Love and Lust - Timothy Keller [Sermon] 

What portion of the Writings are you specifically talking about dale?

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You mistakenly think that because something is written about in Scripture that God approves of them.

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@@cherfit1 Amen brother.

Kathy12Ray tough subject everyone avoids. Thank you for this. I wish I heard it years ago. I used to feel as if I was auditioning.

Thank you!

Want Jesus more than you want a spouse

@@evewriiight amen sister. seek first the kingdom of God, and everything else will follow :)

Precious is the perfect word in our current culture. This needs to blow up.

Amen ❤️🙏🏻

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Same. in this sense, sexual idolatry will continue to happen even within marriage...

In 4 years since you posted this...how's that working out for you?

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For real.

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Indeed, God is good.

Flora Eason Hey! I would reach the redeemed Presbyterian church in NY he was the senior pastor until June 2017. God bless you!

Redeemer Presbyterian east 69th.street between park and Lexington,inside Hunter college I believe the office is.sunday night service's are held in Hunter college auditorium.

i repented of lust and sexual sin with a truly sorrowful heart. then i commanded the spirits of lust and perversion to leave me in Jesus name until I felt a change. I knew they were gone when I no longer felt lustful. If I felt overwhelmed, then they weren't all gone. So I kicked them all out. And I stopped listening to all non-Christian music and stopped opening my eyes to any media that contains sex scenes in order to keep my deliverance. doing all this makes celibacy possible - you still have to be wise. but it's much easier without being oppressed by the spirit of lust that is in most Christians today (and everyone else).

I'd say to make sure you are saturated with things of God. Listen to podcasts about Him, watch sermons, read books. Pray intentionally and don't stop reading the Bible. When you're filled with things of God, it doesn't leave enough room for the perverted desires of the world to distract you. Apart from this, you need to have someone who will hold you accountable. Someone you can be completely honest with, and that will strengthen you when you feel your self control wavering. Also make sure to avoid all temptation. Get rid of every possible distraction. When it comes to sexual sin, you're not called to stand your ground and fight, no, you're meant to flee from it. It shouldn't be about 'how far close to the line can I get, where it's not technically a sin', it's about how far away from the line you can walk. So cancel all the meetings with people you know will tempt you, stop texting people who try to push your boundaries and make sure you have a deep and solid understanding of the value of sex in marriage. It's worth waiting for. It's definitely not easy, but it's worship

Anyone can become saved, being married or anything you’ve done in the past can’t change that

Through the gospel, self-denial and fighting for joy in God, it is possible. Because the power that comes to make the persons new creations will transform the relationship itself.

+jess robert You bring up some good points, and I can see where the frustration and anger can come from, but if I understand you correctly there is an underlying assumption: if we're bad we go to hell, if we're good we go to heaven. Under that assumption, yes you're right, that is unfair. But, let me just say, that's decidedly false according to the basic teachings of Christianity... and anybody who has presented that to you is using Christianity to control people or is regurgitating something taught to them by somebody trying to control them. The truth is: all have fallen short. We're not good enough and underneath all the bluster and positive affirmation, deep down we do kinda believe we're blowing it. That's something common across all religions (as C.S. Lewis pointed out in the Abolition of Man) and there are many different disciplines to handle it: the eightfold path, praying five times a day to Mecca, purification rites and rituals, becoming clear of thetans, positive thoughts, the list is long and ever growing. But what Christianity says is that those things are a hopeless cause. We're incapable of getting better. So having sex or not having sex isn't making things better or worse for any of us: we're all doomed anyway. But Christ, in his love, came down to fix things for us - at the cost of his own life. For any who might object, remember what Paul said in Galatians 2: if we could save ourselves by our own means, then Christ's death was a waste. What happens after accepting what Christ has done, that's where things can get sticky and people get hung up on. My comment is long enough as it is, so I'll only say: there is much advantage to following the original design and intention God had when he created us, but the whole "zomg you had sex therefore you're going to hell" thing is just false. We were all destined for hell already.

As I have come to understand we can have desires and thoughts all of these things can be used in purity or for sin.. We have natural God given desires which are meant to bring us into Gods will for our lives.. Romans 6:12-1421st Century King James Version (KJ21)12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof. 13 Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin, but yield yourselves unto God as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God. 14 For sin shall not have dominion over you, for ye are not under the law, but under grace. 1 Corinthians 7:9 …8 Now to the unmarried and widows I say this: It is good for them to remain unmarried, as I am. 9 But if they cannot control themselves, let them marry. For it is better to marry than to burn with passion. 10 To the married I give this command (not I, but the Lord): A wife must not separate from her husband.… In this instance as Daniel has said God is giving the way of escape to merry. In the case you may feel well I don't have a husband/ wife, well God will meet all our needs according to His riches in glory. Genesis 2:1821st Century King James Version (KJ21) 18 And the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper meet for him.” Let us remember that all that we have can be used for good or evil we have through Christ the power and presence of God at our disposal to keep us from sin and to uphold righteousness. Galatians 5:23 gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no Law. 24 Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. 25 Since we live by the Spirit, let us walk in step with the Spirit.… Galatians 5:19-2121st Century King James Version (KJ21) 19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, and they are these: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,20 idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, quarreling, rivalry, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, 21 envying, murders, drunkenness, revelings, and such like. About these things I tell you again, as I have also told you in times past, that those who do such things shall not inherit the Kingdom of God. Remember that under grace under Christ you are not under the law or the power of sin you are in the covenant with Christ partaker of the divine nature 2 peter 1 2-5 Galatians 5:22 May God bless you with these words..

It doesn't mean to burn as in burn in hell but to burn in yourself with passion My friend you are not ugly and that person Lord willing that God has for you will allow that person to see the beauty of who you are and what you have to give them in a marriage covenant. The world says it cant be done you are to this or that and you were these labels that the world is giving you. Your ugly/your poor/ your fill in the blank.. God says you were fearfully and wonderfully made. 39 Not all flesh is the same: Men have one kind of flesh, animals have another, birds another, and fish another. 40 There are also heavenly bodies and earthly bodies. But the splendor of the heavenly bodies is of one degree, and the splendor of the earthly bodies is of another. 41 The sun has one degree of splendor, the moon another, and the stars another; and star differs from star in splendor. This means you have a God given splendor that can be developed within your relationship with God. I encourage you to tap into God and you will be amazed with what God can do.

nothing we are presented with in life is something that we can't weather. we don't find true happiness in sex just as we don't find true happiness in drugs or money. Make Jesus Christ and yearning for him your new drug. Sex feels good because it was meant to be a good thing between a married couple, but they are not doing it only for their own pleasure they are doing it for each others as well as the purpose for which it is created: to bear another human life.

OldManWilkins most people use sex for reasons outside of sexual desire, but as a means to assert power over others or to resolve insecurity.

Definitely not easy. I understand that you want to hold on to that one. There's nobody who will condemn you. Just wait till you get older...

Such a Christ led insight..... The Lord is faithful and unchanging.... When we trust in his word and pray by the spirit into the spirit for our spirit.... God truly changes the condition and constitution of the human heart.... Deny yourself and trust in the Lord....