The following program
discusses sensitive issues.
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Parents are
cautioned that some material
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may be too candid
for younger children.
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Hello and
welcome to Pure Choices.
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I'm your host
Pastor Joshua Nelson
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and I'm so glad and excited
you decided to join us again
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for another
addition of Pure Choices,
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and we have an
exciting one for you today.
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We're talking
about pure worship.
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And we're gonna talk
about connecting with our God
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to fix the sexual
addictions and problems.
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But before we get
into this important topic,
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let's just pause
for a moment to pray.
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Dear, Heavenly Father, we
just ask that you will guide us
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and lead us as we
discuss in Jesus name we pray.
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Amen. Amen. Amen.
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All right, let's
introduce our panel.
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To my left I have
Ms. Kimberly Pearson
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who is the Associate
Chaplain of Oakwood University
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in Huntsville, Alabama.
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Yes? Yes.
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And then across here, we
have Pastor Kory P. Douglas,
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who is the pastor in Grand Ave
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and New Life
Fellowship in Missouri.
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Mm-hm.
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And next to him we
have Dajanae Maxwell
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who is the Oakwood
University theology student
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in Huntsville, Alabama.
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And next to her, of
course, we have Jeremy Anderson
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who is a
Christian author and speaker
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in Madison, Alabama.
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Yes. So we have a great panel.
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Great topic, so
let's get right into it.
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First question then
is, "What is worship?"
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Jeremy?
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Well, to answer that
question for me personally,
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I believe that worship
is true communion with God.
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The word of God says
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that He inhabits the
praises of His people.
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So when we actually worship God,
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God comes and dwells within us.
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So we're living at our purpose
in life because we were made
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and everything was
created to bring glory to God.
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So I think about just
pure, open, honest worship.
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It's just
communion and connection
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and unison with God,
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acknowledging and recognizing
the great God that he is.
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Wow, that's awesome.
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Dajanae, expand on that for me.
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I understand
worship to be a lifestyle
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and not just an event.
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So many people when
they thick about worship
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they think
about going to church,
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they think about the praising,
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the preachers speaking.
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Right, right.
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But worship is a lifestyle,
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it's something that I do
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when I'm
walking down the street.
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Because as I'm walking down
the street, as I'm in my room,
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I'm acknowledging God.
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I'm allowing God to dwell in me
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and I'm allowing him to be
glorified through my lifestyle
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and not just something
that's orchestrated by men
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to come together.
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While that is important,
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while corporate
worship is necessary,
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it's not the
ultimate phase of worship.
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And because I allow God
to dwell with me all the time
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when that come together
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worship is so much more powerful
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in the presence of God's people.
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Wow, she's taking
worship to another level.
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Yeah. Can we go
ahead real quick?
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You know what's interesting?
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The way she says
that the Bible...
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Jesus said in the Bible that
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"They worshiped
me with their mouths,
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but their hearts
are far from me".
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And so that worship
everyday and everything you do
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that's what God's expecting.
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Not just a corporate worship,
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just it being a way
of life and it being real
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because we serve the real God.
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Yeah, and that's
just who you are.
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Yeah, that's right.
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But, you know, I
think that kind of ties
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into my thought about worship,
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I feel like a lot of
times we go to worship
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expecting to get something,
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we go to worship saying
"Give me, give me, give me,
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I showed up,
that should be enough.
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Now give me
blessings, give me, you know,
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all the good things in life."
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But worship is not
supposed to be a buffet.
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Worship is a potluck.
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When you go to a buffet,
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you see
everything that's out there,
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you put it on your plate,
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and you pick and
choose what you want,
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but a potluck you bring
what you have your best dish,
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your best thing to the table,
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and you put it with
everybody else's best
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and everybody is full.
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So when you worship and
you bring to God your best,
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your worship, your
praise through out the week
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and the songs you've sung,
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the scriptures you've
held and hidden in your heart
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that makes all the
difference in the world.
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Now when everybody
brings their best to the table,
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now worship is delicious.
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Yeah.
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It's tasteful and it's wonderful
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and it's an experience.
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Okay.
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So now that we are understanding
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a little more about worship,
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let's go a little deeper
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and talk about things
we are made for worship,
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okay, let's expound on that fact
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that we are made for worship.
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But let's talk about how
can you worship everyday,
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you know, it's just
how does worship intersect
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with your everyday life?
