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GYC Canada

Michael Carducci

The Law of Love & Sexuality and Purity

Heavenly Father, I just want to ask Lord for a measure of your Holy Spirit.

I want to ask Lord that you would hide me behind the cross, and most importantly Lord that you would take control of my mind and my mouth.

I ask Lord for guidance and most importantly Lord for ears that would hear.

Lord I pray that every person within the sound of my voice, Lord, will hear something that will actually relate to whatever they may be struggling with or whatever a family member may be struggling with.

But most importantly, Lord, that they will see the power of Jesus Christ still is alive today and doing amazing things and that it would give us hope and confidence Lord in the Word of God.

So again we want to really talk about the issues that are going on not only in the world but definitely inside our church.

Raise your hand if you've heard from your church or even from church members or from things that you've read from our church that homosexuality is acceptable by God.

There's actually a pro-gay movement, we're going to talk about that a little bit, that's actually been around for over 30 years.

But they've been moving this message and they have a film that they put out as well, several years ago, and this movie has moved hearts so much And it's based on emotions and feelings.

And the whole idea is you sit there and you see these 3 individuals that are Adventist gays, and you look at them and you laugh with them, you cry with them, and you look at their situation and you say, Ah, yeah, we need to have compassion on them.

And so the next thing you know, you start buying into the emotion and you just start sacrificing the Word of God.

And instead of elevating these people and showing them the power of Jesus Christ to overcome and to be redeemed, we just accept them in their sin.

You can love somebody right to the gates of hell by allowing them to think that the Word of God is no longer null and void, or that the Word of God is null and void.

And so coming out ministries, our desire is to not only inspire, but to enlighten the church.

We want to enlighten the church and let them know that the power of God is still alive today through examples and also to equip the church through resources and also presentations.

And so again we believe that the power of God is still moving but if we cut people off from the redemptive part of the story, you've only brought them halfway because love is definitely important.

We have to be more loving and kind than we've been and we have a terrible reputation of being cruel and heartless, But we still have to hold on to the truth.

We don't just throw away the truth because some people call it unloving.

We have to show that the truth is not only loving, but it's got to be better than what the world is handing out.

And that is what we're going to talk about in the next 2 days.

I see a lot of color in this room and I belong to a black church so please don't hold back, alright?

LGBT and the church, take a look at this image.

This is a Protestant Church in Holland and I was coming up out of the parking garage with my colleague Ron Woolsey and my mouth just dropped open.

This is a Protestant church and they were hanging the gay flag on the church and in Europe what they do is they build the church and then they build the city around it.

So the church is smack dab in the center of the square and this is what everybody sees.

And I said to my Adventist friends that were taking us to tour this city, I said, Wow, that's shocking.

Can you see how they had become anesthetized themselves to images like this?

But let me tell you something, brothers and sisters, it's coming.

I was walking downtown, I went to Staples last night to get me some stickers for the movies that I want to give out.

But while I was there, the whole street was lined with the gay flags.

I was in probably what I would think is 1 of the most gay areas that I've been in in many years.

And as I'm watching this, Ellen White talks about the miasma of the city.

The miasma basically is talking about the feeling, the feeling that you get from the city.

And I realize that this is coming around the world at a rapid pace.

As a matter of fact, these messages weren't even able to be advertised until the very last moment for fear that there would be protesting or that there would be words that would come up against these meetings even taking place.

But this is what's going on in your neck of the woods as well.

It says that when it comes to equality, LGBT activists and their judicial allies have made sure sexual behavior trumps religious freedom and liberty every time.

Now I realize that when I spent 20 years in the gay culture, I was the 1 that had to go undercover.

I was the 1 that had to oppress my relationships and my identity.

But now all of a sudden, 20 years after I've been in the church, I recognize now that the church is now the 1 that has to be oppressed.

When I go into a restaurant, when I stay in a hotel and I see definitely homosexual people or LGBT supportive things going on, I recognize that I'm the 1 that has to fly under radar again.

Isn't it interesting how in just such a short time that all of this has become switched.

And brothers and sisters, this is not going to change.

And we as Seventh-day Adventist Christians who know the great controversy, and we know how it plays out, and we know how it ends, How is it that we can be as intelligent as serpents, but yet harmless as doves?

And that's what we have to learn about this morning.

We have these 2 positions in the church now.

This has been the word or the information that I got in the years that I was a young Adventist, from the time that I got baptized at 15 until I walked out of the church at 20 years old.

The only thing that I heard was that gays were going to burn in a hotter hell than everybody else and that there was no hope or redemption for people like me.

And while there may not have been open seminars or sermons that were preached on the topic, however, I did hear people say, well, thank God I'm not like them.

And that those words, they came and they bit.

And I remember feeling to myself that, well, why would God make me gay and then tell me that there's no hope for me?

I got the message loud and clear and I walked out of the church.

Well then 20 years later, through a miraculous intervention, which I'm going to talk about a little bit later, all of a sudden now here I am.

I'm still struggling with same sex attraction, not knowing what to do with all of this, but I'm defiant about the fact that I was born this way and that I couldn't change and I prayed that God would change me and He never did.

And so now what's happened is that people are still saying the same thing.

They're saying that you can't change and that okay back here 20 years ago they said you can't change and you're going to burn in hell.

Now they're saying that you can't change and that God doesn't have a problem with it.

Well it's interesting that we totally flip-flopped.

We went from hating them to loving them but the message never changed.

The message was that they couldn't change, and the message today is that they still can't change.

And that's a message straight from the devil.

It says, "...By the testimony of 2 or 3 shall a thing be established, and I stand before you, and those things that are underneath your seat are testimonies of other individuals that have come out of the LGBT life into a relationship with Jesus Christ.

And so we're here to establish that if you didn't know it when you came into this room, that when you walk out of this room this morning, you're gonna know beyond the shadow of a doubt that the power of Jesus Christ is still alive today.

And so, isn't it interesting, how many colors are on that gay flag?

What does the number of 6 mean in the Bible?

And so, there's something incomplete about this flag.

And I think that we need to have compassion upon the men and the women that are falsely in this narrative that this is who they are.

My whole life was completely defined by the gay life.

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