"He is mighty to save
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This is our God.
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This is the One
we have waited for
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This is the One
we have waited for
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This is the One
we have waited for
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Jesus, Lord and Savior
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Jesus, Lord and Savior
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Jesus, Lord and Savior
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Jesus, Lord and Savior"
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"How marvelous, how wonderful
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And my song shall ever be
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How marvelous, how wonderful
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Is my Savior's love for me
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I stand amazed in the presence
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Of Jesus the Nazarene
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And wonder how He could love me
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A sinner condemned unclean
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Singing.
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How marvelous, how wonderful
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And my song shall ever be
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How marvelous, how wonderful
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Is my Savior's love for me
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He took my sins and my sorrows
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He made them His very own
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He bore the burden to Calvary
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And suffered and died alone
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Singing.
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How marvelous, how wonderful
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And my song shall ever be
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How marvelous, how wonderful
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Is my Savior's love for me
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And when, with
the ransomed in glory
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His face I at last shall see
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It will be my
joy through the ages
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To sing of His love for me
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Singing.
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How marvelous, how wonderful
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And my song shall ever be
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How marvelous, how wonderful
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Is my Savior's love for me
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Singing.
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How marvelous, how wonderful
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And my song shall ever be
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How marvelous, how wonderful
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Is my Savior's love for me"
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"Lord, prepare me
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To be a sanctuary
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Pure and holy,
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tried and true
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With thanksgiving
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I'll be a living
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Sanctuary
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Lord, for You"
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Let's pray.
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And so Father,
we pray the words.
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We pray the prayer.
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Lord, prepare me
to be a sanctuary,
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pure and holy, tried and true,
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with thanksgiving
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I will, we will be a
living sanctuary for You.
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Through Christ Jesus
please answer that prayer, amen.
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So here's a
question, what kind of sex
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should we have
in this sanctuary,
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in this temple?
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Heterosexual sex,
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homosexual sex, no sex?
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I asked that question
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because Andrew's University
in the theological seminar
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this weekend are hosting
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national
conference entitled marriage,
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homosexuality and the church.
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So we have their
permission to talk about sex.
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Obviously, David Letterman
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didn't need any
permission at all.
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I'm talking about
the David Letterman
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who a few days ago got himself
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into a heap of trouble sexually,
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because he has been the
most popularly late night
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host on American television.
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Letterman surely knew
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that he would own
the headlines for days
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after that now famous Mayakoba
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confession live audience
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and the late show
with David Letterman.
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Thanks to YouTube,
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I've had the chance to listen
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to the over 10
minute monolog confession.
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I'm gonna play right
now for you, just a snippet,
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seven minutes
into his confession
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this is what he said
on national television.
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"Now of course we get to,
what was all the creepy stuff,
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that he was gonna
put into the screenplay
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and the movie?
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And the creepy
stuff was that I have--
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had sex with women who
work for me on this show.
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Now, my response to
that is, yes, I have.
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I have had sex with
women who work on this show.
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And would it embarrassing
if it would made public?
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Perhaps it would,
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perhaps it would,
especially for the women.
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You can't believe it, can you?
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Human sexuality, it
is an amazing reality.
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You can laugh over it
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and I tell you what
every time I hear that clip,
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and I hear the
audience laughing I just--
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to me it is utterly
inexplicable he's just confess.
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You're gonna laugh
over like the audience
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with David
Letterman, you can weep over it
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as I suppose Mrs.
Letterman still is
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and all the women
working for David Letterman,
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whom he took one by
one into that secret studio
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above the Ed Sullivan
Theater in New York City,
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took them there to
have sex with them.
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You're gonna laugh over it,
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you can cry over it
but you cannot escape it.
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Can you?
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This roiling force within us
that drives us our sexuality.
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That's right you
got to take your head of
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to the Holy
Scriptures on a bashed
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in plunging into this
earthy, earthly human reality.
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Take our passage today X-rated.
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Paul ensures his
passage right into the middle
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of a letter to a abandon
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a brand new loyal
Christ followers living
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in the licentious
sex capital of Corinth.
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I tell you what, taking
about Paul and no punches,
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I'm gonna apologies in advance
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for all that
blushing you're gonna do.
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Open your Bible with me please
to 1 Corinthians Chapter 6,
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1 Corinthians Chapter 6
you didn't bring a Bible
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your gonna want to
track this one grab
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the pew Bible in front of you,
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it's the New King James Version
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it will be page
770 in that pew Bible.
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I'm in the New International
Version this morning,
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1 Corinthians
Chapter 6 one of the great,
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great human sexuality passages
in all of Holy Scriptures.
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1 Corinthians Chapter
6, pick it up at verse 9.
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1 Corinthians 6:9,
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"Do you not know"
question don't you guys know,
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"that the wicked will not
inherit the kingdom of God?
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Do not be" hold on
"Do not be deceived."
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Don't let the culture
pull the wall over your eyes,
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don't be snookered by society,
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don't be doped
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by politically correct thinking.
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"Do not be deceived,
neither the sexually immoral,"
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now hit the pause
button right there
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because the Greek word is pornos
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from when's comes
our word pornography,
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four or five major translations
rented at fornication,
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sex performed outside
of marriage all right,
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"Do not be deceived,
neither the sexually immoral
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nor idolaters nor adulterers,"
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pause button again
that would be sex performed
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with someone who
is not your spouse
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you that are married.
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"Do not be deceived,
neither the sexually immoral
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nor idolaters nor
adulterers nor male prostitutes"
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hit the pause
button right there.
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Those are the young boys
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that service the pageant temples
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that dotted the
landscape of Corinth.
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In fact, the
Corinthians had a proverb,
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Paul quotes back to
his readers that proverb,
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a little later I'm gonna
give it to you in advance.
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"Food for the stomach and
the stomach for the food."
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Rob Bell his book Sex God,
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describes how the
ancients would come up
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to the gates of those shrines
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and there would be
the male prostitutes
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or sometimes female prostitutes
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and they would
quote that proverb
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"Food for the stomach's,
the stomach for food."
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I'm hungry for sex, can
I have some sex from you?
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How much will it cost me?
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"Do not be deceived,
neither the sexually immoral
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nor idolaters nor adulterers
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nor male prostitutes
nor homosexual offenders"
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the New American Standard
simply says nor homosexuals,
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the New Revise Standard
renders it nor sodomites.
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"Do not be deceived,
neither the sexually immoral
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nor idolaters nor adulterers
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nor male prostitutes
not homosexual offenders
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nor thieves nor the greedy"
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halleluiah he is
off a sex finely.
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Verse 10 "Nor thieves
nor the greedy nor drunkards
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nor slanderers nor swindlers
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will inherit
the kingdom of God."
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Don't you know that?
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And then in a
stunning declaration
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one line verse 11, I'm
gonna let that one line
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hang on the
screen all by itself,
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"And that is what
some of you were."
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Isn't that amazing?
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And that, Paul writes
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is what some of
you are essentially--
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here's what Paul is saying,
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I know, I know, that some of you
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were sexually immoral,
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I know that some
of you were idolaters,
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I know that some of
you were adulteress,
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I know that some of
you were male prostitutes,
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I know that some of you
were homosexual offenders,
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I know that you were thieves,
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you were greedy,
you were drinkers,
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you were slanderers,
swindlers and slanderers
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whatever you are I
knew you were that.
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Isn't it amazing?
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That is what some of you were.
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Something radical
has happened to you
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and what you were
you know longer are.
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That's the first
bookend-- two bookends
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to this great sex passage.
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That's bookend number one
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and I wish you scribble
that down before we forget it.
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Grab your study
guide right now, will you?
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Thank you ushers,
for making sure that
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everybody here
gets a study guide.
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If you got in three of you
with one bullet or four of you,
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you got to have your own.
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There is some great
quotations coming up,
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you want this to brood
over, hold your hand up.
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We got friendly
ushers up into the balcony.
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Those of you who are watching
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in overflow in youth chapel
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make sure that you get
this study guide as well.
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And while you are
getting the study guides here
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I want to say to those of
you watching on television
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we're delighted to have you.
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This as a significance study.
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I hope you are
plunge into it with us.
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Go to our website,
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let me put it on
the screen for you
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www.pmchruch.tv
that's our website
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you are looking for a
series called The Temple.
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This is part
seven in The Temple.
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By the way, if you haven't
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But you are
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"Sex in the Temple,
What So Gay About That?"
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All right. Sex in the temple.
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When you find that title
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it'll say study
guide right beside it,
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you click it you'll have it.
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Let's fill it in,
bookend number one,
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there are only two bookends.
