I was a chronic Christian Fornicator. But in 1996, after a number of failed attempts at long-term celibacy, I finally met the sweetest woman in the world. We both experienced devastatingly painful divorces. We dated for a year and a half and consummated our marriage on our honeymoon! PRAISE GOD! We've have been married for 27 years. She respected my celibacy commitment and she wanted to honor God, too. Here's the deal, if I had fornicated with her one time before marriage, I'm certain that I wouldn't have married her. And I would have missed out on the best life-partner a man like me could ever have! We're both senior citizens now, and the Most High God is still blessing our sex life. And I'm convinced it's because we dedicated our bodies to him. I was also a cheater before this triumph. But deliverance is sweet and sin is not! Nothing is impossible with God, but we MUST DO OUR PART!
@@_theerealnono_7694 Why do you seem to receive joy from calling us ADULTERERS? I pray there is no envy in your heart. That could be a form of COVETING WHAT BELONGS TO OTHERS. We achieved this honorable goal only through yielding to the Spirit. Also, we didn't divorce our former spouses, they divorced us. And yes, we could be labeled as adulterers. But 2 billion living Christians break the 7TH DAY SABBATH Commandment their entire lives and honor the pagan, catholic-invented, sun worshiper's day... SUNDAY. James 2:10-11 says if you break one of the Commands, you're guilty of them all. SO, YOU'RE NO BETTER THAN WE ARE, ARE YOU?
@@_theerealnono_7694 Yes, adultery violates one of the 10 Commandments. But so does breaking the 7th Day Sabbath. And 2 billion living Christians do that every week. You're no better than me, my friend.
They still seem to be putting the responsibility on women to be pure to help them stay pure. But that's not how that works. Each person is supposed to be pure for their own sakes. If you truly are a man of God living for Christ and have him as your center of attention, it doesn't matter what a woman throws at you, you should be able to say "get behind me Satan," and mean it. And if you lose control or fall don't, blame her, blame yourself.
Abstinence should not be for a season, if you are single it should be something that is practiced all the time until you get married. Sin separates men from God. Sexual sin can destroy you spiritually and physically.
It’s possible for men and women to stay celibate because Christ will keep who wants to be kept. PERIODT. The first “Christian”guy talking… saying he’s not, but is willing to lets me know, that the word is not living in him. You don’t want to stop fornication, cause you truly don’t believe you’re sinning. Either you trust Gods word or you don’t. And if whatever you’re battling is hard to overcome… That’s when you fast, and ask the Holy Spirit to help you. It’s not rocket science, but yet, you’re a 10 toes down Christian.
If we truly believe in Christ, then we can overcome lust and temptation. I can do all things thru Christ who strengthens me. I have been abstinent now for about ten years. We got this fam.
@@koolsmoothfan AYE!!! 👊🏾 it’ll be 10 for me come January. So they can miss with it all. Of course we’re human and not robots… but Christ is Faithful and he’s rooting for his people
Bishop Brian Keith Williams did a powerful message in the 90's "Sanctified Sex" which addresses This checkout on You Tube. Men and women must fast, pray, put boundaries in place and enforce fully. I am celibate but most brothers in Christ have no desire to obey scripture. Lukewarm, carnal and cavalier. Several demonic spirits operating beyond my patience. Ladies keep your legs closed. I have not given up on marriage.
@@faithhouse6111 Peter asked Paul and Barnabas to remember to needy in their group(the Jews), which is the very thing Paul has been eager to do . How does this relate to what I posted?
What so dangerous about that panel is the lack of understanding of the severe danger they are in with God. The scripture says the sexually immoral person will NOT inherit the kingdom of God. It also says fornication should not be named once among us. I know it’s a real challenge for single men and women, however we are all required to live right in this area if we want to be saved. Man this is dangerous what they are saying
Being sexually pure won’t get us into the kingdom either- but praise God for giving his son who died for our sins and repentance! Meaning if we do fall into fornication, our belief in Jesus and our loving Fathers forgiveness is our inheritance ticket to the kingdom 🙌🏾
@@xxxgeorgyxxx Absolutely 1,000 percent agree with the necessity of repentance that Christ allows us to exercise in his Grace. We must repent and produce fruit that reflects that repentance. Galatians chapter 5 gives a stern warning that if we practice sin we will not inherit the Kingdom of God. In this video fornication was the sin they were speaking of and it is on the list of the works of the flesh that will cost people their eternity. I pray for everyone’s strength in the area of sexual purity! 🙏🏾
I don't give a man a hard time for abstaining because I haven't met him yet. I have decided to be celibate so I won't be tortured in Hell for all Eternity! My creator means more to me than my flesh.
I’m glad Walgreens hat (sorry I don’t know his name) said what he said. The right person can help on your journey and the wrong person will draw you closer to sin
I understand that once you truly find GOD and you understand the true wrath that you get once you become a reprobate you will do what GOD says love GOD love yourself then you will truly know worth
@@cortashaelam320 it is very much relevant.... Stayn pure in a world tht promotes adultery, fornication, masturbation etc requires spiritual strength... Hence the holy spirit can keep us standing, not by our own strength or wisdom
If people are struggling with staying celibate until marriage, I advice that they examine themselves to see if they are really Christian and really have Christ in them. I used to fornicate all the time. I knew it was wrong, but sometimes I just didn't have control. I was going through some emotional challenges one time after a hard breakup and I cried out for help. I must have been serious in my heart because this was different from times in the past that I had cried out. Christ is not coming to help when you are not serious in the heart. You have to really want to give up your sins (if Christ takes them away, you won't miss them). Next thing that I know, sinful acts that I had been participating in for years (not just premarital sex) started falling away. Some of those acts were acts that I thought I could never stop doing. They didn't all go away over night....it took time bit by bit. But eventually all gone. I didn't even put any effort to "try" to stop. Those acts just faded away. Today, I haven't had sex in nearly 9 years and I use no effort to stay that way. I definitely would like to have sex again (married of course). But right now, there is no desire in me to have it unmarried. In the old days, I couldn't go to a place like Miami Beach without almost going crazy trying to contain myself from lusting and wanting sex. Nowadays, I will feel nothing if I were there....might even get a little disgusted at what I see.
