[Isaac Fisher]

Re: Focus on the Family: how to cure your gay son

why does the color pink have to be "queer"? are you that close-minded?

It's as much gay as any bright color.

[Bob4God]

Re: Focus on the Family: how to cure your gay son

It is surely JESUS' will that this thread should resurface at this time!

I received a distressed email from friends back in Kansas that one of the boys in church has come out as gay.

The parents have been very upset and are looking for answers.

I am going to email them and advise the father to take his 17 year-old son into the shower with him to wash the gay away!

Thank you, Focus on the Family!

[Octavia]

Re: Focus on the Family: how to cure your gay son

It is surely JESUS' will that this thread should resurface at this time!

I received a distressed email from friends back in Kansas that one of the boys in church has come out as gay.

The parents have been very upset and are looking for answers.

I am going to email them and advise the father to take his 17 year-old son into the shower with him to wash the gay away!

Thank you, Focus on the Family!

The boy is the exact same as he was before he came to realize he's been gay.

In fact, he's probably realized that he's been gay for a while now, but has been afraid of the reactions he would get if he came out.

He trusted his parents enough to tell them. He believed that his parents loved him unconditionally, so he put his trust in them and told them something that was very difficult for him to say. Now he is being treated as if he is some sort of unclean monster. It's quite ridiculous.

This boy is no different now than he was the day before he told his parents he was gay. He is still human like the rest of us and should be treated as such.

Also, isn't it kind of ironic that you are going to tell the father to take his son in the shower with him? What's up with that?

[MitzaLizalor]

Re: Focus on the Family: how to cure your gay son

Now he is being treated as if he is some sort of unclean monster. It's quite ridiculous.

1. But he is an unclean monster. God explains it like this:

LEVITICUS 20
13 If a man also lie with mankind, as hee lyeth with a woman, both of them haue committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shalbe vpon them.
14 And if a man take a wife, and her mother, it is wickednesse: They shalbe burnt with fire, both he and they, that there be no wickednesse among you.
15 And if a man lie with a beast, he shall surely be put to death: and ye shall slay the beast.
16 And if a woman approch vnto any beast, and lie downe thereto, thou shalt kill the woman and the beast: they shall surely be put to death, their blood shalbe vpon them.
©1611

God is easy to understand, don't you think? .............................oh - no, you don't think do you.


2. You consider God's perfection to be "ridiculous"

It's quite ridiculous.

..I didn't make that up, about burning perverts alive, about the abominable filth displayed with "PRIDE" by every monstrous homosexual,

every zoophile,

every catamite.

LEVITICUS 20 is The Word Of GOD.

The ravings you stick up here are the vomitus of SATAN.

[Octavia]

Re: Focus on the Family: how to cure your gay son

1. But he is an unclean monster. God explains it like this:

LEVITICUS 20
13 If a man also lie with mankind, as hee lyeth with a woman, both of them haue committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shalbe vpon them.
14 And if a man take a wife, and her mother, it is wickednesse: They shalbe burnt with fire, both he and they, that there be no wickednesse among you.
15 And if a man lie with a beast, he shall surely be put to death: and ye shall slay the beast.
16 And if a woman approch vnto any beast, and lie downe thereto, thou shalt kill the woman and the beast: they shall surely be put to death, their blood shalbe vpon them.
©1611

God is easy to understand, don't you think? .............................oh - no, you don't think do you.


2. You consider God's perfection to be "ridiculous"



..I didn't make that up, about burning perverts alive, about the abominable filth displayed with "PRIDE" by every monstrous homosexual,

every zoophile,

every catamite.

LEVITICUS 20 is The Word Of GOD.

The ravings you stick up here are the vomitus of SATAN.

That is old Testament stuff. Once Jesus came to save us from our sins there are a lot of old Testament things we don't need to do anymore.

We don't give sacrifices anymore, do we? We shouldn't punish gay people either, let God do what he wants. We don't need to judge on his behalf, as he is perfect capable of it himself.

[Zechariah Smyth]

Re: Focus on the Family: how to cure your gay son

That is old Testament stuff. Once Jesus came to save us from our sins there are a lot of old Testament things we don't need to do anymore.

We don't give sacrifices anymore, do we? We shouldn't punish gay people either, let God do what he wants. We don't need to judge on his behalf, as he is perfect capable of it himself.

Hmmm, should I listen to Jesus (that's New Testament stuff, btw), or some anonymous interweb person named after a town in Nebraska?

