What Does The Master Say About Masturbation?

I know this topic is going to attract much attention. If folks who have never read any of my blogs before I know they will read this one LOL!!!! Well, the answer to the question is..... NOTHING!!!! There is no biblical suggestion or prohibition to masturbation. There have been many teachings and practices against masturbation in religious groups that have created a world of guilt and shame in those who find themselves in situations where they have no married partner. Now first of all, I'm only talking to the saved people because unsaved people are not concerned about pleasing God in their bodies but they will masturbate and fornicate and not worry about how God sees it. So to Christians who may be worried that they have committed the unpardonable sin by relieving themselves, I believe God has sent me in this field to further clarify the subject. We as servants of the Lord want to first and foremost please God in our minds, souls, and bodies. So talking about the subject of sex itself, God makes it plain was is permitted and what is prohibited in scripture. However, three things that the bible is silent on are masturbation, oral sex, and sex toys. These three things have really bound many Christians up to the point that they feel guilty by just thinking about engaging in are oral sex,  masturbation alone or with their married partner and if using sex toys are forbidden. Now let's go to the Word about the natural order of sex. In both the Old  and New Testament, God laid out the laws against sexual immortality and they include....  sex with animals (bestiality), incest (sex with a family member), watching pornography (looking upon someone's nakedness or looking and lusting after them), homosexuality and lesbianism (Read the entire chapter of Romans 1), sex with in-laws, sex before marriage (fornication), extramarital affairs (adultery), rape (forced sex against someone's will), prostitution (sex for money), sex during menstruation, and last but not least, anal sex is in alignment with the sin of lasciviousness and even medical doctors will tell you that anal sex is the most dangerous kind of sex because it can easily spread diseases such as E. Coli, HIV/AIDS and over time anal sex damages the anal cavity and rectum making it difficult to control bowel. Many people who have engaged in anal sex (especially women) reach a point to where vaginal sex is no longer pleasurable and they prefer sex from the behind. Now if that's not unnatural, I don't know what is, because she has totally lost her natural sensation that God originally gave her and rather be treated rough like a dog and can't be satisfied unless it's that way. How sad!!!! Lascivious means an offensive sexual desire and anal sex is at the peak of offenses toward the human body and toward the Creator. Furthermore, anal sex is a homosexual act  called sodomy and degrades the body and the mind because of its uncleanness. For God has not called us unto uncleanness but unto holiness (1 Thessalonians 4:7) So with all these examples of what God does not allow clearly in scripture, the big questions are about those things that are not mentioned in scripture. I will first deal with single Christians and remain in line with what Paul said to singles. First of all, I will say that masturbation is like anything else that is not mentioned in the bible but God leaves it up to the individual to use common sense and follow the conviction that is in their own heart not to be persuaded to do or not to do anything that will bring condemnation to them for conscience sake. For example, I personally do not wear red lipstick even though the bible speaks nothing against red lipstick or lipstick at all but it is my own personal conviction that I do not try to impose on other Christian women because this is MY standard not necessarily something that is exclusively right and should be adopted by other women. No, I'm not crazy neither do I try to make other sisters a clone after myself just to establish a "personal" conviction. Another thing is cigarettes are not mentioned in the bible but the package itself explains the harm that it does to the human body. So back to the subject of masturbation......Paul says in 1 Corinthians 7:7 that he wished that all men were as he were, referring to being single because Paul was not married, then he goes on to say that every man has his proper gift from God, meaning some can remain single with no problem but others had to marry. He said in verse 9 that if they cannot contain, let them marry, for it is better to marry than to burn. The word contain means to control, to hold back or hold within. In this instance, Paul was referring to releasing oneself to orgasm. Paul did not have a wife by his own personal choosing, kind of like me abstaining from red lipstick. He never mentions that he did or did not masturbate himself to get a release even once. It is only our perception based on what he did write about other saved men serving the Lord without marrying a wife and he also said that it would be a good thing if unmarried women and widows could remain unmarried BUT he also said that if they marry, they have not sinned. So the main thing that Paul pointed out was that an unmarried person is better able to serve the Lord because they are not tied down with having to please a spouse sexually. He was not talking against marriage in itself because he is the same man who wrote Colossians 3:18-19 which says Wives submit yourselves to your own husbands and husbands love your wives. There are other scriptures in relation to the love and affection shared between husband and wife. Hebrews 4:13 says marriage is honorable in all and the bed undefiled meaning that whatever the husband and wife choose to do to please each other, as long as they don't defile their bed by making it unclean with the above mentioned sexual sins, then it is acceptable in the eyes of God. Oral sex, masturbation, and sex toys are not mentioned in any of the verses so that is where common sense should come into play. God wants married Christians to enjoy their marriage bed because it is the playground for couples. Good personal hygiene and having sex without pain are two thumbs up for this to happen. Some might believe that anything outside of the missionary style or with only the purpose to conceive a child is sin. Not so!!!! The world is already over populated with women who only have two or three children. If  every childbearing woman was to have up to 15, 20, and 25 kids, then I imagine there wouldn't be any time for good sex but just cut straight to the chase, and we're not talking about a minute man, but in this case, we're down to seconds. Anyway, there are several reasons why I would not consider masturbation a sin because it cannot lead to unwanted pregnancies, STD' s, or ruin a person's reputation like sleeping around can. If a person is single and want to save themselves for marriage, then I would not be so hard up to tell them that they never need to touch themselves, but would at the same time let them know that ANYTHING done in excess is a sin called greed. In other words, the Holy  Spirit is the ONLY thing that should be in control of a Christian's life, not their sexual appetite. Some single Christians really find themselves in a pickle because they either can't find a partner who is as serious about the Lord as they are or the other person want to date without marriage commitment. However, the Apostle Paul was not waiting on God to send him the right woman to marry because his decision was already made not to get married or to have sex. For an individual to be that kind of overcomer they would have to renounce any type of sexual desires whatsoever and not masturbating would comply with all else. There are medical facts that masturbation is healthy and it is certainly not a degrading sexual act that makes God want to kill people like he did Sodom and Gomorrah or punish the sin of adultery like he did David and Bathsheba. So in this case, again, common sense should apply. Sex toys is a topic that is taboo for some Christians and they stand with a wand of judgment to condemn any aspects of it in singleness or marriage. However, sex toys can really spice up the Christian marriage especially when endurance is the case or if the husband is impotent altogether. These are things that will never be discussed in Sunday School and so many marriages fail because people are either too embarrassed or shunned by their religious group to bring the subject up. Well that's what I'm here for and my blog page because one thing I hate is ignorance. I mean I know of a couple who got a divorce because the wife cheated with another man. Why did she cheat? Because she was not free to express her feelings of wanting oral sex with her husband so she snuck and did it with somebody else. Come on now how ignorant can you get? They threw away a 13-year marriage all because of a teaching that is not even biblical just so the wife could get sexual pleasure. Now is God pleased with that? NO, but he is pleased when couples can communicate and come to an agreement for the betterment and longevity of their marriage.

