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Hello everyone, welcome to Steadfast Baptist Church.

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Thank you for coming this evening.

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It's good to see you all.

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Let's find our seats and open our hymn books to page 198.

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Joy Unspeakable, page 198.

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Line your seats and open page 198, Joy Unspeakable.

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Sing it out loud to the Lord this evening, all on the first.

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singing this evening let's go to the Lord in prayer. Heavenly Father we thank

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you so much for this church and another day in your house Lord that we can hear

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the Word of God preached and be edified by your Word. Thank you for the

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labors who went out this afternoon into your harvest and thank you for the

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salvations that we saw there. I pray Lord that you would just fill Pastor Stuckey

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with your Holy Spirit this evening as he challenges us and edifies us through

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your Word and build us up to be better Christians. We love you so much in Jesus

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name I pray amen.

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Our second song, page 101, Jesus Never Fails.

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Page 101 in your hymn books, Jesus Never Fails.

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page 101. Let's all sing it out together on that verse.

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Thanks for coming to Said Fast Baptist Church.

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If you did not get a bulletin, or if you need another one,

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just lift your hand real quick.

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Whenever ushers can come by and get you guys a bulletin.

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On the front, we have our Bible memory passage.

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So if you can quote all of Philippians 4

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to a non-family member, word perfect,

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you can receive a prize.

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As well as in our midweek service,

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we give out an ice cream treat for the children 18 and under

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that can quote the verse of the week.

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We have our service times and soul winning times listed there.

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We have.

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regional times throughout the Dallas-Forth area. So there is a time every day if you'd like to go out.

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There's an opportunity down below is our church stats. If you did have any soul winning just make

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sure you report that in our church chat group for stats being posted. On the right we have several

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ladies that you can be in prayer for who are expecting. So praise the Lord for those blessings

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and just continue to pray for them. We do have an update as far as

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If we have.

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Our parking lot is too full and stuff like that. We have the opportunity to park across the street just in this back section only

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Just please be very gracious and and make sure you're not

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Littering or damaging the property or doing anything weird. Just please be very respectful of that area

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It's definitely a grace that they're giving us that opportunity

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There is lunch this morning and honestly, it was epic. So thank you to everyone who helped and served

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and participated and you know as much as I brag about Texas brisket you don't

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want to like serve something and not get that experience and it was it was

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definitely the true Texas brisket experience and so thank you to brother

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Abanek and his efforts and I know that he didn't do it alone but definitely

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appreciate that

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It's like, you know, what has Duncan done for us lately?

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You know, it's I guess, you know, I'm trying to, I kind of change and, you know, I go back

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and forth on which Urbannock I like the most.

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I don't know.

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But, but no, the lunch was great and we really enjoyed it.

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So thank you so much for everyone who participated in that.

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They had mentioned there could have been some leftovers.

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So I don't know.

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It's first come first serve for that.

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We did break our service this morning, our service record.

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Previously when we had Evangeline Serbanek here.

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visiting and we had food and everything we had like 272 that Sunday morning and

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this morning we had 287 so we actually broke it by quite a bit and so we'll

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have ice cream served to everyone after the service so if you want ice cream you

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can go over here to our kitchen area we'll be giving ice cream out to every

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single person that wants it your parents have to say yes okay I said yes

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pastor Shelley said yes but the parents have to say yes so but we are serving

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ice cream immediately fall into service if you'd like

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some for breaking that record. We have some other upcoming events. We have the

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Heritage of the Lord Conference, October 9th through 11th. Pastor Corbin Russell is

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going to be coming out and preaching for us that Friday evening. We have a Mighty

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Men's Conference, October 23rd to the 24th. So men 18 and over are welcome to join us

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for the event. Pastor Stephen Anderson is going to be preaching. If you are 16 and older

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and you're going to be accompanied by a parent, then you can also attend. But it's a

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some.

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men's event and then we'll be having our competition portions still on that

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Saturday if you'd like to come but basically gonna have preaching we'll

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have dinner we'll fellowship here at the church obviously other people are

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welcome to come and attend the event but the preaching will be spicy so that's

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all I know all right

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Trinidad do-it-yourself missions trip. I guess we're just trying to stack flags or something like that. And so we've got a few already and

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So we got Trinidad on the horizon if you are interested of Angus or Bannock

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I'm sorry, Vangesfer or Brother Marcel, please see one of them. They are helping lead that push.

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Shreveport's the winning marathon. One of our tribe captains, Brother Marcel, is helping lead this.

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If you have any questions, ask him about it. Philippines, do-it-yourself missions trip.

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You got to hear a little bit about the work that's going on over in the Philippines.

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And I hope that inspired you. I hope that maybe it stirred your heart to visit a foreign country

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and get out of your comfort zone.

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Almost everybody I've talked to that's gone on a foreign missions trip really says it changes their lifestyle,

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it changes their mindset, it changes their heart.

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Like, you know, getting out of the country and going to a place to preach the gospel,

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it really has an impact on you and it's very difficult to verbalize what it's really like

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going on the missions field and preaching the gospel.

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the gospel and it's very...

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It's very important in my mind to see how different countries react to the gospel.

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Even sometimes going to unreceptive areas, just seeing...

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Because, you know, living in Texas, we're very blessed.

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This is a very receptive area to the gospel, and we have a great opportunity.

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There are places in this world that you have to go out

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and you have to put in a lot of effort to get people saved.

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Obviously, no matter where you go, you can get people saved,

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but we are very blessed to live in an area where

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we go out and we very often are getting many people saved,

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and so it's a blessing, but, you know, it's even more fun...

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sometimes going to these foreign countries because you can go to places in this world

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where it's very receptive and there's a lot of opportunity and the Philippines is one

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of those.

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So I highly encourage you, if you are thinking about it.

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Make the plunge go out there visit so winning Baptist Church visit our church plant steadfast Baptist Church in the Philippines with Vangels or Bannock

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Consider going to these areas, but this is definitely a great opportunity and

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Make sure to thank pastor Stuckey from coming all the way back over here

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He's got a lot of opportunities and a lot of things to do and from to take out time to come visit us

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It's a special blessing. Thank him for preaching for us, you know two services this

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morning and then also that tonight he'll be preaching for us and so I think that just

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happens when you come to steadfast that you just preach really long I don't know what

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it is so it's not me it's just being here you know you just preach or whatever people

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really enjoy the sermon or something so no we appreciate pastor Stuckey for being here

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and preaching to us for both these services today just keep him and his family and your

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prayers keep their church and your prayers and continue to think about the work that

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they're doing over there. And we feel honored and blessed that we have the opportunity to

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even support Pastor Stuckey and support the work that's going on over there. The Bible

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says it's more blessed to give than receive. And you know, we are blessed by being able

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to just partner with him and the work that's going on over there. And we really are thankful

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to have people like Pastor Stuckey that are setting such a great example on the missions

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field. I hope that by making it known what he's

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Thanks for watching!

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doing and promoting him, it'll inspire other missionaries and other church planters and

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other people to do likewise because it's hard for me to envision someone working as hard

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as Pastor Stuckey and going to the mission field and taking it so serious.

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Like if you told me, hey, there's a guy that's going to go to the Philippines and then he's

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going to start churches in Poland and Australia and he's going to be preaching four times

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a week and starting all these church over the

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I just wouldn't have believed it.

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And again, while getting all this money stolen simultaneously,

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I mean, it's just like, you know,

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talk about someone that just cares about the work.

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And, you know, I think that maybe him and maybe even people from his church might have been like,

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why does Pastor Shelley want to support that?

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But it's like, why would you not want to support that?

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You know, it's just like, you know, if we care about the gospel,

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we care about people getting saved, then we should just love soul winners,

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and we should love soul winning churches,

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and we should just love people that are zealous for the gospel.

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And, you know, that can definitely be said of Pastor Stuckey and his church.

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And so we appreciate your friendship, we appreciate you being here,

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and it's been a big blessing.

