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All right, amen.

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Once again, it's a great opportunity to be here

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and I'm just really thankful for this church

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and not just supporting me,

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but just the friendship of this church.

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Many of you have known for a long time,

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a lot of you have gotten to know

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over the last couple years.

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One thing I'm thankful about over the last couple years

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is I've really gotten to know Pastor Shelley

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because honestly I just didn't really know him

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that well a few years ago,

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but you got a great church, a great pastor.

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Obviously God is using this church in a great way.

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And as he said this morning,

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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

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preached a couple of years ago

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at the Red Op 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.

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Now I had this sermon idea several months back

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when I decided I was gonna come here

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and got the opportunity to preach.

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And I re-listened to that sermon and I asked myself,

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are there enough disgusting things

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that he didn't talk about that I could preach on?

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So I want you to realize I'm not avoiding things

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that he preached on that are gross and disgusting,

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but I don't wanna re-preach the same sermon.

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So kind of in a way it's kind of a sequel

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because I'm gonna look at things that are disgusting

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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

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that's unclean, 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

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at our old house, we had a real big problem

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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 wanna 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

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and you can smell it and you can't get rid of it.

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But I was just desperate.

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You know, I was like, man,

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we gotta get rid of this problem.

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I'm sick of going in the fridge

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and I just hear them scurrying around

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underneath the fridge and the cabinets

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and we couldn't get rid of them.

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And so I just put out a bunch of poison

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and I woke up a couple days later

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and the first mouse that was dead

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it died right in front of the garbage can.

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But you know, for me personally,

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the number one, this is not even part of the sermon,

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you know, there's not one of the points,

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but the number one thing that's disgusting to me

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of animals is mice.

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Mice and rats are just gross and disgusting to me.

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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 nother 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 wanna touch a dead body,

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you're gonna be unclean.

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Of course, that's disgusting, 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 and they're involved in uncleanness

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and it's gonna pass on to them.

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Now go into your Bible to James chapter four, James four.

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And he says that everything they offer

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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

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to explain the spiritual.

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The Bible says, if I have told you of earthly things

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and you believe not, how shall you believe

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if I tell you of heavenly things?

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So throughout the Bible, there's earthly examples

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to drive home a spiritual point.

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You know, when you think of examples

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in this world of things that are physically unclean,

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you see a connection between being spiritually unclean.

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For example, the country of India is known

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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

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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

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as the rape capital of the world?

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One of the big monikers of India,

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it's known as the rape capital of the world.

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Now, when it comes to rape statistics,

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they are not that accurate.

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And the reason why is because depending

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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

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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

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don't end up having anything happen

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to the person that actually does it.

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Because people that are of a higher caste

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will often do that to a lower caste.

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But read online to people that visit India

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and you'll see women say, 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

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and just saying all these vulgar things.

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I was like, man, I was afraid I was gonna be attacked.

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And India is often known as the rape 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

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that wanna 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 seven.

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Submit yourselves therefore to God,

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resist the devil and he will flee from you,

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draw night to God and he will draw night to you.

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So what is the formula for drawing night to God?

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God says you draw night to me, I'll draw night to you.

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Draw night to God and he will draw night to you.

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Cleanse your hands, these sinners

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and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

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The Bible says to cleanse your hands.

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Now is the Bible saying wash your hands before you eat?

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Obviously not.

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Look, I washed my hands before I ate,

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but once again, that's not the big thing

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the Bible's talking about.

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What the Bible's saying is using a physical example

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to say, hey, get right with God.

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Quit watching the garbage, quit listening to the garbage,

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quit breaking the commandments, do what I say, read the Bible.

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That is what the Bible is referring to,

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but it's a physical example of cleansing your hands

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to drive home a spiritual point.

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

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And look, I'll just warn you,

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this is not gonna be the most pleasant sermon.

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I mean, when you preach a sermon

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called things that are disgusting,

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my goal and purpose is I can drive home

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how disgusting these things are,

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and she'll say, I don't wanna have anything to do

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with whatever's gonna cause that.

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I wanna have nothing to do with it whatsoever.

