………THIS
IS AN EXCERPT FROM THE SHOOL OF IMPACT(SOI)
Topic: “Sex and Vision”
Speaker: Pastor Segun Abe
Date: July 12 2015
Introduction
It
was another beautiful Sunday afternoon, the atmosphere was perfect, the Holy
Spirit was present and our hearts were packed full with expectations. You could
see it in the way eyes shone bright in the semi-lighted room. Our notepads were
out and we were ready for the teaching- SEX and Vision.
The teaching session started with Pastor Segun explaining that this teaching is
important for everyone but more especially people who counsel teenagers and
youths on pre-marital sex and its dangers. It gives us an understanding of WHY
sex before marriage is wrong. We have always handled the issue of fornication
from a shallow religious perspective, not really knowing what it entails.
Pastor Segun mentioned this and more in his introduction.
Pastor Segun made us understand that if you don't have understanding, you
cannot coach people about this issue and until you go behind the veil and know
what actually takes place, what exactly it is, that's the time you'll be able
to teach people about these things. He also said that it is one area that if
you can have strength there, you can have strength anywhere.
Pastor Segun laid the foundation of the message perfectly. He then took us
through the book of Acts and showed us in Acts 15:20 two types of sin- Idolatry
and fornication- How that of all the laws that have been abolished by the new
covenant in Christ Jesus, these 2 laws remained. What was it about that
instruction that the apostles gave to the Gentiles, that after sending a letter
in verse 20 of chapter 15, telling them to abstain from pollution of idols and
from fornication, they sent Judas and Silas to tell them the same thing by word
of mouth to still emphasize the issue in verse 27 to 29. Pastor Segun showed us
in verse 28, that the apostles told the gentiles in their letter that they were
not just saying things in their own design, but that the Holy Ghost inspired
them. 'For it seemed good to the Holy Ghost, and to us, to lay on you no
greater burden, than these necessary things'. He also told us that 'Necessary
things' here meant that if your sojourn would move well, some things are not an
option, but a necessity - Worship only God and FLEE FORNICATION! From which if
you keep yourself, you 'WILL' do well. He then made a statement that there are
mistakes you can make, but if your body is sexually pure, you have an ability
to recover from it, but if your body is not pure, you can only see yourself
going down.
Pastor Segun then said that based on his interactions with people, he has come
to understand that if there is a sin that makes you talk the Holy Ghost, but
not function in him, it's fornication. Whereby you'll have the ability to explain
scriptures, but no power in your life. So that's the reason why church
population is not kingdom population, due to prevalence of sexual impurity
amongst many church goers.
He also made us see that of all the weapons the devil can use, he keeps using 'sexual
sin ', which is sexual reorientation. No matter the tongues you speak, if your
temple is not clean, there is no access to great heavenly realms. So that if a
believer was given the option of either stealing or fornication, it is so bad
that though the two are sin, the believer shouldn't choose fornication- because
whatever is lost in stealing, a body that is pure will recover it, but if a
temple is dirty, your destiny can be leaving you and you can only look at it,
but you can't salvage it.
He showed us in Acts 21:25, the same message about worshiping only God and
fleeing fornication. For this instruction to appear again, that means it's very
pivotal to our success as believers against every attack. But why? Are there no
other sins? Should they steal? Should they lie? Should they fight? Why the
emphasis on fornication?
In 1 Cor 6:13-20, Pastor Segun showed us that our body is either for
fornication or for God and that if it is for fornication, then it is not for
the Lord. Now the issue is this, if it is not for the Lord it is for who? .....
(Fill in the blank spaces). He explained that that's the reason why a lot of
people have unhindered access from demons. He went on to say that if
fornication has your body, that the Lord has lost it, and if the Lord has lost
it, then who has it?? The devil! Pastor Segun explained that this is the source
of several attacks on people, not to talk of different incurable diseases.
He further explained that there is a spiritual realm where if you understand
how things go, you'll live your life in a particular way of discipline.
Pastor Segun made us understand that as believers, we are divinely protected by
unseen forces, so things don't just happen. He further explained that vision
can preserve and the reason why people run their lives like they don't have a
compass is because they don't have a vision, that if you are a man of vision,
you are likened to a man sent on a mission by the president to another country
with the presidential jet and authority of the president. Bottom line, you
cannot be sent and be alone.
