“THIS IS THE REASON WHY”
This explains the reason why the Bible says, those who practice same-sex relationships (“homosexuals”) shall not inherit the Kingdom of God. Those who practice or condone LGBTQ activity prevent themselves from being conformed to the image of Jesus Christ to be a son and heir of the Kingdom of GOD in heaven because such relationships are contrary to the Law of Righteousness and the likeness of the Lord Jesus Christ, Who is the image of the invisible GOD, Whose image we are being made into, from glory to glory, world without end.
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them (Genesis 1:27). We are what GOD designed us to be. Our gender is GOD given and we should not try to change our gender by the use of drugs or by mutilating our body, which is the temple of the Holy Spirit.
Now the Spirit speaks expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; (1 Timothy 4:1). Those who think they are something other than what GOD created them to be are either deceived by doctrines of devils, are being influenced by seducing spirits, or are not of a sound mind.
He who overcomes shall inherit all things, and I will be his God and he shall be My son (Revelation 21:7).
I have spoken these things to you so that you might have peace in Me. In the world you shall have tribulation, but be of good cheer. I have overcome the world (John 16:33). Because Jesus Christ overcame the world, we too will overcome the world as we are made in His image to be a “son” and heir of GOD.
What is “the world” we need to overcome and what does it mean “to overcome the world?” Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not of the Father but is of the world (1 John 2:15-17). We overcome (gain the victory over) the things of the world (lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and pride of life) as God forgives and cleanses (purifies) us of unrighteousness (sin) as we repent and confess our sins and Christ is formed in us to become a son and heir of God.
Who is he who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God (1 John 5:5)? If we believe in the name of the Son of God, the Holy Spirit of the Son and God the Father indwells us, and we overcome the world as Jesus Christ is formed in us by following His Holy Spirit to become a son of God.
He who overcomes (the world) shall be clothed in white garments, and I will not blot out his name from the Book of Life; (Revelation 3:5a). The name of those who overcome the world will not be blotted out of the Book of Life. Jesus Christ overcame the world so that by our receiving His Spirit we too will overcome the world as we are made in His image to be a son and heir of God with our name secured in the Book of Life.
Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortionists will inherit the kingdom of God (1 Corinthians 6:9-10).
The unrighteous (those who practice unrighteousness), shall not inherit the Kingdom of God. By repenting and confessing our sins we overcome worldly sins (the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life – 1 John 2:16) as we are made in the image of Jesus Christ to be a son and heir of God (Revelation 21:7).
..….(God)condemned sin in the flesh: That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit (Romans 8:3b-4). How can we be made in the image of Jesus Christ to become an heir of God if we condone a lifestyle that is not according to the Spirit, but is contrary to the Law of righteousness and the likeness of Jesus Christ?
Because Jesus Christ (Whose image we are made into) followed the Law of Righteousness, we are made the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus by Christ being formed in us by GOD’s grace for our faith as we repent and confess our sins. The Law says it is an abomination for a man to lie with a man as with a woman.
The Son of GOD, Jesus Christ our High Priest, Who is the same yesterday, today, and forever, (Hebrews 13:8) was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin (Hebrews 4:15b), which is the transgression of the Law (1 John 3:4). You (a male) shall not lie with a male as with a woman. It is an abomination (Leviticus 18:22). Since same-sex relationships (which are an abomination) are contrary to Christ-like behavior, then how can we be made in His image to be a son and heir of God if we condone or practice same-sex relationships?
For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, (Romans 8:29a).
Whoever says he abides in him ought to walk in the same way in which he walked (1 John 2:6).
The Law is holy, and the commandment is holy and just and good (Romans 7:12).
He who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct (1 Peter 1:15).
We are under the grace of God for our faith in Jesus Christ to receive the forgiveness of sins, because He redeemed us from the curse of the Law by taking the curse upon Him when He died as a final sacrifice for sins (once for all). There is no condemnation for those in Christ Jesus that live by the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit (Romans 8:1-2, but 13).
