{"id":16942,"date":"2023-04-04T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-04T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/retro.piorevangelho.online\/?p=16942"},"modified":"2023-04-04T19:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-04-04T22:00:00","slug":"a-matter-of-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/piorevangelho.online\/en\/questao-de-amor\/","title":{"rendered":"A Matter of Love, The Real One"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some time ago, a well-known celebrity makeup artist, who is openly gay, created a tremendous controversy with a gospel singer because she refused his invitation to sing at her wedding ceremony with another man.
The episode became well-known to the public, especially internet users, but what needs to be highlighted is the reason why the singer in question refused the invitation: it was something that was not compatible with the faith she professed and, according to her, if she accepted she would have to stop singing songs related to Jesus, as she would be endorsing something she couldn't, something that would "clash" with her faith.
The makeup artist, naturally, did not take the refusal well, even recording a video to demonstrate his indignation, declaring that he was no longer friends with the singer, that he would not accept anyone telling him that he was on the path to condemnation, nor would he accept that someone should be condemned "for loving".<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For anyone who knows even a little about the Bible, it's no mystery that romantic relationships between people of the same sex are explicitly declared sinful in the text of Scripture:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness.
For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them.
For since the creation of the world God\u2019s invisible qualities\u2014his eternal power and divine nature\u2014have been clearly seen,
and are clearly seen by the things that have been created, so that they are without excuse;
For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him,
Before, their speeches became futile, and their foolish hearts were darkened.
Claiming to be wise, they became fools.
And they exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.
Therefore God also gave them over to uncleanness, in the lusts of their hearts, to dishonor their bodies among themselves;
For these people exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator\u2014who is forever praised. Amen.
Therefore God gave them over to shameful passions.
Because even their women changed natural relations for unnatural ones.
And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another,
Men with men, committing shameful acts and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.
And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done.;
Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness;
full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice;
Being gossips, slanderers, haters of God, insolent, proud, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents;
Foolish, faithless in their contracts, without natural affection, irreconcilable, without mercy;
Although they know God's righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them.<\/p>\n(Romans 1:18-32 \u2013 ACF)<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

In this passage, compared to facts in the article \u201cThe Doomsday Thermometer<\/strong><\/a>\u201cThe apostle Paul is more than clear in stating this and goes even further, declaring divine disapproval of such acts not only to those who practice them, but also and even to those who consent to them!
This practice, along with several others, is once again being condemned:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God?
Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.<\/p>\n(1\u02e2\u1d57 Corinthians 6:9-10 \u2013 KJA)<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

However, in today's world, "love" seems to have become a kind of justification for everything, and examples of this abound:
In the US, in 2010, a Grandmother dated her own biological grandson.<\/a> and they both agreed to hire a surrogate mother to have their child.
In the same country, more recently, a The mother acted as a surrogate mother for her own son.<\/a>, so that he could have a daughter with his boyfriend.
And what's most striking is that many see such acts as examples of "love"!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even within the Christian community, there are those who no longer see such attitudes as sinful, always basing their decision on taking them out of context. 1\u02e2\u1d57 John 4:8<\/mark><\/strong>.
Yes, it is true that God is love.
God loves the whole world so much that, as the most well-known verse in the Bible says, John 3:16<\/mark><\/strong>, He gave his only begotten Son so that whoever believes in him may not perish but have eternal life\u2014God's love for a world fallen into sin is unparalleled in existence\u2014yet such people are incapable of seeing something extremely important presented in the same verse: God is only love IN CHRIST\u2014so that whoever believes in Him may have eternal life!\u2014and never outside of Him!
The world, which tries so hard to justify itself by pointing to God's love, forgets that God is also absolutely just and that, as recorded in Exodus 34:7<\/mark><\/strong> e Numbers 14:18<\/mark><\/strong>, This in no way exonerates the guilty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

THE MILLION DOLLAR QUESTION<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Therefore, the question is not whether God loves humankind: that is clear in the Bible!
The question that should be asked is: do those who speak so much about God's love truly love Him?
Does God's love find a response in the hearts of such people?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Gospel is not a license to sin, nor is it an invitation to laziness!
In the parable of the wicked tenants (see Matthew 21:33-46<\/mark><\/strong>One of the conclusions presented by Jesus is precisely that those who do not produce the fruits of the Kingdom of God will end up losing it, just like the Jews who rejected the Savior (verse 43).
