VICTORY OVER  SEXUAL SINS

 

(Note: See teachings on “Sexual Perversions”; “Sexual Deviance”; “Filling of the Spirit”; “Works of the Flesh”; “Fruit of the Spirit”; “Walking by Faith”; “Overcome”; “Spiritual Warfare”.)

 

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:

1.     I Corinthians 6:18Flee fornication.

2.     I Corinthians 10:14 “Wherefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry:”

3.     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.”

4.     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:

1.     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).

2.     I Corinthians 2:5 “That your faith should not stand(eimi)in the wisdom of men, but(stand)in(eimi) the power of God.”

3.     I Corinthians 16:13 “Watch ye, stand fast(steko) in the faith, quit you like men, be strong.”

4.     Galatians 5:1Stand fast(steko) therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.”

5.     Ephesians 6:11 “Put on the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to stand(steko)the wiles of the devil.”

6.     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).

7.     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:”

8.     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.”

9.     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.”

10.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.”

11.II Thessalonians 2:15 “Therefore, brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye have been taught, whether by word, or our epistle.”

12.Hebrews 12:4 “Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.”

13.James 4:7 “Submit yourselves therefore to God.  Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.”

14.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. 

 

Conclusion: Galatians 5:16 “This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.”

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