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It's gross, it's disgusting,

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especially young kids that are in this room

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because many young kids are here

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

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And they don't realize the dangers

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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 pure pressure to do it.

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It's like, man, you're better off

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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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And once again, I'm not repreaching

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what Pastor Shelley said,

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but the LGBT or vile, wicked, reprobates pedophiles,

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you name the list, they're garbage, right?

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Verse 23, neither shalt thou lie with any beast

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to defile thyself they're with,

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neither shall any woman stand before a beast

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to lie down there to.

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It is confusion.

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I mean, there the Bible's talking about bestiality,

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taking it to another level.

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Verse 24, defile not ye yourselves in any of these things

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for in all these, the nations are defiled

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which I cast out before you,

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and the land is defiled,

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therefore I do visit the iniquity there upon it,

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and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants.

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The land is so repulsed

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and there's such a cancer to the land

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that the land the Bible says symbolically

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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's to joineth among you.

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For all these abominations have the men of the land

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done which were before you

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and the land is defiled,

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that the land spew not you out also when ye defiled

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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

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from among their people,

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therefore shall ye keep my ordinance

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that ye commit not any of these abominable customs

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which were committed before you

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and that ye 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

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is referring to.

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And the first thing I can think of

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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

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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.

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Something feels disgusting.

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Or on occasion you could say something

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even sounds disgusting.

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It means something that affects your senses.

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When it comes to vomit,

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it fits pretty much all of those, doesn't it?

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It smells disgusting.

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It looks disgusting.

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I mean, it is completely gross and disgusting.

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Go to 2nd Peter chapter two.

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2nd Peter two.

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2nd Peter chapter two, verse 22.

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And the Bible says,

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but has happened unto them according to the true proverb,

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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

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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 is turned

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to its own vomit again.

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You know, one of the things that's just kind of crazy

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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

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because I watched Disney movies and they're cute.

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And then all of a sudden, you know,

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you see your dog outside

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and it's eating its own vomit

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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.

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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

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and dogs would just go to their own vomit.

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It's crazy in this world today,

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people are like so obsessed with animals and pets.

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And look, I'm not against you

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if you have a dog or a cat,

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but it's like they get so obsessed with their animal

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and it's like, look, this is what animals do.

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Animals are gross.

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They do a lot of gross and disgusting things.

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Go in your Bible to Isaiah chapter 19.

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Isaiah chapter 19.

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So I researched for this,

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what actually causes someone to vomit?

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What says here,

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your body has a built in alarm system in the brain

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called the vomiting center.

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When it gets enough warning signals,

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it triggers vomiting to protect you.

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And so when a person's actually vomiting,

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it's actually a good thing

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because your body's actually protecting you

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from a real danger.

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You know, when you're raising young kids,

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you know, kids have a notoriously weak stomach.

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They get sick often

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and you know, to them,

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it's like the worst thing in the world

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because it's disgusting to them.

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But you know, one thing I've seen with my kids

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is it's so disgusting and gross to them

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that they will try to prevent themselves from vomiting.

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And so instead of rushing to the bathroom,

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

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It's just a disaster, right?

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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

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is that's actually a good thing

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because it's protecting their body.

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Many times you'll see when kids are sick

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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,

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you know, we've had the same experience,

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you're sick in your stomach

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and sometimes that fixes it

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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,

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the big thing that you see

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that actually causes someone to get sick and vomit

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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

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and they have caused Egypt to err in every work thereof

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as a drunken man staggered 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 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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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

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when it causes you to vomit, when you get drunk.

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It's actually protecting you from poison

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that you actually put inside your body.

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The Bible refers to alcohol.

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It says their wine is the poison of dragons

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and the gruel venom of asps.

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What the Bible is saying is when you drink alcohol,

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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

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because their body's 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

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since it's used to you, used to it,

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it keeps the poison inside

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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 seven.

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The Bible says,

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but they have also aired through wine

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and through strong drink are out of the way.

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The priests and the prophet have aired 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 air envision, 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,

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when they get older, they might have other friends

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or people that via peer pressure

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try to get them to drink.

