Sermon Notes for “Look, but Don’t Lust”

Posted on Feb 28, 2010 at 9:16 pm under Sermon Notes.

Look, but Don’t Lust

1 Kings 11:1,3-4 1 But king Solomon loved many strange women,….
3 And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines: and his wives turned away his heart.
4 For it came to pass, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned away his heart after other gods: and his heart was not perfect with the LORD his God, as was the heart of David his father.

Eccl 2 1 I said to myself, “Come now, let’s give pleasure a try. Let’s look for the `good things’ in life.” But I found that this, too, was meaningless.
2 “It is silly to be laughing all the time,” I said. “What good does it do to seek only pleasure?”
3 After much thought, I decided to cheer myself with wine. While still seeking wisdom, I clutched at foolishness.
8 …I hired wonderful singers, both men and women, and had many beautiful concubines. I had everything a man could desire!
10 Anything I wanted, I took. I did not restrain myself from any joy. I even found great pleasure in hard work, an additional reward for all my labors.
11 But as I looked at everything I had worked so hard to accomplish, it was all so meaningless. It was like chasing the wind. There was nothing really worthwhile anywhere.

Song 3:1-5 (NIV)
1 All night long on my bed I looked for the one my heart loves; I looked for him but did not find him.
2 I will get up now and go about the city, through its streets and squares; I will search for the one my heart loves. So I looked for him but did not find him.
3 The watchmen found me as they made their rounds in the city. “Have you seen the one my heart loves?”
4 Scarcely had I passed them when I found the one my heart loves. I held him and would not let him go till I had brought him to my mother’s house, to the room of the one who conceived me.
5 Daughters of Jerusalem, I charge you by the gazelles and by the does of the field: Do not arouse or awaken love until it so desires.

Song 4:1 (NIV) 1 How beautiful you are, my darling! Oh, how beautiful!…

Song 4:7 (NIV) 7 All beautiful you are, my darling; there is no flaw in you.

Song 4:9 (NIV) 9 You have stolen my heart, my sister, my bride; you have stolen my heart with one glance of your eyes, with one jewel of your necklace.

Song 4:12 (NIV) 12 You are a garden locked up, my sister, my bride; you are a spring enclosed, a sealed fountain.

Song 5:2-6 (NIV)
2 I slept but my heart was awake. Listen! My lover is knocking: “Open to me, my sister, my darling, my dove, my flawless one. My head is drenched with dew, my hair with the dampness of the night.”
3 I have taken off my robe-- must I put it on again? I have washed my feet-- must I soil them again?
4 My lover thrust his hand through the latch-opening; my heart began to pound for him.
5 I arose to open for my lover, and my hands dripped with myrrh, my fingers with flowing myrrh, on the handles of the lock.
6 I opened for my lover, but my lover had left; he was gone. My heart sank at his departure. I looked for him but did not find him. I called him but he did not answer.

1 Cor 6:18 (NIV) 18 Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a man commits are outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body.

Job 31:1 (NIV) 1 “I made a covenant with my eyes not to look lustfully at a girl.

Prov 6:25 25 Lust not after her beauty in your heart; neither let her take you with her eyelids.

Matt 5:28 (KJV) 28 But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.

James 1:14-15 (KJV) 14 But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.
15 Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.

1 John 2:16-17 (KJV) 16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
17 And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.

Four Questions Wives Should Ask Their Husbands [courtesy of Perry Noble]
#1 – Do You Feel Admired?
#2 – Do You Feel Respected?
#3 – Do You Feel Taken Care Of?
#4 – Is Our Sex Life Fulfilling To You?

Five Questions Husbands Should Ask Their Wives [courtesy of Perry Noble]
#1 – What is the most romantic thing that I’ve ever done for you?
#2 – What is something fun we can do together?
#3 – What is one thing I can do for you this week that will relieve stress from your life?
#4 – How Can I Pray For You?
#5 – If you could change one thing about our marriage–what would it be?

Eph 3:20-21 (KJV) 20 Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,
21 Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen.