PRESENTATION MADE BY REV. EMMANUEL AGYEI KWAFO AT THE “SAY NO TO HOMOSEXUALITY AND SAME SEX MARRIAGE CAMPAIGN” ON SATURDAY 24TH OCTOBER, 2015.
The subject of
homosexuality and Same Sex Marriage has become a subject of concern to people
and religious groups probably more than many other moral vice in the world. It
has become an issue that seems controversial though the Bible has explicitly
declared its stand. God has consistently through the Old Testaments prophets
and the Apostles of the New Testament condemned the practice.
There is no
institution in the World that can show the perfect will of God and call people
to God’s righteousness than the Church, if the Church which is the salt and
light of the world fails in her great commission, then there is no better
institution to bring the message of our Lord Jesus Christ to the doorsteps of
the perishing world.
The Bible has always
frownwd at homosexuality and still frowns at it because the God we serve does
not change. The God of Israel who gave His laws to the Hebrews in the
wilderness id the same God who condemned homosexuality in no uncertain terms by
the Holy Spirit through the apostles.
Sodom and Gomorrah
was destroyed because of this perversion as jude categorically stated: Jude 1:7 just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the
surrounding cities, which likewise acted immorally and indulged in unnatural
lust, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.
The apostle Paul indicated in Romans and 1st
Corinthians that:
For this reason God
gave them up to dishonorable passions. Their women exchanged natural relations
for unnatural,
27 and the men likewise gave up natural
relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men
committing shameless acts with men and receiving in their own persons the due
penalty for their error. (Romans 1:26-27)
1Co 6:9 Do you not
know that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be
deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor abusers, nor
homosexuals,
10 nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards,
nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. (1
Corinthians 6: 9-10)
The Church is the
Body of Christ and the mouthpiece of God to communicate God’s disgust for sin
and love for all sinners to the world.
God through His word
had condemned all SINS including the sin of homosexuality.
Jesus extends a hand
of love to all homosexuals, he understands their passions and loads. But Jesus
cries out loud and clear:
Mt 11:28-30 Come to
Me all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
29 Take My yoke on you and learn of Me, for I
am meek and lowly in heart, and you shall find rest to your souls.
30 For My yoke is easy, and My burden is
light. (MKJV)
Homosexuality like
all other sins is a yoke and burden to those who practice them and the
communities in which they live but Jesus is ready to save, cleanse and
strengthen if they will come to Him for salvation.
No one can be a
homosexual and remain loyal to Jesus and there can never be a practicing
homosexual who is a Christian. All sinners including the sin of homosexuality
will lead people to hell.
I call on the Church
to take to heart to include in our devotional guides, Bible Study materials and
other literature to deliberately educate members that homosexually is wrong. As
Jude clearly stated,
For certain men have crept in
unnoticed, who long ago were marked out for this condemnation, ungodly men, who
turn the grace of our God into lewdness and deny the only Lord God and our Lord
Jesus Christ. (Jude
4)
People have been
trained and schooled to change the hearts and minds of the youth and move their
affections to sympathize with homosexuality and accept that practice as good.
Huge sums of money is been pumped into secret conferences and groupings that is
aimed at making the youth believe that homosexuality is right.
The Church must rise,
every Christian everywhere must become an ambassador to preach the message of
Christ loud and clear to the perishing world, for we are the light of the
world.
Do not hate a
homosexual, do not physically fight a homosexual, do not harm any homosexual
for that is no Christianity at all. Let us extend a hand of love to them and
snatch them from destruction pointing them to that grace of God which
transforms the vilest offender. Homosexuality is wrong.
Lets say No to
homosexuality and Same Sex Marriage.
God bless you.
Rev. Emmanuel Agyei
Kwafo
PENSA Travelling
Secretary
Central Sector
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