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NASB | Deuteronomy 14:26 "You may spend the money for whatever your heart desires: for oxen, or sheep, or wine, or strong drink, or whatever your heart desires; and there you shall eat in the presence of the LORD your God and rejoice, you and your household. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Deuteronomy 14:26 "You may spend the money for anything your heart desires: for oxen, or sheep, or wine, or [other] strong drink, or anything else you want. You shall eat there in the presence of the LORD your God and rejoice, you and your household. |
Bible Question:
LUST: in marriage is it a sin to lust after one's spouse? I was discussing lust with a friend. Her definition of lust was a very strong, uncontrollable desire. I my definition is a strong desire. With my definition, I had no problem of with the Lust in marriage. Is lust in general a sin? What type of desire is appropiate in marriage? |
Bible Answer: tlh54! Great question! Short and quick answer; Lust is the desire for anything u love atached to your hatred for its opposite which u DON'T desire! The most generalised definition of Lust is: To desire anything or anyone out of HATE for the opposite thing or opposite one! It works with all words and their opposites! To desire the kingdom of God in hatred for today's world is to lust after God's K! Amos 5:18-21 Here are other examples: To desire your wife out of Love for not having sex means u are NOT lusting for her since there is no sin of hate over-pushing the pull of your desire for her! U ever played basketball? There is a foul called the push-off foul! Same thing! To desire your wife in hate of not having sex is lust! The lust is in the hatred! Better put, the sin in the lust is in the hatred for NOT getting what u want! To desire money that u love out of HATE for being poor is to lust for the money! 1 tim 6:10 The sin is NEVER in the Love but in the thing u hate! See the trick? To desire to be full out of Love for being empty means there is no lust involved because there is no hatred for the opposite of what u want! see? So loving and so wanting in Love money and sex and food and anything is ok! So the sin is in hating what u don't want! So: Lust is simply desire in Love of one thing out of Hate for the opposite thing! Now here is how balanced u wd be if u loved yourself as every word and its opposite as in loving yourself as your own best friend and as your own worse enemy as in Matthew 5:43-48: Philippians 4 11 Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content. 12 I know both how to be abased and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need. 13 I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me. So the only type of desire appropriate in marriage is the same desire appropriate in all life: All desire in marriage is appropriate when that desire is in Love for what opposite u don't want! So too: all non-desire in life is ok as long as it is NOT in hate for what opposite is NOT desired! So true enough we have: Hebrews 13:1-4, ESPECIALLY VERSE 4, which in Love means: Let brotherly Love continue IN LOVE OF NON-FAMILY AND IN LVOE OF STRANGERS. Levit 19:18, 34. SO Be not forgetful to entertain strangers IN LVOE OF FAMILY: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. Remember them that are in bonds IN LOVE FOR THEM WHO ARE FREE, AND SO as bound IN LOVE with them; and them which suffer adversity IN LOVE OF THOSE WHO ARE IN PROSPERITY, AND SO as being IN LOVE yourselves also in the body. SO Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled AS LONG AS ALL u want IS IN LOVE FOR WHAT U DON'T WANT! but whoremongers WHO FIRST PROSTITUTE/SELL THEIR LOVE FOR BEING SOMETHING OR FOR HAVING SOMETHING and so end up also selling the next best thing: their bodies, and adulterers WHO first spiritually ADULTERATE THEIR LOVE WITH HATE and so end up committting physical adultery, God will judge IN LOVE OF THOSE HE JUDGES AND IN LVOE OF THOSE WHOM HE DOES not JUDGE. ah, it is so good to me to say that! and I hope profitable to you and all who read it! By the same principle of Love and of the sin of hatred, Lust/covetousness is also idolatry, idolatry being what we allow to get us to disobey God by hating it rather than loving it as God commands, an idol being wahtever stops us from obeying God! So Idolatry, by hating what God wants us to love, leads directly to Lust which is to want anything out of Hate for its opposite, which opposite becomes the idol because i hate it! The perfect circle! Here it is as is: Colossians 3 5 Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry: Hope that helps! Love and Respect, Giam |
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