(Matthew 5:17) "Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil."

(John 5:46-47) "For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me: for he wrote of me. But if ye believe not his writings, how shall ye believe my words?"

Decisions, decisions.



YiC,

Zech

[MitzaLizalor]

Re: Focus on the Family: how to cure your gay son

That is old Testament stuff. Once Jesus came to save us from our sins there are a lot of old Testament things we don't need to do anymore.

We don't give sacrifices anymore, do we? We shouldn't punish gay people either, let God do what he wants. We don't need to judge on his behalf, as he is perfect capable of it himself.

The reason why there is now no sacrifice is because Jesus is the sacrifice, the fulfillment of the old covenant.

As a result certain provisions of The Law became obsolete AS WAS INTENDED and those are spelled out in The New Testament. Laws concerning sex-perverts are not among them.

[Bob4God]

Re: Focus on the Family: how to cure your gay son

Actually, the New Testament also says that gays are abominable freaks.

Romans 1:26-27 gives us a stern reminder that GOD is disgusted as much as we are by homosexuality and that He does not approve:

And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.

For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:

Notice the wording.

"Unseemly."

"Error."

"Vile."

"Against nature."

These words describe the homosexual lifestyle perfectly, and they come straight from the New Testament.

Or are you going to say, "Well GOD doesn't expect us to follow the New Testament anymore."

What does He intend then? That we just make it all up as we go along.

There is no expiration date on the Bible:

God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good? - Numbers 23:19

[Pastor Isaac Peters]

Re: Focus on the Family: how to cure your gay son

That is old Testament stuff. Once Jesus came to save us from our sins there are a lot of old Testament things we don't need to do anymore.

"A lot" doesn't mean all. Consider the following:

Acts 15:28-29: For it seemed good to the Holy Ghost, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things; That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.

Since this was in the context of deciding which parts of the Law of Moses Gentile Christians should keep, God Himself said that we still have to follow the OT laws regarding fornication.

We don't give sacrifices anymore, do we? We shouldn't punish gay people either, let God do what he wants. We don't need to judge on his behalf, as he is perfect capable of it himself.

That is addressed in the thread that you were supposed to read before posting.

[Isaac Fisher]

Re: Focus on the Family: how to cure your gay son

That is old Testament stuff. Once Jesus came to save us from our sins there are a lot of old Testament things we don't need to do anymore.

Where does it say that the old testament doesn't apply?

Last time I checked: The Bible is true.

[Redeemed Papist]

Re: Focus on the Family: how to cure your gay son

Where does it say that the old testament doesn't apply?

It doesn't.

It says the exact opposite which is why it's in my signature. How can you believe in Jesus if you reject the Old Testament?

[Pastor Ezekiel]

Re: Focus on the Family: how to cure your gay son

Last time I checked: The Bible is true.

Not to ultra liberal false Christians like "ms." Octavia.

She even labors under the false illusion that her sexual interludes with horses won't send her to hellfire.

[MisterM]

Re: Focus on the Family: how to cure your gay son

Not to ultra liberal false Christians like "ms." Octavia.

She even labors under the false illusion that her sexual interludes with horses won't send her to hellfire.

Well said Pastor, but I bet that she will object to that. That is how those false Christians are. They cherry pick things they like from the Bible and then they interpret even those to reflect what they believe.

These false Christians do not believe in the Bible. They think the Bible believes in them.

Dear Octavia, The Holy Bible must be followed to the letter. It is either all true or otherwise who could tell that which part to believe? You either take it as word of God or you take it as word of man. It cannot be taken as both. Bible clearly says:

2 Timothy 3:16 - All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness

You claim that Old testament does not apply, that God suddenly said "oh, I have been so wrong for 4000 years, even I'm omnipotent and omniscient. Lets change everything".

That is so ridiculous. Of course some things changed, like the sacrificing and some of the food laws. But it was all part of the plan and those are explicitly explained in the New Testament.

YiC, M

[Trent Harvey, Jr.]

Re: Focus on the Family: how to cure your gay son

These false Christians do not believe in the Bible. They think the Bible believes in them.

Well said.

Back to the origional topic, does anyone remember which version of Refuel has the full frontal nudity?

