God's love for sinners

Let’s always remember the fact that homosexuals, like all of us sinners, are the objects of God's love. The Bible says, "But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us" (Romans 5:8). Jesus Christ "is the atoning sacrifice for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world" (I John 2:2). The Christian who shares God's love for lost sinners will seek to reach the homosexual with the gospel of Christ, which "is the power of God unto salvation, to every one that believes" (Romans 1:16).

As a Christian I should hate all sin but I can find no justification for hating any sinner. The homosexual is a precious soul for whom Christ died. We Christians can show him the best way of life by pointing him to Christ. Our Lord said, "Go into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature" (Mark 16:15). We are obligated to take the good news of the gospel to all. Let us continue to seek God for wisdom in doing so.

Why is it so hard to get the Lost to see the Love of God?

In Romans 1:29 – 31, Paul reveals the reason it is so hard for sinners to accept God’s love, their hard-heartedness toward God:
Such is the spiritual state of so many in our world today.

I’ll take a moment to address something which may come up… You may have noticed that many scriptures deal with homosexual actions. We are ALL born inclined toward sin; to lie and to steal, to be self-centered and selfish, to hate and to covet. We must not do these thing. It’s no mystery why such things are so much easier than love and respect or why people so often emphasize that relationships are such “hard work.”

Let’s face it: Sin is easy.
For those sinning sexually, is it easier for them to just act on their impulses? Excluding pressure from society, yeah, it’s going to be easier for a homosexual to live out his desires then to say, “No”. The same, of course, goes for heterosexual men and women. ((It is also no mystery why so few people marry as virgins these days.))

In Ephesians 2:3, Paul says that we are all “by nature children of wrath,” and he even ties that right to living “in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind.”
God demands chastity, and He has prohibitions against fornication (sexual actions outside of marriage, and don’t fool yourself into thinking this only applies to inter-course).

Sexuality, as is made clear throughout the Scriptures, is only acceptable to God within the bonds of marriage. And marriage, as defined by creation (Adam and Eve), is something which only exists between a man and a woman. What this means is that a homosexual person is forbidden by Scriptures to both engage in sexuality outside of marriage and to marry. Given the severity with which homosexuality is treated in the Scriptures, I hope you can see just how lost our society is becoming as homosexuality (and/or bisexuality) not only becomes ever more en vogue but as marriage is redefined to include gay unions as "true marriage".

So what is a homosexual to do, then, if they cannot live out the desires they feel within, whether he or she believes they were born with them or whether they developed later in life?
They must do the same thing the liar, the murder, the hateful, the idolater, the sexually immoral, and the drunkard must do:
Repent, turn away from sin and turn to God.
They must repent, for the kingdom of God is at hand, and they will encounter the King as a merciful Savior and Redeemer.

God is more than able to give homosexuals a new nature, to remove from them the unnatural affections and to replace them with godly desires. He is able to give them strength to resist temptations.

I’m not saying the process will be easy; indeed, everyone from myself to the great apostle Paul struggles with sin, even after having experienced transforming grace. No one’s saying the termination of homosexual inclinations will be immediate.
Perhaps you’ll be able to refrain from ever again acting upon homosexual tendencies, but the tendencies will still be there. Then the goal is to refrain from acting, to refrain from even lusting after another person (whether of the same sex or different, actually), lest you commit adultery in your heart.

While it may not seem right, or fair, to have the feelings and be forbidden to act upon them, all I can offer is that the eternal reward for obedience is unbelievably worth it.