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to us. So keep them in your prayers. We have a prayer list on the back too. So if you have other

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prayer requests, please keep our church family in your prayers. But we're going to go ahead and sing

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our third song of the evening, Psalm 117. So if you get out our Psalm books, Psalm 117.

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Give that Psalm 117.

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Let's see now on that verse.

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Oh, praise the Lord of nations.

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Oh, praise.

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plates will be passed around.

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And you can turn in your Bibles to Haggai chapter 2.

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Again, that's Haggai chapter 2.

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Haggai chapter number two, follow along as we read the chapter.

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The Bible says in the seventh month, in the one and 20th day of the month, came

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the word of the Lord by the prophet Haggai saying, Speak now to Zerubbabel,

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the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua, the son of Josaddei,

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the high priest, and to the residue of the people saying, Who is left among you

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that saw this house in her first glory?

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And how do you see it now?

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Is it not in your eyes in comparison of it as nothing?

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Yet now be strong, O Zerubbabel, sayeth the Lord.

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And be strong, O Joshua, son of Josadach, the high priest.

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And be strong, all ye people of the land, sayeth the Lord, and work.

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For I am with you, sayeth the Lord of hosts.

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According to the word that I covenanted with you when ye came out of Egypt,

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so my spirit remaineth among you. Fear ye not.

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For thus saith the Lord of hosts, yet once it is a little while,

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and I will shake the heavens and the earth and the sea and the dry land.

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And I will shake all nations and the desire of all nations shall come.

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And I will fill this house with glory, saith the Lord of hosts.

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The silver is mine and the gold is mine, saith the Lord of hosts.

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The glory of this latter house shall be greater than of the former, saith the Lord of hosts.

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And in this place will I give peace, saith the Lord of hosts. In the 420th day of the ninth month,

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in the second year of Darius came the word of the Lord by Haggai the prophet saying,

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Does say it the Lord of hosts ask now the priest concerning the law saying

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If one bare holy flesh in the skirt of his garment, and with his skirt do touch bread,

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or potage, or wine, or oil, or any meat, shall it be holy? And the priest answered and said, No.

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Then said Haggai, if one that is unclean by a dead body touch any of these, shall it be unclean?

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And the priest answered and said, It shall be unclean.

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Then answered Haggai and said, So is this people, and so is this nation before me, saith the Lord.

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And so is every work of their hands, and that which they offer there is unclean.

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And now I pray you, consider from this day and upward, from before a stone was laid upon a stone

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in the temple of the Lord. Since those days were, when one came to a heap of 20 measures,

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there were but 10.

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When one came to the press fat for to draw 50 vessels out of the press, there were but 20.

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I smote you with blasting and with mildew and with hell in all the labors of your hands.

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Yet you turn not to me, say at the Lord.

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Consider now from this day and upward from the four and 20th day of the ninth month,

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even from the day that the foundation of the Lord's temple was laid. Consider it.

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Is the seed yet in the barn?

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Yea, as yet the vine and the fig tree and the pomegranate and the olive tree

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hath not brought forth.

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From this day will I bless you."

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And again the word of the Lord came unto Haggai the 4 and 20th day of the month, saying,

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Speak to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah, saying,

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I will shake the heavens and the earth, and I will overthrow the throne of kingdoms.

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and I will destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the heathen,

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and I will overthrow the chariots and those that ride in them,

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and the horses and their riders shall come down,

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every one by the sword of his brother.

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In that day, saith the Lord of hosts,

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I will take thee, O Zerubbabel, my servant, the son of Shealtiel,

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saith the Lord, and I will make thee as a signet,

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for I have chosen thee, saith the Lord of hosts.

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Let us pray.

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Dear Heavenly Father, I thank you for the Word of God. I thank you for Pastor Stuckey coming to visit.

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I pray that you would please bless his church. Please give him a safe travel back home.

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And I pray that you would fill him with your Holy Spirit now to preach the Word of God to us.

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Please give him boldness and please help us to be attentive to your word. In Jesus' name, amen.

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All right, amen. Once again, it's a great opportunity to be here and you know, I'm just really thankful for this church and not just

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Supporting me but just the friendship of this church

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Many of you have known for a long time. A lot of you have gotten to know over the last couple years

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One thing i'm thankful about over the last couple years is i've really gotten to know pastor shelly because honestly

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I just didn't really know him that well a few years ago, but she got a great church a great pastor

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Obviously god is using this church in a great way and you know as he said

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this morning, he doesn't have a lot of friends.

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I don't really have a lot of friends anymore either.

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So if you're willing to be my friend,

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I'm happy to be friends with you.

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And so anyways, but it's a great honor to be here.

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And the sermon I'm gonna preach tonight

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only fits at this church.

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Because this is in a way a sequel to the sermon preached

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a couple years ago at the Red Hot Preaching Conference,

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Gross People or People That Are Gross.

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And the name of the sermon is Things That Are Disgusting.

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things that are disgusting. Now, I had this sermon idea several months back when I

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decided I was going to come here and got the opportunity to preach and I

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relistened to that sermon and I asked myself, are there enough disgusting things that he didn't talk about

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that I could preach on?

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So I want you to realize I'm not avoiding things that he preached on that are gross and disgusting,

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but I don't want to re-preach the same sermon. So kind of in a way it's kind of a sequel because

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I'm going to look at things that are disgusting and what can we learn about this spiritually.

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Notice what it says here in verse number 13.

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Then said Haggai, if one that is unclean by a dead body

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touch any of these, shall it be unclean?

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And the priest answered and said, it shall be unclean.

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You know, obviously if you touch something that's unclean,

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you'll be unclean.

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And the Bible speaks about touching a dead body, right?

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I remember when we were in the Philippines at our old house,

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we had a real big problem with mice at our house.

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And mice are a lot smarter than they might seem.

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They're actually pretty hard to kill.

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And I tried every method that you read online,

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and eventually I resorted to poison.

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But you don't really want to use poison,

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because what will happen is a mouse will die,

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and you don't know where it is, and you can smell it,

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and you can't get rid of it.

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But I was just desperate, you know, I was like, man, we got to get rid of this problem.

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I'm sick of going in the fridge and I just hear them scurrying around underneath the

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fridge and the cabinets and we couldn't get rid of them.

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And so I just put out a bunch of poison and I woke up a couple days later and the first

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mouse that was dead, it died right in front of the garbage can.

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But you know, for me personally, the number one, this is not even part of the sermon,

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you know, this is not one of the points, but the number one thing that's disgusting to

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me of animals is mice.

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Mice and rats are just gross and disgusting to me, and so it was dead, but I was like,

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I wanted to make sure it was dead.

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You know, I don't mind cockroaches.

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You can have those in the Philippines.

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But mice, it's a whole other thing.

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And so I was like poking it with like a long stick.

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I was putting on gloves and everything.

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Because you don't want to touch a dead body.

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You're going to be unclean.

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Of course, that's disgusting.

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That's gross, right?

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And the Bible uses a physical example here

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to explain the spiritual,

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because the Bible's speaking about a nation

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that is just unclean,

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and they're involved in uncleanness,

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and it's going to pass on to them.

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Now go in your Bible to James chapter 4, James 4.

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And he says that everything they offer and that which they offer there is unclean.

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He says you as a nation are the same way.

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Throughout the Bible, God uses earthly examples to explain the spiritual.

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The Bible says if I have told you of earthly things and ye believe not,

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how shall ye believe if I tell you of heavenly things?

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So throughout the Bible, there's earthly examples to drive home a spiritual point.

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Now when you think of examples in this world of things that are physically unclean, you

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see a connection between being spiritually unclean.

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For example, the country of India is known as the spiritual capital of the world.

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They'll say, man, this is where Hinduism came from,

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where Buddhism and Jainism and Sikhism,

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and then all the crazy religions get kicked out of countries

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and then they find a home in India.

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It's the spiritual capital of the world.

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But did you know it's also known as the rape capital of the world?

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One of the big monikers of India, it's known as the rape capital of the world.

