Having Dominion Over Lust

 Having Dominion Over Lust

Positive Christianity Series Episode #121

We are instructed in the Sacred Scriptures about the need to avoid adultery and coveting. We know that evil wants individuals to practice adultery so that they are led to practice other vices, grave sin, and idol worship. If we decide, to remove lust from our lives, we are able to keep growing with wisdom and zeal instead that prevent us from misutilizing our time and virtues. We learn that evil wants individuals to falsely believe temporary lies so that they have vices, stagnation, and envy instead of virtues, improvement, and true joy. This wisdom allows us to know that false philosophies of the world describing nihilism, atheism, socialism, comunism, MGTOW, feminism, racism, and monopoly "capitalism" want individuals to believe temporary lies that they have to hate something instead of realizing the truth that we can not hate others and instead we can hate evil. 

We know that the truth in the Scriptures sets us free from the shackles of sin. Instead of having an anchor and shackles that prevent improvement, we are able to remove the burden of sin, hate, envy, and vices that lead to stagnation, difficulties, woes, and the destruction of the wicked who do not repent of their sin. False philosophies of hate and lust want individuals to hate others without reason so that there is no filial love or genuine empathy. This is with the intention to lead to the replacement of filial love and genuine empathy with hate and lust that are not viable substitutes. We know that hate and lust actually lead to even greater sin that causes destruction to the wicked that do not repent of sin. Lust is not a substitute for filial love and genuine empathy. This is because instead of there being true joy and gladness of heart in the worship of GOD Almighty, there is ingratitude, resentments, hate, anger, frustration, bitterness, envy, lust, fornication, adultery, and homosexuality that leads to vices describing slothfulness, unnecessary strife, conflict, greed, avarice, hostilities, cowardice, temporary lies, slander, idol worship, egoism, self-worship, arrogance, and foolishness that causes woes, stagnation, and destruction of the wicked. 

We should take measures to fight against lust including:

(1) Practicing true genuine empathy and gratitude each day. We can always be grateful for the good things that we have and also be thankful for the things that we do not need and do not have. We can have gratitude each day because we know that we are loved by GOD Almighty, confess King Jesus Christ Eternal LORD and Savior, obey the commandments of Moses, repent of sin, exercise each day minimum thirty minutes each day except for Sabbath, keep Sabbath, and have nutritious food along with positive emotions describing gratitude, gladness of heart, cheerfulness, and true joy. There are things that we do not need because the intention is to lead to idol worship. Maturing in Christianity allows us to know that we can be grateful even for the things that we do not have like winning the lottery (there are so many stories of individuals winning the lottery and instead of having amazing lives, ended up with difficulties due to fake idolatrous "friends" of convenience and adulterous "relationships" that only cared about the resources), not having an electric lamborghini, or motorcycle knowing that they can also lead to unneeded envy, practice of idolatry, and endangering of health in accidents. We also do not need the covid "vaccine" that has not been fully researched 8-10 years. We can have gratitude for being able to persevere with the things that we need describing health, true joy, gratitude, and most important of all, the worship of GOD Almighty. We know that material objects are temporary and lead to the hedonistic treadmill where they do not provide lasting true joy. This describes why after a few weeks the temporary material possessions only cause there to be coveting, wanting something new, and decreased happiness.

(2) Getting rid of negative false philosophies of hate and lust like atheism, nihilism, socialism, communism, monopoly "capitalism", MGTOW, feminism, and racism.

(3) Reminding ourselves that lust wants to lead to fornication. Fornication wants to lead to adultery. Adultery wants to lead to homosexuality. This describes that lust does not want individuals to stop at a specific sin and instead wants individuals to keep practicing sin until it becomes vices instead. Lust is not going to say, "The reality is that fornication wants to lead to adultery and homosexuality." Lust is going to say that fornication is needed to go along with the times being that fornication leads to so many dificulties, complications, diseases, stagnation, and destruction. When we keep this in mind, we are able to know the reality of why there is no adultery and coveting in Christianity because GOD Almighty loves the righteous. GOD Almighty guards us from the woes, diseases, and destruction because we choose to repent of sin and obey the commandments with sincerity of heart.

(4) We can have gratitude and humility to recognize the Creator being GOD Almighty. We are not going to want to practice sin. We have humility to know that only in GOD Almighty do we grow in virtues and improve while the practice of lust, hate, and sin leads to diminishment, removal of past virtues (if there were virtues from the past), and destruction when there is no repentance. We can pray to GOD Almighty to help us persevere with humility, zeal, responsibility, and most important of all virtues, fidelity, to the GOD of gods, GOD Almighty.

(5) Removing false and negative information that wants individuals to be at odds with each other. Negative and false information wants individuals to have anger and hate so that they practice sin. If specific sources of false and negative information want to cause hate and anger for no reason, placing app blockers against false and negative information. This is so that we acknowledge that we do not need to have hate and anger. Negative emotions are unnecessary and can also be removed and restrained. We can have dominion over negative emotions. Instead, we can start the day with prayer, worshiping GOD Almighty, being grateful, and reading five minutes of encouraging Scripture verses that help us have a good mood instead of thinking that we need to hate people. We can hate evil and this is considered wisdom. We can protect ourselves from false prophets while still only hating evil. 

(6) Setting specific time in the day to work, preach, and write while using the internet. This is so that we have dominion over technology and not allow technology to try to deceive into the practice of sin. I have seen unneeded articles recommended on the phone with the intention to cause bitterness, hate, anger, and envy. We know that evil wants individuals to hate others without reason. Instead, we can choose to remove false and negative information that does not help, leads to hate and anger, and is not needed at all. We know that "politics" in the past decade has attempted to polarize individuals so that they hate instead of realize that we do not need to hate. We learned that both Democrats and Republicans were at odds for most of the decade yet were united for untested and unapproved covid "vaccines". We know "politics" is not the solution. We can remove negative articles and suggestions that we do not need. 

(7) We can remove lascivious and pornographic material. This also helps us fight against pornography use knowing that we do not need to lust. We can keep fighting and resisting sin so that instead we have positive and helpful sources of information that remind us the importance of persevering with virtues instead of having vices. 

(8) We are also able to prevent false "comparisons" that we do not need. We know that we are distinct and unique and do not need to believe the temporary lies of evil that want individuals to think that they have to be exactly the same as everyone else. Not everyone has to be a Quarter-Back throwing a ball 70 yards out. Think about how boring life would be if all 8.1 billion people were throwing the football. This allows us to know that each individual is unique and different. The important point is to worship GOD Almighty above everything and this allows us to be distinct and unique. We can go to Genesis to remind ourselves of how the snake hated that Adam and Eve were distinct and unique. 

"If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body be thrown into hell. And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body go into hell."- Matthew 5: 29-30

We are supposed to have dominion over lust similar to how we have dominion over negative emotions. This means removing anything that wants to lead to lust describing hate, anger, envy, coveting, false "comparisons", technology addiction, false and negative information, sensuality, lasciviousness, fornication, adultery, slothfulness, and intemperance. This means removing anything that is not trying to help us persevere in Christianity, that wants to lead to negative emotions and lust, and that wants us to have ingratitude and question the Creator when we know that instead we can question sin, vices, and idol worship. 

September 9, 2024 Monday's Publication