Repentance, Sin, and Identity: Can Gay People Follow Jesus?
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
- In this video, I tackle an important and sensitive question: Can gay people be Christians? Exploring the idea that sexuality isn't one's core identity, we discuss how the gospel calls everyone, regardless of background, to repent and trust in Christ. Learn how sanctification and the process of becoming a new creation in Christ shape our identity and walk with Him. This discussion emphasizes grace, truth, and the transformation that comes through God's power in our lives.
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#Christianity #Apologetics #LGBT #Identity #Theology
All can come as they are, but they cannot stay as they are.
Jesus meets you where you are, but He doesn’t leave you there.
Amen! And "gay Chrisitan" is not a biblical identity.
amen !!!!!!!!!!!!
Excellent word today Alisa. It's not who we are it's only what we feel. There's no identity in that feeling.
Gay people can believe in any God they want, they can choose to believe in aliens and Bigfoot too
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I know of no other sin by which people identify themselves with. Who calls themselves an adulterer Christian.
or a drunk Christian
But those who identify as gay don't believe that it is a sin. So in their mind they aren't identifying as something sinful.
If you are truly born again, you will begin to hate your sin.
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Amen 🙏🏾
@@Makai77 Nope. You sure don't! That's why you just keep doing them.
Such a true statement. My sin bugs me a thousand times more now.
Why can't women answer a simple yes or no question?
It's a complicated topic. It's not as simple as yes and no because she had to explain the problem with the question.
Funny joke about stereotypes. Fortunally be a content creator emphasize a lot of talking about a topic.
Very well explained answer. 🙏
I'm a conservative Christian. I say "yes". We are all sinners. We will be sinners until we die. Pray for forgiveness and seek to be righteous but know you will never make it. Christ did it for you. Trust in Christ.
Being a conservative is irrelevant. This idea you agree with, leads people to hell. The sexual immoral will not inherit the kingdom of God. Unless they repent, and turn from the ways of the world, ie. Homosexuality.
Love this answer. As a Christian therapist, I hear this frequently so I appreciate your response.
What is a "christian therapist"? Are you a christian that is a therapist or joining the 2?
@ I am a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) by the State in which I live who counsels from a biblical worldview. Most of my clients are not believers and many do not want “biblical” counseling, so I meet them where they are, as long as I do not violate my own beliefs. For example, I’m not going to work with a gay person who is wanting “couples counseling” or a married person who is wanting to justify and stay in an adulterous relationship. Thank you for asking. 😊
@minajones1635 thanks for answering. This i can greatly respect. Do you see much fruit in people being saved?
@@wordsofourtestimony6390 Yes, some, but unfortunately, many people believe that God exists and that, alone, makes them Christian. The dilemma I see is that because I am licensed by the State, I am restricted in how I navigate the session regarding faith. I am currently praying about surrendering my License so that I would no longer be restricted and could freely share the gospel more openly. The problem then becomes, I will not have the exposure to as many lost people because many of my referrals come from doctors. There are certainly pros and cons.
@@wordsofourtestimony6390 Actually I find it disgusting. I am a nurse and I treat everybody in need. I would never sort my patients into those worthy of help and those that aren't.
You shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free! Jesus
great explanation, thanks for sharing
Such a great message for anyone! God bless!
God always takes the Broken. If He opens your eyes and heart you will be changed. It may not be in the way you expect. Never forget, His ways are not your ways, His thoughts are not your thoughts. All glory to God. As paul, the repeat offender said, The world is full of sinners and I consider myself chief amoung them. None are rigthous, no not one.
We call that conditional love. That would be like me saying I love you but you really need to stop with this disgusting evil christianity. Deep down you know it is wrong and your god does not exist. If I treated you like that would you feel loved or accepted?
Alisa, thank you for sharing the truth in love on this sensitive topic!
Just give a clear answer and say no. Too much compromise.
I believe she said that in a loving way. There was no compromise. Come as you are and Jesus changes us as we deny ourselves, pick up our cross and follow Him.
