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I'm preparing for a short topical series during which I'll exist preaching on gender issues, including dating/courtship, marriage, lust, cultivating a "family" mindset toward brothers and sisters in Christ, and parenting in a sensual earth. As part of my preparation, I took a couple hours today to reread Joshua Harris' footling book, Not Fifty-fifty a Hint, which has now been republished under the title Sex Isn't the Problem (Lust Is). I read the book with profit almost 3 years agone, and today I was once again helped by it, both as a pastor preparing to preach and as a sinner desiring to grow in grace and fight my own flesh more effectively.
I commend the book to you. Among the book's strengths is the fact that Josh deals with lust with a careful balance of unblushing honesty (dealing with such real-life issues as pornography and masturbation) and loving discretion. In other words, the book doesn't dodge the difficult issues, merely neither does it tantalize the reader and feed the very passions information technology'south intended to assist fight. Another strength is that the volume is extremely applied (addressing such things equally entertainment, accountability, the need for local church involvement, and the importance of cultivating satisfying fellowship with God) without promising an actress-biblical "silver bullet" to bargain with lust in one case and for all.
I do have one question as I reflect on the book, and it'due south one that really relates to the matter of sanctification in general, non just lust. Josh begins the book by warning against any plan for purity that relies on mere willpower. He gives several examples of failed strategies that depend on the mankind, including his ain vows, contracts, and efforts. He rightly warns confronting solutions that omit the gospel:
"Willpower won't work. But the ability of the cantankerous can break the power of sin that keeps us on its treadmill." (p. 25, NEAH)
I concur with him on this indicate. On the other paw, he also promotes common-sense helps similar recognizing particularly tempting times, fugitive tempting places (like the video store), setting up accountability relationships, leaving the TV off in a hotel room, etc. I concur with him on this betoken, too. But it seems like the 2 points could easily contradict each other—in practice, if not in principle. So, how does ane set up helpful guidelines to "brand no provision for the flesh" (Rom. 13:14) without allowing those very guidelines to morph into "confidence in the flesh" (Phil. iii:three-4)? How does one depend on Christ's work to defeat the flesh fifty-fifty equally he works to impale it himself? In 1 sense, I think I know the answer. I've often referred to the cooperation of God'southward work and my own—the synergism of sanctification—as "diligent dependence." Simply describing the residuum with a pat answer and actually avoiding passivity on the 1 mitt and legalism on the other are two unlike things. Hmm.
While you lot're thinking on that, if you have other books or sermons which you lot believe would be a assist to me equally I prepare for and preach this series, I'd appreciate your recommendations!
I'll close with a quotation which I think is pure gold:
"I don't think we should brand overcoming animalism our primary preoccupation—we need to brand the gospel and God's glory our focus. We demand to requite ourselves to knowing Him, worshiping Him, and coming together with Him every day. The result will be the weakening of lust and a growing passion for godliness." (p. 169-lxx, NEAH)
Give this book a read, both for your own sake and for those who hear y'all.
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