Back to the reading in 1 Cor 6: 13-20, Pastor Segun mentioned that fornication
is done in the body and not just mind or spirit and that the power to
experience the victory of Christ can be found in sexual purity. He explained
that he that is joined unto the Lord (living in sexual purity based on an
understanding of your godly relationship) is one spirit (mentality). He said
that is why there are a lot of unwise Christians because if you're not joined
to the Lord, you don't have one mentality and you become argumentative, yet in
error (argue a perspective, yet it’s not of God), because he that is joined
unto God is one mind. Why? your body is the temple, and your temple is the
access zone so if the temple is pure and somewhere He can come into, you have
one mind, he drops ideas, you understand ideas. If the place is not pure,
access is not there, you can only see him above, but there's no access, you
only have things you want to do but have no idea of how to do them.
He explained that every sin is sin and that every sin a man does is outside his
body but the sin of fornication is against his own body. 'Know ye not that your
body is the temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you?' That means He can be in
you, but not in the temple! To further buttress this, Pastor Segun showed us
the difference between a temple and a synagogue, according to him, a synagogue
is a Jewish centre for teaching, praying and worship but beyond that, a temple
is meant purely for sacrificial worship where it is just you and God. He
explained that that's why a Christian can live in fornication and tell you
spiritual things, because the Holy Spirit is in them, but when it comes to
exploits, something is missing - no power! - Having a form of godliness but
denying the power thereof. Their lives deny power!
He explained that when we were saved, everything in us was bought that we are
not our own. He explained that our body is more spiritual than we think and if
we understand this, a lot of things would get clear to us.
In a bid to further explain this, he explained that spiritual realities are
different from physical realities, that is why we can know that our God owns
the world but there's no money in your pocket. Spiritually, it is a reality
that you're seated with Christ, but how did sickness find its way in you?
Now, this is the issue, what is in your spirit needs the cooperation of the
purity of your flesh to manifest! The two things matter for the full expression
of God. But sexual impurity- fornication and adultery hinders your ideas from
turning into action and this can lead to frustrations. He made us understand
that if the things that are inside would come out, that the body must
cooperate. The body matters for what is in the spirit to find expression. He
then went ahead to tell us what makes this thing fornication? Why did God tell
men to have sexual activity only in marriage?
In Gen 2:22-24, Pastor Segun showed us why fornication is a sin. He said that
when God brought Eve to Adam, he became very happy and he couldn't say no, he
went ahead to her and they got married. When all that happened, God gave an
instruction to nature saying that was the order he was setting that a man would
leave his mother and father and shall join to his wife and they shall become
one flesh. God is the origin of family and he is not a fan of running away with
him / her to get married. In his original plan he instituted marriage such that
after the parents have risen up their children to a marriageable age, there
would be a smooth transition to another family and not eloping, but the parents
being part of their children's happy exit for marriage. So anytime anyone goes
against this plan, it’s against God's will. After this, based on God's
principles, you belong to each other. When God said this is the pattern, then
that's the way it should go, anything outside this is sin.
Furthermore, Pastor Segun told us the effects of sinful sex- fornication and
adultery. He introduced this by telling us that exploits are achieved from inside
to outside. That is, the body needs to work with the spirit and everything we
do is an expression of the spirit to the body. Now, the problem arises when the
outside is blocked spiritually through sexual sin, then there's little you can
do. It is your body that relates with your world and if your outside is weak,
you are weak to conquer your world, no matter how strong the inner man is. He
explained the gravity of this sin by liking it to a man who is hale and hearty
and an orange was taken from him, obviously, the man would run after the thief
and get his orange back. But a person on crutches would not be able to do same.
If the orange was taken from him, he would cry and weep, but he won't get it
back. That's how a person involved in sexual sin is. He then followed this
statement with a question, 'If God forgives, why the devil keeps tempting?
Doesn't he get tired?' He told us that the devil's ministry is to steal, kill
and destroy and that once he shows up, he must have stolen something and there
are some things the devil steals that you won't be able to get back with an
unclean body (the guy with the crutches). That’s why some people can't identify
their purpose.
He promised to explain this further in the next meeting.
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