Young Christian Male Struggling with Faith In todays world

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Maybe but Joyce Meyer said some people will never overcome and they will still be saved. Those who are Christ's have crucified the flesh

Also not everyone who believes in Jesus and receives some grace is saved. We can receive the powers of the age to come and still never have been saved.
To be saved is to truly love God and not just think you do so as to come to repent of your sin and hate it which allows God to give you a new heart and cause you to think on His statutes. If a person has really received jesus he will want to do His commandments and the Spirit reminds him. Also if he really received jesus he will make sure he still hears the voice of the Spirit so he will make sure to read the bible as the Lord calls him and he will respond because he received God and God will give him the energy to read the word eventually if it is needed. If one is not producing fruit he may not currently be saved. You can throw away your salvation willlingly. You can also lose the correct understanding as the Galatians did who were being deceived by a false gospel but if they were really saved they may not have listened to such lies for only those whom God never knew perish from His presence
Therefore there may be a state of salvation but you normally don't know till the end of your life and most are probably not saved till later or probably those who are saved are saved when they are about to die but they don't know when they will die

Therefore not everyone who becomes Christian actually received jesus and believed in Him for to believe in Him means to believe He is good and if you believe He is good you will do His will
If you do a sin then you believe jesus to be someone He is not

Apologise for the many words how can I know if I speak too much ? I may not participate at all then and I don't know if my words need to be said or if there will ever be a perfect time to say it but as Paul said preach the word in season or out of season so as to minimise the damage to true Christians from apostasy or compromised Christianity which comes later and maybe even prevent a current temporal apostasy which is not helpful to the world.

Apologies for acting like God to say who He accepts

I know I shouldn't make long posts all the time for in the multitude of words sin is not lacking but I thought it is a good time to deal with this topic now.
Big head also needs humility if I want people to listen
 
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it's gonna be best for you and women in general that you keep away from the opposite sex until you mature in the area of how you value women.

masturbation and frequenting prostitutes is a sign that you have reduced women to sexual objects. thinking marriage will quell these desires is like thinking gasoline will put out a fire. when a female is nothing more to you than a way to scratch a sexual itch, it's not gonna go well. a wife will satisfy you for a time but after you have conquered that sexual mountain you will simply look for the next sexual high.

there's also idolatry going on here in that you are angry at God for not giving you this thing that you want. in most cases, God will withhold these things from us that we have made into idols. as one who claims to be a follower of Christ, your desire and delight should be in Him. when you have this desire for God you have peace in whatever life circumstances you may have.

you should ask yourself, as one who claims to be a follower of Christ, what makes you fit to raise a family and be a spiritual leader to them? you should be working on this right now as being a head of household is a great responsibility. these hormones we have are supposed to be things that motivate us to evolve into manhood which will make us suitable for the opposite sex.

contrary to popular opinion, manhood is not having chest hair, drinking, swearing, and chasing women. quite frankly, being horny and thirsty doesn't mean you're ready for marriage. can you support a family? can you lead them spiritually in teaching them scripture and setting a godly example for your wife and your children? if you can't answer yes to these, you're not ready to even be propositioning the opposite sex for anything.

I do not agree with you in the sense that i should stay away from women. In your opinion how would i take steps to change myself in a sense where i stop seeing women as sexual objects? Forgive me for my shortcomings but I want to change and am willing to put in the work spirtually, mentally, and physically. Your advice is harsh but I would like to hear more of what you have to say.
 
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Maybe but Joyce Meyer said some people will never overcome and they will still be saved. Those who are Christ's have crucified the flesh

Also not everyone who believes in Jesus and receives some grace is saved. We can receive the powers of the age to come and still never have been saved.
To be saved is to truly love God and not just think you do so as to come to repent of your sin and hate it which allows God to give you a new heart and cause you to think on His statutes. If a person has really received jesus he will want to do His commandments and the Spirit reminds him. Also if he really received jesus he will make sure he still hears the voice of the Spirit so he will make sure to read the bible as the Lord calls him and he will respond because he received God and God will give him the energy to read the word eventually if it is needed. If one is not producing fruit he may not currently be saved. You can throw away your salvation willlingly. You can also lose the correct understanding as the Galatians did who were being deceived by a false gospel but if they were really saved they may not have listened to such lies for only those whom God never knew perish from His presence
Therefore there may be a state of salvation but you normally don't know till the end of your life and most are probably not saved till later or probably those who are saved are saved when they are about to die but they don't know when they will die

Therefore not everyone who becomes Christian actually received jesus and believed in Him for to believe in Him means to believe He is good and if you believe He is good you will do His will
If you do a sin then you believe jesus to be someone He is not

Apologise for the many words how can I know if I speak too much ? I may not participate at all then and I don't know if my words need to be said or if there will ever be a perfect time to say it but as Paul said preach the word in season or out of season so as to minimise the damage to true Christians from apostasy or compromised Christianity which comes later and maybe even prevent a current temporal apostasy which is not helpful to the world.

