Hello, I'm Dwayne.
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And I'm Lance and
we like to welcome you
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to another episode of
TKS, a True Knowledge of Self
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where we get to know ourselves
from a biblical perspective.
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Now we're gonna
continue dealing with this
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very important
topic of safely having fun
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or biblical recreation.
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It was a
principle that was outlined
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as one of the
cornerstones of hip-hop culture
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but we're gonna look at
some practical guidelines
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that help us to really see
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what God has established
principle wise for us to,
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you know, go by when we consider
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how we are to conduct ourselves,
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how we are to have fun,
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how we are to engage in
enjoyment and recreation.
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Now we only were able to go
through an initial principle
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and we're just
continue going through,
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so Dwayne, let's
go right into it.
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I mean, what's
another principle?
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We talked about the
first principle being,
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make sure that
whatever you're going to engage
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in this form of recreation
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does not
violate your conscience.
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Yes.
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And we saw that your
conscience is primarily informed
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by the Word of God.
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That's right.
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But even if you
have no knowledge
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of the Word of
God, the Holy Spirit,
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God can still
inform your conscience
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to say this is wrong
or this is not wrong.
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That's right. We
shared some stories.
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But I want to go on
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'cause we got a
lot of principles
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we need to cover.
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But they are very practical
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and they can be very
fruitful if we apply them.
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So what's another principle?
Yeah, and I like practical.
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So we're gonna go ahead
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and take a look at
another text of scripture
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where we're gonna
look at 1 Corinthians 8.
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All right.
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And I like this
because we're looking at
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how to take gospel principles
and make it practical.
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I believe that this is an area
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where the church
can do a lot better,
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where we can really
start saying young people
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as well as older individuals,
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it's not enough that
we just simply tell you
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what to do and what not to do
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but point you
to the power source
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and give you practical
examples from scripture on
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how to get these things done.
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So in 1 Corinthians 8,
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we see another
principle that can guide us
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when we're
seeking to have enjoyment.
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I have to tell
you that I'm thankful
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that we serve a
God, we serve a creator
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that is
interested in our enjoyment.
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Yes.
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I think, just that
alone is a beautiful thing
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because sometimes Christianity
can be presented as something
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where God just
doesn't want people
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to enjoy themselves and
life has to be fairly bitter.
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But that is not the
God of heaven and earth.
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And the Word of God tells us
a principle in 1 Corinthians 8.
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What happened,
just as a background
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'cause we're
not gonna go through
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all the verses is there
were new believing gentiles
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that were coming
into Christianity.
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And there were also
Jewish brothers and sisters
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who already converted
from Judaism to Christianity.
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And gentiles is a non-Jew. Yeah.
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And a gentile is
simply a non-Jew.
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Yeah.
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And when the Jewish brethren
were coming in to Christianity,
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they started to
impose a lot of things
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upon the new believing gentiles.
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They would take
some of the principles
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of the laws of Moses
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and still say, "You
have to be circumcised,
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you have to do this,
you have to do that."
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And the Bible says a lot on it.
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But in 1 Corinthians 8,
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it talks
specifically about a practice
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that the gentiles used to
do before they were converted
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and then as practice
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they were doing after conversion
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and Paul was giving counsel
on how his Jewish brothers
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who had a higher
knowledge should know
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how to respond to them.
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It was on the
point of eating food
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that was offered to idols.
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Gentiles, when they
were worshipping devils
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basically, they would go
ahead and offer food to idols
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and this was a way of appeasing
and doing other things,
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but when they came
over into Christianity,
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many of them as a result of
always connecting these meats
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being offered to
idols and whatnot,
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they would start to pull
away from that all together
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and just started eating herbs.
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It was because their consciences
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was very, very,
weak at that time,
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very, very infantile, very,
very, you know, developmental.
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So they were just
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in the developmental
stage of Christianity.
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However, the Apostle Paul
was speaking to his brothers
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and saying,
"Listen, guys, we know that
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an idol is just a
piece of wood, metal,
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or whatever else,
and if we saw food
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that God's Word
permits us to eat,
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even though it might
have been offered to an idol,
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we know an idol is
nothing so we can eat it."
