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>>GOOD MORNING.
YOU MAY HAVE NOTICED
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WE'VE GOT THE PROPS OF
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS HERE ON
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THE PLATFORM AND THAT'S
BECAUSE WE'RE RIGHT NOW IN
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THE VERY MIDDLE OF A SERIES
OF PRESENTATIONS DEALING WITH
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THE WORDS THAT GOD SPOKE
WITH HIS OWN MOUTH AND HE
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WROTE WITH HIS OWN FINGER.
THE LORD DID SOMETHING NEW.
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HE DID SOMETHING
EXTRAORDINARY WHEN HE GAVE THE
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TEN COMMANDMENTS BECAUSE IT IS
A PERFECT EXPRESSION OF HIS WILL
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FOR MAN. AND SO
WE'RE CONTINUING WITH
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OUR SERIES TALKING ABOUT THESE
'LAWS OF LOVE AND LIBERTY' AND
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TODAY, IN PARTICULAR, WE
ARE ON COMMANDMENT NUMBER 7.
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SOME OF YOU, IF YOU KNOW
YOUR BIBLES AND IF YOU LEARNED
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THIS GROWING UP AND GOING TO
CHURCH YOU KNOW WHAT THAT IS.
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IT'S ONLY FIVE WORDS. NOW
SOMETIMES PEOPLE LEAVE ONE
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OF THOSE WORDS OUT - "THOU
SHALL NOT COMMIT ADULTERY."
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YOU KNOW, IT'S POSSIBLE
TO BE DISTRACTED TO DEATH.
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THAT'S RIGHT. I
UNDERSTAND, EVERY YEAR,
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THAT AROUND NORTH AMERICA
AND PROBABLY MANY PARTS OF THE
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WORLD, THAT THE
CASUALTY OF DEER SPIKES.
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JUST IN ILLINOIS, FOR
INSTANCE, THEY REPORT MORE THAN
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17,000 DEER DIE EACH YEAR AFTER
BEING STRUCK BY MOTORISTS IN
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CARS. MOST OF THE TIME IT'S
IN THE FALL. DO YOU KNOW WHY?
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THAT'S WHEN THE BUCKS ARE
GOING THROUGH THE RUT SEASON.
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THEY ARE PREOCCUPIED WITH
MATING AND BECAUSE OF THAT
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PREOCCUPATION AND THEY
BECOME SO CONCERNED ABOUT THEIR
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TERRITORY AND THEY CAN BECOME
SO CONCERNED ABOUT OTHER BUCKS,
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THEY'LL GET ENGAGED IN
EITHER FIGHTING ANOTHER BUCK OR
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FOLLOWING A DOE AND THEY DON'T
EVEN CARE IF A SEMI'S COMING
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DOWN THE ROAD. AND
THEY GET TO WHERE THEY
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ARE DISTRACTED TO DEATH.
UNFORTUNATELY THIS PROBLEM
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DOES NOT JUST HAPPEN
WITH DEER AND IT DOESN'T JUST
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HAPPEN WITH
BUCKS. IT HAPPENS WITH
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HUMAN BUCKS AND DOES.
THEY CAN BECOME SO PREOCCUPIED
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WITH THE OPPOSITE SEX THAT
IT BECOMES SPIRITUALLY FATAL.
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AND YOU CAN FIND THE
RECORD OF THIS IN THE BIBLE.
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OF COURSE, THE COMMAND -
EXODUS 20:14, "THOU SHALL NOT
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COMMIT ADULTERY." AND IT'S
APPROPRIATE FOR US TO HAVE A
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DEFINITION FOR THAT.
NOW, THIS IS A DELICATE
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SERMON FOR ME TO SHARE BECAUSE
IT'S IN THE BIBLE AND THE
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SUBJECT IS ALL THROUGH THE BIBLE
BUT, OF COURSE, WE HAVE YOUNG
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MEMBERS THAT ARE HERE TODAY.
I REMEMBER ONE TIME THAT A
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FATHER WAS COMING HOME FROM
CHURCH AND A PASTOR HAD JUST
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PREACHED ABOUT 'THOU SHALT
NOT COMMIT ADULTERY' AND THE
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6-YEAR-OLD BOY, ON HIS WAY
HOME, HE SAID, 'NOW DAD, EXACTLY
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WHAT DOES IT MEAN 'THOU
SHALL NOT COMMIT AGRICULTURE'?
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AND THE FATHER DIDN'T WANT TO
GO INTO TOO MUCH DETAIL AND HE
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TOLD HIS SON, 'IT MEANS YOU'RE
NOT SUPPOSED TO BE PLOWING
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IN ANOTHER MAN'S
FIELD'. AND THAT SEEMED TO
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SATISFY EVERYBODY.
SO I'LL DO MY BEST TO BE
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DELICATE BUT SOME PLACES I'LL
HAVE TO BE VERY PLAIN. YOU KNOW,
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LET'S FACE IT, FRIENDS, THE
KIDS TODAY KNOW A LOT MORE THAN
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THEY DID ONE OR TWO GENERATIONS
AGO BECAUSE IT'S EVERYWHERE.
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AND SO, WHAT IS ADULTERY?
DEFINITION - AND THERE'S A
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DISTINCTION BETWEEN
THE WORDS 'ADULTERY' AND
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'FORNICATION', THEY BOTH FALL
UNDER THE SEVENTH COMMANDMENT.
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ADULTERY IS A VOLUNTARY
SEXUAL INTIMACY BETWEEN A
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MARRIED PERSON AND A PARTNER
OTHER THAN THE LAWFUL SPOUSE.
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WHEREAS FORNICATION IS SEXUAL
INTERCOURSE BETWEEN PARTNERS
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WHO ARE NOT
MARRIED TO EACH OTHER.
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AND BOTH ARE CLEARLY
FORBIDDEN IN THE BIBLE.
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YOU CAN FIND, FOR INSTANCE,
IN GALATIANS 5:19, "NOW THE
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WORKS OF THE FLESH ARE EVIDENT,
WHICH ARE ADULTERY, FORNICATION"
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- RIGHT THERE HE MAKES
A DISTINCTION, DOESN'T HE?
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- "ADULTERY,
FORNICATION, UNCLEANNESS,
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LEWDNESS," - AND THAT'S TALKING
ABOUT OBSCENE BEHAVIOR - DIRTY
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JOKES IS LEWD BEHAVIOR." 1
CORINTHIANS 6, VERSES 9 AND 10,
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"DO YOU NOT KNOW THAT THE
UNRIGHTEOUS WILL NOT INHERIT
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THE KINGDOM OF
GOD? DO NOT BE DECEIVED.
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NEITHER FORNICATORS, NOR
IDOLATERS, NOR ADULTERERS,
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NOR HOMOSEXUALS, NOR
SODOMITES...WILL INHERIT THE
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KINGDOM OF GOD." - AND I WANT
TO INCLUDE SO THAT PEOPLE DON'T
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LOSE HOPE - "AND SUCH WERE SOME
OF YOU." - PAUL WRITES TO THE
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CORINTHIAN CHURCH. THEY HAD
ALL KINDS OF PROBLEMS THERE.
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NOT ONLY WITH HOMOSEXUALITY BUT
WITH FORNICATION, WITH ADULTERY
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- AND THEN PAUL GOES ON TO SAY,
"AND SUCH WERE" - PAST TENSE -
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'YOU. BUT YOU'VE BEEN WASHED,
YOU'VE BEEN SANCTIFIED, YOU'VE
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BEEN CLEANSED THROUGH POWER
OF GOD.' AND SO AS WE TALK ABOUT
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THIS SUBJECT - AS WITH THE OTHER
SINS - YOU KNOW, WHEN WE TALK
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ABOUT THE TEN COMMANDMENTS,
NONE OF THEM ARE CALLED THE
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UNPARDONABLE SIN. BUT
THEY ARE CALLED SIN AND
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SIN IS DEADLY IF IT IS
NOT REPENTED OF AND FORSAKEN.
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JESUS CAME TO SAVE US NOT IN
OUR SINS BUT THE ANGEL SAID HE
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CAME TO SAVE US FROM OUR SINS
AND THIS IS ONE OF THOSE SINS -
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ADULTERY. PROVERBS
6, VERSE 32, "WHOEVER
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COMMITS ADULTERY WITH A
WOMAN LACKS UNDERSTANDING; HE
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WHO DOES SO DESTROYS HIS OWN
SOUL." IT NOT ONLY HAS SOMETIMES
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PHYSICAL RAMIFICATIONS
AND SOCIAL RAMIFICATIONS,
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IT DEFINITELY HAS
SPIRITUAL RAMIFICATIONS.
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THE PRODIGAL SON, WHEN HE
LEFT HIS FATHER HE WASTED HIS
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SUBSTANCE AMONG HARLOTS.
ONE OF THE THINGS THAT OFTEN IS
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PART AND PARCEL FROM DRIFTING
FROM GOD IS MORAL DRIFT.
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AND, YOU KNOW, MEN AND WOMEN
IN THE BIBLE - THERE'S A PRETTY
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SORDID HISTORY - YOU'VE GOT
THE WISEST MAN WHO EVER LIVED -
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WHAT WAS HIS
NAME? ASIDE FROM JESUS.
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SOLOMON, RIGHT? WHAT
ENDED UP HAPPENING TO HIM?
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HE LOVED MANY WOMEN AND
THEY DREW HIS HEART AWAY.
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HE GOT INTO TROUBLE.
STRONGEST MAN WHO EVER
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LIVED - WHAT WAS HIS
NAME? (SAMPSON) GOD GAVE HIM
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SUPERNATURAL STRENGTH
AND HE COULD KILL A THOUSAND
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PHILISTINES WITH THE
JAWBONE OF A DONKEY AND YET HE
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WAS OVERCOME BY ONE
SEDUCTRESS. WHAT WAS HER NAME?
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EVERYONE KNOWS
DELILAH'S NAME, RIGHT?
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ANYONE OUT HERE NAME THEIR
DAUGHTER DELILAH? OR JEZEBEL?
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NO ONE EVER PICKS
THOSE NAMES FOR SOME REASON.
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AND THEN DAVID, A MAN
AFTER GOD'S OWN HEART.
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AND IT WASN'T JUST DAVID, IT
WAS DAVID AND WHAT'S HER NAME?
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BATHSHEBA. YOU'VE GOT A HISTORY
ALL THROUGH THE BIBLE OF THESE
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THINGS AND YOU FIND IT IN
THE NEW TESTAMENT AS WELL.
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MARRIAGE IS A PERFECT PLAN
FOR GOD. IT'S HIS ORIGINAL PLAN.
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IN THE BEGINNING GOD SAID IT
WAS NOT APPROPRIATE - AND THIS
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IS IN GENESIS CHAPTER 2, VERSE
18, "...NOT GOOD THAT MAN SHOULD
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BE ALONE." AND THAT'S
SPEAKING ABOUT MANKIND.
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MAN IS COMPLETE WHEN
YOU HAVE A MAN AND A WOMAN.
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MEN AND WOMEN ARE VERY
DIFFERENT - CONTRADICTORY TO THE
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SOCIAL NONSENSE WE'RE
BEING TOLD THROUGH MEDIA - THAT
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THERE'S ONLY A FEW
LITTLE PLUMBING DIFFERENCES.
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MEN AND WOMEN
ARE VERY DIFFERENT.
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WE'RE DIFFERENT
IN THE WAY WE THINK.
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WE'RE DIFFERENT IN OUR
TEMPERAMENTS AND A NUMBER OF
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WAYS PHYSIOLOGICALLY - IT'S
NOT JUST THE CHROMOSOMES - AND
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THE WAY OUR BRAINS
WORK ARE VERY DIFFERENT.
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AND IN ORDER FOR MAN TO BE
COMPLETE IN THE IMAGE OF GOD,
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IT IS A MAN AND A WOMAN MAKE
A FAMILY. I HEARD SOMEONE JUST
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RECENTLY SAY, 'WELL THERE'S
NOTHING IN THE COMMANDMENT ABOUT
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ADULTERY THAT SAYS THAT
A MAN MUST MARRY A WOMAN.
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I SAID, 'NO, THAT'S IN THE
COMMANDMENT IMMEDIATELY BEFORE
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THAT - OR AT LEAST
COMMANDMENT FIVE - WHEN IT SAYS
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'HONOR YOUR FATHER AND MOTHER' -
GOD'S ESTABLISHED WHAT THE - THE
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APPROPRIATE COMBINATION
IS SUPPOSED TO BE, AMEN?
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BUT ONCE THAT MARRIAGE
HAS HAPPENED, IT IS NOT TO BE
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VIOLATED. IT'S PART
OF GOD'S PERFECT PLAN.
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THE BIBLE TELLS US, IN
GENESIS 2:24, "THEREFORE A MAN
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SHALL LEAVE HIS FATHER
AND MOTHER AND BE JOINED" - OR
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CLEAVE - "TO HIS WIFE," - THAT
MEANS BE GLUED UNTO HIS WIFE -
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"AND THEY SHALL BECOME ONE
FLESH." NOT ONLY DO THEY BECOME
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ONE IN PURPOSE, BUT THEN THROUGH
THEIR ACT OF LOVE THEY ARE GIVEN
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THE INCREDIBLE DIVINE
PRIVILEGE AND RESPONSIBILITY OF
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PROCREATING IN THEIR OWN IMAGE
AND IN THEIR CHILDREN THEY ARE
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ONE. YOU ARE THE RESULT OF THE
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ONENESS OF YOUR
FATHER AND YOUR MOTHER.
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EVERYBODY HERE - YOU
MAY NOT HAVE MET THEM.
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YOU MIGHT HAVE BEEN ADOPTED BUT
YOU HAD A FATHER AND A MOTHER.
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IT'S THE COMBINATION OF
THOSE CHROMOSOMES THAT MADE
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YOU UNIQUE. AND THIS WAS GOD'S
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DESIGN FOR THE FAMILY.
NOW MARRIAGE IS NOT SOMETHING
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THAT GOD CREATED - THIS
INSTITUTION OF MARRIAGE IS
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NOT SOMETHING GOD
INVENTED TO COPE WITH SIN.
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KEEP IN MIND, MARRIAGE WAS
PART OF GOD'S PERFECT PLAN.
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IT HAD NOTHING TO
DO WITH REDEMPTION.
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IT WAS A SACRED ORDINANCE OF
GOD WHEN WE HAD A PERFECT WORLD
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AND IT IS STILL
PART OF HIS PERFECT PLAN.
