Break Free from Lust

I'm trying my best to stop lusting but I keep falling into the sin. How can I stop? Shoot yourself in the foot. Somebody might do it, please don't.

I'm just kidding, okay. I'm just kidding. Go to Lebanon and order the best tabbouleh, eat as much as you can, you'll come back beautiful.

When you're getting to a stage where you want to, it's a good time to get married, maybe get married and settle. But if you are into the church life, and regardless whether you are in the church life or like I'm talking about as a clergy person, or you're just a lay person but both Christians, we are human beings at the end of the day, my best advice is don't try. Because if you're trying, that means you're trying to do it yourself.

And since you're trying to do it yourself, you will definitely fail every single time. But you need to ask the Lord to come and help you to come out of this lustful situation. You need the Lord.

Now you may not overcome it once, you may not overcome it a hundred times later, but never give up. But always ask the Lord to help you. And before you know it, the Lord will bring you out of this weakness.

But be consistent in asking the Lord. Don't ever give up and don't ever say I've tried, I've asked the Lord a hundred thousand, ten thousand times, ask him a million and one times, but never give up. But again, what is causing this situation to happen? Is it when you are alone at night time by yourself in your room and all doors closed? Then you need to change the environment that is causing you to fall.

You cannot remain in the same environment that is unhealthy and expect for you to overcome it. So if being in that room at that particular time alone behind closed doors and watching something, get out of that environment, walk away from it. Preoccupy yourself with something else.

When a thought comes, just get up, dust it off, wash your face with cold water and then walk away. It's just that moment. The moment you pass that moment, you've done something good and then maybe another few minutes later it'll come again.

Make the water colder. Get an ice block, put it in the tub and just submerge yourself and submerge yourself in that cold water and every thought is going to disappear. But you need the grace of God to overcome this weakness.

But again, there are certain conditions that is making this situation possible. Change those situations, change those conditions. Don't associate yourself with those same conditions because more than likely that lustful moment will come because you are exposing yourself to the same environment over and over and over and over again.

Change the environment, okay? Amen? And then be strong. And if you fall, come to the church. Ask the Lord for forgiveness.

Let the priest pray for you and on you. Go for a confession and may the Lord Jesus dissolve your sins. Come and receive the body and the blood.

Be strong. Don't ever give up. Satan will come when you fall.

After you fall, he will come and he'll say, look at you, you're a failure. Look at you, you're ugly. Do you still think for a moment that Jesus gives one penny about you? Man, just go and kill yourself.

I'll say this. When Saint Paul says the church is the body of Christ, Ephesians chapter 5, when he says the church is the body of Christ and then he comes and says and Christ is the head of this body, so is Christ the head. And who is the church? The body.

What attaches the body to the head? The neck. So biblically speaking, what does the neck represent? Faith. How are we attached to Christ? In faith.

But guess what? Did you know the weakest member in your body is the neck? It is through weakness that we keep attached to Christ, not strength. As one of the church fathers put it this way, he said, Satan came and said to God, he said, God, leave me the strong people because I cannot overcome the weak ones. Leave me the strong people because I cannot overcome the weak ones.

Because you, God, only work through the weak, not the strong. So when you are vulnerable, when you are weak, Christ is your strength. And this is the only way you're going to overcome the temptations of Satan, when Christ works in you, not you.

When you try, you're saying, I'm strong enough to overcome it. Satan will devour you before we even blink our eyes. But when you say, I'm weak, Lord, I can't do it anymore.

The Lord will come and do it for you. So if Christ is the head, which he is, and we are the body, imagine somebody comes and throws me in the Pacific Ocean. My whole entire body is submerged underwater.

The only thing that is above water is the head. And then somebody stands at the shores, ridiculing me and making fun of me and say, hey, look at you, you will drown, you're dead, you're finished, you're this, you're that. I'll say to that person, sorry, as long as the head is above waters, I live.

Let the whole body be submerged underwater. For as long as the head is above water, I will always live. Nothing will kill me.

Who is my head? Christ. Where is Christ? And he ascended and sat at the right hand of the Father in the heaven of all heavens. He is my head.

And that's where I receive my oxygen, my life. The body doesn't give me life, it's the head that gives life to the body. So this head is in the heaven of all heavens.

When any power can put that head underwater, then I can say I'm dead. For as long as the head is in the heaven of all heavens, Satan away with you. For as long as Christ lives, the body always lives and breathes.

So no matter how many times the body falls, the head will always give oxygen. If you come back to the head, don't ever run away from Christ. Don't ever walk away.

No matter how many times you make mistakes, come back to the Lord Jesus and say, Lord, forgive me, help me, break me, make me, mold me and shape me. But as long as at the end, I'm with you. Amen.

Be strong. Hurrah. Oh, I can't stand looking at girls, I get weak.

I can't stand looking at a white powder bag, I get weak. I can't stand when I pass a club and I smell the poker machines of the jackpot, I get weak. I can't stand, when I see a cigarette, I start shivering, I start shivering.

Get a life.