Welcome to
Marriage Heart to Heart!
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We're Tom & Alane Waters
with Restoration International
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Today we're
gonna be talking about
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six ways to keep our
marriages morally pure.
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So we hope you have a
paper and pencil with you today.
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Moral purity
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what a subject for today!
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- Very needed
subject! - Yes! Because there's
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a degeneracy happening
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in our world that's
obvious to everyone!
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And everyone is being
bombarded from every area
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of life with the moral
impurity of this generation.
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So, six ways!
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You know when we got married
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I didn't understand a lot of
things! But there was one thing
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for sure that I
understood: that my eyes
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needed to be for you!
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Kind of amazing
when you think about
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what I didn't
understand and how selfish I was
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when we first got
married. We didn't understand
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a lot of the things
about the "me focus"
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moving to the "us focus" but
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I understood that my
eyes should be for you!
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And I made a commitment
I'm sure you remember.
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I made a commitment,
A covenant with my eyes
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for you, with you and
with the Lord. And it's made
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a powerful
impact in our marriage.
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It really has! And it's
given me a lot of security
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knowing that! And
it's helped me to trust you
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even through those rough
times at the beginning of our
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marriage. And the Lord put
in my heart: "If you're gonna
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keep your eyes for
me then I needed to do
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everything I could do
to be attractive to you
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through our marriage, the way
that I saw it to be attractive
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when we were courting.
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And I think this is
something that each one of us
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need to recognize. Us
wives if we want our husband's
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eyes to be for us then
we have the opportunity
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to encourage that in
our husbands by how we
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take care of ourselves.
Do we look nice for them?
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Do we look appealing to them?
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Are we willing to
do our best for them?
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And that will help us,
help them with that commitment!
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We know, it's interesting
that God's Word even has
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an answer for this
covenant that I'm talking about
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in Job the 31
chapter and the first verse.
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It says here: "I made a
covenant with mine eyes"
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Here's Job saying "I
made a covenant with my eyes!"
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For what purpose? It says: why
then should I look upon a maid?
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Well, I realized that
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I made a covenant
to you for marriage.
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I gave God some vows and I
made those vows publicly before
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a lot of
witnesses at our wedding.
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Why not also make a covenant
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with you as a part
of that marriage vow
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that I would have a
covenant with my eyes,
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that I didn't need to
be looking at other women.
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Now, obviously when I say this
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did Job go around
with blinders on his eyes?
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He says: Why should
I look at another mate?
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So, we know Job was
a very influential man.
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So did he go around with some
kind of blinders like horses
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ware sometimes to keep
his eyes directed forward?
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Certainly not!
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But looking at a woman
or seeing a woman pass by;
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I mean we're on
airports a lot of times and,
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in fact not long ago my wife
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as we were sitting
there she said: "Honey
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look at that lady!
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Isn't she beautiful? "
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Do you remember that
dear? - Yes I remember that!
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Now here's my wife, I've made
this kind of commitment to her
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and now she trusts
me so much that she can
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say: "Look at
this beautiful woman
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walking down the airport! "
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Well, I didn't
particularly think that,
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that woman was so beautiful but
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that's because you can trust me!
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So, it isn't that we
can't look at another woman,
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man as they may walk by
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or that we have to
shut our eyes every time
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we have a woman, we
wouldn't be able to do that
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when she comes into our view.
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The key here with this covenant
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that I've made is
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what am I taking a
second look for? Ok?
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If I'm taking a second look
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at a woman that walks by
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what's the reason?
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Is there an improper reason that
I'm looking the second time?
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That's where we
make this covenant,
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that's what we're
looking at the purpose for.
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So the first point then
is this to make a covenant
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with our eyes. And it
doesn't just mean for men
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Although the Scriptures address
it from a man's perspective.
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- That's right! -
But women need to make
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that same
commitment, that same covenant.
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In the society that we
live today, women are just as
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morally impure shall we
say? Aggressively impure
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as traditionally has
been men in past generations.
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They certainly are
more aggressive today!
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I mean it's obvious!
Even though - Definitely!
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out there in the dating scene
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it's obvious that women
are much more aggressive
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in relationships than they
were you know, back in our day.
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That wasn't all that
long ago, but 25 years ago!
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That's right! But women need
to, we as women need to make
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that same covenant with
our eyes that when we see a man
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that we don't look at
that man to lust after him
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or to start thinking
thoughts of: "Oh, you know,
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well I wish my
husband looked like him!" or
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maybe it's not so much the out
world looks, it's what we see
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how they relate in their
work place or in the Church.
