Do you that there
is on trait character
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that almost us possess. There
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is one characteristics
that most have in common
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and that is this, we don't like
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to be different, most
people do not like to stand
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out in crowd they
would rahter just blend in
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this was emphasized to me
a few years ago when I was
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watching a clip of
candid camera, now for those of
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you don't know what candid
camera is, this old time TV
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show where they
take people and they
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purposely put them
into difficult situations
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and film them to see how they
respond to it and I remember on
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this on this particular clip,
they had thought a group of
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people to go into an elevator
and when they go into the
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elevator to turn
around and face the back
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off it, now for most of us
and most people when going an
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elevator which way do we face?
We towards the door because we
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want lookup and see what floor
we are on, but told this group
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of people when go in turn
completely aroung and face
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the back of elevator and
then they turned cameras on
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as the elevator went
from floor to another and new
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people can in and I
was utterly astounded that
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when whenever a new person
walked in the elevator and they
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saw all these facing the
back of it guess what they did?
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They did the exact same thing
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one fool after another
even thought normally they would
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always face the front because
this group of people was doing
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the opposite they did the
same thing because the did not
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want to to be different.
You know there is a Bible
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verse there is a Bible
people being different, it is
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found 1Peter 2
chapter and verse 9, The
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Bible say:
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Now notice the word that the
Bible uses here, it says that
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God's are what?
Particular and thats
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doesn't in a sense that
there're weird or there crazy
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or that there something wrong
though world might think that
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but what is referring to
that is something different
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about the disciples of Jesus
Christ. Can you say Amen? That
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whatever we do,
however we life, however we act
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It aught to show forth the
praises of the God that we serve
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people should see something
of the character of Jesus
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in us. And so because
God's people are to be different
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that means when the world
looks at us they ought to see
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something different about the
way we act, they way we talk,
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they we we conduct ourselves,
the way we interact with
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others, because they
need to see Jesus amen.
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And so tonight we're
gonna start talking about
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living for Christ in the
real world and we're gonna talk
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about whats known as
christian standards. Now
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that phrase has kind of got a
rep in many christian churches
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unfortunately because the're
are some unbalanced individuals
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who like to take the bible and
beat people people over the head
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with it. But christian standards
is something that God uses to
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help us show forth His
praises and his character
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to the world around us. So
we are going to talk about some
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things that the devil uses
in this world to try to destroy
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or harm our
relationship with Jesus Christ.
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So we wanna begin with out
foundational text this evening
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and i want you to take your
bible and turn with me to first
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John chapter two and we're
going to start in verse fifteen
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the bible say, "Do not love
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the world or the
things in the world
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if anyone loves the world,
the love of the Father is not in
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him, for all that is in the
world... and then he names three
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things the lust of
the flesh, the lust of the
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eyes, and the pride of
life is not of the Father.
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but is of the world, and
the world is passing away
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and the lust of it, but
whoever does the will of
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God abides, how
long, Forver. Now lets
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here for second,
God is warning us about
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not loving the the world
in other words, to not become
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so attached to thing in
this world that we neglect our
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relationship with Jesus that
we begin to forget that most
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important thing we
possess is a intimate
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dynamic born again
relationship with the Savior and
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world has away of
distracting us sucking our
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spiritual passion right out of
our heart and so right from the
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begining Gos is telling and
warning us about thing in this
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world But then God
goes on and He makes
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names three specific thing,
He talks the lust of the flesh,
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the lust of the
eyes and the pride
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of life. Now those are
not three terms we very often
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in the twenty first century, but
what we're going to do is we're
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going to look in detail at all
three of those phrase and try
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to understand what
God is telling us and then
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seek to apply it to our
life today, because whatever
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those three thing are,
they have the potential to be
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damaging to the spiritual
life or else God would not have
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warned us about and see go
through we're sometimes temped
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to look and says you what, God
is just trying be old fashion
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fuddy duddy to keep me
from have fun. But see God
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s a loving parent, we talked
about that this morning the
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reason you tell your children
don't you passed the and go out
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into that street because
you know there is danger in
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the street, now the child
may not be able to see that, his
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concept is simply that Oh my
parents are being restrictive
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they won't let me have
any fun, but you can see the
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bigger picture and you
warn your child about it because
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you love him.
God is the same way
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there are things in this world
that may seem innocent at first
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but God lets know that
He set boundaries and if go
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beyond those
boundaries we open ourselves up
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to really the temptations
deception and of the Devil and
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sense God can see the bigger
picture and we can't always see
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the danger that is out there,
God warns us about because he
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loves us He cares, He
is the ultimate loving
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parent. Can you says
Amen? So let's start with this
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first prase "the
lust of flesh" what
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in the world is that? Well
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the word lust simply
means to have strond desire
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so the lust of flesh are some
of strongest desire that human
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being have. Now nothing there
nothing wrong with having strong
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desire but when to the point
where they are put above God
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or they cause us to us sin
against God and the princple of
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of His word, that is a problem.
Now we could least a 100,000
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things under the lust flesh,
but the Bible is not going to do
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that. We want to look some
prinples in general and so as
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was writing this I though
to myself, what is one the
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strongest
desire that human being
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have I want you to
think about that. The word
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that we might not want to says
that we don't always talk in
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church it is three
letters and it begins with an s
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sex , sexual pleasure or desire,
that is one of the strongest
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desire that human being have,
maybe not the strongest but one
of the strongest that contends
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to get us in trouble, so yes
believe it or not we are going
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to talk about sex for few
minutes in the prophecy seminar,
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but tear something
up. Is sex in of self
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a sin? Yes Or No? It
is not, who created sex
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God did, God created it to be a
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wonderful gift to be experienced
between a husband and a wife
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what we will find,
is God has layed some
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principles out for this
desire of ours and He tells
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if we follow these principles
this will be blessing to you
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but if go beyond the
barriers and the bonders
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and abuse it, it's going to
bring sin and sorrow and heart
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ache into our life. So let's
take a look at passage from
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scripture that we always
realize that it is talking about
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sexual union, I want us
to go to Genesis chapter 2
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and verse 22 all the
way back to the begining
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Genesis Chapter 2 and
we want to start reading
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in verse 22 the Bible say.
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Then the rib which the LORD God
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had taken from man
He made into a (what?)
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woman, and He
brought her to the man.And
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Adam said: (and you
know in my mind, even though
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we do not necessarily know how
much excitement he may have
shown here, be in vesre
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23 I think Adam is just wee
bit excited when he says this. I
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mean he look at the beautiful
creation God has give him and
Adam says) "This is now
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bone of my bones
And flesh of my flesh;
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shall be called Woman,
Because she was taken out of
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Man." (and then
verse 24 God laies
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down a principle in one
simply sentence, He says)
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Therefore a man
shall leave his father and
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mother and be
joined to his wife,
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( the King James says
"cleave unto his wife") and
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they shall be one flesh.