We overcome the world (the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and pride of life, 1 John 2:16) by Christ being formed in us, so that the righteousness of the Law might be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit (Romans 8:4). Jesus Christ who was born under the Mosaic Law, was without sin (transgression of the Law-1 John 3:4) Hebrews 4:15. The Mosaic law says if a man lies with a male as he lies with a female, both of them have committed an abomination (Leviticus 20:13a). There shall by no means enter it (Holy New Jerusalem) anything that defiles, or causes an abomination or a lie, but only those who are written in the Lamb's Book of Life (Revelation 21:27).
In this the children of God and the children of the devil are manifest: Whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is he who does not love his brother (1 John 3:10).
Those who believe in Jesus Christ to be forgiven of sins and repent of the ways of the world and unrighteousness (sins of the flesh, which includes sexual relationships between men with men and women with women) are born of the Spirit as a child of God when they are forgiven by confessing their sins and continue to spiritually mature to become a son and heir of God with their name secured in the book of life.
I will declare to them, 'I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!' (Matthew 7:23).
Jesus Christ is the image of the invisible God (Colossians 1:15a). We are born of GOD (pass from death unto life) as a child of GOD by being made alive together with the Spirit of Christ when God forgives us by repenting and confessing our sins, as we trust in the name of Jesus Christ to be forgiven. We overcome the world as we are conformed to a likeness of Jesus Christ and His death to be a son and heir of God with our name secured in the book of life. However, if we condone or practice unrighteousness, we hinder our self from being born of the Spirit and saved, and being made in the image of Jesus Christ to become a son and heir of God. Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh (Galatians 5:16).
Those who are Christ's have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires (Galatians 5:24). There is no condemnation to those in Christ Jesus, who walk according to the Spirit and not after the flesh. For the Law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the Law of sin and death (Mosaic Law). For what the Law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin: He condemned sin in the flesh, that the righteous requirement of the Law might be fulfilled in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit (Romans 8:1-4).
Romans 1:20-32 For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse, (21) because, although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God, nor were thankful, but became futile in their thoughts, and their foolish hearts were darkened. (22) Professing to be wise, they became fools, (23) and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man—and birds and four-footed animals and creeping things. (24) Therefore God also gave them up to uncleanness, in the lusts of their hearts, to dishonor their bodies among themselves, (25) who exchanged the truth of God for the lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen. (26) For this reason, God gave them up to vile passions. For even their women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature. (27) Likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust for one another, men with men committing what is shameful, and receiving in themselves the penalty of their error which was due. (28) And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do those things which are not fitting; (29) being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil-mindedness; they are whisperers, (30) backbiters, haters of God, violent, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, (31) undiscerning, untrustworthy, unloving, unforgiving, unmerciful; (32) who, knowing the righteous judgment of God, that those who practice such things are deserving of death, not only do the same but also approve of those who practice them.
Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God (Galatians 5:19-21).
Decisions/judgments made by the courts and laws passed by the U.S. government concerning LGBTQ relationships can violate our U.S. Constitution First Amendment Freedom of Religion by condemning Christians for not accepting/serving/accommodating those of LGBTQ behavior. This is not a matter of discrimination, but rather, a matter of “walking in the Spirit” to be conformed to a likeness of Jesus Christ to become a son and heir of GOD in the Kingdom of GOD. This is because Christians that condone LGBTQ activity are not “walking in the Spirit as He walked” to overcome the world and become a son and heir of GOD in the Kingdom of GOD by Jesus Christ being formed within.
We are to love our neighbor as ourselves, but that does not mean we are to condone unrighteousness. Christians are not under the authority of the Mosaic Law. However, for a believer to condone LGBTQ activity is contrary to Jesus Christ (whose image we are being made into) because He followed the Law of Righteousness (Mosaic Law) that says it is an abomination for a man to lie with a man as with a woman. (Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof
He who says he abides in Him ought himself also to walk just as He walked. (1 John 2:6)In the name of the Lord Jesus,............may GOD bless