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Go ahead and talk to us.
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Well, you know, when
I think about worship
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I immediately think
of the Samaritan woman
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that Jesus meets at the well,
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you know, and this is the thing
we always quote Jesus says,
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you know, "They who worship
me, who worship me in spirit,
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and in truth".
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And I think the biggest mistake
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we make is taking
that in spirit means
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these days running
around trying to act like
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I've got the spirit,
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looked like I've got the spirit,
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but what actually Jesus talked
about in the original language
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when he said the
spirit, he mans your inner being
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like we have worship,
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it shouldn't be
something that's just outward.
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It's not a form.
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But it should definitely
come from inside of you.
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Yeah.
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Inspirit and in truth means,
it just got to be genuine.
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So we're not
judging how you do it.
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When you talk
about your everyday life,
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you're talking about
worshiping at the center
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of everything you do.
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We sometimes laugh about
what would Jesus do, you know,
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bands in our
arms, but truthfully,
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worshiping in
your life is saying
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what everything I do
I'm gonna ask God about it.
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I'm gonna put it before Him.
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God, even if you want
to get serious and say,
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"God, what socks
should I wear today?"
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Because my socks
might start a conversation
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that might allow for
me to witness for you,
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you know, but we never know.
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And so as to say, in
every aspect of our life
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to really think about it like,
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"Well, I've to be
careful what I do here.
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I go to be
conscious of what I do.
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I got to be
intentional about it,"
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because everything I
do is an act of worship.
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Wow, that's deep.
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So we're living a
life that is worship.
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And really I guess
I'll ask this question,
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"Is that our purpose in life?"
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Is our purpose
in life to worship?
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Oh, yeah. Okay.
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So if that's our purpose in life
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and that's what we are,
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you know, made to do,
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then how should that really
coincide with my sex life?
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You know, how does that connect?
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How does that connect with,
you know, the choices I make,
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the pure choices
I make, you know,
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is that in a
form of bad worship,
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if I'm doing something
that's not according to God?
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Oh, without a doubt.
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Either you're worshiping God
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or you're
worshiping something else.
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And I think a lot of
times we get that confused.
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Either you're worshiping God
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or you're
worshiping something else,
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and so someone
may challenge that,
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"Well, if you're putting
something before your God,
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then what do you call that?"
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And so a lot of times
we worship our spouses,
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we worship our jobs,
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we worship the
things, possessions,
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the things that we have.
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You know, when
the Bible says that
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"I will never give you
more than you can bare,"
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it doesn't just mean trials
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sometimes it may
mean good thing, blessings
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and I believe that
there are a lot of things
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that God wants to give us,
His children, but He's saying,
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"If I give it to you I
can't trust you with it yet,"
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because your worship
that accomplishes me,
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your worship that
degree, you worship that spouse,
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and you worship
sex or whatever it is.
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And so God has to
put this in a position
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where we see He came first
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and then He can trust
us and move on from there.
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So, yeah, that
thing's tricky. Okay.
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I think on that lines, you know,
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where people believe
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that there's a
Great Controversy going on
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and so I
definitely call it a sign.
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If you're not worshiping God,
you're worshiping other things
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but at the end of the day
if you're not worshiping God,
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you're worshiping
the evil and the enemy.
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Right.
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You know, in the
Bible clearly says
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"Our bodies are temple."
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And by God's grace it
will be a temple to God,
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but we forget that it can
also be a temple to the enemy
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and so we have to be careful
what we do with our bodies.
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You know, we
think about the fact
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that God created
sex for certain way
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in a certain context.
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The minute you step
outside that context,
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then you have to ask yourself,
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"Well, who am I
worshiping right now?"
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Yeah.
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You know, if God
made sex for marriage
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and I'm not
married and I'm having sex,
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then I can't be worshiping God.
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You know, and so
we got to take down
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the considerations as well.
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Okay.
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And I think y'all are
answering the question
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that I'm gonna ask next
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which is, you know, a
lot of people may say,
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"You all talking
about pure choices a lot
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on this program,
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you all are
talking about, you know,
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making the right choice
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and not having sex
out side of marriage
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and what not, but I mean,
does God really, what, I mean,
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really why does God even
care so much about my sex life?"
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You know?
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"And what is He really,
why does He care so much,
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you know, why is it
so important to Him."
