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Thank brother for the post is helpful.
Sometimes the psychotic(xg. Mania ) can have “super ability”. But in most (maybe not all) cases it makes his health even worse, for what he feels is not true. Mat4:9[NRSV]and he(Satan) said to him, "All these I will give you, if you will fall down and worship me." Satan has tempted many this way, just they often don’t feel the temptation is from Satan clearly. To the Psychotic the temptation is easier because their self-perceiving is not whole. Everyone has an Ego and wish a strong ego. Satan can help the Ego Expanding greatly and greatly through lies, in fact it is a way to destruction. God’s way is contrast. If the flesh is dead with Jesus and the spirit is alive to Jesus, the ego chooses real humble and active in God. Satan can also tempt the church this way in lies. Maybe by appearance one looks like humble and spiritual, but by inner heart his ego is expanding greatly. He chooses regarding the lies as truth, cheating himself successfully. But if the Holy Spirit in him groans and blames him and he doesn’t refuse, hope is there and the Holy Spirit doesn’t go away from him.
I am often in weakness and could not overcome some temptation, especially in the side of masturbation with unclean imagination. May God have pity on me.
Anyway, thank God for you have a deep perspective about the faithful loving truth of God. Many blessings be with you.
And Wish all here a blessed day.
So true that satan tries to expand our ego! I certainly fell for that one! 3 x 6 I got that trying to work out my own salvation in my own ability. I made an utter mesh of it.
You can see this time also as 1) the Gentiles trampling the outer court of the Temple for 42 months. 2) the placing of the abomination that causes desolation in the place where it doesn't belong - and the end of faithful prayer/sacrifice (The place our Lord ought to rule from is overcome by our flesh.) 3) the lordship of our guilty conscience through our unfaithful love. And the 'little horn' that arises out of all of that - the lawless one in us will come through our big ego, with all kind of signs and counterfeit miracles, where we will betray our Lord for self glory.
This spiritual process happens inside each one of us each time sin wins and not the obedience that flows from faith in God. And could be understood as a demonstration of God's wheels within wheels at work within our hearts though these 4 forces are very much on the wrong side of God's Word and become clear when we fight sin in the power of God's Word instead of our own abilities.
I found in my struggle with sexual sin, for I have really struggled in this part of my life as well. For my sex life had been utterly polluted before I even awoke a sexually mature person through the horrible sexual assault I suffered at the tender age of 11 or 12. the devil really made a mesh of me in this part of my life and even caused 'alter egos' to live in that part of me.
When Christ unconditional love awoke within me then my polluted sexuality took of with all of my sinful fantasies and tried to force Jesus to give me my fill in sin. In this way I certainly have walked the shoes of lawless spirit more than once in my life. The ending of those arrogant forces in my life was horrible brother. Having to fight that battle and see how terrible unfaithful I had been in my sexual life and how God's love growing in my life was being 'stolen' by those very sinful forces I had never been able to conquer and I kept on using Christ amazing grace to keep on sinning instead of repent on learn to love faithfully and rightly. It has been my most horrible battle ever let me assure you.
However Jesus won, and is winning my battle brother. His cleansing love in my sexuality is still at work every day, but what He has already been cleaned is astonishing and so nice and good to see after so many years of falling to see an real improvement there.
Our Lord is an amazing Lord brother who can certainly save us from our sin if we dare to trust in His grace and not fight sin in our own ability but surrender to His unconditional love and let wrong fight itself to death within us trying to enter the narrow gate. While Christ draws us up unto Him - one by one - until all of our inner household have entered into His Rest - our big unfaithful ego very last in line - wrong mercilessly cut out of us - while in our 'suffering the wicked ones' very much first in line, each wheel within His wheels is in this pattern.
God truly is the alpha and omega of all of us divided within by sin. Honest brother you be amazed when you see your salvation in your sexual self please keep battling the wicked and trust in grace and don't try to beat the wrong in you in your own strength but let Jesus draw it out of you and place it into hell, so His loving truth can set you free from your torment.
