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The 7 SINS of HIGHLY defective PEOPLE

The 7 SINS of HIGHLY defective PEOPLE. Lust. Purpose of this Series:. The 7 SINS of HIGHLY defective PEOPLE. NOT Just some head knowledge BUT an awareness of sins So that: 1. We can confess it and be forgiven.

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The 7 SINS of HIGHLY defective PEOPLE

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  1. The 7 SINS of HIGHLY defective PEOPLE Lust

  2. Purpose of this Series: The 7 SINS of HIGHLY defective PEOPLE NOT Just some head knowledge BUT an awareness of sins So that: 1. We can confess it and be forgiven. 2. We can gain victory over these sins by the power of the Holy Spirit.

  3. Previously on 7 Sins The 7 SINS of HIGHLY defective PEOPLE We have looked at 4 sins: Pride = wanting to be like God, or to be God. Envy = wanting the other person not to have what I don’t have. Gluttony = wanting to feed the soul with the body’s food.

  4. Anger The 7 SINS of HIGHLY defective PEOPLE 3 Kinds of Anger Rage Resentment Righteous Indignation

  5. Lust The 7 SINS of HIGHLY defective PEOPLE Scripture Reading Proverbs 5:1-14

  6. Lust The 7 SINS of HIGHLY defective PEOPLE “PG” Sermon on Lust “Lust” in a sex crazed society. Hard being a Christian guy striving to stay pure in a visually explicit world.

  7. Lust The 7 SINS of HIGHLY defective PEOPLE Dictionary Definintion: Lust: “is a sexual craving, especially when excessive; to have inordinate desire, especially a sexual desire

  8. Lust The 7 SINS of HIGHLY defective PEOPLE Biblical Example of Lust King David and Bathsheba

  9. Lust The 7 SINS of HIGHLY defective PEOPLE 2 Samuel 11  1 In the spring, at the time when kings go off to war, David sent Joab out with the king's men and the whole Israelite army. They destroyed the Ammonites and besieged Rabbah. But David remained in Jerusalem.   2 One evening David got up from his bed and walked around on the roof of the palace. From the roof he saw a woman bathing. The woman was very beautiful, 3 and David sent someone to find out about her. The man said, "Isn't this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam and the wife of Uriah the Hittite?" 4 Then David sent messengers to get her. She came to him, and he slept with her.

  10. Lust The 7 SINS of HIGHLY defective PEOPLE Rick Ezel makes these points about Lust: 1. Lust starts in the mind “Adultery starts in the head before it reaches the bed.”p.111 The 7 Sins of Highly Defective People Satan an expert in packaging and marketing

  11. Lust The 7 SINS of HIGHLY defective PEOPLE 2. Lust treats people like objects Lust for… Lust after …. objects of our desires “Lust treats people like football players treat a football.” p.112

  12. Lust The 7 SINS of HIGHLY defective PEOPLE 3. Lust is deadly “But think about it. From where do promiscuity, rape, incest, pornography, prostitution, adultery, many unhappy marriages, and a lot of divorces come, if not from lust.?” The 7 Sins of Highly Defective People, p, 112 How Eskimos kill wolves

  13. Lust The 7 SINS of HIGHLY defective PEOPLE God calls us to Holiness: 28But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart. Matthew 5:28

  14. Lust The 7 SINS of HIGHLY defective PEOPLE 12The night is nearly over; the day is almost here. So let us put aside the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light. 13Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in orgies and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy. Romans 13:12-13

  15. Lust The 7 SINS of HIGHLY defective PEOPLE The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. I Cor. 6:13 18Flee from sexual immorality. I Cor. 6:18

  16. Lust The 7 SINS of HIGHLY defective PEOPLE 16So I say, live by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the sinful nature.  19The acts of the sinful nature are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; Galatians 5:16,19

  17. Lust The 7 SINS of HIGHLY defective PEOPLE  3It is God's will that you should be sanctified: that you should avoid sexual immorality; 4that each of you should learn to control his own body in a way that is holy and honorable, 5not in passionate lust like the heathen, who do not know God; 7For God did not call us to be impure, but to live a holy life. I Thessalonians 4:3-5,7

  18. Overcoming Lust The 7 SINS of HIGHLY defective PEOPLE 13Therefore, prepare your minds for action; be self-controlled; set your hope fully on the grace to be given you when Jesus Christ is revealed. 14As obedient children, do not conform to the evil desires you had when you lived in ignorance. 15But just as he who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do; 16for it is written: "Be holy, because I am holy." I Peter 1:13-16

  19. Overcoming Lust The 7 SINS of HIGHLY defective PEOPLE 13Therefore, prepare your minds for action; be self-controlled; set your hope fully on the grace to be given you when Jesus Christ is revealed. 1. Prepare your Mind You are in a battle

  20. Overcoming Lust The 7 SINS of HIGHLY defective PEOPLE 13Therefore, prepare your minds for action; be self-controlled; set your hope fully on the grace to be given you when Jesus Christ is revealed. 2. Be self Controlled Control your eyes and your mind

  21. Overcoming Lust The 7 SINS of HIGHLY defective PEOPLE Job 31:1  1 "I made a covenant with my eyes        not to look lustfully at a girl.”

  22. Overcoming Lust The 7 SINS of HIGHLY defective PEOPLE 13Therefore, prepare your minds for action; be self-controlled; set your hope fully on the grace to be given you when Jesus Christ is revealed. 3. Set your Hope on the grace of Christ

  23. Overcoming Lust The 7 SINS of HIGHLY defective PEOPLE •  8Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. 9For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, he cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over him. 10The death he died, he died to sin once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God.

  24. Overcoming Lust The 7 SINS of HIGHLY defective PEOPLE  11In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus. 12Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires. 13Do not offer the parts of your body to sin, as instruments of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God, as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer the parts of your body to him as instruments of righteousness. 14For sin shall not be your master, because you are not under law, but under grace.

  25. Overcoming Lust The 7 SINS of HIGHLY defective PEOPLE II Peter 1:3-4 3His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness. 4Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature and escape the corruption in the world caused by evil desires.

  26. Overcoming Lust The 7 SINS of HIGHLY defective PEOPLE Consider reading Stephen Arterburn and Fred Stoeker’s Everyman’s Battle

  27. Overcoming Lust The 7 SINS of HIGHLY defective PEOPLE Holiness does not happen over night. But it begins with a decision to choose the path of holiness. It continues through God’s help.

  28. Overcoming Lust The 7 SINS of HIGHLY defective PEOPLE Are you walking in holiness?

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