And step by step You lead me
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And I will follow You
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All of my days
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Let's sing that again
"O God, You are my God."
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O God, You are my God
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And I will ever praise You
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O God, You are my God
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And I will ever praise You
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I will seek You in the morning
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And I will learn
to walk in Your ways
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And step by step You lead me
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And I will follow
You all of my days
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I will follow You.
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And I will follow
You all of my days
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And I will follow
You all of my days
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And step by step You lead me
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And I will follow
You all of my days
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Once upon a time,
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there was a
movement called The Chosen.
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And they were just days away
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from crossing over
into the Promised Land.
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Just days away.
And the enemy knew it.
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He knew they were closer
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to the Promised
Land than they did.
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And so in desperation,
he reached for his dark
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and diabolical quiver.
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One year left, a poison shaft
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just three
letters long this arrow,
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S-E-X.
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And when he
fired that arrow deep
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into the heart of the
chosen, great was the slaughter
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that day on the very borders
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of the Promised Land.
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Let us pray.
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O God, as once
upon a time come again.
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And are the chosen
on the very borders
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once again of the Promised Land.
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If so, Holy
Father, then this teaching
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is critical for our survival.
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Hide me, hide all our hearts
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in the presence of
the spirit of Christ
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and teach us this morning.
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We pray in Jesus' name, amen.
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Open your Bible with me
please to that sad, sad story.
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It's the fourth
book of the Bible,
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the Book of Numbers.
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You got to read it.
We're not gonna embellish it.
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I'm not gonna add to it.
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Numbers Chapter 25,
if you don't have a Bible
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grab the pew Bible,
it would be page 112.
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My heart is
burdened this morning
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and I'm gonna
unburden it with you.
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But I want this story to be
our setting for the teaching.
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So Numbers,
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fourth book of the
Bible, Numbers Chapter 25.
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If you have the pew Bible,
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it'll be the New
King James version
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which would be what
I'll be reading right here.
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Numbers 25:1, "Now Israel"
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just days away on
the Promised Land.
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"Now Israel
remained in Acacia Grove,"
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in the Hebrew its Shittim
"and the people" of Israel
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"began to commit harlotry
with the women of Moab."
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Now the New
International Version
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which many of you
have on your laps reads,
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"And the people began to
indulge in sexual immorality
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with the women of Moab."
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Verse 2 "They" the women.
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"They invited the
people" of Israel the chosen.
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"They invited the people to
the sacrifices of their gods,
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and the people" the chosen "ate
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and bowed down to
their gods" the Moabite gods.
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Verse 3, "So Israel
was joined a Baal of Peor,
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and the anger of the Lord
was aroused against the chosen.
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So brazen, is this arrow?
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You're not gonna believe
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what you're about to
read, but it's there.
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Trust me, this never ended up
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in any Bible
story book for children.
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Watch this,
drop down to verse 6.
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"And indeed, one of
the children of Israel"
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one of the chosen
"came and presented
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to his brothers and sisters"
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He's walking in the camp
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and presents to
them "a Midianite,"
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that would be pagan
woman "in the sight of Moses
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and in the sight of
all the congregation
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of the children of Israel,
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who were weeping at the door
of the tabernacle of meeting."
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They are having
a prayer meeting.
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A plague has broken out
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and by the tens of
thousands, they are dropping.
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The plague has
its intended purpose.
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It creates a massive
sense of need for God
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and so the
community has gathered
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at the doors of the church
and they are weeping in prayer
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and in front of that reviving,
slowly reviving community,
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a young man of the chosen
with his Midianite consort
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brazen walks in front of
them, straight into his tent
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and you don't have to
have been born a long time ago
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to guess what's
gonna happen in that tent.
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Now while they are at
prayer meeting and weeping.
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Verse 7, "Now
Phinehas the son of Eleazar,
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the son of Aaron the
high priest, he saw it."
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Dries, wipes off his tears,
rises from the congregation,
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steps out of the prayer meeting
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and he "took a
javelin in his hand."
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All right, now
it's not very pretty.
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"And he went
after" this is verse 8.
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"He went after the man
of Israel into the tent"
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they are already
coiled around each other
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"and he thrust both of
them through, the man of Israel,
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and the woman through her body.
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So the plague was stopped
among the children of Israel."
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Verse 9, "And those
who died in that plague
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were twenty-four thousand."
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The end.
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Hey, guys, there is
something going on here
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that we're not
picking up on yet.
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Something's happening here.
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The Apostle Paul tells this
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very same story
to make the point.
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Let's see what that point is.
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We're not coming
back to Numbers 25,
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so don't keep your finger there.
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It's 1 Corinthians.
Go the New Testament now.
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We had the Old Testament
story, 1 Corinthians Chapter 10.
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1 Corinthians Chapter 10
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that would be page
772 in your pew Bible.
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We've read these words before,
our last time with these words.
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1 Corinthians 10: 6
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"Now these things
became our examples,
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to the intent
that we should not lust
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after evil things
as they also lusted."
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And verse 7, "And do not become
idolaters as were some of them.
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As it is written,
'The people sat down
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to eat and drink,
and rose up to play.'
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" Verse 8, "Nor let us
commit sexual immorality,
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as some of them did,
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and in one day
twenty-three thousand fell..."
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Time out, time
out, wait a minute,
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we just read 24,000.
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There's a
discrepancy in Holy Scripture.
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Scholars scratch their heads
and they say, "Ah, it's this."
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The plague destroyed--
the plague destroyed 23, 000
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but God gave a command that
we skipped over in Numbers 25,
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when He says, I want
the leaders strung up.
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The leaders who have
plunged into this anarchy,
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the sexual anarchy
and 1,000 young judges
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were executed
that day, total 24,000.
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What's going on here,
Paul? What's your point?
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Verse 11, "Now all
these things happened to them"
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wandering
through the wilderness.
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"All these things happened
to the chosen as examples,
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and they were
written for our admonition,
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upon whom the ends
of the ages have come."
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It is for the chosen,
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one last time at the
borders of the Promised Land
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that for stories
have been preserved.
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Once upon a time,
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the chosen were on the
borders of the Promised Land
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when sexual
immorality brought them down.
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Once upon another time,
the chosen are once again
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on the borders of
the Promised Land.
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Question, shall
sexual immorality
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bring us down as well?
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I want to
unburden my heart to you
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as we plunge into this fourth
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and final controversial subject.
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This is number 4 of the 4
within the series The Chosen.
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True or false?
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Our human sexuality is
a glorious gift from God,
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true or false?
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But of course,
true. God gave us sex.
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Gave it to us in the beginning.
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In fact, let me take you
back to the Garden of Eden,
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Genesis Chapter 1.
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Remember these words?
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"So God created man"
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Adam in the
Hebrew, Generic, human.
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"God created man
in His own image,
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in the image of
God He created him,
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male and female" takes the two
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"male and female
He created them."
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To make the image of God.
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"And then God blessed
them, and He said to them,
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'Be fruitful and
multiply, fill the earth,
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fill the earth
rather and subdue it,
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have dominion over
the fish of the sea,
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over the birds of the air,
and over every living thing
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that moves on the earth."
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Populate this
brand new planet for me.
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Now the little up-close zoom-in
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in chapter 2 of
the wedding itself,
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it sets us up in
Chapter 2 verse 18
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"And the Lord God said,
'it is not good that man"
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Adam "should be alone,
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I will make him a
helper comparable to him.'"
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Not identical to
him, comparable to him.
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And after that wedding ceremony,
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there's this
glorious exclamation.
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Verse 24, Genesis 2
"Therefore a man shall leave
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his father and mother
and be joined to his wife,
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and then they
shall become one flesh."
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All right, ladies and gentlemen,
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what you and I
have always known?
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Come on, you knew
this, I knew this.
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God created our
sexuality so that we might be
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fruitful and multiply,
procreation we call it.
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But I want to remind
you that sex is not only--
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it's not just about
procreation and multiplying.
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Sex is a gift from
God to the human race,
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to make possible
the ultimate intimacy
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that can exist
between two human beings,
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i.e., a man and a woman
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in the protective
confides of marriage.
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Sex is about the
gift of ultimate intimacy.
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You say, "Oh, come on,
Dwight, you can't prove that."
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Why, yes, I can.
Look at this, Genesis 4:1.
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When you were a kid you
configured these words out.
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"Mom, what does this mean?"
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'Adam knew Eve his
wife, and she got pregnant.'
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Should we not know girls?"
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"No, son, that's
not what it means."
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And then she never answered
the rest of the question.
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But God is doing
something intentional here.
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"Now Adam knew Eve his wife
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and she
conceived and bore Cain."
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Now the Hebrew
word there is yada.
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He knew her.
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God's making a huge point
right here at the beginning,
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after the fall.
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His point is
intimacy, intimacy, intimacy,
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must be experienced
on the level of knowing.
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Hey, listen, there
are five levels to knowing
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but you have to have
the first four in place
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before the fifth one makes
a, hoot of sense, all right.
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You've got to know somebody
first on the mental level.
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"That's right, I
just see you, yeah.
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Like to get to know you."
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Then you know somebody
on the emotional level,
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kind of like this
getting to know you.
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See, you got the mental level,
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the emotional level
and the social level.
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"Hey, what do you
say we go out together?"
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That's the social level.
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Then you get to know somebody
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if your friendship progresses
on the spiritual level.
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"You love God too? Oh,
let's love God together."
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God's point is it
takes the first four levels
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in order to prepare
for the ultimate intimacy
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of the fifth
level which is knowing
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that person on a
physical or sexual basis.