And sin is not a fruit of the Kingdom. God loves the sinner, but not the sin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whoever truly loves the Creator and his Son, who has the Holy Spirit in their heart, that person will be the one who, as the Savior himself says, will take up their cross and follow him (see Matthew 10:38<\/mark><\/strong> e Luke 14:27<\/mark><\/strong>), loving him to the point of being despised, if necessary, even by those in his own household.
Whoever has this love for the Creator, for his Son, and for the Holy Spirit will strive incessantly to fight against sin, not out of fear of being condemned, but so as not to displease the One who has devoted to them a purest love, without any merit on the part of the object of such love.
This is the love that, in fact, is the greatest fruit of the Kingdom: putting Jesus Christ first, regardless of the consequences, without stopping in the face of losses, regardless of the suffering that this may entail\u2026 just as Jesus loved humanity to the point of giving his life for it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The permissive \u201clove\u201d that many hope to see in God is nothing more than a self-imposed illusion, used to justify sins they don't want to fight against.
This "love" is illusory, false, a source of deception, and definitely not the love of God.
And whoever says they \u201clove God\u201d and continues to practice sin, in truth does not love the true God, but a \u201ccheap imitation\u201d of Him, created according to their own convenience: such a person, in fact, never loved and does not love God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Therefore, may the love that truly bears the fruit of the Kingdom be the foundation of all other fruits that arise in the lives of those who respond to God's true love.
Those who understand the depth and immensity of the Creator's love, even though it may be difficult, will not see the struggle against "pet sins" as impossible or unfeasible, even if they eventually fall into one: God himself, in the person of the Holy Spirit, will take charge of working repentance and strengthening love for the Creator in the hearts of those who love him.
And so it will be until the day when the fullness of this love will be lived out, in the New Jerusalem, for all eternity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the Bonds of Calvary.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Eduardo Pydd Teixeira<\/p>

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ORIGINAL TITLE<\/mark>The question is not whether God loves you, but whether you love Him.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Coincidences (or not) aside, it seems that the end times are revealing themselves more and more rapidly, and before the Lord returns like a thief in the night, we can already observe signs of the prophesied reign of the Antichrist consolidating not only in Brazil, but throughout the world!
In the 2023 phase of "The Worst Gospel," I decided to use new formats in the hope of helping to increase the reach of content related to the Scriptures\u2014stories, videos, shorter texts, guest authors\u2026\u2014and this publication, which I took the liberty of revising and illustrating, is part of that project.
Thank you for reading this far.
I still need all the help I can get: comments, shares, and reactions help spread this content, which was entirely produced with the intention of contributing to the edification of the Body of Christ in the world.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

H\u00e1 algum tempo, um conhecido maquiador de celebridades, homossexual assumido, criou uma tremenda pol\u00eamica com uma cantora gospel por ela ter recusado seu convite para cantar em sua cerim\u00f4nia de casamento com outro homem.O epis\u00f3dio ficou bem conhecido pelo p\u00fablico, especialmente os internautas, mas o que necessita ser destacado \u00e9 o motivo pelo qual a cantora em quest\u00e3o recusou o convite: tratava-se de algo que n\u00e3o era compat\u00edvel com a f\u00e9 que professava e, segundo ela, caso aceitasse teria de parar de cantar temas relacionados a Jesus, pois estaria endossando algo que n\u00e3o poderia, que “bateria de frente” com a sua f\u00e9.O maquiador, naturalmente, n\u00e3o recebeu bem a recusa, chegando a gravar um v\u00eddeo para demonstrar sua indigna\u00e7\u00e3o, declarando n\u00e3o ser mais amigo da cantora, que n\u00e3o admitiria que ningu\u00e9m lhe dissesse que est\u00e1 no caminho da condena\u00e7\u00e3o nem aceitava que algu\u00e9m fosse condenado “por amar”. Para qualquer pessoa que conhe\u00e7a o m\u00ednimo suficiente da B\u00edblia, n\u00e3o \u00e9 mist\u00e9rio