[thefather]

Re: Focus on the Family: how to cure your gay son

To all,
GOD BLESS US ALL! if you allow evil to name itself, then you follow the promotion of it. Believers, I am talking to you. Be careful what you say is there when it's not. GOD can heal all things. Also, GOD lets us all go through things before we really learned what it is to be HIS CHILDREN.
To be a new creation in CHRIST is to shave off your old self. Your old self is what you thought you were till CHRIST came. Your old self is an illusion of failure from temptation that your flesh enjoyed. Dont name those failures once we have left them. Dont let people that are in them ( like we were) make you name them just to talk to them. To name them gives them power, and evil has no power over JESUS; not at all. Remember this always.
Just the mention of anything other than CHRIST shows we have lost focus. Remember when Mary Magdalene came to JESUS!! HE didnt name everyone she sinned with, or even called her the name that was used for her by everyone. HE just said, " your sin, and they are many, are forgiven!!". This enlightened her, because she realized how HIS LOVE heals all things. HIS love doesnt see where your sin is at the moment. It understands how you got there, it understands if you truly want to be a part of it, and then if you dont, it takes you out; even when you thought there was no way out.
I have seen many turn away from their sins in the ministry GOD gave me. Some of the sins are some listed here and more.....But love of CHRIST cured it through me. But it started with GOD showing me not to give the sins power. Labeling them, gives them power. As JESUS says, " What comes from the mouth is from the heart!!". Realize that the one that does evil also knows the WORD very well. So, if we speak out what bothers us ( which is not speaking GOD's name), this only gives " that one" ( the adversary) ideas to bother us or tempt us; which disturbs our faith. It may makes us angry, annoyed, and other emotions....which JESUS said to be careful of that.
I pray GOD has you all understand. Any sin can be cured when fasted and prayed against. But, BELIEVERS, also realize that GOD will give some people over to their desires. So, when you see people that are headfirst in their desires, this are the "knowing"!! Leave them alone that love sin, because they know what they want and only want you to follow. The Pharisees are those examples.
The " lost sheep", the unknowing, ignorant, or easily lead are the ones we must minister to with love. THis will bring them out. This is who Mary was ( and so many others in the BIBLE). Jesus showed love to all, but to the knowing HE was stern, quick, and left them stern and quick.
But even after all this, JESUS says, " LOVE YOUR ENEMIES, TREAT YOUR BROTHERS ( meaning Believers which also involves SISTERS) SPECIAL, and TREAT YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF!!". SO we must obey till HE comes again. LOVE TO ALL! Obey from the heart!! Love, but just dont indulge. Be the LIGHT in the dark. Daniel in the Lion's Den, etc...be the change you want to see; thats the beginning of faith and ministry.

Passages:
Be careful what you say from your mouth:
Matthew 15:18
18 But whatever comes out of the mouth comes from the heart, and it is this that makes someone unclean.

Keep alert in faith because " the other one" is listening and crazy:
1 Peter 5:8-9
8 Keep sober and alert, because your enemy the devil is on the prowl like a roaring lion, looking for someone to devour.
9 Stand up to him, strong in faith and in the knowledge that it is the same kind of suffering that the community of your brothers throughout the world is undergoing.


Dont worry.
Philippians 4
1 So then, my brothers and dear friends whom I miss so much, my joy and my crown, hold firm in the Lord, dear friends.
2 I urge Euodia, and I urge Syntyche to come to agreement with each other in the Lord;
3 and I ask you, Syzygus, really to be a ‘partner’ and help them. These women have struggled hard for the gospel with me, along with Clement and all my other fellow-workers, whose names are written in the book of life.
4 Always be joyful, then, in the Lord; I repeat, be joyful.
5 Let your good sense be obvious to everybody. The Lord is near.
6 Never worry about anything; but tell God all your desires of every kind in prayer and petition shot through with gratitude,
7 and the peace of God which is beyond our understanding will guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus.
8 Finally, brothers, let your minds be filled with everything that is true, everything that is honourable, everything that is upright and pure, everything that we love and admire — with whatever is good and praiseworthy.
9 Keep doing everything you learnt from me and were told by me and have heard or seen me doing. Then the God of peace will be with you.
10 As for me, I am full of joy in the Lord, now that at last your consideration for me has blossomed again; though I recognise that you really did have consideration before, but had no opportunity to show it.
11 I do not say this because I have lacked anything; I have learnt to manage with whatever I have.
12 I know how to live modestly, and I know how to live luxuriously too: in every way now I have mastered the secret of all conditions: full stomach and empty stomach, plenty and poverty.
13 There is nothing I cannot do in the One who strengthens me.
14 All the same, it was good of you to share with me in my hardships.
15 In the early days of the gospel, as you of Philippi well know, when I left Macedonia, no church other than yourselves made common account with me in the matter of expenditure and receipts. You were the only ones;
16 and what is more, you have twice sent me what I needed in Thessalonica.
17 It is not the gift that I value most; what I value is the interest that is mounting up in your account.
18 I have all that I need and more: I am fully provided, now that I have received from Epaphroditus the offering that you sent, a pleasing smell, the sacrifice which is acceptable and pleasing to God.
19 And my God will fulfil all your needs out of the riches of his glory in Christ Jesus.
20 And so glory be to God our Father, for ever and ever. Amen.
21 My greetings to every one of God’s holy people in Christ Jesus. The brothers who are with me send you their greetings.
22 All God’s holy people send you their greetings, especially those of Caesar’s household.
23 May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit.



