption-side: bottom; font-size: 90%; margin-top: -10px; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: center;" class="wsite-caption"></span></span> <div class="paragraph" style="display:block;"><strong>LGBTQ AND THE CHURCH</strong><br />&nbsp;<br />We all know that Jesus had to break a lot of molds, mindsets, false theology, false doctrines and teachings to set not only women free but those under the bondage of false doctrines of the Pharisees and Sadducees teachings.<br /><br />This gives us a premise to show just because one has been to seminary or is ordained as Reverend, Priest, Pastor or ............., does not make their interpretations of Scripture correct or Biblical. Same goes with a denomination like Baptists, Anglicans, Charismatics, Fundamentalists, Lutherans and others are not totally correct either.<br /><br />&#8203;Jesus&rsquo; redemptive plan for mankind could not be made possible until He had lived under Law Himself. Then to redeem us from all the Mosaic curses of Law He had to fulfill the requirements of the law, fulfill prophecy. He had to return to The Father having reconciled all things unto Himself, thus having reconciled sinners Himself.&nbsp;<br /><br />To those who believe He gave the right to be called sons. He made believers one new man in the spirit <strong>(Ephesians 2:11-22),</strong> both male and female being seen as joint-heirs of Christ, and co-heirs of life <strong>(Romans 8:17, 1</strong> <strong>Peter 3:7).</strong> All members in part of the one body Christ <strong>(1 Corinthians 12:12-31)</strong> and all ministers of reconciliation <strong>(2 Corinthians 5:18)</strong> all as brides of Christ neither male nor female. Having raised us all up together and seated us together in the heavenlies in Christ Jesus, at the right hand of God <strong>(Ephesians 2:6) </strong>we all are given these blessings even in our sin bondages or strongholds.<br /><br />The point I want to bring out is, LGBT who are believers are co-heirs, and how are you treating the LGBT Christian persons. Are you looking at them as if they have leprosy? Or not allowing them to draw water at the well in the cool of the morning?<br /><br />&nbsp;Jesus did not agree with some of the things Moses spoke of in certain matters. But He did say <em>&ldquo;Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God&rdquo; </em><strong>(</strong><strong>Matthew 4:4)</strong>.&nbsp;<br /><br />I do not want to view any LGBT persons in church with a Pharisaic mindset or thus sayeth the law. However I do not want to be guilty of: <em>&ldquo;Whoever therefore breaks one of the least of these commandments, and teaches men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever does and teaches them, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.&rdquo; </em><br /><br />Jesus believed in, taught and kept all the commandments of God. He commanded His disciples <strong>Matthew 28:20</strong><em> &ldquo;&hellip; to observe all things that I have commanded you&rdquo;</em> <strong>Matthew 15:9</strong><br /><br />Yet He said:<em> &ldquo;And in vain they worship Me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.&rdquo;</em>&nbsp;<br /><br />Jesus was greater than Moses, and He told us <em>&ldquo;you have heard it said but I say.&rdquo;</em> He has told us to meditate on and abide by His laws and worship in Spirit and Truth. Yet how do we do this when the devil tricks us with scripture, and our flesh also gets sucked into heresy and error. So, give grace to your fellow LGBT brother and sister, you may be in as much error and heresy as they are, it is just in a different area!<br /><br />Jesus told us about discipleship and surrender in:<br /><em>"What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?"</em><br /><br />He told us to foster a heart relationship with Him and said:<br /><em>"His yoke is easy and His burden light.&rdquo;</em> <strong>Matthew 11:30</strong><br /><br />His way of life (laws) was easy &ndash; His yoke; and He would give us the power to carry out His teachings and His laws by Him saying His burden was light. He told us wolves would come in and divide, and others would be seared in their conscious following other doctrines of devils.<br /><br />We have such division in doctrine and teachings with the various denominations. So how do we know where God is right, and we are wrong? We study, we investigate, we examine the Bible, we test and approve. We don&rsquo;t just follow the traditions of men or what Pastor Frank said, or LGBT Pastor Anne said in her sermon on Sunday night.<br /><br />I don&rsquo;t know personally any LGBT Christians, only those I read about who admit they are sinners <strong>(Romans 3:23)</strong>. Who believe that Christ died for their sins, and that He rose from the dead, so they don&rsquo;t have to die an eternal death <strong>(1 Corinthians 15:3-4)</strong>. They believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and believe they are saved <strong>(Acts 16:31)</strong>.<br /><br /><strong>Yes but:</strong><em> &ldquo;Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.&rdquo;</em><strong> (John 5:39) </strong>Any person ex or LGBT still must search the scriptures to work out sanctification and discipleship. Grace does not release anyone from behaviour that is contrary to His laws that leads to death. Contrary to His right way of living, His righteousness His commandments that lead to life everlasting.<br /><br />The point here is, when any LGBT person comes to Christ and goes into a church they like anyone are to have the cup cleaned <strong>from the inside out</strong>. IF God has allowed ministers of reconciliation to bring the LGBT persons into a church that accepts them and allows them to remain or get married, I would be praying for His Wisdom. Praying if these ministers need to escape from a seared conscious.&nbsp; I will be praying their flock search the scriptures to see if they have eternal life.<br /><br />Yes it is better they be in church than out, going from darkness to darkness, and to be held in captivity to the kingdom of darkness for their sins upon sins. But it is more better they lay ahold of truth and walk in truth and, pluck out your eye or cut off your hand than be cast into outer darkness.<br /><br />I have this question to end the blog. Do you embrace the heterosexuals who I believe are spiritually fornicating with another husband in the false movements from the Toronto blessing, iHop, Todd Bentley and Heidi Baker woop? Are you so hard and fast against the LGBT Christians, yet embrace these spiritual fornicators?