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But he make a point now
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that we're gonna
pick up in 1 Corinthians 8
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and we're gonna look at verse 7
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and see what his council goes on
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to say as Paul is dealing
with interaction with brothers.
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All recreation is
interaction with family, right?
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You know, we call each
other brothers and family, bro
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and, you know, whatever.
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We're using this
family type language.
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So Paul is
giving us a counsel here
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that we can apply in recreation.
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It says in 1 Corinthians 8:7.
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"Howbeit there is not in
every man that knowledge."
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In other words,
this knowledge that,
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you know, these
idols are nothing
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and we can eat
the food that's been,
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'cause the
idol's nothing anyhow,
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if we need to eat, we can eat.
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He says, "Howbeit there is
not in every man that knowledge:
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For some with
conscience of the idol
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unto this hour eat
it as a thing offered
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unto an idol.
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And their conscience
being weak is defiled.
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But meat commendeth us
not to God, for neither,
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if we eat, are we the better,
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neither, if we eat
not, are we the worse."
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And then he says the key point,
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"But take heed lest by any
means this liberty of yours."
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In other words he's saying,
you have a right to do it,
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but just because you
have a right to do something
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does not mean that
you should exercise
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that right under
every circumstance.
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Right.
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So He says, "But take heed..."
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Be careful, "Lest by any
means this liberty of yours
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become a stumbling
block to them that are weak.
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For if any man see
thee which hast knowledge
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sit at meat in
the idol's temple,
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shall not the conscience of him
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which is weak be
emboldened to eat those things
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which are offered to idols.
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And through thy knowledge
shall the weak brother perish,
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for whom Christ died?
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But when ye sin so
against the brethren,
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and wound their weak conscience,
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ye sin against Christ.
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Wherefore, if meat
make my brother to offend,
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I will eat no flesh
while the world standeth,
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lest I make my
brother to offend."
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So here's a principle
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that we can carry
over into our recreations.
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If I'm looking to participate
in a recreational activity,
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I must ask myself
before getting engaged in it,
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how will this
affect my brothers?
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Yeah.
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What example am
I leading for those
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who are looking at me and
those who are following me?
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Do you understand it, if
we thought more like this
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as it relates to what
activities we participate in,
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there would be a
serious process of elimination.
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There would be a lot of things
that would start going away
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because we would start having
a higher level of thinking
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that is not just about me,
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it's not just about what I want,
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I have to consider
how will this affect those
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that I am called
to be an example to.
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So this is another principle
that we get now from scripture
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of how we can safely
have fun, or enjoyment,
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or better termed
true biblical recreation.
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So you're not
only thinking about
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how is this gonna affect me,
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but how is this
gonna affect anybody
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who might happen to
witness me doing this.
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That's correct.
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Especially, if
I'm considering those
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who I know, I mean,
this verse is very deep
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because it's a call to humility.
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If I know you are weak
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and I know I have a
right to do this thing
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that I want to do but
because you are with me,
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I have to understand, I
can't look at you and say,
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this week brother, "Look, man,
you just have to deal with it,
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I'm gonna to do what I want do."
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That is actually countering
what God's counsel says.
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If that brother
or sister is with you
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even though they may be
weak on a certain point,
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we literally have to
say, "You know, what?
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We're not gonna
do this recreation."
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Even though it's okay to do,
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but because it's gonna
offend this individual here,
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I'm gonna surrender my right.
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Yeah.
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Because I don't...
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It's kind of like
praying the prayer
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and lead me not into temptation
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but you're gonna lead
others into temptation.
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Right.
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You don't want to
pray, you pray to God,
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"Lord, lead me
not into temptation."
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So don't be an instrument
to lead others into temptation.
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So whatever
recreational activity
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you're getting ready to do,
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consider the
group that you're with
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and if you know you got
some brethren in that group
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that may be a little weak
or not as developed as you are,
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you have to consider that
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when you have
whatever recreational activity
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you're gonna do.
