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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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51. Poem: In Memoriam

Eulogy

Alfred Lord Tennyson

... desk, To make old bareness picturesque And tuft with grass a feudal tower; Why then my scorn might well descend On you and yours. I see in part That all, as in some piece of art, Is toil cöoperant to an end. CXXIX Dear friend, far off, my lost desire, So far, so near in woe and weal; O loved the most, when most I feel There is a lower and a higher; Known and unknown; human, divine; Sweet human hand and lips and eye; Dear heavenly friend that canst not die, Mine, mine, for ever, ever mine; Strange friend ...

52. Love of Money

1 Timothy 6:3-10

Understanding Series

Gordon D. Fee

... themselves are Exhibit A (v. 10). In verse 10, a much-abused text, Paul concludes his indictment of the false teachers in two ways. First, he cites, or alludes to, a well-known proverb that supports his contention in verse 9 about the evil effects of the desire for wealth. Second, he brings all of this into focus on the false teachers, who vividly illustrate the truth of what was said in verse 9. For, Paul says, now as supporting evidence, in this case the common proverb is quite right: The love of money is ...

53. False Teachers and Their Destruction

2 Peter 2:1-22

Understanding Series

Norman Hillyer

... (Mark 13:22; 2 Thess. 2:3, 11–12; 1 Tim. 4:1–3; 2 Tim. 3:1–5). The next two verses set out four factors about the false teachers and their activity and influence. 2:2–3 The motive of the false teachers is greed, an unlawful desire to grasp more than one’s due. The Greek word can involve coveting other people’s money or goods, engaging in illicit sexual indulgence, or lusting for power, all of which speak of going after selfish gain at the expense of others and of a reckless disregard of the ...

54. Paul's Longing to Visit Rome

Romans 1:1-17

Understanding Series

James R. Edwards

... Romans 12 and 1 Corinthians 12 with reference to special gifts or endowments of the Holy Spirit for the purposes of ministry. Here the spiritual gift seems to be related to Paul’s preaching of the gospel, for he closes this section by repeating that he desires “to preach the gospel also to you who are at Rome” (v. 15). In verse 13 he expresses the hope to “have a harvest among you.” The Greek word for harvest, karpos, appears again in 15:28 with reference to the collection for the poor believers ...

55. I Need

Luke 10:38-42

Sermon

Dave Zuchelli

... , it seems, was a victim of her times. As such, she missed out on the Lord’s best in order to provide him with something that would be gone in a short time. This story is a microcosm of our lives today. Most of us are so busy fulfilling our desires; we seldom seek the satisfaction of our real need — the need for Christ. It’s a theme we play and replay daily in our world. We chase after that which we want, escalating it into a need in our own minds. By doing so, we placate our consciences with the ...

56. Praying With Bloody Knuckles

Isaiah 62:1-12, Isaiah 61:1-11

Sermon

William L. Self

... up hope and stopped praying? We have neglected the power of intercessory prayer in our lives and in the lives of others. In our selfish desire to have it all and get it all we have forgotten to give it all. The writer of our text declared in 62:5 ... culture -- license. Any type of commitment seems to restrict our freedom. We want to go, do, and be whatever the moment makes us desire. This coupled with our aversion to commitment of any kind leads to a certain spiritual atrophy. We want a church to be there ...

57. The Eighth Meal

Sermon

Robert F. Scott

... upstairs, already furnished. Make preparations for us there." So they went and found everything as he had told them; and they prepared the Passover meal. When the hour came, he took his place at the table, and the apostles with him. He said to them, "I have eagerly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer; for I tell you, I will not eat it again until it is fulfilled in the kingdom of God." Then he took a cup, and after giving thanks he said, "Take this and divide it among yourselves; for I ...

58. Chapter VII

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

Frank H. Seilhamer

... one or more lives behind. When we do that we are selling both the other person and ourselves short. We are taking a person and a desire, both of which are holy, and using them in a way that God never intended either should be used when he created them. That kind of ... of your life, think about how you are going to channel and express that sexual urge God built into you. Remember, the desire itself is good and holy. Young people especially need to be told that. When they are around people of the opposite sex ...

