Hello, and welcome
again to Pure Choices.
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I'm your host,
Pastor Joshua Nelson.
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And we have
another exciting program
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lined up for you.
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Today, we have
some bright young men
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from the
ministry of Pure Reality,
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a ministry based
in Miami, Florida.
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And so they've
just come to talk to us
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a little bit
about purity, sexuality,
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and these topics here.
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So I just want
to begin by talking
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with a man here, Sasha.
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Actually
introduce yourself for us.
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After you've
introduced yourself for us,
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then I'm gonna hear from Sasha.
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Go ahead. I'm Sasha Diambois.
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I'm originally
from Miami, Florida,
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and I'm a freshman
at Oakwood University.
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All right.
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My name is Jonathan Gustave,
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also from Miami,
Florida of Haitian descent.
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And I also, at this time,
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at the moment I
attend Oakwood University.
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My name Maxwood
Annulus, originally from Haiti.
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Now I live in Miami, Florida.
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And I'm a Pure
Ambassador. All right.
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Well, it looks we got
some strong Haitian brothers
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here with us
today, it's all right.
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I also introduce you
to my co-host for today.
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This is...
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Go ahead,
introduce yourself, sir.
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My name is Kean Baxter
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and I just
finished the seminary.
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All right, all right.
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So we have some
educated men here today.
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And we want to just talk
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to Pure Reality,
this ministry again.
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I want to just talk
to Sasha a little bit.
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Share with us just a
little bit about your testimony,
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and kind of why you're here?
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Well, growing up in
the church, it's very...
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What usually happens is that
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you just do
things out of routine.
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And you never
know why you do it.
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So I was told, you know,
keep your hands to yourself,
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and don't mess around
with the girls, you know.
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But after a certain age
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when you start
getting feelings like that,
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you don't know
why, you just do it.
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Thankfully I
never got to the place
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where I tried to
explore anything,
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Pure Reality was there.
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So after I went to
Pure Reality, you know,
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I understood why,
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understood why I
didn't do certain things,
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and it wasn't just
about sex, it was just about
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why I believed
in what I believed,
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and then why I
obey certain laws.
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And then, I made
my decision finally,
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you know, that I'm worth
something enough to stay away
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and abstain from
the worldly things
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because it's really
not worth it in the end.
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It's awesome, man.
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So as a young man you
made that choice to be pure.
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You know, and it had a lot to do
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with this Pure Reality Ministry.
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So what I want to ask then is,
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what is this
Pure Reality Ministry?
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Why is it so important or
what does it do, you know,
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so what, you know, why
should someone take part
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in this Pure Reality Ministry?
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Well, I would say
this Pure Reality Ministry,
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it opens the
door for young people
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to come with their burdens.
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Okay.
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Whether it be
sexual, immoral things,
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whether it be things
that you're struggling
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at home with your parents.
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It's a place,
it's like a safe haven,
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and you know that
when you go there,
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you come with all your burdens
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but you leave with
all the hope of the Lord
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because now you see
the light at the tunnel,
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and you could begin
to build relationships
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with these people there
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that can help you
to grow in Christ,
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and to grow out of the things
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that the world is
telling you that you should be.
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That's awesome,
so it really creates
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that open
environment for people to talk
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or even men to come
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and talk about
these issues and stuff.
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A lot of people
would wonder why,
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why put yourself through this,
this sexual urge is so strong,
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what's the point
of trying to stop it,
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and trying to just be pure?
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Well, if we
understand who we are
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and who made us, I should say,
then you'll see the grand scope
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of why you should stay pure
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because it's more
than just not having sex,
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or it's more than just
not watching pornography,
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but it's keeping yourself
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not only for that person to come
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but for the Lord
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because a lot of
us may not get married
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before God comes.
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But we're keeping
ourselves for Him,
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and this is
where He speaks to us,
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you know, in our
minds, in our bodies.
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And He wants us
to be pure in a way
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where we can glorify Him
so that the world can see that
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it is possible in the midst
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of all these things that we see,
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you know, on the
shows, and commercials,
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and all these perverse things,
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there is a
people that can be pure,
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and it starts
from a very young age.
