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GOD-SHAPED LOOK AT THE ADDICTIVE
NATURE OF SIN *** The Seductive Nature
of Sexual Sin *** We have been talking about various addictions throughout
the week. Really there are many more that we will never cover. Kind of like
pick your poison. What effect bothers one individual may not bother you at
all. One person may struggle greatly with an alcohol problem or another may
struggle with drug addiction or one may struggle with sins of a sexual
nature. Tonight we will discuss the one that fall’s into that first category
“lust of the flesh”. So what we will be looking at “The Seductive Nature of
Sexual Sin”. “Having eyes full of
adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart
they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children: Which have
forsaken the right way, and are gone astray” (2 Peter 2:14, 15). Frightening Characteristics Of Sin
Addictive “Do you not know that if you
present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one
whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads
to righteousness” (Rom. 6:16).Deceptive “But exhort one another every day, as
long as it is called “today,” that none of you may be hardened by the
deceitfulness of sin” (Hebrews 3:13).ConsumingOne can commit a particular sin
so long that he loses all resolve to stop sinning!2 Peter 2:1-3 (ESV) 1 But
false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will be false
teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even
denying the Master who bought them, bringing upon themselves swift
destruction. 2 And many will follow their sensuality, and because of them the
way of truth will be blasphemed. 3 And in their greed they will exploit you
with false words. Their condemnation from long ago is not idle, and their
destruction is not asleep. 2 Peter 2:10-21 (ESV) 10 and especially those who
indulge in the lust of defiling passion and despise authority. Bold and
willful, they do not tremble as they blaspheme the glorious ones, 11 whereas
angels, though greater in might and power, do not pronounce a blasphemous
judgment against them before the Lord. 12 But these, like irrational animals,
creatures of instinct, born to be caught and destroyed, blaspheming about
matters of which they are ignorant, will also be destroyed in their destruction,
13 suffering wrong as the wage for their wrongdoing. They count it pleasure
to revel in the daytime. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their
deceptions, while they feast with you. 14 They have eyes full of adultery,
insatiable for sin. They entice unsteady souls. They have hearts trained in
greed. Accursed children! 15 Forsaking the right way, they have gone astray.
They have followed the way of Balaam, the son of Beor, who loved gain from
wrongdoing, 16 but was rebuked for his own transgression; a speechless donkey
spoke with human voice and restrained the prophet’s madness. 17 These are
waterless springs and mists driven by a storm. For them the gloom of utter
darkness has been reserved. 18 For, speaking loud boasts of folly, they entice
by sensual passions of the flesh those who are barely escaping from those who
live in error. 19 They promise them freedom, but they themselves are slaves
of corruption. For whatever overcomes a person, to that he is enslaved. 20
For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the
knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in
them and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.
21 For it would have been better for them never to have known the way of
righteousness than after knowing it to turn back from the holy commandment
delivered to them. |
