Sexual Integrity

Men’s Meeting 20 May 99

“ A MAN IS A SLAVE TO WHATEVER HAS MASTERED HIM........”

Sexual Sin (First time really teaching on this subject, so bear with me)

Many in this hour are spiritual slaves to the powers of lust,sex and perversions.

1. The powers of sex are totally taking over people in this hour

a. I would say this is a good subject for a men’s meeting

b. Christian men need to pay particular attention to these spirits, as to not be overcome by them.

c. Can ruin your life here on earth : spiritually, physically, mentally, etc.......

2. 2 Peter 2:19: .... For of whom a man is overcome , of the same is he brought in bondage.

a. In the world today their are a lot of people in bondage to the powers of sex.

b. Driven by sex devils, to the point of those powers taking over them even in their very will

2 Tim 2:26: And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will.

a. So these spirits even overcome the very will of the person.

b. The devil cannot take your will]

c. But he does have an influence over it if you let him Amen.

Romans 6:16: Know ye not , that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness.

1. Their is a such thing as spiritual bondage.

2. Sexual sin can be a bondage.

3. It drives people

3. First of all I believe that sex is suppose to be a Godly thing.

a. I believe it was created by God -Amen

b. He allows man a wife to participate in the creation of a new human being in which the Lord puts a human soul and spirit

c. Some people are brought up to believe that sex is “filthy” and that one should not think of those things or do those things.

d. But God is the Creator of sex. And to Him sex is not wrong or dirty.

1. When kept within the Biblical standards and principals.

4. But we live in a day where the word of God has been perverted in a lot of areas.

a. And this is one of the areas.

5. We must know that the engagement in sexual sin or habitual sexual sin is first and foremost a work of the flesh

Gal 5:19-21 says : Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, (20) Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, (21) Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which i tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

a. Demonic spirits, energize, provoke and work in these areas of the flesh to cause a person to be demonized.

b. The flesh must be put under the subjection of the spirit man and to the Word of God and the Holy Ghost.

c. The fleshy desires must be brought to the Cross of the Lord Jesus Christ and crucified and buried- Amen

1. This cannot be done in our own power in some cases. The Word and the Holy Ghost must be involved in cooperation with our wills.

2. The believer can however exercise their will over most problems of the flesh.

a. But if the person seems unable to overcome the sin

b. falls back into the sin repeatedly,

c. Or does not desire to be free from the sin

THEN DEMONIC PRESENCE CAN BE SUSPECTED. AMEN

d. Oftentimes repeated deliverance sessions are needed

1. Especially if the person has been in bondage to a particular area for a long time.

5. But there is probably no other area in the life of a believer where he is more vulnerable to spiritual attack that the area of his or her sexuality.

a. As I mentioned before sex and sexual feelings are God-given for the purpose of expressing covenant relationship between a husband and wife.

6. The word says that our bodies are members of Christ and not for immorality.

1Cor 6:13 : Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body

1Cor 6:15: Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid.

a. This is emphasizing the holiness and sanctification that should even be made manifest in our sexuality