Thank you Alisa. I am watching from Honduras right now.
They can be if they repent and turn from their wicked ways.
Enough with this gay Christian stuff!
God doesn’t want to leave people in their sin. Do not conform to the pattern of this world… Recon (identify) yourself dead to sin.
'Reckon'
Nah, you are a christian Karen and you want to go around telling people how to live.
One has to be willing to give up their life to receive eternal life. One has to be willing to be changed. It will take as long as it takes. Transformation is painful. The worse sin is not trusting that God can change you. Think about Paul. God changed him completely. Surrender and trust God ❤
The can not do anything bu our will...not by our might or strength but only by the Will of God! To Him be all the Glory. Only after He regenerates abdvsaves us, giving us a new heart are we able to do any proper "willing" . Willing like works doesn't save but His saving Grace gives us the will to work 😊
No because in order to get into heaven you must be reborn through Jesus the Christ. I was gay for 51 years until I met my Lord and Savior and He chose me.
I’m really happy for you,but the question was "can Gay people be a Christian" not "can gay people get into heaven" like Alisa said,if you are gay then you accept Christ God will transform you and being filled with the Holy Spirit a persons eyes will be open. No different to anyone who isn’t in Christ,they still have to surrender to Jesus and leave all their old sins behind. Hope you understand that.
We must renounce by an act of our wills anything in our lives that goes against the Word of God in Jesus Name and repent with a true godly sorrow which leads to salvation yielding to and trusting the Holy Spirit to complete the good work begun in us at salvation. If we don't hate our sins, we will never experience victory over them. The problem with those who continually have "feelings" for same sex attraction is that they have not truly repented. They love their sin more than Jesus and God the Father.
"The problem with those who continually have "feelings" for same sex attraction is that they have not truly repented. They love their sin more than Jesus and God the Father."
I don't believe that's true. Attraction isn't a switch people can just flip one way or the other. Can a truly straight person, if they wanted, just flip a switch and suddenly desire their own sex? No. Alisa explained it well. A temptation may never fully go away, just like alcoholics, even when saved, may continue being tempted to partake of alcohol. It doesn't make them less saved. It's the cross they are taking up every day, as she worded it. You continue relying on Jesus, and He continues giving you victory over it. It becomes easier the more you follow His will, but that doesn't mean the temptation is guaranteed to go away. Even Jesus was tempted by Satan. To say our old temptations completely fall away and we become immune to them is like saying we somehow become better than Jesus, that Satan can no longer try to lure us away from God's path. That's just not true. Our flesh will ALWAYS desire things of the world; that is the nature of our human bodies, and Satan will ALWAYS appeal to them to try to weaken us and pull us away from Jesus. Jesus and the Holy Spirit give us the fortitude to stand against our flesh and forsake its desires, to instead follow the Word and Will of God.
@@SkiesTurnedGrey The Holy Spirit can only work in our lives when we first repent and renounce a sin/stronghold or an unrighteous lifestyle in our lives in the Name of Jesus and lay it down by an act of our wills trusting in the power of the blood and the Holy Spirit to DELIVER us from the hold it has on our lives. I believe that God saves to the UTTERMOST when we are born again becoming a new creation in Christ. As we renew our minds with the Word of God, He can cause us to hate our sin and give us the FREEDOM and YICTORY over these strongholds. I don't believe God wants us to be burdened by certain sins during our lives, but He came to set the captives free and free indeed. Sanctification is a process, and we must not give up and settle but keep fighting the fight of faith until the victory comes.
💥💥💥 Yes and Amen 👍🏼👍🏼 so true, thank you.
Very scriptural and good Alisa, we have to be sure that we do not take on the world views, but always look to what our creator God says in His Holy written Word. The trouble with modern technology is that the concept of the family bible has been lost, and reading from a designated bible is much more powerful.
Best answer I’ve heard. Thank you.
Well said.
Thank you for sharing.
