VICTORY OVER LUST

II Timothy 2:22

Flee youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.”

Victory over lust must be a strategy that is threefold: 1) Flee from…2) Flee to…and 3) Flee with!

 

FLEE FROM... “Flee youthful lusts”

“flee”                                      pheugo to run away, to shun, vanish, escape, flee away

“youthful”                              neoterikos younger persons, juvenile, youthful

“lusts”                                    epithumia a longing, desire for the forbidden, lust after                                                                epithumeo to set the heart upon, long for, covet, desire

 

FLEE TO… “But follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace”

“follow”                                  dioko to pursue, follow, press toward diakonos to run

“righteousness”                     dikaiosune character, action, righteousness dikaios innocent,                                                             holy, just, righteous

“faith”                                    pistis persuasion, conviction, truth, reliance upon, constancy,                                                             belief, faith                                                                                                                                         peitho assent, to rely by inward certainty, believe, have                                                              confidence, obey, persuade, trust

“charity”                                agape love, affection, dear                                                                                                               agapao to love, much

“peace”                                  eirene peace, quietness, rest

 

FLEE WITH… “With them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart”

“with them”                           meta accompaniment, follow, participation

“that call on”                         epikaleomai decision to, invoke, decision, to worship,

“the Lord”                             kurios supremacy, supreme in authority, controller, God, Lord,                                       Master

“with a pure heart”               katharos clean, clear, pure                                                                                                                kardia the heart, thoughts, feelings, mind

The daily walk/journey of every disciple must have a battle strategy for taking up the cross, dying to self and being alive, alert and obedient to the direction and command of the Holy Spirit!

 

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