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As a parent, we try to teach our children right from wrong.
We try and give a good education and we worry about them from the day they are born until either we are gone from this world or they are.
They are many things that a parent worries about and never wants to hear.
The call into the principal's office or the call into the doctor's office to discuss options because of a diagnosis or that 2 AM knock on the door from the police.
But what about when your child comes to you and informs you that they are a homosexual.
Many parents are not ready for this discussion and how you react will determine your relationship with your child.
First off we need realize that the world is teaching something completely different than what we try to teach them.
Same Sex attraction is normal
Sex is not determined by birth or plumbing but what you feel you are
Love is love, and as long as you love something you are honoring God.
2nd we need to see what is God’s plan:
Sexual relations between people of the same sex.
The biblical emphasis upon the loving union of male and female, as an integral part of God’s creation ordinance, establishes the context against which the censure of homosexual practice is to be set.
God’s creation order for sexuality
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Both Jesus Christ endorsed the creation order:
OT prohibitions of homosexual practice
See also
Homosexual practice is incompatible with the kingdom of God
In some translations The meanings of the Greek words for “male prostitutes” and “homosexual offenders” are disputed, but the terms are commonly associated with particular forms of homosexual behaviour.
See also
Sexual disorder is one consequence of rejecting God
Jesus Christ taught on defilement and Homosexuality
Even though many want to deny the fact Jesus did speak and teach on all sexual sin.
(ESV) - And he said, “What comes out of a person is what defiles him.
For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, coveting, wickedness, deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride, foolishness.
All these evil things come from within, and they defile a person.”
(ESV) - And he said, “What comes out of a person is what defiles him.
For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, coveting, wickedness, deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride, foolishness.
All these evil things come from within, and they defile a person.”
Paul believes in exactly what Jesus taught
Ephesians
Homosexuality associated with pagan religious beliefs and practices:
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Even though many want to deny the fact Jesus did speak and teach on all sexual sin.
(ESV) - And he said, “What comes out of a person is what defiles him.
For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, coveting, wickedness, deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride, foolishness.
All these evil things come from within, and they defile a person.”
In Sodom and Gomorrah:
How do we react
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Proverbially cat is out of the bag how should we react to this news?
Your actions will determine the relationship you have with your child and “IF” you will have influence in their life anymore.
Realize a few things:
in Israel in a time of moral decadence
Jesus ate with sinners
We see this in all three gospels in several places
We may not agree with our kids decision and truthfully this probably is not the first time.
We need to look at how Christ handled Himself to get a good idea on our reaction.
Jesus went to the sinners, He sought them out and never rejected them or an opportunity to spend time with them.
Jesus transcended the cultural norm by being in those places.
Think about something, why was the world able to convince your child of the decision that they have now informed you of.
The world seeks the outcast, the shunned and the forgotten.
The religious figures during and before Jesus time did the same thing.
They pushed the downtrodden, the sick and the deplorable away.
Do not take the same path the self proclaimed righteous take by thinking you are better than others.
Do not think that because of their sin, you can not spend time with them.
We are all sinners and fall short of the glory of God.
Do you dispose or push your child away because they tell you a lie?
Do you forbid any family member from seeing another because a child came home drunk one night?
We can’t not put more emphasis on one sin than another.
Doesn’t mean condone it, Be a light
tells us that Jesus came to seek and save the lost, not to drive them away.
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We don’t have to condone their sin, any sin.
But we have to maintain some type of a relationship if we want to have influence in their lives.
How can we glorify God if we are acting like pharisees?
We have to be the ones that shines a light on the road to the great physician.
Do not Conform
shows that we naturally conform to the world.
That’s how people fall for the false teaching because our flesh is sinful and the false teaching fits our desires.
For this exact reason, we can’t shun our children but keep the relationship open.
So that God can use your light to transform your child.
If we continue a relationship in their lives, we have an opportunity for them to keep seeing a positive influence.
This relationship should be a clear gospel message and road that does not produce a bump in their walk.
Love Unconditionally
The greatest commandment is Love the God with all your heart, all your soul and all your mind and the second is to love your neighbor as yourself.
I’m not saying that love is love and all love is ok.
But that love does heal, God’s love can heal any sin that we have committed.
We must continue to show God’s love to our kids no matter what they have done.
we have to break down the wall that the world builds in their dark place and shine the light of the gospel there.
But that is only possible if we have a relationship.
But this is not going to be easy, and I know that there is no way that I could handle this without the Love of Christ and the strength that God gives us.
How do we get this strength?
Be Prayed up
Pray again, and again, and again.
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