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Bookend number one,
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what is the teaching
of the bookend number one?
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Jot it down.
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Both bookends begin
with the identical words,
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don't you know, here we go
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bookend number
one, don't you know
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"What you were,
you no longer are."
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Jot that down please.
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"What you were,
you no longer are."
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Because something very
radical has happened to you.
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Hey, come on Paul,
tell us what is it?
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What is it?
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He said all
right, I'll tell you,
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I would tell you.
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Let's read verse 11 again "
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And that is what
some of you were.
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But" but, write it
down "you were washed."
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Write it down, you were washed.
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Isn't it amazing
that in this list
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of predominantly sexual
sins the very first word
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the Bible just opposes
against it is washed, washed.
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Come on, those who
engage in sexual sins know
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the desired to obey
the way or shower away
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a numinous sense of impurity
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is a natural instinct
even among the godless
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whether it is personal sex
or forbidden consensual sex,
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the instinct to
wash it away is strong.
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It's no accident the
God puts the word wash,
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right up beside
that list of sexual sin.
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Everybody knows the
story of, David Bathsheba,
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David and Bathsheba,
that's not David Letterman
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that's David the
king and Bathsheba.
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And look at it its not--
is it a sin to walk on a roof?
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Of course not.
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Is it a sin to look
over the edge of the roof
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as long as you
don't get too close?
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To look into neighbors
yard? No problem at all.
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To happen to see
your neighbor's wife
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bathing in the backyard?
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Still no sin.
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That was no more a sin
for David than it was sin
00:18:08.69\00:18:11.23
for Joseph to be
handsome, be loyal
00:18:11.26\00:18:13.50
and attracted to Mrs. Potiphar,
00:18:13.53\00:18:15.51
who bats her false eyelashes
00:18:15.54\00:18:17.68
and tries to beckon
the boy into the bed.
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Was that a sin for Joseph?
00:18:20.78\00:18:21.84
Are you kidding?
00:18:21.87\00:18:22.90
Was that a sin for David?
00:18:22.93\00:18:23.96
No, but it is the next response
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that is the tragic twist
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to separate the tale
of those two young adults.
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The next response
here's the difference between
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their two responses.
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Joseph, Joseph fled, David fed
00:18:37.37\00:18:44.20
and there is a
universe of difference.
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Joseph fled the website, gone.
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David fed at that website,
00:18:51.31\00:18:53.44
Joseph fled the laptop,
David stag at the laptop.
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Ladies and gentlemen,
00:18:56.99\00:18:58.06
all this talk about
homosexuality this weekend,
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I'm gonna tell you something
as a pastor I happened to know
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that much greater
than homosexual sin
00:19:04.16\00:19:05.70
and heterosexual
sin is pornographic sin,
00:19:05.73\00:19:08.61
pornographic sex,
00:19:08.64\00:19:10.26
its what's have
chained this generation.
00:19:10.29\00:19:13.73
I know because
you've come and told me.
00:19:13.76\00:19:19.32
Joseph fled, David fed
00:19:19.35\00:19:23.23
and there in
lies the difference,
00:19:23.26\00:19:24.68
two very different endings.
00:19:24.71\00:19:26.01
And by the way, of
course you know the story
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after the David has impregnated
00:19:27.32\00:19:29.05
his neighbors wife
God sends prophet Nathan
00:19:29.08\00:19:32.56
with the word
we know the gigs up
00:19:32.59\00:19:36.45
and David breaks
down, you remember
00:19:36.48\00:19:37.77
in that bitter
remorse and repentance.
00:19:37.80\00:19:41.64
And in his prayer to
God, here's where we're going,
00:19:41.67\00:19:44.08
in his prayer to god
David uses the very word
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Paul just opposes
beside that list of sexual sin.
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Of course David is right
in Hebrew and Paul in Greek.
00:19:51.85\00:19:53.77
But here, here is
David's prayer Psalm 51
00:19:53.80\00:19:56.05
the great
penitential Psalm verse 7,
00:19:56.08\00:19:58.11
cleanse me oh, God,
"Cleanse me with hyssop,
00:19:58.14\00:20:00.98
and I will be clean, wash me,
00:20:01.01\00:20:03.85
and I will be whiter than snow."
00:20:03.88\00:20:06.99
Wash me, you got to wash me,
00:20:07.02\00:20:08.89
I need a shower, I need a bath,
00:20:08.92\00:20:11.03
I need to cleaned,
00:20:11.06\00:20:12.80
wash me now, wash me.
00:20:12.83\00:20:19.42
But you were washed.
00:20:19.45\00:20:20.51
You used to be
but you were washed.
00:20:20.54\00:20:24.31
Washed by what?
00:20:24.34\00:20:26.37
Its not rocket
science when you consider
00:20:26.40\00:20:28.64
the New Testament record,
in this series The Temple
00:20:28.67\00:20:31.90
we've been going to Gods temple,
00:20:31.93\00:20:33.41
His throne in the universal.
00:20:33.44\00:20:34.98
We're looking at
what the Bible teaches
00:20:35.01\00:20:36.86
is the final strategic
chapter in salvation history,
00:20:36.89\00:20:39.91
namely the day of at
onement, the Day of Atonement.
00:20:39.94\00:20:42.83
Yom Kippur up there in that
temple being cleansed down here
00:20:42.86\00:20:46.77
in the temple here
also being cleansed.
00:20:46.80\00:20:50.29
And one of the passages
we have returned to often
00:20:50.32\00:20:53.16
is the Day of Atonement
chapter in the New Testament,
00:20:53.19\00:20:56.30
its Hebrews 9 and
we've read this before,
00:20:56.33\00:20:58.18
I want to put it on
the screen for you--,
00:20:58.21\00:20:59.32
Hebrews 9:14
00:20:59.35\00:21:00.47
"How much more, then,
will the blood of Christ,
00:21:00.50\00:21:03.34
who through the
eternal Spirit offered himself
00:21:03.37\00:21:05.99
unblemished to God,
00:21:06.02\00:21:07.78
how much more
will his blood cleanse
00:21:07.81\00:21:09.96
our consciences from
acts that lead to death,
00:21:09.99\00:21:13.28
so that we may
served the living God!"
00:21:13.31\00:21:16.21
Would you write
that down please?
00:21:16.24\00:21:17.83
What do we cleanse Bible,
00:21:17.86\00:21:18.93
how does that washing take place
00:21:18.96\00:21:20.10
we are washed by his blood
00:21:20.13\00:21:22.72
and there is a
strength of the New Testament
00:21:22.75\00:21:24.57
confirmation behind
that in you study guide.
00:21:24.60\00:21:27.16
You're washed by His blood.
00:21:27.19\00:21:28.22
We are washed by His blood
00:21:28.25\00:21:29.71
but not only
that, this is amazing,
00:21:29.74\00:21:31.65
take a look at this Acts 22.16.
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By the way
correct your study guides
00:21:34.33\00:21:35.96
so that it reads 16 instead
of six that was my mistake.
00:21:35.99\00:21:38.66
Acts 22:16 "And now
what are you waiting for?
00:21:38.69\00:21:42.68
Get up, be baptized
and wash your sins away,
00:21:42.71\00:21:48.54
calling on his name."
00:21:48.57\00:21:49.65
Would you write that down?
00:21:49.68\00:21:50.73
We are not only
washed in His blood
00:21:50.76\00:21:51.87
we are washed by our baptism.
00:21:51.90\00:21:54.04
If you've been
baptized in Christ
00:21:54.07\00:21:55.39
there was a washing
that washed your past away.
00:21:55.42\00:21:57.71
If you have not been
baptized yet plan on it,
00:21:57.74\00:22:01.34
that's how the
washing will happen.
00:22:01.37\00:22:03.11
You must be
baptized for that washing.
00:22:03.14\00:22:08.12
This is what you
were, but you are no longer
00:22:08.15\00:22:11.58
what you were for
you have been washed.
00:22:11.61\00:22:15.15
What you were you
no longer are, why?
00:22:15.18\00:22:18.50
Because you have been washed.
00:22:18.53\00:22:21.36
What's the next one?
00:22:21.39\00:22:22.88
You have been washed
but you were sanctified.
00:22:22.91\00:22:27.19
Would you write that in please?
00:22:27.22\00:22:28.27
The NIV reads out
the conjunction but.
00:22:28.30\00:22:32.32
But you were washed
00:22:32.35\00:22:33.67
and it says while we had
enough of them leave not.
00:22:33.70\00:22:35.52
No, no, it's got to
be there in the Greek
00:22:35.55\00:22:37.47
but you were
washed, but just supposed to
00:22:37.50\00:22:39.88
what you were before,
but you were sanctified.