More on False Teachers

Another example of a false teacher trying to eliminate Acts 2:38 as the plan of salvation is by referring to the thief on the Cross not having time or being in the position to be baptized. My friend, the thief on the Cross had JESUS himself to talk to and be forgiven for his sins. But after Jesus ascended into glory, he sent back the Holy Ghost on the day of Pentecost. He told the disciples in John 14:18 that he would not leave them comfortless but he was coming back to them in the form of the Holy Spirit. He told them in Luke 24:46 for them to wait for the promise of the Holy Ghost in Jerusalem and they obeyed his commandments and received the promise just like he said they would and they were baptized in Jesus name. People need to wake up and ask themselves WHY IS ACTS 2:38 TOTALLY OVERLOOKED OR RARELY TALKED ABOUT IN MY CHURCH OR BY MOST RELIGIOUS LEADERS THEY HEAR TEACH AND PREACH!!!!!! The bottom line is deception. The devil wants to deceive people by supplying half truths and falsehood that sounds good but is nowhere in the neighborhood of leading people down the right paths. Any half truth is still a whole lie.

False Teachers Use Certain Scriptures to Nullify Other Scriptures

EPHESIANS 2:8 is usually the scripture that false teachers run to as a defense against accepting what happened in Acts chapter 2 and chapter 10 and chapter 19. However, speaking in tongues is not a work of the human being, but is a work of the Holy Spirit being in control and saying what he wants to say through an individual for the individual. Romans 8:26 tells us that we don't always know what to pray for as we ought in our native language, but the Spirit prays for us and that happens when we pray in the Spirit. No we might not know what we are saying, and neither does the devil, and that's the good part about it. But God knows what we are saying In the language that he gave us. The only time an interpretation should be given is if GOD is using a person to speak in tongues to convey a message to a congregation or another individual and this is usually interpreted in some form of prophecy. I will deal with prophecy later. The only reason I keep staying right here with the tongues and baptism is because so many people are still confused and getting wrong information from false teachers and it's hard for them to accept what I'm teaching. But I got bible to back me up and my very own testimony. I believe and confess that God raised Jesus from the dead on the third day, one day I repented of my sins and got baptized in Jesus name and God himself filled me with the Holy Ghost with the evidence of speaking in other tongues as the Spirit gave me the utterance. I am not ashamed of the gospel of Jesus Christ and I will share it from now henceforth and forever more without compromise, without fear, and without reneging my faith in Jesus. What I have is real. What I teach is real and anybody who comes up against me won't be coming against my flesh but they will be coming up against the anointing but God will handle my lightweight. There were false teachers in the apostles' day and there are false teachers today but GREATER is HE that is in me than he that is in the world. I will teach this gospel until I die and if God just so happen decides to choose me to be a martyr for the gospel of Jesus Christ, then let his will be done but I refuse to quit until somebody believe and receive the truth and get it like the bible says.

False Teachers (continued)

So I look up an article to help guide me in my blog about false teachers in the church and I find this one article in particular that the author strategically makes a list of different denominational groups who he claims is a part of the apostate church. Mind you, he has Pentecostals mentioned in there and flagrantly blasphemes against the Holy Ghost with the evidence of speaking in tongues and says that Pentecostals are part of a cult. This has been the strategy of Satan since the day of Pentecost when the people said that those who were speaking in tongues were drunk. My question is why is it that people can pretty much accept everything else written in the New Testament but don't want to accept that speaking in tongues is the evidence that one has been filled with the Holy Spirit and that water baptism in Jesus name(NOT THE TITLES FATHER, SON, AND HOLY GHOST) is the ONLY correct way to be baptized and to baptize others? The answer to that question is what Apostle Paul said in 2 Corinthians 4:3 that if the gospel be hid it is hid to them which are lost. My husband and I visited a church a few weeks ago and the bishop made the offer for sinners to come and be saved. Well he called my husband up to the altar