I’m glad they are at least talking about fornication. Im 34 years old and have never had intercourse. It’s been a hard journey because almost every guy I’m met, Christian or not didn’t give a crap about abstinence. In fact, many would pressure me into having sex. I can’t take a “Christian” man seriously who doesn’t mind fornicating. To me that’s being religious and it’s one of the reasons outsiders don’t take the church seriously.
Yes they can my now intended been abstaining Almost 9 years by the time we’re married a decade it’s not easy he said lots of prayers and cold shower but it’s doable! I’m also abstaining it not easy but doable
My Error….I meant to say my husband might not held out over 20 years as myself….but I believe it will be years that I am Satisfied to hear his years of celibacy…..All Glory to God🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
I have been Celibate over 20 yrs…..I use to think my husband would not be celibate when I meet him…However God said to me if I can give your husband you and you Save yourself for him….Why would I not give you a Man who is Saving himself for you….God had to reveal to me that my husband could not get up anyway with another woman…..God always has my back….So knowing this and I trust God with all my Heart….i know God would not take me off the Dating scene and keep my man on the Dating Scene….So I know when I meet my Husband he would be a Man that has been celibate as I am also….Now he might not be now he might not held out over 20 yrs as myself however I believe it will be some sort of yrs…..God gets all the Glory🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
I think to answer the question 'can you be living in sexual sin and still tell people not to' Matthew 7:28 (MSG) When Jesus concluded His address, the crowd burst into applause. They had never heard teaching like this. It was apparent that He was LIVING everything He was saying - quite a contrast to their religious teachers" I believe every listener needs to become a fruit inspector before they accept anyone's teaching or message. You can't stop birds from flying over your head, but you can stop them laying a nest on it. In the same way, we can't stop these people from speaking about it, but we are responsible for not accepting what they say.
A great relationship should be built on something other than sex. If your single get to know yourself so when you get in a relationship you would be ready.
Good morning. I think its great you have this podcast so men can learn and connect with other men who are struggling in this area of sex. Great job!! I will be sharing this with other males I know. Keep it going in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Its a much needed ministry where transparency and growth in the Word of God is extremely needed to save the men of today! God bless you! ✝️🙏😊👍💯❤️
I think you are missing out on some good people! Many have had sex in the past, more than you would realize. Nobody is perfect. If they’ve repented and become a Christian they are made new. So I think you should be more concerned about the character, morals, qualities, and similarities/compatibilities within a partner versus their sexual past.
And the they bring all those spirits that come with confusion and devastation. If they can’t abstain for “ sex” then how in the heaven can they be trusted with any other thing that requires patience gentleness and long suffering? If I can wait…then so can he!! Or he is just not the man for me. The female sex organ has 3000 nerves while the male organ has one. So who shouldn’t be able to abstain because of the need for pleasure? ..WOMEN! What about if you have to abstain if one of you has an illness or recovery from some physical ailment. It’s all a farce to escape accountability and self control….As a matter of fact we as women get offered sex much more than men and have the opportunity to do it and don’t. I call BS 👈🏾So all of those excuses are just that “ excuses”. IF HE CAN’T WAIT HE’S NOT MY MATE! 👈🏾👈🏾👈🏾
This is the one! Know your why. Don’t abstain for a spouse, but abstain because you want to please God and honor Him with every part of your being… that’s when it gets a TINY bit easier.
Leeeeettttsss Gooooooo... with the Holy Ghost's help you can/will go even further with a Health/Blessed/Favourable outcome...HIS Blessing make Rich (Tangibly and inTangibly) and HE adds no sorrow...Lastly, please stay away from self pleasure and immorality (P0rn, S*x toys, etc) GOD is able to do a complete work without our help BUT, thru our obedience!!! (Jude 1: 24 Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy,) #My2Centz
Dear Ladies, I can almost 98% guarantee that if you end up a consensual casualty/choice of Anthony's or LaTerras's Celabacy journey (when they fall off as they say)... You can rule yourself out of getting proposed to!!!! Anthony said that "we put so much emphasis on sex (premarital)" ...Like/as if that is NOT GOD's heart (read yo' Bible). Part of GOD's heart is focusing, minding, and disciplining/chastening our Libido...period! I wish Pastor Daniels would've chimed-in, challenged, or corrected that point ... like he did some of the others. #My2Centz
John 8:1-11....the woman caught in adultery is a demonstration of Jesus's love, compassion and forgiveness towards those who fall under the strongholds of the flesh, including sexual sin. It was yhe leaders who brought the woman to Christ for Him to condemn her, but He addressed the sins of the teachers/ leaders of Israel...as they read their sins written by the finger of El Roi (Jehovah sees) they filed out from the oldest to the youngest....they were not without sin to cast the stones. Therenis Victory IN CHRIST TO OVERCOME SEXUAL SIN/IMPLUSES... By beholding Christ, we become CHANGED...stay in the Word- Abba Father speaks clearly to us via His written Word...stay in pray, fasting and build a wall of scripture around yourself. Study Proverbs...SHE= WISDOM IS FOUND THERE
A question was asked to Anthony about a particular area in his left and he just so happens to fall short there. He isn’t promoting for men or women to practice pre-marital sex. Why are you unfollowing him for confessing his sin? I did watch this on the 2x speed, did I miss something? You are free to do what you please but since you put it out there I wanted to know if you are unfollowing because his sin is known to everyone or something else? From what I know, his platform is about financial education. So I’m just wondering.
@@Chrissy-Jay he talks about God a lot on his platform that you would think he would understand the importance of celibacy. He said that’s where he falls short but he didn’t say what if anything he’s doing to fight that sin. It’s disappointing because there are so many women like myself trying to be pure and it makes me question are there any men love God enough to try to do the same? He has a large following so I imagine this might make other men comfortable instead of pushing them to do better. It’s also hard that someone with his wealth would be sleeping around when he could get a woman pregnant that would zap his wealth. Also The Bible speaks that sexual immorality is a sin that hurts your own flesh and it’s not to be taken lightly. Though I appreciate his honesty, I will be willing to listen to him when he takes God more seriously.
I appreciate the honesty. Unfortunately there are very few Christian men and women not having sex. I think they both spoke to a lot of people’s struggle.
YESSIR! Jesus is better than anything this world has. AND purity is the hardest thing I have ever done in my life. But only having sex in covenant is a basic Christian principle.
