“You shall not commit adultery.
“You shall not steal.
“You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.
“You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife. You shall not set your desire on your neighbor’s house or land, his male or female servant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”

• Deuteronomy 5:18-21

They are well-fed, lusty stallions, each neighing for another man’s wife.

• Jeremiah 5:8

your adulteries and lustful neighings, your shameless prostitution! I have seen your detestable acts on the hills and in the fields. Woe to you, Jerusalem! How long will you be unclean?”

• Jeremiah 13:27

“Though you, Israel, commit adultery, do not let Judah become guilty. “Do not go to Gilgal; do not go up to Beth Aven. And do not swear, ‘As surely as the Lord lives!’

Hosea 4:15

“From the least to the greatest, all are greedy for gain; prophets and priests alike, all practice deceit.

• Jeremiah 6:13

Therefore I will give their wives to other men and their fields to new owners. From the least to the greatest, all are greedy for gain; prophets and priests alike, all practice deceit.

• Jeremiah 8:10

because they had not obeyed my laws but had rejected my decrees and desecrated my Sabbaths, and their eyes lusted after their parents’ idols.

• Ezekiel 20:24

“Her sister Oholibah saw this, yet in her lust and prostitution she was more depraved than her sister.

• Ezekiel 23:11

I am continuing the series of quizzes on the “seven deadly sins: Pride, Greed, Lust, Envy, Gluttony, Wrath, and Sloth.”

We will look at “Lust”.  Questions might pertain to verses that contain words such as “lust, lusting, lustfully, etc.”  There are 22 such verses in the NIV.

The questions are in Biblical order, half in each testament.

The Questions:

	Question	Bible References	Answers
1	What did God prescribe for people to add to their garments as a reminder of the Law?
2	Who made a covenant with his eyes to not lust upon young girls?
3	Who is the father warning his son about in Proverbs when he says not to lust upon her beauty?
4	In Isaiah 57:5, Isaiah tells Judah that they burn with lust under the oaks and do what other abominable thing?
5	In Ezekiel 23, Samaria and Jerusalem are analogous to two sisters.  Who was the lover of Oholah (Samaria) while she was still the Lord’s
6	What did Jesus say was equal to adultery in His Sermon on the Mount?
7	In Romans 1, God speaks of giving over unrepentant people to their sexual desires.  What did they do with those lustful desires?
8	Paul tells the Thessalonians that they should become sanctified and not chase after pagan lusts.  Avoid sexual impurity as to not do what?
9	What group of people is Peter speaking of who trap people in lustful desires just as they are escaping from them?
10	Where does lust come from, according to John?

Lusting does not have to be heterosexual desire.  It does not have to be sexual desire of any kind.

“He that but looketh on a plate of ham and eggs to lust after it hath already committed breakfast with it in his heart.”

• C.S. Lewis, Letters to an American Lady

In looking over the Scriptures that speak of lust, lusting after idols is often a theme.

We still make small images out of wood, ceramics, etc.  My son purchased carvings in Washington state made from Mount St. Helens ash.  Having a few on a shelf do not constitute idols, but if we desire them greatly, at what point does that desire become worship?

I have looked at pretty ladies over the years.  Sometimes, I take double takes due to their beauty, but there is no thought of taking a strange lady that I meet to bed.  I do not worship the thought of having her.

I had a friend that I worked with, and he did the most absurd things.  He would bend over as a lady walked away to enjoy the movement of the woman’s hind quarters.  I asked how that squared with his devout Christian beliefs, and he shrugged.  He was “just looking.”

But all that looking that we do distracts us from looking at Jesus.

Bible References:

	Question	Bible References	Answers
1	What did God prescribe for people to add to their garments as a reminder of the Law?	Numbers 15:34
2	Who made a covenant with his eyes to not lust upon young girls?	Chapter 31, verse 1
3	Who is the father warning his son about in Proverbs when he says not to lust upon her beauty?	Proverbs 6:25
4	In Isaiah 57:5, Isaiah tells Judah that they burn with lust under the oaks and do what other abominable thing?	Isaiah 57:5
5	In Ezekiel 23, Samaria and Jerusalem are analogous to two sisters.  Who was the lover of Oholah (Samaria) while she was still the Lord’s	Ezekiel 23:5
6	What did Jesus say was equal to adultery in His Sermon on the Mount?	Matthew 5:28
7	In Romans 1, God speaks of giving over unrepentant people to their sexual desires.  What did they do with those lustful desires?	Romans 1:26-27
8	Paul tells the Thessalonians that they should become sanctified and not chase after pagan lusts.  Avoid sexual impurity as to not do what?	1 Thessalonians 4:3-6
9	What group of people is Peter speaking of who trap people in lustful desires just as they are escaping from them?	2 Peter 2:18
10	Where does lust come from, according to John?	1 John 2:16

And when does the admiration of something desirable become desire?

When does the desire take over our thoughts, so that in times of quiet reflection, we think of that desire rather than thinking about God, or even what we might fix for supper?

And once that desire becomes more important than God, do we act upon that desire?

Or do we admire from afar, thinking that we are “safe?”

But in our “safe place”, is our heart worshipping the thought of the thing we desire?

Lust is a slow killer of our souls.  A look, admiration, a desire, a distraction, and then things much worse.

To not stumble on this journey of faith, we need to keep our eyes on the prize.  Keeping our eyes on Jesus.

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The Answers:

	Question	Bible References	Answers
1	What did God prescribe for people to add to their garments as a reminder of the Law?	Numbers 15:34	tassels
2	Who made a covenant with his eyes to not lust upon young girls?	Chapter 31, verse 1	Job
3	Who is the father warning his son about in Proverbs when he says not to lust upon her beauty?	Proverbs 6:25	The adulterous woman
4	In Isaiah 57:5, Isaiah tells Judah that they burn with lust under the oaks and do what other abominable thing?	Isaiah 57:5	Sacrifice children
5	In Ezekiel 23, Samaria and Jerusalem are analogous to two sisters.  Who was the lover of Oholah (Samaria) while she was still the Lord’s	Ezekiel 23:5	The Assyrians
6	What did Jesus say was equal to adultery in His Sermon on the Mount?	Matthew 5:28	Lustfully looking at beautiful women
7	In Romans 1, God speaks of giving over unrepentant people to their sexual desires.  What did they do with those lustful desires?	Romans 1:26-27	They gave up natural desires man and woman, and perverted their desires with women lusting upon women and men lusting upon men.
8	Paul tells the Thessalonians that they should become sanctified and not chase after pagan lusts.  Avoid sexual impurity as to not do what?	1 Thessalonians 4:3-6	Take advantage of a brother or sister in this manner.
9	What group of people is Peter speaking of who trap people in lustful desires just as they are escaping from them?	2 Peter 2:18	False teachers
10	Where does lust come from, according to John?	1 John 2:16	The world

Whether you did well on this quiz or, ummm, not so well, for the first video, here is Zach Williams singing The Struggle.

Here is Lost and Found with Deep Waters (Psalm 18).

Here is Colby Savage singing Lust.

Lust ain’t love, and love ain’t lust.

If you like these Saturday morning Bible quizzes, but you think you missed a few, you can use this LINK. I have set up a page off the home page for links to these Saturday morning posts. I will continue to modify the page as I add more.

Soli Deo Gloria.  Only to God be the Glory.