<br /><br />&#8203;The great falling away is prophesied for the church, and we all are targeted. So while LGBT persons are obvious to you the spiritual adulterers are not; but you readily accept them and eat with them and study and worship with them! Heresy and Error gets all of us, gay or straight, Love and how you treat people is a spiritual discipline, how are you going here? Do you favor one type of sinner over the other? <br /><br />There is a big difference to Bible throwing and speaking the truth in love and in The Spirit. We understand adultery is a stronghold if it be natural or spiritual, so at that, homosexuality is a stronghold. Jesus said <em>"go and sin no more"</em> to the woman caught in adultery, but He knew it was not going to be any easy road for her to overcome. Or for her to work through her root causes or face the next assault of temptation of her flesh or the spiritual attacks that would come. The contrast of gay and straight is here, and for those to walk away from an apostate state is also no easy road. They get out of one net and they are back in another as it was for me before I escaped the false signs and wonder deception.<br /><br />In my book &ldquo;Is My Salvation Real&rdquo; I write how I believe we can know that our salvation is real. <a href="https://issuu.com/kathleenmalligan/docs/is_my_salvation_real"><u>https://issuu.com/kathleenmalligan/docs/is_my_salvation_real</u></a>&nbsp; Check it out.<br /><br />I have decided to remain in the belief that we cannot be practicing lesbians or gays when we believe it is a transgression of His laws without being at risk of eternal damnation. Looking at the other side of the coin of grace or looking for a legal loop hole will come to my understanding as I continue to remain in the faith - if any exist. As of now I see none exist, I am convinced we have to remain celibate and or renounce homosexuality and to be transformed by the renewing of our mind.<br /><br />I&rsquo;m going back to counsel those who believe they want to overcome and understand homosexuality and finish writing a book.<br /><br />&#8203;Below is another link you can check out about the falling away of those in the church under the Kundalini heresy and error.<br />&#8203;<br />&nbsp;[ <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NShnozCe1QI&amp;t=19s"><u>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NShnozCe1QI&amp;t=19s</u></a> ] WARNING! WHAT IS KUNDALINI &amp; IS IT IN THE CHURCH?<br /><br />Be blessed and be a blessing<br /><br />&#8203;Kath</div> <hr style="width:100%;clear:both;visibility:hidden;"></hr>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[February 02nd, 2018]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.overcomingandunderstandinghomosexuality.com/blog/pressure-from-the-movement]]></link><comments><![CDATA[http://www.overcomingandunderstandinghomosexuality.com/blog/pressure-from-the-movement#comments]]></comments><pubDate>Sat, 03 Feb 2018 01:17:41 GMT</pubDate><category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.overcomingandunderstandinghomosexuality.com/blog/pressure-from-the-movement</guid><description><![CDATA[       PRESSURE FROM THE MOVEMENT AND THE CHURCH!!!Social Media, online pages and online videos via adds invoke my emotions sometimes. Do I comment, do I not? Sometimes I do, and most times I don't. "He who answers a matter before he hears it, it is folly and shame to him." Proverbs 18:13 I do not comment because of the Word, but because the back lash can so harsh and cruel at me, and I just could not be bothered arguing.&#8203;Most times when I do comment on some page of LGBTQ / rights or Stop  [...] ]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div><div class="wsite-image wsite-image-border-none " style="padding-top:10px;padding-bottom:10px;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;text-align:center"> <a> <img src="http://www.overcomingandunderstandinghomosexuality.com/uploads/9/4/7/8/9478566/published/27825117142-4e30bd05d7-k-905x537.jpg?1518155886" alt="Picture" style="width:auto;max-width:100%" /> </a> <div style="display:block;font-size:90%"></div> </div></div>  <div class="paragraph"><strong><span style="color:rgb(102, 102, 102)">PRESSURE FROM THE MOVEMENT AND THE CHURCH!!!</span></strong><br /><br /><span style="color:rgb(102, 102, 102)">Social Media, online pages and online videos via <span>adds invoke</span> my emotions sometimes. Do I comment, do I not? Sometimes I do, and most times I don't. <em><span>"He who answers a matter before he hears it, it is folly and shame to him."</span></em> <strong><span>Proverbs 18:13</span></strong> I do not comment because of the Word, but because the back lash can so harsh and cruel at me, <span>and</span> I just could not be bothered arguing.</span><br /><br /><span style="color:rgb(102, 102, 102)">&#8203;Most times when I do comment on some page of LGBTQ / rights or Stop Homophobia, <span>I'm told</span> I'm a troll and misunderstood. I follow these because I truly am interested in their messages and plight for change and rights. Except they always see me as the enemy! <span>I'm seen</span> as belonging to this group, and us two groups should not be talking <span>on</span> social media!</span><br /><br /><span style="color:rgb(102, 102, 102)">&#8203;It&rsquo;s not true, I have rights, <span>and</span> I'm free to <span>comment</span> after <span>all,</span> is it not freedom they stand <span>for</span>? It seems to be they never get their information about me before they comment. They just assume that I am anti LGBTQ being EX and block me - you are in the Christian camp, so you must <span>be blocked</span>.</span><br /><br /><span style="color:rgb(102, 102, 102)">&#8203;They just assume I am the enemy <span>of</span> their battle and I'm not at all. I certainly do not stand with all their views or ways of life, but I am concerned about many of their issues. I am greatly concerned about any LGBTQ person coming into the church and being treated like lepers and seen as outcasts and law <span>breakers/rebels</span> on purpose.<br /><br />&#8203;So when I heard the other day a Podcast (Ep 34) from <em><span>The Bible For Normal People,</span></em> who were interviewing Jen <span>Hatmaker,</span> I was glad to hear God was raising up more people to come along side of LGBTQ Christ seekers or LGBTQ Christians. She felt Jesus had called her and husband <span>to openly welcome LGBTQ persons into their church and openly accept them not wanting them to renounce their marriages or partners.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color:rgb(102, 102, 102)">I thought this is great,<strong><span> a church of refuge</span></strong> where they were free to be true, to be real. A place where church people would accept those they that I believe to <span>be </span>outside the law without judgment. A place where they would not<span> be punished</span> and they would be safe from religious judgment.<br /><br />&#8203;What a blessing to hear they endured such judgment from the Church to hear the call and obey the call to minister and bring forth refuge where LGBTQ persons, <span>so</span> they felt like they belonged to learn at the feet of Christ.</span><br />&#8203;<br /><span style="color:rgb(102, 102, 102)">Will they find truth there, will they be called out of darkness into His marvellous light? Or have they come into His marvellous light and are just as much elect as the heterosexual Christian. Has Jesus Christ given Hatmakers the <span>authority</span> to allow LGBTQ persons to <span>be seen</span> as <span>flesh</span> of His flesh, citizens of heaven? Just as Moses allowed divorce in the Old Testament and God said clearly in His law that divorce was a breach of the <span>law</span>. <span>So are</span> Jen and her husband the Moses of today because of the hardness of hearts and the reality that <span>homosexuals</span> are real, and <span>transsexuals</span> are real and gay lives matter? Is this Wisdom, or are they part of the great falling away?<br /><br />&#8203;I believe giving grace will lead them to an encounter with Jesus Christ. I believe it is through the Holy Spirit that conviction and His leading into all truth will cause any LGBTQ person to see if they are in the faith. I believe if any person seeks truth and seeks the answer about being married to the same-sex they will find out. <em>"For we can do nothing against the truth, but only for the truth."</em> <strong>(2</strong> <strong>Corinthians 13:8)</strong> Discipleship, justice and mercy and surrendering self are aspects of being a Christian so I hope disciples come out of their flock. &nbsp; &nbsp;</span><br /><br /><span style="color:rgb(102, 102, 102)">I don&rsquo;t know their hearts and all I can do is continue to give grace and truth and be true to what I believe I'm called to teach. I will keep asking questions and looking for answers as I've been wrong before on doctrine. Most of all, I will continue to live by my conviction, that if I <span>were</span> a practicing <span>homosexual,</span> I would lose my salvation.<br /><br />To date, I still cannot find a loop hole to the laws against being a practicing <span>homosexual; </span>and The Word is clear about sexual sin. I&rsquo;ll keep looking in case I&rsquo;ve done myself an injustice.&nbsp; I still have many unanswered questions, I will continue this journey of looking at the other side of the coin, please pray for me that I do know truth.&nbsp;</span><br /><br /><span style="color:rgb(102, 102, 102)">How blessed we are to be on this journey, to know the <span>truth</span> to seek truth down this labyrinth of lies and truth.</span><br /><span style="color:rgb(102, 102, 102)">Be blessed and be a blessing.</span><br /><span style="color:rgb(102, 102, 102)">&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="color:rgb(102, 102, 102)">Kathleen <span>&nbsp;</span><br />&#8203;</span></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[IS THE EUNUCH THE HOMOSEXUAL?]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.overcomingandunderstandinghomosexuality.com/blog/is-the-eunuch-the-homosexual]]></link><comments><![CDATA[http://www.overcomingandunderstandinghomosexuality.com/blog/is-the-eunuch-the-homosexual#comments]]></comments><pubDate>Thu, 28 Dec 2017 06:14:21 GMT</pubDate><category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.overcomingandunderstandinghomosexuality.com/blog/is-the-eunuch-the-homosexual</guid><description><![CDATA[       IS THE EUNUCH THE HOMOSEXUAL?&nbsp;&#8203;The following article is taken out of one of my books The Abomination of Occult Practices and can be found at&nbsp;https://issuu.com/kathleenmalligan To get a clearer understanding it is best to read the whole chapter 2 of that book.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"With regards to keeping laws, I want to make mention here in brief Matthew 19:1-12. The Pharisees were testing Jesus to say something contrary to the law of Moses to ensnare Him about was it lawful f [...] ]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div><div class="wsite-image wsite-image-border-none " style="padding-top:10px;padding-bottom:10px;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;text-align:center"> <a> <img src="http://www.overcomingandunderstandinghomosexuality.com/uploads/9/4/7/8/9478566/06-june-30-2013-the-effective-christian-life-acts-82640-41-638_orig.jpg" alt="Picture" style="width:auto;max-width:100%" /> </a> <div style="display:block;font-size:90%"></div> </div></div>  <div class="paragraph" style="text-align:justify;">I<strong>S THE EUNUCH THE HOMOSEXUAL?</strong>&nbsp;<br /><br />&#8203;The following article is taken out of one of my books <em>The Abomination of Occult Practices </em>and can be found at&nbsp;https://issuu.com/kathleenmalligan To get a clearer understanding it is best to read the whole chapter 2 of that book.&nbsp;<br />&nbsp;<br />&nbsp;<br />"With regards to keeping laws, I want to make mention here in brief <strong>Matthew 19:1-12.</strong> The Pharisees were testing Jesus to say something contrary to the law of Moses to ensnare Him about was it lawful for <strong>a man</strong> to divorce a wife for any reason at all, and the Disciples are asking was it better not to marry? This question is it best not to marry, is asked again in <strong>1 Corinthians 7:1-2</strong>.<br />&nbsp;<br />With regards to <strong>Matthew 19</strong>, Jesus took the Pharisees back to the creation account and said; &ldquo;God made man and woman, and they were to leave their mother and father and be joined as one. They would become one flesh no longer two flesh, and, as God joined them no man, and it reads as if no Moses of the day or in the future was to separate two believers except for sexual immorality. Jesus said if he divorced her for any other reason and remarried, he and the woman who married him would be committing adultery.