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I'm sure that in this room there are a lot of adults

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that have drank before

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and probably because of peer pressure.

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Not that you wanted to.

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Not that you thought it was a good thing.

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Not that you thought it was godly.

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Not that you thought it was healthy

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but peer pressure is a powerful thing.

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Here's what you're missing out on kids

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by not drinking alcohol.

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You're gonna miss out on vomiting all over the place.

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You're gonna miss out on poisoning your body.

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You're gonna miss out on doing stupid things

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like driving drunk,

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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

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because vomit is so disgusting,

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why would you want to do anything

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that would cause you to do that?

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It's physically disgusting

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and God is trying to warn you

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about how bad it is for you.

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Go in your bout of Proverbs 25.

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Proverbs 25.

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As your attorney there, I'm gonna read you

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one more verse here where it says,

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Make ye him drunken

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for he magnified himself against the Lord,

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Moab also show wallow in his vomit.

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Look, I get it.

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Vomit is not something that's fun

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to think about or talk about.

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The Bible makes a connection

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to alcohol quite a bit, doesn't it?

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And often when people first drink,

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they immediately get sick with a small amount

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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

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just becomes resistant to it

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and you just get more and more alcohol

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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

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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

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the first time 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 boozers and drunkards

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drinking all their sorrows away.

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And they wake up, they're miserable,

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their life sucks and then they go right back to it.

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And I just remember being in college

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and people would try to pressure you like,

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man, why 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.

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So why would I wanna do something

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that's gonna cost me to forget what happened?

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It was crazy to me how people would go to college

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and you'd just hear them talking about this.

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I heard people say sometimes,

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man, I got so drunk on Friday night,

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I don't even remember what happened.

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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

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often in college, like it's no big deal.

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Cause when you're drunk,

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it's kind of like a free pass to do whatever sin

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according to these people.

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But it's not just drinking alcohol

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that the Bible makes a connection

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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 or 16.

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Has thou found honey?

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Eat so much as is sufficient for thee,

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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,

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I believe there's two connections you can make here.

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One thing the Bible's saying is,

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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

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that I think the Bible's saying

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when you eat too much of honey or something high in sugar,

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it can cause the same reaction.

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I am not, 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's 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,

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it will make you sick.

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Now go on your Bible to Philippians chapter three,

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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

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before signaling distress.

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Cause once again, when a person has to vomit,

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it's actually a good thing for them

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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 day after day

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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 of days ago on Facebook,

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they had one of these ads pop up

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where there's this fitness influencer

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who was trying to lose 55 pounds 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 gonna try to lose the weight quickly.

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And he's trying to give his technique

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to lose 55 pounds really, really fast,

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

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If you've ever tracked calories before,

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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,

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it's not even a taste good, right?

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You eat too much, it ends up being gross,

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it ends up being disgusting,

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you're just like, man, I don't even want anymore.

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

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The guy died after a couple of 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 of weeks later, he was dead.

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Look, I personally did not know

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that you could eat yourself to death like that

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in a couple of weeks.

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It's kind of like, you know, there's that old-like documentary,

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Super Size Me, 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, you need a lot of junk food,

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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, 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 because he died

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after just overeating himself, day after day after day.

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Now look, I'm not saying it's wrong to eat a lot of food

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and have like nice brisket for 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

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at Thanksgiving or Christmas

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where you eat past what you really should,

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and then you're just sitting on the couch,

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you're tired, you're exhausted.

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I mean, you feel sick, 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, 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 of weeks.

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It's like, man, I did not realize

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you're doing that much of damage to your body

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by 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 look, it's like eating that much food

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after a while, it gets disgusting, doesn't it?

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

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should give you a real caution,

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and this guy 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,

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For many walk of whom I've told you often,

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and I'll 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,

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whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly,

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and whose glory is in their shame,

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whom 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,

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one too many cookies,

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eating things that we shouldn't have,

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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,

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we're all trying our best or whatever,

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but what the Bible's saying is these people,

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these reprobates, they just give into every lust.

