The Dark Secret Behind FORNICATION

How is it that a person who wants to walk in alignment with God crucify their flesh so that they don't have the urges to fornicate? I think we talk about sin a lot um in the body of Christ, but I think that we normalize fornication. What religion did and I think this is where we had our our biggest mistake. Religion made us get into behavior modification. So basically, okay, I know this is wrong, but I still got this desire. I still feel pulled to this. I feel I still want this. One of the things I learned because I used to be a fornicator deep into it and it's really idolatry. Realistically speaking is is the core of it is idolatry. But when I was in it, nobody I didn't have enough word in me to stop. So my flesh had more words um with words that I've spoken over myself, words of my parents, people that spoken into my life. I had more words in me, but I didn't have the word in me. David said, "I took your word and I stored it within my heart so that I would not sin against you." So, one, the desire never leaves. You know, I've been absent in 12 years by the grace of God. The desire never leaves. You know, especially if you have uh given in to the desire before, the desire never leaves. And I I know people that are virgins and they still have the desire because that's the fallen nature. Desire never leaves. Matter of fact, it's not even bad to to have the desire, right? It's a it's bad to have the desire to go outside of God's will. Um because sex is a natural thing between a husband and a wife. and the desires there for your spouse. But we in order to crucify it, you have to ignore it. And in this you that you have to be careful what you take in. Um if you listen to certain music, it's going to encourage it. It's going to speak words. And I always say words are nothing but spells. Realistically speaking, this where we get the word spelling. So if I'm listening to R. Kelly, I'm listening to it. >> I never thought about that. >> Yes. And I'm like it I'm what I'm doing is I'm putting a spell on myself because as I'm listening to the music it's taking me into a certain emotion. It's giving me thoughts. The Bible says cast down imaginations and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God and bring every thought captive to the obedience of Christ. Well, if I'm not casting it down or if I'm listening to R. Kelly, if I'm listening to music that tells me, right? So now I'm taking their imagination and so when it comes down for example to R. Kelly's lyrics, that's a spell. When you're listening to music, it's a spell. All it is is like music, especially on music, is nothing but witchcraft put to a beat. That's it. Because this is what witches do. They chant. And so what you do or what they're doing is they create a rhythm to it, which helps your imagination to hold it a lot longer. And then to get it into your heart, the very heart God told you to guard. And so when you're doing that, it brings you into an emotion. It brings you into a feeling. And it feels right. And everything that feels right, you want to explore a little bit deeper. This is why a lot of people when they're trying to avoid fornication, for example, they will say, "I'm not going to do anything with him. I'm just going to go over to his house and we're just going to hang out." But once they get over there, it's not wise because once they get over there, there's going to be a feeling he's saying the right things. I want to sit closer. And then once they get closer, even though they told themselves in the car, I'm not going to do anything. Um, once they get closer, touch hands, it feels good. I want to go deeper. Um, and then once the kiss goes in, I want to go deeper. And that's what happens is you're lured into it by your own imagination or even those words, the words in the music or what have you. So, all of these things are the things that cause us to uh get pulled into us. All of these things that tell keep keep us um pouring into it, feeding it, and once it's fed, it starts to have this greater hunger. It's very similar to when you think about obesity. Um, I was obese and one of the things that I was struggling with was a thought. It always started off as a thought. You know, I get up in the morning and typically I had a pattern. I'm going work this, this, this, and this. But then I have a thought, you should eat this. And the thought would dominate. It would take over. I couldn't work on anything else until I fed that thing. That's what lust does. This is why a lot of people even after they uh they've done the thing, they feel guilt immediately after, you know, because now that they fed it, there's that clarity. There's that uh all of a sudden that spirit has been fed and the flesh has been fed and now it just kind of settles down. It doesn't die. It just takes a nap. >> This going to sound crazy, but I look at things as though it's not a person themselves, but certain behaviors. I'll be like, that's a deep >> Yeah. And so I've never thought about it when it comes to food though where it's like no your appetite like obviously when we say oh I mean I I really would say that discipline more so than anything discipline on a earthly realm we would call that discipline but on a spiritual realm is like dominion over something like no I'm casting down this appetite but it's like on the earthly realm it's like you look at food as something that's so innocent. You know what I'm saying? And and I've heard so many people say, I'm going to get back to the the lesson of fornication, but I've heard so many people say, "Oh, well, God knows my heart. God knows my heart." You know what I'm saying? But they still fornicate. Oh, I'm going to heaven cuz God knows my heart. But it's like something I don't want to say a sin that's so simple because it's really not simple when you look at the word. It's not a simple thing, but we look at it as so normalized that we don't look at it as a sin anymore. >> It's been it's been made a culture here to have boyfriend, girlfriend, people shacking up. And the more a thing is uh fed, the more celebrity it becomes. Um that means it's been celebrated. So then it becomes uh it starts to be mildly celebrated until it becomes culture, until it becomes normalized. And the root word of culture is cult. So that mean when you start having a large group of people, you have a a lot of people getting into that it they become cultlike. Even though they may not know each other, they can be living all around the place, they become cultlike wherein they start to adhere to c certain principles. And um principles are the seats of principalities. So anytime anything is normalized, then there's a principality, a spirit, a a high ranking spirit that starts to rule over that. And it's going to have more principles that you start to see integrated like witchcraft. Whenever you start seeing uh let's say the breakdown of the family, witchcraft is inedible, inedible. Whenever you start seeing uh families uh where or you start seeing fornication, you start seeing like children born outside of wedlock. When that becomes culture, you're going to start seeing more witchcraft because things begin to fall apart. And we're on this journey trying to become whole again genuinely every time. Like when you going out there chasing, you know, a lot of single women chasing relationships. A lot of people chasing just uh maybe platforms, they're chasing money, they're chasing power, but it is really a desire to be made whole again. It's just that hunger within is the desire to get back to the place that we fell from. But lust is that desire within. That flesh that that that thing that was fed that says continue to feed me and I am your God. That's what the flesh wants. The flesh wants to be your God. Your flesh wants to rule over. So you're dealing with in within the human being, you're dealing with two. So you're dealing with polytheism. You're having to fight down polytheism, which is a desire to have another god at the same time while serving Yahweh. And so that's all lust is is the fight between the spirit and the flesh. The the flesh is what brings us to lust. The flesh is what has those ungodly desires, the things that Satan put into us or what have you. So that's all it is. It's just basically a desire to make your flesh allow your flesh to take the front seat when it's supposed to be in the back seat.

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