00:22:39.91\00:22:43.11
Do know what the
Greek means for sanctified?
00:22:43.14\00:22:46.10
It literally reads
but you were holized.
00:22:46.13\00:22:50.70
You've been made holy.
00:22:50.73\00:22:52.42
I was fascinated, intrigued
with clinical cytologist
00:22:52.45\00:22:55.29
and researcher Mark
Yarhouse observation.
00:22:55.32\00:22:57.82
Thursday night, this has
been an incredible conference.
00:22:57.85\00:23:01.89
But in this key note
address Thursday evening
00:23:01.92\00:23:03.44
he observed at this
marriage homosexuality
00:23:03.47\00:23:06.55
in the church conference
that Exodus International
00:23:06.58\00:23:08.99
which is a ministry targeted
to lead young men and women
00:23:09.02\00:23:12.60
from
homosexuality to moral purity.
00:23:12.63\00:23:17.12
He observed
"Exodus International's
00:23:17.15\00:23:19.30
greatest strengths
appears to be its ability
00:23:19.33\00:23:22.37
to lead its
clients closer to Christ
00:23:22.40\00:23:24.95
whether there is
orientation change or not."
00:23:24.98\00:23:28.80
What you were you no longer are
00:23:28.83\00:23:33.79
because
something happened to you
00:23:33.82\00:23:34.90
when you came to Christ.
00:23:34.93\00:23:36.29
You were washed.
You were sanctified.
00:23:36.32\00:23:39.36
You have become
more and more like Jesus.
00:23:39.39\00:23:43.42
I sure heard his
testimony last night
00:23:43.45\00:23:44.85
this church was full on
this level last evening.
00:23:44.88\00:23:48.44
Robert Gagnon's lecture,
we'll hear that in a moment.
00:23:48.47\00:23:51.61
But we had a parallel discussion
00:23:51.64\00:23:52.97
and had the privilege of leading
00:23:53.00\00:23:54.07
and I wish you could
have heard his testimony.
00:23:54.10\00:23:55.43
He also gave
yesterday afternoon.
00:23:55.46\00:23:56.84
I'm talking about Wayne Blakely
00:23:56.87\00:23:59.11
who for 37 years lived
the homosexual lifestyle
00:23:59.14\00:24:03.30
and within the last six months
has come back to Jesus Christ
00:24:03.33\00:24:06.43
and has been re-baptized
00:24:06.46\00:24:07.64
and joined the
Seventh-day Adventist church.
00:24:07.67\00:24:09.55
So he was here as a
beautiful testimony.
00:24:09.58\00:24:11.93
Wayne said this in his
testimony Friday afternoon
00:24:11.96\00:24:14.24
with the pastor Ester,
00:24:14.27\00:24:15.88
the opposite-- and
I scribbled it down.
00:24:15.91\00:24:17.44
"The opposite of homosexuality
00:24:17.47\00:24:20.02
is not
heterosexuality, but holiness."
00:24:20.05\00:24:24.53
Oh, he nailed it.
00:24:24.56\00:24:27.84
But you were washed,
00:24:27.87\00:24:29.12
this is what you
were but you were washed.
00:24:29.15\00:24:31.35
But you were sanctified.
00:24:31.38\00:24:33.18
But-- here comes the third one,
00:24:33.21\00:24:34.39
but you were
justified, write that in please.
00:24:34.42\00:24:38.09
But you were justified.
00:24:38.12\00:24:40.10
That's a term taken
straight out of the court room
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pauses-- hey guys,
00:24:43.15\00:24:44.26
I want you to
remember, do you remember
00:24:44.29\00:24:47.01
when you arraigned
before the divine judge,
00:24:47.04\00:24:49.08
almighty God the holy one,
00:24:49.11\00:24:50.83
do you remember when
you were in Gods courtroom
00:24:50.86\00:24:53.43
and they read that
long list of charges
00:24:53.46\00:24:55.77
that included all
your guilty sexual sins.
00:24:55.80\00:24:59.99
Do you remember that
when you by faith embrace
00:25:00.02\00:25:04.32
the Lord Jesus
Christ as you Savior,
00:25:04.35\00:25:06.32
remember how the divine
judge brought the gavel down
00:25:06.35\00:25:09.25
and it surprised
you almost to death
00:25:09.28\00:25:11.47
because when that gavel slammed
00:25:11.50\00:25:15.16
down in that courtroom,
rather than pronouncing guilty
00:25:15.19\00:25:19.20
he declared pardon,
acquitted of all charges,
00:25:19.23\00:25:23.86
innocent, innocent, innocent.
00:25:23.89\00:25:27.65
That's the meaning of
the Greek word justified.
00:25:27.68\00:25:31.51
The problem is
those of us who live,
00:25:31.54\00:25:34.96
hung around a
Christian community for a while,
00:25:34.99\00:25:37.69
we heard that word
unpacked theologically
00:25:37.72\00:25:40.09
we heard that word
unpacked theoretically,
00:25:40.12\00:25:42.14
but it makes no sense to us
because nobody can show me--
00:25:42.17\00:25:44.68
they said well, its just
forensic event in heaven.
00:25:44.71\00:25:47.86
I better differ with you.
00:25:47.89\00:25:49.04
I'm gonna show you right now.
00:25:49.07\00:25:50.31
Let's take the same David,
not Letterman, David king.
00:25:50.34\00:25:54.99
Notice what happens.
00:25:55.02\00:25:56.06
Watch this, he dies all right,
00:25:56.09\00:25:58.68
he dies after David dies,
God is talking to another king,
00:25:58.71\00:26:04.24
you can't believe
this verse is in the Bible,
00:26:04.27\00:26:05.76
you just can't
believe it but its there.
00:26:05.79\00:26:08.16
God is talking to another king
00:26:08.19\00:26:10.49
and listen to what he
says about his friend David.
00:26:10.52\00:26:12.33
I'll put it on
the screen for you.
00:26:12.36\00:26:13.42
1 Kings 14:8,
00:26:13.45\00:26:15.94
God's talking to this other king
00:26:15.97\00:26:17.85
and I put the numbers in their.
00:26:17.88\00:26:19.68
God is saying, hey, hey,
00:26:19.71\00:26:21.36
"You have not been
my servant like David,
00:26:21.39\00:26:25.05
who 1 kept my commandments."
00:26:25.08\00:26:29.68
Time out, time out, time out.
00:26:29.71\00:26:31.35
God you talking to me?
00:26:31.38\00:26:32.47
Are you talking
about King David?
00:26:32.50\00:26:33.89
What is this?
00:26:33.92\00:26:34.95
Alzheimer's is a
divines reflection as well?
00:26:34.98\00:26:38.22
Have you forgotten?
00:26:38.25\00:26:39.92
What do you mean he
kept your commandments?
00:26:39.95\00:26:41.22
He broke the seventh commandment
00:26:41.25\00:26:42.61
than he covered it up, he
broke the sixth commandments,
00:26:42.64\00:26:44.28
killed her husband
and to cover that up
00:26:44.31\00:26:45.67
broke the eighth
commandment, bore false witness,
00:26:45.70\00:26:47.75
he broke all of the commandments
00:26:47.78\00:26:49.03
by the time he was through.
00:26:49.06\00:26:50.11
Don't you-- you got
another David surely in mind?
00:26:50.14\00:26:52.74
Shh, God says
you're interrupting me.
00:26:52.77\00:26:55.44
I'm talking about the king.
00:26:55.47\00:26:59.81
"You have not been
like my servant David,
00:26:59.84\00:27:01.97
who 1 kept my commands
00:27:02.00\00:27:04.15
and 2 followed me
with all his heart."
00:27:04.18\00:27:06.91
Wait, time out.
What are you saying?
00:27:06.94\00:27:12.02
Followed you with all his heart?
00:27:12.05\00:27:14.32
Rubbish, he gave
his heart to a woman
00:27:14.35\00:27:16.53
who wasn't even his
wife, another man's wife.
00:27:16.56\00:27:19.80
Followed you with all his heart,
00:27:19.83\00:27:21.76
shh, I'm not finished yet.
00:27:21.79\00:27:26.04
"You have not been
like my servant David,
00:27:26.07\00:27:29.01
who kept my commands
00:27:29.04\00:27:30.76
and followed me
with all his heart,
00:27:30.79\00:27:32.50
doing only" write it in,
00:27:32.53\00:27:34.67
"doing only what
is right in my eyes."
00:27:34.70\00:27:40.31
Ladies and
gentlemen, can you believe that?