If you host the Holy Spirit, it’s IMPOSSIBLE not to be convinced of sin. Murder, gossip, stealing, homosexuality, lying no sin is bigger than the blood of Christ
I really wish she would study closely the scriptures use of the word "repent". It refers to discipleship not to justification.
Everlasting Life is offered as a gift. What is so difficult about this?
I thought discipleship was the daily learning of God's ways and being conformed to His image?
So tell us how you would answer this????
Answer what?
Is "same-sex attaction" (without action) a sin? （my church is struggling with this question)
Being gay in a way that matters in a biblical worldview is a continuing refusal to stop action. People are made to love and be loved by God, including the same-sex attracted. That is what people are. People are not gay in a way that matters as an identity. Some people act gay sometimes, which is not a disqualification from loving and being loved by God, regardless of how bigoted people are. Being continuously intolerant is disqualifying.
It depends on what you do with those feelings. If those thoughts come into your mind and you let them fly on by and don’t engage with them, then it’s not a sin. If you let yourself fall into those thoughts or lean into those like daydreams, then we are sinning. We are coveting something that goes out of God’s design for us. And we are maybe using that as a coping strategy for handling stress instead of going to God or leaning on other believers for support.
@ agree. Our church is having a huge disagreement on this issue (SSA).
@@selahr. Yes, exactly. I would say that is true of anything or anyone we are attracted to. Whether it be same sex, opposite sex, money, material possessions, having children... anything. I can want something and ask God for it, but then need to hand it over to Him with the attitude "but ONLY if it is your will". Otherwise it would indeed be coveting. So yes, ANY single person may end up celibate and single. Jesus, facing the greatest struggle anyone has ever faced still said “Father, if You are willing, remove this cup from Me; yet not My will, but Yours be done.”
Of course gay people can be and are Christians, and it's not contingent upon them changing their orientation.
Great answer!
To ALL born again Christians, and born again is important here, we came to the knowledge of the truth by the Holy Ghost who brought us to Christ. we have no high priest, or Bishop, or father, Jesus Christ is our mediator? on him alone we trust. Born again Christians be of good cheer for the end times has come that means, praise the Lord we get to go home
amen sister in christ Key Jesus is yesterday today and future NEVER CHANGE MIND !!!!!!!! i am christian hearing impaired 1. Lev 18:22 Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination. 2. 1Co 6:9 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, 3. 1Ti 1:10 For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine;
If you die in homosexual sin you will not inherit the Kingdom period end of story!
Thats odd. Wonder why.
Born again Christians repent and follow Jesus as in the scriptures.
What is your advice for someone who is in a same sex “marriage” with children who is a Christian? What is the proper way forward? Should they divorce? Should they just continue living together as roommates?
They aren't true believer's, I know it sounds harsh, but it's true. Repentance is turning from evil. So if people involved in a same sex marriage, came to Christ, they would leave that situation. The Scripture is quite clear that that's an unnatural relationship.
What is to be done depends on the people and the exact situation. The most likely situation is that one of the "couple" would find Christ and the other wouldn't. Since there are children and since the Powers that Be have recognized the marriage, the law would have to be brought in to ajudicaate. Ideally, the 'believer' would try to be salt and light to both the children as well as the other partner. However, the new believer might find such a situation beyond their ability to cope with. Their first priority would have to be to protect themselves against being dragged back into the quagmire.
Nothing is impossible with God. Some of the most amazing saints I've met or known--and I have met several--came from LGBTQ lifestyles. "He who has been forgiven much loves much. He who has been forgiven little loves little." While children make things more complicated, God has to be obeyed. This act of obedience to God coupled with maintaining a parental role in the life of the children, can serve as a profound testimony to the children to the holiness, mercy, and the power of God when they become old enough to understand. A lot of prayer is needed here, and that person needs to be involved with a Christian fellowship that loves them unconditionally--and by extension their children--and will pray for them. They need people around them who will pray and not doubt. May God have His way and be glorified in this situation. PS.There are many people that were powerfully delivered out of gay or trans lifestyles who have Biblically based ministries and/or have written books to help others. Two that come to mind are Joe Dallas and Becket Cook. Both are on FaceBook.
