Amen to that! Still working through struggles and desires. It runs deep but with God, all things are possible. And having a healthy connection with other men is so important. The enemy has perverted everything God meant for good. And yes you are right, eat God's Word everyday so the mind can be renewed as well as the heart. Take care my guy 👍
Thank you for sharing this message and thank you for your channel content. I’ve been battling with same sex sexual desires for as long as I have memory, lived a same sex lifestyle from 19 to the first 2 months of my 25th birthday, but in the name of our almighty holy lord Jesus Christ I’ll be freed from these unholy chains that the enemy try to keep me to be away from the path God has for me according to his purpose. Amen
Greetings and the Peace of Christ to you! Your video is refreshing and I am glad to have found your channel and thoughts of a similar mind. May God bless you and keep you.
It's a sin. it's not an orientation. It's sexual sin. I repent of that sin. i forsake and leave it under the blood of Jesus. IF I am tempted again, I again turn to Jesus and ask for strength to say no. If I fall, I repent. Just like any other sin. Stop asking me if my "orientation" has changed.
Glad to see you again after all this time! I actually would love to speak with you over Zoom or something if you have time, my friend. May God richly bless you and yours!
Taylor, thank you for this video. I’ve never seen a video of yours until today, but God knew I needed to hear this message. Same-sex desires is the most rampant sin in my life and in the past month, I’ve seriously decided to release the desire to Jesus and ask for his help. I’ve been searching for resources to help reinforce God’s design in my life in addition to the Word. I will absolutely check out more videos on your channel and I appreciate you sharing your testimony. Continue to preach the gospel to all creatures! God bless you. You’ve helped this fellow brother in Christ ❤
I pray that you find ALL that you are looking for in our Lord and King Jesus Christ! Press into God and ask Him to bring an abundance of healing and clarity into the confusion. Let the Lord speak to your wounds and hurts. He longs to bring healing to your heart. GOD BLESS BROTHER!
Praise Jesus! As with all Sin!! Only A Bowed Heart ♥️ & Life to Jesus Christ will there be VICTORY!!! One ☝🏼 Nano Second at a time, & I’m Truly Victorious in Him!!!!
It's just so frustrating wanting something you know you'll never have. The desires are annoying and aggravating. I agree with the God, He's right I'm wrong. I give God all authority, it's just a pain in the butt to deal with regardless. Just ranting...
BTW, Mr. Maxwell, as I recall, you mentioned you are Jewish. The lord reviled to me and my family we are Jewish on both sides of the family some years back. The holy spirit is moving revealing to people that they are Jewish! We were Pentecostal. But now we are Pentecostal Messianic Jews, and we feel so blessed! The feasts are really important to the lord. In fact, Jesus celebrated Hanukkah. My dad said the lord is revealing to people that they are Jewish because it's the message of the hour. Also, the messianic movement is the move of the holy spirit especially moving in these last days we believe we are living in. My dad is an incredible bible theologian who has been studying the bible since he was 17 years old when he got saved. He went to bible college as well. My dad learned how to speak and read Hebrew. The lord reveled to him a mathematical code in the bible. Also, he knows every tiny detail in the bible. He knows what Revelation is all about in detail as well. He never ever takes credit for anything! He always says this information is never ever from him only the lord. He said he is just a vessel for the lord. He strongly believes we are living in the last days and the lord is coming very soon!