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If you only go to number five,
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you have
short-circuited intimacy.
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And do you know what you have?
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You have what
is spelled F-A-K-E.
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Say it with me,
fake. It's a fake.
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You have to know
on all these levels,
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then, that intimacy is yours.
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By the way, God comes
along. This is amazing.
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God comes along
and in Jeremiah 9,
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we'll look at this
verse little bit later.
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He comes along in
Jeremiah 9 He says,
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"Hey, you want to
be excited about some--
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You want to write
your folks back at home
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and tell them
what you've found?"
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Don't boast in your wisdom,
don't boast in your wealth,
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don't boast in your
prowess, your strength,
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let him who
boasts, let her who boasts,
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boast in this that she,
yada, that she knows me.
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You see, ultimate human intimacy
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is a paradigm for
ultimate divine human intimacy.
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God takes the very same word.
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Adam and Eve had
sex relations, He says,
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"I want that word to describe
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what I'm hungry for
you to experience with me."
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So, guys, here's
what's happening.
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When Israel, the chosen,
00:15:34.23\00:15:35.54
when they joined themselves
to Moabites' prostitutes
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and experience illicit
sex-- do you understand?
00:15:39.28\00:15:42.22
They were
sacrificing their intimacy
00:15:42.25\00:15:44.98
with Almighty God Himself.
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They were substituting it now.
A fake intimacy is substituted.
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Immediately having
the residual effect
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on the Israelite conscience.
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Immediately. As soon as
they go for the fake intimacy
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the conscience breaks down
and from sex they turn to gods.
00:16:01.69\00:16:06.89
The conscience breaks
down so rapidly that they turn
00:16:06.92\00:16:11.62
from the living God
in a matter of minutes
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and are soon bowing in
front of the pagan idols of Moab
00:16:14.66\00:16:21.09
which is precisely,
what Satan had in mind.
00:16:21.12\00:16:24.49
That's why he shot that
arrow in the first place.
00:16:24.52\00:16:29.44
Take him down now. I
cannot let them crossover.
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No wonder. The divine reaction
was so swift and so strong,
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24,000 dead.
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Because unbridle,
illicit sex eats away
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at the human conscience
and renders the chosen we,
00:16:50.62\00:16:53.79
now the chosen is weak,
00:16:53.82\00:16:55.28
he, she is impotent to
the heavy-handed wooing
00:16:55.31\00:16:59.87
that the tempter had in
mind the whole time to collapse,
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to dumb down the conscience
00:17:03.99\00:17:07.06
and destroy their
faith. That's the whole point.
00:17:07.09\00:17:10.12
Just thinking
about it makes you cry.
00:17:18.15\00:17:19.73
You know what, it
just makes you sad.
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I feel like weeping too.
00:17:23.14\00:17:24.68
Which is why,
ladies and gentlemen,
00:17:30.10\00:17:32.48
Satan with his
demonic and diabolical cunning
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was waiting for
Israel, waiting for them
00:17:35.77\00:17:38.79
right on the borders
of the Promised Land.
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"I'm waiting for you, boy.
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I'm waiting for you, girl,
just step into my line of fire."
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And he got them, got them.
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I'm unburdening my
heart to you today.
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I want to share with you
three realms of illicit sex.
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One of the three
is being defended
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by those within
the community of faith
00:18:02.93\00:18:05.31
but I'm gonna
share all three with you.
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I'm gonna be as
candid as I can be
00:18:07.38\00:18:10.43
and under the
power of the Spirit
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I hope it's fourth right
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has got intense for
this teaching to be.
00:18:13.06\00:18:15.83
Take your study
guide out right now
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I'm gonna-- I want
you to jot these down.
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There are there
realms of illicit sex,
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fake intimacy
that are crippling.
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These three
realms, they are crippling
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the children of the chosen
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on the borders of
the Promised Land.
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And by the way, those of you
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over the age of 30
or over the age of 40,
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I don't want to
hear you sitting back
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and just saying, "All
right, pastor, let them have it"
00:18:36.00\00:18:38.19
because there will
be a little something
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for you and me in
this as well, all right.
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Take your study guide
out. Where is your study guide?
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You got in your-- Oh, and I
got to do two things with this.
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Listen, guys, this is
the last of the Q and A.
00:18:46.85\00:18:49.38
But because the subject is sex
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nobody is gonna
step up to a microphone.
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I'm gonna ask you to
write your question down.
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Write your question down.
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If you don't have a
piece-- there's a piece of paper
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in the bulletin for
you to write it down
00:18:57.59\00:18:59.07
but you didn't get a
bulletin, hold your hand up,
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our ushers will make
sure you get a piece of paper
00:19:00.81\00:19:02.70
along with the study guide,
00:19:02.73\00:19:03.90
make sure you
get the study guide.
00:19:03.93\00:19:06.07
This is a keeper and if
you want to ask a question
00:19:06.10\00:19:08.85
and you, of
course, have no idea yet
00:19:08.88\00:19:10.10
whether you want to ask it,
00:19:10.13\00:19:11.38
but if you want to,
get that piece of paper.
00:19:11.41\00:19:13.59
While they're
doing that, those of you
00:19:13.62\00:19:14.71
watching on television,
we're delighted to have you.
00:19:14.74\00:19:16.39
Let me put our
website on the screen for you
00:19:16.42\00:19:18.46
and you can go to this website.
00:19:18.49\00:19:19.79
You see it there
right now www.pmchurch
00:19:19.82\00:19:23.30
Pioneer Memorial pmchurch.tv.
00:19:23.33\00:19:26.44
Go to that website.
00:19:26.47\00:19:27.50
You're looking for a
series called The Chosen.
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This series will
be over in a month.
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You're looking for The Chosen.
00:19:31.34\00:19:32.47
This is the heart of it,
four controversial subjects.
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And today's teaching is entitled
00:19:35.96\00:19:37.50
"How to Live
Without Sex for a while."
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All right.
00:19:40.58\00:19:41.61
So click on where it says,
study guide beside that title.
00:19:41.64\00:19:44.36
You'll get the same study guide.
00:19:44.39\00:19:45.57
This is a three
panel study guide.
00:19:45.60\00:19:47.09
We're gonna fly
through it starting right now
00:19:47.12\00:19:50.76
and so make sure you have it.
00:19:50.79\00:19:52.55
And I want to make sure
00:19:52.58\00:19:53.61
everybody in the
balcony gets it as well.
00:19:53.64\00:19:55.36
If you need a question,
00:19:55.39\00:19:56.81
a Q and A piece of blank paper,
00:19:56.84\00:19:59.06
hold your hand up and use that.
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The ushers will
get that for you.
00:20:02.18\00:20:03.25
All right, let's jot it down.
00:20:03.28\00:20:05.42
Three realms of sexual concern
00:20:05.45\00:20:06.59
and then I'll
conclude with the simple
00:20:06.62\00:20:07.84
four fold life and sex strategy.
00:20:07.87\00:20:09.77
All right, here we go.
00:20:09.80\00:20:10.83
Realm number one,
I am concerned today.
00:20:10.86\00:20:12.95
Realm number
one, pornographic sex.
00:20:12.98\00:20:16.78
Pornographic sex and then
every one of these three realms
00:20:16.81\00:20:19.26
will end with a
question, a natural question.
00:20:19.29\00:20:21.09
Why resist?
Why, come on, please.
00:20:21.12\00:20:23.65
Pornographic sex.
00:20:23.68\00:20:24.88
I'm convinced that the single
greatest threat to this nation
00:20:24.91\00:20:28.24
and this church and
this campus is pornography.
00:20:28.27\00:20:32.54
Its anonymous availability
00:20:32.57\00:20:34.16
through the click of the
mouse on the internet today
00:20:34.19\00:20:36.39
is sucking tens of
millions of men and boys,
00:20:36.42\00:20:39.78
women and girls
into its dark vortex.
00:20:39.81\00:20:42.98
I'm concerned.
00:20:43.01\00:20:44.17
I have had men in my
office weeping their hearts out,
00:20:44.20\00:20:47.00
young and old men over
their addiction to pornography.
00:20:47.03\00:20:51.70
What's going on
with pornography?
00:20:51.73\00:20:53.27
It is illicit sex that
offers a fake intimacy,
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fake intimacy and the danger is
it dumbs down your conscience.
00:20:58.25\00:21:03.29
It will eventually
destroy your faith.
00:21:03.32\00:21:05.48
It will destroy you, trust me.
00:21:05.51\00:21:11.11
You need to look
at these numbers.
00:21:11.14\00:21:12.26
This will blow
you out of the water.
00:21:12.29\00:21:13.56
The National Coalition for
the Protection of Children,
00:21:13.59\00:21:15.98
I'm gonna fly through this,
if you don't get them all now
00:21:16.01\00:21:18.29
go to our website, the
answers will be at the bottom.
00:21:18.32\00:21:19.94
The National Coalition
for the Protection of Children
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reports that
25%, write that down,
00:21:21.90\00:21:25.10
of all internet
search engine requests
00:21:25.13\00:21:27.86
are related to pornography.
00:21:27.89\00:21:29.17
One out of four
googling is saying,
00:21:29.20\00:21:31.28
"Find me something,
find me something out there."
00:21:31.31\00:21:33.91
One out of four,
isn't that amazing?
00:21:33.94\00:21:37.50
There are 1.3
million pornographic websites
00:21:37.53\00:21:41.20
logged on to by 30
million people everyday
00:21:41.23\00:21:44.01
making it a $3
billion a year industry.
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Keep your pen moving.
