Look to your past, isn’t it enough?
There are many of you here tonight who look to your past and say, yes, it was enough, more than
enough. Let’s look at it a little more closely. What was it like? Six words describe it. You pursued a
course of sensuality, aselgeia, the word is used to describe the spirit which knows no restraint. The
spirit, which dares to sin any sin. Unbridled. Unrestrained vice. In fact, the old word for it is
“debauchery.”
And that word meant an excessive indulgence in sensual pleasure. He’s saying that’s the way it was,
before you came to Christ in your lost condition, you lived in unchecked lawlessness, open,
outrageous against God. You flaunted your vice. And certainly, that’s true in the culture in which we
live, which would have to be defined as a pornographic culture. Second word he uses is very closely
associated with the first. He uses the word ”lusts,” “passion”; it means evil desire.
It is to be driven by the animal instinct, to be driven by passion. It is mindless indulgence in the
pleasures that passion pursues.
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