(Theme Song) Jesus is worthy
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oh yes, he's
worthy worthy of all...
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(Music)
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PB: The Ten
Commandments are a package deal.
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James 2:10 says
that the breaking of one
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is like the
breaking of all of them.
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In commandment number seven,
thou shalt not commit adultery,
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God preserved the sanctity
of marriage and the family
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on planet earth
where it is so threatened.
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But this commandment could
probably in our world today be
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filed away into the
endangered species category.
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Because it appears that many
have forgotten thou shalt not
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commit adultery.
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Now the word adultery comes
from the word adulter, which
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means to contaminate.
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And so the word itself
suggests that this act of
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behavior leads us into the
contamination of that which
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God holds and has
preserved as sacred.
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Amazingly, this commandment,
if you think about it, this
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commandment, commandment
number seven, thou shalt not
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commit adultery, is right
before thou shalt not steal
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and thou shalt not
bear false witness or lie.
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Which then may mean that
the very mentioning of it, the
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practicing of it, adultery
that is, is to steal the
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property of another and
then lie to cover it up.
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Three things I want to say
tonight about this adultery.
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Number one, let's look at
the consequences of adultery.
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The first consequence
of adultery is simply this,
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adultery defies God.
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Let me say that again.
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Adultery defies whom, everybody?
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Adultery defies God.
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So often when we speak of
adultery, we speak of it in
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horizontal terms, that
we're just dealing with
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our fellow man.
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But with adultery there's a
vertical beam connected to it.
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You do remember in Genesis,
Chapter 39, that there was
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this handsome, young man
by the name of Joseph, who was
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given custodianship over the
affairs of Potiphar, Potiphar
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who works in the government
of Egypt right next to Pharaoh,
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has said to Joseph that,
you have all free land to
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everything I own.
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Everything I have in
the kingdom, you have
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access to it.
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But Potiphar's
wife, Sister Potiphar,
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took that to be quite literal.
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She came on to
young, handsome Joseph.
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He backed up from
her really, really quick.
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So quick that he left
his coat behind him when he
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was running from her.
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But notice, Joseph did not
say to Sister Potiphar, I cannot
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do this evil in the
sight of my master, Potiphar.
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Nor did Joseph violate
the right of Potiphar's wife.
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He said, however, how can I
do this evil and wicked thing
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in the sight of God.
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The confession of David after
he had sinned against Uriah,
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had taken Bathsheba to be
his property and plotted the
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murderous plan for her
husband, in Psalm 51 David
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lifts up his voice and David
begins to earnestly prayer in
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a confessional by saying that
his sins are ever before him
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and he needs the
cleansing power of God to come
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in his life.
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So the first consequence
that we all need to take into
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consideration on this subject,
an act of adultery, is that
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adultery defies God.
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Number two,
adultery destroys families.
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Families are
destroyed by adultery.
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I've read where children have
never quite recovered from the
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divorce caused by adultery.
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In fact, I read of a young
man who had lived beneath the
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pains of adultery and had
become rather successful in
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his life, but against
the pressures of life he
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committed suicide.
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In his committing suicide he
left a note and in the note he
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simply hinted that there
was something lost years ago in
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his life when his mother
and his father had separated and
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divorced caused by adultery.
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The Bible teaches that God
has a commitment to family and
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there were times that God
has such a commitment to the
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family that in Deuteronomy
22:22, that God would even
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kill on behalf of adultery.
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Adultery defies God, adultery
destroys families, but then
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also adultery
destroys marriages.
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You see, marriage is an
exclusive right that God has
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given to a man and a woman.
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I don't care what society
says, it is an exclusive right
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that God has given
to a man and a woman.
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That God has in it given
exclusive, permanent rights.
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In it God has
cemented the family.
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When we come into the covenant
of marriage, Genesis 2:24, you
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know it, the Bible talks
about that a man will leave his
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mother and his father and
cleave to his wife, and from
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the cleaving children would
come and he said, this is a
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permanent relationship.
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But another consequence
of adultery, number three.
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Adultery denies love.
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Love is denied in adultery.
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In Romans 13:8-10 Paul
rewrites the commandment, but
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in it he tags along in it
and says, but remember that the
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fulfillment of this comes
in that one commandment that we
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love our neighbor as
ourselves, that if one loves
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his or her neighbor as himself
or herself, that there are
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certain lines that
you will not cross.
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There are certain
things that will not be done.
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But adultery
does something else.
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Number four.
