fighting lust on this edition of Truth and Love.

I'm Heath Lambert and you're listening to Truth and Love, a podcast of the Association

of Certified Biblical Counselors, where we seek to provide biblical solutions for the

problems that people face.

Last week on the podcast, we talked about temptation to sin and the internalization of desire.

And one of the examples that I used throughout the podcast was that of lust, sexual lust, sinful, sexual desire. And I did not want to just address the

issue of temptation and lust merely academically as though that's all it is, but I wanted to deal

with it pastorally and practically. And so on this edition of

truth and love, we're talking about not just the sinfulness of an internalized sinful desire,

but how to fight it. And I want to speak to you very personally. We have people listening to

the Truth and Love podcast all over the United States and in more than 50 countries.

I know that in every one of those places, there are people who are struggling with lust, and there are some people who are struggling with lust right now.

And so I just want to speak to you with a great deal of urgency and even very personally about how you could address this

problem in your life if you're struggling. The first thing I want you to do is to think about

memorizing scripture. In Psalm 119 verses 9 to 10, it says, how can a young man keep his way

pure? By keeping it according to your word, with all my

heart I have sought you. Do not let me wonder from your commandments. This is written by somebody who is

interested in keeping their way pure, and they know the way to do that is through the word of God.

The word of God is a weapon for you to take up in the war

against sexual immorality and lust. You can fight lust by memorizing the Word of God.

If you're looking for verses to memorize, this is a good place to start,

but you also might want to think about verses in Scripture that have specifically to do with the

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