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So us, we deal with that on a daily basis,

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where basically we might want something

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that's bad for us,

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and we know we shouldn't do it,

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and then we give into it,

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and the Bible's saying these people,

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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's using an example

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that every person in the world

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can understand and relate to,

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because all of us have eaten things

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that we probably shouldn't, not the healthiest,

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but it's like, you know,

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we need to be able to control our habits.

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Control our desires and realize,

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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 five, Matthew five.

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Matthew five.

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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

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that will actually cause that.

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Number two, something else that's really disgusting

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is pornography.

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Pornography is disgusting.

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Now I would say that pornography

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is probably one of the most under-preached things,

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

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I don't want to say something

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to put something in your mind,

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and it's just disgusting,

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so you 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 U.S. ages 18 to 49

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are regularly watching pornography.

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60%, 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

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monthly according to statistics.

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Let's just take the low end.

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35% of married guys over one out of three

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is watching pornography on a very regular basis

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according to statistics.

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20 to 30% are watching weekly according to that.

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Of married men, 20 to 30% are watching weekly.

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You say, well, you're a pastor.

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I mean, yeah, these are statistics,

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but this is not the Christian population.

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Look, you are naive if you think there's nobody

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in this church that is struggling with pornography.

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I wish that were the case,

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and when I first started preaching,

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I just kind of naively thought that,

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that people aren't really guilty

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of the things that I'm preaching on

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because everybody's wearing a suit and a tie

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or trying to look nice.

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But the reality is,

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many Christians are also struggling with this as well.

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Many Christians are watching porn.

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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

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are addicted to porno and perhaps much worse or whatever,

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it's like, well, obviously people could be members

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of churches as well and just be addicted to porn.

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Man, and if that's you tonight,

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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

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and wicked and weird and gross, 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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And look, if sins like that have destroyed great pastors,

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do you really think that you can just do this all the time

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and still be as ill as soul winner?

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Five years from now, 10 years from now?

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That's crazy.

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Half of married men on a regular basis are watching porn.

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Here's what the Bible says,

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and you say, well, why is this disgusting?

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Look, I don't want to say anything

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to put any image in your head,

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but you know what, if you're a guy here today

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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, 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, and you know what's crazy in today's world

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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

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what our kids are watching.

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

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I just let the cell phone and the TV

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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 gonna do is get some kid

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that's gonna be addicted to porn at the age of 15,

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you're gonna help destroy his marriage

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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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On a simple level, I mean, you're lusting after many times

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people that are married that are on there,

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you're committing adultery in your heart

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even if you are single.

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

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I go in your Bible to 1 Thessalonians chapter four.

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1 Thessalonians four.

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

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I heard a lot of people trying to say

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that if a pastor is addicted to porn,

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he does not need to step down from the ministry.

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I mean, can you imagine if the person

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who is preaching to you every week

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is like secretly watching pornography every night,

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that's the person that's gonna spiritually guide you.

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The person that's addicted to porn

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is gonna be your spiritual guide.

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Is that really the person you want

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teaching you the Word of God?

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Do you really believe that person

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can 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

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and whatever else kind of wicked stuff,

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it's like you are naive if you think

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there's nobody at this church that's addicted to porn.

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I wish that were the case with Christians,

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but it's not, it's just simply not.

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I mean Christians are guilty

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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

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at a young age, they don't realize

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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,

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but the Bible shows you that there is a special sin

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attached to sexual deviance and sexual sin,

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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

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you are harming the rest of your life.

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1 Thessalonians chapter four, verse two.

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For you know what commandments

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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

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his vessel and sanctification and honor,

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not in the lust of concupiscence,

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even as the Gentiles which know not God,

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that no man go beyond and defraud his brother

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in any matter because the Lord is the Avenger

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of all such as we also have forewarned you and testified.

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For God hath not called us on to uncleanness,

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but on to holiness.

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And look, if you want to draw an eye to God,

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if you want to live a holy life,

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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.

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It's disgusting.

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And look, we need to explain.

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It's disgusting because it's so common in today's world.

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It's gross.

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It's disgusting.

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But it's everywhere.

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It's all over the computers.

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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

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because about a quarter of married women.

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It's gross.

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It's disgusting.

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What are you doing with your life?

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Right.

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Turn your body to Job 31, Job 31.

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I'll tell you, I think a lot of kids get addicted to this

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because they have friends

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that decide, hey, let me show this to you.

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And either due to peer pressure

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or morbid curiosity or whatever,

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people end up just being like, oh, you know,

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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,

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hey, everything my kids watch,

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whoever they hang out with, no big deal,

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nothing's gonna 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

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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, 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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It'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

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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.

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So pornography can actually be a good thing.

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There's another guy I saw a few months ago

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and it's like, we made a video about this.

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There was this other Jew

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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,

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but when they have that desire to do that,

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it's like, well, they can safely do it

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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

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when you're defending child porn,

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whether animated or whatever.

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But here's what it said at his funeral.

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It said, at his funeral in 1995,

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prominent Danish rabbi Bent Melchior

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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

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described him as,

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right 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

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because it's preventing major things.

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But there's a critique of that known as

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the learning theory.

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Where the idea here is, by watching it,

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it will increase these things.

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

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but common sense, we all realize if you're watching it,

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it's gonna lead to more sin, not less.

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Let me prove that to you.

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Joke 31, verse one.

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Joke 31, verse one.

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I made a covenant with my eyes.

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Why then should I think upon a maid?

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Now notice what it says in verse seven.

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If my step path turned out of the way,

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and notice this, and my heart walked after my eyes,

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and if any blot hath cleaved to my hands.

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So the Bible's saying is, Joe made a decision,

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I wanna 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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my heart can walk after my eyes.

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What he's saying is, if I allow something

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to enter into my system, even if I don't want it,

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I'm not interested, 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 one.

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Ecclesiastes one.

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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,

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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,

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when I first started going soul winning,

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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,

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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 gonna come.

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And here's the thing,

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if you let yourself watch pornography,

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it will certainly increase your chances

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because the desire will start forming

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more and more inside your heart

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and then you will commit fornication,

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you will commit adultery.

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Look, I would say that usually in today's world,

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it probably starts at pornography

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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

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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

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starts to form in your heart.

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And then all of a sudden adultery doesn't seem as horrible

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as it did two months earlier.

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And then you commit adultery.

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Look man, pornography is not gonna decrease fornication

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and adultery and these major sins.

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It is only going to increase

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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,

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adultery, fornication, everything.

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Ecclesiastes chapter one, verse eight.

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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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Well, 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 and you're like, I want more.

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My ear is not filled yet, man, I want more.

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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.

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You're like, man, I want to see more people get saved.

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I want to go on more mission strips.

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I want to do more for God.

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It's not necessarily a negative thing,

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but it can be negative

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because you can take this mindset, well, wait a minute,

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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 gonna get rid of it.

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It's gonna come back stronger and stronger and stronger

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and the problem's gonna 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

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with his wife and he's watching this stuff

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and then all of a sudden they're divorced a year later.

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He's committing adultery a year later.

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Why?

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Because it's just gonna make the problem worse

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and worse and worse and worse.

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Look, if the Jews are promoting something,

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it's probably wrong.

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I know.

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Go in your Bible to 1 Corinthians chapter six.

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1 Corinthians chapter six.

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Look, 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,

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you know, 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 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

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where there's weren't a lot of cars

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and I was just kind of walking

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and looking 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,

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you know what I saw on the ground,

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this is outside in the parking lot,

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a bunch of used condoms 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, four occasions, bad enough,

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adultery is worse,

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but you know, just throw it in the trash.

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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

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and unclean, you know what it shows you

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that they're spiritually wicked as well.

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These things go hand in hand.

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But number one, one thing that's disgusting

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is vomit, meaning never drink

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and don't just gorge yourself all the time.

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Number two, pornography and related sexual sense.

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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

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in marijuana is disgusting.

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Yeah, yeah, that's right.

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You know, it's funny when my wife moved to the US

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and you know, some things are different in the Philippines

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and you know, people aren't smoking marijuana

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in the Philippines.

