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 Okay. How you guys doing?

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 You know, I asked that for a reason, but it's not to get a great response, but it's to get an average response.

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 So how you guys doing? Okay?

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 Yeah, that's good. That's good. That's much better.

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 Hey, so, you know, what was I thinking, right?

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 What was I thinking? You read the passage today, right?

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 And you're looking at things, and you're realizing that if you're studying a book and you're reading it,

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 of course, chapter 6 comes after chapter 5.

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 If you skip to chapter 10, people will be going, what the heck? What's going on? What's happening?

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 And so we're at chapter 6 today, and I realize even as we do this, we're on this journey.

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 And I shared with you last week just that I'm not always the greatest communicator, and I realize that.

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 My wife lets me know that often when we have arguments or discussions or trying to talk to the kids.

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 And so I realized that sometimes I need to come back and clarify.

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 And I love being in this church, this international church.

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 You know, if I were back in Texas or Montana or someplace in the States, everybody would understand exactly what I say,

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 but now they don't understand what I say.

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 And so I need to clarify sometimes, right?

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 So I want to clarify just something I said in the last sermon.

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 So I have a little slide for you here.

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 So this is a clarification of Texas language.

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 So on the left is a buoy.

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 So it's something that floats in the water and protects the shipping lanes and all that.

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 In the center is a buoy.

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 So it's a buoy and a buoy.

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 And on the far right, there's a buoy on a buoy.

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 It's not a buoy on a buoy.

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 That's what today's passage is about.

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 But it's about a buoy on a buoy.

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 Okay, I had to go there.

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 I don't know.

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 Maybe I should have gone there.

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 So I just wanted to clarify that, okay?

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 So buoy, buoy, buoy on buoy.

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 Okay, that's good.

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 So I'm sure that I'll have to clarify some of the words that I use today

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 just as I looked at this passage and some of the things came to my mind.

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 But seriously, you know, we're in this journey as a church,

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 and we're talking about a church that I think is very similar to what Watermark is like,

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 and it's the Church of Corinth.

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 And the Church of Corinth was struggling with some massive issues in their lives.

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 One of the biggest things they struggled with was just this idea of what the church is.

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 It is a church of community.

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 And I think we struggle with it also, if we're honest.

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 What is the church?

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 Is the church just a club that you come to on Sundays and then you leave?

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 And, you know, you're not really responsible for the people here.

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 And they struggled with those things, and we struggle with those things.

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 And we talked about how the church is this body of people, God's people, saints, holy, called out, set apart,

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 light in darkness, city on a hill, salt in the midst of no taste in the world, different.

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 And they're in a boat together.

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 We're in this boat together.

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 We're on this journey together as Christians.

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 And so often we have this journey of our Christian life as we're in these little rowboats.

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 And we're just by ourselves, and we hook our rowboats up to everybody else's rowboat, and that's a church.

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 But that's not what Paul says, and that's not what Jesus said.

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 The church is something greater than that.

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 It's a community.

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 And because we've lost this idea of community with the church, we've lost this idea of sin and how sin affects the church

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 and how sin affects our lives.

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 I had some great discussions last week after this talk in Chapter 5, and some people came up to me,

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 and they said, you know, I realize now that I see in business when you have somebody who's not acting right how that affects the business.

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 And I know in my family when you have somebody who's not acting right because we have people in my family who are alcoholics,

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 and alcoholics change the dynamic of everything, and it affects everything.

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 But I never thought about what happens when people in the church don't act right and how it affects everybody.

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 And that's what the Corinthian church is learning, that all of us affect everybody, that you're beside people that you need.

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 God put you here so that you could rub on those people, talk to them.

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 They could encourage you.

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 They could pray for you.

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 They could know your story.

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 And you're by people who need you.

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 They need your spiritual gifts and your talents and all the things that God has placed in you.

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 And because we've lost this idea, we forget what sin is like.

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 And so I've given a kind of definition for today as we talk about it, and it's up here again on the slide.

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 So I said that sin is this desire, this power, this impulse.

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 It's a longing within us that rejects loving and obeying God.

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 And if we follow this action, if we give in to this impulse,

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 then it leads to actions and inactions and words and thoughts that come from following it.

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 That we act and we do things and we don't do things that we should do.

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 And what we've been learning throughout all Scripture is that this sin, it comes into our life and it disorders our worship.

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 I mean, it disorders our worship.

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 It breaks, I've used these words before, like it fractures, it fragments.

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 But sin comes in and it disorders our worship.

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 Instead of worshiping God, we worship creatures and created things and all these other things.

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 And sin comes into our life and it disorders our beliefs.

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 It changes our beliefs.

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 It changes our thinking.

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 We don't ever say now, well, what does God's word say about that?

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 Or what should we do?

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 But we say things like, well, is it legal?

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 And is it permissible?

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 And what does the culture say about it?

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 And if I say this, well, I get in trouble.

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 So sin comes in and it disorders our beliefs.

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 It disorders our thinkings.

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 Sin also comes in and it disorders our desires.

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 It changes our desires.

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 God gave us these desires to walk with him and to seek his face and to be in community and to serve others.

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 And instead, sin comes in and it makes us selfish and self-centered.

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 And it just disorders everything.

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 And then sin disorders our behavior.

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 So when your desires are disordered, then your behavior is going to be disordered.

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 And so you just start acting differently than what you're supposed to be.

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 And so that's what happens in our lives.

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 And so I want to continue to look at this church at Corinth.

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 And we're going to talk about a topic today.

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 And just pray for me.

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 It's like one of these big hot potatoes.

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 It's like one of the nuclear bombs of the church today, I think.

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 And I think it's killing us as Christians.

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 Because it killed the church in Corinth.

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 It was tearing them apart.

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 And we're going to look at this idea of sex.

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 So if you have a kiddo with you, just be aware of that.

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 It's not going to get graphic.

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 But it's going to be a great opportunity for you to talk to them about it.

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 Because no one ever wants to talk to their kids about sex.

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 But now you're going to have to because you're going to say,

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 Pastor Tobin talked about it.

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 So we need to talk about it.

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 So hopefully this has given you a chance to talk to your kids afterwards.

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 And remember, Corinth was this massive city on this peninsula of two harbors.

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 And it was just the sailor city.

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 And most historians, when you read these guys, the Romans and the Greeks and Josephus,

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 they say that it was probably the most immoral city in the world.

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 It was just out of control in the ancient world.

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 To be called a Corinthian meant that you were worldly wise.

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 It wasn't a good thing to be called a Corinthian.

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 It was a slam.

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 It meant that you were kind of like a prostitute.

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 A Corinthian girl was a word for a prostitute.

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 And so if you're standing by the water cooler today or the Diet Coke machine in your office

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 and you hear somebody say, well, they're quite the Corinthian, you know what they mean.

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 It means that they were just, they're sexually immoral.

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 And this passage today, whenever you see the word immorality, in Greek it means sexual immorality.

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 In Greek the word actually is pornea.

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 It means like we get pornography from it.

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 And so pornea is this catch-all term in Greek language and in Bible theology.

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 And it basically means sex, any kind of sex with somebody who's not married to you is pornea.

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 So anytime you have sex with somebody who's not married to you,

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 and the Bible defines this type of sex in four different ways.

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 There's four different types of sex with people not married to you.

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 We're not going to go into those.

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 But it was a huge thing in the church of Corinth, and it was destroying them, and they were just dying.

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 So I want to talk about this idea of sex, and I want to look at it today.

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 I want to talk about kind of what God's design is for sex.

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 I kind of want to talk about the problem the church had in Corinth and we have today with sex.

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 And then I want to look at our response, how we should respond to the world around us and the people around us.

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 And again, this is going to be only 30 minutes, guys, so it's going to be this foundation.

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 So hopefully we'll just keep building on it.

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 And if I say something that makes you angry, come up here and tell me that you're angry.

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 And let's talk about these things because that's what a family does.

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 We don't just walk away angry.

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 We talk and we engage people.

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 And I realize there's probably no topic that carries so much pain in it as sex does in people's lives.

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 And I have the incredible privilege of counseling people as a pastor and hearing their stories and going into the world.

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 And I just see scars.

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 And I see pain.

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 And I see heartache.

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 And I see brokenness.

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 And I see emptiness.

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 And it's intense as I talk to people.

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 And I realize that sex is this thing that has this incredible capacity to lift us up.

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 It has this incredible capacity to just destroy us and devastate us for generations.

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 And, guys, let's be honest, you know.

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 I'm 52 years old.

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 And my parents still have not had the sex talk with me.

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 I mean, I guess they figured that I figured it out because I got four kids.

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 But my parents never talked to me about sex.

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 They threatened us as kids about sex.

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 We had this little book called The Puppy Book.

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 And when they wanted to threaten you about being bad, they go, okay, we're going to open up the puppy book.

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 And we're going to talk about sex.

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 And I had to go through the puppy book one time.

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 It didn't really talk a lot about sex.

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 It just talked about two puppies.

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 And there's a boy puppy and a girl puppy.

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 And they're in love.

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 And they go into another room.

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 And they come out of the room.

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 And they have puppies.

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 So I'm always wondering what the heck's going on in the other room, right?

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 Because somehow more puppies are being made.

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 But that's it.

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 So my hope is that we can start this conversation as a church and talk about this thing, about sex.

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 Because, you know, the Bible has a ton of things to talk about sex.

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 I mean, most people that you're going to run into in your office place and your work and your family,

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 they're going to think that God is down on sex.

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 He hates sex.

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 But it's just the opposite.

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 The Bible elevates sex to this huge level.

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 I mean, it talks about sex.

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 The very first commandment God gave the woman and the man in the garden was be fruitful and multiply.

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 Did you know that?

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 Now, I know in Hong Kong, when you hear that, what you think it means is buy a lot of apartments.

