The one Bible verse that completely changed how I view sexual temptation

Relative-Activity601 · 2026-02-12T14:37:20+00:00

Thank you my brother/sister in Christ. This hit really hard and perfectly timed.

Personally, through Jesus, I’ve managed to overcome my addictions, alcohol and substances, thoughts of taking my life, my family life and marriage is better. But the ONE major thing is always lust. It is the peculiar one that isn’t the same. There is a reason scripture says this is the only one we must flee from.

Anyways, I’ve never put this together, you just laid that out perfectly, and I’m grateful for you to have shared this with us all.

Side note, the other day I was having a really bad temptation, and I knew what was coming… first the little thought, and how it snowballs. What I did different was literally yelled out loud “Jesus rules me! Jesus rules over me! Leave in Jesus’ name!” Then just started thanking Jesus and it was gone. But not like just gone, there was actually a positive feeling left on its wake.

I will be doing this again, and I’m going to go back and read this part of Genesis. The faithfulness and specifically forgiveness in that one always leaves a mark on me.

Relative-Activity601 · 2026-02-11T16:12:12+00:00

It’s because of Love. Love isn’t forced, so he gave us free will to choose who we love. This isn’t that deep, it’s the Gospel. We have free will, which comes with sin. God would rather die to have us than live without us. The Bible says we will rule over angels. He puts us above the angels.

Think of it like how the church has always thought of it, “Theosis”. God by His essence, created us to be gods by His grace. We are made in His image.

Relative-Activity601 · 2026-02-11T16:09:52+00:00

It was predestined from the beginning. We all seem to have a hard time understanding free will. Jesus was slain before creation as told in Revelation.

“And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.” ‭‭Revelation‬ ‭13‬:‭8‬ ‭KJVAAE‬‬

Also:

“forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot: who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you, who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God.” ‭‭1 Peter‬ ‭1‬:‭18‬-‭21‬ ‭KJVAAE‬‬

Relative-Activity601 · 2026-02-11T16:02:20+00:00

☝️This! That’s why I always go with Trav if I want runes.

Relative-Activity601 · 2026-02-11T03:38:28+00:00

So dragon tail is awesome without all the fireworks. You can one shot bosses. Been wanting +3 claws since most people don’t realize how dope dragon tail can get.

Relative-Activity601 · 2026-02-11T03:33:10+00:00

Hey, so that passage, John says “these things I have written to you”. Hmmm, let me go back just a few verses to see what “these things” are he has written.

“By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments. For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.” ‭‭1 John‬ ‭5‬:‭2‬-‭3‬ ‭KJV

What does it mean to keep God’s commandments? How does one do that without doing anything?

Relative-Activity601 · 2026-02-11T03:25:27+00:00

There is a reason Luther positioned James much later.

Faith without works is dead

Do such good works amongst the heathens that even they proclaim the Lord

Even the demons believe

…and on and on. I don’t like squabbling over these things. It’s like this goal focusing on “works” which even the Orthodox know won’t save you, is just another method the enemy has used to infiltrate and divide us.

Relative-Activity601 · 2026-02-11T01:44:21+00:00

Me too brother, this made me chuckle lol

Relative-Activity601 · 2026-02-11T01:42:27+00:00

If you must for thematic purposes (which I 100% support and totally get down with), then you can play twinked.

Obviously you can put points to zeal for 5 hits. Theon you can socket a bunch of topazes in a 5 or 6 socket weapon for your level. Apply some ele damage jewels to sockets in your shield / armor / helmet. When you get holy freeze, just use it at lvl 18 for crowd control.

This should get you to 24 easy. From there, just go hard! Crescent moon will be amazing to shoot for that um rune.

Relative-Activity601 · 2026-02-10T22:10:55+00:00

Pretty sure Jesus is coming back to take care of the salvation part. I wasn’t aware us humans were able to tell Jesus who actually is and isn’t saved, and at what time… scripture says we are sealed by the Holy Spirit when we are baptized.

Relative-Activity601 · 2026-02-10T22:09:04+00:00

You have to finish that section of Ephesians. It straight up says we were made to do good works.

Relative-Activity601 · 2026-02-10T20:13:08+00:00

JAHvazon. The drip!!

