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@The Amber Heard Playlist!! Strange, when I search for "carry the water to the desert" absolutely ZERO bible verse is shown in the search results. Perhaps you dreamed about it because it sure as heck did not come from the bible. As for Amy Grant pandering to the homosexuals, well, I don't think she is reaching the lost but rather encouraging them in their sins!!! That's a very big difference! Why don't you dig around and see how Ray Comfort deals with those who say they are homosexual and see the difference?
@The Amber Heard Playlist!! *_‘Don’t be afraid, you’re loved.’ Gay. Straight. It does not matter.” It “doesn’t matter how we behave. It doesn’t matter how we’re wired,” Grant said._* *_“We’re all our best selves when we believe to our core: ‘I’m loved.’_* These are quotations from her own mouth as to what she believes - clearly not the gospel at all. No mention of sin, repentance or receiving mercy from God because of the work of Jesus on the cross. Nothing. Nada. Zip. She is NOT evangelizing. As Jesus said - he who doesn't gather with me, scatters.
@The Amber Heard Playlist!! NO, I did not misquote her!!! Those are the exact quotations as reported by multiple media outlets - go fight with them! She says there are just two things - Love God and love your neighbour - then she falls flat on her face on the first one - Jesus says - If you LOVE me you'll keep my commandments. Then going back to Leviticus 17,18, 19 and 20 you'll see exactly what Jesus thinks about sexual sin such as homosexuality. Read the story of Sodom in Genesis 19 to see the total depravity that homosexuality sinks to. Then read Jude 7.
@The Amber Heard Playlist!! I see your bias - your find no wrong with homosexuality - why is that? Did you not read what the bible has to say about it? I would truly like to hear your reasons for being unmoved by the fact that there are people that are actively engaged in homosexual acts - or transgenderism for that matter. I'd like to hear your opinion on Genesis 19 ( and the preceding chapters leading up to it ), Leviticus 17 thru 20, 1 Corinthians 6:9-11 and Jude 7.
I grew up loving Amy Grant and her music since my parents got saved when I was 13 years old. HI got saved when I was 9 years old . But when I was in my early 20s I fell away from the Lord and lived a life of homosexuality. I walked away from the Lord because I was confused then I went to gay Christian churches trying to make God fit my narrative. My mom loved me she never gave up on me she loved my partner she never gave up on my partner. But not one time did she affirm me and my beliefs or my lifestyle. Not one time did she say homosexuality was not a sin. My mom told me I was living in sin. And I still never questioned her love for me or my partner. I knew she loved me but because she stood by God‘s word I repented and renounced homosexuality and I came back to the Lord and I serve Jesus faithfully now, with no wavering. You can love a person trapped in sin without loving the chains that bind them and hold them in the sin. My mom prayed The spirit of homosexuality off of me. 15+ years of living in bondage but now I am FREE !!! I praise God and thank God for people who did not love me into Hell! But instead loved me into repentance and into the arms of Jesus!
My son struggles greatly and seems very hurt by my Christian values including the view that acting on homosexuality is a sin. I’m glad you are free! God bless you In your journey. Please pray for my son Augustus.
@The Amber Heard Playlist!! Yes, I understand it. But even if I didn't, the Bible is clear on the subject, and as a Christian, Jesus is my Savior and my Lord and it's good for me to submit to His best. Deviant sexuality isn't His best. Any "information" that says otherwise - I have to break it to you - is not new, postmodern, "on the right side of history" : the Bible clearly shows people breaking the rules going back to the beginning of time. There is nothing new under the sun. Evil is still evil, good is good, and they cannot be mixed. :)
I had an uncle who was gay. But, when he gave his life to Christ, he really gave his life to Christ! No compromises. We talked a little about it towards the end of his life, and he said the most important thing in life as a Christian is to honor the Lord and live a life pleasing to Jesus. He was a beautiful, humble soul. He set a wonderful example for me. He passed in 2017. I know he is rejoicing in heaven with Jesus.
What a lovely testimony! My soul is blessed.I also,remember,a brother of mine in CHRIST who was gay.He left and sold eveyrthing he has and he focused on The LORD.I was a baby Christian back,then,and everytime,I see him,I could see the peace in him,contentment,joy and such light in his face Just amazing how JESUS changes us!
I was gay. Now i'm Born again Christian. I was once invited by a friend of mine to his gay wedding too. I explained him (with love) my new view on this and i refused to go. He totally understood my decision and after that he respect me even more. You see, accepting what we should not doesn't make us a better christians. Infact false mercy isnt true love and is not required. Salvation comes by accepting the truth
My daughter is gay and legally married, according to Colorado law, to another woman. That woman’s family is 100% accepting of their relationship; we are not. I love my daughter, and very much desire a relationship with her…which although is strained, it is on going. She was very hurt that her family did not attend her wedding, and is downright mad about it! She cannot understand that our Christian faith prohibits us from celebrating something that we know to be a sin, but despite that, we love her! We have never turned our back on her, but she has “disowned” us countless times. Prayerfully, there will be a transforming of her mind, and she will turn to Jesus, accept HIS merciful grace, & honor HIS WORD! We rest and trust in HIM who saves! I keep her partner in my prayers too. To GOD be the glory!
Thank you for sharing your heart and faith. Honouring God n His Word. What faith. What you have prayed for your daughter, I pray the same prayer, n salvation for her partner. God bless you n your family.🙏❤
Amy Grant is a puppet. She flip flops like a bobblehead. It's such a shame she wants to thwart and reneg her convictions. This is exactly what her family is doing. She's a fake.
Hello my name is Cindy I am delivered. Jesus set me free. My mom prayed for 12 years for me and my partner. Today Freedom Reigns thought Christs victory in my life thanks to a praying mama prayers. You will see a victory I decree in Jesus name victory over you and over your Daughter. Before June 29 of 2024 Lord let Freedom reign in this family! I here the voice of the Lord saying, “In one years time she will come home your prodigal daughter. Like Naomi, she will bring a Ruth into the kingdom. “
@tinawantland. How r u? I will be praying for your daughter! I no this has to be hard! Jesus will deliver her !! Pray for a family member of mine that is also caught in a relationship with someone of the same sex! Breaks my heart. And I love this sweet individual! Thank you n god bless !!
I’m sure you raised your daughter in the Christian faith , hold to your faith & keep praying for your daughter to be delivered from this life of sin , May God Bless you.
All of this shows how Americans, British and those countries with a Judeo-Christian heritage have changed their thinking in about 30 years. My life is America and Las Vegas, Nevada is about being tortured with a feeling of guilt and failure all day long, every day, even by parents and relatives. Am I being tested by some entity for deception, jealousy and envy? I completed a BS in mechanical engineering from the University of Arizona in 1995 and an MBA with the University of Phoenix in 2001. I spent from 1995-2000 in the U.S.. Navy. I remember being in Las Vegas from November 2006- September 2007, and I was being rejected for file clerking jobs. They were sending me letters that I was not qualified. I got rejected for all levels of employment. I was born in America. But it makes me feel like crap all of the time. I can remember being in the NAVY ROTC in about 1991, and being required like others in the ROTC to sign a document saying we had never engaged in homosexual behavior. I think I remember that more now because of the changes in American culture.
I heard this once and it stuck with me. Truth + Grace = Love. Truth without Grace is mean and Grace without Truth is meaningless. You present Truth and Grace so well. Thank you for your channel.
Becket, you clearly have a God-given calling to help the church understand how to handle the issues surrounding homosexuality. Please be encouraged that believers like me, all over the world, are praying for you and your critically-needed ministry. It can't be easy. Thank you for putting it all on the line for the sake of our Lord Jesus. We're so grateful for you, brother.
What a wonderful sister-in-law, who prayed for you faithfully for so many years. Another example of not growing faint in prayer and not giving up. God bless her!
🥰 Keep up the good work! It''s so inspiring to me, a former lesbian, to hear other gay turned God believing and standing their ground, no turning back!!! Glory be to God!! He truly is the only way, I tear up and thank Him for saving my life!!
it's not easy for us to change direction, but if God really didn't love us, he would've left us in our sins. but Jesus came so that we all can be redeemed, but we have to get on our knees and realize we're a sinner, to make Jesus Lord and Savior of your life.
I came from a Christian home, but got caught up into same sex relationships which led to a same sex marriage in 2010. My family always showed us love while never compromising the truth of God's Word. I began seeking God a few years ago. He began working in my life changing me. I began sharing the truth with my "wife" and we eventually moved into separate bedrooms. Just this past week, the divorce finally happened peaceably. I have shared the Gospel with her many times and am still praying the Lord will reach her. I am thankful that my family didn't compromise on truth and "love" me into hell but rather displayed true love which led me back to Jesus and freedom.
@kristina_abel What did it look like as your parents loved you without compromising on truth? This is something I don’t know that I have seen done well, so I’m seeking to learn from your parents’ example.
@aelder5057 No. They did not attend. They knew about our relationship at that point but I didn't bother telling them or inviting them to the wedding because I already knew where they stood on the subject.
@dlzarn My parents always would send birthday cards, Christmas cards, notes of encouragement to both of us but always individually and not as a couple. If she was sick or going through something, my Mom was great for using that as an opportunity to share words of encouragement and bring the gospel into it and reminding her or me that they were praying. Always willing to help in practical ways when we needed help with something. They truly just showed us love in practical ways, using any opportunity that arose to show the love of Christ and point us to the gospel and Jesus. They made it clear where they stood on the subject and why, but always treated us individually with love and respect. They would not indulge us by using terms like your wife or even referring to us as being married. They just consistently showed love towards us both in ways that even if they did not embrace our relationship, neither of us could deny they truly loved us both.
@@Kristina_Abel thank you SO much for your reply. This is SUPER helpful. I have struggled personally with how to treat a Christian brother who is currently choosing to serve his desires over serving God as he once did. He has pulled away from me. I never shunned him. I love him so much and pray for him often. I also lead a small Bible study and this very topic has been challenging to our group as a whole. I know we can not applaud or approve, but struggled to explain to my friends how to love them differently than the world prescribes and how that is MORE loving than encouraging the lies they live in bondage to.
I am an OG Amy Grant fan. She was literally my first concert in the 80s. Her “Friends” duet with Michael W Smith represented my high school graduation to me for years. Disappointingly, she’s been moving more and more mainstream and a friend of the world. Beckett, I’m glad you are giving clarity to the muddiness of this world. Thanks for all you do.
@@lydialedbetter2041 more info / link please 🙏 I am considering attending a concert of him here in Europe... I knew they are friends but I also wondered how he positions himself regarding LGBTQ+...
I love love love your show! ❤ Some people would argue, by not attending a gay wedding we aren’t loving the person. But who deserves the honor, God or the sinner? You make some very valid points that by showing acceptance of a gay wedding it is dishonoring to God and a conflicting witness to others. You deliver these points with loving kindness. Thank you, Beckett. May God bless you richly for not being influenced by the culture and standing firm on God’s word.
There are gay individuals who depend daily on the Cross because that is our only way and Salvation to God. Don't lump everyone together. Many gay people still choose and depend on Christ and do not subscribe to LGBT ideology.
@@igloozoo3771 You cannot identify as a homosexual and identify as a child of God. Paul said in 1 Corinthians 6 and Romans 1 that homosexuality is a sin and homosexuals will NOT inherit the kingdom of God!
@@Xtremedave2 11 And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God. A homosexual like any other sinner are justified by Christ and Christ alone. A homo can be celibate for the rest of their lives and they still would be a homosexual no matter how they "identify" as. Yes once we accept Christ , we are given a new identity and Spirit, but we still live in the same Flesh. The wages of all sin is death and hell. According to Jesus, we are all murderers and adulturers. Then who among us can be saved? With God it is impossible, but through Christ on Cross, God mad the impossible possible. God came to save Sinners. Now why would a just God save his enemies? Because that is also the calling he has for us. Love not only your friends but also your enemies.
Since walking closer with the Lord the past few years, I have less and less interest in the things of the world. I have less tolerance for TV shows that I used to love. Example: I recently purchased the full episodes of Northern Exposure, a series I loved back in the 90's. Now, I find I can not watch the episodes without feeling convicted as they seem so hedonistic. I am glad that my tolerance for worldly content is so different than what it was 25 years ago.
Great comment :) I had to cancel my cable and subscriptions the past few years. I'm so glad I broke those ties. It's been a huge weight lifted to not deal with demonic propaganda being shoved at me constantly.
I can completely relate. It seems that we can't even watch a "Masterpiece" mystery without an unnecessary subplot ruining the whole thing. I've started watching a lot of classic movies for that reason.
My parents had an experience similar to the family's story that Beckett recounted. When my sister was away at a Christian college, she started a lesbian relationship with a woman on staff. My parents were absolutely heartbroken. The college administration was cold and heartless in their response to the situation. They took no responsibility at all. It devastated my parents. They went to their pastor for help and found that he was basically sold out to the world and it's attitude about homosexuality, only adding to their pain. They then moved and began attending a new church. They went to their new pastor for help and counsel but encountered pretty much the same attitude. They were told that sin is sin. As if my sister's sexual relationship with another woman was no worse than any other sin, so why were they so upset about it. Just love her. What Beckett is doing is so valuable today. There are so many heartbroken families who have been let down by supposed church leaders as they struggle to figure out how to handle the situation they find themselves in. Thank you, Beckett! Stay on the narrow path and continue to lead others there! ❤
Wow 😲, such a disheartening & unbelievable reaction from the Pastors & churches. This is why I appreciate Pastor Gary Hamrick from Cornerstone Chapel VA. On RUclips. He does not compromise the word of God & is a gifted & enlightening teacher😇
I'm curious. Did these churches believe that once a sinner is saved, one can never lose their salvation? I ask because I'm finding people who believe this paradigm are often those affirming LGBTQ lifestyles which would seem to make sense to me. Otherwise, it would seem to me that their centuries-old paradigm would fall apart if they denounced them.