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Adultery derides faithfulness.
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Because God has placed the
covenant of marriage in a very
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high place and whenever
trust is lost, it becomes a
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destruction, it becomes
deterioration upon the family
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and God says, family
is real important to me.
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So it derives faithfulness.
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But also, number five,
adultery does something else.
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Adultery degrades people.
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It physically degrades a person.
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They're treated like property
even in the name of love.
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But it also, number
six, another consequence
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of adultery is
sexually transmitted diseases.
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And then, what about
the emotional scarring
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that comes along with it?
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The heartbreak, the nervous
breakdown, the anxiety, all of
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the tension that comes
along with it, and I'm told that
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when you engage in such
behavior, boy, it's hard
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on you physically.
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And then finally, number
seven, because of completion.
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There's spiritual implications
associated with adultery.
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The implication of it is
that God has created us in his
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image, that God has created
us in his likeness and God wants
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to preserve purity
within our human body.
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Now these are the consequences.
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But how do we get to this?
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Something had to happen in
order for us to get to this.
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Now, we could simply end right
here and say it came to this
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because of one word, sin.
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And people, listen
to me carefully, people
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underestimate what sin is.
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Problem with most Christians
is we really don't understand
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what sin is.
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The average believer believes
that sin is bad behavior.
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That sin is just
doing something wrong.
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But sin is much more than that.
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Sin is the total depravity
of man, which means that the
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entire being of a person
is touched by sin, the way you
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think, the way you act,
the way you behave, the way you
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look at life, sin has
scarred and marred all of us.
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That's why the text
says, all have sinned.
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Not, you all have sinned, but
all have sinned and come short
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of the glory of God.
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And you'll never get on the
right track until you have a
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healthy understanding and
healthy idea of what sin is.
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Not only must we have a lofty
and high idea of who God is,
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but we also, friends of
mine, we must know what sin is.
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Sin happens to the best of us.
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One of the causes of
adultery is uncertain standards.
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The certain standard and
expectations have to be made
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early in life.
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If they have not, they need
to be implemented today because
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there is always, listen to
me good, there's always conflict
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between divine principles
and contemporary thought.
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God says, thou
shalt not commit adultery.
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Contemporary thought says
that everybody's doing it,
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so it must be okay.
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Another cause, number
two, unrestrained sexuality.
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Now let's be clear.
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Sex is a gift from God.
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I don't know any book
that talks about sex more
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than the Bible.
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You want to read some
really steamy stuff, read the
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Psalm of Solomon.
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Do I have a
witness in this place?
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I know some people said
it's talking about God and his
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church and it is doing much of
that, but it's really speaking
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out in terms of human and
physical sexual encounters.
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Read it some time.
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The Bible is full of sex.
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So what God says
is, I'm not trying
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to restrict that.
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I'm not trying to keep you
from intimacy, but I've got to
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put some limits on it
because if I don't you all will
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go crazy in here.
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So God says, I'm going to put,
you all don't hear me, ha-ha.
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God says, I've got to
put some boundaries on it.
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But then here is another cause.
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Not only unrestrained
sexuality, but number three,
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unfulfilled desire.
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Some people go into adultery
and fornication, which, by the
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way, is the same
thing in this commandment.
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Fornication is adultery.
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Some people try to say that
the two are different but some
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people go into adultery,
fornication, whatever else,
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because of their
lack of fulfillment in the
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human sexuality.
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Others say it's not just
unsatisfactory marriages, but
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unlimited opportunities.
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So when I get one, I just
do whatever else I can do.
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But then number
four, another cause, the
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undisciplined lifestyle.
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When a lifestyle
gets undisciplined, when a
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lifestyle gets wild, you
know, men gone wild, women gone
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wild, only God knows
what will happen to you.
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You're at your weakest
moment in life whenever you
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get out of discipline.
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There are some singles in
here that thought they were off
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the hook when we
talk about adultery.
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They were having a
lot of sport of all of us
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married folk.
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So let's bring the
singles up in here, too.
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Come on, say Amen.
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One of the things that Jesus
does with this commandment is
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he expands upon the definition.
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Adultery, back in the day, for
the most part was defined that
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a married man was not to be
involved with a married woman
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or an unmarried woman, or
a married woman was not to be
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involved with a married
man or an unmarried man.
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That was it.
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It was a violation of covenant.
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It was the transgressing
and trespassing of another
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person's property.
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It could equal up to death.
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That's how severe it was.
