Sexual Purity is Possible - Ephesians 5:3-4
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- Опубліковано 2 чер 2018
- -In a teaching titled, “Sexual Purity is Possible” out of Ephesians 5:3-4, Pastor J.D. explains how it’s possible to have victory in the area sexual purity. -- Those wishing to give to Calvary Chapel Kaneohe, please visit www.calvarychapelkaneohe.com/i...
Thank you pastor. About 5 years ago I was asked to teach a ladies Bible study. After prayerful consideration I accepted. Being single, I re-read the bibical qualifications for the teaching position. My character had to be above/beyond reproach. So I re-dedicated ALL aspects of my life to be worthy of the position. I became celibate. .... it was only a 8 study. Let me just tell ya! The experience was awesome. I got closer to the Lord, all of the disjointed things fell into place. This is what I KNOW, if you want God to bless your life, you must live a life He can bless.
Thank you so much for talking and teaching about this. It's rare to hear anyone speak about this anymore.
As usual great preaching, my wife of 20 years died suddenly ten months ago and this is an area of my life I am dealing with. Conviction good / condemnation bad... Boom! "I am a dirty rotten horrible sinner" I just love you Pastor JD! cant wait to meet you in the air. Life is really tough for me right now.
I so appreciate this message pastor JD. As I'm sure others have too. I am glad that I heard it today and pray it becomes part of my arsenal to come against the enemy everytime HE with his liar mouth trys to condemn me .Thank-you!!!
Thank you Pastor Farag, this message was exactly what I needed to hear. Everytime that familiar sin in my life, that I battle with, that I thought was all gone, that I hate. My mind immediately runs to the forefront to try to excuse myself. I begin to think that horrible process of reasoning, that the gospel I share and pray for the inmates at work, some how excuses me of what I done. And yet I weep and then run to Keith Green's music to find forgiveness and acceptance from the Lord Jesus, from the words of his music. Which are convicting by the way. Knowing that "BUT" God had not pour out His Grace upon us, and know what Christ has done for us, I would be in hopeless straits were this sin in concerned. Please pray for me brother. I too gave my life to Christ in 1980 and have shared Christ with many. I attended Oral Roberts University for 4 years. I thought I was going to be a pastor, evangelist or somewhere in the ministry. And never thought I would be placed in a juvenile facility to share the gospel of Jesus Christ with the inmates. And yet I never thought I would be attacked so much just because I increased my studies in the Word of God, telling people that the Rapture of the Church is imminent. Please pray for me Pastor.
Wow this sermon was amazing God bless you pastor JD from Hawaii because everyone of your sermons are absolutely spot on regarding how to be
One of the best sermons I have ever heard...this message cleared so many confusing things up for me in dealing with sin and condemnation...it's like you read my mind and watched the battles play out. Thank God His Grace is enough!
Truly a timely subject for sermon for this hits home for many including me . Thank you Pastor J.D. Now as I pray for God to give me strength and conviction. It is much easier to deal with I pray for my brothers and sisters also for this might be the one most important obstacle on our path to glory.
I've been celebate for more than 7 years, I don't even miss it. It gives me time to think about my father in heaven
Simply amazing teaching and truth from God’s word! Thank you for always listening to the Holy Spirit and preaching what God wants for his people. Jesus is coming back so soon and you are preparing his flock to be ready without spot or wrinkle or blemish. Keep it up and we will all be together praising our Lord and Savior in heaven at the banquet table.
I had to re listen to this again cause it was such an excellent teaching and the enemy was working on me. God bless you!
Thank you JD
Ahhhhmazing sermon. Thank you JD. Praise Yah ❤🙏❤
Thank you, thank you, thank you! May God Bless you sevenfold!
Excellent lession JD! You taught with grace and candor.
Thank You for this teaching Pastor. It’s so needed! And I love your stories that make you so real! We’re all a work in progress.
