can a homosexual be truly delivered from same-sex attraction we understand that jesus can deliver
you from acting out on that temptation but do the attractions and do the feelings towards
someone of the same sex ever really go away and so because this isn't something that i have
personally dealt with in my life instead what i want to do is i want to highlight a few clips
from some people that were in that lifestyle that the lord has delivered them from and i want you to
hear from them as it relates to whether these feelings of same-sex attraction actually go
away and so i've got a few clips one of the clips is from a guy that i interviewed not too long ago
named christopher yuan and he has an amazing ministry and i'm going to link the entire video
to that interview down in the description below i'll put a card somewhere on the screen and then
another is from uh well you'll see if you watch this video what what does deliverance look like
because you know you have a lot of people that will say that you know hey deliverance looks like
now i have same-sex attraction or excuse me opposite sex attraction right i used to
be attracted to to men but now god has delivered me and i no longer have any of those attractions
at all all the memories are faded out and now i have attraction for women but can you talk a
little bit about if you don't mind me asking and this is kind of a personal question but
you know do you even now at 51 do you do you ever struggle do you ever have thoughts do you
ever have attractions do you ever have memories or flashbacks of the life that you used to live or if
you i don't know if you see someone that you think is attractive do you do you has god just removed
those desires completely or is it something that you have to daily kind of surrender to the lord
yeah you know alan the the best thing for us to when we frame our questions is realizing
it's the gospel behind it and so often times when when people ask me this i i say let me step back
because we need to realize what's the true diagnosis if this was a health problem
a disease maybe a virus or cancer we diagnose that correctly the bible is really clear that
same-sex relationships is sinful behavior what's the the cause of that and when we realize that
this is a sin problem a spiritual problem it's a sin problem that that that affects our sin nature
and affects our behavior our thoughts and so then this we need to put this in light also as well of
all christians this isn't just a problem for individuals who have same such attractions so
you know you're you're exactly right alan framing this that you know these things how do we think
about deliverance in a biblical way how do we think about transformation what is conversion
is conversion simply man i i was in sinful behavior and now i'm a christian and poof
no more problems i don't have any struggles any temptations right we see that christians
are tempted as a matter of fact the writer of hebrew says jesus christ was tempted in
every way yet without jesus yet he was without sin so being tempted is not the
same thing as giving into temptation jesus was tempted for 40 days in the wilderness
but he resisted sin he actually jesus is the only one that resisted fully to the end where
we give in too soon so with that right context to understand this the answer to this question
it's a sin problem for all christians all christians are tempted we all will be tempted
and the matter is not whether you are tempted or if you're tempted but when you're tempted and
not even whether you're tempted but what you do with that temptation how you respond so so real
transformation and deliverance and conversion is like i said before i was lost and now i'm found
i was a slave to sin and now i'm a slave to christ the only good lord to be a slave a servant too and
so thinking about that tells us that man forever on this i'm sorry not forever but as long as i'm
on this side of glory i'm going to wrestle with my sin nature it's until i'm the other side of
glory that then i'm going to be free from this nature of sin and i'm going to not have to or
not anymore struggle with that but on the side of glory we will so we will all be tempted i do
believe that god can take away this struggle but i will still have my sin nature and i will still
need to fight temptation and resist sin whether it might be opposite sex lust or whether it is pride
or dissension or hatred or a slew of the other sins that we all wrestle with as human beings yeah
what was that process like to undo the feelings that you had because i imagine hearing that call
didn't automatically remove those feelings all at once they're still not removed um jackie hill
parent what you said i didn't know you was gonna say that what you mean you were watching for them
because i i feel the need to make that make that a point because another problematic assumption that
people bring into all their conversations with those who are same sex attracted is that to come
to jesus means that you will be straight that you will not experience the temptations that come with
being whoever it is uh that you call yourself to be but that implies that to be a christian
is to not have temptation yet we serve a god who is tempted in all respects yet without sin and
so how are you telling me that to be like christ means that i won't struggle that's nowhere in the
bible um and so i say all that to say when i first came when i felt the lord calling me to himself
i was just like all right i i don't really want to be straight though this is what i told god in my
