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Transcript 852C — Can a Homosexual be Saved?
HC: Good evening. Welcome to Open Forum.
CALLER: Mr. Camping, I have a question I would like to ask you. I've asked several other ministers, and I happen to be a minister myself. But the question that I have is found in Romans 1:28. The question is this, if a person has been a homosexual, and he wishes to change, and God is beginning to move in his life, and he begins to wonder about salvation, can that person be saved?
HC: The question is, in the light of Romans 1:27-28, where God is talking about God giving up men to homosexuality, and God giving them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient, that is, which are not right, can such a person become saved? And the answer is, absolutely yes. In I Corinthians 6 we read in verse 9, "Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind [that would be a homosexual], nor thieves, nor covetous, nor covetous, nor revilers nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God." Now that's very emphatic: they shall not inherit the kingdom of God. And yet verse 11, the next verse, offers the grace of God: "And such were some of you. But you are washed, you are sanctified, you are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God."
In other words, as long as the Gospel goes into the world, and it's God's plan to save people – and that will continue until the last of the elect are saved – anyone, regardless of how deep in sin they may be, regardless of how terrible their situation is, if they cry out to God for mercy, God guarantees that He will save them.
CALLER: Okay. Thank you, Brother Camping. Keep up the good work
HC: Thank you for calling. Good night.