Overcoming Sexual Sin Part #4
By THE TWO OLIVE TREES THAT STAND BEFORE THE LORD OF ALL THE EARTH, THE TWO WITNESSES OF THE BOOK OF REVELATION 11, THE TWO PROPHETS OF THE BOOK OF MALACHI
Halleluyah; mighty, mighty Jesus! What a mighty King. He gave us solutions to everything here so actually there is no excuse for sexual sin to be in the church. The church should be the rod of God. The Christians should be the rod of God guiding the nations and bringing correction to the nations. Halleluyah; remember the story of the Prodigal Son, the Lost Son. When he came to himself and realized that actually he was in slavery—pig feeding, and then his freedom arrived. There is no way we can receive freedom from sexual sin and slavery if we still feel it’s a normal way of life, if it’s a normalcy in church.
The Lord is asking us to be able to recognize that this is slavery. That’s why you see in the Book of Proverbs the woman that was coming as sexual sin inviting the men saying, “Look I have dressed my bed with linen from Egypt the land of slavery.” So it’s very important for us to be able to recognize that actually sexual sin is slavery. That’s why you see that a lot of people are addicted. A lot of people get so much addicted to sexual sin and they cannot get out. Even pornography, they cannot get out of there. They get addicted so much to many other things and they even relate it to alcohol, and drugs and everything else. And so that means the only way out actually will come from you realizing the fall—that you have fallen. That’s why the Lord is saying, “Grieve. You are supposed to grieve because the worst form of sexual immorality not even found among the heathen is seen among you Christians. You are supposed to grieve having realized you have fallen to the rock bottom and you are in slavery.”
And that’s what the Lord is asking from us. He’s asking us to realize the slavery in sexual sin. Now I want you to understand that there is no pleasure in sexual sin. But there is death in sexual sin. So it’s extremely critical that you realize that you are entering death like the Lord says, “That highway leads to the grave.” So it’s very, very important that you realize the fall and that’s the only way out. And He says that the truth will set you free. And the truth is that sexual sin is slavery and death.
Let’s go into something else too that will set you free from sexual sin. The Book of Genesis chapter 2; let’s see some very important key that will set you free from sexual sin in the Book of Genesis. Genesis chapter 2 verses 24 and 25. I read from 23, he said the man said, “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman,’ for she was taken out of man.’ For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united with his wife, and they will become one flesh. The man and his wife were both naked and they felt no shame.”
I want you to understand that marriage was created by God. As a matter of fact let’s just be very open here: Marriage and the act of sex was created by God. Yes, so I want you to understand that there is nothing evil about it. The only time when it becomes evil is when sin gets involved; in other words the Lord ordained that when you get married to your wife, yes, it’s ok, now you can go into a sexual relationship. And that’s why He says that they were both naked but man and woman did not feel ashamed towards each other.
And just as a prayer of making you understand this deeper, I want you to understand that the devil took that and placed death into it and used it to bring death now—that which God created. So it’s very critical you understand that the Lord has ordained that when the rightful partner comes to you, “Yes, it’s well and it’s clean and it’s holy in His eyes.” So it’s very important that all of you in the church whoever is planning to get married that you do it under the Word of the Lord, under the Blood of Jesus so it is a holy union, a holy matrimony where there is no shame, there is no guilt. If you start feeling guilt then there is sin in that relationship.
And so you see that the Lord Himself says the two become one flesh. That means you unite your thoughts, unite everything in a sexual relationship ordained by God. And that is very critical because the beginning of man going out of marriage, women going out of marriage comes out of the lack of trust in marriages. That is what the devil uses to open the door to sexual sin in a marriage. And in this country he has used that door to bring also death through HIV AIDS and many other ways. And I had to mention that because that is very critical. So the Lord is ordained already a formal way in which you can relate with a woman.