Sin is sin. Homosexuality is another sin and its sad sin is taken so lightly. Lying is an abomination too. So sometimes people do act like gay people as humans are beyond Gods reach. Relating to people honestly without degrading them is important.
I just found your ministry through a friend.Our daughter was in a same sex marriage and we ere able to have an agree to disagree relationship and accepted her partner as part of our family.Sadly she died last year and we have loved and helped our daughter through her grief.She now has started a new relationship with a woman who lives in S.F..Now our daughter says that she doesn’t think we can have the agree to disagree relationship anymore.If we do not give her 100% support she may have to pull herself away from us and we will be estranged.My heart is broken into a million little pieces.She used to be on fire for Jesus but now that girl is gone and she said she is not a believer anymore but wants to be completely enmeshed in the homosexual community.Now believes Christians truly hate people in the Gaylifestyle.Please pray God will come upon her in a mighty way and turn her around.
I come into agreement with you, may the reality and mercy of the Son of God open her eyes and heart to Him, one day at a time, starting today in Jesus's name~
So sorry your daughter is making that kind of a decision to withdraw from you unless you cave into this lie of totally affirming her position on homosexuality. I shall be praying for you Lisa for strength and wisdom. I shall also pray for your daughter to open her eyes to the truth in Christ and in Him alone!
I appreciate you sharing your testimony and truth on these issues. My sister has been in the LGBT world for over half her life and is a professor in LGBT studies. Praying one day she sees the truth.
Thank you Lord. I pray for Amy! Strange, very strange what deception of God's enemy is working there. We e definitely are to love the gender confused, but approval of their lifestyle is not from God. Thank you for speaking out p
Only an ex gay man could preach something so powerful 💞 Truly a voice needed in these times. 💯✝️. Although homosexuality is a sin I've never had to struggle with, I've definitely have struggled with and still do with other sin. Thank you for this video❤
No such thing as an "ex gay man". Just a gay man who chooses not to live his sexual orientation in a same sex relationship. But he's still gay and always will be
@@harpervalleypeeteeay9708 Yet scripture says that "If anyone is IN CHRIST they become a NEW CREATION, OLD THINGS ARE PASSED AWAY AND BEHOLD ALL THINGS ARE BECOME NEW." According to THE WORD that lives and abides forever, if you repent and turn to Jesus, what you will always be is: - Passed-over in the judgment of sin by the atoning work of the precious blood of Christ. - Born again by the indwelling of The Holy Spirit, Sealed by The Holy Spirit, Eternally one with God through the operation of the Holy Spirit, passed from spiritual death to eternal life through the power of the Spirit of The Living God. - Sanctified, set apart, eternally by His unfathomable grace and love through the true Jesus of the Bible and not a false fabrication. - free from the penalty of sin (past = The Cross where Christ became our Passover for Eternal Judgment) - free from the power of sin (present = sin's destructive force is defeated by walking in the spirit and growing IN HIM) - free from the presence of sin (near future when God's perfect plan is reality for us as it already is for Him who knows the end from the beginning) - Predestined to glory, true purpose of life now to reflect His glory as we grow IN HIM. Each one of us has a unique purpose IN HIM and the manifestation to come is infinitely beyond our comprehension... but what we lost when Adam blew it is nothing compared to this coming day of complete redemption spirit, soul, and resurrected body likened unto His own. Only sin could make us foolish enough to trade such incredible precious promises for pleasures of the flesh for a season (and inevitable destruction), or the hopelessness of the delusional masses that think broccoli is their kin!
@@harpervalleypeeteeay9708"Gay" is not a sexual orientation: homosexual is. Gay is the self identifier of those who have an Attraction to the same sex and embrace it for the most part. "Ex-gay" is definitely applicable.
I loved her music in the 80’s and 90’s. Just watched how she won a Kennedy Award. Spurgeon’s quote is spot on and appreciate your perspective. We have a daughter who professes to be non-binary the last few years and also believes there is more than one way to God. We’ve had many conversations over scripture and most of all prayers. It’s a demonic stronghold over so many people her age.
I am sorry for what your family is enduring, but I do agree with you. I think it's all demonic/spiritual. I also think the enemy has infiltrated our schools/colleges on such a critical level now, that we are now seeing the fruit of that infiltration. Another tactic of CCP to weaken America.
Voddie Bacchaum once said "If you are so concerned about offending your gay friend by not attending their wedding, do you have an even bigger concern about offending God by going against His commands?"
Pablo, Did you listen to this whole broadcast of Becket and the scriptures that he quoted that instruct us not to celebrate sin? So yes, God did instruct us not to go to a gay wedding. That's not the only scripture he quoted. Whenever you listen to someone such as this broadcast that is trying to shed light on a very sensitive subject in the world, it should always be saturated with scripture to back it up. Becket has done just that.
Ohhh God, thank You so much for this man's calling. He is so clear, smart,... I was about to go to a gay wedding, listening to you changed my mind. Thank you . I love you!
This is why I listen to Becket, because he tells the truth and always goes back to the Bible to get it. And his perspective is from that of someone in that community at one time, it's genuine, loving, and informative. I love you brother!
When I lived as a gay man, i never found love. Since changing my life and handing over to the lord, i have found love. 🙏 I don't feel lonely anymore. The lord saved me from my alcoholism. I wish I had found the lord sooner, but i wasn't ready.
@@JB-gw6vb Thank you. It took me way to long to see the truth and what the good lord has to offer. I suffered, but I reached out six years ago for help and he answered. It's a miracle. PRAISE our lord !
@@eldalopez663 Some times I think about my drinking days, and what i put myself through. I cringe now. 😬 My life was so unmanageable, and i was lost. I hit a rock bottom, i had passed out after a drinking binge and i came round lying on the floor. I cried out God please help me, i can't live like this anymore. I have never had another drink since I'm six years sober.. It's a miracle because i was hopeless. The lord heard me and saved me. I was an atheist when i was drinking. Now im a believer.
I saw Amy Grant and Sandi Patti at a Christian woman's event some years ago. I loved their music in the 1980's, but since then Amy pursued Vince Gill while he was married. Sandi left her marriage for, if I recall correctly, a musician in her entourage. For their happiness and love, four families were shattered. Fourteen kids lost the security of living with both their parents. I believe in forgiveness and grace, but I wondered how many women at that conference were grieving their own faithless husbands and broken marriages, but had to sit and listen to these two women chirp about how happy they were. I didn't sense repentance, and here comes Amy, writer of the beautiful song El Shaddai, practicing her Cafeteria Christianity in which she picks and chooses what Biblical truths she wishes to obey .
I met the young 14 yo. Amy Grant back in the day at Calvary Chapel book store, Costa Mesa......loved her music for years. Did her growing fame create options for looking for a better deal with Vince ?.. Two words are the cause of Divorce. Selfishness and Pride. ........All the praise songs became instantly empty for my daughter and I when she ended her marriage Did she maybe think her music development was all she needed for having a growing spiritual maturity ? and what of Disciple ship ? Dont know any answers on this I do know Divorce shatters many who watch your life
That's why we have to stand for in the gospel and what God says. Repentance can't be done if her Aunt Amy is showing her it is okay when any Christian knows it is NOT okay. I have had to repent many times over an addiction I had with gambling. God has never failed me.
Pretty sure she didn't write that song. Michael Card did. I just wanted to point that out. I agree with the rest regarding her. I don't know enough about what happened with Sandi to comment on her. P.S. I looked up who wrote "El-Shaddai". From this featured snippet on Google: It was written by Michael Card and John Thompson, using direct quotes from scripture as their inspiration, and recorded by Card on his 1981 debut album, Legacy. However, the best known version of the song was by singer Amy Grant, whose rendition was recorded in 1982 on her platinum-certified album Age to Age.
Beckett, both your humility while speaking the truth and your love for sinners is crystal clear. Thank you for standing tall. You are appreciated brother!
I loved the “ministry” of Amy Grant when I was a young Christian. I prayed for her every single day of my pregnancy when she was carrying Matthew, the child born after her previous miscarriage. I was very devoted to her because of the music and the way she represented the Lord. Then I won tickets to one of her concerts and the bubble burst that day. Amy was obvious an object of worship and idolatry and my eyes were finally opened to the “business” of Contemporary Christian music. Sadly, she is not alone. She’s a human being stained by sin just like the rest of us. And yet, she professes a relationship with Him without the fruits of what that “tree” and lifestyle looks like. We shall know them by their fruits. She’s been worldly all her career. Nothing new here. Not a fan, but she does need mercy and prayer.
@@marshahollings She judged her fruit. Jesus said that we would know them by their fruit. How can we know anything by fruit if we don't evaluate the fruit? Another term for evaluate is judge. Also, Amy is affirming the satanic lie that homosexuality is acceptable to God. It is not according to the Bible.
Amy Grant has sold out to world views, and that is very sad. Her influence is great, and Becket you do a great job explaining her influence particularly for confused or questioning young people. So proud of you Becket, and our God is honored by your words.
I have a nephew that is gay. My question is, he has asked me to visit and spend some time at their home, I love my nephew very, but I know what my answer has to be? Thank you, “For other ways to love”
Explain to him that just because he thinks he is gay, does not mean he has to "act" on it. I knew a friend of the family who was a flamboyant gay most of his life. Later he found Christ, turned his back on the gay "behavior" lifestyle, and ended up being head church decorator, preparing and decorating the whole church for holidays. A church never looked so beautiful and everyone loved him, he has since passed on.
My sister is gay. We grew up listening to Amy Grant. Her lifestyle choice has been the greatest sorrow of my life. I've been combatting the feeling of just wanting to accept her because I love her so much, and that just seems easier. This video has helped me right my wrong thinking. I just can't wait to keep listening. God bless you, Becket.
I think there is a balance, though. It's important to accept people where they are and that includes accepting their choices, since humans were given free choice. That doesn't mean we tell them that we support or approve their lifestyle choices, but neither can we beat them over the head with Bible verses if we want to win them. Oh to find that balance of loving but not condoning.
Thank you Beckett. I particularly appreciated your comments at the end about attending a gay marriage. Though I've come to the same conclusion as you, I've written down what you said, "love... Does not rejoice in wrong doing" "attending a gay marriage is rejoicing in wrong doing"... WOW! That clicked!! Thank you
I’m a 60-year-old female and when I got saved it was in the early 80s. Amy Grant was one of my favorite people I looked up to her is such a strong believer. When I heard that she had left her husband and went with Mr. Gill it’s so hurt me because I followed her and her husband for years. I looked up to them. And while I still listen to some Amy Grant when it’s on the radio because I listen to the Christian radio, I still love her voice and the words that she speaks. But then I heard this message today from you, and I’m so taken back that she would even take the stance. It is not only offensive to God, to all of us who love her and looked up to her as a strong believer, but basically it is going to lead to so many down the road where their soul is condemned for all eternity. I’m praying for Amy and for contrition and I’m praying for all those who follow her to stop looking at the person but to keep their eyes fixed on Jesus for such a time as this. God bless all of you and to The gentleman who did this video I just Applaud you. I see Jesus in u. I have subscribed to your content and I will continue to follow you for you speak truth. God bless you and all reading this in Jesus name amen.
I know....Amy Grant was my hero since the 70's But I have seen a huge change and am so disappointed. But I love her and pray for her and Gill. May she read God's Word with open eyes.
@@debrakeeler2816 So like he was on drugs and would not stop, that is hard I am sure. I have had family members struggle too. However the mentality is to get a divorce and devisrate the 3 kids and hurt many who believed you were different ( not if the world ) and part of the body of Christ? So like I do not know if she tried a Christian marriage counseling, join Christian support groups, accountability groups.... Etc....What about “staying in the race “ like it says in the Bible. Ever hear of the book of Hosea? I have had challenges in my own marriage just like everyone else that’s why we have others to help us. The bottom line is she had an affair and that’s what hurt the body of Christ, her kids, and that’s what hurt her witness as well as our Lord. God has never left her or any of us when we make bad choices ( and we all have ) , we usually leave him first. God never stops loving any of us but he is a Holy God and disciplines those he loves. He does not bail on us even when we are weak or make bad choices and we all gave failed.... So we just just don't bail on our spouses unless it becomes abusive and or detrimental to ur life being in Jeopardy. She was given a high place by God that was a gift and still is. She was and is loved by many as an example of Christ. It hurt to see her afair and also in the above video to celebrate gay marriage as this goes against Gods plan not mine. That was the point of what I said. Love the sinner but gate the sin. please know that this is not a K bashing thing at all, I have family members that I love that are homosexual and lesbian and I love them with all my heart. However I love them more to tell them the truth of God has written in the word the Bible To pray for them, love them, and point them to the truth so that they can be in eternity for and forever. The thought of them missing out on being with God for eternity and separated from him in the other place terrifies me. Amy grant should love her niece but she should also tell her the truth and not celebrate sin. 👣
You just wrote my history of listening to Amy. I, too, am disappointed to hear that she is missing the mark on this and will pray for her. New to this channel and will subscribe as well.
Same here. Contemporary Christian Music was relatively new in the late 70's/early 80's, and when she came in, we were captivated! I had EVERY album she made until she crossed over to the world. She deserves our prayers. 😢 It's so sad.
Yes Beckett is an excellent teacher and speaker for our MOST HIGH ALMIGHTY 🕊️. I truly believe OUR HEAVENLY FATHER is smiling on Beckett's RUclips channel
"We believe that homosexuality is not a sin." When you hear statements like this made by a church, it should set off alarm bells in your heart!! It doesn't matter what WE believe. What matters is what God believes. When someone says "we believe" or "I believe", that's clear that they don't believe that the Bible is the Word of God. If they did, they would never cherry pick what verses are truth. There are lots of verses that make me feel guilty or confused. I don't get to strike them from the Bible. It is the HARDEST thing to love a gay family member, entirely because of the world's false definition of love. It seems, no matter what you do, you will be misunderstood. Remember, weddings are CELEBRATIONS. How can we stand before God and celebrate ANY sin? ♥️🇨🇦
"Discernment is not knowing the difference between right and wrong. It is knowing the difference between right and almost right.” _-C.H. Spurgeon_ Love your ministry, and you Becket :) ♡ God bless both. You are a clarion in the darkness🕯
I admire your straightforward and uncompromising stand for gospel truth here in this video, I hadn't ever watched any of your videos before. Godspeed to your vital ministry. I remember how I listened to an Amy Grant album in 1982 titled "My Father's Eyes". She was young, sweet & such a gatherer then. I will never forget how in the song "Old Man's Rubble" she sang the phrase "you better be careful, you're being deceived"....with such bold conviction. It sounds to me like she would do well to revisit the true spiritual principles she proclaimed in that song.....