Interesting how Torah actually describes forbidden relationships because those are part of our animal soul which is why they feel "natural" or innate. But our Father Creator made us with a G-dly soul, so we can listen ( Shema) and hear G-d if only we silent our distracting feelings and thoughts. G-d is everywhere. There is nowhere where He is not. Ergo, He is in all of us, if only we listen for His Voice. This is personal. The man the Greeks caĺled Jesus was maybe called Yehoshua / Joshua. He was a Perushim/ Pharisee, a Torah observant man. He quoted the Oral Torah when he said the summary of the Torah is to love our Father G-d with all our ❤️,🧠&💪/💰. Love others as self and do ( not) do to others what you ( do not) want done to you. His quote missed out Rabbi Hillel's words that the rest of Torah is commentary GO & LEARN. Jesus also is quoted to say to worship and pray to our Father only, not any created being, which includes Jesus. He said to a young man to keep all Torah, which includes that no man can die for anothers sins. Maybe that is why Christianity is focussed on pagan ideas of Torah and not the actual Torah itself. Paul was a Roman assimilated Jew. So his words contradict Jesus and Torah. Jews do not seek others to "convert" to Torah, just encourage to live life according to it. Torah Judaism is focussed on relationship with our Father, not any of His sons and what we do is personal to each person whether Jew or another nation under G-d. Christianity is a Romano Greek view of Torah. For me it was a stepping stone toward listening to my Father's voice about the extreme damage caused by my earthly father, by sexusl, physical and emotional abuse. I now see how for me, turning to my heavenly Father, rather than one of His sons, as I tried for 15 years struggling with rejection manifested in many ways including unwanted SSA. Now I see those ferlings as natural need for male bonding and enjoy feeling attracted to people, to the LIFE CHAI in them from G-d, instead of fear that it must be sexual. Hashem gave us a G-dly soul to CHOOSE who and what we listen to and how we act. Satan only does what our Creator allows. Hadhem gives us no more than we can handle in life. The yetzer haRa helps us to strengthen our resolve to act on our yetzer haTov, the good Hashem made us to do. Now I am free to feel OSA without fear attraction to women results in abuse. I need not feel victim but thrive as an empathetic man, not afraid of feelings like many who seek to compare with other men about how "manly" they are. Our Father made us unique to be the man or woman with a unique role in life. G-d bless you in your journey Hashem has for you.
Mr. Maxwell, forgive my following question becuase I think when I type online, I come off snippy or annoyed, but I assure you, I'm not remotely close in that frame of mind at all. Also, forgive the length of my comments. I don't mean to type War and Peace. It's evident I'm blind when it comes to editing! Anyway, I'm just inquiring, someone like me who got saved years ago, and now I'm older I have no feeling of any kind for females, but I still do for males, so you are saying I'm not saved? I still haven't crucified my flesh? in 2 Corinthians 12, Paul speaks about a thorn in his flesh. Apparently, no one knows what the thorn is, but Some say that it might by sexual temptation. Paul speaks about that issue humbled him? Like I said before, I never had sex before I got saved when I was 18 years old and after I got saved. I never dated, I never did drugs, I never drank, and so I'm 52 years old still a virgin. I repent whenever I have sinned in any way.
Be of good cheer brotha. Your chastity will be rewarded. It take’s an honest and brave man to admit his sinful desires and to deny them before the Lord. To say you haven’t surrendered your desire is a falsehood. In abstinence you surrender your desire daily. That’s what it means to carry your cross.
Im still navigating the journey of the gay soul, its depth and complexity....my path has been more electic and liberal in religious studies, psychology, the spiritual path...more of a free spirit here. Definitely food for thought, - we shall see where the spirit leads.....alot to research and explore. I dont think its just black or white,....seems there are alot of colours in the rainbow so to speak,.....Light reflects itself in many tones.
Interesting how Torah actually describes forbidden relationships because those are part of our animal soul which is why they feel "natural" or innate. But our Father Creator made us with a G-dly soul, so we can listen ( Shema) and hear G-d if only we silent our distracting feelings and thoughts. G-d is everywhere. There is nowhere where He is not. Ergo, He is in all of us, if only we listen for His Voice. This is personal. The man the Greeks caĺled Jesus was maybe called Yehoshua / Joshua. He was a Perushim/ Pharisee, a Torah observant man. He quoted the Oral Torah when he said the summary of the Torah is to love our Father G-d with all our ❤️,🧠&💪/💰. Love others as self and do ( not) do to others what you ( do not) want done to you. His quote missed out Rabbi Hillel's words that the rest of Torah is commentary GO & LEARN. Jesus also is quoted to say to worship and pray to our Father only, not any created being, which includes Jesus. He said to a young man to keep all Torah, which includes that no man can die for anothers sins. Maybe that is why Christianity is focussed on pagan ideas of Torah and not the actual Torah itself. Paul was a Roman assimilated Jew. So his words contradict Jesus and Torah. Jews do not seek others to "convert" to Torah, just encourage to live life according to it. Torah Judaism is focussed on relationship with our Father, not any of His sons and what we do is personal to each person whether Jew or another nation under G-d. Christianity is a Romano Greek view of Torah. For me it was a stepping stone toward listening to my Father's voice about the extreme damage caused by my earthly father, by sexusl, physical and emotional abuse. I now see how for me, turning to my heavenly Father, rather than one of His sons, as I tried for 15 years struggling with rejection manifested in many ways including unwanted SSA. Now I see those ferlings as natural need for male bonding and enjoy feeling attracted to people, to the LIFE CHAI in them from G-d, instead of fear that it must be sexual. Hashem gave us a G-dly soul to CHOOSE who and what we listen to and how we act. Satan only does what our Creator allows. Hadhem gives us no more than we can handle in life. The yetzer haRa helps us to strengthen our resolve to act on our yetzer haTov, the good Hashem made us to do. Now I am free to feel OSA without fear attraction to women results in abuse. I need not feel victim but thrive as an empathetic man, not afraid of feelings like many who seek to compare with other men about how "manly" they are. Our Father made us unique to be the man or woman with a unique role in life. G-d bless you in your journey Hashem has for you.