00:27:40.34\00:27:44.69
David is dead and gone,
00:27:44.72\00:27:46.18
his book his life book has shut
00:27:46.21\00:27:48.13
as it were it is
already gone to the judge,
00:27:48.16\00:27:50.42
something about
the divine memory
00:27:50.45\00:27:52.10
and the divine record
apparently is able to erase,
00:27:52.13\00:27:57.70
erase sexual sin from the record
00:27:57.73\00:28:02.24
and declare the guy,
00:28:02.27\00:28:05.04
that girl has only done
right in her life with me.
00:28:05.07\00:28:09.87
Amazing grace.
How sweet the sound.
00:28:09.90\00:28:15.54
You can't believe that
the verses is in your Bible
00:28:15.57\00:28:17.16
but I've rest my case its there.
00:28:17.19\00:28:21.47
What's going on here?
00:28:21.50\00:28:22.59
It's called the
"everlasting gospel,"
00:28:22.62\00:28:25.33
that's what's going on.
00:28:25.36\00:28:26.84
It's what Paul is
trying to describe to us.
00:28:26.87\00:28:29.00
It's the good
news, listen to this
00:28:29.03\00:28:30.74
those of you that
understand the Bible teaching
00:28:30.77\00:28:33.57
that we are in the
final strategic chapter
00:28:33.60\00:28:35.51
of salvation history.
00:28:35.54\00:28:37.30
It's the good news
that you had nothing to fear
00:28:37.33\00:28:39.77
from an end time judgment.
00:28:39.80\00:28:41.90
If you put your life
00:28:41.93\00:28:43.04
in the hands of
the Lord Jesus Christ
00:28:43.07\00:28:45.12
it says if you have
never sinned at all.
00:28:45.15\00:28:49.46
I would call that a fairly
cleansed record, wouldn't you?
00:28:49.49\00:28:53.47
In fact, I love this,
00:28:53.50\00:28:54.60
this is from the
classics Steps to Christ,
00:28:54.63\00:28:56.36
you have to fill it in.
00:28:56.39\00:28:57.95
"If you give yourself to Christ,
00:28:57.98\00:29:01.63
and accept Him as your Savior,
00:29:01.66\00:29:04.38
then, sinful as
your life may have been,
00:29:04.41\00:29:08.88
for His sake you are
accounted righteous."
00:29:08.91\00:29:12.09
Now hold on
"Christ character stands
00:29:12.12\00:29:14.16
in place of your character,
00:29:14.19\00:29:15.55
and you are accepted before God
just as if you had not sinned."
00:29:15.58\00:29:20.03
Write in it.
00:29:20.06\00:29:21.11
"Just as if you had not sinned."
00:29:21.14\00:29:25.96
By the way, that's what
it means to be justified,
00:29:25.99\00:29:27.73
just as if I'd never sinned.
00:29:27.76\00:29:30.43
That's what it
means to be justified,
00:29:30.46\00:29:31.90
just as if I never sinned.
00:29:31.93\00:29:35.49
As if you never ever sinned,
00:29:35.52\00:29:39.00
you once were but what you were,
00:29:39.03\00:29:43.31
you no longer are,
because you've been washed,
00:29:43.34\00:29:48.14
you've been sanctified,
you've been justified.
00:29:48.17\00:29:51.16
How's the verse go?
00:29:51.19\00:29:52.65
Read it again verse 11
00:29:52.68\00:29:53.76
"And that is
what some of you were.
00:29:53.79\00:29:54.93
But you were
washed, you were sanctified,
00:29:54.96\00:29:56.50
but you were justified
00:29:56.53\00:29:57.92
in the name of
the Lord Jesus Christ
00:29:57.95\00:29:59.61
and by Spirit of our God."
00:29:59.64\00:30:01.77
Bookend number
one, what you were,
00:30:01.80\00:30:04.09
you no longer are and
that ladies and gentlemen,
00:30:04.12\00:30:06.60
is the gospel truth.
00:30:06.63\00:30:14.50
Let me read to
you a few sentences
00:30:14.53\00:30:17.59
from a letter I received
from one of our graduates
00:30:17.62\00:30:23.29
here at Andrew's University.
00:30:23.32\00:30:25.35
Dear Pastor Nelson,
00:30:25.38\00:30:28.01
last year I graduated
form Andrew's University
00:30:28.04\00:30:30.01
and moved to and he
names the graduate school
00:30:30.04\00:30:32.19
for professional school.
00:30:32.22\00:30:35.59
A good friend of mine
told me I needed to listen
00:30:35.62\00:30:37.58
to one of your
most recent ceremonies.
00:30:37.61\00:30:40.94
I imagine as a pastor
you appreciate feed back
00:30:40.97\00:30:43.21
form those who have listened.
00:30:43.24\00:30:47.08
My heart is
burdened, I'm homosexual
00:30:47.11\00:30:51.79
but I have never
had sex with another man
00:30:51.82\00:30:53.89
because I'm
saving myself for the one
00:30:53.92\00:30:56.10
I'm to be monogamous with even
00:30:56.13\00:30:58.97
and he names the city
00:30:59.00\00:31:00.64
which is one of
the easiest places
00:31:00.67\00:31:02.16
to find fake sex.
00:31:02.19\00:31:03.74
I wait for just one, why?
00:31:03.77\00:31:06.15
Because to me it is
so much more important
00:31:06.18\00:31:09.03
that I find
someone who will love me
00:31:09.06\00:31:10.65
analogical, emotional,
social and spiritual levels
00:31:10.68\00:31:13.30
before all caps,
00:31:13.33\00:31:14.63
before he loves
me on a physical one.
00:31:14.66\00:31:18.05
I have not had
sex with another man
00:31:18.08\00:31:19.67
because I value
the establishment
00:31:19.70\00:31:21.35
of a solid base
before physical action.
00:31:21.38\00:31:25.89
I do not put lust
over love contrary
00:31:25.92\00:31:29.56
to the stereo type."
00:31:29.59\00:31:32.97
I tell you what,
my heart goes out
00:31:33.00\00:31:36.94
to the young
adults in this university
00:31:36.97\00:31:41.45
who are homosexual,
00:31:41.48\00:31:45.93
who attend classes here,
00:31:45.96\00:31:48.40
who worships in pews right here
00:31:48.43\00:31:54.23
and who wonder to themselves
00:31:54.26\00:31:59.49
if God and the church
00:31:59.52\00:32:02.22
have any place for them?
00:32:02.25\00:32:07.69
You know, the danger
of a conference like this,
00:32:07.72\00:32:11.10
it seeks to affirm
that biblical teaching
00:32:11.13\00:32:12.60
regarding homosexuality
and marriage and the church,
00:32:12.63\00:32:15.59
is that the human struggle
00:32:15.62\00:32:17.24
can be in advertently sublimated
00:32:17.27\00:32:19.51
to the theological correctness
of biblical interpretation.
00:32:19.54\00:32:23.96
And we forget
until letters like this
00:32:23.99\00:32:26.92
and conversations like
this become a painful remainder
00:32:26.95\00:32:29.81
of how deeply are
humanities struggles
00:32:29.84\00:32:32.39
to comprehend the will of God
00:32:32.42\00:32:33.73
for our fractured
lives in a society
00:32:33.76\00:32:35.90
that is essentially
guard less and voiceless
00:32:35.93\00:32:38.45
when it comes to
sexual purity and morality.
00:32:38.48\00:32:42.07
So here is this young
adult pleading pastor,
00:32:42.10\00:32:45.97
what if I chose to save myself
00:32:46.00\00:32:47.75
for a single monogamous
homosexual relationship,
00:32:47.78\00:32:50.57
will this not
count onto God as pure
00:32:50.60\00:32:53.33
and right and moral?
00:32:53.36\00:32:59.20
What are you gonna say?
00:32:59.23\00:33:02.49
What are you gonna write back?
00:33:02.52\00:33:06.85
Richard Hays,
00:33:06.88\00:33:08.21
the eminent New
Testament ethicist
00:33:08.24\00:33:10.75
from Duke
University in his magnum opus,
00:33:10.78\00:33:15.50
great book, Moral Visions
00:33:15.53\00:33:17.27
for the New Testament
tells of his own struggles
00:33:17.30\00:33:21.47
having a gay friend name Gary,
who eventually dies of AIDS.