The Book of James chapter 1 verses 13 to 15. And look at what he says about temptations and sexual sin and lust. Again I’m saying James chapter 1 verses 13 to 15. He says, “When tempted, no one should say, ‘God is tempting me,’ For God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does he tempt anyone; but each one is tempted when, by his own evil desire, he is dragged away and enticed. Then, the desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and the sin, when it is full- grown, gives birth to death.”
So the Lord is speaking to us very clearly that our own evil desires are the gateway. This is the truth that will set you free from sexual sin. Remember you always go into sexual sin and again of course I’m talking about where you are going out into sexual sin because you have opened the door, you have allowed it, you have gone towards it, you have contributed to it. You are completely responsible. And that’s what he’s telling us here. He is saying, “Be very careful because God does not bring any temptation of that nature to you. But it’s your own evil desires that entice you. And then they drag you into desire and that desire will conceive give birth to sin that will give birth to death.”
And so the Lord is very clear about this. The Lord is asking us to recognize that it is us that have the key. Where there is a will there is going to be a way. If you are willing to receive the Holy Spirit then definitely you can get out of sexual sin. And again if you are willfully going towards sexual desires of your heart, sinful desires of your heart, you are going to fall into sexual sin. You are responsible. The Lord has given you the freedom. That’s the freedom He talks about when He said in the beginning that “everything is permissible, but not everything is beneficial to you.”
So again the truth will set you free here. And the truth is that you contribute towards your getting involved in sexual sin. This is a very important key that will shut down sexual sin in your life—everyone listening today. You cannot say that those women used to come and sit there. They were not well dressed. They were dressed naked. So I fell in. No you have the key. You have the power to rebuke, to get out, to kemea. You have the power to say, “Not in this House of the Lord.” You have the power even to tell your wife, “Don’t bring those Christian friends of yours that dress and make me feel whatever.” You have power; you have the will. You can shut the door. You can close that door forever.
The Lord has given you power to close that door! Let us go to the Book of 1 John chapter 2 verse 15; 1 John chapter 2 verses 15 to 17, somebody, he says, “Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For everything in the world—the cravings of sinful man, the lust of his eyes and the boasting of what he has and does—comes not from the Father but from the world. The world and its desires pass away, but the man who does the will of God lives forever.”
So one of the biggest keys, the biggest secrets that you could use to shut down the doors to sexual sin is to fail to love the world—to completely refuse to love the world; to completely reject the world. What is the world? The first part of the world is your flesh and then the rest of what you see out there. He is saying everything that you see is popular to the world, reject those things. Don’t love those things. Jesus did not love those things of the world. Jesus was actually separated from the world.
He separated from the world. So if they had things that are popular that people are running to, he is telling you here, “Be cautious now. I want you to overcome the things of the world; the sin of the world the way Jesus did. And the only way Jesus did was to receive the Holy Spirit and separate from the world.” So the best secret you have here is to reject the world and then begin to love the things of the Spirit and the world in Greek is cosmos, cosmetics, cosmopolitan, cosmetics, they are flashy, they are beautiful, they are seductive, like the Father says, “Reject those things. Look deeper and look for the Lord in those things.” “Mapambo, worldly, urembo, I like this, I like this,” He is saying be careful of those things the devil is flashing at you. There is death in those things there.
The Lord Jesus lived a very self-controlled life under the control of the Holy Spirit. He rejected the world. When He finished He did not say, “I have enjoyed the world.” He said, “I have overcome the world.” When the angel came to Gideon, Gideon had to bring him bread without yeast, untasty, not tasty at all. And yet the world would reject that kind of holy bread.
The world will want a different kind of bread, the sweet bread that you eat—the normal loaf which actually is like the Father said, if you go into sexual sin your life becomes like a loaf, rotting very quickly tomorrow. Let us look at Galatians chapter 5 verses 16 to 22; again Galatians chapter 5 and so today you begin to understand that there is so much power that you can use to actually fight sexual sin. So surely there is no excuse that the Christians should fall into sexual sin. So the Lord has given us so much power in the Word. How I have been doing the whole of this night is unveiling for you the power that is embedded in the Living Word of God that you can take and use to close the door to sexual sin which is actually death.