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Now when it comes to rape statistics, they are not that accurate.

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And the reason why is because depending on what country it's in,

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if you basically try to bring it to court,

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it could be more or less likely to end up that person getting in trouble.

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Because of the caste system in India,

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The vast majority of rapes don't end up having anything happen to the person that actually does it.

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Because people that are of a higher caste will often do that to a lower caste.

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But read online of people that visit India and you'll see women say,

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man, the temples were beautiful.

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I was just in fear of my life every single second.

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Because all these men are just coming at me and just saying all these vulgar things.

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I was like, man, I was afraid I was going to be attacked.

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And India is often known as the wraith capital of the world.

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And yet people will say it's the most spiritual place.

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I mean, you see these weirdo Americans that want to get spiritual and they go to India, right?

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But yet it's spiritual, but it's not godly.

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Notice what it says here in James 4 verse 7.

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Submit yourselves therefore to God resist the devil and he will flee from you draw nigh to God and he will draw nigh to you

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So what is the formula for drawing nigh to God?

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God says you draw nigh to me all dry now to you draw nigh to God and he will draw nigh to you

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Cleanse your hands he sinners and purify your hearts. He double-minded the Bible says to cleanse your hands

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Now as the Bible saying wash your hands before you eat

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obviously not

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Look, I wash my hands before I eat, but once again, you know, that's not the big thing

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the Bible is talking about.

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What the Bible is saying is using a physical example to say, hey, get right with God.

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Quit watching the garbage.

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Quit listening to the garbage.

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Quit breaking the commandments.

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Do what I say.

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Read the Bible.

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That is what the Bible is referring to, but it's a physical example of cleansing your

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hands to drive home a spiritual point.

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Go on your Bible to Leviticus chapter 18. Leviticus 18.

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I'll just warn you, this is not going to be the most pleasant sermon.

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I mean, when you preach a sermon called things that are disgusting, my goal and purpose is

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I can drive home how disgusting these things are, and she'll say, I don't want to have

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anything to do with whatever's going to cause that.

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I want to have nothing to do with it whatsoever.

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It's gross.

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It's disgusting, especially young kids that are in this room, because many young kids

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are here and they haven't done the things that many of us have.

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And they don't realize the dangers in doing some of these things.

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It might seem normal.

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I mean, people try to give them peer pressure to do it.

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It's like, man, you're better off staying completely away from these things.

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You need to listen up to this sermon.

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Leviticus 18 verse 22,

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thou shalt not lie with mankind as with womankind.

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It is abomination.

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Once again, I'm not re-preaching what Pastor Shelley said.

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But the LGBT are vile, wicked, reprobates, pedophiles, you name the list, they're garbage, right?

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Verse 23, neither shalt thou lie with any beast to defile thyself therewith,

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neither shall any woman stand before a beast to lie down thereto.

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It is confusion.

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I mean, there the Bible's talking about bestiality, taking it to another level.

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Verse 24.

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Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you and

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The land is defiled therefore. I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it and the land itself

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vomiteth out her inhabitants

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The land is so repulsed and there's such a cancer to the land that the land the Bible says symbolically is vomiting out the people

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Because they're like a poison to the land

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Bible says here in verse 26,

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ye shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments

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and shall not commit any of these abominations,

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neither any of your own nation,

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nor any stranger that sojourneth among you.

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For all these abominations have the men of the land done

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which were before you, and the land is defiled,

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that the land spew not you out also when ye defile it,

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as it spewed out the nations that were before you.

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For whosoever shall commit any of these abominations,

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even the souls that commit them shall be cut off from among their people.

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Therefore shall you keep mine ordinance,

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that you commit not any of these abominable customs,

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which were committed before you,

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and that you defile not yourselves therein.

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I am the Lord your God."

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In verse 28, it talks about spewing out the people,

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which does not have to be in reference to vomit,

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but in the context, that is what the Bible is referring to.

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And the first thing I can think of that is truly disgusting,

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that was not covered in the sermon, is vomit.

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Vomit is disgusting.

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Now what does it mean to be disgusting?

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You're basically talking about something that affects your senses.

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So you could say, man, something tastes disgusting.

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Something looks disgusting.

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Something smells disgusting, something feels disgusting,

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or in occasion you can say something even sounds disgusting,

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means something that affects your senses.

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When it comes to vomit, it fits pretty much all of those, doesn't it?

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It smells disgusting, it looks disgusting,

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I mean it is completely gross and disgusting.

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Go to 2nd Peter chapter 2.

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2nd Peter 2.

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2nd Peter chapter 2 verse 22

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And the bible says but has happened unto them according to true proverbs the dog is turned to his own vomit again

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and the sow that was washed or wallowing in the mire.

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Now, here when the Bible refers to a dog and a sow,

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I believe it's referring to a male homosexual and a female homosexual,

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but it's talking about a literal dog.

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And the Bible says the dog has turned to its own vomit again.

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You know, one of the things that's just kind of crazy about animals and dogs,

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dogs will often eat their own vomit.

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I remember having a dog as a kid.

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And you know, I was naive because I watched Disney movies and they're cute.

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And then all of a sudden, you know, you see your dog outside

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and it's eating its own vomit and you're like, what in the world?

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I mean, it's so gross.

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It's disgusting. It's like, what are you doing?

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But yet the Bible says that dogs actually do this.

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I've seen it with my own eyes and dogs would just go to their own vomit.

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It's crazy in this world today people are like so obsessed with animals and pets and look I'm not against you if you have a dog or a cat

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But it's like they get so obsessed with their animal and it's like look. This is what animals do

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Animals are gross. They do a lot of gross and disgusting things

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Go in your Bible to Isaiah chapter 19 Isaiah chapter 19

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So I researched for this, what actually causes someone to vomit?

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What says here, your body has a built-in alarm system in the brain called the vomiting center.

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When it gets enough warning signals, it triggers vomiting to protect you.

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And so when a person's actually vomiting, it's actually a good thing,

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because your body's actually protecting you from a real danger.

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You know, when you're raising young kids, you know, kids have a notoriously weak stomach.

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They get sick often, and you know, to them it's like the worst thing in the world because

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it's disgusting to them.

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But you know, one thing I've seen with my kids is it's so disgusting and gross to them

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that they will try to prevent themselves from vomiting, and so instead of rushing to the

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bathroom they try to hold it in, then it goes all over the bed.

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It's just a disaster.

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Right? Or they don't make it. It just goes everywhere.

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But it's so gross and disgusting to them.

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But one thing kids don't understand is that's actually a good thing because it's protecting their body.

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Many times you'll see when kids are sick and then they vomit and then they're fine five minutes later.

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They're doing pretty well.

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And of course all of us that are adults, you know, we've had the same experience.

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You're sick in your stomach and sometimes that fixes it because your body's actually protecting you

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from something that's actually much more dangerous.

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Well, in the Bible, the big thing that you see that actually causes someone to get sick

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and vomit is alcohol.

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Notice what it says here in Isaiah 19 verse 14.

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The Lord hath mingled a perverse spirit in the midst thereof, and they have caused Egypt

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to err in every work thereof, as a drunken man staggereth in his vomit.

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I mean, that's disgusting.

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That's gross.

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I mean, look, I went to college.

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I mean, you see just vomit on the ground at the colleges.

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You know, where I went to church as a freshman,

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man, you just see it as you're walking,

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because I didn't have a car in my freshman year,

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so I kind of walked everywhere,

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and you just see it everywhere on the ground,

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and you're like, what is wrong with these people?

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Like, why are you drinking alcohol?

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And yet, people do it all the time.

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Yes.

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They just drink and drink and drink.

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You know, where I went to college,

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the moniker is Cheers, Beers, and Mountaineers.

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It's like, man, I think West Virginia is an awesome state.

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Why are you mixing in alcohol with it?

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Go in your Bible to Isaiah 28, Isaiah 28.

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And see what your body is actually doing when it causes you to vomit when you get drunk?

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It's actually protecting you from poison that you actually put inside your body.

