What’s Wrong With Us?

WHAT AM I CRAVING?

Pastor Hope Flask

February 22, 2026

Main Scriptures: Joshua 7:19-26

Additional Scriptures: Proverbs 28:13, Joshua 6:18-19, 1 Peter 2:9, 1 Corinthians 10:13, Hebrews 12:1-2

POINTS:

• All sin makes us addicts, because it destroys our tolerance, perpetuates denial, and drains our willpower.

• Gluttony is taking something good and cramming it in until we are so full of it that we think we are going to explode.

• Self-control is the Spirit-empowered ability to master one’s desires, emotions, and impulses, aligning them with God’s will rather than yielding to sinful temptation.

• The self-control of Israel was critical to the campaign’s legitimacy, critical to their identity as a people, and critical to honoring God.

• Sin affects us so much that it produces a craving in us that we must get whatever we desire, even to the point that we know it will destroy us.

• The reason we are so discouraged and in such despair is that there is something in our lives that we want immoderately.

• Common steps of sin (Achan’s example): 1. He saw, 2. He weighed, 3. He coveted, 4. He took them

• To behold means to hold it, to put it at the center of attention.

• Glory means weight; it is both heavy and important.

• Glory comes from our imagination.

• “Our imaginations are the tongues of the soul.” -Timothy Keller

• Tongues have taste buds.

• “Sin is an inflammation of imagination.” -Timothy Keller

• Steps free: 1. Be aware of what we are gazing at, 2. Acknowledge our worship-sized craving, 3. Give weight to Jesus to give Him glory

• Worship is weighing all that Jesus is and what He has done and will do.

• Addictions are just ways in which we anesthetize ourselves, because we don’t think we matter.