Purifying Your Thoughts and Combatting Lust
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Darin Starks
4.9 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 10 April 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
How do you break free from lustful thoughts and truly honor God with your mind and body? In this episode, we explore the battle against sexual immorality through a biblical lens, emphasizing how these sins can affect not only the individual but also their future lineage. We dive into key scriptures from 1 Corinthians and Romans, highlighting the importance of viewing your body as a temple of the Holy Spirit and understanding the far-reaching consequences of sexual sin, which begins in the mind.
We discuss practical strategies for purifying your thoughts, including redirecting your time and attention from lustful desires to focusing on God's will and presence. The conversation also touches on the power of self-control and fasting as tools to resist temptation, all rooted in strengthening your spiritual relationship with God. This episode is a deep dive into fulfilling God's will in holiness and purity, offering guidance on how to live a life that honors Him completely.
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| 0:00.0 | Alright, |
| 0:02.0 | what's up at your boy, D. Starks. You're now tuned in to the Justin from podcast |
| 0:05.0 | where we talk everything, faith, life, and culture. |
| 0:08.0 | I actually really want to jump straight into this conversation |
| 0:11.0 | when it comes to desexualizing your mind or rather purifying our thoughts, |
| 0:17.1 | reading ourselves of lust and just our view on how we engage with that in its totality and it's because if it's one thing I want you to take away from this entire episode is the fact that everything you do is an introduction to yourself in the generations that will come from you. |
| 0:36.3 | And I start with that because we live in a world, a culture and society that will try and suggest that sexual |
| 0:42.1 | morality of any kind is insignificant and it probably has little to no consequence. |
| 0:48.4 | But we have to realize that honestly when you indulge in sin of any kind and especially when we're speaking about that which is sexual you may be introducing something to your bloodline that was never meant to be there and it talks about this and 1st Corinthians 618 when it says flee from sexual morality all other |
| 1:07.4 | sins a person commits are outside the body but whoever sends sexually |
| 1:11.9 | sins against their own body. |
| 1:14.9 | So when we have a view of ourselves and our temple that is not honorable, doesn't hold it in |
| 1:21.9 | high regard, we may get desensitized to God in his moral |
| 1:26.1 | standard that he has for us and there's a sense of reverence that is lost |
| 1:30.0 | because we become more invested in pleasure than his presence. |
| 1:35.0 | Another verse coming from 1st Corinthians, |
| 1:39.0 | Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit |
| 1:42.0 | who is in you, whom you have received from God. |
| 1:45.0 | You are not your own. |
| 1:46.8 | You are bought at a high price, therefore honor God with your bodies. |
| 1:53.1 | And so I think this is very significant and to that first point that everything you do is |
| 1:58.3 | an introduction has really given me a different perspective on Senate's self and whenever I trespass or go against |
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