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I guess worship is a part of it.
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But someone, kind of,
expand on that for me.
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Well, you know, I think
worship is an investment, right?
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What you put your time into,
shows what you're invested in.
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And so if I put all
of my time in to work,
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I'm invested in work.
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If I put all my time
into God, I'm invested in God.
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But if I put all
my time and energy
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and thoughts into sex,
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then I am invested in something
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that may not be for
my good at that time.
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And so I think part
of why God is concerned
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with our sex lives
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is because God
wants to make sure
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that we make wise
investments with our time,
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with our energy,
with our worship.
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And so when we
view it in that context
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sometimes that
maybe can help us see
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how God does care
about our sex life.
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God made sex to be
good in context, you know,
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so looking at it maybe
from that standpoint...
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In the context of marriage...
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In the context of marriage.
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Yes, in the context of marriage.
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And there's the
concept, there's another concept
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that I understand
as adultery is putting,
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can be putting a good
thing as the ultimate thing.
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So is sex wrong, is
sex nasty, is it bad?
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No.
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But like what you were saying
in the context of marriage,
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it could be a beautiful thing.
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So if I'm dressing,
and I'm holding myself,
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and I'm
interacting with my sexuality
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over like my spirituality
what Christ has given me,
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then I'm allowing
sex to drive my life
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instead of
Christ to drive my life
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and so is that
thing that sex is bad, no,
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but that's how you
interact with your husband
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and that's fine
but still in the same.
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And when I'm in
public, am I doing that?
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When I'm in public,
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am I being overly sexual
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to where I don't
understand my situation,
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who's around me, and
who am I speaking to.
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Well, you know, I
was reading this book
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and I think the title is
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"Women are like
spaghetti-men are like waffles",
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how men compartmentalize
and women everything enter,
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you know, weaves in,
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the sauce is touching everything
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and I think sometimes
we do worship like that.
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Worship is like waffles.
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Everything God is like
waffles, everything's in a box,
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everything is compartmentalized.
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And so worship is
here, worship is church,
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worship is with my family,
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you know, on Sabbath,
but sex, my relationships,
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who I'm attracted
to that's over here.
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Separated. And that's separate.
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And so God works
here but not here,
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but God is like spaghetti.
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Spaghetti worship.
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God is like, He's
interweaving into everything.
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He wants to touch
every part of our lives
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so that every part
of our lives is good.
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Not just one part with waffles
and syrup in the one box,
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you know.
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Well, I'm
listening to you, guys,
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and I can't help but
think about the Garden of Eden,
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you know, we know what
created an imagine of God,
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you know, and
that God has given sex
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to consummate the marriage
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and the Bible says,
Jesus says, you know, what man,
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"What God put together,
let not man put asunder,"
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but the Bible
describes it becoming one flesh.
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And the whole point of it
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is to mimic
pretty much the image
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that God has in
heaven and so, you know,
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sex is much more
about the kind of intimacy.
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What it really is,
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is the testimony of the intimacy
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that God seeks
to have it with us
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and that's why it's so important
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to make sure that it is
done in the right context
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as well, so...
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Yeah. Yeah.
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And, you know, to piggyback
on that statement right there,
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the intimacy factor
that's what's really important.
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I think that's a lot
times was missing in worship.
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The intimacy like you and God,
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like I think of a man and
a woman or me and my wife,
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we have our 'us time'
like nobody else is involved
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and even when
we're not having it
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we're standing in the public.
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I'm touching her,
I'm holding her hands,
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I've got my arms
right like that's my boo
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and God wants the
same connection with us.
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I mean, He...
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I think I love my wife.
I'll die for my wife, right?
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But God die for my sins
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and so that worship
just needs to be intimate,
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just the caress,
the touch, the feel,
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just the anointing,
feeling you about power
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and spirit that's that
next level worship right there.
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So when you mentioned intimacy,
it kind of took me there.
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God is your boo.
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That's it. He's my boo.
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Yeah, my Friend, my Provider,
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my Elohim,
Melchizedek, He's everything.
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Yeah. Right?
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And so I just like to
type into that worship
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and give the
different type of mindset
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when I have time
to just quality time
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with God and just reload,
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but that intimacy
time is nothing like it.
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Yeah.
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And that's so powerful
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because we have to
have that connection.
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Got to.
