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Synonyms: thirstiness, dryness, parched, craving, strong desire, longing, yearning, avidity, hunger, voracity, keenness, eagerness, lust, appetite, passion, love, crave, want, covet, desire, hunger for/after, lust for/after, hanker for/after, have one's heart set on

Antonyms: aversion, distaste, apathy, dislike, hatred, antipathy, disgust, disregard, abhorrence, acrimony, wet, animosity, animus, antagonism, bad feeling, bitterness, be averse to, detestation

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1. Lust - To Discipline The Eye And The Heart

Matthew 5:27-30

Sermon

R. Curtis Fussell

... . "Lord, look at me. This is how I feel, these are my thoughts and fantasies. Release them from me and let me remember who I am and to whom I belong." Remember that Samaritan woman at the well? It is important to note that Jesus didn't condemn her lustful life. No, he didn't condemn her; instead he offered her a new way of living. He called her to drink living water, he called her to confess her sin and repent. And she accepted the offer, made her confession and turned around. Where she was once thirsty for ...

2. From Lust to Love

1 Corinthians 13: 1

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... this last Friday, you saw a report of a CEO in St. Louis who racked up a $241,000 bill at a New York strip club which he paid with his corporate American Express Card. Is it a joke, or do we have something serious here, something really serious? Is lust a freedom or an addiction? Which is it? For my entire adult life, our society has been engaged in a sexual revolution designed to set us free from the bondage of Puritanism. I agree my mother could have used a lighter view of sex, but has this effort set us ...

3. Lust

Galatians 5:16-26

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... assuredly there is a difference. Consider this: the Bible says "For God so loved the world that he gave ..." (John 3:16). But many people so love that they take. If I really love another person, I am at least as anxious to give as to take. Nothing reveals lust more than the selfish desire to run roughshod over the needs and claims of the other. If a man truly loves a woman, nothing is so important to him as her welfare, her peace of mind, her dignity as a human being. And for that, no restraint, no delicacy ...

4. His Lust to Be Number One

Illustration

Lloyd J. Ogilvie

... . The crowd applauded the winner noisily, and after a time a statue was erected in his honor. But second place finisher came to think of himself as a loser. Envy ate away at him physically and emotionally. He could think of nothing else but his defeat and his lust to be number one He decided he had to destroy the statue. A plan took shape in his mind, which he began cautiously to implement. Late each night, when everyone was sleeping, he went to the statue and chiseled at the base hoping to so weaken the ...

5. Lust

Mark 8:31--9:1, Mark 8:27-30

Drama

James F. Crowley

... 's not innocently looking at some girlie magazines any more. You've got a problem and you've infected this entire family with it. You've stopped caring about me and now you want to make Bill into someone just like you. Where will it end? Next you'll be lusting after your own daughter. (SHE EXITS RUNNING AND CRYING)

6. The Heart of an Intimate Matter

Matthew 5:27-30

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... chooses the dump!14 Unless the nicotine addict lays down the cigarettes and a drunk the booze, unless the obese put down the fork and forsake the junk food high, if the addictive spender is not willing to cut up the credit cards in plastic surgery, and if the lustful person is not willing to put away the porn and the chase, nothing will change because for change to come something has to die, and if it will not die of neglect then it must be actively put to death. For the sake of your future self you must ...

7. False Teachers and Their Destruction

2 Peter 2:1-22

Understanding Series

Norman Hillyer

... ), pp. 153–69; NIDNTT, vol. 3, pp. 177–221. 2:2 Many will follow: The verb is exakolouthein, to follow out to the end, used in the NT only in this letter (1:16; 2:2, 15). Shameful ways is one word in the Greek, aselgeia, licentiousness, wantonness, unbridled lust, excess; also used by Peter in 1 Pet. 4:3; 2 Pet. 2:7, 18. The way of truth, the path of truth; or as a Hebraism, the true path (cf. Ps. 119:30). The metaphor of “way” for conduct, ethical behavior, is common in the OT, in intertestamental ...

8. Being Two People at Once

2 Samuel 11:1-15

Sermon

Donna Schaper

... we have for balance and self-control? By learning to want what we have, I think. Most of us want the Bathshebas or Eliots; we want what we don't have. To learn to want what we have is maturity. Maturity, however, can be very dull; when the excitement of lust is gone in a life, we are talking gray, not colorful. Often what we need once we know how to want what we have is a method of constant reinvigoration. "Sometimes when you look up from your lot in life, you can tell it needs to be completely plowed up ...