Judge everything...this is Biblical...we can't condemn or persecute tho...but, judge everything...Judge where you eat...judge what you buy...judge your tooth paste...judge that sketchy looking person at the end of the block...judge how rotten or ripe that watermellon at Wholefoods is...Judge is it's a good bag of Brazilian weave...Judge that shampoo...Judge that parking spot on the Target lot...most importantly...Judge a person by the fruit that they are bearing forth...Judge everything! #My2Centz
Fornication is in general, defrauding the brethren/the saved. In particular, a form of fornication involves unlawful sex. For examples, when Ham saw Noah’s nakedness, the Bible’s (KJB) wording reveals that Ham slept with Noah’s wife, Ham’s mother, and this fornication/unlawful sex brought Canaan into the world (which is why Noah cursed Canaan). This act was fornication because it defrauded Noah and his wife, both saved people, in that Noah’s wife was off limits to Ham. Paul rebukes this fornication in 1 Corinthians 5:1. The man in that case was sleeping with his father’s wife, that woman wasn’t his to sleep with - they were unmarried. In Leviticus 18, all the parties listed are sexually off limits *if not married to each other*. (There are many examples in the Bible of men taking to wife sisters, aunts, cousins, etc., which then would make sex between them lawful. If not married though, it would be fornication: hence the verse, “it is better to marry than to burn”.) Sex between two saved persons outside of marriage is fornication: in OT law, the man would have to marry the virgin of Israel that he humbled. If she were a fiancé, the man would be put to death, and the maid also, if it happened in a city. If it happened in the woods, and she cried but no one was around, it was treated as though the man raped her or as if someone got murdered. So she would not have been put to death in that case. Fornication is not exclusively sex outside of marriage. Samson laid a philistine harlot in Gaza. Gilead laid a harlot and had Jepthah. Judah thought Tamar was a harlot and produced Pharez and Zarah with her. Pharez was an ancestor of Jesus. The Hebrew young men would have laid with Ruth if they could, but Boaz told them not to. You see, Israelite maidens were not harlots (look at what Dinah’s brothers said about her and Shechem in Genesis 31). There is a difference in the eyes of God between an unsaved woman (like a Philistine or a Midianite woman) and a saved woman (like an Israelite-OT). The Israelite maidens were expected to be virgins up until they were given to a man by their father. It was dire consequences if Israelite maidens were found to not be virgins at time of consummation of marriage. Israelite men however, did not have the same sexual limits set upon them. Many Israelite men had multiple wives, for example. How would those men be virgins before marriage to the other wives? It didn’t matter: saved, bachelor men can have sex with unmarried, unsaved women. Once the man marries, though, the limits of sex are to his wife or wives, only. Samson’s parents weren’t worried about their bachelor son’s philistine/pagan/unsaved girlfriends. They just didn’t want him marrying a pagan. Look it up. The priest asked David if the men had “at least” kept themselves from women when David requested the showbread. Meaning, it was common knowledge that Israelite men who didn’t have wives would regularly lay harlots or get pagan girlfriends like Samson did. The concept that all sex outside of marriage is fornication is not biblical at all, but originated with pagan philosophy. Some Christian teachers early on took up some of that pagan philosophy (see Colossians 2:8 KJB) and mixed biblical doctrine with it. So it’s vital that we Bible believers stick to scripture (KJB) and believe God’s words and not what man says about God’s words. ♥️
I want to debate this. I don't think examples like these are prescriptive but instead descriptive. Scripture says fornicators will not inherit the kingdom of God. And also if a man cannot practice self control he should marry. Every man should have his own wife.
@@jennymentor9191 Scripture does say that fornicators will not inherit the kingdom of God. The key is in the biblical definition of fornication, not the traditional, accepted definition. Esau was called a fornicator, yet in the text he clearly married. Samson in the text clearly laid a harlot, yet in the same book of Hebrews in which Esau is called a fornicator, Samson is listed in the hall of faith in chapter eleven. There is more to fornication than just unlawful sex. That is just one particular sin that is included in the Bible’s use of the word “fornication”. It is very significant that the above examples from the Old Testament were provided to us. What is said and is not said is very significant because the New Testament is a much smaller portion of the Bible. When Jesus asked of those Pharisees and other onlookers in his day, “Have ye not read?” and “Is it not written?”, the Lord was pointing them to the Old Testament, because the New Testament hadn’t yet been written. And the Old Testament is what those early disciples like Peter and Paul were studying instead of waiting tables.
@@moose_tracks41 Jesus raised the bar though. When Jesus said that "the law says not to commit adultery, but I say if anyone looks at a woman with lust in his eyes he has committed adultery with her in his heart." And in addition, Paul talks about how our bodies are the temple of the Holy Spirit, and how could one think about joining themselves with a prostitute(or harlot)? Scripture tells us in Acts that God overlooked ignorance in earlier times but He is calling all to repentance.
@@jennymentor9191 Jesus Christ fulfilled the law (Matthew 5:17 KJB). He also exposed the professing church’s hypocrisy in their outward show of religion whilst being filthy on the inside as well as their lack of sound doctrine and biblical knowledge. In John 3, Jesus expressed disappointment in a church leader named Nicodemus because Nicodemus didn’t understand the second birth (v. 10). You mentioned Matthew 5:28: “But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.” If someone said, “You have a nice house”, you would probably say thanks and think nothing more of it. If they said, “Nice house, I want it for myself”, then you would be on alert. If someone said, “Your wife is gorgeous/hot”, that is one thing. If that person said, “I want your wife for myself”, that is another thing. The key phrase in Matthew 5:28 is “to lust after her” which means that that man is courting thoughts of taking that woman unto himself. It’s okay to appreciate another’s wife or truck or house; it’s sin to lust after another’s wife, truck, house etc. This kind of lust is what Lucifer had when he was in charge of Eden. All those possessions got to him, and he decided for himself that he wanted those things to be his in principal, not as a vassal governor of the Lord’s on the Lord’s earth. 1 Corinthians 6 talks about fornication and how it is “defrauding the brethren” (v. 8). Verses 13-20 remind us Christians that we not only have two bodies (a physical, fleshly one that will perish, and a spiritual one that is the temple of the holy ghost and will not perish: 1 Corinthians 15:44 KJB), but that the body of Christ, of which there are many members, is not for fucking/screwing itself, but is for the Lord. How does the body of Christ fuck itself? Take Achan for example (Joshua 7). His sin soiled the entire congregation of Israel/body of Christ. His act of disobedience in taking the “accursed thing” polluted the rest of the Church: this sin was fornication. Compare this concept above to what is written in Leviticus 21:7, 9, 13, & 14; and Haggai 2:12-14 KJB. (This is a big reason Christ was so pissed off about biblical ignorance and doctrinal incongruences such as that in Matthew 15:2, 3 KJB - this leaven polluted the entire body of Christ). So, in 1 Corinthians 6, and again in 1 Corinthians 10, Christians are reminded of the fact that we are a unit, and that there are sins that do not affect the entire unit (non-fornication sins), and there are sins that do affect the entire unit/body - like Achan’s - which make the entire body one with a whore (therefore, fornication, i.e. defrauding the brethren).