Galatians chapter 5 beginning verses 16 to 24, he says, “So I say, live by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the sinful nature. For the sinful nature desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the sinful nature, they are in conflict with each other, so that they do not do what you want. But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.” 19 he says, “The acts of the sinful nature are obvious: sexual immorality,” number 1 he puts there is sexual immorality “…impurity…debauchery; idolatry…witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish, ambition, dissensions, factions and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God.”
So the Lord is relating sexual sin with inheriting the Kingdom of God in Heaven. So the Lord is telling you very clearly here that if you are in sexual immorality, then you are still operating within the sinful nature. But yet you see that the Lord is speaking to us very clearly that the sinful nature is what He crucified on the cross. And as Christians having received the Lord, being baptized, died, been buried with the Lord in the baptism, resurrected with the Lord, you should not be wearing the sinful nature anymore.
That means actually you cannot inherit the Kingdom of God if you are locked in sexual sin because our God is a holy God. Jehovah Yahweh is very holy. And He is speaking very clearly here in verse 24 actually, somebody. Verse 24 He says, “Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the sinful nature with its passions and desires.” That means if you surely belong to the Lord you must have crucified the sinful desires of your flesh.
There is no way in the church there should be sexual sin. Sexual sin belongs to the sinful desires. So if the church contains Christians they must have crucified or they are crucifying and not a rampant sexual sin that you see in the church. Something is wrong! Something is wrong!
So the Lord is very clear about inheriting the Kingdom of God. The Kingdom of the Lord is a very holy Kingdom—Holy, Holy. And yet the Lord has given you very precious keys that we are going through here. We’ve gone through a lot of them right now. And those keys give you complete power and authority to take authority over your personal life and give your life to Jesus and close the door—you close the door to sexual sin completely.
For example he says if you are walking in holiness and yet your friends they are walking in sexual sin, in the Book of 2 Corinthians he is very clear in chapter 6 he tells very clearly verse 14 that “What does righteousness have to do with wickedness?” So disconnect; don’t agree to be unequally yoked even if you are a pastor and you know you are walking with some kingdom of darkness; some other religion priests from the darkness like you know we were talking about other religions. He is saying disconnect from those priests. Don’t be in the same fellowship with them because we are going to inherit the Kingdom of God only by separating from darkness.
And again the Book of 1 Timothy now chapter 4 beginning verse 1 to 2 and he says, “The Spirit clearly says that in later times some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons.” The true teaching; the true writings of the Lord in the Bible tell us very, very clearly that Jehovah God has spoken death to sexual sin. And we have seen very clearly that the Lord has presented a zero-tolerant state towards sexual sin. And we see here that the same God who saved Lot from Sodom and Gomorrah within the torment of the pervasion and the filth in those cities, He is promising to come and save you. So He is asking you to persevere. So surely let us stick to the Word of the Lord—the true teachings of the Lord that sexual sin will separate us from the rapture, from the Kingdom of God.
Hallelujah; Hallelujah; the Book of Ephesians now I am rushing a bit because I want to look at the next phase—resisting sexual temptation; How to Resist. And again the Book of Ephesians chapter 4 verses 17 to 24. And this is what he is saying; now I am talking about sensitivity. That’s why the Lord said you cannot even use the same tongue that you use for worshipping Him in Ephesians 5, you cannot use that tongue for coarse sexual jokes in your office or wherever you are, even in the church. He said, “17… I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking. 18 They are darkened in their understanding and are separated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardening of their hearts. “19 Having lost all sensitivity,” Listen to me somebody, “19Having lost all sensitivity, they have given themselves over to sensuality.” Sensuality is the beginning of sexual sin—sensual, sensualism, the sensory nerves, feelings, the flesh having given into sensuality; “so as to indulge in every kind of impurity, with the continual lust for more.”