Since a believer is to flee from sexual immorality, they should seek to get out of that relationship and both parties should provide for the children with shared custody.
Yes. Gay , straight, white, black, tall , short.. all can be christians
Jesus died on the cross, so we no longer have to pay a penalty for our sin, IF we believe He did this for us, and if we repent and turn from our sin. If God is truly the Lord and Saviour of your life, He will convict you of sin in your life. This is a process He uses in our lives called sanctification. If you never feel sorrow over the inevitable times of sin, then you may want to check and see if you truly repented. God will always convict true believers that their sin is not something God will ignore. He wants us to be daily growing to become more like Him.
You'd be surprised how many gay people go to church and are accepted,
Come aa you are. Let Jesus take care of the rest.
Can you be a republican and christian at the same time?
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amazing book i agree
thanks
Christianity isn't about us finding "personal and professional success." It's about dying daily to sin and being transformed into the likeness of Christ. The primary blessing of the Gospel is for an enemy of God to be reconciled to Him. What follows is a life of gratitude, which is beyond value.
So you're ignoring the Bible for some other book? Okkkkk 👌🏼
@@mchristr read the book first then comment
I recently was talking to a local vicars husband...... They don't agree with homosexuality as being good but used the'gay Christian ' expression and I explained why it wasn't correct. Same sex attracted. No such thing as a gay Christian.... It's like saying I'm an alcoholic Christian etc. Ridiculous!
There have been gay and bisexual POPES.
If it's good enough for the Catholic Church, then of course you can be Gay and Christian !
(Unificationism, Rev Moon)
I’d like to suggest some vocabulary that might be helpful - our “fallen nature” vs our “original nature”.
Due to the Fall of Man, which was when the angel Lucifer, symbolized by a snake, tempted Eve with a succulent fruit that symbolized sexual love, Eve was seduced by Lucifer’s sexual temptation and slept with him. Afterward, she felt guilty and tempted Adam to fall sexually in a way that she dominated Adam and made them both fall under servitude to Lucifer, who was cast down to hell for his sexual sins and renamed Satan by God.
Adam blamed Eve, and Eve in her immaturity bore two children, Cain and Abel. Cain inherited the first fallen love of his fallen father Adam. In other words, Cain inherits “fallen nature” - jealousy, passions to murder, arrogance, fear, narcissism. God wanted Cain to humble himself to Abel and remove his fallen nature and return to his original nature. But humans are obstinate, and after many fallen generations of NOT doing this, human spirituality became dull and we lost our ability to see angels. Also, our fallen nature is ingrained in us. Because we are born in illicit sexual promiscuity, it is very hard for us to change, and only the Second Advent can start us off in reforming ourselves. The first step is to understand what the root of sin committed by Adam and Eve was. Since it's an ancestral problem that we inherit, even if a gay man attends church, he will still feel gay. The only way to heal us is to engraft by marriage onto a better lineage through marriage - this is exactly why Jesus came - so that humans can change their fallen blood lineage to a better one. So, the 1st generation of members in our church have hangups - drugs, homosexuality, debt, that we try to control and pay penitence for, and the 2nd and 3rd generations born have less and less burdens. We don’t expect gays to transform overnight or even in their lifetime.
Let’s stop pointing fingers at homosexuality and take a moment to reflect on ourselves. None of us are perfect, and it’s worth remembering that even within our own local xhurches, people struggle with all kinds of issues, including sexual sin. Should those struggles stop? Of course, but the reality is, we all fall short in different ways.
We all sin, whether it’s through actions, words, or thoughts. So rather than focusing on others’ faults, why not take the opportunity to look inward and work on our own hearts?
Alisa was answering a question, albeit in a roundabout way.