&rdquo;<br />&nbsp;<br />However, Paul says it is permissible if the unbeliever in a marriage leaves as written in <strong>1 Corinthians 7:15 </strong>divorce is also allowed. So we find there can be other reasons for divorce not just adultery.<br />&nbsp;<br />As for the answer to the Disciples, it was only better not to marry if you were one of the three types of eunuchs. Either born that way, made that way by man or if you choose to live single as if you were a eunuch for the work of the Kingdom of Heaven, likened as in <strong>1 Corinthians 7:32-34</strong>, see the whole chapter.<br />&nbsp;<br /><em>&ldquo;I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another woman commits adultery.&rdquo; </em><br /><strong><em>10.</em></strong><em> The disciples said to him, &ldquo;If this is the situation between a husband and wife, it is better not to marry.&rdquo; </em><br /><strong><em>11.</em></strong><em> Jesus replied, &ldquo;Not everyone can accept this word, but only those to whom it has been given. </em><br /><strong><em>12.</em></strong><em> For there are eunuchs who were born that way, and there are eunuchs who have been made eunuchs by others-and there are those who choose to live like eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. The one who can accept this should accept it.&rdquo; </em><br /><em><strong>Matthew 19:9-12 </strong></em><strong>(NIV)</strong><br />&nbsp;<br />I believe He is not speaking of or giving the homosexual a Jackie out of jail card to be free to be a married to the same sex because He mentions some eunuchs were born that way. Homosexuals are referred to in different versions of the scriptures as abusers of themselves with mankind, effeminate, sexual perverts, sodomites, and catamites. <em>Arsenokoitai </em>homosexual, malakos,&nbsp; <em>arsenokoitai </em>feminine homosexuals. &ldquo;<em>Malakos</em> is broad enough to include catamites,&rdquo; <strong>1.</strong> those who have homosexual sex with young soft prepubescent boys, and that word includes male prostitutes. <strong>1.</strong> [cited 25/12/17]<br />&nbsp;<br />The word chamberlains is: &ldquo;The Hebrew word saris, thus translated in <a href="http://www.biblestudytools.com/esther/1-10.html" target="_blank"><u>Esther 1:10</u></a> <a href="http://www.biblestudytools.com/esther/1-15.html" target="_blank"><u>Esther 1:15</u></a> ; <a href="http://www.biblestudytools.com/esther/2-3.html" target="_blank"><u>Esther 2:3</u></a> <a href="http://www.biblestudytools.com/esther/2-14.html" target="_blank"><u>Esther 2:14</u></a> <a href="http://www.biblestudytools.com/esther/2-21.html" target="_blank"><u>Esther 2:21</u></a>, etc., properly means a eunuch (as in the marg.), as it is rendered in <a href="http://www.biblestudytools.com/isaiah/39-7.html" target="_blank"><u>Isaiah 39:7</u></a>; <a href="http://www.biblestudytools.com/isaiah/56-3.html" target="_blank"><u>56:3</u></a> .&rdquo; <strong>2.</strong> Not only is chamberlain used for a castrated eunuch but a man who is a steward or treasurer or governor or a confidential servant of a King who were not necessarily castrated. <strong>2. </strong><strong>[Cited 25/12/17]</strong><br />&nbsp;<br />As for the words <em>malakos arsenokoitai </em>they refer to intercourse with same-sex male to male. Intersex and homosexuals and pedophiles all differ as do their Greek words in lexicons; it is like saying wood, plastic, and steel are the same if we called homosexuals eunuchs or pedophiles eunuchs - <em>Eunouxos or eunouchos</em>. <strong>3.</strong> [Cited, 25/12/17]<br />&nbsp;<br />I do not think they share the same characteristics, as the eunuch who is born appear to me to be the intersex persons. Meaning those with variations in sex characteristics because their chromosomes, gonads, sex hormones or genitals do not fit the typical picture and or definition of a natural born male or female&rsquo;s genital organs or reproductive system. It is evident because of this they would have had same-sex encounters as their appearance was male or soft male, yet their inner man was screaming female.<br />&nbsp;<br />&nbsp;My studies reveal there are some who are born intersex who can still procreate. Also, much of what I have read reveals castration defines eunuchs to be impotent and sexually turned off to women for the purposes of no sex drive. If these engaged in homosexual acts, it would have been for sexual perversion or they were obligated to engage.<br />&nbsp;<br />Yes, I do believe a man like this in those days could divorce his wife as Jesus could be echoing this in <strong>Matthew 19:9-12</strong>. Especially if she did not want to remain married as most women were pledged under custom. They had no choice on whom they could marry, and some who were Torah observant who did not have sexual relations before marriage.<br />&nbsp;<br />The eunuchs who are made that way are the ones who are castrated to become advisers, to tend all female harems or to be servants in palaces, chamberlains or to be or used as sex slaves. Some were corrupted by money to engage in homosexual sex as mentioned by Josephus <strong>4.</strong> [Josephus, Antiquity of the Jews XVI 8.1.231]<br />&nbsp;<br />These scriptures do not imply that these eunuchs had a homosexual proclivity or Torah observant and or all Jews. However, the Bible tells us of the eunuchs (<strong>Jeremiah 38:7)</strong>. The Torah observant they would have had to have no homosexual sex according to the law of <strong>Leviticus 18:22</strong>. Therefore, eunuchs who joined themselves to The Lord to become Torah observant were given promises (<strong>Isaiah 56:3-5) </strong>and it was fine to remain in their born condition. The account of Philip with the Ethiopian Jewish Eunuch in the New Testament reveals this truth in <strong>Acts 8:25-40</strong>.<br />&nbsp;<br />The Bible does mention the worship of Ishtar, and &nbsp;writers, historians reveal in her temples, were castrated eunuchs who were temple priests. We are forbidden by law to enter her temples or worship Ishtar or Moloch <strong>(Leviticus 20:1-3)</strong> or any other gods. In the Roman Empire in the fourth-century eunuchs were servants to the Emperors and according to this author Mark Brustman, some were Christians. Mark also mentions the Jewish Historian Josephus; in Antiquity of the Jews XVI 8.1.230 reveals that King Herod had eunuchs and &ldquo;was very fond on the account of their beauty.&rdquo; <strong>5. &amp; 6.