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And Jesus, my friends,
knew that he would enter in this
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new dispensation called grace.
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Everybody say grace.
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He said, I need to
revise what this whole subject
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of infidelity is.
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And so the Bible says in
Matthew, Chapter 5, verses 27
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and 28, read it when you
go home, Jesus expands on it.
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In Matthew 5:27 Jesus
says, "Ye have heard that it was
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said by them of old times,
ye shall not commit adultery."
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Now, remember, it was Jesus
who said in the first place,
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"Think not that I am
come to destroy the law or the
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prophets, I am come not to
destroy but to fulfill." But
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in verse 28 of Matthew 5,
Jesus says, "But I say unto
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you that whosoever looketh
on a woman to lust after her has
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already committed adultery
in his own heart." Jesus here
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then gets everybody.
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Married folk, single folk,
all kinds of folk, because there
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are a lot of people who are
basically good and this is not
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chiding or a reduction of
your morality, who would say,
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Pastor Byrd, I would never
ever, never ever, ever never
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commit the act of adultery.
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Never. But Jesus
says, you may not commit
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the act of adultery,
but a whole lot of you all
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have committed the
attitude of adultery.
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Look down at folk and you say,
anybody that would do that is
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just scorned,
filthy, they just vile.
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They don't deserve to live.
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Jesus says, I
understand all that.
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I hear you.
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I feel you and I fill you.
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But how are you
doing in your attitude?
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He says, because even if
you look at a woman, look at a
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man, lustfully, you have
already committed in your
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heart what you say you haven't
committed with your body.
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Now let me say this, because
I know some of you are asking.
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Yeah, Pastor Byrd, I
don't care what you say,
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the attitude is
not worse than the act.
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But it must be equal
because I hear Jesus say,
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adultery is not
just a physical problem,
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the act is physical,
but the problem is not.
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You may commit the act
of adultery in your body but
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there's got to be something
wrong beneath the skin for if
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you have it in the body.
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He says there is
something soulless, something
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attitudinal that's going on
in your mind, there is something
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that's beneath the skin that
needs to be worked on because
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there's more than just the
act, it's your attitude and
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there are two things
that happen in the past, says
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Matthew 5:27-28.
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He says your mind and
your eyes get you in trouble.
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And so then the consecration
of the mind is necessary.
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No wonder the Apostle
Paul would later come along and
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say, be ye transformed by
the renewing of your mind.
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Don't be conformed to
the pattern of this world.
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In other words, this world
says everything is all right
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with what you've been doing,
but if you transform your mind
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and put the mind of Jesus in
its place, you will be renewed
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day by day.
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The devil is after your mind.
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The reason why this is so
clear with our attitude is
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because you know and I
know, we know, your body
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can be one
place, but your mind be
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somewhere else.
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So then Jesus
said, check your eyes.
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Everybody going to
walk through church with
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their heads down.
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Now, please, let's be clear.
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This is not against admiration
or appreciation, but Jesus is
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saying that there are just
some people that their eyes
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keep them in trouble.
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I don't have time to tell
it all tonight, but if you look
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at the life of Samson, here
is this robust, strong, handsome
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man who has the anointing
of God on his life and he has
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been specifically
chosen for an anointed task.
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This man, however,
keeps failing because he keeps
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looking in the wrong direction.
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And although he had his
eyes on what he needed, he
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recklessly looked around
and everybody else he looked at
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always got him in
trouble, specifically Delilah.
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And the point that I'm making
here tonight is this, there
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are a whole lot of folk who
will say, I've never done it,
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I just thought it.
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But God says, that's just as
bad, because as a man thinketh
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in his heart, so is he.
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Because if you just keep
thinking it, it's just a matter
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of time before you do it.
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The problem with many folk
is this, it's not the act first,
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but it's the attitude.
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We begin to feed our behavior,
feed our attitude so much
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until we start looking
for ways that we can execute
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what's in us.
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Because Jesus says, it's what
goes in a man and comes out of
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a man that defiles him.
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In other words, if you put
it in you, it's just a matter
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of time before it
has to come out again.
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Out of the heart, Jesus
says, flows the issues of life.
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So you put filth in your
head, filth will come out
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of your mouth.
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Put filth in your heart, filth
will come out of your body.
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It's just a matter of time
that whatever is inside of you
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has to come out of you,
and if you can't say Amen,
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just say ouch!
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Somebody told me last night,
oh, you stepped on my toes.
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I got to go buy me some boots.