Yes, everyone sins. It's when it is a lifestyle sin that the fingers need pointing (your wording)
There's a difference between sinning and living in sin
Excellent❤️
There are hetero couples living together unmarried with kids who follow Jesus -- I know of some.
Is it my job to tell them Jesus does not approve of unmarried couples living in sin?
So you are saying that the person was never saved before they lived a homosexual life style?
The devil is a liar and a deceiver. In current decade most Christians accepted Christ and were saved but they failed on habitual sin and now their hearts are hardened.
Spirit of lust has entered!! 😢
Nope,not practicing ones.
You will know them by their fruits
Yes, everyone who is in Christ is a new creation. That is true. This explains how Donald Trump came to be such a godly, caring, and empathetic human being.
Question is if he is truly born again? Only God knows. Anyone can say they believe in God. Not all have true saving belief!! We look to Jesus, not any president!!
@@Daughter_of_the_King316 To your question as to whether Trump is truly born again?
Matthew 7:16 KJV
16 Ye shall know them by their fruits.
@guymontag349 i dont spend any time w the guy to inspect him for fruit.😬
Also in context verse is speaking of false prophets, read scriptures before. I am no Trump fan btw. Voted for him bc Republican policies have more Christians values.
@ "Republican policies have more Christians values"?!? Sister, you need to do some serious soul-searching. Take a look at what Trump and Musk are doing to USAID and see how people, mostly children, are being denied food, HIV treatments, and vaccines and tell me again about "Christian values".
You and I clearly heard and read two different Gospels. I follow Jesus of Nazareth, not Donald of Mar-a-Lago.
Change,repent then yes
Does the word "Abomination" ring a bell?
Pastor Sam Allberry wrote a book everyone would benefit from reading. Is God anti-gay?
The answer is no.
That is a BIG NOPE...
The simple answer would have been No! Then you explain why! You cannot live a Christian life and be a sinner at the same time. And no it is not first you get saved and then slowly over time God takes your sin away. It is not how you feel, it is who you are in Christ Jesus, I am now adopted into the Family of God, I am a child of the Most High God!
Can bankers follow Jesus?
Faith in jesus is all that is required. Jesus died once and forgave all sins for those who believe in him. Once and for all! But remember faith would be doing what God wills. The only unpardonable sin is to deny the holy spirit. Being a complete absolutist against God shutting out his Holy Spirit would be just that. Everything else christ has you covered. God is that merciful and kind much more than what our pitiful sinful selves are. Be good. lol
If they repent
I believe that people are called at all different areas in their lives..as Paul says, "some of you were". The Scriptures also says that no adulterous, sexual immoral, liars etc will inherit the Kingdom (Lifestyles). This relates to gays and strait people. If you identify as a gay christian putting the gay before christian then I worry. Our bodies are not our own. We were bought for a price. God's plain desire for us to live holy lives and if you do not accept this then it is the Holy Spirit that you are rejecting. The Scriptures are just so clear about this issue. You can choose to ignore it but it is open for anyone to read. My greatest fear is I will face the Lord and he would say, Depart from me, I never knew you. Most in the western world hate Jesus as He says He is Lord of All. Jesus forgive the adulterous women, who was condemned to be stoned, but he told her to go and sin no more. Most of us have lived immoral lives but God saves, loves and redeems us-but he also says go, and sin no more (lifestyle) I would have to tell my brothers and sisters to not be deceived in this area. We all have to take up our cross and follow Jesus. We have to make the tough choices but God's grace is sufficient. We all struggle with lust, but we are new creations in Christ. I talk too much :) The Pursuit of Holiness by Jerry Bridges is a great easy read but rich in explaining the path to holiness.
Gay is not sexually immoral.
Nope! Homer's are SOL.
No, they can't
You really need to clarify what you're saying. "Can gay people follow Jesus?" is not "can gay people be Christians." According to the holy trinity Jesus is God. Your question should therefore be, can gay people follow God. People can believe in God without believing in religion.
Even the demons believe in God and tremble.
