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EFFEMINACY - SINS OF SODOM

(Written By Earline Moody)

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. SCRIPTURE

2. DEFINITIONS

1. Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words

2. The New Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon

3. Webster's New Twentieth Century Dictionary

4. Meanings

3. CHILDREN

4. PARENTS

5. TESTIMONY OF EARLINE ABOUT MARIE

6. ENEMY

7. WEAPONS

8. SOFT AND EFFEMINATE

9. LOT AND ABRAM

10.ISRAEL

11. WOMEN

12. CLOTHING

13.SODOMY AND INCEST

14.SINS

15. REFERENCES

SCRIPTURE

Gen. 19:5And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men which came in to thee this night? bring them out unto us, that we may know them.

Lev. 18:22, 20:12Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abominaton. If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committted an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.

Deut. 29:23And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass growrth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath.

Jud. 19:22Now as they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, certain sons of Belial, beset the house round about, and beat at the door, and spake to the master of the house, the old man, saying, Bring forth the man that came into thine house, that we may know him.

I Kings 14:24And there were also Sodomites in the land: and they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.

Lam. 4:6For the punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the punishment of the sin of Sodom, that was overthrown as in a moment, and no hands stayed on her.

Rom. 1:24, 26-27Wherefore GOD also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves. For this cause GOD gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: and likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was meet.

II Pet. 2:6 And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly.

DEFINITIONS

Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words

Effeminate: Malakos, soft, soft to the touch (Eng., mollify, emollient; metaphorically, in a bad sense, I Cor. 6:9, "effeminate," not simply of a male who practises forms of lewdness, but persons in general, who are guilty of addictions to sins of the flesh, voluptuous.

Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's Commentary on the Whole Bible

I Cor. 6:9; effeminate - self-polluters, who submit to unnatural lusts.

The New Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon

Effeminate, of a catamite, a male who submits his body to unnatural lewdness.

The Interlinear Bible - Greek to English - Volume IV

I Cor. 6:9; Strong's #733 from 730 and 2845; a Sodomite - abuser of (that defile) self with mankind.

Webster's New Twentieth Century Dictionary

Effeminate, (L. effeminate, pp. of effeminate, to make womanish.) 1. having the qualities generally attributed to women, as weakness, gentleness, delicacy, etc.; unmanly. 2. characterized by such qualities; weak; soft, decadent, etc.; as effeminate art. 3. womanlike, tender; gentle.

Meanings

Let us look at some meanings of the words used to explain effeminate. Weakness: 1. the state or quality of being weak. 2. a weak point; a fault; a defect, as in one's character. 3. a liking; especially, an unreasonable fondness (for something). Syn. - debility, failing, foible, feebleness, folly, frailty, imbecility, impotence, infirmity. Gentleness: easily handled; tame. Delicacy: fineness; frailty; softness; weakness of constitution or health; the condition of requiring careful and deft handling. Unmanly: deprived of manly qualities; emasculated; to deprive of virility; to castrate. Soft: weak; delicate; not strong or vigorous; not able to endure hardship, privation; subdued; not bright or intense. Decadent: a state of decline; characterized by decadence. Decadence: a falling away; decline in force or quality; a process, condition, or period of decline, as in morals; decay; deterioration. Decay: to deteriorate; to become rotten; tendency toward dissolution or extinction; rottenness; destruction; death. Deterioration: to make worse; to lower the value of; to reduce in quality; to depreciate. syn. - depreciate, degeneration, impair, corrupt, debase. If we took the time to look up all the words used to describe effeminate the picture would get progressively worse.

CHILDREN

As we have worked with people over the years, we have noticed some common contributing factors in the lives of those who have problems with effeminacy. Some people have only slight problems while others have incapacitating problems. Here we will consider people with normal capacities. It seems that the attitudes of the parents toward the child have a profound effect.

While it is a good idea for each succeeding generation to work toward improving life standards, it is better not to veer off to the extreme of giving the children everything and every advantage. The idea that you don't want want your children to have it as bad as you did should be replaced by using wisdom in guiding children to growth and maturity. We could not use the excuse, "We can't afford it" when our children wanted something common sense said they were not ready for or that would over indulge them. We had to really communicate with them and teach them so that they would have a good understanding of our reasons and a cooperative spirit. It is very important that the children know beyond any doubt that you love and consider what is to their best interest.

God gave children to parents not parents to children, and He gave parents the responsibility to teach, guide and discipline. When we give our children more freedom than they can handle or over indulge them they tend to turn into selfish brats and we don't like them anymore.