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You can't survive, you
can't rely on your strength,
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you got to have that power,
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you gotta be
plugged into that power.
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I'm beginning to understand
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that concept of
intimacy as well.
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When two people are
married, and they come together,
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and they have sex,
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that oneness in the beginning
in Genesis God said that
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"The man will leave his
mother and cleave to his wife
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and they will become one flesh".
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And so with that
same concept in John
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when Christ is
saying that he prays
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that we will all be one
with the Father just as him
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and the Father are one,
I and him and him and me,
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that's the same
concept of oneness
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of being one flesh of
being bound to Christ.
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And so the whole
concept of marriage
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and becoming one is
not just to be married
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and to be happy here on earth,
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but it's an example of
the kind of relationship
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and one that Christ
wants to have with us.
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Wow, that's beautiful.
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So intimacy that is
the goal in worship,
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trying to get close
or in connected to God.
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So now let's talk about then,
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if we are going ahead and
doing these sexual divine acts
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for going to, you know,
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not make pure choices
make poor choices, you know,
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in our lives what does
that do then to our worship?
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Well, you know, you
talked about being one
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and if the act of intimacy is
specifically sexual intercourse
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and physical
intimacy creates a oneness,
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how many people do you
really wanna be one with?
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You know what I mean?
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You wanna be one with a
lot of different people,
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that's not okay.
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And so if I am
creating that oneness
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with someone other than God,
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then it causes glitches
in my relationship with God.
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And so how can I go
to God and worship Him
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with the images
of what I've done
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in all the people
I'm one with in my mind?
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You know?
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So having to break
those bonds of oneness
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with all these other people,
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to help create and
nurture the oneness with God
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and that process
can be very difficult.
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Why put yourself
through that unnecessarily.
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Wow, yeah.
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And, you know, as you
say that I'm thinking,
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you know, the Bible
says leaving cleaves
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but sex with
your married partner.
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Sex in the right
context is leaving and cleaving,
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it equals oneness with God.
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It leads to oneness with God.
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That sex helps
you to understand,
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you know, the
oneness with God even more
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and so how many things
can you leave and cleave onto.
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Do you
understand what I'm saying?
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So you gotta make sure that
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if that first was
done in the right context
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of course within the marriage,
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but I mean the minute that
you step outside of that power
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that God has it means
you just have other partners.
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You're cleaving to
those other things.
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Wow. Mercy.
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You know, and so you
can't say Jesus says,
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"No man can serve two masters."
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So you can't say I
wanna have it my way
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and have sex and
to do what I want,
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and serve God at the same time.
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I can't worship God
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while I'm cleaving
to everything else.
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Wow.
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So you haven't really,
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you basically made
the decision saying
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I'm going to not cleave to God
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and not do His way with
being married and having,
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you know, trying to
be me and my wife and God
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I'm gonna go in and add
other people to the equation.
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And destroy that
trinity of worship
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that I was trying to
have with me and him.
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Wow.
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But, you know, God
wants us to be bonded with him
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not just physically
but emotionally bonded,
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mentally bonded with you.
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And especially for women
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when a woman is intimate
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that's not just a physical act
that's an emotional, a mental,
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it's all of that encompass.
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It can be the way for men too.
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Okay, okay, you now,
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but I'll speak
specifically for women.
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All right. It can be like that.
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And so imagine if I am
creating these mental bonds.
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I mean, the act of sex
physiologically creates,
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you know, a
chemical bond that bonds us,
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that addicts us
to the other person.
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I don't wanna get addicted
to a bunch of other people.
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And so now when I go
to God and I want to pray,
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I'm bonded to other
people, I'm bonded emotionally,
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my mind isn't right,
my spirit isn't right,
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I'm having a hard time focusing,
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and then when the bonds
are broken through a breakup
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or through a bad relationship,
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now God has gotta clean
that all up, work that all out,
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and then restore our
relationship with him.
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Yeah.
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And with... Kory, were
you about to say something?
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No, go ahead.
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In the, just like
what you were saying,
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intimacy is not just physical,
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intimacy is deeper than that
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and so as I'm
speaking with someone,
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as I'm spending time with them
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that intimacy is
growing deeper and deeper.
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I'm getting to
know them as a person,
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their minds their spirits,
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and so at the end it
builds up to the physical
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but it's not the physical alone.
