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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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76. Being Set Free

John 8:31-41

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Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... , but because we just can’t seem to help it. Our way of life - our habits and weaknesses, our shortcomings - has often enslaved us, and we have heavy guilt on our backs. "Show me," said Seneca, "anyone who is not a slave. One is a slave to lust, and another to avarice, and a third to ambition; all alike to fear" (Interpreter’s Bible, Vol. VIII). "No one," as Goethe put it, "is more of a slave than he who thinks himself free without being so" (Interpreter’s Bible, Vol. VIII). "Where one has once passed ...

77. Embalmed Leaders

John 10:1-21

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... dear friends, we have often been acting like hirelings, because men throughout the world are now convinced that we don’t care for the sheep, that anything that we do, no matter how benevolent it might look on the surface, is still motivated by our own lust for profit or prestige or world power, that our only real concern is the preservation of what we like to call our "American way of life." This means being a millionare in the world when everyone else is starving, if necessary. Well, aren’t they right ...

78. The Level Ground Beneath The Cross

Romans 3:21-31, Romans 3:9-20

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... are involved in sin: throat, tongue, lips, and mouth. Then he goes on to charge that our eyes and feet are servants of sin also. We may not have killed anyone but we have hated plenty of folks. We may not have committed adultery but we are no strangers to lust. We choose up sides along class and racial lines. We say "In God we trust," but often our trust is less in God and more in the dollar bill on which the motto is printed. Because of envy and jealousy, we don't fully rejoice even when good things happen ...

79. Balaam and His Talking Donkey

Numbers 22:21-41

Sermon

Don Yocom

... hope of salvation, so needed in that day as well as in ours. You can have all that the world offers, and do all kinds of worthwhile things, and still lose your soul. 1 John 2:16 says, "For all that is in the world, - the lust of the flesh (the craze for sex) ... - the lust of the eyes (ambition to get all you can) ... - the pride of life (position and material security), is not of the Father but is of the world." Can we recognize when God speaks to us? Surely there are signs for us to see, if we but ...

80. Wheel Within The Wheel

Acts 1:12-26

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Durwood L. Buchheim

... insatiable. I am discovering that the sins and temptations of the flesh have a way of diminishing in intensity with the advancing years. But not my greed. My fascination with the toys of the world grows stronger with the years. I don’t lust after women, I lust after comfort and things. That is why leaders dare not forget the one they are following. Under Christ, leading and loving go together. There is an excellent text in 1 Peter that brings this leadership business into healthy focus: "I exhort the ...

81. Augustine, Defender of the Faith

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Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... It is always a struggle to be a Christian. If we are not struggling, we probably don’t yet have the correct concept of what it means to be a disciple of Jesus Christ. Those evil desires of our imperfect nature tempt and convince us, also: • that lust to possess others sexually; • that greed to get and keep all we can; • that self-centered ego which tells us to tramp on others to get ahead; • that lack of self-esteem which drives us to be critical of everyone else; • and that which our American ...

82. The Miracle of Salvation

Isaiah 52:13--53:12

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... was the thing Jesus told us about guilt - all of our rebellion is against God. We may think it is our fellow men whom we seek to destroy because they get in our way but in actuality we are striking out at God. In the coveting, the pride, the lust, and all of the rest of it, is a deep-seated rebellion against the creator, a movement to usurp the sovereignty of God and replace it with the sovereignty of man. They killed him because they couldn’t face him - because He saw through them. He offered healing He ...

83. A New Kind of Teaching

Mark 1:21-28

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Maurice A. Fetty

... this space island, has done its share of sacrificing to demons -- the demons of war, hate, revenge, perverted sex, unbridled lust for power, uncontrolled greed, distorted ambition. Like the boys, many of us have been running desperately along the beaches of ... submit themselves to his teaching he casts out the demons, calling them by name -- fear, guilt, envy, jealousy, lust, negativism, slander, deceit, revenge, greed. Uncontrolled, these demons will destroy life on this beautiful island in space. Sociology ...

84. Astonishing!

Mark 1:21-28

Sermon

Brett Blair

... nature. Now, I don’t know what moral issue this man had but it was tearing him up. What do you think it was? You pick one: a demon of hate, revenge, perverted sex, unbridled lust for power, uncontrolled greed, distorted ambition, fear, guilt, envy, jealousy. Or perhaps it was the demon of lust, negativism, slander, deceit, revenge, greed, gossip. Which one? These demons are all around us and uncontrolled, these demons will destroy life. A third thing to notice is that this man had given authority to this ...