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 But be fruitful and multiply in the Bible doesn't mean buy a lot of apartments.

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 It means be fruitful and multiply.

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 Okay.

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 So I want to talk about this today.

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 And I have this burden on my heart because as I talk to people in Hong Kong and the rest of the world who are not in the family of God,

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 and mostly when I talk to singles, and I talk to them about Christianity,

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 and I talk to them about coming to Christ,

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 almost without exception, a lot of them will tell me that they don't want to do it because they're worried that Christianity will hinder their sex life.

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 They said they don't want to have anything to do with Christianity because it will not allow them to have sex with the people that they want to have sex with.

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 And, you know, just this last Friday, I had a conversation with a guy, and he basically said the exact same thing to me.

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 And he's come to church occasionally, and he's kind of checking things out.

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 But what's holding him back is he just wants to fornicate with whoever he wants to fornicate with.

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 And he doesn't want to get married.

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 And so it struggles with him.

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 And another thing that's really interesting to me, guys, is that my gay friends and my heterosexual friends,

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 they both answer the same way.

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 They both say they don't want to come to Christ because they don't want to give up their sexuality because that's who they are.

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 However, sometimes if I'm daring or if I'm upset or if I'm just frustrated with them, I might ask them a question.

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 I might just say, well, tell me, how is it going for you?

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 How is sex outside of marriage working for you?

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 Is it simpler or more complicated?

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 And more often than not, they look at me and go, wow, it's just really complicated.

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 And I say, yeah, it is.

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 And the church of Corinth today, they're just going to say it's just sex.

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 It's just like eating.

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 But I think that most of us in here probably know that it's not that simple.

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 That there's a potential to be devastated and to destroy us and to hurt us.

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 In Genesis chapter 2, I don't have it printed in your bulletin.

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 I have my Bible here.

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 In Genesis chapter 2, God creates this thing called passion.

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 2.22, he says,

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 Now, he's not really creative there, but he's trying.

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 He says,

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 And so when you read the scripture there, you realize that God created sex.

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 He created love.

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 He created passion.

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 He brings all these things together.

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 And when he talks about these things, he says that the man and the woman are to start a new family,

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 and they are to become united.

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 One flesh.

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 Now, in Hebrew, it doesn't just mean massive sex.

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 United doesn't just mean sex, but it means that when a man and a woman come together,

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 they create a new relationship.

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 That they create this loyalty.

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 That they, and the Hebrew word actually means that they're glued together, that they're united.

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 The word flesh actually means this is total commitment.

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 It's not just physical, but it's emotional and social and economic.

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 It's your whole life.

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 So in the Bible, when it talks about you getting married,

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 it means that your whole life comes together with another person's whole life,

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 and you just merge in there, and that's what happens.

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 And sex comes in, and the church today, and the church in Corinth treated sex just like a transaction.

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 But the Bible says, no, it's not just a transaction.

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 But when something happens in there, there's a spiritual bonding,

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 and there's this level of your being that's coming together.

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 And basically what it says in Hebrew is that when you get married and you come together with anybody,

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 when you have sex with anybody, what you're doing is you're giving up your independence.

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 You're giving up your rights.

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 You're making a commitment to that person.

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 You're merging with that person.

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 The Bible even says that it's changing your soul,

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 that when you have sex with a person, it impacts you so greatly that it changes your soul.

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 And some of the words that the early theologians and historians would say is that sex was kind of like communion.

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 Sex was kind of like communion.

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 And communion is, you know, we've talked about that.

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 It's basically this idea that it's an outward symbol of something inwardly that's happened into you.

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 And so when Genesis says they were naked and not ashamed, it doesn't mean they were just buck naked.

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 Now, I know I'm going to have to explain what buck naked is next week,

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 but it doesn't mean that they're just no clothes on, but it means that they are real with each other.

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 It means that they're authentic with each other.

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 It means that they are honest with each other.

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 It means that they're vulnerable to each other.

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 It means that they're dependent upon each other.

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 It means, in Hebrew, it's a sacrament.

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 It means holy.

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 Now, I don't know how you feel if you're married and you're listening to this,

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 but hopefully you're thinking, is that what my marriage is like?

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 Am I connecting with that person like God has called me to do?

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 And if you're single in here, you're thinking, wow, I need to think about what kind of person I want to connect to

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 because this is pretty serious.

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 And what we're told in the passage is that the church was in the middle of this culture that was sex crazy.

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 It was just totally disordered, and people were struggling, and people didn't know what to do.

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 And when you read the passage, it's really strange because you don't know if they just forgot what Paul taught them

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 or if they just don't want to know what Paul taught them.

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 But he says over and over, at least four times, don't you know?

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 Don't you know?

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 Don't you know?

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 And what he's saying is I've already talked to you about these things.

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 These are the things we've already talked about.

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 These aren't anything new.

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 Don't you remember?

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 And so the church was struggling inside, and verse 12 begins that struggle.

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 It says they had this saying, and they would say, you know, all things are lawful for me.

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 And what it means is I can do anything.

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 I'm a Christian now.

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 The Mosaic law doesn't apply anymore.

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 I'm justified by Christ.

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 I'm justified by grace.

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 I have total freedom.

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 I'm free to sin.

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 Sexually, the culture is saying anything goes.

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 I mean, Corinth was a city where if you said, well, what's the legal thing to do?

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 They would have said, you can do anything you want.

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 And so the church is in there, and everything is going, and everything is free, and everything is free game.

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 And so the church is struggling with, well, what do we do when everything is permissible,

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 and everything is right in our culture?

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 How do we handle that?

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 And they were just getting crushed because they assumed that just because something was legal means that it's moral.

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 Did you hear what I said?

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 They assumed that just because something was legal means that it was moral.

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 And many of us do that in the workplace.

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 And many of us do that in our lives.

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 But that Bible says that that's not true.

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 And so Paul comes in after each one of these sentences, and he says, but.

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 He says, yeah, yeah, yeah, you're free, but your behavior isn't good still.

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 Your behavior is going to be self-indulgent.

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 It's going to be self-serving.

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 And ultimately, your behavior is going to destroy you.

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 He's saying, you and I, we have tons of amount of freedom.

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 As Christians, we can do a lot of things, but we need to ask ourselves, is what we're doing wise?

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 Are we doing the wisest thing with our time?

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 Are we doing the wisest thing with our money?

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 Are we doing the wisest thing with our eyes that we're focusing on?

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 Are we doing the wisest thing when our mind dwells on something?

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 That we can dwell on a lot of these things, but is it really profitable to me?

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 Or will it hurt me?

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 Will it destroy me?

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 Paul is saying, maybe we should be asking the question, whatever I'm doing in my freedom,

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 is it really profitable to the people around me?

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 I mean, maybe I'm just being very personal, right?

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 So you can leave because your pastor is a sinner, right?

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 But I am.

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 But just growing up, you know, I'm watching these movies, and they're not bad movies,

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 but they're permissible movies, and they're affecting me, and they're changing me.

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 And so I needed to ask myself, am I becoming a better friend after I watch these movies?

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 Am I becoming a better person after I watch these movies?

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 Am I becoming a better boss or employee after I listen to this or do this or hang out with those people

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 or I buy these products?

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 Is these things affecting me?

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 Am I a better dad?

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 Am I a better husband?

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 Am I better be able to do this or do you?

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 I'm doing things that I want to do.

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 And Paul warns the church, and he warns us, you've got to be careful.

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 You have the incredible amount of freedom, but it might not be the best thing for you.

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 And so the way to ask that is, is it the best thing for the people around you?

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 he asks it again in verse 12

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 all things are lawful for me

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 the exact same thing that they're saying

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 everything is possible we can do it

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 we're freedom we're freedom in Christ

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 the culture says do it

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 but then Paul comes back but he says

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 but you're not going to be mastered by anything

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 he says be careful Tobin

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 because there's things that you can do

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 but these things can become addictive

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 and these things can grab you

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 and put you into bondage and hurt you

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 and they can gain control in your life

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 and they're okay right now

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 but if you don't moderate your life

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 if you don't have people asking you questions

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 you can be destroyed

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 you can be pulled back into bondage

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 it's like the passage in Exodus

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 the people leave Egypt

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 and they're happy and they're free

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 but all of a sudden within about three days

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 they want to go back to Egypt

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 and he says in the same way you and I are like that

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 in our lives we've been free

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 but in the same way you and I struggle

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 with wanting to go back into bondage

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 because we are using these freedoms

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 to do what we want to do

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 but it's destroying us

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 the first person or the second person

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 I ever saw die in a trauma unit

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 was alcoholic

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 I sat over his bed

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 he was going through DTs

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 he was drying out

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 trying to dry out

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 because he had tried many other times

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 and as this guy shook his body to death

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 right in front of me

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 and he was crying

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 oh Jesus

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 oh Jesus

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 he died

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 and I'm looking at him

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 I'm looking at my mind

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 I'm thinking

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 I wonder if

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 he thought

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 when he took that first drink

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 he would end up here

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 and so Paul is warning you and I

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 that we have a lot of freedom

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 but some of these things

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 that we can go to

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 are going to destroy us eventually

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 the church struggled with that

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 the people just wanted to hop down

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 to the temple

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 and have a prostitute

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 because a prostitute was a casual thing

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 it wasn't a long term relationship

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 no one got hurt

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 it was just an innocent thing

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 and it was legal

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 but Paul said

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 yeah

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 but morally

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 you're destroying yourself

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 yeah Jesus is going to forgive you

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 yeah you're right

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 and the culture is saying

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 it's great

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 but you're putting

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 you're putting pain in your heart

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 you're hurting yourself

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 you're destroying yourself

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 and the freedom that you're having

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 is not good

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 and he says

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 the freedom that you're having

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 isn't not just good for you

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 but it's hurting everybody around you

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 it's like that

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 illustration I used last week

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 in the boat

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 and the guy's drilling a hole

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 in the boat

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 and you're looking at him

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 because you're in the boat with him

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 and you're going

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 what are you doing

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 and he goes

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 well this is my area

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 and sometimes in a church

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 we just think

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 this is my area

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 and we don't think

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 that affects the whole boat

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 but it sinks the boat

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 and so Paul's trying to warn the church

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 that you're sinking the church

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 because you're using these freedoms

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 and your freedoms

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 are just destroying yourself

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 maybe the question

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 I should ask

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 or maybe the question

00:22:50.079 --> 00:22:50.779
 we should ask

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 as a church

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 and as a family

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 is

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 do these freedoms

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 make me a better person

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 to hang around

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 as I live out my life

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 and I do these things

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 am I a better person

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 and people loving me

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 more

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 or am I hurtful

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 and less friendly

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 and less nice

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 to be around

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 one last thing

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 the church struggled with

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 and this is a massive thing

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 it's in verse 13

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 and basically what he's just saying

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 is it's food

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 is for the stomach

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 and the stomach

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 is for food

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 and what they said

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 in their life

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 this is the church now

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 they said it's just sex

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 it's just like food

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 you need food

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 to meet your physical needs

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 so you need sex

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 to meet your

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 you need sex

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 to meet your physical needs

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 and God made it this way

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 and by the way

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 remember the Greeks

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 thought that everything physical

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 was terrible and bad

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 and your body's gonna fall apart

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 and so there's no need

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 to take care of your body

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 because it's just physical

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 and it's temporal

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 but what you want to take care of

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 is your soul

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 and sex doesn't impact your soul

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 and it doesn't impact your soul

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 then you can do anything you want

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 because it's not spiritual

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 and we've already learned

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 that it is spiritual

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 and they were impacting their souls

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 and they're impacting their bodies

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 and they didn't even know that

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 and Paul says

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 hey you're destroying yourselves

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 and this body

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 that you think

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 is gonna be destroyed

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 for some reason

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 God has in his great plan

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 and we're gonna talk about this

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 later in Corinthians

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 he's gonna raise your body up

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 did you know that?

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 that when he comes back again

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 your body's gonna be made new

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 and it's gonna be made holy

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 and he's gonna raise your body up

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 and there seems to be

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 this imagery here

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 he's telling us

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 be careful how many scars

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 you put on your body

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 be careful how you scar your body

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 because you're gonna have those scars

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 you know Jesus has scars

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 right?

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 you go to heaven

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 the only man made things in heaven

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 are these scars

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 in Jesus' hands

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 and he got those scars

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 because of you

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 and me

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 and Paul is begging the church

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 it's not just casual sex

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 it's not something

00:24:46.400 --> 00:24:47.160
 that you can just do

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 and be independent

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 it's not something

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 that doesn't involve

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 a relationship

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 it's not something

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 that is freedom

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 it's not something

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 that you can just

00:24:53.320 --> 00:24:54.600
 leave your options open

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 because if you move in this way