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And that's the beautiful
part with God in worship.
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It's not the
example of a person,
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it's just an example of God
wants us to spend time with him
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in our daily lives
that intimacy is a build up
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to something greater,
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that oneness,
that communication,
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that getting to know you
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before I get to know
you as the Bible says.
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Yeah, yeah, and
that's all interesting
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because just in
like relationship,
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you're saying that shouldn't
just be all about the sex,
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you know, it should be
about getting to know the person
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and building up to that point.
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And I think, you
know, a lot of people
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look at their relation with God
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kind of the same way they
relation with other people,
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you know, they just want
the, you know, want to have sex,
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want to have the
blessings of God,
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but they don't wanna have
the relationship with him.
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They want the personal stuff,
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they wanna have
that magical moment,
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you know, they get that high,
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you know, in
church or whatever maybe,
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but they don't
wanna spend that time
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really getting to know
him, having that, you know,
00:18:15.92\00:18:17.26
that spiritual
discipline to really get them,
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you know, get them
in a relation with God.
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You know, I think
that's what makes the worship
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pure and true
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when you can worship
God even on the bad days.
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You know, when you can go
to church and not just worship
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because things are going
great and you got that job,
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well, you can go
to work or worship
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and you don't have a job,
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or you just found out
a relative has cancer or,
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you know, you are
dealing with financial struggles
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but you can still move
past it and worship God.
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Because when we allow things
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to get in the way of our worship
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we're actually
worshiping those things.
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You see what I'm saying?
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We're acknowledging
what the enemy is doing
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in our lives as
apposed to exalting God.
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And there are stories
after stories that you can look,
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King Jehoshaphat, and Hezekiah
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and what they went through
in the middle of their battle,
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worship is what
gave them the victory.
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And so I tell a
lot of people nowadays,
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don't wait until you
get that breakthrough,
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when a bad news comes
get your worship on now
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because that's when
the victory will come.
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It's the same
thing with my wife.
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I could just only
love my wife on good day
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but when she's
getting on my nerves
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I still got to love her, right?
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Yeah. Yeah.
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And so God wants
the same thing from us.
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Okay. Yeah.
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So now let's even go
little more practical
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because someone, you know,
listening or watching may say,
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"That sounds
beautiful I wanna worship God,
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you know, I want that
to be a part of my life,
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but what does that look like,
you know, how do you do that?
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What is worship look like?"
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Is it, you know,
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'cause a lot of
times like you say,
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we just think
worship is all praising God
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and jumping around.
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What does worship
really looks like?
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I don't know if we can
say what it looks like.
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Okay.
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I believe the minute
you say what I looks like,
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you kind of put it in the
box and then people would strive
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for what it looks like.
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You know, I'm reading this
book that talks about the fact
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that what we do nowadays is that
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when it comes to time
we got intimacy with God,
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we have become comfortable
with having go-betweens.
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So we wanna worship God
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but we will rely on
the pastor to feed us.
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We wanna worship God,
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but we rely on devotional books.
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We wanna worship God,
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we rely on our
Sabbath school lesson.
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And I believe that
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a part of what we
are looking at right now
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is sometimes
having to set time aside
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and say it's
just gonna be in God.
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You turn the phone off.
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I'm talking
about being practical.
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Man, if I put the phone
in the kitchen, in the draw,
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I'm going to completely
other room, I'm gonna,
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it may be a serine place, I
mean, just looking at nature
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but I'm just gonna
place myself intentionally...
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In position.
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In the presence of God.
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And it's not to say
that because you do that,
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then also you got to hear
magical stuff and you know,
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the light will shine
down from the heaven.
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One day you might
hear God clear as day,
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another day you
might not hear anything
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and that might even be
what God needs for you,
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not to hear at that point,
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but it's about being intentional
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about sitting in His presence
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same way with
your intentional about.
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"I wanna be sitting on the couch
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and I say to the person I love
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because I just
wanna be next to them."
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Sometimes we don't get to
talk, we can just sit there.
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You got to make that same effort
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and say I just want
to be in God's presence.
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You know what I
love about what you said?
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I'm talking about
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sometimes we wanna
get that spiritual fix,
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we want the go-betweens
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and that ties so
much into our sexuality
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especially a lot,
some of us Christians
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we want that
fix, we don't have sex
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but we'll do everything
else to get that fixed.