Yea, I met the Lord in 1982, shortly before Keith Green's passing. Back then all I listened to was Keith and Amy. I received all 'F's that semester in college (too busy reading the Word), but, well, I guess my treasure was elsewhere.
We have a nephew who is gay and several years ago when he got married my mother-in-law asked if we were going to the wedding. I adored my mother-in-law and loved my nephew and told her I would always love my nephew but could not attend a ceremony celebrating a union that I believe is wrong and not according to God’s plan. She was great and understood where I was coming from. God is really clear in his Word and as Christians we need to stand strong in God’s word and not condone sin. We can still love people but not condone or accept sinful behavior.
@@igloozoo3771 yes we still see each other at family events and I still adore him. He’s an amazing person and very successful, I hope that God will transform as only He can. It’s not up to us. We are just called to Love our family. It’s God’s job or the Holy Spirit to transform people. We can let God do the heavy part. Our part is easy we just have to love ❤️.
@@ericday4505 We all willfully sin everyday. If you think you follow the commandments everyday then you are a liar. Jesus made it harder and impossible for man to get into Heaven through follow the laws, but he made the impossible possible through his work completed at the Cross. All the Glory goes to Christ. You can confidently tell a practicing homosexual to look up at the Cross and be saved. That is the starting point of Salvation.
@@igloozoo3771 I think I agree with you, why are you lecturing me? I dont have a problem with gay people, I do have a problem with practicing homosexuals who want to have that sin be all of a sudden excused or looked at like its not sin.
I watched you interview Chynna Philips and thought I’d check you out on RUclips. I’m so glad I did! I just sent your book to my nephew who is a gay Christian man in prison. Thank you for your honesty and your bravery.
Honesty, your story and this channel are blowing my mind, the world needs you badly, the voice you have is such a powerful one, and your ministry is clearly and desperately needed in this time. I thank God for giving you this voice, may you be blessed as you bless others. Thank you brother.
Auviously Amy Grant does not know the gospel of Jesus Christ. She loves the world. I hope someone lovingly shows her, her error in the truth and comes to the full knowledge of Jesus Christ.
@@DDumbrille Do not be confirmed to the world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Rom 12:2 also whoever loves the world is an enemy of God. A believer is to stand up for truth of Gods word. He or she is to hate the devil, the flesh and the world. For God so loved the world (meaning the people he created in His like nest and His design, meaning male and female) that He gave His only begotten son , that whoever believes in Him, (which is also the word of God John 1:1) should not perish ,but have eternal life. You can't have 2 masters. Jesus meaning truth. The world which is under the power of satan. Please dear friend, read the bible and seek Jesus for eternal life. You only have an allotted time.( meaning your life here.) After death is judgement. I hope you will seek Jesus.
I love how you sweetly give your SIL a shoutout for her loving perseverant prayer for you! Thank you for your perspective. I remember Amy Grant coming to my college campus when I was a freshman and a new Believer. I am sad she is vocally and physically affirming this lifestyle struggle of her niece. I have a son and daughter walking in this struggle. We are loving and welcoming but not affirming; PRAYING our love and kindness will draw them…
Thank you for your thoughts on the issue of gay wedding attendance. Our family faced this issue with a son, since then of course, he has not spoken to us for many years, because we did not attend. It has been heartbreaking to lose him, as he grew up in a Christian home and we had no inkling of what he and us were facing. In our decisions, we did think it would be dis-honoring to our Holy God and of course, our son spurned us. Heartbreaking.
So very sorry , it feels like a death . I actually think it’s worse because the person is still alive . Prayers for your broken hearts , may our Heavenly Father some how some way bring your son into the truth and come back to his family and to God .
"Do you want to love someone into eternity with God, or do you want to love them down a road to perdition?" What a statement, Becket, and one which should be at the crux of sharing the Gospel with folks around us! Great seeing you recently at The Church of the Apostles in Atlanta!
@louisedow6489 you read the Bible God did not create people to be married to the same sex we need to pray for Amy Grant and there's nothing wrong with prayer we all need prayer at some point and if you really care about people you need to tell them if there doing wrong.
My mother called it “loving people straight to hell.” It is incredibly sad to never tell them the truth of the salvation message all in the name of “tolerance.”
Think about that! Do you realize that Yahweh is a "God of War"? You can see it in the violence of the OT, the Christians forget the wars and murders of innocent children and BABIES and pretend it didn't happen. You can look at history to the present day, and SEE that the killing hasn't stopped and never will. Your God, Yahweh, who the Hebrews adopted as "The one true God" from a Polytheistic Canaanite Pantheon WAS a god of war. The blood will continue until you realize that you are worshipping Satan in the guise of a 'God"
Preach it brother!! Amy is doing more damage to the church than lady gaga does ,the wolf is not too bad if we know it’s a wolf ,but a wolf in sheep’s clothing does carnage !!!
Thank you so much for your stance on the subject of Gay Marriage and the quoting of scripture out of context! God is using you mightily! Keep up the good work!
Becket, I love that you brought up the word repentance! This is something that isn't taught from many pulpits these days. Also appreciate you defining what love is. ❤
Thank you as always for your uncompromising defense of God's Word. I have always loved Amy Grant and some of her music but I don't agree with this either. It seems to me that homosexuality has opened the door wide to so much perversion in our nation even down to children mutilation of their bodies. Total confusion about gender etc etc.😣🙏
I remember protesting only once in my life in 2008 when they where going to legalize gay marriage. Even then as I was only 21 I knew this was gonna open up the floodgates... And now look where we are in only 15 years
Good job Beckett! It is always great to share the Truth of God’s Word as you have. Thank you! - it is great to have a Brother in Christ that stands for the Truth that sets us Free. God Bless you Beckett!❤
Hey Becket!! I think it would be fun to invite Candace Cameron Bure on your show. She’s taken an unpopular stance in supporting traditional marriage. She’s gotten a lot of backlash from it. She’s a Hollywood actress and stands by her convictions. She recently left Hallmark to make movies for Great American Family I believe it’s called. But for that sole reason of acting in movies that only portray traditional marriage. I’d love to hear how she handles the criticism especially in Hollywood.
I agree 💯! Her brother Kirk, has also been rejected lately from numerous libraries to share his recent book on the Fruit of the Spirit 🍅. How crazy is that as they allow blatantly gay men to read to small children??😡👿
@@carolyncox7694 oh yes! Kirk would be another great guest. It’s refreshing to see this family stand up to all the hate and criticism. They put Jesus first, period.
CCB was also a big supporter of Bob Saget and ignored the filth he spewed during his comedy shows. Bob even joked about pedophilia. Then, she also posted the photo of her husband's hand on her boob on her Instagram. She talks faith but some of 'walk' is lacking. What are your thoughts on this? I find it very disturbing.
Love you for holding on to the true word of God. Thank you Beckett Amy Grant is not a surprise.Absolutely right we are to love everyone but never compromise on God's words.
I know Amy Grant is getting a lot of praise from the world, I am glad that your willing to sacrifice this Mr Cook no matter and are an example for all of us, thanks!
What gave me some joy was reading the comments. Not all are lost, some come home and know the truth. Itnis through prayer, speaking the truth and continuing to call our loved one to God that we love God and our neighbor ❤❤❤❤
My Grand daughter just turn 15 and we found out that she believes she likes girls . A couple of years ago we were talking about the gays Marring the same sex and I made the comment that if my son came to me and told me he was gay I would love him no matter what , but he knows where I stand in my faith with God , I said but if he came to me and said he was marrying a man that I couldn’t attend the wedding because it would say to the world and God that I approved of the sin. My Grand daughter started to cry and she’s not an emotional person to cry at things . Later my daughter told me that she was hurt because it was like I reject her and we still didn’t know at that time she had thoughts of being a lesbian. We just found out about a month ago that she has a girlfriend and I had taken her over to her friends house about a month before that and as I was driving home I felt in my spirit something wasn’t right and I prayed right then and ask God if there was anything going on please expose it and just a month later it was all revealed , now she wants to live with her Dad which he has never been a Father figure for the last 14 years of her life not even been a part time parent but because he thinks it’s ok for her at the age of 15 to have a girlfriend sexually and bring them together when she wants , she has chosen her Dad over her loving Mother . Jesus help us , this has been a nightmare. I know that the enemy is in full force trying to win all he can for Hell . All we can do is pray and believe that a miracle will happen and give God the glory for it . That is what I’m believing for , I even prayed for her to have a close encounter with heaven and hell if that’s what it takes to bring her into the truth of Gods word . She went to visit her Dad and spend a couple of nights with him and we found out that he brought her girlfriend over and he has never brought her back home and it’s been over 10 days . So we need all the prayers we can get .
I beg your pardon; I am confident you have no idea what Steve Green would do, or how he would react to any given situation. Furthermore, what one person considers compromise may be far different than others. I happen to believe Amy gets it right. As Christians, we can do our best to interpret God’s word, and live our lives accordingly. However, the reality is that we are all merely human beings. None of us are called to judge, condemn, shame, criticize, or offer opinions on life choices made by others. We are, however, called by God to love unconditionally. You see, Ruthy, if we can simply master the act of loving unconditionally, everything else will fall into place. God doesn’t need me or you to analyze the behavior, decisions, or choices of others. We aren’t qualified to view someone’s lifestyle, claim to know what’s in their heart, then “lovingly” show them the light! We are called to love. If we can manage to show others love; the same love shown to us, HE’LL TAKE CARE OF THE REST…also written by Mr. Green. Peace and LOVE, Ruthy!
@@benjidover5275 please read Matthew 7. Jesus does not condemn judging entirely but judging hypocritically. He goes on to say we will know others by their fruit. This clearly implies a judgment of the works of persons who claim belief in Him. Similarly, in John 7 He desires righteous judgment be made. Paul also highlights judging those in the faith even to the extent of expelling them from the church so they will desire repentance and seek redemption leading to renewed fellowship. Jesus was likewise quite clear on the definition of marriage (Matthew 19). Benji, aren’t you under your own ban against judgment when you come against Ruth? Or are you simply allowing that at least one judgment of others, that made by you, is perfectly acceptable? And honestly, calling her Ruthy when you don’t even know her drips with condescension and sarcasm. Lacks respect to those you have a disagreement with.
@Benji Dover Pardon me, Benji. Just a correction. Not Steve Green, but Keith Green. Two different music artists. I used to confuse them when I was younger, but I learned, by the very different styles of music they created, to distinguish whom was whom... if you are not familiar with Keith Green, listen, if you like. His testimony is powerful. Sadly, he passed away in the early 80's, along with two of his kids and a group of friends. I love his music. Have a blessed day!
This makes me so so sad. I have loved Amy since I was a kid, but the truth is the truth. Thank you, Becket, for bringing it, as usual. We appreciate you and hope you know it.
This is certainly not the first time Amy has walked the fence between God's Word and the world's approval. As my sweet mother used to say, aren't you thankful that it is GOD Who will be the final judge and not we ourselves. But we Christians ARE allowed to judge the FRUITS of those who call themselves Christian, and certainly on this subject, we know from the Word of God that Amy and Vince got this WRONG.
I just love this video thank you so much for explaining it so clearly what how we would handle these situations God bless you, sir. I think I’m gonna pick up your book. You’re doing a wonderful job. Keep it up.
I am finally getting around to listening to the rest of this and decided I need to share on Facebook for those I love that need to hear this!!! Pray for my 17-year-old grandson that has had some bad influence in his life that has caused him to go down the wrong path.
It's sad to see alot of Christian in the spotlight going against the Bible even pastor are ok with this. The Bible talks about this would happen in the end time. I never thought I would see this happen so quickly. Thank you Becket for talking about this.
Mat 19:6 Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder. Any “Christian” that supports gay ‘marriage’ is testifying that *GOD* did that. They are blaspheming the holy character of God.
You want more info on the history of this, look up Weimar Republic, the German Institute for Sexual Science founded by Magnus Hirschfeld and Arthur Kronfeld, then look up who burned that institute of degeneracy child molestation to the ground.
Thank you Beckett for this very straight forward and expository reflection on gay weddings. Thank you for sharing scripture. I had similar convictions about other ceremonies in which I refused to participate in or attend. I am a reformed Baptist and early on in my walk I was invited to numerous Roman Catholic baby baptism and because of my convictions regarding salvation I did not attend. I offended many family and many friends by not going. Hearing this podcast has given me even more courage to stand for truth. And that loving someone means telling them the truth. What a blessing it has been for me to have stumbled onto your podcasts. God is truly using you to touch people in so many ways. In areas you don’t even realize. May God continue to bless you brother. May He protect you and keep you healthy and strong so that you may keep spreading the gospel to many many more., in Jesus holy name!!AMEN! 💕Your sister in Christ
Praise God for the clear way you explained how we don't rejoice in evil by going to the wedding; but still love them by inviting them over for a meal, for instance. Thank you!
Dear Brother Becket, I am so grateful for your podcast. Two years ago, my granddaughter shocked us all when she eloped to Las Vegas and married a woman. She doesn't visit or call me anymore. However, she will occasionally text. I'm praying for her and occasionally, I pray for the woman that she has bound herself to. My granddaughter knows that I love her but doesn't approve of this life choice that she's made. I'm praying and I'm grateful for your testimony of God's amazing grace!
