The Bible Teaches Us to "Not Fellowship with Unbelievers!"
While I have tremendous love and concern for the soul of my daughter (age 43), I cannot and will not fellowship with her while she is living in sin as a full-blown lesbian and a person who professes to be a born-again believer with a Cherokee spirit guide who leads her every thought and step!
I realize she is mixed up and badly mislead, but she is unwilling to even consider my loving guidance. She flaunts her homosexuality in my face, and takes every opportunity to create situations that could lead to arguments.
I have learned to avoid these confrontations, even though they mean not being around her. We still communicate on line, but that is the extent of our communication, as she knows which buttons to press, as I would prefer not having those buttons pressed.
We are cordial on line, and I can always avoid her taunting, but it is a major heartbreak to know what she is doing to her life.
With that said, let me say why I believe the Bible teaches us to avoid any form of fellowship with those who are committed to living outside of Gods will for their life.
No, the Bible doesn't teach us to be homophobic, but it teaches us to be detached from such people and situations. For instance, James says (in James 4:4), "don't that friendship with the world is hatred toward God? Anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God." And Paul writes, "Do not be misled. Bad company corrupts good character..." (1 Corinthians 15:33)
We read in Proverbs 4:14 - "Do not set foot on the path of the wicked or walk in the way of evil men" and in Proverbs 24:1 - "Do not envy wicked men. Do not desire their company."
And Peter exhorts us in 1 Peter 4:1-5 -"Therefore, since Christ suffered in His body, arm yourselves also with this same attitude, because he who has suffered in his body is done with sin. As a result, he does not live the rest of his earthly life for evil human desires, but rather for the will of God. For you have spent enough time in the past doing what pagans (unbelievers) do - living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing and detestable idolatry. They think it strange that you do not join with them into the same flood of dissipation, and they heap abuse on you." Could this possibly be what you are afraid of? What they might think about you or say to or about you? If so, you better think more of what the Lord will say when you stand before Him to give an account on that Day."
Finally, Paul writes (in 2 Corinthians 6:14-7:1), "Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? On the other hand, what fellowship can light have with darkness? What harmony is there between Christ and Belial? What agreement is there between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the Living God." As God has said: "I will live with them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be My people. Therefore, come out from them and be separate," says the Lord, "touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you, and you will be My sons and daughters,"
I believe that Jesus needs to be MORE important to us and to our way of life than the things of this world! If that makes me, a homophobe, then so-be-it...I am not on this earth to impress others. I am not here to be "politically correct!" And I'm definitely not on this earth to reflect tolerance towards sin.
Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed for their lustful desire to be with members of their own sex. Paul tells us in Romans 1 that men craving to be with men and women lusting after women will be turned over to their own desires, suffer from a sinful "daze" and be judged for such sins.
Please don't get me wrong! I love my daughter, but she has made a choice that can't end well for her, spiritually speaking! She is in my prayers, and on numerous lists, as I don't quit believing for her salvations. The problem is, it is solely up to her, and only the Holy Ghost can convince her to change the direction in which she is headed.
The problem is, I have several family members that have taken her side, ans because they are religious, she takes it to mean that she knows better than me. These family members refer to me as the "born-again" fanatic! Their salvation is highly questionable, as they are not in a relationship with Him, in fact they don't understand the need to be born-again. And as long as my daughters aunts, uncles, and cousins side with her; accept her; and encourage her; and put me down as that "born-again" fanantic, she'll continue to be on the fast rack portion of the freeway to hell!
Shalom,
Pastor Paul :type:
