Jesus said, "If you
love me, keep my commandments
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Now people all over
the world are turning back
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to God's eternal moral law,
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claiming His
promise to write them
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in our hearts and in our minds.
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Live from New York City
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Three Angels
Broadcasting Network presents
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The Ten Commandments Weekend
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Welcome and greetings
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in the name of our Lord
and Saviour Jesus Christ.
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And thank you
for joining us here
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at the Hensome Place
Seventh Day Adventist church
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and here in Brooklyn, New York.
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Where hearts are
open and love is alive.
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We trust that once again
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God has a special
blessing in store for us.
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This hour we'll continue to
delve into the Ten Commandments.
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But before we go forward, we'd
like to recognize and welcome
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Dr Alonzo Smith from the
Greater New York Conference
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Amen?
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And it now caused me great
pleasure to introduce to you
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the Senior pastor of the Hensome
Place Seventh Day Adventist
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Church, pastor
Melvyn A. Bob Mounter. Amen.
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Thank you very much for your
warm welcome. Let's say Amen.
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Amen.
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It is my joy today to
welcome pastor John Lomacang,
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a native of New
York. Can you say Amen?
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He's been married for 23 years,
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ordained minister of
the gospel for 19 years,
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currently he is pastoring
in the Illinois Conference,
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as well as working with 3ABN.
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Let's welcome him
today as he shares
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a message on the
seventh commandment.
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Pastor John Lomacang.
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Amen. Thank you so much pastor.
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Good afternoon, friends,
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that are here in
Hensome Place, in New York.
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And welcome to those of you
joining us from around the world
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of your satellite,
via Internet, via radio,
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whatever the case may be,
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God has invited
all of us here today
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to continue
partaking of the bread of life.
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And our main focus today is
going to be the 7th Commandment,
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one that everyone of us needs
to pay particular attention to
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here in these last days.
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Now before we have an
opening word of prayer
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I want to just say today
that the message is entitled,
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'Guard Your Heart'.
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And the song that prepares
the way also has the same title.
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Listen to it!
Entitled: 'Guard Your Heart!'
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What a peace to be a harmless
glance, concerned to own lands,
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when hearts are divided,
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feelings that should
never happen, awaken within,
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tearing the heart
into, listen I beg of you,
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guard your
heart, guard your heart,
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don't trade it for
treasure, don't give it away.
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Guard your
heart, guard your heart.
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As a payment for pleasure
it's a high price to pay.
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For the soul that remains
sincere, with a conscience clear
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Guard your heart!
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The human heart
is easily swayed,
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and often betrayed at
the hands of emotions.
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We dare not leave
the outcome to chance,
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we must choose in
advance, or live with the agony.
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Such leave us tragedy!
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Guard your
heart! Guard your heart!
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Don't trade it for
treasure! Don't give it away!
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Guard your
heart! Guard your heart!
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As a payment for pleasure
it's a high price to pay!
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So guard your
heart! Guard your heart!
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Don't trade it for
treasure! Don't give it away!
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Guard your
heart! Guard your heart!
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As a payment for pleasure
such a high price to pay!
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For the soul
that remains sincere,
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with a conscience clear,
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guard your heart!
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For the soul that remains
sincere, with a conscience clear
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Guard your heart!
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Amen.
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Let us pray.
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Our heavenly Father,
with our hearts before
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the holy and awesome God, who
resides on His throne in heaven,
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and in the hearts of all of his
children, sons and daughters.
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Father, today, as we consider
the importance of this message,
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guard your heart!,
we pray your blessing,
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we pray the
direction of your Holy Spirit.
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May all things be done to honor
and advance the kingdom of God.
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We pray this in
Jesus' name. Amen.
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What an interesting day
we have had in the Lord.
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Can you say Amen? Amen.
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We're continuing our
track through the Word of God,
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as we look to Exodus chapter 20,
and we're going to read together
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verse 14, a very
short commandment.
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But a most
significant commandment
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in the light of
where we are today.
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No two
commandments in the Word of God
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have been so bombarded
with attempts at extinction
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like the Sabbath commandment,
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and the
commandment against adultery.
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Could the reason be due to
the similarities that they share
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for example, the
Sabbath commandment
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points to the seventh day,
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and the
commandment against adultery
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is the seventh commandment.
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These are the
only two institutions,
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that establish principles and
blessings that God put in place
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before sin entered the world.
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God blessed the
Sabbath before sin,
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so therefore the Sabbath
is still a blessed day today.
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What do you say? Amen.
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God blessed the
marriage institution before sin.
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Anything blessed before
sin is faultless, therefore
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there is no need to
change a faultless institution
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after sin as a matter-of-fact.
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If ever there is a time
we need to focus on that
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which is perfect, it is now.
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And the Bible
says it very clearly,
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both bear the
perfect seal of God.
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And while all Ten Commandments
are of equal importance,
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it is clear that in
order for the family
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to appreciate the
blessing of the Sabbath,
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the seventh commandment will
preserve the family institution
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for whom the Sabbath
has been established.
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Let me make it even clearer.
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How can we keep the Sabbath holy
if the marriage is not holy?
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How can we honor a
sanctified relationship,
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if we ignored a sanctified day?
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Even more clearly.
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How can the Sabbath be honored,
if the marriage institution
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is dishonored in
the sight of God?
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That's why the Bible says
so clearly in Exodus 20:14,
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the most controversial
commandment in a modern society,
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say it with me: 'Thou
shall not commit adultery. '
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It seems so simple.
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Yet it seems so profound in
light of all the new standards
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established in society
by television, by the media,
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by the trends, by
the world around us,
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by an ever
changing mindset as to
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what is
relevant and what is not.
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For example, in a
nation that looks at
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variety as the spice of life,
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this commandment has
been labeled as prohibitive.
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In a religious circle that still
sees polygamy as a practice,
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this commandment has been
labeled, or seen as irrelevant.
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In a world that
embraces multiple marriages
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as an every day occurrence,
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this commandment
appears to have run its course.
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In a society where
immorality and sexuality sells,
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this commandment seems to have
become politically incorrect,
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out of date,
irrelevant, inconvenient,
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cumbersome and irritable.
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But I say that God's
standards are never out-of-date.
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What do you say? Amen.
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For all intents and purposes
the seventh commandment seems
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to have called more
problems than given solutions.
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But that's why I'm
saying, if ever there is a time
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when the commandment of
God, the seventh commandment
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needs to be resurrected,
brethren, it is in this year,
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in these last days.
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In a society like ours.
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In a world like
ours. In a media like ours.
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Years ago I was
involved in the music industry,
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In this very city.
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You know, it's amazing how God
brings me back to New York City,
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to remind me of
where I used to be.
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And to give me an
insight of how far God has led.
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So to talk about the commandment
that hinges on immorality,
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and promiscuity, and
a world that causes us
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to think about these things as
I said, irrelevant, inconvenient
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out-of-date,
losing touch with society,
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it's good to know that there
is no hall that we can sing in,
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that's too deep for
God to bring us out of it.
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Looking back on the
life in New York City,
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I remember sitting
behind those turn-tables
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and the music industry
I've discovered has done its job
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on attacking the very foundation
of the marriage institution.
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Not only the
marriage institution,
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but immorality altogether.
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Whether it's jazz, or
rap, or rock, or blues,
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or easy-listening, or
opera, the enemy of souls
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is an equal
opportunity provider.
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In other words,
whatever your desire for music,
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Satan has designed all
kinds of styles of music
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to attack the very foundation
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of the commandment 'Thou
shalt not commit adultery. '
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Years ago this song came to
my mind and I think about it.
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I won't say the man's name, but
he wrote a song that we all sang
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maybe even some Christians.
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'Me and Mrs. Jones,
we've got a thing going on. '
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And then another very popular
artist, that is now deceived,
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his father took his wife,
he sang with all the intensity
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as the women
screamed, 'distinct lover'.
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Another group piled the charts.
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You know, often what is highly
esteemed in the eyes of man,
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are a reproach to God.
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I even sang this song by a
group that is now out-of-style.
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That's what the
devil does to you.
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He uses you and
then you're out of style.
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'Secret lover.
That's what we are. '
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Then a very popular vocalist
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that has her
struggles till today
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she said, 'I'm saving
all my love for you. '
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A few stolen moments,
it's all that we share.
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You've got your family. '
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Listen to the lyrics.
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'And they need you
there, but it's hard to resist
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being last on your list.
And no other man's going to do,
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so... come on say it now, those
who used to be in the world.
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So I'm saving all
my love for you. '
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Another song, 'If loving you was
wrong, I don't want to be right.
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If being right
means being without you,
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I'd rather do wrong than right.
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Mommy and Daddy said it's a
shame, it's a downright disgrace
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but as long as
I've got you by my side,
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I don't care what people say.
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Friends tell me it's no future,
in love with a married man,
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and if I can't see you when I
want, I'll see you when I can.
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Come on now,
you know, how it is,
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the devil keeps
those words back there,
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for those days when
your mind begins to stray.
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Now I'd like to read the lyrics
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of some of the
rap music nowadays,
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but it's so graphic, as a
matter-of-fact, it's so graphic,
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if you just mute the videos,
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the video itself tells
you what the song is about.
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Bumping and grinding,
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braking down the
constitution of Christianity,
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brethren, Satan is now living
in the passions of mankind.
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He has possessed
as it seems at times
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the organs of the
last day generation.
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Satan has possessed
the fashion designers.
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Sometimes you come to church
and it's hard to keep your mind
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on holy things because sometimes
it's so low, and so high,
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that it appears as though you
had a belly-dancing convention.
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As all the naval buttons
are beginning to glitter.
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And it seems as though the
world is affecting the church
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more than the church
is affecting the world.
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Satan has rewritten
the law on marriage,
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divorce and remarriages.
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You know we trade spouses
in like list cars in our days.
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We test-drive them, come on now,
we list them, we trade them in,
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we give the keys back and just
walk away and get another car.
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And somehow in our minds
today, marriage, divorce,
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and remarriage seems to have
been rewritten in the church
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is that we're asking to the
standards that are lowering us,
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rather than elevating us
to where God wants us to be.
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But not only that.
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Satan has redesigned
the institution of marriage.
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Now I'm going to say it,
though the entire world looking
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and in some countries it
is against the law to say
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what I'm about to say but I need
to say it while I can say it.
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God did not give
Adam to another man.
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And God did not give
Eve to another woman.
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And no matter how popular it is,
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no matter how many
famous people do it,
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it is still not God's plan.
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Can the church of
God say Amen? Amen.
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Just a few weeks ago on a
popular entertainment show
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they announced that because
so many actors are divorcing
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so frequently that they're
just going to have children
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out of wedlock, because
they just can't stay married.
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They said, having kids and then
getting a divorce is so dramatic
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so now they are showing the
bliss of shaking up together.
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They say, we're
going to have kids,
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but we're not
going to get married.
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We're living in a generation
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that teaches it is ok
to have children first,
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and marriage is optional.
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Now, brethren, I'm going to
say this, because I was born
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to a mother and a
father that wasn't married.
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How you're born may not be God's
plan, but that you're born, is.
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And so therefore God can
forgive the transgressor,
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but God does not
support the immoral standard.
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What do you say?
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When the Bible said, 'Thou
shalt not commit adultery',
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this commandment is a
multi- dimensional command,
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that needs to be rediscovered.
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It doesn't only cover 'Thou
shall not commit adultery',
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it covers fornication, it
covers impurity of any kind
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in act, in word, in
thought and in deed.
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Listen to the
words of Jesus Christ.
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In Matthew 5:27, and verse 28.
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Jesus said in the New Testament,
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"You have heard that it
was said to those of old:
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you shall not commit adultery. '
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'But I say to you now',
man, this is hard for all of us,
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but check this out,
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God is getting every one
of us ready for the kingdom,
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so hear what the Lord says.
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'But I say to you that whoever
looks at a woman to lust for her
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has already committed
adultery in his heart. '
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Now, is the Word
of the Lord clear?
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Nowadays, when
you think about it,
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men are not the
only ones looking
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at women to lust after women,
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women are now looking
at men to lust after men.
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Men were the
pursuers in the past
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now men had become the pursues.
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There was a time that you
could walk up to a young lady
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and try your best
and she will turn away.
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Now you don't
have to try at all.
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As a matter of fact, in
some circles they come after you
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rather than you
having to go after them.
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And we're living in a society
where multiplicity and duplicity
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of relationships
seems to be the thing.
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And nowadays
some young people say
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'Well, I'm still a virgin. '
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What they mean is they
didn't have sexual intercourse
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the way God designed it.
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But they're
experimenting another area
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of that they say still
maintains their virginity.
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And they say that it's ok.
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I'm still a virgin, what
does that translate into?
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I hope that's not
Bill Clinton morality.
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'I never had sex
with that woman'.
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Within a society that redefines
those kinds of immoral standards
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When you look at the
entire society which we live in,
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often we hear
about the fallen man,
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but very few times do we hear
and talk about the fallen woman.
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There was a time, when in
societies where men were allowed
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to marry more than one woman,
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then men paid
particular attention to women
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and prevented them from doing
what men were allowed to do.
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Now I'm saying we're allowed to
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do because
there was never a time
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that God sanctioned being
married to more than one woman.
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All you've got to
do is look at the Bible
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and see all the heartache
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caused by those who
married more than one woman.
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I'm still asking myself today:
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What was in Abraham's mind?
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I'm still asking myself today:
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How can a man, Solomon have
700 wives and 300 concubines?
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Now, brother, if you met a woman
a day, like one-a-day vitamins,
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it will take you three years
before you see that other woman
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all over again.
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Could that be why he is one
of the wisest men in Scripture?
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I believe so.
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But you find that
the practice of polygamy
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was first talked
about in Scripture
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by the son of Methuselah,
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the father of Noah, a
man by the name of Lamech.
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The Bible says in
Genesis 4:19, read with me:
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'Then Lamech took
for himself two wives',
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notice, he took for himself.
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The Bible didn't
say, God gave him.
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The Bible said, he
took for himself two wives.
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The name of one was Ada,
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and the name of the
second one was Tzilla.
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Spelled with a 'z', pronounced
as though it had a 'k'.
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Hebrew enunciation.
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Now the seventh
commandment like the other nine,
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is first honored in the heart
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before it's
lived out in the life
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I'm going to say that again.
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If the seventh commandment
is not kept in the heart,
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it cannot be kept in the life.
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But on the same note, the
seventh commandment is first
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dishonored within the
heart, before the violation
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in the life presumes.
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In other words, the
Bible says it well this way.
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'For as a man thinks in his
heart' say it with me Christians
00:21:53.80\00:21:59.13
so is he. '
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It doesn't just happen.
00:22:01.86\00:22:04.04
Phillip Wilson was wrong.
00:22:04.07\00:22:06.18
Those of you who're in a younger
generation I'm sorry about that,
00:22:06.22\00:22:09.10
but he often said,
'the devil made me do it'.
00:22:09.13\00:22:11.47
He may dangle the carrot, but
you're the one that's biting it.
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He may make the
suggestion, but temptation
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while it has a sinful
nature, temptation itself
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is not
transgression until we yield
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to the suggestion of temptation.
00:22:27.61\00:22:30.57
So the devil
doesn't make us do anything.
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But the reason why he comes
after some more than others,
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is because he
studies our thoughts,
00:22:36.94\00:22:39.65
he studies our eye
movements, come on now,
00:22:39.69\00:22:42.87
he studies the way
that we scan the room,
00:22:42.90\00:22:46.01
he studies our body language,
he studies what we read,
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what we listen
to, what we watch.
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Now when the kids say,
be careful little eyes,
00:22:54.60\00:22:58.23
what you see, why? For
there is a Father up above,
00:22:58.26\00:23:01.86
looking down in tender love.
00:23:01.89\00:23:04.25
So be careful
little eyes, what you see.
00:23:04.42\00:23:07.14
A lot of times people
say, well, I'm just watching.
00:23:07.18\00:23:10.81
What's the harm
in that? Ask Eve.
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It began by Eve just watching.
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I have not partaken
of the forbidden fruit,
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I'm just watching.
00:23:22.05\00:23:23.51
The bar does not come
to us, we go to the bar.
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The club doesn't come
to us, we go to the club.
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And oftentimes we find ourselves
where God never intended,
00:23:32.01\00:23:36.53
because we
didn't pray the prayer
00:23:36.56\00:23:39.02
'Guide me, oh,
Thou great Jehovah!'
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We often end up where we do
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because God does not
often guide us there.
00:23:43.70\00:23:45.43
We ask the question, 'Lord, how
did I get to where I am today?'
00:23:45.47\00:23:50.95
You see, the devil
knows where to begin
00:23:50.98\00:23:52.71
because the heart is the birth
place for all human decisions
00:23:52.75\00:23:58.29
and the human emotions.
