They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator— who is forever praised. Amen.
Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.
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Disagreement: LGBQT+ Community views God as a Loving, Kind, Compassionate God, full of Grace, Mercy and Forgiveness.
This is a Cheap-Grace, (or a “Extreme-Grace or Hyper-Grace,”) position.
Here is how the German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer (martyred near the end of Hitler’s regime) defined “Cheap Grace” in his classic book, The Cost of Discipleship (1937):
—Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance
—Baptism without church discipline
—Communion without confession
—Forgiveness without having to repent of grossly immoral behavior
—Cheap grace is grace without discipleship
—Grace without the cross
—Grace without Jesus Christ
—Grace, dying to one’s self, and letting Christ live in them
—Cheap grace is the notion that “You can stay as you are and enjoy the consolations of forgiveness.”
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I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you to live in the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel— which is really no gospel at all. Evidently some people are throwing you into confusion and are trying to pervert the gospel of Christ. But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel other than the one we preached to you, let them be under God’s curse!
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Name of our God:
Our God has many attributes that complement one another.
Here are just three examples – there are many, many more:
He is a Warrior
He is at war against and will be victorious over anything and everything
that is harmful or evil within our life.
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He is the God who Judges
“Just as people are destined to die once, and after that to face judgment…”
He is a Jealous God
You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God,
punishing the children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me
but showing love to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep my commandments.
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Jesus replied,
“Anyone who loves me will obey my teaching. My Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them. Anyone who does not love me will not obey my teaching.
These words you hear are not my own; they belong to the Father who sent me.
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The Cross Of Jesus
fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. For the joy set before him he endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
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Then Jesus said to his disciples,
“Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me.
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The Blood of Jesus
…let us draw near to God with a sincere heart
and with the full assurance that faith brings,
having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience
and having our bodies washed with pure water.
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The Blood of Jesus
Jesus shed Blood
is cleansing and purifying
my spirit soul and body
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Prayer/Decree
Heavenly Father, we declare that Jesus Christ is the son, the second person of the Trinity: the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Jesus Christ is the King of kings and the LORD of lords, the one who shed his precious blood and died on the cross and rose again on the third day. He is seated at the right hand of the Father and is alive forevermore. He is the one who will judge the living and the dead the Most-High God, the One True God, the LORD God Almighty. You are Sovereign, Eternal, All Knowing, All Present, All Powerful. The same yesterday, today and forever – the Self-Sufficient and the Self-Existent One. You only speak truth and you never have lied. This is just some of the truth of who you are. You are HOLY and call us to be holy.
We agree with Romans 1:25 as it states
“Exchanging the truth about God for a lie” is the lie is that of worshiping a false god, a god of “other than who you are.
We declare your Truth, your words are Truth, your life, you are the Way, the truth and the life. Your Light shines and dispels all darkness and we declare; that all darkness over the LGBQT+ community be broken in Jesus Name! AMEN!