00:21:48.71\00:21:49.74
At least 20,000 American adults
00:21:49.77\00:21:52.22
visit internet sex
sites at least 11 hours,
00:21:52.25\00:21:55.06
not a month, not a year, a week.
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11 hours a week,
20,000 American adults.
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20,000-- I mean, 20% of men
00:22:01.64\00:22:03.42
and 13% of women
do it on the job.
00:22:03.45\00:22:05.60
Look at that employer,
they are doing it on the job.
00:22:05.63\00:22:10.60
About 8% of all emails include
pornography, you know that.
00:22:10.63\00:22:14.28
Those emails some how
get through the filter
00:22:14.31\00:22:15.76
and you get one Russian Girls.
00:22:15.79\00:22:20.74
You've seen them.
00:22:20.77\00:22:23.49
Get this, an estimated 20,000
images of child pornography
00:22:23.52\00:22:27.51
are posted on the
internet every single week.
00:22:27.54\00:22:30.99
Twenty thousand
new pictures of kids.
00:22:31.02\00:22:34.82
The National Center for Missing
and Exploited Children reports
00:22:34.85\00:22:37.08
that the average age
of first internet exposure
00:22:37.11\00:22:39.17
to pornography is 11.
00:22:39.20\00:22:41.11
I heard someone
this last week say, five,
00:22:41.14\00:22:42.98
and the largest
consumer of internet porn,
00:22:43.01\00:22:44.75
this blew me out of the
water, 12 to 17 years of age,
00:22:44.78\00:22:47.88
the largest consumer 12-17.
00:22:47.91\00:22:53.59
70% of sexual advances
over the internet happen
00:22:53.62\00:22:57.06
when the youngsters
are at home on a computer.
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Mom and pop, are
you listening to me?
00:22:59.42\00:23:00.68
We got some young parents
to be, are you listening?
00:23:00.71\00:23:03.24
70% of the sexual advances
are happening in their home,
00:23:03.27\00:23:05.23
on the home computer.
00:23:05.26\00:23:06.29
Look at this, 20%
of parents do not know
00:23:06.32\00:23:08.70
any of their
children's internet passwords,
00:23:08.73\00:23:10.77
instant messaging
nicknames or email addresses.
00:23:10.80\00:23:13.82
What do you know
of your children?
00:23:13.85\00:23:16.70
What do you know?
00:23:16.73\00:23:20.06
In a recent
Sunday Herald Palladium
00:23:20.09\00:23:21.51
which is published
right here in Barring County
00:23:21.54\00:23:23.75
which reported
all these statistics,
00:23:23.78\00:23:25.15
there is an FBI
Agent, special agent,
00:23:25.18\00:23:26.93
who is devoted to
child porn is working out
00:23:26.96\00:23:29.07
of the St. Joseph FBI
office, his name Robert Sell.
00:23:29.10\00:23:32.15
So he's given a
little presentation.
00:23:32.18\00:23:33.64
I'm gonna put Robert
Sell's words on the screen here.
00:23:33.67\00:23:36.24
"In my professional opinion,
00:23:36.27\00:23:38.07
I would restrict
all access to MySpace,
00:23:38.10\00:23:41.08
and I would not allow my
child to have a MySpace page.
00:23:41.11\00:23:44.78
I would tell my daughter
00:23:44.81\00:23:45.84
that sexual predators would
be able to easily find her.
00:23:45.87\00:23:48.49
Predators search
for things like this.
00:23:48.52\00:23:50.09
MySpace is by far
the worst thing on there,
00:23:50.12\00:23:52.73
not only for
children, but for adults."
00:23:52.76\00:23:56.08
My friend Bernie
Anderson addressed this campus
00:24:00.86\00:24:03.95
at a special
forum chapel on Thursday
00:24:03.98\00:24:07.84
sharing the confession
of his new book entitled
00:24:07.87\00:24:10.14
"Breaking the Silence"
that's Bernie's new book.
00:24:10.17\00:24:13.80
Bernie sent me the
manuscript as he was writing it,
00:24:13.83\00:24:15.65
I read it and I
wrote a promotion
00:24:15.68\00:24:17.59
that appears on the
back cover of this book.
00:24:17.62\00:24:19.79
Bernie was our
co-host at Net '98.
00:24:19.82\00:24:22.20
He stood up here with me
00:24:22.23\00:24:24.45
to 100 nations in 40 languages
night after night after night.
00:24:24.48\00:24:26.93
We did not know at the
time that Bernie was already
00:24:26.96\00:24:29.74
under the grip of
pornographic addiction.
00:24:29.77\00:24:35.96
In this book, with
courage and conviction,
00:24:35.99\00:24:37.96
the Seventh-day Adventist pastor
00:24:37.99\00:24:39.15
shares his
testimony and describes
00:24:39.18\00:24:41.08
how God delivered him
from pornographic addiction.
00:24:41.11\00:24:43.57
He told us on
Thursday, 40% of clergy,
00:24:43.60\00:24:45.86
40% of clergy have
a pornography problem.
00:24:45.89\00:24:49.80
It's amazing.
00:24:49.83\00:24:54.50
There is a way
out, I need to say this.
00:24:54.53\00:24:56.14
In just a moment in fact,
00:24:56.17\00:24:57.20
I'm gonna share with
you a four fold strategy.
00:24:57.23\00:24:59.05
There is a way out
00:24:59.08\00:25:00.43
but would you
write this down please.
00:25:00.46\00:25:02.63
The best way out
is to never go in.
00:25:02.66\00:25:06.62
Don't go in.
00:25:06.65\00:25:09.80
If you're dabbling
right now and wondering
00:25:09.83\00:25:10.99
whether you
should go any further?
00:25:11.02\00:25:12.05
My friend, you got to
stop, stop, stop, stop, stop!
00:25:12.08\00:25:15.49
There's somebody
who is not interested
00:25:15.52\00:25:17.14
in your entertainment,
he is only interested
00:25:17.17\00:25:19.01
in melting down your conscience
00:25:19.04\00:25:21.08
and destroying your
soul, that's all he wants.
00:25:21.11\00:25:24.13
Don't you go, don't you go.
00:25:24.16\00:25:27.63
Read my friend Bernie's
book "Breaking the Silence."
00:25:27.66\00:25:30.32
I tell you what,
ladies and gentlemen,
00:25:30.35\00:25:31.38
if we do not
start talking about this
00:25:31.41\00:25:32.85
and acting on this in
our community of faith,
00:25:32.88\00:25:34.73
we will lose half
an entire generation
00:25:34.76\00:25:36.38
of our best and brightest,
00:25:36.41\00:25:37.97
sucked at the
beginning of their life journey.
00:25:38.00\00:25:43.73
Do you think it's an accident
00:25:43.76\00:25:45.78
that these stupid
little pops ups pop up?
00:25:45.81\00:25:50.80
It's insidious, it's satanic,
00:25:50.83\00:25:56.12
it's allure and the arrow
00:25:56.15\00:25:59.05
is just waiting for
you to touch the mouse.
00:25:59.08\00:26:06.52
Fake intimacy.
00:26:06.55\00:26:07.63
The fake
intimacy of illicit sex,
00:26:07.66\00:26:09.60
it dumbs down the conscience
and destroys the faith.
00:26:09.63\00:26:12.43
All right, three
realms I'm concerned about.
00:26:12.46\00:26:14.13
Realm number two, write it down,
00:26:14.16\00:26:15.96
premarital sex, why wait?
00:26:15.99\00:26:17.70
By the way, you
can scribble down there
00:26:17.73\00:26:18.93
if you're already passed
premarital extramarital sex.
00:26:18.96\00:26:22.76
In my blog today in
the worship bulletin,
00:26:22.79\00:26:25.10
it's already posted in
our website pmchurch.tv
00:26:25.13\00:26:27.87
I write a weekly blog.
00:26:27.90\00:26:29.05
A report on a recent
school board decision
00:26:29.08\00:26:31.03
of the King Middle
School in Portland, Maine
00:26:31.06\00:26:32.97
in which they voted 7-2
00:26:33.00\00:26:34.80
to provide a full range of
birth control contraceptives
00:26:34.83\00:26:37.40
for students as
young as 11 years of age.
00:26:37.43\00:26:42.19
If you have your
parents' permission,
00:26:42.22\00:26:43.64
you can go to
the medical center.
00:26:43.67\00:26:44.70
You don't have to tell them
00:26:44.73\00:26:45.76
why you want to go
to the medical center.
00:26:45.79\00:26:46.82
Just get their permission
00:26:46.85\00:26:47.93
and if you ask for birth control
00:26:47.96\00:26:49.15
we will give you birth control.
00:26:49.18\00:26:50.54
So, ladies and gentlemen,
what is happening to America?
00:26:50.57\00:26:53.02
How young are we
supposed to have sex?
00:26:53.05\00:26:54.78
Is it 11 or is it
12? I'm little confused.
00:26:54.81\00:26:57.25
Is it 11 or 12?
00:26:57.28\00:26:59.71
Is it 13? Is it 14?
00:26:59.74\00:27:02.39
When are we
supposed to have sex?
00:27:02.42\00:27:03.46
15 is that it, 15,
16, 17? What about 18?
00:27:03.49\00:27:07.50
What's wrong
with 19, huh, 20, 21?
00:27:07.53\00:27:09.83
When do we start sex in America?