00:23:58.32\00:24:00.60
That's why people say, don't
take it to heart just ignore it,
00:24:00.64\00:24:03.70
don't let it bother
you, just ignore it.
00:24:03.73\00:24:05.70
And you know when you're excited
what happens to your heart?
00:24:05.74\00:24:07.73
It races.
00:24:07.76\00:24:08.87
I would hate us to
say, I would like to be here
00:24:08.91\00:24:11.07
on some Sabbath mornings,
00:24:11.22\00:24:12.76
when somebody who
is not properly clad,
00:24:12.80\00:24:15.16
walks by a brother whose
eyes just can't stay forward.
00:24:15.19\00:24:17.70
Give him a heart, mother,
that may explode in church.
00:24:17.73\00:24:20.87
I mean, you could
see the eye movements.
00:24:21.15\00:24:23.68
And so the Lord, He
examines the human heart,
00:24:23.72\00:24:27.33
He is not put off by
the outward appearance,
00:24:27.36\00:24:30.94
He looks at our movements.
00:24:30.97\00:24:33.21
And you know, the
devil keeps a file on us.
00:24:33.24\00:24:35.64
While we're
boasting what we overcame,
00:24:37.39\00:24:40.04
the devil will
remember, where we used to be.
00:24:40.08\00:24:43.70
And he tries incessantly,
while we're marching to Zion,
00:24:43.74\00:24:47.99
he tries to get us to turn
around and march back to Egypt.
00:24:48.03\00:24:52.21
Sometimes in our journey to Zion
an Egyptian may pass us and say,
00:24:52.25\00:24:58.18
Let's go back to Egypt.
00:24:58.21\00:25:00.10
And while we may go back and say
we don't intend to stay there,
00:25:00.14\00:25:04.08
brother, God is not a God,
who believes in going back,
00:25:04.11\00:25:07.61
God says in His
Word, 'Go forward!'
00:25:07.64\00:25:11.54
But now follow
this. Very amazing.
00:25:13.06\00:25:14.74
I'd like us for a brief
moment to not begin to see
00:25:14.78\00:25:16.86
how important it
is for the heart.
00:25:16.89\00:25:18.50
When the plot for
Samson's life was being laid,
00:25:18.54\00:25:21.77
remember what
Delilah said to Samson.
00:25:21.80\00:25:23.82
Delilah was looking to see where
she could hit Samson the hardest
00:25:23.86\00:25:27.78
And the Bible
says in Judges 16:15.
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Listen carefully
brethren today, listen carefully
00:25:32.11\00:25:35.87
to the heart of a woman
who was designed by Satan
00:25:35.90\00:25:39.59
to bring down a man who
God intended to be His servant.
00:25:39.63\00:25:43.55
I'm going to say that again.
00:25:43.58\00:25:44.99
Because if you
preach God's message,
00:25:45.03\00:25:47.70
God designs women
to bring you down.
00:25:47.73\00:25:50.37
You can say Amen to that.
00:25:50.40\00:25:53.05
If you are a Bible
worker, woman, or a pastor man,
00:25:53.09\00:25:57.56
God designs men for
women Bible workers,
00:25:57.59\00:26:00.93
sorry, Satan designs men
to entice women Bible workers
00:26:00.97\00:26:06.93
and Satan designs women to
entice pastors, evangelists,
00:26:06.97\00:26:12.90
any role that God
has called you to fulfill
00:26:12.93\00:26:16.81
the devil's got
somebody designed for you.
00:26:16.85\00:26:20.70
It's called designer deception.
00:26:20.73\00:26:22.48
That's why Delilah tried to find
a way to enter Samson's heart.
00:26:22.52\00:26:26.27
She said,
'Samson', Judges 16:15,
00:26:26.30\00:26:29.56
'how can you say, I love you,
00:26:29.60\00:26:32.35
when your heart
is not with me. '
00:26:32.38\00:26:36.19
That's why the message is
entitled, 'Guard your heart!'
00:26:36.23\00:26:39.35
Some folks say, 'I've
been married 40 years',
00:26:39.38\00:26:42.92
the devil says, 'So
what? I'm not done yet. '
00:26:42.95\00:26:45.85
You cannot stop praying for
God to keep you from temptation
00:26:50.96\00:26:55.59
until the day that
you walk through the gates
00:26:55.62\00:26:57.92
into the new Jerusalem. Amen?
00:26:57.95\00:27:00.41
Also in the book
of Deuteronomy 15:9,
00:27:02.14\00:27:04.35
the Bible speaks of
the heart again, it says,
00:27:04.39\00:27:06.37
'Beware, lest there be a
wicked thought in your heart. '
00:27:06.41\00:27:12.11
It begins in your
heart. You know why?
00:27:12.14\00:27:14.08
Nowadays you have those
bumper stickers, it says
00:27:14.12\00:27:16.67
'I heart you. '
00:27:16.70\00:27:17.68
Do you know what
it means? Love you.
00:27:17.71\00:27:19.58
Love is formulated
and held in great caress
00:27:19.62\00:27:24.88
in the human heart.
00:27:24.91\00:27:25.88
Not just the mind, the
mind is the intellectual base.
00:27:25.89\00:27:28.73
But when the heart has accepted
someone, the mind comes along.
00:27:28.77\00:27:33.74
When the mind has
rejected something,
00:27:33.77\00:27:36.56
the heart responds to it.
00:27:36.59\00:27:38.63
The heart and the
mind are interchangeable.
00:27:38.66\00:27:41.35
Mind and heart.
00:27:41.38\00:27:42.76
And so the devil, he uses exter-
nal stimuli to control the mind
00:27:42.80\00:27:49.59
to affect the heart.
00:27:49.62\00:27:51.09
But the Lord wants to
put something in your heart
00:27:51.13\00:27:54.22
and in your mind.
00:27:54.25\00:27:55.22
He says: ' Use my Word, so
that your heart can have a fence
00:27:55.23\00:27:59.23
of protection around it'.
00:27:59.26\00:28:00.79
If ever there was a time that
we need a fence of protection
00:28:00.83\00:28:04.18
around our heart,
it's in these last days.
00:28:04.21\00:28:05.88
What do you say? Amen.
00:28:05.91\00:28:06.92
In every area.
00:28:06.95\00:28:08.25
Not just at your job, but
we need it in our families,
00:28:08.29\00:28:11.14
we need it in our churches, we
need it every place that we go.
00:28:11.18\00:28:14.37
The devil knows there
is no better place to begin
00:28:16.49\00:28:20.37
than with the human heart.
00:28:20.40\00:28:23.30
That some of you say,
How can you judge my heart?
00:28:23.34\00:28:27.51
You don't know my heart.
00:28:27.54\00:28:28.59
Let me tell you something.
00:28:28.63\00:28:29.61
I know your heart
and you know my heart.
00:28:29.65\00:28:31.19
You know why?
00:28:31.22\00:28:32.19
Because the Lord reveals the
condition of every human heart
00:28:32.20\00:28:35.77
in Jeremiah 17:9, when He says,
00:28:35.80\00:28:38.67
'The heart is deceitful',
come on now and say it with me,
00:28:38.71\00:28:43.64
'above all things' and what?
I've got to say that. What?
00:28:43.68\00:28:48.02
'desperate'. Do you know
what a desperate person is?
00:28:48.06\00:28:52.37
Have you ever seen
somebody that is drowning?
00:28:52.40\00:28:53.98
That want to be
saved, that's desperate.
00:28:54.01\00:28:55.95
They grab at everything.
00:28:55.98\00:28:57.80
Now the human heart that's
unregenerated is like a person
00:28:57.84\00:29:01.58
going down for the third
time grabbing at anything
00:29:01.61\00:29:05.08
to satisfy its carnal nature.
00:29:05.11\00:29:08.29
So when people say to me,
Well, I have a good heart.
00:29:10.58\00:29:13.12
I say, well, now,
where did you come from?
00:29:13.33\00:29:14.30
Are you directly from heaven?
00:29:14.32\00:29:16.35
Even our righteousness
is as what? Filthy rags.
00:29:18.36\00:29:24.40
And so I would hate us to say,
00:29:24.43\00:29:27.07
and I've been marriage
counseling for 17 years,
00:29:27.11\00:29:29.50
and I've sat down
before a lot of couples
00:29:29.53\00:29:31.14
who were fighting divorce,
00:29:31.17\00:29:32.32
in determining whether not to
stay with him, or stay with her,
00:29:32.36\00:29:34.96
and I've discovered that
if adultery was handled today
00:29:34.99\00:29:38.58
like it was in Old Testament
times, let me tell you,
00:29:38.62\00:29:42.18
there would be a whole
lot less adultery today.
