Lust Hurts.

Jesus said- If we love Him we will keep His commandments.

Exo 20:14  Thou shalt not commit adultery. 

Did you know that even lusting after another person that is not your spouse is adultery?  You don't have to have physical contact to commit adultery. Jesus said it is wrong, and it's the truth. So many people say it's harmless to look at others with lust, it's harmless to flirt, it's harmless to get aroused by others, that it's all natural. Guess what? It's not. It's our flesh nature that has been perverted by sin that has made the unnatural seem natural. Excuse it in whatever way you want to, and people want to, boy, do they want to. Come up with all kinds of reasons, explanations, excuses and so on and so forth that you want, you will NOT alter the WORD of GOD! What has been perverted by sin will never be considered good, never, no matter how many doctors, scientists, therapists, even ministers try to work it around to being acceptable, it is NOT. 

Lust HURTS, lust is SIN! It's NOT natural! We are NOT animals without higher thinking abilities.  We make CHOICES. We CHOOSE between right and wrong. We are TOLD what is right and what is wrong and then we have to choose between them. Lust hurts us, and it hurts others, and it hurts God.

Sin opened the door to the ability to choose wrong over obedience to God. We choose, no one makes the choice for us.

We face the choices and when we try to make our choice of sinning into something acceptable to God we are only being delusional. People have made great strides to call sin good and they've deluded most of the world's inhabitants. Satan, the wicked one, has manipulated people for thousands of years and they have fallen victim to his deceptions. God will allow the truth to be know if a person really wants to know the truth, most do not.

Remember Jesus said--

Joh_14:23  Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.

Do you love Jesus?  Jesus said…

Joh_14:15  If ye love me, keep my commandments.

Jesus took from the royal law the commandment about adultery and expounded on it as He expounded on others. He did NOT do away with any of the royal ten commandments, not one!

Jesus said this-

Mat 5:27  Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery: 

Mat 5:28  But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart. 

You don't have to physically commit the act of sex in order to commit adultery. You simply have to indulge in the lust in your mind and you've committed adultery.

The TEMPTATION towards lust isn't the sin, it's the INDULGENCE, the ACCEPTANCE, the ENCOURAGEMENT of lust that takes the temptation and turns it into sin.

So, if you're watching pornography you are doing so in order to feel the lust you obtain from watching it, and that is sin. If you're married, that is adultery, and if you're not married, it is fornication, both sins.

Sugarcoat it all you want until you twist things to call evil good and good evil, millions upon millions will do just that to their own condemnation.

If you've been caught up in the sins of lust, married or unmarried, you need to REPENT - forsake and give up the sins- and seek forgiveness!

Adultery also has a more far reaching meaning as well… in the example of God and His chosen people-

Jer 3:20  Surely as a wife treacherously departeth from her husband, so have ye dealt treacherously with me, O house of Israel, saith the LORD. 

Jer 3:8  And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also. 

Jer 3:9  And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom, that she defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones and with stocks. 

Jer 3:10  And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah hath not turned unto me with her whole heart, but feignedly, saith the LORD. 

Rev 18:2  And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird. 

Rev 18:3  For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies. 

Rev 18:4  And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. 

Rev 18:5  For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities. 

We are told to COME OUT OF BABYLON, come out of the lifestyle that calls evil - good and good - evil.

By the grace of God we need to know and follow the truth as God reveals it in His word. We are told to keep His commandments. We are told what the commandments are, and we treat them lightly without looking into the depths of them, into the heart of their truth. We say we keep the commandments all the while we break them over and over again because we do not know the heart of them. God help us all!

May we not be deceived! May we shun the life of modern day Babylonians and not partake of the sins of Babylon. May we NOT receive the plagues that will come upon those who embrace modern Babylon, please, LORD keep us from all evil! 

All through Your love, Lord Jesus, our Savior!