Rosaria Butterfield reminds us, following Jesus costs everything.

The gospel's hard, and the gospel is everything.

And you know, the Lord Jesus gives some people one cross to bear and some people ten.

Is unwanted homosexual desire a hard cross to bear? Yes, it is.

If you know that you are in the Lord Jesus Christ,

you will have the Lord's power in overcoming that temptation. It doesn't mean the temptation

will necessarily go away, but you will have his power and his love and his arms folded around you. And you are promised in

Mark 10, verses 28 to 31, 100 fold in this lifetime, meaning that you've got the church family,

who is your family of God. You know, with God, all things are possible, not necessarily easy.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast for Friday, February 12, 2016.

I'm so thankful to have a new friendship with a woman that I've known of and admired for a long time.

Her name is Rosaria Butterfield.

Rosaria, welcome to revive our hearts.

Thank you.

I'm delighted to be here.

And you are addressing out of your own life experience, your own personal testimony,

and even more importantly, out of the unchanging, absolute word of God, precious gift that it is,

some topics that are, well, you can't avoid them today. When I was growing up, these weren't things we were talking about in my Christian home day after day, issues of homosexuality, gender identity, sexual orientation, and terms that I'm learning new in order to, you know, Facebook and whatever.

We're talking about 50 different genders and gender fluidity.

And this is a whole new conversation.

It's not new, but it's at a level of ubiquitous everywhere in the air we breathe.

Right, right.

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