So today I am 40 yrs old. I thought that I would be at some other place, somewhere else, doing what my hearts desire was. I had a lot of aspirations for myself a lot of goals. I never thought that there would be so many obstacles in the way. I never thought that I would suffer so much loss in my life, never thought that I would go through times where I was barely clinging on to that last thread of hope that God had given me. You see I have gone through the wringer in my life several times. If you were to ask people that know me, you would here them say, "Chris, by every definition is a miracle."
No, I do not bear scars that you can see, I do not have any fantastic stories of how God saved me from sex, drugs and rockin' roll. Just a whole lot of getting beat up in life, a whole lot of being abandoned by people I loved, whether by sudden death, or by them choosing to leave on their own accord, suddenly, or by them choosing something else consistently over me. Yet every single time any of them have came and asked for forgiveness, I have forgiven them, I have forgiven those that have never asked for forgiveness as well. Why am I saying this? To brag? To make you feel sorry for me? To show that I am better than you? No. I am merely stating my qualifications to write on what I am about to. You see friend, there is a lie going around, and I cannot stay quiet. It is a lie that masks itself behind what every Christian should know. This lie creates the opposite wherever it goes. It is the lie that love is God, that love is supreme. You see, who better than to recognize real love than one set free of real hate, real pain, and real abandonment.
Here is the truth, God is Love. 1st John 4:8 tells us that God is love.
Here is the lie, if God is Love, then obviously love is God. Therefore anything that we call love is of God because God is love.
Here is the fallacy of this belief; It hinges on the premise that we know what love is better than God does. John 3:19 (same author as 1st John) says "And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil." And in 1st John 4, before he writes about God being love he writes a warning to all of us Christians.
Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world. 2 By this you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God, 3 and every spirit that does not confess that[a] Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God. And this is the spirit of the Antichrist, which you have heard was coming, and is now already in the world.
4 You are of God, little children, and have overcome them, because He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world. 5 They are of the world. Therefore they speak as of the world, and the world hears them. 6 We are of God. He who knows God hears us; he who is not of God does not hear us. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.
He foreknew that this next verse would somehow be twisted, and perverted, and vomited out by the mouths of demons onto the bodies of those slain for the false god people will call love. He even clarifies what love is:
He who does not love does not know God, for God is love.
In this the love of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him.
In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
Love will bring us to repentance, to the saving knowledge of what it was that Christ actually did for us on the cross. If it does anything else, it is not love.
I am one that has seen rejection first hand. I have been hated for no reason other than I am the way that God made me. So I know, I understand, what hate is, I understand the opposite of love. I also understand what love is, how it works, how it changes peoples lives for the better, how it draws them toward God. I understand enough to know how to recognize the false love of the spirit of the anti-christ. How that false love separates people, divides them, makes them lovers of themselves, unfaithful, boasters, cursers of God and anything that represents Him, and His true love. The love that brings us from the darkness of John 3:19 and into the light of John 3:21.
So where am I going with this? Friday, the all of the headlines said that "love wins" and the media was flooded with hate towards those who dared oppose anyone getting their "love equality." Fairness for all they raged, equality, fairness, love freedom for all, love yourselves, be proud of who you are. So here I am, recognizing this lie, and, realizing that I will be hated again, just for being who I was created to be, and I cannot stay silent. Those close to me know where I stand, but it is not enough. If I say nothing, for me that will be a sin. If they want fairness, and equality, then that it what they will get. In all fairness and equality. The wages of sin is death. In all fairness and equality, Romans 1:18-32 is still a part of the Bible. For me, for any Christian, to condone this behavior it is the same as us doing it ourselves.(Romans 1:32) Why would I do so? Why would I trade this lie for the truth. I know that it would make a lot of people happy if I did, but I cannot. In the same way that Jesus could not deny who He was, I cannot deny Him either, nor can I deny who He has made me to be. I cannot deny the truth of love, the truth that says that I love God so much that He causes me to love my fellow man so much that I am compelled to warn them of the grave dangers that sin promotes, the rottenness beneath the perfume. To not do so is sin, to not stand up and speak on the truth is the same as lying. So I can not do this, I am coming out, I am a Christian, I believe in God, the Holy Spirit, Jesus as the trinity. I believe that the Bible is God's Word, that He wrote it, and that it's statutes on life stand and are relevant to this day and on through eternity. And on this matter I am sure of, the Bible says that homosexuality is sin, and I am compelled by LOVE to point this sin out as sin, without condemnation, so that everyone that knows me will have the chance to find God, who is Love, and come out of their sin, into the freedom that awaits them and further on into eternal life. I realize that those of you who have considered me a friend and cannot handle this will no longer be my friend. But I do not care, because when I die, I will not stand before you, I will not stand before the great minds of any age, nor will I stand before anyone but God. And when I stand before God having given up the lies of this world for the truth of Heaven, I will hear the words that I so look forward to hearing. "Well Done"
No, I do not bear scars that you can see, I do not have any fantastic stories of how God saved me from sex, drugs and rockin' roll. Just a whole lot of getting beat up in life, a whole lot of being abandoned by people I loved, whether by sudden death, or by them choosing to leave on their own accord, suddenly, or by them choosing something else consistently over me. Yet every single time any of them have came and asked for forgiveness, I have forgiven them, I have forgiven those that have never asked for forgiveness as well. Why am I saying this? To brag? To make you feel sorry for me? To show that I am better than you? No. I am merely stating my qualifications to write on what I am about to. You see friend, there is a lie going around, and I cannot stay quiet. It is a lie that masks itself behind what every Christian should know. This lie creates the opposite wherever it goes. It is the lie that love is God, that love is supreme. You see, who better than to recognize real love than one set free of real hate, real pain, and real abandonment.
