You have power over sexual lust. You are not addicted to pornography. Or sexual immorality. You can defeat them. But you must understand how sexual lust operates in order to conquer it.
The Apostle Peter gives you the formula in his first letter. He writes:
“As obedient children, do not conform to the evil desires you had when you lived in ignorance.”
1 Peter 1:14 NIV
These evil desires are the evil lusts, evil urges, and evil, passionate longings that you faced before you were saved and that you still face after you are saved. The only difference is in what you do with these evil desires now. As you can see from this text, evil desires want you to conform to them. Evil lusts want you to mold your life around them. That’s why Peter commands you to not conform your life to your evil desires.
Victory in the Christian life comes not from having no evil desires
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