Unconfessed Sin Graduates to Perversion

I want us to connect two posts I made not so long ago.

The first one showed that sin gets its greatest power in its concealment and the other one showing that whereas sin seeks concealment, abominations seek publicity.

But how then do perversions start?

Perversion is a sin that is pursued until it graduates.

Let me explain.

Nobody becomes an alcoholic overnight. Nobody develops addictions immediately.

They will take time and consistent intake to take someone to those levels.

Nobody becomes a glutton overnight.

Even on the positive front you realize that no habit or virtue is claimed or possessed.

Like I say it is not the prayer mountain or those short bursts of fasting that convert someone into a prayer ‘warrior’. It is that constant ‘drip, drip’ of prayer on a daily, moment by moment basis that makes prayer the default response to a crisis or occurrence. And of course it is not those Bible reading marathons that convert someone into a person who walks in the scriptures. It is a consistent daily intake and obedience that does.

Though those events and activities are important as launch pads, they have no capacity of lasting beyond a week or so after they are closed.

How do perversions develop?

I will start with a verse many believers know, the fool says in his heart, there is no God.

One sin makes one feel very guilty. They will start looking over their shoulders every so often, ready to encounter the wrath of God. Their conscience crushes them. They think everybody was witness to their wrongdoing.

After some time, they realize that the earth moved on as if nothing happened. Nobody seems to have noticed that they have transgressed. It even appears as if God either did not notice or never cared to strike.

Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil. (Ecclesiastes 8:11})

This of course develops a greater boldness.

You see, if even God doesn’t mind the little sin, would He be offended by a bigger one?

He therefore seeks to stretch the limits of God’s wrath against sin that introduces another dynamic. Is God really who we have been taught? Does He really hate fun (what they think sin is)?

This means that their theology faces a crisis.

And they continue stretching the limit of their sin.

But they are unable to kill their conscience however deep they sink into debauchery.

They will eventually go frontal in their rebellion by seeking to expand their pool to have like-minded and struggling people into their wilful sin. This is for the purposes of having a fellowship of rebels.

That is where advocacy comes in.

Otherwise you wonder why so much money is poured into the abortion industry yet each such killer is unable to deal with their demons. You wonder why homosexuals must push their advocacy to nations that do not have such in their experience, even tying their development assistance to that. You wonder why atheists must be forcefully given space even though nobody cares for their agenda.

They simply want to increase the number of people losing sleep over their lifestyle.

Yea, truth faileth; and he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey: and the LORD saw it, and it displeased him that there was no judgment. (Isaiah 59:15)

Their choice of avoiding repentance therefore takes them deep into abominations because they cannot face the fact of their sin and the condemnation their heart continues shouting to them.

That is why choosing to live right is a threat to their fight against guilt as it is a constant reminder that God not only exists, but that His standards still work and there are people who still follow them.

There is another dynamic I need to mention that I had started with; eating more than enough food will expand the capacity of that stomach to demand more each time.

Let’s start with sexual sin that many times is the source of most, if not all other sins.

Someone has sex outside marriage and nothing happens. There is so much thrill in the pursuit of that sin and its concealment that drives his energy levels to the roof.

But that thrill is short lived as usual.

He will therefore start looking for those short thrusts of thrill more and more often. Whereas the first time might have been a falling into temptation, further pursuits would be for the thrill.

Then that thrill becomes normal. The excitement fades and he must look for other avenues that offer more thrill as an available girl is really nothing for his pursuit. Even wooing offers very little thrill.

Why not venture outside the norm?

That is when you see someone seeking to sleep with married women as the wrath of a husband elevates his thrill very high. Or even looking for virgins because convincing someone who has deliberately chosen chastity is a prime target. They will even seek to have sex with toddlers to get any kind of high.

By this time it is the devil who is calling the shots by expanding the greed levels.

But then even those sexual experiences offer less and less gratification with time and the same character is fighting to maintain sanity in rebellion as if it is possible. And that is when they will breach the border of logic as they rebel.

They then think to experiment with extreme rebellion, sex with the same gender.

This is not because it is only sinful; it is because it is unnatural and completely against the created order.

And it is the same with other perversions. Please note that the same applies to women. Or haven’t you heard of girls and women who only get their high when they sleep with men of the cloth?

Add money to the same mix and you will realize that things will completely get out of hand.

Money not only ensures that sin is easily available, it also contributes to expanding the reach of those perversions. It can also to shield the transgressor from the consequences of the sinful lifestyle.

In fact you will realize that the driver for pornography is the desire to promote sin and abomination beyond closed doors.

Again that is why you see some of them keeping pastors in extreme comfort to ensure that he does not preach against those sinful lifestyles. They are therefore able to comfortably become active members of congregations because the pastor is in his pocket. I remember a pastor friend who had to look for another pastorate because he touched on sin in his sermon and was pushed to the wall by some ‘elders’.

But this is the natural progression in everything. Lack of acknowledgement of the same could be the reason many people lose their marriages and get into sin.

Let me explain.

Young people get married full of the desire for sex. Truth be told, many think that marriage equals sex.

In the first months, they are enjoying sex all the time without tiring as their desire level is very high. Being together equals sex.

Then the thrill slowly fades and they must plan to have sex. As things progress, they find out that they must agree to have sex as their minds are occupied with many other things.

Eventually the novelty of sex all but disappears. That is when you hear of couples complaining that they have not had sex for months yet they sleep on the same bed.

If they are not sober, it is very easy for the devil to convince them that they have fallen (or is it risen?) out of love, especially if sex was the primary ingredient or focus of their need to get married.

It then becomes very easy for them to be led astray into looking for the sex thrill elsewhere, beginning their journey into perversion.

Like I always say it is commitment and not ‘love’ that keeps a marriage healthy. Each partner must decide to keep their vows (whether they were made in a church or the bush is irrelevant) to keep their marriage.

And if by chance someone sins?

Repentance at the earliest moment is the solution.

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. (1John 1:9)