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 if you act self-centered

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 if you act selfishly

00:24:58.180 --> 00:24:59.700
 it's gonna destroy you

00:24:59.700 --> 00:25:03.800
 it's gonna break your body

00:25:03.800 --> 00:25:06.100
 and the problem is

00:25:06.100 --> 00:25:06.840
 that some of us

00:25:06.840 --> 00:25:08.400
 have our body so broken

00:25:08.400 --> 00:25:10.640
 that when we come

00:25:10.640 --> 00:25:11.680
 into other relationships

00:25:11.680 --> 00:25:13.460
 and we try to have

00:25:13.460 --> 00:25:14.400
 a meaningful relationship

00:25:14.400 --> 00:25:14.759
 with people

00:25:14.759 --> 00:25:15.600
 we can't do it

00:25:15.600 --> 00:25:18.660
 because it's so scarred

00:25:18.660 --> 00:25:19.140
 it's like every time

00:25:19.140 --> 00:25:19.620
 you have sex

00:25:19.620 --> 00:25:20.460
 you pour a little bit of yourself

00:25:20.460 --> 00:25:21.540
 out into that person's life

00:25:21.540 --> 00:25:22.380
 and you pour a little bit of yourself

00:25:22.380 --> 00:25:23.120
 out into that person's life

00:25:23.120 --> 00:25:24.140
 and then when you finally find

00:25:24.140 --> 00:25:24.800
 the person you wanna

00:25:24.800 --> 00:25:26.000
 spend your life with

00:25:26.000 --> 00:25:27.019
 your cup is empty

00:25:27.019 --> 00:25:27.740
 and it's cracked

00:25:27.740 --> 00:25:28.500
 and it's scarred

00:25:28.500 --> 00:25:29.940
 and you just can't

00:25:29.940 --> 00:25:31.740
 you just can't

00:25:31.740 --> 00:25:32.220
 cope

00:25:32.220 --> 00:25:36.759
 for 30 years

00:25:36.759 --> 00:25:37.259
 Christina

00:25:37.259 --> 00:25:38.440
 for me

00:25:38.440 --> 00:25:38.980
 and then Christina

00:25:38.980 --> 00:25:39.700
 is together

00:25:39.700 --> 00:25:40.100
 we've been doing

00:25:40.100 --> 00:25:40.800
 marriage counseling

00:25:40.799 --> 00:25:42.859
 you know what the number one

00:25:42.859 --> 00:25:44.059
 reason people get divorce is

00:25:44.059 --> 00:25:46.919
 you might think it's money

00:25:46.919 --> 00:25:47.639
 but it's not money

00:25:47.639 --> 00:25:49.899
 the number one reason

00:25:49.899 --> 00:25:50.599
 people get divorce

00:25:50.599 --> 00:25:51.359
 is because they

00:25:51.359 --> 00:25:53.159
 were sexually active

00:25:53.159 --> 00:25:54.960
 before they got married

00:25:54.960 --> 00:25:55.899
 with their partner

00:25:55.899 --> 00:25:57.279
 or with some other spouses

00:25:57.279 --> 00:25:58.659
 and this activity

00:25:58.659 --> 00:25:59.940
 has so scarred

00:25:59.940 --> 00:26:00.779
 their hearts

00:26:00.779 --> 00:26:02.539
 and their bodies

00:26:02.539 --> 00:26:04.419
 that when it comes down

00:26:04.419 --> 00:26:05.879
 to have a meaningful relationship

00:26:05.879 --> 00:26:06.960
 they just can't do it

00:26:06.960 --> 00:26:09.640
 and so we see people

00:26:09.640 --> 00:26:10.220
 in counseling

00:26:10.220 --> 00:26:11.920
 and there's this tension there

00:26:11.920 --> 00:26:13.000
 there's this brokenness there

00:26:13.000 --> 00:26:14.180
 there's these scars there

00:26:14.180 --> 00:26:15.279
 and they're trying to figure out

00:26:15.279 --> 00:26:17.579
 why can't I talk to this person

00:26:17.579 --> 00:26:19.420
 why can't I love this person

00:26:19.420 --> 00:26:20.440
 the way that they love me

00:26:20.440 --> 00:26:21.940
 why doesn't this thing work

00:26:21.940 --> 00:26:23.120
 and often it's because

00:26:23.120 --> 00:26:25.880
 they've chosen to use their bodies

00:26:25.880 --> 00:26:27.579
 in a disordered way

00:26:27.579 --> 00:26:30.019
 and the consequences

00:26:30.019 --> 00:26:31.180
 of that disorderedness

00:26:31.180 --> 00:26:32.559
 prevents them

00:26:32.559 --> 00:26:34.660
 from having a relationship

00:26:34.660 --> 00:26:35.319
 that they want

00:26:35.319 --> 00:26:37.839
 does that make sense

00:26:37.839 --> 00:26:40.919
 C.S. Lewis said it like this

00:26:40.919 --> 00:26:41.740
 in the Screwtape Letters

00:26:41.740 --> 00:26:42.419
 Screwtape Letters

00:26:42.419 --> 00:26:43.099
 is a great book

00:26:43.099 --> 00:26:43.799
 about these demons

00:26:43.799 --> 00:26:44.500
 talking about how

00:26:44.500 --> 00:26:45.740
 they're going to drag people down

00:26:45.740 --> 00:26:46.899
 and away from Jesus

00:26:46.899 --> 00:26:48.220
 and this is what he says

00:26:48.220 --> 00:26:48.539
 he says

00:26:48.539 --> 00:26:50.259
 each time a man and a woman

00:26:50.259 --> 00:26:51.779
 enters into a sexual relationship

00:26:51.779 --> 00:26:54.220
 there's a spiritual bond

00:26:54.220 --> 00:26:54.939
 that is formed

00:26:54.939 --> 00:26:56.759
 and this bond

00:26:56.759 --> 00:26:57.579
 this spiritual bond

00:26:57.579 --> 00:26:59.079
 must be either eternally enjoyed

00:26:59.079 --> 00:27:02.480
 or eternally endured

00:27:02.480 --> 00:27:06.740
 this bond that you form

00:27:06.740 --> 00:27:07.740
 whenever you have sex

00:27:07.740 --> 00:27:08.700
 with any person

00:27:08.700 --> 00:27:09.720
 it's not just sex

00:27:09.720 --> 00:27:10.539
 it's not just casual

00:27:10.539 --> 00:27:12.480
 that it is bonding

00:27:12.480 --> 00:27:14.299
 you're giving yourself

00:27:14.299 --> 00:27:15.299
 parts of yourself

00:27:15.299 --> 00:27:16.140
 to this person

00:27:16.140 --> 00:27:17.599
 and that bond

00:27:17.599 --> 00:27:18.799
 you'll either enjoy

00:27:18.799 --> 00:27:19.779
 for the rest of your life

00:27:19.779 --> 00:27:20.579
 or you're going to

00:27:20.579 --> 00:27:21.480
 regret it

00:27:21.480 --> 00:27:22.599
 the rest of your life

00:27:22.599 --> 00:27:23.440
 Lewis goes on

00:27:23.440 --> 00:27:23.779
 and he says

00:27:23.779 --> 00:27:24.740
 the reason that God

00:27:24.740 --> 00:27:25.620
 takes sexual sin

00:27:25.620 --> 00:27:26.319
 so seriously

00:27:26.319 --> 00:27:27.519
 is because it corrupts

00:27:27.519 --> 00:27:29.240
 and it shatters

00:27:29.240 --> 00:27:31.079
 spiritual relationships

00:27:31.079 --> 00:27:35.439
 sexual sin

00:27:35.439 --> 00:27:36.740
 shatters our bodies

00:27:36.740 --> 00:27:37.899
 it shatters our relationship

00:27:37.899 --> 00:27:38.500
 with God

00:27:38.500 --> 00:27:39.980
 it shatters your relationships

00:27:39.980 --> 00:27:40.899
 with the people around you

00:27:40.899 --> 00:27:41.839
 it shatters your relationship

00:27:41.839 --> 00:27:42.699
 with your future husband

00:27:42.699 --> 00:27:43.399
 or your wife

00:27:43.399 --> 00:27:45.220
 and God

00:27:45.220 --> 00:27:46.279
 takes it

00:27:46.279 --> 00:27:47.099
 incredibly

00:27:47.099 --> 00:27:48.259
 incredibly serious

00:27:48.259 --> 00:27:49.740
 and when Paul said this guys

00:27:49.740 --> 00:27:51.099
 people looked at him

00:27:51.099 --> 00:27:51.500
 and they thought

00:27:51.500 --> 00:27:52.179
 he was an idiot

00:27:52.179 --> 00:27:54.720
 because up until this point

00:27:54.720 --> 00:27:56.139
 food was sex

00:27:56.139 --> 00:27:57.059
 and sex was food

00:27:57.059 --> 00:27:59.079
 but when Paul says this

00:27:59.079 --> 00:27:59.859
 in 1 Corinthians

00:27:59.859 --> 00:28:01.259
 he's lifting sex

00:28:01.259 --> 00:28:01.899
 really high

00:28:01.899 --> 00:28:02.759
 and he's elevating it

00:28:02.759 --> 00:28:03.559
 above all things

00:28:03.559 --> 00:28:05.059
 and not only is he

00:28:05.059 --> 00:28:06.019
 lifting sex really high

00:28:06.019 --> 00:28:07.159
 he's lifting women

00:28:07.159 --> 00:28:07.740
 really high

00:28:07.740 --> 00:28:08.859
 because you know

00:28:08.859 --> 00:28:09.879
 until Paul started

00:28:09.879 --> 00:28:10.740
 talking about these things

00:28:10.740 --> 00:28:11.879
 women in every society

00:28:11.879 --> 00:28:12.579
 was down here

00:28:12.579 --> 00:28:14.679
 so in Corinth

00:28:14.679 --> 00:28:15.419
 if you were a man

00:28:15.419 --> 00:28:16.039
 you could have sex

00:28:16.039 --> 00:28:16.759
 with whoever you wanted

00:28:16.759 --> 00:28:18.279
 even after you were married

00:28:18.279 --> 00:28:18.879
 you could have sex

00:28:18.879 --> 00:28:19.479
 with whoever you wanted

00:28:19.479 --> 00:28:20.039
 it didn't really matter

00:28:20.039 --> 00:28:20.759
 but if you're a woman

00:28:20.759 --> 00:28:21.240
 and you're married

00:28:21.240 --> 00:28:22.019
 you couldn't have sex

00:28:22.019 --> 00:28:22.399
 with anybody else

00:28:22.399 --> 00:28:22.919
 you could only have sex

00:28:22.919 --> 00:28:23.339
 with your husband

00:28:23.339 --> 00:28:26.819
 throughout history

00:28:26.819 --> 00:28:27.659
 until Christianity

00:28:27.659 --> 00:28:28.459
 came on the scene

00:28:28.460 --> 00:28:30.240
 women were always devalued

00:28:30.240 --> 00:28:31.500
 and put down

00:28:31.500 --> 00:28:33.240
 and Paul elevates them

00:28:33.240 --> 00:28:34.819
 he elevates singleness

00:28:34.819 --> 00:28:35.900
 he elevates marriage

00:28:35.900 --> 00:28:36.960
 he elevates sex

00:28:36.960 --> 00:28:38.539
 and he puts all these things

00:28:38.539 --> 00:28:39.400
 on his pedestal

00:28:39.400 --> 00:28:40.559
 and he says

00:28:40.559 --> 00:28:41.299
 no this isn't

00:28:41.299 --> 00:28:42.299
 how you should do it

00:28:42.299 --> 00:28:43.440
 this is how you should do it

00:28:43.440 --> 00:28:47.539
 so what do we do now?

00:28:49.279 --> 00:28:50.480
 we know that we're disordered

00:28:50.480 --> 00:28:51.579
 we know that we're thinking wrong

00:28:51.579 --> 00:28:52.680
 we know that our activities are wrong

00:28:52.680 --> 00:28:53.400
 what do we do?

