Living in a Lie!

Urgent Message : Please Read

Now I know that this is a topic where alot of people get mad at! They will say Jazz now you have drawn the line. Yet I haven't I'm not here to judge or condemn anyone for their lifestyle. Yet I know that when I first came to Christ one of my hardest struggles I had was dealing with was my attraction to another female. I honestly can say for a while I didn't want to give it up I just didn't get why? No one ever helped me to understand or explain why and I never really came out and said anything about trying to overcome what God was telling me I needed to overcome. I mean people can be so judgmental Jazz your saved you shouldn't be having those feelings. Well I was and I didn't have anyone to talk to!I wanted to learn how to get out of having these feelings that I had. I knew God wanted me to I just didn't know how or have anyone who I felt would understand without judging me. So this is more about helping those who feel like God is trying to get them to come out but they need sometype of support on how to.
 Now I'm the type of person who when the bible says no this is not so or shouldn't be to just accept it.  I'm more the type of person who is asking God like why? I don't want to be like one of those adult who you ask them why and they say just because you shouldn't! well why? Maybe your even curious to even wonder why. This is more about finding out why God has created it to be this way and the more I find out then the more I will let you know.

Living in a Lie!

1 John 1:6 

If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth.

Can you really say your living in truth if your living in a lie. Its like living a double life. Ive seen many of people keep their sins or struggles hidden. Not able to conquer them or overcome them. Still living in them. People can get to a place where they actually convince themselves that how they are living is okay. That this is the truth! Some will live in a life believing no one will find out they have it hidden. Yet everything that is done in darkness comes to the light. Everything!

Who will Find Out?

Luke 8:17

17 For nothing is secret, that shall not be made manifest; neither any thing hid, that shall not be known and come abroad.

Nothing is secret! Eventually things will come to the light. It started young for me it was the lack of affection that started it. I kissed my first girl at 14 I liked it.  Then I had girlfriends and then it came to appoint of intimacy with females. The more I started to despise men the more the feelings came. I struggled with an addiction to porn and it was never regular porn it had always been woman with another woman.  Yet when I gave my life to Christ I wondered who would I talk to about it? I was saved I no longer acted upon my flesh but my struggle was still real. No one would find out if i kept it to myself. 

I Knew The Truth But I Struggled! 

Hebrews 10:26

26 For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,

I knew the truth about what God said about woman being with woman and men with men. Yet i still wrestled with it. Who do you talk to in the Church? Its already hard enough dealing with the rest of my crazy past. Now this yet There is no one to talk to even if I didn't want to live with my struggle. No one to support coming out of my struggle. Or even how to? Its not like you can reach out to the church or then reach out to other people because I want to come out. And not come out like females come out like I want God to heal me from this. I know that It requires a man and a woman create children and life. How God created Adam and Eve. That The Church represents the woman and Jesus the Groom and Jesus died for the Church meaning if Jesus(groom-Male) died for Jesus(groom-male)  then we would all still be going to hell. And if the Church( woman ) died for the(Church woman) we would really be going to hell. The point of marriage is Christ dying for his Church!  It represents the redemption! Yet I know that a man must redeem me. I know the truth. So I needed God to help me! Because I wanted to be helped!

 The Truth Will Set You Free!

John 8:32 

And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

I guess i am exposing myself from my struggle because the truth will set you free. I struggled with woman's pornography and having intimate relationships with females. Yet i don't want that for myself anymore. I want a husband oneday and kids. The way God created adam and eve. I can't judge or speak bad about anyone living how they choose to live I am just sharing my story to let you know I don't want this for my life anymore. I choose to be set free. And if you ever choose to do the same well then you have someone you can talk to!- Life after Homosexuality !

Urgent Message : Please Read

Now I know that this is a topic where alot of people get mad at! They will say Jazz now you have drawn the line. Yet I haven't I'm not here to judge or condemn anyone for their lifestyle. Yet I know that when I first came to Christ one of my hardest struggles I had was dealing with was my attraction to another female. I honestly can say for a while I didn't want to give it up I just didn't get why? No one ever helped me to understand or explain why and I never really came out and said anything about trying to overcome what God was telling me I needed to overcome. I mean people can be so judgmental Jazz your saved you shouldn't be having those feelings. Well I was and I didn't have anyone to talk to!I wanted to learn how to get out of having these feelings that I had. I knew God wanted me to I just didn't know how or have anyone who I felt would understand without judging me. So this is more about helping those who feel like God is trying to get them to come out but they need sometype of support on how to.
 Now I'm the type of person who when the bible says no this is not so or shouldn't be to just accept it.  I'm more the type of person who is asking God like why? I don't want to be like one of those adult who you ask them why and they say just because you shouldn't! well why? Maybe your even curious to even wonder why. This is more about finding out why God has created it to be this way and the more I find out then the more I will let you know.