9. Elephants in the Room: Sexploitation

1 Thessalonians 4:3-8

Sermon

Charley Reeb

... fry in the world? People are killing each other. Christians can’t seem to get along with each other, and here we are getting hung up on sexual issues.” Some of you may feel that Christians in general need to lighten up about the whole issue of sex and lust. After all, it is 2017, not 1955. As long as people are careful, what they do with their bodies is up to them, right? That is the pervasive view of culture today. And maybe it makes sense to you. Maybe you are a teenager dating someone, and it is so ...

10. Fatal Attraction

Matthew 5:27-30

Sermon

James Merritt

... but you can keep them from building a nest in your hair." Now what Jesus said, using hyperbole, Paul says in much more plainer language, and explains what Jesus meant when he simply said, "Put on the Lord Jesus Christ and make no provision for the flesh to fulfill its lust." I want to make a confession to you. When it comes to sin, or things that would make me sin, I'm a coward. I run from them, and so should you. So if you are on the freeway looking for true happiness, don't take the exit marked "Adultery ...

11. Standard Building Codes

Matthew 5:27-30

Sermon

James Merritt

... the center of the problem which is the heart. He says, "But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart." (Matthew 5:28, NASB) The Bible calls the soul of our being, our ... only thing wrong with that is – you can never use love to justify sin. Love is the polar opposite of sin. Don't ever mistake love for lust. If you are here today and you are living together out of wedlock or you are in the middle of an affair, or you have had an ...

12. Becoming Good Trees

Matthew 5:17-30

Sermon

Charles L. Aaron

... child sits down to play because making music brings joy. If we are able to see Jesus' word here about judgment, prison, and the hell of fire in the context of grace, maybe we can see Jesus motivating us to a life of obedience. Impulses such as anger and lust can be so powerful that we may need something to get our attention. Jesus' long-term goal is our joy. In an early scene of Plato's Republic, Socrates is at the home of Cephalus having a nice conversation. Cephalus is an old and wealthy man who lives in ...

13. Oracles of Restoration

Ezekiel 34:1-31, Ezekiel 35:1-15, Ezekiel 36:1-38, Ezekiel 37:1-14, Ezekiel 37:15-28

Understanding Series

Steven Tuell

... work of H. St. J. Thackeray). Finally, in the Heb. of 36:23b–38 we find an odd combination of quotes and allusions from elsewhere in the book and the use of vocabulary not found anywhere else in Ezek. (see the discussion of these vv. above, and Lust, “Ezekiel 36–40,” pp. 521–25). Further, the MT seems disjointed and uneven: note that van der Meer, who argues for the unity of 36:16–32, accepts that 36:33–36 and 37–38 “may be even later appendices to that section” (“New Spirit,” p. 157 ...

14. Adultery, Cure and Prevention

Proverbs 7:1-27, John 8:1-11

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... CURE FOR ADULTERY. Jesus demonstrated the cure one day when a woman was brought to him by a group of proud, judgmental Pharisees. She had been caught in the very act of adultery. Perhaps she was dragged half naked to Jesus. Quickly a crowd gathered to leer and lust and condemn and execute her. This was a blood-thirsty, mean bunch of people. The Pharisees put Jesus on the spot by asking him what should be done to her. The law of Moses was clear. She should be stoned to death. Yet such punishment was contrary ...

15. Proper 23

Genesis 3:1-24

Sermon

George Paul Mocko

... or the U.S), if that were to be the fate of humanity, that would come not from the thirst for pleasure but from the lust for power. "You will submit to me or I will destroy you." "I will not submit to you - rather I will destroy you, me and ... to be, what it should be ... That's what the Bible is saying here. Is there no hope for us? Sucked into and infecting everything with our lust for power, is there no hope? Not in these verses there isn't, not if we stop at verse 14. Many Christians, seeking for that sign ...

16. The Needle’s Eye

Mark 9:42-50

Sermon

Thomas Peterson

... , but deep within the soul that looks upon its own fantasies. Nothing external prevents us from sin. We find other ways to steal than by using our hands. We find other ways to run away from responsibility than by using our feet. We find other ways to lust than by looking with our eyes. Jesus uses hyperbole to teach us the real task of moving away from the self-destructiveness in the soul. What else is it than self-destruction when, having two good hands, feet,and eyes, we risk hell? After all, though hell ...

17. This Adulterous Generation

Matthew 5:27-30, Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... adultery with her in his heart." Later, Jesus added: "For out of the heart come evil intentions, murder, adultery, fornication, theft, lying, and slander." (Matthew 15:19) Jesus put his finger on the core of the problem for this and every other adulterous generation--the lustful desire nurtured in the heart looking for an opportunity to find expression. This does not mean that it is wrong to admire beauty or handsomeness in the opposite sex. I love the story of a young man who was struggling against ...