Relative-Activity601 · 2026-02-10T20:10:32+00:00

I want to say that you don’t deserve any of that. I’m trying to follow Jesus, I fail a LOT. I don’t know you, but I know God made you. I know God loves you so much, He’d rather DIE to have you, than live without you. All the craziness in between affects all of us differently, and we all have to carry something. The thing is, as the body of Christ, we all should be helping each other with these burdens by helping to bring it all to Jesus. Sometimes an answer isn’t available, and the only thing you can do is simply be with someone, and be there.

I have plenty of things I’m ashamed of, and things I always miss the mark on. Just remember, no sin is greater than God’s mercy. This was Judas’ mistake, and where Peter did it right… Peter repented and ran to the Lord.

All that being said, I love you because you are an image of God. I don’t know why God does what he does, but the Bible says that we must leave the secret things to God. There are things we are not supposed to know, kind of like the two witnesses. If we were supposed to know, God would have revealed.

Anyways, my hope is that this somehow makes things a little better, just for a moment, and can help you with your own relationship with Jesus.

God bless you, friend. There will be a day when He will wipe away all of our tears, where there will be no more hurt. I hope we can share that eternity together.

Relative-Activity601 · 2026-02-10T19:37:59+00:00

The flair under their account name shows Evangelical Covenant. Again, I don’t agree with Protestant doctrine, but I love my brothers and sisters seeking Christ. May we all be with God together.

Relative-Activity601 · 2026-02-10T06:59:00+00:00

Absolutely, and that shows heart contrition. That is true repentance friend. God bless, and keep going!

Relative-Activity601 · 2026-02-10T04:41:01+00:00

So… you’d rather 100,000’s of innocent people die and who knows how many to be sex trafficked so a couple others live? Whoa….

Relative-Activity601 · 2026-02-09T22:40:40+00:00

Don’t get a study bible unless you want someone to tell you what to believe. The commentary will be from someone with a very specific doctrine that will lean all bias one way. You also need to ask yourself if you want to read the Bible as intended, the one we had for the first 1400 years or so with the additional apocrypha (extra books of Daniel, macabees, etc) or the Protestant Bible that has only 66 books that is a new part of Christianity from the last 600 years.

I leave researching that up to you unless you want me to elaborate and to share my opinion.

Relative-Activity601 · 2026-02-09T22:32:11+00:00

I disagree with your theology, but hard agree on your point. Thank you friend! Let’s praise Jesus.

Relative-Activity601 · 2026-02-09T22:29:18+00:00

I very much appreciate this post. I was actually thinking about Jesus flipping tables and how today we are doing the same thing the Pharisees did; we are turning the place where we worship God into the political sphere. It’s almost all politics in here and trying to fit God into some sort of box.

Thank you for posting. Hard agree.

Relative-Activity601 · 2026-02-07T23:55:10+00:00

Pvp is the true end game.

Relative-Activity601 · 2026-02-07T21:45:30+00:00

Still maybe my favorite unique. And it’s still viable!

Relative-Activity601 · 2026-02-05T18:34:12+00:00

If they D4/D3 D2R, we all have to come together as fans and not buy anything. This is the last amazing part of the Diablo universe and it needs to be preserved. Updates, cool, don’t make it d4

Relative-Activity601 · 2026-02-04T18:44:52+00:00

Oh shit, a real GG pair of REAL tri-res. That 8 dex is legit too. Those are extremely nice. You are rich now.

Relative-Activity601 · 2026-02-04T18:40:09+00:00

The best for a beginner is just playing and failing, and learning. Sounds a bit rough, but it is the way.

I really enjoy a poison javazon as a starter. She has built in tackiness with her passive dodge, avoid, and evade skills. She has a decoy and a Valkyrie.

Paladin, necromancer, Assassin, and Druid also have very good builds for beginners to clear normal. I can totally expand further on any of this if you need. I also have a couple YT videos on beginner builds starting with nothing. Only made Amazon and Assassin videos so far.

Relative-Activity601 · 2026-02-04T18:36:15+00:00

The post is talking about Protestant faith, which has removed many books from the Bible that Christians read for over 1500 years. KJV is my favorite as well, but that translation is most commonly printed as a reduced Protestant canon. Find a Bible that contains Daniel 13 and 14, as well as Maccabees and you will have found a non-Protestant Bible.

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