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That's why the
enemy does this thing
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where he tries to
instill the impure things
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at a very young age,
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at the age of six,
seven, you know, even younger.
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I want to piggyback on
that, and I want to ask Maxwood,
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do you feel like
you're missing any,
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missing out on anything
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by being
involved in this ministry?
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Not at all, I actually
believe that I'm gaining more.
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The message that
Jesus preached me,
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He was here was when you'd leave
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the things of
earth, you gain in heaven.
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And I think, our whole,
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as Christians our whole
mindset should be not to try
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and living in now
but to try and restore
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and regain that perfection,
that purity that when Jesus
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and God originally
made us in Garden of Eden,
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that's what we
should need to get back to.
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And that's what purity is about,
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that's what our Pure
Reality's message is about.
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You know, I first encounter
Pure Reality back in 2007,
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I thought it was
just a sex camp, like,
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you know, okay, don't have sex.
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Right. I thought
that's all it was.
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But through my years until now,
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I realized that
it's more than that.
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It's your
language, it's your mindset,
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it's the way
that you treat others,
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and purity is who God is.
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So if we say
that we're Christians,
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if we say that
we're followers of Christ,
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then we should seek to
try and be just like Him.
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And that's why I believe that
I'm not losing anything at all
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because even the things of earth
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that we gain now,
we can't take with us
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whether we go to
heaven or to hell.
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Yeah, yeah.
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You know, that's
something that really,
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personally I had a
struggle with saying,
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you know, while there
are so many good things
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or things you
think would be good
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out there in the world that you,
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all your friends are
doing, you want to do,
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engage in all these things.
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But really saying, "Hey,
I'm going to forgo this now
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for what God has for me later."
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And really believing that.
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But it's hard, it's
hard, you know, it's hard.
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So, you know,
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what struggles
have you really felt
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and really tackling
that, really saying,
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"I'm gonna do
this thing," you know.
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Well, personally, you know,
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being in school, being
in college as a freshman,
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everybody always
wants to go to parties
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or everybody always
wants to do certain things,
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but right now
it ain't that hard,
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but my hardship took place
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in my senior year of high school
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because I was going
through so much, you know.
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Well, school is
stressing me out,
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and it was at home,
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I was not used 'cause
my parents were arguing,
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so I wasn't used to it.
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So what happened was,
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I started
drinking to go to sleep,
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and I couldn't sleep
unless I was heavily,
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like very near like
knockout intoxication.
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And when I finally came to
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and realized what
was going on with me
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and I realized that I
was literally a drunker,
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I had to pray that off of me,
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I had to pray that away from me.
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And it was so
difficult because, you know,
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like when you're
going through things
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in your conscious mind,
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I was never able to
understand why people do drugs
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if they were just
going to come back here.
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But it's just that separation
where you're not conscious,
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where you can't
think about things clearly,
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is just enough, you
know, it was just enough
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to put me to sleep at that time.
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But the prayer that I
prayed wasn't necessarily,
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"God take away the alcohol."
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Because if He just
took away the alcohol,
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the desire would still be there.
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I had to pray for my perspective
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of the situation to be
changed because the problem
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was not necessarily the alcohol,
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it was the fact
that I wanted it.
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You know. Right, right.
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And just like that,
just like with purity
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and all of that, we
were just naturally sinful,
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naturally perverse people.
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So what I realized is
I need to stop praying
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for actions to change
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because actions only
change from a inner change.
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So when I...
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I had to pray to God
from the very beginning,
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help me to make
Jesus my alcohol,
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you know, make Jesus my crutch
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so that when I'm
going through situations,
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when I'm going
through things that are rough,
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I can pray and
He can be the peace
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that gives me that I go to sleep
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'cause in Psalms it says
that, that rest, you know,
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not just sleep but
rest in your sleep,
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that's a gift
from God. Yeah. Yeah.
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So if I wanted to rest, I
had to go to back to heaven,
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so that I could get that gift
and that's what I prayed for.
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And that's how I got over it.
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That's deep, and
I want to just...