00:33:21.50\00:33:26.33
Spends a lengthy
chapter in the Moral Vision
00:33:26.36\00:33:28.60
of the New
Testament, a lengthy chapter
00:33:28.63\00:33:30.46
wrestling over
the biblical witness
00:33:30.49\00:33:32.34
regarding homosexuality
00:33:32.37\00:33:33.93
and then Hays,
comes to this conclusion
00:33:33.96\00:33:36.25
and I put the words
on the screen for you.
00:33:36.28\00:33:38.78
"Though only a
few biblical texts
00:33:38.81\00:33:41.41
speak of homoerotic
activity," all that do mention,"
00:33:41.44\00:33:48.08
all that do mention it
express unqualified disapproval.
00:33:48.11\00:33:53.66
Thus, on this issue,
00:33:53.69\00:33:54.79
there is no synthetic problem
for New Testament ethics.
00:33:54.82\00:33:57.70
In this respect, the
issue of homosexuality
00:33:57.73\00:34:00.20
differs
significantly from matters
00:34:00.23\00:34:02.24
such as slavery or the
subordination of women,
00:34:02.27\00:34:05.07
concerning which
the Bible contains
00:34:05.10\00:34:06.78
internal tensions and
counterposed witnesses."
00:34:06.81\00:34:09.61
But we do not
find that he writes,
00:34:09.64\00:34:11.79
with the issue of homosexuality.
00:34:11.82\00:34:13.16
"The biblical witness
against homosexual practice"
00:34:13.19\00:34:16.27
and that's the
key word by the way
00:34:16.30\00:34:18.42
"the biblical witness against
00:34:18.45\00:34:19.64
homosexual
practice is univocal."
00:34:19.67\00:34:23.17
That means one voice.
00:34:23.20\00:34:26.01
There are not
scholars cannot gain say,
00:34:26.04\00:34:30.73
that bright minds observation
00:34:30.76\00:34:32.63
there are not
multiple voices in scripture,
00:34:32.66\00:34:35.08
the Bible speaks
univocally, one voice.
00:34:35.11\00:34:39.01
So the question is not
00:34:39.04\00:34:40.66
what is God have
against homosexuality
00:34:40.69\00:34:42.63
but rather why
is God so insisted
00:34:42.66\00:34:45.14
on his sexual blueprint.
00:34:45.17\00:34:47.75
Paul before we
get to the last book
00:34:47.78\00:34:49.02
and just dives into
that, you got to see this.
00:34:49.05\00:34:52.56
Your Bible's open
at 1 Corinthians 6:12,
00:34:52.59\00:34:56.49
he is quoting some proverbs
00:34:56.52\00:34:57.60
he's heard from the Corinthians.
00:34:57.63\00:34:58.97
"Everything is
permissible for me"
00:34:59.00\00:35:01.01
he's talking about
the third millennium.
00:35:01.04\00:35:02.65
Anything goes man, its okay.
00:35:02.68\00:35:04.87
Talking about the
postmodern plurality.
00:35:04.90\00:35:10.75
"Everything is
permissible for me "
00:35:10.78\00:35:12.74
that's the proverb,
Paul shoots back, ha,
00:35:12.77\00:35:14.80
"but not
everything is beneficial."
00:35:14.83\00:35:16.01
No "Everything is
permissible for me,"
00:35:16.04\00:35:18.37
Paul shoots back,
00:35:18.40\00:35:19.47
"but I will not be
mastered by anything."
00:35:19.50\00:35:21.75
Now here comes
that proverb verse 13.
00:35:21.78\00:35:23.55
"Food for the stomach
and the stomach for food"
00:35:23.58\00:35:27.31
that's the proverb.
00:35:27.34\00:35:28.41
Paul has listened God
will destroy them both,
00:35:28.44\00:35:30.02
now as they both temple.
00:35:30.05\00:35:31.21
But now here's the punch line,
00:35:31.24\00:35:32.91
"The body is not
meant for sexual immorality,
00:35:32.94\00:35:36.05
but for the Lord,
00:35:36.08\00:35:37.55
and the Lord is
meant for the body."
00:35:37.58\00:35:40.70
Hold on Paul, Paul, out right
00:35:40.73\00:35:42.82
rejects platonic dualism
some good spirit, bad body.
00:35:42.85\00:35:46.74
No way Paul's are you kidding,
its good body made by God body.
00:35:46.77\00:35:51.28
But let me tell you what
the body is for jot this down.
00:35:51.31\00:35:53.90
Your body was
created by God solely
00:35:53.93\00:35:56.05
for the purpose of
relational pleasure.
00:35:56.08\00:35:59.01
The body was made for the Lord
00:35:59.04\00:36:00.50
and the Lord was made--
the Lord is for the body,
00:36:00.53\00:36:03.13
relational pleasure.
00:36:03.16\00:36:06.77
Listen folks, come on,
00:36:06.80\00:36:08.12
we could have been
created disembodied spirits,
00:36:08.15\00:36:11.93
but God shows
instead of make us bright
00:36:11.96\00:36:13.65
thinking, living
bodies with minds,
00:36:13.68\00:36:15.33
that thrive on relationship.
00:36:15.36\00:36:17.13
We just love relationships.
00:36:17.16\00:36:18.91
What's that word?
00:36:18.94\00:36:19.97
Relationship, by
definition and by necessity
00:36:20.00\00:36:22.70
is a focus outside of
self and onto another.
00:36:22.73\00:36:26.26
Isn't that right?
00:36:26.29\00:36:27.56
Has to be or you
don't have a relationship.
00:36:27.59\00:36:29.88
Sexual sin whether heterosexual
or homosexual is sin
00:36:29.91\00:36:34.85
simply because it turns
the human appetite in on itself
00:36:34.88\00:36:41.69
and a life consumed by
appetite sexual or dietary,
00:36:41.72\00:36:45.92
is a life that consumes itself
00:36:45.95\00:36:48.23
feeding off of
itself, robbing itself
00:36:48.26\00:36:50.07
with the simple
pleasure and un unbridled joy
00:36:50.10\00:36:52.26
of a loving
relationship with its Creator
00:36:52.29\00:36:54.16
and with the
neighbors around it.
00:36:54.19\00:36:56.66
That's why sexual gratification,
00:36:56.69\00:37:00.22
wanting sexual gratification
00:37:00.25\00:37:02.38
is thus making love to yourself.
00:37:02.41\00:37:07.79
It's what it is,
00:37:07.82\00:37:09.19
whether you use a man
or a woman or yourself.
00:37:09.22\00:37:15.13
Wanting sexual gratifications
making love to yourself
00:37:15.16\00:37:17.70
and thus is a
sin against yourself,
00:37:17.73\00:37:19.82
your body and the bold
rejection of the Creator
00:37:19.85\00:37:22.20
who made you to enjoy this life,
00:37:22.23\00:37:24.75
in tandem with Him.
00:37:24.78\00:37:29.67
The question is not
00:37:29.70\00:37:30.76
what is God have
against homosexuality,
00:37:30.79\00:37:32.65
but rather why
is God so insistent
00:37:32.68\00:37:35.89
on His sexual blueprint?
00:37:35.92\00:37:39.55
Hey, take a look at
this verse 16 Paul goes on,
00:37:39.58\00:37:43.27
"Do you not know
that he who unites himself
00:37:43.30\00:37:46.35
with a prostitute is
one with her in body?
00:37:46.38\00:37:50.24
For it is said"
now, Paul quotes directly
00:37:50.27\00:37:51.72
from Genesis 2
00:37:51.75\00:37:52.83
"The two will become one flesh."
00:37:52.86\00:37:55.25
But Paul goes on
"He who unites himself
00:37:55.28\00:37:57.24
with a Lord is one
with him in spirit."
00:37:57.27\00:37:59.61
As Robert Gagnon
raised last night I mean--
00:37:59.64\00:38:01.91
what is wrong with this picture?
00:38:01.94\00:38:03.33
I mean, you have someone
who's one spirit with Jesus,
00:38:03.36\00:38:06.38
but you have that same person,
one flesh with the prostitute.
00:38:06.41\00:38:09.78
Is there something wrong here?
00:38:09.81\00:38:11.95
Something isn't matching up,
00:38:11.98\00:38:14.25
that's Paul's
point, how can it be?
00:38:14.28\00:38:16.57
How can you be one with
Christ and one with her?
00:38:16.60\00:38:18.69
One with him?
00:38:18.72\00:38:20.04
You can't.
00:38:20.07\00:38:22.72
You be one with
neither, you lose.
