Your Desires

 

    When you are a Christian, God sanctified you to be His witness.  He made you clean.  When it comes to Him, you have a clean slate and nothing from before ever existed up to that point.  This mean you have the door wide open to change and it starts with your desires.  You are sexually pure.  The question is will you stay that way?

    Sexual purity comes from God.  His standards are higher than humanities.  That means everyone on some level will struggle with sexual desires.  It comes down to how you think about sex.  Any impure thought is the same as committing adultery.  It doesn't matter if you are married or not.  You have cheated on your future spouse and did not glorify God in the moment.  Sexual sin comes down to your desires that you feed with your thoughts.

    Satan loves using sexual immorality to get people to stumble.  He uses it to keep us from living out God's will that day.  If it becomes a pattern, then you are stepping away from God more everyday.  The only way to fight this is to dig into God's Word.  

    If you are a Christian, then your body is united with Jesus.  The Holy Spirit lives within you.  He encourages you to flee from sexual sin.  No one is exempt from falling into temptation.  You have to know what sexual immorality is to be able to flee from it.  Sexual immorality is committing adultery, not respecting roles in the family, defiling yourself, look lustfully, abandon yourself to shameful desires, or practicing impurity without shame.

    You will be tempted.  It is what you do with temptation that matters.  If you fall, then confess to God.  If you hurt someone else in the process, then do all you can to make it right with them after you make it right with God.  Repent your sinful desires and turn away from them like they never existed.  Jesus has given you everything you need to overcome your sinful desires and have victory over them.

Exodus 20:14, Leviticus 18:6-20, Matthew 5:27-30, Romans 1:24-27, 1 Corinthians 6:15-20, & Ephesians 4:17-19