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So that way everyone can
leave without their consciences,
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without avoiding
their consciences,
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and violating, and
making themselves feel like
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they have sinned against
God or even their fellowman.
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All right.
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So this is a very
important principle
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that we can also
take from scripture.
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Absolutely. Yeah.
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And you know, we can
move on to another principle
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because there are
several that we have to cover.
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And one very
important principle is found
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in 1 Corinthians 6. Oh, yes.
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So thus far we understand that
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we are not to violate
our conscience by anything
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that we engage in
for fun or recreation
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and we are not only to
consider the impact on us,
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but the impact on
anybody who is around us
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or might witness
what we're doing.
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That's right.
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So the next one
here in 1 Corinthians 6,
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if we could just read it,
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1 Corinthians 6:19
and 20, it says, "What?
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Know ye not that your body
is the temple of the Holy Ghost
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which is in you,
which ye have of God,
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and ye are not your own?
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For ye were bought with a price.
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Therefore..."
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Or in conclusion,
"Glorify God in your body,
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and in your
spirit, which are God's."
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Now this goes back to
the same kind of thing,
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we're in the Book
of 1 Corinthians still
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and there was a
constant issue with those
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that were coming in
to accept the gospel,
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coming into the
church if you will
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who were from pagan, you
know, gentile backgrounds.
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They didn't
have a Jewish culture
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or a Jewish orientation
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so there are a lot
of things that they did
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were part of their culture
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that were
completely against scripture
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and against the gospel.
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So they were not only
bringing these practices
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like eating food
that was offered to idols,
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they were also engaged
in other idolatry practices.
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For example, there was
an entire culture in these,
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you know, Greco-Roman,
Hellenistic cultures
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that also engaged in what
they call temple prostitution.
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So the whole idea of
prostitution, you know,
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we think of it
today in a certain sense
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but prostitution actually
started in ancient times
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and it was always
associated with religious,
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you know, observance.
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In other words,
they created a culture,
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if you will, cults
that were surrounding,
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you know, this
worship of a particular deity
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and the highest
form of human intimacy
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was considered the
highest form of worship
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toward whatever God.
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So we all know what the
highest form of intimacy
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between two human beings,
you know, sexual intercourse.
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So they would have an entire,
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what they would
call temple prostitutes,
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both male and female
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that would stand in the place
of the particular deity or God,
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engage in sexual
intercourse with worshippers
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as a form of the highest
form of religious devotion.
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So this happen on the regular,
I mean, this happened in,
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if you wanted to go
and you had, you know,
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once or twice a year you
bring your flock of sheep
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to get sheared, and trading,
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and, you know,
making your money,
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you would go and engage
with a temple prostitute.
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So the God could bless
your business transaction.
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I mean, it was
a common practice,
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it was just
like a everyday thing
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in that culture.
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So when they became Christians
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and they came into the churches,
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some of them
were still practicing
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these cultural things
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and trying to blend
these two practices.
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Trying to blend
Christianity with this,
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you know, pagan culture
that they had come from.
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And the Bible
and Paul is dealing
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with this over and over
again in these large cities
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where all of these
converts are coming in
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from different
cultural backgrounds,
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and he's saying that
you have to understand
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that your body is the
temple of the Holy Ghost.
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It's the temple of God.
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God is literally going
to come and dwell in you,
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just as he came
and dwelt in, you know,
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the Jewish
temple of the sanctuary
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and the tabernacle of old.
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Now because Christ has
died and been raised to the dead
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and is now ministering,
He sent His Holy Spirit
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and God is literally desiring
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to dwell inside of each
and every individual Christian
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who accepts His promises.
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When He dwells inside,
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He's not dwelling
inside of a corrupt temple.
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He doesn't want to dwell
inside of a dirty temple,
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that was why there was so
much of a meticulous, you know,
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guidelines and governance
for the Jewish temple.
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There was no, you
know, filth in the temple.
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You know, the only filth
that came into the temple
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was via the blood
which symbolized a sin.
