Typical Hate from "Bible Believers" for BL Group
Submitted by Joe Dee on July 22 1999 at 14:47:35
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FORMER SBC PRESIDENT SPEAKS AT HOMOSEXUAL CONFERENCE [Distributed by Way of Life Literature's Fundamental Baptist Information Service. These articles cannot be stored on BBS or Internet sites without express permission from the author. The articles cannot be sold or placed by themselves or with other material in any electronic format for sale, but may be distributed for free by e-mail or by print. They must be left intact and nothing removed or changed, including these informational headers. This is a listing for Fundamental Baptists and other fundamentalist, Bible-believing Christians. Our goal is not devotional. OUR PRIMARY PURPOSE IS TO PROVIDE INFORMATION TO ASSIST PREACHERS IN THE PROTECTION OF THE CHURCHES IN THIS APOSTATE HOUR. If you desire to receive this type of material on a regular basis, e-mail us, tell us who you are and where you are located, and request to be placed on the list. Also include your postal address and the name of the church of which you are a member. Please note that we take up a quarterly offering to fund this ministry, and you will be expected to participate. To unsubscribe or to submit a change of address, send your name and the request to fbns@whidbey.net. Tthis is not an automated list. Changes in the database often require two to four days. Some of these articles are from O Timothy magazine. David W. Cloud, Editor. O Timothy is a monthly magazine in its 16th year of publication. Subscription is $20/yr. Way of Life Literature, 1701 Harns Rd., Oak Harbor, WA 98277. The Way of Life web site is http://wayoflife.org/~dcloud. The End Times Apostasy Online Database is located at this web site. (360) 675-8311 (voice), 240-8347 (fax). fbns@whidbey.net (e-mail)] July 21, 1999 (David W. Cloud, Fundamental Baptist Information Service, 1701 Harns Rd., Oak Harbor, WA 98277) - Jimmy Allen, former president of the Southern Baptist Convention, spoke on July 16 to the annual conference of the Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches in Los Angeles, California. This is a homosexual group that claims to have 42,000 members in 15 countries. Allen was president of the SBC from 1971 to 1979. Allen said that though he believes homosexual acts are "contrary to biblical morality," he thinks God wanted him to be at the conference to build bridges and promote dialogue. Allen met Metropolitan Community Churches leader Troy Perry in 1998 at a conference sponsored by former President Jimmy Carter, who also is a Southern Baptist and teaches Sunday School in a SBC congregation in Plains, Georgia. One of Allen's two sons is a homosexual and has the HIV virus. Also, the wife and two children by his other sin died of the HIV virus because of a tainted blood transfusion. We sympathize with Allen's loss, but the only message a faithful preacher can give to a group of practicing homosexuals is "repent and turn from your wicked sin and trust the blood of Jesus Christ for salvation." Any homosexual can be saved by God's wonderful grace, but God requires the homosexual (and the adulterer and the thief and the murderer, etc.) to turn from his sin through the power of a regenerated life and the indwelling Holy Spirit. The Bible says the born again Christian is a new creature in Christ and "old things are passed away" (2 Cor. 5:21). There is a new direction of life. When the Lord Jesus forgave the adulterous woman, he instructed her, "Go, and sin no more" (John 8:11). Likewise, after Christ healed the lame man at the pool of Bethesda,, He told him, "Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee" (John 5:14). "Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. And SUCH WERE SOME OF YOU: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God" (1 Cor. 6:9-11). God does not save people so they can continue in their wickedness (and homosexuality is certainly wickedness before God); He saves them so they can turn from it and live holy lives to His glory. The grace of Christ is not a license to sin. "For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world; Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ; WHO GAVE HIMSELF FOR US, THAT HE MIGHT REDEEM US FROM ALL INIQUITY, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works" (Titus 2:11-14). |