Is it possible to be totally free from lust?

This mans answer made me fantasize about going to Southern Seminary.

What absolutely hamstrings a believer, when it comes to lust (of any kind), is a misunderstanding of Romans 7 and 8. Most people interpret chapter 7 as speaking about a Christian. listen, if that was true how could you ever be free? When you were tempted you would just fall to it because chapter 7 says "the evil I don't want to do, I end up doing!" If that is my end result then how can I successfully fight! The truth is that 7 is Paul, as a teaching tool, putting himself in the shoes of a Jewish person, living under the law, while spiritually dead. God gave him the 10th commandment which is effectually "thou shall not lust". The more this man tried to obey this the more he found out he couldn't. THAT is the condemnation in 8:1. The condemnation is that a spiritually dead man cannot stop lusting (and therefore sin in general). Chapter 8 is talking about a born again person where there is no more of that condemnation, meaning, Now, when I want to do the righteous thing (not sin) I can. Why? Because the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus (the new nature I have since getting born again) has freed me from the law of sin and death (the old nature, having to fall to lust and sin).

This means there is no lust, sin, or spiritual death in the spirit of a born again believer so they do not have to lust. When you are tempted to lust it is coming from your natural soul in your natural body, still from Adam. But the real you, the spirit, is totally free. This is why the thought of lust is not sin if you are resisting it. The thought is in your natural mind but not in your spiritual mind. So keep resisting it. You are not sinning because you have the thought. A person from day one of being born again is free of lust and does not have to fall for it. If you want to shut up "the want to" in your natural body then get filled with the Holy Spirit and pray in tongues, spend time worshipping, reading the word, fasting (be smart, don't over do it, check with doctor if on meds). These things will shut up the mind concerning lust, strife, jealousy, unforgiveness, hate, etc.. and reduce them to a simple thought you can walk right by.

Once saved always saved! Once a believer always a believer! Praise God for the guidance of his Holy Spirit! Hallelujah 🙏👏👏👏

Amazing explanation. Thank you!!!!!

YOU WANT TO BE FREE?

I will share for those struggling with lust. Having suffered with addiction most of my adult life…

Reading the word of God daily. Will start to kill your lust, and dry up that appetite. It is so potent, so powerful, it will start to supernaturally change you internally.

But the consistency is KEY.

Set you phone timer for 5mins. Start small. Achievable.

But do this consistently, watch what happens.

Thank you for this video and the encouragement that I can have victory through faith in Jesus. I am not able, but He is!

By far, the bigger question for me is “why do I want to be free from lust?” Certainly lust creates desire, and that is often unfilled, which is frustrating. But to a certain degree that desire can be fulfilled by ourselves through masturbation or through interactions with real women when we can get them. And that does not feel as good as truly being free. But it is something we can control. And that has value.

I have come to see that a great deal of our struggles in this world center around, wanting to have control over how we feel. The short periods of my life I have been victorious over lust have been better than when I have been conquered by it. However, the amount of effort to stay in the victorious place has not usually felt worth it compared to the decent pay off of indulging lust.

If we work very hard and think very hard rationally, we can see that fighting lust is worth it. But being able to stay in that spot seems like an impossible thing. If we actually wanted to be free from lost, of course we could be. But you cannot make yourself do something difficult if you don’t want to do it.

Where can we get that desire?

Is it possible to be totally free from lust"? ,Yes, but only when we are called home to spend eternity with our Lord will this filthy fleshly tent of ours be replaced with a new body perfected in the image of Christ. Until then, it will always be a struggle between the old man and the new man and anybody that says you can have total victory over sin physically in this life are just lying, fooling themselves and are not being honest. If we could be totally free from sin and control our fleshly desires completely then we would not need the finished work of the cross and the righteousness of Christ Jesus living in us through what He did for us that declares us not guilty and could be made righteous in the eyes of God ourselves through what we could do on our own.

While freedom from demonic influence/oppression (the Greek is simply "demonization" as daimonizomai, and can include a range of severity) can help minimize the impulse toward lust, and if this is part of my struggle (and only the Holy Spirit can show you that), then I can be assisted in my sanctification by freeing myself from that demonic attachment through the application of the authority Jesus gives me in the gospel. Other than that additional nuance, this answer is so, so good. Spot on!

