What are we here for?
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1. Why are we Here?
1. Why are we Here?
Of course you are going to Sunday School me and say, “to get close to God!”
Of course you are going to Sunday School me and say, “to get close to God!”
I would now ask, What does that mean to you?
I would now ask, What does that mean to you?
take answers: (those are all good answers)
What does that mean to God?
What does that mean to God?
let’s look at drawing close to God.
let’s look at drawing close to God.
1 Where do wars and fights come from among you? Do they not come from your desires for pleasure that war in your members? 2 You lust and do not have. You murder and covet and cannot obtain. You fight and war. Yet you do not have because you do not ask. 3 You ask and do not receive, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your pleasures. 4 Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. 5 Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, “The Spirit who dwells in us yearns jealously”? 6 But He gives more grace. Therefore He says: “God resists the proud, But gives grace to the humble.” 7 Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you. 8 Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
1. The condition of the flesh is unrest.
1. The condition of the flesh is unrest.
1 Where do wars and fights come from among you? Do they not come from your desires for pleasure that war in your members? 2 You lust and do not have. You murder and covet and cannot obtain. You fight and war. Yet you do not have because you do not ask.
Okay, First note the phrase ‘From among you’ this means to lust has been a part of the spiritual world for a long time.
As men we learn to lust early. our first lust is USUALLY not ALWAYS not even sexual.
we often lust after a toy or bike or something that will be fun or make us cool.
1lust \ˈləst\ noun
[Middle English, from Old English; akin to Old High German lust pleasure and perhaps to Latin lascivus wanton] before 12th century
1 obsolete
a: PLEASURE, DELIGHT
b: personal inclination: WISH
2: usually intense or unbridled sexual desire: LASCIVIOUSNESS
3 a: an intense longing: CRAVING 〈a lust to succeed〉
b: ENTHUSIASM, EAGERNESS 〈admired his lust for life〉
2lust verb intransitive
12th century: to have an intense desire or need: CRAVE specifically: to have a sexual urge
Inc Merriam-Webster, Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary. (Springfield, MA: Merriam-Webster, Inc., 2003).
We are made to crave.
the crave that we where made for was purpose, we where made to worship.
worship is not limited to what happens during to songs at church.
what we do this weekend with our brothers in fishing and shooting corn-hole or whatever else it is we do in our leisure time.