@@jennymentor9191 Jesus Christ fulfilled the law (Matthew 5:17) and exposed the hypocrisy in the professing church back then. They were shrouded in outward show with little knowledge of the Bible. He was disappointed in Nicodemus, a leader in Israel, because Nicodemus didn’t understand the second birth (John 3). There is a difference in appreciating something and desiring to take that “something” for oneself. Desiring to take something is lusting after something. Jesus pointed out that everyone was fixated on the act of adultery, but that the issue went even deeper into the heart. 1 Corinthians 6 and 1 Corinthians 10 remind us Christians that we are the body of Christ. A body has many members. It is a unit. We are also reminded that we have two bodies: a physical body that will perish and a spiritual body, which is the temple of the holy ghost, that will not perish (1 Co. 15:44). We are reminded that the body of Christ is not for fornication but for the Lord. We as Christians shouldn’t be screwing/defrauding each other. This is fornication. When Achan took the accursed thing, he committed fornication, and the whole body of Christ suffered because of it. Compare that concept above with Leviticus 21:7, 9, 13, & 14; and Haggai 2:12-14. There are “localized” sins that don’t affect the entire body; and there are “whole body sins” that pollute the entire body. The latter is a case of fornication. If it hurts or hinders the body of Christ, like Achan’s sin did, then it is fornication (“defrauding the brethren”). And if the body of Christ is polluted by fornication, it is then “joined to a harlot” and not pure and chaste for the Lord. For this reason, fornication - the act of defrauding and polluting the brethren - is cause for putting away a member of the body of Christ forever (Matthew 19:9). All references KJB.
So during the falloff period I guess the men be finding women who they just want to sleep with but not to marry, BUT talk about women with a body count they don't like when some of these men have added to the body count.
Exactly, I can't believe my ears, so they sleep with women while waiting for tat one woman who will take their sin away? What about the wmen they slept with, they just stop because they are married now?
And all women aren’t holy holy either but the main ones judging women can cheat and not tell a soul, it’s not just the man. I feel like it takes being honest with yourself fr
That Luke warm definition or narrative is WRONG. The Bible clearly tells us what Luke warm is. People are stuck on “neither hot or cold” and seem to stop reading. Let’s discuss. “So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth. Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:” Revelation 3:16-17 KJV Maybe it’s because the text puts a period before because that trips people up. A Luke warm person is on that have not been through the fire of Holy Spirit and feel like they are on top of the world. One that is rich and need of nothing. We can see this from the book of Job. A lukewarm person is JOB before he went through his trial and tribulations. “There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil. And there were born unto him seven sons and three daughters. His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the men of the east.” Job 1:1-3 KJV Job was rich and needed nothing. Then God spued him out His mouth to Satan. “And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil? Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, Doth Job fear God for nought? Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land. But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face. And the LORD said unto Satan, Behold, all that he hath is in thy power; only upon himself put not forth thine hand. So Satan went forth from the presence of the LORD.” Job 1:8-12 KJV You see God was warning or letting the church of Laodiceans know that they were about to go through some trials and tribulations. He was getting them ready. “As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent. Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me. To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne. He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.” Revelation 3:19-22 KJV God bless!
I was a chronic Christian Fornicator. But in 1996, after a number of failed attempts at long-term celibacy, I finally met the sweetest woman in the world. We both experienced devastatingly painful divorces. We dated for a year and a half and consummated our marriage on our honeymoon! PRAISE GOD! We've have been married for 27 years. She respected my celibacy commitment and she wanted to honor God, too. Here's the deal, if I had fornicated with her one time before marriage, I'm certain that I wouldn't have married her. And I would have missed out on the best life-partner a man like me could ever have!
We're both senior citizens now, and the Most High God is still blessing our sex life. And I'm convinced it's because we dedicated our bodies to him. I was also a cheater before this triumph. But deliverance is sweet and sin is not! Nothing is impossible with God, but we MUST DO OUR PART!
This!
@@erekalvin ❤
You're both remarried (with first spouses still living), so you're living in a.d.u.l.t.e.r.y?
@@_theerealnono_7694 Why do you seem to receive joy from calling us ADULTERERS? I pray there is no envy in your heart. That could be a form of COVETING WHAT BELONGS TO OTHERS. We achieved this honorable goal only through yielding to the Spirit. Also, we didn't divorce our former spouses, they divorced us. And yes, we could be labeled as adulterers. But 2 billion living Christians break the 7TH DAY SABBATH Commandment their entire lives and honor the pagan, catholic-invented, sun worshiper's day... SUNDAY. James 2:10-11 says if you break one of the Commands, you're guilty of them all. SO, YOU'RE NO BETTER THAN WE ARE, ARE YOU?
@@_theerealnono_7694 Yes, adultery violates one of the 10 Commandments. But so does breaking the 7th Day Sabbath. And 2 billion living Christians do that every week. You're no better than me, my friend.
They still seem to be putting the responsibility on women to be pure to help them stay pure. But that's not how that works. Each person is supposed to be pure for their own sakes. If you truly are a man of God living for Christ and have him as your center of attention, it doesn't matter what a woman throws at you, you should be able to say "get behind me Satan," and mean it. And if you lose control or fall don't, blame her, blame yourself.
Exactly Jesus said remove anything that causes you to stumble that includes yourself.
I’ve never understood why Christian men don’t care about purity.
Because it’s not enforced on them like it is woman 🤷🏾♀️ so why would they care.
But make it make sense. Why enforce it on one gender and not the other? It takes two to tango. @@cbb391
And it's sad because the bible said flee immorality and it didn't say oy women should flee
_some_ men.