Let me read it bit by bit. He says, “So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer live as Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking. 18 They are darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardening of their hearts.” Look at 19, “Having lost all sensitivity, they have given themselves over to sensuality so as to indulge in every kind of impurity, with the continual lust for more.” So he’s talking about the need for you; one of the main keys; one of the main keys that you see embedded in the Bible here for you to shut down the doors to sexual immorality is that you should begin developing sensitivity to the Holy Spirit—sensitivity to the Spirit; sensitivity to the ways of God; so you do not fall to sensuality.
Be sensitivity. Ask yourself, “This thing I am going to do, is it right? This phone call I am going to make is that right? This SMS I’m sending or receiving is it right?” And then once you are sensitive then you are able to detect and block. And now listen to something here that will help you. Verse 20 he says, “20 You, however, did not come to know Christ that way. 21 And surely you heard of him and were taught in him in accordance with the truth that is in Jesus. 22 You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; 23 to be made new in the attitude of your minds; 24 and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.”
So look at one of the main keys here that you can use to shut the door, to lock the door to sexual sin. He is telling you that you need to develop sensitivity and get rid of sensuality, sensory, feelings, flesh. And one of the other things he is giving you here today as you listen to this, many people one time I remember told me, “O we did not even know that it is possible to live in holiness because we were told that that was Jesus. You cannot be like Jesus. That was Jesus. Do you think you can be like Jesus?”
But I have news for you today; the Word of God, the Living Word of God I am reading here today says that you can be made into a new creation when you receive the Lord to be like God in true righteousness and holiness. You can live. Actually it’s possible to live in complete holiness and righteousness. Nobody should tell you “O you see the world is so hard these days. We are all falling. All men have fallen.” No you can be able to live in complete true righteousness in the likeness of God. That is the key you can use to close the door even to all sin. And he says, “…and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.” Verse 24 here somebody, “…and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness” not false but true, true righteousness “…and holiness.”
Kumbe you can live in complete true righteousness and holiness of God in the likeness of God. He has given you power through the Holy Spirit. Nobody should ever lie to you. Hallelujah; so now we have come to a point where now within your fight when you are dealing with sexual sin you begin to understand that actually you can live in true holiness and righteousness which means you can get rid of that sexual sin. You don’t have to be enslaved.
God has given you keys here. He says there is a new person that comes into you when you receive Jesus and the Holy Spirit touches you and begins to sanctify you.
So he’s again speaking very clearly here, be not lied to. If you see the state of sexual sin in the church right now, that is a lie that has entered the church. They say, “No it’s ok. Just tolerate it.” If you ask them, “How come you’ve not cleaned up this sexual sin going on here?” “No but all churches are like that.” “But how come you are in that church and there is sexual sin at the pulpit, at the altar and all the way in the congregation.” “But where will I go. All have fallen.” That is a lie! And that is a lie because God says here there is a new nature that comes into the church after receiving Jesus and been Anointed of the Holy Spirit. And that new nature actually gives you the complete capacity to live in true, not in fake, true righteousness and holiness.
That means even the tongues you speak in the church will be true tongues not ndimi za Shetani the ones of the lies, but the true tongues coming from the Holy Spirit so you can live in complete righteousness and holiness as a child of God. So the main key that you are seeing here today in this segment I am giving you here if you were making notes at home, sensitivity, sensitivity to the Holy Spirit; sensitivity in the Spirit, so you know that which will grieve Jesus when you do so you don’t fall into sensuality, sensational. And he says also that actually it is possible to live in complete holiness. So you begin to strive and God will help you. He will strengthen you and so you can live in complete righteousness and holiness in the likeness of God—kama Mungu mwenyewe.