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Let's pause here for a
second, just in those two verse
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God lays some
principle out on how we
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can enjoy the gift of sex
to it fullest according His
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principles. So let's
put some thing up here, #1
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The first principle is telling
us that a man and woman should
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not cleave together
sexually until they are husband
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and wife, because you notice
what says here in verse 24
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It clearly says a man leaves his
father and mother and who is he
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joined To? doesn't say
he is join to any woman
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It says he joined
to his wife, and see
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the word behind joined or
cleaving that refers to both
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sexually union but also
coming together as family
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and so see is helping us
to understand, is that the
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gift of sex which he has
given us is something only
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for to be shared between a
husband and wife in a marriage
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relationship who love each other
and who have committed there
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lives together. Can you say
amen? In fact I'm going to be
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blunt God know that
when sex is at it best
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two people who trust each
other, they not just a physical
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connection but an
emotional, a mental connection
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people who have committed
themselves to each other
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it is not that great when it
is between who don't love each
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other don't what the other
person thinks about, don't know
if that person if that person is
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going to be around tomorrow they
not history they no emotional
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together because
when you take the step of
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becoming united sexually
that is not just an active
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of the body that is an
active of the human mind
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they sex begins in the
mind, and so when go to
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sharing that with
anybody and every body
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it begins cause pain and heart
ache when that person chooses
that they want to be around
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because you have already a
special part of yourself to
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someone else see God want us to
understand this is a gift from
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Him and if want to experience it
to the fullest we need to do it
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within His framework
His principle between a
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husband and a wife in a marriage
relationship who love each
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and who have committed
to each other that when we
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experience it at it best,
but when it with anybody and
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everybody. I mean really
the world says you want to meet
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a stud, you meet a hunk
find a men who has been bunch of
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women, that is what
society says, but the truth is
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how satisfying can
that be with someone
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who doesn't even know you,
you have not shared anything
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to gather you don't if
they are willing to comment
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to you. God says I want
something better for you than
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that He gives these
principles. In fact the second
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principles in there, says a man
should not joined together as
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a family unit until they
are husband and wife the is the
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other thing that is behind here,
and see this touches on
something very very
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popular in our society today,
both with the younger generation
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and with older
generation and that is the idea
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of living
together before marriage
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ah pastor Dave now the Bible
is really become old fashion.
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I don't think so and
I'll tell you why, because
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God know what makes us
happy. Can you says amen? See
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God know that when we go into
something with less than full
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commitment it becomes a
self fulfilling prophecy
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Now I don't have ever
judge Judy, how many ever watch
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judge Judy? I don't watch a
lot of TV, but I just like judge
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Judy I guess it because so
blunt and guess I like that
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directness, but know
if you ever watch program
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I kid you not 75% of the time
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75% the case that are
on there come from people
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living together before being
married and you see the pain
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the anger, the heart
and woe, because they
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shared now children together,
they have shared a home they
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shared bills, they have shared
other things together and now
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they broken up, and really
that can be almost painful
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as a divorce and God
says I'm trying spare you
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from that. Now
human logic says, but but
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pastor Dave we think it
wise to just live together
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first and try it out to see
if we're meet for each other
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well humanly speaking that sound
logical except for couple of
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thing #1 that is
what dating is for
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to find out about
that person, but #2
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when I go into
a situation saying
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I'm not shure enough to
make a live long commitment
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I don't fully trust this person,
I don't if I want to spend my
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life with this person and
I want away out just in case
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what I'm doing is I'm
go into it less that fully
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committed and do no what
happens in the vast majority
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of case according to phycology
statistics those relationship
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do not last. I'm not saying
that just from personal opinion
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that is what the statistics
show, if want to doom your
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relationship live together
before marriage, because most of
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them to not last and God is
telling I want something better
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for you than wait until
your sure to joined together
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as a family as husband and
as wife. When I look at this
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world and see all the pain that
resolutes from going outside God
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principles I have to
admit it is not old fashion
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it is not being fuddy duddy God
knows what he is talking about
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Can you say amen? Another
principle that come from there
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is that getting together sexual
never outside the husband and
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wife relationship you know
that when things go wrong in a
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marriage that is not a time
to excommunicate that a time
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to communicate, that
not a time to go outside
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because you think someone
else might be more exciting
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because I call you, pastor Mark
can tell you as minister to see
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the kind of woe and heart
ache and emotional turmoil
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that comes the gift of sex
is shared outside of marriage
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God want us to avoid that He
says I have something better for
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you that is why I have these
principle. Then number principle
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#4 cleaving together sexually is
meet for only a man and a women
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I don't say that to be offensive
but simply to show that
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anatomically God has shown
us that is the principle he has
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outlined from the the
beginning. You may wonder well
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why talk about
this why make a big
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deal about it. It is
one of the strongest we have
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in the human life, but
when you think about it
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the reason the Devil
attacks this gift so much
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the reason he want us to abuse
and pervert it is this, think
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about this when
a husband and wife
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can share the
gift of sexually union
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they are able in a sense
to have one of the attribute
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of God that the Devil cannot
have, do you know what that is
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procreate, God allows
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a husband and wife
through His grace to
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actually take part
in help to create life
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The Devil cannot do that
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He cannot create and
and the fact that God
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has created man and woman
his images and has given them
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that attribute that they can
partake in, that makes the Devil
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angry and because that's
one of the ways we're created in
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His image the the Devil tries
very hard to pervert that gift
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and bring all sort of
woe and sorrow into our life
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and you see that happen in
this world. God says here are my
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principle I love you, enjoy
this within the borders that I
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given you and if
Jesus died for for us
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we can choose trust the Him. Can
you say amen? But let's go to
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another lust of the
flesh, what's another strong
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desire that human beings
tend to have or maybe even
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struggle with,
you got it the desire
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for money
thefinancial side of our
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life. Notice what it say
in 1st Timothy chapter 6 and
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verse 10, The Bible
say, For the love of money
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is a root of all kinds
of evil, for which some
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have strayed from the faith
in their greediness, and pierced
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themselves (notice the word)
pierced themselves through with
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many sorrows. Now we
got to stop here for second
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is money in and of it
self evil? Yes or No? It is not
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Notice it doesn't say money
is the root of evil, it says the
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love of money is
root all kinds of evil
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if you thinks having is a
sin, I'm sure that are plenty of
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people who would love it
off your hands. In this world we
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need money. Amen? Don't
it in heaven but need it here
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because God except us
as disciples of Jesus to
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to take care of our families to
support them to put food on the
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table clothing, food
and lodging, you know to pay
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our bills and our debts, so yes,
money comes in handing is this
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world and we should earn money
in an honest and in faithful way
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but what the Bible is
warning about, is when
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my love for money is
put above my love for God
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when my love for money
cause to me to sin against Him
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or ignore the principle
of His Word, when desire
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for money cause me to
break any of His commandments
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that is when it is a problem,
that is when start to become a
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lust of the flesh
because I want money maybe I
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squash everyone else as
I climb the corporate lader
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because I want money maybe
I ignore the needs of others
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because I want money
maybe I begin to neglect my
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family maybe even my
church and when that happens
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God is beware that when
it becomes a root of evil
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and really the
truth is, money has this
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insidious way, the love of money
has this insidious of money
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of having us focus
on ourself and when we
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focus on ourself
we are never happen
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that why the Bible says be
careful, many have been pierced
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with sorrow, well
you say pastor Dave
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how do I know if I
have an unhealth love
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of money? Believe it or
not the Bible has actually
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given us a test as to
whether we have a love that is
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unhealth. Do you know what
it is? It's tithe and offerings
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I want you to take your
Bible go Malachi chapter
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3 and we are going to
read verses 8 through 10
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the Bible says: "Will a man rob
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God? Yet you have robbed Me! But
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you say, 'In what way
have we robbed You?' In tithes
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and offerings You are cursed
with a curse, For you have.
