Be Honest 

In Matthew 5:28, Jesus says, “Everyone who looks on a woman to lust after her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.” We need to go to God for deliverance from this, and the first step is to be honest. If you got angry, be honest. Go to the person you wronged and say, “Brother, I'm sorry. I am sorry for the way I spoke to you,” and if you sinned ten times a day in anger, go ten times to that person and say you're sorry. If God sees you’re honest and you’re humble, He will give you the power to be free from it.

But if you cover up, make an excuse, and try to justify your anger, you will never be free. The only time you are justified in anger is when it concerns the glory of God, not when it concerns yourself.

When it comes to lusting after women, you are never justified. You can look at your wife and admire her, but not any other woman. That's not God's will. God says you have to be radical here. First of all, you have to be honest and say, “Lord, I committed adultery.” Don't ever say, “I admired a beautiful face.” Instead, say, “I committed adultery.”

If you are honest, God will deliver you.

Be Radical 

The other thing is you must do is be radical. The Bible says, “Flee from immorality” (1 Corinthians 6:18). If you are at the computer and you're tempted, either run away from it or turn it off and say, “Lord I don't care what I miss, but I don't want to fall here.” When Jesus says, “If your right eye makes you stumble, tear it out,” He is not telling us to physically pull out our right eye. That's obvious because you can still lust with the left eye. The meaning is that you must take a radical attitude towards sin, a radical attitude towards your tongue and your eyes.

Be like a blind and dumb man at that time when you are tempted. Can a dumb man raise his voice and shout at someone? Can a blind man lust? No. Be like a blind man and say, “Lord, You didn’t give me eyes to lust after women. You gave me eyes to see Your glory.” Jesus says that if you don't do that, you might preserve the physical parts of your body, but you’ll still be thrown into Hell. It is better for you lose one part of your body (i.e., voluntarily refusing sinful pleasure that your physical body craves for) and go into God's kingdom.

In the same way, Jesus says, “If you sin sexually with your right hand, and that makes you stumble, cut it off” (Matthew 5:30). Imagine that you have an amputated hand and that you can’t sin with your right hand or left hand. Jesus was very down to earth and practical. Jesus tells you to act as if you're blind, as if you’re amputated, because sin is very serious. If we take such a radical attitude, I believe God will help us to be completely free, and we will have better marriages as well. Don't think marriage will solve the problem of lust. There are lots of married people who fall into adultery in their thoughts all the time. Every day there are many married people who watch internet pornography. Marriage doesn't solve that problem because it's an inner desire. If you don't battle it in the power of the Holy Spirit, you'll be defeated, and you’ll delude yourself all your life that you're a spiritual Christian when you're not.

Is this some postgraduate level of Christianity that Jesus is speaking about? No, He's just talking about how to escape Hell. Escaping Hell is not postgraduate Christian material. It is elementary. Jesus says that it's better for your body part to perish than for your whole body to be thrown into Hell. Salvation from Hell is the bare minimum, and this is what Jesus wants us to teach every disciple in every nation. How much is this being taught? Hardly at all, and that is why I have been commissioned by the Lord personally in my own ministry to keep emphasizing it.