</strong> [Cited 24/12/17]<br />&nbsp;<br />What a promise to the eunuch if he was to become Torah observant as written below, and it can be read they can be Pastors, Priests, and Leaders within His Temple. It is evident that being born intersex or being castrated or living as if by choice, these persons are still required to keep covenant, meaning the laws, the commandments and the civil and the moral laws.<br />&nbsp;<br /><em>&ldquo;For this is what the LORD says: &ldquo;To the eunuchs <strong>who keep</strong> my sabbaths, <strong>who choose</strong> what pleases me and <strong><u>hold fast to my</u></strong> <strong><u>covenant</u></strong> - <strong>5.</strong></em><em> To them I will give within my temple and its walls a memorial and a name better than sons and daughters; I will give them an everlasting name that will endure forever.&rdquo;</em> <strong>Isaiah 56:4-5 (NIV)</strong><br />&nbsp;<br />The third type of eunuch Jesus mentions in <strong>Matthew</strong><strong> 19</strong> are those who made themselves that way for The Kingdom of God. These live as if they are eunuchs making an inference of not engaging in marriage or any sexual activity. Recall, there is neither marriage nor procreation in God&rsquo;s Kingdom in Heaven, and I believe it is possible to live just for the sake of His Kingdom, just for Him in The Spirit not in the flesh.<br />&nbsp;<br />To date, all of us know there are intersex persons who have been assigned and or raised as a girl or boy by their parents yet as they grow they identify with their opposite gender, so they have surgery to marry up with their inner person.<br />&nbsp;<br />&nbsp;Many intersex persons become part of the homosexual community because they have no choice but to go into the gay and lesbian scene/lifestyle. Natural born men or women cannot deal with their genital differences and or their mindset of feeling the opposite gender than their body. Those who cannot reproduce after reassignment surgery may not be able to remain with straight men who would want natural born children also.<br />&nbsp;<br />Never think that Jesus does not understand transsexuals. He receives them, and they can be His disciple in either their raised or medical re-assigned gender; and they are free to marry after surgery to opposite sex. Recall, in the days Jesus Christ walked the earth there was no available gender reassignment for those who were born intersex, they grew up being known as either male or female to how they appeared to whatever gender they looked like they had to take that persona than the one they felt on the inside.<br />&nbsp;<br /><strong>Isaiah 56</strong> and Jesus account in <strong>Matthew</strong> annuls the laws of <strong>Deuteronomy 23:1, Leviticus 21:20</strong>. Therefore that allows eunuchs to serve and become disciple&rsquo;s kings and priests in the Melchizedek Order of Christ in either their natural born state or their reassigned state or castrated state. No one can judge them, treat them like freaks or kick them out of the church and, no matter what they are in appearance!<br />&nbsp;<br />He or she is now free to enter His House of Prayer. Free to sit as he or she is in the congregation, serve as a Priest/Pastor, free to come into His Presence and bring a sacrifice of worship right to The Throne Room, right into the Holies of Holies.<br />&nbsp;<br />Fulfillment here is in part of the prophecy of <strong>Isaiah 56:1-8</strong> for all peoples, all types, all ethnicity and races of men and women to be included in God&rsquo;s House of Prayer/Church <strong>(56:3-8) </strong>including transsexuals and homosexuals, to hold fast to His covenant to keep laws of The Covenant.<br />&nbsp;<br />Furthermore, consider the living creatures, and, many species on the earth do not fit the categories of Genesis, those that crawl, swim and fly but fit into both categories. Creation story brings forth male and female on how two opposite sex humans birthed the beginning of the children of men. In other words, revealing where we came from a procreative heterosexual relationship.<br />&nbsp;<br />Fallen angels left with Lucifer, and the following gods are intersex: Hermaphroditus, Hermes, Baphomet, and Hapi who are only a few. These or others may be some of the fallen angels or come from them reproducing between themselves or with humankind. He did have living creatures, and it would be safe to say, some others kinds of living creatures are not mentioned in scripture, so of course there are some who are intersex.<br />&nbsp;<br />Cherubim, and the seraphs around the throne, the living creatures with one head having four faces, living creatures with six wings in <strong>Isaiah 6:1-7</strong>. <strong>Ezekiel 1:14</strong> describes four living creatures in the form of man. Each of them had four faces the face of a man a lion an ox and an eagle and four wings. Their legs were straight, their feet were like those of a calf, and under their wings, on their four sides, they had the hands of a man. In <strong>Ezekiel 10:12</strong> the living creature&rsquo;s entire bodies including their backs, their hands, and their wings, were completely full of eyes. See also <strong>Ezekiel 1:1-14; 1:15-21; 1:22-24; 10:3-8; 10:9-14; 10:15-19; Revelation 4:6</strong>.<br />&nbsp;<br />So, there can be reasons why Jesus Christ has allowed intersex persons to be born and or could have formed them in the womb. See teaching under <strong>R</strong> on reincarnation; I am not inferring that reincarnation is biblical it&rsquo;s just the teaching expands truth on He ordains and forms to fulfill prophecy, signs, and works for the Kingdom for this age and the one to come.<br />&nbsp;<br />If there are living creatures in heaven, there are also intersex beings as angelic in heaven, recall fallen angels had sex with the daughters of men. Regardless, I believe still to date Jesus is calling and still asking any of the types of eunuchs to keep His laws the commandments and the civil and moral laws. If persons cannot be sexually intimate with the opposite sex as in having a homosexual proclivity they can remain single for the sake of the kingdom of Heaven. Not take thought about marriage or sexual intimacy but hold fast to Himself and His ways.<br />&nbsp;<br />The eunuch is not the homosexual, the homosexual must obey this law: - <em>&ldquo;you shall not lie with a male as one lies with a female&rdquo; </em>and or vice versa <strong>(Leviticus 18:22, 20:13)</strong> <em>&ldquo;you shall not lie with a female as one lies with a male.