Hello, and
welcome to Heart Lift.
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I'm Jill Morikone,
and I'm so glad that
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you've joined us today.
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We're on a journey
toward hope, toward healing,
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toward the transformation that
the Lord Jesus wants to work
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in your heart and in mine,
as women, as daughters of God.
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If you're just joining
us today for the first time,
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we're in the
midst of our discussion
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on the topic of purity.
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Our last program we discussed
purity from the aspect of
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guarding my brother's
heart, or dealing with
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my brother in Christ.
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We talked about two dangers,
two things to beware of:
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Beware of the unguarded heart.
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Beware of that
idleness, or day dreaming,
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or compromising situations.
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The second danger is beware
of the discontented heart.
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If you're married, beware of
those comparisons that we could
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make with
someone else's husband.
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Or beware of just
being dissatisfied
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with who God has given you.
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If you're single, beware
of that dissatisfaction of
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wishing to be married.
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Now of course, those things
are natural and God given.
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We're not saying that.
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We're just saying, Take
those feelings, take them to God
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and allow Him to pour
His love into your heart.
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Our Scripture for today, as
we discuss the forward heart,
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our Scripture today, 1 John 2:
10, 1 John 2:10. The Bible says:
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He who loves his
brother abides in the light,
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and there is no
cause for stumbling in him.
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Let's pray. Father, we come
before You in the name of Jesus.
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Thank You, Lord
Jesus, for enabling us to
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abide in Your light.
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And we pray that as we do,
as you teach us how to abide
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in Jesus, that there would be
no cause, no occasion for anyone
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else to stumble because of us.
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We pray right now,
Lord, on this sensitive topic,
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that You would
especially give me Your words.
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And I pray that we
would be open to hearing
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what's in Your Word.
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And we thank You in the precious
and holy name of Jesus, Amen.
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There was a woman
that, I'll call her Jane,
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that's not her real name.
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And if you are a Jane, this
story does not apply to you.
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I'll call her Jane.
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I did not know her
well, but I knew the man
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in the story pretty well.
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She was... ah,
started going to church.
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And she became infatuated,
is the best word I know how to
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describe it, with a
certain man in the church;
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the man that I knew.
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And she was maybe 25
years younger than him,
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and she lured him.
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I don't know any other way
how to put it except to say
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that she lured him.
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She used her charm,
her charisma, her body,
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any way that she
could to get him.
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Now this man had some money,
and this is just my opinion,
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I think she knew that.
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And so she lured
him, she got him.
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And then you know what
happened? she married him.
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And it seemed like in the
beginning of their marriage they
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were fairly happy, but pretty
soon she started using him,
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and she used his money.
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She used the land he had,
and he had to sell it off.
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She got him to sign the
house over into her name.
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She went through
everything that he had.
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Once she had used him,
she kind of spit him out,
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and divorced him. They were
probably married for ten years.
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And he recently passed away.
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And now she gets
his Social Security.
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Even though they're divorced,
in the state that they happen
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to live in, after
they were married ten years
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she gets his Social Security.
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Now to me that's kind of
an extreme example of a woman
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who uses her body, her charms,
to reach out and to manipulate
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somebody else, and in this case
it was a man, to achieve her own
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hearts desire to
get what she wanted.
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Today we're talking, the third
danger that we're discussing
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today, is the forward heart.
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I think there's three ways
that you and I can be careful,
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can learn to guard, and to make
sure we're not being forward.
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And the first
is in how we dress.
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My Mom and Dad were
coming home from work.
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And they work
together, and so they did.
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They don't
anymore, but they used to.
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And my Dad had his
business, and my Mom
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worked in the business.
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And driving home
on the Interstate...
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They live in Massachusetts.
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...there's a very high bridge.
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The bridge is high.
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There's a deep gorge underneath.
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And there's a river underneath.
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As they were driving home there
was a tremendous thunder storm.
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My Mom, telling me the story,...
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This happened years ago.
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But telling me this
story, she said the rain was
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coming down in sheets.
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The windshield wipers,
you know, they're on high.
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You can hardly see.
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And the lightening and
the thunder was really close.
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Just as they got on the
highway to that bridge...
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Remember it was
high over the gorge?
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All of a sudden my Mom
said there was a white light,
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like bright, like, I
would say like lightening,
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but that's what it was.
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But there was a white light.
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She said it just filled, like
the whole car, flooded them.
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And at the same time she saw
the light, she said there was
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the most
terrible clap of thunder.
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And then all of a sudden their
car quit, and my Dad had to
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struggle to get it
steered to the side of the road.
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You know what had happened?
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Their car had been
struck by lightening.
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She said,
Obviously the car, they were
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protected in the
metal; it went around.
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The lightening blew
out all four of the tires.
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It came out the four rubber
tires, and it fried completely
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the electrical
system of the car.
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In fact, they never
drove that car again.
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It had to be towed, and
they never used that car again.
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Now my Dad is dressed for work.
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He's in a white shirt, a
tie and slacks, no suit coat,
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but he was dressed up well.
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And he thought, It's
pouring down the rain outside,
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I do not want to go
outside and get covered in this.
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So he took his
tie off to protect it.
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He put on his old coveralls.
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He had them there in
the back seat for some work
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on the car, or something.
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So he pulled on the coveralls
over his other clothes,
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and he stepped outside to
try to flag down a passing
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motorist to get help.
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Now remember I said
this happened years ago.
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They didn't have a
cell phone at that time.
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So my Mom said my Dad's
standing there in the rain,
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in is old dirty
coveralls, and car after car
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passed without stopping.
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So then he thought,
maybe I don't look very safe.
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I'm in these
old dirty coveralls.
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So what he did, he went in the
car, he took off those old dirty
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coveralls, and then
he stepped back outside
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in the pouring rain.
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This time he's in the
slacks that he had had
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on underneath, and the shirt.
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He said that car
after car, nobody stopped.
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In desperation he went
in the car, he got his tie,
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he put it on and
knotted it, and stepped outside
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again into the rain.
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You know what happened?
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The first two cars
that passed, they stopped.
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The first two cars stopped.
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Now every time my Mom and Dad,
you know when we relive this
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story, I'm thankful, first
of all, that God protected them
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in the midst of
that lightening storm.
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And that's a good thing.
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But every time we hear
that story, we actually kind of
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laugh, because it's kind
of funny to think about my Dad
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and those old coveralls,
and then getting rid of them,
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and going in and
putting on a tie.
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But you know what it shows?
that how we dress is important.
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I'm not talking at
all about dress clothes,
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wearing jackets,
or wearing jeans.
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That's not what
we're talking about here.
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We're not talking
about dressy versus casual.
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I know that dress, how we
dress, is a touchy subject.
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I'm well aware of
the common thought,
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thinking, thought process.
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If my brother is struggling
with something I'm wearing,
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that's his
fault; that's not mine.
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You know Romans 8:1, Romans
8:1 says, There is therefore now
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no condemnation to
those who are in Christ Jesus.
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If we stop right there, then
that thinking would be accurate.
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We could say, I'm in Jesus.
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It doesn't matter.
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I can wear what I want,
and I can say what I want,
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I can do what I want.
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None of that matters.
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But if you read the rest of the
verse, Yes, it begins by saying,
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There's no condemnation now to
those who are in Christ Jesus.
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But do you know
what it says after that?
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For those who walk not after
the flesh, but after the Spirit.
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I believe, Yes, God holds men
accountable for their thoughts,
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for their own issue with lust.
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Absolutely! We're all
accountable before God.
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I believe that. But I
believe as women we can
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also be accountable.
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We can also do our job to
be responsible in this area.
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I think God wants us to turn
our hearts, our faces toward Him
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so much that we
receive from Him our identity.
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Who am I? Who am I in Christ?
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Is who am I
identified by what the TV or
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movies say I should be?
the way my body ought to look?
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the amount of skin I ought
to show in order to be sexy
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in the world's eyes?
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Is that who I am? or who I
am is really who am I in Jesus?
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My worth, my self
identity comes from Jesus.
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And when He looks at you
and me, He says, I love you!
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You're beautiful! I made you!
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I have a special garden,
and a special hedge about you.
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We get our
identity, we get our worth,
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we get our value from God alone.
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Now I've been blessed with a
husband, Greg, that chooses to
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honor God with his eyes.
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That's a rare
commitment in today's world.
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And how much I appreciate
my husband's commitment.
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Turn with me to Philippians 2.
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If you don't have your
Bible open, just jump over,
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jot it down, and you
can look it up later.
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Paul speaking.
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He says, Fulfill my joy by being
like minded, having the same
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love, being of one
accord, of one mind.
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That's verse 2.
Then we have verse 3.
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Let nothing be done through
selfish ambition or conceit;
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but in lowliness of mind
let each esteem other people
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as better than ourselves.
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What's that saying?
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If I truly esteem someone
else as better than myself,
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then I'm going to care
how my clothing choices effect
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my brother's commitment to
his wife, or effect my brother's
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commitment to his future wife.
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Now you might be
saying, Jill, what am I to wear?
