Overcoming The Giant Of Sexual Sin (1) - Eph. 5:3-4, 1thess. 4:3-4

    

Sexual purity is the least consecration that God demands if a man is going to stand in His presence or handle anything for God. Since this is the least demand of God for purity therefore, a man is not pure until he is sexually pure. The priest told David that for a man to eat of the show (hallowed) bread, the young men must have kept themselves 'at least' from women (1Samuel 21:4). This means that there are things of God that a man will not partake of for as long as there is sexual sin in the life of that man.

What is sexual sin? Sexual sin is any act, form or mode of sex outside a legitimate marriage   covenant.   It   is   called   fornication   between   an unmarried brother and sister (man and woman) while it is called adultery between a married man and woman.  Sexual sin is not just having intercourse. It includes every other activity/attitude that leads to sex. It involves any act either directly or indirectly that stirs up the emotions and sexual feelings between two persons towards each other. The deeds may actually lead to intercourse or not but it is still a sexual sin. These include masturbation, sexual fantasy, sexual words or oral sex e.t.c Also sexual sin can involve an individual alone when he/she engages his/her mind, thoughts or body to arouse sexual feeling.

Different acts of sexual sin
1.    Seductive dressing and appearances:  The people of the world dress for attraction, lust   and seduction. Dresses that show the part sexual part of the body like navel, cleavage, buttocks e.t.c they are seductive in nature and lead to sexual sin. Avoid them as a child of God.
2.   Pornography: Exposure to sex films, novels, articles, pictures and all sort of naked viewing.
3.   Sexual practices like romancing, pecking, kissing, hugging and fondling openly or secretly.
4.   Oral sex.
5.   Sexual words.
6.   Masturbation: This involves playing with the sexual part of the body with an aim to arouse the body.

Note  that  you  cannot  say  because  you  have  not  gone  into  the intercourse part does not mean you have not committed sexual sin. Some  people  say  I  have  not  committed  the  real  act.  No, don’t be deceived.
What sexual sin does for a man?

1.    It strips a man of his glory and strength (Gen. 3:7-8)
2.    It reduces a man to a piece of bread (Prov. 6:26-32)
3.    It opens a man to satanic attacks and operations.
4.    It opens doors for strange covenants and curses.
5.    Negative ancestral forces are activated against a man.
6.    It results in demonic oppressions.
7.    It reduces a man’s destiny, making him unfit for the highest calling.
8.    It breaks down the potency of your spirit and calling.

Beloved, if you have kept yourself from sexual sin until now, keep doing that and do it well till the end and if you are living in any form of sexual sin, let the Lord help you out of it. The pain that sexual sin will bring to your future is far greater than the pleasure that you will derive from it. Sin and especially sexual sin will make you to pay for more that you are prepared to pay.

Prayer: Father in the name of Jesus, I receive the grace to keep myself from every form of sexual sin and to keep my vessel in holiness in Jesus’ name.