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MARRIAGE DOESN'T HAVE TO DO
WITH BEING SAVED BECAUSE MAN HAD
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NOT FALLEN YET WHEN
GOD INTRODUCED MARRIAGE.
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IT'S SOMETHING THAT IS
HOLY BECAUSE IT EXISTED BEFORE
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THERE WAS EVEN SIN IN THE WORLD.
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AND WHEN WE'RE INVITED TO
PARTICIPATE IN MARRIAGE AND
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WE MAKE THESE COVENANTS -
IT'S NOT JUST A PROMISE, IT'S A
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COVENANT WITH ANOTHER PERSON
BEFORE WITNESSES IN THE PRESENCE
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OF GOD. WHILE
I'M ON THE SUBJECT OF
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MARRIAGE CEREMONIES, YOU WANT
TO HEAR AN INTERESTING STORY?
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THE MOST MARRIED MAN IN
THE WORLD - YUGOSLAVIA - A LADY
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WAS TELLING HER COUSIN, ALSO
A FEMALE, THAT SHE WAS GETTING
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MARRIED. SHE
TOLD HER VERY QUIETLY,
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SHE SAID, 'I'M
SORRY I CAN'T INVITE YOU.
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I'M MARRYING A MAN WHO'S
EXTREMELY TIMID. HE IS VERY SHY.
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HE IS SUCH A PRIVATE
MAN, BUT HE LOVES ME AND WE'RE
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GETTING MARRIED IN
A PRIVATE CEREMONY.
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I JUST WANTED TO LET YOU
KNOW.' WELL, HER COUSIN BECAME
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SUSPICIOUS AND SHE FOUND
OUT WHERE IT WAS AND SHE WAITED
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OUTSIDE AND WHEN HER COUSIN
CAME OUT FROM THE WEDDING SHE
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GOT A GOOD LOOK AND, SURE
ENOUGH, IT WAS HER HUSBAND -
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ALONG WITH 48 OTHERS THAT HE
HAD MARRIED AROUND THE COUNTRY.
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HE TOLD THEM ALL, 'I'M
VERY SHY.' AND HE WAS A
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TRAVELING SALESMAN.
AND, EVIDENTLY, HE MADE A
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LOT OF MONEY BECAUSE HE
WAS SUPPORTING THEM ALL.
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AND HE JUST KEPT GETTING
ON TRAINS AND PLANES AND GOING
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FROM TOWN TO TOWN AND HE HAD A
WIFE IN EVERY TOWN - 50 OF THEM.
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HE WAS FINALLY
ARRESTED AND PUT IN JAIL -
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AND HE SEEMED VERY
HAPPY WHEN HE WAS IN JAIL.
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MATTER OF FACT HE SAID,
'PLEASE DON'T LET ME OUT.'
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BECAUSE HE WAS MORE AFRAID
OF WHAT WAS GOING TO HAPPEN TO
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HIM NOW THAT THE TRUTH
WAS OUT AMONG HIS 50 WIVES.
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BUT THAT SORT OF IS
INDICATIVE OF WHAT IS HAPPENING
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IN OUR CULTURE. NOW
THAT RECORD, SINCE I FIRST
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SAW THIS AMAZING FACT,
MAY HAVE BEEN BROKEN ALREADY.
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WE'VE GOT SOME PEOPLE IN
HOLLYWOOD THAT ARE WELL ON
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THEIR WAY TO BREAK THE RECORD.
BUT THAT'S NOT GOD'S PLAN.
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GOD'S PLAN WAS THAT
MARRIAGE WAS TO BE A PERMANENT
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INSTITUTION. THERE
ARE CASES WHERE IT'S
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APPROPRIATE TO REMARRY
AND THERE ARE EVEN CASES WHERE
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BIBLICALLY IT'S
APPROPRIATE TO DIVORCE.
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MATTER OF FACT, ONE OF THE
MOST COMMON QUESTIONS WE GET ON
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BIBLE ANSWERS LIVE - WE HAVE TO
BE VERY CAREFUL WHEN WE DO THIS
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RADIO QUESTION PROGRAM WHERE
WE INVITE PEOPLE TO CALL IN
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THEIR BIBLE QUESTIONS.
AS SOON AS WE GET A QUESTION
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ABOUT MARRIAGE AND ADULTERY
AND REMARRIAGE, ALL THE PHONES
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BEGIN TO LIGHT UP WITH THAT
QUESTION AND ALL OF A SUDDEN OUR
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BIBLE ANSWER PROGRAM TURNS INTO
A MARRIAGE COUNSELING PROGRAM.
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AND SO, WE HAVE TO
START REMINDING PEOPLE, YOU
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KNOW, WE DON'T WANT TO
MAKE THIS THE ONLY FOCUS.
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BUT WE HAD SO MANY
QUESTIONS THAT A LITTLE MORE
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THAN A YEAR AGO I WROTE A
BOOK SO THAT WE COULD SEND IT TO
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PEOPLE BECAUSE SO MANY PEOPLE
- A LOT OF THESE ARE CHRISTIANS.
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I WISH I COULD TELL YOU
THE STATISTICS AMONG CHRISTIANS
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ARE REAL DIFFERENT FROM
THE WORLD BUT THEY'RE NOT.
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IT IS TRUE THAT AMONG
CHRISTIANS THAT REGULARLY ATTEND
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CHURCH, THERE IS A LOWER
- PRAISE GOD - DIVORCE RATE.
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BUT THE PEOPLE WHO DO THE
SURVEYS, THEY DON'T ASK THAT
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QUESTION, THEY
ASK THE QUESTION ABOUT
00:13:04.51\00:13:05.95
'DO YOU CLAIM
TO BE A CHRISTIAN?'
00:13:05.95\00:13:07.08
AND THEN THEY START LOOKING
AT THE STATISTICS AND THEN
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THEY FIND THAT THE RATE FOR
DIVORCE, WHICH IS ABOUT 48% OF
00:13:09.28\00:13:12.79
FIRST MARRIAGES AROUND NORTH
AMERICA IS JUST ABOUT AS BAD IN
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THE CHURCH AS IT IS IN THE
WORLD. THAT'S REALLY SAD WHEN
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YOU THINK ABOUT IT. IT'S
ONLY SLIGHTLY BETTER AMONG
00:13:20.53\00:13:23.23
THOSE WHO
REGULARLY ATTEND CHURCH.
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SO I WROTE A BOOK ON
THIS, IT'S CALLED 'THE BIBLE ON
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MARRIAGE, DIVORCE, AND
REMARRIAGE' AND SO WE MADE IT SO
00:13:29.30\00:13:32.34
WE COULD SEND IT OUT TO
PEOPLE BECAUSE WE HAD SO MANY
00:13:32.34\00:13:35.04
QUESTIONS. IT'S A
COMPLICATED SUBJECT TOO.
00:13:35.04\00:13:38.05
WHAT ARE THE
APPROPRIATE GROUNDS FOR DIVORCE?
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AND IF YOU DO NOT
HAVE APPROPRIATE BIBLICAL
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GROUNDS, JESUS
SAID IT'S ADULTERY.
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WELL, WE'LL GET INTO
THAT. I'M GETTING AHEAD
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OF MYSELF NOW. SO,
GOD HAS MADE MARRIAGE AS
00:13:48.36\00:13:52.89
PART OF HIS PERFECT PLAN AND
HE HAS CREATED US WITH A DESIRE
00:13:52.89\00:13:58.40
FOR THE OPPOSITE
SEX, PARTLY TO PROCREATE.
00:13:58.40\00:14:03.07
YOU KNOW, IF IT WASN'T FOR THAT
SEXUAL DESIRE, VIRTUALLY NONE
00:14:03.07\00:14:06.04
OF US WOULD BE
HERE. ISN'T THAT RIGHT?
00:14:06.04\00:14:09.51
AND IF IT WASN'T FOR HUNGER,
YOU PROBABLY WOULDN'T BE HERE
00:14:09.51\00:14:11.91
ALSO. GOD GAVE YOU THE DESIRE TO
00:14:11.91\00:14:14.22
HUNGER FOR FOOD OR YOU
WOULD EVENTUALLY DIE OUT.
00:14:14.22\00:14:17.72
AND HE ALSO PLANTED WITHIN
US THIS HEALTHY, HOLY DESIRE
00:14:17.72\00:14:22.22
FOR SEX THAT, GOVERNED
BY A SANCTIFIED MIND, IS A
00:14:22.22\00:14:26.39
GOOD THING. SEX IS NOT SOMETHING
00:14:26.39\00:14:28.26
THE DEVIL INVENTED.
BUT WE'VE GOT TO BE CAREFUL
00:14:28.26\00:14:30.63
TO NOT COMMUNICATE THAT.
SEX IS A BEAUTIFUL THING.
00:14:30.63\00:14:35.87
WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT IT -
HOW TWO PEOPLE COME TOGETHER
00:14:35.87\00:14:39.07
THROUGH AN ACT OF LOVE AND
EMBRACE AND THEY ARE ABLE TO
00:14:39.07\00:14:43.75
REPRODUCE ANOTHER PERSON.
IT'S A BEAUTIFUL THING IN THE
00:14:43.75\00:14:48.62
CONTEXT THAT GOD HAS DESIGNED.
BUT THE DEVIL HAS SUCCEEDED IN
00:14:48.62\00:14:52.25
MAKING IT UGLY AND DIRTY
AND HE CAN - THE DEVIL CAN WARP
00:14:52.25\00:14:56.32
AND PERVERT
EVERYTHING THAT GOD MAKES.
00:14:56.32\00:14:58.93
CAN A PERSON HAVE A
PERVERTED APPETITE FOR FOOD?
00:14:58.93\00:15:01.80
YEAH. CAN A PERSON BE A GLUTTON?
00:15:01.80\00:15:04.43
SAME THING WITH
THE DESIRES FOR SEX.
00:15:04.43\00:15:07.17
EVERYTHING GOOD THAT GOD
HAS MADE THE DEVIL HAS SOUGHT TO
00:15:07.17\00:15:09.47
CORRUPT, INCLUDING MARRIAGE
AND THAT INSTITUTION AND THOSE
00:15:09.47\00:15:13.94
DESIRES. BUT
THOSE DESIRES MUST BE
00:15:13.94\00:15:16.04
RESTRAINED, JUST AS
WITH THE DESIRES FOR FOOD.
00:15:16.04\00:15:19.31
IF THEY'RE NOT, THERE
ARE CONSEQUENCES FOR THAT.
00:15:19.31\00:15:22.55
THE BIBLE TELLS US IN
HEBREWS 13:4, "MARRIAGE IS
00:15:22.55\00:15:26.82
HONORABLE AMONG ALL, AND THE
BED UNDEFILED; BUT FORNICATORS
00:15:26.82\00:15:31.93
AND ADULTERERS GOD WILL
JUDGE." GENESIS 2:18, "AND THE
00:15:31.93\00:15:37.07
LORD GOD SAID, 'IT IS NOT
GOOD THAT MAN SHOULD BE ALONE" -
00:15:37.07\00:15:39.30
I READ THAT TO YOU ALREADY.
1 CORINTHIANS 7:9 - IT SAYS
00:15:39.30\00:15:43.17
THAT IF A PERSON
"CANNOT EXERCISE SELF-CONTROL,
00:15:43.17\00:15:46.78
LET THEM MARRY. FOR IT
IS BETTER TO MARRY THAN
00:15:46.78\00:15:48.78
TO BURN WITH
PASSION." YOU KNOW, I'VE GOT A
00:15:48.78\00:15:51.81
QUOTE HERE FROM C.S.
LEWIS - WHILE I DON'T AGREE
00:15:51.81\00:15:54.85
WITH HIM ON EVERYTHING, HE WAS A
BRILLIANT CHRISTIAN THEOLOGIAN.
00:15:54.85\00:15:59.09
HE SAYS, 'EITHER MARRIAGE
WITH COMPLETE FAITHFULNESS TO
00:15:59.09\00:16:01.66
YOUR PARTNER OR
TOTAL ABSTINENCE.
00:16:01.66\00:16:03.76
THOSE ARE THE ONLY OPTIONS
FOR THE BELIEVER.' EITHER
00:16:03.76\00:16:07.13
MARRIAGE WITH
COMPLETE FAITHFULNESS TO YOUR
00:16:07.13\00:16:10.33
PARTNER WHO, BY THE WAY, SHOULD
BE OF THE OPPOSITE SEX, OR TOTAL
00:16:10.33\00:16:16.07
ABSTINENCE. AND,
YOU KNOW, IT'S BEING PUT
00:16:16.07\00:16:19.24
FORTH TO OUR SOCIETY THAT
IF A PERSON HAS A DESIRE FOR
00:16:19.24\00:16:23.81
SOMEONE OF THE SAME SEX, GOD
MUST HAVE MADE THEM THAT WAY SO
00:16:23.81\00:16:26.25
THEY SHOULD GO AHEAD AND
FULFILL IT. AND THAT IS A MYTH.
00:16:26.25\00:16:30.85
I JUST GOT A STUDY THAT DON
MACKINTOSH SENT ME YESTERDAY
00:16:30.85\00:16:34.89
WHERE THEY TOOK TWINS THAT
YOUNG MOTHERS THAT WERE UNWED
00:16:34.89\00:16:40.56
PUT UP FOR ADOPTION AND
SOMETIMES THE ADOPTION AGENCY
00:16:40.56\00:16:42.76
DID NOT ADOPT OUT BOTH TWINS
TO THE SAME FAMILY - IDENTICAL
00:16:42.76\00:16:45.50
TWINS - AND YEARS LATER - 20
YEARS LATER - THEY DID FOLLOW-UP
00:16:45.50\00:16:50.01
AND THEY SURVEYED AND THEY FOUND
OUT THAT THE SAME NUMBER - THE
00:16:50.01\00:16:53.11
SAME PERCENTAGE OF THEM CHOSE
OR IDENTIFIED THEMSELVES AS
00:16:53.11\00:16:58.25
BEING HOMOSEXUAL BUT HAD NEVER
HAD ANYTHING TO DO WITH THEIR
00:16:58.25\00:17:00.95
IDENTICAL TWIN. SO
IT HAD TO DO WITH WHAT
00:17:00.95\00:17:03.45
FAMILY AND ENVIRONMENT THEY
GREW UP IN AND IT MIGHT HAVE
00:17:03.45\00:17:08.42
BEEN INFLUENCED SOMEWHAT
BY TEMPERAMENT. EVERYONE'S GOT
00:17:08.42\00:17:10.83
DIFFERENT TEMPERAMENTS AND
SOME TEMPERAMENTS ARE MORE PRONE
00:17:10.83\00:17:13.09
TO THAT, BUT THERE'S
NOTHING PHYSIOLOGICAL.
