Thursday 15 September 2016

THE DESTRUCTIVE POWER OF SEXUAL IMMORALITY

The city of Corinth in the bible was filled with sexual immorality including male and female prostitution. Unfortunately that spirit of sexual immorality entered the Corinthian church because most of the converts came from this background and Paul rebuked this especially a man living in sin with his father's wife (1 cor. 5:1).  Jesus went further to tell us that looking at a woman with lust is a sin and not just the act of sex alone. (Mathew 5:27-29) When you kisses or caress someone you're not married to constitute sexual immorality even if you're already engaged. Engagement is not the same as marriage. Remember 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 says Your body is the temple of the holy spirit. You don't belong to yourself but to God who bought you with a high price. Therefore my brother's and sister's lets honor God with our body. In Act 15:20 the church must not condone sexual immorality (the church is you).  Especially the born again Christians, when you involve yourself in sexual immorality:
1. It destroys your destinies
2. It robs the sexually immoral of joy.
3. It sends you to entire hell fire.
4. It defiles your body and expose you to demonic oppression.
5. It destroys your fellowship with God.
6. It exposes you to sicknesses and diseases
7 It destroys your home as a married person.

Please if you are in any way involve in Sexual immorality repent from it and surrender your life to Jesus Christ. Feed daily on the word of God. You will come out victoriously Amen.

  

INSPIRATIONAL GIFTS FROM THE HOLY SPIRIT PART 1

1 Corinthians 12:8, 2 peter 2 vs 1-2

The believers of Jesus Christ are given the gift of the holy spirit so that the word being preached by we believers can be confirmed by signs and wonders through the working. We have three categories that we will be looking at as we study along:

1. Revelation Gifts
2. Inspirational Gifts
3. Power Gifts

Revelational Gifts: the revelational gifts are classified into three which are the word of wisdom, the word of knowledge and discerning of spirits. Believers with the gift of word of wisdom are able to solve complex problems with godly wisdom beyond natural ability or education. All believers can have all this gifts and one person can have all. Gifts are exercised at will when the need arises and a backslider may sometimes retain his gifts, but could operate under an evil unction. Hebrews 2:3-4, John 15:7,16  Eccl 2:9. 1 Corinthians 13:1-3. The word of knowledge comes by the supernatural. It involves understanding things, which man cannot naturally know or understand but the knowledge is given by the inspiration of the holy spirit. John 4:16-18, John 11:11-15, 1 Corinthians 8:1-2.

Discerning of spirits this is the supernatural ability to identify spirits, their plans to examine doctrines and know if they are of Satan or God. The gifts of the holy spirit are for all believers who will ask. They are still being given to those who will receive them by faith. Our God is the same, he is willing to give the gift to the believers who truly from their hearts need it.