I will have to listen to this again! So encouraging!!!! 🙏🏼

If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must rule over it.” Gn. 4.7

I keep coming back to this. What a gift.

Brilliant and informative video. Thanks Sam 🤗🙏

Thank you. You have helped me!

Jesus is Lord! We are only created beings. Who sits on the throne of your heart? We can not save ourselves. Blessed be name of the Lord our God! 💕 🙏

Enlightening and encouraging testimony that would make you all the more folow YESHUA!

Intimacy with Jesus❤️

It is God who made us. The intelligent designer. All of creation is sacred. Be renewed and transformed. Thank you for this powerful message 💜 💖 💚💙🧡💛

Sam always speaks so clearly.

Looking forward to this

This was amazing!

I’m scared God doesn’t love me because I’m Gay 🏳️‍🌈. I need advice 🥹😭

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Yes he do an he will always do it's ok if men hate u they need love

Jesus came to save us from hell and from sin (Luke 5:32). We all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God (Romans 3:23). sin leads to hell but Jesus leads to Heaven because Jesus is the only way to Heaven (John 14:6, Romans 6:23), He's the only one true God, He's the only way we can be Saved. the bible (which is infallible and uncorruptible and never lies) says that Jesus came to save us, Jesus came and went to the cross to pay our sin debt full, He died and paid our sin debt in full, God rose Jesus on the third day, He conquered hell, sin, death, the world and He stumped on the devil's head. He broke the walls that kept us from coming to Him and having a relationship with Him. He did all that for us because He wants to save our souls and He wants to have a relationship with us (John 3:16, John 14:6, John 19:30, Romans 5). come to Jesus, believe and repent of your sins and God will forgive you and cleanse you and make you born again by His Holy Spirit (John 3:3-18). Heaven is eternal but know hell is eternal as well. don't die in your sins, don't die without Christ because if you die without Christ and die in your sins then hell awaits you and you'll never get out of it, only Jesus can save you from hell's grasp. believe and repent and God will save you!

Amen.

Short answer: yes of course He does.

What a mixed-up distortion of God's plenitude for you this is. May God help him.

Keep going, he does talk about divorce, that is the point and you ignored the punchline. Very sloppy yet expected exegesis, rivaling upon eisegesis. And this question was never brought up and thus never answered.

First, the analogy of marriage to eschatology is a bit esoteric. It’s fine to analogize human marriage to the Union between Christ and Church at the end of the current age/order of things since there is value in trying to convey the depth of Christ and the Church’s relationship. Regrettably however, the two are treated almost as synonymous rather than merely analogous, even leading to the deification of marriage. To be clear, there’s some value in using the analogy, but the two are not the same, and should therefore not be given equal weight. By extension, I’m not sure if there is much value in using the analogy as a foundation for arguing against same-sex (gay) human relationships/marriage vis-a-vis opposite-sex (straight) human relationships/marriages since straight marriage is not synonymous with the Union of Christ and Church; again, it’s just a useful analogy to get an idea across. Second, the idea that Jesus’ was opining on homosexual relationships in Matthew 19 when discussing divorce vis-a-vis Genesis’ description of human relations has always seemed a bit strained and reaching to me. I mean, maybe Jesus would have landed where conservative ethicists (like Sam) argue, especially given how conservative His subculture was. Then again, there’s no way to be sure, especially given other weightier virtues such as love, as demonstrable by monogamous couples who give of themselves sacrificially to one another for a lifetime-which could include a same-sex couple. Notably, it was not beyond Jesus to shatter long-standing norms, even with respect to ontologies about human relations. Admittedly, Sam does a beautiful job of crafting and presenting his arguments. Even so, the real value and efficacy of his arguments are realized insofar as they are the basis for his celibacy as a personal expression of faithfulness. This personal commitment provides greater justification for arguments that are not totally well founded given all the conjecture required and argumentation by analogy. As a final thought, I have always thought that Sam’s personal testimony is likely most efficacious in personal relationships with others tilling similar ground-not before conservative audiences that are not really challenged by his own conservative ethic, other than a passing admonishment to take stock of their own proverbial crosses and be nicer to gay people. I’m not sure that these talks win the hearts and minds of gay people seeking love and affection as much as they affirm ethics that cultural conservatives are eager to espouse and even more eager to have someone like Sam promulgate as a sort of show pony, so to speak.