00:29:42.21\00:29:45.79
Listen to this, Leviticus 28:10,
00:29:45.82\00:29:48.49
listen to what the Bible says.
00:29:48.53\00:29:51.13
'The man who commits adultery
with another man's wife,
00:29:51.17\00:29:55.01
who has committed adultery,
with his neighbor's wife,
00:29:55.04\00:29:59.74
the adulterer and the adulteress
shall surely be put to death. '
00:29:59.77\00:30:04.92
In some parts of the
country, they still...
00:30:04.95\00:30:10.09
sorry, not the country,
but some parts of the world
00:30:10.12\00:30:13.39
they still dig a
hole, about half the depth
00:30:13.42\00:30:16.73
of the height of the
person, cover them with a sheet,
00:30:16.77\00:30:20.04
and they stone them
to death in the presence
00:30:20.07\00:30:24.22
of everybody who
wants to stand by and watch.
00:30:24.26\00:30:28.34
To let them all know, that
the wages of sin is still death.
00:30:28.38\00:30:33.91
Now, brethren, there
would be a whole lot homes
00:30:33.94\00:30:36.37
without
husbands and wives today.
00:30:36.40\00:30:38.16
If adultery was handled today
00:30:38.19\00:30:41.63
as was handled in
Old Testament times.
00:30:41.67\00:30:45.30
Now you ought to
say Amen to this.
00:30:45.33\00:30:46.93
Aren't you glad, that we don't
handle adultery in this country
00:30:46.97\00:30:54.09
as it used to be
handled in Old Testament times?
00:30:54.12\00:30:57.58
Now, you
shouldn't even say Amen.
00:30:57.61\00:31:00.55
I set you up and
you fell into the trap.
00:31:00.58\00:31:03.96
It should not matter if
the penalty in America was
00:31:04.00\00:31:10.30
stoning to death,
how many church members
00:31:10.33\00:31:13.78
would still be on the books?
00:31:14.19\00:31:16.01
How many head deacons
would still be head deacons?
00:31:18.11\00:31:20.91
How many Sabbath School leaders
or Sabbath School teachers
00:31:20.95\00:31:24.73
will still be
Sabbath School leaders
00:31:24.76\00:31:26.40
and Sabbath School teachers?
00:31:26.59\00:31:28.32
How many
pastors will be back the
00:31:28.36\00:31:30.80
next Sabbath to preach a sermon?
00:31:30.84\00:31:32.24
What happened to Pastor so
and so? He got stoned this week.
00:31:32.28\00:31:36.42
Now we're laughing about that,
but that's how serious it is
00:31:38.34\00:31:40.58
in God's sight.
00:31:40.61\00:31:41.58
It is a serious matter.
00:31:41.59\00:31:42.56
The wages of sin have
never ceased to be death.
00:31:42.57\00:31:45.91
But the gift of God has
never ceased to be eternal life,
00:31:45.95\00:31:49.68
can you say Amen to that?
00:31:49.71\00:31:50.68
In a recent article, Newsweek
magazine, July 12, 2004,
00:31:50.69\00:31:56.67
it talks about
the rise of immorality
00:31:56.70\00:31:59.69
among women now in the
workplace, listen what it says,
00:31:59.73\00:32:03.30
with the workplace and the
Internet, overscheduled lives
00:32:03.33\00:32:07.73
and inattentive
husbands it is no wonder
00:32:07.76\00:32:11.14
more American women
are looking for comfort
00:32:11.18\00:32:14.53
in the arms of another man.
00:32:14.56\00:32:17.48
Now, they say,
that there was a time,
00:32:17.52\00:32:20.17
this statistic was taken
starting in the year 2001.
00:32:20.21\00:32:23.18
When the survey was taken in
'01 among those who were polled,
00:32:23.22\00:32:27.24
they said, 22% of the
men polled had admitted,
00:32:27.27\00:32:33.10
had admitted to adultery.
00:32:33.13\00:32:35.84
The poll for women were 10%.
00:32:35.87\00:32:38.63
But 2002 it went
to 15% among women,
00:32:38.67\00:32:41.62
while it stayed
the same among men.
00:32:41.66\00:32:44.58
By the time this poll
came out it was 40% for men,
00:32:44.61\00:32:49.36
and almost 50% for women.
00:32:49.39\00:32:52.50
Women are beginning to surpass
men in the area of adultery.
00:32:52.54\00:32:57.27
Because they want equal
rights just like men have.
00:32:57.30\00:33:00.78
But you know, what?
There is equal heaven for men,
00:33:00.81\00:33:04.22
just like there is for women,
and there is equal hell for men,
00:33:04.26\00:33:07.27
just like there is for women.
00:33:07.30\00:33:09.20
'Thou shall not commit adultery'
applies to both man and to woman
00:33:09.24\00:33:13.84
That's why the wise
man in the Book of Proverbs
00:33:15.79\00:33:18.64
if you have your Bibles,
turn to Proverbs chapter 5
00:33:18.67\00:33:21.49
and begin with me
looking at verse 1.
00:33:21.52\00:33:23.61
We've got to look at
this because God is saying,
00:33:23.65\00:33:26.57
if ever there was a generation
00:33:26.60\00:33:28.61
that needs to
exercise common sense,
00:33:28.81\00:33:31.70
now let me take that back.
00:33:31.73\00:33:33.17
Divinely led sense.
00:33:33.20\00:33:35.33
As one of my favorite sisters
in Philipville, California, said
00:33:35.37\00:33:39.07
sister Travis, she said,
00:33:39.10\00:33:40.19
'If common sense was common,
everybody would have it. '
00:33:40.23\00:33:43.18
But it's not so common.
00:33:44.44\00:33:45.59
We need to pray that God will
give us good judgment in areas
00:33:45.63\00:33:50.57
where the slip is not
so easy as the get up.
00:33:50.60\00:33:53.86
Proverbs chapter 5 we're given
counsel about how we can avoid
00:33:53.89\00:34:02.00
the pitfall of adultery.
00:34:02.03\00:34:04.63
Listen to what the Bible says,
00:34:04.67\00:34:05.79
'My son, verse 1, pay
attention to my wisdom'.
00:34:05.83\00:34:08.88
If you have your
Bibles, follow carefully.
00:34:08.91\00:34:11.93
'Lend your ear
to my understanding
00:34:11.96\00:34:15.01
that you may
preserve discretion,
00:34:15.20\00:34:17.63
that means
exercise good judgment,
00:34:17.67\00:34:20.24
and your lips
may keep knowledge. '
00:34:20.28\00:34:22.78
Now before I read verse 3
and 4 I'm going to say this.
00:34:22.82\00:34:26.31
What starts out
sweet, could end up bitter,
00:34:26.34\00:34:29.09
when the Lord is not in it.
00:34:29.12\00:34:30.29
What starts out tasting
sweet, could end up bitter,
00:34:32.68\00:34:38.20
when the Lord is not in it.
00:34:38.23\00:34:39.91
Listen to the words
of the very wise man.
00:34:39.95\00:34:42.34
He says, in verse 3,
00:34:42.37\00:34:44.93
'For the lips of a strange
woman, King James Version,
00:34:44.97\00:34:49.31
of an immoral woman,
New King James Version,
00:34:49.34\00:34:51.57
drip honeycomb, and her
mouth is smoother than oil,
00:34:51.61\00:34:58.73
but in the end she is
bitter as wormed wood,
00:34:58.76\00:35:02.93
sharp as a two-edged sword. '
00:35:02.97\00:35:06.40
Now, brethren, most of the
time we cannot see the end,
00:35:06.97\00:35:10.11
you know, why?
00:35:10.14\00:35:11.11
Because our
desires, hear me carefully!
00:35:11.12\00:35:13.58
Our desires block our eyes.
00:35:13.61\00:35:17.68
And we live in the
moment, you know, what they say?
00:35:17.72\00:35:20.12
You only go around once and you
get all the gust that you can,
00:35:20.16\00:35:22.44
so now we apply that to
get all the women you can.
00:35:22.47\00:35:24.61
Or to get all the men you can.
00:35:24.64\00:35:26.21
Or get all the
relationships you can.
00:35:26.25\00:35:28.14
And nowadays some of the
things you've got to avoid
00:35:28.18\00:35:31.49
if you're a young
person in college,
00:35:31.52\00:35:33.76
you've got to
avoid spring break.
00:35:33.80\00:35:36.01
Because it's really not a break.
