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The lustful look-how easy to let the eye linger even as the mind gloats. Like bottle flies swarming over a carcass, thoughts flit hither and yon and linger on forbidden areas and uncleanness until the soul is saturated with filth. Usually he finds easy access through the thoughts. The points of entrance of this demon are legion. Like David of old they can rejoice: “He brought me up out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings” (Ps.

Perhaps only those from whom this demon has been exorcised can tell the sordid story of lives so possessed. 2:14) is going unheeded by these new apostles of “freedom,” with devastating results to themselves and to their victims-usually young people. Our risen Lord’s denunciation of those in the church at Pergamum who “taught” men to “commit fornication” (Rev. Through the permissiveness and twisted philosophy of the “new morality” and “situation ethics,” these persons have attempted to break down the moral concepts and restraints of God’s holy laws. But not until the last few years has the Christian Church been infiltrated by those who have regarded the Seventh Commandment as relative. History is filled with records of religions that have fostered unbridled lust, some through phallic objects of worship, others by the use of cult prostitutes. In every medium of communication today, authors, publishers, producers, and advertisers vie with one another in encouraging lust. Some may think it fantastic to say that lust is a demon, but let them not forget that there is perhaps no more vulnerable point in the human personality, and that sex obsession has been a prime reason for personal and national disintegration all through human history.Īmerica seems to have gone nearly to the limit in worship at the shrine of sex. Playing on one of the strongest urges of nature-one that, when controlled, is one of God’s great gifts to mankind-Satan has down through the ages perverted it, wherever he can, for the destruction of his victims. Satan, the prince of this world, fans the flames of lust in the hearts of men and women.

There are millions of demon-possessed people in the United States-possessed by the unclean spirit of lust.