God is not mocked or fooled by anything:
Galatians 6:7
7 Don’t delude yourself: God is not to be fooled; whatever someone sows, that is what he will reap.
Jeremiah 25:27-38
27 ‘You will say to them, “Yahweh Sabaoth, the God of Israel, says this: Drink! Get drunk! Vomit! Fall, never to rise again, before the sword that I am sending among you!”
28 If they refuse to take the cup from your hand and drink, you will say to them, “Yahweh Sabaoth says this: You must drink!
29 Look, for a start, I am bringing disaster on the city that bears my name, so are you likely to go unpunished? You certainly will not go unpunished, for next I shall summon a sword against all the inhabitants of the land, Yahweh declares.”
30 ‘For your part, you are to prophesy all these words to them. Say to them: “Yahweh roars from on high, he thunders from his holy dwelling-place, loudly he roars at his own fold, shouts aloud like those who tread the grape at all the inhabitants of the land.
31 The noise resounds to the remotest parts of the earth. For Yahweh is indicting the nations, arraigning all humanity for judgement; the wicked he assigns to the sword, Yahweh declares.
32 Yahweh Sabaoth says this: Look, disaster is spreading from nation to nation, a mighty tempest is rising from the far ends of the earth.
33 “Those slaughtered by Yahweh that day will be scattered across the world from end to end. No dirge will be raised for them; no one will gather them or bury them; they will stay lying on the surface like dung.
34 “Howl, shepherds, shriek, roll on the ground, you lords of the flock, for your days have come to be slaughtered and to be scattered, and like a choice vase you will fall.
35 No refuge then for the shepherds, no escape for the lords of the flock!
36 Listen! A shriek from the shepherds, a howl from the lords of the flock! For Yahweh has laid their pasture waste,
37 the peaceful sheepfolds are reduced to silence owing to Yahweh’s furious anger.
38 The lion has left his lair and their country is a wasteland now, owing to the devastating fury, owing to his furious anger.”

Dont worry, because JESUS will Allow people to mention His name, but they dont make it, and He knows their true intention:
Matthew 7:20-23
20 I repeat, you will be able to tell them by their fruits.
21 ‘It is not anyone who says to me, “Lord, Lord,” who will enter the kingdom of Heaven, but the person who does the will of my Father in heaven.
22 When the day comes many will say to me, “Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, drive out demons in your name, work many miracles in your name?”
23 Then I shall tell them to their faces: I have never known you; away from me, all evil doers!

Final judgement when all with him from past till now are with him and all others/evil cease to exist.
1 Corinthians 15:51-53
51 Now I am going to tell you a mystery: we are not all going to fall asleep,
52 but we are all going to be changed, instantly, in the twinkling of an eye, when the last trumpet sounds. The trumpet is going to sound, and then the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed,
53 because this perishable nature of ours must put on imperishability, this mortal nature must put on immortality.
Revelation 21:8
8 But the legacy for cowards, for those who break their word, or worship obscenities, for murderers and the sexually immoral, and for sorcerers, worshippers of false gods or any other sort of liars, is the second death in the burning lake of sulphur.’
Daniel 7:11
11 ‘I went on watching: then, because of the noise made by the boastings of the horn, as I watched, the beast was put to death, and its body destroyed and committed to the flames.

