Taught by ELIJAH!
Taught by ELIJAH!
3-OVERCOMING SEXUAL SIN, Friends, Family, and Ministers (Part #3)
This powerful life changing destiny altering series on "Overcoming Sexual Sin" is narrated and annotated by Sr Archbishop Louis Lupo. The series originates from the Oracles of THE LORD by ELIJAH, the Mega Prophet of God. The Message sends a searing rebuke to the present-day church kidnapped by sexual sin, and yet provides restorative solutions to Christians longing to separate out from the moral decay of this world, longing to be released form the prison of sexual sin.
No one could ever teach this type of Message anywhere on earth owing to the shortage in the House, before ELIJAH arrived. I could have started this glorious expedition with other anointed holy teachings, but this one is really needed by the church in the USA, and sets the table to feast on the river of delights from Heaven.
Psalm 36:7-9
How priceless is your unfailing love, O God! People take refuge in the shadow of your wings. They feast on the abundance of your house; you give them drink from your river of delights. For with you is the fountain of life; in your light we see light.
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Understanding the Consequences Of Sexual Sin
Romans chapter 1:21 He says, “21 For although they knew God, they neither glorified him nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened.” Verse 22 Romans 1 says, “22 Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools 23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.” This knowledge will be a very big piece of equipment for you to overcome sexual sin. Now you mark verse 24, He says, “24 Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another.” You see that God is willing to give you up when it comes to sexual sin.
The knowledge of the fact that God in the New Covenant of the LORD is willing to give you up when it comes to sexual sin that is a tool for you to choose against sexual sin. Now He’s repeating that when it comes to sexual sin, “I am your creator. No one can love you more than I that created you. But when it comes to sexual sin, I am willing to give you up—to surrender you to the sinful desires of your sexual lust.”
Verse 26, “26 Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged their natural relations for unnatural ones. 27 In the same way their men abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another.
Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves, for themselves, the due penalty for their perversion.” That is the second time God is saying He gave them up because of sexual sin. Verses 24 and 26 the Lord is able to give you up when it comes to sexual sin. Verse 26 He repeats it, that “when it comes to this matter here, I am still willing and able to surrender you; give you over to shameful lusts—to sexual sin.” Verse 28, “28 Furthermore, since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, He gave them over to a depraved mind,” three times He says “I can give you up.”
Three times; the wisdom of God; the knowledge of the fact that God can give you up is a tool for you to fear sexual sin and leave it alone. Let us go back to what we were reading. The Book of 1 Thessalonians chapter 4 we had come up to verse 6. And I just brought in the Book of Romans so you can understand that the wisdom and the knowledge of the Word of God regarding sexual sin is the tool number 1 for breaking the chains of sexual sin. If you know that “if I touch this fire it will burn me”, you will not touch it.The church did not have the wisdom and the knowledge that touching that fire will burn it. And she touched it and she’s burning now. Sexual sin is very deep in the church right now and burning also means missing the Lord because without holiness nobody sees the Lord.
So there is a deep need for the church to begin addressing the sin of sexual sin in the church. I wonder why you would even tolerate women dressing in lustful ways in the church. Let us stand up and rebuke sexual sin. Let us know that a church that receives sexual sin has invited death to the congregants. Verse 7 of 1 Thessalonians chapter 4 , verse 7 He says, “7 For God did not call us to be impure, but to live a holy life.” And he says, “8 Therefore, he who rejects this instruction does not reject men but God, who gives you his Holy Spirit.” When it comes to sexual sin here, He is giving you instruction that God called you to live a pure and a holy life. And He says, if you reject this, you have actually rejected Me.
Now listen to this, when it comes to sexual sin He says if you reject my instruction against sexual sin, you have actually rejected me; in other words I am done with you—you have not chosen me. So when you reject the instructions of the Lord when He is warning you, it is like fire. It always brings death —“Avoid that woman; avoid that man. Don’t be seduced by the cosmos, the world in them—the so called seductive beauty that he presents or she presents. He or she is death actually.” When you don’t follow the instruction of God towards sexual sin He says, actually you have rejected Me.
And now let us take it to the next level. How do you break off the chains of sexual lust? And we’ve just seeing in the Book of 1 Thessalonians chapter 4 that He is saying the first thing you need to do is to equip yourself with the knowledge of the consequence of falling into sexual sin. And we see that He speaks very clearly that if you don’t follow My instructions and you fall you have rejected Me. “Lord Jesus, I love Him”- and yet you are in sexual sin! And yet He says here if you fail to follow His instruction on this you have rejected Him. And He says it was His will, His plan, His blueprint, that you be sanctified even before you were created and be separated from sexual immorality.
Let us continue now, the Book of 1 Corinthians chapter 5; now we are looking at how to break the chains; resisting sexual temptations—how to close the door. 1 Corinthians chapter 5 verses 1 to 2 is sufficient for now. He says, “1 It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that does not occur even among the pagans: A man has his father’s wife. 2 And you are proud! Shouldn’t you rather have been filled with grief and have put out of your fellowship the man who did this kind of thing?” He is saying here very clearly that the way the enemy brought sexual immorality in the church is such that in the House of the Lord you find a kind of sexual immorality that you do not even see among the pagans. For example, we’ve been to places; we went to repentance like in Egerton when the students came out and said, “For us we’ve seen even homo sexuality at the altar into the church in the night”—the pagans don’t even do such a thing.
