THE CHOICE AND THE CHALLENGE
(TEACHING 4 – Point Two)
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Goal – Becoming Mature In Christ
…But Solid Food Is For The Mature Who By Constant Use Have Trained Themselves
To Distinguish Good From Evil…
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A Name Of Our God
He Is The God Of Our Life
By Day The Lord Directs His Love
At Night His Song Is With Me
A Prayer To The God Of My Life
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Point Two
The Purpose Of Our Sex Drive
Is To Push Us Towards Relationship
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Questions
Is It O K?
Is It Just Normal?
Is Masturbation Sin?
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Why Do We Turn To It
Because
It Feels Good – It Gives Us Pleasure
And Why Do We Turn To It
It Is A Form Of Comfort
An Escape From Loneliness (in our Hearts)
To Help Release Tension
To Help With Anxiety
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Fact for Men
From Early Adolescents
They Know And Understand The Relationship
Between
Masturbation And Sexual Fantasy
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The Reality Is That Masturbation Is Often Interwoven With Lust
They Often Feed Off Of Each Other
Add Pornography
And
It Multiplies The Intensity Of The Experience Many Times
This Is The Reason Experts Call Porn On The Internet
The Crack Cocaine Of Sexual Addiction
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Masturbation Often Ends In Feeling Of
Shame – Guilt – Fear – Condemnation – Rejection – Self Hatred
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When I Was A Child
I Talked Like A Child
I Thought Like A Child
I Reasoned Like A Child
When I Became A Man
I Put Childish Ways Behind Me
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Reality Check
- Masturbation Is A Sexual Act
- If Allowed To Become A Habit – It Can/Will Greatly Influence Our Sexuality
- It Can Develop Into An Addiction That Is Extremely Difficult To Break
- Without The Blood of Jesus and Help Of The Holy Spirit
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The Chains Of A Habit Are Too Weak To Feel
Until They Are Too Strong To Be Broken.
Samuel Johnson
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Now I Want To Speak To You About
Your Mind
Reality Check
The Biggest Sex Organ In Your Body Is Your Mind
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It Is Also The Biggest Battlefield
And What Are We Battling Against
It’s Any Lustful Fantasy
And /Or
Whatever You Let Your Eyes Lust Upon
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Fact
We All Have Two Battles Fields Whenever We Are Tempted.
1) The Battle In The Mind.
2) The Battle In Our Behavior.
If You Don’t Win The Battle In Your Mind,
You Are Going To Lose The Battle Of Your Behavior.
Dr. Charles Standly
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Control Your Mind
And
Any Stronghold Of Masturbation Will Greatly Subsided
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This Is Where The Battle
For Your
Peace
For Your
Healing
For Your
Victories
For Your
Freedom
Will Take Place In Your Mind
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The Key For Self-Control Concerning Masturbation Is Found
In The Controlling And The Renewing Of Your Mind
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Let Me Show You A Picture Of The Struggle That Is Most Often Going On
I Know That Nothing Good Lives In Me
That Is In My Sinful Nature
For I Have The Desire To Do What Is Good
But
I Cannot Carry It Out
For What I Do Is Not The Good I Want To Do
No The Evil I Do Not Want To Do
This I Keep On Doing
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Question
What Is The Battle
The Battle is between our Spirit and our Flesh
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Those Who Live According To The Sinful Nature
Have Their Minds Set On
What That Nature Desires
But
Those Who Live According To The Spirit
Have Their Minds Set On
What The Spirit Desires
The Mind Of Sinful Man Is Death
But
The Mind Controlled By The Spirit Is Life And Peace
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Question
What Is Our Part
Answer
Do Not Conform Any Longer To The Pattern Of This World
But
Be Transformed By The Renewing Of Your Mind
Then You Will Be Able To Test And Approve What God’s Will Is
Do You Know What God’s Will Is
…But Solid Food Is For The Mature Who By Constant Use Have Trained Themselves
To Distinguish Good From Evil…
Becoming Mature In Christ
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Interweaving The Holy Spirit
With the Blood of Jesus
Within Your Testimony
The Man Without The Spirit
Does Not Accept The Things That Come From The Spirit Of God
For They Are Foolishness To Him
And
He Cannot Understand Them
Because
They Are Spiritually Discerned
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Now let’s look again at Young Men 1 John 2:12-14
John makes three statements to Young Men
I am writing to you, dear children,
because your sins have been forgiven on account of his name.
