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Gateways The Enemy Uses To Get You To Sin:
If you are in a position where you've made short accounts with God, you have confessed and repented of sin (genuinely) from your heart. You need to ensure that areas of temptation are closed. These are called entranceways, gateways or "gates"
The battle is in the mind, so we have to ensure it goes only so far before we take any ungodly thoughts captive and bring them down into the obedience of Christ.
2 Corinthians 10:5
Once those thoughts, imaginations, or desires get from your mind into your heart, it becomes a real battlefield. Particularly when we are stressed or have been attacked through family circumstances or unforeseen situations that are beyond our control. This is when we may feel the need to comfort ourselves and release that pressure through avenues we can control, which, unfortunately, can lead to sin. Particularly if we choose to release our stress by gratifying the flesh (our old man) in some way.
Temptation is not sin unless it's acted upon. 1 corinthians 10:13. Once we have sinned, we need to bring it before God and go back through the process of confession, asking for forgiveness, repenting, and renouncing sin in our life. 1 John 1:9 Jesus, our advocate, then intercedes with the Father on our behalf; we are forgiven and are back in the right relationship with God. 1.John 2:1.
The only way to overcome sin is to starve every temptation and shut the gates that feed those temptations in every area of your life. Keep them closed. Here are some avenues through which temptation may come:
Eye Gates: Anything you watch: porn, something on TV, movies, the internet, magazines, the news, or things that your eyes take in. Matt 18:9, 2 Peter 2:14, 1 John 2:16
Ear Gates: Something you hear: listening to a specific type of music, heavy rock, antichrist, or music where the musician has sold their soul to Satan; movies; listening to antichrist or ungodly content on the internet; listening to and believing doctrine that contradicts God's word or Jesus. 2 Timothy 4: 3-4
Mind Gates: Anything you may remember, perhaps through porn or other situations, or looking upon a woman to lust after her, or anything that your mind wanders to that is not Godly. (They need to be taken captive and brought down into the obedience of Christ.). 2 Corinthians 10:5
Tongue Gates: Anything we speak over ourselves or others that has a negative effect. I am not good enough; I am never going to succeed; I am unworthy.
Cursing, cussing, speaking evil, or being verbally abusive. James 3:6 Or you are hopeless; you are not going to get anywhere in life; you're a loser; I wish you were never born.
Emotional Gates: Getting emotionally involved or opening yourself up emotionally with someone when they are not your spouse nor are they there to counsel you in a professional capacity. listening to another person's emotional situation about their partner or similar. This brings emotional soul ties, which you should only have with your husband or wife. Proverbs 29:11
Heart Gates: This is where everything tends to end up (the garbage can), and our hearts can be defiled from all those other gates that are open. The Bible tells us in Proverbs 4:22 "Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it." Jeremiah 17:9-10 says “The human heart is the most deceitful of all things, and desperately wicked. Who really knows how bad it is? 10 But I, the Lord, search all hearts and examine secret motives. I give all people their due rewards, according to what their actions deserve.”
We can tell when our heart is not right. Especially when we speak negative, resentful, unforgiving words against others; when we gossip or judge; when we deliberately hurt others in some way. We must guard our hearts against everything that filters in from our minds and also every gate that is left open to tempt and defile us and our relationship with God.
It's a battle, but it's one we can win on a daily basis with the help of the Holy Spirit. Glory!
Angelina
written 18/12/2024
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2 Corinthians 10:5
5 We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.
1. Corinthians 10:13
13 No temptation has overtaken you except what is common to mankind. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can endure it.
1 John 1:9
9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.
1 John 2:1
1. My dear children, I write this to you so that you will not sin. But if anybody does sin, we have an advocate with the Father—Jesus Christ, the Righteous One.
Matthew 18:9
9 And if your eye causes you to stumble, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into the fire of hell.
2 Peter 2:14
14 With eyes full of adultery, they never stop sinning; they seduce the unstable; they are experts in greed—an accursed brood!
1 John 2:16
16 For everything in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—comes not from the Father but from the world.
2 Timothy 4:3-4
3 For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. 4 They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.
2 Corinthians 10:5
5 We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.
James 3:6
6 The tongue also is a fire, a world of evil among the parts of the body. It corrupts the whole body, sets the whole course of one’s life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell.
Proverbs 29:11 AMP
A [shortsighted] fool always loses his temper and displays his anger, But a wise man [uses self-control and] holds it back.