A child needs to know that you watch over him and love him, but he should not feel that you are watching every move he makes. He needs to know that you trust him to do the right thing and that when he fails you, will use the proper method to encourage him into the right path. Most of all he needs to see the same high standards in you that you expect to see developing in him.

Respect the child as a person; do not degrade them for their failures but use them as teaching opportunities. When we reached our teen years, our dad used to tell us that if we got into trouble he would not get us out of it but he would be by our side as us took our punishment.

Don't call them stupid and dumb or by great sighs let the know they have absolutely exasperated you. I believe that the Holy Spirit helped me realize that children are new to this life and they have not passed this way before and so I should expect them to make many mistakes. That I should form an alliance with them in training and discussion of the situation they get into. encourage them to consider other methods of handling that particular problem should they be faced with it again. Teach them to learn from their mistakes; don't brood over them. Brooding over them will tend to hold you to do the same thing again, consider what you have learned, put the mistake behind you and go on. God's mercy is fresh every day, so should a parent's be.

Don't make unrealistic demands on them; encourage them to do their best. It will bless you as you see what the child can accomplish with the proper leadership, training and love. One young man told us that even when he made a four point average, his dad would say, "Is that the best you can do?" Use praise to encourage more good growth and loving discipline to correct unacceptable behavior.

One more thing, children see we really are not what we say we are. If you are effeminate in your life style, they will know and copy it. If you are more interested in fitting in in this world than living by Godly principals, they will know. If you love carnal things more than righteous things, they will know. If you cannot live without your possessions, they will know.

PARENTS

Psalms 78:8-11, And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that set not their hearts aright nor prepared their heart to know God, and whose spirit was not steadfast and faithful to God. The children of Ephraim were armed and carrying bows, yet they turned back in the day of battle. They kept not the covenant of God and refused to walk according to His law, And forgot His works and His wonders that He had shown them. Verses 12-17 recount God's acts of loving protection and provision during the wilderness journey. In v. 18-19, And they tempted God in their hearts by asking God for food according to their (selfish) desire and appetite. Yes they spoke against God; they said, Can God furnish (the food for) a table in the wilderness.

Lets look at ourselves and our motives honestly. We could and should ask ourselves if we are not as these people. Are our hearts right with God? Do we really trust God enough to believe that He will deal with us as we need him to? Or do we want Him to give us our desires NOW? Do we ask in prayer for the things we selfishly want to satisfy our selfish desire? If we don't get what we want, do we then accuse God of failure while we refuse to look at our own failure to love, obey, trust and serve Him? Does God give us ample instruction on how to live a successful Christian life? Why then are we not doing just that? I believe that if people who call themselves Christian would live life as He has directed, the unsaved would be beating at the door to acquire salvation.

As a Christian we have access to armor and have bows to carry, but do we use our armor or shoot our bows? Jesus Christ has provided our armor. Eph. 6:11-18, Put on God's whole armor (the armor of a heavy-armed soldier which God supplies), that you may be able successfully to stand up against all the strategies and the deceits of the devil. Most Christians that I know don't even recognize they have an opponent or need to use the armor or bows. So they conclude that they do not need to know about the Devil's strategies and plans. So while they pretend he doesn't exist, the Devil slowly eats away at their very soul, their children, their health, etc. After the destruction is almost completed, the Christian will become mildly aware that there might be a problem. Only then will they stir themselves to see what the problem is, and then go back to sleep and wonder why they have lost that which is nearest and dearest to them.

TESTIMONY OF EARLINE ABOUT MARIE

Some years ago, I had a scene flash through my mind. At the time of this revelation, I was thinking I was really serving God. I was so concerned with lost children. Many efforts and thoughts went into attempting to help others. Now, I know that God wants us to help others.

But the Devil is so clever in convincing us that if we'll help others, God will take care of ours. I have had pastors use this statement on me to get me to work in their vineyards - howbeit it was not God's vineyard. I awoke from my deception almost too late.

In this scene I was standing before God's throne. I was so proud of my life and expecting Him to really be pleased with me. I was standing there with a very large group of children I had been instrumental in bringing to the Lord.

I began to sense that something was very, very wrong. God seemed to be extremely dissatisfied with me. I heard this question, "Where is Marie?" I began to look for her feeling sure she was in the group. Finally I found her. She was not in the group. As she came around the edge of the group and looked up to God, I saw Him point the other way. (Parents, are you doing the right things with your children.)

I cannot tell you all the emotions I felt. All my pride was replaced with shame and failure. I heard that Marie was the only person I had been given responsibility for. She was given to me to love and guide but I had shunned what I had been given and had looked for something else to do. I was to have been her greatest rooter and one of her most important teachers.