00:17:13.09\00:17:17.07
SO IF A PERSON, BECAUSE OF
NOT HAVING THE RIGHT INFLUENCES
00:17:17.07\00:17:21.80
AT THAT CRITICAL TIME IN
THEIR LIFE, IF THEY GROW UP AND
00:17:21.80\00:17:24.87
THEY DON'T HAVE THE RIGHT
IDENTITY FOR THEIR FATHER OR
00:17:24.87\00:17:27.08
THEIR MOTHER TO BOND WITH, THEY
CAN GET SOME STRANGE DESIRES.
00:17:27.08\00:17:32.21
BUT IF YOU'RE A CHRISTIAN
AND YOUR DESIRES DO NOT MATCH UP
00:17:32.21\00:17:35.25
WITH THE BIBLE, YOUR OPTION
IS PRAY THAT GOD WILL GIVE YOU
00:17:35.25\00:17:40.06
SELF-CONTROL BECAUSE - YOU
KNOW THE BIBLE SAYS WE ARE NOT
00:17:40.06\00:17:42.76
TO BE CONTROLLED BY THE
FLESH BUT BY THE SPIRIT.
00:17:42.76\00:17:46.09
AND YOU CAN'T BE MAKING
EXCUSES, 'WELL, I'M SINGLE.
00:17:46.09\00:17:49.40
GOD DOESN'T EXPECT ME TO JUST
BE ABSTINENT AND SO I'M JUST
00:17:49.40\00:17:53.40
GOING TO GO OUT AND HIRE A
PROSTITUTE - MALE OR FEMALE.'
00:17:53.40\00:17:56.14
I MEAN, THAT'S WHERE
THAT LOGIC WILL TAKE YOU.
00:17:56.14\00:18:00.31
GOD EXPECTS US
TO USE SELF-CONTROL.
00:18:00.31\00:18:03.48
DID JESUS? DO YOU
THINK THAT JESUS WASN'T
00:18:03.48\00:18:06.95
TEMPTED IN ALL POINTS AS WE ARE?
THE BIBLE SAYS HE WAS BUT HE
00:18:06.95\00:18:10.92
LIVED A HOLY LIFE AND SO
CAN WE. WHEN YOU'RE A CHRISTIAN
00:18:10.92\00:18:14.59
OLD THINGS PASS AWAY.
ALL THINGS ARE MADE NEW.
00:18:14.59\00:18:16.93
NOW, I'M TAKING THIS
LITTLE RABBIT TRAIL TO JUST
00:18:16.93\00:18:18.96
REINFORCE THE PRINCIPLE THAT
EVERYBODY THAT IS HUMAN IS GOING
00:18:18.96\00:18:24.23
TO BE TEMPTED AND THE DEVIL
IS EVEN GOING TO TEMPT PEOPLE
00:18:24.23\00:18:27.67
WITHIN GOOD CHRISTIAN
MARRIAGES TO THINK THINGS THEY
00:18:27.67\00:18:29.87
SHOULDN'T THINK.
DON'T FALL FOR THE IDEA THAT
00:18:29.87\00:18:33.27
YOU ARE A VICTIM AND
YOU ARE HELPLESS AND YOU
00:18:33.27\00:18:35.08
CAN'T MAKE CHOICES.
EVERYBODY CAN MAKE CHOICES.
00:18:35.08\00:18:39.18
PEOPLE WHO FALL INTO
ADULTERY USUALLY HAVE MADE A
00:18:39.18\00:18:42.25
SERIES OF CHOICES. THEY
ARE FIRST USUALLY STEPPING
00:18:42.25\00:18:47.52
OVER THE LINE TO BECOMING
TOO FRIENDLY OR TOO FAMILIAR.
00:18:47.52\00:18:50.86
VERY RARELY DOES IT HAPPEN
JUST SUDDENLY UNEXPECTEDLY.
00:18:50.86\00:18:55.23
PEOPLE LITTLE BY LITTLE
START OPENING THE DOOR TO A
00:18:55.23\00:18:57.63
FORBIDDEN RELATIONSHIP AND THEY
START MAKING FRIENDS WITH THE
00:18:57.63\00:19:01.50
OPPOSITE SEX WHILE THEY'RE
MARRIED AND THEY START BECOMING
00:19:01.50\00:19:06.57
INTIMATE AND SHARING INTIMATE
DETAILS AND THEY SAY, 'OH, BUT
00:19:06.57\00:19:10.15
YOU KNOW, HE JUST
MAKES ME FEEL SO GOOD.
00:19:10.15\00:19:12.01
THEN I GO HOME AND MY
HUSBAND IS SO CRABBY AND MEAN
00:19:12.01\00:19:15.12
AND UNAPPRECIATIVE AND THIS
PERSON IS SO NICE AND...' THE
00:19:15.12\00:19:18.22
DEVIL WILL START GETTING
YOU TO MAKE THESE COMPARISONS
00:19:18.22\00:19:20.89
AND EXCUSES AND YOU COULD EVEN
CONVINCE YOURSELF, 'YOU KNOW,
00:19:20.89\00:19:25.09
I THINK THE LORD
IS LEADING ME IN THIS.
00:19:25.09\00:19:28.30
I KNOW THE BIBLE SAYS
ONE THING, BUT IN MY SPIRIT.'
00:19:28.30\00:19:31.83
PEOPLE CONFUSE A LOT
OF THINGS FOR THE SPIRIT.
00:19:31.83\00:19:34.74
YOU CAN - TOO MUCH PIZZA
CAN MAKE YOU THINK THE SPIRIT
00:19:34.74\00:19:36.97
IS LEADING YOU AND JUST -
SO, YOU KNOW, IF IT'S NOT IN THE
00:19:36.97\00:19:41.01
WORD, FRIENDS,
DON'T FALL FOR THAT.
00:19:41.01\00:19:43.41
GOD'S SPIRIT IS NEVER GOING
TO LEAD CONTRARY TO GOD'S WORD.
00:19:43.41\00:19:48.75
'AND WHENEVER I GO TO
WORK SHE LOOKS SO NICE.
00:19:48.75\00:19:53.19
BUT IN THE MORNING MY WIFE'S
GOT CURLERS IN HER HAIR AND
00:19:53.19\00:19:55.92
PASTY STUFF ON HER FACE
AND HER BREATH SMELLS STRANGE.
00:19:55.92\00:20:01.06
BUT WHEN I SEE THIS
CO-WORKER SHE ALWAYS SMELLS LIKE
00:20:01.06\00:20:04.30
PERFUME.' AND YOU KNOW WHAT
TYPICALLY HAPPENS IS IF SOMEONE
00:20:04.30\00:20:09.37
MAKES THAT TRAGIC MISTAKE
OF VIOLATING THEIR MARRIAGE AND
00:20:09.37\00:20:11.81
THEY DIVORCE THEIR WIFE AND THEY
RUN OFF WITH THE SECRETARY, THEY
00:20:11.81\00:20:15.61
FIND OUT THAT SHE'S GOT
CURLERS AND BAD BREATH TOO.
00:20:15.61\00:20:20.65
AND WHERE THIS MAN MAY
HAVE BEEN JUST A MONSTER TO BE
00:20:20.65\00:20:26.52
MARRIED TO IN CATEGORY A, B, AND
C, SHE FINDS MR. WONDERFUL OVER
00:20:26.52\00:20:31.43
HERE AND IN A, B, AND C HE IS
JUST PERFECT AND SO THEY LEAVE
00:20:31.43\00:20:36.10
HUSBAND AND GO WITH NEW
PROSPECT AND THEN A YEAR OR TWO
00:20:36.10\00:20:40.54
LATER THEY DIDN'T REALIZE THAT
IN CATEGORY G, F, AND H THIS GUY
00:20:40.54\00:20:45.51
WAS A MONSTER. AND
SHE STARTS LOOKING BACK
00:20:45.51\00:20:48.31
AT HER OLD HUSBAND SAYING,
'YOU KNOW, HE WAS PRETTY GOOD
00:20:48.31\00:20:50.15
ABOUT THOSE OTHER THINGS.'
THE LORD HAS A STRANGE WAY OF
00:20:50.15\00:20:54.78
PAIRING US UP WITH PEOPLE
THAT HE HAS DESIGNED TO HELP
00:20:54.78\00:20:58.95
SANCTIFY US IN THE
CATEGORIES WHERE WE NEED HELP.
00:20:58.95\00:21:04.63
YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE WAYS WE
LEARN HOW TO BE CHRISTIANS IS
00:21:04.63\00:21:07.03
THROUGH LOVING THE
LORD AND LOVING EACH OTHER.
00:21:07.03\00:21:10.10
THE BIBLE SAYS YOU'VE
GOT TO LOVE THE LORD AND LOVE
00:21:10.10\00:21:11.60
YOUR NEIGHBOR.
WHO COULD BE MORE - A
00:21:11.60\00:21:14.34
CLOSER NEIGHBOR
THAN YOUR SPOUSE?
00:21:14.34\00:21:17.11
HOW CAN YOU SAY YOU LOVE GOD
WHO YOU CAN'T SEE WHEN YOU CAN'T
00:21:17.11\00:21:20.41
LOVE YOUR SPOUSE THAT
YOU'VE MADE A COVENANT WITH?
00:21:20.41\00:21:24.98
AND IF THE BIBLE TELLS US
TO LOVE OUR ENEMIES THEN WHAT
00:21:24.98\00:21:27.45
EXCUSE DO YOU HAVE FOR
NOT LOVING YOUR SPOUSE?
00:21:27.45\00:21:31.02
IS THAT STRAIGHT ENOUGH?
SO CHRISTIANS WHO BELIEVE THE
00:21:31.02\00:21:34.59
WORD - YOU MAKE A COVENANT
WITH SOMEONE - NOW, THERE ARE
00:21:34.59\00:21:36.96
GROUNDS - AND I'LL TALK
ABOUT THAT IN JUST A MOMENT.
00:21:36.96\00:21:39.16
THERE ARE REASONS WHERE YOU
WOULD WANT TO MAYBE SEPARATE
00:21:39.16\00:21:43.90
AND EVEN DIVORCE, BUT
THAT IS A VERY RARE EXCEPTION.
00:21:43.90\00:21:49.80
YOU KNOW, IN 1623 THERE WAS
A BIBLE THAT WAS RECALLED AND
00:21:49.80\00:22:00.65
THE PEOPLE WHO HAD PRINTED 1,000
OF THESE BIBLES - A PRINTING
00:22:00.65\00:22:03.55
COMPANY CALLED BAKER AND LUCAS
- THEY LOST THEIR BUSINESS AND
00:22:03.55\00:22:07.16
THEY WERE FINED AN ENTIRE
LIFE'S WAGES ALL BECAUSE THEY
00:22:07.16\00:22:12.29
HAD MADE A
THREE-LETTER TYPO IN THE BIBLE.
00:22:12.29\00:22:16.73
THE KING WAS
EXTREMELY HARSH WITH THEM.
00:22:16.73\00:22:19.23
THE WHOLE BIBLE WAS GREAT -
ONE WORD WITH THREE LETTERS WAS
00:22:19.23\00:22:24.37
LEFT OUT AND THEY LOST THEIR
BUSINESS AND ALL THE BIBLES WERE
00:22:24.37\00:22:28.58
GATHERED AND BURNED AND
IT BECAME KNOWN AS THE WICKED
00:22:28.58\00:22:30.68
BIBLE. DO YOU KNOW
WHY? YOU KNOW WHAT WORDS
00:22:30.68\00:22:33.95
THEY LEFT OUT? IT
WAS THE WORD 'NOT'.
00:22:33.95\00:22:37.52
THEY LEFT THE WORD 'NOT'
OUT OF THE SEVENTH COMMANDMENT.
00:22:37.52\00:22:40.72
'THOU SHALT NOT COMMIT
ADULTERY.' AND IT SAID IN
00:22:40.72\00:22:43.46
THE ORIGINAL, 'THOU SHALT' -
THERE'S A COPY - YOU NOTICE IT'S
00:22:43.46\00:22:46.33
- THEY USED THE OLD ENGLISH
'S' THERE IT LOOKED LIKE AN 'F'.
00:22:46.33\00:22:50.20
'THOU SHALT COMMIT ADULTERY'
IS WHAT THAT BIBLE SAID.
00:22:50.20\00:22:55.47
AND THE WAY OUR CULTURE'S
ACTING I'M WONDERING WHAT BIBLE
00:22:55.47\00:22:57.54
THEY'RE READING.
THERE'S ONLY ELEVEN OF THESE
00:22:57.54\00:23:00.94
BIBLES STILL LEFT IN EXISTENCE
AND THEY'RE VERY VALUABLE.
00:23:00.94\00:23:04.35
THEY CALL THEM
THE WICKED BIBLES.
00:23:04.35\00:23:06.58
SOME PEOPLE, THE WAY
THEY READ IT, YOU WONDER.
00:23:06.58\00:23:09.85
WE HAVE A DILEMMA OF
DIVORCE IN OUR CULTURE.
00:23:09.85\00:23:13.69
IT'S RAMPANT. NOW,
THERE ARE BIBLE GROUNDS FOR
00:23:13.69\00:23:16.56
DIVORCE. WHAT DOES JESUS SAY?
00:23:16.56\00:23:18.43
IF YOU HAVE YOUR BIBLES GO
TO MATTHEW 19, VERSE 9, "AND I
00:23:18.43\00:23:24.00
SAY TO YOU, WHOEVER DIVORCES
HIS WIFE, EXCEPT FOR SEXUAL
00:23:24.00\00:23:27.60
IMMORALITY, AND MARRIES
ANOTHER, COMMITS ADULTERY;"
00:23:27.60\00:23:31.17
AND THE BIBLE SAYS THOU
SHALT NOT COMMIT ADULTERY.
00:23:31.17\00:23:34.48
NOW, AT THE TIME OF CHRIST
- BY THE TIME OF JESUS, THE
00:23:34.48\00:23:40.55
SADDUCEES AND THE PHARISEES HAD
SORT OF MODIFIED THE LAW OF GOD
00:23:40.55\00:23:44.15
SO THAT THEY HAD ALL THESE
TALMUDIC LAWS WHERE YOU COULD
00:23:44.15\00:23:49.46
DIVORCE YOUR WIFE
FOR BURNING DINNER.
00:23:49.46\00:23:52.19
I MEAN, THEY HAD JUST
AWFUL RIDICULOUS REASONS.
