The Giant of Lust - Pastor Jeff Schreve

[Music] welcome to from his heart where pastor Jeff Shrieve is in an inspiring new series today entitled land of the Giants how to deal with your biggest problems in today's lesson he'll explore what may be your biggest problem it's called the giant of lust [Music] [Music] [Music] you have your Bible please turn to James chapter 1 James toward the back of the New Testament chapter 1 I was reading a story this week about a man who was a Duke in the area now known as Belgium was the 14th century he was Renauld the 3rd but they called him Reynald the fat because he was so rotund well his family being a Duke his family was very influential and and royal and his brother and Edward and Renauld the fat got into a big heated family feud over territory and land and that kind of thing well Edward defeated Renauld the fat and took his territory and put Renauld the fat into a room in the castle and it was a special room it had a door it had a couple of windows but the windows were small and the doorway was relatively small and Renauld the fat was inside the room he was too big to get out of the door the door wasn't locked so he was incarcerated in a way but a regular-sized person could easily have gotten out Reynald couldn't fit through the doorway so the way to get out was to diet to lose weight didn't seem that hard except that Edward knew his brother he knew his tendencies so every day he sent delicacies into his room so Renauld the fact instead of losing weight in car in his incarceration he gained weight and he became Rinaldi fatter and he could never escape he was in that room for ten years finally his brother Edward died and they broke out a wall to let Reynold the Fator out and he only lived for about a year afterward because his body now had been so abused through gluttony he was a man who couldn't control his own appetite we're in a series called land of the giants and today we want to talk about one of the biggest giants one of the baddest Giants one of the most formidable Giants the giant of lust the word for lust in the Bible in the Greek language is epithelia - a compound word epi which means - which means a pawn and Fumiya which means an urge or a passion lust is this urge this passion that comes upon a person to want that which is forbidden to want in excess what God has allowed us to have it's a craving that comes on a person and when we think of lust and as the Bible uses lust lust is not relegated to just one thing you can lust over somebody's property you can lust over a car you can lust over money you can have all those desires but we mostly think of lust as sexual lust and that's a big usage in the Bible that we lust jesus said if anyone looks on a woman to lust for her he's committed adultery with her already in his heart sexual lust is a big problem in our world today and it's especially a big problem for men it's not exclusive to a man women can lust too but it's especially big man a tremendous giant a big problem why cuz men are visual and it's through the eye gate that we end up falling prey to lust now I became a Christian when I was 17 years old and I was a guy who liked to drink a guy who liked to party a guy who liked to chase girls a guy who had a bad temper along with a host of other things but those things are some of the big ones that come to mind and I got saved when I was 17 years old and immediately God began to work on me and he came into my life and he started to work on me one of the first things he worked on was Jeff we got a we got to get rid of drinking on the weekends we got to get rid of this party lifestyle that you have going on and so I stopped drinking it one like I was an alcoholic but I was drinking you know a 6-pack or so on the weekends with my buddies out on Friday night Saturday night and we would get drunk and so the Lord says you can do that and so that fell by the wayside that giant fell and then the Lord began to work on my foul mouth and you know the things playing basketball and doing stuff like that the things coming out of my mouth were very displeasing to God and he started to work on that and so that giant fell and then he started work on my anger and that giant got under control and then he began to poke his finger at the giant of lusts the issue of lust I said Lord that's a that's a tough one there you know I have trouble in that area and he said I know you do we need to work on this that was when I was 17 years old I am 55 years old I heard the gasps because you don't believe it but I am fifty-five years old maybe I heard him in my mine but I want to tell you I'm 55 and I still struggle with the giant of lusts now when we talk about problems for Men Deuteronomy 17 the Lord sets out the problems that can befall the king Moses is preaching in Deuteronomy 17 he preaches three are in the book of Deuteronomy preaches three sermons on the plains of Moab because the people are getting ready to go into the Promised Land Moses isn't gonna get to go so Moses speaks to them three times three sermons and Deuteronomy 17 he said you know what when you get into the land you're gonna ask for a king you're gonna want to have a king like all the other places have kings and he said here's the thing for the king he can't multiply horses for himself he can't multiply wives for himself and he doesn't is not supposed to multiply silver and gold for himself to amass silver and gold