00:27:09.86\00:27:11.46
Rachel Wilson, a student
here at Andrews University,
00:27:18.84\00:27:20.76
this last week sent me a piece
from the Wall Street Journal,
00:27:20.79\00:27:24.12
just came out last
week in which a study
00:27:24.15\00:27:25.77
by Michigan State University
reported, jot this down,
00:27:25.80\00:27:28.35
60% of university students
surveyed, Michigan State,
00:27:28.38\00:27:32.27
have had a sexual friends
with benefits relationship.
00:27:32.30\00:27:35.69
We're friends because, you know,
00:27:35.72\00:27:36.75
we both get to do
something out of this.
00:27:36.78\00:27:39.21
Nine out of ten of
those hookups did not lead
00:27:39.24\00:27:41.27
to a dating relationship,
it was a one night stand.
00:27:41.30\00:27:44.69
The Journal of Sex
Research, keep writing,
00:27:44.72\00:27:46.68
reported last year
that after casual sex,
00:27:46.71\00:27:49.04
females are more
likely than males
00:27:49.07\00:27:50.58
to show symptoms of depression.
00:27:50.61\00:27:53.79
You start melting down, sis.
00:27:53.82\00:27:55.44
You start melting down,
you will start melting down.
00:27:55.47\00:27:59.91
Laura Sessions Stepp
author of the book "Unhooked"
00:27:59.94\00:28:02.06
put it on the
screen for you, "Unhooked."
00:28:02.09\00:28:03.89
How Young Women Pursue Sex,
Delay Love, and Lose at Both.
00:28:03.92\00:28:08.77
Interviewed girls who
considered it empowering
00:28:08.80\00:28:10.75
to be dismissive of
romance and casual about sex.
00:28:10.78\00:28:13.26
"Not a big deal, who cares."
They now are beset with regret.
00:28:13.29\00:28:19.80
As it so
happened, this very week
00:28:19.83\00:28:21.65
a young co-ed calls me
up on the phone in tears.
00:28:21.68\00:28:26.07
She has melted down,
melted down, premarital sex.
00:28:26.10\00:28:32.54
You know, what it is, don't you?
00:28:32.57\00:28:33.60
Premarital sex?
00:28:33.63\00:28:34.66
It's fake intimacy,
there's nothing there.
00:28:34.69\00:28:37.30
It's a fake.
00:28:37.33\00:28:39.55
Its whole purpose is to begin
to dumb down your conscience,
00:28:39.58\00:28:42.57
melt it down so that your faith
00:28:42.60\00:28:43.92
will be gone in
a moment of crisis,
00:28:43.95\00:28:45.45
you got nothing there
to call on, it's over.
00:28:45.48\00:28:48.41
That's the point.
00:28:48.44\00:28:51.65
I'm being very straight
with you, but I got to be.
00:28:51.68\00:28:55.99
We are on the
borders of the Promised Land.
00:28:56.02\00:28:59.03
Do you understand? The arrow
00:28:59.06\00:29:00.20
has been waiting
for this generation.
00:29:00.23\00:29:06.50
And by the way, you
say, "I'm married." Good.
00:29:06.53\00:29:09.94
Stay married and stay away
00:29:09.97\00:29:12.46
from every other
woman on this planet.
00:29:12.49\00:29:16.39
I want to hear about
little dalliances with coeds,
00:29:16.42\00:29:22.89
don't need it, you stay away.
00:29:22.92\00:29:26.09
And by the way, sis, if
he's married, stay away.
00:29:26.12\00:29:30.81
You're half the
equation, you stay away.
00:29:30.84\00:29:34.62
Fake, fake intimacy
will leave you bankrupt.
00:29:34.65\00:29:39.22
All right, I'm
concerned about three realms.
00:29:39.25\00:29:41.25
It's the third realm
now that we've come to
00:29:41.28\00:29:42.84
realm number
three, homosexual sex.
00:29:42.87\00:29:46.31
Why not?
00:29:46.34\00:29:50.26
I visit with homosexuals
here in my church office.
00:29:50.29\00:29:54.21
I've heard their testimonies
of pain and rejection.
00:29:54.24\00:29:58.42
I've listened
to their anguished,
00:29:58.45\00:30:00.11
"Why not, pastor,
come on, why not?"
00:30:00.14\00:30:02.98
I want to tell you something,
my heart goes out to you,
00:30:03.01\00:30:05.70
my heart goes out to you.
00:30:05.73\00:30:08.41
We're not gonna put the
words up on the screen again
00:30:08.44\00:30:09.88
but just a moment
ago we were in Genesis,
00:30:09.91\00:30:11.58
we saw the ideal
that God created.
00:30:11.61\00:30:14.14
It's very clear there.
00:30:14.17\00:30:16.79
It is within the protective
confines of a marriage
00:30:16.82\00:30:18.84
between a man and a woman
00:30:18.87\00:30:20.28
that ultimate human
intimacy is to be preserved.
00:30:20.31\00:30:26.15
Sacred scripture never deviates,
00:30:26.18\00:30:27.95
not once does it
deviate from that high calling.
00:30:27.98\00:30:32.01
In fact Christ Jesus,
the Creator incarnate,
00:30:32.04\00:30:34.95
when He comes to earth,
He quotes the very words
00:30:34.98\00:30:37.03
we read a moment ago and
He says, "Guys, this is it."
00:30:37.06\00:30:39.82
Marriage is
between a man and woman
00:30:39.85\00:30:41.84
and the intimacy must be
protected within those walls.
00:30:41.87\00:30:48.27
Homosexual sex. Listen,
00:30:48.30\00:30:52.84
there is no complementarity
with homosexual sex.
00:30:52.87\00:30:58.97
It is the union of identicals,
not the union of compliments.
00:30:59.00\00:31:06.19
It's fake. It's fake.
00:31:06.22\00:31:08.27
There's no intimacy.
00:31:11.92\00:31:14.69
And by the way,
whether it's heterosexual sex
00:31:14.72\00:31:17.13
or homosexual sex
and I read a survey
00:31:17.16\00:31:18.99
this last week
where they interviewed,
00:31:19.02\00:31:20.41
they surveyed college
students on a particular campus
00:31:20.44\00:31:22.54
and they said,
"Why do you do this sex?
00:31:22.57\00:31:24.00
Why do you do the
sex before marriage?"
00:31:24.03\00:31:25.54
And not one of them
said, "Because I love her."
00:31:25.57\00:31:26.99
Not one of those girls
said, "Because I love him."
00:31:27.02\00:31:28.83
The bottom line as a newspaper
put, it was lust over love.
00:31:28.86\00:31:33.30
Listen, listen,
listen, listen, listen,
00:31:33.33\00:31:35.59
illicit sex is
never about commitment,
00:31:35.62\00:31:39.71
heterosexual or homosexual,
it's not about commitment,
00:31:39.74\00:31:42.89
it's about consumption.
00:31:42.92\00:31:45.91
Give it to me. I want more.
00:31:45.94\00:31:49.35
It's not about commitment.
00:31:49.38\00:31:52.05
Like I need to
be very gentle here
00:31:52.08\00:31:58.41
but there is no
such thing as male,
00:31:58.44\00:32:03.98
monogamous,
homosexual commitment.
00:32:04.01\00:32:08.91
That phrases an oxymoron.
It just doesn't happen.
00:32:08.94\00:32:14.35
You say, "I'll
find you one, Dwight."
00:32:14.38\00:32:15.87
Good, that one that you
find will prove the rule
00:32:15.90\00:32:19.68
because it will be
that hard to find it.
00:32:19.71\00:32:22.87
Guys, when it's fake intimacy,
do you think God is saying,
00:32:22.90\00:32:28.19
I'm blessing, I'm
blessing, I'm blessing?
00:32:28.22\00:32:31.07
No.
00:32:31.10\00:32:32.13
Richard B.
Hayes' brilliant mind.
00:32:36.69\00:32:40.55
New Testament
ethicist at Duke University
00:32:40.58\00:32:43.66
in his magnum opus,
magisterial really his book
00:32:43.69\00:32:46.59
"The Moral Vision
of the New Testament"
00:32:46.62\00:32:48.58
which I have, I
want to put some words,
00:32:48.61\00:32:50.10
it's in your study guide.
00:32:50.13\00:32:51.16
Look at these
words, on the screen.
00:32:51.19\00:32:52.22
We put them on
the screen for you.
00:32:52.25\00:32:53.50
Hayes now is writing,
00:32:53.53\00:32:54.66
"When human beings
engage in homosexual activity,
00:32:54.69\00:32:57.34
they enact an
outward and visible sign
00:32:57.37\00:32:59.77
of an inward and
spiritual reality:
00:32:59.80\00:33:02.07
the rejection of
the Creator's design."
00:33:02.10\00:33:05.72
See Hayes does
what you can only do.
00:33:05.75\00:33:07.47
You have to go back to creation
for your model, he does.
00:33:07.50\00:33:10.71
"Thus, Paul's
choice of homosexuality
00:33:10.74\00:33:13.17
in Romans Chapter 1."
00:33:13.20\00:33:14.23
And Paul does point
out men consumed with lust
00:33:14.26\00:33:16.39
for other men
and women the same.
00:33:16.42\00:33:18.24
"Paul's choice of homosexuality
in Romans 1 as an illustration
00:33:18.27\00:33:21.29
of human depravity
is not merely random,
00:33:21.32\00:33:24.47
it serves his
rhetorical purposes
00:33:24.50\00:33:26.46
by providing a vivid image
of humanity's primal rejection
00:33:26.49\00:33:30.51
of the sovereignty
of God the Creator."
00:33:30.54\00:33:33.90
Now I'm not saying that.
00:33:37.16\00:33:39.16
A brilliant mind is saying that.