00:38:22.75\00:38:26.92
Isn't that something he quotes
00:38:26.95\00:38:28.34
from Genesis straight
out of the creation account
00:38:28.37\00:38:31.23
over those words in Genesis
00:38:31.26\00:38:32.48
where God defines
human marriage for all time
00:38:32.51\00:38:35.10
as a union of a man and
a woman quoting Genesis 2
00:38:35.13\00:38:38.05
"For a man shall
leave his father and mother,
00:38:38.08\00:38:40.20
and be joined to his wife
00:38:40.23\00:38:41.56
and the two shall
become one flesh."
00:38:41.59\00:38:45.53
Sexual expression between
two human beings is defined by
00:38:45.56\00:38:50.79
and confined to the
marriage of a man and a woman
00:38:50.82\00:38:56.32
only, only.
00:38:56.35\00:39:02.28
The high octane of
our human sexuality
00:39:02.31\00:39:04.95
by divine design is to be shared
00:39:04.98\00:39:08.00
only within the protective
confines of man woman,
00:39:08.03\00:39:11.25
husband and wife marriage
00:39:11.28\00:39:16.04
suggest other wise
is to flagrantly reject
00:39:16.07\00:39:19.26
the Creators
temple for human happiness
00:39:19.29\00:39:22.01
and replace it with a fallen
substitute at both humanly
00:39:22.04\00:39:24.76
and divinely cannot protect,
cant preserve our human family
00:39:24.79\00:39:28.20
nor satisfied our human long.
00:39:28.23\00:39:29.75
You won't be happy,
00:39:29.78\00:39:31.12
you will not be fully fulfilled,
00:39:31.15\00:39:34.93
as Robert Gagnon
spoke last evening idolatry
00:39:34.96\00:39:37.94
and same sex intercourse
00:39:37.97\00:39:40.01
are a frontal
assault on the work
00:39:40.04\00:39:42.39
of the Creator in
nature, in nature.
00:39:42.42\00:39:50.16
And by the way, the moment
that conclusion is established
00:39:50.19\00:39:53.85
and I'm telling you the truth,
00:39:53.88\00:39:55.21
scholarship has
not been able to gain
00:39:55.24\00:39:57.79
say that conclusion.
00:39:57.82\00:39:59.56
It's univocal and
it stands like a rock.
00:39:59.59\00:40:03.33
You can walk at it,
you can't change it.
00:40:03.36\00:40:06.21
But the moment
we established that
00:40:06.24\00:40:08.77
then cry, the heart cry
00:40:08.80\00:40:10.97
of this young
adult in his letter.
00:40:11.00\00:40:14.40
But wait a minute,
please, that's not fair.
00:40:14.43\00:40:17.33
I'm what I am,
00:40:17.36\00:40:18.83
shall I be
punished for a lifetime
00:40:18.86\00:40:20.85
because of my orientation?
00:40:20.88\00:40:22.03
Here's the deal,
00:40:22.06\00:40:23.14
I promise I will be monogamous
00:40:23.17\00:40:24.53
in my homosexuality.
00:40:24.56\00:40:26.00
I will be faithful
to one man till I die.
00:40:26.03\00:40:30.81
Admirable desire.
00:40:30.84\00:40:33.80
Now Richard, Richard Hays
00:40:33.83\00:40:35.11
it says if he got
the letter himself
00:40:35.14\00:40:36.93
and he writes to respond,
00:40:36.96\00:40:38.31
I put Hays words
on the screen for you.
00:40:38.34\00:40:40.52
The italics are his.
00:40:40.55\00:40:42.13
"Is it Christianly appropriate
00:40:42.16\00:40:45.20
for Christians who
experience themselves
00:40:45.23\00:40:47.55
as having a
homosexual orientation
00:40:47.58\00:40:50.11
to continue to participate
in same-sex erotic activity?
00:40:50.14\00:40:55.19
No. No.
00:40:55.22\00:40:58.37
The only one who was entitled
00:40:58.40\00:41:01.19
to cast a stone instead charged
the recipient of his mercy
00:41:01.22\00:41:05.25
to 'go and sin no more.'
00:41:05.28\00:41:09.28
It is no more appropriate
for homosexual Christians
00:41:09.31\00:41:11.79
to persist in
homosexual activity
00:41:11.82\00:41:13.84
than it would be for
heterosexual Christians
00:41:13.87\00:41:16.03
to persist in
fornication or adultery."
00:41:16.06\00:41:19.85
Ladies and
gentlemen, heterosexual sinners,
00:41:19.88\00:41:22.23
homosexual sinners
it does not matter,
00:41:22.26\00:41:24.01
the gospel of God
declares you can be delivered
00:41:24.04\00:41:27.71
and set free in
Christ, washed, holized
00:41:27.74\00:41:32.64
declare pardon
forever and ever, amen.
00:41:32.67\00:41:36.65
Heterosexual,
homosexual it does not matter.
00:41:36.68\00:41:42.10
Hays writes and for me
this is one of the clearest
00:41:42.13\00:41:46.16
and most
compassionate pieces of counsel
00:41:46.19\00:41:48.80
I have read for homosexuals
00:41:48.83\00:41:50.09
who encountered
the biblical witnesses
00:41:50.12\00:41:51.38
and discovered there is no way,
00:41:51.41\00:41:52.47
you can't change it,
you can't retro apps,
00:41:52.50\00:41:55.92
you can't rewrite it, it stands.
00:41:55.95\00:41:58.77
But he writes
very compassionately
00:41:58.80\00:42:00.90
put the words on
the screen for you,
00:42:00.93\00:42:02.04
"Despite the smooth illusions
00:42:02.07\00:42:07.18
perpetrated by mass
culture in the United States,
00:42:07.21\00:42:10.13
sexual gratification
is not a sacred right,
00:42:10.16\00:42:13.47
and celibacy is not a
fate worse than death.
00:42:13.50\00:42:18.80
Surely it is a
matter of some interests
00:42:18.83\00:42:20.48
for Christian ethnics
that both Jesus and Paul
00:42:20.51\00:42:23.18
lived without
sexual relationships."
00:42:23.21\00:42:25.10
Guess what, it
wasn't only Jesus and Paul,
00:42:25.13\00:42:27.35
Jeremiah lived
without a sexual relationship,
00:42:27.38\00:42:31.05
Elijah no sexual relationship,
00:42:31.08\00:42:33.17
John the Baptist no
sexual relationship,
00:42:33.20\00:42:35.28
Anna the prophetess
no sexual relationship,
00:42:35.31\00:42:37.49
Jesus no sexual relationship,
Paul no sexual relationship.
00:42:37.52\00:42:43.21
It can be done.
00:42:43.24\00:42:46.79
"Heterosexually
oriented persons,"
00:42:46.82\00:42:49.50
Hays goes on, "are also called
00:42:49.53\00:42:51.81
to abstinence from
sex unless they marry.
00:42:51.84\00:42:58.11
The only difference,
admittedly a salient one
00:42:58.14\00:43:01.86
in the case of
homosexually oriented persons
00:43:01.89\00:43:04.58
is that they do
not have the option
00:43:04.61\00:43:06.57
of homosexual marriage."
00:43:06.60\00:43:07.98
It just cannot be.
00:43:08.01\00:43:10.27
"So where does that leave them?
00:43:10.30\00:43:12.19
It leaves them in
precisely the same situations
00:43:12.22\00:43:15.20
as the heterosexual
who would like to marry
00:43:15.23\00:43:17.52
but cannot find an
appropriate partner
00:43:17.55\00:43:19.39
and there are many
such," I have such friends.
00:43:19.42\00:43:25.13
What position that
does that leave you in?
00:43:25.16\00:43:27.23
Hays, concludes
"Summoned to a difficult,
00:43:27.26\00:43:30.14
costly
obedience, while 'groaning'
00:43:30.17\00:43:32.93
for the
'redemption of our bodies'
00:43:32.96\00:43:35.26
Romans Chapter 8."
00:43:35.29\00:43:40.03
I'm gonna read the
ending of this letter.
00:43:45.51\00:43:52.71
In conclusion I understand
00:43:52.74\00:43:55.68
that the church has severe
struggles with this issue,
00:43:55.71\00:44:00.23
I however plea--
listen to his heart,
00:44:00.26\00:44:03.85
I however plea that
even greater care be taken
00:44:03.88\00:44:07.63
to not push gay
youth out of the church
00:44:07.66\00:44:11.07
and inadvertently
encourage a life of promiscuity.
00:44:11.10\00:44:16.52
We need to hear that,
00:44:16.55\00:44:18.51
because if the
church is not a place
00:44:18.54\00:44:21.73
for gay youth, or not so young,
00:44:21.76\00:44:25.04
there is only
one other place to go
00:44:25.07\00:44:27.40
and that's outside the church.
