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ARE YOU TURNING INTO A JEZEBEL?
HOW TO AVOID THE WORLD’S PRESSURE TO CONTROL A MAN
Marcy Marsh

I was studying my Bible for my Sunday school lesson on Ahab and Jezebel, when I began to list the characteristics of Jezebel. Wow, was I convicted! See, as a strong-willed person, I have the tendency to become a “Jezebel.” Yes, I have always fought not to be her, but with my sinful nature, I sometimes turn into her. I pray this lesson will help you, as it has helped me, to run as fast as you can from this spirit of Jezebel.

Jezebel means, “lack of modesty, shameless, annihilate, adulterate.”

Recently, I went online and I looked up the name Jezebel because I was curious to see if anyone actually named their daughter Jezebel. I came across a blog about this subject. Almost every one of the comments on the blog said that the name was “beautiful”, and just because some “book” (the Bible) depicts Jezebel as a bad person doesn’t mean that they wouldn’t name their daughter that name. I was not shocked. In today’s society the young girls, teens and women show their lack of modesty, and they are shameless, they want to destroy men by being the leader themselves, and they think nothing of fornication and adultery. Isaiah 5:20 says, “Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!”

So, let me help you know whether you have a Jezebel spirit or not.

If you don’t see anything wrong with showing off your body and helping a man commit adultery with you in his heart, then you have the spirit of a Jezebel. 1 Timothy 2:9 says, “In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array;” Moms, why are we teaching our girls to be provocative in the way they dress and walk? Why do we encourage them to want to attract the opposite sex when they are so young? We are setting our girls up to fornicate. They should be pure in their hearts, thoughts, actions and dress. Their virginity belongs to their future husband, not to the boy next door or the guy at the grocery story. The Bible says in Titus 2:5 that the older women are to teach the younger women “To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.” The phrase “keepers at home” has two meanings: a person who stays at home, and a guard. Ladies, guard your daughters and the girls you are around. You set the example! Don’t be a Jezebel.

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