Sermons About Lust
House Rules Part 3
If you are even a casual student of scripture, you will find that there are just some verses and commands in the Bible that just seem...well...hard. There are just some verses that seem practically impossible to obey and some almost don't even make sense. We look at them and think, "Well God, you will just have to do that in me if you want me to do that because I don't see that happening. For example: - Luke 14:26 "If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple. o Are you kidding me? Why would I hate my parents? - Matthew 5:39 But I say to you, Do not resist the one who is evil. But if anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also. o We devise elaborate explanations about why we don't to obey this one. - Philippians 2:3 Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. o We hear that and think, "Yeah, but there are few people that I know I am better than." There are always good, practical theological explanations for these verses, but when it comes down to it, obeying them is just flat out hard Here is thing. When we hear those verses and we think, "God is just going to have to do that if He wants me to obey," we are actually thinking correctly. We often fall into the mistake of thinking all the other verses in the Bible are easily within our grasp. If that was the case, Jesus surely didn't need to die. I Corinthians 15 makes it clear that Jesus' death on the cross was for the payment of our sin and His resurrection was for our new life. The only reason you and I can obey with a desire to glorify God is because Jesus' enables us to now. Otherwise we would be the dead men we've always been. You know there is an old hymn that sings, "I was sinking deep in sin/far from the peaceful shore." That hymn though sweet is completely wrong. We aren't sinking deep in sin; we are dead in our sin. The hymn really should sing, "I was lying dead in sin on the bottom of the ocean floor." If we are going to obey any verse, hard or not, it is because the Spirit helps us to obey. We don't discount the hard work obedience is, but as soon as we get away from dependence on God for that obedience, we have become lazy in our walk with Christ despite the contrary. Well this week in the book of 1 John, we are going look at one of these hard, nearly impossible passages of scripture. We want to pursue it well and understand its application for us, and then we want to ask our God to help us to obey.
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Discipleship, Desire, and Love
Pastor Jeff looks at Jesus' challenging words regarding adultery and sexual sin. While lustful desire treats individuals as objects, desire shaped by love treats individuals as fellow human beings created in the image of God.
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Sexuality At The Speed Of Life
It could be said that most people outside the church believe the Christian view of sex to be: If you aren't married, don't do it & if you are married, do it all the time. Unfortunately this generalization doesn't really help anyone understand sexuality as God intended. In this message, Jed explains how our sexuality is a gift from God and he helps us understand the plan God has for sex.
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Those We Don't Speak Of: Pornography
Some subjects aren't easy to talk about. Ignoring, concealing or pretending they don't exist will only make things worse. Join us in October as we discover what God's word says about critical issues that many would rather keep hidden behind closed doors. In this message Paul Wingfield addresses the issue of pornography.
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Sex
God’s Blessing of my marriage and money depends on My Obedience “Be strong and very courageous… Study this Book… Meditate on it… be sure to obey all that is written in it. Only then will you succeed.†joshua1/7>8nlt
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Sex In The City
In response to the pervasive culture of sex in San Diego, the Bible calls you to understand that this culture is produced and fostered by lust and selfishness. The Bible also offers freedom by calling people to live in love and light. This life brings freedom to individual people and to the culture itself.
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Sin Is No Big Deal
Mythbusters is a six week series which debunks common misconceptions about living the Christian life by examining what Jesus taught during the Sermon on the Mount. The text for this series is Matthew 5-7. "Sin Is No Big Deal" is the second sermon in this series preached by Paul Wingfield, Lead Pastor at South Telegraph Christian Church.
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