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The gates of hell
1. THE GATES OF HELL
Bro. Jimmy Garin
Bride of Christ
Mangaldan Church
Pangasinan Phils.
2. Matthew 16: 18: And I say also unto thee,
That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I
will build my church; and the gates of
hell shall not prevail against it.
A Christian is built upon the rock of
revelation (“Thus saith the LORD”), and
the gates of Hell cannot prevail against it.
3. What then are the gates of Hell?
Well,we know that a gate of a city
allows a person to gain access into the
city; but, if the gate is shut then a
person cannot enter the city.
The city in this example represents the
flesh body because within its walls
abide the spirit (the mind) and the soul
4. The city-body has five gates which are
known as the five senses: sight, smell,
sound, taste and touch.
These five senses are vital for the
body to function, but if they are
incorrectly operated, then the enemy
can gain entry.
Allow me to state that you are in a
war and the scene of conflict
is on the battlefield of the mind.
5. The enemy is of course Satan and
his demons who wish to
break down the city-body by
gaining entry via the gates of the
five senses. It is so important that
you are rigorously attentive to
everything that you do because one
bad move can cost you the
battle.
6. The flesh is born in sin (via sex) and it
is unconverted, therefore it will
naturally want to do carnal things
that are contrary to the Word. The
two parties at war are the forces of
good and evil, and the party that
will win the battle is the one which
you feed the most.
7. For God to have liberty in your life, you
need to absorb yourself in His Word so
that you become conditioned to repelling
the forces of evil rather than allowing them
to march right on in to your life. I will now
illustrate how easy it is for the enemy to
gain entry into the city-body via the five
gates of the senses.
8. When you watch the television or glance
at pornography etcetera, then you are
allowing demons of sex demons of sex
and violence etcetera to infiltrate the mind
and begin sowing thoughts that will
pull you into the cesspool of sin. Sight is
the main gate by which the enemy gains
entry into your life because we rely
upon vision to go about our daily duties.
9. The first glance at something
carnal is purely accidental, but God
will hold you responsible to the
“wilful” second glance; that
is the golden opportunity Satan is
waiting for, to charge into your life
via the second look.
10. Smell is actually the sense that triggers more
memories than the others. The smell of
alcohol, drugs, marijuana etcetera can
trigger “fond” memories of one’s past life in
sin, or it may be the temptation to lure a
person into “testing” for the first time this
“new thing”. Smell is a powerful weapon
that Satan uses to cause a person to crave
the by-gone sinful life; these desires
become stronger the more that you choose
to dwell upon them.
11. I would classify sound as being the
second-greatest gate of the body because
daily we are bombarded by corrupt
conversation, cursing, and music etcetera.
All of those recollections do happen to
over in your replay themselves over and
mind until subconsciously you begin to
accept them as “normal”.
12. Sound is a gate that needs to be
tightly guarded, and if you do find
that your mind is rerunning carnal
recordings then replace them with
something Godly (a Christian song
or a sermon etcetera).
13. Taste is a very strong gate because a true
Christian seldom drifts back to a glass of
alcohol or the sampling of drugs etcetera.
The gate should still be guarded though and
parents should strongly instruct their
children in the abstinence from alcohol,
because it is generally by alcohol that a child
will eventually open wide all the other gates
and allow the entire army of sin to
absolutely destroy the child’s life.
14. The fifth and final gate to the city-body
is touch. Touch begins with physical
fighting and leads to fornication and
adultery.
Holding hands and kissing the opposite
gender before one is married will most
certainly lead you down a rabbit
warren to the abyss. Keep this gate
closely guarded or do as Paul said in
1 Corinthians 7: 2:
15. Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let
every man have his own wife,
and let every woman have her own
husband.
If you are tempted to let your feelings
run loose when alone, then guard the
gate by mixing with Christian company
or by quickly adjusting the thought
patterns to things of a more moral
nature.
16. 1 Corinthians 3: 16 - 17: Know ye
not that ye are the temple of God,
and that the Spirit of God dwelleth
in you? If any man defile the temple
of God, him shall God destroy; for
the temple of God is holy, which
temple ye are.
17. Never allow an abomination to
enter your life that will desolate the
temple of your body. Preserve
yourself as a chaste virgin to Christ
and keep the gates of the body
heavily filtered in order to prevent
the enemy from sowing seed in the
womb of your mind.
