I anticipate sharing on this subject of how to interact with those practicing homosexual behavior as this series progresses. What will be shared would apply to others who are engaged in willful, unrepentant sin. So, keep reading, and hopefully I will answer your questions.

May you be blessed with peace and understanding in these days.

I assume that your response would be viable for anyone with a child or friend, or otherwise that is engaged in willful sin such as pre-marital sex, drunkeness, living a life of crime, such as stealing, pimping prostitutes, trafficking in humans for sex slaves, etc., correct?

You have asked an excellent question. I will try to address your question as this series continues. I suspect that there are quite a number of people who are pondering similar things.

May you be blessed with peace and understanding in these days.

What occurs with many Christian parents is that they tolerate the wickedness of their children in order to maintain peace and to enjoy some fellowship with them. Yet there is no fellowship between Christ and Belial, between light and darkness.

By normalizing relations with a child who is walking in willful disobedience to God, a parent teaches by their example that Yahweh is not to be feared and that the child's sin is not a serious matter.

This is what the U.N. and other servants of Satan are seeking to accomplish. They want Christians to normalize relations with those who are participating in a lifestyle that Yahweh has declared to be an abomination. To do so is to say that homosexuality is not a serious matter. For a parent to continue in fellowship with a child who is practicing wickedness is contrary to the will of God. It is the responsibility of the Christian, and the parent in particular, to make known to their children the mind of God concerning their life. Can you know that your daughter's behavior is condemning her to hell and be at peace with her homosexuality?

Did not Christ say that to be His disciple we would have to hate mother and father and son and daughter and wife and even our own lives? What He was conveying is that we would have to place our relationship to Him above every other human relationship. We must choose to stand with Christ in truth even when it leads to separation with those whom we love dearly.

Christ went to those who were sinners, but He told them to repent for the kingdom of God was at hand. If they repented then they were able to continue on with Him. If there was no repentance than there could be no fellowship, for what does light have in common with darkness?

By maintaining a normal relationship with a child involved in a homosexual lifestyle, a parent is choosing the temporal above the eternal. It would be better to offend a son or daughter now in hope that they might repent and be spared separation from Christ (and the parent) in the age to come. It is a true statement that homosexuals will not inherit the kingdom of God (I Corinthians 6:9-10).

The only hope for a child engaged in a sinful lifestyle that will end in judgment, weeping, wailing, and gnashing of teeth, is that they begin to fear God and turn away from their sin. By maintaining a normal relationship and fellowship with a homosexual child a parent removes the fear of God before the eyes of their children. If the parent is portraying God's character to the child, and they will not break fellowship over gross sin, then the child is led to assume that God will do the same. Sin, however, will result in separation from God, and we should remove those who are unrepentant in their sin from our midst as well. We teach by our example.

It is very well that you love your homosexual daughter. Love is of God. At the same time it must be understood that maintaining normal relations with a child who is living an immoral lifestyle is not love. I have a son who was raised in the church, baptized when he was younger, and has been taught the truth of God's word. He has professed faith in Christ since he was a child. He is now living an immoral lifestyle. We have not had fellowship for a number of years.

The apostle Paul stated:

I Corinthians 5:11-13
I wrote to you not to associate with any so-called brother if he should be an immoral person, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or a swindler – not even to eat with such a one. For what have I to do with judging outsiders? Do you not judge those who are within the church? But those who are outside, God judges. Remove the wicked man from among yourselves.

Yahshua said:

Matthew 18:15-17
"And if your brother sins, go and reprove him in private; if he listens to you, you have won your brother. But if he does not listen to you, take one or two more with you, so that by the mouth of two or three witnesses every fact may be confirmed. And if he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church; and if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax-gatherer."

We also have the testimony of John on this matter.

II John 9-11
Whoever transgresses and does not abide in the doctrine of Christ does not have God. He who abides in the doctrine of Christ has both the Father and the Son. If anyone comes to you and does not bring this doctrine, do not receive him into your house nor greet him; for he who greets him shares in his evil deeds.

I do not know if your daughter professes belief in Christ, but she is certainly living an immoral life. I have not sought to drive my son away, but I have spoken truth to him, that his life is displeasing to the Father. It is not Yahweh's will that I act as if all is okay, for those who willfully rebel against the righteousness of God make themselves His enemy. How can I maintain fellowship with one who is Yahweh's enemy?

To be continued…