So Please don't shoot the messenger!

We will start here!

Again don't shoot the messanger

UnEqually Yoked

Amos 3:3

UnEqual : not of the same measurement, quantity, or number as another

Yoke:

a device for joining together a pair of draft animals, especially oxen

2 Corinthians 6:14

 Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?

So this is where I started off on my own my journey. The bible says that we should not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. Now an unbeliever is anyone who does not believe in Jesus Christ. The bible says

John 1:1-3
 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.The same was in the beginning with God.All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.

So we see that the Word was in the beginning because God spoke in Genesis and Life came and took form! So this mean's that God is the word!God is his word (bible). Then it says God made all things and WITHOUT God NOTHING was made! So this lead me to understand that God is the creator of life. Without God their is not life. So when we think of a creator or an inventor we know that they have an Idea on how they wants the creation to be used and function! And with any great creator they make instructions on how what they created should work. That's why we have the bible! God's instructions to help us get through life.The bible says

2 Timothy 3:16-17
 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.

Now if everything I just wrote you don't believe you may be an unbeliever and may want to get a personal relationship with Jesus Christ!<3

 

Amos 3:3 Can two walk together, except they be agreed?

The answer is NO! If Im going left and your going right we are not agreeing at all.  There are many people in life who may agree on the surface but the direction they are heading is not.

Example: I once dated a guy after I got but saved not paying attention to God’s warnings. I let it by pass me that we were unequally yoked. Yes we may have been equally yoked on the surface in the place were in our lives we were both in in school yet the directions for our future didn’t coincide with each other’s. Do you think it is possible for two people going in two different directions in life agree? If yes we may be on the same path right now but there are certain things in our lives that disagree so I may be going to the left and you are going to the right. If No then you are right. Yes that person and I were on the same path going to school but what we wanted for our futures did not agree. They wanted to open up a bar and I am 4 years. I want to help people get off their addictions to drugs and liquor. Yet they wanted to support peoples drinking habits. Thus making us unequally yoked that’s why dated is past tense!

 Dating someone or marrying someone who is unequally yoked is like being a Christian being spotted by Saul as he is on the Road to Damascus going to kill all the Christians. Yikes!! At first it may seem harmless but after a while when they get closer it can get deathly!

1 Corinthians 15:33

 Do not be deceived: “Evil company corrupts good habits.”

 It's like having those type of people around you where they will try to wait so they can catch you at fault! Not only that but will try to suck you into their sin because they don't see it as wrong. Then if you fall will love to point out that your a sinner just like them. Yet it gives them reason of why they shouldn't have to change!You will start losing some of your morals, boundaries  and values. We say that we won't that we are strong but in a world filled with evil and this fleshly body that pulls more towards sin we are more bound to falling back into temptations or even old habits being with those unequally yoked from us.

Your just setting yourself up for trouble!

Equally Yoked 

"What does this really mean?"

 Cracked my Egg open and out came two yolks of Equal Size
from one Yolk Like Adam and Eve
 Two people came from One Body Like a male
 and female cleaving together to become
Man and Wife. Two become one!- Jasmine Cooper

Com·pa·ra·ble (kmpr--bl) adj. 1. Admitting of comparison with another or others: " 2. Similar or equivalent:

 So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. - Genesis 1:27

 God created a man and a woman to look as himself. There was a point in time where Gods reflection was saw in men and there was no sin in the world this was in the beginning when God created the garden of Eden and God told Adam not to partake of the Tree of Knowledge of "Good and Evil." Then God had Adam name all the Animals but they all had a helper but Adam did not. So God made someone like to himself.


       

Genesis 2:7And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.

 So in all Genesis 1 it talks about how God created the world with a word he spoke it. Then once he spoke the world in to form. Then he took from what he had already made formed a vessel and breathed life into it. Remember anything that has life is because of God he is the only one who can give life. So now we have man created!

 Genesis 2:20-24 So Adam gave names to all cattle, to the birds of the air, and to every beast of the field. But for Adam there was not found a helper comparable to him.21 And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall on Adam, and he slept; and He took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place. 22 Then the rib which the Lord God had taken from man He made into a woman, and He brought her to the man.23 And Adam said:“This is now bone of my bones And flesh of my flesh;She shall be called Woman,Because she was taken out of Man.”24 Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

What was one became two but cleaved back together to become one. So what God did was he took man made a woman  from himself and then put them back together in marriage! So then you have that oneness again! Which is shown alot through the intimacy of the relationship when a man and a woman have sexual intercourse their bodies connect like puzzle pieces that fit together. To show that oneness coming back together! 