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And they start saying: "Oh,
I wish my husband could be like
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him!" and become to
stunner with our husband.
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We need to guard
the avenue of our eyes!
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So, the second area:
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dress.
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How does dress effect,
you know, moral purity?
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How we choose to dress as
women affect moral purity!
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We can either be a
stumbling block to men
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or we can be, help maintain
the purity of our marriage
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by how we dress. And I
know for me and my experience,
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in my life I've
chosen to dress with modesty.
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I found the blessing
of that! No low cut tops
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or midriff showing or
minis or tight cloths!
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All of those things that we
see prevalent every where we go
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it's in billboards
it's in advertisements,
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it's on the street
it's in our face constantly!
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It's in the Church
today! All those things
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only deteriorate the
moral integrity of a marriage!
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And really what happens is
that dress makes a statement
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and sometimes those
statements are misinterpreted.
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There are maybe people
even listening now that
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don't mean to be immoral or
to be degrading moral purity
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by how they dress. It may
be just how they were raised.
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But if as we start
evaluating I know that you
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began to evaluate
that early in our marriage
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and started recognizing that,
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you know, if you
want me to stay pure and
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stay with you, watch your
influence also on other men.
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and what's the effect that
you may be having in your dress.
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And it also works for men!
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I think that men, we have
to be also recognizing that
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well, the question
mat not be a low cut top.
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We can talk about
are we dressing modestly?
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Are we conducting
ourselves with proper reserve
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in how we carry ourselves
in those kinds of things.
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I found that when I
began to dress more modestly,
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because I wasn't always
as modest as I am today,
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that I actually found a
respect of men for me growing
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like you know, you
go to - That's right!
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store on the old
days, you know, when you
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used to have to open the door
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and you pull the open.
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Those were the old days!
Now anywhere you go, almost
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it has little
lights as you're coming in
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and the door is open for
you. But I made an interesting
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observation that whenever I
was in more dress down attired
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like tight jeans
and T- shorts or shorts
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or whatever I found that
almost always I opened the door
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for myself. But if I
was going to the same store
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it doesn't matter what
aged man, it could have been
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a young man or
an older gentleman,
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and if I had on a
feminine attire that was modest
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always I had someone
open the door for me!
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And I thought that
was very interesting,
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even today I
experience that. - That's right!
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Recently we were at
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a National Park and we were
going into one of those stores,
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they didn't have
the automatic openers.
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And this young boy, he couldn't
been 18 or 19 at the most
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and he saw me coming and
the girl that he was with
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opened the door for
herself. When I got to the door
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this young man opened
the door for me and I was
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going in there, you
know, dressed very modestly
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and femininely.
And we can draw out
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the finer virtues of a man
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- Amen! by learning to let God
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have our hearts and
how we dress in modesty.
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And let God help
us to develop that
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moral purity in our marriages.
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The third area that we like
to talk about is deportment.
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Deportment what is that?
It's how we carry ourselves,
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it's how we approach people,
it's how we interact with people
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You know,
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unfortunately back in my
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high school years
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I was known as a flirt.
And I'm not proud of that
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but that's who I was back then.
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And so, how I carried myself
it was not unusual for me to be
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very flirtatious with the
other girls in the school.
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And you can get a
reputation for that and
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you can be known
in your deportment
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for how you conduct yourself.
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And now, as my dear wife knows,
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that's not a part
of my life anymore.
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But how we conduct our
business, how we interact
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how we get in
people's space, how we
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you know, our tone of voice and
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our inflections of
voice can determine how we
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interact with someone and what
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that does in the
area of moral purity!
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The deportment that we have
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reflects what's
really in the heart
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because we cat on the outside
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what's really on
the inside! - Yes!
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And the more we act out thinking
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that you know, we
can stop ourselves or
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this is just a little
bit of flirtatiousness.
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It's just an opportunity
for the Devil to open the door
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wider and wider to
fall into temptation.
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And it may seem
innocent at the beginning
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but it progresses very
quickly! - That's right!
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And it destroys the
moral purity of a marriage.
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And it causes a
lot of insecurity in
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a marriage relationship,
between a husband and a wife,
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and it works both ways.
It also causes jealousies
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to begin to develop!
And, you know, all of those
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factors begin to weaken
that commitment in marriage.
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That's right!
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So, what else can we do?
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What else?
What's the fourth area?
