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  WILL ANGER AND LUST LEAD ME TO HELL
  by Zac Poonen
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Summary: This sermon emphasizes the importance of taking sinful desires
and habits seriously, highlighting the need to address issues like anger
and lust with determination and perseverance. It stresses the
significance of fighting against these sins step by step, acknowledging
the serious consequences they can have on one's spiritual life. The
speaker shares personal experiences of struggling with anger and lust,
underscoring the long process of overcoming these sins and the necessity
of being committed to complete freedom from them.

Topics: "Overcoming Sin", "Commitment to Spiritual Growth"
Scripture References: Matthew 5:22, Proverbs 4:23, Matthew 7:13, 1 Corinthians 10:13, James 4:7, Galatians 5:16, 2 Corinthians 10:4, Romans 6:14, Philippians 4:13

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This sermon emphasizes the importance of taking sinful desires and
habits seriously, highlighting the need to address issues like anger and
lust with determination and perseverance. It stresses the significance
of fighting against these sins step by step, acknowledging the serious
consequences they can have on one's spiritual life. The speaker shares
personal experiences of struggling with anger and lust, underscoring the
long process of overcoming these sins and the necessity of being
committed to complete freedom from them.

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We all have grown up with so many sinful desires and habits that we have
got from our from Adam Let me tell you the good news that Jesus wants to
save you from all of that, not 50% or 90% I thank God that I have a
father who is interested in taking all sin out of my life It won't
happen in one day. I know I used to be such a slave to anger even after
being born again. But I read in the word of God that if you're angry
step by step you can go to hell Matthew 5 22 He said that if you're
angry with your brother you're guilty before the court Then you open
your mouth and say something in anger to your brother Then you'll be
guilty before the Supreme Court Then you open your mouth and say
something more serious to your brother Then you'll go to hell Is that
written in your Bible? I said Lord, I don't want to go to hell Why is it
no preacher ever told me that if I keep on living in anger, I'll finally
go to hell? Because the devil has blinded those preachers that they
won't tell people that Let me ask you, do you think the devil wants you
to be free from anger completely? God wants it The devil does not want
it Because he wants you to be with him forever Even if you don't believe
Matthew 5 22, the devil believes it Even if you don't believe Matthew 5
22, the devil believes it I said Lord, I'm surrounded by false prophets
in Christianity who never told me this I'm going to take it seriously
And I tell you, it took me not days, not months, but years to finally
get rid of it Years and years and years I said Lord, I don't care how
long it takes.

I'm going to be 100% free from this sickness What about lusting with the
eyes? Every young man, every older man is guilty of it Everyone has
fallen in this area Even after they are born again, they fall in this
area But how many fight it and battle it? I was just like any other
young man But the day came in my life, I said, I'm going to fight this
and fight this and fight this and finish with it in my life In the mind,
it took me years But if I had not fought it, I would be a slave to it
even today Why is it some of you who have sat in CFC so many years are
still slaves to this sin? Some of you elders are slaves to it I'll tell
you why You don't think it is serious It is somebody who has got cancer
and he says, ah, it's not serious See, if a doctor tells some
illiterate, uneducated woman, you've got cancer She's not bothered. She
doesn't know what cancer is She thinks it's just like having a little
cough or a cold or something She's not bothered But you tell an educated
person that he's got cancer He won't be able to sleep at night He will
spend lakhs of rupees to be free from it The same way, when you
understand that these sins are destroying you You will really be eager
to get free from them If you don't take these sins seriously, it is
because you're uneducated You're very educated in worldly things You may
be a post-graduate or a doctor But spiritually you're uneducated This is
why you think this is not a serious thing Ah, lusting with the eyes
Anger It's not serious It's like some uneducated person saying Ah,
cancer, it's not serious Ah, tuberculosis, it is not so serious Only
uneducated people talk like that And Christendom is full of spiritually
uneducated people who don't take seriously what Jesus has said One of
the greatest burdens in my heart Is that all the brothers and sisters in
CFC churches will start taking these sins seriously And will say, Lord,
if it takes me 10 years to get rid of it I'm going to fight it for 10
years If it takes me 20 years, I'll fight it 20 years But I'm determined
to be free from this sickness I'm not going to listen to the false
prophets who make the way broad and say, oh, it is all right It's not
serious There is a narrow way that leads to life To the abundant life
that Jesus promised

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Video: https://sermonindex2.b-cdn.net/JWxyf87DCZY.mp4
Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/zac-poonen/will-anger-and-lust-lead-me-to-hell/
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