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And what we talked
about earlier is that
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intimacy is a
lead up to a point.
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It's been to a climax.
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And so a lot of times
what happens in our worship
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or in our
sexuality is, you know,
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we'll have this
foreplay and then stop.
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And foreplay and stop.
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And so you are
missing out on the experience
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that supposed to happen
to lead to a greater moment
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and we do that in
our spiritual life.
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We get these
little bits and pieces
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and then stop God
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from actually
having His way in our life
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and so we have to go
all the way with God.
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We have to go
all the way with Him.
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We have to be
intentional about saying
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what "God, whatever
you're asking me to do
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I'm gonna do,
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if that means letting
go of some relationships,
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if that means, you know,
walking away from something's,
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let it go."
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Have your God as a
dating relationship
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so you get to know him,
right, you get to know His name,
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you know who He is and
you start spending time.
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When you like somebody,
you spend time with them.
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And so you go out so
you spend time with God.
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Now what will happen
if you were on have a date
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and the person kept taking you
to the same place every time?
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You be like, "I'm bored."
00:22:15.93\00:22:17.27
So do new
things, do fresh things,
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journal, go for
a walk, you know,
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have groups of
friends get together,
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have conversations,
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and after that you
have dating experience,
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the quoting experience,
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you invite God
to be in your life.
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What do you do?
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We make it official.
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It's all right, guys,
let's make it official.
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Let's commit to each other.
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And you make that official
and then after that, you know,
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you get married, you
have wedding vows, right?
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Yeah.
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The Bible are our wedding vows,
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so whenever your
relationship is going
00:22:42.39\00:22:44.09
through a hard time
with God where do you go?
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You go back to your vows.
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Go back to the Bible
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and hide those
wedding vows in your heart.
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Amen.
00:22:50.47\00:22:51.90
You know, that's so beautiful,
00:22:51.93\00:22:53.27
just to hear you say
that it makes me think
00:22:53.30\00:22:55.47
about being important of
having that union with God.
00:22:55.50\00:22:59.24
Being in that one
with Him, dating Him,
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knowing exactly where He's at,
00:23:01.88\00:23:03.24
and then having to
make a set time to meet Him,
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right, so God convicted
me about year and a half ago,
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He said, "Son, you've
been traveling and preaching
00:23:08.35\00:23:10.09
and asking for my spirit,
00:23:10.12\00:23:11.45
but you're not
giving me enough time.
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You watch 2, 3 hours
of sports and the news,
00:23:13.09\00:23:15.46
but you're giving
me 30 minute worships."
00:23:15.49\00:23:17.36
So I started getting
up earlier than earlier
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and now when I'm not
traveling and I'm home,
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I'm walking up between
three and four to seek Him.
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You know what I'm
trying to be though?
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One of my good
friends, he wakes up so early,
00:23:25.30\00:23:28.07
he says he doesn't
like sleep, you know why?
00:23:28.10\00:23:30.34
He says because he feels like
00:23:30.37\00:23:31.71
when he sleeping
he's separate from God.
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Mercy.
00:23:33.34\00:23:34.68
He's like I wanted to be awake,
00:23:34.71\00:23:36.04
I wanna have my
mind focused on God.
00:23:36.08\00:23:38.51
And I'm like, man,
would you be so kind
00:23:38.55\00:23:40.12
God to give me that
type of desire for you
00:23:40.15\00:23:43.15
and he is in love with God.
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And so that
intimacy in the set time
00:23:44.99\00:23:47.32
we put aside for God is so key
00:23:47.36\00:23:49.39
'cause the hustle
and bustle of life,
00:23:49.42\00:23:52.03
that can derail us.
00:23:52.06\00:23:53.40
Yeah.
00:23:53.43\00:23:54.76
I like what both
of you guys are saying
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because we're being practical
00:23:56.16\00:23:57.50
and the truth is
we can't see God.
00:23:57.53\00:23:59.23
We've never held
His hand, physically,
00:23:59.27\00:24:01.20
we've never
hugged Him physically,
00:24:01.24\00:24:02.57
and so one thing that
we have to keep in mind
00:24:02.60\00:24:04.64
is that the things
that we do in our life,
00:24:04.67\00:24:06.71
sometimes to
pick and to determine
00:24:06.74\00:24:08.84
how we worship God.