00:23:52.19\00:23:56.03
AND WHEN JESUS SAID TO
THE DISCIPLES, 'YOU'RE NOT
00:23:56.03\00:23:58.37
TO DIVORCE FOR ANY REASON'
EXCEPT WHERE HE TALKS ABOUT
00:23:58.37\00:24:02.60
FOR FORNICATION,
THEY WERE SHOCKED.
00:24:02.60\00:24:06.04
THEY SAID, 'WELL MAYBE
IT'S BETTER NOT TO MARRY.
00:24:06.04\00:24:07.88
BOY, THAT'S A
REALLY IRON-CLAD COVENANT.
00:24:07.88\00:24:09.88
WE HAD NO IDEA.' BECAUSE THEY
HAD ALSO BEEN INFLUENCED BY THE
00:24:09.88\00:24:14.45
GRECO-ROMAN CULTURE AND THEY HAD
ALL THESE DIFFERENT WAYS THAT
00:24:14.45\00:24:18.25
YOU COULD DIVORCE AND GOD SAID
FROM THE BEGINNING IT WAS NOT
00:24:18.25\00:24:22.29
SO. 'LET NOT MAN PUT ASUNDER
WHAT GOD HAS JOINED TOGETHER.
00:24:22.29\00:24:27.50
AND I KNOW, EVEN AS I SPEAK
ABOUT THIS, A LOT OF PEOPLE
00:24:27.50\00:24:30.73
HERE YOU'VE -
STATISTICALLY 40 PERCENT OF EVEN
00:24:30.73\00:24:35.94
PRACTICING CHRISTIANS THAT
ARE OF MARRIAGEABLE AGE OR HAVE
00:24:35.94\00:24:40.11
BEEN MARRIED
HAVE EXPERIENCED THAT.
00:24:40.11\00:24:41.98
AND SO, WE'RE NOT HERE TO
CONDEMN, WE'RE HERE TO TELL
00:24:41.98\00:24:44.91
YOU WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS AND
THAT WE'RE TO BE CHRISTIANS.
00:24:44.91\00:24:48.48
THE BIBLICAL GROUNDS FOR
DIVORCE - AND, BY THE WAY, IF
00:24:48.48\00:24:51.52
THERE HAS BEEN MARITAL
INFIDELITY - IF THERE HAS BEEN
00:24:51.52\00:24:55.09
SEXUAL INFIDELITY IN A MARRIAGE
- IT DOESN'T MEAN YOU HAVE TO
00:24:55.09\00:24:59.29
GET DIVORCED. THERE CAN STILL BE
00:24:59.29\00:25:01.93
FORGIVENESS AND HEALING.
HAVE YOU READ THE BOOK OF HOSEA?
00:25:01.93\00:25:06.47
OR EVEN AFTER HIS WIFE
WAS UNFAITHFUL - AND, BY THE
00:25:06.47\00:25:08.54
WAY, WE'RE THE BRIDE OF CHRIST -
THE CHURCH - AND HAS THE CHURCH
00:25:08.54\00:25:12.34
BEEN UNFAITHFUL? LOOK
AT THE HISTORY OF ISRAEL.
00:25:12.34\00:25:14.84
SO OFTEN THEY WENT AFTER
OTHER GODS AND HE WOULD FORGIVE
00:25:14.84\00:25:16.95
THEM AND BRING THEM BACK AGAIN.
AND SO CAN - CAN EVEN THIS BE
00:25:16.95\00:25:21.28
HEALED AND THIS BE
FORGIVEN? YES IT CAN.
00:25:21.28\00:25:24.92
AND SO YOU LOOK HERE IN MALACHI
CHAPTER 2, VERSE 16, "'FOR
00:25:24.92\00:25:29.69
THE LORD GOD OF ISRAEL SAYS
THAT HE HATES DIVORCE, FOR IT
00:25:29.69\00:25:33.60
COVERS ONE'S GARMENT WITH
VIOLENCE,' SAYS THE LORD OF
00:25:33.60\00:25:36.67
HOSTS." NOW, GOD TOLD
ABRAHAM TO GET DIVORCED.
00:25:36.67\00:25:43.71
BUT THAT'S BECAUSE HE HAD
TOO MANY WIVES, DIDN'T HE?
00:25:43.71\00:25:48.24
THE REASONS FOR REMARRIAGE,
BIBLICALLY, IS IF YOUR
00:25:48.24\00:25:52.18
SPOUSE HAS DIED - PAUL TALKS
ABOUT THAT - IF YOU - IF THE
00:25:52.18\00:25:58.82
MARRIAGE COVENANT HAS BEEN
VIOLATED THROUGH ADULTERY AND IF
00:25:58.82\00:26:02.99
THERE'S ANY HOPE OF
RECONCILIATION - IF THERE'S ANY
00:26:02.99\00:26:06.39
REDEEMABLE QUALITIES, THE
BEST THING THAT YOU CAN DO AS A
00:26:06.39\00:26:09.10
CHRISTIAN IS SAVE THE MARRIAGE.
STARTING OVER IS TOUGH AND
00:26:09.10\00:26:15.00
SOMETIMES YOU MIGHT HAVE
GROUNDS FOR SEPARATION AND
00:26:15.00\00:26:17.74
WE'LL TALK ABOUT
THAT IN JUST A MOMENT.
00:26:17.74\00:26:20.68
1 CORINTHIANS CHAPTER 7 -
THERE IS A UNIQUE SITUATION.
00:26:20.68\00:26:24.35
IT TALKS ABOUT THAT IF THERE
IS A BELIEVER WHO IS MARRIED TO
00:26:24.35\00:26:28.58
AN UNBELIEVER AND THEY'RE
WILLING TO STAY TOGETHER, PAUL
00:26:28.58\00:26:31.25
SAYS BY ALL MEANS STAY
TOGETHER - EVEN IF YOU'VE GOT AN
00:26:31.25\00:26:33.52
UNBELIEVER WHO'S MARRIED TO
A BELIEVER - BUT HE'S TALKING
00:26:33.52\00:26:35.76
ABOUT WHEN CHRISTIANITY WAS
SPREADING AMONG THE PAGANS AND
00:26:35.76\00:26:39.19
YOU'VE GOT TWO PAGANS WHO ARE
MARRIED - PAGANS - BOTH MARRIED
00:26:39.19\00:26:41.60
- BOTH PAGANS. ONE OF THEM FINDS
OUT ABOUT JESUS AND THEY DIDN'T
00:26:41.60\00:26:48.20
KNOW AND THEIR NON-BELIEVING
PARTNER SAYS, 'LOOK, I DON'T
00:26:48.20\00:26:53.17
WANT TO BE A CHRISTIAN.
I DIDN'T MARRY A CHRISTIAN.
00:26:53.17\00:26:55.21
IF YOU'RE GOING TO
CHANGE I'M LEAVING.' IF THEY'RE
00:26:55.21\00:26:57.48
ABANDONED UNDER THOSE
CIRCUMSTANCES WHERE TWO
00:26:57.48\00:26:59.78
UNBELIEVERS CAME, THEN
THAT BELIEVER IS FREE TO
00:26:59.78\00:27:03.59
REMARRY. SEE WHAT
HE'S TALKING ABOUT THERE?
00:27:03.59\00:27:06.79
TYPICALLY, AT THAT POINT,
THEIR EX-SPOUSE IS REMARRIED
00:27:06.79\00:27:09.59
ANYWAY, WHICH GIVES THEM
THE ADULTERY CLAUSE, AS YOU SAY.
00:27:09.59\00:27:14.83
IF I CAN BE VERY FRANK
WITH YOU - YOU KNOW WHAT I'VE
00:27:14.83\00:27:17.23
SEEN AMONG CHRISTIANS SOMETIMES?
00:27:17.23\00:27:20.10
YOU GET TWO CHRISTIANS,
THEY LOVE THE LORD, THEY WANT TO
00:27:20.10\00:27:22.20
COME TO CHURCH BUT THEY JUST
FIGURE IT'S INTOLERABLE LIVING
00:27:22.20\00:27:24.57
WITH EACH OTHER BUT NEITHER OF
THEM HAS COMMITTED ADULTERY OR
00:27:24.57\00:27:26.88
HAS BIBLICAL GROUNDS FOR DIVORCE
SO WHAT THEY'LL DO IS THEY'LL
00:27:26.88\00:27:30.38
DIVORCE ANYWAY AND THEN
THEY PLAY THE WAITING GAME.
00:27:30.38\00:27:34.38
THEY WAIT FOR THE OTHER ONE
TO COMMIT ADULTERY SO THEY'RE
00:27:34.38\00:27:36.28
THEN FREE TO START
COURTING AND GET MARRIED.
00:27:36.28\00:27:39.55
ANY OF YOU EVER
SEEN THAT HAPPEN BEFORE?
00:27:39.55\00:27:43.26
IT'S LIKE THEY'RE READY TO
HIRE A PRIVATE EYE AND FOLLOW
00:27:43.26\00:27:45.66
THEIR EX-SPOUSE AROUND TO JUST
SEE, 'HAVE THEY MESSED UP YET?'
00:27:45.66\00:27:50.97
PROBING - IS THAT HOW
JESUS WOULD DO IT? NO.
00:27:50.97\00:27:54.64
YOU KNOW, UNDER THOSE
CIRCUMSTANCES THE BIBLE
00:27:54.64\00:27:57.07
SAYS YOU ARE
NOT FREE TO REMARRY.
00:27:57.07\00:27:58.74
NOW THAT MIGHT SEEM HARSH - AND
IF YOU DO IT'S CALLED ADULTERY
00:27:58.74\00:28:02.74
- THAT MIGHT SEEM HARSH -
'DOESN'T THE LORD WANT ME TO BE
00:28:02.74\00:28:04.98
HAPPY?' NO, HE
WANTS YOU TO BE HOLY.
00:28:04.98\00:28:08.22
THE BEST WAY FOR YOU TO
FIND REAL HAPPINESS IS TO FIRST
00:28:08.22\00:28:10.75
MAKE UP YOUR MIND THAT GOD
IS CALLING YOU TO HOLINESS.
00:28:10.75\00:28:15.09
AND, YOU KNOW, AT SOME POINT,
IF THE CHURCH IS NOT GOING TO BE
00:28:15.09\00:28:18.69
THE PLACE WHERE GOD SAYS
'HERE IS THE LINE OF WHAT'S
00:28:18.69\00:28:21.16
APPROPRIATE AND THIS IS A
COVENANT AND IT'S IMPORTANT
00:28:21.16\00:28:24.57
AND IT MEANS SOMETHING.'
THEN WHERE IN OUR CULTURE CAN WE
00:28:24.57\00:28:27.80
LOOK? TELL ME. IF
IT'S NOT GOING TO HAPPEN IN
00:28:27.80\00:28:30.74
A CHURCH WHERE YOU'RE
GOING TO DRAW A LINE AND SAY
00:28:30.74\00:28:32.51
'MARRIAGE IS SACRED. IT IS HOLY.
00:28:32.51\00:28:34.58
IT IS TO BE PRESERVED EVEN
IF IT MEANS AT THE INCONVENIENCE
00:28:34.58\00:28:38.98
OF SOME, THIS INSTITUTION MUST
BE CAREFULLY GUARDED.' IF NOT AT
00:28:38.98\00:28:42.75
THE CHURCH, THEN WHERE?
WHERE ARE WE GOING TO GO?
00:28:42.75\00:28:45.52
TELEVISION? WHERE
ONE GUY'S GOT FOUR WIVES?
00:28:45.52\00:28:49.86
WHERE ARE WE GOING TO GO
TO EXALT MARRIAGE TO THE HOLY
00:28:49.86\00:28:53.26
PLACE WHERE IT BELONGS? IT'S
HERE, ISN'T IT? IT'S IN GOD'S
00:28:53.26\00:28:58.07
WORD. IT'S IN THE CHURCH.
AND SO THIS IS THE IDEAL.
00:28:58.07\00:29:04.07
NOW MARRIAGE IS NOT JUST -
ADULTERY IS NOT JUST SOMETHING
00:29:04.07\00:29:07.81
THAT IS REVEALED IN AN ACTION.
JESUS ALSO TEACHES US THAT
00:29:07.81\00:29:12.68
ADULTERY CAN HAPPEN
IN AN ATTITUDE, RIGHT?
00:29:12.68\00:29:16.35
MATTHEW CHAPTER 5, VERSE
27, "YOU HAVE HEARD THAT IT WAS
00:29:16.35\00:29:19.19
SAID TO THOSE OF OLD, 'YOU SHALL
NOT COMMIT ADULTERY.'" - WHEN HE
00:29:19.19\00:29:22.39
SAYS 'THOSE OF OLD' HE'S
ACTUALLY QUOTING HIMSELF IN THE
00:29:22.39\00:29:24.89
TEN COMMANDMENTS - "BUT I SAY
TO YOU THAT WHOEVER LOOKS AT A
00:29:24.89\00:29:28.70
WOMAN TO LUST FOR HER HAS
ALREADY COMMITTED ADULTERY
00:29:28.70\00:29:31.57
WITH HER IN HIS HEART." NOW,
IF A PERSON THINKS A LUSTFUL
00:29:31.57\00:29:38.84
THOUGHT AND IF YOU CAN
PROVE YOUR SPOUSE HAS THOUGHT A
00:29:38.84\00:29:42.48
LUSTFUL THOUGHT - AND
SINCE JESUS SAYS THEY'VE
00:29:42.48\00:29:45.08
COMMITTED ADULTERY IN THEIR
HEART, DO YOU NOW HAVE GROUNDS
00:29:45.08\00:29:47.12
FOR DIVORCE? WHAT DO YOU SAY?
00:29:47.12\00:29:51.45
DO YOU WANT TO ANSWER?
ANYONE VENTURE? BOLD ENOUGH?
00:29:51.45\00:29:54.32
NO, BECAUSE THERE IS A
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A THOUGHT
00:29:54.32\00:29:56.99
AND AN ACT. THINK
ABOUT THIS FOR A MINUTE.
00:29:56.99\00:30:02.63
IF YOU THINK ABOUT MURDER
CAN YOU BE EXECUTED ACCORDING TO
00:30:02.63\00:30:08.37
OUR GOVERNMENT? NO.
00:30:08.37\00:30:11.04
BECAUSE A PERSON THINKS A
MURDEROUS THOUGHT DOESN'T MEAN
00:30:11.04\00:30:13.58
THEY ARE A MURDERER AND
THEY'RE GOING TO BE PROSECUTED
00:30:13.58\00:30:15.51
AS A MURDERER
BECAUSE THEY THINK A THOUGHT.