Remember the sheep and the goat? Now look into your sexual life and see for yourself who the sheep and who the goats in you are. The goats say you are a goat! The sheep fear they are a goat. The goats love doing it wrong and desire sin to be redeemed instead of being redeemed from sin. The sheep long for things not wrong but unavailable or out of reach and so fall for doing wrong and satisfy their natural desires. The goats love self/ego/need/desire above God's love. The goats accuse the sheep who struggle against sin but are not strong to overcome the wicked in you. The sheep love good and right to be true rather than the wrong they are tied/enslaved to. The goats 'love Jesus' so they be great and have all they want. The sheep love Jesus because they know they are wrong and need Him to be saved, humble and contrite of heart to be. The goats also try to rule it over you using God's O.T law rather than the law of love to hem you in with. The goats are not only lawless from the perspective that they love doing wrong on sinners side of the spectrum but the goats are also very much those forces who try and lord it over us when we are stuck with sin. The sheep long to die to wrong holding them captive, but the goats love to accuse you with wrong or engulf you with those hot desires and so grab hold of you time and again.
So to help the process along brother hand your unfaithful love - those goats above - over to the accuser/dragon and let him burn her and eat her with fire so that the power of her can be destroyed and you delivered from wrong in this part of your life. Not you the weak one who falls all the time, but you who decides to do sin instead of obey God's loving truth faithfully.
So make sure you accept God's unconditional love and let this grow inside the part of yourself where you are stuck with wrong, until He frees you from the evil that has you trapped and gives you a new life in Him - time and again - until all of you in that part of your life has entered His Rest and sin clinging fast has been completely washed off.
Be of very good courage brother. Jesus will certainly set you free. In the mean time I hope and pray that Christ will bring a partner into your life who can help you along with this process.
Much love brother.
In the meantime against your guilty conscience take up this lament brother, for it is not by force, nor through surrender to force, but by the liberating power of God's Spirit of grace that we overcome our addictive sins.
Ezekiel 28:1-19
"The word of the Lord came to me: “Son of man, say to the ruler of Tyre, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says:
“‘In the pride of your heart
you say, “I am a god;
I sit on the throne of a god
in the heart of the seas.”
But you are a mere mortal and not a god,
though you think you are as wise as a god.
Are you wiser than Daniel?
Is no secret hidden from you?
By your wisdom and understanding
you have gained wealth for yourself
and amassed gold and silver
in your treasuries.
By your great skill in trading
you have increased your wealth,
and because of your wealth
your heart has grown proud.
“‘Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says:
“‘Because you think you are wise,
as wise as a god,
I am going to bring foreigners against you,
the most ruthless of nations;
they will draw their swords against your beauty and wisdom
and pierce your shining splendor.
They will bring you down to the pit,
and you will die a violent death
in the heart of the seas.
Will you then say, “I am a god,”
in the presence of those who kill you?
You will be but a mortal, not a god,
in the hands of those who slay you.
You will die the death of the uncircumcised
at the hands of foreigners.
I have spoken, declares the Sovereign Lord.’”
The word of the Lord came to me: “Son of man, take up a lament concerning the king of Tyre and say to him: ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says:
“‘You were the seal of perfection,
full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.
You were in Eden,
the garden of God;
every precious stone adorned you:
carnelian, chrysolite and emerald,
topaz, onyx and jasper,
lapis lazuli, turquoise and beryl.
Your settings and mounting were made of gold;
on the day you were created they were prepared.
You were anointed as a guardian cherub,
for so I ordained you.
You were on the holy mount of God;
you walked among the fiery stones.
You were blameless in your ways
from the day you were created
till wickedness was found in you.
Through your widespread trade
you were filled with violence,
and you sinned.
So I drove you in disgrace from the mount of God,
and I expelled you, guardian cherub,
from among the fiery stones.
Your heart became proud
on account of your beauty,
and you corrupted your wisdom
because of your splendor.
So I threw you to the earth;
I made a spectacle of you before kings.
By your many sins and dishonest trade
you have desecrated your sanctuaries.
So I made a fire come out from you,
and it consumed you,
and I reduced you to ashes on the ground
in the sight of all who were watching.
All the nations who knew you
are appalled at you;
you have come to a horrible end
and will be no more.’”
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