Love, Lust, & Faithfulness

Vice and Virtue

By Dean Fulks, March 09, 2025

Every is an opportunity for



2 Cor. 5:9 So whether we are at home or away, we make it our aim to please him.



Lust is a God-created, good desire gone bad



Jas. 1:14 Each person is tempted when they are dragged away by their own evil desire and enticed.



Categories of guilt that create labels of shame



Gen 39:1 Now Joseph had been brought down to Egypt, and Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, the captain of the guard, an Egyptian, had bought him from the Ishmaelites who had brought him down there.



Gen. 39:6 So he left all that he had in Joseph's charge, and because of him he had no concern about anything but the food he ate.



Gen 39:6b-7 Now Joseph was handsome in form and appearance. And after a time his master's wife cast her eyes on Joseph and said, “Lie with me.”



Pornography doesn’t show too much of a person; rather, it shows far too little



Gen. 39:8-9 But he refused and said to his master's wife, “Behold, because of me my master has no concern about anything in the house, and he has put everything that he has in my charge. He is not greater in this house than I am, nor has he kept back anything from me except you, because you are his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness and sin against God?”



You fight the with a



“Every man that knocks on the door of a brothel is really in search of God.” – G.K. Chesterton



Gen. 39:10 And as she spoke to Joseph day after day, he would not listen to her, to lie beside her (or to be with her).



Gen. 39:11-1 One day he went into the house to attend to his duties, and none of the household servants was inside. She caught him by his cloak and said, “Come to bed with me!” But he left his cloak in her hand and ran out of the house.



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Gen. 39:20-21a And Joseph's master took him and put him into the prison, the place where the king's prisoners were confined, and he was there in prison. But the Lord was with Joseph…



1 Cor. 6:11 And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.