00:44:27.43\00:44:30.72
He's saying
please, don't push us out.
00:44:30.75\00:44:38.01
So what salvation
is there for gay youth
00:44:41.05\00:44:42.81
and straight youth
for homosexual sinners
00:44:42.84\00:44:44.54
and heterosexual sinners?
00:44:44.57\00:44:45.72
Paul concludes with the
final bookend, simple appeal.
00:44:45.75\00:44:50.47
Jot down the end of
this sexuality passage,
00:44:50.50\00:44:52.48
pick it up at verse 19
begins the same ways verse 9.
00:44:52.51\00:44:54.84
"Do you not know"
there's the other bookend.
00:44:54.87\00:44:57.35
"Do you not know that your body
00:44:57.38\00:45:00.14
is a temple of the
Holy Spirit, who is in you,
00:45:00.17\00:45:03.66
whom you have received from God?
00:45:03.69\00:45:06.11
You are not your own."
00:45:06.14\00:45:07.54
Verse 20 "You were
brought at a price.
00:45:07.57\00:45:09.96
Therefore honor
God with your body."
00:45:09.99\00:45:13.59
Bookend one good news,
00:45:13.62\00:45:16.07
What you were,
you no longer are.
00:45:16.10\00:45:18.72
Bookend number two,
00:45:18.75\00:45:20.19
even better news, write it down.
00:45:20.22\00:45:22.48
What you are now,
you can forever be.
00:45:22.51\00:45:27.53
Forever be what?
00:45:27.56\00:45:30.50
But Paul has just announced,
00:45:30.53\00:45:32.51
it is the
stunning declaration shared
00:45:32.54\00:45:34.23
by no other religion on earth,
00:45:34.26\00:45:36.17
the Bible proclaims
that the Creator of humanity,
00:45:36.20\00:45:39.51
has through His own death
00:45:39.54\00:45:41.64
purchased with crimson currency,
00:45:41.67\00:45:43.79
His earth children body and mind
00:45:43.82\00:45:46.31
and has not only purchased us,
00:45:46.34\00:45:48.05
but get this He bought the house
00:45:48.08\00:45:50.14
so that He could
move into the house,
00:45:50.17\00:45:53.13
and live with us.
00:45:53.16\00:45:54.82
And having moved into the house,
00:45:54.85\00:45:57.65
He turns our human bodies
00:45:57.68\00:45:59.87
into His sacred
shrine, hallelujah.
00:45:59.90\00:46:03.95
Hey, ladies and gentlemen,
00:46:03.98\00:46:05.21
you know what, the mystery
is not that Gods moves in,
00:46:05.24\00:46:11.77
the mystery is that He even
wanted to in the first place
00:46:11.80\00:46:16.77
that's the mystery.
00:46:16.80\00:46:20.48
You know what that means?
00:46:20.51\00:46:23.50
That means we must
be, I tell you what,
00:46:23.53\00:46:25.59
we have to be of
infinite value to God.
00:46:25.62\00:46:30.64
I mean, how else
can you explain this?
00:46:30.67\00:46:32.00
You have an
infinite God spilling
00:46:32.03\00:46:33.51
His blood to purchase us,
00:46:33.54\00:46:34.97
an infinite God
choosing a tabernacle
00:46:35.00\00:46:36.77
and so finite
temple it must mean,
00:46:36.80\00:46:39.54
we are of infinite value to Him.
00:46:39.57\00:46:42.86
So what's that mean for sex?
00:46:42.89\00:46:44.66
Piece of cake.
00:46:44.69\00:46:45.78
Here's what it means,
sex belongs in the temple.
00:46:45.81\00:46:51.60
Homosexual temple?
00:46:51.63\00:46:52.66
Nope.
00:46:52.69\00:46:53.88
Heterosexual temple?
00:46:53.91\00:46:54.97
Nope.
00:46:55.00\00:46:56.44
Holy temple.
00:46:56.47\00:46:58.53
Sex belongs in the temple,
00:46:58.56\00:47:02.40
remember that, remember that.
00:47:02.43\00:47:06.04
Because that
means all the sexuality
00:47:06.07\00:47:08.05
that you are right now
00:47:08.08\00:47:10.28
and all the sex you
might practice in the future,
00:47:10.31\00:47:14.28
all of it will take place
00:47:14.31\00:47:16.72
in the physical
presence of God himself.
00:47:16.75\00:47:22.23
Everything
'cause it's His temple,
00:47:22.26\00:47:27.21
He's sitting
there, He's sitting there.
00:47:27.24\00:47:32.93
Remember you are
the temple of God.
00:47:32.96\00:47:40.02
Sex in the
temple, the holy temple,
00:47:43.29\00:47:45.75
but of course that's
precisely where God wants it.
00:47:45.78\00:47:48.65
I mean, you
think about after all
00:47:48.68\00:47:50.93
can you think of a safer
place for sex to take place
00:47:50.96\00:47:57.15
than in the
temple, in the temple.
00:47:57.18\00:48:03.52
I want to pray, will you?
00:48:03.55\00:48:06.67
Oh God, the mystery is
not that You could come in,
00:48:06.70\00:48:12.22
the mystery is that
You would even want to.
00:48:12.25\00:48:16.31
You know here is the
compelling proclamations
00:48:16.34\00:48:23.70
our bodies, our sexuality,
00:48:23.73\00:48:27.54
us we are Your sacred shrine,
00:48:27.57\00:48:32.80
we are Your temple.
00:48:32.83\00:48:35.73
Oh, God, please,
what a high destiny.
00:48:35.76\00:48:40.98
Call us to that
destiny right now I pray.
00:48:41.01\00:48:46.04
And while every head
is still bowed in prayer
00:48:49.68\00:48:51.47
I can't walk out of here
00:48:51.50\00:48:55.20
without making an invitation.
00:48:55.23\00:49:00.15
I want to make an invitation
00:49:00.18\00:49:01.25
to the young men, who are here.
00:49:01.28\00:49:03.51
Heterosexual, homosexual
it doesn't matter to me.
00:49:03.54\00:49:07.50
I want to make invitation
to the young men who are here,
00:49:07.53\00:49:11.71
would you be willing today
00:49:11.74\00:49:15.92
to reopen your temple
00:49:15.95\00:49:20.28
to the occupancy of
the God of this universe.
00:49:20.31\00:49:25.85
Would you be willing to say,
00:49:25.88\00:49:29.58
this is Your house,
my house is Your house,
00:49:29.61\00:49:34.83
come in today
and hold this temple,
00:49:34.86\00:49:39.72
hold this house for me,
for the rest of my journey.
00:49:39.75\00:49:45.20
Is there a young man here
00:49:45.23\00:49:47.70
who would like to
stand at his feet,
00:49:47.73\00:49:49.88
he may be single,
he may be married,
00:49:49.91\00:49:52.05
he maybe a dad, is
there a young man here
00:49:52.08\00:49:56.44
who would like
to stand to his feet
00:49:56.47\00:49:58.00
and say I give this
body to you, oh God,
00:49:58.03\00:50:04.08
Your temple, my
body, Your temple.
00:50:04.11\00:50:09.75
My body, Your temple.
00:50:09.78\00:50:11.68
If there is a young man here
00:50:11.71\00:50:12.77
who would like
to pray that prayer
00:50:12.80\00:50:14.85
I want to invite you to
stand on your feet right now,
00:50:14.88\00:50:17.67
in the balcony at the back,
you're in the sanctuary here,
00:50:17.70\00:50:20.37
you are in the overflow room,
you're watching on television,
00:50:20.40\00:50:23.35
just stand and
by standing you say
00:50:23.38\00:50:28.12
I'm Yours, I'm Yours.
00:50:28.15\00:50:33.14
You say,
Dwight, how can I stand,
00:50:33.17\00:50:36.20
I mean please, you
don't know my story.
00:50:36.23\00:50:39.07
The story is immaterial.
00:50:39.10\00:50:42.77
You know
something that word washed,
00:50:42.80\00:50:46.19
do you what it means?
00:50:46.22\00:50:47.96
It obviously means
00:50:47.99\00:50:50.41
that when you come
to the Lord Jesus Christ
00:50:50.44\00:50:52.26
and you say my body is
Your temple, wash me now,
00:50:52.29\00:50:54.62
it means you are endowed
with spiritual virginity.
00:50:54.65\00:51:00.91
It's all over, whatever
the past was is immaterial now.
00:51:00.94\00:51:06.13
You get it, young,
may the temple of God,
00:51:06.16\00:51:13.92
your past covered.