He says when it comes to sexual immorality you should be grieved like somebody has died. I want you to know that the LORD created you with a capacity to be able to know what is wrong and what is right. Whether you are born-again or not— what is right you know is right; what is wrong, you are aware this is wrong. Even the non-Christians, they have the fear of God. They know what the altar of God is and so they cannot do that. But the Christians have done it! They have brought girls to the pulpit; they have brought homo sexuality at the pulpit. So one of the main tools that you can use to break off the chains of sexual immorality is to be aware of the filth; of the rot and so you can be able to be grieved; so you can be able to live in grief when you look at just how bad it is in the eyes of God and you look at what the Lord is talking about and you compare with the non-Christians; you begin to grieve; you begin to mourn; you begin to cry for the church.
Tools for Overcoming Sexual Sin . . .
That is one of the main tools. And I’ll look at another tool which is called sensitivity; sensitivity in the Spirit. That means you are beginning to become sensitive. I am not just living for me; I am sensitive of what is happening in the House of the Lord; in the land; in the nation; on earth so I am separating from there. I am interceding from there. Millions of millions of Christians are locked in sexual sin; even the majority of the church. But before we go into repentance, let us make sure that we understand the gravity of how the LORD looks at it and the way out. And not just to repent and then go back to it; the kind of repentance David brought before the Lord until the Lord called him “This is the man after my own heart.”
Let us understand what did David arm himself with when he was going back to God, until he won the Heart of God. He took the Heart of God because of the way he went back to Him. But what did he arm himself with? Let us look at the Book of Psalms 51. The 51st Psalm; I’m going to give you some very important tools. Some of the tools are: prayer, spiritual solitude and physical solitude, and then fasting to kill the flesh; that you saw him talk about in 1 Corinthians chapter 6, the Word of God and the Holy Spirit and many others. We are heading there but for now I just want to bring you slowly in to how do you break the chains; how did David get out of those chains. How can you break those chains?
The 51st Psalm and I’m beginning from verse 1 all the way to 19, but I’m reading from verse 5 to verse 11. Look at what 5 says, “5 Surely I was sinful at birth, sinful from the time my mother conceived me. 6 Surely you desire truth in the inner parts; you teach me the wisdom in the innermost place. 7 Cleanse me with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow. 8 Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones that have crushed rejoice. 9 Hide your face from my sins and blot out all my iniquity. 10 Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.” Do you see the secret somebody? That means He’s talking very clearly here that sexual sin is something about the heart. That’s why the Lord said in Matthew chapter 5:27 that “whoever looks at a woman and lusts at her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.” It’s all about the heart!
And so He’s explaining to you very clearly here that if you want to start your way out of the way of the chains of sexual sin, let the Lord create in you a new heart. You cannot continue trying to mend here, do this; ask Him to give you a new heart because there is something called addiction. They get addicted to pornography; they get addicted to sexual sin; they are addicted to men; they are addicted to women; that addiction can only be broken by asking God to create in you a new heart, He is more than able. That is the beginning of breaking the chains. You cannot say clean 20% and leave for me 30%. It comes from the wisdom of knowing that it is time to tremble before God because God speaks death to sexual sin. And you see David’s crying out to him sincerely, genuinely. You cannot hide anything from our God. You may say “I’m a pastor, I’m clean or I’m a church member, I’m clean”. But the Lord knows your heart—you are lusting at that woman in church, you have fallen; you are lusting at that man in church, you have fallen.
The Lord knows every fiber of your heart. I am walking you very slowly the way out of sexual sin. Look at what He says verse 12 here, “12 Restore to me the joy of your salvation and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me.” Give me joy. If it is joy I was looking for from that woman and man, please can you give me the joy of your salvation so I will have joy unspeakable in your salvation. No woman, no man will replace that joy. That is the secret to breaking out.
If you are looking for joy from women ask God to fill you with the joy of salvation; joy unspeakable that you just sit and laugh. You just begin laughing and people think you are crazy. In Hebrew they call it, if you translate it, “carefree joy; carefree”—I don’t care anymore. I’m just joyful. I don’t care whether my fellow friends are going for beer in the evening. From work they are saying, you know what “I am going to meet my boyfriend in the beer garden” You don’t even care anymore about those things. You have carefree joy. I don’t care anymore. I am just joyful because the Lord Jesus has delivered me from those things. And your heart is full of joy because you know the joy of salvation; the joy of salvation coming into your heart. Asking the Lord to fill your hearts with the joy unspeakable— joy of salvation is one of the major keys to break out of the chain of sexual sin.
And verse 15 He says, “15 O Lord, open my lips, and my mouth will declare your praises.” So you may just begin to praise the Lord; just praising the Lord. Opening your mouth and praising the Lord and speaking the holy words of the Lord will definitely cleanse out your hearts because out of the abundance of the heart comes what you speak in your tongue. I’m telling you we are walking out of sexual sin. And I’m slowly walking you into how you can break the chains. And you begin to see that pouring out your heart to the Lord; being sincere with the Lord and telling Him Lord, “Please don’t look at my sins, I deserve death.” And this heart I have is a rotten heart. I want you to give me a new heart and fill that heart with the joy of salvation because sexual sin is addictive. I don’t want this old heart that likes sexual sin. I want a new heart and fill it with the joy of salvation to cause my lips to speak praises to you Lord.”
(Transcript part #3, "Overcoming Sexual Sin", Taught by ELIJAH)