Apologies for acting like God to say who He accepts

I know I shouldn't make long posts all the time for in the multitude of words sin is not lacking but I thought it is a good time to deal with this topic now.
Big head also needs humility if I want people to listen

How do i not throw away my salvation and truly accept jesus. If i look in my heart i do believe jesus died on the cross for my sins, is the messiah, and is the one and only god through which i can be saved. I belive what i just said, what more must i do?
 
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I do not agree with you in the sense that i should stay away from women. In your opinion how would i take steps to change myself in a sense where i stop seeing women as sexual objects? Forgive me for my shortcomings but I want to change and am willing to put in the work spirtually, mentally, and physically. Your advice is harsh but I would like to hear more of what you have to say.
im pretty sure he meant to not get into relationship with women until you mature in the way of how you value women(not as sexual objects)
 
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How do i not throw away my salvation and truly accept jesus. If i look in my heart i do believe jesus died on the cross for my sins, is the messiah, and is the one and only god through which i can be saved. I belive what i just said, what more must i do?

If your life produces evidence of your profession than no one can tell you different my dude.
 
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About embracing the season of singleness

I thought to myself not everyone can benefit from singleness. Perhaps if it is God's will they will prosper greatly and live full lives and really benefiting people not having weaknesses to show the world because of not being happy because he is neither happy for not being married or not having a purpose such as having a career that lets him help people. Feeling one is doing nothing for the Lord makes one feel bad. Therefore those who can live single lives will only have not such a big issue to do so if they feel their life is really serving the Lord more than feeling like a failure to the world. And for some it will be a greater struggle so they ought to get married
That's why some of those who live devoted religious lives were successful which proved to them they can live that life alone
 
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First off I want to thank anyone who responds to this thread in bid to give me some advice on how to tackle my problems. I am a 22 year old single male living in the united states very often i struggle with my faith and keeping the commandments, most notably those of not commiting adultery. I Feel as this problem has caused a great rift between me and god.Let me explain all my life I have never had much luck with women and this has caused my relationship with god to strain. I often get angry and bitter in life becuase I am single. The way the world is I see all of these other people who are good looking and have sex, relationships, love and what not. I struggle with the sin of envy. To top it off i learned its a sin to not touch here is the problem when i dont touch for days my hormones spin out of control and I literally flirt with many women Id go so far as to say at one point I ask out a women once a day. To combat this for years I would for years mastubate to curve this desire. But its like a cycle of pain you fall into sin no matter what you do. I am not meant to be single I need a companion, being single and having all of this difficulty has really strained my relaltionship with god and sometimes i get so lonley that i visit prostitute 2 times. I have prayed many times for god to give me a wife to relieve me of all this temptation. Here is a good analogy none of us can truly comprehend god and his plans. The way i look at it im like a dog and my owner even though he has the food in the cabinet he wont put the food in the bowl and im left here in my non comprehnension and confusion as to why he wont put he food there im lost. Im not meant to go through life alone and I think one day god will give me a wife but im telling you I want out of this situation. I just want a wife so I can honor god and have children and raise them to be good people while having my desire for sex to be fullfilled in the chrisitan way. Why is god letting this cycle of pain continue im like a broken record with him i just keep asking to fall in love so I dont have to deal with this sin anymore but he just wont answer he knows this isnt going to work out me being single. Also to top it off the way women dress now a days is utterly and completly appalling I appretiate the female form but danm these women dress half naked! I obvioulsy get excited and that leads to further sin its a vicious cycle of uneeded torment for me. What is the point of this how do i deal with this. God gave me all these hormones but its like i have to keep myself down. The way i can do that is to touch but that isnt clean in the eyes of god what is the way out of this. The way out as i see it is a wife i dont see any other way out or i could kill myself but that just leads to hell. Its a cycle of hassle that i just dont want to deal with. once again how can a christian male survive in a world like this and do right by god
Hello Chris.

You want to be in a relationship.

You have not yet found a partner.

You are a healthy, twenty two year old male.

There are millions of other Christian males in exactly the same predicament.

Most women flaunt themselves, that is what they do.

Have you thought about trying to be patient and let the Lord take care of your problem?

Or are you just going to be impatient, panic, and sleep with prostitutes.

Every single desperate male I have ever known, eventually got married.

Try Christian dating sites, relax, have a chat with some girls, try and understand what they are after in life.
 
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