along with some other gentlemen to pray for the young man who wanted to be saved. After the fellows finished praying for the young man, the bishop told the young man, "Welcome to the kingdom". ARE YOU SERIOUS?????? Anyway, me and my husband haven't been back every since. The scriptures clearly tell us in John 3:5 that a man must be born again of the WATER and of the SPIRIT. The water is for baptism to wash away the sins in the blood of Jesus and then God fills the individual with the Holy Ghost and they will speak in tongues, which is a language they can use in private prayerand worship to God or in a public worship service in church, but decently and in order. These two things have been totally alleviated from the teachings and practices in many of the mainstream churches. My heart went out to that young man because he can easily be deceived thinking he is saved and on his way to heaven just like many other believing Christians who fight against tongues and water baptism in Jesus name. This is not just something that Pentecostals believe but this is bible truth. We have the Word to back up what we teach and practice. Furthermore, there is a group of Pentecostals who tempt God by literally handling snakes as part of the general worship service. Yes, they be speaking in tongues but the difference between some speaking in tongues who have the Holy Ghost is that they will speak as the Spirit gives the utterance. Of course, I do not believe that EVERYBODY who speaks in tongues are filled with God's Spirit because there are counterfeit tongues and tongues that people make up and practice on their own. That's where the real saints of God need the gift of interpretation operating in the Church. However, the genuine filling of the Holy Ghost comes with the anointing that changes a person's life and helps them to bear the fruit of the Spirit according to Galatians 5:22-23. A truly HOLY GHOST filled person will be loving, have peace and make peace, show kindness, forgive others, and demonstrate faithfulness and patience AND they will speak in tongues too. Speaking in tongues is NOT separated from all the other attributes of the other manifestations of a Spirit-filled person, no matter how false teachers try to annihilate it out of a person's intellect when tthey come to know Christ as Lord and Savior. We must believe in the Cross and in Pentecost in order to fully obey the gospel. Much of this stuff that people are teaching and preaching now are just all-inclusive messages that sound good and give people an easy way to heaven. But that's not Jesus way of doing it. Acts 14:22 says that through much tribulation will we enter into the kingdom of God. It's easy just to pray a prayer over somebody or have them to repeat a prayer but it takes some work to gather up the proper garments and fill up a baptism pool, and get in that cold liquid grave and spiritually bury someone in Jesus name. For ROMANS 6:4 says we are buried with him in baptism. That takes some effort. It also takes patience and diligence to work with new converts in receiving the Holy Ghost. Sometimes people come up out of the water already speaking in tongues, but for others it takes longer because sometimes there are demonic spirits that need to be cast out of them and they need deliverance. YES, deliverance can take place BEFORE a person gets the Holy Spirit but this is not to be confused with having the Holy Spirit. Jesus explains this in Luke 11:24-26 about an unclean spirit going out of a person and if the house is left empty (without the Holy Spirit), then the unclean spirit can come back and take possession of the person with seven other demons more wicked than himself. So many times when people come up to the altar and they are crying and shouting, sometimes they be repenting from sins or they have just a good feeling because they can feel God cleaning them and delivering them from some things, but after that deliverance takes place, then there is room for only one of two things, either the individual presses on and allow God to fill them with the Holy Ghost with the evidence of speaking in tongues or they leave thinking they actually have it and never seek the baptism in the Spirit. If they never seek to have this experience, then they will find themselves like many others in such cases, knowing that they received a touch from God but still wrestling with things of the sinful nature that they cannot seem to break free of. These kinds of people really love the Lord and want to do right, but they are powerless trying to do it on their own. My friend, you need the gift of the Holy Ghost working actively in your life and all the fruits that come with it in order to live a victorious life.

