True Love

  My "get along with everyone" nature REALLY doesn't want to write this.  I do love people and want to be loved by people.  But more than loving people and trying to be loved by them, I love God.  I long to hear Him say "well done, good and faithful servant".  So, I relinquish my feelings of timidity and write this.  I pray it reaches whomever it is that God wants it to reach because I have a true love for them! 

 Recently I saw this graph on a Church-going friend's Facebook page. 

Find the gay person:
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Can't do it? That's because LGBTs are humans too, and they all deserve to be treated equally. Copy and paste this as your status if someone close to you is lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender.

  I understand the sentiment but if you think about it, you could use this same sentiment and say "find the pedophile, find the serial killer, find the adulterer, find the liar, etc, etc".  Yes, they're human too.  I do believe they should be treated equally in this way...speak the truth of the Gospel to them.  

 We have a skewed sense of what true love is in our culture. We think that allowing people to continue to live however they want to, whether or not it leads to death, is love. When in reality, confronting people with gentleness and respect with the truth of Jesus, is real love.  Would you allow people to walk off a cliff to certain death without sounding an alarm and trying to get their attention however you could?   Allowing people to commit spiritual suicide without any intervention is not love, it's of Satan.  

 I'm not picking on the sin of homosexuality alone here.  It doesn't matter if your sin is homosexuality, adultery, murder, swindlers, or drunkenness, God says you will not enter His Kingdom. If you don't enter His Kingdom when you die, there's only one other place you'll go, and that's hell. A place Jesus was very vocal about in Scriptures because He has true love for us!  

1 Corinthians 6:9-11 (NIV)

Or do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God?  Do not be deceived:   Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor men who have sex with men nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.

  If you claim to be a Christian and are living contrary to what the Bible teaches, you are subject to tougher judgment.  PLEASE, reconsider, repent and come to a saving relationship with Jesus!

 Hebrews 6:4-6 (NIV)

 It is impossible for those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, who have shared in the Holy Spirit, who have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the coming age and who have fallen away, to be brought back to repentance. To their loss they are crucifying the Son of God all over again and subjecting him to public disgrace.