That was a very good sermon JD thank you very much.
thank you Pastor JD for this teaching. I am divorced and was believing God for another husband, but God has asked me to trust Him only and not in another person to love and accept me and meet my needs. Thanks be to God, who is my Husband and my Redeemer who has put a joy and a love for Him which I will not give up for anyone xox
The decision was easy at the time because I had built in a sundown clause(8weeks). The 1st week or so was a little tough, the guy I was seeing suddenly wanted to see other people (he still goes to my church). It's been a littlover 5 years, and I still have to ask the Lord to take some wayward thoughts captive. But I am FREE. He broke the chains of lust.
God bless you, Pastor! You are speaking out when others shy away. Satan is using sexual immorality to defeat and addict people to give in to sin. However, if we are truly sorry and ask God for forgiveness, He is quick to forgive. God will even give you the strength to help you fight that temptation.
Jesus bless you ! Thank´s for this undesrstanding ! from Brazil! Maranatha!
Amen!
Thank you for this sermon.
Thank you so much for this sermon !!!!
Oh my goodness Pastor JD, I struggle with driving patience too and have very similar thoughts. When I'm in the Spirit (doesn't always happen, but we go from glory to glory, right?), I will bless the tail gaters and the slow ones ahead of me. Inevitably I am the one that calms down, convicted, but changed in a moment. And more times than not, the tail gater will slow down, turn off the road or be gone. We can do this only because of Christ in us. Bless you for this sermon today. Love the book of Ephesians!
Thank you Pastor JD for an awesome sermon!!! This is much needed for alot of people!! I loved the "free baptism...no extra charge"..lol!!!
That sermon was for me Amen God Bless you
...it's sad but true...once you sin... it's easy to keep on doing it BUT eventually it is even harder to live with the guilt, condemnation that results from the immoral conduct. The enemy tempts you then bludgeons you over the head with it continuously!!!! Horrible is that shame and guilt!!
Absolutely
Regie T so true
I listen to this message six times Last night over and over and over and over and over thank you thank you thank you Pastor I will be sharing this message with others and now I'm going to listen to it again you're loved JD in Southern California
That's an excellent way of stating that. God Bless you
Gary Drew...me too...I'm listening again...I want this message to stay stuck in my heart.
I struggle with lust and sometimes porn, I admit this. I have sexual desires that are not and never will be met. I have social anxiety disorder, and I am always single and alone. I get literally sick when it comes to uncomfortable social interactions. It's not easy. I'm 29 years old, and I have had one girlfriend in my entire life ten years ago. It's worse as a man, because I have to make the first move, and that's not happening! People love to mock me for it, and that doesn't help! If God would give me the wife I have prayed for over and over again, this could end. No medication, doctors, etc have been able to free me of this mental disorder. It also causes severe depression. Unless you suffer from this disorder you will never understand. Nobody has ever understood anxiety that doesn't have it. It can literally ruin your life.
As a born again believer I hate this sin I keep falling into, but the temptation and desire for sexual things comes on so strong. I am literally disgusted with myself, but I don't see a way out. I would love not to struggle with this filth until death, but I have a hard time seeing that happening unless something changes.
I have prayed for your freedom and also for a Godly wife.
Kyle Harbin ... My young friend, your answers are in MGTOW. Learn what the problem really is, and it's NOT you! You've been deceived by modern society. For your own future happiness, watch Sandman and others. Truth is rising. Be strong and know your ok in Jesus. Bless you
Kyle, unfortunately you will not be delivered from the solicitation of evil, while you live in this earth suit. However, God is with you and His grace is sufficient. Let me encourage you and all of us to run hard, daily after Christ. He is able to keep that which is His. Praying.
Kyle Harbin brother if I could offer some practical advice. First of all.. you are not alone in this, many modern men are experiencing this.
Try Reddit. Christian nofap.
Many like-minded people there.
All I can really say, is you have to start being more of man in regard to Women. You will be weak while using P and M.