Hallelujah; we are going into the last segment now. And the last segment is: Resisting Sexual Temptations. How do you resist sexual temptation, I’ve told you how you can close the doors? But now we are going to see how will you resist daily temptations. And having seen the main keys in fighting sexual sin, one of the main keys I have just told you is sensitivity—to be sensitive to the things you are doing about the Spirit; things you are doing in your life. And being sensitive means not hardening your heart. And it means also avoiding sensuality and then he talks very clearly here, he says actually by the way, for your own information it is possible. I have equipped you with the capability to live to the true righteousness and holiness of the likeness of God.
That is a deep revelation that actually can help you to close the door to sexual sin— finished kabisa because our Lord is holy; our Father is holy; the Holy Spirit is holy and so the Tri- Unity of God is holy. And yet he says you can live to the same righteousness and holiness of God. Hallelujah; never again sexual sin in the church. And remember these teachings the Lord will use to build a case against you if you ever fall back. Hallelujah, thank you Jesus.
Hallelujah; worthy is the Lamb of God. We really appreciate you Jesus; the Book of James chapter 4 now we have entered a new segment on Resisting Sexual Temptation. And we are looking from the verses 1 to 10 and actually I want to look from verse 4 to 10. He says, “4 You adulterous people, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hatred towards God? Anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy to God.” And he says, “5 Or do you think Scripture says without reason that the spirit he caused to live in us envies intensely? 6 But he gives us more grace. That is why Scripture says: “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.” So you see one of the keys towards getting yourself redeemed out of sexual sin is humbleness.
You can imagine David the king, David the anointed, David the prophet, David the shepherd, David the warrior. David was very powerfully anointed by God and yet when he fell to sexual sin he had to humble himself down to square zero and begin crying to God saying, “Please remove this heart from me and give me a new heart—a heart that will follow you.” Verse 7 says, “7 Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.” So one of the key things is surely complete submission to the Lord—are you submitted to the Lord in your sexual sin?
And so you begin to understand you cannot say, “Well, I have struggled for a long time and I have not being delivered from sexual lust.” The Bible says very clearly here; the Word of God says move closer to God and submit yourself totally. That means complete submission— our God is a very perfect God. Do you know the8true meaning of complete submission? That is obedience to the Holy Spirit. And so he says, “ Come near to God and he will come near to you.” Hallelujah; “7 Submit yourselves, to God and then resist the devil,” resist the devil. Look at that and then he will flee from you. The devil will run away. That is the promise that the Lord has given.
When the Lord Jesus in Matthew 4 resisted the devil, the devil flee from the Lord Jesus. And He is promising you the same thing—move closer to God. Submit to God, resist the devil, the devil will flee from you. So you begin to understand that complete submission is important. But look at this now; look at what he says here further, He says, “Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.” Hallelujah; again I’m talking verse 8 part b. And now listen to something very important those that are locked in sexual sin, sexual temptation. He says, “9 Grieve, mourn and wail. Change your laughter into mourning and your joy into gloom. 10 Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up.”
The Lord will lift you from sexual temptation every single morning—once you change your laughter into mourning; once you begin to grieve based on what you are going through in sexual lust; once you begin to feel sad about it; once you recognize this is a problem and you come before the Lord and humble yourself, He is going to lift you up off the temptation. So one of the biggest ways of fighting sexual temptation as a Christian out there is number one to resist the spirit of lust; resist the spirit of immorality; resist and the devil will flee from you. And in the same Scripture we’ve seen that when you humble yourself, you turn your laughter into mourning, and you humble yourself, humble, humble is critical there. Then the Lord is now able to lift you up off that temptation.
And let us look at the Book of 1 Peter chapter 5 verses 6 to 11; look at what he is saying here. He repeats the same thing. He says, “Humble yourselves, therefore, under God’s mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due time.” God is going to lift you up, out of that temptation every single day once you are humble. And look at what he says in verse 7 which was one of the biggest keys for fighting sexual temptation on a daily basis, look at that; He says, “Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you.” So you may be anxious that, “Look I seem to be addicted now. I am in an addiction here.” You have a fear. But he says, “Cast your anxiety on him.” And He is going to be able to help you out of this. He cares. The Bible says He cares.