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I got to touch
on that right there
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because that's really
where it is for a lot of men.
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You know, we have this
desire but there you're saying,
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I'm praying to God,
saying take away this desire,
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start with the root of it.
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That's awesome,
man, that's awesome.
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Powerful.
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Maxwood, I want to ask
you about a teen ambassador,
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what is that about?
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Pure ambassador is
all we are young people
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who have attended the retreat,
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and really just want to get back
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and spread His gospel.
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We have our
directors and our people
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who put on a program
or the retreat itself.
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But they are older,
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and they, most of
them don't have the time
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and the knowledge
to reach the youth
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that we have as young people.
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So they need us as a
work force to go out there
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and really spread this message.
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So we went to
training to actually know
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when we go to churches how to...
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What to say, what to present,
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what to talk
about, how to respond.
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We put on skits, and
plays, and we go around...
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And we ourselves have to be able
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to hold up that banner.
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And it's not easy at all
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because now it's an
actual spotlight on you.
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But I don't mind a spotlight
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because it's actually a
boost of accountability,
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because I look at it as
man, okay, now I'm someone
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people are looking
for as a role model.
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So I really have
to step my game up,
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and make sure I stayed up
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to the standards
that are required.
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So we're just a
group of young people
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willing to give back
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and willing to
really take this message
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to the next level
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because I'm a
Sabbath school teacher,
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I'm a pathfinder counselor.
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I deal with young
people of my age or younger
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on a regular
basis, and that's the...
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There's dearth in our
youth in our churches,
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and there is so much
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that we're
dealing with so it's...
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I believe being
a pure ambassador
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has helped me to just be
able to deal with those issues
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that I deal with by
being Sabbath school teacher
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and a pathfinder counselor.
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So that's what being a
teen ambassador is all about.
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That's good.
That's awesome, man.
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That's awesome.
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So as you're doing
this teen ambassador,
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as you're going out,
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and talking to
these various men,
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and, you know, ladies
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or whoever you're
talking about this subject,
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I want to just come at it,
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you know, from a
man's perspective.
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Let's just be
real now, you know.
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As men, you know,
we have this natural...
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It seems more than the woman do,
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this urge, you know.
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We have this natural
desire just to have sex,
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and just to go around
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and spread our
seed if you want to say,
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with whoever we come
in contact with, you know.
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Like the song you
can talk about that,
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you know, we often hear.
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So, you know, here
you have men listening now
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and we're just saying, you know,
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how do you really
stop, I mean, come on,
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you know, you all sitting
here, we sitting here, you know,
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act like, you know,
we got it all together.
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But how do you stop?
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How do you really
get to that point?
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I know, Sasha,
you want to talk about
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the spiritual aspect of it.
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It's just...
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You have to fill up,
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fill up your tank
'cause you don't...
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When you go to the war,
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you don't start doing
pushups on the frontline.
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You do that before,
you get your muscles ready,
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you know, you make sure
that you're physically fit,
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you have endurance so
that you can fight it.
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And so many times
we're looking for results
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but we don't
want to put work in.
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But that's not even scientifical
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because every
reaction has an equal
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and opposite reaction.
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So if I don't put any time in,
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I don't do my
devotions in the morning,
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I don't pray.
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It's not that necessarily
I'm gonna be tempted less
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if I pray in the morning. Right.
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It's just the fact that
when I pray in the morning
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or when I take time
to give God His time,
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I have to be tempted more,
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for the devil
didn't get results.
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So when I don't pray, I
mean, that first temptation
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that comes, that
first slight hint
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of something that is
wrong, I'm going to jump at it
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because I had not put my
guard up from the morning.
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And there's so
many verses in the Bible
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that talk about how
to resist temptation.
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"Greater is he that is in me
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than is he that
is in the world."
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You know, things like that,
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and it's just a
matter of removing your self
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from the equation and realizing
that this is not your battle.
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God has already won,
so when the devil comes
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at you with something like that,
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you just need to remove yourself
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and stand behind
Christ because behind Christ,
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temptations can come
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but they can
never make it through,
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they can never
penetrate the protection
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that you've put
up from the morning
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when you've
woken up, you know...