I began at that point to repent (change directions completely and go the other way) and seek knowledge from God as to how I should perform on His job. I'd like to tell you that the problem was solved and that we all lived happily ever after, but that was not the case.

What was to follow was years of heartache and mental pain, but one day I noticed that things were just slightly beginning to get in correct order. A time period of probably ten years was needed for us following the leadership of the Lord to undo the works of the Devil in this area.

I had seen a glimmer of light and I was not going to let it go. My hand was on the plow never to let go again. I looked up every verse in the Bible about mothers and daughters, and began to correct my thoughts and actions. I must come into obedience to God if I was to see any change in our relationship. I also realized that I could no longer blame my failure as a mom on anyone but me.

These are some of the spiritual forces at work in this case: ignorance, dissatisfaction, rejection, irreverence for God, lack of natural affection, shirking God given duties, selfishness, lazy, arrogant, greedy for acceptance, generational gap, abandonment, bitterness and rebellion.

ENEMY

Lets look and see who God considers our enemy to be (Eph. 6:11-18):

12. For we are not wrestling with flesh and blood (contending only with physical opponents), but against the despotisms, against the powers, against (the master spirits who are) the world rulers of this present darkness, against the spirit forces of wickedness in the heavenly (supernatural) sphere. My observation of churches, pastors and Christians has mostly been that they fight and devour each other and not the Devil and his gang.

13. Therefore put on God's complete armor, that you may be able to resist and stand your ground on the evil day (of danger), and, having done all (the crises demands), to stand (firmly in your place). Are we Christians knowledgeable and settled in the truth of the Bible or do we compromise the truth to be accepted by our piers? If we do not stand firmly grounded in truth, we will not stand in the time of danger.

14. Stand therefore (hold your ground), having tightened the belt of truth around your loins and having put on the breast plate of integrity and of moral rectitude and right standing with God. A Christian can not stand who does not know Biblical truth and who does not implement truth in his own life.

15. And having shod your feet in preparation (to face the enemy with firm-footed stability, the promptness, and the readiness produced by the good news) of the gospel of peace (Isa. 52:7). Christians get cut down early and swiftly when they fail to study the Bible.

16. Lift up over all the (covering) shield of saving faith, upon which you can quench all the flaming missiles of the wicked (one). Decide that God's way is best and never change your mind no matter how things look. After you have come through the testing you will often look back and see why it was needed.

17. And take the helmet of salvation and the sword that the Spirit wields, which is the Word of God. There are a lot of "good plans" around in the world. Only one in guaranteed to bring success. Josh. 1: 6-8. God's truth will work to some degree for all people, however for it to work completely you must become converted as God directs thought faith in the shed blood of Jesus Christ.

18. Pray at all times (on every occasion, in every season) in the Spirit, with all (manner of) prayer and entreaty. To that end keep alert and watch with strong purpose and perseverance, interceding in behalf of all the saints (God's consecrated people). This is where we fall down, failing to obey God's directions, to support each other in prayer, to be very alert with strong purpose and perseverance. Could it be we are very lazy?

Just getting up in the morning and saying you put on the armor of God will not cut it with God or the devil. It takes much hard work over a long time! This is God's armor given to us it is our duty to take up the armor.

WEAPONS

Now to our bows that God has given:

1. Salvation through Jesus Christ - John 3:16 . Now we are in a position to use the other equipment that is provided.

2. Baptism of Holy Spirit - Luke 24:49; Acts 2:1-4. God has given us the Holy Spirit to guide, empower, comfort and teach us.

3. The Bible - our manual (book of instruction for this life). II Tim.2:15, Study and be eager and do your utmost to present yourself to God approved (tested by trail) a workman who has no cause to be ashamed, correctly analyzing and accurately dividing (rightly handling and skillfully teaching) the Word of Truth.

4. Power and authority in the name of Jesus Christ. Mat. 28:18, Luke 10: 19. He gives us His authority over all the power of the enemy.

5. Our work - Mark 16:17-18. These signs will follow them that believe: In My name they will drive out demons; they will speak with new tongues; 18 They will pick up serpents; and (even) if they drink anything deadly, it will not hurt them; they will lay their hands on the sick, and they will get well.

If we would get saved, study, be vigilant, completely trust God and be obedient to our instruction and do our duties then we would stand strong in truth in the evil day of danger.

SOFT AND EFFEMINATE

Rev. 3:16, So, because you are lukewarm and neither cold or hot, I will spew you out of My mouth! There is no attraction for nor fear of things lukewarm. If we say we are Christians and we are not red hot in our pursuit of God and righteousness we will get spewed out of God's mouth.