So surely if the Lord, the Living God who lives day-in, day-out cares about you living your life day-in, day-out, He surely is going to lift you out of that situation. This is one of the main keys to fight sexual temptation every day because He cares and He has promised here that He cares—He will lift you out of it. And look at what He says beautifully in verse 8, he says, “Be self- controlled and alert.” That means when you pray today and you are able to overcome sexual lust, sexual immorality, the spirit of lust; if you are able to overcome that spirit today, it does not mean tomorrow is free. He says, “Be self-controlled and alert” be alert because tomorrow look at what he says further on, “Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. Resist him, standing firm in the faith because you know that your brothers” Hallelujah; “…throughout the world are undergoing the same kind of sufferings.”
Now listen to this, the devil is always coming back like a prowling lion trying to devour you. But he’s telling you there is power in knowing that God is going to help you and be self- controlled and be alert. Don’t just sit there. Be self-controlled and be alert, “What are the things that the devil is always using to bring sexual temptation to me? Is it the secretary that walks in every day? Ok if I realize there is a woman that comes here every day to talk to my secretary and that woman talking to my secretary in the evening every day is not well-dressed, I will try to avoid that time when she comes in.”
Be self-controlled and be alert. And he’s also telling you very, very clearly here that you should know you are not the only one. Many of your brothers, the brethren all over the world are going through the same thing. So you should know that you know what, it is a battle. It is a fight. We are in this fight. They are not giving up. Why should I give up? And knowing that you are not the only one going through it, then you can now fight the good fight for the Lord. So you should not think that, “O this is me. I am not blessed. This thing is happening to me. I’m going to give up. I want to give up.”
No you should not give up. Know that everyone is going through, and when you look at now those that have overcome it that should be a source of inspiration to you as a Christian. That’s why it’s very important to develop groups of young men—accountability groups that you can meet together. You can pray. You can share the feelings—what you went through today. And they can pray with you, depending on different levels of faith. The prayer of a righteous man is powerful. It reaches the throne of God. One of you there may touch the throne of God for you. So you develop groups, even married men; meeting groups—have church groups of accountability and help each other out, because you are all going through this. There is power in working together as brethren under the Blood of Jesus.
Hallelujah; and remember that the Lord who called you to the Christian walk is more than able to support you and sustain that walk in you for as long as you are willing until the Day of the Lord. Do you think there is an evil spirit that can defeat the Holy Spirit of Jehovah? The answer is no! But then the Lord has also allowed you to go through this on a daily basis so you can be able to know that you depend on Him on a daily basis. So this is a very good situation for you now to learn to depend on Jehovah to tell Him, “Lord without you I would not have managed my daily walk.” So you can be on your knees on every day basis. Otherwise, the way I look at you Christians if He removes that problem from you, you would soon forget about God.
And so it is a very important way of really getting close to God because He is helping you on a daily basis to fight the temptations. He is telling you, “Please humble yourself. But remember that I called you into this walk. And I have more than enough power to see you on a daily basis through it until you are through—until the Day of the Lord.” It is just like being woken up every morning. He wakes you up every morning. He never gets tired. He gives you air to breathe every morning. He never gets tired, somebody look at this.
And so verse 10 he says, “And…God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory in Christ, after you have suffered a little while, he will himself restore you and make you strong, firm…steadfast. To him be the power for ever and ever. Amen.” Look at the main key here: In resisting sexual temptation on a daily basis as a Christian, you know that the Lord has promised that, “Just hang in there. I will make you strong. After a short while I will come and lift you up restore you and I will deliver you.” He has promised deliverance in a short while.
