26:12,13
Jeremiah stuck to the Lord’s message, he did not waver. He proclaimed the same message he had always been preaching. When accused or attacked there is always a tendency to want to soften what we say. We must not do this, we need to speak the word of the Lord. They took Jeremiah’s message as a condemnatory word, an attacking word. In reality it was a word of salvation, if only they would believe it, for the message was that if they repented then God would not send judgement against them. We perhaps face a similar situation with LGBTQ matters. The LGBTQ “community” think the message is one of condemnation, when in reality it is one of salvation. Now there are some who will preach against LGBTQ out of hatred, that is not the message of the gospel. Then there are some (far too many) who make the opposite mistake and are sin-affirming, saying that LGBTQ is OK. That is not a Biblical position, it is not God’s “position”. But if we are true to the Bible we will clearly state the Biblical position on these matters, but our heart is a desire to see salvation, to see true joy and love come into people’s lives.
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