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Go get the boots
and come to church.
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Now, there's another issue here.
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It's not just on
certain standards, it's not just
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unrestrained
sexuality, it's not just
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unfulfilled desire,
undisciplined lifestyles, but
00:19:26.40\00:19:28.90
number five, what
about un-confessed sin that
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gets us in trouble.
00:19:32.93\00:19:34.66
That we refuse to
confess the sin in our lives.
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The lord wants us to confess it.
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He says, number one, you've
got to recognize your lust.
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What about Mark 7.
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Go there with me.
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Go to the book of Mark.
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Mark, Chapter 7 and
let's go to verse 20.
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Let's see what the
word of God has to say.
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Mark 7:20. The word of God.
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Jesus himself speaking
says, "And he said, 'That which
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cometh out of the
man, that defileth the man.
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For from within, out of
the heart of men, proceed evil
00:20:11.76\00:20:15.40
thoughts, adulteries,
fornications, murders, thefts,
00:20:15.40\00:20:20.36
covetousness, wickedness,
deceit, lasciviousness, an
00:20:20.36\00:20:23.46
evil eye, blasphemy, pride,
foolishness; all these evil
00:20:23.46\00:20:28.46
things come from within,
and defile the man.'" One of the
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things that happens is
we don't recognize what's
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happening to us.
00:20:39.80\00:20:41.13
And more than that, we
refuse to deal with it.
00:20:41.13\00:20:44.26
We just say, well, it ain't me.
00:20:44.26\00:20:46.46
I haven't been caught--yet.
00:20:46.46\00:20:49.73
But you know, you can run
from God but you can't hide.
00:20:49.73\00:20:54.96
God is everywhere.
00:20:54.96\00:20:57.63
God is omnipresent.
00:20:57.63\00:20:59.63
God is all
places at the same time.
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You never quite get
away from God, do you?
00:21:03.60\00:21:06.90
You never get away
from the pain and the guilt.
00:21:06.90\00:21:10.93
God is always looking over
your shoulder, spirit of God
00:21:10.93\00:21:16.13
moving in where you are,
picking up your Bible, you'll
00:21:16.13\00:21:20.16
open your Bible and the spirit
of God will confront you on
00:21:20.16\00:21:23.63
every page.
00:21:23.63\00:21:26.00
One last thing.
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Tonight, is there a cure?
00:21:28.53\00:21:33.03
What about the
cure for adultery?
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Well, thank and
praise God for that.
00:21:36.53\00:21:39.43
Four things.
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The first thing in curing this
problem, one is preventative.
00:21:40.93\00:21:46.60
Preventative has four things.
00:21:46.60\00:21:50.10
Number one, agree with God.
00:21:50.10\00:21:52.20
Do what, everybody?
00:21:52.20\00:21:53.23
Find yourself, whether
it's adultery, whether it's
00:21:53.23\00:21:57.93
stealing, whether it's
lying, whether it's cheating,
00:21:57.93\00:22:01.53
whatever it is, the first
thing you need to do is agree
00:22:01.53\00:22:05.50
with God from
God's point of view.
00:22:05.50\00:22:08.20
What God wants you to do
about the particular situation.
00:22:08.20\00:22:11.53
That's the first thing.
00:22:11.53\00:22:13.30
Because let's be clear,
everybody, everyone up in
00:22:13.30\00:22:16.40
here, everyone watching,
everyone has a challenge.
00:22:16.40\00:22:20.33
Everyone has a weakness and
in order to get the cure, you
00:22:20.33\00:22:25.20
have to agree with God.
00:22:25.20\00:22:31.70
The second thing as
recorded in 2 Peter 3:18 is to
00:22:31.70\00:22:33.63
grow in grace.
00:22:33.63\00:22:34.56
Peter says, grow in grace
and in the knowledge of our Lord
00:22:34.56\00:22:38.03
Jesus Christ.
00:22:38.03\00:22:39.70
Because you see, friends of
mine, the more you get to know
00:22:39.70\00:22:43.03
about the Lord, the more
you get to know about Jesus
00:22:43.03\00:22:47.06
Christ, the more you
grow in him, the better your
00:22:47.06\00:22:50.56
chances to survive
the assault of life.
00:22:50.56\00:22:53.66
The more you walk with Jesus,
the more you read of Jesus,
00:22:53.66\00:22:57.90
the more you pray and talk
to Jesus, the more you come out
00:22:57.90\00:23:02.36
night after night and study
Jesus, the better your chances
00:23:02.36\00:23:05.63
in fighting Satan.
