FIGHT THE GOOD FIGHT AGAINST THE LUST OF THE EYES

“37 Again the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 38 “Speak to the children of Israel: Tell them to make tassels on the corners of their garments throughout their generations, and to put a blue thread in the tassels of the corners. 39 And you shall have the tassel, that you may look upon it and remember all the commandments of the Lord and do them, and that you may not follow the harlotry to which your own heart and your own eyes are inclined, 40 and that you may remember and do all My commandments, and be holy for your God. 41 I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: I am the Lord your God.” (Numbers 15:37-41).

What are you looking at? What is the Devil putting in front of your eyes? What images draw your attention off of purity and holiness? There are many examples in the scriptures about those who fell into this sin by simply looking at the wrong thing, then allowing the lust to drive their heart from what God wants to what the devil wants. Such as Sensual Lust / David and Bathseba – 2 Samuel 11, Covetious Material / Achan – Joshua 7. But God says, “Let your conduct be without covetousness; be content with such things as you have. For He Himself has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.””  (Heb. 13:5).  God says, Keep Your Eyes On What You Love: Love God – Matt. 22:37-38; Matt. 6:19-21, Love Truth – 2 Thess. 2:9-10 and Love One Another – John 13:34-35.

In this lesson we will expound on these things…