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The goal of Satan is to gain our worship (Matthew 4:9). He wants us to be idolaters so he holds up something beautiful and enticing, something alluring and deceptive so that we might follow and fall.
One of his shiniest lures is sexual impurity, and so we are told to:
Colossians 3:5 ESV Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.
Question 1. How is sexual immorality, impurity, etc. “idolatry?” Please explain:
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All people were made to worship God. If we don’t worship God, we will be open and exposed to the devil’s lure, as we naturally want to worship something. To see something beautiful and feast on it. This is how Satan allures us to worship him, by presenting the beauty of impurity to our hearts and eyes, even as Eve saw that the forbidden fruit was “a delight to the eyes” (Genesis 3:6).
The good news is that Jesus Christ came to be the atoning sacrifice for your sins (Romans 3:25), and by His blood, He ransomed you for God (1 Timothy 2:6). As the Lamb of God, He conquered Satan and rescued you from his kingdom. (Revelation 5:9-10).
This work of Jesus evokes worship from believers. We were so long in impurity, locked up in sin’s prison, treated harshly by the evil one; but now that Christ has ransomed us, rescued and delivered us and set free, our hearts naturally worship the One who freed us by sacrificing His own life. Jesus “...loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood” (Revelation 1:5 ESV) and so we worship Him.
Today and tomorrow, we will consider an illustration that teaches us how Jesus changes the object of our worship from porn and impurity to God, Himself.
Let’s look at this story found in John chapter 4:
John 4:4-6 (NIV) Now he had to go through Samaria. 5 So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground Jacob had given to his son Joseph. 6 Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, tired as he was from the journey, sat down by the well. It was about noon.
Question 2. What does John 4:6 show us about Jesus Christ?