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1 Samuel 18:7-8 As they danced, they sang: “Saul has slain his thousands, and David his tens of thousands.” 8 Saul was very angry; this refrain displeased him greatly. “They have credited David with tens of thousands,” he thought, “but me with only thousands. What more can he get but the kingdom?” (NIV)

Proverbs 14:30 A heart at peace gives life to the body, but envy rots the bones. (NIV)

1 Samuel 19:10 Saul tried to pin him to the wall with his spear, but David eluded him as Saul drove the spear into the wall. That night David made good his escape. (NIV)

1 Samuel 20:32–33 “Why should he be put to death? What has he done?” Jonathan asked his father. 33 But Saul hurled his spear at him to kill him. Then Jonathan knew that his father intended to kill David. (NIV)

James 3:14–16 But if you harbor bitter envy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast about it or deny the truth. 15 Such “wisdom” does not come down from heaven but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic. 16 For where you have envy and selfish ambition, there you find disorder and every evil practice. (NIV)

Titus 3:3 Once we, too, were foolish and disobedient. We were misled and became slaves to many lusts and pleasures. Our lives were full of evil and envy, and we hated each other. (NLT)

4. Envy distracts you from God’s purpose

1 Samuel 18:9 And from that time on Saul kept a close eye on David. (NIV)

James 3:14–15 But if you harbor bitter envy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast about it or deny the truth. 15 Such “wisdom” does not come down from heaven but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic. (NIV)

1. Stop playing the comparison game

Galatians 6:4-5 Pay careful attention to your own work, for then you will get the satisfaction of a job well done, and you won’t need to compare yourself to anyone else. 5 For we are each responsible for our own conduct. (NLT)

2. Celebrate other people’s successes

Romans 12:15 Rejoice with those who rejoice; mourn with those who mourn. (NIV)

1 Samuel 18:7-8 As they danced, they sang: “Saul has slain his thousands, and David his tens of thousands.” 8 Saul was very angry; this refrain displeased him greatly. “They have credited David with tens of thousands,” he thought, “but me with only thousands. What more can he get but the kingdom?” (NIV)

Proverbs 14:30 A heart at peace gives life to the body, but envy rots the bones. (NIV)

1 Samuel 19:10 Saul tried to pin him to the wall with his spear, but David eluded him as Saul drove the spear into the wall. That night David made good his escape. (NIV)

1 Samuel 20:32–33 “Why should he be put to death? What has he done?” Jonathan asked his father. 33 But Saul hurled his spear at him to kill him. Then Jonathan knew that his father intended to kill David. (NIV)

James 3:14–16 But if you harbor bitter envy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast about it or deny the truth. 15 Such “wisdom” does not come down from heaven but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic. 16 For where you have envy and selfish ambition, there you find disorder and every evil practice. (NIV)

Titus 3:3 Once we, too, were foolish and disobedient. We were misled and became slaves to many lusts and pleasures. Our lives were full of evil and envy, and we hated each other. (NLT)

4. Envy distracts you from God’s purpose

1 Samuel 18:9 And from that time on Saul kept a close eye on David. (NIV)

James 3:14–15 But if you harbor bitter envy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast about it or deny the truth. 15 Such “wisdom” does not come down from heaven but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic. (NIV)

1. Stop playing the comparison game

Galatians 6:4-5 Pay careful attention to your own work, for then you will get the satisfaction of a job well done, and you won’t need to compare yourself to anyone else. 5 For we are each responsible for our own conduct. (NLT)

2. Celebrate other people’s successes

Romans 12:15 Rejoice with those who rejoice; mourn with those who mourn. (NIV)

10-07-18 - Kill The Spider - Lust - Herbert Cooper

Matthew 5:27-28 “You have heard the commandment that says, ‘You must not commit adultery.’ 28 but I say, anyone who even looks at a woman with lust has already committed adultery with her in his heart.” (NLT)

3 Stages Of Lust

1. Interest

2 Samuel 11:2-3 One evening David got up from his bed and walked around on the roof of the palace. From the roof he saw a woman bathing. The woman was very beautiful,3 and David sent someone to find out about her. The man said, “She is Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam and the wife of Uriah the Hittite.” (NIV)

2. Indulgence

2 Samuel 11:4 Then David sent messengers to get her. She came to him, and he slept with her...Then she went back home. (NIV)