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robbed Me,(and this God
speaking) Bring ye all the
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tithes into the storehouse, That
there may be food in My house,
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And try Me now in this," Says
the LORD of hosts, "If I will
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not open for you
(what?) the windows of heaven
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And pour out for you such
blessing That there will not
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be room enough to
receive it. Now think about that
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when we talk about sundering
ourselves fully to Jesus
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one side of live that
sometime hard to surrender
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is the financial side
because we say that is our
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money that belongs to
me, that is a private and
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sensitive subject, but you
know one of the first prinicple
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in God's word is
that God owns everything
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He is the Creator
of it all, oh no I
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work by the sweet of my
hands. Who gave you your hands?
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No I made my fortune
by wise business decision
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Who gave you a mind
for discernment? God did.
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It all belongs to
Him, He could ask for 100%
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of it and be perfectly just
for doing it, but all God ask
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for that we return the
tithe. Not what's a tithe?
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10% can you
imagine that? Return 10%
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keep 90% for
yourselve and God will bless you
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Now I will take that business
deal any day, in fact God says
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temp me, try me now in this
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I now may time when it comes to
doing and the bills budget at
the end of the month
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It doesn't look like we
afford to return tithe sometimes
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does it? I know for us
Marquita works as Nurse not
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in a Hospital, she is a stay
at home mon, but she medical
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coding over the internet, some
months she got a lot of work
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some months she doesn't have
a whole lot of work and on those
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sparse months when it comes to
the end the of the month and
we're look at all bills we have
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and sending kids to christian
school and thing like that, the
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though crosses your mind boy, I
could sure use that tithe money
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to pay off a couple
thing. But see God says
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He will make 90% go
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farther than if I had
keep a 100% for my self
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Now that mathematical
imposable but you know what
00:25:15.34\00:25:19.38
who created mathematics?
God did He is not limited by
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mathematical formals, in fact
people say I can't afford return
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tithe, but according to
this verse you can't afford not
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to because when with
held it, it's keeping
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God from opening up the
widows of heaven and see this
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is God way of helping to us
to surrender ourselves having a
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of being able to take the gosple
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of being able to take the gospel
to the world. Amen? Because that
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little 10% is what
used to pay pastor, to pay
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missionaries, to pay those
who work full time in gospel
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ministry so that the
world can hear about Jesus
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that is the test that
God gives us. Now idea
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of the lust of the flesh we
could list a lot of other things
00:26:07.93\00:26:11.90
but we can sum it up
this way. Any desire I have
00:26:11.90\00:26:15.94
in my life that
get put about God
00:26:15.94\00:26:19.94
any desire that cause
me against God and His word
00:26:19.94\00:26:23.95
that is a lust of the
flesh that must be let
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go of and brother
sister if you struggle with
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any these thing maybe a sexual
sin maybe it has been hard
00:26:31.95\00:26:35.99
for you to let go of your money
and return tithe I want you to
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know God loves and God
cares for you and if you will
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turn that over that over to him
He promise to deliver you and He
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promise He will bless and He
take care of you and remember
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no body is shutout from God
grace when they kneel before the
00:26:51.87\00:26:55.98
Cross of calvary they
repent and they turn it over
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to Him. Jesus Christ
can conker any lust of flesh
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if we will give to Him.
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But it doesn't
stop there, 1st John
00:27:08.02\00:27:12.03
talk about the lust of
the eye, you say what is that
00:27:12.03\00:27:16.03
I haven't heard
anybody use that term lately
00:27:16.03\00:27:20.04
See the Bible wants use to be
careful, what about the things
00:27:20.04\00:27:24.07
we put before are eyes?
Because what we put before
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our eyes has the
penitential influence our heart
00:27:28.08\00:27:32.11
and our mind so the
Bible be careful in that
00:27:32.11\00:27:36.12
God is loving enough give
us some principle to guide our
00:27:36.12\00:27:40.16
decisions. So let's take our
Bibles and let's go to Psalms
00:27:40.16\00:27:44.16
chapter 101 and we are
going read verse 2 and 3
00:27:44.16\00:27:48.16
The Bible says: I will behave
00:27:48.16\00:27:52.20
wisely in a (what? perfect
way (now that word simple
00:27:52.20\00:27:56.24
means in mature way) Oh,
when will You come to me?
00:27:56.24\00:28:00.34
I will walk within my house with
a perfect heart. (and then verse
00:28:00.34\00:28:04.31
3) I will set nothing wicked
00:28:04.31\00:28:08.35
before my eyes; See even David
00:28:08.35\00:28:12.39
realize whatever he
put befor is like a window
00:28:12.39\00:28:16.42
into his heart and a window
into mind it influences us
00:28:16.42\00:28:20.46
and so if I'm to apply
that prinicple today in the 21st
00:28:20.46\00:28:24.50
century that means I
going have to talk about
00:28:24.50\00:28:28.57
television, movies and
the media, because really
00:28:28.57\00:28:32.61
those are put before
our eyes in this modern ages
00:28:32.61\00:28:36.68
every single day
influences us, either for good
00:28:36.68\00:28:40.75
or for evil. Now I'm not
going to set here and say
00:28:40.75\00:28:44.82
the television is evil get it
out of your house, now I don't
00:28:44.82\00:28:48.92
fault anybody that choose to do
that, I have been do it myself
sometimes but remember the
00:28:48.92\00:28:52.93
television or the media
is simply a tool it is not
00:28:52.93\00:28:56.90
evil in and of it self, it
can be used for good purposes
00:28:56.90\00:29:00.97
like taking the gospel to places
that it has never gone before
00:29:00.97\00:29:04.91
it can also be use for
evil purposes, to bring filth
00:29:04.91\00:29:08.94
into a family that
destroys a home and a marriage
00:29:08.94\00:29:12.95
it all comes down
to how I choose to use
00:29:12.95\00:29:16.95
it. So let's just take a look
at somethings went it comes to
00:29:16.95\00:29:20.96
television Now the Bible is not
going to give list of 100,000
00:29:20.96\00:29:24.96
things you should or should not
watch, mainly because there no
such thing as television back
00:29:24.96\00:29:28.96
when the Bible was written,
but it give principle to follow.
