3. Positive
confession and having determination.
This is another common thing people try to do
when tackling sexual addiction. This may work for sometime but not for too
long. Do you know why? The arm of flesh will fail. Once your confidence is in
the flesh or yourself, it will not last (Philippians 3:3). That is why people make New Year resolutions and
few days into the year they have broken the resolution.
The Truth
That Sets Free
I know the question in your heart is, if these
are not the solutions what then is the way out? What I am about to share with
you is what set me free, and I know it will set you free. Jesus said ‘And you shall know the truth and the truth
shall make you free’ John 8:32. What Jesus is simply saying here is that,
truth has the capacity to make someone free. You need to understand that as
simple as the gospel is, it has enough power to set people free from the
bondage of sin.
Salvation is a compound word which means deliverance, preservation,
and safety. Paul the apostle said that gospel is the power of God unto
salvation Romans 1:16. Which means the gospel has the power to bring
deliverance even the book of Proverbs says “…but
through knowledge shall the just be delivered” (Proverb 11:9). This means
there is a deliverance that comes not by someone’s prayer but by being exposed
to the TRUE GOSPEL.
Every child of God can defeat the world, and our faith is what gives
us this victory. No one can defeat the world without having faith in Jesus as
the Son of God. I John 5:4-5
What are the things in the world that we can defeat if we have faith
in Jesus Christ?
“Do not love the world, nor the things in the world. If anyone loves
the world, the love of the Father is not in him, because all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh,
and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is
of the world.”1Jn 2:15 -16
The question is, do you believe in Jesus Christ? Do you believe in His
word? Or you believe in your experience more than what the Bible says? The
Bibles says we can defeat lust or any addiction and what does the job is our
faith; which is believe in Jesus and acting on His word.
The Cross Of Jesus
Your deliverance from sexual sin starts from you
taking God by His word. You must not believe in your past or experience neither
must you believe in your feelings. The enemy is aware of the fact that though
the gospel is simple, it is still powerful that is why he tries to make us
compromise the gospel or to remove the power in the cross by replacing it with
something else. Once the power of the gospel has been removed, it cannot
produce God’s desired result. It is sadder to note that the people the devil uses
to do damage to the gospel of Christ are the preachers.
“Christ did not send me to
baptize people but to preach the Good News. And he sent me to preach the Good
News without using words of human wisdom so that the cross of Christ would not
lose its power” 1 Corinthians 1:17 (New
Century Version)
Paul
the apostle laid it bare that when the gospel is preached with human wisdom, it
will be robbed of its power.
“For the message about Christ's death on the cross is nonsense to
those who are being lost; but for us who are being saved it is God's power. As
for us, we proclaim the crucified Christ, a message that is offensive to the
Jews and nonsense to the Gentiles; but for those whom God has called, both Jews
and Gentiles, this message is Christ, who is the power of God and the wisdom of
God.”1
Corinthians 1:18, 23-24 (Good News Bible)
The power of the gospel is the preaching of the
cross. This is the gospel that the enemy does not want the church to preach
today, because this is what brings transformation of lives. The solution to the
world problem is inside the gospel; Jesus is the answer for the struggle of the
world today. There is no solution to being free from sexual addiction or any
addiction except in Christ Jesus.
To be continued…
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