Welcome back. I don't know
where you feel you are right now
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in your journey toward purity.
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You might say,
I'm stuck in the pit.
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I'm stuck in the miry clay.
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You might say, I'm out of it,
but I'm sure caked and covered
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in that guilt and that
shame, in that condemnation.
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You might say, I'm a
good deal down the road,
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but I know I don't
have complete freedom.
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Wherever you are, the Lord Jesus
wants to bring you freedom.
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I know that. The next couple
programs we will look at that,
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and we will examine.
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So please, stay with us
for the next couple ones.
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First this week, our application
for this week is to ask who
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or what in my life is
keeping me from Jesus?
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Who or what in my life
is keeping me from Jesus?
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Ask God to show you who it is.
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I don't know who it is.
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Only you know. Only God knows.
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He might say, You know
what? there's some sort of
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emotional affair over here.
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He might say,
there's a physical affair.
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And usually we
would know about that.
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It's the emotional ones that
are so secretive, and hidden,
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and they're hard to find.
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They're hard to see.
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So whatever it is,
write down the person.
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Or if it's just in your
mind write down the thought.
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Write it down on a card.
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We'll deal with it
next week; what to do,
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and the steps to deal with it.
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But right now simply identify
who it is in your life that's
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standing between you
and Jesus, that's keeping
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you from that purity.
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Or it might not be a who, it
might be a what, like in my case
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with those soap operas,
and those romance novels.
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2. Start to look at your home.
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Start to see what in my home is
feeding my romantic fantasies.
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I have a list here in my
journal that I'm just beginning.
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What could feed my fantasies?
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Maybe it's a TV show.
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You could look at it.
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Maybe it's movies, or books.
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Maybe it's a magazine.
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Maybe it's a CD.
Maybe it's the internet.
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That's prolific
these days as well.
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Whatever it is, identify.
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And don't just say, Okay,
I'm throwing all TV shows out.
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We're saying, Which
particular one feeds that
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lust in your heart?
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Go to God and ask Him.
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We'll work more with it in
the next couple of programs
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what to do with it.
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But right now we're
simply identifying what that is.
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Then we can go to God and
know that He can forgive us,
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He can cleanse us, and He
can deliver us even from that
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miry clay of lust.
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Our closing
Scripture is Romans 15:13.
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May the God of hope
fill you with all joy
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and peace in believing,
that you may abound in hope,
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by the power of the Holy Spirit.
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