Thank you for this. I either saw or heard this: “ love is not love until it’s married to the truth”. It helps to offset the predominant culture comment “love is love”…. You make an excellent scriptural point “ love rejoices in the truth.” We are to be separated from the world.Sometimes lonely but so worth it for everyone involved. Righteous boundaries!
Thanks for sharing! I had two friends in college who developed a lesbian relationship with each other by time we graduated. I remained friends with them and went to visit them when they moved to New Jersey where I lived. But when they invited me to their wedding I was so conflicted. I wanted to show them I cared about them but it felt wrong to attend the wedding. Eventually I came to that same conclusion, that being there meant I was celebrating their marriage and that wasnt something I could do before God. It would be lying to stay silent when they ask if anyone objects. So I told my friend that I loved them and cared about them both and wanted to continue our friendship and hang out, but I couldn’t attend the wedding in good conscience. They were very offended and haven’t talked to me since, and couldn’t understand it because a Presbyterian minister was marrying them, but I know i made the right decision even though I lost that friendship :(
You suffered for our Lord; stay strong your rewards in heaven will more than make up for the pain of losing your friends. As CS Lewis said “We’re just living in the shadow lands.” Oh what wonders and glory await us who follow Jesus!
I love Amy Grant as a sister in Christ and appreciated her music when I was young. This grieves me. I agree with what you say here. Thank you for sharing the verse from Acts 26. I am taking it to geart to pray for people I love. Keep speaking the truth in love, dear brother.
This was so helpful Becket. My gay nephew didn't invite me to his wedding and I was relieved, actually. I've read your book and it was so interesting and encouraging. I'm still praying for Kelly and Rob, his partner. Thanks much, Becket.
My cousin got married and he didn't invite me either. He didn't invite anyone from our side of the family out of respect for us and our beliefs. He is a Christian and is in sin living with his husband. He is going to an affirming church that tells people this is "ok" with God. This breaks my heart. He knows where I stand we've talked about it before but, sometimes I want to talk with him again but at this point I'm like would it be profitable? He is married now, adopted two kids .. it hurts my soul to think about it. I was relieved that he didn't ask me to come.
First time listening to you and I affirm your teaching on the LBQRXYZ community. I’m 82 years old and living in a society that I don’t recognize any longer. God bless you as you continue to preach and teach the truth of God’s Word. Amen 🙏🏻
I'm 72, and I don't understand this culture either. The world is being deceived, and we know who the great deceiver is. He hates God's creation, and he seeks to warp, twist, or destroy that creation any way he can. We need to pray. A lot.
@@BecketCook you could have just kept it to yourself though instead of using it as a platform to judge. You will always be gay no matter how you try to suppress it. You have a clear attraction to men. Are you married to a woman or do you choose to be celibate??
Becket, you are so brave to stand up for truth. You do it on a platform of thousands of viewers, so why should I have trouble doing it with a few around me? You encourage me! ❤from Winnipeg 🇨🇦
Thank you, thank you, thank you, Beckett, for standing up for the Truth of God’s Word (with love). Thank you for never compromising! Your voice is so needed, now more than ever! Thank you!!!🙌🏼
I am always glad when I take the time to listen to your show. I learn so much. Amy Grant is no one’s moral compass. When you know Jesus you don’t want to continue in sin anymore. I wish everyone would find the gospel worth following.
Thank you Becket for standing firmly on the Word of God. Loving people isn’t the same as attending/condoning their sinful choices. Blessings to you Becket!
Thanks for sharing about this. I had a close friend of the family whose son invited me to his gay wedding. I didn’t attend. He had harsh feelings toward me as a result. The son ended up getting cheated on & they broke up. I didn’t know how to explain myself as to why I didn’t attend. Your suggestions were very helpful. I may have another invitation coming up and now I will know how to answer.
Good show, Becket. You said it so much more kindly than I did talking at the TV. "Yes by all means love the gay people in your life....love them into Hell" I thank the Lord that he put loving Christians in my life when I was living as a homosexual, and most importantly they told me it was sin. Never whitewash the truth.
Thank-you for your comment-people often don’t realize when they love people to hell it is like giving them an ice cube on their way to hell-I heard that statement in the past and it clarified the whole area of affirming sin.
@@user-bl4lf9rg8m no, not at all, I was in the homosexual lifestyle for 40 years before I came to Christ. My family didnt confront me constantly, mostly they just were loving, but when the subject came up, they gently made it clear that they couldn't affirm the way I was living. But one thing you can do that is most powerful is pray and intercede on your child's behalf. I had to see the truth for myself but I knew all those years they were praying for me.
Thank you, Becket. Someone very dear to me - who already knew my religious convictions - asked me if he married a man would I come to the wedding. I lovingly explained to him that I could not, in good conscience, as that would be like I was approving of that union. I have reinforced the fact that I love him dearly. When he has had a 'partner', I have been loving and kind to them both, but my deep beliefs/convictions hold strong and steady! I would love for him to listen to your powerful testimony! What a blessing I am sure you have been to many!
I loved my son, therefore when he was growing up, I corrected him when he did wrong, I still do. I love my grandson who is not quite two years old, and I discipline him when he does wrong. If you love someone, you let them know when they are wrong. You love them and do not want them to ruin their lives with bad choices not matter what the world tells them.
My brother is gay living in Los Angeles and I pray for his salvation and witness to him whenever I get the chance. He is such a gentle loving wonderful guy and a great uncle and I enjoy traveling and just love spending time with him. I’ll keep praying until he is Saved!
@@lynnlogue5881 Your version of God. My God says love everyone and support them, as long as no one is being harmed. That, my friend, is real love and truth.
Thank you for this! A dear, sweet friend of mine recently got married to another woman. Telling her I couldn't celebrate with her has created a major rift between us. Even though I affirmed my love and care for her over and over, she thinks I don't love her. I'm holding out hope that Jesus has a way forward for us in the future and that she will come to fully understand the depths of God's love for her in Christ.
If you get to talk with her, tell her that your faith does not allow you to affirm a practice that the bible speaks against. But you still love her, also, because the bible demands it. You affirm her right to her faith. She does not have the right to demand that you act against yours.
In my observation, quite often people who are away from Christ don't understand how you can not see with someone/someone's lifestyle, choices, etc. but still love them and care for them. They tend to conflate the sharing of interests/opinions etc. together with friendship/love. I've had these discussion on various topics with many friends. They don't understand the concept 'love the sinner, hate the sin', I mean they understand what it rationally means but they don't _get_ it. They often feel that rejection of something they choose/like/way they live etc., is the rejection of them. Which we know isn't true, because we as Christians see their true value, as being the beloved children of God. But they don't know that. For them they are who they think they are, what they like, what they do, etc. So I think part of our witness is to show and convince them that not agreeing with something doesn't mean we condemn people. That we can love them even when they are very different from us. It's the Christian spirit. Love you enemy, be hospitable to your guests and visitors meaning those who are different from you (xenia hospitality and xenos, meaning the guest but also the strange/foreign one, was the one to whom we're called for hospitality). So witness patiently and good luck and it may take time.
Becket! You so kindly and intelligently and logically point out where world views diverge from the truth of God’s word. I’m so grateful for that. When I lived in El Lay, I was invited to a commitment ceremony of two gay friends. I was a Christian, but not living a particularly sanctified life, yet I knew this ceremony was wrong. I declined on the pretext of another engagement. After the ceremony, the couple had a party at their home and showed the video from their ceremony. I was trapped! It was the most uncomfortable I’ve ever been (outside a horrible blind date on a 3 hr trip to Catalina Island, but that’s another story entirely!), and after the video stopped, the couple asked me in front of everyone, “Well, wasn’t that just the most marvelous?” I don’t know where the words came from, but I said, “I don’t know why gays are so rabid to marry when the divorce rate between heterosexuals is slightly over 50%! And the divorce rate between people previously married is pushing 70%. (They’d both been married to women for over a decade before divorcing). What makes getting married so necessary?” They didn’t really have an answer, kind of mumbled about love, etc. Later, they whinge to me about how they thought I’d have been more enthusiastic. I told them they knew I was a Christian, and that by forcing their agenda was doing nothing to promote viable values. We had a very frank and honest discussion, and they were truly men I loved deeply. Long, short, they split up in a rancorous ‘divorce’ 4 years later. They both told me separately, that my quote on divorce stats rang in their ears and they held on longer that they’d have done otherwise because of those stats. What they failed to grasp was the part about promoting a life directly against God’s blueprint. It’s like cutting corners on an architect’s design. Yes, it CAN be done. Yes, the final building will stand, for awhile. But any little tremor, a fire, a flood, and that wrongly built edifice will collapse, while those around it built correctly will remain standing. We are built to God’s blueprint. Any deviation leaves crumbled lives.
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As for Amy Grant pandering to the homosexuals, well, I don't think she is reaching the lost but rather encouraging them in their sins!!! That's a very big difference!
Why don't you dig around and see how Ray Comfort deals with those who say they are homosexual and see the difference?
@The Amber Heard Playlist!! *_‘Don’t be afraid, you’re loved.’ Gay. Straight. It does not matter.” It “doesn’t matter how we behave. It doesn’t matter how we’re wired,” Grant said._* *_“We’re all our best selves when we believe to our core: ‘I’m loved.’_*
These are quotations from her own mouth as to what she believes - clearly not the gospel at all. No mention of sin, repentance or receiving mercy from God because of the work of Jesus on the cross. Nothing. Nada. Zip.
She is NOT evangelizing. As Jesus said - he who doesn't gather with me, scatters.
@The Amber Heard Playlist!! NO, I did not misquote her!!! Those are the exact quotations as reported by multiple media outlets - go fight with them!
She says there are just two things - Love God and love your neighbour - then she falls flat on her face on the first one - Jesus says - If you LOVE me you'll keep my commandments. Then going back to Leviticus 17,18, 19 and 20 you'll see exactly what Jesus thinks about sexual sin such as homosexuality. Read the story of Sodom in Genesis 19 to see the total depravity that homosexuality sinks to. Then read Jude 7.
@The Amber Heard Playlist!! I see your bias - your find no wrong with homosexuality - why is that? Did you not read what the bible has to say about it? I would truly like to hear your reasons for being unmoved by the fact that there are people that are actively engaged in homosexual acts - or transgenderism for that matter.
I'd like to hear your opinion on Genesis 19 ( and the preceding chapters leading up to it ), Leviticus 17 thru 20, 1 Corinthians 6:9-11 and Jude 7.
I grew up loving Amy Grant and her music since my parents got saved when I was 13 years old. HI got saved when I was 9 years old . But when I was in my early 20s I fell away from the Lord and lived a life of homosexuality. I walked away from the Lord because I was confused then I went to gay Christian churches trying to make God fit my narrative. My mom loved me she never gave up on me she loved my partner she never gave up on my partner. But not one time did she affirm me and my beliefs or my lifestyle. Not one time did she say homosexuality was not a sin. My mom told me I was living in sin. And I still never questioned her love for me or my partner. I knew she loved me but because she stood by God‘s word I repented and renounced homosexuality and I came back to the Lord and I serve Jesus faithfully now, with no wavering. You can love a person trapped in sin without loving the chains that bind them and hold them in the sin. My mom prayed The spirit of homosexuality off of me. 15+ years of living in bondage but now I am FREE !!! I praise God and thank God for people who did not love me into Hell! But instead loved me into repentance and into the arms of Jesus!
My son struggles greatly and seems very hurt by my Christian values including the view that acting on homosexuality is a sin. I’m glad you are free! God bless you In your journey. Please pray for my son Augustus.
Such an awesome testimony. It blesses me to hear it! God bless YOU!
@@deenafinney full testimony on my channel just click the treehouse
Very well said. God bless you! ❤
thank you for your encouragement, I TRUSTING IN THE LORD for my son freedom
Jesus did not come to affirm us, but to TRANSFORM us. Your ministry, Becket, is a beautiful thing.
Amen!
Amen!!!
Praise the Lord!
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@The Amber Heard Playlist!! Yes, I understand it. But even if I didn't, the Bible is clear on the subject, and as a Christian, Jesus is my Savior and my Lord and it's good for me to submit to His best. Deviant sexuality isn't His best. Any "information" that says otherwise - I have to break it to you - is not new, postmodern, "on the right side of history" : the Bible clearly shows people breaking the rules going back to the beginning of time. There is nothing new under the sun. Evil is still evil, good is good, and they cannot be mixed. :)
I had an uncle who was gay. But, when he gave his life to Christ, he really gave his life to Christ! No compromises. We talked a little about it towards the end of his life, and he said the most important thing in life as a Christian is to honor the Lord and live a life pleasing to Jesus. He was a beautiful, humble soul. He set a wonderful example for me. He passed in 2017. I know he is rejoicing in heaven with Jesus.
What a lovely testimony! My soul is blessed.I also,remember,a brother of mine in CHRIST who was gay.He left and sold eveyrthing he has and he focused on The LORD.I was a baby Christian back,then,and everytime,I see him,I could see the peace in him,contentment,joy and such light in his face Just amazing how JESUS changes us!
AMEN! God is so good!!!☝️
A wonderful story!
What a blessing and example to all of us no matter what our sin is! Repentance is most important
@@maryannbergeron9531 Amen
I was in lesbian relationship not now. Because of Jesus. Thanks for standing strong!!!!!!!! Becket!!
I am so glad you love the Lord and in a right relationship with Him!
Wow.
Pray for my oldest daughter please, thank you.
Jesus Christ gave us the holy Spirit 🙏. And I know the truth. And you have that by your faith. Thank God for that 🙏
@@sarahgillespie6248 okay I just did. Never stop praying for her and showing her love in Christ
I was gay. Now i'm Born again Christian. I was once invited by a friend of mine to his gay wedding too. I explained him (with love) my new view on this and i refused to go. He totally understood my decision and after that he respect me even more. You see, accepting what we should not doesn't make us a better christians. Infact false mercy isnt true love and is not required. Salvation comes by accepting the truth
Bless you friend. Thanks for setting the example of standing on the truth.
May I ask if and when things changed for you? Thank you.