False vs. True

First of all, I want to say that my next to last posts were in regards to false prophets being on the rampage and deceiving people. But more importantly is that I want to talk about the difference between the false and the true in the church. This is an easy topic yet it is difficult at the same time because most people who go to church look like the real church. Most preachers sound very real and make you think they got what it takes to lead your soul to heaven. However, I've done quite a bit of studying in the books and studying of people in real life to be able to detect when something is in error. Now the things we must understand is that there are some people who are deceived and walking in error but are unaware of it, that's what deception is. Yet, when the truth is made known to them and their error is shown to them, that is the point where they have to make a decision about whether to repent and turn from their old ways of doing things to the true way which is God's way. God teaches us how to live godly and soberly in this present world through his word and he also provides us with ministers who bear several different kinds of titles such as bishop, apostle, prophet, evangelist, pastor, teacher, missionary, etc. God in his wisdom knows how to use an individual to help them teach and reach those who are lost and even the saved ones who need encouraging and uplifting. The twist of this thing is that not everybody who converts people to Jesus are really in the will of God themselves, but because they possess the gifts of teaching, preaching, and winning souls, God can and does still use them in the ministry. This is the part that really baffles my mind and probably yours too. Well, to provide scripture on a person being used by God during a time he was out of the will of God is in 1 Samuel 10:11-13 and 1 Samuel 19:23-24 where the Spirit of God came upon Saul and he prophesied right along with the other prophets. The people in the land knew about Saul's ruthless reputation and they asked the question: "Is Saul also among the prophets"? And this is just the kind of reaction that many people today have towards others who they see preaching or singing in the choir or leading praise and worship service who they KNOW is living a raggedy life and not representing God in their daily walk. It really comes off as a shock. And it makes you wonder about the people who prime and pump them up and make you ask yourself, "do they really know this person"? In other words, if they knew what we knew they would not be calling this person a true man of God or true woman of God. Now I realize that everybody has a past and that we've come short of God's glory even after being saved but that's where repentance comes into play. What I'm talking about in this particular case is an individual who knowingly and willfully sins against God in the public and private and then get up in church and try to lead God's people and have not repented but plan on doing what they do again when the opportunity presents itself. For some reason that only God knows (we don't know) God will still use this type of person to accomplish his will and purposes for others who are truly seeking after Christ with all their heart, mind, and soul. This is what Paul was saying when he mentioned in 1 Corinthians 9:27-But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway. Paul understood the fact that with all the knowledge and experience that he had in God, that he could very well be used by God to save sinners and he himself be one who has gone back into sin and be lost himself. He mentioned keeping his body under subjection, because this is the only thing that Satan can have legal rights to gain access to a person's mind and actions. And in this day and time we see that people are allowing the devil to use their body (mouth, mind, sexual organs, hands for violence, etc.) to do his dirty work, but they still go to church and many are in leadership positions. This is one type of deception that makes these types of people extremely dangerous to both the saved and unsaved world. Their actions send a double standard and message that you can be saved and still live a sinful life. Their messages do not reflect or inject the holiness of God which tell us to be ye holy for I am holy (1 Peter 1:16). Many people are confused when they look at the church world today because they don't see much of a difference between folks who say they are Christians and those who they know don't even go to church. There is worldly music in the church, preachers drinking alcohol and smoking cigarettes and joints, sexual immorality, homosexuality and lesbianism, profanity, lying, and just all kinds of wickedness is going on amongst those who proclaim they know Jesus. Some say that the above mentioned sins are not all the sins that people do. No they are not and truly all sin is sin but all sins do not have the same consequences. Running a red light and getting a traffic ticket that will disappear off one's driving record within 3 years is sin according to disobeying the laws of the land