SDS #2: LUST TRANSFORMED INTO COVENANT LOVE
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Series booklet Acronym: EGG SLAP Last week: pride transformed into humility What is sin? Greek hamartia “miss the mark”
1. PLUMBING THE DEPTHS OF LUST
Lat. Luxuria = extravagance, decadence“This is not the stability of a flourishing, resilient
society. It’s the peace of a decadent one.” R Douthat
Scripture:1Jn 2:16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the
flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
Solomon: Prov 5:1-23; 6:20-35; 7:1-27…espec. 6:27-29 + 32-33
Jesus: Mt 5:27-30
1. PLUMBING THE DEPTHS OF LUST
Lat. Luxuria = extravagance, decadence Scripture C.S. Lewis, Screwtape Letters
“I’ve always admitted that I am ruled by my passions.” Elizabeth Taylor
Casting Crowns: “It’s a slow fade”
2. OVERCOMING LUST THROUGH COVENANT LOVE & FAITHFULNESS
1Thess 4:1-5; 5:23 / p. 1171“Sanctification” = practical holiness, letting the Holy Spirit completely control your lifeApproach 1: Proactive & Preventive
www.covenanteyes.com Approach 2: Reactive & Therapeutic
2. OVERCOMING LUST THROUGH COVENANT LOVE & FAITHFULNESS
Def. LUST is the misuse of sex for personal gratification, debasing it from the holy purpose for which God has given it to us. Unchastity. Violation of the Bible’s marriage laws. Lack of consideration for one’s partner in the use of the marital relationship. Refusal to fulfill the purpose of marriage in the bringing forth and giving adequate care to children, or to take our full share in the responsibilities or work involved.
2. OVERCOMING LUST THROUGH COVENANT LOVE & FAITHFULNESS
Unfaithfulness to one’s spouse. Sexual indulgence outside marriage, in thought or act, alone or with others. Immodesty. Stimulation of sexual desire in others by word, dress, or actions; or in one’s self by reading, pictures, or fantasies. Collecting or recounting dirty stories.
2. OVERCOMING LUST THROUGH COVENANT LOVE & FAITHFULNESS
Prudery. Fear of sex or condemnation of it as evil in itself. Refusal to seek adequate sexual instruction or the attempt to prevent others from obtaining it. Stimulation of excessive and harmful curiosity by undue secrecy. Repression of sex. Cruelty. Deliberate infliction of pain, mental or physical. Tormenting of animals.
2. OVERCOMING LUST THROUGH COVENANT LOVE & FAITHFULNESS
1Thess 4:1-5; 5:23 / p. 1171“Sanctification” = letting the Holy Spirit completely control your lifeApproach 1: Proactive & PreventiveApproach 2: Reactive & TherapeuticApproach 3: Strategic
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