Your conflating desire and attraction. You said it yourself. A man can “recognize” the physicality of another man (attraction) without desiring them sexually. To say a man has nice “pecs” without sexualizing him is still an expression of attraction. It’s the same for any person attracted to the opposite sex. Deny your inappropriate sexual desires. That’s it. Don’t bully people into thinking they haven’t surrendered to God if they experience a sexual desire. If they are denying themselves, crucifying their flesh, and living a chaste life they are being obedient to God. Sin can't be surrendered. You either do it or you don't. People will deny themselves and not commit a certain sin for a year or two. During that time they’ll tell others that God “delivered” them from that sin. Then in year three, they commit that sin. What did God deliver them from? Nothing, they went back to their vomit. Prideful men make bold claims that they've surrendered their sins and God has delivered them. It's arrogant. It takes a humble man to say “Lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil” or “Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me a sinner”
I've watched your post read your book prayed for you and your struggle with masculinity. And I thank God He has kept you and is drawing you closer to Jesus. I believe and you do all this work to post out of love. I just don't understand why you always seem angry, even when you seem to want to encourage it often sound more like a rebuke. Even when you say: "I love you guys" it could be a threat. I've never seen you smile on one of your posts. If I was a young man and near to you I would be scared to death to tell you i am tempted to be queer. I can tell you I love you but it's just words. For me love is action and the way I can serve you is to pray for you, and I have. I pray God gives you the wife and children you desire. Be warned having been married 30 years had 3 children lost one, that marriage brings a whole world of new temptations and you won't necessarily lose your old temptations. We're born in sin we will die in sin, it is only Christ's mercy and sacrifice that brings us redemption and that is not complete until we reach the His kingdom. I know you have experienced Jesus' mercy and compassion I'm pray you can show some.
Young man, I do appreciate you sharing your thoughts concerning this issue. However, YOUR assertion, that those who deal with same-sex attraction (because you give out this idea out of your own thoughts, that those who are living a repentant life day by day before the LORD, and they still have same-sex attraction, that YOU PROMISE that they HAVE NOT SURRENDERED thier desires to CHRIST), you speak out of COMPLETE IGNORANCE OF THE TRUTH concerning that issue. GOD'S WORD makes it clear in Isaiah 55:7, LET THE WICKED FORSAKE HIS WAY, AND THE UNRIGHTEOUS HIS THOUGHTS: AND LET HIM RETURN UNTO THE LORD, AND HE WILL HAVE MERCYUPON HIM; AND TO OUR GOD, FOR HE WILL ABUNDANTLY PARDEN. And verse 8 says, "FOR MY THOUGHTS ARE NOT YOUR THOUGHTS, NEITHER ARE YOUR WAYS MY WAYS, SAITH THE LORD. Young man, you were NOT HERE when I surrendered my heart and desires completely over to the LORD JESUS CHRIST. You were NOT at the altar of prayer, that I bowed to the ALMIGHTY GOD at many times, asking the LORD to remove this same-sex attraction. And young man, you were CERTAINLY NOT HERE, when after praying this for 40 years, the LORD JESUS CHRIST LITERALLY SPOKE TO ME, and HE said to me, MY GRACE IS SUFFICIENT FOR YOU, NOW GO AND DO WHAT I CALLED YOU TO DO. JESUS has given me HIS STRENGTH DAY BY DAY, as I lean on HIM AND HIS POWER, to live a holy life before HIM. This thorn in my flesh is going to stsy there, BUT GOD, I SAID, BUT GOD, has given me HIS STRENGTH to move forward in VICTORY. Am I still same-sex attracted? Yes. Has GOD'S GRACE BEEN SUFFICIENT DAY BY DAY? ABSOLUTELY YES!!! Even the Apostle Paul was given a thorn in his flesh. And yes, that thorn was from Satan. JESUS said it was from Satan. And that thorn was left there for a reason. JESUS said there was a reason that that healing did not come to the Apostle Paul, that our brother in the LORD (the Apostle Paul) prayed THREE SPECIFIC TIMES for a healing to come to him. GOD'S WAYS ARE NOT OUR