Introduction
Exodus 32:1-7
The spirit that is
basically responsible for most of the fleshly addictions that may young people have
found themselves tangled with is referred to as boredom in this generation,
there are many people designed for great things but they are bored. The time of
your youth is when your strength is at its peak. Young people yearn to be
relevant, significant and make impact in their world because we humans are
naturally wired that way. But sadly, there are still many young people who are bored.
When a person is bored, what usually comes to is mind, is not anything
spiritual e.g. Evangelism, Intercession, Bible study etc.
Boredom
It is defined as
absence of vision. When young people say they are bored, it simply means they
lack vision. Another word for boredom is idleness (the idle mind is the devil’s
workshop). It is the reason many young people do what is immoral e.g. visit pornography
website, listen to circular music, etc. not because they have a negative intention
but they want to get themselves occupied.
Relevance of Vision
1. You
will never subdue your flesh until you see the need to. Vision only gives you
the reason to fight sexual immorality, addition etc.
2. You
can’t see what is ahead and be comfortable with sexual sin. Jesus saw the hope
that was set before Him and made up His mind to endure and despise the shame.
3. Vision
saves you the stress of wasting your time searching for a life partner
Fornication
Fornication is
idolatry. The devil cannot make you commit sexual sin without first dethroning
Christ from your heart. Fornication is impossible if your allegiance is totally
to the Lord.
Who is Lord in
your Life?
Is it your phone,
when you wake up, in class, at work, should be praying etc.?
Lust
It I one of the
most terrible invasions of the enemy in this generation. Lust is a desire for
the forbidden
EFFECT OF LUST
1. Kills
your interest for pleasing God and makes you only interested in pleasing
yourself
2. Lust
makes you despise the things you ought to value e.g. virginity
3. It
makes you usually secretive, always withdrawing to yourself, always spending
time alone in the room
4. It
will make you a liar
5. It
makes you love the things you should hate
HOW TO IDENTIFY LUST
1.
You get easily aroused at the sight
of the opposite sex
2.
Dressing to reveal your body
3.
Posting of almost naked pictures of
yourself to get attention
4.
Addicted to listening to secular
music
5.
Addiction to pornography
6.
Addiction to masturbation
7.
Homosexuality and lesbianism
8.
Constantly doing the things that
God forbids
TOOLS THE DEVIL USED IN CONQUERING EVE AND PEOPLE TODAY
·
You won’t die when you sin – Gen 3:4
Notice
how easily we sin with the mindset that we will be forgiven
·
Eat and become wise (indirectly
telling Eve, you are a fool), thereby making her inferior...
You become a slave o whatever
you are made to feel inferior to – 2Peter 2:19
The
above is the reason why so many young people engage in sexual sin, they have
been enslaved
Total
Liberty is available to all who has made up their mind to accept it. Christ is
liberty from Lust and its vices
Worship God
Study and submit to God’s word
Submit to GOD, Resist the
devil and he will flee… James 4:7
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