Welcome back. As you know on this podcast we cover the topic of a

lust from a variety of angles. We did so again on Monday. It's probably the category of question we get asked

about more than any other. I mean you'll see all those many ways that this

topic has come up on the podcast in that digest to put together on pages 309 to 329 in the new Ask

Pastor John book. On Monday, Pastor John in APJ 2047,

you encourage a wife to confront her husband about erotica lid that she found on his

phone and from confrontation comes conviction and repentance we hope which is part of the

lifelong discipline of killing lust within ourselves.

We must root the sin of lust from our lives and to do that we'd be helpless on our own.

We couldn't do it on our own and so we're not called to battle alone.

Most notably we have the gospel and we need the gospel here because the only sin that we can ever

purge from our lives is cancelled sin. Step one, the sin is canceled by the

blood of Christ. We're justified before God. And then step two, we purge that sin from our lives.

Can't ever get that backwards.

Send cancelled, then sin purged.

Another super important theme on the podcast over the years,

as you can see in the APJ book on page 274.

So using the gospel to purge sin is our topic today.

It's fitting because today in our Navigator's Bible reading plan, we are reading about the murder of Christ in

Mark 15, 33 to 41.

Pastor John, you have talked about the role of visualizing Christ's crucifixion in our battle against lustful thoughts.

Lust is so often a visible battle.

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