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The fourth are that
we wanna talk about is
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what we see with our
eyes, what we choose to read
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with our eyes! Because what
we put in to our mind is what
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we live in our
thoughts and what begins
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to become
experienced in our lives.
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So, for us in our marriage
we have made the agreement
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that we will not put anything,
we would not read anything
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that is going to
cause us to start to
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loose the moral
purity in our marriage!
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So, reading, how about hearing?
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Things we listen to!
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Music today has an incredible
impact in people's lives.
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The kinds of music that
we listen to can either be
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uplifting us or can actually be
degrading in the moral purity.
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Because
everything in our society
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is downgrading morality today!
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So, what's really we're
talking about the senses!
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- Yes! - What we hear!
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What we see, even
some of the smells we smell
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all are part of
maintaining or destroying
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the purity in our
marriages! - That's right!
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So, there's
advertisements, the billboards,
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the magazine advertisements,
everywhere you go
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we are
bombarded by those things.
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Are we going to study
those things and look at them
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and lust after them or are
we going to see it and say:
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"I don't want that to be a part"
And we change our thoughts,
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we change the direction
of our eyes. We change,
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we choose to change the
direction of our thoughts!
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Well, and right now
we need to make a break.
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So, we want you to stay with us!
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talking about moral purity
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and how it affects the marriage.
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We've just been talking
about the things that we read,
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the things that we see.
And there's a Scripture that
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really brings
this right in the focus
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if we look at it and
consider it practically.
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It's taken from Philippians the
fourth chapter in the 8 verse
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it says:
"whatsoever things are true,
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honest, just, pure,
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lovely, of good report;
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if there be any virtue,
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or praise, think
on these things. "
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Now, I know that
for many, that is a
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a familiar verse and yet
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I wonder if it is a
familiar experience.
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I know for us that
a lot of times we knew
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these Bible verses and
yet now bringing them into
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our experience has
made a huge difference.
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If we really look at these words
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then it takes in
everything we read.
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It takes in everything we view.
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It takes in every aspect of
where our senses are taking us.
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And so, it's very important that
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we take these words, especially
as Christians and say:
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"How are these
applying in my real life today?"
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God gave us our senses.
He gave us those to enjoy
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the things of beauty and
holiness and righteousness.
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That's how He created us! And
He wants us to keep that focus
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and use our senses which are
gifts to us for that purpose.
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So we have to
consider, we can't always stop
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what we see or what we hear but
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we have to consider
what are we doing with
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within our
thoughts - That's right!
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when it comes in! Are we
really managing those thoughts?
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You know, if
you're on the computer
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and we have a computer
and you have the internet.
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I mean you can be
going for something
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that you're looking for
and here can be something
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that flashes on the screen.
Sometimes I've been shocked
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to see what comes up there,
to look you know. And you don't
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have to look. I
mean they - That's right!
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flash on, they grab your
attention, your eyes naturally
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go there, but what do
we choose to do with that?
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Do we look at? Do we
read it? Do we study it?
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Or are we
willing to click it off?
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- That's right! -
And I know some people
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that put blocks on their
computer. They don't want
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that kind of thing on there.
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And there are many things
that we can do practically
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to keep the moral
purity in our marriage.
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- That's right! -
The more pure we are
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in our marriage the
more fulfillment we have
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in the intimacy of our marriage.
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The less pure we are in
our marriage and the more
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we let our thoughts wonder
out there about someone else,
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even if it's just a
look, how does she look,
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how does he look,
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destroys the
intimacy in the marriage!
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So, let's challenge
our viewing audience
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with what are you really doing?
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If you wanna have a
marriage that's heart to heart
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what are you
doing with real life?
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Not the theories, you
know this verse talks about
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whatsoever things are true,
honest, lovely, of a good report
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and the virtue in it
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If we would take
just this one verse
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it would cover what
we're talking about today
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If we allow Christ
to make this practical.
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Anything that comes
to us on the television,
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through advertising,
the magazines that come
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into the home, any of those
things if we really let God
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govern us in those things,
it's gonna have an effect
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on our moral
purity. - That's right!
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Even the music we listen to.
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The music is an
avenue that - That's right!
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can come right in and we
can be caught up with the music
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and miss the
lyrics that are going on.
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And the lyrics can be
planting thoughts in our minds
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that will lead
us down to impurity,
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down the road. - That's right!
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And so, even the music we
listen to, we have to have
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be sensitive that we are
putting only those things
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that are good in our minds.
