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The Da Vinci Code… I am sure that the title has prompted you to read this article or at least tingled your curiosity as to what is this article all about. Let me get started… This book that bears the title “Da Vinci Code” has sold more than 40 million copies since its release in 2003 and has been translated to more than 30 languages. I am sure you know someone who has read the book and some of you might have read it yourself or watched programs about this book on TV or might have been asked by a friend or colleague about it. So what’s the fuss all about? What is so worth our time to examine this “32 weeks New York Times best seller”? Let me list just a few of the claims made by this book. (1) Jesus is not God; he was only a man. (2)Jesus was married to Mary Magdalene and she is to be worshiped as a goddess. (3) Jesus got her pregnant, and the two had a daughter. (4) That daughter gave rise to a prominent family line that is still present in Europe today. (5) The Bible was put together ...

Scripture: 1 John 3: 15 – 17 (15)Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. (16) For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the vain glory of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. (17)And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever. Early this week, I was asked by a young man in a news group discussion and he sounded pretty earnest. He asked, “What is lust” For a moment I thought I could answer that and then I tried and to my surprise I was at a loss for words. And so I began rummaging all the resources that were available to answer that question. At the end of the study I was surprised at the things that the Lord had revealed to me and I am sure that the insights that the Lord has revealed to me would be of great help to you also. I first began by looking at the dictionary, hoping that I could get a ...