Three Strategies for Fighting Lust
Core Christianity
Aaron Simon
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🗓️ 27 August 2024
⏱️ 8 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, this is Pastor Adriel, and I want to share with you three strategies for fighting lust. |
| 0:13.5 | First, if you're watching this video, I want to say, God bless you, whether you're a man or a woman, |
| 0:17.9 | I'm assuming you're watching this because you're in that fight, that |
| 0:21.0 | battle against the flesh, and you want victory. You want to honor the Lord with your life, |
| 0:26.1 | with your thoughts, with the decisions that you make. It doesn't just happen if we're coasting. |
| 0:32.1 | I mean, we have to be proactive in the Christian life to put to death by the grace of the Holy |
| 0:37.2 | Spirit, the fleshly deeds of the body, |
| 0:39.6 | as the Apostle Paul says in Romans chapter 8. |
| 0:42.7 | Recently, I wrote a book on the Lord's Prayer, and I walked through each of the petitions in the |
| 0:46.8 | Lord's Prayer. |
| 0:47.3 | And later in the Lord's Prayer, Jesus taught us to pray, lead us not into temptation. |
| 0:54.0 | One of the first encouragements I want to give to you is that God is for you in the fight against lust. St. Paul said when he was writing to the Thessalonians, this is the will of God for you, your sanctification that you should abstain from sexual immorality. John tells us in First John that if we pray anything according to the will of God, God hears us and will answer those prayers. |
| 1:14.6 | And so, you know, sometimes in that fight against lust, we can feel like, man, I'm hopeless, all by myself. |
| 1:20.6 | You're not hopeless, you're not by yourself. God himself is in your corner, and he's for your sanctification. And here are three |
| 1:29.8 | strategies for fighting against lust. The first thing I would say is put your eyes in the right |
| 1:34.7 | place. Oftentimes what we find in the Bible is that temptation begins with the eyes. You think |
| 1:40.9 | of Eve there in the garden in Genesis chapter three, seeing that the tree of the knowledge of good and evil was desirable. |
| 1:47.9 | It looked good. |
| 1:49.1 | She begins to be enticed, allured by this tree that God told her not to eat from. |
| 1:55.5 | Or you think of King David in 2 Samuel chapter 11 when he's walking on the roof of his palace and he sees Bathsheba and he begins to lust after her. |
| 2:04.6 | He's in the wrong place at the wrong time. He should be out with his men fighting. |
| 2:08.6 | It's a time of war and yet he's walking around on the roof of his palace and he's looking at things he shouldn't be looking at. |
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