I am a 21 year old gay man living in Ireland. Lately I have been studying your preachings and I am seeing how right and true they are and how wrong I have been my entire life. I was not raised religiously and thus was allowed to be led on this path of unrighteousness. I ask, can I be saved? Can you accept me into your Church and change me for the better? Can I be led down the right path, forgiven for my sins and one day end up with God, where I feel I truly belong? What do I have to do?
With humans, nothing is possible, but with God, all things are possible, so please don’t look to us to save you. We cannot. Your issue lies with God. If you seek him with your whole heart, which you will do ONLY if you have been appointed to mercy, you will be saved.
Read this amazing story, ending with Paul’s answer to the Philippian Jailer as follows:
And it came to pass, as we went to prayer, a certain damsel possessed with a spirit of divination met us, which brought her masters much gain by soothsaying: The same followed Paul and us, and cried, saying, These men are the servants of the most high God, which shew unto us the way of salvation. And this did she many days. But Paul, being grieved, turned and said to the spirit, I command thee in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her. And he came out the same hour. And when her masters saw that the hope of their gains was gone, they caught Paul and Silas, and drew them into the marketplace unto the rulers, And brought them to the magistrates, saying, These men, being Jews, do exceedingly trouble our city, And teach customs, which are not lawful for us to receive, neither to observe, being Romans. And the multitude rose up together against them: and the magistrates rent off their clothes, and commanded to beat them. And when they had laid many stripes upon them, they cast them into prison, charging the jailor to keep them safely: Who, having received such a charge, thrust them into the inner prison, and made their feet fast in the stocks.
And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God: and the prisoners heard them. And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken: and immediately all the doors were opened, and every one’s bands were loosed. And the keeper of the prison awaking out of his sleep, and seeing the prison doors open, he drew out his sword, and would have killed himself, supposing that the prisoners had been fled. But Paul cried with a loud voice, saying, Do thyself no harm: for we are all here. Then he called for a light, and sprang in, and came trembling, and fell down before Paul and Silas, And brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved? And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house. (Acts 16:16-31)
If God gives you the gift of faith, and works in you in mercy, you have it all! If your name is written in the Lamb’s Book of Life from the foundation of the world, you will bring forth fruit that demonstrates repentance, and you will be above all men most blessed. If you have been appointed, a vessel of wrath, fitted to destruction, you will paw at this issue, and our beloved Lord Jesus Christ will be the ROCK OF OFFENSE that crushes you to powder.
We sit here at Westboro Baptist Church and watch these amazing fallings out of the providence of God and bow in humble praise and thanks to God for every token that he gives us that helps us to give diligence to make our own calling in election sure. ALL who mourn for their sins and those of this generation, and have a broken and contrite heart and who look for the coming of our Lord are WELCOME here. There is nothing else in this earth worth doing or having, and no place else to be. We pray daily, PLEASE COME, LORD JESUS.
Thanks for writing.
Your friends at WBC.