@@michellemooresings you mean how i got saved?
We should accept our faults with our blessings. it shows humility and character.
Thank you Lord! Thk you for sharing - gives me hope for my daughter..
My daughter is gay and legally married, according to Colorado law, to another woman. That woman’s family is 100% accepting of their relationship; we are not. I love my daughter, and very much desire a relationship with her…which although is strained, it is on going. She was very hurt that her family did not attend her wedding, and is downright mad about it! She cannot understand that our Christian faith prohibits us from celebrating something that we know to be a sin, but despite that, we love her! We have never turned our back on her, but she has “disowned” us countless times. Prayerfully, there will be a transforming of her mind, and she will turn to Jesus, accept HIS merciful grace, & honor HIS WORD! We rest and trust in HIM who saves! I keep her partner in my prayers too. To GOD be the glory!
Thank you for sharing your heart and faith.
Honouring God n His Word. What faith.
What you have prayed for your daughter, I pray the same prayer, n salvation for her partner.
God bless you n your family.🙏❤
Amy Grant is a puppet. She flip flops like a bobblehead. It's such a shame she wants to thwart and reneg her convictions. This is exactly what her family is doing. She's a fake.
Hello my name is Cindy I am delivered. Jesus set me free. My mom prayed for 12 years for me and my partner. Today Freedom Reigns thought Christs victory in my life thanks to a praying mama prayers. You will see a victory I decree in Jesus name victory over you and over your Daughter. Before June 29 of 2024 Lord let Freedom reign in this family! I here the voice of the Lord saying, “In one years time she will come home your prodigal daughter. Like Naomi, she will bring a Ruth into the kingdom. “
@tinawantland. How r u? I will be praying for your daughter! I no this has to be hard! Jesus will deliver her !! Pray for a family member of mine that is also caught in a relationship with someone of the same sex! Breaks my heart. And I love this sweet individual! Thank you n god bless !!
I’m sure you raised your daughter in the Christian faith , hold to your faith & keep praying for your daughter to be delivered from this life of sin , May God Bless you.
It does my heart so good to hear Christian’s speak Truth in Love with no compromise. Thank you Becket .
Mine too!!!
Hv u noticed how that “no compromise” keeps being compromised and the goal post moved?
All of this shows how Americans, British and those countries with a Judeo-Christian heritage have changed their thinking in about 30 years. My life is America and Las Vegas, Nevada is about being tortured with a feeling of guilt and failure all day long, every day, even by parents and relatives. Am I being tested by some entity for deception, jealousy and envy? I completed a BS in mechanical engineering from the University of Arizona in 1995 and an MBA with the University of Phoenix in 2001. I spent from 1995-2000 in the U.S.. Navy. I remember being in Las Vegas from November 2006- September 2007, and I was being rejected for file clerking jobs. They were sending me letters that I was not qualified. I got rejected for all levels of employment. I was born in America. But it makes me feel like crap all of the time. I can remember being in the NAVY ROTC in about 1991, and being required like others in the ROTC to sign a document saying we had never engaged in homosexual behavior. I think I remember that more now because of the changes in American culture.
I heard this once and it stuck with me. Truth + Grace = Love. Truth without Grace is mean and Grace without Truth is meaningless. You present Truth and Grace so well. Thank you for your channel.
Becket, you clearly have a God-given calling to help the church understand how to handle the issues surrounding homosexuality. Please be encouraged that believers like me, all over the world, are praying for you and your critically-needed ministry. It can't be easy. Thank you for putting it all on the line for the sake of our Lord Jesus. We're so grateful for you, brother.
Dear Amy, not all who say Lord, Lord will enter the kingdom of heaven.
Becket, THANK YOU.
Yes! Plus giving alot of us hope about our prayers for our loved ones trapped into this...
Amen!
God says we are NOT to attend what He repels and considers sin. Sin
What a wonderful sister-in-law, who prayed for you faithfully for so many years. Another example of not growing faint in prayer and not giving up. God bless her!
🥰 Keep up the good work! It''s so inspiring to me, a former lesbian, to hear other gay turned God believing and standing their ground, no turning back!!! Glory be to God!! He truly is the only way, I tear up and thank Him for saving my life!!
“Former lesbian?” Yikes, i’m sorry you’re in so much pain. You can be gay, it’s ok!
There are millions of us out there. Free in Christ! May the Lord keep on blessing you mightily!
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That Certainly is Not God's Opinion...
Glory be to God for entering your life and saving you from the clutches of Satan! We rejoice with you! ❤️🙏🙏
it's not easy for us to change direction, but if God really didn't love us, he would've left us in our sins. but Jesus came so that we all can be redeemed, but we have to get on our knees and realize we're a sinner, to make Jesus Lord and Savior of your life.
I came from a Christian home, but got caught up into same sex relationships which led to a same sex marriage in 2010. My family always showed us love while never compromising the truth of God's Word. I began seeking God a few years ago. He began working in my life changing me. I began sharing the truth with my "wife" and we eventually moved into separate bedrooms. Just this past week, the divorce finally happened peaceably. I have shared the Gospel with her many times and am still praying the Lord will reach her. I am thankful that my family didn't compromise on truth and "love" me into hell but rather displayed true love which led me back to Jesus and freedom.
Did your family attend your wedding?
@kristina_abel What did it look like as your parents loved you without compromising on truth? This is something I don’t know that I have seen done well, so I’m seeking to learn from your parents’ example.
@aelder5057 No. They did not attend. They knew about our relationship at that point but I didn't bother telling them or inviting them to the wedding because I already knew where they stood on the subject.
@dlzarn My parents always would send birthday cards, Christmas cards, notes of encouragement to both of us but always individually and not as a couple. If she was sick or going through something, my Mom was great for using that as an opportunity to share words of encouragement and bring the gospel into it and reminding her or me that they were praying. Always willing to help in practical ways when we needed help with something. They truly just showed us love in practical ways, using any opportunity that arose to show the love of Christ and point us to the gospel and Jesus. They made it clear where they stood on the subject and why, but always treated us individually with love and respect. They would not indulge us by using terms like your wife or even referring to us as being married. They just consistently showed love towards us both in ways that even if they did not embrace our relationship, neither of us could deny they truly loved us both.
@@Kristina_Abel thank you SO much for your reply. This is SUPER helpful. I have struggled personally with how to treat a Christian brother who is currently choosing to serve his desires over serving God as he once did. He has pulled away from me. I never shunned him. I love him so much and pray for him often. I also lead a small Bible study and this very topic has been challenging to our group as a whole. I know we can not applaud or approve, but struggled to explain to my friends how to love them differently than the world prescribes and how that is MORE loving than encouraging the lies they live in bondage to.
I am an OG Amy Grant fan. She was literally my first concert in the 80s. Her “Friends” duet with Michael W Smith represented my high school graduation to me for years. Disappointingly, she’s been moving more and more mainstream and a friend of the world. Beckett, I’m glad you are giving clarity to the muddiness of this world. Thanks for all you do.
Sadly, Michael W. Smith is traveling down the wrong road. 😢
@@lydialedbetter2041 more info / link please 🙏 I am considering attending a concert of him here in Europe... I knew they are friends but I also wondered how he positions himself regarding LGBTQ+...
@@lydialedbetter2041 I like MJS,,, haven't heard anything about this. Could you inform me please?
Some years ago Amy Grant let it be known that the only reason she's a gospel singer is because she didn't make it with the words music.
World music*
I love love love your show! ❤
Some people would argue, by not attending a gay wedding we aren’t loving the person. But who deserves the honor, God or the sinner? You make some very valid points that by showing acceptance of a gay wedding it is dishonoring to God and a conflicting witness to others. You deliver these points with loving kindness. Thank you, Beckett. May God bless you richly for not being influenced by the culture and standing firm on God’s word.
God has determined the way of salvation, to repent & walk in His ways. So if you belong to God, His opinion is the only one that matters.
Thank you for standing strong. The gay community is not afraid to stand against Gods word, we should never be afraid to stand FOR God’s word.
Amen
There are gay individuals who depend daily on the Cross because that is our only way and Salvation to God. Don't lump everyone together. Many gay people still choose and depend on Christ and do not subscribe to LGBT ideology.
Amen!
@@igloozoo3771 You cannot identify as a homosexual and identify as a child of God. Paul said in 1 Corinthians 6 and Romans 1 that homosexuality is a sin and homosexuals will NOT inherit the kingdom of God!
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11 And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.
A homosexual like any other sinner are justified by Christ and Christ alone. A homo can be celibate for the rest of their lives and they still would be a homosexual no matter how they "identify" as. Yes once we accept Christ , we are given a new identity and Spirit, but we still live in the same Flesh. The wages of all sin is death and hell. According to Jesus, we are all murderers and adulturers. Then who among us can be saved? With God it is impossible, but through Christ on Cross, God mad the impossible possible. God came to save Sinners. Now why would a just God save his enemies? Because that is also the calling he has for us. Love not only your friends but also your enemies.
Becket are such a light in this dark world! So many in the church are being led astray. Your unapologetic boldness is inspiring!
You're hitting it out of the park, Becket! Everything you said today was so dead on. Keep it up!
Thank you! God Bless
Amen
Since walking closer with the Lord the past few years, I have less and less interest in the things of the world. I have less tolerance for TV shows that I used to love. Example: I recently purchased the full episodes of Northern Exposure, a series I loved back in the 90's. Now, I find I can not watch the episodes without feeling convicted as they seem so hedonistic. I am glad that my tolerance for worldly content is so different than what it was 25 years ago.
I have experienced this same thing.
Great comment :) I had to cancel my cable and subscriptions the past few years. I'm so glad I broke those ties. It's been a huge weight lifted to not deal with demonic propaganda being shoved at me constantly.
Totally agree!
1Peter chapter 4!!
I can completely relate. It seems that we can't even watch a "Masterpiece" mystery without an unnecessary subplot ruining the whole thing. I've started watching a lot of classic movies for that reason.
My parents had an experience similar to the family's story that Beckett recounted. When my sister was away at a Christian college, she started a lesbian relationship with a woman on staff. My parents were absolutely heartbroken. The college administration was cold and heartless in their response to the situation. They took no responsibility at all. It devastated my parents. They went to their pastor for help and found that he was basically sold out to the world and it's attitude about homosexuality, only adding to their pain. They then moved and began attending a new church. They went to their new pastor for help and counsel but encountered pretty much the same attitude. They were told that sin is sin. As if my sister's sexual relationship with another woman was no worse than any other sin, so why were they so upset about it. Just love her. What Beckett is doing is so valuable today. There are so many heartbroken families who have been let down by supposed church leaders as they struggle to figure out how to handle the situation they find themselves in. Thank you, Beckett! Stay on the narrow path and continue to lead others there! ❤
Wow 😲, such a disheartening & unbelievable reaction from the Pastors & churches.
This is why I appreciate Pastor Gary Hamrick from Cornerstone Chapel VA. On RUclips.
He does not compromise the word of God & is a gifted & enlightening teacher😇
I believe satan encourages homosexuality so much because it decreases human population, he hates us, God's creation, the less the better
Same experience with my daughter as well as my pastor. I'm utterly heartbroken yet feeling so alone trying to navigate the situation.
I'm curious. Did these churches believe that once a sinner is saved, one can never lose their salvation? I ask because I'm finding people who believe this paradigm are often those affirming LGBTQ lifestyles which would seem to make sense to me. Otherwise, it would seem to me that their centuries-old paradigm would fall apart if they denounced them.
Sin is sin. Homosexuality is another sin and its sad sin is taken so lightly. Lying is an abomination too. So sometimes people do act like gay people as humans are beyond Gods reach. Relating to people honestly without degrading them is important.
I just found your ministry through a friend.Our daughter was in a same sex marriage and we ere able to have an agree to disagree relationship and accepted her partner as part of our family.Sadly she died last year and we have loved and helped our daughter through her grief.She now has started a new relationship with a woman who lives in S.F..Now our daughter says that she doesn’t think we can have the agree to disagree relationship anymore.If we do not give her 100% support she may have to pull herself away from us and we will be estranged.My heart is broken into a million little pieces.She used to be on fire for Jesus but now that girl is gone and she said she is not a believer anymore but wants to be completely enmeshed in the homosexual community.Now believes Christians truly hate people in the Gaylifestyle.Please pray God will come upon her in a mighty way and turn her around.
I come into agreement with you, may the reality and mercy of the Son of God open her eyes and heart to Him, one day at a time, starting today in Jesus's name~
Praying for your daughter.
So sorry your daughter is making that kind of a decision to withdraw from you unless you cave into this lie of totally affirming her position on homosexuality.
I shall be praying for you Lisa for strength and wisdom. I shall also pray for your daughter to open her eyes to the truth in Christ and in Him alone!
Praying for your daughter and for you, Lisa.
Praying You 🙏 & Praying for Your Daughter 🙏 & that God will open her eyes & turn her
back to Him!
Don't Give Up on Her & Stop Praying for Her!🙏✝️🙏✝️
I'm so glad you're breaking down what "love your neighbors" really means. Your honesty is commendable. Thank you.
Love your neighbour is not the same as having sex with your neighbour..
I appreciate you sharing your testimony and truth on these issues. My sister has been in the LGBT world for over half her life and is a professor in LGBT studies. Praying one day she sees the truth.
If you can, share the testimony of Rosaria Butterfield with her- she was a lesbian professor who got wonderfully saved!
Thank you, Beckett. You bring light to those who need to know and understand the truth in love. Your courage is infectious.
Keep praying
Keep in long prayers in your closet and FASTING !
Hunger for God !
Thank you Lord. I pray for Amy! Strange, very strange what deception of God's enemy is working there. We e definitely are to love the gender confused, but approval of their lifestyle is not from God. Thank you for speaking out p
Love "Does not rejoice at wrongdoing." That is the perfect verse for the situation.
