The Spiritual Warrior's Guide to Defeating Jezebel: How to Overcome the Spirit of Control, Idolatry and Immorality by Jennifer Leclaire

Author:Jennifer Leclaire
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Spiritual Warfare, Religion, Christian Life, Pentecostal & Charismatic, Christianity
ISBN: 9781441261595
Publisher: Baker Books
Published: 2013-06-01T00:00:00+00:00

Despising the Lord

We have all sinned and fallen short of the glory of God (see Romans 3:23). If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us (see 1 John 1:10). The point is, we all miss it more than we would like to admit, whether in word or deed, whether by commission or omission.

Although sin is sin, we tend to take some sins, like fornication, more seriously than some other sins—and I believe Scripture affirms that sexual sins are more serious than, say, a potty mouth. Paul explained it to the Corinthian church this way:

There’s more to sex than mere skin on skin. Sex is as much spiritual mystery as physical fact. As written in Scripture, “The two become one.” Since we want to become spiritually one with the Master, we must not pursue the kind of sex that avoids commitment and intimacy, leaving us more lonely than ever—the kind of sex that can never “become one.”

There is a sense in which sexual sins are different from all others. In sexual sin we violate the sacredness of our own bodies, these bodies that were made for God-given and God-modeled love, for “becoming one” with another. Or didn’t you realize that your body is a sacred place, the place of the Holy Spirit? Don’t you see that you can’t live however you please, squandering what God paid such a high price for? The physical part of you is not some piece of property belonging to the spiritual part of you. God owns the whole works. So let people see God in and through your body.

1 Corinthians 6:16–20, THE MESSAGE

In this sense, I believe that idolatry and immorality are more serious than gossiping or judging a brother or sister. Idolatry and immorality display disdain for the commandment of the Lord—and for the Lord Himself. When David was caught in adultery with Bathsheba, the prophet Nathan asked him a pointed question:

“Why have you despised the commandment of the LORD, to do evil in His sight? You have killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword; you have taken his wife to be your wife, and have killed him with the sword of the people of Ammon. Now therefore, the sword shall never depart from your house, because you have despised Me, and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife.”

2 Samuel 12:9–10

John Paul Jackson, author of Unmasking the Jezebel Spirit, noted in his Streams Ministries newsletter that anyone can fall prey to any sin, but prophetic people seem to be especially prone to sexual sin. Jackson reasons that this could be because of the heightened sensitivity that comes with the prophetic gift.

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