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We don't want to
get to deep into it,
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but that blood
was a reminder of sin,
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that blood had to be shed,
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that was the only
filth in the temple
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and that got cleansed,
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you know, once a year
on the Day of Atonement
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but nevertheless,
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He's likening the human body
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and the accumulation
of human individuals,
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the church to the
temple of God where God dwells.
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So you cannot just
glorify God in your spirit,
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you can't just
say, "I accept Christ,
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I accept all of these
biblical points and principles,
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I accept the gospel,
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but I'm still gonna to do
whatever I want with my body."
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We talked about
something in a previous episode,
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one particular pagan practice,
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and now I'm gonna
talk about another
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it's called dualism, right?
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So we know that
Greco-Roman culture,
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again Hellenistic culture,
you know, you think of Plato,
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Socrates, Aristotle, you
know, Alexander the Great
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and then what became
the Greco-Roman culture.
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You know, they looked
at this idea of dualism
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where there was a
complete separation
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between the physical,
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the animate and
the metaphysical,
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the inanimate, the things
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that you can
perceive with your senses.
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And they believed,
they taught that everything
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that was animate,
physical was evil.
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Whether that be this table,
whether that be this book,
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whether that be your
human body, it was evil.
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Everything inanimate
that couldn't be perceived
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by the senses was considered
spiritual, metaphysical.
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So the human
spirit, the human psyche,
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you know, the human ego
was considered spiritual,
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and therefore, everything
spiritual was good and holy.
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So they believed that
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the spirit was
just one day desiring
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to break free from the shell,
you know, the physical body
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and it would go off into
a greater higher existence.
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So it really did not matter
what you did with your body.
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So they could do anything
they wanted to their body.
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So the physical things
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because they
were inherently evil,
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it didn't really
matter how you treated them.
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Paul and the
Holy Ghost are coming
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and saying here in the Word
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that it's not just acceptable
to glorify God intellectually,
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spiritually, you
have to glorify God also
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in your physical
frame, in your body,
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the choices that you make,
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the things that
you do with your body.
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And so now when we're
talking about having fun
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and recreation,
we can't just say,
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"Oh, you can do whatever
you want, it doesn't matter.
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We can do this, we do that."
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What you do to
your physical body,
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what you do to other people's
physical body does matter.
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Our body is the temple of God.
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It's something
that God desires us
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to glorify through His
power and through His spirit,
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not just in one
sense but in every sense.
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So we have to take
that into consideration.
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I think that's a
vitally important principle
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that we must understand.
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So then what some
applications of ways
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to preserve your body
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when you think about having fun?
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Because there's lots of
things people do right now
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in the name of fun and
again, they may say safely
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but it may not be safe.
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In other words, there's
a need for clarification.
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So what would be
some applications
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of how someone might
abuse their body in having fun
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and obviously
the contrast of that
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which is to not do those things?
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I mean, the list is long, right?
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So we don't want to go too far.
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Right. Just a few.
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In context of hip-hop culture,
that's normally experienced.
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Yeah.
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I mean, part of hip-hop
culture is, you know, obviously,
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you know, you have two cans.
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We've been talking about this.
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We don't want to paint
the picture like hip-hop is,
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even though they
call themselves universal
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and international,
they're not unified.
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They talk about it,
they're not really unified.
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You know, there's
some in there that,
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you know, have a
plant-based diet,
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and there's some that don't,
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there's some in there
that don't drink or smoke.
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In fact, when we talk
about those contradictions
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there are artists, many
artists that make hit records
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about smoking and drinking.
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Yup. And they
don't smoke or drink.
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I mean, people would be
shocked to understand that
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these same people
that are promoting
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smoking and drinking,
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and the same people
that are listening to it
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and going out and
smoking and drinking,
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thinking they're in solidarity
with the artists that they,
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you know, idolize that
artist doesn't smoke or drink.
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Yup.
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Because they understand
00:17:03.18\00:17:04.52
that if they want
to have some longevity,
00:17:04.55\00:17:05.89
they want to be healthy,
00:17:05.92\00:17:07.26
then they're not
gonna smoke or drink.
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So that's a perfect example.
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There is a heavy
undertone in all pop culture.