I am writing to you, fathers,
because you know him who is from the beginning.
I am writing to you, young men,
because you have overcome the evil one.
I write to you, dear children,
because you know the Father.
I write to you, fathers,
because you know him who is from the beginning.
I write to you, young men,
because you are strong,
and the word of God lives in you,
and you have overcome the evil one.
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Again,
The Purpose Of Our Sex Drive
Is To Push Us Towards Relationship
But With Masturbation You Start Out Alone
And
You End Up Alone
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Overcoming the Evil One?
They triumphed over him
by the blood of the Lamb
and by the word of their testimony;
they did not love their lives so much
as to shrink from death.
Let’s begin to understand;
“They triumphed over him by the blood of the Lamb…”
As you see in Revelation 12:11 the Blood of the Lamb is interwoven with our testimony.
Let’s look at 7 scriptures about the Blood of Jesus that as you interweve them into you testimony, you will TRIUMPH over the EVIL ONE.
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- The Blood of Jesus and Redemption
In him we have redemption through his blood,
the forgiveness of sins,
in accordance with the riches of God’s grace
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2. The Blood of Jesus and CLEANSING
But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light,
we have fellowship with one another,
and the blood of Jesus, his Son,
purifies us from all sin.
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3. The Blood of Jesus and JUSTIFICATION
Since we have now been justified by his blood,
how much more shall we be saved from God’s wrath through him!
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4. The Blood of Jesus and SANCTIFICATION
And so Jesus also suffered outside the city gate to make the people holy through his own blood.
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5. The Blood of Jesus and LIFE
For the life of a creature is in the blood,
and I have given it to you to make atonement for yourselves on the altar;
it is the blood that makes atonement for one’s
“I am the good shepherd.
The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.
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6. The Blood of Jesus and ACCESS
Therefore, brothers and sisters,
since we have confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus,
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7. The Blood of Jesus and INTERCESSION
But you have come to Mount Zion, to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem.
You have come to thousands upon thousands of angels in joyful assembly,
to the church of the firstborn, whose names are written in heaven.
You have come to God, the Judge of all, to the spirits of the righteous made perfect,
to Jesus the mediator of a new covenant,
and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.
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Now let’s glance at 1 John 2:12-14 again;
I am writing to you, dear children,
because your sins have been forgiven on account of his name.
I am writing to you, fathers,
because you know him who is from the beginning.
I am writing to you, young men,
because you have overcome the evil one.
I write to you, dear children,
because you know the Father.
I write to you, fathers,
because you know him who is from the beginning.
I write to you, young men,
because you are strong,
and the word of God lives in you,
and you have overcome the evil one.
Where are these 7 verses –
IN YOU!
How?
First, Memorizing each of them.
Second, Start talking to your precious Holy Spirit who is living in you, about each of these scriptures and how to walk in each of them in your life, in your testimony.
Third, Own and celebrate each of them in your heart of hearts.
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Put These Truths In You
And
Become Strong
Let The Word Of God Live In You
And
You Will Overcome The Evil One
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Point Two
The Purpose Of Our Sex Drive
Is To Push Us Towards Relationship
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Goal
Becoming Mature In Christ
Distinguishing Good From Evil
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But Solid Food Is For The Mature
Who By Constant Use Have Trained Themselves
To Distinguish Good From Evil
Hebrews 5:14
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Name For Our God:
He Is The God Of Our Life
By Day
The Lord Directs His Love
At Night
His Song Is With Me
A Prayer
To The God Of My Life
Pray
For an excellent teaching on appropriatin the Blood of Jesus
How To Apply The Blood
By Derek Prince
on this website www.restorepurity.com go to “THE CROSS,” Then choose;
“Appropriating The Power Of The Cross.”
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The Choice And The Challenge Seminar © 2006
Teaching 4 -Point 2
Self-Control And Masturbation