que o relacionamento amoroso entre pessoas do mesmo sexo \u00e9 explicitamente declarado como pecaminoso no texto da Escritura: Porque do c\u00e9u se manifesta a ira de Deus sobre toda a impiedade e injusti\u00e7a dos homens, que det\u00eam a verdade em injusti\u00e7a.Porquanto o que de Deus se pode conhecer neles se manifesta, porque Deus lho manifestou.Porque as suas coisas invis\u00edveis, desde a cria\u00e7\u00e3o do mundo, tanto o seu eterno poder, como a sua divindade, se entendem,e claramente se veem pelas coisas que est\u00e3o criadas, para que eles fiquem inescus\u00e1veis;Porquanto, tendo conhecido a Deus, n\u00e3o o glorificaram como Deus, nem lhe deram gra\u00e7as,antes em seus discursos se desvaneceram, e o seu cora\u00e7\u00e3o insensato se obscureceu.Dizendo-se s\u00e1bios, tornaram-se loucos.E mudaram a gl\u00f3ria do Deus incorrupt\u00edvel em semelhan\u00e7a da imagem de homem corrupt\u00edvel, e de aves, e de quadr\u00fapedes, e de r\u00e9pteis.Por isso tamb\u00e9m Deus os entregou \u00e0s concupisc\u00eancias de seus cora\u00e7\u00f5es, \u00e0 imund\u00edcia, para desonrarem seus corpos entre si;Pois estes mudaram a verdade de Deus em mentira, e honraram e serviram mais a criatura do que o Criador, que \u00e9 bendito eternamente. Am\u00e9m.Por isso Deus os abandonou \u00e0s paix\u00f5es infames.Porque at\u00e9 as suas mulheres mudaram o uso natural, no contr\u00e1rio \u00e0 natureza.E, semelhantemente, tamb\u00e9m os homens, deixando o uso natural da mulher, se inflamaram em sua sensualidade uns para com os outros,homens com homens, cometendo torpeza e recebendo em si mesmos a recompensa que convinha ao seu erro.E, como eles n\u00e3o se importaram de ter conhecimento de Deus, assim Deus os entregou a um sentimento perverso, para fazerem coisas que n\u00e3o conv\u00eam;Estando cheios de toda a iniquidade, fornica\u00e7\u00e3o, mal\u00edcia, avareza, maldade;cheios de inveja, homic\u00eddio, contenda, engano, malignidade;Sendo murmuradores, difamadores, aborrecedores de Deus, injuriadores, soberbos, presun\u00e7osos, inventores de males, desobedientes aos pais e \u00e0s m\u00e3es;N\u00e9scios, infi\u00e9is nos contratos, sem afei\u00e7\u00e3o natural, irreconcili\u00e1veis, sem miseric\u00f3rdia;Os quais, conhecendo o ju\u00edzo de Deus (que s\u00e3o dignos de morte os que tais coisas praticam), n\u00e3o somente as fazem, mas tamb\u00e9m se agradam dos que as fazem. (Romanos 1:18-32 – ACF) Nessa passagem, comparada a fatos no artigo “O Term\u00f4metro do Fim“, o ap\u00f3stolo Paulo \u00e9 mais do que claro ao afirmar isso e vai ainda mais longe, declarando a reprova\u00e7\u00e3o divina de tais atos n\u00e3o somente aos que os praticam, mas tamb\u00e9m e at\u00e9 aos que com eles consentem!Tal pr\u00e1tica aparece, ao lado de diversas outras, novamente condenada: N\u00e3o sabeis que os injustos n\u00e3o herdar\u00e3o o Reino de Deus?N\u00e3o vos deixem enganar: nem imorais, nem id\u00f3latras, nem ad\u00falteros, nem os que se entregam a pr\u00e1ticas homossexuais de qualquer esp\u00e9cie, nem ladr\u00f5es, nem avarentos, nem viciados em \u00e1lcool ou outras drogas, nem caluniadores, nem estelionat\u00e1rios herdar\u00e3o o Reino de Deus. (1\u00aa Cor\u00edntios 6:9-10 – KJA) No entanto, no mundo de hoje, o “amor” parece ter se tornado um tipo de justificativa para tudo e exemplos disso n\u00e3o faltam:Nos EUA, em 2010, uma av\u00f3 namorou o pr\u00f3prio neto biol\u00f3gico e ambos consentiram em contratar uma m\u00e3e de aluguel para terem seu filho.No mesmo pa\u00eds, mais recentemente, uma m\u00e3e foi a barriga de aluguel do pr\u00f3prio filho, para que este pudesse ter uma filha com o namorado. E o mais impressionante \u00e9 que tais atos s\u00e3o vistos por muitos como exemplos de “amor”! Mesmo no meio crist\u00e3o j\u00e1 existem aqueles que n\u00e3o mais veem tais atitudes como pecaminosas, sempre se baseando na descontextualiza\u00e7\u00e3o de 1\u00aa Jo\u00e3o 4:8.Sim, \u00e9 verdade que Deus \u00e9 amor.Deus ama o mundo inteiro, tanto que, como diz o vers\u00edculo mais conhecido da B\u00edblia, Jo\u00e3o 3:16, Ele deu seu Filho unig\u00eanito para que todo o que nele cr\u00ea n\u00e3o pere\u00e7a, mas tenha a vida eterna \u2014 o amor de Deus por um mundo deca\u00eddo em pecado n\u00e3o tem paralelo na exist\u00eancia \u2014, por\u00e9m, tais pessoas s\u00e3o incapazes de enxergar algo important\u00edssimo apresentado ainda no mesmo vers\u00edculo: Deus s\u00f3 \u00e9 amor EM CRISTO \u2014 para que todo o que n’Ele cr\u00ea! \u2014 e jamais fora d’Ele!O mundo, que tanto tenta se justificar apontando para o amor de Deus, esquece que Deus tamb\u00e9m \u00e9 absolutamente justo e que, conforme