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You know, in all
genres of music and of drugs,
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you know, and alcohol.
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You know, the old, you
know, cliche, sex, drugs,
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and rock and roll, it's
still the same in hip-hop,
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there's no different, right?
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So that is a direct violation
of your physical principles.
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And again, we don't have
time to go into all the science
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and everything like
that, but I don't think in 2000
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and, you know,
in the modern era,
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I don't think
that it's, you know,
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we have to go
through a much of a stretch
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and many mental
gymnastics to understand
00:17:40.99\00:17:44.09
that smoking cigarettes
is bad for your health,
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or smoking weed is
bad for your health.
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And now, I mean,
nowadays we're down into
00:17:48.90\00:17:50.87
a whole another level
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because people aren't
just smoking, you know,
00:17:52.27\00:17:53.80
weed they got, you
know, vaporizers, and edibles,
00:17:53.84\00:17:57.87
and medicinal marijuana,
and you can go to, you know,
00:17:57.91\00:18:00.81
now they've got
vending machines,
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you know, in certain
states where you get marijuana.
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So it doesn't matter.
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The harmful chemicals
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and the substances in the thing,
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no matter what form you
00:18:08.72\00:18:10.05
put it into your
body is harming your body.
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So that's a violation.
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So the idea, you
know, I used to not think
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I could have
fun, unless I smoked,
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you know, and drank.
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The night wasn't fun.
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I would start the night out by,
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you know, before
there was even a party,
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you would just begin your
night with a certain ritual
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to intoxicate yourself,
to get to a certain level
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and then continue to do
that all throughout the night.
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And that was the, you
know, that was the fun.
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Without that, oh,
everything is boring.
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You don't see the
world the same or can't even,
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you know, those harmful poisons,
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toxins, chemical
substances, drugs, narcotics,
00:18:42.88\00:18:46.45
you know, barbecues, the pills,
that people are taking now,
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the thing that's being
promoted with the, you know,
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putting the
codeine and the other,
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you know, drugs inside soda.
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Yeah.
00:18:58.57\00:18:59.90
You know, the syrup
or whatever they call it,
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lean, all that stuff.
00:19:01.70\00:19:03.04
They are literally, you
know, destroying their brains,
00:19:03.07\00:19:08.14
destroying their
bodies, on a level
00:19:08.18\00:19:10.35
that they are not really
going to be able to measure.
00:19:10.38\00:19:11.71
Right.
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You know, they are not
gonna be able to understand
00:19:13.11\00:19:14.45
what's happening
until they are 10-20 years
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down the line in some cases.
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So those things
are being promoted,
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you know, those
things are being highlighted,
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those things are detrimental.
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That is a
violation of the principle
00:19:23.66\00:19:25.06
of the
glorifying God in your body.
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There is a whole another side
00:19:26.59\00:19:27.93
that we don't have
time to talk about,
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but, you know,
there is an adverse effect
00:19:29.33\00:19:32.73
that stress has in
the human body, right?
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Stress hormones, you know,
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anyways they are stress hormones
00:19:38.87\00:19:40.21
that's get released
00:19:40.24\00:19:41.58
when we have a
stress response, right?
00:19:41.61\00:19:43.28
Well, stress response is
designed to help us to escape,
00:19:43.31\00:19:45.75
you know, immediate
danger, or immediate harm,
00:19:45.78\00:19:47.72
or help us to
cope with deadlines,
00:19:47.75\00:19:49.98
and, you know, things
happen in traumatic experiences
00:19:50.02\00:19:52.82
so there is such thing
as healthy stress, right?
00:19:52.85\00:19:55.22
Because it comes,
and then it goes away.
00:19:55.26\00:19:57.79
So the hormones
come to help us cope,
00:19:57.83\00:19:59.96
and then they go
away, that's normal,
00:20:00.00\00:20:02.63
God has build, you
know, built that in us.