Only an ex gay man could preach something so powerful 💞 Truly a voice needed in these times. 💯✝️. Although homosexuality is a sin I've never had to struggle with, I've definitely have struggled with and still do with other sin. Thank you for this video❤
I agree.... God is all powerful, and if we are willing to let go of our own particular sin, God will bless us beyond anything we hand over to him
No such thing as an "ex gay man". Just a gay man who chooses not to live his sexual orientation in a same sex relationship. But he's still gay and always will be
@@harpervalleypeeteeay9708 Yet scripture says that "If anyone is IN CHRIST they become a NEW CREATION, OLD THINGS ARE PASSED AWAY AND BEHOLD ALL THINGS ARE BECOME NEW."
According to THE WORD that lives and abides forever, if you repent and turn to Jesus, what you will always be is:
- Passed-over in the judgment of sin by the atoning work of the precious blood of Christ.
- Born again by the indwelling of The Holy Spirit, Sealed by The Holy Spirit, Eternally one with God through the operation of the Holy Spirit, passed from spiritual death to eternal life through the power of the Spirit of The Living God.
- Sanctified, set apart, eternally by His unfathomable grace and love through the true Jesus of the Bible and not a false fabrication.
- free from the penalty of sin (past = The Cross where Christ became our Passover for Eternal Judgment)
- free from the power of sin (present = sin's destructive force is defeated by walking in the spirit and growing IN HIM)
- free from the presence of sin (near future when God's perfect plan is reality for us as it already is for Him who knows the end from the beginning)
- Predestined to glory, true purpose of life now to reflect His glory as we grow IN HIM. Each one of us has a unique purpose IN HIM and the manifestation to come is infinitely beyond our comprehension... but what we lost when Adam blew it is nothing compared to this coming day of complete redemption spirit, soul, and resurrected body likened unto His own.
Only sin could make us foolish enough to trade such incredible precious promises for pleasures of the flesh for a season (and inevitable destruction), or the hopelessness of the delusional masses that think broccoli is their kin!
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Thank you for your worldly understanding on redemption.
May God increase your understanding ✝️
@@harpervalleypeeteeay9708"Gay" is not a sexual orientation: homosexual is. Gay is the self identifier of those who have an Attraction to the same sex and embrace it for the most part.
"Ex-gay" is definitely applicable.
I loved her music in the 80’s and 90’s. Just watched how she won a Kennedy Award. Spurgeon’s quote is spot on and appreciate your perspective. We have a daughter who professes to be non-binary the last few years and also believes there is more than one way to God. We’ve had many conversations over scripture and most of all prayers. It’s a demonic stronghold over so many people her age.
Correct !
I am sorry for what your family is enduring, but I do agree with you. I think it's all demonic/spiritual. I also think the enemy has infiltrated our schools/colleges on such a critical level now, that we are now seeing the fruit of that infiltration. Another tactic of CCP to weaken America.
Command that evil spirit to go away in Jesus name
Our prayers for your family. 🙏💓
@@lorihunt7318 thank you!
Voddie Bacchaum once said "If you are so concerned about offending your gay friend by not attending their wedding, do you have an even bigger concern about offending God by going against His commands?"
God did not command you not to go to her wedding
Pablo, Did you listen to this whole broadcast of Becket and the scriptures that he quoted that instruct us not to celebrate sin? So yes, God did instruct us not to go to a gay wedding. That's not the only scripture he quoted. Whenever you listen to someone such as this broadcast that is trying to shed light on a very sensitive subject in the world, it should always be saturated with scripture to back it up. Becket has done just that.
Well said.
Amen! Glory to God!!
I will never attend a Gay wedding but I will pray for their conversion to Christ and His Church ⛪️
Loving someone is totally different than ENABLING them. Thank you Beckett!! I totally agree with you.
Ohhh God, thank You so much for this man's calling. He is so clear, smart,... I was about to go to a gay wedding, listening to you changed my mind. Thank you . I love you!
God's word is alive! He speaks to us through His word, read His word🙏⚓🙏
Pitiful
This is why I listen to Becket, because he tells the truth and always goes back to the Bible to get it. And his perspective is from that of someone in that community at one time, it's genuine, loving, and informative. I love you brother!
When I lived as a gay man, i never found love. Since changing my life and handing over to the lord, i have found love. 🙏 I don't feel lonely anymore. The lord saved me from my alcoholism. I wish I had found the lord sooner, but i wasn't ready.
Wonderful! Welcome to the Family, brother! :-)
@@JB-gw6vb Thank you. It took me way to long to see the truth and what the good lord has to offer. I suffered, but I reached out six years ago for help and he answered. It's a miracle. PRAISE our lord !
Your testimony is so powerful, please keep sharing
@@eldalopez663 Thank you.
@@eldalopez663 Some times I think about my drinking days, and what i put myself through. I cringe now. 😬 My life was so unmanageable, and i was lost. I hit a rock bottom, i had passed out after a drinking binge and i came round lying on the floor. I cried out God please help me, i can't live like this anymore. I have never had another drink since I'm six years sober.. It's a miracle because i was hopeless. The lord heard me and saved me. I was an atheist when i was drinking. Now im a believer.
🎯. Great discernment Becket. We aren't attacking Amy, it's the principle of the action that is not right.
I saw Amy Grant and Sandi Patti at a Christian woman's event some years ago. I loved their music in the 1980's, but since then Amy pursued Vince Gill while he was married. Sandi left her marriage for, if I recall correctly, a musician in her entourage. For their happiness and love, four families were shattered. Fourteen kids lost the security of living with both their parents. I believe in forgiveness and grace, but I wondered how many women at that conference were grieving their own faithless husbands and broken marriages, but had to sit and listen to these two women chirp about how happy they were. I didn't sense repentance, and here comes Amy, writer of the beautiful song El Shaddai, practicing her Cafeteria Christianity in which she picks and chooses what Biblical truths she wishes to obey .
I met the young 14 yo. Amy Grant back in the day at Calvary Chapel book store, Costa Mesa......loved her music for years.
Did her growing fame create options for looking for a better deal with Vince ?..
Two words are the cause of Divorce. Selfishness and Pride. ........All the praise songs became instantly empty for my daughter and I when she ended her marriage
Did she maybe think her music development was all she needed for having a growing spiritual maturity ? and what of Disciple ship ?
Dont know any answers on this
I do know Divorce shatters many who watch your life
That's why we have to stand for in the gospel and what God says. Repentance can't be done if her Aunt Amy is showing her it is okay when any Christian knows it is NOT okay. I have had to repent many times over an addiction I had with gambling. God has never failed me.
Pretty sure she didn't write that song. Michael Card did. I just wanted to point that out.
I agree with the rest regarding her. I don't know enough about what happened with Sandi to comment on her.
P.S. I looked up who wrote "El-Shaddai". From this featured snippet on Google:
It was written by Michael Card and John Thompson, using direct quotes from scripture as their inspiration, and recorded by Card on his 1981 debut album, Legacy. However, the best known version of the song was by singer Amy Grant, whose rendition was recorded in 1982 on her platinum-certified album Age to Age.
Beckett, both your humility while speaking the truth and your love for sinners is crystal clear. Thank you for standing tall. You are appreciated brother!
I loved the “ministry” of Amy Grant when I was a young Christian. I prayed for her every single day of my pregnancy when she was carrying Matthew, the child born after her previous miscarriage. I was very devoted to her because of the music and the way she represented the Lord. Then I won tickets to one of her concerts and the bubble burst that day. Amy was obvious an object of worship and idolatry and my eyes were finally opened to the “business” of Contemporary Christian music. Sadly, she is not alone. She’s a human being stained by sin just like the rest of us. And yet, she professes a relationship with Him without the fruits of what that “tree” and lifestyle looks like. We shall know them by their fruits. She’s been worldly all her career. Nothing new here. Not a fan, but she does need mercy and prayer.
Don't judge her salvation! I have heard her testimony.
@@marshahollings She judged her fruit. Jesus said that we would know them by their fruit. How can we know anything by fruit if we don't evaluate the fruit? Another term for evaluate is judge. Also, Amy is affirming the satanic lie that homosexuality is acceptable to God. It is not according to the Bible.
@@bfras33 Ty. I’m SO very tired of the “don’t judge” rhetoric. I feel so sorry 4 ppl who believe lies.
MRM, Ty 4 speaking up. I feel the same way. I struggle but the basics r so simple 2 understand.
Also by the way Amy and Vince had an affair on Amy’s first husband if you didn’t know that. That’s when my bubble burst for me.
Amy Grant has sold out to world views, and that is very sad. Her influence is great, and Becket you do a great job explaining her influence particularly for confused or questioning young people. So proud of you Becket, and our God is honored by your words.
She actually sold out quite a while ago. It is very sad.
I used to love her music, we must pray for her. She has been deceived and has fallen away.
I have a nephew that is gay. My question is, he has asked me to visit and spend some time at their home, I love my nephew very, but I know what my answer has to be? Thank you, “For other ways to love”
That's too bad. Pray for wisdom for her and Vince.
@@shirleypatterson4245 didn't beckett say that is ok (and good) to visit in the home so you show love, as long as u don't go to the wedding?
Really appreciated your conversation here. Full of conviction and commitment to the Gospel and to Christ. God bless you!
Thank you Becket! I have a gay son and holding the line in prayer.
Come on, don't give up praying
Explain to him that just because he thinks he is gay, does not mean he has to "act" on it.
I knew a friend of the family who was a flamboyant gay most of his life. Later he found Christ, turned his back on the gay "behavior" lifestyle, and ended up being head church decorator, preparing and decorating the whole church for holidays.
A church never looked so beautiful and everyone loved him, he has since passed on.
My sister is gay. We grew up listening to Amy Grant. Her lifestyle choice has been the greatest sorrow of my life. I've been combatting the feeling of just wanting to accept her because I love her so much, and that just seems easier. This video has helped me right my wrong thinking. I just can't wait to keep listening. God bless you, Becket.
Completely relatable. Only, it is my brother.
I think there is a balance, though. It's important to accept people where they are and that includes accepting their choices, since humans were given free choice. That doesn't mean we tell them that we support or approve their lifestyle choices, but neither can we beat them over the head with Bible verses if we want to win them. Oh to find that balance of loving but not condoning.
@@emilycrosman8671 agree, that's the balance I'm looking for and praying that my parents can also find it. It's so hard.
@@hellokitty777able I'm so sorry- 🙏
@@emilycrosman8671 truth will balance
Thank you Beckett. I particularly appreciated your comments at the end about attending a gay marriage. Though I've come to the same conclusion as you, I've written down what you said, "love... Does not rejoice in wrong doing" "attending a gay marriage is rejoicing in wrong doing"... WOW! That clicked!! Thank you
I’m a 60-year-old female and when I got saved it was in the early 80s. Amy Grant was one of my favorite people I looked up to her is such a strong believer. When I heard that she had left her husband and went with Mr. Gill it’s so hurt me because I followed her and her husband for years. I looked up to them. And while I still listen to some Amy Grant when it’s on the radio because I listen to the Christian radio, I still love her voice and the words that she speaks. But then I heard this message today from you, and I’m so taken back that she would even take the stance. It is not only offensive to God, to all of us who love her and looked up to her as a strong believer, but basically it is going to lead to so many down the road where their soul is condemned for all eternity. I’m praying for Amy and for contrition and I’m praying for all those who follow her to stop looking at the person but to keep their eyes fixed on Jesus for such a time as this. God bless all of you and to The gentleman who did this video I just Applaud you. I see Jesus in u. I have subscribed to your content and I will continue to follow you for you speak truth. God bless you and all reading this in Jesus name amen.
I know....Amy Grant was my hero since the 70's
But I have seen a huge change and am so disappointed. But I love her and pray for her and Gill. May she read God's Word with open eyes.
FYI Amy Grant’s first husband had problems with taking drugs & would not stop. So that was going on before Vince Gill.
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So like he was on drugs and would not stop, that is hard I am sure. I have had family members struggle too. However the mentality is to get a divorce and devisrate the 3 kids and hurt many who believed you were different ( not if the world ) and part of the body of Christ?
So like I do not know if she tried a Christian marriage counseling, join Christian support groups, accountability groups.... Etc....What about “staying in the race “ like it says in the Bible.
Ever hear of the book of Hosea?
I have had challenges in my own marriage just like everyone else that’s why we have others to help us.
The bottom line is she had an affair and that’s what hurt the body of Christ, her kids, and that’s what hurt her witness as well as our Lord.
God has never left her or any of us when we make bad choices ( and we all have ) , we usually leave him first.
God never stops loving any of us but he is a Holy God and disciplines those he loves.
He does not bail on us even when we are weak or make bad choices and we all gave failed....
So we just just don't bail on our spouses unless it becomes abusive and or detrimental to ur life being in
Jeopardy.
She was given a high place by God that was a gift and still is. She was and is loved by many as an example of Christ.
It hurt to see her afair and also in the above video to celebrate gay marriage as this goes against Gods plan not mine. That was the point of what I said.
Love the sinner but gate the sin.
please know that this is not a K bashing thing at all, I have family members that I love that are homosexual and lesbian and I love them with all my heart. However I love them more to tell them the truth of God has written in the word the Bible To pray for them, love them, and point them to the truth so that they can be in eternity for and forever. The thought of them missing out on being with God for eternity and separated from him in the other place terrifies me.
Amy grant should love her niece but she should also tell her the truth and not celebrate sin.
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You just wrote my history of listening to Amy. I, too, am disappointed to hear that she is missing the mark on this and will pray for her. New to this channel and will subscribe as well.
Same here. Contemporary Christian Music was relatively new in the late 70's/early 80's, and when she came in, we were captivated! I had EVERY album she made until she crossed over to the world. She deserves our prayers. 😢 It's so sad.
I love the clarity you bring to these issues, Becket. Thank you, brother!
Yes Beckett is an excellent teacher and speaker for our MOST HIGH ALMIGHTY 🕊️. I truly believe OUR HEAVENLY FATHER is smiling on Beckett's RUclips channel
"We believe that homosexuality is not a sin."
When you hear statements like this made by a church, it should set off alarm bells in your heart!!
