September 1, 2015
Thoughts while driving home from Tiara Ladies Retreat August
2015
Pornography was brought up by one of the ladies at retreat
as being a devastation to our country and she is committed to getting the
message out on this horrible sin that is everywhere. But being me and loving the Old Testament and
easily set on other paths, my thoughts turned to Hosea and the things I have
been sharing with the Adult Sunday School class at church. We have been looking at Israel’s spiritual
adultery and the problems they had with the worship of false idols.
An integral part of cultic worship is sexual in nature. And the reasoning behind it is to stimulate
the local deities into producing abundant harvests and needed rains and just
all around fruitfulness. As I thought
about that component of worship the thought came to me that these temple
prostitutes and their “worshippers/johns” were acting out or doing pornography
for their false gods. They were the living videos and smutty books and sexual
pictures to get these gods/demons all excited and out there making the land
fruitful by having intercourse with their demonic counterparts. Every one of
these cults seemed to have a male and female god that were fertility gods in
one way or another.
So how does that affect us today, where most people are not
out at the Ashtoreth pole, or up on the mountain or in a grove worshipping but
simply sitting at their computer surfing the porn sites? What about those many people that have come
to believe that it is ok to have multiple sexual encounters prior to settling
down. Or those that have become so callous to what is common to be shown in our
movies, TV, magazines and even video games that they have come to believe that
anything goes?
There must be something to the fact that these demons need
to be stimulated and they are stimulated in watching humans sin. So it then becomes a vicious cycle. The person sins sexually, which gives the
demon power, which makes them lead the person farther and farther into their
sin. A demonic catch 22 if you would, where
power is increased in the demonic realm the more that sin is increased. And the only way to break the cycle is
through Jesus. Obviously the demons do
not want to break the cycle and very often the person involved in the sin
cannot see a way out through shear will-power (there will be those that do
break their addiction through will-power but the root cause will still be there
and it will surface elsewhere)
But Jesus died to break those chains and when we come to Him
with a repentant heart then freedom can be won and the cycle broken. If we really understood that our sexual sins,
whether actual or in thought, are like food and water and energy to the
demonic, overcoming and repenting of them should become more of a priority. Who wants to be the one that is supplying the
enemy with all the equipment and armament they need in order to defeat them and
the ones they love?
What soldier would take his food, water and bullets and go
across the DMZ and hand it all over to the enemy that is there to kill, maim
and destroy everything they love. But
that is exactly what we are doing when we continue on in these sexual
sins. You may say it is only my mind
that strays from time to time, I would never be unfaithful to my vows…that may
be true but you are underestimating how powerful those thoughts are in the
spiritual realm. Jesus reminded us that
as a man thinks, so is he. That even to
just look at someone or think about something in a lustful way is sin. That we are as guilty as if we had actually
done the act of rebellion. That is why
it is so important that we learn how to break those ties and to take every
thought captive.
But once again we are back at the very real problem that we
cannot do this on our own strength for we wrestle not against flesh and blood
but against powers and principalities in the spiritual realm. So then closing down all pornographic sites
will not cure us. Because the problem is
not external but internal. After all the
Israelites in Hosea’s time did not have the internet and they still had the
very same problem. Does that mean we sit
back and do not fight…no…but we need to go into the fight with our eyes
open. We fight to bring the captives out
of the prisons made by this industry, whether boys and girls sold into
prostitution and pornography or the fact that our children need to have
safeguards in place to keep them from becoming entrapped by looking at these
images and warp the way they feel about sex. This is a fight for the heart and
soul, not just a modification of our physical life. And since it is demonic in nature we must
fight in the spiritual realm first and foremost. As Christians we need to use our God-given
authority to cast down these strongholds.
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