This week, Jake and Bob begin a two part series on desire and how it relates to sin. They discuss how sin arises from a desire for good and how our woundedness shapes these patterns of sin. Rather than suppressing our desires, Jake and Bob reflect on the goodness of desire and the importance of rightly ordering it through prayer. Through personal stories and movie references, they end by walking you through practical ways to identify the holy desires beneath your struggles.

Key Points:

Behind every disordered desire is a holy desire, an unmet need, an unhealed wound, and a hidden pattern of sin.
Sin arises from a desire for the good
Every time we experiencing longing, we are experiencing a desire for God
To stop patterns of sin, we must first recognize the underlying desire
Self reliance is the false belief that the satisfaction of our deepest desires is completely up to us.
Desire is an essential element of the Christian life.
God desires our wholehearted devotion and places desire on our hearts so we seek and love Him
Movies, music, and stories can reveal and awaken our deepest desires. They show us what moves our hearts and what we deeply long for.

Resources:

Unwanted: How Our Sexual Brokenness Reveals Our Way to Healing by Jay Stringer
One Desire by Hillsong Worship

Chapters:

00:00:00 Introduction

00:03:23 Sin Arises from a Desire for Good

00:11:32 Self-Reliance, Deadly Wounds, and the Anatomy of a Wound

00:16:52 We Cannot Escape Our Desire for God

00:20:29 The Integration of Virtue and Desire

00:22:56 The Battle of Desire

00:32:14 Awakening or Killing Right Desire

00:36:13 Can Movies Reactivate Desire?

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Desire (Part 1)