&rdquo;</em> This law has not been annulled in the New Testament. But the laws against the eunuch in their conditions have been. He or she is now free to enter His House of Prayer, free to sit as he or she is in the congregation, serve as a Priest/Pastor, free to come into His Presence and bring a sacrifice of worship right to The Throne Room, right into the Holies of Holies.<br />&nbsp;<br />For me to act out homosexual sin is unrighteous <strong>(1 Corinthians 6:9)</strong> to lie with a male as one lies with a female is to engage in homosexual sex and it is lawlessness <strong>(Matthew 7:23)</strong>, breaking His laws <strong>(Leviticus 18:22, 20:13)</strong>. This will bring with it the consequences for the actions <strong>(2 Corinthians</strong> <strong>10:6; Ephesians 5:3-6; 1 Corinthians 11:31-32)</strong>. For delighting in unrighteousness <strong>(Romans 1:18)</strong> and not wanting a change of heart to love His truth <strong>(2 Thessalonians 2:10)</strong> and His ways and His holiness. Acting out is not obeying His righteous instructions as how to live as one set apart for a Righteous Kingdom lifestyle or is it allowing Him to sanctify you, it is idolatry, worship of the creature over the Creator <strong>(Romans 1:25)</strong>.<br />&nbsp;<br /><em>&ldquo;What shall we say then? Is the Law sin? May it never be! On the contrary, I would not have come to know sin except through the Law; for I would not have known about coveting if the Law had not said, &ldquo;YOU SHALL NOT COVET.&rdquo; <strong>Romans 7:7</strong></em><br />&nbsp;<br />(I would have not known the law if the law had not said, &ldquo;YOU SHALL NOT LIE WITH A MALE AS ONE LIES WITH A FEMALE.&rdquo;)<br />&nbsp;<br /><em>&ldquo;Or do you not know, brethren (for I am speaking to those who know the law), that the <u>law has jurisdiction</u> over a person as <u>long as</u> <u>he lives</u>?&rdquo; <strong>Romans 7:1</strong></em><br />&nbsp;<br /><em>&ldquo;<u>We do not nullify the Law through faith</u>? May it never be! On the contrary, we <u>establish </u>the Law.&rdquo; <strong>Romans 3:31</strong></em><br />&nbsp;<br /><em>&ldquo;Let everyone naming the name of Christ <u>depart from all</u> <u>unrighteousness and iniquity</u>&hellip; flee youthful lusts and pursue<strong> righteousness&hellip;&rdquo; 2 Timothy 2:19-21</strong></em><br />&nbsp;<br />Laws are for all, laws are in place for our instruction in righteous living and are given as boundaries for us to live within. Laws reveal His holiness, His character and are there for us to know Him and how to live within Kingdom walls as His kingdom citizens.<br />&nbsp;<br />I believe Jesus words in <strong>Matthew,</strong> do not give the eunuch - the natural born or the castrated or those who did not get a sex change free passage to hang out in the gay bars and or have sexual exploits with the homosexual gender they were before their reassignment surgery.<br />&nbsp;<br />I believe if you were raised as a boy and, yet you have identified with being a girl then having gone through a sex change, you cannot go to gay bars with those who are homosexual and or marry a person who identifies as homosexual. &nbsp;If so, one would be breaking a law of abandoning natural relations <strong>Romans 1:27 </strong>and guilty of breaking <strong>Leviticus 18:22 </strong>and<strong> 20:13 </strong>as your husband is identifying as being a gay and or homosexual man for the two shall become as one.<br />&nbsp;<br />There is a high calling offered to a eunuch <strong>(Isaiah 56:4-5) </strong>to remain single to remain in his born state, a calling of king and priest to The King of Kings, a calling of a life of singleness in dedication to Kingdom living and as living unto The Lord and His business. This call to the eunuch is to overcome the world, the ways of the world, the lusts of the flesh, the pride of life, the evil one, and to know Christ Jesus and His ways His laws and Covenant. Called to be anointed to walk in The Spirit not the flesh and the calling is to be truly <em>&ldquo;born again</em> or <em>born from above</em>&rdquo; <strong>(John 3:3, 5, Ezekiel 36:26) </strong>sanctified.<br />&nbsp;<br />Called to walk the path of righteousness and to be transformed by the renewing of the mind. To allow Him to bring forth a new heart via sanctification where His laws become written to bring forth the new heart. A calling to sacrifice everything to buy that pearl of great price <strong>(Matthew 13:45-46) </strong>and to enter into the many sufferings and trials<strong> (Luke 22:28-30)</strong>. A transforming life and a life without sex or sexual relations or marriage. To add if the eunuch does not choose this high call yes, the eunuch can marry, but still required to keep laws and the laws with regards to homosexual acts. To add the homosexual is offered the high calling also.<br />&nbsp;<br />Being a eunuch for whatever reason <strong>is not</strong> referred to as sin or being in sin, yet homosexual behavior and or actions are considered as a sin in Scripture. Scripture is clear that homosexual practice is prohibited and if acted on it becomes a transgression of the law. The laws in The Word that condemn the act as sin are in <strong>Leviticus 18:22, 20:13; 1 Corinthians 6:9-10; Romans 1:26-28, 32, 1 Corinthians 6:9-11 </strong>and <strong>1 Timothy 1:8-10</strong>.<br />&nbsp;<br />I can&rsquo;t find any scriptures that release homosexuals from the laws above, none that enables them/me to be free to practice or free to marry the same sex and the eunuch is not one of them. It appears to me if you are born or made or are by choice a homosexual you either marry the opposite sex and receive healing ministry to understand and overcome the attraction. Or you can remain in the attraction and serve Him as a single person as a celibate homosexual person and or renounce it to be as <em>&ldquo;and such were some of you&rdquo;</em><strong> (1 Corinthians 6:11)</strong> by receiving ministry to work through your attraction, either to remaining celibate or to marry considering it to be nothing more than a lust of the flesh.<br />&nbsp;<br />&nbsp;Law is law, instruction in righteous living is just that, an instruction on how to live righteously, Paul says homosexuality is unrighteous &nbsp;in <strong>1 Corinthians 6:9</strong>. It is only if <em>&ldquo;where there is no law, there also is</em> <em>no transgression&rdquo;</em> <strong>(Romans 4:15)</strong>. So again, it is true &ldquo;where there are laws, there are transgressions,&rdquo; and there are <strong>seven</strong> laws in the Old and New Testaments forbidding the acts of homosexuality - laws are law, to disobey is lawlessness, a transgression, and it is unrighteousness.