THE EVIL OF FANTASIZING AND LUSTING:

There are many different types of unnatural or unholy cords and all create bondage in a person’s life. Continual participation, or exposure, to sin will create sinful cords in our heart and mind (our soul). These sinful cords connect our thoughts to Satan’s evil realm. These evil thoughts – and the evil spirits inspiring the thoughts – will draw us into sin just as a rope pulls a cart. Isaiah 5:18: "Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope". The Hebrew word for ‘cords’ in Isaiah is “chebel” a rope (as twisted)… a noose (as of cords); rope, snare, sorrow”. 

What is fantasizing? The word means "daydreaming, imagining, woolgathering, pensive, inattentive, negligent, preoccupied, distracted, in a world of your own, wandering, lost in thought'. Thinking or fantasizing within one’s mind towards the opposite sex can open spiritually evil doorways (and thought patterns) in their life. You may think fantasizing or lusting after someone is not bad as long as you do not actually physically participate in a sinful act with the person, again, this is not what scripture says: Matthew 5:28 say, “But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart”. 

Jesus explains, in depth, the dangers of a person even looking at or concentrating on sinful things. He elaborated on how this evil can infiltrate our hearts in Mark 7:21-23 “For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, ......: All these evil things come from within, and defile the man. And Galatians 5:19-21, tells us that those who do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. 

Lust and desire does affect a person’s soul. It is important to understand what an unnatural or unholy cord is and how it has affected your life; even if it happened to you before you were saved you can still suffer the negative emotional affects after salvation if you do not sever the cord through direct prayer. Many times because a person is a Christian they believe that Satan cannot affect them, especially their soul. However, anytime a person, including a Christian, gives in to lust of the flesh it affects or touches their soul (which is their mind, will, and emotions). 

The Hebrew word for ‘soul’ in the Old Testament is nephesh; heart, lust, mind, will, sense, appetite, desire, pleasure, self, greedy. The Greek word for ‘soul’ in the New Testament is psuche; heart, mind. The Greek meaning corresponds with the Hebrew. God’s Holy Spirit lives in our spirit when we are saved, but when we allow sin and temptation of the flesh to affect our soul how long will God continue to dwell in our spirit? When a person cannot stop them self from sinning and is repeatedly giving in to this sin then this person, or Christian, is in bondage.