In my two previous articles, I shared how the LGBT+ community publicly celebrated, during the month of June which they call Pride Month, their chosen lifestyle. They used rainbow colors as an expression of joyous freedom to influence society to accept as normal their aberrant behavior.

During the celebrations, the LGBT+ community deliberately targeted children. They influenced their parents to bring them to Pride events, deceptively convincing them to ignore the dangers these events and parades have on the impressionable minds of their children.

In this article, I want to share what we as followers of Jesus can do to rescue those who have already been enslaved as well as those who are being targeted by the LGBT+ community.

Thankfully, many parents are now aware of the LGBT+ community’s agenda to corrupt society, even to drown their kids in sexually explicit material. For several years now many parents have been protesting the evil curriculum that educational authorities and leaders have been promoting.

But there are many today who seem to agree with the LGBT+ community’s conclusion that we, who openly declare that their behavior is dangerous, do not have a genuine spirit of love toward the LGBT+ community. Certainly, there are some who do convey a judgmental spirit. But it is because of the deceptiveness of their agenda leading vulnerable people toward destruction that we include in our message the need for warning and rescue as well as comfort and warmth.

I remember where the lifeguard at a hotel pool stopped teenagers from going into the deep end for fear that they could drown. When they protested, believing he was spoiling their fun, he said their parents had given him the responsibility to keep them from going that far into the pool.

I used to work as a security guard and often I was assigned to work at public dances. There were occasions when I recognized that there were people getting rowdy from having drank too much alcoholic beverages. For the sake of the rest of the people who were enjoying themselves it was my responsibility to try to quell minor incidents, to prevent them from getting out of hand.

It is likely the people who I confronted over their rowdiness weren’t happy with me. But though I appeared unloving toward this small group, I was very loving toward those who did not want such a minor disturbance to evolve into a major skirmish, thus ending everyone’s fun.

Though it never happened in my case, there have been incidents where a fire, unbeknownst to all the people attending a concert, had begun behind the stage. Though they wanted to continue in a partying mood, it is not likely that many objected when security cleared the hall for their safety until the small fire had been brought under control.

Many are very critical of those of us whom God assigned as security to alert and warn the ones in society who were deceived by the glitz and glamor of Pride celebrations. Even as we would warn others in a burning building, we need to boldly declare the great harm that is being done when the LGBT+ community is allowed to flaunt their evil ways for all to see. In the Toronto Pride parade on June 25^th, 2023, it is reported that there were some men who walked in the parade totally naked in the gaze of innocent children and of their not so innocent parents.

It is for the safety of our most vulnerable citizens, our children, that we Christians must work at alerting parents and all who are in authority and leadership of the dangers supporting or even respecting the LGBT+ community. We who have spoken out against these dangers do so because we take very seriously the revelations, the warnings, and the integrity of God’s Word.

We learn from Romans 1 that the people whom Paul described as being desperately evil are people whom God had given up. In writing to the Roman church, Paul spoke of homosexual people as being so vile in their sin that the light of the Gospel and Holy Spirit conviction was no longer capable of convicting or restraining them. In that God had given them over to a reprobate mind Paul was saying that God no longer considered them as reachable for salvation.

However, this passage does not mean that we should give up on the homosexual LGBT+ people. We are not in a place where we can determine through our own discernment that a person has reached the degradation which Paul described in his letter. We must consider that everyone, regardless of how sinful they appear, are within the reach of God’s great mercy. Paul said there are people on whom God has given up on and turned over to a reprobate mind but emphasized that it is only God himself who knows who these people are.

When we claim that we know who the people are who have descended to that depth of depravity and are beyond the reach of God’s merciful hand, then we are indeed being judgmental. While it is not our place to make this judgment, we are not blind to the fact there are LGBT+ individuals who by their own confession are enemies of the cross of Jesus and are fully intent on infecting our society with their wicked agenda (see Romans 1:32 and Philippians 3:18-19).

For fear of being labeled as being unaccepting and anti-inclusive of the LGBT+ people, there are some churches that will openly declare that though not encouraging that kind of lifestyle, they accept them as a community deserving of respect. And because there are those of us who will be courageous enough to call homosexuality a threat to our society, often these churches will refer to us as being unloving toward the LGBT+ community.

But, like the analogy of the purpose of security, the most loving thing we as a people of God can do is to warn our society, especially parents with young children, that if they continue ignoring the seductive tactics of the LGBT+ community, then our previously innocent children will be led astray and their good lives eventually drowning in the depths of sin and debauchery.

