Flee From Sexual Sin – Part 1

 Words of Encouragement

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Flee From Sexual Sin part 1

Dear brothers, 

We live in a world that glorifies sex and sexual identity. It’s everywhere, its celebrated and if you do not hold on to the Lord and seek Him in reading your bible and living it out, you may get lost in this culture and as a consequence it’s easy that your identity, dear brother, becomes wrapped up in sexual desires and sex idolatry becomes your identity. 

My intention is not to step on your toes but to highlight the need to flee and run away from sexual sin. Why go through what Samson went through and lose everything for a pretty face and a good time? Why lose your promise from the Lord for indulgence and short term pleasure then receive the long term wages of that sin? 

Judges 16: 1 (GNT)

One day Samson went to the Philistine city of Gaza, where he met a prostitute and went to bed with her.

Judges 16: 4-5 (GNT)

After this, Samson fell in love with a woman named Delilah, who lived in Sorek Valley. The five Philistine kings went to her and said, “Trick Samson into telling you why he is so strong and how we can overpower him, tie him up, and make him helpless. Each one of us will give you eleven hundred pieces of silver.”

It seems Samson was a man who indulged himself when it came to sex—a Cassanova of sorts. It seems that this sin had taken over his life, he was a slave to sexual sin and liked Philistine women contrary to Jewish Culture. 

You may know the rest of the story, my point is that sexual sin is not your friend, it is a terrible tyrant that will eventually finish you off. Whether it is a gradual scenic descent into the pit or a fall off the cliff, the result is the same—you will be in that pit. Sexual conquest and promiscuity are championed in today's society. When people learn that you are “single” for a season, they will encourage you to move on and get many new partners until you find the right one. Needless to say this is a bad move. 

Whilst modern culture has lied to us that doing this is liberating and finding yourself. People who have studied the “hook up” culture say the opposite is true. They have found that people who sleep around and have many sexual partners are more likely to be anxious and depressed than people who do not sleep around. They studied that and came to the same conclusion as the Bible—it's bad for you. This is consistent with what happens to King Solomon, who had hundreds of wives and concubines—the epitome of indulging sexual lusts and desires—yet he was a miserable old man as he pens Ecclesiastes. 

Ecclesiastes 2: 9-1 (1GNT)

Yes, I was great, greater than anyone else who had ever lived in Jerusalem, and my wisdom never failed me. Anything I wanted, I got. I did not deny myself any pleasure. I was proud of everything I had worked for, and all this was my reward. Then I thought about all that I had done and how hard I had worked doing it, and I realized that it didn't mean a thing. It was like chasing the wind—of no use at all.  After all, a king can only do what previous kings have done. 

2 Timothy 2:22

Flee from youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, together with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

You do not need to experiment this for yourself. I encourage you to flee. Commit yourself to getting help if you have a lifestyle of promiscuity, tempted to engage in the sexual perverse culture of the day; if you have a problem with masturbation, pornography addiction, attend orgies or in same sex relationships. Repent and seek Godly help. Cry out to God to show you the way out.

The Word of God’s advice is that this is a sin living in us, which needs to be removed. If sexual sin controls your passions, your spirit, your body and dominates your life it will reign over you like a dictator and the destination is ruin. One problem you will continue to have if you do not get out of this sinful lifestyle is that it will block your prayers, and you will be wandering the desert like the children of Israel did for 40 years until you are ready to leave this sin. The time to leave it is now! I encourage you again to get help, do not be ashamed, do not be too proud like I used to be. Freedom is possible! Chastity is possible! We are not of this world or it’s culture— we are citizens of heaven with a Holiness culture not a hookup culture. 

Romans 6:12-14 

Sin must no longer rule in your mortal bodies, so that you obey the desires of your natural self. Nor must you surrender any part of yourselves to sin to be used for wicked purposes. Instead, give yourselves to God, as those who have been brought from death to life, and surrender your whole being to him to be used for righteous purposes. Sin must not be your master; for you do not live under law but under God's grace.

~ Tad RESTORED in Australia

If you haven't already done so, please take a moment to read my testimony and then my wife's encouragement.

Tad RESTORED in Australia

Also, here are the previous letters from prior months that I hope will inspire you in your Journey.