what was God saying you watch out for the king watch out in these areas with horses that's power military power with women that's sex and with silver and gold that's money and you think about those three things for a leader money sex and power those three things are the things that take down a leader because he gets tripped up in one of those three things we talked about that with the guys money sex and power which one is the hardest to deal with and by far in our group from guys in their late teens early 20s up to 70 75 Larry's in there so 90 you know about that that scale I mean overwhelmingly it was number one is sex lust that is a big problem for men and so we want to talk about how do you defeat and have victory over the giant of lust James gives us insight in his little epistle James the half-brother of the Lord Jesus James who was the leader of the Jerusalem church he says this James 1 verse 13 no one say when he is tempted I am being tempted by God for God cannot be tempted by evil and he himself does not tempt anyone but each one is tempted when he's carried away and enticed by his own lust then when lust has conceived it gives birth to sin and when sin is accomplished it brings forth death do not be deceived my beloved brethren how can you defeat the giant of lust how can you have victory over the giant of lust and listen now this giant is not one that you fight one day to feed him one day and you never face him again he comes back over and over and over again just like the giant of anger does you have to deal with that all the time in not not in terms of every second of every day but but you never get to the place where that's not an issue anymore that can always be an issue and as soon as you let your guard down that's when you're going to get popped so how do you have victory on a consistent basis over the giant of anger I want to share with you three r's three r's to victory first are recognize that lust is an internal issue lust is an internal issue lust is an inside job Jesus was talking to the disciples and he said to them speaking concerning that the Pharisees had gotten on Jesus because he said your disciples don't wash their hands in the ceremonial way they transgressed the traditions of the elders why is that and Jesus said why do you transgress the command of God for your traditions and their their big thing about going through all this rigmarole how they wash their hands in just a certain way before they ate now the disciples wash their hands before they ate just like every good little boy and girl it washes up before you eat but they had this whole rigmarole about how you to do that and Jesus said guys you don't understand it's not what goes into the mouth that defiles a man it's what comes out of the mouth and what comes out of the mouth is what's in the heart and Jesus said in Matthew 15:19 for out of the heart come evil thoughts murders adulteries fornications thefts false witness slanders that comes out of the heart that's in the human heart now the Bible says in the Book of Ezekiel that when we come to Christ he gives us a new heart but the old heart and the old nature and the flesh is not separated from us it's still there that's why the Bible says it says in Galatians chapter 5 it'll come to me in a second what it says but I say walk by the spirit and you will not carry out the desire of the flesh for the flesh that's its desire against the spirit and the spirit against the flesh for these are in opposition to one another so that you may not do the things that you please your flesh wants to sin and your flesh even as a believer is there it's the old flesh from your Adamic nature you have a new man living inside the Lord Jesus Christ in the new nature but the old nature is still there it's not in control it has been rendered powerless but it has not been rendered speechless and it will bark out orders for you and the flesh loves the flesh it longs for the flesh as we talk about sexual loss the flesh loves the flesh and longs for the flesh and lust is an inside job so know this about lust God has given us legitimate desires legitimate desires that he puts in the human life in the human heart legitimate desires let me give you three food is a legitimate desire sleep a legitimate desire sex is a legitimate desire in the confines of marriage God created sex not Hugh Hefner sex is not a bad thing it's a good thing but it's only to be practiced in the confines and the safe confines of marriage so what is lust lust is a perversion of a legitimate desire a perversion of a legitimate desire I desire food but if I continue to eat my desire for food that was good and right that God gave me that becomes gluttony and I turn into Renauld the fat because I am eating way too much sleep is a good thing God gave us a desire for sleep he told us in his work six days you shall labor in the seventh day is the day of rest don't do any work on that day so sleep rest that's a good thing but if all we do is sleep and rest we turn into lazy sluggards that's not a good thing laziness lawfulness is a sin it's a sin and then sex sex is a good thing but if you let sex go outside of the bounds of holy marriage then sex becomes immorality a bad thing and remember this about lust lust is insatiable it's like greed greed is never satisfied if a greedy man a great greedy woman gets a million dollars they're thinking about wanting another million dollars if they