don’t get any on you
God has sworn this: in Christ your spirit will not rust or decay even though it lives in a physical body subject to ultimate decay.
Yet we see people whose spirits and bodies are clearly eaten away by the corrosion of lust. Some people deny Christ and embrace lust. Some people try to fend lust off with human willpower, or manage lust with their intellect. Some people believe Jesus, yet allow philosophy to tell them that some degree of lust is inevitable. In all four cases, the door to that person’s life is open to the demonic realm.
Jesus didn’t come as our mythical superhero, he comes as our pattern and our example. Understand clearly what God has spoken and demonstrated in his Messiah: lust does not belong in the human body or spirit. If lust is allowed to operate at all, it will operate; and to the degree that it operates, it will corrupt and destroy anything it touches.
Those who name the name of Christ and still play with pornography or sexual sin or perversion are stepping outside of Christ to do so. There is no question the blood of Jesus can and should remove every sin, yet the lies that sin is able to work into a person once they willingly go on allowing lust to overwhelm them can actually push them beyond knowing or truly confessing sin. Willingly engaging lust at any level is scooping hellfire into your lap and hoping not to get burnt - who can afford that bet? Look hard at Esau and know that God’s valuable promises are not for those who insist on gambling their eternal souls over one meal! No matter what anyone tells you, you can really confess that sin once and for all and be done with it forever.
God’s promises do by the Spirit throw us a rope that pulls us up to live in God’s unchanging character, his disposition; and by this to completely escape lust and all its corruption. This generation is laying down to lust like no generation ever before, so the exit sign must be clearly marked! Somebody has to rise up by the Spirit and live like God right in the middle of it all.
I completely agree with you. I feel very strongly that this year, or “season”, is one where god’s people will draw a line in the sand. We will not allow any compromise in our lives. I have struggled with lust, and am still having to fight the battle. I know the outcome of my life, I will run my race and run it for the lord. As long as I keep my eyes on what is ahead I believe that this struggle with lust will be gone forever. Thanks a lot for the word, you always seem to put on the website exactly what the lord wants me to hear.
Wise words Glen. Just the night before you posted this (the 10th) I working in a restaurant and was confronted with a spirit of lust that was attatched to one of the workers there. It tried to take me down and - where I’ve had troubles in the past - this time I really laid the spiritual smackdown and really felt the victory as that spirit had to flee.
There is indeed coming a rising up of the children of God as we cast off every unclean thing and grab hold of that which is pure.
I became a Christian about seven and a half years ago after feeling the Holy Spirit call me. To be completely honest, I haven’t felt the Spirit in my life much at all since then, and I believe it is because of my struggle with lust and pornography. I’ve allowed myself to be burned. I always pray to God to change me, but I don’t even feel like I really mean it anymore. I really want to change, and will continue to pray that I do, struggling against this sin and learning more about God. I think I have been giving in less as of late with God’s help, but I may just be deceiving myself. I hate to do this to people who don’t know me, but please pray for me. (Sorry for the downer, everyone that comments on this site seems so joyful. That attitude is what I want.)
well right now in Jesus’ name you go free>> that foul spirit of hell has no power to work in your life ever again.
said properly.