<br />&nbsp;<br />It is confirmed as we read in the New Testament <em>&ldquo;sin is the transgression of the law&rdquo;</em> <strong>(1 John 3:4)</strong>. So, if you break a law, it is a sin, as you transgressed. So, no sleeping with the same sex, except if you are a natural born eunuch and have reassignment surgery there is a justification, an excuse and or a pretext to not come under the judgment of a person who is engaging in homosexual sin.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;<br />Go back to the mindset of the occult, new age practices, therefore, the law is a revelation of sin and shows us what sin is or what sin(s) are what and what sin(s) we have committed. Again, laws are a revelation of the character of God as the laws of God are holy.<br />&nbsp;<br />T<strong>herefore</strong> laws are a teacher of our sin(s) n order that sin might be recognized as sin (Romans 7:3) and what our transgressions are when we knowingly or unknowingly commit sin; then this is the purpose of this occult list from A to Z as they are sins that are transgressions of His laws that need to be repented, renounced and curses revoked and to make way for healing.<br />&nbsp;<br />If we break the laws of God, we transgress <strong>(1 John 3:4)</strong> as again laws are our teacher of our sins, and, therefore, we will come under the Holy wrath of God. His Holy Love it not our ordinary love His Holy Love has wrath, the justice of His Holy Love demands He acts against our transgressions.<br />&nbsp;<br /><em>&ldquo;For God&rsquo;s wrath is revealed from Heaven on <strong><u>all ungodliness</u></strong> and <strong><u>unrighteousness</u></strong> of men, holding the truth in unrighteousness,&rdquo;&nbsp; </em><strong><em>Romans 1:18</em></strong><br />&nbsp;<br /><em>&ldquo;but to those even disobeying the truth out of self-interest, and obeying unrighteousness, will be anger and wrath.&rdquo;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br /><strong>Romans 2:8</strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </em><br /><em>&ldquo;having eyes full of an adulteress, and never ceasing from sin; alluring unsettled souls; having a heart busied with covetousness; <u>cursed <strong>children</strong></u>;&rdquo; <strong>2 Peter 2:14</strong></em><br />&nbsp;<br />We do not live by the laws of God for righteousness or eternal life, but we live by faith in His finished works for righteousness and eternal life. It is by His grace of a better way that we can abide by His laws. The laws from both the New and the Old that are not fulfilled for we are given His ability to keep them because of His grace of the outpouring of His Holy Spirit at Pentecost to all who believe - so grace and truth has come by Jesus Christ <strong>(John 1:17)</strong>. Grace came for us to now stay dead to sin by His ability to keep His laws by a walk in the empowerment of the Spirit, thus fulfilling the righteous requirement of the law for Jesus is living in us and loving us.<br />&nbsp;<br />Again because of the grace of Jesus living in us we can live within these boundaries of laws in His Kingdom; for again recall laws define sin, His character and His Holiness and His ways and His righteous requirements for a believing people of faith <strong>(Ephesians 2:8-9)</strong>. Now we know that no flesh will be justified by works of laws <strong>(Galatians 2:16-21; Romans 3:20)</strong> for righteousness, salvation or eternal life. But the just shall live by faith <strong>(Galatians 3:11)</strong> obeying laws <strong>(John 14:11-15, Romans 2:8)</strong> - all that He has said and done for us to do from both testaments.<br />&nbsp;<br />Therefore, read and consider these scriptures: (To make note again there are still laws in the Old Testament that forbid homosexual behavior, occult and new age other religions practices.)<br />&nbsp;<br /><em>&ldquo;Do not think that I came to annul the Law or the Prophets; I did not come to annul, but fulfill. <strong>18.</strong> Truly I say to you, Until the heavens and the earth pass away<u>, in no way shall one iota or one tittle pass away from the law until all comes to pass</u>. <strong>19.</strong> Whoever then shall break one of these commandments, the least, and shall teach men so, he shall be called least in the kingdom of Heaven. But whoever does and teaches them this one shall be called great in the kingdom of the Heavens.&rdquo;<br /><strong>Matthew 5:17-19</strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </em><br /><em>&ldquo;Then do we make Law of no effect through faith? <u>Let it not be</u>! But we establish Law.&rdquo;&nbsp; <strong>Romans 3:31</strong></em><br />&nbsp;<br /><em>&ldquo;For not the hearers of the law are just with God, <u>but the doers</u> of the law shall be justified.&rdquo; <strong>Romans 2:13</strong></em><br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;<br />Considering everything above in this chapter and the next, the following scriptures are used to approve of homosexual living and marriage. However, they prove law is established and<em> &ldquo;On these two commandments all the Law and the Prophets hang.&rdquo; </em><strong>(Matthew 22:40)</strong> to love The Lord and your neighbor. As we are to be doers of the law in the new life of The Holy Spirit enabling us to keep laws from New and unfulfilled of the Old Testaments (Blood Covenant is a ratified covenant of Old Covenant).<br />&nbsp;<br /><em>&ldquo;&ldquo;Likewise, my brethren, you have died to the law</em> <em>through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to him who has been raised from the dead in order that we may bear fruit for God. While we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work in our members to bear fruit for death. But now we are discharged from the law, dead to that which held us captive, so that we serve not under the old written code but in the new life of the Spirit&rdquo; </em><strong>Romans 7:4-6 RSV</strong><br />&nbsp;<br /><em>&ldquo;Now before faith came, we were confined under the law, kept under restraint until faith should be revealed.&nbsp; So that the law was our custodian until Christ came, that we might be justified by faith.