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| Homosexuality Part 3 |
| Written by Deacon Ralph |
| Monday, 14 June 2010 |
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Segment #3 This is the third installment of a three part series. The first installment sought to define the issue within the context of scripture and point out that the act of homosexuality has always been around and defined as unnatural and immoral. I believe that there is no scriptural evidence that could define this behavior as acceptable in the eyes of God. To attempt to do so would be an attempt to twist the meaning and understanding of truth, both biblically and within the natural law. In my second installment, I laid the foundation for the third by discussing the role of the demonic real within the life of Humanity. By the responses to that segment, I believe that many could not see the connection. They did appear to be separate discussions but that of space created the need to create “individual steps” in this discussion. However, both steps were needed to conclude with this installment, and we will connect the dots so that seen as a whole you can visualize the progression. It is precisely because many can’t see the connection between the activities of demons within the homosexual lifestyle behavior, that it makes even more sense. Their first line of defense is anonymity. With this being said, let me begin to combine both segments so that you may see what is really going on. It all must be viewed in the Light of God. Once you place the discussion with God in the picture, you begin to see all the worldly deceptions and rationalizations. The role of the demonic realm, since Adam and Eve have been to entice us to enact our free will to go contrary to the will of God. Thus, they tempt us to reject God, His rules, and His love. They can’t force us but they can deceive us to do so. Putting God Firmly in the Center of the Discussion “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.”( Genesis 1:1) This is a premise we believe as a basic tenant of Christianity. Along with these are a few others, namely, God is Omniscient, Omnipotent, and Omnipresent. If these are truly fundamental elements of our belief system, then we must take that belief and apply the logic that naturally progresses from that. God does not create mistakes! In fact, the demonic realm, understanding truth far better than we, know that God created us to Live Right or Righteously. We were created for the Beatific Vision and or to live with God in Heaven. We were created to share the divine life. It is important to note here that Catholic doctrine does not embrace the Calvinist view of total depravity of Man’s fallen nature. We don’t believe that because of Man’s original sin, our nature is now totally depraved, just wounded. (CCC 1714) Thus, we believe that while our nature is fallen and bent away from God, our creation is good! To declare that God created someone with a desire for the same nature would say that God created someone incapable of fulfilling his role as Man and or Woman. I understand that there are many people hold this belief, and I am not calling you liars. Rather, I am saying that you have been lied to. Let me give you just one example among many. While I was speaking at Franciscan University Youth Conference, I just finished presenting a workshop on over coming addictions with God. A teen (14) came up to me and shamefully shared that he was a Homosexual. I asked him his age and his reasons why he believed he was so. He shared that he has experienced some emotions of attractions to people of the same gender and heard that from school and other sources that if you have those feelings, you must be gay. As I asked a few more questions and listened to his responses, saw the internal struggle and confusion because he knew God and could understand why God would make him that way. Holding to the premise of God’s light and truth, I challenged what he believed not him! I said, I am not here to tell you that you really didn’t feel that. However, I can tell you that I don’t believe that what you felt leads to the right conclusion. "John (not his real name), you are just entering your adolescence and there are a couple of other things you must know. First of all, your hormones are going crazy and you transition from childhood, through adolescence, and into manhood. It is not uncommon at all for you to have some attractions toward other guys during this hormonally crazy period. I had them when I was your age, and I’m happily married for 19 years. Guys don’t talk about those feeling because of the shame factor. 