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Lust, Desires And Imagination
Week 4
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Topic(s): Lust, Desires, Safeguard, Conception
Big Idea of the Message: Taking what God has called good and beautiful and feeling the need to claim it as personal property is lusting.
While we ought not be fearful of the good and beautiful, we must learn to see people and things as God sees them.
Application Point: Flirting with lust always plants the seed of sin, and sin always brings forth death.
Sermon:
Intro:
You’ve heard the saying “Oh, he fell hook, line, and sinker for that one.”
It means that the person not only fell for a joke, or whatever it may be, but they fell embarrassingly hard for it.
This is Satans plan for each of us
When we come out of the womb, we come out heading for our own destruction.
Our nature in the flesh is sinful
(NLT): 2:1 Once you were dead because of your disobedience and your many sins.
You used to live in sin, just like the rest of the world, obeying the devil—the commander of the powers in the unseen world.
You used to live in sin, just like the rest of the world, obeying the devil—the commander of the powers in the unseen world.
He is the spirit at work in the hearts of those who refuse to obey God.
He is the spirit at work in the hearts of those who refuse to obey God.
All of us used to live that way, following the passionate desires and inclinations of our sinful nature.
By our very nature we were subject to God’s anger, just like everyone else.
Have you heard, “Boys will be boys” or “That’s just the way he is”?
The world and the flesh make excuses for a certain kind of behavior.
But the reality is that the behavior is merely a display of a rotten heart.
However, as children of God,
we have been made alive ()
and have been made into a new creation (),
no longer a slave to our sin ()—
no longer having to fall hook, line, and sinker for every sin that arises.
no longer having to fall hook, line, and sinker for every sin that arises.
1. Lust.
Another place we may flirt with disaster is in the area of lust.
Lust is defined as “a strong sexual desire, a passionate desire for something, a sensuous appetite regarded as sinful”
Let me clarify...
Having desires is not bad.
That’s a natural part of being human.
As a matter of fact, without sexual desire, procreation would come to a standstill.
Sexual desires, like all desires, must be filtered with the truth of God’s Word.
For example, sex is good, but it’s bad outside of boundaries of marriage ().
It is when people claim their autonomy and attempt to define truth for themselves that they create a mess and flirt with disaster.
Because lust is
A. Deceitful,
B. Foolish and Harmful, 1 Tim 6:8-9
C. Corrupt 2 Peter 2:10
D. Controlling Rom 6:11-12
A. Deceitful
(NLT): 22 throw off your old sinful nature and your former way of life, which is corrupted by lust and deception
B. Foolish and harmful
(NLT): 9 But people who long to be rich fall into temptation and are trapped by many foolish and harmful desires that plunge them into ruin and destruction
C. Corrupt
(NLT): 10 He is especially hard on those who follow their own twisted sexual desire, and who despise authority.
D. Controlling
(NLT): 12 Do not let sin control the way you live; do not give in to sinful desires
Application Point: Flirting with lust always plants the seed of sin, and sin always brings forth death.
One of the gateways and trap doors to this is our next point..
One of the gateways and trap doors to this is our next point..
2. Imagination.
I traced 29 Biblical references to “imagination” in the Word of God.
Only 1 of the 29 was POSITIVE....What does that tell you?
Imagination:
Every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually ()
...the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth ()...I walk in the imagination of my heart ()
Your most powerful sex organ will always be your MIND.
There is no more powerful ADDICTION than that of the mind.
This is the real battle of any victim of lust.
The person’s body is always secondary.
The monkey of the mind is far worse than the monkey on the back.
Fantasy is dangerous because it can be so very simple.
It demands no partners, nosocial skills, nor any friends.
You need no connection point, but only some secret form of media.
The fantasy of the mind finds its fixes on the internet, in a magazine, a book, a movie, a song...but mostly,the raging images of the secret mind
Thats why The Bible tells us,
, “Casting down imaginations...and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ.”
, “Set your minds on the things above rather than earthly things.”
, “Love what is pure; hate what is evil; cling to what is good.”
IMAGINATION can be one of God’s greatest tools in your life.
That’s why the Enemy comes after it so hard in our daily lives.
How long has it been since you have said, “Lord, I want to DREAM Your kind of dreams for my life!”
we need to be proactive in setting up boundaries that protect our purity.
Which brings us to point 3
3.
Accountability
Solomon tells us in Ecclesiastes4:9–12 that accountability is a great safeguard.
In what ways can you be accountable, in order to ensure you don’t set yourself up for failure?
For one, it’s probably good that you have filters on your internet.
Because Like it or not, you are quite possibly getting a “BRAIN MAKEOVER.”
Dr. Judith Reisman: “Thanks to the latest advances in neuroscience, we now know that pornographic visual images IMPRINT and ALTER THE BRAIN, triggering an instant, involuntary, but lasting biochemical memory trail.
This is true of “soft-core” as well as “hard-core” pornography.
And once new neuro-chemical pathways are established, they are difficult if not impossible to delete.”
How does this “brain sabotage” occur?
Scientists tell us that in 3/10 of a second a visual image passes from the eye through the brain.
The brain then is STRUCTURALLY CHANGED and memories are created.
We literally “re-grow a new brain” with each visual experience we involve ourselves in.
BLUNT REALITIES:
21% of all total web sites are pornographic.
25% of all search engine requests are for pornographic materials.
$57 billion per year is now spent in America on pornography.
That’s billion with a B
That’s 1000, millions
A millions seconds ago was 11d, 13hr, 48min and 40sec X57 =1.8years ago
A Billion sec ago was 31.5yrs
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