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Purpose of this Purpose of this Series:Series:

NOT Just some head knowledgeNOT Just some head knowledge

BUT an awareness of sinsBUT an awareness of sins

So that:So that:

1. We can confess it and be forgiven.1. We can confess it and be forgiven.

2. We can gain victory over these sins 2. We can gain victory over these sins by the power of the Holy Spirit.by the power of the Holy Spirit.

Previously on 7 Previously on 7 SinsSins

We have looked at 4 sins:We have looked at 4 sins:

PridePride= wanting to be like God, or to be = wanting to be like God, or to be God. God.

EnvyEnvy = wanting the other person not to = wanting the other person not to have what I don’t have.have what I don’t have.

GluttonyGluttony = wanting to feed the soul with the = wanting to feed the soul with the

body’s food.body’s food.

AngerAnger

3 Kinds of Anger

RageResentment

Righteous Indignation

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Scripture ReadingScripture Reading

Proverbs 5:1-14Proverbs 5:1-14

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“PG” Sermon on Lust

“Lust” in a sex crazed society.

Hard being a Christian guy striving to stay pure in a visually explicit world.

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Dictionary Definintion:Lust:

“is a sexual craving, especially when excessive; to have

inordinate desire, especially a sexual desire

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Biblical Example of Lust

King David and Bathsheba

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2 Samuel 11 1 In the spring, at the time when kings go off

to war, David sent Joab out with the king's men and the whole Israelite army. They destroyed the Ammonites and besieged Rabbah. But David remained in Jerusalem.  

2 One evening David got up from his bed and walked around on the roof of the palace. From the roof he saw a woman bathing. The woman was very beautiful, 3 and David sent someone to find out about her. The man said, "Isn't this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam and the wife of Uriah the Hittite?" 4 Then David sent messengers to get her. She came to him, and he slept with her.

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Rick Ezel makes these points about Lust:

1. Lust starts in the mind

“Adultery starts in the head before it reaches the bed.” p.111 The 7 Sins of Highly Defective People

Satan an expert in packaging and marketing

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2. Lust treats people like objects

Lust for… Lust after ….objects of our desires

“Lust treats people like football players treat a football.” p.112

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3. Lust is deadly“But think about it. From where do

promiscuity, rape, incest, pornography, prostitution, adultery,

many unhappy marriages, and a lot of divorces come, if not from lust.?”

The 7 Sins of Highly Defective People, p, 112

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God calls us to Holiness:

28But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has

already committed adultery with her in his heart. Matthew 5:28 Matthew 5:28

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12The night is nearly over; the day is almost here. So let us put aside the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light. 13Let us behave

decently, as in the daytime, not in orgies and drunkenness, not in

sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy.

Romans 13:12-13Romans 13:12-13

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The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. I Cor. 6:13 I Cor. 6:13

  18Flee from sexual immorality.18Flee from sexual immorality.

I Cor. 6:18I Cor. 6:18

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16So I say, live by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the sinful nature.  19The acts of the sinful nature are obvious:

sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery;

Galatians 5:16,19

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 3It is God's will that you should be sanctified: that you should avoid sexual immorality; 4that each of

you should learn to control his own body in a way that is holy and

honorable, 5not in passionate lust like the heathen, who do not know God; 7For God did not call us to be

impure, but to live a holy life. I I Thessalonians 4:3-5,7Thessalonians 4:3-5,7

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13Therefore, prepare your minds for 13Therefore, prepare your minds for action; be self-controlled; set your action; be self-controlled; set your

hope fully on the grace to be given you hope fully on the grace to be given you when Jesus Christ is revealed. 14As when Jesus Christ is revealed. 14As

obedient children, do not conform to obedient children, do not conform to the evil desires you had when you lived the evil desires you had when you lived

in ignorance. 15But just as he who in ignorance. 15But just as he who called you is holy, so be holy in all you called you is holy, so be holy in all you

do; 16for it is written: "Be holy, do; 16for it is written: "Be holy, because I am holy."because I am holy." I Peter 1:13-16 I Peter 1:13-16

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13Therefore, prepare your minds for 13Therefore, prepare your minds for action; be self-controlled; set your action; be self-controlled; set your hope fully on the grace to be given hope fully on the grace to be given you when Jesus Christ is revealed.you when Jesus Christ is revealed.

1. Prepare your MindYou are in a battle

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13Therefore, prepare your minds for 13Therefore, prepare your minds for action; be self-controlled; set your action; be self-controlled; set your hope fully on the grace to be given hope fully on the grace to be given you when Jesus Christ is revealed.you when Jesus Christ is revealed.

2. Be self ControlledControl your eyes and your mind

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Job 31:1

 1 "I made a covenant with my eyes        not to look lustfully at a girl.””

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13Therefore, prepare your minds for 13Therefore, prepare your minds for action; be self-controlled; set your action; be self-controlled; set your hope fully on the grace to be given you hope fully on the grace to be given you when Jesus Christ is revealed.when Jesus Christ is revealed.

3. Set your Hope on the grace of Christ

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 8Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. 9For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, he cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over him. 10The death he died, he died to sin once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God.

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 11In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus.

12Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil

desires. 13Do not offer the parts of your body to sin, as instruments of

wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God, as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer the parts of

your body to him as instruments of righteousness. 14For sin shall not be

your master, because you are not under law, but under grace.

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II Peter 1:3-43His divine power has given us everything we need for life and

godliness through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness. 4Through these he has given

us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature

and escape the corruption in the world caused by evil desires.

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Consider reading

Stephen Arterburn and Fred Stoeker’s Everyman’s

Battle

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Holiness does not happen over night.

But it begins with a decision to choose the path of holiness.

It continues through God’s help.

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Are you walking in holiness?