00:30:15.51\00:30:17.45
NOW, IF YOU CONSPIRE -
IF YOU GET THE TOOLS AND THE
00:30:17.45\00:30:19.55
WEAPONS AND YOU'RE GOING TO PLAN
IT - YES, THAT'S A DIFFERENT
00:30:19.55\00:30:21.72
STORY - BUT THINKING A THOUGHT
IS NOT THE SAME AS DOING IT.
00:30:21.72\00:30:25.29
AND I'VE HAD SOME PEOPLE
WHO'VE SAID TO ME, 'PASTOR DOUG,
00:30:25.29\00:30:28.16
I MAY AS WELL GO AHEAD AND DO
IT BECAUSE I'M THINKING ABOUT IT
00:30:28.16\00:30:31.46
AND JESUS SAID IF YOU
THINK ABOUT IT IT'S THE SAME
00:30:31.46\00:30:33.43
THING.' NO, HE DOESN'T
SAY IT'S THE SAME THING.
00:30:33.43\00:30:36.10
HE'S TRYING TO SHOW YOU THAT
HE NOT ONLY WANTS US TO KEEP THE
00:30:36.10\00:30:38.93
SEVENTH COMMANDMENT AND NOT
LITERALLY COMMIT ADULTERY OR
00:30:38.93\00:30:41.64
FORNICATION, HE'S TRYING TO
TELL US 'I WANT YOU TO DO IT IN
00:30:41.64\00:30:44.74
YOUR HEART AS WELL' BECAUSE IF
YOU'RE KEEPING THE COMMANDMENT
00:30:44.74\00:30:48.21
IN YOUR HEART YOU WILL
KEEP IT IN YOUR MARRIAGE.
00:30:48.21\00:30:52.08
AND I WANT TO REMIND
EVERYBODY, ESPECIALLY OUR YOUNG
00:30:52.08\00:30:54.55
PEOPLE OR ANY SINGLES HERE, THE
SEVENTH COMMANDMENT IS NOT JUST
00:30:54.55\00:30:57.82
FOR MARRIED COUPLES. THE
SEVENTH COMMANDMENT IS FOR
00:30:57.82\00:31:00.59
EVERYBODY BECAUSE THAT COVERS
THE SUBJECT OF FORNICATION AND
00:31:00.59\00:31:05.83
THAT'S ANY KIND OF SEXUAL
ACTIVITY OUTSIDE OF MARRIAGE.
00:31:05.83\00:31:10.37
AND SO, WE'RE ALL
CALLED TO HOLINESS.
00:31:10.37\00:31:13.44
HE SAYS, 'BLESSED ARE THE
PURE IN HEART, THEY WILL SEE
00:31:13.44\00:31:15.30
GOD.' HE WANTS US TO
BE PURE IN OUR HEARTS.
00:31:15.30\00:31:17.81
SO JESUS WASN'T SAYING,
'WELL, YOU'RE THINKING IT, YOU
00:31:17.81\00:31:19.61
MAY AS WELL DO IT.' HE'S SAYING,
'IF YOU'LL BE SAVED IN YOUR
00:31:19.61\00:31:22.44
HEART - IF YOU LET ME RECREATE
YOUR HEART YOU WON'T HAVE TO
00:31:22.44\00:31:25.55
WORRY ABOUT THE LETTER OF THE
LAW BECAUSE YOU'LL BE KEEPING
00:31:25.55\00:31:28.42
THE SPIRIT OF THE LAW. YOU'LL
AUTOMATICALLY KEEP THE LETTER OF
00:31:28.42\00:31:31.35
THE LAW WHEN YOU KEEP THE
SPIRIT.' ISN'T THAT RIGHT?
00:31:31.35\00:31:35.79
DON'T YOU HAVE TO FIRST THINK
IT IN YOUR HEART BEFORE YOU ACT
00:31:35.79\00:31:37.33
IT OUT? AND SO,
THEY ARE DIFFERENT.
00:31:37.33\00:31:42.26
NOW WITH THAT IN MIND, I
HAVE BEEN ASKED BEFORE, IF A
00:31:42.26\00:31:46.97
PERSON IS GUILTY OF PORNOGRAPHY
IS THAT GROUNDS FOR DIVORCE?
00:31:46.97\00:31:52.34
LET ME GIVE YOU
A FEW STATISTICS.
00:31:52.34\00:31:58.81
IN THE U.S. - AMONG U.S.
ADULTS - AND THIS IS - I'VE
00:31:58.81\00:32:02.08
GOT A VARIETY OF SURVEYS
HERE, ONE FROM PSYCHOLOGY TODAY
00:32:02.08\00:32:06.42
- 40 MILLION PEOPLE
VISIT PORNOGRAPHIC WEBSITES.
00:32:06.42\00:32:11.23
WELL, THERE'S ONLY 300
MILLION IN THE COUNTRY SO FIGURE
00:32:11.23\00:32:13.19
THAT OUT. ADULTS
ADMITTING TO INTERNET
00:32:13.19\00:32:16.83
SEXUAL ADDICTION - 10 PERCENT.
00:32:16.83\00:32:20.80
ADULTS VISITING
PORNOGRAPHIC SITES - 72 PERCENT
00:32:20.80\00:32:24.74
OF MALES SAY THEY HAVE - THAT
DOESN'T MEAN ON A REGULAR BASIS,
00:32:24.74\00:32:27.81
BUT THEY HAVE - 28 PERCENT
OF FEMALES. MEN ADMITTING TO
00:32:27.81\00:32:32.65
ACCESSING PORNOGRAPHY
AT WORK - 20 PERCENT.
00:32:32.65\00:32:38.42
CHRISTIANS - AND EVEN IN
CHRISTIAN COLLEGES - I SAW
00:32:38.42\00:32:40.56
ONE SURVEY THAT AMONG
CHRISTIAN COLLEGE STUDENTS 78
00:32:40.56\00:32:44.63
PERCENT OF CHRISTIAN COLLEGE
MEN ADMIT TO HAVE VISITED
00:32:44.63\00:32:50.67
PORNOGRAPHIC SITES ONCE A
MONTH - MANY TIMES ON CAMPUS -
00:32:50.67\00:32:55.10
CHRISTIAN CAMPUS EQUIPMENT.
CHRISTIANS WHO SAID PORNOGRAPHY
00:32:55.10\00:33:02.54
IS A MAJOR PROBLEM IN THEIR
HOME - CHRISTIANS - 47 PERCENT.
00:33:02.54\00:33:08.32
SO IS THIS RELEVANT?
NEVER BEFORE HAS MENTAL
00:33:08.32\00:33:14.46
ADULTERY BEEN MORE
ACCESSIBLE THAN IN THE CHURCH
00:33:14.46\00:33:18.03
AND THE WORLD TODAY.
IT'S NOT JUST ON THE INTERNET
00:33:18.03\00:33:21.66
ON THE HOME COMPUTER.
IT'S ON THE SMART PHONE.
00:33:21.66\00:33:25.07
IT'S EVERYWHERE - IT'S ON
THE IPAD OR IPOD OR ALL OF
00:33:25.07\00:33:29.00
THAT STUFF. NOW, IF A SPOUSE IS
GUILTY OF THIS IS THAT GROUNDS
00:33:29.00\00:33:37.31
FOR DIVORCE? NO,
YOU NEED COUNSELING.
00:33:37.31\00:33:41.18
YOU NEED PRAYER. IS IT A SIN?
ABSOLUTELY. I SHOULD ADD, IF A
00:33:41.18\00:33:46.65
SPOUSE IS LOOKING AT PORNOGRAPHY
THAT INVOLVES CHILDREN THAT
00:33:46.65\00:33:50.69
MIGHT BE GROUNDS FOR SEPARATION.
NOW YOU UNDERSTAND THERE'S A
00:33:50.69\00:33:53.96
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN
SEPARATION AND DIVORCE.
00:33:53.96\00:33:56.20
BUT IF THERE'S A CHANCE THAT
THE CHILDREN IN THE FAMILY ARE
00:33:56.20\00:33:58.47
AT RISK BECAUSE OF SPOUSE
- TYPICALLY A MAN - WOULD BE
00:33:58.47\00:34:02.57
LOOKING AT THESE THINGS,
YOU MIGHT WANT TO TALK TO YOUR
00:34:02.57\00:34:05.97
PASTOR AND GET SOME COUNSELING.
THEY COULD BE AT RISK.
00:34:05.97\00:34:11.65
BUT THE OTHER EXTREME IS
WHERE A WIFE SAYS, 'I FOUND A
00:34:11.65\00:34:16.69
'PLAYBOY' MAGAZINE
UNDER MY HUSBAND'S MATTRESS.
00:34:16.69\00:34:20.96
I'M GETTING AN ATTORNEY
AND FILING FOR DIVORCE.'
00:34:20.96\00:34:24.03
I DON'T THINK YOU'VE
GOT GROUNDS FOR THAT.
00:34:24.03\00:34:26.49
I THINK YOU NEED TO
TALK ABOUT THOSE THINGS.
00:34:26.49\00:34:28.10
AND, BY THE WAY, IT
HAPPENS WITH BOTH MEN AND WOMEN.
00:34:28.10\00:34:31.17
WHEN A MAN COMES HOME
AND HE SEES THAT HIS WIFE IS
00:34:31.17\00:34:34.87
WATCHING TWO PEOPLE FLOP AROUND
IN BED DURING SOME DAYTIME
00:34:34.87\00:34:37.57
PROGRAM, IS SHE
THINKING ADULTEROUS THOUGHTS?
00:34:37.57\00:34:42.94
IS THAT GROUNDS FOR
DIVORCE? SOAP OPERAS?
00:34:42.94\00:34:46.65
SEE, YOU'VE GOT TO BE
CAREFUL HOW YOU DRAW THESE
00:34:46.65\00:34:50.69
THINGS OUT. IS IT SIN? YEAH.
00:34:50.69\00:34:53.72
BOY, YOU GET REAL
QUIET AT TIMES LIKE THIS.
00:34:53.72\00:34:58.09
WHICH TELLS ME THAT
I'M HITTING A NERVE.
00:34:58.09\00:35:02.96
AND IF THINKING IT IS A SIN
- I TALKED ABOUT THIS LAST WEEK
00:35:02.96\00:35:08.44
WHEN WE TALKED ABOUT
MURDER - THEN WHAT ABOUT WHEN WE
00:35:08.44\00:35:12.81
DELIBERATELY CHOOSE
TO BE ENTERTAINED BY IT?
00:35:12.81\00:35:18.08
PORNOGRAPHY, LOVE NOVELS,
ON TELEVISION, VICARIOUSLY
00:35:18.08\00:35:21.88
SINNING - SOME PEOPLE
SAY, 'I WOULD NEVER DO IT.'
00:35:21.88\00:35:26.42
BUT THEY'RE
ENTERTAINED BY DOING IT.
00:35:26.42\00:35:29.62
THEY GO AND THEY WATCH
PROGRAMS OR RENT DVDS AND VIDEOS
00:35:29.62\00:35:33.56
THAT THEY KNOW RIGHT FROM
THE OUTSET THEY'RE RATED 'R' AND
00:35:33.56\00:35:36.26
THEY'RE GOING TO BE FULL
OF THAT KIND OF ACTIVITY.
00:35:36.26\00:35:39.60
SO MANY OF THE
SEXUAL RELATIONSHIPS ON
00:35:39.60\00:35:41.50
TELEVISION AND IN THE MOVIES ARE
ADULTEROUS RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN
00:35:41.50\00:35:44.14
TWO PEOPLE THAT ARE NOT MARRIED
- AND LET'S FACE IT, IN THE
00:35:44.14\00:35:47.91
WORLD PEOPLE TREAT
SEX LIKE SHAKING HANDS.
00:35:47.91\00:35:50.81
THAT'S NOT THE
WAY IT IS WITH CHRIST.
00:35:50.81\00:35:53.05
THE BIBLE HASN'T CHANGED.
YES, OUR CULTURE HAS CHANGED,
00:35:53.05\00:35:55.82
BUT THE TRUTH HAS NOT CHANGED.
JESUS SAID, 'I AM THE LORD I
00:35:55.82\00:35:59.32
DO NOT CHANGE.' WHAT
NEEDS CHANGING IS WE DO.
00:35:59.32\00:36:03.53
GOD'S CHURCH NEEDS TO
START BEING A LIGHT ON A HILL
00:36:03.53\00:36:05.76
AND SHOWING THE WORLD
WHAT HOLINESS LOOKS LIKE.
00:36:05.76\00:36:09.26
AND THAT MEANS IN OUR
LIVES AND IN OUR HOMES AND IN
00:36:09.26\00:36:13.44
OUR MARRIAGES.
PETER, DESCRIBING HIS AGE
00:36:13.44\00:36:17.44
AND IT'S NOT MUCH
DIFFERENT FROM OURS.
00:36:17.44\00:36:19.14
PETER - 2 PETER CHAPTER 2,
VERSE 14, "HAVING EYES FULL OF
00:36:19.14\00:36:22.71
ADULTERY AND THAT
CANNOT CEASE FROM SIN, ENTICING
00:36:22.71\00:36:26.38
UNSTABLE SOULS." - YOU NOTICE
IT STARTS WITH A LOOK AND THAT
00:36:26.38\00:36:32.02
LINGERING LOOK - DID
IT GET DAVID IN TROUBLE?
00:36:32.02\00:36:35.56
PROVERBS 9:17, "STOLEN WATER
IS SWEET, AND BREAD EATEN IN
00:36:35.56\00:36:39.86
SECRET IS PLEASANT." PEOPLE
THINK, 'WELL, IT WAS A SECRET
00:36:39.86\00:36:42.96
RENDEZVOUS. NO ONE
WILL KNOW.' SOLOMON GOES
00:36:42.96\00:36:46.40
ON TO SAY, "BUT HE DOES NOT KNOW
THAT THE DEAD ARE THERE, THAT
00:36:46.40\00:36:49.80
HER GUESTS" - SPEAKING OF A
HARLOT - "ARE IN THE DEPTHS OF
00:36:49.80\00:36:52.41
HELL." SOME OF YOU REMEMBER THEY
PUT UP SOME TRAFFIC METERS HERE
00:36:52.41\00:37:00.85
IN TOWN, TO TAKE PICTURES
WHEN YOU VIOLATE THE RED LIGHT.