00:35:36.04\00:35:38.26
It has become undisputedly
one of the most immoral,
00:35:39.98\00:35:46.60
demonically controlled
gatherings of the year.
00:35:48.35\00:35:51.19
Listen to it.
00:35:51.22\00:35:52.90
Girls gone wild,
Daytona Beach, Miami Florida,
00:35:52.94\00:36:00.72
Jamaica, the Bahamas,
00:36:02.44\00:36:05.36
seems like when people get
near water they lose their mind.
00:36:05.40\00:36:08.74
And nowadays, you
don't buy bathing suits,
00:36:10.02\00:36:12.55
you buy dental floss.
00:36:12.58\00:36:14.11
There was a time,
what Elvis Presley did,
00:36:16.46\00:36:18.15
that is, oh, raise the camera!
00:36:18.18\00:36:19.53
Now they spend all
their time below the belt.
00:36:19.57\00:36:21.71
Am I telling like it is?
00:36:21.86\00:36:22.83
Focusing it in
on, tight, tight-shot,
00:36:23.68\00:36:26.45
sometimes you're watching a
wonderfully designed program
00:36:26.49\00:36:28.82
and all of a sudden a commercial
comes, Look, turn your head!
00:36:28.86\00:36:31.30
Because the commercials...
00:36:31.33\00:36:33.50
And nowadays, you know when
I was growing up in New York,
00:36:36.00\00:36:38.09
I used to like to buy nice suits
and I still like to do that,
00:36:38.13\00:36:40.74
and I think that the
man of God should look nice,
00:36:40.77\00:36:43.02
and I used to buy the magazine
GQ, you know - nice suits,
00:36:43.06\00:36:46.45
tell you how to dress and
how to coordinate your clothing.
00:36:46.49\00:36:49.85
Now it's embarrassing to buy GQ,
00:36:49.88\00:36:52.21
because the cover
has women on it now.
00:36:52.25\00:36:54.09
And when somebody would see you
at a newsstand to pick up GQ,
00:36:54.13\00:36:57.61
they'd think, oh,
what's that pastor picking up?
00:36:57.64\00:36:59.49
So, I've got to wait until
they put a man on the cover,
00:36:59.53\00:37:02.43
to pick up a gentleman magazine
00:37:02.46\00:37:04.47
that's for men
about how to dress.
00:37:04.51\00:37:07.25
And even some of the articles!
00:37:09.17\00:37:10.63
105 ways to
spice up your sex life
00:37:10.67\00:37:14.27
and to get her to
say yes every time.
00:37:14.31\00:37:17.88
That's not about
getting your wife to say yes.
00:37:17.91\00:37:21.14
How to get the man that
you want in five easy steps?
00:37:21.18\00:37:26.48
Oh, yes.
00:37:29.66\00:37:30.87
But don't go
looking for the magazine.
00:37:30.91\00:37:33.76
Because it's not sold anymore.
00:37:34.58\00:37:36.45
But the reason why
we don't see the end
00:37:37.20\00:37:39.55
because our eyes are
often blocked by our passions.
00:37:39.59\00:37:43.18
We don't see 20 minutes
from now, we see right now.
00:37:43.21\00:37:46.67
We don't see when
it becomes public,
00:37:46.70\00:37:49.71
we see when it seems
to be private, hush, hush,
00:37:49.75\00:37:52.63
nobody will know.
00:37:52.66\00:37:53.87
But listen to the wise man.
00:37:53.91\00:37:56.26
Proverbs 5:5-6.
00:37:56.29\00:37:57.85
He says it so clearly.
00:37:58.19\00:37:59.29
He says, 'Her
feet go down to death,
00:37:59.33\00:38:02.68
her steps lay hold on hell,
00:38:02.71\00:38:05.06
verse 6 lest you ponder her path
of life, her ways are unstable,
00:38:05.10\00:38:11.24
you do not know them,
00:38:11.27\00:38:14.02
in other words, you cannot tell
where her path is leading. '
00:38:14.05\00:38:18.23
You know, why?
00:38:18.26\00:38:19.23
Because you're
trusting your feeling,
00:38:19.24\00:38:21.04
and you're not trusting
what God has already said,
00:38:21.08\00:38:23.88
will lead to death.
00:38:23.91\00:38:25.17
But she smells good.
00:38:28.02\00:38:30.31
And... hmm, she looks good.
00:38:30.34\00:38:34.31
Guys like things with curves.
00:38:36.52\00:38:38.84
All their very
expensive cars - curves.
00:38:38.87\00:38:41.82
Expensive guitars-curved.
00:38:41.85\00:38:44.09
A good bottle of wine- curved.
00:38:44.13\00:38:46.95
God designed men to be
attracted by what they see.
00:38:46.99\00:38:51.54
Women are attracted by touch.
00:38:51.57\00:38:53.73
That's why guys say, er...
00:38:54.81\00:38:59.29
If they start with your ear,
let them stop with your ear.
00:38:59.33\00:39:04.35
That's why,
ladies, I need to say this.
00:39:07.71\00:39:09.97
I'm going to give
you less of a target,
00:39:10.01\00:39:12.24
I'm standing behind this thing.
00:39:12.27\00:39:13.42
I need to say this.
00:39:13.45\00:39:14.78
We talked about
the spice of life.
00:39:16.67\00:39:19.14
You've got to get this.
00:39:19.17\00:39:21.21
Everybody, male or female.
00:39:21.25\00:39:23.22
The spices of life are
often the last ingredient
00:39:23.26\00:39:29.79
added just
before you get cooked.
00:39:29.82\00:39:34.13
I've got to say that
again. You missed that.
00:39:34.17\00:39:38.45
The spices of life are
often the last ingredient
00:39:38.48\00:39:42.73
added to the mix just
before you get cooked.
00:39:42.77\00:39:46.95
So if you think that the
spices of life are safety,
00:39:46.99\00:39:51.29
you're about to get cooked.
00:39:51.32\00:39:54.05
And yet you don't even know it.
00:39:54.09\00:39:56.39
How do we get here?
00:40:00.15\00:40:01.12
They often say,
well let's look back,
00:40:01.13\00:40:02.32
let's now take a few
minutes and look at 15 steps
00:40:02.36\00:40:05.80
to how adultery occurs.
00:40:05.83\00:40:09.22
Now, I'm going to
say this statement.
00:40:09.26\00:40:10.75
People don't just
decide one day to get in bed
00:40:10.79\00:40:13.64
and be
unfaithful to their spouse.
00:40:13.89\00:40:15.25
Adultery is a
combination of a dozen or more
00:40:15.29\00:40:19.90
tiny little steps
of unfaithfulness.
00:40:19.93\00:40:24.03
It seems ever so innocent.
00:40:24.06\00:40:26.59
But you know how
dangerous a tiny step is,
00:40:26.63\00:40:29.51
when you're standing
at the edge of a cliff.
00:40:29.55\00:40:32.65
Or you're standing by
the mouth of a volcano.
00:40:32.69\00:40:35.76
You don't take tiny steps.
00:40:35.79\00:40:37.28
You take a step and the moment
you feel the heat you get back.
00:40:37.32\00:40:39.85
You don't say, well,
can I take another step?
00:40:40.01\00:40:41.50
And sometimes we
think, well, I took a step,
00:40:43.42\00:40:48.54
one more step
really wouldn't matter.
00:40:48.57\00:40:50.47
Because it's only a tiny step.
00:40:50.50\00:40:53.32
Whether you get there by
taking steps down an inch-long,
00:40:54.44\00:40:58.03
a millimeter long,
1/8 of an inch long,
00:40:58.06\00:41:01.80
12 inches is a foot
no matter how you cut it.
00:41:01.84\00:41:04.64
The devil makes us
think that tiny little steps
00:41:06.04\00:41:10.18
followed by tiny little
steps in the wrong direction
00:41:10.22\00:41:14.53
really would not
result in our demise.
00:41:14.99\00:41:19.29
Now, in a book, entitled
00:41:19.32\00:41:20.93
'Money, Sex And Spiritual Power'
by an author named Keith Jewery,
00:41:20.97\00:41:25.05
1992, Wesley Press.
00:41:25.08\00:41:27.77
He said, the following 15 steps
00:41:27.81\00:41:29.98
which analyze how
adultery happens are based on
00:41:30.02\00:41:33.85
scores of
interviews, counseling sessions
00:41:33.88\00:41:37.58
and
correspondence with church folk,
00:41:37.61\00:41:40.62
now hear me carefully!
00:41:40.65\00:41:42.85
With church folk that
fell into unfaithfulness.