3. Infection

2 Samuel 11:5 The woman conceived and sent word to David, saying, “I am pregnant.” (NIV)

James 1:14-15 but each person is tempted when they are dragged away by their own evil desire and enticed.  15 Then, after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death. (NIV)

How to Kill The Spider of Lust

1. Choose love over lust

1 John 5:2–3 This is how we know that we love the children of God: by loving God and carrying out his commands. 3 In fact, this is love for God: to keep his commands. And his commands are not burdensome, (NIV)

Psalm 51:1–2 1 Have mercy on me, O God, according to your unfailing love; according to your great compassion blot out my transgressions. 2 Wash away all my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin. (NIV)

Psalm 51:10–12 Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me. 11 Do not cast me from your presence or take your Holy Spirit from me. 12 Restore to me the joy of your salvation and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me. (NIV)

2. Have a plan for pressure (A.C.T.)

1. Admit your struggle

James 5:16 Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The earnest prayer of a righteous person has great power and produces wonderful results. (NLT)

2. Cut off access

1 Corinthians 6:18 Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a person commits are outside the body, but whoever sins sexually, sins against their own body. (NIV)

a. Run Away

b. Keep Away

1 Thessalonians 4:3-5 God’s will is for you to be holy, so stay away from all sexual sin. 4 Then each of you will control his own body and live in holiness and honor— 5 not in lustful passion like the pagans who do not know God and his ways. (NLT)

3. Trust God’s plan for purity

10-07-18 - Kill The Spider - Lust - Herbert Cooper

Matthew 5:27-28 “You have heard the commandment that says, ‘You must not commit adultery.’ 28 but I say, anyone who even looks at a woman with lust has already committed adultery with her in his heart.” (NLT)

3 Stages Of Lust

1. Interest

2 Samuel 11:2-3 One evening David got up from his bed and walked around on the roof of the palace. From the roof he saw a woman bathing. The woman was very beautiful,3 and David sent someone to find out about her. The man said, “She is Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam and the wife of Uriah the Hittite.” (NIV)

2. Indulgence

2 Samuel 11:4 Then David sent messengers to get her. She came to him, and he slept with her...Then she went back home. (NIV)

3. Infection

2 Samuel 11:5 The woman conceived and sent word to David, saying, “I am pregnant.” (NIV)

James 1:14-15 but each person is tempted when they are dragged away by their own evil desire and enticed.  15 Then, after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death. (NIV)

How to Kill The Spider of Lust

1. Choose love over lust

1 John 5:2–3 This is how we know that we love the children of God: by loving God and carrying out his commands. 3 In fact, this is love for God: to keep his commands. And his commands are not burdensome, (NIV)

Psalm 51:1–2 1 Have mercy on me, O God, according to your unfailing love; according to your great compassion blot out my transgressions. 2 Wash away all my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin. (NIV)

Psalm 51:10–12 Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me. 11 Do not cast me from your presence or take your Holy Spirit from me. 12 Restore to me the joy of your salvation and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me. (NIV)

2. Have a plan for pressure (A.C.T.)

1. Admit your struggle

James 5:16 Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The earnest prayer of a righteous person has great power and produces wonderful results. (NLT)

2. Cut off access

1 Corinthians 6:18 Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a person commits are outside the body, but whoever sins sexually, sins against their own body. (NIV)

a. Run Away

b. Keep Away

1 Thessalonians 4:3-5 God’s will is for you to be holy, so stay away from all sexual sin. 4 Then each of you will control his own body and live in holiness and honor— 5 not in lustful passion like the pagans who do not know God and his ways. (NLT)

3. Trust God’s plan for purity

10-07-18 - Kill The Spider - Lust - Herbert Cooper

Matthew 5:27-28 “You have heard the commandment that says, ‘You must not commit adultery.’ 28 but I say, anyone who even looks at a woman with lust has already committed adultery with her in his heart.” (NLT)

3 Stages Of Lust

1. Interest

2 Samuel 11:2-3 One evening David got up from his bed and walked around on the roof of the palace. From the roof he saw a woman bathing. The woman was very beautiful,3 and David sent someone to find out about her. The man said, “She is Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam and the wife of Uriah the Hittite.” (NIV)

2. Indulgence

2 Samuel 11:4 Then David sent messengers to get her. She came to him, and he slept with her...Then she went back home. (NIV)