Prayer and fasting for power ( evil taken away):
Matthew 17:14-21
14 And when they were come to the multitude, there came to him a certain man, kneeling down to him, and saying,
15 Lord, have mercy on my son: for he is lunatick, and sore vexed: for ofttimes he falleth into the fire, and oft into the water.
16 And I brought him to thy disciples, and they could not cure him.
17 Then Jesus answered and said, O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall I suffer you? bring him hither to me.
18 And Jesus rebuked the devil; and he departed out of him: and the child was cured from that very hour.
19 Then came the disciples to Jesus apart, and said, Why could not we cast him out?
20 And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you.
21 Howbeit this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting.

Pray and fasting from enemies:
Psalm 35:13-14
13 But I, when they were ill, had worn sackcloth, and mortified myself with fasting, praying ever anew in my heart,
14 as if for a friend or brother; I had wandered restless, as if mourning a mother, so bowed had I been in sorrow.

STAY FOCUSED ON HIM
stay focused on HIM
1 JOHN 5:1-5
1 Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is a child of God, and whoever loves the father loves the son.
2 In this way we know that we love God’s children, when we love God and keep his commandments.
3 This is what the love of God is: keeping his commandments. Nor are his commandments burdensome,
4 because every child of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world — our faith.
5 Who can overcome the world but the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?
Love all people no matter what, this is how we wont devour ourselves or be the ones devouring. Stay in HIS love and glory through honoring and obeying what HE says.
26 ‘Alas for you when everyone speaks well of you! This was the way their ancestors treated the false prophets.
27 ‘But I say this to you who are listening: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,
28 bless those who curse you, pray for those who treat you badly.
29 To anyone who slaps you on one cheek, present the other cheek as well; to anyone who takes your cloak from you, do not refuse your tunic.
30 Give to everyone who asks you, and do not ask for your property back from someone who takes it.
31 Treat others as you would like people to treat you.
32 If you love those who love you, what credit can you expect? Even sinners love those who love them.
33 And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit can you expect? For even sinners do that much.
34 And if you lend to those from whom you hope to get money back, what credit can you expect? Even sinners lend to sinners to get back the same amount.
35 Instead, love your enemies and do good to them, and lend without any hope of return. You will have a great reward, and you will be children of the Most High, for he himself is kind to the ungrateful and the wicked.
36 ‘Be compassionate just as your Father is compassionate.
37 Do not judge, and you will not be judged; do not condemn, and you will not be condemned; forgive, and you will be forgiven.
38 Give, and there will be gifts for you: a full measure, pressed down, shaken together, and overflowing, will be poured into your lap; because the standard you use will be the standard used for you.’
39 He also told them a parable, ‘Can one blind person guide another? Surely both will fall into a pit?
40 Disciple is not superior to teacher; but fully trained disciple will be like teacher.
41 Why do you observe the splinter in your brother’s eye and never notice the great log in your own?
42 How can you say to your brother, “Brother, let me take out that splinter in your eye,” when you cannot see the great log in your own? Hypocrite! Take the log out of your own eye first, and then you will see clearly enough to take out the splinter in your brother’s eyes.
43 ‘There is no sound tree that produces rotten fruit, nor again a rotten tree that produces sound fruit.
44 Every tree can be told by its own fruit: people do not pick figs from thorns, nor gather grapes from brambles.
45 Good people draw what is good from the store of goodness in their hearts; bad people draw what is bad from the store of badness. For the words of the mouth flow out of what fills the heart.
46 ‘Why do you call me, “Lord, Lord” and not do what I say?
47 ‘Everyone who comes to me and listens to my words and acts on them — I will show you what such a person is like.
48 Such a person is like the man who, when he built a house, dug, and dug deep, and laid the foundations on rock; when the river was in flood it bore down on that house but could not shake it, it was so well built.
49 But someone who listens and does nothing is like the man who built a house on soil, with no foundations; as soon as the river bore down on it, it collapsed; and what a ruin that house became!’