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The Bible refers to alcohol. It says their wine is the poison of dragons and the gruel venom of asps.

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What the Bible is saying is when you drink alcohol, you're actually putting poison inside your body.

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And so what your body does, being well designed by God,

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your body senses a problem

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and your body will often discard it.

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Why?

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Because it's poison.

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It's gonna destroy your body.

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And yet, what happens?

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People drink and drink and drink

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and their body gets used to it.

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Instead of discarding it, their body keeps the poison.

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Now that doesn't mean that the poison is no longer dangerous because their body is used to it.

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What it means is that person becomes a drunkard,

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and instead of your body actually protecting you since it's used to you,

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used to it, it keeps the poison inside and you're actually doing real harm to your body.

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That's what actually takes place.

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Isaiah chapter 28, verse number 7.

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The Bible says,

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But they have also erred through wine and through strong drink,

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are out of the way.

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The priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink.

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They are swallowed up of wine.

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They are out of the way through strong drink.

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They err in vision.

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They stumble in judgment.

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For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness,

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so that there is no place clean.

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Look, many young kids that are in this room right now, when they get older, they might

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have other friends or people that via peer pressure try to get them to drink.

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I'm sure that in this room there are a lot of adults that have drank before and probably

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because of peer pressure.

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Not that you wanted to, not that you thought it was a good thing, not that you thought

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it was godly, not that you thought it was healthy, but peer pressure is a powerful thing.

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Here's what you're missing out on kids by not drinking alcohol.

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You're going to miss out on vomiting all over the place?

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Yeah.

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You're going to miss out on poisoning your body?

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You're going to miss out on doing stupid things like driving drunk, getting people pregnant out of wedlock.

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Look, alcohol destroys people's lives.

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And the thing is, people ought to realize because vomit is so disgusting,

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why would you want to do anything that would cause you to do that?

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It's physically disgusting and God is trying to warn you about how bad it is for you.

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Go to your Bible, Proverbs 25.

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Proverbs 25.

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As you're turning there, I'm going to read you one more verse here where it says,

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"'Make ye him drunken, for he magnified himself against the Lord. Moab also shall wallow in his vomit.'"

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Look, I get it. Vomit is not something that's fun to think about or talk about.

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The Bible makes a connection to alcohol quite a bit, doesn't it?

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And often when people first drink, they immediately get sick with a small amount and their body discards it.

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But you know what takes place?

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They end up getting used to it.

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They drink alcohol and their body just becomes resistant to it and you just get more and more alcohol into your system.

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And that's how people die from blood poisoning.

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That's how people long-term just destroy their bodies,

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destroy their kidneys or livers and everything inside of them

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and then die at a really young age.

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Why?

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Because they drank themselves to death.

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Because just drinking poison day after day

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after day after day is like, man,

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you should have got the warning the first time

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you vomited all over the place.

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And yet all throughout this nation,

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all throughout this world,

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people are just a bunch of boosers and drunkards drink.

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taking all their sorrows away.

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And they wake up, they're miserable, their life sucks, and then they go right back to

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it.

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And I just remember being in college and people would try to pressure you, like, man, why

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don't you drink?

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What do you do for fun?

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And it's like, man, I enjoy life, so why would I want to do something that's going to cause

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me to forget what happened?

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It was crazy to me how people would go to college and you'd just hear them talking about

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this.

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I heard people say sometimes, man, I got so drunk on Friday night, I don't even remember

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what happened, and then I woke up and there was someone in the bed with me.

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I'm like, what in the world?

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But yeah, that's just kind of common talk often in college.

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It's no big deal.

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Because when you're drunk, it's kind of like a free pass to do whatever sin according to

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these people.

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But it's not just drinking alcohol that the Bible makes a connection that will cause you to vomit.

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One of the other things the Bible mentions is overeating.

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Notice what it says here in Proverbs 25 verse 16.

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Has thou found honey?

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Eat so much as is sufficient for thee, lest thou be filled therewith.

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And notice this, and vomit it.

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Now when it comes to this verse, I believe there's two connections you can make here.

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One thing the Bible is saying is if you eat too much it can cause you to be sick.

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Many people have probably experienced that.

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The other thing I would say is that I think the Bible is saying when you eat too much

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of honey or something high in sugar it can cause the same reaction.

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I am not, I look, I know that it's very sensitive.

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Everybody has their opinions on diets,

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but you know what, I'm the one preaching.

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I'm not a keto person at all.

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I am not a low carb person.

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I eat a ton of carbs all the time.

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I think honey is like a miracle food to be honest,

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but that doesn't mean you just take a cup full of honey

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and just down it.

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You eat too much of that sugar, it will make you sick.

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If you eat a bunch of junk food, a bunch of sugar, it will make you sick.

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Now go to your Bible to Philippians chapter three, Philippians three.

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But once again, it's the same thing with alcohol.

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Your body gets used to it.

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Here's what it says, reduce sensitivity adaptation.

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The body can become less reactive over time.

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The stomach may tolerate more stretching before signaling distress.

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Because once again, when a person has to vomit,

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it's actually a good thing for them where your body's protecting you.

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where basically if you stretch your stomach too far,

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you'll get sick.

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But what it's saying here is that if you regularly do this,

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you will no longer have that reaction with your body.

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Your body will allow you to just eat all kinds of junk food,

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all kinds of food, and just eat and eat

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day after day after day, and it never signals a warning,

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even though you're damaging and destroying your body.

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I saw this just a couple days ago on Facebook.

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They had one of these ads pop up where there's this fitness influencer

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who was trying to lose 55 pounds, like, really quickly.

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So what he did is he was in good shape.

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He was trying to gain weight quickly.

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And then he was going to try to lose the weight quickly.

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And he's trying to get his technique to lose 55 pounds, like, really, really fast.

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And so he's eating 10,000 calories a day.

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I mean...

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If you've ever tracked calories before, I mean, that is insane.

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I don't know if I could eat 10,000 calories in a day.

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And certainly after the first 4,000, it's not even a taste good, right?

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You eat too much, it ends up being gross, it ends up being disgusting.

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It's like, man, I don't even want anymore.

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But he's going to eat 10,000 calories day after day.

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The guy died after a couple weeks.

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30 years old.

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By all measures, he seemed like he was in good shape.

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A couple weeks later, he was dead.

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Wow.

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Look, I personally did not know that you could eat yourself to death like that in a couple

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weeks.

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It's kind of like, you know, there's that old, like, documentary, Super Size Me.

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And he's kind of doing the same sort of thing.

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We're basically just eating a lot of food.

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And to get a lot of calories,

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you need a lot of junk food, right?

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So he's eating a lot of junk food,

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trying to gain weight super quickly.

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And then all of a sudden, just like after a week,

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he starts telling his friends,

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man, I'm feeling really bad.

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I'm feeling sick.

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But he kind of just stuck with it,

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never thinking anything would happen.

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A few weeks later, he's dead.

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He didn't even gain all the weight

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because he died after just overeating himself

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day after day after day.

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Now look, I'm not saying it's wrong to eat a lot of food and have like nice brisket for

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lunch.

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That's some great food earlier today.

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But you know, we know the feeling of being at Thanksgiving or Christmas where you eat

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past what you really should and then you're just sitting on the couch, you're tired, you're

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exhausted.

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I mean, you feel sick.

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You're like, why did I do that?

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and then next year you're gonna seek it yet again, right?

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But you feel miserable, you feel horrible,

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and honestly, that's doing major harm to your body.

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Now it's not a big deal.

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I do that sometimes.

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You do it once a year, no big deal, from time to time.

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But this guy did it day after day after day,

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and he died after a couple weeks.

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It's like, man, I did not realize you're doing that much of damage to your body

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by, you know, eating too much food at one event.

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But he did it day after day after day.

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And, you know, look, it's like, you know, eating that much food after a while,

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it gets disgusting, doesn't it?

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Yeah.

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And it's like, you know, anything that would cause you to vomit

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should give you a real caution.