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And so I was trying to describe to her one day

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what it smelled like

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because marijuana is pretty nasty, isn't it?

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I mean, the smell, I mean, it's disgusting.

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And I was trying to describe it to my wife

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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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I mean, what comparison is there?

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I mean, I was trying to think what to say to my wife

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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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Yeah, yeah.

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So we're going soul winning

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in an apartment complex in Sacramento.

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You know, we're knocking doors

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and my wife's like, 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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Yeah.

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Besides just being wrong and sinful,

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why would I want to do it?

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Why is it I've never smoked a cigarette?

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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

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of people that are just addicted to drugs

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or smoking cigarettes, the inside of their body?

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I mean, it looks, 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

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but it's actually destroying the inside

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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

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of people that are addicted to cigarettes

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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

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because in our modern day, it's very common

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but where did this actually come from?

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So obviously in its modern form of smoking a cigarette

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is not how it's always been.

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So basically the practice of smoking tobacco

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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

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you did for recreation.

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It was actually done by natives that are worshiping the sun

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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

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from studying it of smoking tobacco

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where it was first basically used in religious services.

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So according to what I read,

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the guy that helped bring it to Europe

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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

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that smoked tobacco at first, it was just the elites.

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It was the rich.

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Because number one, it was expensive.

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It wasn't cheap.

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And number two is consider something that fancy people do.

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So rich people are actually just smoking tobacco.

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Well, there's a guy

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and actually let me just show this to you

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in chapter six verse first.

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First one in these, chapter six, verse 18.

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Flea fornication, every sin that a man doeth

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is without the body.

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But he that committed fornication

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sineth against his own body.

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What?

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Know ye not that your body is the temple

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of the holy ghost which is in you

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which ye have of God

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and ye are not your own

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for ye are bought with a price.

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Therefore glorify God in your body

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and in your spirit which are gods.

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See the Bible says, our bodies belong to God.

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You have these feminists and liberals

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that will say, you know, my body, my choice.

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Of course number one, it's not their body

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they're talking about when they kill a baby.

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But number two, your body's not your body.

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Because the Bible says our bodies belong to God.

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Meaning we don't just have the right

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to trash our bodies and do whatever we want.

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But I said no, we're bought with a price

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and it says glorify God in your body.

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Why?

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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

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plenty of vacations you can go on

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plenty of things you can do for fun

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but there's certain things

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thus saith the Lord, no.

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And then you got Christians

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it's like they have all these things they can do

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and it's like, no, but I want to do this one.

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It's like, what in the world's wrong with you?

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God gives us a lot of freedom.

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I mean, don't you believe that God is a God of freedom

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that gives us a lot of freedom?

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We're able to do a lot of things.

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God doesn't restrict every area of our lives

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but then you have people that one thing God says no to

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and they get really mad about it.

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It's like, you know, what do you mean

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that I have to wear a dress?

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It's like, look, you can wear whatever dress you want.

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Pink, red, orange, white.

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I mean, there's a lot of freedom in it

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but as a woman wear a dress, 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.

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I mean, you're here today

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people are wearing different colored shirts

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different colored pants.

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I mean, all these things we have freedom in these things

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but then there's certain things

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God would be like no to, right?

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And people get so mad when they're told no.

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See, I'm not the only person that thinks smoking.

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I mean, who thinks smoking is disgusting?

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Seems kind of unanimous.

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I think it's great when there's companies

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that say no smoking.

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You know, one of the things I don't know about in Germany

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but I really enjoyed my time in Poland.

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You know, I'm planning to go back, you know

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next year it's pretty receptive to the gospel.

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You know, one thing that I wasn't really ready

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for expecting is that people are smoking everywhere.

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And there's sort of this like, you know

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kind of attitude that oh if I'm smoking

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and it's near someone I don't wanna like puff in their face

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but it didn't really seem to be that was the attitude there.

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It's kind of like just smoke and smoke and smoke

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and it's like we're the majority

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you gotta just get along with the program.

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Just cigarettes everywhere on the ground.

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I'm just thinking what in the world?

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It's like and look the damage that people

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are actually doing to their bodies.

