How to share the gospel with homosexuals
Exclusive: Ray Comfort turns to couple on airplane and says …
Ray
Comfort
I was flying from Los Angeles to
Miami when I found myself sitting next to two women. Sarah was sitting closest
to me. She was 29, inappropriately dressed, with a ring through her nose, and
she wasn’t the friendliest person I have sat next to on a plane.
I waited until she had eaten,
finished her movie, and simply said, “Sarah. I have a question for you. Do you
think there’s an afterlife?”
She wasn’t sure, so I asked, “If
heaven exists, are you going there? Are you a good person?”
She predictably said she was, so I
took her through three of the Ten Commandments – had she lied, stolen and taken
God’s name in vain? She had broken all three, so we then looked at whether or
not she would be guilty on Judgment Day and whether she would go to heaven or
hell. I then shared the cross and the necessity for repentance and faith in
Jesus.
I didn’t mention her sexual
orientation; I didn’t need to, nor did I want to. I simply shared the moral law
(the Ten Commandments), because the Bible says that the law was “made” for
homosexuals – see 1 Timothy 1:8-10. She wasn’t offended, and I kept her
friendship and stayed out of jail.
What about a woman planning an
abortion?
Trying to witness to someone who is
about to take the life of her child is also high on the awkward list. It’s
awkward, mainly because the mind of this person is preoccupied with what she is
about to do and therefore it’s difficult to get her attention.
However, if she would stop and
talk, I would handle the situation similarly to my conversation with Sarah. The
reason for that is that I don’t want to reform people. I didn’t want Sarah to
stop being gay and end up in hell for her lying, theft and blasphemy. I don’t
want to just stop a woman from killing her child and have her go to hell for
her other sins. With God’s help I want to see more than a change of mind. I
want to see a change of heart.
Contrary to popular opinion, most
who take the life of their child through abortion believe in God. Even the
staunchest fundamentalist atheist believes in God. I know because I have an
inside source. I have a “whistleblower” – “For since the creation of the world His
invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are
made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse,
because, although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God, nor were
thankful, but became futile in their thoughts, and their foolish hearts were
darkened. Professing to be wise, they became fools” (Romans 1:20-22).
Those who abort the life of their
children are “idolaters,” illustrated in the fact that their god condones the
taking of a human life. They have no fear of God before their eyes. So your
agenda, with the help of God, is to stir her God-given conscience to do its
duty and put the fear of God within her, and you can do that as I did with
Sarah and her homosexuality, without even mentioning the elephant in the room –
the impending abortion.
To put the fear of God in someone
means that you will have to stay with the biblical gospel. Do not use the “God
has a wonderful plan” message, because it is both unbiblical and will do more
damage than good. If you really believe that that message is biblical, think
for a few moments about how the first eleven disciples were murdered for their
faith. If you know Church history, you will know that the foundation of the
church is founded in the blood of the saints. Jesus warned that people would
kill Christians thinking that they are doing God a favor.
Imagine you have been asked to
preach the gospel to 1,000 people on the 100th floor of the World Trade Center
the night before 9/11. You know that within 24 hours every person looking at
you will die a death so horrific it defies human imagination. Many will be
burned alive. Others will jump 100 stories to their deaths on the unforgiving
sidewalks of New York. Others will fall with the building and be so crushed
that their bodies will never be recovered. What are you going to tell them –
that God has a wonderful plan for their lives? You can’t say that to people who
are about to die!
Instead you would soberly tell them
that it’s appointed to man once to die and after this, the judgment. You would
tell them that God is holy, that He will judge them by His perfect law, that
hell is very real and that they desperately need a Savior. You would tell them
that they could die within 24 hours, and plead with them to repent and trust
alone in Jesus.
If you have to change the message
you normally preach, then you are not preaching the biblical gospel. Why would
you have a different message for people who are walking the streets of this
world and are about to die? Every day 150,000 people throughout this world pass
into death, many of whom will die in terrible ways – through horrific car
accidents and through the suffering of cancer.
Think of David and Nathan the
prophet. David had coveted his neighbor’s wife, stolen her, lived a lie,
committed adultery and murdered her husband. He had violated the Ten
Commandments, but he wasn’t too worried. His conscience wasn’t doing its duty.
God had commissioned Nathan to
expose the king’s terrible sin. So what did Nathan say? Did he say, “David, God
has a wonderful plan for your life”? What has that got to do with anything?
David was a criminal, and Nathan
was there to expose his crimes, not speak of some wonderful plan. The faithful
preacher began in the natural realm with a story about the theft and slaughter
of a poor man’s lamb, and when David became indignant about that man’s sin,
Nathan said, “YOU are that man. Why have you despised the Commandment of the
Lord!”
And that’s when David cried, “I
have sinned against God.”
Think for a moment as to whether or
not the “wonderful plan” message could ever have elicited that response. Why
should it? It doesn’t bring any knowledge of sin or the fear of God. It doesn’t
stir the conscience. But the law does. It made David tremble. The Law stirred
the king’s seared conscience so that it would do its God-given duty, and we can
see its result in the penitent prayer of Psalm 51. And that’s what we must do
with those who see nothing wrong with the taking of the life of their unborn
child. Their terrible sin must be made personal, so that the fear of the Lord
causes them to depart from it. The instant someone is converted to Jesus
Christ, they know that means no more lying, stealing, lust, pornography,
homosexuality, fornication, adultery, idolatry and no murdering of your own
children.
In Mark 10:17 we are told of the
story of the rich young ruler who ran to Jesus, kneeled down and said, “Good
master. What must I do to inherit eternal life?”
He ran (was earnest), he kneeled
down (he was humble), and he asked the question we so wish the world would ask,
“What must I do to inherit eternal life?”
But instead of leading him in a
sinner’s prayer, Jesus reproved him of his use of the word “good.” Proverbs
20:6 says, “Most men will proclaim each his own goodness,” and they certainly
do. Ask anyone if they think they are a good person and most will say that they
are. So Jesus used the Ten Commandments to bring the knowledge of sin to show
him that he wasn’t good at all. He, like Nathan, made sin personal.
Paul did this in Romans 2 when he
said, “You who say you shall not steal; do you steal? You who say you shall not
commit adultery, do you commit adultery?”
Such faithful talk will cause the
sinner to tremble as Felix trembled when Paul reasoned with him – not about
some wonderful plan, but of “sin, temperance and judgment.”
The stirring of the dormant
conscience coupled with a knowledge that a holy God will hold her accountable
should be enough to put the fear of God within someone who is about to commit
the murder of her own offspring. May God help us to be faithful, courageous and
give us wisdom and help us to stop such slaughter.
Source: WND,
via Last Days Watchman
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