WAYS, AND HIS THOUGHTS ARE NOT OUR THOUGHTS. As a Pastor, I am going to give you a soft, but yet firm word, concerning you telling people on your video, that YOU PROMISE that if they still deal with same-sex attraction, they just have not surrendered their desires over to the LORD. Because you see, there are many of us out here, who have surrendered our desires to the LORD JESUS CHRIST (that still have same-sex attraction), and that is WHY we NO LONGER view porn, and that is WHY we NO LONGER have homosexual sex (or ANY sexual contact with ANY person for that matter). And that is WHY many of us have dedicated our lives COMPLETELY to serving the LORD JESUS CHRIST. Tell me young man (I don't know your name, but JESUS DOES), are you WILLING to tell me out of YOUR MOUTH (that mouth that the ALMIGHTY GOD FORMED IN THE WOMB OF YOUR MOTHER) that JESUS CHRIST did NOT tell me those WORDS FROM HIS MOUTH, in the wee hours of the morning, as I laid prostrate on that floor BEFORE MY GOD AND MY SAVIOUR??? As I said at the beginning of my comment, I appreciate YOUR thoughts concerning this issue. I mean that sincerely. But young man, YOUR STORY is not MY STORY, and what the LORD JESUS CHRIST has done for me, as well as MANY OTHERS that are serving The LORD with ALL OF THEIR HEARTS, giving the GLORY TO THE LORD JESUS CHRIST DAY BY DAY, for ALL THAT HE HAS BROUGHT THEM OUT OF AND THROUGH, BY HIS MIGHTY POWER! YES, OF COURSE JESUS has the POWER to HEAL EACH AND EVERY PERSON. BUT SOMETIMES, ACCORDING TO THE SCRIPTURES, AND ACCORDING TO GOD'S OWN SOVEREIGN WILL. Not matter how YOU may want to "SOUND WISE" (you do remember saying these words, do you not, "it's so imparative that you understand"), but YOU must understand YOURSELF, that GOD will do things HIS WAY. And HIS WAY does not ALWAYS seem to fit what it is that we think that GOD ALMIGHTY should do in any given situation. I am truly happy for you, that you have been able to get through your own struggle (DO NOT LIE on top of being somewhat prideful in your presentation of this video, by saying that you never struggled, because YOU gave YOUR desires over to the LORD, and giving this impression that others have NOT done that, because ALL LIARS have their part in the Lake of fire (Revelation 21:8). I did not say that you did not have a struggle. But it IS the impression that you gave. We who follow JESUS CHRIST must be very careful NOT to fall into the trap of Satan, by lying to give a false impression. I am NOT saying that you DID, I am just saying that we who follow CHRIST must be very careful with that being the case, if it is in fact the case. And only YOU AND JESUS really know if you struggled at all, or if you still struggle. True? Now with that said young man (I'm in my 60's, so you are a young man.... don't get offended), maybe that IS what caused YOU to struggle (if you did or still do), by saying that there is still a same-sex attraction in you. Maybe that is WHY you come across in your video a bit "irritated" (Maybe I'm the only one thought you seemed a bit "irritated"). But just because that is what maybe "worked for you", I do NOT believe for one second, that the HOLY GHOST is pleased with you telling people that they have not surrendered their desires over to the LORD. SOME PEOPLE, JESUS HAS SAID TO THEM, MY GRACE IS SUFFICUENT FOR YOU. PRAISE THE LORD! HIS GRACE SUFFICIENT! AMEN! Love in CHRIST JESUS, Pastor J.W. Brand (the eunuch preacher). By the way, I was married to a woman for a total of 15 years. It got to the point that I had to stop having sex with my wife, because it would make me want to throw up. Literally. JESUS knows that I am speaking the absolute truth! My wife commited adultery, and we are no longer married. I accept myself as a Eunuch. May the LORD bless you.
Amen to that! Still working through struggles and desires. It runs deep but with God, all things are possible. And having a healthy connection with other men is so important. The enemy has perverted everything God meant for good. And yes you are right, eat God's Word everyday so the mind can be renewed as well as the heart. Take care my guy 👍
Never would i thought i would find someone who would understand and relate to these struggles and try to deny them. it’s so rare in the church.
