Here’s How To Defeat Lust (EP 205)
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What personal battle with lust does the speaker share?
i was addicted to pornography from the fifth grade until i was 17 years old and this was a private battle a shameful battle a guilty battle and one that i feel like a lot of you guys may be fighting right now lust is something that buries you it makes you feel shameful it makes you feel awful i don't think people talk about it a lot honestly i'm not coming at you from the outside i was someone that was once within this battle that felt like a never-ending shackle to sin And so today I kind of wanted to open up and talk about what lust is, what the Bible says about it, and how we can conquer it. You see, lust is an unrestrained craving for sexual intimacy or a sexual desire. This whole idea of what is love?
Well, in today's society, the movies push love as being sex, as how many women or men you can sleep with, about that intimate bonding between a male and a female that you have in the bedroom. You know, dating used to be a euphemism 130 years ago for a sexual favor, and it's no coincidence that Satan wants to use sexual sin to pull you further away from the heart of God to make you think that's what love is. and not this. Now, lust as a broad term can be associated with a lust for this thing or a lust for that thing. But when we think of lust, we think of it in the context of sexual immorality. And I'm frequently reminded of what Jesus says in Matthew chapter 5 about sexual immorality. Jesus talks about sexual sin in Matthew chapter 5, verse 27, by saying, "...you have heard it said..."
you shall not commit adultery. One of the 10 commandments. And this is so important because Jesus is about to change the perspective. He says, but I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart. Jesus now takes lust from being a physical act to a heart issue. And that's exactly what Job is referencing in Job 31 verse 1 when he's like, look, I've made a covenant with my eyes. Because Job had no idea why the suffering around him was happening. And he's like, look, God, I've made a covenant with my eyes. I ain't looking at other women lustfully. I ain't looking at my options right now. And you know, let me level with you really quick.
One of the reasons why I feel like lust is such a prominent sin and glorified sin in today's society and something that I feel like everyone struggles with universally is because at our fingertips through social media, we have an influx of options An influx of personalities. We get to like build our bear online. We get to have our own build a bear online when we look at, oh, I like this. I like that. Oh, I like that body type. Oh, I like this. Oh, you got to be hot. You got to have this kind of hairstyle. You got to have these kind of eyes. And this influx at our fingertips of options has caused our hearts to become deceitful. You know what's so crazy is that what I thought a while ago, you know, before I was a believer, you know, when I was 16 and 15, really struggling with sexual sin, I was just like, man, like I have this desire to do sexual things so bad and I've never had sex before.
And I'm like, where does this come from? You know, people don't think when you see a pastor online and a pastor cheats on his wife, you know, a pastor doesn't just wake up one day and go, oh my gosh, I feel like blowing my whole life up. A pastor doesn't just wake up and go, yeah, I feel like ruining my whole life right now. Actually, James chapter 1 verse 14 gives us the spiritual backbone of how sin births in our lives. Hear what he says. He says, but each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire. Then desire, when it is conceived, gives birth to sin, and sin, when it is fully grown, brings forth death. Here's the reality, is that you don't just wake up one day and think of doing something crazy and blowing your whole life up.
Sexual sin starts here with the eyes, like Job said, what Jesus said.
How does society's view of love relate to lust?
You thought adultery was just a physical act? It all begins in the heart.
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