HE will handle all types of evils and dont be curious to sin (the wife represents many that believe but dont fully listen; because they are weak in some way in faith. )

LOT ( Sodom and Gemorrah)
1 When the two angels reached Sodom in the evening, Lot was sitting at the gate of Sodom. As soon as Lot saw them, he stood up to greet them, and bowed to the ground.
2 ‘My lords,’ he said, ‘please come down to your servant’s house to stay the night and wash your feet. Then you can make an early start on your journey.’ ‘No,’ they said, ‘we shall spend the night in the square.’3 But he pressed them so much that they went home with him and entered his house. He prepared a meal for them, baking unleavened bread, and they had supper.
4 They had not gone to bed when the house was surrounded by the townspeople, the men of Sodom both young and old, all the people without exception.
5 Calling out to Lot they said, ‘Where are the men who came to you tonight? Send them out to us so that we can have intercourse with them.’
6 Lot came out to them at the door and, having shut the door behind him,
7 said, ‘Please, brothers, do not be wicked.
8 Look, I have two daughters who are virgins. I am ready to send them out to you, for you to treat as you please, but do nothing to these men since they are now under the protection of my roof.’
9 But they retorted, ‘Stand back! This fellow came here as a foreigner, and now he wants to play the judge. Now we shall treat you worse than them.’ Then they forced Lot back and moved forward to break down the door.
10 But the men reached out, pulled Lot back into the house with them, and shut the door.
11 And they dazzled those who were at the door of the house, one and all, with a blinding light, so that they could not find the doorway.
12 The men said to Lot, ‘Have you anyone else here? Your sons, your daughters and all your people in the city, take them away,
13 for we are about to destroy this place, since the outcry to Yahweh against those in it has grown so loud that Yahweh has sent us to destroy it.’
14 So Lot went off and spoke to his future sons-in-law who were to marry his daughters. ‘On your feet!’ he said, ‘Leave this place, for Yahweh is about to destroy the city.’ But his sons-in-law thought he was joking.
15 When dawn broke the angels urged Lot on, ‘To your feet! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or you will be swept away in the punishment of the city.’
16 And as he hesitated, the men seized his hand and the hands of his wife and his two daughters — Yahweh being merciful to him — and led him out and left him outside the city.
17 When they had brought him outside, he was told, ‘Flee for your life. Do not look behind you or stop anywhere on the plain. Flee to the hills or you will be swept away.’
18 ‘Oh no, my lord!’ Lot said to them,
19 ‘You have already been very good to your servant and shown me even greater love by saving my life, but I cannot flee to the hills, or disaster will overtake me and I shall die.
20 That town over there is near enough to flee to, and is small. Let me flee there-after all it is only a small place — and so survive.’
21 He replied, ‘I grant you this favour too, and will not overthrow the town you speak of.
22 Hurry, flee to that one, for I cannot do anything until you reach it.’ That is why the town is named Zoar.
23 The sun rose over the horizon just as Lot was entering Zoar.
24 Then Yahweh rained down on Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone and fire of his own sending.
25 He overthrew those cities and the whole plain, with all the people living in the cities and everything that grew there.
26 But Lot’s wife looked back, and was turned into a pillar of salt.

Jesus talking to the Pharisees ( imagine that this is still today as Pharisees have a lineage; people that follow them and are educated by them. and that is many people). They are known by worshipping sin through man or idols.
Luke 11:33-54
33 ‘No one lights a lamp and puts it in some hidden place or under a tub; they put it on the lamp-stand so that people may see the light when they come in.
34 The lamp of the body is your eye. When your eye is clear, your whole body, too, is filled with light; but when it is diseased your body, too, will be darkened.
35 See to it then that the light inside you is not darkness.
36 If, therefore, your whole body is filled with light, and not darkened at all, it will be light entirely, as when the lamp shines on you with its rays.’
37 He had just finished speaking when a Pharisee invited him to dine at his house. He went in and sat down at table.
38 The Pharisee saw this and was surprised that he had not first washed before the meal.
39 But the Lord said to him, ‘You Pharisees! You clean the outside of cup and plate, while inside yourselves you are filled with extortion and wickedness.
40 Fools! Did not he who made the outside make the inside too?
41 Instead, give alms from what you have and, look, everything will be clean for you.
42 But alas for you Pharisees, because you pay your tithe of mint and rue and all sorts of garden herbs and neglect justice and the love of God! These you should have practised, without neglecting the others.
43 Alas for you Pharisees, because you like to take the seats of honour in the synagogues and to be greeted respectfully in the market squares!
44 Alas for you, because you are like the unmarked tombs that people walk on without knowing it!’
45 A lawyer then spoke up. ‘Master,’ he said, ‘when you speak like this you insult us too.’
46 But he said, ‘Alas for you lawyers as well, because you load on people burdens that are unendurable, burdens that you yourselves do not touch with your fingertips.
47 ‘Alas for you because you build tombs for the prophets, the people your ancestors killed!
48 In this way you both witness to what your ancestors did and approve it; they did the killing, you do the building.
49 ‘And that is why the Wisdom of God said, “I will send them prophets and apostles; some they will slaughter and persecute,
50 so that this generation will have to answer for every prophet’s blood that has been shed since the foundation of the world,
51 from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, who perished between the altar and the Temple.” Yes, I tell you, this generation will have to answer for it all.
52 ‘Alas for you lawyers who have taken away the key of knowledge! You have not gone in yourselves and have prevented others from going in who wanted to.’
53 When he left there, the scribes and the Pharisees began a furious attack on him and tried to force answers from him on innumerable questions,
54 lying in wait to catch him out in something he might say.
Their unleavened bread is noted by worshipping man before GOD that’s all we need to know;
John 12:42-43
42 And yet there were many who did believe in him, even among the leading men, but they did not admit it, because of the Pharisees and for fear of being banned from the synagogue:
43 they put human glory before God’s glory.