00:37:00.85\00:37:04.69
AND WHEN THEY FIRST PUT THEM
UP, THEY PUT THEM UP AND THEN
00:37:04.69\00:37:08.82
THEY TOOK THEM DOWN - OR THEY
TURNED SOME OF THEM OFF - AND
00:37:08.82\00:37:13.19
THE REASON WAS BECAUSE THEY
WERE SNAPPING PICTURES OF PEOPLE
00:37:13.19\00:37:16.10
RUNNING RED LIGHTS AND
SOMEONE WOULD SAY, 'I DIDN'T DO
00:37:16.10\00:37:19.37
THAT AND THEY'D SAY, 'WELL,
HERE'S THE PHOTOGRAPH.' AND
00:37:19.37\00:37:24.17
THEY'D SEND THE PHOTOGRAPH AND
IT HAS THE TIME - 11 AT NIGHT -
00:37:24.17\00:37:29.44
IT TAKES A PICTURE AND THERE'S
A MAN IN THE CAR WITH A WOMAN
00:37:29.44\00:37:32.15
THAT'S NOT HIS WIFE.
AND SO THEY WERE SUING FOR
00:37:32.15\00:37:35.92
INVASION OF PRIVACY BECAUSE
IT WAS CAUSING SOME PROBLEMS
00:37:35.92\00:37:39.02
FOR SOME PEOPLE BECAUSE
THESE TRAFFIC PHOTOS WERE
00:37:39.02\00:37:43.06
PICTURING THEM IN CARS - PLACES
THEY WEREN'T SUPPOSED TO BE WITH
00:37:43.06\00:37:45.69
PEOPLE THEY WEREN'T
SUPPOSED TO BE WITH.
00:37:45.69\00:37:49.50
I DON'T KNOW HOW
THEY'RE DEALING WITH THAT.
00:37:49.50\00:37:50.47
MAYBE THEY'RE
BLURRING OUT HALF THE PICTURE.
00:37:50.47\00:37:53.97
I JUST COVER MY LICENSE
PLATE - IT SEEMS TO WORK.
00:37:53.97\00:38:00.38
NOT REALLY! YOU
CAN ALL RUN OUT TO
00:38:00.38\00:38:02.78
THE PARKING LOT AND JUST
AFTER CHURCH - NOW YOU'RE GOING
00:38:02.78\00:38:05.15
TO WANT TO CHECK
PASTOR DOUG'S CAR.
00:38:05.15\00:38:11.25
ADULTERY DOES NOT
BEGIN BELOW THE BELT.
00:38:11.25\00:38:16.76
ADULTERY BEGINS ABOVE THE
NECK. IT STARTS IN THE MIND.
00:38:16.76\00:38:22.83
IF WE KEEP OUR MINDS FIXED
ON THOSE THINGS THAT ARE GOOD
00:38:22.83\00:38:26.84
AND IF WE MAKE A COVENANT WITH
OUR EYES, AS JOB SAYS, CAN KEEP
00:38:26.84\00:38:31.17
US OUT OF A LOT OF TROUBLE.
YOU LOOK, FOR INSTANCE, IN JOB
00:38:31.17\00:38:34.08
31, VERSE 1, - 'LOOK AWAY
AND LIVE.' -- - HE SAYS, "I HAVE
00:38:34.08\00:38:38.65
MADE A COVENANT WITH MY
EYES; WHY THEN SHOULD I LOOK
00:38:38.65\00:38:41.08
UPON A YOUNG WOMAN?"
WE'VE GOT TO LEARN HOW TO
00:38:41.08\00:38:44.02
BOUNCE OUR EYES WHEN YOU
SEE SOMETHING THAT'S NOT RIGHT.
00:38:44.02\00:38:48.79
DID JOSEPH - YOU KNOW, I
LOVE THE STORY OF JOSEPH.
00:38:48.79\00:38:50.89
HE'S ONE OF THE HEROES IN
THE BIBLE, NOT JUST BECAUSE OF
00:38:50.89\00:38:54.10
HIS FORGIVENESS BUT JOSEPH IS
ONE OF THE RARE EXCEPTIONS YOU
00:38:54.10\00:38:57.17
FIND IN THE BIBLE OF A GODLY MAN
WHO SAID 'NO' TO A TEMPTATION
00:38:57.17\00:39:01.60
THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN VERY
DIFFICULT FOR MOST PEOPLE.
00:39:01.60\00:39:04.44
HE SAID, 'NO, HOW
CAN I SIN AGAINST GOD?'
00:39:04.44\00:39:06.51
HIS LOVE WAS SO STRONG FOR
GOD HE SAID, 'I CAN'T DO THIS
00:39:06.51\00:39:08.81
THING.' HE SAID
'NO' TO ADULTERY.
00:39:08.81\00:39:11.45
SO WHENEVER WE THINK, 'OH,
WE'RE ALL HUMAN.' I REMEMBER
00:39:11.45\00:39:13.85
HEARING ONE WOMAN SAY, 'ANY MAN
COULD BE HAD' - ANY MAN COULD BE
00:39:13.85\00:39:18.55
HAD - AND I WAS INSULTED BY THAT
BECAUSE I DON'T BELIEVE THAT'S
00:39:18.55\00:39:21.16
TRUE. I THINK
THAT WHEN PEOPLE HAVE
00:39:21.16\00:39:23.99
GOD'S SPIRIT THAT WE
CAN LIVE LIVES OF INTEGRITY.
00:39:23.99\00:39:27.76
PROVERBS CHAPTER 4, VERSE
25, "LET YOUR EYES LOOK STRAIGHT
00:39:27.76\00:39:32.13
AHEAD, AND YOUR
EYELIDS LOOK RIGHT BEFORE YOU."
00:39:32.13\00:39:34.44
HE'S TALKING ABOUT
WHEN YOU'RE TEMPTED.
00:39:34.44\00:39:36.20
PSALMS 101, VERSE 3, "I WILL
SET NOTHING WICKED BEFORE MY
00:39:36.20\00:39:41.01
EYES; I HATE THE WORK OF THOSE
WHO FALL AWAY; IT SHALL NOT
00:39:41.01\00:39:44.31
CLING TO ME." AND THEN SOLOMON
ALSO SAID - PROVERBS 5:15,
00:39:44.31\00:39:48.58
"DRINK WATER FROM YOUR OWN
CISTERN AND RUNNING WATER FROM
00:39:48.58\00:39:52.12
YOUR OWN WELL...LET THEM BE YOUR
OWN AND NOT FOR STRANGERS WITH
00:39:52.12\00:39:56.29
YOU." NOW, YOU KNOW, IT'S
WONDERFUL IF YOU'VE GOT A SPRING
00:39:56.29\00:39:59.86
IN YOUR BACKYARD AND YOU'VE GOT
YOUR OWN WELL AND YOU CAN DRINK
00:39:59.86\00:40:01.76
ALL THE WATER YOU WANT FROM
YOUR OWN WELL - THAT'D BE SUCH A
00:40:01.76\00:40:03.87
BLESSING. WITHIN MARRIAGE THAT
00:40:03.87\00:40:07.74
INTIMACY IS A BLESSING.
MATTER OF FACT, IN THE BIBLE
00:40:07.74\00:40:12.11
IT'S COMMANDED THAT
THE COUPLES COME TOGETHER.
00:40:12.11\00:40:15.18
SO MUCH OF THE
MARRIAGE COUNSELING THAT HAPPENS
00:40:15.18\00:40:18.31
IS ALMOST NEVER BECAUSE THE
COUPLES ARE HAVING TOO MUCH SEX.
00:40:18.31\00:40:22.32
IT'S BECAUSE
THEY'RE NOT HAVING ENOUGH.
00:40:22.32\00:40:24.99
IF THE TRUTH BE KNOWN,
NINE TIMES OUT OF TEN - THAT'S A
00:40:24.99\00:40:28.96
PROBLEM. AND SO, WITHIN
MARRIAGE IT'S A WONDERFUL THING.
00:40:28.96\00:40:33.40
BUT OUTSIDE OF MARRIAGE,
WITH SOMEONE THAT IS NOT YOUR
00:40:33.40\00:40:36.70
SPOUSE, THAT'S
WHERE IT'S A PROBLEM.
00:40:36.70\00:40:40.74
DRINK WATER FROM
YOUR OWN CISTERN.
00:40:40.74\00:40:43.94
PAUL SAYS TO TIMOTHY - 2
TIMOTHY 2:22 - THAT'S EASY TO
00:40:43.94\00:40:47.44
REMEMBER - 2:22 - "FLEE ALSO
YOUTHFUL LUSTS;" - FLEE YOUTHFUL
00:40:47.44\00:40:54.45
LUSTS - NOW, YOU KNOW,
IT'S ESPECIALLY HARD WHEN YOU'RE
00:40:54.45\00:40:57.32
YOUNG, AMEN? AND
WHEN YOUR BODY GOES
00:40:57.32\00:40:59.42
THROUGH THAT TRANSITION
WHERE YOU'RE GOING FROM CHILD TO
00:40:59.42\00:41:04.49
HAVING THE ADULT DESIRES,
IT CAN BE VERY DISTRACTING.
00:41:04.49\00:41:10.20
IT CAN SEEM LIKE THE
ONLY PURPOSE IN LIFE.
00:41:10.20\00:41:13.77
YOU START TO FEEL LIKE A
SALMON WHERE YOU'RE PURPOSE IS
00:41:13.77\00:41:17.14
TO SPAWN AND THEN DIE. AND IT
SEEMS LIKE - AND, YOU KNOW, MY
00:41:17.14\00:41:23.38
ANSWER FOR THAT WOULD BE -
TO THE YOUNG PEOPLE - 'HANG ON.
00:41:23.38\00:41:27.55
SETTLE DOWN. JUST
RELAX. YOU'LL SURVIVE.
00:41:27.55\00:41:31.65
IT IS NOT THE MOST IMPORTANT
THING. AND LIFE WILL GO ON.
00:41:31.65\00:41:35.99
GOD'S GOT ANOTHER PURPOSE
FOR YOUR EXISTENCE AND YOU CAN
00:41:35.99\00:41:41.16
BE HOLY.' THE BIBLE
SAYS 'FLEE YOUTHFUL LUSTS'.
00:41:41.16\00:41:43.90
THE BIBLE SAYS FLEE
TEMPTATION AS WELL, AMEN?
00:41:43.90\00:41:48.67
LOOK AWAY AND LIVE.
PHILIPPIANS 4:8, "FINALLY
00:41:48.67\00:41:51.34
BRETHREN," - HOW DO YOU DO IT? -
00:41:51.34\00:41:52.44
"WHATEVER THINGS ARE
TRUE, WHATEVER THINGS ARE NOBLE,
00:41:52.44\00:41:55.78
WHATEVER THINGS ARE
JUST, WHATEVER THINGS ARE PURE,
00:41:55.78\00:41:58.48
WHATEVER THINGS ARE
LOVELY, WHATEVER THINGS ARE OF
00:41:58.48\00:42:00.85
GOOD REPORT, IF THERE IS ANY
VIRTUE AND IF THERE IS ANYTHING
00:42:00.85\00:42:03.55
PRAISEWORTHY - MEDITATE ON
THESE THINGS." IF YOUR MIND IS
00:42:03.55\00:42:06.96
SO FULL OF MEDITATING ON THAT
WHICH IS PURE, GOOD, NOBLE, AND
00:42:06.96\00:42:09.59
LOVELY, OF GOOD REPORT, YOU'RE
GOING TO FIND YOU'RE NOT SO
00:42:09.59\00:42:13.29
DISTRACTED BY THOSE
THINGS THAT ARE FORBIDDEN.
00:42:13.29\00:42:16.36
FILL YOUR MIND
WITH THAT WHICH IS GOOD.
00:42:16.36\00:42:19.10
OVERCOME EVIL WITH GOOD.
NOW, HAVING SAID ALL THIS,
00:42:19.10\00:42:24.34
I THINK IT'S PRETTY
CLEAR WHAT ADULTERY IS
00:42:24.34\00:42:26.14
AND THAT IT'S A SIN. I
WANT TO ALSO MAKE IT CLEAR
00:42:26.14\00:42:29.41
IT IS NOT THE UNPARDONABLE SIN.
HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED - AND
00:42:29.41\00:42:35.68
EVEN DIVORCE AND REMARRIAGE
WITHOUT BIBLICAL GROUNDS - THE
00:42:35.68\00:42:40.99
BIBLE DOES NOT CALL
THAT THE UNPARDONABLE SIN.
00:42:40.99\00:42:43.93
AFTER DAVID SINNED
WITH BATHSHEBA, WAS THAT A
00:42:43.93\00:42:46.23
FORBIDDEN
ADULTEROUS RELATIONSHIP?
00:42:46.23\00:42:49.10
YES IT WAS. IN EVERY WAY.
00:42:49.10\00:42:50.27
CONNECTED WITH
MURDER. DID DAVID SUFFER?
00:42:50.27\00:42:54.47
DID BATHSHEBA SUFFER?
DAVID LOST FOUR OF HIS SONS.
00:42:54.47\00:42:59.71
THE LORD DIRECTLY, IN
THE PROPHECY OF NATHAN,
00:42:59.71\00:43:01.58
CONNECTED THE LOSS OF
FOUR CHILDREN WITH HIS ACTION.
00:43:01.58\00:43:07.18
SO, DO YOU THINK DAVID
THOUGHT IT WAS WORTH IT?
00:43:07.18\00:43:10.75
SOMETIMES PEOPLE FALL
INTO ADULTEROUS RELATIONSHIPS
00:43:10.75\00:43:12.85
AND THEY DON'T REALIZE WHAT
THE CONSEQUENCES ARE GOING TO
00:43:12.85\00:43:15.26
BE. A LOT OF KIDS HAVE
BEEN PERMANENTLY SCARRED BECAUSE
00:43:15.26\00:43:20.83
OF THE DECISION THAT THEIR
PARENTS MADE - A VERY SELFISH
00:43:20.83\00:43:24.27
DECISION USUALLY. WHEN
PEOPLE COMMIT ADULTERY,
00:43:24.27\00:43:27.54
WHO ARE THEY THINKING
ABOUT? GOD AND HIS GLORY
00:43:27.54\00:43:29.84
OR THEMSELVES? DAVID SUFFERED.
NOW, HERE'S A QUESTION: DID GOD
00:43:29.84\00:43:35.18
FORGIVE DAVID AND BATHSHEBA?