'I don’t want other guys thinking I’m gay.'” The other real important point for you to understand is that there is a strong movement of sin within our country, and they are doing all they can to get us to believe lies. For example, a popular phrase is one you heard at School. “If you feel that way, it must mean you are gay.” For centuries since Sodom and Gomorrah, the demons of homosexuality have been trying to make this behavior “acceptable” and mainstream. Just because a bunch of people are doing it, doesn’t make it right. After having said this, the young man responded with “you mean I am not gay?” I responded with a resounding “NO”! His entire countenance changes, a strong sense of relief came over him, and he walked away in the freedom of the Lord. That incident was a relatively easy case because there were only lies to dispel. I am well aware that there are harder cases that must be confronted with the light of God's truth. These cases have the power of “experiential truth” supporting the lies woven into their interpretations of events. Two critical areas where the demonic seem to have great success in sowing lies and having individuals give up their true identity and inheritances are when traumas occur. The first and less obvious is when a child is cursed by their own parents. You may not know this but a parent can curse their kids by what they do or do not do. The things said and done to these little ones while under their “protection,” can cause great damage and confusion that are easily twisted by the demonic realm to confuse one into believing they are gay. How? The number one reason a person will enter the homosexual lifestyle is to look for Love. How does that fit with the Scripture that declares the God is Love? (I John 4:8)When a little one is denied that love or they believe that they are denied that love, they spend the rest of their lives looking for it. The greater the degree of trauma committed on a little child, the greater the confusion. Especially when the little one, out of shame and self defense, has no one to help them define what happened. They are an easy target for the subtle suggestion of the evil one. These suggestions are accepted as truth, and then they begin to live life wrongly and the pain that comes from that only adds to their confusion and belief that they are all the more unlovable. This leads us to the second way in which this confusion is sown into the belief system. Sexual abuse is rampant in our society. The demonic realm feeds on our children while our adults digest ample amounts of elicit sexual encounters. We wonder why this activity is so bad, because our adults are busy watching sexual activity and have bought into Hollywood’s lie that one can be mature enough to handle it. The last time I checked, we couldn't handle sin, that is why Jesus had to die. What about those who have elements of the opposite sex that would lend one to believe that they must be gay? Again, I want to take you back to childhood when those sensitive little boys and athletic little girls are often being raised to ignore their uniqueness rather learning about the fullness of God's blessing within them… What are the messages they are receiving from home, from their school mates who, out of their own self defense, thrive on those who are different. They pick on them and reject them all as a means of making themselves more acceptable. All the while, these little ones have to make some sense of it. So they gravitate to others who are outcast or are like themselves. Look at our world today, how difficult do you think it is for the devil to bring together sexually confused individuals who have been rejected by “normal society.” They look forward to receiving love from “expected” sources but brings them rejection and pain. W not go to someone who will love and accept them for who they have come to believe themselves to be? We don’t want to get so far into the discussion that we lose sight of God. We see from the biblical record that the farther away from God man gets, the less they understand themselves. Why did light come into the world (Jesus – John 1:1-5), if the world could see just fine? Alternatively, could it be, that we have come to believe that we see fine but in reality, we have been deceived so much that we needed Help! Thus we have the incarnation of Jesus Christ. He took the form of man to model for us what Humanity should look and behave like. (CCC 459) When you put God back into the equation of life on earth, you come to see very clearly just how confused we are. Anyone who now walks in the life and power of the Holy Spirit, who has been through the fire of a trauma and healed by God, can tell you how real the demonic influence on humans really is. They can give testimony to the deceptive work and the need to hold true to the deposit of faith left to us by Jesus. We are foolish if we believe that we can be righteous by ourselves. (Rom. 3:23) Why, because we are not alone. Satan is prowling like roaring Lion, looking for someone to devour.” (I Peter 5:8) I know I didn’t cover all the areas needed, but I would guide those who struggle with this issue to use all at your disposal to learn God’s truth about your life. Reconcile with God and ask the Holy Spirit for help. I suggest you do an emotion inventory of your past and look at the painful and or fearful areas of your past and ask God to bring you to the truth of those incidents and beliefs. In those you will find lies you might believe to be true. If you want to find the demonic corruption of your life, follow the fear. Draw close to the Lord!!! He is right and true, we will only heal in the Truth. God’s Love and Peace, drp
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last segment! I can say that many people will benefit from this through a challenge to their own life, or by relating
this to someone who trusts enough to bring it up like the young person at the conference you spoke at!
God's love and
Peace!
Jeff