Thank you for sharing this message and thank you for your channel content.
I’ve been battling with same sex sexual desires for as long as I have memory, lived a same sex lifestyle from 19 to the first 2 months of my 25th birthday, but in the name of our almighty holy lord Jesus Christ I’ll be freed from these unholy chains that the enemy try to keep me to be away from the path God has for me according to his purpose. Amen
Very helpful message.
Greetings and the Peace of Christ to you! Your video is refreshing and I am glad to have found your channel and thoughts of a similar mind. May God bless you and keep you.
It's a sin. it's not an orientation. It's sexual sin. I repent of that sin. i forsake and leave it under the blood of Jesus. IF I am tempted again, I again turn to Jesus and ask for strength to say no. If I fall, I repent. Just like any other sin. Stop asking me if my "orientation" has changed.
God bless you Taylor,God bless you Taylor ,God bless you Taylor God bless you Taylor thank you so much for this beautiful message 🙏🏾🙏🏻🙏🏾🙏🏻
Glad to see you again after all this time! I actually would love to speak with you over Zoom or something if you have time, my friend. May God richly bless you and yours!
Taylor, thank you for this video. I’ve never seen a video of yours until today, but God knew I needed to hear this message. Same-sex desires is the most rampant sin in my life and in the past month, I’ve seriously decided to release the desire to Jesus and ask for his help.
I’ve been searching for resources to help reinforce God’s design in my life in addition to the Word. I will absolutely check out more videos on your channel and I appreciate you sharing your testimony. Continue to preach the gospel to all creatures!
God bless you. You’ve helped this fellow brother in Christ ❤
I pray that you find ALL that you are looking for in our Lord and King Jesus Christ! Press into God and ask Him to bring an abundance of healing and clarity into the confusion. Let the Lord speak to your wounds and hurts. He longs to bring healing to your heart. GOD BLESS BROTHER!
Stay celibate.
Gold. Everything you say is true.
Great video, Taylor.
Praise Jesus! As with all Sin!! Only A Bowed Heart ♥️ & Life to Jesus Christ will there be VICTORY!!! One ☝🏼 Nano Second at a time, & I’m Truly Victorious in Him!!!!
It's just so frustrating wanting something you know you'll never have. The desires are annoying and aggravating. I agree with the God, He's right I'm wrong. I give God all authority, it's just a pain in the butt to deal with regardless. Just ranting...
Thank you, sir. Very encouraging message.
BTW, Mr. Maxwell, as I recall, you mentioned you are Jewish. The lord reviled to me and my family we are Jewish on both sides of the family some years back. The holy spirit is moving revealing to people that they are Jewish! We were Pentecostal. But now we are Pentecostal Messianic Jews, and we feel so blessed! The feasts are really important to the lord. In fact, Jesus celebrated Hanukkah. My dad said the lord is revealing to people that they are Jewish because it's the message of the hour. Also, the messianic movement is the move of the holy spirit especially moving in these last days we believe we are living in. My dad is an incredible bible theologian who has been studying the bible since he was 17 years old when he got saved. He went to bible college as well. My dad learned how to speak and read Hebrew. The lord reveled to him a mathematical code in the bible. Also, he knows every tiny detail in the bible. He knows what Revelation is all about in detail as well. He never ever takes credit for anything! He always says this information is never ever from him only the lord. He said he is just a vessel for the lord. He strongly believes we are living in the last days and the lord is coming very soon!