THE CHILD - THE FIRST CHILD
00:43:35.18\00:43:40.58
THAT WAS A RESULT OF THEIR
FORBIDDEN RELATIONSHIP WHILE
00:43:40.58\00:43:43.49
SHE WAS STILL MARRIED
TO URIAH - THAT BABY DIED.
00:43:43.49\00:43:47.69
AND AFTER DAVID REPENTED,
GOD FORGAVE DAVID, HE FORGAVE
00:43:47.69\00:43:51.16
BATHSHEBA AND THE BIBLE
SAYS - FIRST IT CALLS BATHSHEBA
00:43:51.16\00:43:54.73
URIAH'S WIFE, THEN IT
SAYS 'DAVID COMFORTED HIS WIFE,
00:43:54.73\00:43:59.23
BATHSHEBA' AND
GAVE THEM ANOTHER CHILD.
00:43:59.23\00:44:02.37
HIS NAME WAS
SOLOMON. DID GOD FORGIVE THEM?
00:44:02.37\00:44:06.37
YEAH, AND SO THAT'S WHY SOLOMON
COULD WRITE WHAT HE WROTE
00:44:06.37\00:44:09.28
ABOUT IT, BECAUSE HE
KNEW GROWING UP IN THAT HOME.
00:44:09.28\00:44:13.78
WHAT ABOUT THE
WOMAN AT THE TEMPLE?
00:44:13.78\00:44:16.28
JOHN 8:38 - SCRIBES BROUGHT
THIS WOMAN CAUGHT IN THE ACT OF
00:44:16.28\00:44:20.49
ADULTERY - SHE WAS GUILTY.
00:44:20.49\00:44:23.86
ACCORDING TO THE LAW
SHE SHOULD BE STONED.
00:44:23.86\00:44:25.56
ACCORDING TO THE LAW THE
MAN SHOULD BE STONED TOO.
00:44:25.56\00:44:28.13
AND I'VE ALWAYS WONDERED HOW
IN THE WORLD WAS IT THAT THEY
00:44:28.13\00:44:29.83
WERE ABLE TO CATCH HER
IN THE ACT AND NOT THE MAN?
00:44:29.83\00:44:33.00
THAT'S PRETTY STRANGE.
AND, EVIDENTLY, SHE WAS SET UP.
00:44:33.00\00:44:39.97
MANY THINK THIS MAY HAVE
BEEN MARY MAGDALENE'S FIRST
00:44:39.97\00:44:42.18
ENCOUNTER WITH JESUS - AND I CAN
GIVE YOU MY OTHER ARGUMENTS FOR
00:44:42.18\00:44:45.05
THAT LATER, BUT THEY ALL STOOD
AROUND READY TO EXECUTE HER.
00:44:45.05\00:44:52.15
HE SAID, "HE WHO IS WITHOUT
SIN AMONG YOU, LET HIM CAST THE
00:44:52.15\00:44:53.59
FIRST STONE." YOU KNOW
ONE REASON THAT ADULTERY IS SO
00:44:53.59\00:44:57.29
RAMPANT IN THE CHURCH IS BECAUSE
OF THIS STORY AND NO ONE WANTS
00:44:57.29\00:45:01.06
TO EVER DEAL WITH ADULTERY IN
A CHURCH - ON THE CHURCH BOARD -
00:45:01.06\00:45:04.93
NO ONE WANTS TO - I SHOULDN'T
SAY NO ONE - VERY FEW PEOPLE ARE
00:45:04.93\00:45:07.00
WILLING TO ADDRESS THOSE THINGS
BECAUSE IT'S SO PREVALENT.
00:45:07.00\00:45:10.17
WE ALL QUOTE THE SCRIPTURE,
'HE WHO IS WITHOUT SIN LET THEM
00:45:10.17\00:45:13.61
CAST THE FIRST STONE' AND PEOPLE
TAKE THAT TO MEAN THAT WE'RE NOT
00:45:13.61\00:45:16.68
SUPPOSED TO DEAL WITH IT
AT ALL SO WE'RE ALL KIND OF
00:45:16.68\00:45:19.45
AMBIVALENT ABOUT SOMETHING
THAT GOD'S VERY CLEAR ABOUT.
00:45:19.45\00:45:23.55
WHEN JESUS SAID 'HE THAT IS
WITHOUT SIN LET HIM CAST THE
00:45:23.55\00:45:26.55
FIRST STONE' - THEY
WERE GOING TO KILL MARY!
00:45:26.55\00:45:29.19
THEY WERE GOING TO
EXECUTE THIS WOMAN!
00:45:29.19\00:45:32.39
AND WHEN HER ACCUSERS LEFT
HE SAID, "WOMAN, WHERE ARE THOSE
00:45:32.39\00:45:35.90
ACCUSERS OF YOURS?
HAS NO ONE CONDEMNED YOU?"
00:45:35.90\00:45:38.00
SHE SAID, "NO ONE,
LORD." HE SAID, "NEITHER DO I
00:45:38.00\00:45:40.94
CONDEMN YOU." NOW, WAS JESUS
SAYING THAT ADULTERY IS OKAY I'M
00:45:40.94\00:45:44.34
NOT GOING TO CONDEMN IT ANYMORE?
00:45:44.34\00:45:46.24
SOME PEOPLE HAVE
READ IT THAT WAY.
00:45:46.24\00:45:48.94
WHENEVER SOMEONE IN THE
CHURCH FALLS INTO ADULTERY,
00:45:48.94\00:45:50.58
INSTEAD OF THERE BEING ANY KIND
OF CENSURE OR COUNSELING THEY
00:45:50.58\00:45:54.75
JUST SAY, 'WELL, JESUS SAID 'I
DON'T CONDEMN' SO GO AND FREELY
00:45:54.75\00:45:58.32
SIN.' IS THAT WHAT HE SAID?
00:45:58.32\00:45:59.85
NO, HE SAID, 'I DO NOT
CONDEMN YOU; GO AND SIN NO
00:45:59.85\00:46:03.22
MORE.' YOU KNOW WHY HE
COULD SAY 'I DON'T CONDEMN YOU'?
00:46:03.22\00:46:06.03
BECAUSE HE WAS GOING
TO TAKE HER DEATH PENALTY.
00:46:06.03\00:46:09.16
IS THE PENALTY
FOR SIN STILL DEATH?
00:46:09.16\00:46:11.93
IS THE PENALTY FOR BREAKING
THE SEVENTH COMMANDMENT STILL
00:46:11.93\00:46:14.60
SIN? AND SO IS IT STILL DEATH?
00:46:14.60\00:46:18.34
AND SO HOW COULD JESUS
TELL MARY YOU'RE FREE TO GO?
00:46:18.34\00:46:21.08
BECAUSE HE WAS GOING
TO TAKE HER DEATH PENALTY.
00:46:21.08\00:46:24.01
THAT'S WHY HE TOLD HER 'GO
AND SIN NO MORE.' HE CALLED IT A
00:46:24.01\00:46:28.08
SIN AND HE SAID, 'STOP IT!'
I'LL FORGIVE YOU. DON'T DO IT
00:46:28.08\00:46:32.82
ANYMORE BECAUSE I'LL DIE FOR
YOU.' OR THE WOMAN AT THE WELL.
00:46:32.82\00:46:40.16
HOW COULD JESUS REVEAL TO
HER THAT HE WAS THE MESSIAH?
00:46:40.16\00:46:43.97
HE SAID, 'GO CALL
YOUR HUSBAND.' 'I'M NOT
00:46:43.97\00:46:46.90
MARRIED.' 'AH,
YOU'RE RIGHT. SEMANTICS.
00:46:46.90\00:46:51.47
YOU'VE BEEN MARRIED FIVE
TIMES AND THE GUY YOU'RE LIVING
00:46:51.47\00:46:53.21
WITH NOW YOU'RE NOT
TECHNICALLY MARRIED TO.'
00:46:53.21\00:46:56.48
HER MOUTH FELL OPEN.
'SIR, I PERCEIVE THAT
00:46:56.48\00:46:59.45
YOU'RE A PROPHET.
LET'S ARGUE ABOUT SOMETHING
00:46:59.45\00:47:02.58
OTHER THAN MY MARITAL HISTORY.
00:47:02.58\00:47:05.52
LET'S TALK ABOUT WHERE IS
THE BEST PLACE TO GO TO CHURCH.
00:47:05.52\00:47:08.09
SHOULD WE GO IN
JERUSALEM OR MOUNT GERIZIM?'
00:47:08.09\00:47:10.39
SHE USED THE
DIVERSIONARY TACTIC.
00:47:10.39\00:47:14.93
JESUS KNEW ALL ABOUT HER -
THAT'S WHY SHE WAS AT THE WELL
00:47:14.93\00:47:18.50
BY HERSELF - SHE
HAD QUITE A REPUTATION.
00:47:18.50\00:47:22.24
CAN YOU IMAGINE THE
WOMEN TALKING IN SAMARIA - IN
00:47:22.24\00:47:24.74
THAT TOWN - THE WELL OF SYCHAR
- ABOUT THAT WOMAN WHO HAD FIVE
00:47:24.74\00:47:30.28
HUSBANDS AND NOW SHE'S
JUST GIVEN UP ON MARRIAGE -
00:47:30.28\00:47:32.45
SHE'S LIVING WITH A
GUY SHE NOT MARRIED WITH.
00:47:32.45\00:47:35.12
WHY WOULD JESUS TAKE
TIME TO REVEAL TO HER HE'S THE
00:47:35.12\00:47:37.85
MESSIAH EXCEPT - I'VE GOT A
THEORY - THAT IT WAS POSSIBLE
00:47:37.85\00:47:43.26
FOR HER TO BE
FORGIVEN. WHAT DO YOU THINK?
00:47:43.26\00:47:47.10
WHAT ABOUT A PERSON WHO
COMES OUT OF THE WORLD THAT'S
00:47:47.10\00:47:49.33
BEEN MARRIED HALF A DOZEN
TIMES? TWO TIMES? ONE TIME?
00:47:49.33\00:47:54.10
THEY CAME OUT OF THE WORLD,
THEY WERE NOT CHRISTIANS AND
00:47:54.10\00:47:55.57
THEY BECOME A CHRISTIAN.
CAN THEY NEVER GET MARRIED?
00:47:55.57\00:47:58.54
NO, I THINK THAT YOU
CAN'T UNSCRAMBLE SCRAMBLED EGGS.
00:47:58.54\00:48:02.84
WHEN PEOPLE COME TO THE LORD
AND THEY'RE BORN AGAIN, HE GIVES
00:48:02.84\00:48:04.55
THEM A FRESH START. AND
AFTER THEY'VE COME TO THE
00:48:04.55\00:48:07.22
LORD AND THEY'VE BEEN CONVERTED
AND THEY'RE BORN AGAIN, OLD
00:48:07.22\00:48:10.42
THINGS ARE PASSED AWAY, ALL
THINGS ARE MADE NEW, I BELIEVE
00:48:10.42\00:48:13.15
THAT IF THEY FIND A CHRISTIAN
SPOUSE THEN PRAISE THE LORD.
00:48:13.15\00:48:17.29
IF THEY WANT TO REMAIN
SINGLE PRAISE THE LORD.
00:48:17.29\00:48:19.46
GOD'LL BLESS EITHER
ONE. DOES THAT MAKE SENSE?
00:48:19.46\00:48:23.87
BUT ISN'T IT INTERESTING
THAT BOTH MARY MAGDALENE WAS THE
00:48:23.87\00:48:27.90
FIRST ONE TO PROCLAIM THE
RISEN LORD AND THE WOMAN AT THE
00:48:27.90\00:48:31.17
WELL WAS THE FIRST ONE TO
PROCLAIM HIM AMONG THE GENTILES.
00:48:31.17\00:48:35.01
SO IT IS SOMETHING THAT GOD
CAN FORGIVE, BUT GOD IS ALSO
00:48:35.01\00:48:39.25
TELLING US HE
STILL WANTS US TO OBEY.
00:48:39.25\00:48:42.58
ADULTERY IS STILL A SIN.
HE IS NOT RECOMMENDING THAT WE
00:48:42.58\00:48:45.92
DO A LITTLE LESS OF IT,
HE'S SAYING, 'THOU SHALT NOT
00:48:45.92\00:48:51.69
COMMIT ADULTERY.'
THIS IS THE WILL OF GOD.
00:48:51.69\00:48:55.43
HE WANTS US TO BE A HOLY
PEOPLE AND HE WANTS US NOT TO
00:48:55.43\00:48:58.70
COMMIT ADULTERY ON HIM
BECAUSE, ULTIMATELY, HUSBANDS
00:48:58.70\00:49:03.74
ARE TO LOVE THEIR WIVES AS
CHRIST LOVES THE CHURCH AND YOU,
00:49:03.74\00:49:06.41
AS PART OF THE CHURCH, HE
LOVES YOU AS A BRIDEGROOM.
00:49:06.41\00:49:08.41
WOULD YOU WANT
TO BREAK HIS HEART?
00:49:08.41\00:49:10.48
ANY TIME ANYBODY FLIRTS WITH
THE IDEA OF COMMITTING ADULTERY
00:49:10.48\00:49:14.22
ON THEIR SPOUSE THEY'RE GOING TO
BE COMMITTING ADULTERY ALSO ON
00:49:14.22\00:49:16.89
THE LORD AND ON THEIR
FAMILY AND ON SOCIETY.
00:49:16.89\00:49:20.06
IT'S NOT JUST ONE
PERSON THAT'S GOING TO BE HURT.
00:49:20.06\00:49:24.73
DAVID, WHEN HE REPENTED OF
HIS SIN IN PSALM 51, HE SAID,
00:49:24.73\00:49:29.26
'AGAINST THEE AND THEE ONLY
HAVE I SINNED.' JOSEPH, WHEN HE
00:49:29.26\00:49:31.93
WAS TEMPTED TO COMMIT ADULTERY
WITH POTIPHAR'S WIFE, HE SAID,
00:49:31.93\00:49:34.77
'HOW CAN I DO THIS WICKED
THING AND SIN AGAINST GOD?'
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AND SO THE BEST REASON
TO KEEP THIS COMMANDMENT AND
00:49:38.74\00:49:41.08
EVERY COMMANDMENT IS BECAUSE
JESUS LOVES US AND HE HAD TO DIE
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TO SAVE US FROM OUR SINS.