It doesn't matter what WE believe. What matters is what God believes.
When someone says "we believe" or "I believe", that's clear that they don't believe that the Bible is the Word of God. If they did, they would never cherry pick what verses are truth.
There are lots of verses that make me feel guilty or confused. I don't get to strike them from the Bible.
It is the HARDEST thing to love a gay family member, entirely because of the world's false definition of love. It seems, no matter what you do, you will be misunderstood. Remember, weddings are CELEBRATIONS. How can we stand before God and celebrate ANY sin?
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Amen!
So why did God make them gay?
So why did God make them gay?
"Discernment is not knowing the difference between right and wrong. It is knowing the difference between right and almost right.” _-C.H. Spurgeon_
Love your ministry, and you Becket :) ♡ God bless both. You are a clarion in the darkness🕯
Just journeled this quote. Exactly.
I admire your straightforward and uncompromising stand for gospel truth here in this video, I hadn't ever watched any of your videos before. Godspeed to your vital ministry.
I remember how I listened to an Amy Grant album in 1982 titled "My Father's Eyes". She was young, sweet & such a gatherer then. I will never forget how in the song "Old Man's Rubble" she sang the phrase "you better be careful, you're being deceived"....with such bold conviction. It sounds to me like she would do well to revisit the true spiritual principles she proclaimed in that song.....
Yea, I met the Lord in 1982, shortly before Keith Green's passing. Back then all I listened to was Keith and Amy. I received all 'F's that semester in college (too busy reading the Word), but, well, I guess my treasure was elsewhere.
Thank you, Becket! Keep speaking & standing for Truth!
Thank you for standing up for God and His Word , Becket.
We have a nephew who is gay and several years ago when he got married my mother-in-law asked if we were going to the wedding. I adored my mother-in-law and loved my nephew and told her I would always love my nephew but could not attend a ceremony celebrating a union that I believe is wrong and not according to God’s plan. She was great and understood where I was coming from. God is really clear in his Word and as Christians we need to stand strong in God’s word and not condone sin. We can still love people but not condone or accept sinful behavior.
Do you have any relationship with this nephew in 2023?
@@igloozoo3771 yes we still see each other at family events and I still adore him. He’s an amazing person and very successful, I hope that God will transform as only He can. It’s not up to us. We are just called to Love our family. It’s God’s job or the Holy Spirit to transform people. We can let God do the heavy part. Our part is easy we just have to love ❤️.
@@igloozoo3771 There are many people who will cut off, relatives who are willfully sinning.
@@ericday4505 We all willfully sin everyday. If you think you follow the commandments everyday then you are a liar. Jesus made it harder and impossible for man to get into Heaven through follow the laws, but he made the impossible possible through his work completed at the Cross. All the Glory goes to Christ. You can confidently tell a practicing homosexual to look up at the Cross and be saved. That is the starting point of Salvation.
@@igloozoo3771 I think I agree with you, why are you lecturing me? I dont have a problem with gay people, I do have a problem with practicing homosexuals who want to have that sin be all of a sudden excused or looked at like its not sin.
I watched you interview Chynna Philips and thought I’d check you out on RUclips. I’m so glad I did! I just sent your book to my nephew who is a gay Christian man in prison. Thank you for your honesty and your bravery.
Honesty, your story and this channel are blowing my mind, the world needs you badly, the voice you have is such a powerful one, and your ministry is clearly and desperately needed in this time. I thank God for giving you this voice, may you be blessed as you bless others. Thank you brother.
No, actually the world doesn't need this kind of bigotry. You need to learn about unconditional love, not this BS.
Auviously Amy Grant does not know the gospel of Jesus Christ. She loves the world. I hope someone lovingly shows her, her error in the truth and comes to the full knowledge of Jesus Christ.
@@manycolours100 Wow, that was bizarre. So uh, Jesus didn't love the world? :)
@@DDumbrille Do not be confirmed to the world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Rom 12:2 also whoever loves the world is an enemy of God. A believer is to stand up for truth of Gods word. He or she is to hate the devil, the flesh and the world. For God so loved the world (meaning the people he created in His like nest and His design, meaning male and female) that He gave His only begotten son , that whoever believes in Him, (which is also the word of God John 1:1) should not perish ,but have eternal life. You can't have 2 masters. Jesus meaning truth. The world which is under the power of satan. Please dear friend, read the bible and seek Jesus for eternal life. You only have an allotted time.( meaning your life here.) After death is judgement. I hope you will seek Jesus.
@@manycolours100 I'll have to run that by the Easter Bunny and Santa and get back to you. The "devil"...sheesh.
I love how you sweetly give your SIL a shoutout for her loving perseverant prayer for you! Thank you for your perspective. I remember Amy Grant coming to my college campus when I was a freshman and a new Believer. I am sad she is vocally and physically affirming this lifestyle struggle of her niece. I have a son and daughter walking in this struggle. We are loving and welcoming but not affirming; PRAYING our love and kindness will draw them…
Thank you for your thoughts on the issue of gay wedding attendance. Our family faced this issue with a son, since then of course, he has not spoken to us for many years, because we did not attend. It has been heartbreaking to lose him, as he grew up in a Christian home and we had no inkling of what he and us were facing. In our decisions, we did think it would be dis-honoring to our Holy God and of course, our son spurned us. Heartbreaking.
I'm so sorry for your heartache.
So proud of you for standing on the truth, blessings
Same ...although we still have contact but it hasn't been the same since.
May God have mercy
I’m sorry! This hurts my heart for your family. I pray he will one day come to respect your decision and forgive.
So very sorry , it feels like a death . I actually think it’s worse because the person is still alive . Prayers for your broken hearts , may our Heavenly Father some how some way bring your son into the truth and come back to his family and to God .
"Do you want to love someone into eternity with God, or do you want to love them down a road to perdition?" What a statement, Becket, and one which should be at the crux of sharing the Gospel with folks around us! Great seeing you recently at The Church of the Apostles in Atlanta!
I would have added -“leading them down the road of perdition and eternal separation from God and his heavenly kingdom.”
Prayers for Amy. 🙏🏻 We cannot celebrate unrighteousness.
I agree with you whole heartedly! We CANNOT celebrate, condone homosexuality.
@louisedow6489 you read the Bible God did not create people to be married to the same sex we need to pray for Amy Grant and there's nothing wrong with prayer we all need prayer at some point and if you really care about people you need to tell them if there doing wrong.
My mother called it “loving people straight to hell.” It is incredibly sad to never tell them the truth of the salvation message all in the name of “tolerance.”
So precisely correct! It’s insane. Your mum isn’t wrong and I think she is good with words. 😊
Your mother is so right. i’m going to have to use with your mom says now loving them straight to hell😢
@@angelanowak5448 she’s with Jesus now, but I’m thankful for all of the wisdom she imparted into my life. 💕
Think about that! Do you realize that Yahweh is a "God of War"? You can see it in the violence of the OT, the Christians forget the wars and murders of innocent children and BABIES and pretend it didn't happen. You can look at history to the present day, and SEE that the killing hasn't stopped and never will. Your God, Yahweh, who the Hebrews adopted as "The one true God" from a Polytheistic Canaanite Pantheon WAS a god of war. The blood will continue until you realize that you are worshipping Satan in the guise of a 'God"
@@Valkonnen you are horribly deceived and ignorant. I have prayed for your salvation.
Preach it brother!! Amy is doing more damage to the church than lady gaga does ,the wolf is not too bad if we know it’s a wolf ,but a wolf in sheep’s clothing does carnage !!!
You are definitely right!!! Many pastors and counterfeit Christians are leading millions astray.
@susiemetz352 and those who preach a false gospel do alot of damage.
Exactly!! This kind of damage is waaay worse than Gaga or Beyonce
Thank you so much for your stance on the subject of Gay Marriage and the quoting of scripture out of context! God is using you mightily! Keep up the good work!
Becket, I love that you brought up the word repentance! This is something that isn't taught from many pulpits these days. Also appreciate you defining what love is. ❤
Amen!
I am so glad you got saved Becket, you are such a "huge blessing" to the body of Christ.
Thank you as always for your uncompromising defense of God's Word. I have always loved Amy Grant and some of her music but I don't agree with this either. It seems to me that homosexuality has opened the door wide to so much perversion in our nation even down to children mutilation of their bodies. Total confusion about gender etc etc.😣🙏
I remember protesting only once in my life in 2008 when they where going to legalize gay marriage. Even then as I was only 21 I knew this was gonna open up the floodgates... And now look where we are in only 15 years
Bless you Becket, thankyou so much for standing up for the truth of God!
Good job Beckett! It is always great to share the Truth of God’s Word as you have. Thank you! - it is great to have a Brother in Christ that stands for the Truth that sets us Free. God Bless you Beckett!❤
Satan has taken his rounds through entertainment of all types we must pray for those and get ready to be with our Lord and savior Jesus Christ.
Rightly put.
Thank you Becket for all your time and videos. God bless you!
"Loving your neighbor means telling the truth." So true!!! Thank you for this!
Hey Becket!! I think it would be fun to invite Candace Cameron Bure on your show. She’s taken an unpopular stance in supporting traditional marriage. She’s gotten a lot of backlash from it. She’s a Hollywood actress and stands by her convictions. She recently left Hallmark to make movies for Great American Family I believe it’s called. But for that sole reason of acting in movies that only portray traditional marriage. I’d love to hear how she handles the criticism especially in Hollywood.
I agree 💯! Her brother Kirk, has also been rejected lately from numerous libraries to share his recent book on the Fruit of the Spirit 🍅. How crazy is that as they allow blatantly gay men to read to small children??😡👿
@@carolyncox7694 oh yes! Kirk would be another great guest. It’s refreshing to see this family stand up to all the hate and criticism. They put Jesus first, period.
CCB was also a big supporter of Bob Saget and ignored the filth he spewed during his comedy shows. Bob even joked about pedophilia. Then, she also posted the photo of her husband's hand on her boob on her Instagram. She talks faith but some of 'walk' is lacking. What are your thoughts on this? I find it very disturbing.
I hear that channel is exploding, people support her
Yes, invite Candace Cameron Bure! That would be so great! 😁
Love you for holding on to the true word of God. Thank you Beckett Amy Grant is not a surprise.Absolutely right we are to love everyone but never compromise on God's words.
Indeed we are to love God above all and to love God is to obey Him.
I know Amy Grant is getting a lot of praise from the world, I am glad that your willing to sacrifice this Mr Cook no matter and are an example for all of us, thanks!
I have never seen or heard you before but I have to thank you for your courage in standing for righteousness. God bless and keep you.
Love you Becket. Keep up the good work.
What gave me some joy was reading the comments. Not all are lost, some come home and know the truth. Itnis through prayer, speaking the truth and continuing to call our loved one to God that we love God and our neighbor ❤❤❤❤
Yes! Seeing so many people standing against this dirge on sanctity gives me a little bit of hope.
My Grand daughter just turn 15 and we found out that she believes she likes girls . A couple of years ago we were talking about the gays Marring the same sex and I made the comment that if my son came to me and told me he was gay I would love him no matter what , but he knows where I stand in my faith with God , I said but if he came to me and said he was marrying a man that I couldn’t attend the wedding because it would say to the world and God that I approved of the sin. My Grand daughter started to cry and she’s not an emotional person to cry at things . Later my daughter told me
that she was hurt because it was like I reject her and we still didn’t know at that time she had thoughts of being a lesbian. We just found out about a month ago that she has a girlfriend and I had taken her over to her friends house about a month before that and as I was driving home I felt in my spirit something wasn’t right and I prayed right then and ask God if there was anything going on please expose it and just a month later it was all revealed , now she wants to live with her Dad which he has never been a Father figure for the last 14 years of her life not even been a part time parent but because he thinks it’s ok for her at the age of 15 to have a girlfriend sexually and bring them together when she wants , she has chosen her Dad over her loving Mother . Jesus help us , this has been a nightmare. I know that the enemy is in full force trying to win all he can for Hell . All we can do is pray and believe that a miracle will happen and give God the glory for it . That is what I’m believing for , I even prayed for her to have a close encounter with heaven and hell if that’s what it takes to bring her into the truth of Gods word . She went to visit her Dad and spend a couple of nights with him and we found out that he brought her girlfriend over and he has never brought her back home and it’s been over 10 days . So we need all the prayers we can get .
So sorry 😒. Will keep you in prayer 🙏.
The book Irreversible Damage is by Abigail Shrier
Contains lots of facts and insight!
Praying
Oh, Becky, my husband and I are praying for your granddaughter as well as for you, that you would see her deliverance.
Oh dear Lord help this girl, I pray you can rest in Jesus. I know this pain.
If Kieth Green were alive today, he'd applaud you for what you have said here! He wrote "No Compromise" - a great book..
I beg your pardon; I am confident you have no idea what Steve Green would do, or how he would react to any given situation. Furthermore, what one person considers compromise may be far different than others. I happen to believe Amy gets it right. As Christians, we can do our best to interpret God’s word, and live our lives accordingly. However, the reality is that we are all merely human beings. None of us are called to judge, condemn, shame, criticize, or offer opinions on life choices made by others. We are, however, called by God to love unconditionally. You see, Ruthy, if we can simply master the act of loving unconditionally, everything else will fall into place. God doesn’t need me or you to analyze the behavior, decisions, or choices of others. We aren’t qualified to view someone’s lifestyle, claim to know what’s in their heart, then “lovingly” show them the light! We are called to love. If we can manage to show others love; the same love shown to us, HE’LL TAKE CARE OF THE REST…also written by Mr. Green. Peace and LOVE, Ruthy!
Her choice. Will have to answer to God.
@@benjidover5275 Hi Benji, the first chapter of Romans is a wonderful chapter to check out.