00:29:28.96\00:29:32.97
Now a few year ago
there was a survey taken
00:29:32.97\00:29:36.97
of the the three major
networks ABC, CBS, and NBC
00:29:36.97\00:29:40.98
of course a lot more today, and
they did a survey to fine out
00:29:40.98\00:29:45.01
what kind of things are
shown major networks durning
00:29:45.01\00:29:49.02
prime time television, and
you know prime time is usually
00:29:49.02\00:29:53.02
around you know 7:00pm to
10:00 or 11:00 at night and this
00:29:53.02\00:29:57.06
what they discovered and
understand this is a few a years
ago, I'm sure is not
00:29:57.06\00:30:01.03
any better now they
discovered there were over
00:30:01.03\00:30:05.03
minds they were over
ten incidence of sexual
00:30:05.03\00:30:09.04
minds they were over
ten incidence of sexual
00:30:09.04\00:30:13.07
activity most of
them on the immoral side
00:30:13.07\00:30:17.08
and even it is between a husband
and wife we don't need to
watching and then there were
00:30:17.08\00:30:21.08
over eight incidence
of profanity ever hour
00:30:21.08\00:30:25.12
on prime time
television and as a christian
00:30:25.12\00:30:29.12
I have to be careful, because
this is what being feed into my
00:30:29.12\00:30:33.16
heart through my
eyes into my mind and it
00:30:33.16\00:30:37.17
can influence us. Now
I when I was a teenager
00:30:37.17\00:30:41.20
you may not believe
this, but I had big problem my
00:30:41.20\00:30:45.24
language I had an
issue with curse words and
00:30:45.24\00:30:49.28
and with profanity and I was
a christian who went to church
00:30:49.28\00:30:53.28
every single week and
when I look back at that
00:30:53.28\00:30:57.29
I wonder how is it that was
so easy for me to use that kind
00:30:57.29\00:31:01.32
of language. I'm talking
some vulgar language and when I
00:31:01.32\00:31:05.33
look back I have to
think you what? It is probably
00:31:05.33\00:31:09.33
because of two things, #1
becasue spend a lot of time
00:31:09.33\00:31:13.37
people who use profanity,
so I heard it regularly and #2
00:31:13.37\00:31:17.41
I heard it on
television on a regular basics
00:31:17.41\00:31:21.44
and after awhile I
started to become familiar
00:31:21.44\00:31:25.48
with it so it didn't seem
so wrong to me and see that
00:31:25.48\00:31:29.55
is what the Devil do, he
wants to make familiar to us
00:31:29.55\00:31:33.56
so it doesn't seems so
bad and more we get familiar
00:31:33.56\00:31:37.63
the next thing we find ourselves
doing things that we would not
00:31:37.63\00:31:41.63
normally do or say Now someone
may say this doesn't effect me
00:31:41.63\00:31:45.70
I can tell the difference,
what I watch on TV that's not
00:31:45.70\00:31:49.77
influence me one way or
the other. My answer to that is
00:31:49.77\00:31:53.81
don't be a fool, in
75 years or when ever
00:31:53.81\00:31:57.88
television was
invented, society has mimic
00:31:57.88\00:32:01.98
exactly what it see on
television and the media
00:32:01.98\00:32:05.99
hollywood knows if
they want to get a culture
00:32:05.99\00:32:09.99
to think a certain way just
bring it in through the media
00:32:09.99\00:32:14.00
and the more we get familiar
the more it comes to our
00:32:14.00\00:32:18.00
eyes the more we
learn to accepted it and
00:32:18.00\00:32:22.04
the Devil want us to get
familiar with sin by what we put
00:32:22.04\00:32:26.04
into our eyes, and
that is going to require me
00:32:26.04\00:32:30.08
having to make choices in
my life. Now truth be told
00:32:30.08\00:32:34.08
is God send Gabriel down in your
living room and the the remote
00:32:34.08\00:32:38.12
out of your and hand and say, ha
let me you that we ota turn the
00:32:38.12\00:32:42.12
station Is that
going to happen? No!
00:32:42.12\00:32:46.16
Is it a choice of ours, God
gives us a free will and He
gives us principles
00:32:46.16\00:32:50.17
to follow. In fact here is
some question that might do well
00:32:50.17\00:32:54.20
for us to ask, when I think back
to what I watched as a teenagers
00:32:54.20\00:32:58.24
I wish I had made different
choses, you know thing my
00:32:58.24\00:33:02.28
parents never knew about, they
would have never let me watch
some of the things I did
00:33:02.28\00:33:06.31
and you know even to this
day there are certain things the
00:33:06.31\00:33:10.35
will trigger certain things
in my mind that are still there,
00:33:10.35\00:33:14.42
that have not been able to
erase, now they get fuzzier the
more Jesus come into my
00:33:14.42\00:33:18.43
heart and take over my mind
but they are still there and the
00:33:18.43\00:33:23.67
Devil knows it and that is why
he want to see thing through our
00:33:23.67\00:33:27.74
eyes What would happen if would
ask ourselves these question. #1
What message is this
00:33:27.74\00:33:31.77
program or this movie sending
you whatever it is? Is it a
00:33:31.77\00:33:35.81
positive message or
is it a negative one?
00:33:35.81\00:33:39.81
Is it promoting morals
and principle of God's word
00:33:39.81\00:33:43.85
or is it getting you familiar
sin and actually making it look
00:33:43.85\00:33:47.86
like fun it is fun, see that
is the thing, they picture a guy
00:33:47.86\00:33:51.99
how has a great body who goes
from one girl from one woman
00:33:51.99\00:33:55.96
another and make that sound like
that is the greatest thing in
the world, but if I may
00:33:55.96\00:34:00.04
blunt, you know what it is
not hard even animals can mate
00:34:00.04\00:34:04.01
what is hard is to have
loving relationship with
00:34:04.01\00:34:08.01
someone that is what a real
man and real woman is made of
00:34:08.01\00:34:12.01
I mean see hollywood does
show happen when you go one to
00:34:12.01\00:34:16.05
the other they don't show the
heart ache that happens when a
man does out the door
00:34:16.05\00:34:20.06
they show the heart ache
that happen someone get a sexual
00:34:20.06\00:34:24.09
transmitted disease,
they don't show what happens
00:34:24.09\00:34:28.06
when someone has child out
wedlock and doesn't know to do
00:34:28.06\00:34:32.10
with them they don't show what
happens when an abortion has to
00:34:32.10\00:34:36.10
occur because they don't want
or can't take care of that child
00:34:36.10\00:34:40.14
see hollywood seem like fun,
like there no consequence to it
00:34:40.14\00:34:44.15
and sure it is fun but
it is a lot more fun within
00:34:44.15\00:34:48.18
boundaries of God's word.
