1 John 2:9-17, Lust or a Godly Desire? (2)

Again, note: how can we be sure we are led not by evil lusts but Godly desires?

·       2 Tim 4:3: time comes when they'll not endure sound doctrine but go after lusts

·       Titus 2:12: we should deny worldly lusts

·       Titus 3:3: we once served various lusts

·       Jas 1:14,15: man tempted when drawn away by lust; lust conceives, brings sin

·       1Pet 1:14: obedient children, not living acc. to former lusts

·       1 Pet 2:11: abstain from fleshly lusts

·       1 Pet 4:2,3: sufferers live his life in God's will, not for lusts of men; in time past we walked in lusts

·       2 Pt 1:4: corruption in the world through lust

·       2 Pt 2:10: judgment for those walking after flesh in lust of uncleanness

·       2 Pt 2:18: false teachers entice others through lust of the flesh

·       2 Pet 3:3: in last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts

·       1 Jn.2:16ab,17: lust of flesh, eyes are in world; world & lust passes away

·       Jude 16,18: murmurers & complainers, walking after their own lusts; in last time these heretics will walk after own ungodly lusts

·       Rev. 18:14: fruits thy soul hated are gone

epithumeō (verb): to lust, desire, long for

·       Mt. 5:28: whoever looks at a woman to lust has committed adultery with her

·       Mt. 13:17: many prophets, righteous men, desired to see what you see

·       Lk. 15:16: prodigal would gladly have filled his stomach with pig food

·       Lk. 16:21: Lazarus desiring to be fed with crumbs from rich man’s table

·       Lk. 17:22: days will come when disciples desire to see one of the days of the Son of Man and will not see it

·       Lk. 22:15: Jesus: "with desire (noun form) I have desired to eat Passover w/you"

·       Ac. 20:33: Paul: “I have coveted no one’s silver or gold or apparel

·       Rom. 7:7: Paul would not have known covetousness had law not said, “You shall not covet.”

·       Rom. 13:9: commandments: “You shall not covet.”

·       1 Cor. 10:6: OT stories are example so we should not lust after evil as they lusted (only use of “epithumetes,´one who craves).

·       Gal. 5:17: flesh lusts against the Spirit.

·       1 Tim. 3:1: if a man desires (Grk. oregō) office of bishop he desires a good work

·       Hb. 6:11: writer desires readers to be diligent to the end

·       Jas. 4:2: you lust and do not have

·       1 Pt. 1:12: angels desire to look into things Peter is speaking of

·       Rev. 9:6: in those days men will desire to die but death will flee from them