Let examine some people in the Bible who loved having things soft and effeminate. Genesis 13, In this chapter Abram and Lot lived together. The land was not able to support all of their cattle. Abram suggested Lot choose any land he wanted. Lot looked and saw that the Jordan valley was well watered everywhere. You almost get the idea he doesn't want to work hard but to have a plush and easy life. Soon he is in Sodom. Genesis 14, This account is of four kings against five. The four came into the area of Sodom and Gomorrah and took all the wealth, provisions and people. Now Lot was taken and all that he had. One who managed to escape came and told Abram. Abram could have chosen the easy way and just ignored the problem but he chose to get involved, to risk his life and the lives of his servants, to risk loss of wealth and to rescue Lot. Before this we are told that Lot has much cattle and goods.

LOT AND ABRAM

Why did Lot not fight to keep from being taken? There probably were no strong men to help him. The men of this place were wicked and exceedingly great sinners. The men of Sodom were guilty of all types of sexual vice, and as homosexuals were probably not prepared to fight for Sodom. In our ministry we have found that people given over to sexual vices do not have normal natural affections and do not feel natural responsibilities.

Abram had 318 trained servants. He and his servants routed the enemy and brought back all that was stolen. When the battle was over, the King of Sodom offered Abram all the goods and Abram said he would take nothing for himself. Abram showed no tendency to effeminacy.

In Genesis 18 Abraham receives a visit from angels, is told of Sodom's destruction and entreats God for ten souls. That must have been all of Lot's family plus his sons-in-law. In Genesis 19, Sodom receives a visit from two angels who have come to warn Lot to remove all of his family. The sons-in-laws thought he was joking and they chose not to go. It seems his married daughters did not go out either. Life was easy and there were no standards to live up to in Sodom.

In Sodom, as in America today, effeminacy can lead to homosexuality and all other types of sins. When men and women seek the "easy life", give up Godly standards, and rebel against God they begin to become decadent.

We learn in chapter 19 that all the men from every quarter came to Lot's house and wanted to have homosexual relations with the two angels. Lot had no authority with these people; he had compromised with their life-style by choosing to live there. His own children chose to side with the sins of that place. Only two unmarried daughters came out with him. His wife longed so for the "good life" that she disobeyed the angels, and looked back with longing for Sodom and her things there. It cost her life. The daughters were so conditioned to the attitudes and sins of Sodom that they got their father drunk and conceived children by him, thereby cursing themselves and all their children for ten generations. Why would a man of God be drinking enough to become dead drunk two nights in a row? By his laxness toward God, his longing to have the easiest and best, his compromise in morals, his lack of instruction to his children, the bad example he set in male leadership compromised his family and their future.

ISRAEL

Jeremiah 12, Jeremiah has a complaint to discuss with God. He is complaining because he sees the wicked prosper and thrive. Verse 5, (But the Lord rebukes Jeremiah's impatience, saying) If you have raced with men on foot and they have tired you out, then how can you compete with horses? And if you take to flight in a land of peace where you feel secure, then what will you do (when you tread the tangled maze of jungle, haunted by lions) in the swelling of the Jordan. If we cannot stand for truth now, if we cannot take persecution now in the land of peace what will we do when we are asked to renounce our faith in God? I hear people say casually, "I'd die for Jesus." I see those same people cringe and wilt at the possibility of persecution. God's people should not look to be blessed but to be strong in righteousness and obedience to GOD. We are told that then God's blessing will overtake us.

Throughout the Old Testament we read of Israel's times of obedience to God. He blesses them and they got to enjoying the blessings so much that they forgot God and then they entered into sin. They knew the warning that departure from God's law would bring decay and destruction but they loved the blessings and soft life more than the God.

WOMEN

Remember the meaning of effeminate that we studied at the beginning of this study? Is it possible for a woman to abuse her femininity? In this study we are looking at the ways we as women misuse our femininity.

Let's look at Ezekiel 16:49-50. Behold, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: pride, over-abundance of food, prosperous ease and idleness were hers and her daughters'; neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy. They were haughty, and committed abominable offences before Me; therefore I removed them when I saw it and I saw fit. Here God is dealing with the effeminacy of the daughters of Sodom who were also guilty.

We can begin to love and enjoy our possessions so much that we become self-indulgent, demanding, critical of others, greedy, complain, and become lazy, etc. We expect others to make our life easy. We get ugly and nasty, and push our husbands to get us more and more. If we don't have all the possessions we see others have, we decide there is something wrong in our relationship to God.