Can you say amen? Question
00:34:48.18\00:34:52.22
#3 Would I let my Children
watch it? That's a fuffy
00:34:52.22\00:34:56.26
because I have learn as
parent, if think to myself
00:34:56.26\00:35:00.36
you know I don't mind watching
but I don't about girls and I
00:35:00.36\00:35:04.30
think wait a minute if it
is not good for my children
00:35:04.30\00:35:08.34
what makes me
think it is good for me
00:35:08.34\00:35:12.37
and the forth one is the real
kicker, I'm half scared to ask
00:35:12.37\00:35:16.41
myself that one Would
I watch it with Jesus?
00:35:16.41\00:35:20.45
That will transform the
decisions you make on what you
00:35:20.45\00:35:24.45
put before your eyes. The church
can't give you a list of five
00:35:24.45\00:35:28.52
hundred thousand things nor
should it, we can only share the
00:35:28.52\00:35:32.53
principles of God's Word and say
hay let God's Holly Spirit guide
00:35:32.53\00:35:36.56
you in your situation.
But sense we are talking what
00:35:36.56\00:35:40.64
put before our eyes, even thou
not necessarily mention there
00:35:40.64\00:35:44.67
in 1st John, we go another
sense you know what it is?
00:35:44.67\00:35:48.74
are ears, I know the
Bible doesn't say the of ears
00:35:48.74\00:35:52.75
but you know what, what
we put into our ears can be
00:35:52.75\00:35:56.82
and be just as influential
in our life. Notice what
00:35:56.82\00:36:00.92
Isaiah here in
chapter 33, The Bible Say
00:36:00.92\00:36:04.96
see God is pronoune a blessing
00:36:20.94\00:36:24.98
on the person who is careful
about what he puts into his eyes
00:36:24.98\00:36:28.98
and into his ears.
Now the truth is I can't
00:36:28.98\00:36:33.02
control everything that goes
into my eyes and my ears I can't
00:36:33.02\00:36:37.03
control what is playing on the
television at the fitness center
00:36:37.03\00:36:41.00
where I work out, I can't
control what kind of music is
00:36:41.00\00:36:45.03
played in Walmart, I
can't control what kind of
00:36:45.03\00:36:49.04
language is being used in my
work place those things I can't
00:36:49.04\00:36:53.07
control but God says
whatever is within my control
00:36:53.07\00:36:57.08
make wise choses about
what I let influence me
00:36:57.08\00:37:01.12
so this going to force
us talk to the subject music
00:37:01.12\00:37:05.15
Now, who created music?
00:37:05.15\00:37:09.16
That's not a trick question,
who created music? God did!
00:37:09.16\00:37:13.19
Is there music in the Bible? Is
there music in Biblical worship?
00:37:13.19\00:37:17.20
absolutely you see it
all through out scripture
00:37:17.20\00:37:21.20
even sanctuary music was a
big deal when it came to temple
00:37:21.20\00:37:25.24
worship an the people coming
before, in fact if you were to
00:37:25.24\00:37:29.24
go to Israel today go over the
wailing wall, it is quite a
sight because whenever the sun
00:37:29.24\00:37:33.28
sets on Friday and Sabbath
comes in, many of Jewish people
00:37:33.28\00:37:37.32
they well actually come out and
they actually dancing around to
00:37:37.32\00:37:41.39
celebrate the come of the
Sabbath, I mean I have seen it
00:37:41.39\00:37:45.43
with my own eyes it is not
talking about you know a sexual
00:37:45.43\00:37:49.40
kind a dance but simple a
religious dance celebrating what
00:37:49.40\00:37:53.44
God has done the beautiful
Sabbath here so sure you have
00:37:53.44\00:37:57.47
seen music you see things in the
Bible, but it can be used for it
00:37:57.47\00:38:01.51
can be used for evil. Now I'm
not going to get into the
subject about music in
00:38:01.51\00:38:05.55
church because frankly it
doesn't matter that much to me I
can deal with different kinds
00:38:05.55\00:38:09.62
kinds of music I think the Devil
use that get us out track and
00:38:09.62\00:38:13.66
that in my own personal life
00:38:13.66\00:38:17.73
in my own personal life.
Now when I was a teenager
00:38:17.73\00:38:21.70
I listen to a lot music that
kinda wish I hadn't listen to
00:38:21.70\00:38:25.77
but there was one
pictural song that I
00:38:25.77\00:38:29.80
really like, I hope you have
never heard of it. It was a song
00:38:29.80\00:38:33.88
that I use to listen to that
would psych me up and get ready
00:38:33.88\00:38:37.88
for basketball, remember I
played basketball when I was a
00:38:37.88\00:38:41.95
teenager I still play basketball
today and I took it very
00:38:41.95\00:38:45.99
seriously so there was this
one song called I got the power
00:38:45.99\00:38:49.99
again I hope you have never
heard it of course now that I
said it you probable go look up
00:38:49.99\00:38:54.00
on internet, but this song I
Got The Power what I used to do
00:38:54.00\00:38:58.00
I used to put my headphones on
cause you know everything is in
00:38:58.00\00:39:02.00
an iPod now didn't have iPods
when I was a teenagers I put the
00:39:02.00\00:39:06.01
headphones on and I would blast
the the words of that song into
my mind because it would get me
00:39:06.01\00:39:10.05
psyched up, it would mad
and get me angry to get on
00:39:10.05\00:39:14.05
basketball court and be able to
crush my opponent to knock them
00:39:14.05\00:39:18.09
out my way be able to pull down
that rebound down low. I used to
00:39:18.09\00:39:22.09
feed this into my mind, in
fact I remember ounce, we went
00:39:22.09\00:39:26.13
to one of the city basketball
courts to you got to understand
00:39:26.13\00:39:30.10
I grew up in the inter-city and
so you know all the brothers go
to courts to play ball
00:39:30.10\00:39:34.14
you know that is how you keep
you reputation and back in those
00:39:34.14\00:39:38.17
days there wasn't no iPods.