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Only God can tell you that.
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We are not getting
into any discussion of that.
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Because if we do that,
I think that's judgment.
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I think, Go to God, and in
the quietness of your heart,
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and just say, Is what I'm
wearing pleasing to You, God?
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Is what I'm wearing
esteeming my brother?
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If it is, wonderful!
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If it's not, then be open
to what God wants to tell you.
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Only God can
tell us how to dress.
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You could have a dress up party.
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You can invite your girlfriends,
or ask your husband.
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I do that with Greg.
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What about this? And he'll
say, Oh, I love that, Jilly.
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And I'll say,
That's not too, whatever?
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Oh no, that's great.
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Or he'll say, You
know, I have a little caution
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in my heart about
that. Maybe don't.
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And so I want
to honor my husband
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in addition to that as well.
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First, how we dress.
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Second way, we need
to guard the forward
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heart, is how we act.
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Flirting is fun, and
just being honest with you,
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I've done way more than my
share of it in my youthful days.
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It's kind of how we laugh,
and how we talk, and the twinkle
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in the eye, and all
of that type of stuff.
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Mrs. Potiphar, Potiphar's
wife, we talked about her
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in the last program.
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She's the one who
seduced Joseph; tried to seduce.
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We want to clarify that because
initially Joseph said no,
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and he was thrown in prison for
his commitment to honoring God.
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Mrs. Potiphar
did more than flirt.
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If you're
familiar with the story,
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you know she did more than that.
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She came straight out
and asked Joseph for sex.
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She didn't try to be coy
about it, or do this and that.
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The Bible says in Genesis
39 she just said, Lie with me.
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She just came
straight out and asked.
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Our society today, as women,
it seems like we're free to be
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liberated, free to be crass,
and bold, and uninhibited.
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It's so different from
the calling God has on our
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hearts, and on our lives.
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We see that calling in
1 Peter 3:4, 1 Peter 3:4.
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Now this is a whole section
about Paul's council to wives,
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and then he talks
about council to husbands.
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So there's plenty of council
to husbands, but right now we're
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just discussing women, because
this is a woman's program.
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He says, Don't let your
adornment be from the outside.
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Then he says, Rather let it be
the hidden person of the heart,
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with the incorruptible beauty
of a gentle and a quiet spirit.
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I think, as woman, when we
come before God and realize,
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Who am I in Christ?
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In Christ I am forgiven.
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In Christ I am cleansed.
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In Christ I am made new.
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If anyone is in Christ, the
old things have passed away,
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behold all
things have become new.
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In Christ I don't have
to hang on to any of that
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junk from the past, because
I am a new creation in Jesus.
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In Christ I am loved.
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In Christ I am wanted.
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In Christ I am safe.
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In Christ I am pure.
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That's who you
are in Jesus Christ.
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Don't take any of this stuff
and feel like we have to act,
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or be, or dress a certain way
in order to achieve approval.
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We get that straight
from the Father above.
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3. How we talk. We talked about
how we dress, then how we act,
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what about how we talk?
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Be careful with over sharing.
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Too much openness in discussions
in sharing with someone
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of the opposite
sex creates intimacy
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where it doesn't belong.
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Now vulnerability is a beautiful
thing, if it's to my Father
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in heaven, if
it's to your spouse.
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Vulnerability is wonderful.
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Vulnerability is even good with
some trusted Godly girlfriends,
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or those accountability
partners that we talked with.
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However, with a man,
that can be dangerous.
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Learn to share
with your husband,
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or a trusted
girlfriend, or a family member,
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not your co-worker or the
nice man you just met at church.
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My girlfriend is
really learning how to model
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this, how to do this.
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She grew up in a home where
boundaries were not modeled.
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And perhaps you
experience this yourself.
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Maybe you grew up in a
home where the boundaries
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were constantly violated.
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They could have been violated
physically, and you were abused
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in some way through
no choice of your own.
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It was pushed upon you.
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Maybe they weren't
violated physically,
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but they were violated
emotionally, or verbally.
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Maybe you didn't
realize you had a choice,
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and you could actually say no.
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Maybe that was trained
in you since childhood.
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In my girlfriend's case,
she grew up in a home with some
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dysfunction, some
pain, and so she never saw
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boundaries being modeled.
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She never saw them lived out,
so for her it was hard to know,
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What does this look like?
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What am I
supposed to do with this?
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But now, as an adult,
she's learning how to share,
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what to share, how much to
share, and probably the most
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important, with whom to share.
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That's key. It's
important to learn boundaries.
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And you might be saying, I don't
think I have any boundaries.
