TOPIC: Desire. Spiritual Growth
REFERENCES: 1 John 2:15-17
SERIES: Come Over to the Dark Side, Part 2

SERMON SUMMARY
There is a love that fades and needs to be lost in our life, not cultivated in our life. And it has to do with holding our life up to the light and seeing it for what it is. The kind of love we are talking about in this sermon is the kind laden with spiritual fat that can lead to all kinds of spiritual disease. It's the kind of love that eventually fades. And it all starts out with something that at first appears to be a good friend. Something that satisfies our appetite and feels good. Its name is desire.

Desire lights fires in our bellies. It makes us itch for what we've never had enough of, hunger for something better than we have ever tasted and thirst for living waters we've never drunk. But out of control, desire is trouble. And desire that is not controlled can lead to addiction.

Desire is a friend that will take over control of our lives if we let it. When the river of desire runs wildly out of its banks we get swept away to places we never thought we would be...the dark side.

In order to be spiritually healthy I need to regularly ask myselft these questions:
What desires do I need to lose?
What wants do I need to lose?
What do I think I need that I really need to lose?
What do I see that I think I just have to have?
...and it's really something I need to lose.

What do I have to lose?

“I have held many things in my hands and I have lost them all.
But the things I have placed in God's hands I still possess.” — Martin Luther

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