Excellent point!!! If God, through Man exercising his faith in Jesus, drawing from and believing God's promises of strength and a way out of temptation of drunkenness, drug addiction, gluttony, gossip, murder, robbery, etc.... God can do the same for those who struggle with sexual sins!!!

It's because of lust that your parents had you. You are the PRODUCT of lust!

There’s nothing wrong with you. Christians simply use this “sexual immorality” bullshit to instill unnecessary feelings of guilt and shame into people in order to make them easier to control and manipulate.

Purity culture is a fucking cancer, and anyone who teaches this shit needs to be prosecuted for crimes against humanity.

No matter how sanctified we get, or how close to the Lord, we are all capable of sinning. Look at strong men in the Bible who fell. We should never let our guard down, but we can be tempted a lot less by delving into scripture and walking the walk.

Take out the word “porn” or “sex” and insert any sin that separates us from God and this video is spot on. Thank you for this and in this moment am
I being obedient? I pray so.

Thank you my brother for that answer for we all struggle daily with lust if we are being honest which we must because we are always before our LORD Jesus.

The simple answer is, that to answer YES denies the existence of original sin. I have never found a workable definition of original sin, but it is what Paul called "another law in my members." Removing that cannot happen in this life; only God can remove it.

I give in to lust once every two or three weeks. The rest of the time I resist it.
Works for me. A 75 year old atheist.

This answer didn't answer anything

The answer is yes! It’s that simple!

In my opinion, this answer is rather convuluted as you did not define firstly what lust means and this restating of the question didn't seems to help...for me lust is a strong desire ...and it rightly comes with a negative connotation ...
So lust could means, a strong desire that could be for for cars, for drinking, for smoking, for money, for houses, for sex or other material things..thinks that are not necessarily sinful in themselves, but coupled with this stong inordinate desire is now sinful...
So to further clarify, lust, in my opinion, is the opposite of love and that is why desires born of lust usually leads to addictions...drugs, alcohol, sex...etc
So in my opinion, a more accurately restated question should be: Can you ever stop loving these things more than you love God?
...and this is actually a question on idolatry...which is serving other gods...
Can you stop serving idols?

Assume you can’t be completely free and act accordingly. We have to aim to live a lifetime of balance.

Some people are given freedom to decide wether they sin or not. Some have no choice, they're handed over to a sinful way of living. Sounds cruel, but it's real.

Lust is good for human reproduction and pleasure.

The problem with most interpretation of Scripture is the notion that desire is the same as lust. It's like this, "I feel sexual desire so I'm bound by lust" The lust of the flesh is only the intent to have out God given desire to be fulfilled in ways that are not permitted by God. God only says what isn't permitted and what is permitted. To walk around with sexual desire is being free from lust. If your in the mood go find a wife or do it with the one you have. Don't allow your desire to be turned lust or another words don't allow your desire to be used towards objects that can cause sexual immorality. While this is true, there is another law a work or for that 3 laws at work. The first is that our nature is tied in some fashion to our fallen bodies that house the flesh. The flesh has power behind it because of the world and it's power is controlled by Satan. The flesh manifest itself in acts of the body and mind. It turns sexual desire towards objects that produce sin namely visual thoughts towards others and acts with others. The good news is that Spirit is there to fight against these thoughts and activities. His power is greater than Satan. So start by now fighting against your desire, but yield to the resistance of the Spirit against the flesh, the world and Satan's devils.

Faith in the Cross and obedience by the power of the Holy Spirit do not remove sexual desire. There is only one avenue to have that desire removed and it's a wife. In order to be totally free from lust is to have a wife that want's to do it as much, as often and at anytime your desire is so ready to do it. Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.
4 The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife.
5 Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency. This being in any respect normal for most men saved or unsaved is almost laughable. God gives us near uncontrollable desire which causes misery, frustration and guilt with only one outlet outside of our and His control.

The flesh was made to lust after the flesh

Great and in point explanation... This is the real value of right understanding and explainig what it is truly about. I mean he explained it in point at the end - you will never be free of lust as an impulse, but if you are aware and know that Jesus loves you and He is the way to direct to when it grabs you - then you know you have Him instead of falling into lust...

its hard to avoid lust when women are walking around dressed like prostitutes in public

Wrong question. Ask yourself why these bigots want you to believe lust is sin.

That was and is the best answer to that question I have ever heard thank you.

Wonderful answer. Stay blessed my brother in Christ.

See SSRI induced anhedonia and you'll see that we can destroy all lust easily. In its place we get the "bitter root" and PTSD so PSSD is no answer to the problem of balancing the spirit. Not that anybody is thinking rationally about any of this at all. Not even close. Humans are a cursed species, and this next round of "judgement" is going to be most severe indeed.

“Using our vessel to the honor of God, requires faith, and they don’t think they can ever be free.” That is soooooo powerful!

Wow

Lust is the English is just se3xulized. Lust and covetousness go together, I learned the hard way.

Gods WORD. be not deceived, you will reap what you . sow , your mind will be a filthy cesspool.

I am 65 , never married, exposed to porn in grade school, just recent victory, but, I knew that I did not want to die that way. I hurt my wifes feelings . the one thing we have to do is preach to ourselves, there are very few Christians that even admit that their church people have filthy minds. You choose to do what you do. period. you will soon stand before your creator. People have quit ,drugs alcohol, porn , any number of lust, you sin because you want to sin. be not conformed to this world , but , be transformed by the renewing of your mind. overcome evil with good. you can quit.

Not COMPLETELY free, but as we grow in faith, ALL of our emotions become more refined and focused.

we cannot be free from lust! angels did not, unfortunately, that is why God sent the flood, since all flesh was corrupted (altered in DNA). what we can do is we can fight it! lust is a very powerful feeling, easily mistakable to love. but always something feels wrong. in the midst of the fire that tries to consume our reason, ask God for His help. God, please help, me I am feeling this. Oh, God, what is wrong with my heart? God, I feel I am falling and I do not think is right. Soon, God will answer to your prayer, and will reveal to you something hat will end your lust. a truth you did not see before. Something very convincing.

So we can fight lust, but cannot be free from it. Or we would be robots obeying God. You know, even Angels are free in their will. The Fallen ones felt lust for women of man. They should have known that combining their DNA, they will bring forth children giants, awkward in appearance, and evil in behavior.

Always ask God for help, whenever you feel something that is too powerful, out of control. out of your control. Because it is not out of His!

these professors are very useless.

Very well said in refraising the question because lust will always be there but Yeshua said we must die daily to ourselves and the temptation of sin.

Yes so stop acting like the perfect Christian “I never sin” act ok. It’s getting old you just sinned an hour ago and you’re going to sin again in an hour. I hate being told what to do and what not to do from a book that’s INSPIRED by God. Inspired. God may not have written those rules but man does? Come on.

I believe and always have and always will but I am struggling with everything, whoring porn self pleasure thoughts. I am still not at rock bottom?

Frankly, that he answered this question with no allusion to the Holy Spirit explains why so many Southern Baptist churches are in the shape that they’re in.

I think if you keep yourself away from what can tempt you. Be with your one husband/wife. Don't read books that have to do with love/relationships/sex, don't watch movies or listen to music having to do with lust. You just have to be willing to trust in God to help you and put in the effort.

Jesus died for our sins. We are fallen and deserve hell, but with his sacrifice on the cross, and resurrection on the third day for us. He has freed anyone who will repent of their sins and place their faith in Jesus, for living the perfect sinless life for us.

He is our advocate to the Father. Praise be to God.

I failed sharing the gospel today with a stranger I tried to help. May you pray for my boldness and I will pray for you. May he come soon

I wonder what your theological approach is to a person that's fighting lust and in the fight has offended their spouse to the point where the spouse has turned off to you and then even if you have confessed and repented they will have nothing to do with you sexually especially if they've fall away from the faith. Because I don't want to lust and do the things that it causes me to do these things with our hands and eyes and mind.I want to know if it's OK to ask God to give me the gift of celibacy as Paul had who was not married and was a ministry full time. Is that a legitimate prayer for a married person that is in a sexless marriage unequally yoked now in marriage?

Amen

I can do all things through CHRIST who strengthens me