You know what they caried to the
00:39:38.17\00:39:42.18
basketball court? That right,
how many remember the big od
boom boxes they used to have
00:39:42.18\00:39:46.21
come on, I know that you
remember that, these big old
things with big speaker
00:39:46.21\00:39:50.25
the guys would carry that
to court sit it right by the
00:39:50.25\00:39:54.32
basketball court they would
put thing up full blast and they
00:39:54.32\00:39:58.33
play the music I remember
one time I was playing with my
00:39:58.33\00:40:02.36
friend my best friend Kevin, he
was on the opposite team and I
was bring up the court
00:40:02.36\00:40:06.40
and all of sudden that
song came on I Got The Power
00:40:06.40\00:40:10.47
It psyched me up some much I
remember I ran down that court
00:40:10.47\00:40:14.48
the middle of the lane I
jumped I took the ball in my
00:40:14.48\00:40:18.55
hand and I did
this huge tomahawk dunk
00:40:18.55\00:40:22.62
right throw the basket, it
when throw hit Kevin in the face
00:40:22.62\00:40:26.62
and broke his glasses shattering
them on the ground and I
00:40:26.62\00:40:30.69
remember he got up from that he
looked at me and said I ain't
never playing with you when that
00:40:30.69\00:40:34.76
song on because it had
gotten me all worked up
00:40:34.76\00:40:38.87
it influence you
sometimes it take your
00:40:38.87\00:40:42.97
rational thinking
away, in fact if you don't
00:40:42.97\00:40:46.98
think music influence you I'm
going dare you to do something
00:40:46.98\00:40:50.98
ounce and rarely would you ever
say this but only example sake,
if you think music doesn't
00:40:50.98\00:40:55.02
effect you I dare you
to go turn MTV on sometime
00:40:55.02\00:40:59.02
put the mute
button on and then watch
00:40:59.02\00:41:03.06
people who are dancing and
you tell me that music doesn't
00:41:03.06\00:41:07.03
effect you music effect the way
we move, music effect the way we
00:41:07.03\00:41:11.03
think that is why we use it
worship, that is why God uses
00:41:11.03\00:41:15.07
music because He wants to
use it to influence for good to
00:41:15.07\00:41:19.11
make wise choses. The
Devil want to use it to
00:41:19.11\00:41:23.11
influence us for
evil, so now here
00:41:23.11\00:41:27.15
is the question. Is there
certain kind of music that is
00:41:27.15\00:41:31.19
wrong? I'm not going to
say any particular genre
00:41:31.19\00:41:35.22
because what I think is far
more important is the lyrics
00:41:35.22\00:41:39.23
of we are put in our mind. Now
going back to how it influences
00:41:39.23\00:41:43.23
us. I remember Marquita when
and I when we were first married
00:41:43.23\00:41:47.30
when on vacation in Florida and
I can remember I was setting out
00:41:47.30\00:41:51.34
on the balcony look down at
pool area and apparently some
00:41:51.34\00:41:55.38
company had rented the pool area
I guess for some kind of party
00:41:55.38\00:41:59.38
they were having and though
you what if I watch there long
00:41:59.38\00:42:03.42
enough I might get a good sermon
illustration this when I first
started in ministry
00:42:03.42\00:42:07.49
and so as I was watching I was
noticing the music was blaring
00:42:07.49\00:42:11.53
you know people were drinking
and I was watching this one guy
00:42:11.53\00:42:15.53
and watch this one guy
go out on the dance floor
00:42:15.53\00:42:19.57
listen to the music
and him get really I mean
00:42:19.57\00:42:23.64
really close to this
one woman I could just tell
00:42:23.64\00:42:27.71
moves they were making
basically reflect sex acts
00:42:27.71\00:42:31.75
and the though crossed my mind
00:42:31.75\00:42:35.85
I wonder how that man's
wife would feel if she could
00:42:35.85\00:42:39.92
could see him and
even he wasn't married
00:42:39.92\00:42:43.93
I wonder how that
women husband would feel
00:42:43.93\00:42:47.93
if he saw her now, cause I
00:42:47.93\00:42:51.90
can tell you I would
be mad I would be very mad
00:42:51.90\00:42:55.90
see sometime we wonder
00:42:55.90\00:42:59.94
music has more of
influence than sometimes
00:42:59.94\00:43:03.95
we realize that
00:43:03.95\00:43:05.35
we realize. Now to illustrate
00:43:05.35\00:43:07.95
this let's do something
fun this a serious subject
00:43:07.95\00:43:11.99
I decide a few years ago
that I just turn the radio on
00:43:11.99\00:43:15.99
because I heard someone else
do this, I decided just turn
00:43:15.99\00:43:20.03
to random stations just
decide to write down all the
00:43:20.03\00:43:24.00
lyrics that heard from those
songs and just kinda judge ok
00:43:24.00\00:43:28.04
what am I into my mind and into
my heart I challenge you do that
00:43:28.04\00:43:32.04
sometime it will be eye open.
In fact I'm going to show you I
00:43:32.04\00:43:36.08
wrote it down I'm actually going
to take a couple of minutes and
I'm going to read to some of the
00:43:36.08\00:43:40.12
lyrics I heard, now understand I
wasn't trying good bad songs or
00:43:40.12\00:43:44.12
songs, this is just randomly
going from one station to the
00:43:44.12\00:43:48.16
other on different genre of
music I'm going to read some to
00:43:48.16\00:43:52.16
you this was the first one
I'm pretty sure this was country
00:43:52.16\00:43:56.20
song and it went like this,
obviously the words I'm not
singing it, it said
00:43:56.20\00:44:00.27
The queen of memphis
I woke up the the next
00:44:00.27\00:44:04.24
morning and she had charmed
me with her charm that night
00:44:04.24\00:44:08.28
a boy became an man
and I'm in love with queen
00:44:08.28\00:44:12.31
of memphis. So what do you
think that is talking about
00:44:12.31\00:44:16.35
That about a young give
way something special to
00:44:16.35\00:44:20.36
apparently a prostitute
and this the so called
00:44:20.36\00:44:24.39
innocent lyrics that I
am popping into my mind
00:44:24.39\00:44:28.43
I went the next station
and these lyrics came out
00:44:28.43\00:44:32.47
this is actually a good
one it say, so stop crying
00:44:32.47\00:44:36.50
and take my hand it
will be alright, you'll be
00:44:36.50\00:44:40.54
in my heart, yes
you'll both now and
00:44:40.54\00:44:44.61
forever more. Anything wrong
with that one? That was pretty
00:44:44.61\00:44:48.65
good you know probable about
husband apparently comforting
his wife or maybe boy friend
00:44:48.65\00:44:52.75
comforting a girl friend or
something so you that about
compassion and caring so I
00:44:52.75\00:44:56.83
thought Ok I can deal with that
that is a good one not all song
00:44:56.83\00:45:00.96
are bad I when on and then
another one, here are the lyrics
00:45:00.96\00:45:05.00
on this one Sure
feels good sitten with
00:45:05.00\00:45:09.00
you up here sure
feels alright staying with
00:45:09.00\00:45:13.01
you all night it
would sure feel real good if
00:45:13.01\00:45:17.05
would. If you would what?