&nbsp; But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a custodian. For in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith&rdquo; </em><strong>Galatians 3:23-26 RSV</strong><br />&nbsp;<br /><em>&ldquo;Rabbi, which is the greatest commandment in the law?&rdquo; Jesus replied, &ldquo;You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.&nbsp; This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.&nbsp; On these two commandments depend all the law and the prophets.&rdquo;&nbsp; </em><strong>Matthew 22:36-40 RSV</strong><br />&nbsp;<br /><em>&nbsp;&ldquo;Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law. The commandments, &lsquo;You shall not commit adultery, You shall not kill, You shall not steal, You shall not covet,&rsquo; and any other commandment, are summed up in this sentence, &lsquo;You shall love your neighbor as yourself.&rsquo; Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.&rdquo;&nbsp; </em><strong>Romans 13:8-10 RSV</strong><strong>7</strong><strong><em>. </em></strong>[Cited 25/12/17]<br />&nbsp;<br />I give people freedom to choose, to study and believe, I write and live by my biblical stance. I do not live in a homosexual way or a marriage. I live as one who has renounced the former, in celibacy and as one who is restored, renewed in the spirit of my mind giving no power to the lust of the flesh.<br />&nbsp;<br />I give freedom to the gay church and those who are LGBTQ Christians, but I disagree with their teachings. However, I do believe Christian homosexuals should be free to live by their convictions as I am free to hold my doctrinal views and personal convictions.&nbsp; I believe they should be free to marry if that is their biblical interpretation, yet I cannot find it as mine.<br />&nbsp;<br />My biblical view says a homosexual lifestyle is sin and is marriage, not the orientation. They have another Jesus, another spirit another gospel according to <strong>2 Corinthians 11:4</strong>. Yet I don&rsquo;t know what God&rsquo;s issue is not to allow Christian homosexuals freedom to be and freedom to marry when He allows the eunuch and or the intersex to marry and have reassignment surgery.<br />&nbsp;<br />If homosexuals fully believe that is their faith, then they live according to their faith, after all who has all truth? The Lutherans have the correct interpretations of scripture, don&rsquo;t they? No, they don&rsquo;t, no more than I do or the Catholic Mary worshippers or the Charismatic signs and wonders movements. Seven Day Adventists and Lutherans declare adamantly they have the correct interpretations of scripture, and you are going to hell if you do not keep Sabbath. Lutherans&nbsp;and other denominations forbid women to preach teach when it is very evident that they can if called by God.<br />&nbsp;<br />If people in churches are free&nbsp;to live by the convictions of their heart by the convictions of their denominations revelation of The Holy Bible, then so should the law observant homosexual and or homosexual Christians in church live by their conviction and revelation of their interpretation of the scriptures and the Christ they have met personally. Surely it is not just the seventh Day Adventists that inherit eternal life, or is it the Baptists only?<br />&nbsp;<br />Regardless of the next chapter&rsquo;s biblical truths, the freedom I believe in, is to give each other the right to believe and live according to the understanding of scripture and Christ Jesus. I let their own pursuit of truth be where Jesus Christ meets them via His Holy Spirit to untwist or renew or add to their understanding of being His follower, instead of policing and enforcing my Jesus or my teachings or doctrines on them or anyone as I may be under heresy myself around this doctrine.<br />&nbsp;<br />None of us can judge the heart of a homosexual Christian or do we know if they will inherit eternal life. To my understanding the enemy has blinded their minds. They are trapped by heresies and some are sinning by ignorance but growing in grace. Then some are seeking if their way of life is acceptable whilst married or in same-sex relationships.<br />&nbsp;<br /><strong>1 Corinthians 6:9</strong> does say that actions of homosexuality will not inherit the kingdom of God, but let Jesus Christ judge the heart. Many people follow the traditions of men and the teachings of men and don&rsquo;t study to show themselves approved or examine themselves to see whether they are in the faith <strong>(2 Corinthians 13:5)</strong>, so pray and release grace and walk in wisdom and seek knowledge on how to share if you sense to share.' <strong>1.</strong><br />&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<br />&nbsp;<br />&nbsp;<br /><strong>1.</strong>&lsquo;Citing electronic resources&rsquo;. <em>Homosexuals in 1 Corinthians 6:9</em> <a href="http://www.dtl.org/ethics/article/homosexuals.htm"><u>http://www.dtl.org/ethics/article/homosexuals.htm</u></a>&nbsp; &nbsp;[Online, accessed 25th December 2017]<br /><strong>2.</strong>&lsquo;Citing electronic resources&rsquo;. <em>Bible Study Tools </em><a href="https://www.biblestudytools.com/dictionary/chamberlain/"><u>https://www.biblestudytools.com/dictionary/chamberlain/</u></a>&nbsp; [Online, accessed 25th December 2017]<br /><strong>3.</strong>&lsquo;Citing electronic resources&rsquo;. <em>Bible Hub</em> <u><a href="http://biblehub.com/greek/2135.htm">http://biblehub.com/greek/2135.htm</a> </u>&nbsp;[Online, accessed 25th December 2017]<br /><strong>4.</strong> Whiston, W. The Works of Josephus, <em>Antiquity of the Jews XVI 8.1.231</em> [Hendrickson Publishers, Inc. P.O. Box 3473 Peabody, MA 01961-3473, 1987]<br /><strong>5, 6.</strong>&lsquo;Citing electronic resources&rsquo;.<em> Born Eunuchs Home Page and Library</em> <a href="https://people.well.com/user/aquarius/section3.htm"><u>https://people.well.com/user/aquarius/section3.htm</u></a> [Online, accessed 24th December 2017]<br /><strong>7.</strong>&lsquo;Citing electronic resources&rsquo;. <em>Rev. Justin Cannon, The Bible, Christianity and Homosexuality </em><a href="https://www.gaychurch.org/homosexuality-and-the-bible/the-bible-%20christianity-and-homosexuality/"><u>https://www.gaychurch.org/homosexuality-and-the-bible/the-bible-christianity-and-homosexuality/</u></a> [Online, accessed 24th December 2017]<br /><br /><strong>1. </strong>Malligan, Kathleen M.D. <em>The Abomination of Occult Practices with A-Z Prayer Strategy </em>[Triumphant Ministries Toowoomba Queensland, 4350, 2009]<br /><br /><br /></div>]]></content:encoded></item></channel></rss>