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And this guy, he ended up dying because of it.

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Here's what the Bible says in Philippians 3, verse 18.

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It says, for many walk of whom I have told you often and now tell you even weeping,

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that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ.

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And notice this, whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly,

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and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.

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Now when the Bible says whose God is their belly,

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the Bible here is talking about bad people,

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and he's using an example that we can all understand.

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Every one of us has eaten too much junk food, one too many cookies,

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eaten things that we shouldn't have, and we know that we're trying to resist the temptation,

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and yet we end up eating it and we regret it.

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Every one of us has done that, right?

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And look, I don't think that's a major issue.

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It's like we all do that. We're all trying our best or whatever.

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But what the Bible's saying is these people, these reprobates, they just give into every lust.

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So us, we deal with that on a daily basis where basically we might want something that's bad for us,

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and we know we shouldn't do it, and then we give into it.

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And the Bible's saying these people, their God is their belly.

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Every lust they have, they give into.

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Everything their body wants, they give it to them.

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But look, I don't want to be lumped in with a reprobate.

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Now obviously, the Bible is using an example that every person in the world can understand and relate to

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because all of us have eaten things that we probably shouldn't, not the healthiest,

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but it's like, you know, we need to be able to control our habits,

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control our desires, and realize, hey, if it's not good for us, don't indulge in that.

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Now go in your Bible to Matthew chapter 5. Matthew 5.

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Matthew 5.

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So one thing that's disgusting is vomit.

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It's something the Bible brings up many times.

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And alcohol is the primary thing the Bible speaks about that will actually cause that.

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Number two, something else that's really disgusting is pornography.

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Pornography is disgusting.

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Now I would say that pornography is probably one of the most under preached things and

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it makes sense because it's a bit awkward to preach on.

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I don't want to say something that puts something in your mind and it's just disgusting so you

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don't really like talking about it.

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But here's the reason why you need to talk about it.

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60% of men in the US, ages 18 to 49, are regularly watching pornography.

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60%.

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Three out of five men.

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You say, wow, that's only men.

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20 to 25% of women report the same.

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Well, that's just single people.

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35 to 55% of married men are watching pornography monthly, according to statistics.

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Taking the low, let's just take the low end. 35% of married guys over one out of three is watching pornography on a very regular basis.

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According to statistics.

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20 to 30 percent are watching weekly according to that of married men 20 to 30 percent are watching weekly

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You say well, you know pastor. I mean, yeah, these are statistics, but this is not the Christian population

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Look, you are naive if you think there's nobody in this church that is struggling with pornography

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I wish that were the case and when I first started preaching I just kind of naively thought that

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that people aren't really guilty of the things that I'm preaching on because everybody's wearing a suit and a tie or trying to look nice

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but the reality is many Christians are also struggling with this as well

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many Christians are watching porn and you say well what's your proof of that?

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because I've known great pastors that got addicted

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I mean if great pastors or at one time great pastors are addicted to porno

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and perhaps much worse or whatever,

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it's like, well, obviously people could be members of churches as well

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and just be addicted to porn.

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Man, and if that's you tonight, let me tell you something.

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You've got a really disgusting and dirty vice.

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And here's the thing about this.

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If that's you tonight, you know it's true.

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You know that what you're doing is disgusting and wicked and weird and gross.

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And you already know that.

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That's right.

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Get it out of your life!

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Amen!

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Amen!

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And look, if sins like that have destroyed great pastors, do you really think that you can just do this all the time and still be a zealous soul winner?

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Five years from now, ten years from now?

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Right.

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That's crazy, like half of married men on a regular basis are watching porn?

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Here's what the Bible says, and you say, well, why is this disgusting?

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Look, I don't want to say anything to put any image in your head,

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but you know what?

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If you're a guy here today and you're watching another guy, that's disgusting.

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And the thing is, if you're watching two women,

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it's an abomination before God.

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It's also disgusting.

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There's no way you can say this where it's not disgusting.

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It's disgusting.

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And you know what?

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What's crazy in today's world is because of things like this,

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people at a very young age.

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Teenagers are getting addicted to pornography.

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At a young age are watching this sort of garbage.

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Look, one thing we can say as parents,

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we better make sure we're monitoring what our kids are watching.

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It's like, well, you know what? You know, I'm just kind of busy.

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I just let, you know, the cell phone and the TV and the iPad and the computer raise my kid.

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Well, good luck with that method.

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Because what you're going to do is get some kid that's going to be addicted to porn at the age of 15.

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You're going to help destroy his marriage 10 years down the road because he's addicted to porn.

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Here's what the Bible says in Matthew 5 verse 27.

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You have heard that it was said by them of old time, thou shalt not commit adultery.

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But I say unto you that whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her,

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hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.

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On a simple level, I mean, you're lusting after many times people that are married, that are on there.

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You're committing adultery in your heart, even if you are single.

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I mean, it's a wicked and an evil sin.

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Now go in your Bible to 1 Thessalonians chapter 4.

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1 Thessalonians 4.

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And you know, one thing I heard, you know, over this last, you know, six months or so,

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I heard a lot of people trying to say that if a pastor is addicted to porn, he does not

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need to step down from the ministry.

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I mean, can you imagine if the person who is preaching to you every week is like secretly

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watching pornography every night?

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That's the person that's going to spiritually guide you.

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The person that's addicted to porn is going to be your spiritual guide.

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Is that really the person you want teaching you the Word of God?

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Do you really believe that person could be spirit-filled as in their personal life?

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They're doing that.

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But look, folks, if pastors can commit sins,

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the old pastor of this church with prostitutes and whatever else kind of wicked stuff,

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It's like you're naive if you think there's nobody at this church that's addicted to porn.

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I wish that were the case with Christians, but it's not.

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It's just simply not.

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I mean, Christians are guilty often of the same things that the world's doing.

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The world gets divorced, Christians get divorced.

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The world gets drunk, I mean, many Christians get drunk.

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The world watches porn, many Christians watch porn.

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And what's sad about this is people are doing this at a young age.

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They don't realize they're damaging the rest of their life.

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I mean, it's kind of part of the next point of the sermon, but

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the Bible shows you that there is a special sin attached

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to sexual deviance and sexual sin, something that sticks with you,

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where it actually harms your own body.

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It sticks with you.

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And you might not realize that at the time you are harming the rest of your life.

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1st Thessalonians chapter 4 verse 2.

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For you know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus.

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For this is the will of God, even your sanctification,

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that you should abstain from fornication,

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that every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honor,

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not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God,

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that no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter,

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because the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified.

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For God hath not called us on to uncleanness, but on to holiness.

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And look, if you want to draw an eye to God, if you want to live a holy life, if you want to honor God,

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you need to get this massive sin out of your life.

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And here's the thing about this. It's disgusting.

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And look, we need to explain it's disgusting because it's so common in today's world. It's gross!

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It's disgusting!

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But it's everywhere. It's all over the computers. I mean people are watching it all the time.

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Half of married men!

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And it's not just men, because about a quarter of married women!

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It's gross! It's disgusting! What are you doing with your life?

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Right.

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Go to your Bible to Job 31. Job 31.

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I'll tell you, I think a lot of kids get addicted to this because they have friends that decide,

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hey, let me show this to you.

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And either due to peer pressure or morbid curiosity or whatever, people end up just

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being like, oh, you know, okay, I'll check it out.

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It's like, man, it's crazy.

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But it's like, man, that's why you can't just trust, hey, everything my kids watch, whoever

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they hang out with, no big deal, nothing's going to happen.

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I mean, you're crazy if that's what you think.

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This is a dangerous and a crazy world.

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But you know what?

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There's actually people that defend pornography and claim it's actually a good thing.

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There's something known as the safety valve theory,

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and this was proposed by a guy named Burr Kuchinsky.

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And he said,

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which by the way, is a Jew,

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He kind of broke, you know, like the big moment.

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He's like, all right, he's a Jew.

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All right, you figured it out.