00:33:39.19\00:33:42.35
You say, "Oh,
pastor, but come on please.
00:33:42.38\00:33:44.95
Some of us are heterosexuals
and some of us are homosexuals
00:33:44.98\00:33:48.07
and come on, our
orientation is not our fault."
00:33:48.10\00:33:52.82
Okay, it's fair enough.
00:33:52.85\00:33:55.07
So let's side
step the whole nature
00:33:55.10\00:33:56.66
versus nurture argument, okay.
00:33:56.69\00:34:01.36
We won't even talk
about our orientations.
00:34:01.39\00:34:04.54
By the way, I need to tell you
00:34:04.57\00:34:05.89
the Bible knows
nothing of sexual orientation.
00:34:05.92\00:34:08.57
That is a modern classification,
00:34:08.60\00:34:09.79
you understand that.
00:34:09.82\00:34:11.21
But what the
Bible does know about
00:34:11.24\00:34:13.10
is a single
simple divine principle
00:34:13.13\00:34:15.13
for all human
sexual interaction.
00:34:15.16\00:34:17.30
Would you write
this down, please?
00:34:17.33\00:34:18.74
Outside of a marriage
between a man and a woman,
00:34:18.77\00:34:21.49
there is to be no
interpersonal sexual expression.
00:34:21.52\00:34:26.86
Because outside of a marriage
between a man and a woman,
00:34:26.89\00:34:29.04
illicit sex
creates a fake intimacy
00:34:29.07\00:34:31.97
and it will dumb
down your conscience
00:34:32.00\00:34:33.81
and destroy your faith.
00:34:33.84\00:34:35.19
You just can't do it.
00:34:35.22\00:34:36.33
God says, there's no proviso.
00:34:36.36\00:34:39.30
Well, the human
race is falling now,
00:34:39.33\00:34:40.36
so we have this little proviso.
00:34:40.39\00:34:41.46
No, there is no proviso.
00:34:41.49\00:34:43.18
God will not cut a deal.
00:34:43.21\00:34:44.55
He-- and bargain with Satan,
00:34:44.58\00:34:46.54
He will not cut
that deal and say,
00:34:46.57\00:34:48.50
"All right, we'll let
your way be for a while."
00:34:48.53\00:34:50.07
No, it's wrong.
00:34:50.10\00:34:51.98
Fake intimacy from
illicit sex will destroy you.
00:34:52.01\00:34:59.47
So keep your pen moving.
00:34:59.50\00:35:00.53
In other words, whether
heterosexual or homosexual,
00:35:00.56\00:35:03.41
okay, so now we've just
eliminated that distinction.
00:35:03.44\00:35:06.07
"All children of
God outside of marriage
00:35:06.10\00:35:08.17
between a man and a woman
are to live a life of celibacy
00:35:08.20\00:35:11.48
which means sexual
abstinence." Sexual abstinence.
00:35:11.51\00:35:16.50
Listen to Hayes now.
00:35:16.53\00:35:18.33
This is masterful,
very careful logic.
00:35:18.36\00:35:21.11
I want you to follow it,
00:35:21.14\00:35:22.17
you're a bright
minded individual.
00:35:22.20\00:35:25.70
Quoting Richard Hayes again,
"Despite the smooth illusions
00:35:25.73\00:35:29.20
perpetrated by mass
culture in the United States,"
00:35:29.23\00:35:32.33
and oh, how true,
"sexual gratification
00:35:32.36\00:35:34.90
is not a sacred right,
00:35:34.93\00:35:39.37
and celibacy is not a
fate worse than death."
00:35:39.40\00:35:45.00
Well, I'll tell
you watching Hollywood
00:35:45.03\00:35:46.06
you'd say, "Told you, you
have to, you just have to."
00:35:46.09\00:35:50.55
Celibacy is not a
fate worse than death.
00:35:50.58\00:35:52.99
Hayes goes on,
"Surely," oh, this is good.
00:35:53.02\00:35:55.88
"Surely, it is a matter of some
interest for Christian ethics
00:35:55.91\00:35:59.11
that both Jesus and Paul lived
without sexual relationships.
00:35:59.14\00:36:04.36
So within the church,
we should work diligently
00:36:04.39\00:36:06.53
to recover the dignity
and value of a single life."
00:36:06.56\00:36:11.06
The church needs to
start affirming people
00:36:11.09\00:36:12.88
who are choosing to
remain single all their lives.
00:36:12.91\00:36:16.40
There is a value in that.
It's not a death sentence.
00:36:16.43\00:36:21.85
The media would
have you believe,
00:36:21.88\00:36:23.85
you got to like an animal,
00:36:23.88\00:36:25.26
you got to be able to
do this or you'll die.
00:36:25.29\00:36:27.90
You are not an animal.
00:36:27.93\00:36:30.08
You are a brilliant being
created in the image of God
00:36:30.11\00:36:33.24
and if He hasn't found a match
for you of the opposite gender,
00:36:33.27\00:36:36.85
then you're
gonna live faithfully
00:36:36.88\00:36:39.53
with intimacy with God only.
00:36:39.56\00:36:42.58
You will live faithfully
with intimacy with God only.
00:36:42.61\00:36:46.09
Now Hayes gets
even better. Watch this.
00:36:46.12\00:36:49.01
"Heterosexually
oriented persons are also called
00:36:49.04\00:36:52.33
to abstinence from
sex unless they marry,
00:36:52.36\00:36:56.77
1 Corinthians 7:8-9,"
the Bible teaches that.
00:36:56.80\00:36:59.71
"The only difference,
admittedly a salient one,
00:36:59.74\00:37:02.84
in the case of homosexually
oriented persons is that
00:37:02.87\00:37:05.69
they do not have the
option of homosexual marriage."
00:37:05.72\00:37:08.30
Why?
00:37:08.33\00:37:09.36
Because there's no such
thing as homosexual marriage.
00:37:09.39\00:37:11.19
The definition has to be
between a man and a woman,
00:37:11.22\00:37:13.54
it's not
marriage, its not marriage.
00:37:13.57\00:37:16.73
The Bible recognizes no marriage
00:37:16.76\00:37:18.91
but between a man and woman.
00:37:18.94\00:37:20.87
It's true. So they don't--
00:37:20.90\00:37:22.49
I can't go to a
homosexual marriage.
00:37:22.52\00:37:24.54
So where does--
Here's where he goes,
00:37:24.57\00:37:27.14
"So where does
that leave homosexuals?
00:37:27.17\00:37:28.77
It leaves them" listen,
00:37:28.80\00:37:30.24
"in precisely the same situation
00:37:30.27\00:37:32.78
as the heterosexual
who would like to marry
00:37:32.81\00:37:35.43
but cannot find an
appropriate partner
00:37:35.46\00:37:37.49
and there are many
such people alive today."
00:37:37.52\00:37:41.46
There's not a difference.
00:37:41.49\00:37:42.52
God is not playing,
00:37:42.55\00:37:44.04
talking out two
sides of His mouth
00:37:44.07\00:37:45.49
in giving one guy a harder time,
00:37:45.52\00:37:46.92
no, it's an even playing
field, everybody the same.
00:37:46.95\00:37:53.65
I got to read
that sentence again.
00:37:53.68\00:37:54.73
"It leaves them, in
precisely the same situation
00:37:54.76\00:37:56.67
as the heterosexual
who would like to marry
00:37:56.70\00:37:58.46
but cannot find an
appropriate partner
00:37:58.49\00:37:59.98
and there are many
such" how do I live then?
00:38:00.01\00:38:01.90
"You're summoned to a difficult,
00:38:01.93\00:38:03.19
costly obedience,
00:38:03.22\00:38:04.46
while groaning
for the redemption
00:38:04.49\00:38:06.02
of our bodies, Romans 8:23."
00:38:06.05\00:38:08.53
Would you write it down, please?
00:38:08.56\00:38:09.72
"Outside of marriage,
00:38:09.75\00:38:11.05
the divine
playing field is even,
00:38:11.08\00:38:12.71
and the child of God
will be given the moral purity
00:38:12.74\00:38:16.04
and divine power to
live a life without sex."
00:38:16.07\00:38:20.28
So finally, we ask the question,
00:38:20.31\00:38:22.18
"How can I live
without sex for a while?"
00:38:22.21\00:38:24.08
For a while means
until you're married
00:38:24.11\00:38:25.98
or if you've chosen to live
00:38:26.01\00:38:27.06
and you can't
find the one you want,
00:38:27.09\00:38:28.48
then it means until Jesus comes.
00:38:28.51\00:38:30.11
"How can I live
without sex that long?"
00:38:30.14\00:38:33.31
I'm gonna share with you now
00:38:33.34\00:38:34.37
a four fold
strategy for life and sex.
00:38:34.40\00:38:37.33
And I'm gonna do it backwards.
00:38:37.36\00:38:38.56
We're gonna
start with number four
00:38:38.59\00:38:41.01
in your study
guide, so dropdown to--
00:38:41.04\00:38:42.75
there are four exercises here.
00:38:42.78\00:38:44.13
Go to the exercise
number four, please.
00:38:44.16\00:38:46.77
Number four write it
in, exercise your heart.
00:38:46.80\00:38:50.60
Exercise your heart,
00:38:50.63\00:38:51.66
Bernie Anderson
told us on Thursday
00:38:51.69\00:38:53.56
that what broke the
power of pornography
00:38:53.59\00:38:55.53
in his life, was
turning to a friend,
00:38:55.56\00:38:58.70
who happened to be a
pastor colleague of his.
00:38:58.73\00:39:01.04
He said that began the release.