No
Thanks for the clarification. (That was easy. Huh!)
Can Republicans follow Jesus?
I doubt any US politician follows Jesus.
Calvinists believe God meticulously controls people's sins and He has chosen who would be born that way.
This basically is religion and not the way the kingdom of God works.
A fundamental flaw in your teaching is that we are born in sin and are all outside the kingdom of God until we make the correct decision and meet the requirements.
The truth is that in the Last Adam, who is Jesus Christ, there is no sin nature and since we are in Him, after His resurrection, we were born into the nature of the Last Adam.
Paul stated clearly (Acts 17) that we ALL, including the pagan idol worshippers he was speaking to, are children, offspring (genos) of God and IN HIM we live and move and have our being. We were born again (anagennao) by the resurrection of Christ. His action, His choice, our benefit and inheritance.
As people begin to understand that they are God's children, not outside the family, not dirty sinners that God is angry with, sin (which is the failure to know and live in our true identity), goes away. WE are no longer missing the mark of who God is and who we are as His children.
Your gospel, is no gospel. It is not GOOD NEWS, it is mostly bad news. All the things you say we have to give up when we become a "Christian" naturally just begin going away and dropping off when we learn that we are not totally deprave sinners, but actually children of God. We, (good, bad, or ugly) automatically become in action and behavior, who we perceive ourselves to be. This is simply a fact, tested and proven many times in many ways. We act and behave just like the person we perceive and believe ourselves to be. So, repentance is simply changing our thinking about who and what we are and allowing Father, Son and Spirit to begin convincing us of that truth. Behavior automatically follows our belief and we effortlessly are transformed.
Why to evangelicals have such a difficult time seeing this simple truth of God's kingdom and continue to bring people under their religious system of bondage and behavior modification?
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This is rubbish though. Have given this to God years ago. Nothing changed. All I know now is that I am a sinner for being me.
Welcome to the club, now that you know this, what will you DO about it?
I don't believe a Biblical answer is rubbish. The Holy Spirit is the One who brings change in our lives.
She is wrong. The two main passages Romans 1:28-32. “God gave them over to a reprobate mind… and it’s even a shame to speak of the things they do and then malikos arsenokoitai often translated Homosexuals and then it says such were some of you. So which is it… Also if you’re going to take the Bible that literally she should be wearing a head covering and not be speaking in front of men. Repentance simply means change your mind. I can change my mind all I want and it never changed. As a former worship leader, prayer warrior, and ministers nephew my gayness never changed. The Bible truly condemns people who have rejected God in idolatry and know the right things to do, and then people with loose morals (soft ones) or slave boys and man bedders (or dominant abusers) If homosexuality was really condemned as it stands today it would’ve been exhaustedly explained and condemned. Ms. Childers tries hard but she doesn’t have an answer for things it’s exhausting
Must make a man feel so small when a woman offends him with God's truth. Twist as you may, that the devil working to keep ya chained. God seemed powerful enough to remove my sexual sin and immorality I'm sure He can handle you. Something tells me you like your sin.
So you're saying none of the prohibitions in 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 stand for today? Everything's fair game?
@ no I’m saying the words that are translated as homosexuals in the conservative evangelical translations are the only ones that are up for debate. Everybody knows what the other words versus nine and 10 mean.
@anthonytylernecerato4289 Believe it or not, many of us HAVE studied the words "malakoi" and "arsenokoitai". The book by Dr. Robert Gagnon is probably the best exposé on the topic.
@ I have studied Gagnon’s work and BDAG and the ESV’s translation choices etc. I respectfully disagree and would side more with Kathy Buldock and the 1946 movie crowd. If I concede for the sake of argument that 1 Corinthians 6:10-11 teaches you can be set free, then it contradicts the “reprobate mind” verses of Romans 1. I am incredibly uncomfortable with that and so on. I have a powerful testimony of deliverance but not from Same sex attraction, and not its not just lust either,
The message is the same for all who practice sin: REPENT.
Absolutely not