# Pure Desire ![rw-book-cover](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51o1QnFLgQL._SL200_.jpg) ## Metadata - Author: [[Ted Roberts, Steve Arterburn (Foreword)]] - Full Title: Pure Desire - Category: #books ## Highlights - I want to stress that this book is not for the spiritually elite, the super intercessor, or the fearless and tearless in the faith. It is for church leaders or pastors whose hearts are breaking over the sexual bondage they know is present in the Church, because people have trusted them enough to come for help. However, the leaders have a problem. They don’t know exactly what to do. They give the standard answers, but in many cases the people they care for are still deeply embedded in the struggle. ([Location 148](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00LA9G9JG&location=148)) - This book isn’t for the legalist who thinks the total answer to the soul’s cry for purity is simply to try harder. They say, “If people were more committed to Christ, they wouldn’t have sexual problems.” Although this book works well with those who have recently come to Christ, it is primarily a book for those who have tried to build sexual holiness in their lives and failed . . . and failed . . . and failed. It is for inconsistent, shaky believers who have guts enough to admit that no matter how good they may look on the outside, their hearts are far from what they desire them to be with respect to sexual purity. ([Location 156](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00LA9G9JG&location=156)) - Sexual sin and bondage is rarely about sex alone. It’s about a family system, a way of seeing the world and dealing with pain. It’s about how a person’s inner “software” processes struggles within the soul. Therefore, sexual healing and health is often a family issue. ([Location 166](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00LA9G9JG&location=166)) - This book will challenge and provoke you to see the full scope of the swirling and vicious battle for sexual purity in our day. At times this battle is filled with demonic confrontation, yet ultimately it is about our inner brokenness. We must always remember: This is a spiritual and physical battle. For ours is a journey of faith where the glory of God fills us each day even though we are fragile earthen vessels with feet made of clay. ([Location 177](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00LA9G9JG&location=177)) - “Would you like to know a prayer that God will always answer?” “Sure,” I responded. “Then just ask God if there is anything in your life that He would like to change.” ([Location 213](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00LA9G9JG&location=213)) - As we progress through this century, there will be many people who will come up with all kinds of theories about the antichrist and the mark of the beast, warning us not to vote for certain kinds of legislation or not to move toward a cashless society, because we will end up with the mark of the beast on us. The mark is already on many in the Church! In Revelation 17:5, the woman who sits on the beast is described in this way:   This title was written on her forehead: MYSTERY BABYLON THE GREAT THE MOTHER OF PROSTITUTES AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. Sexual bondage in the Church and in our world is one of hell’s master plans, especially in the last days. A spiritual battle rages over this issue. ([Location 243](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00LA9G9JG&location=243))