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He's a Jew.

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But what this guy basically said is that by watching porn,

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it will prevent you from fornicating.

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Watching porn will prevent you from adultery,

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prevent violent assaults and rape and all those things.

01:10:34.160 --> 01:10:36.280
So pornography can actually be a good thing.

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There's another guy I saw a few months ago, and it's like, we made a video about this.

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There's this other Jew, and he was defending animated porn.

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Animated child porn.

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And he said, well, you know what?

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At least they're not molesting a kid.

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So basically, it's not that it's a good thing, but when they have that desire to do that,

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it's like, well, they can safely do it by watching animated child porn.

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It's like, what is wrong with these people?

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And that guy is supposedly a conservative Jew.

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Well, you sound like a conservative reprobate to me.

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Sound like a sick freak to me when you're defending child porn, whether animated or whatever.

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But here's what is said at his funeral.

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Said, at his funeral in 1995, prominent Danish rabbi,

01:11:24.180 --> 01:11:27.180
Bent Melchior, spoke at his graveside ceremony.

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In his obituary, colleagues also remembered him fondly

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by the traditional Yiddish expression,

01:11:31.480 --> 01:11:32.880
described him as,

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Reich Tiger Mensch, a truly good, indecent person.

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The guy who said, hey, you know what?

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Pornography is actually a good thing.

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It's the safety valve theory.

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It will make it much safer for the world because it's preventing major things.

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But there's a critique of that known as the learning theory.

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Where the idea here is, by watching it, it will increase these things.

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By the way, I'll show you what the Bible says, but common sense,

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we all realize if you're watching it, it's going to lead to more sin.

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Not less. Let me prove that to you.

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Job 31 verse 1.

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Job 31 verse 1.

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I made a covenant with mine eyes.

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Why then should I think upon a maid?

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Now notice what it says in verse 7.

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If my step-path turned out of the way,

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and notice this, and mine hearts walked after mine eyes,

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and if any blood hath cleaved to mine hands."

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So the Bible saying is,

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Job made a decision,

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I want to make sure I don't lust after any woman.

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And he says, one of the fears is,

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if I allow myself to look,

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mine heart can walk after mine eyes.

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What he's saying is,

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if I allow something to enter into my system,

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even if I don't want it,

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I'm not interested,

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it can actually change my heart.

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Let me give you another proof.

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Go to your Bible to Ecclesiastes chapter 1.

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Ecclesiastes 1.

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And look, this is the way it works in all areas of life.

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You start reading the Bible.

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Maybe you're not really interested, but you do it because it's the right thing to do.

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And you know what happens as you start learning things?

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You start enjoying reading the Bible.

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If you're like me, when I first started going soul winning, it was an obligation.

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It was something I felt I needed to do.

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It's not something where I wanted to do it, something I was afraid to do.

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But when I did it, all of a sudden it changed my heart.

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I mean, it works this way in all areas.

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Everybody's waiting for this feeling to come upon them.

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No, you just do right, and the feeling's going to come.

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And here's the thing, if you let yourself watch pornography, it will certainly increase your chances,

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because the desire will start forming more and more inside your heart,

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and then you will commit fornication, you will commit adultery.

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Look, I would say that usually in today's world, it probably starts at pornography is what leads to sins like adultery.

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Because it's like a stepping stone.

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You might say, hey, I would never commit adultery on my spouse.

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But you allow yourself to look at certain things,

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and all of a sudden that desire starts to form in your heart.

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And then all of a sudden adultery

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doesn't seem as horrible as it did two months earlier.

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And then you commit adultery.

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Look man, pornography is not going to decrease fornication and adultery and these major sins.

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It is only going to increase and all you have to do is look at this.

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Pornography has increased in the world the last 50 years.

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You know what you've also seen increase?

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Children born out of wedlock, adultery, fornication, everything.

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Ecclesiastes chapter 1 verse 8.

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All things are full of labor, man cannot utter it,

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the eye is not satisfied with seeing,

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nor the ear filled with hearing.

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Now this can be used in a good way or a bad way.

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I mean, when you're reading the Bible,

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sometimes you have these times you're reading

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and you're like, man, I want to see more.

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Or probably a lot of you,

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when you first started listening to online preaching,

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you heard a sermon, you're like, I want more.

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My ear is not filled yet. I want more. I want to learn more doctrine.

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I want to learn more things.

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I mean, you go soul winning, it can be addiction.

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You're getting people saved. Man, I want to see more people get saved.

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I want to go on more mission trips. I want to do more for God.

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It's not necessarily a negative thing, but it can be negative.

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Because you can take this mindset, well, wait a minute, I have this desire if I just look...

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My desire will be gone. I'll be fine.

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But that's not going to get rid of it.

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It's going to come back stronger.

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And stronger. And stronger.

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And the problem is going to get worse and worse and worse.

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And it goes from some 15-year-old addicted to porn

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to some 16-year-old that's a father.

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That's what happens.

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It goes from a guy who's not having a good marriage with his wife,

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and he's watching this stuff, and then all of a sudden they're divorced a year later.

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He's committing adultery a year later. Why? Because it's just going to make the problem worse

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and worse and worse and worse. Look, if the Jews are promoting something,

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it's probably wrong.

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Go to your Bible, 1 Corinthians chapter 6.

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1 Corinthians chapter 6.

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Look, you know, it's not just with pornography.

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I mean, any sexual sin is disgusting and dirty and gross.

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I'm not preaching on the LGBT tonight.

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That was already preached by Pastor Shelley in part one, you know?

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People that are gross.

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But it's like, man, I was preparing for this sermon.

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I was on Friday.

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I was in Washington, DC.

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And where my wife's parents live,

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I was at the apartment complex.

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And I was just kind of going to an area where there weren't

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a lot of cars.

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And I was just kind of walking and looking

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over my sermon notes.

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And I love Washington, DC.

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There's a lot of issues with it.

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But I'm from that part of the country.

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I think it's a beautiful place.

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In that apartment complex, you know what I saw on the grounds?

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This is outside in the parking lot.

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A bunch of used condoms.

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all over the ground.

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I'm like, what is wrong with these people?

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It's like man,

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fornication's bad enough,

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adultery's worse, but you know, just throw it in the

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trash, what are you doing?

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It's disgusting.

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And yet these things are all over the place.

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It's like, man, what is wrong with people?

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But here's what you have to understand.

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When people are physically just gross and disgusting and unclean,

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you want to show you that they're spiritually wicked as well.

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Yeah.

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These things go hand in hand.

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But number one, one thing that's disgusting is vomit.

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Meaning, never drink and don't just gorge yourself all the time.

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Number two, pornography and related sexual sin.

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I mean, they're gross.

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They're disgusting.

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Number three, lastly, smoking cigarettes and marijuana

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is disgusting.

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Yeah, that's right.

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Yeah, it's funny.

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When my wife moved to the US, and you know,

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some things are different in the Philippines,

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and you know, people aren't smoking

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marijuana in the Philippines.

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And so I was trying to describe to her one day what it smelled like.

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Because marijuana is pretty nasty, isn't it?

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I mean, it smells, I mean, it's disgusting.

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And I was trying to describe it to my wife and she's like, well, what does it smell like?

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Well, what would you answer?

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What does it smell like?

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How, I mean, what comparison is there?

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I mean, I was trying to think what to say to my wife and I was like, I don't know how to describe it.

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But the first time you smell it, you'll never forget.

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So we're going soul winning in an apartment complex

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in Sacramento.

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You know, we're knocking doors and my wife's like,

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what is that smell?

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I said, it's marijuana.

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I was like, I told you, once you smell it,

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you're never gonna forget.

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Say, pastor, why is it you've never smoked marijuana?

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Cause it smells disgusting.

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Besides just being wrong and sinful,

01:19:44.160 --> 01:19:45.400
why would I wanna do it?

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Why is it I've never smoked a cigarette? It's disgusting!

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Yeah.

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And it's not just the smell.

