Potiphar’s wife said to Joseph, come to bed with me. He politely said No, not in a way that left her embarrassed, he said I cannot sin against God. But she wouldn’t take no for an answer, she kept pursuing, one day, she just jerked his clothes off of him. His response? He did exactly what the New Testament says to do, which is” flee from sexual immorality (1 Corinthians 6:18, NIV). And that’s exactly what we need to do” we need to flee from temptation, run like you have seen a ghost. I know someone will read this and say, “how can I run away from such an opportunity”.
In this world, sexual sin, violence, foul language and drunkenness are celebrated, while morality and Christian values are laughed at. First John 2:15 (NIV) says, Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love for the Father is not in them. For everything in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life comes not from the Father but from the world.Sometimes a temptation will start as a small thought from out of nowhere. That is Satan dropping poison into your mind. You can’t stop the birds from flying over your head, but you can stop them from nesting in your hair. And that’s exactly the way it is with thoughts from the outside those temptations coming to you from all directions. It isn’t a sin to be tempted. Sin is yielding to and acting on it.
The enemy does not come to give you a nice time, he is looking to destroy you. Drug addicts thought it was a onetime thing, but the thing repeated until they got addicted, and lost everything they owned to drugs. Anything that you did once, and enjoyed, you are likely to repeat. A famous Bishop in the US was secretly practicing homosexuality, but Satan made sure to embarrass him on CNN, BBC, and all kinds of Newspapers. Of course it started with a thought, this was a demon of perversion assigned to him, he could not overcome this demon, he kept repeating it again and again, until it got out. Now he is dead, Satan killed him with Cancer. So always the temptation comes to destroy you, it is not a chance to eat the forbidden apple, and wipe off your mouth. Satan has a strategic plan to destroy you with that temptation.
So, what do you do when that happens? You say, I rebuke you in the Name of Jesus, Satan. You get out of here. What does that mean? That means you don’t let your flesh live any way it wants to live. You crucify it. When it wants to do or say things it shouldn't do or say, you say, Body, shut up. You are not going there. You are not doing that. I don’t even want to hear that.