get ten million dollars they want more if they get a billion dollars they want more what does it profit a man jesus said if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul what will a man give in exchange for a soul listen if you had the whole world you wouldn't be satisfied you'd say well I have a lot but boy if I could just have the mood I mean I got the whole world but I need the moon - that is greed it's never satisfied it's an insatiable desire lust is the same way it's an insatiable desire for more and more and more and more you know the poster child is for insatiable lust Solomon Solomon the son of David the king of Israel is the son of David and Bathsheba and we know about Bathsheba and David how did their relationship start out with lust and so they have David has a lust issue a lust problem and he has he's multiplied wives which it says Deuteronomy 17 17 he's not supposed to do that he multiplied wives then he has the son Solomon and remembered the Lord says that the the iniquity of the father's is visited on the sons to the third and fourth generation the iniquity that doesn't mean the consequences or the the you're guilty for sin comes on the sons the iniquity that means the twisted this twisted 'no set means the weakness that means the problem of the father's is shown up in the sons abraham had a problem with lying Isaac his son had a problem with lying Jacob his son had a huge problem with lying David has problems lust Solomon has a huge problem with lust you say how do you know that because he had seven hundred wives and if that weren't enough seven hundred wives I mean if you you could be with a wife every night and it would take you two years just to go through your wives 700 wives and 300 girlfriends it's when's it gonna be enough Solomon well I see this one I want I see that one I want it's never enough lust is insatiable recognize that it's an internal issue it's in the heart Paul said in Galatians chapter 5 the deeds of the flesh are evident any lists 15 things immorality impurity sensuality idolatry sorcery enmities strife jealousy outbursts of anger disputes dissensions factions envying drunkenness and things like these of which I forewarned you that I also forewarned you those who practice such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God enlists 15 things the first three all are sexual temptations immorality impurity sensuality sensuality is unbridled lust immorality is the Greek word porneia from which we get our word pornography from it's a smorgasbord of sexual sin and then in uncleanness moral uncleanness immorality impurity sensuality the first three of the deeds of the flesh all deal with sexual sin Hey lust is an inside job second our realize that lust is what the devil works with now if the devil dried up and evaporated you'd still have trouble with lust I'd still have trouble with lust why cause lust is an inside job lust is a deed of the flesh but the devil works on that weakness in us and he is called in Scripture the tempter and the tempter uses our weaknesses to try and trip us up now verse 13 the scripture is clear and that no one say when he is tempted I am being tempted by God you're not no one's ever tempted by God why for God cannot be tempted by evil and he himself does not tempt anyone hey speaking of God the Father God the Father can't be tempted by evil he is holy holy holy he is completely pure now God the son can become a man and in his humanity see he's very god of very God very man a very man he is the god man in his humanity he can be tempted and the scripture says in Hebrews 4:15 we don't have a high priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses but one who has been tempted in all things as we are yet without sin so God the Father can't be tempted God the Son in his humanity can be tempted and the tempter Matthew chapter four came to Jesus in the wilderness after he had fasted for forty days and the tempter came and said if your son if you're the Son of God command these stones to become bread oh Jesus you you have a natural hunger inside of you for food and you haven't eaten in 40 days command these stones to become bread see how he appealed to the flesh he showed him all the kingdoms of the world he said all these will be yours if you'll just bow down and worship Me it's the lust of the flesh the lust of the eyes he was working on the Lord so the devil works on you and me now notice the progression of how it works first he works on your specific desires it says in verse 14 each one is tempted when he has carried away in enticed by his own lust his own lust you know we don't all have the same proclivities and we don't want to have the same Achilles heel we don't have the same weaknesses now lust in general is a weakness for most men sexual lust but it can come in different forms some people are sexually tempted by same-sex attraction now that's that's a condition of the fall that's the way some people are wired and the devil will tempt that way and so he will prey on your specific desire and so from desire he moves to deception each one is tempted when he is carried away and enticed by his own lust carried away and enticed interesting those words in the Greek they mean to draw out like you would draw a fish out of the weeds to the lure to entice means to bait a hook or bait a trap the devil is smart and he knows that you don't go fishing without bait on the hook and so he