Hallelujah; Hallelujah; on a daily basis; look at that He has promised that just hang in there in a short while you will see my delivering power. To me this is the most powerful way to actually overcome sexual sensation, temptation and lust on a daily basis. Even in your family life with your wife, if you have some problems of lust and immorality remember one thing that the Lord is more than capable to carry you on, on a daily basis. And then one day the level of Anointing Ezekiel 47 somebody; one day the level of Anointing gets to a level where now the flesh has succumbed to the Spirit—has been subdued.
So the Lord is telling you there is hope. Don’t give up. What you need to do is to have faith to know that He has promised you that first of all He is going to help you on a daily basis. And secondly very soon, just hang in there; don’t give up. You are not the only one going through this. Very soon He is coming to deliver you. 2 Timothy chapter 2 verse 22, resisting sexual temptation on a daily basis; Hallelujah; look at what he says in 2 Timothy chapter 2:22, you can read the whole 2 Timothy somebody at home but then for the sake of time we are reading verse 22 of 2 Timothy chapter 2.
He says, “Flee the evil desires of your youth, and pursue righteousness, faith, love and peace, along with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.”
So he is telling you; Hallelujah this is awesome—flee from the desires of your youth, from sexual desires, sexual desires of your youth—flee from them. And then together with brethren you can be able to pray living in peace and love. You can be able to overcome these things on a daily basis. He says flee. That means once you live self-controlled and alert you can be able to sense on a daily basis what you don’t want to get involved in; what conversation you don’t want to get involved in at work, in the office, at home, in the church, what kind of people you don’t want to associate with. He says flee from the youthful desires which is the sexual desires that you had in the youthful nature.
And again I told you it’s very important for the married man if you are locked into some kind of sexual immorality year-in, year-out. It is not healthy for you. You can form groups of married men in church—accountability groups; that’s how it’s called. And you account to each other and say, “For me today I went and I really found out for example I was not attracted to my sex anymore.” You see you are beginning to pray and you are praying for each other and there is power in corporate prayer and fasting, and going to the mountain and all those things.
Hallelujah; not look at the Book of James chapter 5 verse 16; how to resist sexual temptation on a daily basis. Verse 16 of James chapter 5 says, “Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed.” Pray “The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective.” Now listen to this—this is the effective group I’m talking about. This is the accountability group I’m talking about. You can share with them. You can meet together and tell them you know what I have this problem brethren can you pray for me today? And many people, praying for you, calling your name to Jesus. You are praying for them and you are corporately walking together. And you are stronger. You are more protected because you are seeing things according to the eyes of the Holy Spirit. When one person drifts away there is correction. You can pray for them. You can call them. You can tell them according to Scripture— this is wrong. On a daily basis you can defeat sexual temptation.
Now listen to Psalm 119:11 to 13 how you can be able to overcome and resist sexual temptation on a daily basis, somebody I’m talking about this; how you can be able to resist. Let me start from verse 9 there. He says, “How can a young man keep his pure? By living according to your word. I seek you with all my heart; do not let me stray from your commands.” He is asking, “How can a young man that is supposed to be actually in the youth of his lusts and all that even keep his way straight? How can he keep from straying?” And He says, “By keeping your Word, somebody. Hallelujah; ok now that is what I was bring you to verse 11 to 13, he says, “I have hidden your word in my heart that I might not sin against you.” So one of the key things you want to use every day, every single day on a daily basis to fight sexual temptation— hide the Word of God in your heart; read the Word of God in the morning first thing. Hide it in your heart. That is a weapon to kill sexual temptation.