59. Missing the Mark

1 Samuel 8:1-22

Sermon

Charles Allo

... because we don't know what else to do and simply question. Scream or whimper. Yet we question. And I want you to know that these always happen so that we don't get lost in the affairs of this world and the actions of those who follow selfish desires. Now that we got down to reality and realize that these Israel leaders had a problem to which they responded, we should look at what they were thinking. What was going on in their minds in dealing with their life's situations. We figure our choices through our ...

60. Going For the Gold

Philippians 3:4-14

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... 've got to be able to pick yourself up and continue." That is the dedication! "... Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal ..." (Philippians 3:13-14). That which lies ahead is our motivation for all this — the desire, the discipline, the dedication. The day will come when we will meet our Savior face-to-face, and the words you want to hear are the same ones I want to hear: "Well done, good and faithful servant ...enter into the joy of your master" (Matthew ...

61. Rules for Holy Living

Colossians 3:1-17

Understanding Series

Arthur G. Patzia

... . These believers have been raised with Christ. On the basis of that fact they are to set their hearts on the things above. The verb set is a strong imperative and is a good translation of zēteō, which means to seek, examine, or search something out with the desire to possess. Those things above, both here and in 3:2, are not identified. They may be the virtues of the Christian life that Paul commends in 3:12–16 in contrast to the “earthly” things mentioned in 2:20–23 and 3:5–9 (cf. Phil. 3:19 ...

62. Have You Seen a Buck Flying Past?

Luke 16:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... high his royal banner, It must not suffer loss: From victory unto victory His army shall he lead, Till every foe is vanquished And Christ is Lord indeed. (8) What does your life stand for? What is your legacy? Would the people around you say that your greatest desire was to reflect the character and commitment of Jesus Christ? Jesus doesn’t want you to waste your life. He wants you to understand that God is your Master, and God created you for His own purposes. He wants you to understand that whatever you ...

63. Moksha

Romans 8:6-11

Sermon

Dr. Ronald Love

... was powerless. Satan the man of the flesh had no power over Jesus the man of the Spirit. Luke in his gospel is making it crystal clear that Judas is the great tempter, the great deceiver, the great adversary. Luke makes it clear Satan desires for us to live by the flesh, while Jesus desires for us to love by the Spirit. Luke makes it clear that Satan wants us to have a self-centered attitude, while Jesus wants us to have an other-oriented attitude. It is Luke’s summons that as Christians we are to live ...

64. Teach Us to Pray

Luke 11:1-13

Sermon

Will Willimon

... us on earth as God is present in heaven. We're doing in prayer what we have been doing during this entire service: we are continuing to lay ourselves open to the presence of God, no matter what. In prayer we ally ourselves with that will, making our desires more congruent with God's desires. We don't simply wish that the poor should be fed, but that we should be participants in God's active love for the poor. We don't simply want peace; we want God's peace, peace on God's terms. We open ourselves up to new ...

65. The Pure In Heart

Sermon

John A. Terry

... was sitting on the steps of the seminary library looking up at the night sky. There was confusion in his mind and, it seemed to him, confusion in the universe. He felt the agony of wishing to believe in the reality of God, and a constant, persistent desire for proof. He wanted just what his namesake, the disciple Philip, wanted. He believed that if he could just see God, he would be satisfied and life would be whole. As he sat there, a friend came along whose name also happened to be Philip. Phil Mitchell ...

66. The Pure In Heart

Psalm 42:1-11

Sermon

John A. Terry

67. Will Names Never Hurt Us?

Proverbs 10:1-32

Sermon

Edward Chinn

... kept on treating her and naming her as a person of genuine value. By the end of the story, he had succeeded in transforming Aldonza into Dulcinea, the fine person he reckoned her to be, by the power of a good name. "A good name is more to be desired than great riches; esteem is better than silver or gold." The good name that Don Quixote put on Aldonza is the opposite of the act of "bad-mouthing" another person. He "good-mouthed" her, regarded her and treated her as good and upright. He named her a person of ...