00:39:01.07\00:39:03.95
You see, ladies and
gentlemen, we are social beings.
00:39:03.98\00:39:06.41
We are created to thrive
heart to heart with each other.
00:39:06.44\00:39:08.96
You and I need a
small group to join.
00:39:08.99\00:39:12.53
We need a group
where-- of spiritual friends
00:39:12.56\00:39:14.65
who will love us through
our homosexual struggles,
00:39:14.68\00:39:16.97
through our pornographic
addictions, our loneliness,
00:39:17.00\00:39:18.97
our need for companionship,
our need to be loved.
00:39:19.00\00:39:21.21
We need a group that's safe.
00:39:21.24\00:39:23.16
We don't need a whole church,
I just need a small group.
00:39:23.19\00:39:25.43
Look, that's what
Paul is talking about,
00:39:25.46\00:39:26.65
Hebrews Chapter 10,
take a look at this,
00:39:26.68\00:39:28.57
verses 24 and 25.
00:39:28.60\00:39:29.81
"Let us consider one another
00:39:29.84\00:39:31.11
in order to stir up
love and good works,
00:39:31.14\00:39:33.30
not forsaking the assembling
of ourselves together."
00:39:33.33\00:39:36.45
We've got to come together
00:39:36.48\00:39:38.11
"as you see the Day of
Christ's return approaching."
00:39:38.14\00:39:41.92
I tell you what, if you'd
like to join a small group
00:39:41.95\00:39:43.66
and that was a beautiful
story, you saw just a moment.
00:39:43.69\00:39:45.67
Wasn't that beautiful?
00:39:45.70\00:39:46.83
That's what small groups do,
00:39:46.86\00:39:47.89
they take people all
the way to the kingdom,
00:39:47.92\00:39:49.36
take you to the
borders of the Promised Land.
00:39:49.39\00:39:51.49
If you would like
to join a small group,
00:39:51.52\00:39:53.09
we got pastor Esther
here and her leadership team
00:39:53.12\00:39:55.65
of small group
leaders. They would be happy.
00:39:55.68\00:39:58.02
You don't have to tell
them why you're joining,
00:39:58.05\00:39:59.47
that's absolutely immaterial.
00:39:59.50\00:40:01.27
We don't have little groups
for people with this temptation
00:40:01.30\00:40:03.10
or people with that temptation.
00:40:03.13\00:40:04.16
Are you kidding?
00:40:04.19\00:40:05.22
We all have the
temptations, that's why.
00:40:05.25\00:40:07.49
And in the course of
your journey with this group,
00:40:07.52\00:40:09.47
it will come out how similar,
in fact, our struggles are.
00:40:09.50\00:40:14.05
And by the way,
everything in that group
00:40:14.08\00:40:15.11
stays in that group,
00:40:15.14\00:40:16.17
that is the most
confidential circle on earth.
00:40:16.20\00:40:19.06
If it's not, you tell me,
00:40:19.09\00:40:20.57
we'll shut the
group down just like that.
00:40:20.60\00:40:23.58
You tell me.
00:40:23.61\00:40:25.33
That's be the most protected
place in this community.
00:40:25.36\00:40:30.54
Four exercises to
survive with life and sex.
00:40:30.57\00:40:32.67
Okay, that's
exercise number four.
00:40:32.70\00:40:33.93
Go up to
exercise number three now.
00:40:33.96\00:40:35.61
Exercise your mind,
write that in, please.
00:40:35.64\00:40:37.70
In another
words, exercise your NO!
00:40:37.73\00:40:39.60
Write that in capital
NO. Where do we get that?
00:40:39.63\00:40:42.74
Right after Paul says these
stories are for our example.
00:40:42.77\00:40:44.68
Look at verse 13.
00:40:44.71\00:40:45.74
1 Corinthians
10:13, "God is faithful,
00:40:45.77\00:40:48.34
who will not allow
you to be tempted beyond
00:40:48.37\00:40:50.09
what you are able,
but with the temptation
00:40:50.12\00:40:52.41
will also make
the way of escape"
00:40:52.44\00:40:55.42
God has a way out, my friend.
00:40:55.45\00:40:56.94
"You will be able to bear it."
00:40:56.97\00:40:59.20
You see, that's the difference
between Joseph and David.
00:40:59.23\00:41:01.21
Two men under sexual attack
00:41:01.24\00:41:02.97
by the same arch enemy, two men.
00:41:03.00\00:41:05.91
Do you know the difference
between Joseph and David?
00:41:05.94\00:41:08.18
Joseph fled, David fed
00:41:08.21\00:41:11.59
and there in is a difference
of a tale of two boys.
00:41:11.62\00:41:15.19
One fled, the other fed.
00:41:15.22\00:41:17.97
Image shot up on the screen,
00:41:18.00\00:41:19.93
he stayed, the other
said, "I'm out of here," off.
00:41:19.96\00:41:23.82
The difference is
between fled and fed.
00:41:23.85\00:41:28.21
I'm gonna be like
Joseph, don't you?
00:41:28.24\00:41:30.22
I want to be like
Joseph. So just say no.
00:41:30.25\00:41:33.50
But how am I gonna
do with pornography?
00:41:33.53\00:41:34.84
Guess what,
there's an off switch.
00:41:34.87\00:41:37.09
Now that's a
concept, turn it off.
00:41:37.12\00:41:43.62
On your Saturday night date,
00:41:43.65\00:41:44.75
all it takes is a
polite but firm no.
00:41:44.78\00:41:48.73
And if that does not
work, you have my permission.
00:41:48.76\00:41:55.51
Which part of that no, did you
not understand the N or the O?
00:41:55.54\00:41:58.62
Exercise your spirit
prompt mind and say no.
00:42:04.05\00:42:06.69
Look at this, James 4:7,
00:42:06.72\00:42:07.76
"Resist the devil and
he will flee from you!"
00:42:07.79\00:42:09.47
2 Timothy 2:22 "Flee
also youthful lusts."
00:42:09.50\00:42:12.49
Just say no.
00:42:12.52\00:42:13.55
Run, boy, run that's
what those legs are for.
00:42:13.58\00:42:17.31
All right four exercises.
00:42:17.34\00:42:18.61
Exercise number two,
moving up to number one.
00:42:18.64\00:42:21.58
Exercise number
two, exercise your body.
00:42:21.61\00:42:23.90
It's beautiful.
00:42:23.93\00:42:24.96
1 Corinthians 6:18-20
00:42:24.99\00:42:27.33
"Flee sexual
immorality or do you not know
00:42:27.36\00:42:30.60
that your body is the
temple of the Holy Spirit
00:42:30.63\00:42:32.79
who is in you,
you're not your own?"
00:42:32.82\00:42:34.75
You were bought with the
crimps and currency of Calvary.
00:42:34.78\00:42:37.05
You've been bought by the cross.
00:42:37.08\00:42:39.02
He bought you.
00:42:39.05\00:42:40.82
I tell young men
who come in to see me
00:42:40.85\00:42:42.62
and who are struggling
with sexual addiction.
00:42:42.65\00:42:44.62
Write this down please.
00:42:44.65\00:42:45.68
This would work for a woman too.
00:42:45.71\00:42:46.74
"Begin a new physical exercise
routine, preferably daily."
00:42:46.77\00:42:50.24
Begin to exercise.
00:42:50.27\00:42:51.66
Its called transference
where you shift your energies
00:42:51.69\00:42:54.41
previously focused
on sexual stimulation
00:42:54.44\00:42:56.55
and now you invest those
energies in physical exercise.
00:42:56.58\00:42:59.59
Work yourself
out until you drop.
00:42:59.62\00:43:03.39
You get over that urge.
00:43:03.42\00:43:06.99
Run another mile,
become a marathon runner.
00:43:07.02\00:43:11.32
By the way, write this
down too, "While you're at it,
00:43:16.12\00:43:18.12
keep your body
free from stimulants."
00:43:18.15\00:43:20.62
What are you
talking about, Dwight?
00:43:20.65\00:43:21.68
I'm talking about
"drugs, alcohol, nicotine,
00:43:21.71\00:43:23.58
caffeine, flesh foods,
heavy seasonings, high sugar."
00:43:23.61\00:43:26.62
Our bodies are the
temple of the Holy Spirit.
00:43:26.65\00:43:28.90
They have been bought
by the blood of Jesus.
00:43:28.93\00:43:30.91
That body does
not belong to you.
00:43:30.94\00:43:33.52
Do you understand that?
You don't own this thing.
00:43:33.55\00:43:35.67
You can't put
into it what you want.
00:43:35.70\00:43:38.13
It's a temple.
00:43:38.16\00:43:39.53
And like Jesus did
twice in His ministry,
00:43:39.56\00:43:41.40
you and I are gonna have
to walk through the temples
00:43:41.43\00:43:42.87
now and then and
say, "This stuff is out,
00:43:42.90\00:43:44.82
get it-- take these things out.
00:43:44.85\00:43:46.74
Cleanse the temple.
Cleanse the temple."
00:43:46.77\00:43:49.41
That DVD no longer
needs to be in my library
00:43:49.44\00:43:52.15
because when you watch that DVD
it has a sexual trigger in it
00:43:52.18\00:43:54.64
and you know it,
just get rid of it.
00:43:54.67\00:43:57.64
Get rid of that magazine.
00:43:57.67\00:43:59.70
Get rid of that stuff,
you don't need that music.
00:43:59.73\00:44:01.71
You know, what
it's saying to you?
00:44:01.74\00:44:02.93
That music is saying
copulate. Get rid of it.