00:23:05.63\00:23:07.30
Ephesians 5 teaches that
we--number 3--need to then
00:23:07.30\00:23:12.06
walk in the Spirit.
00:23:12.06\00:23:14.73
The problem with most of us
is we want to end something and
00:23:14.73\00:23:17.63
then we walk in the Spirit.
00:23:17.63\00:23:19.13
We want to end it first,
then let's walk in the Spirit.
00:23:19.13\00:23:21.66
But it never works that way
because there are people who
00:23:21.66\00:23:24.36
come and they listen and they
say, as soon as I get myself
00:23:24.36\00:23:28.30
right, then I'm going
to walk in the Spirit.
00:23:28.30\00:23:31.70
I've had people come to me
night after night, here at the
00:23:31.70\00:23:34.96
revival, Pastor, you're
preaching the word of God, the
00:23:34.96\00:23:37.56
seventh day is the Sabbath.
00:23:37.56\00:23:39.20
Pastor, my body
is the temple of God.
00:23:39.20\00:23:41.86
Pastor, I need to join
this church, I need to join this
00:23:41.86\00:23:45.20
ministry, I need to be
baptized, but I need to
00:23:45.20\00:23:48.23
get right first.
00:23:48.23\00:23:51.20
You'll never be right.
00:23:51.20\00:23:53.56
You're righteous, my
righteousness is filthy rags
00:23:53.56\00:23:55.93
in the sight of God.
00:23:55.93\00:23:58.40
Are you hearing what I'm saying?
00:23:58.40\00:24:00.60
You have to make up in
your mind that, I'm going to
00:24:00.60\00:24:05.26
walk in the spirit of God.
00:24:05.26\00:24:07.80
And let me tell you something.
00:24:07.80\00:24:09.13
As you begin to walk in the
Spirit of God, as you begin to
00:24:09.13\00:24:12.96
grow in God's spirit, as
you walk, God will then begin to
00:24:12.96\00:24:16.80
flush out unclean
areas in your life.
00:24:16.80\00:24:20.56
Number four, the cure.
00:24:20.56\00:24:23.30
Guard yourself
with the Spirit of God.
00:24:23.30\00:24:28.36
In the remedial area for a
cure for adultery, infidelity,
00:24:28.36\00:24:31.56
ask God to give
you a repentant spirit.
00:24:31.56\00:24:36.23
You've got to be sorry.
00:24:36.23\00:24:38.56
When I say sorry, I
mean sorry, not sorry you
00:24:38.56\00:24:41.03
got caught.
00:24:41.03\00:24:41.86
Do I have a
witness in this place?
00:24:41.86\00:24:44.36
You've got to be repentant.
00:24:44.36\00:24:45.73
John 8:1-11, the woman the
Bible teaches was caught in
00:24:45.73\00:24:49.06
the very act of adultery.
00:24:49.06\00:24:51.23
Yes, she got
caught, but she was sorry.
00:24:51.23\00:24:54.46
What am I trying to say?
00:24:54.46\00:24:55.50
Don't be wrong and strong.
00:24:55.50\00:24:57.20
And if any man or woman be
in Christ, he's a new creature.
00:24:57.20\00:25:05.76
All things are passed away.
00:25:05.76\00:25:10.50
All things become new.
00:25:10.50\00:25:16.50
Thou shalt have no
other gods before me.
00:25:16.50\00:25:20.73
Thou shalt not make
unto me any graven image.
00:25:20.73\00:25:24.10
Thou shalt not take the name
of the Lord thy God in vain.
00:25:24.10\00:25:27.60
Remember the Sabbath
day and keep it holy.
00:25:27.60\00:25:32.56
Honor thy father and thy
mother that thy days may be
00:25:32.56\00:25:36.60
long upon the land which
the Lord thy God giveth you.
00:25:36.60\00:25:39.96
Thou shalt not kill.
00:25:39.96\00:25:42.70
And thou shalt
not commit adultery.
00:25:42.70\00:25:51.43
God is saying to each of
us, love me in the way that
00:25:51.43\00:25:58.30
I want to be loved.
00:25:58.30\00:26:01.06
This is how I want you to love
me and this is how I want you
00:26:01.06\00:26:05.96
to love your fellow man.
00:26:05.96\00:26:09.36
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Not you all have sinned.
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There's not any
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If you put filth in your
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