@@benjidover5275 please read Matthew 7. Jesus does not condemn judging entirely but judging hypocritically. He goes on to say we will know others by their fruit. This clearly implies a judgment of the works of persons who claim belief in Him. Similarly, in John 7 He desires righteous judgment be made. Paul also highlights judging those in the faith even to the extent of expelling them from the church so they will desire repentance and seek redemption leading to renewed fellowship. Jesus was likewise quite clear on the definition of marriage (Matthew 19). Benji, aren’t you under your own ban against judgment when you come against Ruth? Or are you simply allowing that at least one judgment of others, that made by you, is perfectly acceptable? And honestly, calling her Ruthy when you don’t even know her drips with condescension and sarcasm. Lacks respect to those you have a disagreement with.
@Benji Dover Pardon me, Benji. Just a correction. Not Steve Green, but Keith Green. Two different music artists. I used to confuse them when I was younger, but I learned, by the very different styles of music they created, to distinguish whom was whom... if you are not familiar with Keith Green, listen, if you like. His testimony is powerful. Sadly, he passed away in the early 80's, along with two of his kids and a group of friends. I love his music. Have a blessed day!
This makes me so so sad. I have loved Amy since I was a kid, but the truth is the truth. Thank you, Becket, for bringing it, as usual. We appreciate you and hope you know it.
This is certainly not the first time Amy has walked the fence between God's Word and the world's approval. As my sweet mother used to say, aren't you thankful that it is GOD Who will be the final judge and not we ourselves. But we Christians ARE allowed to judge the FRUITS of those who call themselves Christian, and certainly on this subject, we know from the Word of God that Amy and Vince got this WRONG.
I just love this video thank you so much for explaining it so clearly what how we would handle these situations God bless you, sir. I think I’m gonna pick up your book. You’re doing a wonderful job. Keep it up.
Loved your show today. People are deceived, they think to love someone you should accept everything they do
I am finally getting around to listening to the rest of this and decided I need to share on Facebook for those I love that need to hear this!!! Pray for my 17-year-old grandson that has had some bad influence in his life that has caused him to go down the wrong path.
It's sad to see alot of Christian in the spotlight going against the Bible even pastor are ok with this. The Bible talks about this would happen in the end time. I never thought I would see this happen so quickly. Thank you Becket for talking about this.
Who says they are Christians?
Mat 19:6 Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
Any “Christian” that supports gay ‘marriage’ is testifying that *GOD* did that. They are blaspheming the holy character of God.
You want more info on the history of this, look up Weimar Republic, the German Institute for Sexual Science founded by Magnus Hirschfeld and Arthur Kronfeld, then look up who burned that institute of degeneracy child molestation to the ground.
Thank you Beckett for this very straight forward and expository reflection on gay weddings. Thank you for sharing scripture. I had similar convictions about other ceremonies in which I refused to participate in or attend. I am a reformed Baptist and early on in my walk I was invited to numerous Roman Catholic baby baptism and because of my convictions regarding salvation I did not attend. I offended many family and many friends by not going. Hearing this podcast has given me even more courage to stand for truth. And that loving someone means telling them the truth. What a blessing it has been for me to have stumbled onto your podcasts. God is truly using you to touch people in so many ways. In areas you don’t even realize. May God continue to bless you brother. May He protect you and keep you healthy and strong so that you may keep spreading the gospel to many many more., in Jesus holy name!!AMEN! 💕Your sister in Christ
God Bless
Thank you again Becket for staying true to God's Word
Yes! Amen!!
Praise God for the clear way you explained how we don't rejoice in evil by going to the wedding; but still love them by inviting them over for a meal, for instance. Thank you!
My heart is so blessed by your humble and honest sharing. Your stories give me so much hope and comfort.
Dear Brother Becket, I am so grateful for your podcast. Two years ago, my granddaughter shocked us all when she eloped to Las Vegas and married a woman. She doesn't visit or call me anymore. However, she will occasionally text.
I'm praying for her and occasionally, I pray for the woman that she has bound herself to. My granddaughter knows that I love her but doesn't approve of this life choice that she's made.
I'm praying and I'm grateful for your testimony of God's amazing grace!
Thank you!! God Bless
"As Christians, we need to be very discerning" - so true!
You are a courageous man of integrity! Thank you for speaking truth!
Thank you for this. I either saw or heard this: “ love is not love until it’s married to the truth”. It helps to offset the predominant culture comment “love is love”…. You make an excellent scriptural point “ love rejoices in the truth.” We are to be separated from the world.Sometimes lonely but so worth it for everyone involved. Righteous boundaries!
God has anointed you to do a special work. You speak the truth in love.
I’m celebrating you Becket! What a joy finding you has been. Praying for your strength and bravery and courage as we all continue to fight this war!!
Thanks for sharing! I had two friends in college who developed a lesbian relationship with each other by time we graduated. I remained friends with them and went to visit them when they moved to New Jersey where I lived. But when they invited me to their wedding I was so conflicted. I wanted to show them I cared about them but it felt wrong to attend the wedding. Eventually I came to that same conclusion, that being there meant I was celebrating their marriage and that wasnt something I could do before God. It would be lying to stay silent when they ask if anyone objects. So I told my friend that I loved them and cared about them both and wanted to continue our friendship and hang out, but I couldn’t attend the wedding in good conscience. They were very offended and haven’t talked to me since, and couldn’t understand it because a Presbyterian minister was marrying them, but I know i made the right decision even though I lost that friendship :(
You suffered for our Lord; stay strong your rewards in heaven will more than make up for the pain of losing your friends. As CS Lewis said “We’re just living in the shadow lands.” Oh what wonders and glory await us who follow Jesus!
I support your decision and I admire your dedication. I went to a gay wedding the weekend after gay marriage became legal and I still regret going.
You did the right thing for sure!!
I’m concerned about the Pres.minister and his ungodly influence of misleading tgat couple- I pray he repents.
You definitely have the spirit of discernment! A blessing from God!
I love Amy Grant as a sister in Christ and appreciated her music when I was young. This grieves me. I agree with what you say here. Thank you for sharing the verse from Acts 26. I am taking it to geart to pray for people I love. Keep speaking the truth in love, dear brother.
This was so helpful Becket. My gay nephew didn't invite me to his wedding and I was relieved, actually. I've read your book and it was so interesting and encouraging. I'm still praying for Kelly and Rob, his partner. Thanks much, Becket.
My cousin got married and he didn't invite me either. He didn't invite anyone from our side of the family out of respect for us and our beliefs. He is a Christian and is in sin living with his husband. He is going to an affirming church that tells people this is "ok" with God. This breaks my heart. He knows where I stand we've talked about it before but, sometimes I want to talk with him again but at this point I'm like would it be profitable?
He is married now, adopted two kids .. it hurts my soul to think about it. I was relieved that he didn't ask me to come.
First time listening to you and I affirm your teaching on the LBQRXYZ community. I’m 82 years old and living in a society that I don’t recognize any longer. God bless you as you continue to preach and teach the truth of God’s Word. Amen 🙏🏻
Thank you! God Bless
I'm 72, and I don't understand this culture either. The world is being deceived, and we know who the great deceiver is. He hates God's creation, and he seeks to warp, twist, or destroy that creation any way he can.
We need to pray. A lot.
"LBQRXYZ"....Youre 82 and you still mock people. Very sad.
@@johnsposato5632 we not supposed to judge though
@@BecketCook you could have just kept it to yourself though instead of using it as a platform to judge. You will always be gay no matter how you try to suppress it. You have a clear attraction to men. Are you married to a woman or do you choose to be celibate??
I hope Amy Grant listens to this. You comment in a respectful way, point out the flaws of the mindset and bring truth in grace to the table.
Becket, you are so brave to stand up for truth. You do it on a platform of thousands of viewers, so why should I have trouble doing it with a few around me? You encourage me! ❤from Winnipeg 🇨🇦
Thank you, thank you, thank you, Beckett, for standing up for the Truth of God’s Word (with love). Thank you for never compromising! Your voice is so needed, now more than ever! Thank you!!!🙌🏼
I am always glad when I take the time to listen to your show. I learn so much.
Amy Grant is no one’s moral compass. When you know Jesus you don’t want to continue in sin anymore.
I wish everyone would find the gospel worth following.
Thank you Becket for standing firmly on the Word of God.
Loving people isn’t the same as attending/condoning their sinful choices.
Blessings to you Becket!
Thanks for sharing about this. I had a close friend of the family whose son invited me to his gay wedding. I didn’t attend. He had harsh feelings toward me as a result. The son ended up getting cheated on & they broke up.
I didn’t know how to explain myself as to why I didn’t attend. Your suggestions were very helpful. I may have another invitation coming up and now I will know how to answer.
The "couple" should respect your beliefs. Why is it one-way in their direction!??
Good show, Becket.
You said it so much more kindly than I did talking at the TV. "Yes by all means love the gay people in your life....love them into Hell"
I thank the Lord that he put loving Christians in my life when I was living as a homosexual, and most importantly they told me it was sin.
Never whitewash the truth.
I wish my radical pride parade son would see it like that. 🙏
@@michellemybelle9591He actually might and just be fighting against it.
Did you listen to them at first? Im scared to say that to my child. I don't know how to explain that this is sin
Thank-you for your comment-people often don’t realize when they love people to hell it is like giving them an ice cube on their way to hell-I heard that statement in the past and it clarified the whole area of affirming sin.
@@user-bl4lf9rg8m no, not at all, I was in the homosexual lifestyle for 40 years before I came to Christ. My family didnt confront me constantly, mostly they just were loving, but when the subject came up, they gently made it clear that they couldn't affirm the way I was living. But one thing you can do that is most powerful is pray and intercede on your child's behalf. I had to see the truth for myself but I knew all those years they were praying for me.
Thank you, Becket. Someone very dear to me - who already knew my religious convictions - asked me if he married a man would I come to the wedding. I lovingly explained to him that I could not, in good conscience, as that would be like I was approving of that union. I have reinforced the fact that I love him dearly. When he has had a 'partner', I have been loving and kind to them both, but my deep beliefs/convictions hold strong and steady! I would love for him to listen to your powerful testimony! What a blessing I am sure you have been to many!
I loved my son, therefore when he was growing up, I corrected him when he did wrong, I still do. I love my grandson who is not quite two years old, and I discipline him when he does wrong. If you love someone, you let them know when they are wrong. You love them and do not want them to ruin their lives with bad choices not matter what the world tells them.
My brother is gay living in Los Angeles and I pray for his salvation and witness to him whenever I get the chance. He is such a gentle loving wonderful guy and a great uncle and I enjoy traveling and just love spending time with him. I’ll keep praying until he is Saved!
Maybe look at your belief system and interpretation. You can be set free and be saved yourself and just love people as they are.
@@otter4771 We must Love with Gods Truth
@@lynnlogue5881 Your version of God. My God says love everyone and support them, as long as no one is being harmed. That, my friend, is real love and truth.
Thank you for this! A dear, sweet friend of mine recently got married to another woman. Telling her I couldn't celebrate with her has created a major rift between us. Even though I affirmed my love and care for her over and over, she thinks I don't love her. I'm holding out hope that Jesus has a way forward for us in the future and that she will come to fully understand the depths of God's love for her in Christ.
If you get to talk with her, tell her that your faith does not allow you to affirm a practice that the bible speaks against. But you still love her, also, because the bible demands it. You affirm her right to her faith. She does not have the right to demand that you act against yours.
You're wrong, my friend... She Knows (on her inside) that you really love her a lot
You can't change her, accept that, continue to pray for her. This is on her not you. Hugs!
She needs to get really born again
In my observation, quite often people who are away from Christ don't understand how you can not see with someone/someone's lifestyle, choices, etc. but still love them and care for them. They tend to conflate the sharing of interests/opinions etc. together with friendship/love. I've had these discussion on various topics with many friends. They don't understand the concept 'love the sinner, hate the sin', I mean they understand what it rationally means but they don't _get_ it. They often feel that rejection of something they choose/like/way they live etc., is the rejection of them. Which we know isn't true, because we as Christians see their true value, as being the beloved children of God. But they don't know that. For them they are who they think they are, what they like, what they do, etc. So I think part of our witness is to show and convince them that not agreeing with something doesn't mean we condemn people. That we can love them even when they are very different from us. It's the Christian spirit. Love you enemy, be hospitable to your guests and visitors meaning those who are different from you (xenia hospitality and xenos, meaning the guest but also the strange/foreign one, was the one to whom we're called for hospitality). So witness patiently and good luck and it may take time.
Becket! You so kindly and intelligently and logically point out where world views diverge from the truth of God’s word. I’m so grateful for that. When I lived in El Lay, I was invited to a commitment ceremony of two gay friends. I was a Christian, but not living a particularly sanctified life, yet I knew this ceremony was wrong. I declined on the pretext of another engagement. After the ceremony, the couple had a party at their home and showed the video from their ceremony. I was trapped! It was the most uncomfortable I’ve ever been (outside a horrible blind date on a 3 hr trip to Catalina Island, but that’s another story entirely!), and after the video stopped, the couple asked me in front of everyone, “Well, wasn’t that just the most marvelous?” I don’t know where the words came from, but I said, “I don’t know why gays are so rabid to marry when the divorce rate between heterosexuals is slightly over 50%! And the divorce rate between people previously married is pushing 70%. (They’d both been married to women for over a decade before divorcing). What makes getting married so necessary?” They didn’t really have an answer, kind of mumbled about love, etc. Later, they whinge to me about how they thought I’d have been more enthusiastic. I told them they knew I was a Christian, and that by forcing their agenda was doing nothing to promote viable values. We had a very frank and honest discussion, and they were truly men I loved deeply. Long, short, they split up in a rancorous ‘divorce’ 4 years later. They both told me separately, that my quote on divorce stats rang in their ears and they held on longer that they’d have done otherwise because of those stats. What they failed to grasp was the part about promoting a life directly against God’s blueprint.
It’s like cutting corners on an architect’s design. Yes, it CAN be done. Yes, the final building will stand, for awhile. But any little tremor, a fire, a flood, and that wrongly built edifice will collapse, while those around it built correctly will remain standing. We are built to God’s blueprint. Any deviation leaves crumbled lives.