3. Infection

2 Samuel 11:5 The woman conceived and sent word to David, saying, “I am pregnant.” (NIV)

James 1:14-15 but each person is tempted when they are dragged away by their own evil desire and enticed.  15 Then, after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death. (NIV)

How to Kill The Spider of Lust

1. Choose love over lust

1 John 5:2–3 This is how we know that we love the children of God: by loving God and carrying out his commands. 3 In fact, this is love for God: to keep his commands. And his commands are not burdensome, (NIV)

Psalm 51:1–2 1 Have mercy on me, O God, according to your unfailing love; according to your great compassion blot out my transgressions. 2 Wash away all my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin. (NIV)

Psalm 51:10–12 Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me. 11 Do not cast me from your presence or take your Holy Spirit from me. 12 Restore to me the joy of your salvation and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me. (NIV)

2. Have a plan for pressure (A.C.T.)

1. Admit your struggle

James 5:16 Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The earnest prayer of a righteous person has great power and produces wonderful results. (NLT)

2. Cut off access

1 Corinthians 6:18 Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a person commits are outside the body, but whoever sins sexually, sins against their own body. (NIV)

a. Run Away

b. Keep Away

1 Thessalonians 4:3-5 God’s will is for you to be holy, so stay away from all sexual sin. 4 Then each of you will control his own body and live in holiness and honor— 5 not in lustful passion like the pagans who do not know God and his ways. (NLT)

3. Trust God’s plan for purity

09-30-18 - Kill The Spider - How To Slay Sloth - Scotty Gibbons

Sloth = The avoidance of physical or spiritual work.

1. What does the bible say about sloth?

2 Thessalonians 3:7-8 For you yourselves know how you ought to imitate us, because we were not idle when we were with you, nor did we eat anyone’s bread without paying for it, but with toil and labor we worked night and day, that we might not be a burden to any of you. (ESV)

Romans 12:11 Do not be slothful in zeal, be fervent in spirit, ​serve the Lord. (ESV)

2 Thessalonians 3:10 If anyone is not willing to work, let him not eat. (ESV)

1 Timothy 5:8 But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever. (ESV)

2. Why is this sin so destructive?

Proverbs 10:4 A slack hand causes poverty, (ESV)

Ephesians 2:8-9 8 For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— 9 not by works, so that no one can boast. (NIV)

3. How do we slay the sin of sloth?

A. Establish priorities.

B. Take the right steps in the right direction.

C. Be a hard worker.

Colossians 3:23 23 Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters, 24 since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving. (NIV)

D. Be diligent.

Proverbs 13:4 The soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing, while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied. (ESV)

09-30-18 - Kill The Spider - How To Slay Sloth - Scotty Gibbons

Sloth = The avoidance of physical or spiritual work.

1. What does the bible say about sloth?

2 Thessalonians 3:7-8 For you yourselves know how you ought to imitate us, because we were not idle when we were with you, nor did we eat anyone’s bread without paying for it, but with toil and labor we worked night and day, that we might not be a burden to any of you. (ESV)

Romans 12:11 Do not be slothful in zeal, be fervent in spirit, ​serve the Lord. (ESV)

2 Thessalonians 3:10 If anyone is not willing to work, let him not eat. (ESV)

1 Timothy 5:8 But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever. (ESV)

2. Why is this sin so destructive?

Proverbs 10:4 A slack hand causes poverty, (ESV)

Ephesians 2:8-9 8 For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— 9 not by works, so that no one can boast. (NIV)

3. How do we slay the sin of sloth?

A. Establish priorities.

B. Take the right steps in the right direction.

C. Be a hard worker.

Colossians 3:23 23 Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters, 24 since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving. (NIV)

D. Be diligent.

Proverbs 13:4 The soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing, while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied. (ESV)

09-30-18 - Kill The Spider - How To Slay Sloth - Scotty Gibbons

Sloth = The avoidance of physical or spiritual work.