This LGBT+ lifestyle is a deliberate choice and isn’t, as many are deceived into believing, a naturally born orientation. The scripture tells us that every one of us is born with a rebellious selfish nature. As we grew up, we naturally gave attention to our inclination toward selfishness, pride, lying, stealing, and fleshly cravings. Even the gift of natural sexual desire we have often allowed to develop into expressions of unrestrained lust. For many people, this lust had led them toward acts of fornication, adultery, violence, rape, and finally murder.

Since we know acts of selfishness and lusts of our flesh are declared in God’s word as sin and rebellion, then it is only right that we would conclude that the inclination that many have toward same-sex relationships and deviant behavior are also sin and displeasing to God, especially since we know many scriptural passages, like Romans chapter 1, have condemned such behavior.

If we declare we have respect for the views of these enemies of the cross and gospel, on whom God is very displeased, and whose agenda is to thoroughly corrupt our society, then those in the LGBT+ community on whom God has shown to us are not beyond the reach of the gospel, will be confused as to the true destructiveness of their behavior. The apostle John said that when we give “God speed” (respect) to those who are rebellious to the truth, then we are partakers in their evil ways (see 2 John 1:9-11).

Certainly, we love members of the LGBT+ community on whose hearts God is working to bring to repentance, as we are continually looking for ways of planting the seed of God’s Word into their somewhat yet tender hearts. But we must also acknowledge that God requires of us, like He did of Paul, to discern, without fear of being interpreted as judgmental, just who are our enemies. We must do our very best to rescue those homosexuals who are still reachable from these in the LGBT+ community whose hearts are already extremely hardened and totally perverted.

And since we believe they are indeed within the reach of God’s mercy, we must be bold enough to tell them that if they will turn from their sin and come out from among them whose hearts are already corrupted and then reach for the hand of Jesus to rescue them, they will be forgiven.

Jesus had no difficulty in telling people about their need to acknowledge their sin: to one woman He brought to her attention her past relationships which immediately brought conviction upon her about her sins; to another woman whom He rescued from her accusers He told to go and sin no more; to a young man, who was unaware of his sinful condition, Jesus made a statement that made him realize that he was not as righteous as he thought; to a man who needed healing he said your sins are forgiven; and to a self-righteous man, he pointed him to a woman who had already repented of sins to show that he too needed to acknowledge his sins as well.

In each of these instances, Jesus risked being rejected and misinterpreted. The reactions in these stories were: changing the subject, gratefulness for calling sin what it is, going away sorrowfully, observers publicly denouncing Jesus, and embarrassing humiliation.

Though the tender-hearted segment of the LGBT+ community intuitively knows they’re guilty of sin, they also need to hear someone declare it as such so that when they hear their sympathizers excuse and justify their destructive lifestyles, they will have an opportunity to choose the way of mercy and forgiveness rather than risking severe punishment.

In Matthew 11, Jesus commended John the Baptist for his stand against sin and for requiring people to repent. Though it cost him his freedom, even putting his head on the chopping block, John fearlessly spoke against the destructiveness of sin. By being honest with them about their sin, John’s audience was prepared for the introduction of Jesus as the Lamb of God who taketh away the sins of the world. John showed to the people that not only was Jesus willing to forgive, but that he was the only one who could rescue, forgive, and cleanse them from all their sins.

In this same passage, we learn that Jesus upbraided those people who refused to acknowledge their sin and to turn from it. He went so far as to say the people of Sodom, who we know were severely judged for their homosexuality, would revolt against all future generations protesting that their sinfulness wasn’t nearly as terrible because they had not received nearly the light that our present generations have received, which if the people of Sodom had received would have led to their repentance.

The world will hate us when realizing we have refused to join into their world system and are not willing to go along with their politically correct “woke” ideologies. Since we are citizens of heaven and thus aliens in a foreign territory, we must not lose focus as to God’s purpose in sending us into the world, remembering that Jesus specifically mandated us to be the salt of the earth and the light of the world.

We must show ourselves to be different, especially from the groups who though they show the LGBT+ people compassion, are willingly and unashamedly supporting their Pride agenda. We must show that we are not of this world even as Jesus is not of this world.

When we show compassion and sympathy for the LGBT+ community but then say nothing to bring to their attention the dangers of them remaining in that lifestyle or of the threat that they are to society, then we have failed to set ourselves apart from progressive groups who appear to be equally as loving toward them. When we lovingly tell them the truth about their sin and of the way of receiving forgiveness, we will then reveal ourselves as poles apart from these liberal groups. It is then that these victims, who’ve fallen prey to their corrupt nature, will no longer be looking for support from sympathizers who would excuse and justify their destructive lifestyles.

Considering the LGBT+ community’s brazen display of rebellion against God, we must consider ourselves first as rescuers, and then afterward as sources of comfort and warmth. Rather than making them feel comfortable in their depravity, we are the extended hand of Jesus pulling them out of the muddy and polluted waters in which they are drowning.