Jesus Christ is my God!
Issued 21.02.1999
Created male and female
The relationship between a man and a woman is valuable, because through it new eternal creatures are born. Therefore marriage is so holy and every sin concerning it is a very bad thing in the eyes of God. When mankind doesn't honour God as Creator, it has fallen onto the level of animals in its sex life. Marriage is not respected because people are not aware of the reality of eternity.
Sexual life
A human being is divided into man and woman. Between them is the attraction that tries to unite them again to be one. That the attraction would get its fulfilment the selection of a mate is needed or the attraction must be rejected. When the selection has been made, the attraction keeps mates as one. Two persons start to grow together in their sensitive touching levels. In spite of this union they may feel an attraction to another person. There are reasons why to resist this temptation. Changing the mate hurts and prevents from experiencing the mature marriage.
The attachment to the mate gives strength to be faithful, but a marital unfaithfulness is however common. It is so because many have a wrong attitude to themselves as a man or a woman. The attitude of lustfulness creates a slaving relationship between sex partners. A person has an attitude to sexuality, which is a mental feature and not dependent on the hormonal activities. On the contrary it affects on the hormonal activity.
It is good to a person to adopt the attitude from the Bible. So a man can rejoice in his wife so much that he gets a desire to her through the joy. In the same way a wife can rejoice in her husband so that she wants to surrender to her husband. "May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth... May her breasts satisfy you always, may you ever be captivated by her love." Prov.5:18-19
There are two ways to a sexual satisfaction, the way of joy or lust. You can rejoice in your own mate. Don't "refresh" your married life with lustful means. Lustfulness inside a marriage tries insidiously to break the marriage. "That each of you should learn to control his own body in a way that is holy and honourable, not in passionate lust...." 1Thess.4: 4,5
So it is holy and honourable to rejoice in one's wife and one's husband. What about then if you haven't got a mate? Then you must get a hobby in which you can rejoice. When someone yields oneself to sexual lusts, he is bored in life and tries desperately to get some replacement of joy to his boring life. Lust house is not a real joy house. Those deeds that you do in your deep thoughts, affect the deeds of your body. If you change your attitudes, your future will be changed. A righteous one lives in the real joy house.
A human being is divided into man and woman. Between them is the attraction that tries to unite them again to be one. That the attraction would get its fulfilment the selection of a mate is needed or the attraction must be rejected. When the selection has been made, the attraction keeps mates as one. Two persons start to grow together in their sensitive touching levels. In spite of this union they may feel an attraction to another person. There are reasons why to resist this temptation. Changing the mate hurts and prevents from experiencing the mature marriage.
The attachment to the mate gives strength to be faithful, but a marital unfaithfulness is however common. It is so because many have a wrong attitude to themselves as a man or a woman. The attitude of lustfulness creates a slaving relationship between sex partners. A person has an attitude to sexuality, which is a mental feature and not dependent on the hormonal activities. On the contrary it affects on the hormonal activity.
It is good to a person to adopt the attitude from the Bible. So a man can rejoice in his wife so much that he gets a desire to her through the joy. In the same way a wife can rejoice in her husband so that she wants to surrender to her husband. "May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth... May her breasts satisfy you always, may you ever be captivated by her love." Prov.5:18-19
There are two ways to a sexual satisfaction, the way of joy or lust. You can rejoice in your own mate. Don't "refresh" your married life with lustful means. Lustfulness inside a marriage tries insidiously to break the marriage. "That each of you should learn to control his own body in a way that is holy and honourable, not in passionate lust...." 1Thess.4: 4,5
So it is holy and honourable to rejoice in one's wife and one's husband. What about then if you haven't got a mate? Then you must get a hobby in which you can rejoice. When someone yields oneself to sexual lusts, he is bored in life and tries desperately to get some replacement of joy to his boring life. Lust house is not a real joy house. Those deeds that you do in your deep thoughts, affect the deeds of your body. If you change your attitudes, your future will be changed. A righteous one lives in the real joy house.