Interesting how Torah actually describes forbidden relationships because those are part of our animal soul which is why they feel "natural" or innate. But our Father Creator made us with a G-dly soul, so we can listen ( Shema) and hear G-d if only we silent our distracting feelings and thoughts. G-d is everywhere. There is nowhere where He is not. Ergo, He is in all of us, if only we listen for His Voice. This is personal. The man the Greeks caĺled Jesus was maybe called Yehoshua / Joshua. He was a Perushim/ Pharisee, a Torah observant man. He quoted the Oral Torah when he said the summary of the Torah is to love our Father G-d with all our ❤️,🧠&💪/💰. Love others as self and do ( not) do to others what you ( do not) want done to you. His quote missed out Rabbi Hillel's words that the rest of Torah is commentary GO & LEARN. Jesus also is quoted to say to worship and pray to our Father only, not any created being, which includes Jesus. He said to a young man to keep all Torah, which includes that no man can die for anothers sins. Maybe that is why Christianity is focussed on pagan ideas of Torah and not the actual Torah itself. Paul was a Roman assimilated Jew. So his words contradict Jesus and Torah. Jews do not seek others to "convert" to Torah, just encourage to live life according to it. Torah Judaism is focussed on relationship with our Father, not any of His sons and what we do is personal to each person whether Jew or another nation under G-d. Christianity is a Romano Greek view of Torah. For me it was a stepping stone toward listening to my Father's voice about the extreme damage caused by my earthly father, by sexusl, physical and emotional abuse. I now see how for me, turning to my heavenly Father, rather than one of His sons, as I tried for 15 years struggling with rejection manifested in many ways including unwanted SSA. Now I see those ferlings as natural need for male bonding and enjoy feeling attracted to people, to the LIFE CHAI in them from G-d, instead of fear that it must be sexual. Hashem gave us a G-dly soul to CHOOSE who and what we listen to and how we act. Satan only does what our Creator allows. Hadhem gives us no more than we can handle in life. The yetzer haRa helps us to strengthen our resolve to act on our yetzer haTov, the good Hashem made us to do. Now I am free to feel OSA without fear attraction to women results in abuse. I need not feel victim but thrive as an empathetic man, not afraid of feelings like many who seek to compare with other men about how "manly" they are. Our Father made us unique to be the man or woman with a unique role in life. G-d bless you in your journey Hashem has for you.
Hello there, can you do a video on how porn escalation can lead to same sex attraction? Thank you
Mr. Maxwell, forgive my following question becuase I think when I type online, I come off snippy or annoyed, but I assure you, I'm not remotely close in that frame of mind at all. Also, forgive the length of my comments. I don't mean to type War and Peace. It's evident I'm blind when it comes to editing! Anyway, I'm just inquiring, someone like me who got saved years ago, and now I'm older I have no feeling of any kind for females, but I still do for males, so you are saying I'm not saved? I still haven't crucified my flesh? in 2 Corinthians 12, Paul speaks about a thorn in his flesh. Apparently, no one knows what the thorn is, but Some say that it might by sexual temptation. Paul speaks about that issue humbled him? Like I said before, I never had sex before I got saved when I was 18 years old and after I got saved. I never dated, I never did drugs, I never drank, and so I'm 52 years old still a virgin. I repent whenever I have sinned in any way.
Be of good cheer brotha. Your chastity will be rewarded. It take’s an honest and brave man to admit his sinful desires and to deny them before the Lord.
To say you haven’t surrendered your desire is a falsehood. In abstinence you surrender your desire daily. That’s what it means to carry your cross.
Im still navigating the journey of the gay soul, its depth and complexity....my path has been more electic and liberal in religious studies, psychology, the spiritual path...more of a free spirit here. Definitely food for thought, - we shall see where the spirit leads.....alot to research and explore. I dont think its just black or white,....seems there are alot of colours in the rainbow so to speak,.....Light reflects itself in many tones.
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Interesting how Torah actually describes forbidden relationships because those are part of our animal soul which is why they feel "natural" or innate. But our Father Creator made us with a G-dly soul, so we can listen ( Shema) and hear G-d if only we silent our distracting feelings and thoughts. G-d is everywhere. There is nowhere where He is not. Ergo, He is in all of us, if only we listen for His Voice. This is personal. The man the Greeks caĺled Jesus was maybe called Yehoshua / Joshua. He was a Perushim/ Pharisee, a Torah observant man. He quoted the Oral Torah when he said the summary of the Torah is to love our Father G-d with all our ❤️,🧠&💪/💰. Love others as self and do ( not) do to others what you ( do not) want done to you. His quote missed out Rabbi Hillel's words that the rest of Torah is commentary GO & LEARN. Jesus also is quoted to say to worship and pray to our Father only, not any created being, which includes Jesus. He said to a young man to keep all Torah, which includes that no man can die for anothers sins. Maybe that is why Christianity is focussed on pagan ideas of Torah and not the actual Torah itself. Paul was a Roman assimilated Jew. So his words contradict Jesus and Torah. Jews do not seek others to "convert" to Torah, just encourage to live life according to it. Torah Judaism is focussed on relationship with our Father, not any of His sons and what we do is personal to each person whether Jew or another nation under G-d. Christianity is a Romano Greek view of Torah. For me it was a stepping stone toward listening to my Father's voice about the extreme damage caused by my earthly father, by sexusl, physical and emotional abuse. I now see how for me, turning to my heavenly Father, rather than one of His sons, as I tried for 15 years struggling with rejection manifested in many ways including unwanted SSA. Now I see those ferlings as natural need for male bonding and enjoy feeling attracted to people, to the LIFE CHAI in them from G-d, instead of fear that it must be sexual. Hashem gave us a G-dly soul to CHOOSE who and what we listen to and how we act. Satan only does what our Creator allows. Hadhem gives us no more than we can handle in life. The yetzer haRa helps us to strengthen our resolve to act on our yetzer haTov, the good Hashem made us to do. Now I am free to feel OSA without fear attraction to women results in abuse. I need not feel victim but thrive as an empathetic man, not afraid of feelings like many who seek to compare with other men about how "manly" they are. Our Father made us unique to be the man or woman with a unique role in life. G-d bless you in your journey Hashem has for you.
