Hi! Welcome to Intentional Men. This community helps men get the tools and resources needed to walk in integrity to make an impact on the world. Step 1: Introduce yourself below! (✄ copy/paste template 👇) 1️⃣ Who are you, where are you from and who do you work with? 2️⃣ What do you want to get out of being in this community? 3️⃣ For fun what do you like to do? 4️⃣ Drop a photo of your office space or where you like to do work from. I'll go first... 🙋 1️⃣ My name is Denis Gerasimov, I am a part-time pastor, married to my lovely wife Anna (for 9 years now!), and have 4 amazing kids (Ezra - 7, Kataleya - 5, Aria - 3, Micah - 1). I dabbled in the business world (start-ups) when I graduated from CSUEB with a marketing/finance degree. God called me to seminary/ministry and here I am now. Live in the wonderful Bay Area where my parents immigrated to from the former Soviet Union back in 1991. 2️⃣ What I want out of this community is to be able to serve you. To help men be who God created them to be. Solid men = solid families = solid society. 🤯 I want to make new friends and inspire hope in men who think life without p*rn is not possible so that they can impact others. 3️⃣ For fun I enjoy hiking, traveling with the fam, playing guitar, and eating yummy food. Love creating things like this community and helping people. 4️⃣ My office is currently at Wework. 😁 (and at home if I need to watch kids) ✅ Let's gooooo! Comment below!

According to my knowledge of the Word of God, lust is a sin in the simplest way of understanding what it is according to the Word of God. It's part of the Sin Nature or the Old man's ways because it's ungodly and sinful to lust after a woman or women in your heart. But it can be worse than that it can lead to several ways of undressing women in your mind. For instance, if a man is over-fantasizing, dreaming, reminiscing, and many other things to please his sexual craving for sex. Lust can lead to just more than having these things in the mind but also seeking to fulfill them by finding and sleeping with women or watching these things. Watching or having anything outside of marriage is lust and is a sin. You’re not supposed to marry just to do that because it's seeking fulfillment of desire and marrying what you're idolizing. You marry them with the idea that your cravings will be met timely and often as needed. That is an abomination in the sight of God. You can not live in sin and be comfortable living in sexual immorality. Do not misunderstand that sex is a sin, but having sex in your heart or with someone outside of marriage is a sin. Sex is only for a man and a woman who are evenly yoked as believers under a covenant with God. This is how we know sex is a gift or a blessing from God and is pleasing in His sight. Salsanblues a Reddit user stated: "Feeling attraction is not sinful. Feeling sexual desire is not sinful... None of these things are sinful on their own, they are part of God's design. Lust, in its most basic, is the objectification of another person for your selfish pleasure. It's a one-sided sexual act/fantasy that you CHOOSE, which is outside of the consent of the other party. They keep teaching men that they are no better than animals and that acknowledging attraction or sexual interest is lust. It's not. Then they tell women that it's their responsibility to prevent the men around them from lusting and that their bodies insight lust. (My comment "A woman is responsible for her appearance aka modesty and speaks.) Which is reducing women to the sum of their body parts instead of seeing them as whole people, worthy of respect and sisters in Christ. When you see a super attractive woman in the street, or on the bus, just living life, it's fine to acknowledge that she's attractive. But lust is when you stop caring about her as a person, see her body as something to consume, and use her for your pleasure regardless of her consent.

Guys - I want to get to know you more, serve you better. Will be doing a workshop next 📆 Friday afternoon or Saturday AM. 💬 What topic would most benefit you? 1. Renewing the mind 2. building healthy friendships 3. figuring out root cause of lust 4. Time management 5. Sleep, dopamine, food - how it all works. 6. Comment below any other topic you’d like to discuss! Most commented topic, or liked topic wins… 👌🏻

1. How do we become free from Lust? First, you must acknowledge who you are as a person currently speaking to those who have not been born again. Jesus makes it very clear that unless a man is born again he shall not inherit the kingdom of heaven. Any man who worked iniquity God the Son does not know nor the Father will acknowledge. Those the Son does not know will be judged according to their sins by God the Father. How does someone stop sinning and working iniquity in the sight of God? First, you must deny yourself and pick up your cross. You must ask the Holy Spirit to teach you all things of Jesus and come to the point of being dead to sin. Ask Jesus to put to death your old man aka the Sin Nature and be raised from the dead being free from all sin. Living sinless both in this life and preserved blameless in the next. How does one have a relationship with Jesus? The relationship starts with hearing the gospel and then accepting the Holy Spirit to teach and lead you. The Holy Spirit will direct you to the Cross and you will learn of Jesus. God will cause you to do His will. You can not be set free by your efforts. It is Christ that does a service for you. How? He is the Lamb that is the sacrifice, The High Priest, and the one that can Reconcile you with the Father. The Only One that Abides in the Father and Father in Him. 2. How do we live free from Lust? Once you are dead to sin you will no longer be bound to sin. You will live freely and be able to do all things God will cause you to at all times. God the Father and Son will come in and rein in you. But you have to stop believing in self-will and rely completely on Jesus. We are to rest in the finished work of the Cross that Jesus died on for our sins so that we may have eternal life through Him. 3. How do we teach others to live free from Lust? We teach others once we have been born again and learned the teaching of Jesus. A relationship must be established. A process must happen before one can be born again. Lust is not the root it is the fruit that is produced from the sin nature which is part of the old man. You can only die once to sin and be born again living free from sin once.