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So many stories I know of people dying

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at a really, really young age

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as a result of smoking tobacco.

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You know, it's not something

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that they just recently discovered is unhealthy

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because let me read to you

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something called a counter blast to tobacco.

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And this was written by King James

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where we get the name the King James Bible.

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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.

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And look, I did not tell AI what to say.

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This is the summary of the book he wrote

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or the booklet that he wrote.

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Number one, tobacco is foul, disgusting

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and offensive to the senses.

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Sounds like a smart guy.

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I agree with that.

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He said, number two, smoking is harmful to health.

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It sounds like they didn't need some medical company

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to tell them 50 years ago.

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He said, well, pastor, how could people realize

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smoking is unhealthy?

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Oh, maybe because the first time people smoke.

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I can't believe it's unhealthy.

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Like what in the world?

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And you see people that have been smoking for a while

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and you can tell their lungs are gone.

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It's like they're destroyed.

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I mean, you don't have to be a rocket scientist

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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

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and social pressure.

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This guy sounds like a smart guy.

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I think we should have him up here

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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

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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

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despite claims.

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And by the way, I would say the same thing

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with marijuana.

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Oh, it's got all these health benefits.

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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,

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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

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that he wrote a book and say, man,

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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

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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

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and I'm like, no, it's like,

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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,

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it's because I thought, well, you know,

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the Bible says this, 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, due to peer pressure,

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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 chapter 6, verse 11,

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Now look, is there a verse in the Bible

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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,

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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,

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it seems like everybody that smokes cigarettes,

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they end up being underneath the control

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or power of the cigarettes.

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There's not really something about being like a casual smoke

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or why I smoke one cigarette per week.

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It seems like something,

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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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Needs for the belly, and the belly for meats,

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but God shall destroy both it and them.

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Now the body's not for fornication,

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but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

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And the Bible says here, God shall destroy both it

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and them, what the Bible's saying is this,

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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,

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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, 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,

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number one, 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 were just doing all these disgusting

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and wicked things that the Bible speaks about,

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go to your Bible, second Corinthians chapter seven,

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second Corinthians chapter seven.

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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 dirty?

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I mean, they're all physically dirty,

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such as an expression.

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I mean, all these things are dirty.

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Right.

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Smoking's dirty.

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Pornography is dirty and sick.

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I mean, vomit's dirty.

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As the Bible says, hey, cleanse your hands.

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And yes, you know, the obvious application

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is spiritually to get close to God,

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but what you have to understand,

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when things are physically unclean,

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

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No, 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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Drawing out of God.

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How are you gonna 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's worse.

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I mean, pornography is so dirty and disgusting.

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I wish pornography was legal.

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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, you know, 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

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should not just be anything loud.

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And it's destroying lives.

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And look, you know, a lot of pornography

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is also connected with human trafficking,

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which you may or may not realize that.

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A lot of those people are actually forced in

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and then 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 Christians should have

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anything to do with it.

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Here's what it says in 2 Corinthians, chapter seven,

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verse one, having therefore these promises dearly beloved,

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let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness

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of the flesh in spirit, perfecting holiness

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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 night of God.

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I wanna read the Bible, I wanna go soul winning,

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I wanna serve God.

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You know what, 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 gotta get rid of.

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So 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 gonna 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,

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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, they're disgusting.

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

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

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is doing 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, and it's like,

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you don't come, well, you know,

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I'm better than the average person out there.

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Do you realize that'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 supposedly commit adultery

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on their wives 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,

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getting drunk, and doing all these things.

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Look, we as God's people, if we're gonna draw night of God,

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we need to leave clean and holy and godly lives before God.

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Let's close in order prayer.

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Dear Heavenly Father, thank you for allowing us

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to be here today, and I ask you to help us

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to apply this term to our lives, God.

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Help us to just refrain from anything

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that would be unclean and disgusting and gross, God.

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Help us to draw night of you.

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Help us to cleanse our hands from dirty habits

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and also just draw close to you by reading the Bible,

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by soul winning and obeying your commandments.

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We pray this in Jesus' name.

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Amen.