ISN'T THAT RIGHT? AND IT'S
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THROUGH HIS SHED BLOOD THAT
WE'RE GIVEN POWER TO LIVE HOLY
00:49:50.69\00:49:54.02
LIVES. WHEREVER YOU ARE IN
YOUR EXPERIENCE IN YOUR LIFE -
00:49:54.02\00:49:58.33
WHETHER YOU'RE OLD ENOUGH
TO BE MARRIED OR YOU'VE BEEN
00:49:58.33\00:50:00.36
MARRIED BEFORE OR DIVORCED AND
MAYBE YOU HAVEN'T GOT BIBLICAL
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GROUNDS - EVERYONE CAN COME TO
THE LORD AS THEY ARE AND THANK
00:50:02.96\00:50:06.97
HIM FOR THE POWER OF THE BLOOD
TO LIVE A NEW LIFE FROM HERE ON.
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(MUSIC)
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>>YOU'VE PROBABLY HEARD
THE EXPRESSION BEFORE, 'IF YOU
00:50:19.68\00:50:21.62
DON'T LIKE THE WEATHER IN TEXAS,
JUST WAIT; IT'LL CHANGE.' AND
00:50:21.62\00:50:25.39
YOU'VE ALSO HEARD, 'EVERYTHING
IS BIGGER IN TEXAS - THE
00:50:25.39\00:50:27.99
RANCHES, THE BELT BUCKLES,
THE COWBOY HATS...' BUT THE MOST
00:50:27.99\00:50:32.16
FAMOUS SLOGAN ABOUT
TEXAS IS 'REMEMBER THE ALAMO!'
00:50:32.16\00:50:39.83
THE VIOLENT BATTLES AND BRAVERY
OF ICONIC HEROES, HAVE BEEN THE
00:50:39.83\00:50:43.14
STUFF OF LEGENDS, THROUGHOUT
WHICH ENTIRE CULTURES OFTEN DRAW
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THEIR IDENITY AND PRIDE, EVEN
LONG AFTER CENTURIES ARE PAST.
00:50:46.41\00:50:50.41
AND IN TEXAS, THE STORY OF THE
ALAMO HAS BEEN A RALLYING CRY OF
00:50:50.41\00:50:53.75
TEXAS INDEPENDENCE FOR 200
YEARS. ONE REASON THAT TEXANS
00:50:53.75\00:50:58.05
LOVE TO BRAG THAT EVERYTHING IS
BIGGER IN TEXAS IS, OF COURSE,
00:50:58.05\00:51:01.72
BECAUSE TEXAS IS THE LARGEST
OF THE LOWER 48 U.S. STATES.
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IT'S HARD TO BELIEVE THAT THIS
MASSIVE STATE GOT ITS BEGINNING
00:51:05.86\00:51:09.26
IN A VERY SMALL CHRISTIAN
MISSION DURING THE BATTLE OF THE
00:51:09.26\00:51:12.50
ALAMO. EVERY YEAR THIS FAMOUS
MISSION MUSEUM RECEIVES OVER TWO
00:51:12.50\00:51:17.27
AND A HALF MILLION VISITORS FROM
ALL PARTS OF THE PLANET, THAT
00:51:17.27\00:51:20.58
ARE EAGER TO GET A GOOD
LOOK AT THIS LEGENDARY SITE.
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THE ALAMO PLAYED A CRITICAL
ROLE IN THE TEXAS REVOLUTION.
00:51:24.51\00:51:28.05
IN DECEMBER 1835, TEXANS
AND TEJANO VOLUNTEERS BATTLED
00:51:28.05\00:51:32.42
MEXICAN TROOPS QUARTERED IN
THE CITY, FORCING GENERAL MARTIN
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PERFECTO DE COS TO SURRENDER.
THE VICTORIOUS VOLUNTEERS
00:51:35.52\00:51:38.89
THEN OCCUPIED THE ALAMO
AND STRENGTHENED ITS DEFENSES.
00:51:38.89\00:51:42.76
FAMOUS AMERICANS LIKE DAVY
CROCKETT, JIM BOWIE, AND COLONEL
00:51:42.76\00:51:46.50
WILLIAM TRAVIS MADE THIS
LOCATION - THIS ANCIENT MISSION
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- THE BEACHHEAD - THE LAST
STAND IN AN EPIC BATTLE TO WIN
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INDEPENDENCE OF
TEXAS FROM MEXICO.
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ON FEBRUARY 23, 1836, THE
ARRIVAL OF GENERAL ANTONIO LOPEZ
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SANTA ANA NEARLY
CAUGHT THEM BY SURPRISE.
00:52:02.22\00:52:05.52
UNDAUNTED, THE TEXANS AND
TEJANOS PREPARED TO DEFEND THE
00:52:05.52\00:52:08.59
ALAMO. FOR THIS
SMALL RAG-TAG GROUP OF
00:52:08.59\00:52:10.96
REBELS, THE YOUNGEST OF WHOM
WAS ABOUT SIXTEEN AND THE OLDEST
00:52:10.96\00:52:13.96
SEVENTY-FIVE, WAS AGAINST
THE WELL-TRAINED AND ORGANIZED
00:52:13.96\00:52:17.20
MEXICAN ARMY OF SIX
THOUSAND-PLUS SOLDIERS.
00:52:17.20\00:52:20.50
IT WAS A FIERCE AND LOPSIDED
BATTLE, YET THE SMALL FORCE OF
00:52:20.50\00:52:23.71
REBELS WAS ABLE TO REPEL
THE TROOPS FOR THIRTEEN DAYS.
00:52:23.71\00:52:28.94
LEGEND HOLDS THAT WITH THE
POSSIBILITY OF ADDITIONAL HELP
00:52:28.94\00:52:31.75
FADING, COLONEL TRAVIS DREW A
LINE IN THE GROUND WITH A SWORD
00:52:31.75\00:52:35.55
AND ASKED ANY MAN WILLING TO
STAY AND FIGHT TO STEP OVER THE
00:52:35.55\00:52:38.92
LINE. ALL EXCEPT
ONE CROSSED OVER.
00:52:38.92\00:52:43.06
THE FINAL ASSAULT
CAME BEFORE DAYBREAK.
00:52:43.06\00:52:45.29
IN THE MORNING OF MARCH 6, 1836,
THE THIRTEENTH DAY OF THE SIEGE,
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CANON AND SMALL ARMS FIRE
FROM INSIDE THE ALAMO BEAT BACK
00:52:50.00\00:52:53.64
SEVERAL MEXICAN ATTACKS.
REGROUPING, SANTA ANA'S SOLDIERS
00:52:53.64\00:52:57.74
SCALED THE WALLS AND RUSHED
INTO THE COMPOUND. THE DESPERATE
00:52:57.74\00:53:01.64
STRUGGLE CONTINUED UNTIL
THE DEFENDERS WERE OVERWHELMED.
00:53:01.64\00:53:05.08
BY SUNRISE, THE BATTLE HAD ENDED
AND THE GARRISON WAS SLAIN.
00:53:05.08\00:53:09.38
YOU KNOW, HISTORIANS MAY DEBATE
SOME OF THE DETAILS REGARDING
00:53:09.38\00:53:12.05
THE BATTLE OF THE ALAMO,
BUT NONE OF THEM QUESTION THE
00:53:12.05\00:53:14.76
INCREDIBLE SACRIFICE THAT WAS
MADE AND THE COURAGE THAT WAS
00:53:14.76\00:53:17.43
DISPLAYED DURING THAT INTENSE
CONFLICT. THEY MADE THE ULTIMATE
00:53:17.43\00:53:21.76
SACRIFICE - GIVING THEIR LIVES -
AND THIS IS WHY THE STORY OF THE
00:53:21.76\00:53:24.80
ALAMO IS SO INSPIRING
AND SO ENCOURAGING, YOU KNOW?
00:53:24.80\00:53:28.87
AND THAT'S WHY THE BIBLE IS
SO INSPIRING, FRIENDS, BECAUSE
00:53:28.87\00:53:31.11
SOMEONE WAS WILLING TO MAKE THE
ULTIMATE SACRIFICE AND GIVE HIS
00:53:31.11\00:53:33.74
LIFE SO YOU COULD HAVE
FREEDOM AND ETERNAL LIFE.
00:53:33.74\00:53:37.51
DON'T YOU THINK YOU COULD TRUST
YOUR LIFE TO A FRIEND LIKE THAT,
00:53:37.51\00:53:40.42
THAT WOULD GIVE EVERYTHING?
THE STORY OF THE GOSPEL IS A
00:53:40.42\00:53:43.12
STORY OF COURAGE AND HOPE.
IT'S THE STORY OF GOD WHO WILL
00:53:43.12\00:53:45.82
NEVER LEAVE YOU WITHOUT DEFENSE
AND SUPPORT. JESUS IS THE GOOD
00:53:45.82\00:53:49.99
NEWS AND THE GOSPEL IS A
STORY WORTH REMEMBERING. (MUSIC)
00:53:49.99\00:54:13.58
>>AMAZING FACTS CHANGED LIVES.
00:54:13.58\00:54:22.42
>>WE WERE GOING TO
CHURCH EVERY OTHER WEEK.
00:54:22.42\00:54:25.26
ABOUT 19 YEARS OLD THINGS REALLY
START TO MAKE SENSE FOR ME.
00:54:25.26\00:54:28.13
I STARTED TO GO
TO CHURCH FOR MYSELF.
00:54:28.13\00:54:30.03
AND THE PASTOR
WANTED TO STUDY WITH ME.
00:54:30.03\00:54:33.37
WE CAME TO THE
STUDY ABOUT BAPTISM.
00:54:33.37\00:54:36.60
I KIND OF JUST SHRUGGED, PUT MY
HEAD DOWN, AND I SAID, 'I'M NOT
00:54:36.60\00:54:39.31
READY.' HE LOOKED ME IN THE EYE
AND SAID, 'JASON, YOU'LL NEVER
00:54:39.31\00:54:44.75
MAKE YOURSELF READY, YOU KNOW?
THIS IS JUST SOMETHING YOU HAVE
00:54:44.75\00:54:48.52
TO DO.' I PUT A LOT OF THINGS
BEHIND ME - THE DRINKING AND
00:54:48.52\00:54:51.95
SMOKING - ALL
THAT STUFF STOPPED.
00:54:51.95\00:54:53.86
ALL THROUGHOUT THE TIME WHEN I'D
BEEN LEARNING ABOUT GOD, IT WAS
00:54:53.86\00:54:56.86
JUST ME AND GOD. IT
COMES AROUND UP TO ABOUT
00:54:56.86\00:55:00.86
AUGUST AND I MEET THIS
GIRL. ABOUT TWO YEARS INTO THE
00:55:00.86\00:55:05.17
RELATIONSHIP WE'RE TALKING
ABOUT MARRIAGE AND EVERYTHING.
00:55:05.17\00:55:07.80
WE DIDN'T PRAY - WE
DIDN'T STUDY TOGETHER.
00:55:07.80\00:55:12.01
WE WERE ARGUING A
LOT, BUT WE WERE ENGAGED.
00:55:12.01\00:55:16.58
I STARTED DRINKING AGAIN AND IT
WAS A SLOW, DOWNWARD SPIRAL AND
00:55:16.58\00:55:20.38
DIFFERENT THINGS AND MY
DEVOTIONAL LIFE REALLY STARTED
00:55:20.38\00:55:23.12
WEASELING AWAY. WHEN WE
BROKE UP IN 2008, IT WAS
00:55:23.12\00:55:26.25
HEAVY FOR ME BECAUSE, AGAIN,
BEING WITH SOMEBODY FOR THAT
00:55:26.25\00:55:29.29
LONG, IT'S
ALMOST LIKE A DIVORCE.
00:55:29.29\00:55:34.36
I STARTED TO FALL
BACK AWAY EVEN MORE.
00:55:34.36\00:55:37.23
I REMEMBER LOOKING IN THE
MIRROR, JUST LOOKING AT MYSELF
00:55:37.23\00:55:39.47
AND SAYING, 'WHAT ARE YOU DOING?
00:55:39.47\00:55:41.87
HOW CAN YOU DO THIS TO
GOD WHO'S BROUGHT YOU SO FAR?'
00:55:41.87\00:55:46.44
AND, YOU KNOW, GOD
REALLY HEARD MY CRY.
00:55:46.44\00:55:52.48
THERE WAS A TESTIMONY TELLING AT
MY CHURCH AND THERE WAS A CALL
00:55:52.48\00:55:56.69
AND KIDS STARTED GETTING UP
- A BUNCH OF HIGH SCHOOL KIDS
00:55:56.69\00:55:58.72
STARTED GETTING UP
FOR CALLS OF BAPTISM.
00:55:58.72\00:56:00.82
I'M BACK DOING THE P.A.
SYSTEM AT THIS TIME AND I FEEL
00:56:00.82\00:56:03.69
JUST LIKE THIS URGE - JUST MY
HEART JUST STARTED RIPPING OUT
00:56:03.69\00:56:06.39
OF MY CHEST AND I JUST HAD
THIS FEELING JUST TO GO UP.
00:56:06.39\00:56:11.13
I GET UP TO THE FRONT AND I
MEET THE PASTOR IN OPEN ARMS.
00:56:11.13\00:56:17.11
I REALIZED THAT THERE'S SO MUCH
MORE TO LIFE THAN JUST LIVING
00:56:17.11\00:56:19.87
LIFE FOR MYSELF AND, YOU
KNOW, FALLING AWAY, IT'S NOT A
00:56:19.87\00:56:25.21
NECESSITY, BUT GOD CAN WORK
THROUGH ANYTHING IN THE BAD TO
00:56:25.21\00:56:29.95
MAKE IT THE GOOD.
THAT'S A PROMISE HE MAKES.
00:56:29.95\00:56:42.53
>>TOGETHER WE HAVE SPREAD THE
GOSPEL MUCH FARTHER THAN EVER
00:56:42.53\00:56:46.43
BEFORE. THANK
YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT.
00:56:46.43\00:56:55.38
>>AMAZING FACTS, THROUGH
YOUR FAITHFUL SUPPORT, HAS HAD A
00:56:55.38\00:56:58.68
MAJOR IMPACT ON SOME OF THE
LARGEST NON-CHRISTIAN LOCATIONS
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IN THE WORLD.
BEYOND THE GREAT WALL, THE
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PRINTING AND TRANSLATION OF OUR
BOOKS AND VIDEO MATERIALS ARE IN
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CONSTANT MOTION.
>>(CHINESE DIALOGUE)
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>>THE AMAZING
FACTS CHINESE LANGUAGE
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FOLLOWERS IS NOW IN THE HUNDREDS
OF THOUSANDS. THE IMPACT OF YOUR
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>>YOU KNOW, EVERY WEEK WE HEAR
THE MOST INCREDIBLE STORIES FROM
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