Sexual desires
Man is able to determine, what he wants. These determinations are not made in practical situations, but decisions of desires have been formed in deep thoughts of heart during the fatal hours. In this way adopted attitudes order, how we react in practical situations. Heart's attitudes mean readiness to act in a certain way, when it comes a suitable situation for the attitude. There are attitudes that are inborn, adopted from environment or selected by oneself.
There is an inborn attitude for sexual desire, where a son doesn't feel any sex appeal to his mother, nor a brother to his sister, nor a daughter to her father, nor a sister to her brother. A lustful environment can affect in so abnormal way that also these healthy attitudes are changed. A wife is allowed to feel sex appeal to her husband. Other men are to her like fathers and brothers. In the same way a husband is allowed to look at his wife with a sexual desire. Other women are to him like mothers and sisters. This attitude must be selected by oneself, because environment brings up another kind of attitude.
A sexy woman, who uncovers her charms, doesn't really raise sisterly thoughts in the heads of men. "Do not lust in your heart after her beauty or let her captivate you with her eyes, for the prostitute reduces you to a loaf of bread, and the adulteress preys upon your very life. Can a man scoop fire into his lap without his clothes being burned? Can a man walk on hot coals without his feet being scorched? So is he who sleeps with another man's wife; no-one who touches her will go unpunished." Prov.6:25-29
You man, if a woman behaves decently, look at her like your sister. If she behaves temptingly, look at her as filthy. You can consider her unclean, though she looks sweet and clean, if you know the truth of lust.
Man is able to determine, what he wants. These determinations are not made in practical situations, but decisions of desires have been formed in deep thoughts of heart during the fatal hours. In this way adopted attitudes order, how we react in practical situations. Heart's attitudes mean readiness to act in a certain way, when it comes a suitable situation for the attitude. There are attitudes that are inborn, adopted from environment or selected by oneself.
There is an inborn attitude for sexual desire, where a son doesn't feel any sex appeal to his mother, nor a brother to his sister, nor a daughter to her father, nor a sister to her brother. A lustful environment can affect in so abnormal way that also these healthy attitudes are changed. A wife is allowed to feel sex appeal to her husband. Other men are to her like fathers and brothers. In the same way a husband is allowed to look at his wife with a sexual desire. Other women are to him like mothers and sisters. This attitude must be selected by oneself, because environment brings up another kind of attitude.
A sexy woman, who uncovers her charms, doesn't really raise sisterly thoughts in the heads of men. "Do not lust in your heart after her beauty or let her captivate you with her eyes, for the prostitute reduces you to a loaf of bread, and the adulteress preys upon your very life. Can a man scoop fire into his lap without his clothes being burned? Can a man walk on hot coals without his feet being scorched? So is he who sleeps with another man's wife; no-one who touches her will go unpunished." Prov.6:25-29
You man, if a woman behaves decently, look at her like your sister. If she behaves temptingly, look at her as filthy. You can consider her unclean, though she looks sweet and clean, if you know the truth of lust.
Pure attitudes
When the Bible says that you must repent, it means that you must abandon your wrong attitudes and adopt the attitudes of God. Jesus gives you power to your repentance, but He does not make it for you. You must do it yourself. This is your part in the salvation of your soul.
God's word is received through faith, but the faith without changing one's attitudes is the dead faith. If you admit that God is always right, it is the beginning of purification of your mind. If you believe that Jesus atoned the punishment of your sins, you regret and are terrified at your wrong attitudes. If you believe that God has revived Jesus, you appeal to Him and ask power to think with God's attitudes.
Changing your attitudes co-operation with God is an experience of freedom. Many fear that it is pressing, but they have believed the lies of Devil. To live for your lusts is pressing, though it is marketed as freedom, joy and heavenly pleasure. A lust is uncontrolled desire. It is like a cancer that forces aside the healthy life.
You can overcome your lusts, though it is sometimes difficult. Bad lusts need to be replaced with good desires. The sexual enjoyment at its best is not a heavenly experience! Jesus Christ gives much more enjoyment and happiness. In Him you are saved from evilness and you have access to immortality and eternal life. He is the source of life and abundance. He wants to give us one good desire. It is the desire to see God from face to face. "I am the way and the truth and the life. No-one comes to the Father except through me." John.14:6
When the Bible says that you must repent, it means that you must abandon your wrong attitudes and adopt the attitudes of God. Jesus gives you power to your repentance, but He does not make it for you. You must do it yourself. This is your part in the salvation of your soul.
