Freedom Realized - Message at Redeemer, Utica, NY
June 20, 2014 | By: Stephen Black
I had the honor in May of 2013 to share my testimony of freedom from homosexuality at Redeemer Church in Utica, NY, May 5, 2013. The community of believers there are terrific. I enjoyed sharing the word of God, the word of my testimony as a sincere truth-filled story of God's grace. A message where He really does change souls by His transforming grace. My soul has been forever changed since 1983. I am truly delivered from the trap of homosexuality and same-sex attractions. Unfortunately this message is unpopular, and even in opposition to heretical messages being offered up by those who proclaim that 99.9% of people do not change. There is a diabolical message of so called 'grace' that people need to merely bear up under same-sex lusts and embrace a gay Christian identity. There is a hellish message of allowing for sin, lust and attractions keeping people in bondage. They communicate a message of 'grace' that requires no real need of repentance, and no need to confess sin after 'getting God's grace' because God's grace covers it all, so they say.
However, this message recorded at Redeemer is one of restored hope and freedom realized! God's love and grace is transforming to souls who will yield in humility and truly believe from the heart resulting in righteousness!
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