Future Grace Seminar/Session 9: How Does It Work Against Sin? Part 3

From Gospel Translations

Battling the Unbelief of Lust

Definition: Pursuing illicit thoughts or images in the mind with a view to stimulating sexual pleasures—with or without external stimuli.

Lust Grows out of Suppressing the Knowledge of God and His Promises

Ephesians 4:22

Lay aside the old self, which is being corrupted in accordance with the lusts of deceit.

1 Peter 1:14

As obedient children, do not be conformed to the former lusts which were yours in your ignorance.

1 Thessalonians 4:4-5

Each of you [should] know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor, not in lustful passion, like the Gentiles who do not know God.

2 Peter 1:3-4

His divine power has granted to us everything pertaining to life and godliness, through the true knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and excellence. 4 For by these He has granted to us His precious and magnificent promises, so that by them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world by lust.

It Is a Lie that Losing Sex Is Losing Something Essential

Psalm 84:11

For the LORD God is a sun and shield; the LORD gives grace and glory; no good thing does He withhold from those who walk uprightly.

The Gain through Purity Is Unspeakable

Matthew 5:8

Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

Unfought Lust Will Destroy the Soul

Matthew 5:28-29 (See Future Grace, p. 329)

I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart. 29 "If your right eye makes you stumble, tear it out and throw it from you; for it is better for you to lose one of the parts of your body, than for your whole body to be thrown into hell.

1 Peter 2:11

Beloved, I urge you as aliens and strangers to abstain from fleshly lusts which wage war against the soul.

Luke 8:14

The seed which fell among the thorns, these are the ones who have heard, and as they go on their way they are choked with worries and riches and pleasures of this life, and bring no fruit to maturity.

Be Killing Sin Or It Will Be Killing You (John Owen)

Romans 8:12-13

So then, brethren, we are under obligation, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh — for if you are living according to the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you are putting to death the deeds of the body, you will live.