Battling Homosexual Lust

Ask Pastor John

Desiring God

John Piper, Unknown, 163859, Pastor, Ask, Theology, Desiring God, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Questions

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🗓️ 8 May 2014

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Our battles against sin are not meant to be easy or pain-free. But they can — and should — be marked by joy and filled with the promises of God.

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0:00.0	Podcast listener Adam writes and asks,
0:07.0	This, Pastor John,
0:08.3	Every morning I enter combat against homosexual lust.
0:11.8	I'm not going to lie, it's hard work.
0:13.4	In fact, I often don't want to do it.
0:15.0	I don't desire to do it.
0:16.8	In this frame of mind, I realize I'm not desiring God.
0:20.3	How does a young man like myself make such a battle,
0:23.4	a joy, rather than loan some joyless sacrifice,
0:26.8	it almost always becomes?
0:29.4	I wonder if the most helpful thing I can say to Adam is this,
0:37.4	When the battle rages,
0:42.0	It is not and never will be in and of itself a pleasant thing.
0:50.2	It's not a happy thing.
0:52.2	It's not joyful.
0:54.2	It never will be joyful.
0:56.6	And I want you to feel, Adam,
1:01.2	I want you to feel that you have millions of comrades in such sorrows.
1:08.4	I speak as one.
1:11.6	And I mean lifelong sorrows.
1:15.9	Almost all of us, sooner or later, have sorrows, battles, struggles for faith,
1:23.4	struggles for purity, struggles for love,
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