conversation with him in my room and i felt like god was saying like don't even worry about all
that like come i'm calling you to me i want you to love me i want you to serve me and we'll work all
all of that out and so initially it was very hard because i was in a relationship with my girlfriend
at the time and i loved her and i enjoyed her and there was a real intimacy and a real love that
we have for one another that i then had to let go um in an effort to honor god as best that i could
um but that didn't mean that the attractions went away it just meant that i had to find somewhere to
put them you know i had to i had to really believe god when he said that he is a great high priest
that i could come to his throne of grace for help in my time of need and i'm just one of those kinds
of people that i've come to recognize that my time of need is always and so i'm always needing to go
to his throne of grace um so i think that's one of the things that i've just come to
see is that man temptation as it is expressed in being same-sex attracted may not ever change
for me i am a woman uh who is married to a man functionally heterosexual love him i like him
i enjoy him yet at the same time i'm still very much attracted to women yet i love god more than
what i am tempted by and so because of that i am willing to disregard and suppress which the bible
tells me to do not suppress the truth but suppress my sinful nature um because i just believe that
it honors god that's countercultural but that's all right no that is because okay so gay people
in the church are not new and and people who used to be gay are not new however it's always
in my experience it's always been and god took the feeling away and now i don't think no more right
and you are saying no actually sundress season is tough for me too i'm having trouble everything
you know correct never you know this is why i i'm so glad to talk to you because that to me is a
more realistic um feeling right i feel like the the god took it away and that's a lot of things
god are you an alcoholic god took away the taste i used to smoke cocaine now i only blow my nose
god took it away and you're like no actually it's it is it's still there i i do struggle
and that and i always feel like truth in in in our walk and how difficult our walk is is much more of
a testimony of god's love than a good narrative come on here because people people you know
all struggle i tell people all the time they say you're such a great husband i know you would never
cheat on melissa you don't know that no hello i work hard to not give myself the opportunity when
i'm on the road i go from my hotel to the venue back to the venue to my hotel the airport nobody
knows where i stay i don't care with people it's because i don't trust myself i don't get drunk
and and then be like oh step i don't know i might make a mistake like but i'm still a man who sees
other women i'm not like well i am now married and meg the stallion does not exist i've never
i've never seen her go ah i didn't watch bt awards i didn't see nothing jesus for the season and i
never see no other books you know what i mean like and i feel like what you just said is that
version of no yes i still struggle my struggle god is there and me like that is just so much more uh
attainable yeah you know what i mean it's reality because do you know how many people that have been
turned off from christianity and god and the church because they were told
if you come to god you will be straight so when they come to god and they see that they're still
tempted their conclusion is god is not with me i am not saved i am not christian because they have
equated christianity with sinlessness and that is not biblical and so we actually tell people
that no coming to jesus does mean uh that you'll have power to flee sin but that does not mean
that you won't struggle with sin that actually sets up realistic expectations that man to be
in the faith does mean that i will struggle yet i have hope i have i have encouragement
from the scriptures and from the prophets and from the psalms and from the spirit and from
the church that i can persevere if i trust god enough to do so to me that sounds like bible
okay so the prevailing view here seems to be that yes it is possible that the lord can deliver a
person who is engaging in same-sex attraction and engaging that lifestyle from acting out on it but
unfortunately it is rare that the lord actually completely 100 percent removes those feelings
those attractions and god forbid the memory of all the different things that you've been involved
with in that particular lifestyle which is one of the reasons why i strongly encourage anyone who
might be watching this video and you are tempted to act out on same-sex attraction let me just
speak to you specifically listen once you go down that road and you start engaging in that lifestyle
it is rare that people actually go through the rest of their life and not feel some sort of
desire for the same sex and god forbid they can't get rid of all the images and all the memories
and different things that they did whenever they were in that lifestyle so i want to plead with you
to even if you're having those attractions that you don't act out on it and you talk to somebody
very very soon because it could very alter the trajectory of the rest of your life so hopefully
you found this video helpful if you know somebody that's struggling with this please pass this video
on to them and hopefully they find value in it i'll see you all in the next video bye for now