knows and he has just like when we fish we have different lures and different things we put into the water the devil has that too here's a fishing lure it's called a fluke for those that didn't know say Jeff how do you know that because it's written on the side says fluke that's the only reason I know that I'm not a fisherman but see this is it has a really cool little tail and so the devil will put that on the line he'll put that in the water and say look at that don't you wouldn't you like that you say there's a hook there and the devil says don't look at that just look at this this is the good part and so maybe some people say no I recognize I'm not gonna bite on that and he said oh you don't want that he said well I have this I have this this look at this one this one spins it's called buzz bait Quinn told me that today I didn't know what it was it's buzz bait and it's got this really fancy stuff here and you know under that fancy stuff there's a hook there's a hook there Stephanie Brite gave me this and this is nice it has a little plastic thing on it so I don't hurt myself but the devil will use this you don't like the fish well how about this thing that buzz this and if you don't go for that he says well I have this one check out this one look at the colors of this one and you put that in the water and bounce that around and it's shiny and it looks good hey the devil is the deceiver and he will make you think oh this would be so great this would satisfy my need this really catches my eye the devil works through deception he says don't look at the hook only look at the bait and then from deception he works to get you to disobey he works to get you to bite the hook now if he can get you to focus in on the bait if he can get you to start looking at that and say boy that man look at how that thing spins that would be so good that would taste gross look at it look at it in that great if he can get you to focus in on that which is forbidden it's just a matter of time before you you bite and when you bite you disobey and he's got you do you remember how the devil did Eve in the garden e s God said you shall not eat from any tree of the garden well from any tree of the garden we may freely eat but from the tree that is in the middle of the garden of tree of the knowledge of good and evil we shall not eat from it or touch it lest we die you surely shall not die for God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be open and you will be like God knowing good and evil and she started to look at that lure she started to look at that deception and she started longing for that tree the fruit of that tree and she said that's gonna make me wise it was all a lie and she took from the tree as she fixed on the forbidden she was sunk and she took she ate she gave to her husband with her and he ate and the eyes of both of them were open and exactly what the Lord said was going to happen happened in the day you eat of it you shall surely die the devil works to bring forth death works on your desire works to deceive you works to get you to disobey works to bring forth death to steal and kill and destroy when the devil takes the hook then he's hooked and what happens when he's hooked then he's reeled in the devil doesn't practice practice catch and release you are hooked and then you're cooked you're gutted and grilled you experience death I experienced death the wages of sin is death and when lust has conceived it gives birth to sin and when sin is accomplished it brings forth death first our recognize that lust is an internal issue second our realize that lust is what the devil works with and third our remember God's pathway to victory God has a way for us to defeat the giant of lust we have to put it into practice let me share with you five DS first D don't play with fire when it comes to the issue of sexual lust don't play around with fire now there are two proverbs in the Bible 31 proverbs total two Proverbs that are devoted to the man who would go after the seductive woman the seductress the adulterous woman as the scripture calls her the the one who traffics in sexual immorality and it says this in Proverbs 7:25 do not let your heart turn aside to her ways do not stray into her paths don't go there why because that's a slippery slope and if you play with fire you will get burned now you know who's the poster child for the guy who played with fire Samson Samson Samson was a he-man with ashy weakness first four words ever recorded concerning Samson that ever came out of his mouth were these I saw a woman I saw a woman I bet you did Samson and then he says to his dad get her for she looks good to me Samson she's a Philistine she's not a Jewess she's not part of our covenant get her I want her I don't care where she's from I don't care whose parents raised her get her she looks good to me and Samson's first marriage didn't ever come about but his fiancee was a Philistine and Samson had trouble all his life with lust it says in judges chapter 15 last verse and judges 15 that he ruled Israel Samson ruled Israel Israel for 20 years and then the very next verse in chapter 16 it says that he went down to Gaza which is a Philistine city and he saw a woman and she was a harlot and he had sex with her having sex with her you're the judge of Israel what are you doing he's the he-man with a she weakness then he hooks up with Delilah another Philistine woman she was bad