00:41:42.89\00:41:47.39
Now these may not be necessarily
in the order that they happened,
00:41:47.43\00:41:50.91
they say, but these are
the steps that often followed
00:41:50.94\00:41:55.43
leading up to adultery.
00:41:55.46\00:41:56.61
Step number 1.
00:41:56.65\00:41:58.36
Sharing common interest.
00:41:58.40\00:42:00.15
Have you heard that before?
00:42:00.18\00:42:02.66
We have so much in common.
00:42:02.70\00:42:05.15
I mean I like
music, she likes music.
00:42:05.18\00:42:08.63
I like shopping,
he likes shopping.
00:42:08.67\00:42:11.22
I wish my husband was like him.
00:42:11.25\00:42:13.77
I mean, when I go to work, I
can talk to him about anything.
00:42:13.93\00:42:16.58
We have so many
ideas that are in common.
00:42:16.76\00:42:20.49
Step number 1.
00:42:20.52\00:42:21.62
You are on your way to
the pot filled with spices
00:42:21.66\00:42:24.44
waiting for you.
00:42:24.47\00:42:25.92
Step number 2.
00:42:25.95\00:42:27.33
Mental
comparisons with your mate.
00:42:27.37\00:42:30.72
Mentally comparing
them with your mate.
00:42:30.76\00:42:34.25
He is not
like..., she is not like...
00:42:34.29\00:42:37.75
Mental comparisons.
00:42:37.78\00:42:39.71
My husband just sits home
on the couch and look at him,
00:42:39.75\00:42:41.74
he is at work,
working hard every day,
00:42:41.77\00:42:43.18
I wish my husband was like him.
00:42:43.21\00:42:44.89
Mental comparison.
00:42:44.92\00:42:46.30
He is so smart and intellectual.
00:42:46.34\00:42:50.08
The devil does not care if
you are dumb or intellectual.
00:42:50.12\00:42:53.06
He will get you either way when
your mind is not guarded by God.
00:42:53.09\00:42:56.89
Step number 3.
00:42:56.92\00:42:58.97
I've heard this
one before as a pastor.
00:42:59.01\00:43:01.31
Meeting emotional needs.
00:43:01.34\00:43:04.18
I cannot get my wife to
understand what I'm saying,
00:43:07.15\00:43:11.22
but she understands me.
00:43:11.25\00:43:13.69
When I tell my
secretary how difficult life is,
00:43:13.73\00:43:18.35
she understands me.
00:43:18.38\00:43:20.41
So I've got to give
the secretary a day gift.
00:43:20.45\00:43:24.09
All of a sudden you're giving
your secretary all these gifts,
00:43:24.13\00:43:26.78
let me give you
a piece of advice.
00:43:26.81\00:43:28.37
If you treat your secretary
half, if you treat your wife,
00:43:28.40\00:43:32.69
half as nice as you
treat your secretary,
00:43:32.83\00:43:35.20
maybe she would
look as desirable, too.
00:43:35.26\00:43:38.54
She understands
me. He understands me.
00:43:41.08\00:43:44.00
I feel so secure
when I'm around him.
00:43:44.04\00:43:46.89
Look at him, he is
just so strong, look at him.
00:43:46.93\00:43:49.64
Step number 4.
00:43:52.27\00:43:54.54
Looking forward
to being together.
00:43:54.58\00:43:56.98
Looking forward
to being together...
00:43:57.01\00:43:59.34
Boy, she makes going
to church so much fun.
00:43:59.38\00:44:02.95
Sabbath morning I can count
on sister so and so being there.
00:44:02.99\00:44:07.25
When pastor stands up to
preach, look at that man!
00:44:07.28\00:44:11.12
You think I'm
kidding? You think I'm joking?
00:44:11.15\00:44:14.48
you think I'm joking?
00:44:14.51\00:44:15.85
My wife and I, we have a pact.
00:44:15.89\00:44:17.27
There are certain people
that I'm not going to tell you
00:44:17.31\00:44:19.15
what church it is,
not the present church.
00:44:19.18\00:44:20.15
I'm not worried about
that. You are a good church.
00:44:20.16\00:44:22.86
I won't tell
you which one it is.
00:44:22.89\00:44:24.19
My wife and I said
there is certain folk,
00:44:24.23\00:44:27.51
that I will
never visit by myself.
00:44:27.54\00:44:30.54
Because they make it clear.
00:44:37.96\00:44:39.70
You see, some of you
have the pastor for dinner
00:44:39.73\00:44:42.82
by talking about how bad he is,
00:44:42.85\00:44:44.01
but other folk when they have
him for dinner, another way.
00:44:44.04\00:44:47.61
Am I being plain?
00:44:48.67\00:44:50.43
And they let you know.
00:44:50.47\00:44:52.30
Pastor, when are you
going to come and visit me?
00:44:52.34\00:44:55.65
Never. I'm not
coming to you house.
00:44:57.29\00:44:58.98
No. I'm not coming.
00:44:59.01\00:45:01.57
I'll send a deaconess.
00:45:01.61\00:45:04.10
No, I want a
visit from the pastor,
00:45:04.14\00:45:06.05
not from anybody else.
00:45:06.08\00:45:07.52
Looking forward
to being together.
00:45:08.47\00:45:10.17
I can't wait for the
choir practice tonight.
00:45:10.21\00:45:14.03
He has such a beautiful voice.
00:45:14.06\00:45:16.58
Then now it gets into tinges
of dishonesty with your mate.
00:45:16.62\00:45:21.02
Where were you?
00:45:21.05\00:45:22.52
Er... I had to work late.
00:45:22.56\00:45:24.42
The meeting ran
longer than I intended,
00:45:24.46\00:45:28.68
Then lunch hour.
00:45:28.71\00:45:30.12
When are we
supposed to meet for lunch?
00:45:30.16\00:45:31.70
Well, you know,
something came up.
00:45:31.88\00:45:34.50
Tinges of
dishonesty with your mate.
00:45:34.54\00:45:37.13
Number 6.
00:45:37.16\00:45:40.00
Flirting and teasing.
00:45:40.04\00:45:42.27
Hihi... we just seem
to be made for each other.
00:45:42.31\00:45:49.96
Comments that you
throw out with dual meanings,
00:45:51.56\00:45:55.91
and you're hoping they
get the alternative meaning.
00:45:55.95\00:46:00.27
At the water fountain or
by the photocopy machine.
00:46:00.30\00:46:03.67
Or little notes
that are written.
00:46:03.70\00:46:05.44
I got you know
what I'm talking about,
00:46:05.48\00:46:07.67
that's why you are
not saying anything.
00:46:07.70\00:46:09.44
Another one, talking
about personal matters.
00:46:10.64\00:46:15.08
You know, what, my husband
just doesn't pay any attention
00:46:15.12\00:46:18.33
when I speak, but I can
tell you about my finances,
00:46:18.36\00:46:21.94
about the
problems with my family,
00:46:22.16\00:46:24.00
about how hard it is
to make my bills meet,
00:46:24.04\00:46:26.46
talking about personal matters.
00:46:26.49\00:46:27.80
You know what, I was
raised in a terrible home.
00:46:27.83\00:46:29.89
Talking about personal
matters, you know what?
00:46:29.92\00:46:31.99
Sometimes you've got
to keep your conversation
00:46:32.03\00:46:34.07
out of a personal arena,
00:46:34.10\00:46:35.78
when you're living
a professional life.
00:46:35.81\00:46:38.63
Because whatever the
devil can use to cause a spark
00:46:38.67\00:46:42.04
to leap across from
you to her, or you to him,
00:46:42.07\00:46:44.79
he will give you things
to find common in the person
00:46:44.83\00:46:47.65
that he wants to bring you down.
00:46:47.68\00:46:49.38
Talking about personal matters.
00:46:49.42\00:46:51.09
Here is another one.
00:46:51.12\00:46:52.41
Minor, yet arousing
touches, squeezes, or hugs.
00:46:52.45\00:46:58.43
Such a good sermon,
pastor, let me give a hug.
00:47:00.99\00:47:06.86
Sister, that was
such a good song, hm...
00:47:06.89\00:47:13.00
And you count, one
second, two seconds,
00:47:14.64\00:47:17.35
how long he's going
to hug me, three seconds,
00:47:17.39\00:47:19.52
four seconds,...
00:47:19.55\00:47:20.70
And some people
like hugging other folk.
00:47:22.42\00:47:31.06
I don't need to say too
much about that one at all.
00:47:32.38\00:47:34.28
Special notes and gifts.
00:47:35.85\00:47:37.86
This is very important.