00:24:08.88\00:24:10.58
And that's why sexual
purity is so important.
00:24:10.61\00:24:13.65
Because if you are frivolous,
00:24:13.68\00:24:15.82
if you are
promiscuous out in regular life,
00:24:15.85\00:24:18.75
and we're not
just talking about sex,
00:24:18.79\00:24:20.12
we're talking about on your job,
00:24:20.16\00:24:21.49
if you're not faithful
enough in your job, you know,
00:24:21.52\00:24:23.09
you come to work,
you're hiding in your desk,
00:24:23.12\00:24:24.63
you take a 20-minute
nap before you clock in,
00:24:24.66\00:24:26.29
you know that kind of thing,
00:24:26.33\00:24:27.66
that's how
you're gonna treat God.
00:24:27.70\00:24:29.03
The same way you're so
used to having, you know,
00:24:29.06\00:24:30.93
with all these
different sexual partners
00:24:30.97\00:24:32.67
and one night stands
and just like you said,
00:24:32.70\00:24:34.97
touching sometimes,
and not touching sometimes,
00:24:35.00\00:24:36.84
again to third base
00:24:36.87\00:24:38.21
and then turning back
and running to home plate
00:24:38.24\00:24:39.57
and doing that
over and over again
00:24:39.61\00:24:40.94
and flirting with
going to home base,
00:24:40.98\00:24:42.31
that's how we're gonna treat God
00:24:42.34\00:24:43.75
in our relationship we have
00:24:43.78\00:24:45.11
because that's what we know
00:24:45.15\00:24:46.48
as intimacy in
our everyday life.
00:24:46.51\00:24:48.08
And so that's
why it's so important
00:24:48.12\00:24:49.78
to make sure you
maintain that purity
00:24:49.82\00:24:51.19
because it will reflect on
your relationship with God.
00:24:51.22\00:24:53.19
Yeah. Yeah. Wow!
00:24:53.22\00:24:54.56
There's little
things for me personally
00:24:54.59\00:24:56.69
there's little things
that I do that I can't say,
00:24:56.73\00:24:59.76
oh, this is what
intimacy with God looks like
00:24:59.79\00:25:02.70
but I know, for me,
00:25:02.73\00:25:04.07
it's just a simple acknowledging
00:25:04.10\00:25:06.07
of who He is throughout my day.
00:25:06.10\00:25:08.50
So I get A I'm praising him,
I didn't do, I might get an F,
00:25:08.54\00:25:13.51
I'm still praising him.
00:25:13.54\00:25:14.88
I'm like okay, Lord, be with me,
00:25:14.91\00:25:16.24
okay, Lord I acknowledge
00:25:16.28\00:25:17.61
that you are
currently surrounding me.
00:25:17.65\00:25:19.85
So just acknowledging that,
when I wake up in the morning,
00:25:19.88\00:25:24.05
Lord, thank you so
much for waking me up,
00:25:24.09\00:25:25.62
like before I even get
out of my bed, like, oh,
00:25:25.65\00:25:27.82
just smiling like,
oh, Lord you're with me,
00:25:27.86\00:25:30.19
like, in just little things
and that's intimacy with God.
00:25:30.23\00:25:34.26
If you think about
two people who are married
00:25:34.30\00:25:36.60
and they wake up,
and they kiss each other,
00:25:36.63\00:25:38.50
and kiss each other on the cheek
00:25:38.53\00:25:39.87
or on the forehead,
00:25:39.90\00:25:41.24
like, those
little things waking up
00:25:41.27\00:25:42.60
and appreciating that
I woke up next to you.
00:25:42.64\00:25:44.71
And so just
waking up in the morning,
00:25:44.74\00:25:46.94
"Lord, thank you
for being next to me,
00:25:46.98\00:25:48.71
thank you for holding
me throughout the night,"
00:25:48.74\00:25:50.78
the little things.
00:25:50.81\00:25:52.15
You know, Dajanae and I
00:25:52.18\00:25:53.52
had a conversation the other day
00:25:53.55\00:25:54.88
and Dajanae was
saying that, it's almost like
00:25:54.92\00:25:56.65
we're in a long-distance
relationship with God.
00:25:56.69\00:25:58.32
Yes.
00:25:58.35\00:25:59.69
And if you're in a
long-distance relationship
00:25:59.72\00:26:01.52
you have to do certain things
00:26:01.56\00:26:02.99
to keep that relationship alive.
