the sin of Lust -- by Bro Lloyd ( thur 25/10 )

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how you all doing,
 last Thursday's  meeting was just amazing !!! so many testimonies of our youth !!! it really encourages us to know that the Lord is in total control of our lives. Last Thursdays  talk was given by Bro. Lloyd Dias, and i believe his topic was basically a topic that no body wants to talk abt, its a topic that is so rampant in our society /city . the topic spoken yesterday was abt Lust . Lust is all abt ones selfish desire for craving that which he cannot and should not have. Well if we think this sin is new in our society , well think again , it been there ever since our 1st parents sinned. 
Even the "Man after Gods  own heart " --King David  has not been spared, he fell in love with Bathsheba . David committed adultery with Bathsheba and sent her husband Uriah to his death. For this, God rebuked David through Nathan the prophet, and told David that murder will be a constant threat to his family from this time on. David's first child by Bathsheba died seven days after birth. One of David's sons, Absalom, killed his half-brother Amnon, after Amnon raped Absalom's sister, Tamar. 
David had to pay the price for his sin he committed. David prayed for God to take away the consequences but he didn't. What pain David's sin brought to not only him but also Bathsheba who he eventually married. All through the rest of his life David had to live with the consequences but God still used him in a mighty way because he had forgiven him . 

If you read David's story his whole life was difficult including being disposed by his son Absolom who later died at the hands of David's men causing David much grief. But because David admitted his sin and moved on he wrote some of the most anointed psalms in the bible and even Jesus was called son of David.

So God blessed both David and Bathsheba with another son, Solomon, who was blessed with wisdom and riches that even the secular world knows about and he built the first temple of the lord at Jerusalem.

We can see various other example in the bible  where the lord punishes the one who sins in this manner, and as Bro Lloyd said never think the lord cannot see you, he knows your every move. Its really scary to know that most of us are not preparing for eternity ( me included ) ... sometimes we think we are here for eternity ..... but our  eternal  home is the place God is preparing for us. As Bro Lloyd put it, our judgement is faster that a blink of an eye ( Man !! that's scary). As bro Lloyd put it no one is spared frm the sin of Lust ( young -- old -- pastor or priest ) . 

But God has provided us a way out by sending his one and only son to DIE for us .And he has even take care of the sin of lust :
let look at how he has done this ( as narrated by Bro Lloyd ) . Jesus was crowned with the thorns , and by doing so had cleansed out our evil  thought and thinking pattern, and hence we are cleanse by claiming his blood.

Jesus was striped of his garments , this resemble all the rapes and murders that happen in our society, so even such worst sinner can be completely cleansed by claiming the blood of Jesus. 

Jesus was nailed  to the cross, his hands represent our hands that commit the act of sin. And by claiming his blood we are healed.

Saint Faustina in her book mention that our 1hour of meditation  on the passion of Jesus is great that one year of whipping your self .

Let us also take the help of our very own mother for intercessory pray to help us over come sin in this area .

I am sure this talk by Bro Lloyd helped us understan sin ( lust ) in  much better way and how to deal with it .

Please pray for his ministry (  pls take a look at this http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1141/is_17_42/ai_n16107691 )
 
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God Bless  



[ John 3:16 - For God so Loved the world that He gave His only begotten son, that whoever  believes in Him should not perish but have ever lasting life.]