news to the core and Samson is an idiot I was talking to my daughter yesterday a me and she was talking about guys she's 28 years old she was talking about guys and she goes you know what dad she goes most guys are dumb I said yeah we are you know when it comes to things about women we're done we don't know I told you before about the woman that had the t-shirt made all that men are idiots and I married their kings that's the way it is for men don't understand women and my daughter Amy was just like this guy doesn't get it nice and almond and most days they don't get it well Samson was a dummy because if you read his story he hooks up with Delilah he loved Delilah it never says she loved him he loved Delilah and Delilah made a deal with the Philistines extract a secret of his great strength and so she would say Samson can you tell me why you're so strong he goofed around with her for three different times not telling her the truth finally when he told her the truth what did she do she had the Philistines come and get him now she had done that three times before but he thought it was a big joke I'll go out and shake myself free and he'd go beat up those guys and I hit him still Samson the fourth time she told him that he told her the truth it's part of my Nazarite vow I can't cut my hair she cut his hair and she said Samson the Philistines are upon you he said I will go out us at other times and shake myself free and he did not know that the Lord had left him and they defeated Samson they gouged out his eyes they put him in Chains and they led him off to be a grinder in the mill when lust has conceived it gives birth to sin and when sin is accomplished it brings forth death don't play with fire second deed don't linger in the lust don't linger in the lust proverbs 22 verse 3 the prudent sees the evil and hide himself but the naive go on and are punished for it poster child for this is David David second Samuel Chapter eleven came about in the spring of the year when the Kings go out to battle David didn't go out to battle he had he had done all his battles he's probably in his 50s he walks on his roof he gets up from bed in the evening that's when people go to bed he gets up in the evening he's been sitting around doing a bunch of nothing all day and he sees a woman bathing and the woman was very beautiful in appearance and David saw her the prudence sees the evil and hides himself but the naive go on and a punish for it David saw her and his look turned to lust and his lust turned to longing and his longing turned to laying and his laying turned to loss tremendous loss in his life I mean he lost his fellowship with God that at that point because he sinned against God he tried to cover it up you can never get right with God by trying to cover it up Uriah lost his life because of David's lust Uriah Bathsheba's husband the Prophet Nathan came to David in his sin and said you're the man you're the one who's done this terrible thing and David broke at that point and repented at that point he said I've sinned against God and Nathan said God has taken away your sin you shall not die God was coming through Nathan the Prophet to kill David had he not repented he said David because you've done this thing because you lingered in the lust this is what happened and the swords never going to depart from your family and you read in the very next chapter that his son Amnon rapes his daughter Tamar and then his other son Absalom kills Amnon for raping his sister Tamar and then Absalom tries to steal the kingdom away from David and then David's general Joab ends up killing David's son Absalom and David you see him as he's weeping for his son he says o Absalom my son my son Oh Absalom my son would that I had died instead of you Oh Absalom my son my son the wages of sin is death when lust has conceived it gives birth to sin and when sin is accomplished it brings forth death lust - longing longing - laying laying to loss don't linger in the lust put a guard over your mind the Bible says take every thought captive to the obedience of Christ and when those thoughts come you've got to put a soldier there a century there a guard there that says halt who goes there I'm not gonna let this go into my mind if it's in pure if it's lustful John Piper says you have the five-second rule and in five seconds you got to get rid of that thought because if the look turns to to lust and you start to think that through then you're done you're a goner Martin Luther used to say I can't keep the birds from flying over my head but I can sure keep them from making a nest in my hair your hair my scalp but you get the idea you you can you can say hey these thoughts that come in but I'm not receiving those so don't linger in the lust third D don't fight this temptation flee it don't fight it flee it Bible says in 2nd Timothy 2:22 now flee from youthful lust Paul is writing to Timothy his young son in the faith Timothy who's a young guy lust is really it really goes after the young people now flee from youthful lusts and pursue righteousness faith love and peace which though with those who call upon the Lord from a pure heart lust will soil your heart it will dirty your heart he says flee it flee it first Corinthians chapter 6 Paul says flee immorality every other sin that a man commits is outside of the body but the immoral man sins against his own body or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you