AGE OLD CONTROVERSY || MASTURBATION IS NOT A SIN

Growing up I was opportune to hear a lot trash, a lot of beliefs and mediocrity. I do remember that I believed them, but for education I would have been a thoughtless spineless dude. Growing up and having my formative experiences were quite confusing, I encountered a lot of disappointment in people's characters, people I looked up to. But I also vividly remember not judging them for it. Whatever the reason, I found myself not doing that, I just observed.

Weaved into our faith system is a gross mis-education, from money to sex. These two have been core of controversy, and I wonder why. Is it because we want them so bad and they form the underpinning of our humanity? Whatever it, I share this truth today, and I stand by it vehemently after thorough studies in the holy scriptures, references, the gospel of Jesus Christ, the message of grace and faith, the concept of sin and the nature of divinity, that MASTURBATION IS NOT A SIN.


I was at work one day when I heard that a popular minister of the gospel, an international church made such a declaration. My first reaction? I wasn't surprised, just a side smile of mischief. This same minister of the gospel is renowned to have made some other controversial statements in the past. I spare you the details of his name. He declared in an internet video stream in response to questions that masturbation is not a sin. So, I decided to hear his point of view for myself. So I watched the video and listened to his exegesis. People simply quoted the man of God out of context. He is a teacher of the gospel, he simply taught it and laid it out bare.

Mathematically speaking, the average on the street guy or neighbour barely passed out of school. Still mathematically speaking, a quantum number of them barely had excellent grades in college, and had multiple sittings to qualify to make it into higher institution.  Worse still, higher institution is full of many who make you wonder how the hell they got admitted in the first place. Use of English as a subject with special emphasis on comprehension and summary, lexis and structure, including essay writing were a nightmare for many of today's average on the street guy or neighbour. How can a man who can barely understand these things I mentioned above be a subject matter expert at spiritual verities? The realm of the spirit is far more advanced intellectually than ours. Whatever knowledge we have in science on this planet is not so much as beginning to be a scratch of the intellectualism in the spirit realm. If we suck so badly at the scratch levels, how far worse can it get? And let me make this clear, there are people who will argue that knowledge of God is revelational or inspirational, meaning you just know it. I stick my tongue out at you. That is not true. The spirit-world has an educational system, the reason for revelation and inspiration is because we are in a less parallel world.

...this is what i gathered after listening to the same video as a fellow teacher of the gospel:
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1. Masturbation is NOT a sin

2. But it can lead to SIN where it generates:
      a. lasciviousness, a sin
      b. uncleanness, a sin

Masturbation involves sexual pleasure similar to other human activities that brings pleasure, such as:

NOTE 1: Eating is not just necessary for life it is also an habit, BUT can lead to sin known as GLUTTONY.

NOTE 2: Drinking is not just necessary for life it is also an habit, BUT can lead to sin known as DRUNKENNESS.

NOTE 3: Sex is not just necessary for life it is also an habit, BUT can lead to sins known as FORNICATION, ADULTERY.

3. It is a habit like any other bad habit that can be stopped by replacing it with another habit but a good one, such as NOT masturbating

4. SINS are categorized as:
a. Sin against God
    i) Sin that can lead to death
    ii) Sin that cannot lead to death

b. Sin against man
    i) Pardonable
    ii)Unpardonable

c. Sin against yourself/body
    i) It's all entirely up to you

You don't need to bother with God about if the sin is pardonable or not, Divinity has no problem with that, but men do.

5. Satan's main purpose is to lead you to hell. And he will do that with anything even the hair of your eyebrow, he can use it to strangulate you.

Finally, the battle for your life is fought NOW in your heart, 
1 John 3:18-21 - "Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth. This then is how we know that we belong to the truth, and how we set our hearts at rest in his presence whenever our hearts condemn us. For God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything. Dear friends, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God and receive from him anything we ask, because we obey his commands and do what pleases him."

In conclusion, weigh your conscience and by all means LIVE RIGHT with God. If you have to stop it, #STOP IT! And His grace is available to destroy anything in your life He has not planted. If you find yourself compelled to want to stop, perhaps it does a thing or two to your mind and your righteousness consciousness is waning, and all round affects your whole being relationship with Divinity, i

t's tough; it takes a lot of will power, and the very God who you serve is ready to help any of his children overcome anything they are not comfortable with. But I put it to you again, masturbation is not a sin.