In Proverbs 31:11 we learn that the heart of a husband should be able to trust confidently in the wife, so that he will have no need of dishonest spoil and have no lack of honest gain. The next few verses suggest ways we can add to our gain.

God gives a terrible warning to women in who get into self to much. See Isaiah 3:16-26, Moreover the Lord said, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty and walk with outstretched necks and with indisciplined (flirtatious and alluring) eyes, tripping along with mincing and affected gait, and making a tinkling noise with (the anklets on) their feet; Therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown of the heads of the daughters of Zion (making them bald), and the Lord will cause them to be (taken as captives and suffer the indignity of being) stripped naked. In that day the Lord will take away the finery of their tinkling anklets, the caps of network, the crescent head ornaments, The pendants, the bracelets or chains, and the spangled face veils and scarfs, The headbands, the short stepping-chains (attached from one foot to the other to insure a measured gait), the sashes, the perfume boxes, the amulets or charms (suspended from the ears or neck), The signet rings and nose rings, The festal robes, the clocks, the stoles and shawls, and the handbags, The hand mirrors, the fine linen (undergarments),the turbans, and the (whole-body-enveloping) veils. And it shall come to pass that instead of the sweet odor of spices there shall be the stench of rottenness; and instead of a girdle, a rope; and instead of well-set hair, baldness; and instead of a rich robe, a girding of sackcloth; and a searing (of captives by the scorching heat) instead of beauty. Your men shall fall by the sword, and your mighty men in battle. And (Jerusalem's) gates shall lament and mourn (as those who wail for the dead); and she, being ruined and desolate, shall sit upon the ground.

Makes one wonder if some of the physical problems we women have today could be caused by our being like these verses. Even though we are female there is no reward for those who misuse their femininity. As women we need to be strong enough to endure hardship and take a stand for righteousness. We should not let ourselves become self-indulgent, pouters, clinging vines and naggers. There should be gratitude to God for all His provisions.

CLOTHING

Matt. 11:8, What did you go out to see? A man clothed in soft clothing? Behold those who wear soft clothing are in the houses of kings. Soft here in the Greek (3120) fine (clothing) fig. a catamite: - effeminate, soft. 3119 softness, enervation (debility): disease. Webster's dictionary enervation 1: to lessen the vitality or strength of 2: to reduce the mental or moral vigor, syn. see unnerve.

SODOMY AND INCEST

In the days of the Roman Empire the Emperors often had their catamite painted in the pictures of themselves. Homosexuals were accepted and encouraged in the pagan religions. In fact all forms of sexual deviation were encouraged. The Bible tells us about some of this in I Kings 15:12, He put away the Sodomites (male cult prostitutes) out of the land that his fathers (Solomon, Rehoboam, and Abijam) had made or promoted. I Kings 11:5-11, For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and after Milcom the abominable idol of the Ammonites! Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the abominable idol of Moab, on the hill opposite Jerusalem and for Molech the abominable idol of the Ammonites.

The Ammonites and the Moabites were the son of Lot by incest with his daughters. Sex with relatives carries a ten generation curse.

Her worship included all types of deviate sex. This new morality is not new but the old immorality that God said would bring curses on us and our children for many generations. Ashtoreth, Heb. for Astarte: the Phoeician goddess of fertility and of sexual love. In her worship, newborn animals and first-born children were sacrificed in order to increase fertility. The worship of this goddess will bring several curses on you. Ex. 20:1-6, worshiping other gods -three to four generations are cursed. Ex. 20:13, 23:7, commit no murder, shed not innocent blood. In I Kings 21:1-29 Elijah tells Ahab what will be the curse on him and his family because Ahab had Naboth killed and took his land. Every male offspring of Ahab's shall die. People under curses for unlawful sex acts seem to lose a lot of their abilities, they become so passive and soft that they seem to accomplish very little. In fact about the only thing they seem to have much energy for is defending their sex rights. Isn't it a shame that so much effort is put into self destruction?

Effeminate not only means soft like a homosexual but addictions to sins of the flesh, decadent, corrupt, rotten and being in a state of decline physically, morally and spiritually.

SINS

We must recognize our faults for what they are. First the sin is against God, then ourselves and then others. We must forgive those who have wronged us in this regard. We confess our sins to God asking for forgiveness and cleansing. We forgive ourselves for sins against our life and our body. We confess that we have deeply hurt those who love us the most. We break soul ties and curses. Then we are ready to cast out the demons we have allowed to use our bodies and minds for their sinful purposes.

REFERENCES

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