Confused

Matthew 1:21 "She will bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins.”

While brushing my teeth Monday night, I was captivated by a preacher on television. This preacher was openly homosexual and his well mannered debate with an evangelical was based on the fact that we should be able to critique scriptures. His convincing position stated that Jesus came for everyone and that there were parts of the bible that just weren't applicable to us anymore. His basic message was that he believed Jesus came to justify all human beings. As I listened I could not help but pray for the preacher and all of the people who are deluded about the Gospel.

Jesus came to save us from sin. Yes he came to save us from the penalty of sin, but He came to save us from it entirely. That topic seems to be missed by the majority of people today. He wants us Holy, he wants to protect us and He wants what is best for us. if we believe that God is all good and sin is all bad then we must become aware that our sin nature tries to fool us in to thinking God is with holding something from us as He wages war against sin.

The homosexual debate seems to be the hottest topic about sin so I will address it here specifically, but you could substitute any sin in its place. When the preacher made his case to critique scripture he talked about the non practical OT law and said surely a law that punished homosexuals by death and also forbade the eating of pigs is irrelevant. Logically that sounds nice but when you pop open the hood that car does not drive. You have to look at what Jesus says about sexual immorality in Mark 7:21, "For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery". Look at the words of Paul in 1 Corinthians 6:9 and echoed in 1 Corinthians 6:9, "Or do you not know that the unrighteous[1] will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality,". Then think through Peter's word in 2 Peter 1:20,"20 knowing this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture comes from someone's own interpretation."

The bible is clear about sins. All sins, and it is clear about homosexuality as one of those. If we misunderstand Jesus coming to save us from those sins we have left the faith. In an argument to defend sin, in this case Homosexuality, we would have to critique and eliminate the words of Moses, Jesus, Paul and Peter. If we do that our faith is in our own opinions not Jesus and we have completely left the Christian faith. Jesus came to save us from sins, if we spend all our time trying to justify the sin in our life that we enjoy, how can we really think we are walking with Him?

We all have sinned and fallen short. the offer from Christ is to repent form those sins, turn and follow Him in pursuit of righteousness which is like being drafted in to a war against sin.