Key to Biblical Doctrine

"Anyone who comes to me, I will not reject for any reason whatsoever."
– Jesus (John 6:37)

"Key to Biblical Doctrine" by Jerald L. Brown is sword and shield for the gay Christian.

Whitewashed Tombs

Jerusalem from afar

"As [Jesus] approached Jerusalem and saw the city, he wept over it"
Luke 19:41

"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing!"
Luke 13:34

Can you imagine Jesus' grief? The Jews, the people of Jerusalem, were the children of his friends Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. They were the people of his friend Moses. They were the people whom God loved and to whom he entrusted the message of God, to preserve and give to the world. These are the people through whom God brought Jesus, the Son of God and Savior of the world. These are the people whom God calls the apple of his eye. These are the same people who blasphemed and rejected God's love and salvation.

Paul said the same thing: "I speak the truth in Christ – I am not lying, my conscience confirms it in the Holy Spirit – I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart. For I could wish that I myself were cursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, those of my own race, the people of Israel. Theirs is the adoption as sons; theirs the divine glory, the covenants, the receiving of the law, the temple worship and the promises. Theirs are the patriarchs, and from them is traced the human ancestry of Christ, who is God over all, forever praised!" (Romans 9:1-5). Paul was sick at heart and grieved that his own kinsmen, the very guardians of God's message to the world, had rejected both Jesus and the Gospel.

In the same way, I am horrified and grief-filled that my own family, today's Christian church, has become not the friends of the Gospel to bring gays to Christ but they have become its enemies, denying to gays the way of salvation. How is that possible? How could they have turned away from Christ so completely? How could they have disowned the very message and Way to which they were called? I'm sick at heart; I just don't understand how the called messengers of God could have so completely disowned their own calling and denied both their Lord and mine.

Jesus replied to the Jews, "You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desire." (John 8:44).

Paul said about the law-abiding Christians, "Evidently some people are throwing you into confusion and are trying to pervert the gospel of Christ. But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel other than the one we preached to you, let him be eternally condemned! As we have already said, so now I say again: If anybody is preaching to you a gospel other than what you accepted, let him be eternally condemned!" (Galatians 1:8-9). I want to remind you, nobody preaches the Gospel but those who profess to be Christians.

Today's Christians are in dire danger!

Jesus said,
"Whoever comes to me, I will not reject for any reason whatsoever." (John 6:37)

Anybody who tells gay or Lesbian people they cannot be Christian if they are gay or that God and Jesus have rejected them, that person is in serious trouble with God and their souls are in danger of losing that very salvation they so proudly withhold from others. They commit a terrible sin and blaspheme Jesus, for they call him a liar.

Jesus said,
"Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and in your name drive out demons and perform many miracles?’ Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!’" (Matthew 7:21-23).

Notice that Jesus was not speaking to the Jews. He is speaking to Christians. He is speaking to those who call Jesus “Lord,” who prophesy in Jesus’ name, who do miracles in Jesus’ name and who drive out demons in Jesus’ name. The Jews do not do that. Christians do that. Jesus is talking to Christians who profess a saving relationship with God. When they deny salvation to those who would come to Jesus, he tells them, "I never knew you. Depart from me, you evil doers!"

Woe! Woe to you, Evangelical Christians! you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of dead men’s bones and everything unclean. In the same way, on the outside you appear to people as righteous but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness. (Matthew 23:27-28)