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That's good. I like the imagery.
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But, Kean, honestly, man,
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I mean, I'm sitting
here listening to this,
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this is great.
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But I mean, let's be practical.
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I mean, what does that
really look like though,
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to stand behind Christ?
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I would say to
make it practical,
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for me personally it would begin
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with relationships, you know.
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And the number one
relationship is Jesus of course
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because you
can't just tell a guy,
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"Oh, stay pure, don't
have sex, don't touch her.
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Why are you doing this?"
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You know, so you
got to get to know
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the person Jesus
first for yourself.
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And then God will
start to reveal to you
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the practical
things that you can do.
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You know, me I like to work out,
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you know, I like
to play basketball,
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you know, and just
having that accountability,
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being with guys that
are willing to be open.
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I think that's one of
the most important things.
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If you have a group of friends
that are willing to be open
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to talk about their struggles
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when they are in
their personal rooms,
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then you'll be able
to share your things.
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And then, you
know, you guys are no,
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man, I'm not alone in this.
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But on the other hand,
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if you have friends that
are about doing the things
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that the world does,
then the pressure comes.
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You know, and I think
a lot of the young men,
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we put ourselves
in those positions.
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We put ourselves in a position
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where, okay, we have
this type of friends,
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and we grew up
with these friends,
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and we just want to
stay tight with them.
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But God is leading us
in a different direction,
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but we don't want
to leave our friends.
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And then we get
on with our friends,
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we're trying to be holy,
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and then they are declowning us.
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You know,
they're making fun of us
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because, "Oh,
you're trying to do."
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It's inevitable,
you're going to go right back
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to the same
thing. So it's all...
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I think it starts
with your crowd of people,
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you know, start
finding things you can do,
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you know, meeting other people,
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being active in
church, playing sports.
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You know, guys, we macho
like sports, play sports,
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you know, go work
out and things like that.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Okay, that sounds
good, sounds good.
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So we just kind of make sure
we have it all together here.
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Staying behind Christ, you know,
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get the relationship
with Jesus, you know,
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that that's kind
of the reason why
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you're doing that,
you know, you were...
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And I like to
talk about the fact
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that you were
bought with a price,
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you know, 1 Corinthians,
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you know, you're
bought with a price.
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And so you
glorify God in your body,
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you know, you
understand that you are His.
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But also now going a
little further you're saying,
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"Okay, let's get an
accountability partner."
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You know, and I think
what Max was saying this,
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you know, earlier he
was saying stay busy.
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Stay busy.
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Definitely because if you...
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When you find
yourself in idle times,
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that's when temptation comes.
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You know, the
computer at midnight,
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really not doing
anything productive,
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you get all
kinds of temptations.
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Yeah.
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Personally, I developed
a pornography addiction
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at the age of 12.
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It was my first
time I was exposed to it
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but that's when
the addiction started.
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And at the age of 18, 19,
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that's when I really went
to make conscious decision to,
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you know, be removed from that,
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and that process still continues
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to be totally delivered from it.
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But during that process,
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I had to do
some practical things
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to detach myself from that.
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I had to get off my
Facebook for a couple of months
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because simple
triggers as a girl
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posting her picture of
herself in a certain manner
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which probably to her
don't even look like nothing,
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we're just like...
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And the next thing I
know I'm on another website,
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the one I'm not
supposed to be doing.
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Simple things like that. Yeah.
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So in fighting this battle,
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we really have to
be engrained in it,
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not to give the enemy any...
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Don't give him a inch,
don't give him nothing at all
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because he is gonna take it,
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and he is going to
take advantage of it.
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He studies us, he
knows our weaknesses,
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he knows the areas,
he knows what we like,
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he knows what our
mind's and heart's desire,
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he knows as men we're
visual, he knows that.
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So he is gonna
place those things
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within our paths
to try and detour us.
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So it's our responsibility
if we really want to be pure,
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to put ourselves in a situation
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where we won't
even have to face them.