00:44:02.96\00:44:10.37
Be a man. Stand up and say, no.
00:44:10.40\00:44:15.23
Take care of your
body it's a temple.
00:44:15.26\00:44:17.69
All right.
00:44:17.72\00:44:18.75
Finally, exercise your
soul, most important of all.
00:44:18.78\00:44:23.73
I love this, Psalm 42:2,
"My soul thirsts for God."
00:44:23.76\00:44:29.27
Writers, both
Christian and non-Christian,
00:44:29.30\00:44:31.48
you will see this in literature,
00:44:31.51\00:44:32.54
they often describe our
sexual drive as the thirst.
00:44:32.57\00:44:35.82
I like that.
00:44:35.85\00:44:37.73
The ultimate
thirst is for God Jesus.
00:44:37.76\00:44:39.43
In John 4:14 says,
"Whoever drinks of the water
00:44:39.46\00:44:41.90
that I shall give
her will never thirst."
00:44:41.93\00:44:44.34
She won't have to go
for that fake intimacy
00:44:44.37\00:44:47.09
because I'll feed her,
00:44:47.12\00:44:48.42
I'll quench her
thirst, his thirst.
00:44:48.45\00:44:53.01
Replace fake intimacy
with a genuine divine intimacy.
00:44:53.04\00:44:56.43
Would you jot this down?
00:44:56.46\00:44:57.49
Would you jot this down
in your study guide please?
00:44:57.52\00:44:58.72
Let me put it on the screen
for you. Jeremiah Chapter 9,
00:44:58.75\00:45:00.81
God says, "Let not the
wise man glory in his wisdom,
00:45:00.84\00:45:03.36
let not the mighty
man glory in his might,
00:45:03.39\00:45:04.71
let not the rich woman
glory in the her riches,
00:45:04.74\00:45:06.60
but let him, let her
who glories glory in this,
00:45:06.63\00:45:08.92
that she, he
understands and knows Me."
00:45:08.95\00:45:11.84
And just write there--
write, write, that's the same--
00:45:11.87\00:45:13.79
write Genesis
4:1, the same no, yada.
00:45:13.82\00:45:17.26
God says, "I want
that intimacy with you.
00:45:17.29\00:45:19.97
I want to be so close
to you that it's like,
00:45:20.00\00:45:22.19
just like a husband
and wife. That intimate,
00:45:22.22\00:45:24.76
I want that with you."
00:45:24.79\00:45:25.84
Ladies and gentlemen, replace,
00:45:25.87\00:45:29.48
replace the fake
intimacy for the real thing.
00:45:29.51\00:45:33.28
Go after God.
00:45:33.31\00:45:34.85
Say, I'd like to
know how to go after God.
00:45:34.88\00:45:36.36
I tell you what, I'm
going down to South Bend tonight
00:45:36.39\00:45:37.81
to the Century Center meeting
with our television viewers,
00:45:37.84\00:45:40.03
we're gonna tape it
there and we're gonna
00:45:40.06\00:45:41.09
put it on our
website, a new way to pray.
00:45:41.12\00:45:42.84
I will give you a way to pray
that will take you intimately
00:45:42.87\00:45:45.47
into the very depth
of God's friendship.
00:45:45.50\00:45:47.83
If you go to our
website, eventually,
00:45:47.86\00:45:49.36
you'll have
that, we'll teach you.
00:45:49.39\00:45:51.53
You're not alone in
this, we'll help you.
00:45:51.56\00:45:53.41
Exercise your soul. All
right, you got to sit down.
00:45:53.44\00:45:56.16
You know, what,
all this talk about sex
00:45:56.19\00:45:57.91
makes us all feel
guilty, doesn't it?
00:45:57.94\00:46:01.87
Feel little guilty
just talking about it,
00:46:01.90\00:46:03.75
thinking about it,
memories come back.
00:46:03.78\00:46:06.95
So how would you like
to become a virgin again?
00:46:06.98\00:46:09.83
Kind of be great.
00:46:09.86\00:46:11.32
How would you like
to be spiritual virgin?
00:46:11.35\00:46:13.71
Start all over again.
00:46:13.74\00:46:16.13
Once upon a
time, there was a girl,
00:46:16.16\00:46:17.26
she was thrown at the
feet of Jesus in a heap,
00:46:17.29\00:46:19.69
early one morning in the temple.
00:46:19.72\00:46:21.28
They say, "We caught
her in bed with another man,
00:46:21.31\00:46:23.90
not her husband.
00:46:23.93\00:46:26.41
She's an adulterous.
What shall we do with her?"
00:46:26.44\00:46:30.44
And by the way, they
already had the stones,
00:46:30.47\00:46:31.77
these are the
elders of the church,
00:46:31.80\00:46:32.83
they already had the
stones in their hands.
00:46:32.86\00:46:35.14
So what are we
gonna do with this girl?
00:46:35.17\00:46:36.51
Moses says, "Stone
her. What do you say?"
00:46:36.54\00:46:37.97
It's a trap, trying to get
the young teacher or preacher.
00:46:38.00\00:46:41.21
Jesus knows it's a
trap. You know, what He does?
00:46:41.24\00:46:42.98
He stoops down and
there on the temple floor,
00:46:43.01\00:46:45.49
just in the dust,
He begins to write
00:46:45.52\00:46:47.26
the secret sins of the elders,
00:46:47.29\00:46:49.91
because elders have
sexual temptations too,
00:46:49.94\00:46:51.64
you didn't know
that but they do.
00:46:51.67\00:46:53.85
And He writes it there
and then He stands back up
00:46:53.88\00:46:55.94
and He looks at the men
and He says, "All right,
00:46:55.97\00:46:58.74
the guy without sin
throw the first stone."
00:46:58.77\00:47:02.51
And from the young--
eldest to the youngest,
00:47:02.54\00:47:04.31
they slinked away,
00:47:04.34\00:47:07.64
till the only person left
in that circle is the girl
00:47:07.67\00:47:10.54
and the breathless crowd,
what will they say to her now?
00:47:10.57\00:47:14.54
Jesus stoops down and
takes that quivering chin
00:47:14.57\00:47:16.67
and looks into
those penitent eyes
00:47:16.70\00:47:18.83
and He says, "Girl,
neither do I condemn you.
00:47:18.86\00:47:25.19
Go and leave that sin behind."
00:47:25.22\00:47:30.43
Ladies and gentlemen,
that's that greatest news
00:47:30.46\00:47:32.72
that can be announced today.
00:47:32.75\00:47:35.03
No matter what
your sexual sin is,
00:47:35.06\00:47:37.32
when you come to
Jesus, that's what He says,
00:47:37.35\00:47:39.78
Calvary's outstretched
arms say, I don't condemn you.
00:47:39.81\00:47:42.77
I do not condemn you.
00:47:42.80\00:47:44.73
Just leave that
sexual sin behind.
00:47:44.76\00:47:47.71
Let me be your intimacy.
00:47:47.74\00:47:49.79
Let me rewrite your
future. Let me walk with you.
00:47:49.82\00:47:54.39
I'll make you a man
yet I'll make you a woman
00:47:54.42\00:47:56.97
who will never drop her eyes
when the subject is mentioned.
00:47:57.00\00:48:00.43
I'll make you a woman
00:48:00.46\00:48:01.49
who can stand in her
noble divine purpose.
00:48:01.52\00:48:07.21
I'll make you a
spiritual virgin again.
00:48:07.24\00:48:10.19
I'll create in you a new heart.
00:48:10.22\00:48:12.36
I wash you with
hyssop and you'll be cleaned,
00:48:12.39\00:48:16.73
forever clean.
00:48:16.76\00:48:18.41
Ladies and
gentlemen, that is a deal.
00:48:18.44\00:48:21.85
I can't imagine
turning down, can you?
00:48:21.88\00:48:24.98
I can't imagine
turning down that offer.
00:48:25.01\00:48:29.22
At the bottom of your
study guide right now,
00:48:29.25\00:48:30.67
do you see it there?
00:48:30.70\00:48:32.27
I'm giving you an opportunity
00:48:32.30\00:48:33.44
in the privacy of your own heart
00:48:33.47\00:48:34.99
to commit to
nobody but you and God.
00:48:35.02\00:48:36.79
You're not turning that in?
00:48:36.82\00:48:38.76
You're gonna
keep that if you wish.
00:48:38.79\00:48:39.98
You can clip and save it.
00:48:40.01\00:48:41.11
What's it say, "By the
grace of my Lord Jesus,
00:48:41.14\00:48:43.39
I receive His
forgiveness for my sins
00:48:43.42\00:48:45.45
and I choose now to
live a life of moral purity
00:48:45.48\00:48:47.84
as a spiritual virgin
till He shall come for me."
00:48:47.87\00:48:51.24
I'm gonna live pure,
00:48:51.27\00:48:52.36
even if I can get
married I'm gonna live pure.
00:48:52.39\00:48:54.62
I'm gonna live pure
for the rest of my life
00:48:54.65\00:48:56.35
by the grace of
the Lord Jesus Christ.
00:48:56.38\00:48:57.90
He says, "Dwight,
I don't condemn you.
00:48:57.93\00:49:00.86
I do not condemn you."
00:49:00.89\00:49:05.56
Is there one of us
here who could not sign this
00:49:05.59\00:49:08.59
and make this moment an
unforgettable commitment
00:49:08.62\00:49:12.68
to the Lord Jesus Christ?
00:49:12.71\00:49:15.24
You can sign it.
00:49:15.27\00:49:16.63
Too embarrassed to sign
00:49:16.66\00:49:17.69
in front of the
people around you.