The men that take God seriously, don't play that.
Uh plenty do. You just don't pay any attention to us.
Tony Gaskin is accurate. I thank God for keeping me for years from greedy men. Celibate men is rare, however I know some men who can abstain.
Abstinence should not be for a season, if you are single it should be something that is practiced all the time until you get married.
Sin separates men from God. Sexual sin can destroy you spiritually and physically.
Say it again
Yep and these christian man are failing
@@aphiwemncube1550failure only happens when one gives up.. don’t pass judgment on people so quickly
@@derekfultz3285 🙏🙏🙏🙏true
Yes. ....they can. But will they......Will they do it, not can they do it. We can all do anything in Christ!!!!!
preach fam, I have been abstinent going on ten years and I feel wonderful especially mentally and emotionally
It’s possible for men and women to stay celibate because Christ will keep who wants to be kept. PERIODT. The first “Christian”guy talking… saying he’s not, but is willing to lets me know, that the word is not living in him. You don’t want to stop fornication, cause you truly don’t believe you’re sinning. Either you trust Gods word or you don’t. And if whatever you’re battling is hard to overcome… That’s when you fast, and ask the Holy Spirit to help you. It’s not rocket science, but yet, you’re a 10 toes down Christian.
Was the word living in Peter in Gal. 2:10?
If we truly believe in Christ, then we can overcome lust and temptation. I can do all things thru Christ who strengthens me. I have been abstinent now for about ten years. We got this fam.
@@koolsmoothfan AYE!!! 👊🏾 it’ll be 10 for me come January. So they can miss with it all. Of course we’re human and not robots… but Christ is Faithful and he’s rooting for his people
Bishop Brian Keith Williams did a powerful message in the 90's "Sanctified Sex" which addresses This checkout on You Tube. Men and women must fast, pray, put boundaries in place and enforce fully. I am celibate but most brothers in Christ have no desire to obey scripture. Lukewarm, carnal and cavalier. Several demonic spirits operating beyond my patience. Ladies keep your legs closed. I have not given up on marriage.
@@faithhouse6111 Peter asked Paul and Barnabas to remember to needy in their group(the Jews), which is the very thing Paul has been eager to do . How does this relate to what I posted?
What so dangerous about that panel is the lack of understanding of the severe danger they are in with God. The scripture says the sexually immoral person will NOT inherit the kingdom of God. It also says fornication should not be named once among us. I know it’s a real challenge for single men and women, however we are all required to live right in this area if we want to be saved. Man this is dangerous what they are saying
Being sexually pure won’t get us into the kingdom either- but praise God for giving his son who died for our sins and repentance! Meaning if we do fall into fornication, our belief in Jesus and our loving Fathers forgiveness is our inheritance ticket to the kingdom 🙌🏾
@@xxxgeorgyxxx Absolutely 1,000 percent agree with the necessity of repentance that Christ allows us to exercise in his Grace. We must repent and produce fruit that reflects that repentance. Galatians chapter 5 gives a stern warning that if we practice sin we will not inherit the Kingdom of God. In this video fornication was the sin they were speaking of and it is on the list of the works of the flesh that will cost people their eternity. I pray for everyone’s strength in the area of sexual purity! 🙏🏾
I don't give a man a hard time for abstaining because I haven't met him yet. I have decided to be celibate so I won't be tortured in Hell for all Eternity! My creator means more to me than my flesh.
Amen ❤ the Lord is before any man
It won't stick until you've fallen in love totally with God.
Yes they can. The Holy Spirit has given us all self control. You use it if you want to
I’m glad Walgreens hat (sorry I don’t know his name) said what he said. The right person can help on your journey and the wrong person will draw you closer to sin
Not Walgreens 😂
@jadew9177 Put some respect on that cap. Lol. The cap represents my hometown baseball team... the Washington Nationals.
@@SabbathDay Oh...I dont watch sports like that and it looks like the Walgreens symbol lol
@@jadew9177 I don't follow baseball and I live in Atlanta now, but I think I'm on point with whose cap that represents. I could be wrong, too. Lol
That’s Corey Arvinger. He’s the CEO of the Support Black Colleges clothing brand.
Prayer is important to ask God to help you control your flesh.
Exactly 💯
I understand that once you truly find GOD and you understand the true wrath that you get once you become a reprobate you will do what GOD says love GOD love yourself then you will truly know worth
Truth Spoken 💯 right here!
This video should go VIRAL.
Everyone who have
ears 👂🏽 to hear let him/her hear.
I will counter question that question: Can Christian men stay _saved_ until Jesus returns? If yes? Then men can stay abstinent
I can do all things through Christ who strenthens me....
This scripture is referring to something else. Read the scripture before this one.
@@cortashaelam320 it is very much relevant.... Stayn pure in a world tht promotes adultery, fornication, masturbation etc requires spiritual strength... Hence the holy spirit can keep us standing, not by our own strength or wisdom
If people are struggling with staying celibate until marriage, I advice that they examine themselves to see if they are really Christian and really have Christ in them. I used to fornicate all the time. I knew it was wrong, but sometimes I just didn't have control. I was going through some emotional challenges one time after a hard breakup and I cried out for help. I must have been serious in my heart because this was different from times in the past that I had cried out. Christ is not coming to help when you are not serious in the heart. You have to really want to give up your sins (if Christ takes them away, you won't miss them). Next thing that I know, sinful acts that I had been participating in for years (not just premarital sex) started falling away. Some of those acts were acts that I thought I could never stop doing. They didn't all go away over night....it took time bit by bit. But eventually all gone. I didn't even put any effort to "try" to stop. Those acts just faded away. Today, I haven't had sex in nearly 9 years and I use no effort to stay that way. I definitely would like to have sex again (married of course). But right now, there is no desire in me to have it unmarried. In the old days, I couldn't go to a place like Miami Beach without almost going crazy trying to contain myself from lusting and wanting sex. Nowadays, I will feel nothing if I were there....might even get a little disgusted at what I see.
Anthony full of it
I’m glad they are at least talking about fornication. Im 34 years old and have never had intercourse. It’s been a hard journey because almost every guy I’m met, Christian or not didn’t give a crap about abstinence. In fact, many would pressure me into having sex. I can’t take a “Christian” man seriously who doesn’t mind fornicating. To me that’s being religious and it’s one of the reasons outsiders don’t take the church seriously.