00:28:53.500 --> 00:28:54.259
 and Paul says it

00:28:54.259 --> 00:28:55.539
 in verses 14 through 20

00:28:55.539 --> 00:28:57.579
 he says hey

00:28:57.579 --> 00:29:00.759
 understand that as you walk

00:29:00.759 --> 00:29:02.779
 that Christ is always with you

00:29:02.779 --> 00:29:05.759
 understand that as you walk

00:29:05.759 --> 00:29:06.420
 as a Christian

00:29:06.420 --> 00:29:07.819
 that Christ is in you

00:29:07.819 --> 00:29:10.119
 that he's beside you

00:29:10.119 --> 00:29:11.539
 that your bodies

00:29:11.539 --> 00:29:13.119
 were created as his temple

00:29:13.119 --> 00:29:14.299
 and now as Christians

00:29:14.299 --> 00:29:16.159
 God's spirit lives within us

00:29:16.159 --> 00:29:18.879
 that our bodies aren't our own

00:29:18.879 --> 00:29:20.119
 but they're God's

00:29:20.119 --> 00:29:21.180
 and they've been given to God

00:29:21.180 --> 00:29:22.339
 so that we could serve him

00:29:22.339 --> 00:29:25.000
 so it's kind of why he says

00:29:25.000 --> 00:29:25.720
 in verse 18

00:29:25.720 --> 00:29:27.079
 flee immorality

00:29:27.079 --> 00:29:29.339
 it's really strong words

00:29:29.339 --> 00:29:29.679
 and he says

00:29:29.679 --> 00:29:31.259
 when that thing

00:29:31.259 --> 00:29:32.199
 gets near your body

00:29:32.199 --> 00:29:33.379
 you need to run away

00:29:33.379 --> 00:29:34.299
 and get away from it

00:29:34.299 --> 00:29:35.399
 because if you don't

00:29:35.399 --> 00:29:36.759
 it's going to destroy you

00:29:36.759 --> 00:29:39.799
 it's going to destroy you

00:29:39.799 --> 00:29:40.459
 and it's going to destroy

00:29:40.459 --> 00:29:42.519
 everybody around you

00:29:42.519 --> 00:29:45.579
 and I think the problem

00:29:45.579 --> 00:29:46.839
 with us as Christians

00:29:46.839 --> 00:29:49.179
 is we don't take that seriously

00:29:49.180 --> 00:29:54.140
 I mean we say things like

00:29:54.140 --> 00:29:54.480
 you know

00:29:54.480 --> 00:29:55.180
 yeah but you know

00:29:55.180 --> 00:29:56.460
 I really love that person

00:29:56.460 --> 00:29:58.840
 yeah you know

00:29:58.840 --> 00:29:59.279
 I really

00:29:59.279 --> 00:30:01.220
 we're going to get married someday

00:30:01.220 --> 00:30:02.460
 and it's going to be okay

00:30:02.460 --> 00:30:04.500
 you know

00:30:04.500 --> 00:30:06.420
 I really care about them

00:30:06.420 --> 00:30:08.160
 you know

00:30:08.160 --> 00:30:09.220
 my husband

00:30:09.220 --> 00:30:09.840
 doesn't

00:30:09.840 --> 00:30:12.700
 meet all my emotional needs

00:30:12.700 --> 00:30:13.900
 that I need

00:30:13.900 --> 00:30:15.120
 but this guy

00:30:15.120 --> 00:30:16.320
 treats me so tenderly

00:30:16.319 --> 00:30:18.500
 you know

00:30:18.500 --> 00:30:19.059
 my wife

00:30:19.059 --> 00:30:19.720
 doesn't really

00:30:19.720 --> 00:30:22.259
 fulfill all my sexual desires

00:30:22.259 --> 00:30:23.279
 and my need for release

00:30:23.279 --> 00:30:24.519
 and so I need to go here

00:30:24.519 --> 00:30:26.859
 you know

00:30:26.859 --> 00:30:27.460
 porn

00:30:27.460 --> 00:30:28.539
 isn't really that bad

00:30:28.539 --> 00:30:29.039
 because it

00:30:29.039 --> 00:30:30.839
 it makes me feel in control

00:30:30.839 --> 00:30:33.579
 and it makes me feel good

00:30:33.579 --> 00:30:34.099
 about myself

00:30:34.099 --> 00:30:35.279
 because the rest of my time

00:30:35.279 --> 00:30:36.200
 I don't feel very good

00:30:36.200 --> 00:30:36.799
 about myself

00:30:36.799 --> 00:30:39.119
 you know

00:30:39.119 --> 00:30:40.179
 it's not really immoral

00:30:40.179 --> 00:30:40.619
 it's just

00:30:40.619 --> 00:30:41.379
 it's legal

00:30:41.379 --> 00:30:43.379
 but it's not really that bad

00:30:43.379 --> 00:30:44.519
 and what Paul is saying

00:30:44.519 --> 00:30:45.179
 to you and I

00:30:45.179 --> 00:30:45.799
 in the church

00:30:45.799 --> 00:30:46.960
 is that all these things

00:30:46.960 --> 00:30:47.919
 are just symptoms

00:30:47.919 --> 00:30:48.500
 and samples

00:30:48.500 --> 00:30:49.599
 of our disorderedness

00:30:49.599 --> 00:30:52.419
 and we've lost

00:30:52.419 --> 00:30:53.039
 his holiness

00:30:53.039 --> 00:30:54.159
 and what he's looking at

00:30:54.159 --> 00:30:57.700
 so the question maybe

00:30:57.700 --> 00:30:58.279
 is this

00:30:58.279 --> 00:31:04.139
 what values

00:31:04.139 --> 00:31:04.680
 do you hold

00:31:04.680 --> 00:31:10.359
 are your values

00:31:10.359 --> 00:31:10.960
 disordered

00:31:10.960 --> 00:31:15.519
 where do you get

00:31:15.519 --> 00:31:17.579
 where do you get

00:31:17.579 --> 00:31:20.819
 where do you get

00:31:20.819 --> 00:31:21.480
 your morals

00:31:21.480 --> 00:31:24.160
 you get them

00:31:24.160 --> 00:31:25.000
 from the Wall Street Journal

00:31:25.000 --> 00:31:29.660
 South China Morning Post

00:31:29.660 --> 00:31:31.900
 Oprah

00:31:31.900 --> 00:31:34.200
 Newsweek

00:31:34.200 --> 00:31:36.500
 I mean there's a lot

00:31:36.500 --> 00:31:37.700
 of us as Christians

00:31:37.700 --> 00:31:38.779
 in the family of God

00:31:38.779 --> 00:31:39.619
 and we're living

00:31:39.619 --> 00:31:40.680
 like good Corinthians

00:31:40.680 --> 00:31:44.599
 we're living

00:31:44.599 --> 00:31:45.259
 like good Corinthians

00:31:45.259 --> 00:31:46.460
 with what we watch

00:31:46.460 --> 00:31:47.920
 what we spend our money on

00:31:47.920 --> 00:31:49.359
 how we serve

00:31:49.359 --> 00:31:52.839
 and the question is

00:31:52.839 --> 00:31:53.639
 are we different

00:31:53.639 --> 00:31:55.019
 than the world around us

00:31:55.019 --> 00:31:59.160
 are we

00:31:59.160 --> 00:32:05.960
 one last thing

00:32:05.960 --> 00:32:06.519
 and we'll end

00:32:06.519 --> 00:32:09.660
 for me

00:32:09.660 --> 00:32:11.279
 this is

00:32:11.279 --> 00:32:13.480
 this is an incredibly hard passage

00:32:13.480 --> 00:32:16.060
 but it's probably

00:32:16.060 --> 00:32:17.360
 no passage

00:32:17.360 --> 00:32:17.960
 that I know of

00:32:17.960 --> 00:32:19.180
 that's filled with more hope

00:32:19.180 --> 00:32:21.759
 and grace

00:32:21.759 --> 00:32:23.900
 and care

00:32:23.900 --> 00:32:26.140
 in all the scripture

00:32:26.140 --> 00:32:28.060
 and if you look at

00:32:28.060 --> 00:32:28.680
 verses 11

00:32:28.680 --> 00:32:29.440
 and verse 20

00:32:29.440 --> 00:32:31.720
 Paul says

00:32:31.720 --> 00:32:33.880
 some of you

00:32:33.880 --> 00:32:34.740
 are just like this

00:32:34.740 --> 00:32:37.600
 but you were washed

00:32:37.600 --> 00:32:39.980
 means that you had

00:32:39.980 --> 00:32:40.820
 God's Holy Spirit

00:32:40.820 --> 00:32:41.660
 fill you

00:32:41.660 --> 00:32:42.640
 and change you

00:32:42.640 --> 00:32:44.560
 some of you

00:32:44.560 --> 00:32:45.300
 are just like this

00:32:45.300 --> 00:32:46.300
 but you were sanctified

00:32:46.300 --> 00:32:47.180
 you were made holy

00:32:47.180 --> 00:32:48.019
 for God's service

00:32:48.019 --> 00:32:48.660
 some of you

00:32:48.660 --> 00:32:49.920
 are just like these people

00:32:49.920 --> 00:32:50.980
 but you were justified

00:32:50.980 --> 00:32:52.580
 you were counted righteous

00:32:52.579 --> 00:32:54.099
 by what Christ did

00:32:54.099 --> 00:32:54.699
 on the cross

00:32:54.699 --> 00:32:55.359
 in his spirit

00:32:55.359 --> 00:33:00.019
 all of us

00:33:00.019 --> 00:33:00.519
 he says

00:33:00.519 --> 00:33:00.939
 you're bought

00:33:00.939 --> 00:33:01.619
 with a price

00:33:01.619 --> 00:33:04.659
 God

00:33:04.659 --> 00:33:05.500
 loves you

00:33:05.500 --> 00:33:06.220
 so much

00:33:06.220 --> 00:33:08.599
 he wanted to

00:33:08.599 --> 00:33:08.980
 redeem

00:33:08.980 --> 00:33:10.399
 your broken body

00:33:10.399 --> 00:33:11.399
 so much

00:33:11.399 --> 00:33:13.539
 that he breaks

00:33:13.539 --> 00:33:14.379
 his own body

00:33:14.379 --> 00:33:15.960
 on a cross

00:33:15.960 --> 00:33:18.619
 so that you might