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Your conflating desire and attraction. You said it yourself. A man can “recognize” the physicality of another man (attraction) without desiring them sexually. To say a man has nice “pecs” without sexualizing him is still an expression of attraction.
It’s the same for any person attracted to the opposite sex. Deny your inappropriate sexual desires. That’s it. Don’t bully people into thinking they haven’t surrendered to God if they experience a sexual desire. If they are denying themselves, crucifying their flesh, and living a chaste life they are being obedient to God.
Sin can't be surrendered. You either do it or you don't.
People will deny themselves and not commit a certain sin for a year or two. During that time they’ll tell others that God “delivered” them from that sin. Then in year three, they commit that sin. What did God deliver them from? Nothing, they went back to their vomit.
Prideful men make bold claims that they've surrendered their sins and God has delivered them. It's arrogant.
It takes a humble man to say “Lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil” or “Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me a sinner”
I've watched your post read your book prayed for you and your struggle with masculinity. And I thank God He has kept you and is drawing you closer to Jesus. I believe and you do all this work to post out of love. I just don't understand why you always seem angry, even when you seem to want to encourage it often sound more like a rebuke. Even when you say: "I love you guys" it could be a threat. I've never seen you smile on one of your posts. If I was a young man and near to you I would be scared to death to tell you i am tempted to be queer. I can tell you I love you but it's just words. For me love is action and the way I can serve you is to pray for you, and I have. I pray God gives you the wife and children you desire. Be warned having been married 30 years had 3 children lost one, that marriage brings a whole world of new temptations and you won't necessarily lose your old temptations. We're born in sin we will die in sin, it is only Christ's mercy and sacrifice that brings us redemption and that is not complete until we reach the His kingdom. I know you have experienced Jesus' mercy and compassion I'm pray you can show some.
Young man, I do appreciate you sharing your thoughts concerning this issue. However, YOUR assertion, that those who deal with same-sex attraction (because you give out this idea out of your own thoughts, that those who are living a repentant life day by day before the LORD, and they still have same-sex attraction, that YOU PROMISE that they HAVE NOT SURRENDERED thier desires to CHRIST), you speak out of COMPLETE IGNORANCE OF THE TRUTH concerning that issue. GOD'S WORD makes it clear in Isaiah 55:7, LET THE WICKED FORSAKE HIS WAY, AND THE UNRIGHTEOUS HIS THOUGHTS: AND LET HIM RETURN UNTO THE LORD, AND HE WILL HAVE MERCYUPON HIM; AND TO OUR GOD, FOR HE WILL ABUNDANTLY PARDEN. And verse 8 says, "FOR MY THOUGHTS ARE NOT YOUR THOUGHTS, NEITHER ARE YOUR WAYS MY WAYS, SAITH THE LORD. Young man, you were NOT HERE when I surrendered my heart and desires completely over to the LORD JESUS CHRIST. You were NOT at the altar of prayer, that I bowed to the ALMIGHTY GOD at many times, asking the LORD to remove this same-sex attraction. And young man, you were CERTAINLY NOT HERE, when after praying this for 40 years, the LORD JESUS CHRIST LITERALLY SPOKE TO ME, and HE said to me, MY GRACE IS SUFFICIENT FOR YOU, NOW GO AND DO WHAT I CALLED YOU TO DO. JESUS has given me HIS STRENGTH DAY BY DAY, as I lean on HIM AND HIS POWER, to live a holy life before HIM. This thorn in my flesh is going to stsy there, BUT GOD, I SAID, BUT GOD, has given me HIS STRENGTH to move forward in VICTORY. Am I still same-sex attracted? Yes. Has GOD'S GRACE BEEN SUFFICIENT DAY BY DAY? ABSOLUTELY YES!!! Even the Apostle Paul was given a thorn in his flesh. And yes, that thorn was from Satan. JESUS said it