02 - Lust
Channel: LOFT City Church
Date: 2015-05-05

Lust - It Demands, Militates and Tyrannizes our Lives
Judges 13-16

Key Passage: Samson went to Gaza, and there he saw a prostitute, and he went in to her. The Gazites were told, "Samson has come here." And they surrounded the place and set an ambush for him all night at the gate of the city. They kept quiet all night, saying, "Let us wait till the light of the morning; then we will kill him." But Samson lay till midnight, and at midnight he arose and took hold of the doors of the gate of the city and the two posts, and pulled them up, bar and all, and put them on his shoulders and carried them to the top of the hill that is in front of Hebron.  (Judges 16:1-5)

Lust’s passions will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.(The Marquis de Sade)

I.  An unguarded strength is the gateway for the enemy

And the people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, so the LORD gave them into the hand of the Philistines for forty years. (Judges 13:1 ESV)

Therefore be careful and drink no wine or strong drink, and eat nothing unclean, for behold, you shall conceive and bear a son. No razor shall come upon his head, for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb, and he shall begin to save Israel from the hand of the Philistines.” (Judges 13:4-5 ESV)

Samson went down to Timnah and saw there a young Philistine woman. 2 When he returned, he said to his father and mother, “I have seen a Philistine woman in Timnah; now get her for me as my wife.”.” (Judges 14:1-2)

II.  Lust is not a pet to be fed, but a beast to be caged.

I will establish my church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. (Matthew 16:18)

III.  When we are cut off from our strength, we will be chained to our weaknesses.

And she said, “The Philistines are upon you, Samson!” And he awoke from his sleep and said, “I will go out as at other times and shake myself free.” But he did not know that the LORD had left him. (Judges 16:20)