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So those practical
things and doing, staying busy,
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not spending time
doing idle things,
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conversations,
you know, knowing that
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"Hey, I may not,"
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even if I'm in a
relationship with a young lady,
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may be talking
after 10 o'clock at night
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is not good for us. My Lord.
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Because we all know
after certain time on phone...
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Something happens,
man, Something happens.
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The conversation
just always seems
00:17:53.84\00:17:55.90
to go down that slippery slope.
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So it's very important
to really take conscious,
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to be conscious.
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And not say, "Oh, this
is not going to affect me,
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it's not..." No,
but to consciously say,
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"This is not the
best way for me to go."
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I want to key on, in
on what you said about
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staying busy, and
as a teen ambassador,
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you've made yourself responsible
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to younger children,
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and to do not only to
stay busy for busy sake,
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but busy doing good things.
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Doing good things.
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And this is, of course,
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another thing that the devil
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will like to take
away from us that,
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you know, we're just busy doing
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our own thing
for our own purpose
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but we have to be busy
doing what God wants us to do.
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Yes, definitely.
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All of us here are very
much involved in church,
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you know, I always say
my first priority is church
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when it comes to being involved
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because I mean,
"Oh, is that your church?
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Oh, let's doing something."
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That's what keeps
me, that's what keeps me
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being pure part
of a pure ambassadors
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and Pure Reality, and, you know,
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Jonathan does naps and Sasha,
you know, he is doing ministry,
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and that's what keeps you.
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Because the more you
get involved in this work,
00:19:07.11\00:19:09.44
is the closer you get to Christ,
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the closer you get to Christ
is Him always able to keep you.
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So being involved
like, you know, Kean says,
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in the good things,
00:19:16.62\00:19:18.49
closer to
Christ, doing His work,
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removing self is
really the way to go.
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That's right, yeah, we
have a few more minutes left,
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but I really want to tackle
relationships a little bit.
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And I know some
young ladies watching
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are wanting to us to talk,
00:19:33.10\00:19:34.44
ask some of these
questions about relationships.
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And I want to ask this question.
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As men, we got to be
real, we got to be honest.
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Question is, why
is it so hard for us
00:19:40.84\00:19:43.35
brothers to pop the question?
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And I know my
brother here, he is married,
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so he did, he
did, he made the point.
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So why is it so hard
you think for us now?
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You know, a lot of young
ladies can't complain about that
00:19:50.42\00:19:52.02
though he is just
kind of dating me.
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Talking about that,
what do you all think?
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If I may answer first, I
think that for me personally,
00:19:56.96\00:20:02.23
one main thing is
know when God's time.
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Sometimes we want
to move in our time
00:20:06.87\00:20:09.30
whether it be the
guy or the young lady.
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We want, you know,
to move on and do this,
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I mean, you know, for
whatever pressure there is.
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But it's important to
remember what God time is.
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And if we move on God's time,
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we will find ourselves
to be in better position
00:20:21.95\00:20:23.65
to succeed than to fail.
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And one of the
thing is that for myself,
00:20:26.12\00:20:30.53
I have not been
in a relationship
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for like almost six years now.
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And one of the
main things is purity
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because a lot of
people I have encountered
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or young ladies I meet,
even being interested in,
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purity is not
that important to them.
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So when you don't
have that connection
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or that thing in common,
then we can't move forward.
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So we have to make sure that
00:20:50.65\00:20:52.18
when it comes to principles,
and values, and morals,
00:20:52.21\00:20:54.85
that the young man
and the young lady,
00:20:54.88\00:20:57.12
they have those
things in common.
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And also that
both people are ready
00:20:59.12\00:21:00.96
for that next step
so they can move ahead.
00:21:00.99\00:21:03.39
I mean, let's just say,
00:21:03.43\00:21:04.76
just playing,
sometimes it's hard
00:21:04.79\00:21:06.93
to find a good woman.
00:21:06.96\00:21:08.30
I mean, they always talk about
it's hard to find a good man,
00:21:08.33\00:21:10.07
but and that's
people trying to be right,
00:21:10.10\00:21:11.63
it's kind of hard to
find a good woman, you know.
