LUST IS TO SATAN AS LOVE IS TO GOD.

THE CALLED & DIVINELY CHOSEN:

THE BIBLE DEFINES “LOVE” AS BEING THE GENUINE CHARACTERISTIC OR SYMBOL OF GOD THE FATHER. [1 JOHN, 4:8] WHILE LUST, ON THE OTHER HAND, IS THE OPPOSITE OF LOVE, AND LUST COMES FROM THE PIT OF HELL, CHANNELS THROUGH THE FLESH TO RUIN MANKIND REGARDLESS OF THEIR FAITH FOR OR BELIEF.

LUST COMES IN DIFFERENT SHAPES AND FORMS.

IT MAY BE LUST FOR POWER, FOR MONEY, OR IN THE FORM OF SEXUAL IMMORALITY, WHICH CAN EASILY BE MISTAKEN AS GENUINE LOVE.

LUST AS A TEMPTING SPIRIT HAS THE POWER TO OVERCOME THE FLESH AS FAST AS THE EYE CAN BLINK, AND WITHOUT THE HELP OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, NO ONE CAN OVERCOME LUST.

LUST IS TO SATAN AS LOVE IS TO GOD.

JOHN 2: 16 “FOR ALL THAT IS IN THE WORLD, THE LUST OF FLESH, AND THE LUST OF THE EYES, AND PRIDE OF LIFE IS NOT OF THE FATHER, BUT OF THE WORLD.

SATAN OFTEN USES LUST TO TEMPT AND DRAG BELIEVERS AWAY FROM GOD THROUGH THEIR DESIRE FOR THE FLESH.

LUST IS THE FOUNDATION OF ADULTERY; IT STARTS FROM LOOKING AND WILL MAKE ITS WAY TO THE HEART, AND WILL FINALLY CORRUPT THE SOUL. [JAMES, 1: 14-15]

IN CONCLUSION: AS FOLLOWERS OF CHRIST, WE ARE THE TARGET OF SATAN, THEREFORE WE MUST ALWAYS BE ON THE LOOKOUT, [1 PETER, 5: 8] INSTEAD OF HIDING OURSELVES UNDER THE PHRASE OF “I AM HUMAN”, AND STEEL ONESELF FROM THE GUILT OF ADULTERY AND LIVING COMFORTABLY IN SIN THAT MAY RUIN OUR CHANCES FOR THE RAPTURE.

LET US REMEMBER THAT THE SINS REPENTED FROM MUST BE FORSAKEN IF WE ARE NOT TO BETRAY THE DEATH OF CHRIST ON THE CROSS. [HEBREWS, 6: 4-5]