whom you have from God and that you are not your own for you've been bought with a price therefore glorify God in your body poster child for the man who didn't fight this temptation but fled from it is Joseph Joseph who is there working in Potiphar's house Genesis chapter 39 Potiphar's wife see she's never named she's just Potiphar his wife Potiphar's wife sees joseph and he sees that he's handsome in faith and in form and he's just God he just such a powerful guy the way he runs everything for Potiphar as his chief of staff so to speak and she wants him she's lusting after him and so she would say to Joseph live with me come on you and me let's let's go for it he said I can't do that how could I do that your husband's put me in charge like that how could I dishonor God like that how could I sin against the Lord like that and day after day she kept after him and then one day all the servants were gone out of the house and it was just her and it was Joseph and she grabbed him by his coat and she pulled him to her and she said lie with me and he spun out of his coat and ran you know what some guys would do they say well you know mrs. Potiphar IV we shouldn't be carrying on like this let's pray let's just get down and pray I think you're having some struggles let's get down and pray and I'll pray first and that will give you time to quit nibbling my ear I mean that's good the kind of deal that some guys would you don't you don't fight this sin you flee this sin why because it's too strong it's too strong if you go toe to toe with the giant of sexual lust you will lose every time you flee to the sin many of you have seen the movie it's almost 20 years old now but called the matrix matrix a great movie if you remember in the first matrix movie as their training neo who was going to end up being the one they were teaching him how to fight and they had superpowers in the matrix the people that were outside the matrix when they came back if they were gonna fight hey they could fight ten guys all by themselves because they were supercharged and super-powered but they said this whenever you see an agent you run you run why because the agents are faster than us stronger than us quicker than we are don't fight them flee them that's what the Lord says about lust Flint because if you try and fight it you will lose you can't linger in the lust and you can't fight that temptation you have to flee it and then fourth D don't magnify the pleasure magnify the cost magnify the cost proverbs 7 the admonition against sexual immorality says do not let your heart turn aside to her ways do not stray into her paths for many are the victims she has cast down and numerous are all her slain her house is the way to Sheol descending to the chambers of death don't go there because if you go there you're gonna slide in to her grasp and you're gonna find out she lives in death her house is to wait a shield ascending to the chambers of death the devil will tell you don't look at the hook just look at the pleasure look at how you would love to to nibble on this look how you would love to take a bite of this just focus in on that and the temptation and the deception is to magnify the pleasure and to minimize the consequences we need to flip that we need to magnify the consequences is there pleasure in sin yes yes Bible talks about that in the book of Hebrews that Moses chose ill-treatment with the people of God rather than choosing the passing pleasures of sin sin is pleasurable if anybody tells you sins not pleasurable they're lying there sinning they're lying because sin is pleasure of the bull but the Bible says it's pleasurable but it's a passing pleasure a fleeting pleasure it gives instant pleasure that leads to lasting pain I have a friend of mine Greg speck he's on our speaker team Family Life Ministries and Gregg's main ministry is to students and he travels around to different schools and churches and he speaks to students he was at our church a number of years ago speaking to our students he said he was speaking to an assembly one day and he asked the question why does so many students have trouble with pornography internet pornography and one of the kids yelled out because it's awesome and that's the way so many people think about that oh it's awesome it's so awesome and it's so fun and the numbers of women are just limitless Solomon only had a thousand but there are tens and hundreds of thousands on my phone it is awesome that's what people think it's no big deal I mean it's a victimless crime it doesn't hurt anybody it's just harmless that's a lie you know a woodpecker can Peck away at your tree we used to have a woodpecker we lived in Houston Debbie not called him woody he'd wake us up every morning and we'd hear him he's his pecking at the tree little woody and you think well he's what kind of damage can a woodpecker do he's pecking at the tree I think we have the picture that's the work of a woodpecker you let that stuff get into your heart and I'm talking to myself and as I'm talking to you because the giant of lust is out there you let that stuff get into your heart and you say it's no big deal it's eating a hole in you you don't even know it Adrian Rogers used to say about sexual immorality he said sexual immorality is a hurtful heinous hateful sin there's nothing that will harden your heart more toward God than sexual immorality sexual immorality was the cause of