Also trust me , unless the girl you get knows the LORD it will always be a problem. Women need a man who is in control of themselves, you have to learn to be in charge of your feelings. But don't beat yourself up, the devil loves to make you feel guilty over this. The LORD knows your heart. But you are an imperfect man. You are human, yes you can do more. But you will always fall sometimes, remember the Jesus took your guilt, you are free.. goodness l God bless
Kyle Harbin praying for you brother. :)
Pastor jd please pray for my family who are not yet saved. Jesus is so good and faithful
Thank you for this timely message. Thank you for your candor and wisdom in delivering this message. God bless this ministry.
I Love You Pastor ur so spot on about everything God bless u
Thank you for this I fill a lot better I am dealing with this in Jesus name. God Bless
Great Teaching...
Amen❤Thank you, JD Farag, God bless you💞
After some adult years reading through the BIBLE often, daily listening to BIBLE, and seeking out - on line and in church - priority; found I could more readily hear the voice of GOD! Moment by moment! Night and Day! Your comment about less sin where there is more GOD! YES! Also, these BIBLE habits remind me of GOD's GRACE and MERCIFUL CHARACTER! Not deserved or earned - but promised in JESUS CHRIST for all who believe! Great message, Pastor JD! Great GOD! Praise GOD!
Amen 🙏🏼
This is a well received and impactful message
Very good message today my friend and God spoke through you loud and clear and now I must go soak my feet for my toes are fanned out like an outfeilders glove. God Bless you.
Thank you 🙏
thank you
YOU MUST WALK IN THE STEPS OF JESUS CHRIST. NO JESUS CHRIST NO ETERNAL LIFE. THERE IS POWER IN THE NAME JESUS CHRIST.
Thank you! The holy spirit took over. Thank you for your word.
Thank You Pastor JD. Your insightful, kind and realistic approach on this topic is refreshing. You are clearly not advocating sexual sin as you have stated and used Scripture to support this but the fact that you approach this from an angle that God's Grace forgives our sins and we have a place at the cross when we sin is what makes this sermon different and blessed. Unfortanetly until we are glorified by Jesus Christ in our new bodies we will sin and have a sin nature. But the condemnation we feel keeps us from confessing to our Father and asking for forgiveness. This is not a license to sin, but we pray and grow in our relationship with Christ. Again I'm not talking about a license to sin here, people have different struggles within different sins. When we ignore the conviction of the Holy Spirit and act like we don't want to change , then we are not heading in the right direction which is God's direction for us. Then we are being hypocrites.
I am a sinner of many sins but I didn't fully understand how that was going to play out with my maker ? But once again I am so glad that JD is helping me grow and trust and learn gods word completely. So that I can feel better about gods love and forgiveness. But that I may be worthy of his love and forgiveness? A deep problem for me has always been trusting myself with others( from a child issue of physical and mental abuse) . I've suffered so much in this world and my entire life . Never understanding why or better yet how would I be accepted for living a life of being rejected from others ? And now and only now does everything about God and me has purpose but also makes me make sense to him ? Ashamed is a field trip for me compared to my deepest fearful emotions I have been allowing Satan to put me out of gods love . That all changed today after this one of my happiest moments alive , hearing I am worthy of being saved and we all are loved enough to be worthy of saving ! Thanks again much love
Jody Banks I am happy for you and so glad you have been set free. I use to think the Bible was the travel agent for guilt trips. God has given you a beautiful spirit for what you have gotten through and He has a purpose for it so put Him first and He will safely lead you. May God Bless you and give you a lot of fruit for your work that you are going to do for Him.
Give me more conviction. Good message
You are so funny
Great serman
IT IS NOT HARD TO KEEP YOURSELF FROM FORNICATION WHEN YOU ARE TRULY SAVED AND BELONG TO CHRIST, FOR YOU SHOULD CONSIDER YOURSELF A BRIDE OF CHRIST WHEN YOU ARE SAVED... WHY WOULD OR HOW COULD YOU COMMIT ADULTERY AGAINST HIM? YOU MUST BE FAITHFUL ALWAYS, IN ALL YOUR WAYS, INCLUDING THIS. GOD BLESS YOU PASTOR JD, YOU AND ALL YOUR HOUSE. MARANATHA!