registrado em \u00caxodo 34:7 e N\u00fameros 14:18, de maneira alguma inocenta o culpado. A QUEST\u00c3O DE MILH\u00d5ES Por isso, a quest\u00e3o n\u00e3o \u00e9 se Deus ama o ser humano: isso est\u00e1 claro na B\u00edblia!O que deve ser questionado \u00e9: aqueles que tanto falam do amor de Deus realmente o amam?Ser\u00e1 que o amor de Deus encontra correspond\u00eancia nos cora\u00e7\u00f5es de tais pessoas? O Evangelho n\u00e3o \u00e9 um salvo-conduto para a pr\u00e1tica do pecado, nem tampouco um convite \u00e0 indol\u00eancia!Na par\u00e1bola dos lavradores maus (veja Mateus 21:33-46), uma das conclus\u00f5es apresentada por Jesus \u00e9 precisamente a de que aqueles que n\u00e3o produzem os frutos do Reino de Deus acabar\u00e3o por perd\u00ea-lo, tal como os judeus que rejeitaram o Salvador (verso 43).E o pecado n\u00e3o \u00e9 fruto do Reino. Deus ama o pecador, mas n\u00e3o o pecado. Quem verdadeiramente ama o Criador e seu Filho, que tem o Esp\u00edrito Santo em seu cora\u00e7\u00e3o, esse ser\u00e1 aquele que, como diz o pr\u00f3prio Salvador, tomar\u00e1 a sua cruz e o seguir\u00e1 (veja Mateus 10:38 e<\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":17027,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","iawp_total_views":3,"footnotes":""},"categories":[464],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apologetica"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":464,"label":"Apolog\u00e9tica"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/piorevangelho.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/fakelove-1024x576.jpg",800,450,true],"author_info":{"display_name":"Eduardo Pydd Teixeira","author_link":"https:\/\/piorevangelho.online\/en\/author\/eduardo-pydd\/"},"comment_info":2,"category_info":[{"term_id":464,"name":"Apolog\u00e9tica","slug":"apologetica","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":464,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":96,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":464,"category_count":96,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Apolog\u00e9tica","category_nicename":"apologetica","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/piorevangelho.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/fakelove.jpg",1920,1080,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/piorevangelho.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/fakelove-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/piorevangelho.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/fakelove-300x169.jpg",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/piorevangelho.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/fakelove-768x432.jpg",768,432,true],"large":["https:\/\/piorevangelho.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/fakelove-1024x576.jpg",800,450,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/piorevangelho.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/fakelove-1536x864.jpg",1536,864,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/piorevangelho.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/fakelove.jpg",1920,1080,false],"trp-custom-language-flag":["https:\/\/piorevangelho.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/fakelove.jpg",18,10,false],"mailpoet_newsletter_max":["https:\/\/piorevangelho.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/fakelove.jpg",1320,743,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Eduardo Pydd Teixeira","author_link":"https:\/\/piorevangelho.online\/en\/author\/eduardo-pydd\/"},"uagb_comment_info":2,"uagb_excerpt":"H\u00e1 algum tempo, um conhecido maquiador de celebridades, homossexual assumido, criou uma tremenda pol\u00eamica com uma cantora gospel por ela ter recusado seu convite para cantar em sua cerim\u00f4nia de casamento com outro homem.O epis\u00f3dio ficou bem conhecido pelo p\u00fablico, especialmente os internautas, mas o que necessita ser destacado \u00e9 o motivo pelo qual a…","acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/piorevangelho.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/piorevangelho.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/piorevangelho.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/piorevangelho.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/piorevangelho.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/piorevangelho.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/piorevangelho.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/piorevangelho.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/piorevangelho.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/piorevangelho.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}