How Can I Overcome Lust? (Ryan M. McGraw)

Description

In How Can I Overcome Lust?, Ryan M. McGraw highlights the seriousness of sexual lust and gives readers hope for overcoming it. He considers the foundational principles of overcoming lust in general, identifies the nature of sexual lust in particular, and applies biblical principles for finding a path through it.

As McGraw shows, overcoming sexual lust is made possible by union with Christ as the Spirit makes us like Him through God-given means. He also encourages us to meditate on appropriate truths of Scripture so that our affections can be reordered in a God-honoring way.

Table of Contents:

1. Foundation: Overcoming ‘Lust’ and Lust in Christ

2. What Lust Is and How It Works

3. Uprooting and Replacing Lust
    - Seek
    - Kill
    - Replace
    - Repeat

4. Focus: Identifying Sexual Lust
    - How Not to Kill Lust
    - What Lust Is

5. Forward: The Path to Victory over Lust

6. Nine Rules for Mortifying Lust
    - Consider the Dangerous Symptoms of Unmortified Sin
    - Develop a Clear Sense of the Guilt, Danger, and Evil of Your Sin
    - Load Your Conscience with the Guilt of the Sin
    - Long Vigorously and Constantly to Be Delivered from the Sin
    - Consider Your Natural Distempers
    - Prevent the Occasions and the Advantages of the Sin in Question
    - Oppose Vigorously the First Acts of Sin
    - Develop Low Thoughts of Yourself in Light of High Thoughts of God in Christ
    - We Must Accept Peace of Conscience Only from God

Endorsement

“Although it appears we are in the midst of a deluge of sexual immorality inciting the unwary heart to all types of sexual lust and perversion, lust has been regnant in the human heart ever since the fall of Adam and Eve. And the Bible has much to say about it: how to fight it and how, in the words of the fourth membership vow in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church, to “put to death your sinful deeds and desires.” Ryan McGraw helpfully shows us the biblical wisdom regarding lust in general and sexual lust in particular. He also draws from one of the most important treatises on how to kill sin penned by the great Puritan physician of the heart, John Owen, who originally preached it to teenagers at Oxford University. Pithy and piquant, may this booklet do much good in encouraging holy living.” — Michael A. G. Haykin, professor of church history and biblical spirituality, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary

Product Details

Title: How Can I Overcome Lust?

Author:  Ryan M. McGraw

ISBN: 9781601786043

Publisher: Reformation Heritage Books

Pages: 32

Binding: Paperback