00:26:03.02\00:26:04.36
Yeah. Yeah.
00:26:04.39\00:26:05.73
You gotta Skype, you
know, you got to FaceTime,
00:26:05.76\00:26:07.93
you got to talk
00:26:07.96\00:26:09.30
and so we have
got to talk to God,
00:26:09.33\00:26:11.33
prayer is the most important,
00:26:11.37\00:26:13.20
I think,
00:26:13.23\00:26:14.57
part of this
long-distance relationship.
00:26:14.60\00:26:16.67
Talking to God
communicating with Him,
00:26:16.71\00:26:19.11
and I just love that.
00:26:19.14\00:26:20.48
You know, if you're in a
long-distance relationship
00:26:20.51\00:26:21.84
you got to watch your
interactions, you know,
00:26:21.88\00:26:24.05
but you have to continually
nurture that relationship
00:26:24.08\00:26:26.65
and eventually
God will come back
00:26:26.68\00:26:28.42
so that we can
be together again.
00:26:28.45\00:26:30.45
Yeah. True. Very true.
00:26:30.49\00:26:31.82
That's awesome.
00:26:31.85\00:26:33.19
You know, I got
something that God just gave me.
00:26:33.22\00:26:34.56
He reminded me of
just looking at this
00:26:34.59\00:26:36.19
whole relationship factor,
00:26:36.22\00:26:37.56
Psalms 37:40 says
something so deep.
00:26:37.59\00:26:40.30
It says, "To delight
yourself in the Lord.
00:26:40.33\00:26:42.46
He'll give you the
desires of your heart."
00:26:42.50\00:26:44.53
And so I think about my wife
and we think about our spouses
00:26:44.57\00:26:46.84
and we love them so much,
00:26:46.87\00:26:48.20
we wanna just do
whatever we can do for them.
00:26:48.24\00:26:50.31
And God's just like
to delight yourself in me
00:26:50.34\00:26:52.97
and I'mma blow your mind.
00:26:53.01\00:26:55.18
Like delight.
00:26:55.21\00:26:56.54
It doesn't say worship
me and I'll give the desire.
00:26:56.58\00:26:58.15
It doesn't say pray, it
says delight yourself in me.
00:26:58.18\00:27:00.52
Yeah.
00:27:00.55\00:27:01.88
Ad so that's just
the word for us all,
00:27:01.92\00:27:03.25
to really just take
God and get to know them
00:27:03.28\00:27:04.62
and just delight
ourselves in His power.
00:27:04.65\00:27:07.16
Can we just stay there
00:27:07.19\00:27:08.69
on that long-distance
relationship just for a second?
00:27:08.72\00:27:10.06
Go ahead, go ahead.
00:27:10.09\00:27:11.46
Just for a second
00:27:11.49\00:27:12.83
because when you are
00:27:12.86\00:27:14.20
in a long distance
relationship, right,
00:27:14.23\00:27:15.80
there's other
people that are around you
00:27:15.83\00:27:18.47
that you maybe attracted to
but you have to guard yourself.
00:27:18.50\00:27:22.10
You have to guard
the avenues of your soul.
00:27:22.14\00:27:23.91
You have to guard the way
that you interact with them
00:27:23.94\00:27:25.84
because you know you
love that other person more.
00:27:25.87\00:27:28.31
So with that
same concept with God,
00:27:28.34\00:27:30.85
it's like there's a whole
bunch of distractions around us,
00:27:30.88\00:27:33.45
there's things that
seem so pleasurable,
00:27:33.48\00:27:35.45
so delightful but I'm
like, "But my God is greater
00:27:35.48\00:27:38.09
and He loves me
and He's over there
00:27:38.12\00:27:40.49
but He's right here
because I'm acknowledging Him".
00:27:40.52\00:27:43.02
Amen.
00:27:43.06\00:27:44.39
Dajanae is
about to takes us out.
00:27:44.43\00:27:46.49
That's about our time there.
00:27:46.53\00:27:48.16
We just want to remind everyone
that we were made for worship
00:27:48.20\00:27:51.00
and so in your life
and everything you do,
00:27:51.03\00:27:52.87
remember to
always make Pure Choices.
00:27:52.90\00:27:56.04
God bless.
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