To be an active intentional follower of Jesus

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To be an active intentional follower of Jesus

• What keeps us from having real communion with
  God?
• It is the things with which we fill our minds,
  wills and emotions!
• The only cure is to confess, repent, and let the
  love of God in Christ Jesus erase them from our
  souls... regularly

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Matt 527-28

• You have heard that the law of Moses says, Do
  not commit adultery. But I say, anyone who even
  looks at a woman with lust in his eye has already
  committed adultery with her in his heart.

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To Lust To Covet

• ?p???µ?? ?p???µ?a, (epi, upon, used intensively,
  thumos, passion), to strongly desire to have what
  belongs to someone else and/or to engage in an
  activity which is morally wrongto covet, to
  lust, evil desires, lust, desire.

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Adultery

• giving ones heart or body to someone other
  than the one we have a covenant with...
• In human terms its having a physical or emotional
  relationship with someone other than our spouse
• In spiritual terms its filling our soul with
  things that quench the Spirit that God has put
  within us.. It isnt primarily our actions its
  our attitudes our passions

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Listen! The Lord is not too weak to save you, and
he is not becoming deaf. He can hear you when you
call. But there is a problemyour sins have cut
you off from God. Because of your sin, he has
turned away and will not listen anymore. Isa
591-3 (NLT)
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But each one is tempted when he is carried
away and enticed by his own lust. Then when
lust has conceived, it gives birth to sin and
when sin is accomplished, it brings forth death.
James 114-15 (NASB)
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What is causing the quarrels and fights among
you? Isnt it the whole army of evil desires at
war within you? You want what you dont have, so
you scheme and kill to get it. You are jealous
for what others have, and you cant possess it,
so you fight and quarrel to take it away from
them. James 41-2
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      The unspiritual self, just as it is by
nature, cant receive the gifts of Gods Spirit.
Theres no capacity for them. They seem like so
much silliness.
1 Co 214ff
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So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord,
that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do,
in the futility of their thinking. They are
darkened in their understanding and separated
from the life of God because of the ignorance
that is in them due to the hardening of their
hearts.
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Having lost all sensitivity, they have given
themselves over to sensuality so as to indulge in
every kind of impurity, with a continual lust for
more. Eph 417-19
(NIV)
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Confess your sins to each other and pray for each
other so that you may be healed. The earnest
prayer of a righteous person has great power and
wonderful results.
James 516 (NLT)
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24 Those who belong to Christ Jesus have
crucified the sinful nature with its passions and
desires. Galatians
524 (NIV)
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Spiritually alive, we have access to everything
Gods Spirit is doing, and cant be judged by
unspiritual critics.
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Isaiahs question, Is there anyone around who
knows Gods Spirit, anyone who knows what he is
doing? has been answered Christ knows, and we
have Christs Spirit.
1 Co 214-16
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But when the Holy Spirit controls our lives, he
will produce this kind of fruit in us love, joy,
peace, patience, kindness, goodness,
faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.
Galatians 522-23
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Spirit can be known only by spiritGods Spirit
and our spirits in open communion.
1 Co 214ff
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Do not let sin control the way you live do not
give in to its lustful desires. Do not let any
part of your body become a tool of wickedness, to
be used for sinning.
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Instead, give yourselves completely to God since
you have been given new life. And use your whole
body as a tool to do what is right for the glory
of God. Romans 611-14 (NLT)
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• The man without the Spirit does not accept the
  things that come from the Spirit of God, for they
  are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand
  them, because they are spiritually discerned. The
  spiritual man makes judgments about all things,
  but he himself is not subject to any mans
  judgment 1 Co 214-16

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1 Corinthians 1014-16 (NLT)

• So, my dear friends, flee from the worship of
  idols. 15 You are reasonable people. Decide for
  yourselves if what I am about to say is true. 16
  When we bless the cup at the Lords Table, arent
  we sharing in the benefits of the blood of
  Christ? And when we break the loaf of bread,
  arent we sharing in the benefits of the body of
  Christ?

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1 Corinthians 1016-18 (NLT)

• When we bless the cup at the Lords Table, arent
  we sharing in the benefits of the blood of
  Christ? And when we break the loaf of bread,
  arent we sharing in the benefits of the body of
  Christ? And we all eat from one loaf, showing
  that we are one body. And think about the nation
  of Israel all who eat the sacrifices are united
  by that act

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1 Corinthians 1021 (NLT)

• You cannot drink from the cup of the Lord and
  from the cup of demons, too. You cannot eat at
  the Lords Table and at the table of demons, too.
  

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• It's not having what you want, but wanting what
  you got. Sheryl Crow

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COVET, COVETOUS, COVETOUSNESS

• A. Verbs.
• 1.     EPITHUMEO (e?p???µe?), to fix the desire
  upon (epi, upon, used intensively, thumos,
  passion), whether things good or bad hence, to
  long for, lust after, covet, is used with the
  meaning to covet evilly (Acts 2033, of coveting
  money and apparel)