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I didn't even know how to
get boundaries in my life.
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I don't know how to put...
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I don't even know
what that looks like.
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There's a fabulous book.
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I like it. It's
called Boundaries.
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That's a good book.
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You could get that.
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But I think we can go to
God, we can learn in community
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as sisters, learning
how to establish boundaries.
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What boundaries are
even supposed to look like.
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Get in a mentorship
with an older Godly woman,
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or even a younger Godly woman
who's Godly. That's the key.
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And learn what boundaries
are supposed to look like.
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See the boundaries
as they are modeled.
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And my girlfriend is learning
what's appropriate to say,
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what's not appropriate
to say, who to say it to,
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and who not to say it
to, and what to do with this
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issue of over sharing.
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When you share remember to
share it with your husband,
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with the trusted girlfriend,
with a family member.
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Not over sharing with
someone of the opposite sex.
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And go to God and
ask Him to show you,
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Who am I over
sharing with, and what am I
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over sharing about?
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In addition, as well as over
sharing, it's important also to
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think about the content.
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What are you
actually talking about?
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Or not even what
you are talking about,
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but what are you listening to?
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I know in my own life
this can be a battle for me,
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because I might say,
Well, I'm not going to say that,
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but you know what I do?
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I sit and listen to it.
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I sit and hear it.
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And sometimes, probably
more often than I should,
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I just, okay, I take it in.
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I don't say anything.
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I think, Well, if I am a good
Christian I probably shouldn't
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rock the boat, and I'll
just sit here and listen to it.
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But what if God says,
No, I want you to stand up.
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And that's something that, in my
own life, I'm trying to learn.
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When to say, Okay, that
boundary is being crossed.
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Maybe not with anything they're
doing, but with something
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they're telling me, or
something they're sharing,
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or something maybe sexual.
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And say, No,
you're not my husband.
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I shouldn't be
hearing about that.
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I shouldn't be
listening to that.
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It's an
important thing to learn.
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I think as a society we're open.
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Today's society, women and
men are just free to be bold,
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and crass, and uninhibited.
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To me that's the
key, uninhibited.
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The Bible tells us in Matthew,
remember when the disciples
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were talking about what are the
signs of the end of the world,
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and what are the
signs of Jesus' coming?
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Remember one of those signs?
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What was one of those signs?
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He said, It's going to
be men eating and drinking,
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marrying and giving in
marriage, and all of that stuff,
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just like the licentiousness
and the sin that existed
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in this world at the time of the
flood, at the time when Noah,
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God had Noah build the ark.
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It's interesting because now we
see that again here at the end
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of time, here right
before Jesus is going to come,
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we see that again.
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You see sexual
immorality on the rise.
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We see homosexuality on
the rise, or maybe not even
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on the rise, but
it is more prevalent.
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It is definitely more accepted.
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We see things that
50, 20, 10, 5 years ago
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would not be accepted,
would not be tolerated.
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Things about how we dress.
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I remember I was in Wal-Mart
and there was someone at the
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checkout counter, not
the clerk behind the counter,
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but it was a girl checking out.
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And I've never, being
honest, in my entire life
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seen shorts that short.
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Now I've seen short shorts.
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I've seen a lot of short shorts.
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But these she had cut to
make them shorter than you can
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actually make them in the store.
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It was incredible!
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I have never seen
that in my whole life.
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And I thought, she was
beautiful, she was beautiful.
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And I thought, Oh, look at,
you know, look at whatever lies
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Satan has in her
heart, and in her life.
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Maybe it's not even a lie.
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Maybe it's just thinking, I
want to be socially accepted.
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Society does it.
Everybody does it.
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So therefore I
should do it, too.
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Because I want
people to like me.
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I want to be
popular. I want to fit in.
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Wherever you are in
your walk with Jesus today,
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God says, I want to purify you.
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I want to work in your
heart, in the forward heart.
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I want to go
through your closet.
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I want to look at the
stuff that you wear and say,
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Okay, what is pleasing to God?
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And then maybe, is
there an outfit or two that
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I should maybe get rid of?
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Only God can tell you that.
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We're not here to
say, Do this, do that.
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Only God can tell you that.
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Look, go to God. How do I act?
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How do I talk? Is there
anything in my life that's
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misrepresenting
the character of Jesus?
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Whatever it is,
He wants to show us.
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And in addition,
He wants to change us.
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I love that about our God.
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We're going to take a
short break right now.
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We're going to do our practical
application for this week.
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And then our next program
we'll be discussing the issue
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of a boastful heart, or pride.
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We'll be right back.
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