Believer dont forget to be Wise as a serpent and innocent as doves
Matthew 10:16
16 Look, I am sending you out like sheep among wolves; so be cunning as snakes and yet innocent as doves


Walking in His Spirit and know that He still judges our hearts, conscience, intentions, and bodies ( in the spirit and in the flesh once we know what is right and wrong):
2 Corinthians 5:5-11
5 It is God who designed us for this very purpose, and he has given us the Spirit as a pledge.
6 We are always full of confidence, then, realising that as long as we are at home in the body we are exiled from the Lord,
7 guided by faith and not yet by sight;
8 we are full of confidence, then, and long instead to be exiled from the body and to be at home with the Lord.
9 And so whether at home or exiled, we make it our ambition to please him.
10 For at the judgement seat of Christ we are all to be seen for what we are, so that each of us may receive what he has deserved in the body, matched to whatever he has done, good or bad.
11 And so it is with the fear of the Lord always in mind that we try to win people over. But God sees us for what we are, and I hope your consciences do too.

LOVE EVERYONE and let the good be good and evil be evil
Luke 6:27-49
27 'But I say this to you who are listening: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,
28 bless those who curse you, pray for those who treat you badly.
29 To anyone who slaps you on one cheek, present the other cheek as well; to anyone who takes your cloak from you, do not refuse your tunic.
30 Give to everyone who asks you, and do not ask for your property back from someone who takes it.
31 Treat others as you would like people to treat you.
32 If you love those who love you, what credit can you expect? Even sinners love those who love them.
33 And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit can you expect? For even sinners do that much.
34 And if you lend to those from whom you hope to get money back, what credit can you expect? Even sinners lend to sinners to get back the same amount.
35 Instead, love your enemies and do good to them, and lend without any hope of return. You will have a great reward, and you will be children of the Most High, for he himself is kind to the ungrateful and the wicked.
36 'Be compassionate just as your Father is compassionate.
37 Do not judge, and you will not be judged; do not condemn, and you will not be condemned; forgive, and you will be forgiven.
38 Give, and there will be gifts for you: a full measure, pressed down, shaken together, and overflowing, will be poured into your lap; because the standard you use will be the standard used for you.'
39 He also told them a parable, 'Can one blind person guide another? Surely both will fall into a pit?
40 Disciple is not superior to teacher; but fully trained disciple will be like teacher.
41 Why do you observe the splinter in your brother's eye and never notice the great log in your own?
42 How can you say to your brother, "Brother, let me take out that splinter in your eye," when you cannot see the great log in your own? Hypocrite! Take the log out of your own eye first, and then you will see clearly enough to take out the splinter in your brother's eyes.
43 'There is no sound tree that produces rotten fruit, nor again a rotten tree that produces sound fruit.
44 Every tree can be told by its own fruit: people do not pick figs from thorns, nor gather grapes from brambles.
45 Good people draw what is good from the store of goodness in their hearts; bad people draw what is bad from the store of badness. For the words of the mouth flow out of what fills the heart.
46 'Why do you call me, "Lord, Lord" and not do what I say?
47 'Everyone who comes to me and listens to my words and acts on them -- I will show you what such a person is like.
48 Such a person is like the man who, when he built a house, dug, and dug deep, and laid the foundations on rock; when the river was in flood it bore down on that house but could not shake it, it was so well built.
49 But someone who listens and does nothing is like the man who built a house on soil, with no foundations; as soon as the river bore down on it, it collapsed; and what a ruin that house became!'