the downfall of Babylon of Greece of Rome why is that because people who treat sex lightly always treat other people lightly always there's a big cost to pay for that I was talking to a counselor friend of mine one day in the Dallas area and he said we were on this subject of pornography and he said you know I had a guy that had come to see me and he had a problem with that and he met a girl in their church and she had come out of that lifestyle of being all involved in in terrible things like that and had to get a lot of healing and they met and they fell in love and they're getting ready to get married and he said this guy was on the internet one night and he was tempted and the look turned to lust and he began to explore things on the Internet and he was watching a video and when he saw the girl's face he saw that it was his fiancee being abused and he saw all the pain that she had come through in her life and he said I almost threw up and he said that did it for me I said no way am I going back to that stuff that stuff is from hell that stuff destroys lives don't magnify the pleasure magnify the cost and the 50 depend on the Lord and enlist a faithful friend you know we confess our sins to the Lord yes but the Bible says James 5:16 confess your sins to one another and pray for one another that you may be healed the effective fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much Bible says in Romans 13 verse 14 but put on the Lord Jesus Christ and make no provision for the flesh with regard to its lusts hey that that old nature is still there in my heart in your heart and every Christians heart in Paul's heart Paul said the good that I do I don't don't do the evil that I don't want do I find myself doing in me that is in my flesh there is two wells no good thing wretched man that I am who will set me free from the body of this death how do you deal with this you put on the Lord Jesus Christ and you make no provision for the flesh in regard to its lusts Adrian Rogers said that when he was pastoring he had a little sign on his desk that said this he who does not want to fall down ought not to walk in Slippery places you don't get close to the edge you don't play with the fire you don't linger in lust you get away from that and you realize hey God what you say in your word is true and Lord you say in your word that you will help me God is my helper and Lord I have a problem in this area God help me and the Lord says I want to help you put on the Lord Jesus Christ and make no provision for the flesh with regard to its lusts listen I know that this kind of message and this subject hits lots of people especially in our world today lots of young people especially but hey it hits older people out a man tell me just a couple of weeks ago he said he was in his 70s he said you know I've just been battling this sin for decades there's the sin of pornography does it just go away because you get to be thirty years old doesn't go away because you get married doesn't go away because you turned 50 60 70 whatever it's there and it's a battle and it's a big giant but the Lord says listen you come to me there's forgiveness in Jesus Christ and there's power in Jesus Christ and I heard when I was in college something I've never forgotten and he said this when it comes to sexual temptation don't ever quit fighting don't ever just give up and say oh I can't I can't beat this I've can't beat them join them and just give in know you keep saying Lord today I'm walking in victory and I'm gonna run from evil and I'm gonna pursue righteousness godliness faith love and perseverance with those who call upon the Lord from a pure heart may God give us victory over the giant of lust we've been talking about Giants today and the only way to be victorious over the Giants that we face is to have the Lord Jesus Christ in our lives he is the one who gives us the power now listen if you're watching and you're not sure about your relationship with Jesus maybe you just know about him but you don't really know him in your heart today is the day for you just pray this prayer with me Lord Jesus I need you I know that I'm a sinner and I'm lost I can't save myself but I believe that you are God in the flesh I believe you died on the cross for my sins and rose again from the dead on the third day I believe Lord that you'll save me if I'll cry out to you and I do that right now I turn from my sin and I turn to you forgive me be my Lord and Savior and I promise to follow you all the days of my life my friend if you'll pray that kind of prayer and mean it the Lord will come in and your life will never be the same I would love to hear from you to know that you're watching to know that God is using this broadcast to make a difference in your life to know that you just prayed that prayer to receive Christ as your Savior and Lord please take the time to call that toll-free number write me email me let me know what's going on and how we can pray for you you really are important to God and you're important to us and we're here for you from his heart is the viewer supported broadcast ministry of dr. Jeff Shrieve who believes that no matter how badly you've messed up in life God still loves you and he has a wonderful plan for your life you can find out more about that plan when you go - from his heart dot o-r-g really [Music] you

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Published: Tue Sep 18 2018