what happens though if you don't cut that
umbilical cord of temptation when now
you have what's called lust okay I need
some John your lust come on over here
stand next to Maury I'm gonna embarrass
every single one of you guys today I'm
just kidding all right lust so if you
don't have a buffering zone if you don't
have standards and you don't take care
you're not far away from temptation
what's going to happen is you're going
to be nice and close to temptation and
then what's going to happen is you're
going to commit the sin of lust now lust
is a sin but lust is a sin of the heart
not necessarily an outward expression of
sin as of yet so you have temptation then
you have lust excuse me and lust
basically means when you begin to covet
okay we know this because Paul said in
in Romans chapter number seven I had not
known lust except the Bible said the
word of God said thou shall not covet
okay except the law has said thou shall
not covet and what he's referring to is
the fact that in the Old Testament in
Exodus chapter 20 the Bible says thou
shall not covet and then it goes through
various list of things you shouldn't
covet your neighbor's man-servant maid-servant
your neighbor's ass or your
neighbor's wife okay he's basically
saying don't lust after those things
to lust means to desire something that
doesn't belong to you okay so when you
allow yourself to be tempted now what
happens is that you create lust in your
heart for that which you should not have
that God doesn't want you to have okay
now we read the verse Matthew 5 says but
I say unto you whosoever looketh upon a
woman to lust after her hath committed
adultery where already in his heart says
you're committing adultery in the heart
it's not a physical adultery you say
well they're both bad yeah obviously
they're both bad I know that but both of
them are different degrees of sin
because one act of the actual act of
adultery will actually get you the death
penalty in the Old Testament himself
okay and so obviously they're different
because of the fact that we see the
repercussions of physical adultery is
actually the death penalty in the Bible
okay and so when you don't stay away
from temptation then you get involved in
lust now go to Proverbs chapter number
four if you would Proverbs chapter number
four what does this mean well this is
when you begin to entertain the thought
of having that which you should not have
you begin to entertain the possibilities
of what may come to pass if you play the
lottery and you make a million dollars
oh man if I just had a million dollars I
would tithe to the church hey I would I
would bypass your billing that would
therefore they don't have to blow up his
building it you come up with all these
reasonings in your mind like you know
God I would do something with it
righteous with it you begin to entertain
the possibilities of that temptation and
that is referred to as lust now you say
well you know what's wrong with the
little lust in my heart well here's
what's wrong with it is that once you've
entered into this stage you're pretty
much very close into entering with into
the next stage which is sin and every
single person I mean well not every
single person but there's many examples
in the Bible of people who temp were
tempted they lusted and they took let me
give an example Eve right she saw she
desired and she took and worst of all
she gave to her husband well what's the
problem with that I don't know you know
she just damned all of mankind condemned
all of mankind right now all of mankind
you know for for thousands of years
people have been dying and going to hell
and you know we have all this crazy
nonsense going on because of Eve sin you
know obviously there's some major
repercussions when you are tempted you
give in to that temptation you lust and
then you give in to sin