but this type of sin does not have the same consequences as contracting HIV during an adulterous affair because this kind of repercussion is generally for life (unless God heals and delivers). Furthermore, the thing that really sets me off in this day and time is all the "good talk" about Bishop so-and-so and Prophet so-and-so. This is such a red flag to me and it should be to the rest of those who are not asleep in the body of Christ. We know those who are REALLY REAL in Christ Jesus DO NOT receive props all the time from both the Christian and unsaved world but the REAL SAINTS go through persecution, suffering, rejection, and even death for their faith in Jesus Christ. This is another thing that many Christians are blind to the fact that we will suffer tremendously just before the second coming of Jesus Christ. The apostles and the early Christians of the first century church suffered greatly, many ran for their lives and hid in caves and fled to the wilderness, and many others were martyrs for the name of Jesus Christ. In comparison to the saints back then and the "so-called" saints nowadays, people consider persecution is not being approved for a car loan. Give me a break!!!!! This generation is so material minded and they run after preachers and teachers who a like-minded. They eagerly promote and support those who tell them things that sound good but are not necessarily sound doctrine. For example if someone posts something on facebook that says: "Within 3 days, you will receive a check in the mail", that poster will get about 500 Likes, 236 comments worth of thank you man/woman of God, and about 50 friend requests sent to them. On the other hand, if someone posts something that reads: "Set your spiritual house in order because Jesus is coming soon". If they get 12 Likes and 2 Comments, they're doing good. We're living in a time where the REAL Christians are being revealed by the less popularity they receive and I love it. I love the fact that people do not flock in behind me in droves or always saying nice things about me because if that were to happen, then that means that people have made it about me and not about Jesus. This is the danger zone that many have fallen into. The thing about the true anointing of God upon a person's life is that it will attract the attention of others, but not everybody is going to like what they see and hear. Some will be attracted because they know you have what they need and they want to be delivered from demons and come out of a world of sin. Basically, when a person is really wanting to change, they will be more attracted to a man or a woman for spiritual purposes and not fleshly purposes. Jesus also had a following of thousands upon thousands but he knew that not all of them were following him because of the Spirit, but they were following him for the fish and loaves (something to feed their flesh), and whenever the food ran out, they ran out. Whenever he gave them sound teaching regarding the kingdom of God, many walked away and left him and no longer walked with him. When he got ready to go die on the cross, he was alone. And I think this will be the breaking point of many who are in ministry for the wrong purposes, just for the masses of crowds and money and glamour and good sayings about them. If all of that was to come to a screeching halt, many would draw back in their faith and compromise trying to gain it all back. But Jesus said if you try to find your own life, you will lose it but if you lose your life for His sake, then you will find it (Matthew 10:39). The real saints will go through the purging and refining processes that God will continue to send us through until the rapture or until we die. Those who are not real will be a part of the great falling away and not make it through the fires of persecution, unjust ridicule, torture, and many kinds of suffering that is coming upon the Church. Only God knows what will cause their ultimate falling away but the word is clear that many are preaching just for filthy lucre (money), and are adulterous, and some intentionally deceive others. That's another danger that we have to face is that some false prophets and teachers were originally ordained by Satan to be his worker and advocate to deceive those who love believing lies and other falsies were true at one time but have erred and drawn away from the true faith to believing lies and myths. Their fates are still the same.......the lake of fire. Well, it's past 9:00 and I will continue this later. Goodnight!!!!

Name Change

Well I just figured out how to change my last name on this blogger thing. I recently started a new blogger under my new married last name, Ford. I don't know maybe I will copy and paste the same material on to both blog pages or cancel the other one. Not sure yet. Anyway, I'm about to blog some things that I believe is very important for the body of Christ at this time and even for those who are not saved. I checked this blog page tonight and see that I'm still getting viewers looking at the page, so I feel this is the best blog page to post the information.