P.S. SORRY FOR THE CAPS BROTHER, MY EYESIGHT IS NOT ALWAYS IT'S BEST. TODAY IS ONE OF THOSE DAYS. :)
Man I’m so glad u explained that the way u did cause now I know why I was so deep into fornicatation for so many years and it’s because I felt so much guilt and condemnation thanks for that explanation I really needed that
I have been celibate for 6.5 years. It is possible.
I am 22 years. Often laughed at.
Me too. People always tell me I need a man, I say "been there, done that, not going back again! I have a man, His name is Jesus." They think I am insane. LOL!
Collette Blanchard lol
Collette, me too, 8.5 years.
I just saw your text and it brought me a big smile. I did have one guy come back around but because I had command, of my own vessel. That made it clear why I did not want to be with Him. First time in my life. The beautiful gift of our sexuality is so misused today. People have to learn the hard way sometimes. I was one of them. Thank God for the gift of Grace..Amen
When you open up your Heart to Yeshua , YOU WILL RECEIVE SUPERNATURAL POWER. This earth is just a big selection process ,to see who is going where. Open up to him, talk to him, listern to him, spend time with him , get to know him, have a laugh with him, be friends with him, involve him, TRUST him , obey him, receive from him, and any thing is possible ANYTHING to those that love him.
Tilly Goundry ❤️
I also just want to say to all you single people out there who are struggling in these areas I know it's difficult right now for some of you but remember there is only one thing worse being single wishing you were married....that is being married wishing you were single. God bless everyone
Nothing like having a conversation with someone and not being able to hear a damn word they're saying because random, polluted thoughts jump into your mind, completely out of thin air.
Question Pastor JD how are you all holding up on all those fissures going off and the air there. Everyone here in US is praying for you all. I hope all is well. Where are you located in Hawaii.
Sexual sin is almost worse then any drugs out there. Temptation for men is in your mail box, your phone, your computer, in stores, walking down the street and any pool or beach out there. Men are visual and the eye crack candy is everywhere. Temptation works and beats down a single man fast. Then you become like a broken record with christ asking constantly to forgive and help only to walk back outside from your prayers and back into this hornets nest of this sin. Being single is great at times but not having a wife and dealing with this sin breaks a man. I wish there was a drug out to keep that temptation switch off.
Please pray for me I need help and stopping fornication I don't want to do it I don't want to be a part of it but the strong pull on it Jesus please help me save me from this Darkness save me from these immoral Acts please save me I repent and I ask for forgiveness please save me please show me mercy
Praying for you my friend and just remember PUT GOD FIRST. If you do this He will be there for you and just know He loves you more than you will ever know. I know how hard this walk is I stray from the path so often and I when I do.
Consider what Jesus said about adultery resulting from marrying a divorced person too. (Matthew 5:32, Mark 10, Luke 16, Romans 7:2-3, 1 Corinthians 7:11,39) All the passages that warn of hell include ALL forms of sexual immorality- 1 Corinthians 6:9-11, Galatians 5:19-21, Revelation 21:8, Revelation 22:15, Colossians 3:5-17, Hebrews 13:4, 1 Thessalonians 4:1-8, Jude 1:4,
And we must not engage in sexual immorality as some of them did, causing 23,000 of them to die in one day. These things happened to them as examples for us. They were written down to warn us who live at the end of the age.
1 Corinthians 10:8, 11 NLT
I preached first to those in Damascus, then in Jerusalem and throughout all Judea, and also to the Gentiles, that all must repent of their sins and turn to God-and prove they have changed by the good things they do.
Acts of the Apostles 26:20 NLT
Pastor JD, you may be oversimplifying sexual addiction. There is a way to break the addiction, but it is not a matter of will and shame. You must break the addiction of the brain and heart. It’s biochemical to the core.