00:33:18.619 --> 00:33:19.460
 be made whole

00:33:19.460 --> 00:33:21.139
 and new

00:33:21.140 --> 00:33:24.380
 Paul is trying

00:33:24.380 --> 00:33:24.840
 to teach us

00:33:24.840 --> 00:33:25.380
 in this passage

00:33:25.380 --> 00:33:25.880
 guys

00:33:25.880 --> 00:33:28.100
 the only thing

00:33:28.100 --> 00:33:28.840
 that can reorder

00:33:28.840 --> 00:33:29.980
 our lives

00:33:29.980 --> 00:33:31.840
 the only thing

00:33:31.840 --> 00:33:32.520
 that can reorder

00:33:32.520 --> 00:33:33.340
 our beliefs

00:33:33.340 --> 00:33:33.900
 the only thing

00:33:33.900 --> 00:33:34.560
 that can reorder

00:33:34.560 --> 00:33:35.140
 our thinking

00:33:35.140 --> 00:33:35.700
 the only thing

00:33:35.700 --> 00:33:36.200
 that can reorder

00:33:36.200 --> 00:33:36.780
 our desires

00:33:36.780 --> 00:33:37.259
 the only thing

00:33:37.259 --> 00:33:37.740
 that can reorder

00:33:37.740 --> 00:33:38.280
 our behavior

00:33:38.280 --> 00:33:39.700
 is the cross

00:33:39.700 --> 00:33:42.940
 is Jesus Christ

00:33:42.940 --> 00:33:46.800
 before you go back

00:33:46.800 --> 00:33:47.460
 to bed tonight

00:33:47.460 --> 00:33:48.560
 go back through this verse

00:33:48.560 --> 00:33:49.180
 and I want you to notice

00:33:49.180 --> 00:33:49.740
 one thing

00:33:49.740 --> 00:33:52.200
 Paul doesn't

00:33:52.200 --> 00:33:52.779
 come at us

00:33:52.779 --> 00:33:53.059
 and say

00:33:53.059 --> 00:33:53.700
 shame on you

00:33:53.700 --> 00:33:54.319
 for doing that

00:33:54.319 --> 00:33:55.759
 you shouldn't

00:33:55.759 --> 00:33:56.400
 be doing that

00:33:56.400 --> 00:33:58.180
 Paul doesn't say

00:33:58.180 --> 00:33:58.920
 don't do that

00:33:58.920 --> 00:33:59.299
 because you're

00:33:59.299 --> 00:34:00.160
 going to get STD

00:34:00.160 --> 00:34:00.579
 or you're going

00:34:00.579 --> 00:34:01.120
 to get AIDS

00:34:01.120 --> 00:34:01.660
 or something bad

00:34:01.660 --> 00:34:02.120
 is going to happen

00:34:02.120 --> 00:34:03.180
 don't do that

00:34:03.180 --> 00:34:05.099
 Paul doesn't come in

00:34:05.099 --> 00:34:06.420
 and just heavy handedly

00:34:06.420 --> 00:34:08.159
 hit you

00:34:08.159 --> 00:34:09.019
 and beat you

00:34:09.019 --> 00:34:09.639
 and tell you

00:34:09.639 --> 00:34:10.380
 how terrible

00:34:10.380 --> 00:34:11.099
 we are

00:34:11.099 --> 00:34:13.820
 but what he does

00:34:13.820 --> 00:34:14.059
 instead

00:34:14.059 --> 00:34:14.400
 is he just

00:34:14.400 --> 00:34:15.179
 looks at the cross

00:34:15.179 --> 00:34:17.799
 he says

00:34:17.799 --> 00:34:18.199
 remember what

00:34:18.199 --> 00:34:18.799
 Jesus has done

00:34:18.799 --> 00:34:19.639
 for you

00:34:19.639 --> 00:34:24.440
 remember how

00:34:24.440 --> 00:34:24.859
 he's broken

00:34:24.859 --> 00:34:25.639
 for you

00:34:25.639 --> 00:34:28.619
 remember how

00:34:28.619 --> 00:34:29.179
 he died

00:34:29.179 --> 00:34:30.519
 to make you

00:34:30.519 --> 00:34:30.919
 whole

00:34:30.919 --> 00:34:33.719
 remember how

00:34:33.719 --> 00:34:34.179
 he died

00:34:34.179 --> 00:34:34.859
 to fix the

00:34:34.859 --> 00:34:35.379
 brokenness

00:34:35.379 --> 00:34:36.079
 in your cup

00:34:36.079 --> 00:34:38.799
 it's not about

00:34:38.799 --> 00:34:39.119
 anger

00:34:39.119 --> 00:34:39.679
 it's not about

00:34:39.679 --> 00:34:40.039
 wrath

00:34:40.039 --> 00:34:40.719
 it's not about

00:34:40.719 --> 00:34:42.019
 consequences

00:34:42.019 --> 00:34:42.940
 per se

00:34:42.940 --> 00:34:43.760
 but what he's

00:34:43.760 --> 00:34:44.099
 saying is

00:34:44.099 --> 00:34:44.400
 it's about

00:34:44.400 --> 00:34:44.960
 love

00:34:44.960 --> 00:34:47.700
 and it's

00:34:47.700 --> 00:34:48.519
 about grace

00:34:48.519 --> 00:34:52.720
 what this

00:34:52.720 --> 00:34:53.400
 passage says

00:34:53.400 --> 00:34:53.780
 is there's

00:34:53.780 --> 00:34:54.320
 nothing you've

00:34:54.320 --> 00:34:54.659
 done

00:34:54.659 --> 00:34:57.400
 there's no

00:34:57.400 --> 00:34:57.920
 mistake that

00:34:57.920 --> 00:34:58.380
 you've done

00:34:58.380 --> 00:34:58.920
 sexually

00:34:58.920 --> 00:34:59.760
 or with your

00:34:59.760 --> 00:34:59.980
 money

00:34:59.980 --> 00:35:00.460
 or with your

00:35:00.460 --> 00:35:00.880
 finances

00:35:00.880 --> 00:35:01.119
 or with

00:35:01.119 --> 00:35:01.599
 relationships

00:35:01.599 --> 00:35:02.380
 there's nothing

00:35:02.380 --> 00:35:02.740
 that you've

00:35:02.740 --> 00:35:03.059
 done that

00:35:03.059 --> 00:35:04.159
 God doesn't

00:35:04.159 --> 00:35:04.840
 know about

00:35:04.840 --> 00:35:07.340
 and he isn't

00:35:07.340 --> 00:35:08.059
 ready to heal

00:35:08.059 --> 00:35:11.119
 there's no

00:35:11.119 --> 00:35:11.440
 amount of

00:35:11.440 --> 00:35:12.079
 disorderedness

00:35:12.079 --> 00:35:12.579
 in your life

00:35:12.579 --> 00:35:12.980
 that can't

00:35:12.980 --> 00:35:13.579
 be fixed

00:35:13.579 --> 00:35:14.639
 because the

00:35:14.639 --> 00:35:15.279
 cross can

00:35:15.279 --> 00:35:17.019
 fix everything

00:35:17.019 --> 00:35:21.480
 so Paul

00:35:21.480 --> 00:35:21.980
 doesn't say

00:35:21.980 --> 00:35:22.920
 shame on you

00:35:22.920 --> 00:35:23.380
 you shouldn't

00:35:23.380 --> 00:35:23.639
 have done

00:35:23.639 --> 00:35:23.779
 that

00:35:23.779 --> 00:35:24.059
 you shouldn't

00:35:24.059 --> 00:35:24.279
 have done

00:35:24.279 --> 00:35:24.599
 these things

00:35:24.599 --> 00:35:24.880
 you shouldn't

00:35:24.880 --> 00:35:25.059
 have looked

00:35:25.059 --> 00:35:25.259
 at that

00:35:25.259 --> 00:35:25.460
 you shouldn't

00:35:25.460 --> 00:35:25.759
 have acted

00:35:25.759 --> 00:35:26.099
 this way

00:35:26.099 --> 00:35:26.659
 but what he

00:35:26.659 --> 00:35:26.940
 says is

00:35:26.940 --> 00:35:27.559
 just look at

00:35:27.559 --> 00:35:27.940
 what God's

00:35:27.940 --> 00:35:28.239
 done for

00:35:28.239 --> 00:35:28.519
 you

00:35:28.519 --> 00:35:31.539
 and as you

00:35:31.539 --> 00:35:32.019
 look at those

00:35:32.019 --> 00:35:32.639
 things we want

00:35:32.639 --> 00:35:33.599
 you to respond

00:35:33.599 --> 00:35:38.039
 and understand

00:35:38.039 --> 00:35:38.440
 how much he

00:35:38.440 --> 00:35:38.920
 loves you

00:35:38.920 --> 00:35:42.119
 and how much

00:35:42.119 --> 00:35:42.440
 he cares

00:35:42.440 --> 00:35:42.860
 for you

00:35:42.860 --> 00:35:46.780
 and how much

00:35:46.780 --> 00:35:47.019
 he wants

00:35:47.019 --> 00:35:47.380
 to be with

00:35:47.380 --> 00:35:47.519
 you

00:35:47.519 --> 00:35:51.800
 I had to

00:35:51.800 --> 00:35:52.039
 work through

00:35:52.039 --> 00:35:52.360
 a lot of

00:35:52.360 --> 00:35:52.880
 scars before

00:35:52.880 --> 00:35:53.300
 I realized

00:35:53.300 --> 00:35:53.659
 that in my

00:35:53.659 --> 00:35:53.960
 life

00:35:53.960 --> 00:35:57.599
 and I'm

00:35:57.599 --> 00:35:58.099
 still feeling

00:35:58.099 --> 00:35:58.720
 the consequences

00:35:58.720 --> 00:35:59.079
 of some of

00:35:59.079 --> 00:35:59.579
 those scars

00:35:59.579 --> 00:36:01.779
 but what the

00:36:01.779 --> 00:36:02.400
 passage says

00:36:02.400 --> 00:36:02.719
 is

00:36:02.719 --> 00:36:04.719
 God knows

00:36:04.719 --> 00:36:07.719
 he's ready

00:36:07.719 --> 00:36:08.119
 to heal

00:36:08.119 --> 00:36:08.519
 us

00:36:08.519 --> 00:36:11.059
 if we let

00:36:11.059 --> 00:36:11.279
 him

00:36:11.279 --> 00:36:13.400
 if we want

00:36:13.400 --> 00:36:13.659
 to

00:36:13.659 --> 00:36:15.299
 you know

00:36:15.299 --> 00:36:15.440
 when we

00:36:15.440 --> 00:36:15.639
 started

00:36:15.639 --> 00:36:16.119
 Watermark

00:36:16.119 --> 00:36:16.500
 we said

00:36:16.500 --> 00:36:16.739
 that we

00:36:16.739 --> 00:36:17.119
 wanted to

00:36:17.119 --> 00:36:17.460
 be a

00:36:17.460 --> 00:36:17.880
 community

00:36:17.880 --> 00:36:18.940
 that was

00:36:18.940 --> 00:36:19.259