Yes they can my now intended been abstaining Almost 9 years by the time we’re married a decade it’s not easy he said lots of prayers and cold shower but it’s doable! I’m also abstaining it not easy but doable
My Error….I meant to say my husband might not held out over 20 years as myself….but I believe it will be years that I am Satisfied to hear his years of celibacy…..All Glory to God🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
I have been Celibate over 20 yrs…..I use to think my husband would not be celibate when I meet him…However God said to me if I can give your husband you and you Save yourself for him….Why would I not give you a Man who is Saving himself for you….God had to reveal to me that my husband could not get up anyway with another woman…..God always has my back….So knowing this and I trust God with all my Heart….i know God would not take me off the Dating scene and keep my man on the Dating Scene….So I know when I meet my Husband he would be a Man that has been celibate as I am also….Now he might not be now he might not held out over 20 yrs as myself however I believe it will be some sort of yrs…..God gets all the Glory🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Do speak for Christian man bro, speak for yourself, God kept me for 9 years until I was married
Amen! So proud of you!
I think to answer the question 'can you be living in sexual sin and still tell people not to'
Matthew 7:28 (MSG)
When Jesus concluded His address, the crowd burst into applause. They had never heard teaching like this. It was apparent that He was LIVING everything He was saying - quite a contrast to their religious teachers"
I believe every listener needs to become a fruit inspector before they accept anyone's teaching or message.
You can't stop birds from flying over your head, but you can stop them laying a nest on it. In the same way, we can't stop these people from speaking about it, but we are responsible for not accepting what they say.
Excellent and truly appreicate transperency, loved the way Tony Gaskin broke it down because now i understand what I went through in the past.
A great relationship should be built on something other than sex. If your single get to know yourself so when you get in a relationship you would be ready.
Good morning. I think its great you have this podcast so men can learn and connect with other men who are struggling in this area of sex. Great job!! I will be sharing this with other males I know. Keep it going in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Its a much needed ministry where transparency and growth in the Word of God is extremely needed to save the men of today! God bless you! ✝️🙏😊👍💯❤️
What about Christian virgin men only desiring Christian virgin women? Specifically on simply following equally yoked.
I think you are missing out on some good people! Many have had sex in the past, more than you would realize. Nobody is perfect. If they’ve repented and become a Christian they are made new. So I think you should be more concerned about the character, morals, qualities, and similarities/compatibilities within a partner versus their sexual past.
And the they bring all those spirits that come with confusion and devastation. If they can’t abstain for “ sex” then how in the heaven can they be trusted with any other thing that requires patience gentleness and long suffering? If I can wait…then so can he!! Or he is just not the man for me. The female sex organ has 3000 nerves while the male organ has one. So who shouldn’t be able to abstain because of the need for pleasure? ..WOMEN! What about if you have to abstain if one of you has an illness or recovery from some physical ailment. It’s all a farce to escape accountability and self control….As a matter of fact we as women get offered sex much more than men and have the opportunity to do it and don’t. I call BS 👈🏾So all of those excuses are just that “ excuses”. IF HE CAN’T WAIT HE’S NOT MY MATE! 👈🏾👈🏾👈🏾
powerful compilation.
If the goal is to abstain from sex until marriage and not to abstain bc it’s a SIN and it doesn’t pleases God……
This is the one! Know your why. Don’t abstain for a spouse, but abstain because you want to please God and honor Him with every part of your being… that’s when it gets a TINY bit easier.
The thing is sex is not a sin, sex outside the marriage is sin, so the person is abstaining until marriage because it doesn’t please God.
@@mariowatson5376bingo
Thank God for Pastor Flowers… because that first clip was .. phew .. Lord.
Celibate 4yrs 4 months 😅
🎉🎉🎉Congratulations!
Leeeeettttsss Gooooooo... with the Holy Ghost's help you can/will go even further with a Health/Blessed/Favourable outcome...HIS Blessing make Rich (Tangibly and inTangibly) and HE adds no sorrow...Lastly, please stay away from self pleasure and immorality (P0rn, S*x toys, etc) GOD is able to do a complete work without our help BUT, thru our obedience!!!
(Jude 1: 24 Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy,) #My2Centz
Yes, but we are rare.
Dear Ladies, I can almost 98% guarantee that if you end up a consensual casualty/choice of Anthony's or LaTerras's Celabacy journey (when they fall off as they say)... You can rule yourself out of getting proposed to!!!! Anthony said that "we put so much emphasis on sex (premarital)" ...Like/as if that is NOT GOD's heart (read yo' Bible). Part of GOD's heart is focusing, minding, and disciplining/chastening our Libido...period! I wish Pastor Daniels would've chimed-in, challenged, or corrected that point ... like he did some of the others. #My2Centz
John 8:1-11....the woman caught in adultery is a demonstration of Jesus's love, compassion and forgiveness towards those who fall under the strongholds of the flesh, including sexual sin. It was yhe leaders who brought the woman to Christ for Him to condemn her, but He addressed the sins of the teachers/ leaders of Israel...as they read their sins written by the finger of El Roi (Jehovah sees) they filed out from the oldest to the youngest....they were not without sin to cast the stones. Therenis Victory IN CHRIST TO OVERCOME SEXUAL SIN/IMPLUSES... By beholding Christ, we become CHANGED...stay in the Word- Abba Father speaks clearly to us via His written Word...stay in pray, fasting and build a wall of scripture around yourself. Study Proverbs...SHE= WISDOM IS FOUND THERE
I’m reading Proverbs now 💯
I needed this conversation to hear it. I have surely failed in this area with my wonderful fiance to be
God bless this man and his ministry ❤🙏
Wow… I’m bout to unsubscribe from both of their channels smh. No wonder why Anthony and Laterras ain’t married.
A question was asked to Anthony about a particular area in his left and he just so happens to fall short there. He isn’t promoting for men or women to practice pre-marital sex. Why are you unfollowing him for confessing his sin? I did watch this on the 2x speed, did I miss something?
You are free to do what you please but since you put it out there I wanted to know if you are unfollowing because his sin is known to everyone or something else? From what I know, his platform is about financial education. So I’m just wondering.