00:47:37.89\00:47:39.83
Because just like an alcoholic
finds reasons to always take
00:47:39.87\00:47:43.61
another drink, people that are
beginning to build relationships
00:47:43.82\00:47:47.43
people that are beginning to
gain interest in somebody else,
00:47:47.47\00:47:51.05
will always find a
reason to give you another gift.
00:47:51.08\00:47:53.11
That's just to say
thank you for the good report
00:47:55.24\00:47:57.66
you did for me yesterday.
00:47:57.69\00:47:58.86
That's just to say thanks
for the song that you sang.
00:47:58.90\00:48:01.12
That's just to say thank you
for the bulletin you picked up.
00:48:01.16\00:48:03.72
That's just to say
thank you for just saying hi.
00:48:03.75\00:48:06.10
Why do you keep
giving that person gifts?
00:48:06.13\00:48:08.62
I just want to
show my appreciation.
00:48:08.65\00:48:10.45
No, you're not.
00:48:10.48\00:48:11.45
You're trying to open the door,
breaking down a constitution.
00:48:11.46\00:48:14.39
Watch out!
00:48:14.42\00:48:15.39
When notes that
don't need to be written,
00:48:15.40\00:48:16.91
and gifts that
don't need to be given,
00:48:16.94\00:48:18.63
are given and written. Amen.
00:48:18.66\00:48:20.72
Another one.
00:48:21.77\00:48:22.89
Inventing excuses
to call or to meet.
00:48:22.93\00:48:25.80
I've got to call him because
you know, it wasn't clear,
00:48:25.84\00:48:29.18
so you're calling somebody now,
00:48:29.21\00:48:30.18
for the fifth
time in the last hour.
00:48:30.19\00:48:32.12
Would you say
about that song again?
00:48:32.16\00:48:34.03
All of a sudden I'm not
clear about the details,
00:48:34.07\00:48:36.90
so let's do lunch.
00:48:36.93\00:48:38.57
Let's do dinner.
00:48:38.60\00:48:40.17
And all of a sudden,
your wife is on the phone.
00:48:40.21\00:48:43.34
Who are you on the phone with?
00:48:43.71\00:48:45.21
Oh, I'm talking to my doctor.
00:48:45.25\00:48:46.72
Or, my dentist called me to tell
me that my cavities are good now
00:48:48.29\00:48:53.59
Just calling to check
and see how the actual is.
00:48:55.64\00:48:58.47
But honey, it's 9.30.
00:48:58.50\00:48:59.47
How many doctors call
to house at 9.30 at night?
00:48:59.48\00:49:01.73
Well, he is a special doctor.
00:49:01.76\00:49:04.32
Right.
00:49:06.23\00:49:07.20
Another one.
00:49:07.21\00:49:08.46
Arranging secret meetings.
00:49:08.50\00:49:11.28
Now, let's practice again
tomorrow, because the song,
00:49:14.66\00:49:17.17
we've got to be really good
in our song on this Sabbath.
00:49:17.20\00:49:19.68
So let's practice.
00:49:19.71\00:49:20.87
Ok, I know, we
met at the church, but
00:49:20.91\00:49:22.75
you come to my house tomorrow
night, and we'll practice.
00:49:22.79\00:49:24.69
Make sure that if
somebody comes by to practice,
00:49:26.14\00:49:29.24
somebody else is there,
and somebody else is there,
00:49:29.28\00:49:32.35
and somebody else is there.
00:49:32.38\00:49:33.50
Come on, will
you say Amen to that?
00:49:33.54\00:49:34.62
Arranging secret meetings.
00:49:34.65\00:49:37.04
Don't worry about
it, nobody would know,
00:49:37.08\00:49:38.67
I mean, like come
on over and visit me,
00:49:38.81\00:49:40.85
spend a weekend with
me, nobody will know it.
00:49:40.88\00:49:42.38
Yes, somebody will
know, you will know,
00:49:42.56\00:49:43.68
and he will know,
and God will know.
00:49:43.73\00:49:44.70
Amen.
00:49:44.71\00:49:46.05
That's enough.
00:49:46.08\00:49:47.10
Here's another one.
00:49:47.14\00:49:48.33
Deceit and cover ups.
00:49:48.36\00:49:49.48
I was in the mall, I
mean, I was just in the mall,
00:49:49.52\00:49:54.76
I saw her, I didn't
plan on meeting her.
00:49:54.79\00:49:56.30
She was in the mall,
and I was in the mall.
00:49:56.34\00:49:58.57
So you guys just met
like three days in a row
00:49:58.61\00:50:00.81
at Basque and Robbins.
00:50:00.84\00:50:02.19
I don't know how that happened,
00:50:02.23\00:50:03.20
I mean, I was just in the
mall, she was in the mall.
00:50:03.21\00:50:05.26
She likes ice
cream, I like ice cream.
00:50:05.29\00:50:06.82
Deceit and cover ups.
00:50:06.85\00:50:08.56
Planning to meet
and telling your mate
00:50:08.60\00:50:12.47
it was just a coincidence.
00:50:12.50\00:50:15.47
Deceit and cover up.
00:50:15.50\00:50:17.21
Another one.
00:50:17.24\00:50:18.42
This says it all by itself.
00:50:18.46\00:50:20.38
Kissing and embracing.
00:50:20.41\00:50:23.14
The lips of a
strange woman or strange man
00:50:24.24\00:50:28.22
often tend to taste
better in deception,
00:50:28.25\00:50:32.20
because that's how sin is.
00:50:32.23\00:50:35.45
It's sweet, then bitter.
00:50:35.48\00:50:38.67
That's why candy
gives you cavities.
00:50:40.00\00:50:42.00
It's sweet.
00:50:42.03\00:50:43.23
But all the while it's
eating away everything you need.
00:50:43.27\00:50:47.87
But it starts out sweet.
00:50:47.90\00:50:50.20
The other one.
00:50:50.23\00:50:51.45
Petting and high indiscretion.
00:50:51.49\00:50:54.85
He makes me feel so young again.
00:50:54.89\00:50:58.22
You see? Am I
telling you the truth?
00:51:01.32\00:51:03.90
And the last thing that's
left, only one thing left,
00:51:03.94\00:51:06.85
sexual intercourse.
00:51:06.88\00:51:08.32
Now, that's not necessarily
in the order of the 14,
00:51:08.36\00:51:12.03
but sexual intercourse
is always the last step.
00:51:12.06\00:51:16.17
You know, what they say, well,
one thing just led to another,
00:51:16.21\00:51:19.42
and I don't know what happened,
we just could not stop ourselves
00:51:19.46\00:51:22.64
You better learn how to
stop yourself, can you say Amen?
00:51:22.67\00:51:24.65
Amen? Amen.
00:51:24.68\00:51:27.50
And that same
magazine, Secret Lives Of Wives,
00:51:27.53\00:51:32.41
women have suddenly become,
women have suddenly begun
00:51:32.45\00:51:36.71
to give themselves
the same permission
00:51:36.74\00:51:39.99
to step over the
boundary the way that man
00:51:40.02\00:51:43.02
have always given
themselves permission.
00:51:43.05\00:51:46.02
Newsweek magazine July 12,2004.
00:51:46.05\00:51:49.14
Under the title 'The
Secret Lives Of Wives',
00:51:49.18\00:51:52.92
let me wind it up this way.
00:51:52.95\00:51:55.01
Proverbs 6:23.
00:51:55.04\00:51:58.57
The Bible is clear.
00:51:58.61\00:52:00.23
This is for the man,
00:52:00.27\00:52:03.25
and nowadays it also
applies to the woman,
00:52:03.28\00:52:07.25
'Whoever commits adultery with
a woman, lacks understanding. '
00:52:07.29\00:52:14.24
Let me just say it clearly.
00:52:14.27\00:52:16.29
He who does so,
destroys his own soul.
00:52:16.33\00:52:21.95
In other words, he buys his own
news, builds his own gallows,
00:52:21.99\00:52:27.23
loads the enemy's gun.
00:52:27.26\00:52:29.70
One of my favorite conference
officials once said to me,
00:52:29.74\00:52:32.99
the devil is going
to throw stones at you,
00:52:33.02\00:52:36.88
but never give him any.
00:52:36.91\00:52:39.26
He's going to find
ways of accusing you.
00:52:39.30\00:52:43.64
But never give him any.
00:52:43.67\00:52:45.97
He is going to
misjudge your motives,
00:52:46.01\00:52:51.24
he is going to
try to malign you,
00:52:51.27\00:52:52.99
but never give him
reasons to malign you.