00:49:17.72\00:49:18.95
That's okay, take it home
00:49:18.98\00:49:20.60
and sign it when
you're all alone.
00:49:20.63\00:49:22.46
It's just you and Jesus,
He'll know what you mean.
00:49:22.49\00:49:27.25
I want to commit to Him.
00:49:27.28\00:49:28.70
Jaci was telling me about a song
00:49:28.73\00:49:29.89
the other day that she heard.
00:49:29.92\00:49:30.95
I said, "Oh, Jaci,
you got to sing that.
00:49:30.98\00:49:32.27
Sing it at the end of
these four controversial,
00:49:32.30\00:49:34.26
four controversial
subjects and today is the end."
00:49:34.29\00:49:39.97
And so, Jaci, I want
you to come up and sing
00:49:40.00\00:49:42.49
and you'd be thinking
about what Jaci is singing
00:49:42.52\00:49:44.32
as she goes from
room to room in her life
00:49:44.35\00:49:46.31
and says, "Jesus
you can have this too."
00:49:46.34\00:49:48.38
God is doing
00:49:57.66\00:50:00.99
A work in me
00:50:01.02\00:50:05.95
He's walking
through my rooms and halls
00:50:05.98\00:50:10.42
Checking every corner
00:50:10.45\00:50:15.75
He's tearing
down the unsafe walls
00:50:15.78\00:50:20.18
And letting in the light
00:50:20.21\00:50:25.48
And I am working hard
00:50:25.51\00:50:30.52
To clean my house
and set it straight
00:50:30.55\00:50:34.60
Not let pride get in the way
00:50:34.63\00:50:39.34
To catch an eternal vision of
00:50:39.37\00:50:43.14
What I am to become
00:50:43.17\00:50:47.98
Will You help me be new?
00:50:48.01\00:50:53.44
Will You hold me to the promises
00:50:53.47\00:50:57.08
That I have made?
00:50:57.11\00:51:01.84
Will You let me be new?
00:51:01.87\00:51:07.70
Forgive my old
self and my old mistakes
00:51:07.73\00:51:14.35
Well, it seems easier
00:51:21.23\00:51:27.20
Living out my life in Christ
00:51:27.23\00:51:30.20
For those do not know me
00:51:30.23\00:51:35.54
To hide the
thorn stuck in my side
00:51:35.57\00:51:39.50
And all my secret faults
00:51:39.53\00:51:44.51
But You know me well
00:51:44.54\00:51:49.91
And it's You I
want the most to see
00:51:49.94\00:51:54.17
And recognize the changes
00:51:54.20\00:51:58.92
A word from You empowers me
00:51:58.95\00:52:02.36
To press on for my goal
00:52:02.39\00:52:07.21
Will You help me be new?
00:52:07.24\00:52:12.31
Will You hold me to the promises
00:52:12.34\00:52:15.86
That I have made?
00:52:15.89\00:52:20.20
Will You let me be new?
00:52:20.23\00:52:26.15
Forgive my old
self, and my old mistakes
00:52:26.18\00:52:33.52
When I feel condemned to live
00:52:40.25\00:52:43.86
My old life
00:52:43.89\00:52:50.47
Remind me I've been given
00:52:50.50\00:52:54.29
A new life in Christ
00:52:54.32\00:53:02.29
Will You help me be new?
00:53:02.32\00:53:07.70
Will You hold me to the promises
00:53:07.73\00:53:11.86
That I have made?
00:53:11.89\00:53:16.34
Will You let me be new?
00:53:16.37\00:53:21.30
Forgive my old
self, and my old mistakes
00:53:21.33\00:53:29.30
I want to stand
for Jesus, don't you?
00:53:50.72\00:53:52.99
I want to stand and commit
my life to Jesus right now.
00:53:53.02\00:53:56.59
If you want to stand
with me, I wish you would.
00:53:56.62\00:53:58.46
Just say, "Jesus, please.
00:53:58.49\00:54:00.98
Please, please, Jesus, walk
through the rooms of my life,
00:54:01.01\00:54:05.77
walk down the halls of my heart.
00:54:05.80\00:54:09.46
I give it all to
You. I give it all.
00:54:09.49\00:54:10.85
You can have it
all. You and me Jesus."
00:54:10.88\00:54:15.48
Oh, Father, we stand for
Christ this one who's lifted up
00:54:15.51\00:54:20.39
paid the supreme price
to purchase our bodies back.
00:54:20.42\00:54:28.25
We stand for Jesus.
00:54:28.28\00:54:31.77
That means we declare that this
physical vessel is all Yours.
00:54:31.80\00:54:38.55
It's Your temple.
00:54:38.58\00:54:40.04
It's the only
place on earth You live.
00:54:40.07\00:54:42.77
It's inside of
the minds of friends.
00:54:42.80\00:54:45.56
We stand asking Jesus
to reclaim what is His.
00:54:45.59\00:54:50.83
His by creation
and His by redemption,
00:54:50.86\00:54:53.34
He gets it twice.
00:54:53.37\00:54:55.16
We stand, Father,
seal our determination.
00:54:55.19\00:54:59.90
We can't do this at our own.
00:54:59.93\00:55:01.47
We can't do this on
our own but Your spirit,
00:55:01.50\00:55:07.38
He'll stay with us that He will.
00:55:07.41\00:55:09.93
He will take us all
the way across the borders,
00:55:09.96\00:55:12.64
across the borders holy Father,
into the Promised Land one day
00:55:12.67\00:55:18.79
and we shall all be together.
00:55:18.82\00:55:22.49
Thank You, Jesus.
00:55:22.52\00:55:23.55
Thank You, Father,
00:55:23.58\00:55:24.61
and thank You Holy Spirit, amen.
00:55:24.64\00:55:26.62
Before you go, I
wanted to take one more moment
00:55:28.00\00:55:30.39
and let you know how glad I am,
00:55:30.42\00:55:32.05
you shared this hour of worship
and Bible teaching with us.
00:55:32.08\00:55:34.80
This is the
Pioneer Memorial Church.
00:55:34.83\00:55:36.60
We're on the campus
of Andrews University
00:55:36.63\00:55:38.48
and the series is The Chosen.
00:55:38.51\00:55:40.78
This is the series
that has been growing
00:55:40.81\00:55:43.30
in its burden on my heart
and over the last few weeks,
00:55:43.33\00:55:47.21
before this new season began,
00:55:47.24\00:55:49.08
and some
concentrated prayer time,
00:55:49.11\00:55:51.28
I believe the spirit of
God led me to this series
00:55:51.31\00:55:53.72
out of the Book of
Deuteronomy for this generation,
00:55:53.75\00:55:56.55
within our community of faith
00:55:56.58\00:55:58.03
and outside this
community of faith,
00:55:58.06\00:56:00.05
I believe both, both communities
00:56:00.08\00:56:03.18
need to hear the
compelling Bible truth
00:56:03.21\00:56:07.68
captured in this
series called The Chosen.
00:56:07.71\00:56:09.20
So thank you for joining me
00:56:09.23\00:56:11.00
and all of us as we
continue our journey
00:56:11.03\00:56:13.47
deeper and deeper into
the heart of this theme.
00:56:13.50\00:56:16.23
Living as you and I do,
00:56:16.26\00:56:17.87
and I know I'm
preaching to the queer now.
00:56:17.90\00:56:20.75
Living as we do on
the edge of a civilization
00:56:20.78\00:56:23.89
that is surviving through
constant upheaval and change,
00:56:23.92\00:56:28.03
I am so grateful,
and I know you are,
00:56:28.06\00:56:30.15
for the bedrock
hope we have in Jesus.
00:56:30.18\00:56:33.67
I'm thankful that
you and I have been given
00:56:33.70\00:56:36.10
the privilege by God to partner,
00:56:36.13\00:56:38.28
to reach this generation
00:56:38.31\00:56:39.42
the world over through
the satellite telecast.
00:56:39.45\00:56:41.47
I don't know how it works.
00:56:41.50\00:56:42.72
I just know that those
satellites drop the signals
00:56:42.75\00:56:45.69
and those
footprints all over the planet
00:56:45.72\00:56:47.84
are helping
disseminate this divine call
00:56:47.87\00:56:51.33
to become a part of the chosen
God's last generation on earth.
00:56:51.36\00:56:54.59
So please, here's
what I want you to know.
00:56:54.62\00:56:56.63
I thank God for
you in the generous way
00:56:56.66\00:56:59.33
you have partnered
with us in the past
00:56:59.36\00:57:01.25
and making new
perceptions possible globally.
00:57:01.28\00:57:04.86
Your tax deductible gifts
00:57:04.89\00:57:06.41
are being multiplied
all across the earth,
00:57:06.44\00:57:08.48
I believe, for a
such a time as this.
00:57:08.51\00:57:10.87
Look, would you like to order
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You can order DVD.
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You get all the
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You can share it
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share it with your family.
00:57:19.15\00:57:20.35
I want to just insert this here.
00:57:20.38\00:57:21.96
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our website all along the way
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We have people now subscribing
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we will invest your
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to reach this
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00:57:54.78\00:57:57.66
Thank you very, very
much. And be assured,
00:57:57.69\00:58:00.12
I'm looking
forward to seeing you here,
00:58:00.15\00:58:01.90
right here, again next time
00:58:01.93\00:58:04.43
as we continue our
fascinating journey
00:58:04.46\00:58:06.96
into The Chosen.
00:58:06.99\00:58:09.03
God bless you.
00:58:09.06\00:58:10.35