Anyone witnessing will be challenged on homosexuality. Some will say it’s wrong to condemn, since people are born that way. Others will say grace prohibits judging. What is our response? First, we are all born sinners (Ps 51:5) with proclivities in different directions, but cannot excuse our sins by claiming “that’s the way I am.” Second, although some sins do greater damage that others, we should declare a gospel that both condemns all sin and provides forgiveness for all sin repented for. Third, it is not temptation to sin that is deserving of judgment (unless we put ourselves in harm’s way), but yielding to sin. A person who feels Christianity cannot be for them because they could not abandon their homosexuality must be told not only about Christ as Savior from sin’s penalty, but also from its power. “And such were some of you. But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God” (see 1 Cor 6:9-11).
Today’s Reading: 1 Chronicles 10-12 Memorize: Ezekiel 36:26