00:20:02.66\00:20:05.57
But then there is
something called chronic stress
00:20:05.60\00:20:07.17
where that stress is unremitting
00:20:07.20\00:20:08.80
and when those hormones,
00:20:08.84\00:20:10.41
certain hormones
are in your blood stream
00:20:10.44\00:20:11.87
and they don't go away,
00:20:11.91\00:20:13.48
it has a negative
effect on your entire system.
00:20:13.51\00:20:16.31
Whether that be
your reproductive system,
00:20:16.34\00:20:18.25
your immune system, every system
00:20:18.28\00:20:20.45
that's not needed for survival
is shut down by these hormones.
00:20:20.48\00:20:24.52
So if it's
chronically in your body,
00:20:24.55\00:20:26.69
you are chronically
breaking down your body.
00:20:26.72\00:20:28.32
So there is lots of
things that people do for fun
00:20:28.36\00:20:30.83
that creates stress, you know.
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Anyways, things that
people do for amusement.
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Give an example, brother.
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Hey, we are
indicating, so go ahead.
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Things that
people do for amusement,
00:20:40.00\00:20:41.64
you know, I remember
when I used to go to,
00:20:41.67\00:20:44.34
like a, you know,
Disney World or Six Flags.
00:20:44.37\00:20:47.68
Yes, sir. You have
your favorite ride.
00:20:47.71\00:20:50.28
When you get on that
ride, you don't just go once.
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I don't know, there
might be some people
00:20:53.35\00:20:54.92
that do that but if I
wait in line for something
00:20:54.95\00:20:57.69
and it
surpassed my expectations,
00:20:57.72\00:21:01.16
you are going
on that ride again.
00:21:01.19\00:21:02.52
You get right
back on that line, yup.
00:21:02.56\00:21:03.89
You go ride on that
again, you go again,
00:21:03.93\00:21:05.26
I remember one time,
I went on a certain ride
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may be like ten
times in a row...
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Yup.
00:21:08.03\00:21:09.36
'Cause it was close to closing
and the line was no line,
00:21:09.40\00:21:10.90
I just kept running around,
running around, running around.
00:21:10.93\00:21:14.74
That stress,
you know, that idea,
00:21:14.77\00:21:16.71
that "Oh, I'm gonna die."
00:21:16.74\00:21:18.07
No, you are not.
00:21:18.11\00:21:19.44
You know, you're not
gonna die, everything is okay.
00:21:19.47\00:21:20.81
You are going
through a stress response.
00:21:20.84\00:21:22.44
And you go through that
over, and over, and over again,
00:21:22.48\00:21:25.38
maybe for six hours out
of your day, in a long day,
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that's not good for your body.
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So then are you basically saying
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that going to amusement parks...
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Yeah.
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To, you know, get on these rides
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and all these other things
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that are creating
this incredible stress
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and releasing these
hormones and keeping it there,
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far beyond the
time limits or frames
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that it would be in the
body and under the God's program
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that this is
something that is wrong.
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This is not true
biblical recreation.
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It is a violation of
physiological principles.
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Yeah.
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It doesn't promote
health and longevity.
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That's right, okay.
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I mean, that's
just the way it is.
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So again, it's the innocence
of desiring to have fun.
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And again, these are
all just things that,
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you know, people do
in various cultures.
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And there is nothing
wrong with having fun.
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There is nothing wrong with
doing something that brings,
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you know,
momentary exhilaration,
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or happiness, or joy.
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The question is what is it doing
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and is it balanced.
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We are going to get
into another principle
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about balancing temperance.
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I want to build
on a point in this.
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You know, see, there
may be some of our views
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especially who can
hear what you are saying
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and say "Man, that sounds deep,
that might even be extreme."
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Right. They can say that.
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But let's consider this,
and I'm gonna consider this
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from the text you just
used in 1 Corinthians 6, right?
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In 1 Corinthians 6:19,
God says "What, no ye not,
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that your body is the
temple of the Holy Ghost
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which is in you,
which ye have of God."
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And this is how
He closes it. Yes.
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"And ye are not your own." Why?
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Because you have
been bought. Yup.
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Now of course, this is
speaking to the Christian,
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this is
speaking to the community
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that has said, "I
have accepted Christ,
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I have accepted the atonement."