   


  So when you think about the word Equally yoked it talks about being comparable to one another believers marrying believers. Like we said before if your not equally yoked you will be pulling each other in different directions or trying to place a piece of the puzzle in a place where the creator of the puzzle never created it to originally go. We should all know that when anything is used In the wrong context it can cause damage.

Proverbs 27:17

Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.

When you are equally yoked you will be sharping each other up instead of tearing each other down because your belief will be on what the Word of God says. From the start of the world all their was is God's word so that should be the center of your life as a believer Gods word and not just the pieces you want to apply to sound good in your life but even the pieces that convict your heart. ( I have places that convict me in the bible, when I preach I get convicted sometimes and correct my actions but we must whoever we are take Gods word in its whole entirety because the world was founded by just his word alone.)  

 

The Fall

Now there was a time where no one had to worry about sin being in the world in the start when Adam and Eve first were in the garden. No one had to worry about being equally yoked or unequally yoked things were perfect. They had everything they needed and wanted but God gave them one rule don't eat of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. Yet as we see there is sin all over the world so they didn't listen. (Genesis 3)

Romans 5:12

Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:

Meaning now all people are sinner's and we all fall short to God's glory. It doesn't matter how small or big you think your sin is everyone sins. Their is no exception. Alot of people won't go to church because they don't want to be judge but why should anyone feel judge by the fact that everyone in the church is guilty. The only key is that you must admit that your guilty to the judge (Christ)! If not oneday when Jesus comes back everyone will have to stand before him and you will either be turned away to hell or be welcomed into the kingdom of heaven.  

Eve’s Regret

God I want to love again         

Not no superficial surface love

But a deep rooted love that fills you

Like the aroma of a warm home cooked meal

I want to take a grasp

Of the fruit from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil

And tell Satan he could keep his ruin

Help me to understand the concept of equation of how 1+1=1

God put me back into his rib cage because now he’s more vulnerable

And somehow I can’t help but get this strange feeling that it’s my fault

Leaving man’s heart wide open for destruction

Never would I have wanted to know sin

If only I would have known then what I know now

This vicious cycle of how blind worldly love can be

All from playing with the snakes in the garden

I should have known if you play with snakes you will get bit

Guess the jokes on me

The venom of iniquity Filled my flesh

And I took the world down with me

Now sin will be pasted down the blood line making this sinful nature hereditary

So afraid of love because I no longer knew how to face you

Our level of intimacy faded now covered from the shame

so I hide no longer able to embrace you because i feel so bare

Caught up in an affair

like ive been entangled in the sheets with the enemy

I didn’t expect to be kicked out of our dwelling place

Like feuding lovers you put me out on the couch made up of disgrace

Lord I just want to come home

Feeling so far from you

They say that you reap what you sow

Now some of my future seeds will lose their soul

So lord make an escape

To help bring them close to you all because of my mistake By: Jasmine Cooper Copyright©2012

Bridegroom 

Now this summer I sat there and learned so much more about marriage and what it meant to God. What the covenant actually meant with Gods covenant to Abram, to the Veil, to the Walking down the Isle, to the Vow and so on. Their was so much to learn and still there is so much to learn. Then as I looked I read about how Christ compared himself as a Husband that gave himself to his Wife which is the Church.

Ephesians 5:25
²⁵ Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;

Now this brought me to understand that Christ represents the husband (man) and the Church represents the Bride (woman). So when it comes to marriage the bible says when a man and woman come together they shall cleave to one another and become one. Now oneday Christ  is coming back from heaven to get his Bride also known as the Church so that we can become one with him in heaven (cleaving). This lead me to understand that if a man and a man came together that would defeat the purpose of Jesus dying on the Cross for the sins of the world because Christ did not die for himself( Christ represents the man). Which also lead me to understand that a woman and a woman coming  together would also defeat the purpose of Christ death on the cross. We must understand that the Church (bride) is just a bunch of sinners redeemed by Christ and as much as we want to think we can save someone we are all sinners and cannot save anyone from there sin only Jesus can. 

John 14:6
 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

We all like to think there is another way to get to heaven but Jesus is the only way. Just think about you being God to send your son to die for people who barely care and them try to tell you that his sacrifice for you isn't good enough that you can save yourself. As a person who has miscarried and wants children so bad I would be angry if  I gave my only begotten son for a world who cared less about my child. Yet God still has compassion for those who are in the world and he gave his son out of love for his children. Love because of the fall in the garden which caused everyone to become sinners and need Jesus. So God sent his son  Jesus to fix the fall of man so that we could be redeemed and reconciled back to him. So that we would not have to hell oneday but we can cleave to him in heaven!

John 3:16

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

The only thing is do you believe?

~Unequally Yoked or Equally Yoked~