12 Questions and Answers at the end of teaching three on this topic

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Pray

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Goal: Controlling Our Inner World

One Can Have No Smaller Or Greater Mastery Than The Mastery Of Oneself

Leonard Da Vinci

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Our God Is:  A Consuming Fire

Deuteronomy 4:24

For The LORD Your God Is A Consuming Fire A Jealous God

(NIV)

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Point Two:

While We May Not Be Able To Control All That Happens To Us 

We Can Control What Happens Inside Us 

Benjamin Franklin

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-The Reality Is That Sexual Addiction Has Completely Distorted God’s Intent For Sex

-Sex As God Planned It – It Is For Marriage,

-The Act Of Sex Is About The Relationship

-Because Desire For Sexual Intimacy The Way God Has Planned  It’s About The Relationship

-For Love First And Foremost Wants To Know That The Partner Is – Satisfied – Fulfilled And 

Content

-But With Sexual Addiction The Bottom Line Is A Naked Body

-The Sex Addict Often Will Treat His Wife Or The Partner As A Sex Object

Because Often Within His Inner World He Is Comparing His Wife Or The Partner To A Sexual 

Fantasy And There In His Inner World He Views The Act Of Sex As Cheap Valueless

-There Is Absolutely Nothing Relational About Sexual Addiction

It’s Not About The Partner Or The Other Person

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Reality Check =

The Sex Addict Is Addicted To Doing  

Its The Activity In And Of Itself

Its About The Activity

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Here Is A Little Understanding Of Setting The Words

Sexual Addiction And Stronghold

Next To Each Other

It Is Estimated That 1 Out Of Every 10 Men Who Are Sex Addicts Develop Sexual Behaviors 

That Disrupt Their Lives

What Happens There Is An Increased Tendency To Act Out Sexual Fantasies

They Are Consumed By The Deception

Which Often Seduces An Addict Into These Behaviors

No Matter How Bad The Consequences

It Can Even Increase The Possibility  Of A Person Committing A Serious Sex Crime

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In The U.S. There Are

More than 760,000  people are currently listed on states’ sex offender registries

(as of April 2022), according Goggle

Search: Registered Sex Offenders in the US

*The Estimation Of “At Large,” – Those Who Have Not Been Caught Are In The Hundreds Of Thousands

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The Sexuality Addicted Give No Thought To The Possibly That They Could Destroy

Their Lives In One Event Of Foolishness

WARNING:

We are Free To Commit Any “SIN” we harbor within our heart –

This Choice Is Always Ours

But, We Never Get To Choose The Consequences

(Just Ask Those 760,000 people.)

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The Next Word we’ll Look At Is

Idolatry  

This Word Is So Important That Teaching “Sexual Idolatry,” Is Dedicated To It

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The Reality Is That Sex Addicts Are Idol Worshippers 

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Now Let’s Set The Words Sexual Addiction And  Another One Of The Bible Words Next To Each Other – 

Slavery

Merriam Webster Dictionary =

One That Is Completely Subservient To A Dominating Influence

2 Peter 2:19 b

For A Man Is A Slave To Whatever Has Mastered Him

(NIV)

Romans 6 = The Word Slave Is Mentioned 10 Times In 23 Verses 

Reality Check – Sex Addicts Are Slaves

To Sexual Perversion

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Goal: Controlling Our Inner World

One Can Have No Smaller Or Greater Mastery Than The Mastery Of Oneself

Leonard Da Vinci

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Our God Is:  A Consuming Fire

Deuteronomy 4:24

For The LORD Your God Is A Consuming Fire A Jealous God

(NIV)

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Point Two:

While We May Not Be Able To Control All That Happens To Us 

We Can Control What Happens Inside Us 

Benjamin Franklin

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Pray

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