@@Chrissy-Jay he talks about God a lot on his platform that you would think he would understand the importance of celibacy. He said that’s where he falls short but he didn’t say what if anything he’s doing to fight that sin. It’s disappointing because there are so many women like myself trying to be pure and it makes me question are there any men love God enough to try to do the same? He has a large following so I imagine this might make other men comfortable instead of pushing them to do better.
It’s also hard that someone with his wealth would be sleeping around when he could get a woman pregnant that would zap his wealth.
Also The Bible speaks that sexual immorality is a sin that hurts your own flesh and it’s not to be taken lightly. Though I appreciate his honesty, I will be willing to listen to him when he takes God more seriously.
@@MutedMinimalistI agree with you 100% it's not a good testimony to hear how he speaks of fornication
At least he was honest.
I appreciate the honesty. Unfortunately there are very few Christian men and women not having sex. I think they both spoke to a lot of people’s struggle.
I'm shocked and disappointed with Anthony, i thought He really loved the Lord. I really thought he was saving himself for marriage.
YESSIR! Jesus is better than anything this world has. AND purity is the hardest thing I have ever done in my life. But only having sex in covenant is a basic Christian principle.
Wonder what they would say to women who have been abstinence or even virgins after 35+ years. Look beautiful and still single?
Thank you
2:26 no one is perfect and JUDGING is something that only God can do. He kept it real he stopped then started again
Judge everything...this is Biblical...we can't condemn or persecute tho...but, judge everything...Judge where you eat...judge what you buy...judge your tooth paste...judge that sketchy looking person at the end of the block...judge how rotten or ripe that watermellon at Wholefoods is...Judge is it's a good bag of Brazilian weave...Judge that shampoo...Judge that parking spot on the Target lot...most importantly...Judge a person by the fruit that they are bearing forth...Judge everything! #My2Centz
Fornication is in general, defrauding the brethren/the saved.
In particular, a form of fornication involves unlawful sex.
For examples, when Ham saw Noah’s nakedness, the Bible’s (KJB) wording reveals that Ham slept with Noah’s wife, Ham’s mother, and this fornication/unlawful sex brought Canaan into the world (which is why Noah cursed Canaan). This act was fornication because it defrauded Noah and his wife, both saved people, in that Noah’s wife was off limits to Ham. Paul rebukes this fornication in 1 Corinthians 5:1. The man in that case was sleeping with his father’s wife, that woman wasn’t his to sleep with - they were unmarried.
In Leviticus 18, all the parties listed are sexually off limits *if not married to each other*.
(There are many examples in the Bible of men taking to wife sisters, aunts, cousins, etc., which then would make sex between them lawful. If not married though, it would be fornication: hence the verse, “it is better to marry than to burn”.)
Sex between two saved persons outside of marriage is fornication: in OT law, the man would have to marry the virgin of Israel that he humbled. If she were a fiancé, the man would be put to death, and the maid also, if it happened in a city. If it happened in the woods, and she cried but no one was around, it was treated as though the man raped her or as if someone got murdered. So she would not have been put to death in that case.
Fornication is not exclusively sex outside of marriage. Samson laid a philistine harlot in Gaza. Gilead laid a harlot and had Jepthah. Judah thought Tamar was a harlot and produced Pharez and Zarah with her. Pharez was an ancestor of Jesus. The Hebrew young men would have laid with Ruth if they could, but Boaz told them not to.
You see, Israelite maidens were not harlots (look at what Dinah’s brothers said about her and Shechem in Genesis 31).
There is a difference in the eyes of God between an unsaved woman (like a Philistine or a Midianite woman) and a saved woman (like an Israelite-OT).
The Israelite maidens were expected to be virgins up until they were given to a man by their father. It was dire consequences if Israelite maidens were found to not be virgins at time of consummation of marriage.
Israelite men however, did not have the same sexual limits set upon them. Many Israelite men had multiple wives, for example. How would those men be virgins before marriage to the other wives? It didn’t matter: saved, bachelor men can have sex with unmarried, unsaved women. Once the man marries, though, the limits of sex are to his wife or wives, only.
Samson’s parents weren’t worried about their bachelor son’s philistine/pagan/unsaved girlfriends. They just didn’t want him marrying a pagan. Look it up.
The priest asked David if the men had “at least” kept themselves from women when David requested the showbread. Meaning, it was common knowledge that Israelite men who didn’t have wives would regularly lay harlots or get pagan girlfriends like Samson did.
The concept that all sex outside of marriage is fornication is not biblical at all, but originated with pagan philosophy. Some Christian teachers early on took up some of that pagan philosophy (see Colossians 2:8 KJB) and mixed biblical doctrine with it.
So it’s vital that we Bible believers stick to scripture (KJB) and believe God’s words and not what man says about God’s words. ♥️
I want to debate this. I don't think examples like these are prescriptive but instead descriptive. Scripture says fornicators will not inherit the kingdom of God. And also if a man cannot practice self control he should marry. Every man should have his own wife.
@@jennymentor9191 Scripture does say that fornicators will not inherit the kingdom of God. The key is in the biblical definition of fornication, not the traditional, accepted definition.
Esau was called a fornicator, yet in the text he clearly married.
Samson in the text clearly laid a harlot, yet in the same book of Hebrews in which Esau is called a fornicator, Samson is listed in the hall of faith in chapter eleven.
There is more to fornication than just unlawful sex. That is just one particular sin that is included in the Bible’s use of the word “fornication”.
It is very significant that the above examples from the Old Testament were provided to us. What is said and is not said is very significant because the New Testament is a much smaller portion of the Bible.
When Jesus asked of those Pharisees and other onlookers in his day, “Have ye not read?” and “Is it not written?”, the Lord was pointing them to the Old Testament, because the New Testament hadn’t yet been written.
And the Old Testament is what those early disciples like Peter and Paul were studying instead of waiting tables.
@@moose_tracks41 Jesus raised the bar though. When Jesus said that "the law says not to commit adultery, but I say if anyone looks at a woman with lust in his eyes he has committed adultery with her in his heart." And in addition, Paul talks about how our bodies are the temple of the Holy Spirit, and how could one think about joining themselves with a prostitute(or harlot)? Scripture tells us in Acts that God overlooked ignorance in earlier times but He is calling all to repentance.