Here is the truth, God is Love. 1st John 4:8 tells us that God is love.
Here is the lie, if God is Love, then obviously love is God. Therefore anything that we call love is of God because God is love.
Here is the fallacy of this belief; It hinges on the premise that we know what love is better than God does. John 3:19 (same author as 1st John) says "And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil." And in 1st John 4, before he writes about God being love he writes a warning to all of us Christians.
Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world. 2 By this you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God, 3 and every spirit that does not confess that[a] Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God. And this is the spirit of the Antichrist, which you have heard was coming, and is now already in the world.
4 You are of God, little children, and have overcome them, because He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world. 5 They are of the world. Therefore they speak as of the world, and the world hears them. 6 We are of God. He who knows God hears us; he who is not of God does not hear us. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.
He foreknew that this next verse would somehow be twisted, and perverted, and vomited out by the mouths of demons onto the bodies of those slain for the false god people will call love. He even clarifies what love is:
He who does not love does not know God, for God is love.
In this the love of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him.
In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
Love will bring us to repentance, to the saving knowledge of what it was that Christ actually did for us on the cross. If it does anything else, it is not love.
I am one that has seen rejection first hand. I have been hated for no reason other than I am the way that God made me. So I know, I understand, what hate is, I understand the opposite of love. I also understand what love is, how it works, how it changes peoples lives for the better, how it draws them toward God. I understand enough to know how to recognize the false love of the spirit of the anti-christ. How that false love separates people, divides them, makes them lovers of themselves, unfaithful, boasters, cursers of God and anything that represents Him, and His true love. The love that brings us from the darkness of John 3:19 and into the light of John 3:21.
So where am I going with this? Friday, the all of the headlines said that "love wins" and the media was flooded with hate towards those who dared oppose anyone getting their "love equality." Fairness for all they raged, equality, fairness, love freedom for all, love yourselves, be proud of who you are. So here I am, recognizing this lie, and, realizing that I will be hated again, just for being who I was created to be, and I cannot stay silent. Those close to me know where I stand, but it is not enough. If I say nothing, for me that will be a sin. If they want fairness, and equality, then that it what they will get. In all fairness and equality. The wages of sin is death. In all fairness and equality, Romans 1:18-32 is still a part of the Bible. For me, for any Christian, to condone this behavior it is the same as us doing it ourselves.(Romans 1:32) Why would I do so? Why would I trade this lie for the truth. I know that it would make a lot of people happy if I did, but I cannot. In the same way that Jesus could not deny who He was, I cannot deny Him either, nor can I deny who He has made me to be. I cannot deny the truth of love, the truth that says that I love God so much that He causes me to love my fellow man so much that I am compelled to warn them of the grave dangers that sin promotes, the rottenness beneath the perfume. To not do so is sin, to not stand up and speak on the truth is the same as lying. So I can not do this, I am coming out, I am a Christian, I believe in God, the Holy Spirit, Jesus as the trinity. I believe that the Bible is God's Word, that He wrote it, and that it's statutes on life stand and are relevant to this day and on through eternity. And on this matter I am sure of, the Bible says that homosexuality is sin, and I am compelled by LOVE to point this sin out as sin, without condemnation, so that everyone that knows me will have the chance to find God, who is Love, and come out of their sin, into the freedom that awaits them and further on into eternal life. I realize that those of you who have considered me a friend and cannot handle this will no longer be my friend. But I do not care, because when I die, I will not stand before you, I will not stand before the great minds of any age, nor will I stand before anyone but God. And when I stand before God having given up the lies of this world for the truth of Heaven, I will hear the words that I so look forward to hearing. "Well Done"
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