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Messages by Desiring God

How Does It Work Against Sin?

Messages by Desiring God

Desiring God

Christianity, Messages, Sermons, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Preaching, Desiring God, 163859, Religion & Spirituality, John Piper

4.71.7K Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2006

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

John Piper | If lust is left unchecked, it will choke the life from your soul. But God has given us great and precious promises that far surpass anything sexual pleasure has to offer.

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0:00.0

Let's go to lust.

0:02.0

It's big.

0:04.0

Some people think men are the issue here.

0:08.0

That is, men struggle with this.

0:10.0

I have had enough women approach me in their candor

0:15.0

and talk about the issue that I don't make that assumption anymore.

0:19.0

What did we read?

0:22.9

I forget the percentage.

0:30.2

30% of internet pornography is viewed by women.

0:38.3

Maybe curiosity, you know, instead of men's kind of looking, but maybe not. Maybe not.

0:40.3

Women's imaginations are different than men's imaginations.

0:45.3

Harlequin romance novels are not the same as Playboy,

0:51.3

but they function the same.

0:59.2

It's just more relational, more contextual, more holistic.

1:05.7

Women's lusts are not as visceral and immediate and visual, but relational and situational and dream and hope oriented.

1:12.9

We're pretty different folks, but sin in this lusting thing can defeat both kinds of human being.

1:24.4

Here's my definition of lust.

1:27.5

Pursuing illicit thoughts or images, illicit, inappropriate, wrong, thoughts or images,

1:35.1

thoughts or images in the mind, so I mean women and men have your own ways of doing it,

1:41.0

in the mind, with a view to stimulating sexual pleasures or with or without

1:49.2

external stimuli you can do it in here you don't see or touch or be around anything or you can be

1:56.8

looking at a person or internet or whatever.

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