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What must gays, like John Paulk, do to be saved?

Actually, they have to do the same thing everyone else has to do.

If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is by believing in your heart that you are made right with God, and it is by confessing with your mouth that you are saved. (Romans 10:9-10)

As many have said over the years: “Grace plus faith plus nothing equals salvation.  Period.

The Lord has no special scriptural requirements about changing our life styles, confessing our sins, cleaning ourselves up, studying scripture, or anything so that we are readied to be saved. We just come as we are to Him. It’s His free gift, which is offered to all of mankind.

Okay! Okay! There’s a little more, but even that is done by Him.

No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him. And I will raise him up on the last day. (John 6:44)

Think of this: the Father draws us by His Spirit to His Son for eternal salvation. By His omniscience, the Father saw us on our worst days committing our worst sins, and yet He wanted us to be His children.

Thus, this means the Father saw gays giving their lives to the Lord and then some of them still continuing in their gay lifestyles. Yet, the Father still chose to draw them to His Son for eternal salvation.

Grace is mind-blowing stuff, right? And thank God for that!

So, I repeat: was John Paulk correct when he said, “We [gays] are not broken, damaged, inferior or throwaways. We are created in the image of God—just like everyone else?”

(Continued in Part 7…this series began here on June 21, 2014.)

I am not a proponent of psychology, psychiatry, or any drugs and therapies that go along with these theories, even when they are cloaked under the heading of Christian therapy. But…

I am enough of a realist to understand that God is first and foremost a Redeemer who uses whatever He has to use to set people free from whatever imprisons them.

Okay, now you know my stance on the merits of these so-called behavioral sciences.

In late September, 2012, California Governor Jerry Brown signed into law SB1172 which prohibits psychological therapists from counseling gay youths into becoming heterosexuals.

Within days, appeals were made by various organizations, including the Liberty Counsel, a legal aid group headed by Matthew Staver. The appeals delayed SB1172 from going into affect until the appeals’ process was completed.

The Supreme Court ruled in favor of SB1172 on last Monday. The law will now go into affect within days.

“The Supreme Court has cemented shut any possible opening to allow further psychological child abuse in California,” said California Senator Ted Lieu, the law’s sponsor.

Thus, the door is cemented shut, right?

Smith Wigglesworth held healing crusades all over the world during the 1920’s and 30’s. Thousands were healed by his healing touch. But Sweden posed a special problem for Wigglesworth in that the medical profession and Lutheran leaders convinced the king that he was practicing medicine without a license.

To hold a crusade in Stockholm, Wigglesworth had to promise not to touch anyone with his hands.

When the time came for Wigglesworth to pray for the sick at the crusade, he told those who needed healing to raise their hands. Hundreds responded. He then told the crowd to lower their hands except for one woman. He asked the woman to tell about her problems. She related how she could not lie or sit down because of the extreme pain she suffered.

“Lift your hands high,” said Wigglesworth. “In the name of Jesus I rebuke the evil one from your head to your feet, and I believe God has loosed you.”

The lady danced and jumped around, excited to be free from her pain.

He then told the crowd to lay hands on themselves. Hundreds were immediately healed.

But He said, “The things which are impossible with men are possible with God.” (Luke 18:27)

(Continued in Part 4)

Believers love to say, “We walk by faith and not by sight,” but in all honesty, we dislike walking by faith. We would rather view everything as black or white choices, as in drop a ball ten times off the table and watch it hit the floor ten times. Do it a hundred or a thousand times and the results will always be the same. The ball hits the floor. This is called empirical science because we easily observe it with our eyes.

Now, let’s check Jesus’ scientific methods for His healing miracles:

Jesus healed the blind by just speaking to a blind person, by touching a blind person’s eyes with His hands, by spitting on the eyes, and by putting a spit and mud mixture on a blind person’s eyes and then telling him to wash himself in a certain pool almost a mile away.

Jesus healed the deaf, mute, and one with a speaking impediment by sticking His fingers in a man’s ears and spitting on the tongue, and then commanding the man to be healed and by casting a demon out of a young boy.

Jesus said that we believers would do His works and greater ones, but to date, what’s our success rate? Not so good, right?

You would think by now we would have learned that pouring olive oil on a sick person’s forehead and praying a prayer of faith doesn’t always work. But yet, we keep doing it over and over and over again with very few – if any – successful results. Why?

We would rather fasten ourselves to a scriptural practice – sort of a scientific method – of praying for the sick, rather than learning how to walk in the Spirit by faith and doing the works of Jesus.

Guilty! Yes, we’re all guilty of doing this.

And then we wonder why gays mock us, huh?

(Continued in Part 3)