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It's the fact, have you ever seen those pictures of people that are just addicted to drugs or smoking cigarettes?

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The inside of their body, I mean, it looks disgusting.

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It looks gross, like it destroys their body.

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It's like you don't realize that by smoking cigarettes, but it's actually destroying the inside of your body and your health.

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And look, it will put you into an early grave.

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It's like there's many stories people have of people that are addicted to cigarettes

01:20:18.540 --> 01:20:23.660
and they cut 30 years off their life.

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Now a lot of people don't know the origin of smoking though, because in our modern day

01:20:28.060 --> 01:20:31.380
it's very common, but where did this actually come from?

01:20:31.380 --> 01:20:35.500
So obviously in its modern form of smoking a cigarette is not how it's always been.

01:20:35.900 --> 01:20:40.160
So basically the practice of smoking tobacco, it originates in the Americas.

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North America, Central America, and South America.

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But in its origin, it wasn't really something you did for recreation.

01:20:47.560 --> 01:20:52.360
It was actually done by natives that are worshipping the sun and doing a rain dance.

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And it's part of their false religious services.

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That is actually the history I've seen from studying it of smoking tobacco, where it was first basically used in religious services.

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So according to what I read, the guy that helped bring it to Europe is the guy that discovered America, Christopher Columbus.

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Because he saw the practice and he brought it back to Europe.

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What happened in Europe is it wasn't the normal person that smoked tobacco at first, it was just the elites.

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It was the rich.

01:21:25.900 --> 01:21:27.900
Because number one, it was expensive.

01:21:27.900 --> 01:21:29.400
It wasn't cheap.

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And number two is consider something that fancy people do.

01:21:31.900 --> 01:21:35.900
So rich people are actually just smoking tobacco.

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Well, there's a guy,

01:21:38.900 --> 01:21:43.900
and actually let me just show this to you in 1 Corinthians chapter 6 verse first.

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1 Corinthians chapter 6 verse 18.

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Flee fornication every sin that a man doeth is without the body

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But he that cometh with fornication sinneth against his own body.

01:21:53.680 --> 01:21:58.200
What? Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God,

01:21:58.200 --> 01:22:00.600
and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price.

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Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's."

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See, the Bible says our bodies belong to God.

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You have these feminists and liberals that will say, you know, my body, my choice.

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Of course, number one, it's not their body they're talking about when they kill a baby.

01:22:19.800 --> 01:22:23.800
But number two, your body's not your body.

01:22:23.800 --> 01:22:26.800
Because the Bible says our bodies belong to God.

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Meaning we don't just have the right to trash our bodies and do whatever we want.

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The Bible says no, we're bought with a price, and it says glorify God in your body.

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Why? Because it belongs to God.

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And look, God gives us a lot of freedom in this life.

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Look, there's plenty of foods that you can eat, plenty of vacations you can go on,

01:22:48.460 --> 01:22:53.260
plenty of things you can do for fun, but there's certain things, thus saith the Lord, no!

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And then you've got Christians, it's like they have all these things they can do,

01:22:57.900 --> 01:23:00.780
and it's like, no, but I want to do this one.

01:23:00.780 --> 01:23:03.660
It's like, what in the world's wrong with you?

01:23:03.660 --> 01:23:06.860
God gives us a lot of, I mean, don't you believe that God is a God of freedom,

01:23:06.860 --> 01:23:08.860
that gives us a lot of freedom?

01:23:08.860 --> 01:23:10.460
We're able to do a lot of things.

01:23:12.200 --> 01:23:14.800
God doesn't restrict every area of our lives,

01:23:14.800 --> 01:23:17.680
but then you have people that one thing God says no to

01:23:17.680 --> 01:23:19.280
and they get really mad about it.

01:23:21.160 --> 01:23:22.880
It's like, you know, what do you mean

01:23:22.880 --> 01:23:25.480
that I have to wear a dress?

01:23:25.480 --> 01:23:28.280
It's like, look, you can wear whatever dress you want.

01:23:29.480 --> 01:23:33.840
Pink, red, orange, white.

01:23:33.840 --> 01:23:35.760
I mean, there's a lot of freedom in it.

01:23:35.760 --> 01:23:37.560
But as a woman, wear a dress.

01:23:37.560 --> 01:23:38.560
Don't wear pants.

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That's what the Bible says.

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God gives us a lot of freedom.

01:23:42.700 --> 01:23:46.700
I mean, you're here today, people are wearing different colored shirts, different colored pants.

01:23:46.700 --> 01:23:48.700
I mean, all these things, we have freedom in these things.

01:23:49.700 --> 01:23:52.700
But then there's certain things God would be like, no to.

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Right?

01:23:54.700 --> 01:23:57.700
And people get so mad when they're told no.

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See, I'm not the only person that thinks smoking, I mean, who thinks smoking is disgusting?

01:24:04.700 --> 01:24:06.700
Seems kind of unanimous.

01:24:06.900 --> 01:24:12.540
I think it's great when there's companies that say, no smoking.

01:24:12.540 --> 01:24:16.940
You know, one of the things I don't know about in Germany, but I really enjoyed my time in

01:24:16.940 --> 01:24:17.940
Poland.

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You know, I'm planning to go back.

01:24:18.940 --> 01:24:20.500
You know, next year is pretty receptive to the gospel.

01:24:20.500 --> 01:24:27.460
You know, one thing that I wasn't really ready for expecting is that people are smoking everywhere.

01:24:28.500 --> 01:24:31.420
And there's sort of this like, you know, kind of attitude that,

01:24:31.420 --> 01:24:35.140
oh, if I'm smoking and it's near someone, I don't want to like puff in their face.

01:24:35.140 --> 01:24:37.420
But it didn't really seem to be that was the attitude there.

01:24:37.420 --> 01:24:40.260
It's kind of like just smoke and smoke and smoke.

01:24:40.260 --> 01:24:41.860
And it's like, we're the majority.

01:24:41.860 --> 01:24:44.620
You got to just get along with the program.

01:24:44.620 --> 01:24:46.580
Just cigarettes everywhere on the ground.

01:24:46.580 --> 01:24:47.780
I'm just thinking, what in the world?

01:24:48.900 --> 01:24:52.500
It's like, and look, the damage that people are actually doing to their bodies.

01:24:52.500 --> 01:24:56.300
So many stories I know of people dying at a really, really young age as a result of

01:24:56.300 --> 01:24:57.300
smoking tobacco.

01:24:57.300 --> 01:25:02.680
But you know, it's not something that they just recently discovered is unhealthy, because

01:25:02.680 --> 01:25:08.900
let me read to you something called A Counterblast to Tobacco.

01:25:08.900 --> 01:25:14.820
And this was written by King James, where we get the name The King James Bible.

01:25:15.600 --> 01:25:18.800
He said this in 1604.

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So right when we're starting the King James Bible.

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And here's a summary from AI of what he said.

01:25:25.360 --> 01:25:28.720
And look, I did not tell AI what to say.

01:25:28.720 --> 01:25:30.880
This is the summary of the book he wrote,

01:25:30.880 --> 01:25:33.000
or the booklet that he wrote.

01:25:33.000 --> 01:25:38.920
Number one, tobacco is foul, disgusting,

01:25:38.920 --> 01:25:41.960
and offensive to the senses.

01:25:41.960 --> 01:25:43.160
Sounds like a smart guy.

01:25:44.300 --> 01:25:46.300
I agree with that.

01:25:46.300 --> 01:25:51.000
He said, number two, smoking is harmful to health.

01:25:51.000 --> 01:25:53.400
Sounds like they didn't need some medical company

01:25:53.400 --> 01:25:55.400
to tell them 50 years ago.

01:25:55.400 --> 01:25:56.700
He said, well, pastor, how could people

01:25:56.700 --> 01:25:58.400
realize smoking is unhealthy?

01:25:58.400 --> 01:26:00.200
Maybe because the first time people smoke.

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Cough, cough, cough.

01:26:03.600 --> 01:26:06.200
I can't believe it's unhealthy.

