Wednesday, July 29, 2015

Homosexual: What the Bible teaches

Joan Boney ... apostle/prophet

Homosexuals:  What the Bible teaches  

KJV ...I Cor. 6 ... 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, 10Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. 11And 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. 

NASB ... I Cor. 6 ... Do you not know that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God?  Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals, nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

NIV ... I Cor. 6 ... Do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God?  Do not be deceived:  Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor men who have sex with men nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.

Romans 1 explains:

Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. 22Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, 23And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things. 

24Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: 

25Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.  

26For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: 27And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet. 

Homosexuals are in category with adulterers and fornicators and they will not inherit the kingdom of God unless God reveals Himself to them and they repent and renounce their evil doing and no longer participate in these evil deeds.

Jesus said we would know the end times because the leaves on the trees would announce the season just as leaves on trees announce summer drawing near.  Mt. 24 ... Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh: 33So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.

Rampant iniquity announces the end and the second coming of Jesus and the judgment of God.

When we see iniquity abound we look for such.  We have seen dramatic increases in open iniquity in our lifetime.  In 1960's in USA it was illegal to practice homosexuality (Often called sodomy in legal terms.)  Police arrested the openly homosexual men.  Today the police are forced to protect them and the law is trying to require they be upheld.  Some states have even passed a law in USA legalizing marriage between two men or between two women.

Several years ago, I received a prophesy concerning the end ... It was "look for the homosexual trumpet".  This would be a signal showing us the closing in of God's judgment.

April 28, 2013, a professional basketball player in USA announced he is homosexual.  This is the first time in the 4 major sports in USA that anyone has announced this.  One of the commissioners made statement prohibiting players from speaking against homosexuals to news media. 

The USA military once prohibited homosexual from being in the various armed services.  Now they are accepted into the military under a "Don't ask, don't tell" policy. 

All this shows the judgment leaves, spoken by Jesus, Mt. 24, surfacing on the tree as the worldly iniquities become more open and more accepted.

Lk. 17 ...  26 And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man. 27 They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all. 28 Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; 29 But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all. 30 Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.

(In the days of Lot, homosexuals came from every quarter of Sodom to have sex with the two men who were angels who were staying in Lot's home.)

While none of us like this as real Christians and we recognize it for the abomination it is, we also know it signals for us the closeness of the return of Jesus.  We need to be even more diligent to keep ourselves in peace, without spot and blameless, as Peter told us to do as we see the day of the Lord approaching.  II Peter 3

How can we live in peace in the midst of the wickedness of this world?

First, we know this world is not our kingdom.  Peter says we look for new heaven and new earth wherein dwelleth righteousness ... II Peter 3  This present world will never be righteous.

Second, we know this wickedness signals the end of this present world and the return of Jesus for the righteousness.

So we can live in peace as we focus on truth from the Bible.

Also as we see the end approaching we increase the exhortations in the church to help the church.

An example of the judgment of God is seen by looking at the story of Sodom.

Genesis 19 ... And there came two angels to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom: and Lot seeing them rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground; 2And he said, Behold now, my lords, turn in, I pray you, into your servant’s house, and tarry all night, and wash your feet, and ye shall rise up early, and go on your ways. And they said, Nay; but we will abide in the street all night. 3And he pressed upon them greatly; and they turned in unto him, and entered into his house; and he made them a feast, and did bake unleavened bread, and they did eat.
 

4But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and young, all the people from every quarter: 5And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men which came in to thee this night? bring them out unto us, that we may know them.  (have sex with them) 

6And Lot went out at the door unto them, and shut the door after him, 7And said, I pray you, brethren, do not so wickedly. 8Behold now, I have two daughters which have not known man; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do ye to them as is good in your eyes: only unto these men do nothing; for therefore came they under the shadow of my roof. 

9And they said, Stand back. And they said again, This one fellow came in to sojourn, and he will needs be a judge: now will we deal worse with thee, than with them. And they pressed sore upon the man, even Lot, and came near to break the door. 

10But the men (the angels) put forth their hand, and pulled Lot into the house to them, and shut to the door. 11And they smote the men that were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great: so that they wearied themselves to find the door.
 

12And the men said unto Lot, Hast thou here any besides? son in law, and thy sons, and thy daughters, and whatsoever thou hast in the city, bring them out of this place: 

13For we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxen great before the face of the LORD; and the LORD hath sent us to destroy it.

Notice in this account, the men came from "every quarter" of the city.  They came to have sex with the two men who visited Lot.  The homosexuals were rampant in Sodom.

(In Bible, homosexuals were called "sodomites".)

Gen. 19 ... And when the morning arose, then the angels hastened Lot, saying, Arise, take thy wife, and thy two daughters, which are here; lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city.   16And while he lingered, the men laid hold upon his hand, and upon the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his two daughters; the LORD being merciful unto him: and they brought him forth, and set him without the city. 17And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life; look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed.