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And music is a
choice! We can't always choose
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when we walk into a store
what we hear. But we can choose
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to tune out what
we're hearing there.
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And when we engage our
minds, when I engage my mind
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in the store that
music doesn't affect me.
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But when I tune in to that
music it begins to affect me.
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And everything in
the world is designed
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to destroy moral purity. - Yes!
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Everything that Satan has done!
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Well, I'm thankful that we
decided, when we got married
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not to have a television
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in our home. - Me too!
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I'm very thankful for that!
- I mean, yes it's true that
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television is a tool.
It can be a positive tool
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if it's used appropriately.
But there's not much on there.
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And I think our viewing
audience recognizes that
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there's so much damaging
material that comes on TV,
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that if we're not guarded
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we won't maintain purity,
because the kind of nature
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the flash wants
to naturally draw
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into those things
that are not appropriate.
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And so, it's been a
blessing in our home
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not to have that
temptation to deal with.
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And our young
people have often said:
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"How do people have time for TV?
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Where's the time for TV?
We have so many other things
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that we enjoy doing
that we wouldn't even know
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how they have time
for the television. "
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The sad thing
is that many people
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make time for the TV
at the expense of the
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the more blessed
things in the marriage and
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in the enjoyment and
recreation of a family.
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That's right! Well, you
know sometimes peoples say:
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"Well, I only
look at good programs!"
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and we can be selective
in choosing our programs.
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But we can't
choose the commercials and
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the advertisements that come on.
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- That's right! - And
there's a human curiosity
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that's in all of us
to question, to wonder,
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to look for. What's on
the other side of that?
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You know, so, the television
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can be a tool that's very
destructive to moral purity.
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And the fifth area that
we wanna talk about today
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is the area of inappropriate
familiarity with one another.
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And I think we see a
lot of that displayed
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in all kind of the
program and on TV today.
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We see it every were we go
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undue familiarity. You
know, the flirtatious talking
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or the flirtatious gestures, the
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jesting and the
joking, all of those things
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break down that moral
purity! - That's right!
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That's right!
Even improper touching
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that happens in the workplace.
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It's very common in
businesses that people will
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touch each
other inappropriately.
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Lots of hugging and
things like that, that
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are not really
appropriate and all those things
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they lead to a familiarity
that's not appropriate.
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If you find yourself, just
think about own experience,
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how you relate in the
marriage with your own wife
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or your husband
and then how you relate
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in some of your social settings
or in your employment settings.
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It's often easier to
convey the idea that you're very
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loving, lovable person,
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and you're wonderful. - Happy!
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Yes! You're just a
happy person and everything
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when that's not really what's
being conveyed in the home!
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And often times that
undue, improper familiarity
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leads to stress in the marriage
and leads to inappropriate
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relationships over
here in this situation.
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It's so common! We
see it even in the Church,
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the Christian Church
today! It's every where you go!
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You know, 30- 40
years ago you wouldn't see
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that kind of
conduct in a work place.
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You know it would
be bar type conduct!
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Now it's every
where you go. - Yes!
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And, you can't always trust,
I mean you may think you're pure
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but you don't know what's in
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the thoughts of
the other person.
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And I know there have
been many marriages destroyed
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through this avenue. You
know, and I knew a young lady,
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a beautiful young
woman, happily married
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and she got the opportunity
to be an executive secretary
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for the
president of a large firm
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and she went in
there with the thoughts:
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"This is going to be
a career advancement!"
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She was pure, she was
simple, she was wholesome.
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But her boss wasn't a moral
man! He was an immoral man!
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She didn't know
this! In his thoughts
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he did not have purity.
He was not only for his wife!
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He used his time to
look at other women and
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let his mind go on that.
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And so, as they began
working she was very efficient,
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she was a very good secretary
and he appreciated that
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and started complementing
her and complementing her.
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Then he had projects he needed
her to stay for after work.
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And she felt secure,
she felt needed, she felt
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important and you know,
the work needed to get done.
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And then it was a
little touch on her shoulder.
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And then pretty soon it
was him coming to her desk
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and touching her hand. And
it went from that to, you know
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"Good-morning! Glad to see you!"
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and a good-morning
embrace and a hug goodbye.
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And eventually led
them to immoral acts!
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- That's right! -
And it was a subtle
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destruction of the purity!
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- That's right! -
And the sad thing is
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is that in the
very act of adultery
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she lost her
marriage through this.
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And the man, who was
the immorally pure man
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- Impure man! -
He's the impure man!