 different

00:36:19.259 --> 00:36:19.559
 than the

00:36:19.559 --> 00:36:19.900
 culture

00:36:19.900 --> 00:36:22.219
 we wanted

00:36:22.219 --> 00:36:22.539
 to be a

00:36:22.539 --> 00:36:22.860
 family

00:36:22.860 --> 00:36:24.699
 that could

00:36:24.699 --> 00:36:25.259
 discuss

00:36:25.259 --> 00:36:26.880
 pray

00:36:26.880 --> 00:36:28.360
 help

00:36:28.360 --> 00:36:29.559
 confess

00:36:29.559 --> 00:36:31.099
 forgive

00:36:31.099 --> 00:36:32.519
 and heal

00:36:32.519 --> 00:36:33.460
 each other

00:36:33.460 --> 00:36:35.980
 Watermark

00:36:35.980 --> 00:36:36.420
 is a

00:36:36.420 --> 00:36:36.799
 community

00:36:36.799 --> 00:36:37.659
 of

00:36:37.659 --> 00:36:38.259
 disordered

00:36:38.259 --> 00:36:39.860
 broken

00:36:39.860 --> 00:36:41.500
 fractured

00:36:41.500 --> 00:36:42.719
 sinful

00:36:42.719 --> 00:36:43.139
 people

00:36:43.139 --> 00:36:45.000
 who are

00:36:45.000 --> 00:36:45.219
 on a

00:36:45.219 --> 00:36:45.380
 journey

00:36:45.380 --> 00:36:45.799
 together

00:36:45.799 --> 00:36:47.579
 being

00:36:47.579 --> 00:36:48.039
 healed

00:36:48.039 --> 00:36:49.239
 by the

00:36:49.239 --> 00:36:49.659
 cross

00:36:49.659 --> 00:36:52.219
 don't

00:36:52.219 --> 00:36:52.679
 ever forget

00:36:52.679 --> 00:36:52.980
 that

00:36:52.980 --> 00:36:56.619
 don't

00:36:56.619 --> 00:36:57.059
 ever forget

00:36:57.059 --> 00:36:57.279
 that

00:36:57.280 --> 00:37:01.940
 church

00:37:01.940 --> 00:37:02.080
 of

00:37:02.080 --> 00:37:02.360
 Corinth

00:37:02.360 --> 00:37:02.640
 forgot

00:37:02.640 --> 00:37:02.980
 that

00:37:02.980 --> 00:37:05.519
 because

00:37:05.519 --> 00:37:05.820
 of that

00:37:05.820 --> 00:37:06.040
 they were

00:37:06.040 --> 00:37:06.180
 getting

00:37:06.180 --> 00:37:06.680
 destroyed

00:37:06.680 --> 00:37:07.080
 and eaten

00:37:07.080 --> 00:37:07.480
 up by

00:37:07.480 --> 00:37:07.600
 the

00:37:07.600 --> 00:37:07.880
 culture

00:37:07.880 --> 00:37:08.160
 around

00:37:08.160 --> 00:37:08.920
 them

00:37:08.920 --> 00:37:13.800
 one

00:37:13.800 --> 00:37:14.080
 action

00:37:14.080 --> 00:37:14.300
 point

00:37:14.300 --> 00:37:14.480
 I want

00:37:14.480 --> 00:37:14.680
 to give

00:37:14.680 --> 00:37:14.860
 you

00:37:14.860 --> 00:37:18.200
 you're

00:37:18.200 --> 00:37:18.360
 going to

00:37:18.360 --> 00:37:18.820
 leave here

00:37:18.820 --> 00:37:19.200
 today

00:37:19.200 --> 00:37:20.100
 and you're

00:37:20.100 --> 00:37:20.200
 going to

00:37:20.200 --> 00:37:20.500
 go through

00:37:20.500 --> 00:37:20.920
 your work

00:37:20.920 --> 00:37:21.320
 and your

00:37:21.320 --> 00:37:21.680
 business

00:37:21.680 --> 00:37:22.060
 and your

00:37:22.060 --> 00:37:22.380
 home

00:37:22.380 --> 00:37:22.620
 and your

00:37:22.620 --> 00:37:22.880
 family

00:37:22.880 --> 00:37:23.360
 this week

00:37:23.360 --> 00:37:24.440
 and you're

00:37:24.440 --> 00:37:24.660
 going to

00:37:24.660 --> 00:37:25.160
 have a

00:37:25.160 --> 00:37:25.680
 ton of

00:37:25.680 --> 00:37:25.940
 amount

00:37:25.940 --> 00:37:26.360
 of freedom

00:37:26.360 --> 00:37:26.660
 in your

00:37:26.660 --> 00:37:27.059
 life

00:37:27.059 --> 00:37:28.519
 you're

00:37:28.519 --> 00:37:28.640
 going to

00:37:28.640 --> 00:37:28.920
 be able

00:37:28.920 --> 00:37:29.180
 to do

00:37:29.180 --> 00:37:29.539
 a lot

00:37:29.539 --> 00:37:29.660
 of

00:37:29.660 --> 00:37:29.920
 things

00:37:29.920 --> 00:37:30.140
 in the

00:37:30.140 --> 00:37:30.460
 workplace

00:37:30.460 --> 00:37:30.840
 and you're

00:37:30.840 --> 00:37:30.900
 going to

00:37:30.900 --> 00:37:31.099
 be able

00:37:31.099 --> 00:37:31.260
 to do

00:37:31.260 --> 00:37:31.500
 a lot

00:37:31.500 --> 00:37:31.760
 of things

00:37:31.760 --> 00:37:32.140
 at home

00:37:32.140 --> 00:37:32.800
 and a lot

00:37:32.800 --> 00:37:33.039
 of things

00:37:33.039 --> 00:37:33.240
 in the

00:37:33.240 --> 00:37:33.500
 restaurants

00:37:33.500 --> 00:37:33.780
 that are

00:37:33.780 --> 00:37:34.140
 totally

00:37:34.140 --> 00:37:34.660
 legal

00:37:34.660 --> 00:37:37.220
 but they

00:37:37.220 --> 00:37:37.660
 might not

00:37:37.660 --> 00:37:38.260
 be moral

00:37:38.260 --> 00:37:42.180
 they might

00:37:42.180 --> 00:37:42.480
 not be

00:37:42.480 --> 00:37:43.360
 what honors

00:37:43.360 --> 00:37:43.940
 the Lord

00:37:43.940 --> 00:37:46.440
 and so

00:37:46.440 --> 00:37:46.960
 before you

00:37:46.960 --> 00:37:47.660
 do that

00:37:47.660 --> 00:37:50.400
 would you

00:37:50.400 --> 00:37:51.000
 ask yourself

00:37:51.000 --> 00:37:51.620
 these questions

00:37:51.620 --> 00:37:51.980
 that I'm

00:37:51.980 --> 00:37:52.500
 wanting to ask

00:37:52.500 --> 00:37:53.019
 myself

00:37:53.019 --> 00:37:55.840
 if I do

00:37:55.840 --> 00:37:56.420
 this will

00:37:56.420 --> 00:37:56.739
 it make

00:37:56.739 --> 00:37:57.960
 me more

00:37:57.960 --> 00:37:58.599
 spiritually

00:37:58.599 --> 00:37:59.460
 mature

00:37:59.460 --> 00:38:03.699
 if I do

00:38:03.699 --> 00:38:04.340
 this will

00:38:04.340 --> 00:38:05.800
 help other

00:38:05.800 --> 00:38:07.739
 people grow

00:38:07.739 --> 00:38:08.860
 in their

00:38:08.860 --> 00:38:09.239
 faith

00:38:09.239 --> 00:38:12.699
 if I

00:38:12.699 --> 00:38:13.340
 choose

00:38:13.340 --> 00:38:13.900
 this

00:38:13.900 --> 00:38:15.780
 will I

00:38:15.780 --> 00:38:16.340
 be denying

00:38:16.340 --> 00:38:17.079
 myself

00:38:17.079 --> 00:38:20.280
 and serving

00:38:20.280 --> 00:38:20.800
 the people

00:38:20.800 --> 00:38:21.880
 around me

00:38:21.880 --> 00:38:23.039
 that's a big

00:38:23.039 --> 00:38:23.539
 one for me

00:38:23.539 --> 00:38:26.320
 if I do

00:38:26.320 --> 00:38:26.740
 this

00:38:26.740 --> 00:38:27.180
 freedom

00:38:27.180 --> 00:38:27.860
 this thing

00:38:27.860 --> 00:38:28.180
 that I

00:38:28.180 --> 00:38:28.619
 can do

00:38:28.619 --> 00:38:29.260
 will I

00:38:29.260 --> 00:38:29.820
 be denying

00:38:29.820 --> 00:38:30.420
 myself

00:38:30.420 --> 00:38:32.880
 instead of

00:38:32.880 --> 00:38:33.599
 serving Tobin

00:38:33.599 --> 00:38:35.519
 serve somebody

00:38:35.519 --> 00:38:35.880
 else

00:38:35.880 --> 00:38:37.039
 who needs

00:38:37.039 --> 00:38:37.300
 to be

00:38:37.300 --> 00:38:37.660
 served

00:38:37.660 --> 00:38:40.599
 if I do

00:38:40.599 --> 00:38:41.099
 this

00:38:41.099 --> 00:38:42.920
 will I

00:38:42.920 --> 00:38:43.340
 bring glory

00:38:43.340 --> 00:38:43.820
 to God

00:38:43.820 --> 00:38:46.760
 and it

00:38:46.760 --> 00:38:47.240
 could be a ton

00:38:47.240 --> 00:38:47.519
 of different

00:38:47.519 --> 00:38:47.900
 things you

00:38:47.900 --> 00:38:48.300
 could be dating

00:38:48.300 --> 00:38:48.800
 a guy

00:38:48.800 --> 00:38:49.280
 or a girl

00:38:49.280 --> 00:38:49.700
 you could be

00:38:49.700 --> 00:38:50.119
 hanging out

00:38:50.119 --> 00:38:50.380
 with a group

00:38:50.380 --> 00:38:50.739
 of people

00:38:50.739 --> 00:38:51.119
 you could be

00:38:51.119 --> 00:38:51.659
 having sex

00:38:51.659 --> 00:38:52.059
 outside the

00:38:52.059 --> 00:38:52.380
 office

00:38:52.380 --> 00:38:53.059
 sex outside

00:38:53.059 --> 00:38:53.480
 of marriage

00:38:53.480 --> 00:38:54.279
 you could be

00:38:54.279 --> 00:38:54.900
 fulfilling your

00:38:54.900 --> 00:38:55.719
 sexual fantasies

00:38:55.719 --> 00:38:56.259
 you could be

00:38:56.259 --> 00:38:56.759
 taking a new

00:38:56.759 --> 00:38:57.159
 job

00:38:57.159 --> 00:38:57.799
 you could be

00:38:57.799 --> 00:38:58.579
 watching things

00:38:58.579 --> 00:38:58.779
 that are

00:38:58.779 --> 00:38:59.139
 questionable

00:38:59.139 --> 00:38:59.519
 you could be

00:38:59.519 --> 00:38:59.859
 listening to

00:38:59.859 --> 00:39:00.159
 things that are

00:39:00.159 --> 00:39:00.460
 questionable

00:39:00.460 --> 00:39:01.099