Gen. 19 ... Behold now, thy servant hath found grace in thy sight, and thou hast magnified thy mercy, which thou hast shewed unto me in saving my life; and I cannot escape to the mountain, lest some evil take me, and I die: 20Behold now, this city is near to flee unto, and it is a little one: Oh, let me escape thither, (is it not a little one?) and my soul shall live. 21And he said unto him, See, I have accepted thee concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow this city, for the which thou hast spoken.  22Haste thee, escape thither; for I cannot do any thing till thou be come thither. Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.  23The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot entered into Zoar. 
 

24Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven; 25And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.
 

26But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.
 

27And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he stood before the LORD: 28And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace. 29And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in the which Lot dwelt. 

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I Thess. 5 ... But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you. 2For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. 3For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape. 4But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief. 5Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
6Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober. 7For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night. 8But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation. 9For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ, 10Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.
11Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.


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Can a homosexual be saved?

 Of course a homosexual can be saved.  If God chooses to speak and reveal sin to that person, the person is then in a position to repent and be saved.


It is like the woman caught in adultery.  Jn. 8  She was brought before Jesus and after she was forgiven Jesus said to her:  Go and sin no more.  

 (Jesus was saying to her do not continue to live as you have been living in adultery ... to the homosexual Jesus would say do not live that way again ... to the drunkard, Jesus would say do not live in drunkenness again ... to the thief Jesus would say, Do not steal again.  Whatever the sin you once committed, stop.)

The homosexual's salvation is like our salvation.  After God reveals Himself to us we are changed.  We no longer do as we once did.  And we are changed again and again as long as we live on this present earth.  God gives us the Holy Spirit to live in us and by the Holy Spirit we are shown the will of God as we go from one issue to another issue in this present life.  And each time we hear God by His Spirit and take appropriate action in the matter at hand, we are changed into the "image" of God.  We change into the image of God as we do the word of God in the situations at hand.

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When referring to homosexuals what do we call them?


In the dictionary the word "gay" means:
- happily excited, merry
- keenly alive and exuberant
- having or inducing high spirits
- bright lively
- given to color
and now the definition "homosexual" is added to "gay" in dictionary.

They like to use the word gay to describe what they are because it seems to make them look good and it seems desirable.

But the Bible calls them sodomites:

I Kings 14:24 ... And there were also sodomites in the land: and they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.

I Kings 15:9 ... And Asa did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD, as did David his father. 12And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.

I Kings 22:46 ... And the remnant of the sodomites, which remained in the days of his father Asa, he took out of the land. 

II Kings 23 ... And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the door, to bring forth out of the temple of the LORD all the vessels that were made for Baal, and for the grove, and for all the host of heaven: and he burned them without Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and carried the ashes of them unto Bethel. 5And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; them also that burned incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven.    6And he brought out the grove from the house of the LORD, without Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and stamped it small to powder, and cast the powder thereof upon the graves of the children of the people. 7And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that were by the house of the LORD, where the women wove hangings for the grove.  8And he brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense, from Geba to Beersheba, and brake down the high places of the gates that were in the entering in of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city,  

When Pam Padgett prayed about this, asking God what to call homosexuals, she heard:  "Call them homosexual or sodomites." 

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Writing #2:  Flood gates open for homosexuals to rush to doom 

Jesus said one thing that would happen before HIS return is that iniquity would abound.  (Mt. 24)

For the first time in history, a football player revealed that he is homosexual and he planed to enter the NFL (National Football League/USA) draft.  (He did enter the draft in 2014 but did not make either team who tried him out.)

Last fall, a football player left the Miami Dolphins because he was being harassed in the locker room.  One news announcer said it was over homosexuality.  Then the reason for the dispute was shut up and the other announcers told of the problem for many days on their reports but they never told the reason for the harassment.  It was homosexual harassment.

In Feb. 2014, the wife of the President of the United States (Mrs. Obama) praised the homosexual who has openly declared his homosexuality and she honored him greatly.  This opened the flood gates for homosexuals in the last bastion of masculine organizations in the United States.  It declares a type of approval in which homosexuals will relish.  Since this other football players have begun to tell of their homosexuality. (Now they are receiving praise in high places of this world for telling they are homosexual so they are encouraged to announce this about themselves, wanting praise.)

In Feb. 2014, President Obama came out praising a homosexual who had announced himself to be homosexual.  He, too, is football player.

Open statements have been made by authority figures that homosexuals are to be approved.  The newscasters have joined in verbal approval of this homosexual football player.  Owners and coaches have openly begun to approve homosexuals.

A few months ago, the Pope of the Catholic Church made statement that he had no basis to be opposed to homosexuals.

What about what God authored in Romans 1?    

Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. 22Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, 23And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things. 24Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: 25Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.  26For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: 27And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.


But the homosexual flood is on as homosexuals are encouraged and made brave by encouragement of people of worldly position.

In Russia, at the 2014 Olympics, the President of Russia, Putin, went to a lesbian and inquired personally of her treatment in Russia, openly approving her before all and honoring her before all.


The approval of sin and the open demand for the approval of sin brings us closer to the wrath of God and the judgment sent by God on the earth and the return of Jesus for HIS people.