00:52:53.03\00:52:56.45
And brother or sister, if you
have heard anything here today
00:52:56.75\00:52:59.97
that you're slipping and
going in the wrong direction,
00:53:00.00\00:53:02.00
God allows you turn still.
00:53:02.03\00:53:04.04
What do you say? Amen.
00:53:04.11\00:53:05.08
There is still
time to correct it.
00:53:05.09\00:53:06.99
But you cannot do it by
trying to figure out a plan.
00:53:07.03\00:53:10.62
You've got to do
it in God's strength.
00:53:10.65\00:53:13.04
You cannot resist
temptation in your own strength.
00:53:13.08\00:53:16.84
You cannot do it.
00:53:16.87\00:53:19.50
Some folks say,
quit talk turkey.
00:53:20.85\00:53:22.36
Now, the only
way you could do that
00:53:22.40\00:53:23.84
is by the power of the
indwelling Christ, am I right?
00:53:23.88\00:53:26.15
'I can do all
things', come on now,
00:53:26.18\00:53:28.61
'through Christ
who strengthens me. '
00:53:28.64\00:53:31.21
The cancer of
adultery is destroying
00:53:31.24\00:53:33.78
both men and women today.
00:53:33.81\00:53:36.12
The rich and the
poor are not exempt.
00:53:36.73\00:53:39.17
It is the crime of
passion for any class.
00:53:39.20\00:53:41.57
It is found among professionals,
and non-professionals,
00:53:41.61\00:53:44.91
educated and uneducated,
00:53:44.94\00:53:46.95
non are omitted from
this cancerous disease.
00:53:46.99\00:53:50.62
It doesn't care about your
race, your financial status,
00:53:50.65\00:53:54.94
your place of origin,
nor denominational identity.
00:53:54.97\00:53:59.75
Whether you are in
the ministry or not,
00:54:01.61\00:54:04.93
it comes knocking at your door.
00:54:04.96\00:54:08.05
I met a pastor one time,
that said I'll give anything,
00:54:08.09\00:54:11.19
I'll give anything to be
able to be back in the pulpit,
00:54:11.23\00:54:16.64
preaching, baptizing,
if I could take it back,
00:54:16.67\00:54:21.51
if I could do it all over again.
00:54:21.71\00:54:24.30
I'm clear now
how to avoid it now.
00:54:24.33\00:54:26.79
If I could just
get another chance.
00:54:26.82\00:54:29.25
I'll make sure it
doesn't happen again.
00:54:31.14\00:54:33.08
That's why the Bible
says, 'Husband, love your wives,
00:54:33.12\00:54:38.86
just as Christ also loved the
00:54:38.90\00:54:41.95
church and gave
himself for it. '
00:54:41.98\00:54:45.00
Ephesians 5:25,
00:54:45.03\00:54:46.10
it says, 'wives',
verse 22, Ephesians 5,
00:54:46.32\00:54:49.37
'submit to your own
husbands as to the Lord',
00:54:49.41\00:54:52.44
you see, the subject is
larger than just marriage
00:54:52.48\00:54:55.48
it covers all
areas of sexual impurity.
00:54:55.51\00:54:58.23
Here it is.
00:54:58.26\00:54:59.69
God does not
approve, hear me carefully,
00:54:59.73\00:55:03.37
of
homosexuality, of gay lifestyle,
00:55:03.40\00:55:07.39
of lesbianism,
nor of fornication.
00:55:07.42\00:55:11.34
It is the same, it's in the
same class, sexual immorality.
00:55:11.38\00:55:15.50
God does not
approve of pornography
00:55:15.53\00:55:18.64
by books, magazines,
or movies, or any brand.
00:55:18.67\00:55:22.72
God does not
support incest, polygamy,
00:55:22.75\00:55:26.53
or sexual
immorality at any level.
00:55:26.56\00:55:30.31
Galatians 5:17 says,
00:55:30.34\00:55:33.73
'For the flesh
lusts against the spirit.
00:55:33.77\00:55:38.02
And the spirit
against the flesh.
00:55:38.05\00:55:40.24
And these are
contrary to one another. '
00:55:40.28\00:55:42.81
So that you do not do
the things that you wish,
00:55:42.85\00:55:46.87
when you're spending all
your time reading pornography,
00:55:46.91\00:55:50.24
watching it in the movies,
00:55:50.27\00:55:51.24
listening to the
immorality things,
00:55:51.25\00:55:52.48
that are surrounding us.
00:55:52.51\00:55:53.75
There is no way that you can
all of a sudden turn that off,
00:55:53.79\00:55:55.80
and turn on Christ.
00:55:55.83\00:55:56.80
By beholding you become changed.
00:55:56.81\00:55:59.32
It does not just happen.
00:55:59.35\00:56:00.81
There are steps to it.
00:56:00.84\00:56:02.23
We ought to take steps
to Christ, what do you say?
00:56:02.27\00:56:05.47
Because the other steps
are not the steps that go up.
00:56:05.50\00:56:08.67
Every time the
Bible speaks about sin,
00:56:08.70\00:56:10.20
people were stepping down.
00:56:10.23\00:56:11.48
Jonah went down into the ship,
down into the belly of the whale
00:56:11.52\00:56:15.71
down, down, down.
00:56:15.74\00:56:17.61
But when you are
following Christ,
00:56:17.64\00:56:18.81
you're always moving
in an upward direction.
00:56:18.84\00:56:21.51
Now, let's see, friends, how
does God look at the offender?
00:56:21.55\00:56:24.20
Ask Mary Magdalene.
00:56:24.23\00:56:27.16
There is no sin, that we can
commit, that God cannot forgive.
00:56:27.20\00:56:31.15
What do you say? Amen.
00:56:31.18\00:56:32.44
When she was accused, and
she was guilty of adultery
00:56:32.48\00:56:35.89
as the day has 24 hours.
00:56:35.92\00:56:38.04
But the Lord was more
concerned about her redemption
00:56:38.08\00:56:42.19
than her condemnation.
00:56:42.22\00:56:44.09
But what's the difference?
00:56:44.12\00:56:45.92
The difference
is, He sensed that
00:56:45.96\00:56:48.31
her heart was a
heart of repentance.
00:56:48.51\00:56:51.13
Not a heart of recalcitrance.
00:56:51.16\00:56:53.46
Not a heart making excuses.
00:56:53.49\00:56:55.72
A repentant heart always finds
room for God's forgiveness,
00:56:55.76\00:56:59.69
Amen?
00:56:59.72\00:57:00.89
What about King David?
00:57:00.92\00:57:02.22
The Lord said,
00:57:02.25\00:57:03.22
'I have found that David
is a man after my own heart. '
00:57:03.23\00:57:07.68
Acts 13:22.
00:57:07.71\00:57:09.16
Why?
00:57:09.19\00:57:10.16
David committed
adultery, had a man killed,
00:57:10.17\00:57:14.42
had a baby that did not
receive the approval of God,
00:57:14.46\00:57:17.82
but God forgave
him, because David,
00:57:17.85\00:57:19.76
although a great transgressor,
became a greatly forgiven sinner
00:57:19.80\00:57:23.64
because God can
still forgive the sin.
00:57:23.67\00:57:26.53
Let's now spend
our time on Abraham.
00:57:26.57\00:57:29.40
But a polygamist.
00:57:33.31\00:57:35.12
A man whose mind
should have been governed
00:57:35.16\00:57:38.88
by the indwelling
Christ, made all the excuses,
00:57:38.92\00:57:42.11
could not wait on God.
00:57:42.14\00:57:44.17
But God forgave
that man and said,
00:57:44.21\00:57:46.38
'In your seed all the nations
of the earth shall be blessed. '
00:57:46.42\00:57:51.78
Here it is
friends in a nutshell.
00:57:51.81\00:57:53.78
Jesus condemns the
offence, but Jesus wants to save
00:57:53.82\00:58:01.31
the offender, can you say Amen?
00:58:01.34\00:58:02.87
Amen.
00:58:02.90\00:58:03.87
I think I'll end on this note.
00:58:03.88\00:58:05.47
1 John 1:9
00:58:05.50\00:58:07.46
You know this Scripture,
00:58:07.50\00:58:08.77
'If we confess our
sins', come on now,
00:58:08.81\00:58:11.69
'He is faithful and
just to forgive us our sins,
00:58:11.73\00:58:18.46
and to cleanse us
from - how much? -
00:58:18.49\00:58:20.77
all unrighteousness'.
00:58:20.80\00:58:25.65