 you could be

00:39:01.099 --> 00:39:01.819
 buying products

00:39:01.819 --> 00:39:02.179
 that you hope

00:39:02.179 --> 00:39:02.659
 will fulfill

00:39:02.659 --> 00:39:03.119
 your life

00:39:03.119 --> 00:39:03.460
 and make you

00:39:03.460 --> 00:39:03.980
 happy and

00:39:03.980 --> 00:39:04.500
 whole and

00:39:04.500 --> 00:39:05.059
 great and

00:39:05.059 --> 00:39:05.359
 happy

00:39:05.359 --> 00:39:05.980
 you could be

00:39:05.980 --> 00:39:06.339
 using your

00:39:06.339 --> 00:39:06.619
 money in

00:39:06.619 --> 00:39:07.039
 different ways

00:39:07.039 --> 00:39:07.799
 and all of

00:39:07.799 --> 00:39:08.279
 these things

00:39:08.279 --> 00:39:08.839
 are not just

00:39:08.839 --> 00:39:09.299
 sex

00:39:09.299 --> 00:39:10.139
 because the

00:39:10.139 --> 00:39:10.659
 passage isn't

00:39:10.659 --> 00:39:11.179
 just about

00:39:11.179 --> 00:39:11.679
 sex

00:39:11.679 --> 00:39:12.599
 the passage is

00:39:12.599 --> 00:39:12.960
 about your

00:39:12.960 --> 00:39:13.380
 soul

00:39:13.380 --> 00:39:14.119
 and how you

00:39:14.119 --> 00:39:14.799
 choose to walk

00:39:14.799 --> 00:39:15.099
 with the

00:39:15.099 --> 00:39:15.400
 Lord

00:39:15.400 --> 00:39:19.380
 and is the

00:39:19.380 --> 00:39:20.260
 cross enough

00:39:20.260 --> 00:39:25.300
 or do we

00:39:25.300 --> 00:39:25.660
 need something

00:39:25.660 --> 00:39:26.019
 else

00:39:26.019 --> 00:39:28.460
 that's what the

00:39:28.460 --> 00:39:28.880
 passage is

00:39:28.880 --> 00:39:29.119
 about

00:39:29.119 --> 00:39:31.079
 he just uses

00:39:31.079 --> 00:39:31.660
 sex as a

00:39:31.660 --> 00:39:32.300
 vehicle because

00:39:32.300 --> 00:39:32.780
 they were really

00:39:32.780 --> 00:39:33.340
 struggling with it

00:39:33.340 --> 00:39:33.840
 but we might be

00:39:33.840 --> 00:39:34.240
 struggling with

00:39:34.240 --> 00:39:34.840
 something else

00:39:34.840 --> 00:39:40.340
 father we thank you

00:39:40.340 --> 00:39:40.760
 for this day

00:39:40.760 --> 00:39:41.240
 we thank you for

00:39:41.240 --> 00:39:41.660
 your mercy

00:39:41.660 --> 00:39:42.500
 and your grace

00:39:42.500 --> 00:39:43.699
 we thank you

00:39:43.699 --> 00:39:44.199
 that you come

00:39:44.199 --> 00:39:44.760
 at us with

00:39:44.760 --> 00:39:45.320
 your word

00:39:45.320 --> 00:39:46.579
 you come at

00:39:46.579 --> 00:39:46.940
 us with the

00:39:46.940 --> 00:39:47.400
 cross

00:39:47.400 --> 00:39:49.340
 I think most

00:39:49.340 --> 00:39:49.880
 of us have

00:39:49.880 --> 00:39:50.639
 never experienced

00:39:50.639 --> 00:39:51.099
 that before

00:39:51.099 --> 00:39:51.619
 because we're

00:39:51.619 --> 00:39:52.019
 in a world

00:39:52.019 --> 00:39:52.300
 where we're

00:39:52.300 --> 00:39:52.739
 getting come

00:39:52.739 --> 00:39:53.699
 at by pain

00:39:53.699 --> 00:39:55.179
 and sorrow

00:39:55.179 --> 00:39:56.039
 and harsh

00:39:56.039 --> 00:39:56.699
 words and

00:39:56.699 --> 00:39:57.420
 harsh languages

00:39:57.420 --> 00:39:58.940
 you come at

00:39:58.940 --> 00:39:59.360
 us as a

00:39:59.360 --> 00:39:59.840
 father who

00:39:59.840 --> 00:40:00.320
 loves his

00:40:00.320 --> 00:40:00.659
 children

00:40:00.659 --> 00:40:02.320
 so what I

00:40:02.320 --> 00:40:02.880
 pray for us

00:40:02.880 --> 00:40:03.380
 today as a

00:40:03.380 --> 00:40:03.760
 church

00:40:03.760 --> 00:40:05.659
 I pray that

00:40:05.659 --> 00:40:06.059
 we would learn

00:40:06.059 --> 00:40:06.340
 from the

00:40:06.340 --> 00:40:06.639
 church of

00:40:06.639 --> 00:40:06.980
 Corinth

00:40:06.980 --> 00:40:09.179
 I pray that

00:40:09.179 --> 00:40:09.579
 we wouldn't

00:40:09.579 --> 00:40:10.599
 take advantage

00:40:10.599 --> 00:40:11.320
 of our freedoms

00:40:11.320 --> 00:40:11.659
 but we'd

00:40:11.659 --> 00:40:12.139
 realize that

00:40:12.139 --> 00:40:12.599
 they have

00:40:12.599 --> 00:40:13.539
 an incredible

00:40:13.539 --> 00:40:14.480
 capacity to do

00:40:14.480 --> 00:40:15.239
 amazing things

00:40:15.239 --> 00:40:15.639
 but they also

00:40:15.639 --> 00:40:16.259
 have an incredible

00:40:16.259 --> 00:40:17.859
 capacity to

00:40:17.859 --> 00:40:18.199
 hurt

00:40:18.199 --> 00:40:20.420
 to damage

00:40:20.420 --> 00:40:22.779
 those around

00:40:22.779 --> 00:40:23.179
 us

00:40:23.179 --> 00:40:24.259
 and to bring

00:40:24.259 --> 00:40:24.579
 us into

00:40:24.579 --> 00:40:25.159
 bondage

00:40:25.159 --> 00:40:27.039
 Lord you've

00:40:27.039 --> 00:40:27.359
 given us

00:40:27.359 --> 00:40:28.239
 incredible amounts

00:40:28.239 --> 00:40:28.639
 of freedom

00:40:28.639 --> 00:40:29.179
 in the gospel

00:40:29.179 --> 00:40:29.819
 as your people

00:40:29.819 --> 00:40:31.879
 but still those

00:40:31.879 --> 00:40:32.819
 freedoms have

00:40:32.819 --> 00:40:34.199
 powers to

00:40:34.199 --> 00:40:35.139
 change and to

00:40:35.139 --> 00:40:35.619
 influence

00:40:35.619 --> 00:40:38.359
 help us to be a

00:40:38.359 --> 00:40:39.219
 church that uses

00:40:39.219 --> 00:40:40.019
 that wisely

00:40:40.019 --> 00:40:43.099
 help us to be a

00:40:43.099 --> 00:40:46.539
 people that uses

00:40:46.539 --> 00:40:47.820
 that wisely

00:40:47.820 --> 00:40:50.119
 may we be able

00:40:50.119 --> 00:40:50.599
 to say that

00:40:50.599 --> 00:40:51.019
 we're better

00:40:51.019 --> 00:40:51.699
 because of the

00:40:51.699 --> 00:40:53.440
 freedoms because

00:40:53.440 --> 00:40:54.139
 our freedoms are

00:40:54.139 --> 00:40:55.099
 focused on others

00:40:55.099 --> 00:40:56.759
 and on your

00:40:56.759 --> 00:40:57.139
 son

00:40:57.139 --> 00:40:59.259
 father I pray for

00:40:59.259 --> 00:41:00.039
 those my brothers

00:41:00.039 --> 00:41:00.759
 and sisters here

00:41:00.759 --> 00:41:01.659
 right now who are

00:41:01.659 --> 00:41:02.280
 struggling with

00:41:02.280 --> 00:41:02.820
 Christianity

00:41:02.820 --> 00:41:05.079
 maybe they're

00:41:05.079 --> 00:41:06.139
 struggling with the

00:41:06.139 --> 00:41:07.219
 sexuality part of

00:41:07.219 --> 00:41:07.739
 it maybe they're

00:41:07.739 --> 00:41:08.380
 struggling with they

00:41:08.380 --> 00:41:09.039
 have to give up

00:41:09.039 --> 00:41:09.639
 something maybe

00:41:09.639 --> 00:41:10.219
 they have to give

00:41:10.219 --> 00:41:11.179
 up their

00:41:11.179 --> 00:41:11.960
 lifestyle and they

00:41:11.960 --> 00:41:12.519
 know that they

00:41:12.519 --> 00:41:13.019
 don't want to do

00:41:13.019 --> 00:41:13.400
 that

00:41:13.400 --> 00:41:15.619
 Lord I pray that

00:41:15.619 --> 00:41:16.059
 you would meet

00:41:16.059 --> 00:41:17.559
 them in their

00:41:17.559 --> 00:41:17.920
 heart

00:41:17.920 --> 00:41:20.719
 they would see

00:41:20.719 --> 00:41:21.400
 your love for

00:41:21.400 --> 00:41:21.860
 them and your

00:41:21.860 --> 00:41:22.779
 desire to bring

00:41:22.779 --> 00:41:23.659
 them to a place

00:41:23.659 --> 00:41:25.860
 that is not

00:41:25.860 --> 00:41:26.820
 disordered

00:41:26.820 --> 00:41:29.779
 but has meaning

00:41:29.779 --> 00:41:31.619
 and purpose

00:41:31.619 --> 00:41:33.719
 and hope

00:41:33.719 --> 00:41:36.739
 father help us to

00:41:36.739 --> 00:41:37.379
 be a church that

00:41:37.379 --> 00:41:38.559
 holds your grace

00:41:38.559 --> 00:41:39.439
 and your freedom

00:41:39.439 --> 00:41:42.159
 well that makes it

00:41:42.159 --> 00:41:43.119
 attractive to those

00:41:43.119 --> 00:41:43.759
 around us who are

00:41:43.759 --> 00:41:45.899
 dying so they might

00:41:45.899 --> 00:41:48.079
 see your son and

00:41:48.079 --> 00:41:48.619
 fall in love with

00:41:48.619 --> 00:41:51.039
 him father we love

00:41:51.039 --> 00:41:53.279
 you we pray these

00:41:53.279 --> 00:41:53.779
 things your son

00:41:53.779 --> 00:41:55.839
 Jesus name amen

00:41:55.840 --> 00:41:56.440
 oh

00:41:56.440 --> 00:42:21.360
 oh