85. Man, Where Are You?

Genesis 3:1-24

Sermon

Alton F. Wedel

... . And that temptation isn’t on a baited hook that someone dangles like a lure before our eyes. It’s on the inside that the prod to outlaw God is felt. Sometimes it comes disguised as piety, or in questions that concern our daily needs, or in lust for power and success, pride and self-esteem, the knowledge we have gained, our role in life. It appeals where the appeal is felt most strongly - from within the heart. "Man, where are you?" Are you walking in the strength of God, deploying the resources he has ...

86. A Soap Opera For Saints

2 Samuel 11:1-27

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King Duncan

... astride the great horse, and they ride into the morning as one. Lewis ends his story with these words: "What is a lizard compared with a stallion?" Then he gives us the key to his story. "Lust," he writes, "is a poor, weak, whimpering, whispering thing compared with that richness and energy of desire which will arise when lust has been killed!"(3) Are you settling for a lizard when you could ride a stallion? God has given humanity the gift of sexuality as a means of bonding men and women together in a life ...

87. You Shall Call His Name Jesus

Matthew 1:18-25

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King Duncan

... you don't mind, but I told her that you were amazed at the way she had built up this small town library, and that you thought she showed good taste in the new books she ordered." (3) Love works. Not the cheap shoddy combination of sentimentalism and lust that the world calls love. But the spirit of good will and faith which we normally characterize as the Christmas spirit. Jesus can save us from our sins when we remember that all persons are part of his family “and when we live in our daily lives that ...

88. What Is The Question?

Job 38:1--41:34

Sermon

Charles R. Leary

... from under his feet, making deserts, deserts, deserts... "What man calls civilization always results in deserts. Man is never on the square; he uses up the fat and greenery of the earth. Each generation wastes a little more of the future with greed and lust for riches. North Africa was once a garden spot and then came Carthage and Rome and despoiled the storehouse and now you have Sahara; Sahara, ants and centipedes.... "...the deserts of the near east followed Egypt and Babylon and Assyria and Persia and ...

89. Three Words America Needs to Hear

Acts 24:1-27

Sermon

Edward Inabinet

... not release him. He kept putting him off and would not decide Paul''s case, because he hoped to get some money from him. The Roman historian, Tacitus, who chronicled the life of Felix, offered this conclusion about him: he reveled in cruelty and lust. However, what Paul said to Felix and Drusilla that day caused them to shake in their boots. Paul spoke three words that America needs to hear today:righteousness, self-control, and God''s judgment. He spoke, first of all, about Christ and righteousness. When ...

90. What’s the Good Word?

John 1:1-18

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... to do at their desk. And poor Steven Seymour mistranslated one of the President’s words of greetings to the Polish people. When the President indicated that he had a desire for something, poor Steven Seymour mistranslated it and used a Polish word which meant “lust” rather than mere desire, thereby shocking then Polish Prime Minister Giereck and his Polish audience profoundly. Perhaps Mr. Seymour had somewhere in the back of his mind the famous Playboy article in which Mr. Carter admitted that he had ...

91. The Glorious Interpolation

John 7:45--8:11

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Donald B. Strobe

... not strictly true. There is a judgment which springs not merely from what Jesus said, but from what he was. The love in Him judged the hatred in them; the purity in Him judged the lust in her. Writing of this Scriptural event, the poet Whittier penned these profound lines: Thou judgest us: Thy purity Dost all our lusts condemn; The Love that drawest us nearer Thee Is hot wrath to them. And so it was. One by one they dropped their stones and tried to creep away with whatever dignity they could muster under ...

92. Afraid of Sanity

Mark 5:1-20

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Donald B. Strobe

... restore him to his right mind. He has authority over even the demonic: “Come out of him, you unclean spirit!” (v 8) He says. And it is done. Just so Jesus has cast unclean spirits out of men and women down through the ages - spirits of greed, lust, hypocrisy, aggression. That is not theory, it is history. Jesus asks the unclean spirit, “What is your name?” to know one’s name is to know much about the individual-to have power over him, according to ancient belief. And the man’s reply has given a ...