@@jennymentor9191 Jesus Christ fulfilled the law (Matthew 5:17 KJB). He also exposed the professing church’s hypocrisy in their outward show of religion whilst being filthy on the inside as well as their lack of sound doctrine and biblical knowledge. In John 3, Jesus expressed disappointment in a church leader named Nicodemus because Nicodemus didn’t understand the second birth (v. 10).
You mentioned Matthew 5:28:
“But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.”
If someone said, “You have a nice house”, you would probably say thanks and think nothing more of it.
If they said, “Nice house, I want it for myself”, then you would be on alert.
If someone said, “Your wife is gorgeous/hot”, that is one thing. If that person said, “I want your wife for myself”, that is another thing.
The key phrase in Matthew 5:28 is “to lust after her” which means that that man is courting thoughts of taking that woman unto himself.
It’s okay to appreciate another’s wife or truck or house; it’s sin to lust after another’s wife, truck, house etc.
This kind of lust is what Lucifer had when he was in charge of Eden. All those possessions got to him, and he decided for himself that he wanted those things to be his in principal, not as a vassal governor of the Lord’s on the Lord’s earth.
1 Corinthians 6 talks about fornication and how it is “defrauding the brethren” (v. 8).
Verses 13-20 remind us Christians that we not only have two bodies (a physical, fleshly one that will perish, and a spiritual one that is the temple of the holy ghost and will not perish: 1 Corinthians 15:44 KJB), but that the body of Christ, of which there are many members, is not for fucking/screwing itself, but is for the Lord.
How does the body of Christ fuck itself? Take Achan for example (Joshua 7). His sin soiled the entire congregation of Israel/body of Christ. His act of disobedience in taking the “accursed thing” polluted the rest of the Church: this sin was fornication.
Compare this concept above to what is written in Leviticus 21:7, 9, 13, & 14; and Haggai 2:12-14 KJB.
(This is a big reason Christ was so pissed off about biblical ignorance and doctrinal incongruences such as that in Matthew 15:2, 3 KJB - this leaven polluted the entire body of Christ).
So, in 1 Corinthians 6, and again in 1 Corinthians 10, Christians are reminded of the fact that we are a unit, and that there are sins that do not affect the entire unit (non-fornication sins), and there are sins that do affect the entire unit/body - like Achan’s - which make the entire body one with a whore (therefore, fornication, i.e. defrauding the brethren).
@@jennymentor9191 Jesus Christ fulfilled the law (Matthew 5:17) and exposed the hypocrisy in the professing church back then. They were shrouded in outward show with little knowledge of the Bible. He was disappointed in Nicodemus, a leader in Israel, because Nicodemus didn’t understand the second birth (John 3).
There is a difference in appreciating something and desiring to take that “something” for oneself. Desiring to take something is lusting after something.
Jesus pointed out that everyone was fixated on the act of adultery, but that the issue went even deeper into the heart.
1 Corinthians 6 and 1 Corinthians 10 remind us Christians that we are the body of Christ. A body has many members. It is a unit.
We are also reminded that we have two bodies: a physical body that will perish and a spiritual body, which is the temple of the holy ghost, that will not perish (1 Co. 15:44).
We are reminded that the body of Christ is not for fornication but for the Lord. We as Christians shouldn’t be screwing/defrauding each other. This is fornication.
When Achan took the accursed thing, he committed fornication, and the whole body of Christ suffered because of it.
Compare that concept above with Leviticus 21:7, 9, 13, & 14; and Haggai 2:12-14.
There are “localized” sins that don’t affect the entire body; and there are “whole body sins” that pollute the entire body. The latter is a case of fornication.
If it hurts or hinders the body of Christ, like Achan’s sin did, then it is fornication (“defrauding the brethren”).
And if the body of Christ is polluted by fornication, it is then “joined to a harlot” and not pure and chaste for the Lord.
For this reason, fornication - the act of defrauding and polluting the brethren - is cause for putting away a member of the body of Christ forever (Matthew 19:9).
All references KJB.
“Can they” should not be a question. It’s extremely problematic to women that it is.
So during the falloff period I guess the men be finding women who they just want to sleep with but not to marry, BUT talk about women with a body count they don't like when some of these men have added to the body count.
Exactly, I can't believe my ears, so they sleep with women while waiting for tat one woman who will take their sin away? What about the wmen they slept with, they just stop because they are married now?
When was this⁉️
0:24 Um....so what have you been doing all this time?? Lol
I thought you were "waiting" for your wife?
Quoting scriptures o what women should do, talking LOUD ab submission BUT HAVE NEVER SUBMITTED TO GOD
And all women aren’t holy holy either but the main ones judging women can cheat and not tell a soul, it’s not just the man. I feel like it takes being honest with yourself fr
yes, but I've never encountered one in 40 years
Of course they can. If i did so can they. Idk if they are willing to deny the flesh frfr tho.
That Luke warm definition or narrative is WRONG. The Bible clearly tells us what Luke warm is. People are stuck on “neither hot or cold” and seem to stop reading. Let’s discuss.
“So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth. Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:”
Revelation 3:16-17 KJV
Maybe it’s because the text puts a period before because that trips people up. A Luke warm person is on that have not been through the fire of Holy Spirit and feel like they are on top of the world. One that is rich and need of nothing. We can see this from the book of Job. A lukewarm person is JOB before he went through his trial and tribulations.
“There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil. And there were born unto him seven sons and three daughters. His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the men of the east.”
Job 1:1-3 KJV
Job was rich and needed nothing. Then God spued him out His mouth to Satan.
“And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil? Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, Doth Job fear God for nought? Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land. But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face. And the LORD said unto Satan, Behold, all that he hath is in thy power; only upon himself put not forth thine hand. So Satan went forth from the presence of the LORD.”
Job 1:8-12 KJV
You see God was warning or letting the church of Laodiceans know that they were about to go through some trials and tribulations. He was getting them ready.
“As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent. Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me. To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne. He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.”
Revelation 3:19-22 KJV
God bless!
Its hard for any man to stay celibate until marrisge, christain or not we are design different from women.
Hell is harder!
This what people say to get comfortable living in sin. How is this statement any different from saying your sexual orientation is fornication?
It's not hard when you make Holiness the goal, instead of abstinence. Single or not, holiness is the standard and should be the goal for believers.
Are you saying that God made men to be sexually immoral and women to be sexually moral?
So are you going to be having sex with other men? This is confusing.