18. The Spin Zone

2 Samuel 11:1-27

Sermon

James Merritt

... "Yes" to all the things he should have said, "No" to. [[2]] There was an old song from the 70's that I remember and it had a phrase in it, "Just one look - that's all it took." So many times that is how it is - one look of lust and you are headed for "The Spin Zone." David takes a step that would take him over the cliff of triumph into the valley of tragedy. "David sent messengers and took her, and when she came to him, he lay with her; and when she had purified herself from her ...

19. Job's Third Reply to Bildad

Job 26:1--31:40

Understanding Series

Gerald H. Wilson

... for weary travelers to turn in for hospitality. Desire for a Day in Court Toward the end of Job’s legal affidavit, we encounter the second awkwardness of arrangement similar to that in verse 1. There the opening statement of Job’s covenant not to lust after a woman seems awkwardly placed before his description of God’s role as judge of humanity. Here Job’s desire to meet God in court seems to explode from his lips even before he expresses his final disavowal. Some commentators have relocated these ...

20. Your Body Is a Temple

1 Corinthians 6:12-20

Sermon

Ronald Love

... visit a prostitute, but does that mean we have never defiled the body of Christ? It is time for all of us to examine our Christian lifestyle! We may not be fornicators. We may not have visited prostitutes. But does that mean we have never lusted? Does that mean we have never engaged in one of the seven deadly sins? Evagrius Ponticus, also known as Evagrius the Solitary, was a Christian monk and ascetic who resided in a monastery in the Egyptian desert. Concerned with the temptations that besought people the ...

21. What Part of “You Shall Not” Don’t You Understand?

Exodus 20:1-17

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... , or ox, or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor" (Exodus 20:17). The emphasis is on the word "covet," not so much on the list of items. Few of us covet our neighbor's cattle, although one dairy farmer confessed to his pastor that he lusted after his neighbor's herd on the way to church that day. Envy and jealousy are the themes of many novels and movies precisely because they are so much a part of our fallen nature. While our culture tends to downplay the sinfulness of these twin motivators ...

22. Knowing When To Run

Genesis 39:1-2, 6b-16

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... love got to do with it?" we might ask out of this Old Testament episode and we might rightfully say, “Absolutely nothing." The tragedy of our day is that much that is sold as making love has little to do with love and has everything to do with lust. The second temptation at play in this story is power. Mrs. Potiphar has the power. True power sets people free. Power used at the right time, in the right place, in the right way, is a wonderful liberator. But power gone bad becomes pride. “Pride goes before ...

23. The Sin and Doom of Godless Men

Jude 1:1-16

Understanding Series

Norman Hillyer

... , and in Christianity until the fifth century (Bauckham, p. 51). The earliest extant account of the fall of the Watchers (1 Enoch 6–19, early 2nd cent. B.C.) tells how in the days of Jared (Gen. 5:18) two hundred angels descended on Mount Hermon, lusting for human wives. Their giant offspring were taught forbidden knowledge by the angels. That led to the total corruption of the world, which God then had to destroy by the Flood. The Watchers were sentenced to be left bound under the earth until the Day of ...

24. Riddles and Metaphors

Ezekiel 15:1-8, Ezekiel 16:1-63, Ezekiel 17:1-24

Understanding Series

Steven Tuell

... wonder that the Lord is driven to wrath. 16:35–43a The wanton, brazen behavior of Jerusalem leads to the Lord’s judgment. In verse 36, the NIV reads Because you poured out your wealth but the alternate translation in the footnote, “Because your lust was poured out,” is preferable. The Lord condemns Jerusalem not as a spendthrift, but as a wanton (see the Additional Notes). Here we have a summary of all three of the accusations the Lord has raised against this foundling bride thus far: Jerusalem has ...

25. You Reap What You Sow

2 Sam 13:1-39

Teach the Text

Robert B. Chisholm Jr.

... his demise (v. 27). In chapter 11 the narrator portrayed David as possessing absolute sovereignty: he sent people where he willed (vv. 1, 3–4, 12, 27) and by a mere message accomplished his desires (vv. 6, 14). But he used his power to satisfy his lust and cover up his crime. In chapter 13 he continues to exercise his authority over others, but now it backfires against him as the Lord providentially oversees the fulfillment of David’s self-imposed penalty. 13:11 Come to bed with me, my sister. This ...

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