was from Satan. And that thorn was left there for a reason. JESUS said there was a reason that that healing did not come to the Apostle Paul, that our brother in the LORD (the Apostle Paul) prayed THREE SPECIFIC TIMES for a healing to come to him. GOD'S WAYS ARE NOT OUR WAYS, AND HIS THOUGHTS ARE NOT OUR THOUGHTS. As a Pastor, I am going to give you a soft, but yet firm word, concerning you telling people on your video, that YOU PROMISE that if they still deal with same-sex attraction, they just have not surrendered their desires over to the LORD. Because you see, there are many of us out here, who have surrendered our desires to the LORD JESUS CHRIST (that still have same-sex attraction), and that is WHY we NO LONGER view porn, and that is WHY we NO LONGER have homosexual sex (or ANY sexual contact with ANY person for that matter). And that is WHY many of us have dedicated our lives COMPLETELY to serving the LORD JESUS CHRIST. Tell me young man (I don't know your name, but JESUS DOES), are you WILLING to tell me out of YOUR MOUTH (that mouth that the ALMIGHTY GOD FORMED IN THE WOMB OF YOUR MOTHER) that JESUS CHRIST did NOT tell me those WORDS FROM HIS MOUTH, in the wee hours of the morning, as I laid prostrate on that floor BEFORE MY GOD AND MY SAVIOUR??? As I said at the beginning of my comment, I appreciate YOUR thoughts concerning this issue. I mean that sincerely. But young man, YOUR STORY is not MY STORY, and what the LORD JESUS CHRIST has done for me, as well as MANY OTHERS that are serving The LORD with ALL OF THEIR HEARTS, giving the GLORY TO THE LORD JESUS CHRIST DAY BY DAY, for ALL THAT HE HAS BROUGHT THEM OUT OF AND THROUGH, BY HIS MIGHTY POWER! YES, OF COURSE JESUS has the POWER to HEAL EACH AND EVERY PERSON. BUT SOMETIMES, ACCORDING TO THE SCRIPTURES, AND ACCORDING TO GOD'S OWN SOVEREIGN WILL. Not matter how YOU may want to "SOUND WISE" (you do remember saying these words, do you not, "it's so imparative that you understand"), but YOU must understand YOURSELF, that GOD will do things HIS WAY. And HIS WAY does not ALWAYS seem to fit what it is that we think that GOD ALMIGHTY should do in any given situation. I am truly happy for you, that you have been able to get through your own struggle (DO NOT LIE on top of being somewhat prideful in your presentation of this video, by saying that you never struggled, because YOU gave YOUR desires over to the LORD, and giving this impression that others have NOT done that, because ALL LIARS have their part in the Lake of fire (Revelation 21:8). I did not say that you did not have a struggle. But it IS the impression that you gave. We who follow JESUS CHRIST must be very careful NOT to fall into the trap of Satan, by lying to give a false impression. I am NOT saying that you DID, I am just saying that we who follow CHRIST must be very careful with that being the case, if it is in fact the case. And only YOU AND JESUS really know if you struggled at all, or if you still struggle. True? Now with that said young man (I'm in my 60's, so you are a young man.... don't get offended), maybe that IS what caused YOU to struggle (if you did or still do), by saying that there is still a same-sex attraction in you. Maybe that is WHY you come across in your video a bit "irritated" (Maybe I'm the only one thought you seemed a bit "irritated"). But just because that is what maybe "worked for you", I do NOT believe for one second, that the HOLY GHOST is pleased with you telling people that they have not surrendered their desires over to the LORD. SOME PEOPLE, JESUS HAS SAID TO THEM, MY GRACE IS SUFFICUENT FOR YOU. PRAISE THE LORD! HIS GRACE SUFFICIENT! AMEN! Love in CHRIST JESUS, Pastor J.W. Brand (the eunuch preacher). By the way, I was married to a woman for a total of 15 years. It got to the point that I had to stop having sex with my wife, because it would make me want to throw up. Literally. JESUS knows that I am speaking the absolute truth! My wife commited adultery, and we are no longer married. I accept myself as a Eunuch. May the LORD bless you.