1. What does the bible say about sloth?

2 Thessalonians 3:7-8 For you yourselves know how you ought to imitate us, because we were not idle when we were with you, nor did we eat anyone’s bread without paying for it, but with toil and labor we worked night and day, that we might not be a burden to any of you. (ESV)

Romans 12:11 Do not be slothful in zeal, be fervent in spirit, ​serve the Lord. (ESV)

2 Thessalonians 3:10 If anyone is not willing to work, let him not eat. (ESV)

1 Timothy 5:8 But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever. (ESV)

2. Why is this sin so destructive?

Proverbs 10:4 A slack hand causes poverty, (ESV)

Ephesians 2:8-9 8 For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— 9 not by works, so that no one can boast. (NIV)

3. How do we slay the sin of sloth?

A. Establish priorities.

B. Take the right steps in the right direction.

C. Be a hard worker.

Colossians 3:23 23 Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters, 24 since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving. (NIV)

D. Be diligent.

Proverbs 13:4 The soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing, while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied. (ESV)

Luke 12:15 Then he said to them, "Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; a man's life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions." (NIV)

Luke 12:16-18 And he told them this parable: "The ground of a certain rich man produced a good crop. 17 He thought to himself, 'What shall I do? I have no place to store my crops.'18 "Then he said, 'This is what I'll do. I will tear down my barns and build bigger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods. (NIV)

Philippians 4:11–13 I am not saying this because I am in need, for I have learned to be content whatever the circumstances. 12 I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want. 13 I can do all this through him who gives me strength. (NIV)

Luke 12:17–18 He thought to himself, ‘What shall I do? I have no place to store my crops.’ 18 “Then he said, ‘This is what I’ll do. I will tear down my barns and build bigger ones, and there I will store my surplus grain. (NIV)

Psalm 24:1 The earth is the LORD’s, and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it; (NIV)

1 Chronicles 29:14 “But who am I, and who are my people, that we should be able to give as generously as this? Everything comes from you, and we have given you only what comes from your hand. (NIV)

3. They are consumers

Luke 12:19 And I'll say to myself, "You have plenty of good things laid up for many years. Take life easy; eat, drink and be merry." (NIV)

Proverbs 11:25 The generous will prosper; those who refresh others will themselves be refreshed. (NLT) (Shower at the end of the day)

Proverbs 22:9 The generous will themselves be blessed, for they share their food with the poor. (NIV)

Luke 12:20-21 "But God said to him, 'You fool! This very night your life will be demanded from you. Then who will get what you have prepared for yourself?' 21 "This is how it will be with anyone who stores up things for himself but is not rich toward God." (NIV)

Proverbs 3:9–10 Honor the LORD with your wealth and with the firstfruits of all your produce; 10 then your barns will be filled with plenty, and your vats will be bursting with wine. (ESV)

Luke 12:15 Then he said to them, "Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; a man's life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions." (NIV)

Luke 12:16-18 And he told them this parable: "The ground of a certain rich man produced a good crop. 17 He thought to himself, 'What shall I do? I have no place to store my crops.'18 "Then he said, 'This is what I'll do. I will tear down my barns and build bigger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods. (NIV)

Philippians 4:11–13 I am not saying this because I am in need, for I have learned to be content whatever the circumstances. 12 I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want. 13 I can do all this through him who gives me strength. (NIV)

Luke 12:17–18 He thought to himself, ‘What shall I do? I have no place to store my crops.’ 18 “Then he said, ‘This is what I’ll do. I will tear down my barns and build bigger ones, and there I will store my surplus grain. (NIV)

Psalm 24:1 The earth is the LORD’s, and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it; (NIV)

1 Chronicles 29:14 “But who am I, and who are my people, that we should be able to give as generously as this? Everything comes from you, and we have given you only what comes from your hand. (NIV)

3. They are consumers

Luke 12:19 And I'll say to myself, "You have plenty of good things laid up for many years. Take life easy; eat, drink and be merry." (NIV)

Proverbs 11:25 The generous will prosper; those who refresh others will themselves be refreshed. (NLT) (Shower at the end of the day)

Proverbs 22:9 The generous will themselves be blessed, for they share their food with the poor. (NIV)

Luke 12:20-21 "But God said to him, 'You fool! This very night your life will be demanded from you. Then who will get what you have prepared for yourself?' 21 "This is how it will be with anyone who stores up things for himself but is not rich toward God." (NIV)

Proverbs 3:9–10 Honor the LORD with your wealth and with the firstfruits of all your produce; 10 then your barns will be filled with plenty, and your vats will be bursting with wine. (ESV)