Warring with God.

God’s Word teaches that our young people are to get married in order to ‘combat lust’. It isn’t the only thing they need to do; our society, including our churches, needs to change in very significant ways.
But if we ignore or deny the method that God insists upon the most strongly, indeed the only method that he specifically relates for this issue, then how can we ask for his help? That was Calvin’s point: that if we seek to conquer our sins, but ignore what God has said about how to do so, we ‘war with God’ and ‘resist his ordinances’. He calls it ‘vain’ and ‘presumptuous’.