The people wanted what Yahweh offered but they weren’t going to go all in with Him. They weren’t towards Him.

They were hedging their bets on Yahweh with .

God is battling that we might truly know the our hearts ache for.

Baal was the “god” who promised sustenance through water and through sex.

The first element of Baal worship – sex .

The second element - .

This spirit is alive prominent in our culture because it is just one way, maybe the most powerful way, of God and mankind wars against our hearts.

We battle by embracing and living from the of God in everything, including sex.

When used as designed by God, used in the covenant of marriage between a man and a woman, sex is . (Gen. 1:31, 2:24-25).

We don’t give over to the enemy that which God created for our good. We embrace God’s opinion and live within God’s .

Outside of God’s boundaries that which is beautiful and marvelous leaves people and empty. (Pr. 6:27)

Sex will the innate desire in us for love because it was never designed to do so.

is meant to consume anything in our hearts that is impure – anything that would keep us from receiving and knowing true love that is only found in one place. (Lk. 3:16; Eph. 3:17-19)