Freedom from Sexual Bondage

April 22, 2012 Through this teaching on Sexual Bondages we will understand from a biblical point of view what God has to say about sex. The purposes by which God created sex: Sex was created to reproduce His image and likeness over the earth, to enjoy and to consummate a relationship in unity. This spiritually represents our union with Christ. God created sex between a husband and wife to bring union, this spiritually represents, when we worship God there is union with Him. Why do men need sex? Sex satisfies his sexual instinct, returns the fullness of manhood, intensifies his desire of love towards the woman, reduces friction in the home, and for the sexual experience to consummate the union with his wife. Why do women need sex? Sex brings fullness of femininity, assurance of the love of her husband towards her, satisfaction of sexual instinct, relaxes her nervous system, and the experience of union. The causes of sexual bondages: 1. The flesh 2. Demons 3. Generational Curses 4. Pornography 5. Idolatry 6. Sin 7. The heart Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. Galatians 5:19-21

What are the sexual practices that are forbidden in the bible and are open doors for demons to come and oppress the people? 1. Masturbation opens doors for an impure lascivious spirit to come and then it is difficult to be liberated, unless Jesus sets us free. Masturbation is a sin, a lust that is associated with sexual fantasies; it is egocentric... Many say that doctors recommend this practice but that should not matter because psychologists and psychiatrists do not have the vocabulary for spiritual problems. This is why they call sin issues. Masturbation brings the people a feeling of guilt, low self-esteem, and much more. When someone masturbates, they are thinking about someone else. Jesus said that if you look at woman to lust, then you have committed adultery in your heart. Masturbation is adultery in the mind. 2. Problems caused by incest, abuse or have been molested cause the person who was a victim to feel betrayed. These provoke the victim to become emotionally cold and to retract from people even themselves. Some victims of these types of abuse, even when married, they feel guilty or become sexually frigid. The majority of individuals that have been abused and molested sexually end up destroying their home and even their own life... 3. Promiscuity by choice includes sexual acts such as fornication, adultery, masturbation, oral sex, and the practice of sexual masoquism - Fornication is a sexual relation between two people who are not married. - Adultery is a sexual relation with someone who is not your spouse, it is outside of marriage; infidelity. There are three forms of adultery before the eyes of God, in the mind, in the heart and physically. - Oral sex and anal sex is the stimulation of the genitals as an act of lascivity. - Bestiality is sex with animals. Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous. Hebrews 13:4 4. Sexual fantasies precipitate immoral activity. Jesus warned us that man is guilty of sin, of both the mind and physical act. For this reason pornography, in nay form, must be avoided because it can lead to sexual promiscuity and filthy acts of all kind. We cannot play with sexual fantasies in our minds...

But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart. Matthew 5:28 5. Pornography leads to many consequences such as the increase of rape and crimes related to sex, divorces caused by pornographic materials taken to the home, introducing children to masturbation and the necessity to experiment their sexuality... 6. Homosexuality and lesbianism has led the church of Christ to judge and criticize instead of helping and bringing them to know the truth. We have isolated them from the church. Even those people who have been delivered have been judged and mistreated, until the point of leaving their church. We must stand firm in disagreement with the sin of homosexuality. In other words, we must love the person but we must help them abandon their path of sin. You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination. Leviticus 18:22 Some causes are: generational curses, rejection of the baby's gender, rebellion against parents, sexual abuse, paternal or maternal domination, and the voluntary homosexual relations. 7. Bestiality. Bestiality is when people, both women and men, have sexual fantasies with animals. In some cases, this occurs because their parents have practiced acts of bestialism. In others, it is people whose parents never gave them love and fell into sin. I have known cases in which people have had sexual relations with dogs, horses, cows, and etcetera... Whoever lies with an animal shall be put to death. Exodus 22:19 8. Abortions cause in women and men, who have practiced abortion, must be delivered from the spirit of murder. Unfortunately, the majority of the doctors say that the fetus does not have life, meaning no one is dying. But, the word of God says that He already gave them breath of life, and they are human beings that feel pain, rejection, love and hate... 9. Anal sex can lead people to practice homosexuality. Some women feel so ashamed that they cannot speak about this in a meeting or session of counseling or deliverance. People who practice or have practiced anal sex have a great necessity to be liberated from spirits of lascivity, homosexuality, degradation, depravation, perversion, guilt, shame and low self-esteem... 10. Sexual activities with demons, through history, there have been frequent cases discovered of demons who come to a woman or a man to have sex with them. There are two spirits involved in this type of practice: spirit "incubus:" a demon with a masculine

appearance that stimulates and leads a woman to have sexual pleasure. Spirit "incubus:" a demon with a feminine appearance that leads a man to ejaculate. The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of man and they bore children to them. These were the mighty men who were of old, the men of renown. Genesis 6:4 Consequences of sexual illicit practices: Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars--their place will be in the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death. Revelation 21:8 Solutions for sexual illicit practices: For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality. 1 Thessalonians 4:3 If you are in one of these practices or have been then you need to do the following: 1. True repentance. 2. Take captive every thought to the obedience of Jesus. 3. Flee from all temptation and all these practices. 4. Change all relationships that lead you to sin against God. You must take everything, magazines, videos, etc and throw them into the trash. A thought can change your behavior, the way you live and also change your destiny. Cover your mind every day with the blood of Christ. Deliverance is for those who truly repent and are desperate for it!