00:45:17.05\00:45:21.05
Is not that hard to figure
out, it goes sure is easy when
00:45:21.05\00:45:25.09
head is on my chest I can
figure out the rest say that you
00:45:25.09\00:45:29.09
shouldn't say that you
should it sure feel real good
00:45:29.09\00:45:33.09
if you would. This song about
00:45:33.09\00:45:37.10
man or boy trying to pressure
a woman to do something she does
00:45:37.10\00:45:41.14
not to do, to take something
very special away from her
00:45:41.14\00:45:45.14
that God her that she
is saving for her husband
00:45:45.14\00:45:49.18
that what the lyrics of the song
is about that I'm putting into
00:45:49.18\00:45:53.21
my mind The next one, well some
of the one's I could not
understand what hey were talking
00:45:53.21\00:45:57.22
about This one said you
take my money I hate your
00:45:57.22\00:46:01.26
face you got your Jesus I got
my space, get a nice cold beer
00:46:01.26\00:46:05.26
to drink yourself away, then he
started screaming I don't what
00:46:05.26\00:46:09.26
he said mommy give my medicine
to make feel like a tall
00:46:09.26\00:46:13.30
tree and you feel
a-ok well there is lyrics
00:46:13.30\00:46:17.31
making fun of Jesus and mommy
give me medicine what do you
00:46:17.31\00:46:21.38
that is? That is talking about
drugs putting into a person
00:46:21.38\00:46:25.41
body that is lyrics.
Now to be honest the next
00:46:25.41\00:46:29.45
song was the dumbest song ever
heard I could hardly understand
it, it went something like this
00:46:29.45\00:46:33.49
ah! ah! ah! ah! ah! ah! the car
is in field the two doors are
00:46:33.49\00:46:37.56
torn off you have been drink my
blood while I have been licking
your wound and then he scream
00:46:37.56\00:46:41.60
I don't know what in the world
he was saying, the song didn't
make any sense to me
00:46:41.60\00:46:45.67
and then this caught my
attention, now your going to
think I'm making this
00:46:45.67\00:46:49.70
up. This comes straight from
the radio these are the words
00:46:49.70\00:46:53.78
I make my throne a million
00:46:53.78\00:46:57.88
miles give me
strength the to split
00:46:57.88\00:47:01.95
the world into, I
lost my soul when I
00:47:01.95\00:47:05.95
fell to earth the
time has come for me
00:47:05.95\00:47:09.96
to kill the king
00:47:09.96\00:47:14.00
You tell me what
that is. That is a song
00:47:14.00\00:47:17.97
about story of Satan
waiting to kill the Savior
00:47:17.97\00:47:22.00
I didn't go to a music to get
this, I got this off the radio
00:47:22.00\00:47:26.01
and that was a few year
ago I don't even on there
00:47:26.01\00:47:30.01
now. When I think back to
what listen two as teenager
00:47:30.01\00:47:34.05
not realizing, listen when I
turn the music on in the car
sometimes and I'm driving late a
00:47:34.05\00:47:38.05
night and I'll flip the
radio on, do you know even
00:47:38.05\00:47:42.09
today when a
certain song I remember
00:47:42.09\00:47:46.09
being a teenager I will admit
I well be transparent even today
00:47:46.09\00:47:50.10
as a Minister sometimes
it still a little bit hard to
00:47:50.10\00:47:54.14
turn that dial to the
next station because it made
00:47:54.14\00:47:58.17
and impression twenty
years ago that apparently
00:47:58.17\00:48:02.18
part of it is still
there today. God says
00:48:02.18\00:48:06.21
be careful what you put into
ears. So could go back to this
00:48:06.21\00:48:10.25
You know just that last question
00:48:26.30\00:48:30.34
would probable solve a lot of
our dilemma into what we wacth
00:48:30.34\00:48:34.41
and what we listen to.
Because if we are honest that's
00:48:34.41\00:48:38.41
really hard on to have to answer
honestly is in it? Would I watch
00:48:38.41\00:48:42.48
and listen to with Jesus. Now I
00:48:42.48\00:48:46.52
don't say that to make you feel
bad because I'm in the same boat
00:48:46.52\00:48:50.56
as you but I call you even after
I have made wrong choses about
00:48:50.56\00:48:54.56
what I put into my mind Jesus
is still there, His Holy Spirit
00:48:54.56\00:48:58.63
is still working in your life
and mine and He willing to take
00:48:58.63\00:49:02.70
those things and He can erase
it from our and minds but first
00:49:02.70\00:49:06.71
we give to over to Him we have
to say Lord to me make better
00:49:06.71\00:49:10.78
choices help me to put my
heart and mind those things
00:49:10.78\00:49:14.85
that build be up and
draw me closer to You
00:49:14.85\00:49:18.85
and God will do
that. Can you say amen?
00:49:18.85\00:49:22.86
Lets go the last part,
Ist John talked about the
00:49:22.86\00:49:26.90
price of life, you
say now what is that, well
00:49:26.90\00:49:30.97
pride is mention about a hundred
times in the Bible usually in a
00:49:30.97\00:49:34.97
negative context now there
is good kind pride, such as
00:49:34.97\00:49:38.97
I proud of my children for
getting good grades, I'm proud
00:49:38.97\00:49:43.01
of my dad for his
accomplishments maybe a better
word would be I"m thank for it
00:49:43.01\00:49:47.05
but when the Bible talks
about pride, most of when it is
00:49:47.05\00:49:51.09
referring to is when I my
attention on my self instead of
00:49:51.09\00:49:55.16
Jesus and I seek to
exalt myself in a way
00:49:55.16\00:49:59.19
that it prevents people from
seeing Jesus Christ inside of me
00:49:59.19\00:50:03.23
Now I can be prideful about
the kind of car I drive the
00:50:03.23\00:50:07.27
kind of house I live in
the eduction that I have
00:50:07.27\00:50:11.34
the money I make or
even the way I dress my self
00:50:11.34\00:50:15.41
because when you
think about the truth is
00:50:15.41\00:50:19.48
what is the first thing
a person notice about you
00:50:19.48\00:50:23.59
when they meet you the
very first time? Your appearance
00:50:23.59\00:50:27.66
even the
business world knows that
00:50:27.66\00:50:31.69
If you go into an interview
on a job you really want.
00:50:31.69\00:50:35.80
Ounce you walk through that door
to the interviewer right away
00:50:35.80\00:50:39.90
what is he notice before
any words come out of your mouth
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your appearance the the way you
dress because the way I dress
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communicates something something
about me It commucicates
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something about character
something about what I stand for
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something about
the things that I valve
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you know if I'm wearing things
have certain phrase maybe they
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are vulgar you know or different
symbols that maybe aren't of
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good and positive things that's
what you notice about the
believer in Jesus Christ
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and so you will find that
the Bible even gives us a few
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principles about christian
dress. So let's go to one the
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principles lined out
in 1st Timothy chapter 2
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and verse 10 let's go
there 1st Timothy chapter
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and I want to go to verse 9
and 10 now when I ready this
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in its context it is talking
about women but i the twenty
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first century the principles
in this passage apply equally
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to both men and to
women. Can you say amen?
