VICTORY OVER SEXUAL SINS
NOTE...(See
other teachings: “Battle of the Mind”; “Filling of the
Spirit”; “Fruit of the Spirit”; “Holiness”; “Homosexuality”; “Human
Body”; “Masturbation”; “Nakedness”; “Overcome”; “Sexual Deviance”;
“Sexual Perversions”; Single Life of Celibacy”; “Spirit, Soul,
Body”; “Spiritual Warfare”; “Standing Your Ground”; “Tempt”;
“Temptation”; “Thoughts into Captivity”; “Try, Test”; “Walking by
Faith”; “Works of the Flesh”)
I Corinthians
6:15-20 “Know ye not that your bodies are the members of
Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the
members of an harlot? God forbid. What? Know ye not that the which
is joined to an harlot is one body? For two, saith he, shall be one
flesh. But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.
Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without
the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own
body. What? Know ye no that your body is the temple of the Holy
Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your
own? For ye are bought with a price; therefore glorify God in your
body, and in your spirit, which are God's,”
The word for “flee”
comes from the Greek word pheugo
meaning to flee away, take
flight, run from, run away, escape, to flee for refuge.
The words for “stand”
for 1) Greek word histemi
meaning to set, place; 2) Greek
word steko
meaning to stand firm; 3) Greek
word eimi
meaning to be; 4) Greek word anthistemi
meaning to set or place against.
The word for “resist”
comes from the Greek word anthistemi
meaning to set over against.
Things
from which we should
flee:
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I
Corinthians 6:18 “Flee fornication.”
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I Corinthians
10:14 “Wherefore, my dearly beloved, flee
from idolatry:”
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I Timothy
6:3-14, it states that we are to
“flee”
such things as “false doctrine,
questionings, strife of words,
envy, strife,
railings,
evil surmisings,
discontentment, and the love of
money.”
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II Timothy
2:22 “Flee also
youthful lusts: but follow
righteousness, faith,
love, peace, with them
that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.”
Things for which we are to
stand and resist:
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Romans
14:4 “Who are
thou that judgest another man's servant? To his own master he
standeth or faileth. Yea, he shall be holden up: for God is able
to make him stand
(steko).”
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I
Corinthians 2:5
“That your faith should not stand(eimi)in
the wisdom of men, but (stand) in
(eimi)
the power of God.”
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I
Corinthians 16:13
“Watch ye, stand fast
(steko)
in the faith, quit you like men, be strong.”
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Galatians
5:1 “Stand
fast (steko)
therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and
be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.”
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Ephesians
6:11 “Put on the whole armor of God, that ye may be
able to stand
(steko)the
wiles of the devil.”
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Ephesians
6:13 “Wherefore take unto you the whole armor of God,
that ye may be able to withstand
(anthistemi)
in the evil day, and having done all, to
stand(histemi).”
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Ephesians
6:14 “Stand
(histemi)therefore, having your loins girt about
with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness; and
our feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace; above
all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to
quench all the fiery darts of the wicked. And take helmet of
salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of
God: praying always with all prayer and supplication in the
Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and
supplication for all saints:”
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Philippians 1:27-28
“Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of
Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I
may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast
(steko)
in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of
the gospel; and in nothing terrified by your adversaries: which
is to them an evident token of perdition, but to you salvation,
and that of God.”
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Philippians 4:1 “Therefore, my brethren dearly
beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand
fast (steko)
in the Lord, my dearly beloved.”
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I
Thessalonians 3:7-8 “Therefore, brethren, we were
comforted over you in all our affliction and distress by your
faith: for now we live, if ye stand fast
(steko)
in the Lord.”
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II
Thessalonians 2:15 “Therefore, brethren,
stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye have
been taught, whether by word, or our epistle.”
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Hebrews
12:4 “Ye have not yet resisted
unto blood, striving against sin.”
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James 4:7
“Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist
the devil, and he will flee from you.”
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I Peter
5:9 “Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary
the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may
devour: whom resist stedfast in the faith,
knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your
brethren that are in the world.
Related Scriptures:
Genesis 39:7-23
“...And she caught him by his garment, saying, Lie with me: and
Joseph left his garment in her hand, and fled, and got him out...”
Galatians 5:16
“This I say then, Walk in
the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.”
II Corinthians 10:5
“Casting down imaginations, and every highthing that
exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into
captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ.”
Romans 12:1-2 “I
beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye
present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God,
which is yhour reasonable service. And be not conformed to this
world: but be ye tansformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye
may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of
God.” |