"Guard The Gate"

In recent blogs we talked alot about triumphing through temptation. We found out that temptation is NOT sin. Everyone is and will be tempted. The Lord said through the mouth of James WHEN were tempted, not if. We talked about what sin does to our lives. We saw it in the life of King David. Its absolutely no different in our lives! We said that even if we have done made a mess in our lives through sin, the mop of Heaven is simply huge and will clean it up! The blood of Jesus is the strongest detergent on the people planet and shall remove the crimson stain in Jesus name! However we also found out theres one thing greater than the cleaning of a mess and thats one never being made! God said through the mouth of Paul Sin shall not have dominion over us(Rom 6:14) We talked about the acronym the Lord birthed and breeded in and through Bro. Keith Moore. FAR. Which is exactly all of us should desire to be concerning sin! The Lord spoke to me recently the title of the blog. We must GUARD THE GATE. This gate is the primary entry into temptation. This gate is our eyes. "There is a statement that goes our "eyes are the window of the soul" What we allow ourselves to look on and at is very important and imperative. Jesus said that if our eye offend thee PLUCK IT OUT(Matt 5:29) He wasent referring to litterally plucking our physical eye out, hes saying that there will be some pressure in getting our eyes under control, sometimes downright pain. Why? Because many if not most have been taught "Look, but dont touch" Right? However its the looking that enables a progression to take place in our imagination. What is an imagination? Its a word picture. If I was to say the word DOG to you, what would appear in your mind? It would'nt be the letters D-O-G. You would begin to see a picture of a dog, perhaps a collie or german shepherd. In other words its all about image! Years ago the tennis player Andre Aggassi was in a camera commercial and the catch phrase in it was "IMAGE IS EVERYTHING" This is so true in every sprectrom of life! The bible records a powerful illustration pertaining to this in the book of Numbers. The children of Isreal were givenj the land flowing with milk and honey, and they had to do was posses. Moses sent out twelve spies to seach out the land to get a feel for the teritory. Once they returned ten of the spies gave an evil report. Now lets zero in on the statement. We were in our own SIGHT as grasshoppers(Num 13:33) Did what they saw effect what they begin to think? Absolutely! Jesus said that when our eye is single, our WHOLE BODY SHALL BE FULL OF LIGHT, but if it isint it shall be FULL OF DARKNESS(Matt 6:22, Luke 11:33,34) What we look at becomes an image and than image will get bigger and bigger until it becomes a stronghold. God speaks to this process through the mouth of Paul Casting down imaginations taking every thought into captivity(2 Cor 10:5) and again through the mouth ofJames Once lust is concieved it bringith forth sin and sin when its finished brinith forth death(Jms 1:14,15) This all is a result of what we first look upon. In the book of Genesis the Lord gives us more tremendous examples Adan & Eve, they SAW that eating the fruit would make them wise(Gen 3:6) Potifers wife GAZED upon Joeseph. How do we enable the Lord to empower us to rule over our sight? Number one, Turn to the covenant. The book of Job said he made a COVENANT with his EYES(Job 31:1) We need to do the same thing, and seal it over communion. Make a pact with the prince of peace and give him complete control over our eyes. Number two The word. The bible says Let not THE WORD depart from thine EYES(Prov 4:21) Number three, Temperence. This word means self control. God demands that we rule over ourselves. Our eyes are not going to automatically want to look on the right things. We must make them and thats all about choice