“I was lookin’ for love in all the wrong places” – Johnny Lee
Everyone, whether he knows it or not, has a driving desire for salvation and eternal life.
Some travel across oceans and unknown continents searching for the fountain of youth—but God has hidden the Tree of Life.
Some give themselves to saving the planet, the rainforests, the oceans, endangered species. Their gospel concerns recycling, reducing carbon emissions, and eating vegetarian.
Some are their own god and spend their lives gathering wealth and power, building temples to themselves.
Many others appoint certain leaders as their gods, following and obeying them faithfully and without question.
In every case, one’s actions confirms his religion, and every man-made religion is a bastardization of the one true religion. Every religion of man seeks salvation on man’s terms—and man always creates a salvation based on works.
In the sexual immorality alphabet (LGBTQ…etc.), the T stands for “trans.” The transitioner symbolically kills himself to replace himself with “herself.” His previous sex is a “dead name” and no longer exists, according to him. He demands everyone else agree with the death of his old man and the reality of the new woman—this we must do by using his feminine name and referring to him by feminine pronouns.
This is a twisted mirroring of the true gospel.
According to Jesus’ gospel, in repentance we kill the old man of sin (Eph. 4.22; Col. 2.20; 3.3, 5). We bury that old man (Rom. 6.4–11), and we rise to walk in a new life with a new self (Rom. 6.4; Eph. 4.24; Col. 3.10).
God remakes us into most authentic version of ourselves possible. He makes us exactly what we are supposed to be in Christ. He heals our scarred and desensitized hearts. He puts back into place what is broken. God calls this “a new creation” (2 Cor. 5.17–18)—“the old has passed away; behold the new has come. All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation.”
Transitioners are seeking salvation. They seek validation, love, and acceptance. They don’t feel right in their own skin. They feel things are out of place, and they (along with a host of “help” around them) convince themselves if they just change into the other sex everything will fall into place and they will find peace, security, and stability. Sadly and unfortunately, they are finding the opposite—their attempt at saving themselves does not work; it ultimately makes things worse, and they sink into deeper depression than before.
God gives all the blessings they seek (the peace, security, stability, love, and acceptance) through Jesus Christ—through His true gospel and His true religion. We accept one another not because of who we used to be but because of who we now are in Christ. But greater still, God accepts us in His Son!
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love he predestined us for adoption to himself as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will, to the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us in the Beloved. In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace, which he lavished upon us, in all wisdom and insight making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his purpose, which he set forth in Christ as a plan for the fullness of time, to unite all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth.
Ephesians 1.3–10
To those who have transitioned, please hear the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God and your Creator.
Dylan Mulvaney revealed to Variety that, when he was four years old, he told his mom he thought he was transgender, and his religious mother assured him, “God doesn’t make mistakes.”[1] Then, at his recent 365-day celebration of “being a girl,” he told the crowd there: “I’m trying really hard to maintain a relationship with God. I don’t think He made a mistake with me, in that maybe one day I will actually be grateful for being trans, that this isn’t some curse but it’s just a different path…” Dylan admits some tough things in that statement. God surely did not make a mistake with him—He made Dylan male, and that’s what Dylan will always be, as hard as he kicks against the goads. He implies that he’s not grateful for being trans. Transitioning has not fixed Dylan; it has made his situation worse. He might tell you otherwise as accolades, fame, and money pour in, but in his quiet moments he knows he is way off course.
Jesus, only Jesus, saves and heals our broken lives. Can someone identifying as trans come to Jesus? Absolutely! Just as anyone who comes to Jesus, he must repent of his rebellion and believe in the Lord Jesus Christ. God’s invitation is extended, and God’s people are ready to accept as one of our own any who bow the knee to Lord Jesus.
Kill the old man of sin. Stop striving against the Lord. Walk God’s path.
Here you will find peace, and here you will find love.
[1] https://variety.com/2023/digital/podcasts/tiktok-dylan-mulvaney-transgender-1235547512/
Amen. Outstanding.