Hallelujah; I hide your Word in my heart that I may not sin against you. “Praise be to you, O LORD; teach me your decrees. With my lips I recount all the laws that…” Hallelujah; “…that come from your mouth.” You begin to recount it. You can now recite them. That means you are now living the Word of God. You can walk in the streets and you look at this one and say, “No I am not doing this because my body is the holy temple of the Holy Spirit.” You can look at this one; you are living the Word of God. You can now recount the Word of God. That means on a daily basis, you wake up in the morning. You look at your morning devotional Bible. You get the Word of God for the day. Hide in your heart; the Word that will protect you from sexual temptation. Hallelujah; listen to me somebody. This is absolutely beautiful. Freedom has come to the Christians in this nation. I am telling you now you know. If you have been lazy to read your Word in the morning, the Word of the Lord, this is the time to wake up and pick a Word and hide it in your heart. Tell the devil, “You ain’t touching me anyone. I have hidden the Word of God in my heart.” It is over with sexual sin in the church!
I have declared it is over now in the Name of Jesus. Now listen to the Word that you have hidden in the heart. Hebrews chapter 4 somebody; freedom has come to the House of the Lord. No more slavery to sexual sin. No more sijui AIDS caught me here because I fell here. Hallelujah; Hebrews chapter 4 you have hidden the Word of God in your heart; Hebrews chapter 4 verses 12 to 13, he says, “For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and the attitudes of the heart.” I keep it in my heart; Hallelujah; it is over! Hallelujah; if I keep the Word of God in my heart it is over with sin! He cannot allow me. Hebrews 4:12 to 13 read it in Swahili. Freedom has come to the House. It is over even the youth listening to me now. I am telling you no more sexual sin in this church.
The Blood of Jesus, the Blood of the Lamb, the Passover Lamb it did not pour for nothing. He poured for you so you can defeat sexual sin in this nation, even in church. How can you fall to sexual sin as if Jesus never died? The Blood of Jesus is so warm, so powerful and He said the Word of God is alike a double-edged sword amerarua His cutting board. Hey read it in Swahili; that is out there. Now look at that somebody, so these are the secrets that the Lord placed in the Bible that the devil has been hiding from you.
When people tell you, “O no, these days all men have fallen. We all fall.” The devil is a liar. That is another doctrine; another gospel. That is worshipping another god. Our God is a holy God. He has zero-tolerance to sin especially sexual sin. And you can see systematically I’m walking you through a process in which you can be able resist the devil on a daily basis in sexual sin. You can close the door. Somebody I have news, you can actually close the door of sexual sin. I was surprised when I saw the level of sexual sin in the church. That is one thing that has brought the church down completely. The church cannot even address it.
The servants even fear to preach it because they have fallen in one way or the other. But there is power somebody, there is power somebody. There is power in the Blood of Jesus. It is over today. I have news for today: There is power in the Word of God. Hallelujah; what a mighty Word. The Book of Hebrews; Hebrews we are still handling this. Hebrews 13 somebody—how you can resist sexual sin on a daily basis; the Living Word of God you are hiding it in your heart is helping you on a daily basis. He is judging the attitudes of men. He’s judging your minds. He’s judging your hearts; the hearts of your friends. He’s keeping you. You’re hiding the Word is like a double-edged sword.
Let us finish with one thing somebody; we just have to wrap up here. We have to close up here. The Book of Isaiah 26 after you have hidden the Word of God into your heart and now you are using the Word of God and it’s piercing, it’s cutting like a double-edged sword and yet every day you go to work, “Every time I see this woman, I tremble.” “Every time I see this man, I tremble.” All those things are troubling you. You have no peace. You don’t want your wife to come to work. You don’t’ want your wife to come to work. You don’t’ want your husband to come to work because there is a man that is looking at you. There is a woman that looks at you. You have no peace.
Hallelujah; Isaiah 26 verse 3, somebody, everybody go there. He says, “You will keep in perfect peace him whose mind is steadfast, because he trusts in you.” Hallelujah; you have kept the Word of God in your heart; the Living Word of God; He says He now bring peace because you have trusted in Him. Every morning you are reading the Word of God depositing in your heart. Now He brings you peace. He says my peace I give you. My peace I live you with. I give you my peace, not anyone’s peace. My peace I give you.
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