FIGHT SEXUAL ENTICEMENT!

Sex happens between the ears before it ever happens between the legs. 

When you are ENTICED SEXUALLY, do you FIGHT with your mind to say "No" to the image and then mightily labor to fill your mind with counter-images that kill off the seductive image? 

“If by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live” (Romans 8:13).

Too many people think they have struggled with temptation when they have prayed for deliverance and hoped the desire would go away. That is too passive!  

Yes, God works in us to will and to do His good pleasure! But the effect is that we “work out [our] own salvation with *fear and *trembling” (Philippians 2:12–13). 

Gouging out your eye may be a metaphor, but it means something very violent. The brain is a “muscle” to be flexed for purity, and in the Christian it is supercharged with the Spirit of Christ.

What this means is that we must not give a sexual image or impulse more than five seconds before we mount a "violent counterattack" with the mind. 

I mean that! 

Five seconds!!

In the first two seconds we shout, 

“NO! Get out of my head!” 

In the next two seconds we cry out 

“O God, in the name of Yeshua, help me. Save me now. I am Yours.”

Good beginning. But then the real battle begins. This is a MIND war. The absolute necessity is to get the image and the impulse OUT of our mind. 

How? 

Get a Christ-exalting, 

soul-captivating counter-image into the mind. 

Fight. Push. Strike.  Don’t let up. 

It must be an image that is SO powerful that the other image cannot survive!  These are lust-destroying images and thoughts.

For example, have you ever in the first five seconds of temptation *}%demanded of your mind that it look steadfastly at the crucified form of Yeshua the Anointed One? 

Picture this. 

[MEN] You have just seen a peek-a-boo blouse inviting further fantasy. 

[WOMEN] A hunk of burning love has showered you with romantic sexual innuendo and personal compliments. 

You have five seconds. 

Now, immediately, demand of your mind—you can do this by the Spirit (Romans 8:13)—demand of your mind that it fix its gaze on Christ on the cross. Use all your fantasizing power to see His lacerated back. Thirty-nine lashes left little flesh intact. He heaves with His breath up and down against the rough vertical beam of the cross.   Each breath puts splinters into the lacerations. The Lord gasps. From time to time He screams out with intolerable pain. He tries to pull away from the wood and the massive spokes through His wrists rip into the nerve endings and He screams again with agony and pushes up with His feet to give some relief to His wrists. But the bones and nerves in His pierced feet crush against each other with anguish and He screams again. There is no relief. His throat is raw from screaming and thirst. He loses His breath and thinks He is suffocating, and suddenly His body involuntarily gasps for air and all the injuries unite in pain. In torment, He forgets about the crown of two-inch thorns and throws His head back in desperation, only to hit one of the thorns perpendicular against the cross beam and drive it half an inch into His skull. His voice reaches a soprano pitch of pain and sobs break over His pain-wracked body as every cry brings more and more pain.

Now, You're not thinking about the blouse [MEN] or hunk [WOMEN] anymore. 

You are at Calvary!! 

These two images are not compatible. If you will use the muscle of your brain to pursue—violently pursue with the muscle of your mind—images of Christ crucified with the same creative energy that you use to pursue sexual fantasies, you will kill them. But it must start in the first five seconds—and not given up.

So my question is: Do you fight, rather than only praying and waiting and trying to avoid? 

It is image against image. 

It is ruthless, vicious mental warfare, not just prayer and waiting. Join me in this bloody war to keep my mind and body pure for my Lord and my soul and my church. Jesus suffered beyond imagination to “purify for himself a people for his own possession” (Titus 2:14). 

Every scream and spasm was to kill MY lust—“He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that *we might die to sin* and live to righteousness” 

(1 Peter 2:24).

Father, have mercy on us in our continual battle with lust. Oh, how we love the victories You give. Let us live there more and more.  Grant us the will to say NO to EVERY temptation. Yes, Lord, grant us far more than to say NO.  Help us fight!!

Give us the will to make war on our impurities.  Show us the infinite and all-satisfying glory of the crucified Christ.

May Your name be so precious to us

that we absolutely will not defile it.

Hallow Your name in our lives, by Your great grace. 

In Yeshuas pure and mighty name we pray. Amen.