68. How May We Come to God?

Psalm 24:1-10

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... His holy place?” The answer comes, “He who has clean hands and a pure heart.” Well, how can it be? If our hands are not clean and our hearts are not pure, will the gate open? We are driven back to will and willingness. What is our deepest desire? The emphasis remains: clean hands -- our actions; pure hearts -- our attitudes. We are not freed from the commitment to holiness. To act rightly as God would have us act, and feeling with love as God would have us feel, but we don’t do it for merit. And we ...

69. The Heart of an Intimate Matter

Matthew 5:27-30

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... people into objects of sexual consumption. If not, then there is hell to pay, and anyway, in the resurrection you can have your right eye and right hand back again! Moral cancers must be cut out, and for Jesus, lust is a malignant malformation of a God given desire. It will consume and kill all hopes for happiness. This is one battle every Christian man and woman must win. My guess is that Dan Brown’s DaVinci Code, lusty Jesus is more like Dan Brown than the Jesus of the Four Gospels.7 Just as greed is ...

70. Magnificent Fools

1 Corinthians 3:1-23

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... something we stumble upon as we wander aimlessly down the shady lanes of life. It is a goal after which we quest involving the stones and stumbles of unsure footing, and the fear and frustration of an often faltering faith. But we move on - burning with desire, as Paul would say, “to lay hold of that by which we have been laid hold of - Christ Jesus Himself.” Let’s go to the Scripture for guidance. Know ahead of time that this is always dangerous - to go to the Scriptures – and foolish also, that ...

71. The Fifth Trumpet (First Woe)

Revelation 8:6--9:21

Teach the Text

J. Scott Duvall

... the character of God as both loving and holy, compassionate and righteous, and serves as a warning to believers not to be deceived by idolatry (cf. texts that summarize the gospel such as John 3:16–21 and Rom. 6:23). 1. God is patient and long-suffering, desiring all people to repent and find life. Craig Keener reminds us that “the death of one-third of the world is judgment, but it is also mercy.”5We see God’s patience in the progressive nature of the judgments (e.g., from a fourth in the seals to ...

72. The Lord Speaks

Job 38:1--41:34

Understanding Series

Gerald H. Wilson

... as defining the nature of the world. Job’s own situation strongly establishes that this is not the case! Would you do this, God asks, to justify yourself? Vindication is what Job seeks. He knows he is righteous and yet suffers. The implication of Job’s desire for vindication in a world where retribution theology dominates is that for Job to be vindicated as right, God must be declared wrong. But is this what the narrator wishes to get across? Does he wish to say that Job is wrong and must repent? Have ...

73. In Search of a New Life

Revelation 21:1-5a

Sermon

King Duncan

... me. Let me tell you that Jesus is real. Let me tell you how He’s changed my life.” Lulu did listen, and she prayed to receive Jesus. And she says at that moment she found the love she’d been searching for her whole life. She instantly lost her desire for drugs. When the producers of Hee Haw saw how completely Lulu’s life had changed, they asked her to come back on the show. She used her fame to share her testimony of how Jesus had changed her life completely, how his love and grace had given her a ...

74. The Gift

Luke 2:1-20

Sermon

Will Willimon

... gifts, in front of the giver, and you are shocked, stunned by the gift you receive. But what can you say? ''Oh! Oh! Look at this! How interesting!'' Keillor, after musing on the perils of gift receiving, says, ''There is, for each person, a perfect gift, your heart's desire, and nobody can give it to you except yourself." I see what he is getting at. But I don't agree. Christmas Eve is when Christians gather to celebrate a great gift. Unto us a child is born, a son is given. But the Bible tells us that the ...

75. Lust - To Discipline The Eye And The Heart

Matthew 5:27-30

Sermon

R. Curtis Fussell

... were to ask people who have lived to a ripe old age what they were looking for in life, I can almost guarantee you that 99 out of 100 will say, "I was looking for love." Among all the things we want in life what tops the list is our desire for relationships, to be loved and to love someone else, to share a life of hopes and dreams, to have companionship. In other words, what people are really looking for is the kind of sharing and commitment you find only in marriage; yes, in marriage with all the wrinkles ...

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