I sincerely ask, can a couple be married in the eyes of God without being married in the eyes of the law
drpepper4free ... I don't think so. What is not allowing the legal ceremony. If it's the cost of a wedding... I don't think a wedding ceremony should cost tons of money. Civil ceremony don't cost much.
I long for marriage but Im afraid of being turned inside out by divorce like the vast majority of men in the U.S.
Its not money FOR the wedding. My concern, and why i havent committed to a women, is fear of being divorced after being cheated on or what ever and then paying tons of money to a women who tore my heart out. I understand the way this sounds, but thats how i feel. Maybe that would change if i met a woman who was truly of God.
Let me encourage you, whatever you do, bring Christ into it and allow Him to be a primary variable within the equation. In your instance I am talking of marriage. Allow Christ to rule and reign in you. It isn't easy, but definitely better. I know solid marriages because of Christ. Be active in a local church and mentor and be a mentee too. This is true discipleship.
Thanks man. We will see. I will be praying,
WoW !!! I would never serve thing like that !!! That's nasty !!! O my but ppl don't listen or watch whats going on Pastor JD thank you 🌹AMEN. !!!
Jd I have a question for you or anyone here that can answer this and its urgent because I can't deal with this anymore not knowing for sure! And this is not a joke and I'm being dead serious so please read this and get back to me because I want and need to know. Here's the deal and what happened. I as far as I know was saved and a Christian and had a lot of really horrible things happen to me and really started to think God wasn't real and if he was that he was evil. So I started looking on the internet for proof of God and during my searching came across satanists saying God was evil and that satan was the real God and so much better and that that was why Christians had so many problems and bad things happen to them, I was literally at the point of dispair and in dire straits and God wasn't answering, I couldn't do it anymore and didn't really believe in God at that point in my life and thought if he was real he was mean, evil and loved suffering, and I needed to believe in something as someone who had believed in a God all my life, so I went on the joy of satan website (see where it says dedicate your soul to satan) and did that. I then started worshipping satan for about 5 months. I seen nothing and didn't feel any different. So I gave it up. But then a few months later felt maybe I did something wrong and repented in case God was real and in case I made a mistake (not to take a chance.) Some months go by and I was struggling having such a hard time thinking there was no God and that when we die that's it, no point to this life, I was desperate to believe in something and had to see if there was anything true to any of this, so I did the dedicate your soul to satan thing again and started worshipping satan again, (keep in mind I did this twice, not once BUT TWICE after repenting of it once already from doing it before and after being a saved Christian doing it the first time!) Once again nothing after doing it again and worshipping satan for a few months the second time I did it and gave it up, at that point I was faced with what I thought was the fact none of it was real and God didn't exist and if he did he was mean and didn't care, that is until I was sitting watching tv one day and seen something that made me know God was undeniably real and that Jesus was real and the savior. I immediately panicked and became terrified knowing for certain God and Jesus was real and that it was true, more terrified than I ever had been in my life when I knew it was all true and that God and Jesus really were real, I thought I had done something irrevocable and unchangeable and that I couldn't be forgiven of what I had done and had damned myself to hell forever no matter what, but despite thinking that I got on my knees and cried (literally) and repented like never in my life and cried out to God and Jesus and did what's known as the sinners prayer and asked Jesus to come into my heart and life and save me and accepted him as Savior. Since then (3 years ago) I have fully believed and lived my life for him. But I quite a bit have the feeling that maybe I did something I'm not truly forgiven for and possibly never can be forgiven for and sometimes feel (or wonder) if I have been forgiven and if I'm doomed/damned and damned myself with no chance of forgiveness. So in a situation like this can a person be forgiven and saved? That's what I want to know and and cannot find an answer to this anywhere, can you or someone on here answer this question please because I can't live this way anymore not knowing for sure!
GOD CANNOT WATCH SIN. WHEN JESUS CHRIST CARRIED THE WORLD SINS ON THE CROSS, GOD COULDN'T LOOK AT HIM. "MY GOD, MY GOD, WHY HAVE YOU FORSAKE ME?" - MARK 15:34
Spit away, Pastor.