Jesus Christ is my God!
Issued 23.01.2000
Defiled pleasure
The Master Lust is a deceitful slave-driver, who can tempt his victim to a trap with sweet but untruthful images. The Lord Jesus is the hero of the revolution of purity, who appeals to those enslaved by their lusts: "Slaves of sin rise in rebellion against the tyranny of lusts!" God will richly provide us with everything for our enjoyment. Glory to God who has created all good things!
Do not covet evil
!Man has good desires and bad lusts. Our needs are real, but our covetous fancies defile them. Hunger and thirst are our needs, but often our imagination adds something to them. A sexual desire is mostly based on our images, because the secretions of hormones are affected by our thoughts. Again hormones have an effect on our thoughts and they so give the basic direction to our lusts.
Selfish thoughts change a good desire to a bad lust. The collecting of covetous images leads to a vicious circle, which wraps more and more to the slavery of sensual pleasures.
God has given Jesus to covetous people that they would watch Him and be ashamed of their sensuality when they see His purity and unselfishness.Man's selfishness leads to collecting pleasures. The acceptance of a bad lust is often caused by the lack of a good model. Jesus is a powerful model. Take Him for an example!
Jesus can clean us and set us free from evil images. When one falls in love with God's purity, bad images break up and God gives new desires. God will gradually carry out these pure desires. In the light of God the object of a bad lust is seen worthless or unclean.
The knowledge, joy and peace which come from God give us a better satisfaction than a fulfilment of a bad lust. The pleasure of a sin is mainly suffering, when compared with the enjoyment given by Jesus. A married life with a good conscience is felt as a lovely enjoyment that has a blessing of God.
!Man has good desires and bad lusts. Our needs are real, but our covetous fancies defile them. Hunger and thirst are our needs, but often our imagination adds something to them. A sexual desire is mostly based on our images, because the secretions of hormones are affected by our thoughts. Again hormones have an effect on our thoughts and they so give the basic direction to our lusts.
Selfish thoughts change a good desire to a bad lust. The collecting of covetous images leads to a vicious circle, which wraps more and more to the slavery of sensual pleasures.
God has given Jesus to covetous people that they would watch Him and be ashamed of their sensuality when they see His purity and unselfishness.Man's selfishness leads to collecting pleasures. The acceptance of a bad lust is often caused by the lack of a good model. Jesus is a powerful model. Take Him for an example!
Jesus can clean us and set us free from evil images. When one falls in love with God's purity, bad images break up and God gives new desires. God will gradually carry out these pure desires. In the light of God the object of a bad lust is seen worthless or unclean.
The knowledge, joy and peace which come from God give us a better satisfaction than a fulfilment of a bad lust. The pleasure of a sin is mainly suffering, when compared with the enjoyment given by Jesus. A married life with a good conscience is felt as a lovely enjoyment that has a blessing of God.
Premarital intercourses
"I married this woman, but when I approached her, I did not find proof of her virginity." "If, however, the charge is true and no proof of the girl's virginity can be found, she shall be brought to the door of her father's house and there the men of her town shall stone her to death. She has done a disgraceful thing in Israel by being promiscuous while still in her father's house." Deut.22:14, 20-21
"Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a man commits are outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body." 1Cor.6:18 "Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires,... Because of these, the wrath of God is coming." Col.3:5
Jesus died for a sexually immoral person that he or she could get the forgiveness.
In early years everybody selects his ideals. If a son sees that his father is faithful to his mother, he also more easily respects girls and doesn't adopt the lustful attitude of his friends. If a daughter sees that her mother is faithful to her father, she more easily goes in search of a boy that would be a trustworthy lifelong companion. She surrenders to sexual intercourse not until after the wedding and she doesn't follow the example of her girl-friend who searches for only momentary pleasures.
Nowadays school, media and show business have more influence on young people than their fathers and mothers. Sex is used to sell what so ever and through it images are sown into the minds of millions of people building their attitude towards the other sex. Woe, how is youth contaminated!If only there would be a virgin girl for every young man and a virgin boy for every maiden!
"I married this woman, but when I approached her, I did not find proof of her virginity." "If, however, the charge is true and no proof of the girl's virginity can be found, she shall be brought to the door of her father's house and there the men of her town shall stone her to death. She has done a disgraceful thing in Israel by being promiscuous while still in her father's house." Deut.22:14, 20-21
"Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a man commits are outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body." 1Cor.6:18 "Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires,... Because of these, the wrath of God is coming." Col.3:5
Jesus died for a sexually immoral person that he or she could get the forgiveness.
In early years everybody selects his ideals. If a son sees that his father is faithful to his mother, he also more easily respects girls and doesn't adopt the lustful attitude of his friends. If a daughter sees that her mother is faithful to her father, she more easily goes in search of a boy that would be a trustworthy lifelong companion. She surrenders to sexual intercourse not until after the wedding and she doesn't follow the example of her girl-friend who searches for only momentary pleasures.
Nowadays school, media and show business have more influence on young people than their fathers and mothers. Sex is used to sell what so ever and through it images are sown into the minds of millions of people building their attitude towards the other sex. Woe, how is youth contaminated!If only there would be a virgin girl for every young man and a virgin boy for every maiden!
