Original Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRkm4SoEH0s
Repent
of Sexual Immorality
Well,
one big problem in the American church today is sexual sin. And that manifests in
many different ways, whether it's broken marriages, divorce, just lustful hearts
of men and women, pornography. This sort of thing totally destroys people's lives.
People end up dead over this. I want to encourage you that you need to actually
repent of this sin. Most men are addicted to pornography. And if they're not addicted
to porn, they can't control their thoughts whenever they see a woman. Later they
lust over the woman that they saw, they can't push out these thoughts because they
haven't learned to cast out demons. They haven't learned to take control of every
thought. But as disciples of Jesus, we have to have the fruit of the Holy Spirit
in our life. Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness,
and self-control.
Maybe
most of those you could imagine yourself having until you get to self-control and
then you realize, I don't have the fruit of the Holy Spirit if self-control is not
manifesting in my life. See, if you cannot cast out evil thoughts, lustful thoughts,
hateful thoughts, then you will be given over to all these sins. Whenever a devil
tries to tempt you through a woman, through pornography, through AI technology that's
also manifesting as these demons of lust, you won't be able to control yourself.
You'll just be led away by this demon of lust. You have to overcome in Jesus' name
if you want to be part of those that enter into the Kingdom of God. I want to read
to you what Jesus said in Matthew chapter 5. “You have heard that it was said to
those of old, you shall not commit adultery. And I say to you that whoever looks
at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.”
I know there are some men who disagree with this. They say, “I don't really have
an intent to have sex with all these people. I just like to look.” And they try
to equate it with artwork or something like that, but they are deceiving their own
hearts. They are perverted in their hearts and instead of cleaning their hearts
inwardly, they're trying to just look like good Christians on the outside, but inwardly
they are very lustful. Lust will take us to hell. This is a grievous sin to the
Holy Spirit. And if we don't repent, we are in serious trouble.
“If your right eye causes you to sin, pluck it out
and cast it from you, for it is more profitable for you that one of your members
perish than for your whole body to be cast into hell.” Think with me
what this means. Are we to actually pluck out our eyes? If that were true, pretty
much all men would be missing an eye or two. So Jesus isn't meaning to literally
pluck out your eye, but we should take very seriously our life with Jesus. And if
anything is causing us to sin, we need to get that out of our life.
I
know there are some people who think that practicing a good diet means putting cookies
on the table and resisting those cookies. And they think that by resisting something
that is in front of them, they get better at resisting certain foods. This is actually
not true when it comes to sexual immorality. You can't be around people who are
promiscuous and be looking at them and keeping yourself sexually pure. You have
to learn to avoid places, avoid things that will cause you to stumble and sin. One
important thing is staying away from people and staying away from things that you
know cause you to sin. But then secondly, you have to go a step farther than that
and learn how to take control of your thoughts. Because what will happen is, inevitably
someone at your school, at your workplace, in your city, you'll just see a billboard,
something will cause you to start to stumble up into sin. And at that moment, especially
later guys, the devil will come back with that same temptation to cause you to sin
in your mind. He will make you or try to make you lust about an image that you saw
earlier in your day.
And
at that moment you have a why in the road to choose good or evil. Do you fall into
lust? Do you choose to listen to those lustful thoughts? Or do you rebuke Satan
in the name of Jesus and cast him out of your mind so that you can keep your mind
and your heart pure before God? If you learn how to cast the devil out, then you
learn how to cast your evil eye out and cast an evil ear out. That is what we need
to learn to do. And anything that is causing us to fall into sin, we need to eliminate
those things out of our life. A lot of us have people in our life that we do not
need in our life. Of course, you need your husband or your wife, your children,
those people are in your life. But a lot of people allow friends into their life
that have no business being in their life. Or they allow other co-workers into their
life that have no business being in their life.
So
make sure that you are figuring out who is important in your life, that you need
in your life, and eliminating the people that are causing you to sin that you should
have no business with in the first place. So be serious to pluck out your eye, your
spiritual eye, the eye that is bad, so that you can have eyes of righteousness and
ears of righteousness. That's why Jesus says, “if your right eye causes you to sin,
pluck it out and cast it from you. And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut
it off and cast it from you, for it is more profitable for you that one of your
members perish, than for your whole body to be cast into hell.” This sin leads people
to hell all the time. I don't know how many times I was in church, and men in church
would be acting as someone that is holy and pure, but I knew because I was working
there, that these guys were addicted to porn, they were committing adultery with
someone else, even though they were married. They were doing things that were very
evil. And these things break up marriages, they destroy people. And most likely
you will wind up dead. People commit suicide over this. All sorts of bad things
come out of adultery. We have to figure out how to keep ourselves separate and our
bodies pure for the Holy Spirit.
Paul
even says that this sort of sin is a sin against our own bodies. Now obviously there
are other sins against our own bodies, such as alcoholism, drugs that are entering
into your body, of course suicide is against one's own body. However sexual immorality
is against the body that God put together. See, with marriage God made it as a holy
matrimony between two people. And those two people become one flesh. And you become
united physically, but also spiritually. You should, if you are with Jesus Christ,
be united by His Holy Spirit and connected to the body of Christ. But what happens
when you sin sexually is you are sinning against the body of Christ and you are
sinning against yourself and another person that is connected, that should be connected
to the Spirit of God. It is a unique sin that leads more than one person to hell.
And we need to be very careful to keep our eyes on the Spirit of God and get our
eyes off of everything that is evil.
Too
many men are addicted to porn on their phone. They are very lustful and instead
of truly repenting of these things, they are trying to appease God by outward good
deeds. Make sure that you come clean. Confess your sins. Repent of your sins. Talk
to Jesus about this. Ask Him to purify your heart. Have a brother or sister pray
for you. But you need to overcome this sin. If you don't, it will take you to hell.
“Lord
Jesus, I pray for the body of Christ. I pray for those who are stumbling in sin
and addiction and pornography and all of these sorts of sins that are leading people
to hell. I pray that in Your name You can set a brother or sister free, that they
can confess their sins and truly repent and be made sober and that they would be
made pure and that they would put on their white robes, that they would be holy
and righteous for You, walking in the newness of life. I pray that You restore people
who have fallen and started to backslide. I pray that they can come back into the
household of faith and stop polluting their body or polluting others. I pray that
anyone who is listening today can be encouraged to truly repent of any sexual sin
and anything that is taking them to hell. I pray in Your name, Lord Jesus, for sanctification
of Your church. We pray that we are able to cast out demons in Your name and that
we would keep our minds and our hearts pure, that we could be holy vessels to be
used by Your Holy Spirit. I pray this in Your name, Lord Jesus, Amen.’
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