Posts tagged “Lust”

The martyrdom of enduring lust

Posted on August 6th, 2012

Moreover, it is not without purpose and beside the point when Holy Scripture states that Isaac married Rebecca when he was 40 years old. For it points out that he did not take a wife in the well-known first passion of youth but stood firm for a considerable time in his battle against and victory over the flesh and the devil. For the accounts and the experience of individuals attest how great the impatience of lust is in youth, when the urgent sensation of the flesh begins and the one sex has an ardent desire for the other. This is a malady common to the entire human race, and those who do not resist its first flames and do not suppose that there is…

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Feeding the appetite leads to insatiability

Posted on August 2nd, 2012

The way of Satan, the way of Esau, the way of lost Israel leads to a heightening of the appetite, not to a diminishing. It leads to insatiability. The end result of self-provision isn’t satisfaction but instead revulsion. As novelist Frederick Buechner defines it, “Lust is the craving for salt of a person who is dying of thirst.” Russell Moore, Tempted and Tried: Temptation and the Triumph of Christ

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Finding better promises

Posted on April 4th, 2012

Part of sin is dissatisfaction with God. Lust’s power comes from the promise it gives that something besides God can make us happy. What this means is that the only way to overcome the power of lust in our lives is by finding better promises.  –Joshua Harris. Sex Is Not the Problem (Lust Is): Sexual Purity in a Lust-Saturated World 

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Corrupt nature shuns marriage

Posted on March 14th, 2012

So savage and corrupt is human nature. Marriage is necessary as a remedy for lust, and through marriage God permits sexual intercourse. Not only does He cover the sin from which we are unable to abstain, but He also blesses the union of the male and the female. And yet the whole world shuns this legitimate, divinely instituted union and prefers to indulge in promiscuous relations, which are harmful in more than one way. Property is squandered, bodies are damaged by serious diseases, God is provoked to inflict horrible punishments, and, worst of all, states and households are destroyed. Why do we not avoid these great evils? Why do we not prefer to seek the blessing of God through a legitimate union? Obviously because…

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Marriage as the church’s nursery

Posted on December 2nd, 2011

Profound commentary on Genesis 9:1-7 by Luther: This chapter confirms marriage; for through His Word and command God joins the male with the female, and that for the definite purpose of filling the earth with human beings. Because before the Flood God had been provoked to wrath by the sin of lust, it was necessary, on account of this awful expression of wrath, to show now that God does not hate or condemn the lawful union of a man and a woman but wants the human race to be propagated by it. This was a sure proof for Noah that God actually loves man, is well disposed toward him, and has now put away all wrath. He wants human beings to be propagated through…

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