God's word is received through faith, but the faith without changing one's attitudes is the dead faith. If you admit that God is always right, it is the beginning of purification of your mind. If you believe that Jesus atoned the punishment of your sins, you regret and are terrified at your wrong attitudes. If you believe that God has revived Jesus, you appeal to Him and ask power to think with God's attitudes.
Changing your attitudes co-operation with God is an experience of freedom. Many fear that it is pressing, but they have believed the lies of Devil. To live for your lusts is pressing, though it is marketed as freedom, joy and heavenly pleasure. A lust is uncontrolled desire. It is like a cancer that forces aside the healthy life.
You can overcome your lusts, though it is sometimes difficult. Bad lusts need to be replaced with good desires. The sexual enjoyment at its best is not a heavenly experience! Jesus Christ gives much more enjoyment and happiness. In Him you are saved from evilness and you have access to immortality and eternal life. He is the source of life and abundance. He wants to give us one good desire. It is the desire to see God from face to face. "I am the way and the truth and the life. No-one comes to the Father except through me." John.14:6
Three reasons to confess your sins
Bill Clinton has confessed his sins and said that he has repented of the adultery. The obvious reason for this confession is the fact that he fears the judgement of people. I hope that he has a better reason to say: "I did wrong!" Adultery is a sin against God. An adulterer has the reason to fear the judgement of God. There is also the third reason to confess your sins. It is the best one.
Jesus proved God's love for a sinner when He suffered on the cross God's punishment for a sinner. If somebody receives this love, he confesses his sins to God for the sake of the love in Jesus
The confession that is given because you acted under constraint does not usually turn out to be sincere. God stands far away from mankind for the reason that a man could be able to repent voluntarily.
Sin is a very bad thing, because it needs the death of the innocent Jesus so that God could forgive us. Many have feared the judgement of God and this experience has opened their hearts to listen to the gospel of Jesus. The fear of people has produced a lot of the religious pretenders.
Confess your sins to God for the sake of his love. "If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness." 1John.1:9
Bill Clinton has confessed his sins and said that he has repented of the adultery. The obvious reason for this confession is the fact that he fears the judgement of people. I hope that he has a better reason to say: "I did wrong!" Adultery is a sin against God. An adulterer has the reason to fear the judgement of God. There is also the third reason to confess your sins. It is the best one.
Jesus proved God's love for a sinner when He suffered on the cross God's punishment for a sinner. If somebody receives this love, he confesses his sins to God for the sake of the love in Jesus
The confession that is given because you acted under constraint does not usually turn out to be sincere. God stands far away from mankind for the reason that a man could be able to repent voluntarily.
Sin is a very bad thing, because it needs the death of the innocent Jesus so that God could forgive us. Many have feared the judgement of God and this experience has opened their hearts to listen to the gospel of Jesus. The fear of people has produced a lot of the religious pretenders.
Confess your sins to God for the sake of his love. "If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness." 1John.1:9
Porn leads to perversion
Animals are captured with a bait. Same kind of trap is included in porn. An animal believes that it will take pleasure when it sees a bait, but after tasting a little, it notices that the pleasure is deceit. A lusting man believes that he will be satisfied but he becomes a slave to his lusts. Why especially men are so interested in staring at sexy women? It is normal, you say. But is it? Their eyes ask for it.
It is not the desire of a physical eye but the lust of the mental eye one has got oneself. Natural sexual desire and unnatural lustfulness are often mixed with each other. Therefore so many get into their eyes the spirit of sexual immorality in the name of naturalness. To worship feminine beauty is idolatry. We can look at a pretty woman and thank God for her, but even one worshipping glance at a beauty, and you can get the spirit of sexual immorality into you. All idolatry can make you to be a participant with demons.