Mt. 24 ... Jesus says ... But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. 38For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, 39And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

In the days of Noah, wickedness was everywhere.  It was so bad that God said he would destroy the earth and destroy man over the wickedness.  In Mt. 24, Jesus says the days before HIS return will be like the days of Noah.


Lk. 17 ... Jesus says ...  28Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; 29But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all. 30Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.

Before Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed in the days of Lot, homosexuals were rampant.  When the two men who were angels came to Sodom to deliver Lot before the destruction, homosexuals came from every "quarter" of the city to have sex with these two men who were really angels.  And the men who were homosexuals were of every age, young and old.

Gen. 19 ... And there came two angels to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom: and Lot seeing them rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground; 2And he said, Behold now, my lords, turn in, I pray you, into your servant’s house, and tarry all night, and wash your feet, and ye shall rise up early, and go on your ways. And they said, Nay; but we will abide in the street all night. 3And he pressed upon them greatly; and they turned in unto him, and entered into his house; and he made them a feast, and did bake unleavened bread, and they did eat.
 
4But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and young, all the people from every quarter: 5And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men which came in to thee this night? bring them out unto us, that we may know them. (have sex with them) 

6And Lot went out at the door unto them, and shut the door after him, 7And said, I pray you, brethren, do not so wickedly. 8Behold now, I have two daughters which have not known man; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do ye to them as is good in your eyes: only unto these men do nothing; for therefore came they under the shadow of my roof. 

9And they said, Stand back. And they said again, This one fellow came in to sojourn, and he will needs be a judge: now will we deal worse with thee, than with them. And they pressed sore upon the man, even Lot, and came near to break the door. 

10But the men (the two angels) put forth their hand, and pulled Lot into the house to them, and shut to the door. 11And they smote the men that were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great: so that they wearied themselves to find the door.
 
12And the men said unto Lot, Hast thou here any besides? son in law, and thy sons, and thy daughters, and whatsoever thou hast in the city, bring them out of this place: 13For we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxen great before the face of the LORD; and the LORD hath sent us to destroy it.

Before these destroying angels came to Lot, they visited Abraham.

Gen. 18 ... And the men rose up from thence, and looked toward Sodom: and Abraham went with them to bring them on the way. 17And the LORD said, Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do; 18Seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him? 19For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the LORD, to do justice and judgment; that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him. 20And the LORD said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous; 21I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me; and if not, I will know. 22And the men turned their faces from thence, and went toward Sodom: but Abraham stood yet before the LORD.


The homosexual trumpet which we are now seeing in all areas is a very grievous sin.  We have already seen marriage desecrated as men and women openly take sex partners before marriage and flaunt sex before us and have no shame.  What a sin the heterosexual do today.  Now the homosexuals will flood before us as never before.

How can this not be the leaves on the tree Jesus spoke of in Mt. 24 ... When the leaves come on the trees we all know summer is near. When the sin appears like this, it signals the coming of the wrath of God against the ungodly who act in sin without shame.  But it also signals the redemption of the godly and the return of Jesus.

I Thess. 5 ... But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you. 2For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. 3For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape. 4But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief. 5Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
6Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober. 7For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night. 8But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation. 9For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ, 10Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.
11Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.


So what do we who are of God do?

No one can turn the sin.  It is appointed as a signal for the end and the return of Jesus. 

We endure by putting the sin away from us and doing what Paul said in Phil. 4:8 ... Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.  By a deliberate act of will, we make ourselves think on those things that are true, honest, just, pure, lovely, things of good report, if there be any virtue and if there be any praise we think on these things.

 And we are told as we see the day of the Lord approaching to exhort one another even more ... Heb. 10

Not only do we send out these daily exhortations to build the church in the way of God, we are encouraged to fill ourselves even more daily with the Word of God and the way of God by reading Bible.  All this helps greatly in the midst of the evil of this world.  We refuse to focus on the evil but choose to surround our minds with Bible and the examples given in Bible building our faith in God and keeping our faith in God even in the rampant and increasing evil.

We labor daily to enter into HIS rest.  Heb. 4  Keeping ourselves in the Bible and thinking upon those examples given in the Bible.

II Peter 3 ... Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, 4And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation. 5For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:  6Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished: 7But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
8But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
9The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. 10But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
11Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness, 12Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?  13Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness. 14Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.

I Cor. 6 (KJV) ... 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, 10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. 11 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.

I Cor. 6 (NASB) ...  9 Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals, 10 nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God. 11 Such were some of you; but you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.

Can a homosexual or lesbian be saved?  Yes, of course that sinner can be saved just as other sinners are saved.  But he or she cannot continue in the sin after being saved.

Revelation 21 ... 8 But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone:which is the second death.

Revelation 21 ... 27 And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie:

Revelation 22 ...  14 Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city. 15 For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.

I Cor. 6 (NIV) ...  9 Or do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor men who have sex with men 10 nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. 11 And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

To the woman taken in adultery, John 8, Jesus did not condemn her but Jesus did give her the following instruction:  "Go, and sin no more."  (She had to stop doing that sin.)

And so it is with sins:  You cannot continue in those sins.