00:51:13.95\00:51:16.33
Any other young man
would stand to your feet
00:51:16.36\00:51:20.12
as I'm standing on mine
00:51:20.15\00:51:22.82
and say oh, Jesus,
00:51:22.85\00:51:24.37
I renew to You, my desire.
00:51:24.40\00:51:28.88
This is Your temple,
my body, your temple.
00:51:28.91\00:51:34.23
I want to make an invitation
00:51:34.26\00:51:35.29
to the young women who are here,
00:51:35.32\00:51:38.41
how about you?
00:51:38.44\00:51:40.79
Nevermind the
story past heterosexual,
00:51:40.82\00:51:43.12
homosexual it doesn't matter
00:51:43.15\00:51:46.56
would you too wish
to stand at your feet
00:51:46.59\00:51:49.25
and by standing
declare my body Your temple,
00:51:49.28\00:51:54.71
you can have me
forever and ever, amen.
00:51:54.74\00:52:01.34
My body Your temple,
00:52:01.37\00:52:06.39
spiritual virginity
and being washed in Christ
00:52:06.42\00:52:09.39
I receive it.
00:52:09.42\00:52:11.45
My body Your temple,
00:52:11.48\00:52:16.23
my body Your temple.
00:52:16.26\00:52:19.82
I'm proud of the
young this is the wave
00:52:19.85\00:52:22.83
that God will send
forth into this planet
00:52:22.86\00:52:25.03
to reach the
broken who surround us.
00:52:25.06\00:52:29.91
Healed young men and women,
00:52:29.94\00:52:32.49
I'm proud of you but
it needs to be all of us.
00:52:32.52\00:52:37.06
If you're a not so young man,
00:52:37.09\00:52:40.96
married, father, grandfather,
00:52:40.99\00:52:43.70
not married, divorced
00:52:43.73\00:52:47.46
but you want to
declare my body Your temple,
00:52:47.49\00:52:51.34
like these have declared it,
00:52:51.37\00:52:52.85
would you stand to your feet,
00:52:52.88\00:52:54.46
if you're a man
00:52:54.49\00:52:56.95
and say Jesus, you can count on.
00:52:56.98\00:52:59.85
My body Your temple,
00:52:59.88\00:53:03.05
one with You,
how about of ladies,
00:53:03.08\00:53:08.82
society so much
looks to the women
00:53:08.85\00:53:11.19
to set the pace morally.
00:53:11.22\00:53:14.17
If your not a young
women but you're a women
00:53:14.20\00:53:15.87
and you wish to say
as single as you are,
00:53:15.90\00:53:18.85
married as you are,
divorced as you are,
00:53:18.88\00:53:22.01
heterosexual, homosexual,
what is it matter now,
00:53:22.04\00:53:24.73
my body Your temple.
00:53:24.76\00:53:27.89
And you're a women
would you stand to your feet
00:53:27.92\00:53:29.71
if you wish to say that,
pray that prayer as well.
00:53:29.74\00:53:35.60
Right, we got to
sing that song again,
00:53:35.63\00:53:37.59
it's such a beautiful prayer,
00:53:37.62\00:53:41.27
Lord prepare me
to be a sanctuary.
00:53:41.30\00:53:46.92
It's a prayer to be the temple,
00:53:46.95\00:53:48.43
we've just responded
00:53:48.46\00:53:51.73
but now let's sing
that prayer Greg, lead us.
00:53:51.76\00:53:54.00
He sure does, please.
00:53:54.03\00:53:58.81
Lord, prepare me
00:53:58.84\00:54:03.58
To be a sanctuary
00:54:03.61\00:54:09.92
Pure and holy
00:54:09.95\00:54:15.41
Tried and true
00:54:15.44\00:54:20.93
With thanksgiving,
00:54:20.96\00:54:26.41
I'll be a living
00:54:26.44\00:54:31.71
Sanctuary,
00:54:31.74\00:54:37.81
Lord, for You
00:54:37.84\00:54:41.60
I want to sing
that one more time
00:54:41.63\00:54:42.66
but I want to drop the
decibels way down now, way down
00:54:42.69\00:54:46.41
and I want us to sing
that just as a breezed prayer.
00:54:46.44\00:54:50.38
Lord, prepare me.
Let's sing is again.
00:54:50.41\00:54:53.42
Lord, prepare me,
00:54:53.45\00:54:59.19
To be a sanctuary
00:54:59.22\00:55:06.09
Pure and holy,
00:55:06.12\00:55:12.35
Tried and true
00:55:12.38\00:55:18.59
With thanksgiving,
00:55:18.62\00:55:23.78
I'll be a living
00:55:23.81\00:55:30.44
Sanctuary
00:55:30.47\00:55:37.36
Lord, for You
00:55:37.39\00:55:43.09
And so the Holy
Father, that is our prayer,
00:55:43.12\00:55:45.94
seal upon us now
Your benedictions,
00:55:45.97\00:55:47.76
seal this offer
00:55:47.79\00:55:52.24
our body Your temple,
00:55:52.27\00:55:56.51
seal it we pray.
00:55:56.54\00:55:58.82
And now to Him,
00:55:58.85\00:56:01.44
who has freed us from
our sins by His blood,
00:56:01.47\00:56:06.30
made His to be a
kingdom of priest for His glory
00:56:06.33\00:56:13.55
to the only wise God our Savior,
00:56:13.58\00:56:16.77
be glory in
majesty, dominion and power
00:56:16.80\00:56:20.20
both now and forever more
00:56:20.23\00:56:23.38
that all the people say, amen.
00:56:23.41\00:56:28.62
I'd like to take a moment
here at the end of the service
00:56:28.65\00:56:30.69
to tell you about one of the
most important groups of people
00:56:30.72\00:56:33.32
that make this
ministry possible.
00:56:33.35\00:56:36.17
There're team of people,
00:56:36.20\00:56:37.63
they're not afraid to get down
into the thick of life itself
00:56:37.66\00:56:41.28
which is why
you're gonna find them.
00:56:41.31\00:56:42.51
You will find them
moving forward on their knees.
00:56:42.54\00:56:45.84
They're prayer partners,
00:56:45.87\00:56:47.71
a group of men and
women and young adults
00:56:47.74\00:56:50.73
who believe that this
humble television ministry
00:56:50.76\00:56:53.55
has been raised up by
God for such a time as this.
00:56:53.58\00:56:56.05
And so they pray earnestly
that God will use the preacher,
00:56:56.08\00:56:59.32
that God will use
me, that God would use
00:56:59.35\00:57:00.92
the countless other volunteers
00:57:00.95\00:57:03.03
to spread the everlasting gospel
00:57:03.06\00:57:05.18
and the Word of God in ways
00:57:05.21\00:57:06.33
we could never
have imagined before.
00:57:06.36\00:57:08.47
There are the
ones who are praying
00:57:08.50\00:57:10.02
that God is gonna open
up the hearts of people,
00:57:10.05\00:57:13.26
open up the hearts of
viewers around the world
00:57:13.29\00:57:15.94
for the message,
the critical message
00:57:15.97\00:57:18.39
for this end time generation.
00:57:18.42\00:57:21.02
And what I would
like to do is ask you
00:57:21.05\00:57:23.17
would you be willing to
be a prayer partner with us,
00:57:23.20\00:57:25.85
a prayer partner
with New Perceptions?
00:57:25.88\00:57:27.44
You don't have to
call it toll free number.
00:57:27.47\00:57:29.10
You don't have to
go online to register.
00:57:29.13\00:57:31.39
All I need to know
is that you'd willing
00:57:31.42\00:57:33.90
to lift this little ministry
up day after day after day.
00:57:33.93\00:57:39.71
Pray that somehow through
radio and television and the web
00:57:39.74\00:57:43.52
God will open up new doors,
00:57:43.55\00:57:45.42
new-- new regions on earth
00:57:45.45\00:57:48.16
where the everlasting
Gospel can be proclaimed.
00:57:48.19\00:57:50.56
There is no
question the power of prayer
00:57:50.59\00:57:53.29
has potential to take
this ministry to places
00:57:53.32\00:57:55.41
we could never
have imagined before.
00:57:55.44\00:57:58.34
So that's it.
00:57:58.37\00:57:59.45
Would you please be willing
to partner with me in prayer?
00:57:59.48\00:58:02.99
The times are
urgent, the need is critical
00:58:03.02\00:58:06.84
and I hope you'll say, yes.
00:58:06.87\00:58:08.49
Till we're together in next time
00:58:08.52\00:58:10.75
may the prayer answering God
00:58:10.78\00:58:12.88
accompany you
every step of the way.
00:58:12.91\00:58:16.00