Welcome to Sunday Fuel! This series of questions is designed to assist your personal reflection and fellowship with others about the sermon from this past Sunday.

Go to This Sunday’s Sermon (start at 21:47)

1. If your thought life were broadcast 24/7, what would you be concerned that others would see? Why? 

2. Whether or not you struggle with sexual lust in particular, where are your eyes “fixed” and your heart focused? How does your gaze feed sinful heart desires? What actions follow your desires? 

Select the questions that may be the most helpful in applying this sermon.

3. Read Psalm 51 as a guide to bringing our sinful desires to God for cleansing and change.  

• Humbly look to God for help to cleanse you from your sin (v. 2). 
• Mourn your sin by naming your wrong desires specifically and how they violate God’s holy and righteous character. Our sin is against God alone (v. 4). 
• Ask Him to fill your heart with a hunger for his truth and righteousness that leads to transformation (v. 6). 
• Identify and articulate the lies that are fueling those desires.
  • Have you bought into the lie that sex is nothing because it’s “natural”? 
  • Or that sex is everything—the ultimate demand you must satisfy? 
  • Or have you believed sex is the worst thing and are struggling alone with it as a taboo subject? 
• Underneath all those lies, what is your heart wanting or desiring most? Intimacy, escape, pleasure, connection, acceptance, etc.? Will you bring these desires with a broken and contrite spirit to the Lord (vv. 16-17) instead of trying to satisfy them in your own way? This pleases him. 
• What specific biblical truth can you dwell on that will help bring transformation and address the lies or minister to the desires of your heart?
• Commit to fixing your eyes on Christ, who brings us a much better hope as he transforms us.. 

4. What “radical amputation” must you perform in your life? What do you need to put off (Eph. 4:22)? 

How can you “radically position” yourself in God’s pathways of grace? What can you “put on” (Eph. 4:24)? How can you fill your mind with Scripture, good books, podcasts, etc. to help you fix your focus on Jesus? 

5. Is there a friend or pastor you can talk with about your struggles to find accountability? How can we encourage one another in this area by speaking openly about this instead of hiding it?