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He's the one who was
able to keep his marriage.
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But it didn't
change what he did!
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It was still a
problem that he had!
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That's right!
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So, what are we gonna do?
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If you find yourselves in
situations that you think are
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just the way it's
socially acceptable today
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I tell you there are things
that are socially acceptable
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today, there are completely
unacceptable to the Lord!
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And if you find yourself
in one of those situations
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And you're trying to
comfort yourself that it's ok,
00:24:06.31\00:24:09.42
other people do it
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get away from
that kind of unfamiliar
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too familiar, improper kind
of conduct in your workplace,
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in your Church setting,
in your social settings,
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because it's very
destructive to the moral purity
00:24:23.89\00:24:26.25
of your own marriage!
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Often times I'll put my hand
out when I go to greet someone
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to let them
know, a man know that,
00:24:30.91\00:24:32.98
you know this is
what I'm comfortable with!
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And I've often
said to you: "Honey!"
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I shouldn't say often but there
have been times I said to you:
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"Honey, I'm not
comfortable around this person!"
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God helps us, when we make
the decision to be morally pure
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He helps us gain discernment
00:24:46.03\00:24:49.26
when someone may be
different in their thoughts
00:24:49.30\00:24:52.99
towards us than
we are towards them.
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- That's right! - And
you've always been there
00:24:55.12\00:24:56.65
to be that security, that
barrier, that protection for me.
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And I really
count on you for that!
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It's been very interesting,
you know, as my wife
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mentioned this
particular perception,
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this inside. She
has never been wrong!
00:25:09.11\00:25:12.34
And I can think of
several individuals
00:25:12.91\00:25:14.96
over our 25
years of marriage that
00:25:15.00\00:25:17.03
Alane has come
to me and she said:
00:25:17.06\00:25:19.02
"Honey, there's something
morally impure about that man!
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And I'm very uncomfortable
00:25:24.11\00:25:25.69
when he tries to
get into my space. "
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And in all of the
cases that is happened
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it has been demonstrated that
that person was morally impure.
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And it's incredible to me that
God gives that kind of insides
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if we're really desiring
of choosing moral purity.
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Amen! That's what
God wants to do for us!
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He desires us to
keep our moral purity.
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Well the sixth area
we'd better talk about
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to our viewers today
is the area that we can
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all participate in, like
the other ones we've discussed.
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And that is trough
prayer. We can pray that God
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will create in us a
clean heart! - Amen!
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That's something we
can do actively, daily,
00:26:00.21\00:26:02.92
even in a moment of
temptation. Even in a moment of
00:26:02.96\00:26:06.39
being not sure how the
situation is gonna come
00:26:06.42\00:26:09.55
we can ask the Lord to
give us a pure thought,
00:26:09.58\00:26:13.02
a pure heart! -
Amen! And He will! Because
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God will do for us what
we cannot do for ourselves!
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But we need to be willing
to ask! We need to recognize
00:26:19.49\00:26:22.43
our need! And
this is a need today!
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And as we come to the
close of this session today
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I'd like us to pray
especially for the needs
00:26:28.94\00:26:31.37
of our viewing
audience as well as ourselves
00:26:31.41\00:26:33.81
for this moral purity!
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Father in Heaven we know that
00:26:36.62\00:26:38.22
we live in a very degenerate
society that is continuing to
00:26:38.26\00:26:41.45
go down hill. We
pray that as Christians
00:26:42.54\00:26:45.06
we will be living Christians,
that we will allow You
00:26:45.10\00:26:48.39
to work in us, to truly
create in us clean hearts
00:26:48.42\00:26:51.68
and that we will
manifest those clean hearts
00:26:51.71\00:26:53.48
in our own marriages. That
we will guard these six areas,
00:26:53.52\00:26:57.55
these avenues of moral impurity,
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that we can have strong homes
and that we can represent You
00:27:00.68\00:27:04.00
to a hurting and dying world!
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In Jesus name Amen!
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Well, you know, we're
looking forward to next
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next time we get together!
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Meaningful intimacy!
Mutually meaningful intimacy
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is a subject that we're looking
forward to talking about!
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Because it won't just be
meaningful for one person
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in the marriage! It
will be meaningful for both!
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And we want you to
have a meaningful experience
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in your marriage!
So, join us next time
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on Marriage Heart to Heart
where we'll be talking about
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something that's
meaningful to each marriage
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that will take us closer to our
Lord and Savior Jesus Christ!
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We look forward
to seeing you back!
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