93. The Lord's Prayer: Deliver us from Evil

Matthew 6:5-13

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... LIVE spelled backwards. So Evil, in the sense that Dr. Peck shares, is the exact opposite of the way that God intended us to LIVE. Instead of living life with God''s design, we "lust" to live on our own dreams and desires. Dr. Calvin Miller shares in his marvelous writing AN OVERTURE OF LIGHT on page 46: "All lust is strong narcotic Nominating different hungers Which we suppose we need: Wine, wantonness, food and leisure All kill us one link at a time And in the coiling, spiraling still Inch by inch, they ...

94. A Converting Presence

1 John 2:28--3:10

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Maxie Dunnam

... . Just recognize that they’re a part of us, and don’t be embarrassed and don’t think that you’re less than human, or don’t think that you’re only human. Recognize them. Then name them. It’s very important that you name them. If it’s lust, name it as lust. If it’s raging ambition, name it as raging ambition. If it’s insecurity, name it for what it is. And then affirm that it’s a part of you. Now that’s very important. Affirm that it is a part of you. These things that we’re ...

95. Put To Death The Old; Put On The New

Colossians 3:1-17

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Maxie Dunnam

... fulfillment we have created a promiscuous society driven by sexual passions. Witness the rampant proliferation of pornography, and the pervasion of sex symbols in advertising. Modern and relevant? Dirty-mindedness and uncontrolled passion? We see it everywhere. And it may not be lust for other people's goods, but certainly selfishness and greed is rampant -- bringing scandal to the chambers of government in Washington. Paul makes his call to put off the old nature and put on the new even more emphatic as he ...

96. My Prayer For You: Barefoot Days of the Soul

Galatians 5:1-15

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Maxie Dunnam

... sin. But it is an ongoing struggle. You have experienced it – and you know how awful it feels. …to give in to the temptation to lie, or simply not to tell the whole truth. …to allow sexual lust to tease your mind and claim your attention; perhaps even to go all the way and allow the lust to conceive and bring forth the sin of adultery or fornication …to harbor racial prejudice that prevents you from being the “good neighbor” Jesus calls us to be. …to give in to your selfish desires of getting ...

97. Let Me Say That Again

John 14:15-31

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Maxie Dunnam

... life - of twelve-step programs that had tremendous meaning - especially in terms of support and acceptance. But then he made this powerful statement - “It was not until I accepted the love of Christ, and repented, that I was loosed from the power of my homosexual lust.” He left that lifestyle, answered the call to preach, has spent four years at Asbury - and is now being appointed to serve a local church. That young man will be able to talk about the love of God, a love which forgives and transforms - a ...

98. Suffering in Sin

2 Samuel 11:1-27

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Elizabeth Achtemeier

... confronted David with his sin in what was a masterful sermon. After arousing David's anger with the story of the rich man who stole the poor man's little lamb, Nathan whirled on David and accused him, "You are the man!" David deserved death for his lustful coveting and adultery with Bathsheba, for his robbery of her, for his deceitfulness and finally murder of Uriah. And David recognizes his sin (2 Samuel 12:13); that is at least a first step in his repentance. But sin does not go unpunished by God, and it ...

99. Get a Peace of the Rock

Luke 10:1-24

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Leonard Sweet

... . Brother killed brother. We are all descendants of Cain. We are the species that likes to kill. In fact, we kill everything. We are a killing race of yahoos. Our "thirst for life" is in reality a thirst for blood. Again, the biblical explanation of this blood-lust is clear and concise. When the first human beings in direct disobedience to divine orders ate the fruit of the tree of "the knowledge of good and evil," their eyes and hearts were opened. Knowing evil, knowing how to act in ways that fly in the ...

100. Christmas Eve\Christmas Day

Luke 2:1-7, Isaiah 9:1-7, Psalm 96:1-13, Titus 2:1-15, Luke 2:8-20

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Marion L. Soards, Thomas B. Dozeman, Kendall McCabe

... kind of living. First, in the present, a steady transformation occurs in the lives of believers, so that they deliberately move away from impiety and worldly passions (literally, "worldly lusts"). Doing away with such inappropriate attitudes and practices is not, however, merely putting on a facade of piety, for growth away from impiety and worldly lusts is the result of the operation of grace in the lives of the believers. It is not that we are saved and, therefore, we must act a certain way; rather ...

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