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If you rejected Christ,
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then this verse
does not apply to you.
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But if you and I say
I accept Jesus Christ
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as Lord and Savior,
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I profess myself
to be a Christian...
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Yeah.
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Then God is
saying, then that means,
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you have been bought.
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You were bought with
the precious blood of Christ
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which means, you
are not your own,
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which means, you can't do
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what you want to
do with your body.
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That's right. You
have to go to the owner.
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If I walk up in your store
and I just take what I want,
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there is a word for
that in our society,
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it's called stealing.
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And the eighth commandment
says "Thou shalt not steal."
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And to break God's
commandment is sin.
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Yeah.
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So therefore, they are ways
that we can sin against God,
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and sin against our
bodies, when we do with
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and what we want with our bodies
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without consulting the owner.
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And that is a hard pill
to swallow for many people.
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Very hard.
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Because you know, as Christians
especially we will say,
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you know, we will
say amen and rejoice,
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when we talk about
the world, you know,
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the non-Christians and say
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"Oh, Well, this
is a contradiction."
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Or we say "Oh, well, you know,
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it's absurd for you
to promote this practice,
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but then violate
it on the other side."
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To say that we can be gods
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and you don't have
the right to say that.
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God created you.
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God, you know, is the
only reason you exist.
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You know, the
Christ died for you,
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and we get offended by that.
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But then when, you
know, as Christians,
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we also don't understand
that we are not at liberty.
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We talk about that
dependence verses independence.
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And we say, "Yeah, you
out there in the world,
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you can't be, you
know, independent from God.
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You have to have
total dependence."
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And then in the
church sometimes,
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we come and rationalize
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and we say "Oh, yeah,
God doesn't care about that."
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You know, we can be independent.
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The Bible says we
are not at liberty.
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That's right.
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We don't have the right
to do whatever we want to do
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spiritually or physically.
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And then, you
know, we can then apply
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that to the mental, emotional,
social, all that stuff.
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We don't have the
right to do all these things.
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So that's what
the text is saying,
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it's an important principle
that we have to understand
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and, you know, often times
00:24:53.69\00:24:55.02
we use it in the context of diet
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and, you know, nutrition,
you know, diet choices,
00:24:56.93\00:24:58.59
and you know,
that kind of stuff.
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It goes far beyond that.
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It's literally in everything
'cause the context of it
00:25:01.36\00:25:02.90
is dealing with
temple prostitution.
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You know, it's dealing
with melding cultural practices
00:25:04.77\00:25:07.97
with Christianity
that's unacceptable.
00:25:08.00\00:25:10.74
And we're gonna
talk a lot about that.
00:25:10.77\00:25:12.44
So we can't just
say, use the excuse,
00:25:12.47\00:25:14.68
"Oh, that's my culture."
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That's fine, if
that's your culture
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but the question is,
00:25:18.21\00:25:19.55
if your culture
violates biblical principle,
00:25:19.58\00:25:21.78
it has to go.
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Yeah, because
one or two has to go,
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either we are gonna say,
00:25:24.95\00:25:26.29
we'll get rid of
biblical principle,
00:25:26.32\00:25:27.66
so I can maintain my culture
00:25:27.69\00:25:29.39
or we're gonna
have to surrender things
00:25:29.42\00:25:30.79
with my culture to
maintain biblical principles.
00:25:30.83\00:25:33.29
For the Christian,
the answer is very simple.
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Man shall not
live by anything else
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except by the Word of God. Yeah.
00:25:39.10\00:25:41.27
Man shall live
by the Word of God.
00:25:41.30\00:25:42.67
So that means that,
whatever I am practicing
00:25:42.70\00:25:45.04
that violates God's
word has to be surrendered.
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And I appreciate
this point because
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in 1 Thessalonians 5:23,
the Bible says "I pray God."
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Talking about the
second coming of Christ...
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Yeah.
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It says, "I pray God
your whole spirit, soul,
00:25:56.42\00:25:59.05
and body be preserved blameless
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at the coming of
our Lord Jesus Christ."