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Yeah, yeah.
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I started preaching at like 12.
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So by the time
I was like 15, 16,
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I was starting to
get invited to places,
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and what I've
realized is so many times,
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especially down in,
'cause I'm from Miami,
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sort of highly
Caribbean and things like that.
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They just want their children
to be with ministers so bad.
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And it got to one point where
I was like this is ridiculous,
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this lady, I just met
her that day when I spoke,
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and she took me
into the room with her...
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I was 16, and
she took me with her
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16-year old granddaughter,
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and like, "This
is my granddaughter.
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She is single, she is 16.
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Why don't you guys speak?"
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And then left
and closed the door.
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And I'm thinking
to myself, you know,
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"This is your
grandchild, not property.
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You don't know
me from anywhere."
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You don't know if I'm
just good at preaching.
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And what I've
realized is, you know,
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we approach
marriages very, very wrong,
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you know, very, very,
very, very incorrectly.
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Marriage is
supposed to be prayed on,
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it's not just because a person
looks good from the outside,
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you don't know
what they struggle with,
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you don't know
their family history,
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what type of
generation or curses
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are you inviting
on your children,
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on your offspring 'cause
you don't know the person.
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And I think that
that spiritual aspect
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is lacking and also with dating,
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as Maxwood said
it's very difficult
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to find someone
who is bent on purity.
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So many times,
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I've spoken to a girl or
tried to be interested in her,
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and invest time in her,
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and what it starts off
is because they know like,
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basically what
I do or my history
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with Pure Reality
and things like that,
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they put a facade
that they are pure,
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that they are
genuinely trying to live right.
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And then within like six
months of speaking to them,
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not even dating, they will say,
"Why haven't you kissed me?"
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And I'm thinking to myself,
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"Did you hear
what you just said?"
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You know, what
happened to that purity,
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what happened to waiting
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because people forget
a kiss is something very,
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very, very powerful, a kiss.
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It's not something
to be thrown around,
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and it's so sad
that mainstream society
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and TV just
throws kisses around.
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Kisses are used to
seal your marriage,
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"You may kiss your bride."
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And things like that...
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Kisses are intricate because,
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you know, your
lips are very sensitive,
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the most sensitive part
of your body is your lips.
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And when you kiss someone,
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you can just
open doors to all type
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of sexual immorality after that.
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And I feel like, you know,
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if you're going to try to become
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wifey material as we would say,
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someone who is
worth being a wife,
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and you would like
someone to be engaged,
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firstly, you
have to value yourself
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so that they can
know that you're valuable.
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And secondly, give
them something to go after,
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don't just throw
everything on the table
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because if the
guy doesn't feel like
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there is anything to chase for,
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most likely he is not
going to ask the question.
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Experience honest, yeah.
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So for those reasons,
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how important is it
then to depend on God?
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Because you say that we
put up facades all the time.
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And what do we...
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How do we approach that?
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Well, in the Bible,
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there are a few indications
of what it means to be a man,
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you know, when God
made Adam, he had a job.
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He was supposed to
take care of the garden,
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he was knowledgeable,
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he knew what his
purpose was in life,
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you know, and he
was at one with God.
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God gave him his mind.
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And we don't look for people
with the mind of God anymore.
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So much so that he
had the mind of God
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and so much so
that they were one,
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that the Bible never
lists that God told Eve
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the rules of the garden.
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Adam knew his
duties as the husband
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and told Eve what
she was supposed to do,
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you know, or
what the rules were,
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and how to
follow the will of God.
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And also the next example
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I would like to give
use is Jacob, I'm sorry.
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He worked seven
years for his first wife
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that he didn't want but
he worked those seven years
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because he loved that woman.
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He loved her.
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And so many
times girls are saying
00:25:02.10\00:25:03.43
they don't want to wait
or they don't want to wait
00:25:03.47\00:25:05.50
to give their
boyfriend his sexual needs
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because he is not
going to wait for them.
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If he is not
going to wait for you,
00:25:09.97\00:25:11.31
he doesn't love you,
he doesn't value you,
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he doesn't cherish you,
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and those are not the qualities
you'd like in a husband.
