Inordinate desire is the root or source of all sin. These desires arise out of that mind set that is opposed to God and are the essence of what the world offers and grasps after. No matter what we do we are either doing the Lord's will and carrying out His desires, or we are doing own will and following our own desires. This means we are always advancing one of these and suppressing the other. Believers are exhorted time and again not to follow worldly lusts and examples are given of those who did not control their desires and the end that came of them. These examples are given to warn believers to be vigilant in ruling their desires. Our battle with fleshly desires is real, it is constant and it will at times be fierce, thus it is only through Christ's power and enabling that the victory can be found. Our salvation from beginning to end rests upon God's mercy and grace, but this doesn't mean we don't need to fight against the sin that remains in our lives, nor does it mean that we are to fight against this sin in our own strength. It is to Christ that we must turn all the time, for all that we need resides in Him.
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“ Great Sermon! ” A wonderful Sermony
The sermony knocks heavily upon my heart.The force of the knock is real,and it is in hot pursuit of the lost sheep and endeavours to win permanent subscription of the saved souls.The word sounds new and fresh and it quenches all the facets of human life complex as it may be.It remains relevant to all people of diverse backgrounds.
Adolfo Mendez (10/25/2006)
from Illinois
“ AWESOME, POWERFUL Sermon! ” EVERY WORD OF THIS SERMON IS POWERFUL. Consider: The world is constanlty bombarding us with desires that are opposed to God and fight against God. Do not love this world or the things in the world.
Sin is desiring what God has forbidden.
"...to pamper these lusts and desires is to strengthen them...when they are in charge, they are tryants and they are destroyers.
"When you increase the strength of any fleshly desire, you at the same time weaken your ability to walk in the Spirit—that is, you weaken your ability to walk in the victory of Christ, in His power and His grace.
"Jesus taught when we desire anything other than Him and His will these other desires 'choke' the Word and it becomes unfruitful (Mark 4:19). The delight and appreciation in God's word vanished. The Word of God becomes as meaningless as an old newspaper.
When we give into our desires, we cannot control the direction they will go. We are at the mercy of our lusts. The desire becomes our Lord.
We must we rip them out without mercy.
Rom. 6:12
The only escape route is Jesus Christ. "Lord, give me the desire to desire what is right." It's only in His grace that our sufficiency is found. We fight against sin, not in our own strength, but in God's (Titus 2:11-14).
Derek Carlsen is a native Zimbabwean and was a resident in that country until he was called to be the pastor of the Church of Christian Liberty from April 2003 to September 2005. Following this, he became founding pastor of Covenant Reformed Church of Elk Grove in Elk Grove...
