IT IS LUST, NOT LOVE!

 ANCHOR OF LIFE DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE

SUNDAY, 13TH FEBRUARY, 2022

Author: PASTOR DR. SAMUEL AYORINDE

General Overseer

Today and tomorrow's Messages are specially designed to warn both the youth and married at this Valentine period not to mess up themselves in the name of love.

Topic: IT IS LUST, NOT LOVE

MEMORIZE: "Then David sent messengers, and took her; and she came to him, and he lay with her, for she was cleansed from her impurity; and she returned to her house."  2 Samuel 11: 4.

SCRIPTURE READING: 2 Samuel 11:2-4.

EXPOSITION:

Love and lust seem to be the same but are very different in meaning and in their end results. Love is from God. It is the root for peaceful co-existence and progress of any family or organization. But lust is a devourer of destiny and home. Love is not base primarily on sex or material benefits, but lust depends solely on sex and its financial and material benefits. You cannot love someone you don’t know or have relationship with, but lust can attract sex with the person seeing for the first time, without foreknowledge of him/her. Relationship based and powered by love bring peace, joy, progress and long life but any relationship based and motivated by lust bring death, injuries, regret and bitter end.

Let’s establish our facts from the Scriptures… 

David: Sexual relationship that happened between David and Bathsheba was powered by lust in David. Despite the fact that Bathsheba has married, and her husband was one of David’s faithful and committed boys at the war front, yet he will not think of this but just to satisfy his immediate need - sexual desire. At the end, he earned curse from God upon himself and his family. “'Now therefore, the sword shall never depart from your house, because you have despised Me, and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife.' "Thus says the LORD: 'Behold, I will raise up adversity against you from your own house; and I will take your wives before your eyes and give them to your neighbor, and he shall lie with your wives in the sight of this sun. 'For you did it secretly, but I will do this thing before all Israel, before the sun.'" 2 Samuel 12:10-12.

Amnon: Amnon was the crown prince of David. He was believed to be the one to inherit the throne after his father. But he fell into the error of his father as he lusted after his half-sister, Tamar. He would not be at rest until he has canal knowledge with her, not minding that it is an abomination. Of a truth, he satisfied himself by disvirgin her but earned untimely death two years later as its repercussion – 2 Samuel 13.

Samson: Samson was a product (son) of angelic visitation with the mission to deliver his people, Israel, from the bondage and affliction of the Philistines. He was endowed with divine strength that no one can decode. He became defiled when he soiled his hands in sin of immorality (lust) and other sins. He violated the order of God for his Nazarite's consecration. One of the accounts of his declination in sin reads: “Now Samson went to Gaza and saw a harlot there, and went in to her.” Judges 16:1 KJV. This could not satisfy him until he ended all his destiny on the laps of Delilah – Judges 13-16.

On the reality of love, God commanded the husbands to love their wives as Christ loves the Church and gave himself for her. This love is the foundation to having happy home and longevity of life. True love never hurts one another. True love was seen existing between Abraham and Sarah, this helped them to overcome every challenge they encountered in life. It was true love that made Rebecca to follow Eliazer, Abraham’s chief servant, to marry Isaac she has never meet in life. True love made Joseph and Mary to marry each other and stayed together till Jesus was born and weaned, without sexual intimacy. 

Sex is not evidence of love. Lust is sex without love. At this time that love is misunderstood, we must be different by being on the Lord’s side. Free sex has become free gift in this generation. Lust has destroyed many destinies and dreams. Misunderstanding the true meaning of Valentine makes people called lust “love”. Whether single or married, we must be careful of immorality because it always has deadly end. And if any man refused to repent till death comes, eternity in hell is inevitable. Repent today!

PRAYER POINT:

i. Lord, I ask for forgiveness over my life I have misused in fornication and/or adultery.

ii. Lord, I receive power to live righteously and overcome live of immorality in Jesus name.

iii. Pray for the youth who are using their body for immorality and the married who are using their bodies for adultery.

DAILY BIBLE READING IN A YEAR – Numbers 28-30.

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