Adultery
"Do not have sexual relations with your neighbour's wife and defile yourself with her." Lev.18:20 "If a man commits adultery with another man's wife - with the wife of his neighbour - both the adulterer and adulteress must be put to death." Lev.20:10
"Marriage should be honoured by all, and the marriage bed kept pure, for God will judge the adulterer and all the sexually immoral." Heb.13:4
Jesus died for an adulterer and an adulteress so that they could get the forgiveness.
Nowadays marriage is honoured hardly at all. When people have not power to meet the shock of the adultery they try to unburden themselves by humour. This has led to cheapening of marriage. These people who are injured by adulteries have created the moral standard for the hole society according to their "soul care". What they have sown has succeeded well and produced fruit that is according to the seed, adulteries, divorces and remarriages.
Woe, how are marriages defiled! If only all children of the world would have faithful fathers and mothers!
"Do not have sexual relations with your neighbour's wife and defile yourself with her." Lev.18:20 "If a man commits adultery with another man's wife - with the wife of his neighbour - both the adulterer and adulteress must be put to death." Lev.20:10
"Marriage should be honoured by all, and the marriage bed kept pure, for God will judge the adulterer and all the sexually immoral." Heb.13:4
Jesus died for an adulterer and an adulteress so that they could get the forgiveness.
Nowadays marriage is honoured hardly at all. When people have not power to meet the shock of the adultery they try to unburden themselves by humour. This has led to cheapening of marriage. These people who are injured by adulteries have created the moral standard for the hole society according to their "soul care". What they have sown has succeeded well and produced fruit that is according to the seed, adulteries, divorces and remarriages.
Woe, how are marriages defiled! If only all children of the world would have faithful fathers and mothers!
Homosexuality and lesbianism
"Do not lie with a man as one lies with a woman; that is detestable." Lev.18:22
"If a man lies with a man as one lies with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They must be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads." Lev.20:13
"Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion." Rom.1:26-27
"Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders, nor ... will inherit the kingdom of God." 1Cor.6:9-10
Jesus died for a gay and for a lesbian so that they could get the forgiveness.
The secretion of hormones can be affected by powerful images. The direction of the natural sexual drive can change or it can be changed by medicine. From where does a man get the desire to be a woman or vice versa? It is a rebellion against Creator of man. It is an accusation against the face of God. Why did you make me like this?! Woe the nature that is changed unnatural! If only all mankind would give the honour to God for His deeds of creation!
"Do not lie with a man as one lies with a woman; that is detestable." Lev.18:22
"If a man lies with a man as one lies with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They must be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads." Lev.20:13
"Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion." Rom.1:26-27
"Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders, nor ... will inherit the kingdom of God." 1Cor.6:9-10
Jesus died for a gay and for a lesbian so that they could get the forgiveness.
The secretion of hormones can be affected by powerful images. The direction of the natural sexual drive can change or it can be changed by medicine. From where does a man get the desire to be a woman or vice versa? It is a rebellion against Creator of man. It is an accusation against the face of God. Why did you make me like this?! Woe the nature that is changed unnatural! If only all mankind would give the honour to God for His deeds of creation!
Sexual relations with animals
"Do not have sexual relations with an animal and defile yourself with it. A woman must not present herself to an animal to have sexual relations with it; that is a perversion." Lev.18:23
"If a man has sexual relations with an animal, he must be put to death, and you must kill the animal. If a woman approaches an animal to have sexual relations with it, kill both the woman and the animal. They must be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads." Lev.20:15,16
Jesus died for the person who has had sexual relation with an animal so that one could get the forgiveness.
All sexual lustfulness produces unclean things. Lust is like a drug that is needed stronger and stronger to get satisfaction. Some are falling into so big filth, ugh... Woe man sank to the level of an animal! If only the new heaven and the new earth would come soon. There all is good!
"Do not have sexual relations with an animal and defile yourself with it. A woman must not present herself to an animal to have sexual relations with it; that is a perversion." Lev.18:23
"If a man has sexual relations with an animal, he must be put to death, and you must kill the animal. If a woman approaches an animal to have sexual relations with it, kill both the woman and the animal. They must be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads." Lev.20:15,16
Jesus died for the person who has had sexual relation with an animal so that one could get the forgiveness.
All sexual lustfulness produces unclean things. Lust is like a drug that is needed stronger and stronger to get satisfaction. Some are falling into so big filth, ugh... Woe man sank to the level of an animal! If only the new heaven and the new earth would come soon. There all is good!
Jesus can cleanse you
Everybody is able to get the purity of Jesus Christ! "At one time we too were foolish, disobedient, deceived and enslaved by all kinds of passions and pleasures. We lived in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another. But when the kindness and love of God our Saviour appeared, He saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of His mercy. He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit." Titus.3:3-5
You are not able to clean yourself, but you can call on Jesus and He will do it!
Everybody is able to get the purity of Jesus Christ! "At one time we too were foolish, disobedient, deceived and enslaved by all kinds of passions and pleasures. We lived in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another. But when the kindness and love of God our Saviour appeared, He saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of His mercy. He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit." Titus.3:3-5
You are not able to clean yourself, but you can call on Jesus and He will do it!
The Bible version used in references is NIV