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Sorry men you can't set there
with a smirk on your face says
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I'm off the hook because this
applies to me as well they are
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general principle Notice what
the Bible says, 1st Timothy 2
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verse 9 The the Bible
says; in like manner also,
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that the women adorn themselves
in (what kind of apparel?),
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modest apparel, with
propriety and moderation, not
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with braided hair or gold
or pearls or costly clothing,
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but, which is proper for
women professing godliness,
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with good works. Let's
pause there for a second
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just so there no doubt
sometimes people is in there
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braiding the the hair. What's
wrong with braiding the hair?
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You know my wife she braid our
girls hair it cute thing to do,
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What the Bible is
talking about here, this
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is a pagan society
where many of the pagan ladies
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to show there statis they
would wive gold and jewels
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through out their braid hair
so that the entire head basiclly
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look like an ornament
and they way of communicate
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I have high status
I have money I have
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power I am more
superior than you are
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so that was going on back then
two thousand years ago so don't
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think that's about we can't
braid our little girls hair
today, you have to know context
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so I just want to set that
straight but some of the
principle it does say here is
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it tells me drees modestly.
Again that doesn't mean you wear
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burlap bag you think about
how your conducting yourself
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the message that
send both ladies and
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gentlemen, because the truth
is if may dare to be so bold
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but a lot times let's start with
the ladies and then I'm going to
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myself and go to the
men. If I'm not careful
00:53:33.84\00:53:37.88
I'm wearing things
that everything hang out
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so there is nothing
left to the imagination
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what I am communicating
about my sexuality?
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Are people then
looking a me or is it prevent
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them from seeing the
character in me that's
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supposed to shine through.
You see I got two little girls
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you say wait till they
get to the teenage years, well
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sometimes I think they got there
early. My wife the one that does
00:54:05.94\00:54:09.94
clothes shopping, and even our
six year she tells me when they
00:54:09.94\00:54:13.95
got Walmart even my six year old
look at something says oh mommy
00:54:13.95\00:54:17.99
that so pretty I want to
wear that and the thing is very
00:54:17.99\00:54:21.99
very very short and Marguita
looks her at six and is having
00:54:21.99\00:54:26.03
the argument you are not wearing
that and of course she cries and
00:54:26.03\00:54:30.00
sometimes pitches a
fit at years old. Why?
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Because this what
society tells us, society
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tells us you got to look prefect
and so you got to draw all the
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the attention to yourself
because society not concern
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about people seeing the
character of Jesus Christ in us.
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I know I have these two girls
myself, Lets be honest here is
what going to happen
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ladies if dress in way
where just everything is just
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let's say front
and center what you
00:54:58.46\00:55:02.46
are communicating is that you
are available even you are not
00:55:02.46\00:55:06.53
available and that's men
and boy you are going to get
00:55:06.53\00:55:10.57
The ones that are not interest
having an emotional connection
00:55:10.57\00:55:14.64
and relationship the ones
that are only interest physical
00:55:14.64\00:55:18.68
things because that what your
are communicating to them, well
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you say pastor Dave isn't there
ever a time when I can wear
those kind of things?
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YES!! In the
bedroom with your spouse
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in privacy. Can you say
Amen? That is how God designed
00:55:30.86\00:55:34.86
it to be. Ok, what about us men?
00:55:34.86\00:55:38.87
I work out the gym, been a
little off schedule sense I have
00:55:38.87\00:55:42.97
been here but I gym I see
guys who dress a certian way
00:55:42.97\00:55:46.98
they want to communicate to the
women they got something that
the woman needs to see
00:55:46.98\00:55:50.98
man can just as
equally guilty at times.
00:55:50.98\00:55:55.02
We struggle with that to.
Jesus is sayiing just make
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wise choses, don't do
things that keep people seeing
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the character of Christ
in you. It not necessary
00:56:03.06\00:56:07.03
gold, jewels, and pearls and
things like that. Now I want to
00:56:07.03\00:56:11.07
say something about this because
I have seen so many people just
00:56:11.07\00:56:15.07
take that to the extreme.
Unfortunately you will sometimes
00:56:15.07\00:56:19.11
have people in
churches who will take this idea
00:56:19.11\00:56:23.11
and they beat people
over the head and be like
00:56:23.11\00:56:27.15
fashion police and judge
everything that are wearing
00:56:27.15\00:56:31.15
that is not God intended, these
are principle you let the Holy
00:56:31.15\00:56:35.19
Spirit work with that
person. Now me and my wife
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we just choose not wear doesn't
mean you have to. But we just
00:56:39.23\00:56:43.23
kinda figured you what. I want
people to see Jesus in me. I
don't always do good job of it
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but I make mistakes, I don't
anything to cover up Christ me.
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But see here is the key
00:56:51.31\00:56:55.38
so may time passage like this,
which can be kind of sensitive
00:56:55.38\00:56:59.45
and you have people who go
around in churches and their
00:56:59.45\00:57:03.45
whole focus what you don't wear,
don't wear this, don't wear that
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I got news for
for you, this passage
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the emphasis is not
on what you don't wear
00:57:11.53\00:57:15.53
The emhasis is
on what you do wear.
00:57:15.53\00:57:19.60
Because it talks
about putting on Christ
00:57:19.60\00:57:23.64
Wearing the character
of Christ in my life, the
00:57:23.64\00:57:27.68
fruit of the spirit,
love, joy, peace, kindness
00:57:27.68\00:57:31.75
when I people who are all
focused on you're not wearing
this you're not that
00:57:31.75\00:57:35.82
outside of children and they got
every body else and they mean
00:57:35.82\00:57:39.89
they are nasty, they are mean
spirited I don't see any of the
00:57:39.89\00:57:43.96
fruit of spirit in them, I going
to be honest you're missing the
00:57:43.96\00:57:47.96
point completely The point is do
I have the character of Christ
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in my life? That is what this
passage is talking about and so
00:57:51.93\00:57:55.94
any thing that would keep
people from seeing Jesus in me
00:57:55.94\00:58:00.04
wreather it is the lust of
flesh, wreather what I put in my
00:58:00.04\00:58:03.98
eyes or ears wreather it is the
way I dree whatever covers the
character of Christ
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Jesus says let go of it
00:58:07.98\00:58:12.02
so people can see
a picture of Jesus
00:58:12.02\00:58:16.02
That is what it is all about,
opening the window so that
00:58:16.02\00:58:20.03
people can Jesus
and Him crucified and in
00:58:20.03\00:58:24.03
my life
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