Everybody can recognize, what is the difference between the sexual pleasure of a married couple and the pleasure of masturbation. Clean married life is beautiful. Immorality is selfish and ugly. The word "porn" comes from Greek word "porneia" and it is translated into the English Bible with the word "sexual immorality" that generally is the first item in many lists of sins. "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
He who surrenders to his lusts needs more and more stronger stimulants so that he would get satisfaction. This way leads some persons to behave as paedophiles or to become other perverse pleasure-lovers. "With eyes full of adultery, they never stop sinning." 2Pet.2:14 . Many have searched for happiness and they have not found but are trapped by immorality. Jesus promises that it is possible to get out of you that kind of inner eye and to throw it away. "But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart. If your right eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell." Matth.5:28-29
With what kind of eye are you looking at the world? Oh boy! Looking with God's eye all looks so different!. The Spirit and life that Jesus has given to me has brought satisfaction to my heart. I don't need necessarily anything else. His grace is sufficient for me. When I have seen even in a flash the brightness of Jesus Christ, there is no need to worship a creature.
Look at the Lamb of God, crucified for your sins! Even one worshipping glance at Jesus Christ and you can get the Spirit of God into you. "But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us." Rom.5:8 "Who has bewitched you? Before your eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed as crucified. I would like to learn just one thing from you: Did you receive the Spirit by observing the law, or by believing what you heard?" Gal.3:1-2
The Creator is always more than his creature. If a woman can be very beautiful, how beautiful is He who created her? Don't be satisfied with replacements of God! With eyes full of Jesus, you cannot start sinning. Then you will be happy and you will get real life.
Animals are captured with a bait. Same kind of trap is included in porn. An animal believes that it will take pleasure when it sees a bait, but after tasting a little, it notices that the pleasure is deceit. A lusting man believes that he will be satisfied but he becomes a slave to his lusts. Why especially men are so interested in staring at sexy women? It is normal, you say. But is it? Their eyes ask for it.
It is not the desire of a physical eye but the lust of the mental eye one has got oneself. Natural sexual desire and unnatural lustfulness are often mixed with each other. Therefore so many get into their eyes the spirit of sexual immorality in the name of naturalness. To worship feminine beauty is idolatry. We can look at a pretty woman and thank God for her, but even one worshipping glance at a beauty, and you can get the spirit of sexual immorality into you. All idolatry can make you to be a participant with demons.
Everybody can recognize, what is the difference between the sexual pleasure of a married couple and the pleasure of masturbation. Clean married life is beautiful. Immorality is selfish and ugly. The word "porn" comes from Greek word "porneia" and it is translated into the English Bible with the word "sexual immorality" that generally is the first item in many lists of sins. "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
He who surrenders to his lusts needs more and more stronger stimulants so that he would get satisfaction. This way leads some persons to behave as paedophiles or to become other perverse pleasure-lovers. "With eyes full of adultery, they never stop sinning." 2Pet.2:14 . Many have searched for happiness and they have not found but are trapped by immorality. Jesus promises that it is possible to get out of you that kind of inner eye and to throw it away. "But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart. If your right eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell." Matth.5:28-29
With what kind of eye are you looking at the world? Oh boy! Looking with God's eye all looks so different!. The Spirit and life that Jesus has given to me has brought satisfaction to my heart. I don't need necessarily anything else. His grace is sufficient for me. When I have seen even in a flash the brightness of Jesus Christ, there is no need to worship a creature.
Look at the Lamb of God, crucified for your sins! Even one worshipping glance at Jesus Christ and you can get the Spirit of God into you. "But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us." Rom.5:8 "Who has bewitched you? Before your eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed as crucified. I would like to learn just one thing from you: Did you receive the Spirit by observing the law, or by believing what you heard?" Gal.3:1-2
The Creator is always more than his creature. If a woman can be very beautiful, how beautiful is He who created her? Don't be satisfied with replacements of God! With eyes full of Jesus, you cannot start sinning. Then you will be happy and you will get real life.
AIDS
Aids means that someone has lost one's immunity against diseases, and this has opened gates to one's body. What about your immunity against God, so that He has not a way to your heart? His presence doesn't affect you, though evidences of Him surround you everywhere. Also many pathogens surround us all the time, but we don't become ill, because we have resistance to diseases. It is to your health if you have immunity against diseases, but it is to your death, if you have immunity against God.
