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Thank you for this needed message Alice,

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You cant beat lust on your own only thur Jesus Christ

Philippians 4:13 KJV I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.

And you right surrender is key obedience is better than sacrifice.

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Fantastic Again. I'll share this with my young adults in my church. Enjoying your contents since the past month! Keep up the good work! - Pastor Josh Pan

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Thank you Pastor!! I'm honored to have it shared to them

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I have shared with my young adults in my church. He says it's good so far! =)

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1. Fornication=offering a sacrifice to Satan (willfully releasing your seed). “In the occult, the marine kingdom can take your seed and produce an offspring in the spirit realm” (Nik Keswani) Men of God who practice “continence,” will have more power and authority.

2. Fornication is a gateway to homosexuality.

3. Homosexuality is a gateway to pedophilia.

🧐🙏

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I don't see how 2 and 3 come but 1 seems accurate. While medicine says sperms die in the body in 5 days and condoms prevent STD—these are both lies. STD=sexually transmitted disease, and there are way more STDs than what medicine knows. Sperm die but the life doesn't.

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2 & 3 , the inability to get satisfaction from the prior leads to “going down the rabbit hole” in order to receive the “same high “ that was achieved with the prior. Hence, soft porn leads to hard core porn which then leads to beastiality, etc. Marijuana leads to ecstasy which leads to coke, which leads to heroine, etc. 🙏

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I'm halfway through but one thing that's very important is to not rush God. Remain patient and continue surrendering and having childlike faith. He knows what to do and what is best.

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Thanks for the great message btw, very helpful in such a sex crazed world.

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Sex is just another dopamine to distract people from their lack of purpose.

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Definitely. Pornography is insanely destructive as well.

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I love your insights, Alice. As I'm listening to you, a verse will pop up in my head, only to have you quote it a moment later. One Spirit, One Counselor: who helps us all recall God's word.

Five expressions that will help with understanding that God's words of life really are life giving:

1) "The chief end of man is to glorify God and enjoy him forever."

2) "trust in the Lord with all your heart; lean not on your own understanding. In all your ways, acknowledge him, and He will make your paths straight." (Prov 3:5-6, related to prayers of Psalms 25 & 143)

3) "Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God." (Matt 4:4, drawn from Deut 30:15-16, restated in Romans 8:2)

4) "I perceived that there is nothing better for them than to be joyful and to do good as long as they live; also that everyone should eat and drink and take pleasure in all his toil—this is God's gift to man." (Eccl 3:12-13)

5) "Do not be filled with alcohol, but be filled with the Spirit." (Eph 5:18, related to Phi 4:8-9)

That last expression has formed my primary defense against temptation, both alcohol and lust, which are closely related, as both you and Bathsheba (Prov 31:3-4) acknowledge.

The Holy Spirit is Lady Wisdom (Jn 15:26, Prov 8:22), and truly and fiercely defends us against lust and seduction. I like to imagine her like Jael, or Jeremiah's dread warrior. You can't mess with the Holy Spirit and get away with it (Mark 3:29), and She unswervingly protects her children (Prov 2-4). She also lovingly broods over them like a mother hen, just as She did over the waters at creation (Gen 1:2, Prov 8).

It was probably just an oversight, but God has no needs, and never acts by necessity, but always acts gratuitously. "Grace" is not a noun, but a metonymy which tells us God is not bound by anything. Of course, as you say, He cannot deny himself. I love how you say it: "God is His Word."

Be careful of any arguments based on Paul's analogical arguments using the Law. Those are purely analogical, not ontological: sin cause death even before transgression was defined by the Law, and we obey that law only by living in the Spirit who transcends and wrote the Law.

We must look at God's overall intent, namely to have a family, under his name (contrast Zec 14:9 with Gen 11:4), that willingly lives out his words of life (Psa 110).

This has to do with the recurring theme of division and multiplication that starts in Genesis. God divides his will among many wills, and multiplies the fruitfulness of his creativity through pro-creators, not merely by multiplication of "strength" by the birth of many babies, but by the multiplication of "heart, soul, and mind," The multiplication of his word by antiphonal response: The stars (Job 38) respond to the Spirit's creation song (Prov 8), and men and women respond to both God and each other (Psa 145). It says if each echo multiplies life and light, as willing obedience reflects in harmony with the song: beautiful responsiveness.

Sin desponds from antiphonal response, reflection of light, beautiful responsiveness. It is darkness and shadow, like the cursed Man in Pirates of the Caribbean, who try to eat and drink, but have no capacity to do so, because they have no life. Sexual sin is a shadow of the real union of noble man and noble woman ("noble" is the word to describe Ruth, Boaz, and the Proverbs 31 woman). It is empty, and that's why people try to "spice things up," degenerating further and further into aberrant, unfruitful, and unsatisfying sexual behavior. They surrender the glory of God for a lie, and become as dead as that lie.

I will add, that it doesn't take adultery or sleeping around for sex to be shadow instead of substance. It is just as possible inside a marriage, where one or both despond from God. Look closely at Micah 7. Despondency is a sin, and underlies both drunkenness and lust. This is the implication of failing to submit to God and to one another. The Word of Life claims all of us, so that true life is far more (though certainly not less) than external behaviors.

The comment from one of your listeners, that men don't have emotional/spiritual attachment to women sexual intercourse, is a an ancient heretical argument of the gnostics. Irenaeus debunked the idea in great detail. I love your application of Bathsheba's counsel in Proverbs 31!

Finally, take a close look at Rahab. She defies all the behavioral science and worldly wisdom. She already has the Wisdom of the Holy Spirit when the spies meet her. She is already the noble woman of Proverbs 31, even while she is trapped in Jericho. But she never looks back (like Lot's wife), is willing to kill both sin (Rom 8:13) and sinners ("have nothing to do with them"), and invests everything God has taught her about kindness and diligence in Salmon, her son Boaz, the land and livestock, and the poor. When Boaz sees Ruth, he sees one like his mother. Both generations are the apotheosis of fruitfulness, mutual kindness ("hesed"), and shalom.

No matter how much I consider her (a lot!), she astounds me, humbles me, and teaches me to be in awe of God's Spirit, on whom I depend to make my path smooth. I envision her as a general who's leading the charge, "all in" as you say, and is inspiring me forward into combat as a "living sacrifice."

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Powerful thoughts. Great connection to The Godfather! I see that what some call 'self-care' is not always 'being-good-to-the-self.' Sex is meant to be sacred but is ruined in society by temptations, wrong relationship expectations, and evil vices. Gratifying sin and lust leads people away from their true desires. The story of Bathsheba and David is a good for people to read in order to distinguish love from lustful desire.

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