23:20 - Marriage is, by definition, the union of one man and one woman for life. So the question in the sermon title is really, "Does God Still Love Me if I Willfully Disobey and Live in Sin?"

This sermon is disastrous... "all of us must say no to certain sexual desires." REALLY? How about you say no so you give up on the only way that gives you intimacy. Comparing same sex attraction to other sexual desires that heterosexual people have is extremely selfish and does not have the minimum level of empathy. Yes heterosexual people can say no to some sexual desires but they can still have intimacy in sex... Homosexuals don't have that luxury. And please, don't say: Jesus says!

Amen🙏✝️😇👑❤️🥰

We are broken without a relationship with Jesus. We will have these these thoughts and possibly act on immorality. To bad mouth Jesus is bad mouthing the Lord. What he say is true. The bible says no one will come to the father except through him. These longings you feel are not necessarily from our selves. Jesus gets my will, we give our "true" self to God because HE DIED for *US*. Our identity is in him.

The devil lies to you making you think thoughts are your own, but test it, read your bible. God gave you an identity, in him is our identity. He said out side of marriage, the way marriage was intended by God, between a man and a woman. Just because someone knows the bible, does not mean they follow it truly. God loves us but he made it clear, sinners do not enter the kingdom of God. If we have not repented of our sin, he will not forgive us. God wants to see you in heaven. But if we reject what he said, where God cannot be with sin, how can we expect to be with him in heaven if we will fully disobey. He gave us free will, and I wish that my will is Gods will so that I can be with him in heaven. When we chose to follow Christ we choose to give up our will for his. We are NOT even able to say I follow Christ but I choose to sin will fully and ignore what he said, we cannot say I do Gods will, but don't. If I choose to shoot heroin for the rest of my life, but claim to follow Christ, am I really following Christ or am I following what I wanna do?

What is gay in biblical definition ? How do you know a definition like this exists in sense of truthfulness ?

Go and sell all you have then come back and bash others after you've completed your dedication.

I pray that you find love!

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Sad to believe people think this way

HE still loves you,but hates what you do,if you love HIM,repent and sin no more,its that simple...😇

Sin starts in the mind....not once you act it out. He is living in sin by entertaining sinful thoughts, excusing them, and not repenting of them. He is not gay. He has sinful and unnatural lusts

No.

This "pastor" has mocked Jesus.

PZZZZZ WHEN WE ACCEPT THE LORD WE BECOME HIS CHILDREN AND WE LIVE UNDER THE PERIOD OF THE GRACE OK ....THEREFORE CAST ALL YOUR ANXIETY OVER THE LORD AND DO HIS WILL, HE SAID, WITHOUT ME YOU CAN NOT DO ANYTHING SO TRUST IN HIM CHANGES COME ALONG, NOW YOU GIVE HAS MUCH YOU LOVE AND PRACTICE OBEDIENCE, THIS ISSUE OR CONDUCT WILL BE ADRESS BY HIM, IT BECOMES HIS WORK TO MOLD YOU AGAIN, TO HIS PERFECTION, WITH THIS BEEN SAID DO NOT FELL SEPARATED FROM HIM FOR HE IS WITH YOU TILL THE END OF TIMES, SO DON'T WORRY CHANGES REAL ONES COMES FROM INSIDE OUT, DO NOT PRETEND OR BE DIFFERENT TO BE LIKED OR ACCEPTED THIS ARE NOT YOU'RE WORRIES OR DUTIES ANYMORE, REAL CHRISTIANS HAVE THE SPIRIT OF GOG AND THEY ARE RESPONSIBLE OF TEACH YOU THE LORD TRUTH WITH LOVE AND WITH PATIENCE, WHAT YOU SHOULD DO IS SEPARATE YOUR SELF FROM THE WORLD AND HIS HABITS. CONGREGATE AND MAKE SURE YOU GIVE THE LORD ALL YOUR LOVE AND TRUST HIM BECAUSE AS MUCH YOU TURN TO HIM ABOUT YOURSELF THE MORE, HE WILL MANIFEST IN YOUR LIFE.REMEMBER TURN YOURE OPRESSION TO HIM, HE WILL MAKE EVERYTHING NEW AGAIN BE PATIENCE.