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And the good
thing about Adam and Eve
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was when Adam was
ready, God brought Eve to him,
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he didn't have to
go out looking for her.
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Yeah.
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God knew Adam and
exactly what he needed
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and the same with Eve.
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Yeah, there is a lot to
say about waiting on God,
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and really a lot of
this has to do with waiting,
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you know, it's just
being willing to wait on Him
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and trust in Him
that He will give you
00:25:35.83\00:25:37.97
that great
experience when it's time.
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And thinking about
that in practical...
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We only have a
few minutes left but,
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John, we were
talking about Job 31,
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how it says, "I made
a covenant with my eyes,
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why then should I
think upon a maid?"
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Why should I
even look at a woman?
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Now in our society and media,
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it's hard to keep our eyes holy.
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Is this applicable today?
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Most definitely I believe so.
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And I honestly believe
that enemy has the great job
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of making all the
things in this life,
00:26:04.39\00:26:08.70
everything that we do, you know.
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I love basketball.
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If I go to the basketball game,
there's cheerleaders there.
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If I go to a
football game, same thing,
00:26:15.34\00:26:16.67
and these people,
these women are half naked.
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You know, music and
you just start thinking
00:26:19.41\00:26:22.31
about certain
things when you hear
00:26:22.34\00:26:23.68
certain times the music.
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So I mean, the
way you would do that
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is abstaining
from certain things,
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you know, like I said, you know,
00:26:30.42\00:26:32.19
I like to watch basketball,
I like play basketball.
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I'm not going to just stop
watching basketball altogether.
00:26:34.32\00:26:37.26
But I'm not going to put myself
and go through a game if I know
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I'm going to see
these types of things,
00:26:40.63\00:26:42.06
you know, I'll
watch it from my home,
00:26:42.10\00:26:43.73
you know, these type of things.
00:26:43.77\00:26:45.10
And it's not just
walking in the streets
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with your eyes up and
not looking at anyone.
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Yeah. It has
nothing to do with that.
00:26:49.24\00:26:50.57
But I believe it's
more of a mental thing like,
00:26:50.61\00:26:54.34
what are you
going to do, you know,
00:26:54.38\00:26:56.48
are you going to
go to this store here
00:26:56.51\00:26:59.48
where you know they
have this type of things
00:26:59.51\00:27:01.55
'cause I know you know guys...
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Yeah, yeah. We're
very, very, very visual.
00:27:02.95\00:27:05.12
And if you even look at
a Victoria Secret catalog,
00:27:05.15\00:27:09.66
it's... Your mind, it's
going crazy, it's going crazy.
00:27:09.69\00:27:13.56
So it just goes back to
00:27:13.60\00:27:15.70
what are you
doing with your time,
00:27:15.73\00:27:17.37
you know, what are
you doing with your time,
00:27:17.40\00:27:19.57
what are the type of
people that you're around,
00:27:19.60\00:27:21.54
you know,
because all these things
00:27:21.57\00:27:22.90
have a part to
play in your eyes,
00:27:22.94\00:27:24.27
you know, making the covenant
with your eyes with God.
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Man, that is so true.
00:27:27.34\00:27:28.68
We really have to make
that covenant with our eyes,
00:27:28.71\00:27:30.28
and in the practical sense,
00:27:30.31\00:27:31.65
when we're
watching something on TV,
00:27:31.68\00:27:33.01
we're watching a show,
00:27:33.05\00:27:34.38
we have to turn
away from that thing,
00:27:34.42\00:27:35.75
turn it off, you know,
walk away, get out of the room,
00:27:35.78\00:27:37.65
you know, and
really make that covenant.
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And I truly
believe that we can do it.
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And if there's
man watching here,
00:27:41.42\00:27:42.99
you can do it.
00:27:43.02\00:27:44.36
There is hope, you
can make it happen.
00:27:44.39\00:27:46.03
And just know that
God is there with you.
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So that's our program for today,
00:27:47.73\00:27:49.16
we're going to wrap it up here.
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But remember, make pure choices.
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