Sexual lust, fantasies are not evil. They are a very important part of God's sexual designed.
LUST
What is the context and how does masturbation fit in?
This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.
Gal. 5:16
1It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.
2Mark my words! I, Paul, tell you that if you let yourselves be circumcised, Christ will be of no value to you at all.
3Again I declare to every man who lets himself be circumcised that he is obligated to obey the whole law.
4You who are trying to be justified by law have been alienated from Christ; you have fallen away from grace.
5But by faith we eagerly await through the Spirit the righteousness for which we hope.
6For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value. The only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love.
7You were running a good race. Who cut in on you and kept you from obeying the truth?
8That kind of persuasion does not come from the one who calls you.
9"A little yeast works through the whole batch of dough."
10I am confident in the Lord that you will take no other view. The one who is throwing you into confusion will pay the penalty, whoever he may be.
11Brothers, if I am still preaching circumcision, why am I still being persecuted? In that case the offense of the cross has been abolished.
12As for those agitators, I wish they would go the whole way and emasculate themselves!
13You, my brothers, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the sinful nature [1]; rather, serve one another in love.
14The entire law is summed up in a single command: "Love your neighbor as yourself." [2] (only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another. )
15If you keep on biting and devouring each other, watch out or you will be destroyed by each other.
16So I say, live by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the sinful nature.( *walk by the Spirit, and you will not carry out *the desire of the flesh. )
17For the sinful nature desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the sinful nature. They are in conflict with each other, so that you do not do what you want.
18But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under law.
19The acts of the sinful nature are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; (fornication, uncleanness, licentiousness,)
20idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions
21and envy; drunkenness, orgies,( idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strifes, jealousies, angers, contentions, disputes, schools of opinion,
envyings, murders, drunkennesses, revels,) and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God.
22But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.
24Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the sinful nature with its passions and desires. 25Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit.
26Let us not become conceited, provoking and envying each other.
1.13 Or the flesh; also in verses 16, 17, 19 and 24
2.14 Lev. 19:18
Keep in context. Gal 5:19-26 The context is that they were arguing and fighting and not being loving at all, over the law, special over circumcision. Paul defines and spelled out what the sin nature is, as well as what are the actions of the fruits of the spirit. Basically how we treat each other. Masturbation as well as other basic needs, like eating food, going to the toilet, taking a shower, put cloth on, do not meet the description of the fruits of the flesh or sinful nature. But do reflex the fruits of the spirit. Masturbation (emptying your sexual fluids) is no more Idolatry then eating food or going to the bathroom and emptying your bladder. Masturbation doesn't cause sorcery, hatred, strifes, jealousies, angers, contentions, disputes, schools of opinion, envyings, murders, drunkenness, revels. Masturbation is loving yourself, (love your neighbor as you love yourself, love your wife as you love yourself) causes peace, joy, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness by taking away the sexual starvation which is causing you to act like a raging bull in the first place. Masturbation is and brings self-control causing you to have more control over preventing fornication and adultery. Instead of peeling your pant you show self control and go to the bathroom a head of time and empty it before it is full so you don't get out of control. Masturbation lets you empty your sexual sacks before your become a raging bull and you are greatly tempted to sin. Masturbation does not cause you to become conceited, provoking and envying of each other.
If you condemn sexual lust and sexual fantasies and sexual desires you are condemning God?s design of sexuality.
One major concern about sexuality for Christians is sexual lust. They feel that according to Matt. 5:28 that if you lust after a women you commit adultery. So sexual lust is a big concern.
I feel that Matt 5:28-30 is greatly misunderstood and greatly taken out of context.
Major contradiction-- verse used by anti-nudist people. Matt. 5:28 is totally misunderstood and taken out of context. "look at a women with lust...adultery" http://inkaboutit.homestead.com/Lustmt528.html
God designed every detail of our sexuality and said it was very good. An important part of God?s design is sexual lust and sexual fantasies. If a person could remove 100% sexual lust and sexual fantasies then God?s sexual design would not work. Without sexual lust and sexual fantasies and sexual desires, sexual hormones then there would be no babies and the human race would disappear from the earth. Look at the stong sex drive God designed into animals. Do you condemn animal for acting the way God designed them to act? Why do you condemn humans? God designed humans with a strong sex drive also. What list of sex rules did he give Adam and Eve?
Before puberty most children have little or no sexual fantasies or sexual lust. Most sexual lust and sexual fantasies and sexual desires, sexual hormones takes place after puberty. Before puberty guys mostly played with guys and girls play with girl and call the opposite sex names. Then after puberty and increase sex hormones then boys chase after girls and girls chase after boys. And there is a great increase in sexual lust, sexual fantasies, sexual desires, sexual hormones and boys want to have sex with girls and girl want to have sex with boys. This is God design, not our design but God?s. God gave us strong sex drive for many reasons. This is God?s design so don?t condemn it. We need to apply the law of love to it.
Don?t just read one Bible verse (Matt 5:28) and make your conclusion about human sexual lust, which many do.
Look at Song of Solomon and all the sexual lust and they are not married. Look at all the sexual lust in all the Bible and that is not condemned. Jesus did not come to make changes to sexuality other then the law of love. He did not come to condemn every one of God design sexual lust and sexual fantasies. The Sermon on the Mount has be great misunderstood and has brought much legalism into the Church. If God had a major hang up with our sexuality he would have given Adam and Eve a long list of sex rules. He did not.
Lust is greatly misunderstood and misused by people. They forget God designed it and said it was good. We need to apply the law of love to it. We should not go around with a holier-then-thou attitude about sexual lust, sexual fantasies, sexual desires condemn all we see.
Sexual lust is not evil. Evil lust is evil. Lust to murder. Lust to steal. Lust to lie. Lust to hurt someone. Lust to hate.
Sexual lust, sexual fantasies, and sexual desires are not evil, they are God?s design. King David and Solomon and many others Godly leaders, had a lot of lust for women and nothing wrong with that.
Don?t call God design evil. Look at some of these web sites.
Take a look at some very sexy verses from the Song of Song. Song of Songs is a very sexy and lusty book in the Bible which most preaches avoid or if they read it they change it all around to try to make it mean something else. http://inkaboutit.homestead.com/sos.html
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