01:26:06.900 --> 01:26:12.260
Like what in the world? And you see people that have been smoking for a while and you can tell their lungs are gone.

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It's like they're destroyed. I mean you don't you don't have to be a rocket scientist to figure this out.

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Number three, tobacco use is a waste of money.

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Yep.

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Number four, it is a useless and unnecessary habit.

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Number five, people adopt it through imitation and social pressure.

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This guy sounds like a smart guy. I think we should have him up here preaching a sermon, right?

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This guy knows what he's talking about.

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Number six it reflects moral weakness and lack of self-control

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Yep

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Number eight it is a socially degrading practice

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Number nine it has no true medicinal value despite claims

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and by the way, I

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Would say the same thing with marijuana. Yeah

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It's got all these health benefits. I don't buy it

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Number 10, it encourages idleness and indulgence.

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And I would say, you know, absolutely, I mean, this was written over 400 years ago.

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In 1604, this is what King James said.

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He said, man, this is so disgusting that he wrote a book that said,

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man, I'm tired of people smoking tobacco.

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I don't want to be around it.

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It's gross.

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It's disgusting.

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I don't want to see it.

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It's nasty.

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And it is.

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I just don't get it because I've never smoked a cigarette.

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It's like, why would I want to?

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Look, I've had plenty of people offer me and I'm like, no.

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It's like, I don't want to smoke a cigarette.

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Why would I want to do that?

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You say, why is it that you've never done it?

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Look, it's not like when I was a teenager, it's because I thought,

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well, you know, the Bible says this.

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No, I just thought it was disgusting.

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My parents never smoked.

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I thought it was disgusting.

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Like, why would I do that?

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And yet.

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Due to peer pressure, a lot of people are just kind of going along with the flow.

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Here's what it says in 1 Corinthians 6 verse 11,

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And such were some of you, but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.

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All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient.

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All things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.

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Now look, is there a verse in the Bible that says, thus saith the Lord?

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Do not smoke cigarettes.

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No, there's not.

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But I think we would all agree, it's not good for your health.

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God says, take care of your health.

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And here's the thing about this, it seems like everybody that smokes cigarettes,

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they end up being underneath the control or power of the cigarettes.

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There's not really something about being like a casual smoker.

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Why smoke one cigarette per week?

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It seems like something either you smoke one pack a day...

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two packs a day, or you don't at all.

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And look, everything people tell me,

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because I've known a lot of people that have quit smoking,

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they said it was like the hardest thing they've ever done.

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And here's what it says in verse number 13.

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Meats for the belly and the belly for meats, but God shall destroy both it and them.

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Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord and the Lord for the body.

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The Bible says here, God shall destroy both it and them.

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What the Bible is saying is this, all of our lusts and all of our desires that we have,

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here's what you need to understand.

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These are things that we have right now, but nobody's gonna be struggling with smoking in heaven.

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Nobody's gonna be struggling with drinking in heaven.

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What the Bible's trying to tell you is,

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hey, you know what?

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Instead of waiting until you get to heaven

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to get rid of these dirty habits,

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why not get rid of them now?

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And here's what you gotta understand.

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When you do things that are disgusting all the time

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and you're around things that are disgusting,

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you have to realize you are greatly, number one,

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damaging your physical body.

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And number two, man, you're so far from being close to God

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if you are just doing all these disgusting and wicked things that the Bible speaks about.

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Go to your Bible, 2 Corinthians chapter 7.

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2 Corinthians chapter 7.

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And look, you know, God is a God of cleanness.

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And with all these things you're seeing,

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they're all what you'd say are dirty habits, right?

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Why are they?

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I mean, they're all physically dirty.

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So it's just an expression.

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I mean, all these things are dirty.

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Smoking is dirty.

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Pornography is dirty and sick.

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I mean, vomit is dirty.

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As the Bible says, hey, cleanse your hands.

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And yes, you know the obvious application is spiritually to get close to God,

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but what you have to understand, when things are physically unclean,

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it's also telling you it's spiritually unclean as well.

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I mean think about all the sins that are out there.

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Do you notice how they're all dirty and unclean?

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Alcohol, just you know people just sleeping around.

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I mean all this stuff is dirty.

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It's unhealthy.

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And see the Bible says, hey, cleanse your hands,

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drawn out of God.

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How are you going to do that?

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By cleansing your hands.

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It's like, look, vomit is disgusting.

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Never drink, ever.

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Never do drugs, ever.

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Get control of your body and your lust and your desires.

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I mean, pornography, I mean, pornography is worse.

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I mean, pornography is so dirty and disgusting.

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I wish pornography was illegal.

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I wish it didn't exist.

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I don't think it has a place in this world or this country.

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Say, well, aren't you for freedom?

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It's like, you know, yeah, God gives us a lot of freedom,

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but there's also things that should not just

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be anything allowed.

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And it's destroying lives.

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And look, a lot of pornography is also

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connected with human trafficking, which you may

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or may not realize that.

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A lot of those people are actually forced into it.

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And whether you realize it or not,

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you are secondhand actually supporting human trafficking

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when you're addicted to pornography.

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And you know, smoking and drugs, it's dirty, it's disgusting.

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I don't think any Christian should have anything to do with it.

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Here's what it says in 2 Corinthians chapter 7 verse 1.

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Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved,

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let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit,

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perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

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Look, I have a desire in my life to draw close to God,

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to draw nigh to God.

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I want to read the Bible.

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I want to go soul winning.

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I want to serve God.

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But you know what?

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You know, when people first start serving God,

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they usually have a lot of issues and vices in their life

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from their past life that they got to get rid of.

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Say, Pastor, how do I get rid of these things?

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How do I draw close to God?

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Get rid of all the disgusting habits.

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That's going to help you draw close to God.

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These things are disgusting, they're unclean.

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I mean, there's something, it's like, you know, even preaching on these things,

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it's like, who wants to think about any of these things?

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They're gross.

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They're disgusting.

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And they're going to keep you from drawing it close to God.

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And here's the thing, just because most of the world is doing

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at least one, if not two or three of these things,

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doesn't mean that you as a Christian should be doing it.

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That's right.

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We as Christians ought to be different than the world

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and live in a godly life.

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And it's like you don't commit, well, you know,

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I'm better than the average person out there.

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Do you realize it's not really that high of a standard?

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Yeah.

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It's not a high standard at all.

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I mean, over half of married men

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supposedly commit adultery on their wives

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from some statistics I've seen.

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Wow, you're not committing adultery on your spouse.

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Great job.

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It's like, man, I mean, most people are watching porn.

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Yeah, it's like, you know, you shouldn't be watching porn.

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It's not a high standard when people are addicted to porn, getting drunk, and doing all these things.

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Look, we as God's people, if we're gonna draw an eye to God, we need to leave clean and holy and godly lives before God.

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Let's close with one more prayer.

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Dear Heavenly Father, thank you for allowing us to be here today, and I ask you to help us to apply this sermon to our lives, God.

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Help us to just refrain from anything that would be unclean and disgusting and gross, God.

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Help us to draw an eye to you.

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Help us to cleanse our hands from dirty habits, and also just draw close to you by reading the Bible, by soul-

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and obeying your commandments.

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We pray this in Jesus' name, amen.

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Amen. Our last song this evening, page 95, the Lord is my shepherd.

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Page 95, the Lord is my shepherd.

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page 95 the Lord is my shepherd let's sing it out to the Lord this evening on that first

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Thank you so much for coming to said Fast Baptist Church.

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Thank you so much Pastor Stuckey for such a disgusting sermon.

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But we are going to celebrate with something that's not disgusting.

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So we have ice cream.

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It's going to be served in our fellowship room.

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So everybody is welcome to have ice cream.

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It is raining.

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It looks like it might rain for a while.

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So just be careful going home.

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And if you need something, ask one of our ushers.

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If you need help either getting your car or anything like that,

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we would be happy to help you.

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But otherwise, you guys are dismissed.

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God bless and have a good evening.