OVERCOMING YOUTHFUL SEXUAL LUSTS, PART 2
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Working Scripture: Genesis 3:6
Gen 3:6 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.
As we highlighted for part 1, we are going to from the underlined in our working scripture, again, the processes or stages that Eve went through with the forbidden fruit:
- She made eye contact with the forbidden fruit and could not take her eyes away from it. (pleasant to the eye).
- Her heart desired to have a taste of the fruit (a tree to be desired).
- In between, before she took the fruit, she must have planned how to pluck the fruit.
- She carried out her heart desire by eating the fruit. She took action (and did eat)
- Consequently, she became lost to death (God’s judgement).
For part 1, we dealt with the first stage of lust by drawing reference from the first action of Eve concerning the forbidden fruit but now we want to go to the second stage by drawing reference to the second action of Eve.
SECOND STAGE OF LUST (THE DESIRE STAGE)
Lust at this stage can be given by the acronym below
L -LONGING for
U -UNGODLY
S -SEXUAL
T -TOUCH/TASTE/TEST/TRIAL
The first stage of lust directly leads to the second stage of lust. In this second stage, your heart plays back whatever images of sexual targets your eyes have captured and desires to see them again or even have a feel or touch of those images.
The major agent at work here is the heart. The heart works like a storage device of a computer which can give you back whatever information you have stored in it. At this stage, the heart plays back for you all the pornographic images and sexual targets your eyes have captured and goes a step further by processing them for you. The heart can make you imagine how it will be if you have a real touch or a real taste or a real test or a feel of those sexual targets your eyes have captured. The desire or passion at this stage can be so intense and disturbing even after the images are out of sight of that youth because of the ability of your heart to act involuntarily on the signal.
Because of this sensitive nature of the heart, the scripture charges us to be cautious our hearts.
Proverb 4: 23 Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.
Let it be stressed that lustful signals can also be fed into the heart through other agents like the ears and the mouth if you keep hearing sensuous songs and saying sensuous words. Many songs that the youths of today listen to are erotica in content. When you store such into your heart, your heart can play them back for you at will and then fill you with desire to actualize the content. Even many dance steps are erotica and youths expose themselves to such dance steps.
The Lord, Jesus Christ, Himself, calls this stage of the lust, ‘adultery of the heart’ and it is a sin just as the lust of the eyes is a sin.
Mathew 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.
Can we also see in this scripture that lust of eyes leads to lustful sexual desire in the heart because a man that must lust after a woman or a 'sexual target' must haven the woman, first, and be pleasant with that sight before he goes further to desiring a sexual taste of that woman or that target.
Pro 6:25 Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.
Proverb 6:25 above emphasizes beauty and eyelids as some of the sexual targets a man can lust after in his heart. Man should wonder less why many women today spend so much money on artificial ‘beauty’, eyelashes and attires of harlot– just to seduce or get men to lust after them. You are counseled not to be victims of these.
If you found out that your heart is always desiring to have a touch/taste/test of any sexual object you are exposed to, please, quickly deal with it or seek help. It might be lust of the heart.
The short video below shows a young man that is seriously ‘Longing for Ungodly Sexual Taste' (or perhaps Touch or Test) in his heart after her sexual object/target– Lust of the heart (adultery of the heart).
This was how Eve desired to taste the forbidden fruit. For Eve, lust at this stage is given by the acronym below.
L -LONGING for
U -UNGODLY
S -SINFUL
T -TOUCH
They desired to have a sinful touch and sinful taste of the forbidden fruit. Adam and Eve had been warned neither to touch nor eat the forbidden fruit.
Gen 3: 3 But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.
The instruction not to touch the fruit was perhaps to cast a stumbling block towards the eating of the fruit. After all, they could not eat the fruit if they did not touch. We can see that God did not really want them to eat. But here, we see Eve already desiring to touch and eat what her eyes had seen and was pleasant to them.
PRAYERS
Lord, Jesus Christ, heal me of all adultery of heart.
Lord, Jesus Christ, stretch out your hand into my heart and delete all lustful images that have been stored there.
Lord, help me to always stand by you at every stage of my decision making.
Fill my heart with your love.
Send the fire of the Holy Ghost into my heart and refine it.
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