00:26:03.36\00:26:05.49
So that means that I
really do have to consider
00:26:05.53\00:26:08.20
how does this affect me,
00:26:08.23\00:26:11.33
when I am getting
ready to participate
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in this recreation activity?
00:26:12.73\00:26:14.10
How will this
affect my physiology?
00:26:14.14\00:26:15.74
How will this affect my body?
00:26:15.77\00:26:17.47
What's it going
to do to my mind?
00:26:17.51\00:26:18.84
Can I stay focused?
00:26:18.87\00:26:20.21
Can I still whisper
a prayer at any moment
00:26:20.24\00:26:21.58
and stay connected to Christ?
00:26:21.61\00:26:24.35
Or is what I am doing,
drowning out the voice of God
00:26:24.38\00:26:27.28
and all I'm doing is
being focused in the moment.
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You know, is it hurting me,
literally physically causing,
00:26:29.48\00:26:32.99
you know, my blood pressure
to go up, you know, I mean,
00:26:33.02\00:26:35.66
we can really get
deep into this thing.
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That's right.
00:26:37.06\00:26:38.39
But, it's a principle
00:26:38.43\00:26:39.76
that God lays
before us as His people,
00:26:39.79\00:26:41.23
that He says "Pay
attention to these things,
00:26:41.26\00:26:43.33
and by His grace as we do it,
we will have good recreation.
00:26:43.37\00:26:47.84
We will have good enjoyment.
00:26:47.87\00:26:49.84
We will have good as simple,
00:26:49.87\00:26:51.21
as the simple
vernacular says, fun.
00:26:51.24\00:26:52.81
We will be able
to do these things
00:26:52.84\00:26:54.18
without a problem.
00:26:54.21\00:26:55.54
Friends, we have been
going through the word here
00:26:55.58\00:26:58.18
and you know,
this is getting deep,
00:26:58.21\00:27:00.18
and it's gonna get deeper
00:27:00.22\00:27:01.55
because we have
so many principles
00:27:01.58\00:27:03.22
that are in the Word of
God that gives instruction on
00:27:03.25\00:27:06.52
what constitutes
biblical recreation,
00:27:06.55\00:27:08.99
God's concept of
safely having fun.
00:27:09.02\00:27:11.76
And you can see,
it's a lots more detailed,
00:27:11.79\00:27:14.33
it's a lot more
succinct, it is a lot clearer
00:27:14.36\00:27:16.97
what God wants
00:27:17.00\00:27:18.33
and He knows
that He had to do this
00:27:18.37\00:27:20.34
because He knows
the human frailty.
00:27:20.37\00:27:23.54
He knows that we have hearts
that are bent towards doing
00:27:23.57\00:27:27.31
that which is wrong
rather than that which is right.
00:27:27.34\00:27:29.28
And God love
you, and He loved me,
00:27:29.31\00:27:31.11
and He loves all of us
too much to let us function
00:27:31.15\00:27:34.22
by our own interpretations
of what is fun or enjoyment.
00:27:34.25\00:27:37.09
And therefore, He
teaches us His words
00:27:37.12\00:27:39.82
and when we apply them,
00:27:39.85\00:27:41.19
the Bible says
something beautiful,
00:27:41.22\00:27:42.59
it tells us "Happy are ye."
00:27:42.62\00:27:45.59
And this is what God
wants for all of us to be happy.
00:27:45.63\00:27:48.16
And we will talk more
about it in our next episode
00:27:48.20\00:27:50.30
because we
actually still have more.
00:27:50.33\00:27:51.77
We have more, we
want to give it to you
00:27:51.80\00:27:53.37
and I know the Lord will bless.
00:27:53.40\00:27:55.10
So until the next episode,
continue to be faithful,
00:27:55.14\00:27:58.07
remember the words of
Proverbs 2:6 that tells us,
00:27:58.11\00:28:01.11
"It is the Lord
that gives us wisdom,
00:28:01.14\00:28:03.55
and out of His mouth comes
knowledge and understanding."
00:28:03.58\00:28:07.85
God bless you.
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