Sexual immorality has given Aids a good possibility to conquer a lot of people. In the spreading of the disease gays and lesbians have had the obvious important part. The Bible says about them: "God gave them over to shameful lusts. 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
Why gave God them over to the shame? "For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles." Rom.1:21-23
This description fits to the theory of evolution. Homo sapiens (=wise man) worships nature as his god. When evolutionists pronounce that nature has evolved by itself, they make themselves immune against the evidences that in nature prove the existence of God. "For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities - His eternal power and divine nature - have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse..." Rom.1:20
Many persons try to excuse themselves and say that they don't worship God, because they have not noticed any proof of God. Schools have promoted unnatural qualities in the minds of children, when they have taught to see nature without the Creator. Become wise, you who are educated into foolishness! Lose your immunity against God!
What is also a medicine for Aids? Give the glory to God as the Creator! Give thanks to God for His deeds and worship Him, who has planned and implemented the fine systems of your body. Confess that you earn the death penalty because of your godlessness. If you have lost your immunity against God, you will hear the gracious words of God in Jesus Christ. You will get the heavenly infection.
"We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to his own way; and the Lord has laid on Him (=Jesus) the iniquity of us all. He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering. Like one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely he took up our infirmities and carried our sorrows, yet we considered him stricken by God, smitten by Him, and afflicted. But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed." Isaiah.53:6 and 3-4
It is easy for him who repents his sins, to identify with the suffering Christ and experience that Jesus died for me. Do you want to meet Him, who once loved you by suffering the punishment of God instead of you? Maybe no doctor can help you. No church or congregation can save your soul. However your situation is not hopeless. Jesus is receiving 24 hours a day. Only one word from Him and you are saved! Only He has the power to forgive you and heal your disease, because He has paid the costs of God's mercy.
Aids means that someone has lost one's immunity against diseases, and this has opened gates to one's body. What about your immunity against God, so that He has not a way to your heart? His presence doesn't affect you, though evidences of Him surround you everywhere. Also many pathogens surround us all the time, but we don't become ill, because we have resistance to diseases. It is to your health if you have immunity against diseases, but it is to your death, if you have immunity against God.
Sexual immorality has given Aids a good possibility to conquer a lot of people. In the spreading of the disease gays and lesbians have had the obvious important part. The Bible says about them: "God gave them over to shameful lusts. 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
Why gave God them over to the shame? "For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles." Rom.1:21-23
This description fits to the theory of evolution. Homo sapiens (=wise man) worships nature as his god. When evolutionists pronounce that nature has evolved by itself, they make themselves immune against the evidences that in nature prove the existence of God. "For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities - His eternal power and divine nature - have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse..." Rom.1:20
Many persons try to excuse themselves and say that they don't worship God, because they have not noticed any proof of God. Schools have promoted unnatural qualities in the minds of children, when they have taught to see nature without the Creator. Become wise, you who are educated into foolishness! Lose your immunity against God!
What is also a medicine for Aids? Give the glory to God as the Creator! Give thanks to God for His deeds and worship Him, who has planned and implemented the fine systems of your body. Confess that you earn the death penalty because of your godlessness. If you have lost your immunity against God, you will hear the gracious words of God in Jesus Christ. You will get the heavenly infection.
"We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to his own way; and the Lord has laid on Him (=Jesus) the iniquity of us all. He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering. Like one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely he took up our infirmities and carried our sorrows, yet we considered him stricken by God, smitten by Him, and afflicted. But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed." Isaiah.53:6 and 3-4
It is easy for him who repents his sins, to identify with the suffering Christ and experience that Jesus died for me. Do you want to meet Him, who once loved you by suffering the punishment of God instead of you? Maybe no doctor can help you. No church or congregation can save your soul. However your situation is not hopeless. Jesus is receiving 24 hours a day. Only one word from Him and you are saved! Only He has the power to forgive you and heal your disease, because He has paid the costs of God's mercy.
The Bible version used in references is NIV