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Robert Jeffress - The New Moral (Dis)Order (Part 1)

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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - The New Moral (Dis)Order (Part 1) | June 17, 2026

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♪♪♪
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Male announcer: from the pulpit of the first baptist
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Church of dallas, texas, this is "pathway to victory"
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With dr. robert jeffress.
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Dr. robert jeffress: hi, i'm robert jeffress and welcome
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Again to "pathway to victory."
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Do you ever look around the world today and barely
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Recognize it?
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The values that once defined this nation, the convictions
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That shaped our families and communities seem to be
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Disappearing right before our eyes.
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Well, today i'm going to show you what scripture says about
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The moral unraveling of our culture.
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My message is titled "the new moral disorder" on today's
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Edition of "pathway to victory."
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Jeffress: before today's program begins, i want to invite you to
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Another 250 years?"
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On "pathway to victory."
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Announcer: as our nation marks 250 years, america
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Stands at a crossroads.
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Path that leads to ruin?
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Jeffress: perhaps you've seen this headline, most americans
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Think country headed in wrong direction.
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Did you know a recent survey revealed that 66% of americans
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Agree with that sentiment?
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When an amtrak train north of philadelphia went off of the
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Tracks, many were injured, some were killed, but as tragic as
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That was, even more, tragic is when a nation goes off the
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Rails, the results are even more disastrous, and we're seeing
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That happening right now in our nation and our world.
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How is it that our nation has gotten so far off track?
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Billy graham provides an insightful answer.
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He writes, "that moral and spiritual decadence is upon us
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Today becomes evident at every turn of our daily newspaper.
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We live in a day when old values are rejected and the sense of
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Significance and purpose has disappeared
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From many people's lives.
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Yes, we need to cry out to be saved, saved from ourselves for
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It is the soul of a nation and a culture that is dying.
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The world is on a moral binge such as was not known even in
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The days of rome.
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We have at our fingertips every pleasure that man is capable of
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Enjoying and man is abused every gift god ever gave him,
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Including sex, until he no longer finds joy and
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Satisfaction in them."
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Dr. graham wrote those words in his book, "world of flame" that
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Was published in 1965, 50 years ago.
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If it was true, then how much more true is it now?
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You know, we keep hearing over and over again that our culture
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Is evolving.
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We are getting better and better as a civilization, but the
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Evidence suggests the contrary.
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We are devolving as a nation and as a world, and it is that moral
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And spiritual deterioration of our world, that is the final
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Sign of the coming of jesus christ.
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And that's what we're going to talk about today is we continue
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Our series, "countdown the apocalypse."
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We're going to look at what the bible says about the moral
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Deterioration of our world and how it will be a precursor to
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The return of jesus christ.
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Is our culture really devolving?
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What evidence is there, pastor?
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Let me point out three signs of the moral deterioration of our
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Nation and of our world.
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First of all, consider the spiritual deterioration
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Of our culture.
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Few research released a major survey in which they revealed
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That the number of christians is declining in america from 2007
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Until now, that number has gone from 78% of the population who
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Identify as christians to 70%.
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For the first time ever, the number of people who don't
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Identify with any faith has risen to one-fourth of our
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Population, nearly 75 million who don't identify with any
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Faith at all.
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You see, for the first 200 years this nation benefited from a
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Christian foundation, and although the beliefs of
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Christianity were not accepted by everyone, everyone including
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Non-christians benefited from that christian foundation.
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It gave our nation a universal and a common understanding of
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Right and wrong.
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It provided a compelling reason for people to obey what is right
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Because of a fear of god.
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And for the last 200 years, in essence, 250 years, everyone
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Including non-christians have been freeloading, so to speak
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Off the benefits of a christian nation.
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But now that that foundation is deteriorating and eroding, we
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Are beginning to see the cultural effects of a nation
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That has moved away from god.
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You see that secondly in the family, that spiritual and moral
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Deterioration manifests itself in the family.
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Did you know that from 1970 to 2010 the rate of marriage in our
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Country declined by 50%?
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We had the lowest rate of marriage
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In 93 years and that presents all kind of instability in
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Society, single parent homes, children being reared without
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The benefit of a father and a mother.
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It's also of interest that since 1960 the divorce rate
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In our country has nearly doubled.
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You see, thirdly, the deterioration
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Of our culture in violence.
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Every year for the last 20 years, there have been
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Over 1 million violent crimes in our country.
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In 1947, a sociologist named dr. carl zimmerman wrote a book
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Entitled "family and civilization."
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He identified 11 symptoms of decay that were the cause of the
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Fall of the roman and greek civilizations.
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Now, i want you to listen to these 11 signs or 11 symptoms
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That caused the decay of these civilizations.
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See if any of them sound familiar.
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Number one, no fault divorce.
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Number two, what he calls the birth dearth.
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Increased disrespect for parenthood and parents.
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Number three, meaningless marriage rights and ceremonies.
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Number four, defamation of past national heroes.
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Number five, acceptance of alternative marriage forms.
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Number six, widespread attitudes of feminism,
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Narcissism, and hedonism.
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Number seven, propagation of antifamily sentiment.
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Number eight, acceptance of most forms of adultery.
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Number nine, rebellious children.
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Number ten, increased juvenile delinquency.
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Number 11, common acceptance of all forms of sexual perversion.
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Now, dr. zimmerman wrote that in 1947, citing the cause of the
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Decline of civilizations thousands of years ago.
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What is the solution to our moral deterioration?
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How do you reverse this downward trend in a word repentance?
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You know, when we think of repentance, we think of the
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Scraggly guy with a sandwich board roaming the streets
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Saying, "repent the end of the world is near."
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The word repent actually is a greek word, "metanoia."
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It means a change of mind that leads to a change in behavior.
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As individuals and as a nation, we need to have a change of mind
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That leads to a change of direction in our lives.
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Instead of rebelling against what god has said, we need to
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Start obeying what god has said.
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Listen, as an individual or a nation, we will never experience
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God's blessing when we are rebelling against him.
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It is impossible.
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No individual, no nation will be blessed that rebels against god.
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And as a nation we are rebelling against god, we are shaking our
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Fist in the face of god in two distinct areas.
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First of all, in the area of what god says about marriage.
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Let's look and see what the bible really says
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About marriage.
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And the best place to start is at the starting place.
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That's profound, isn't it?
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Let's go back to the book of genesis and i want you to look
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At the opening sentence in the bible.
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"in the beginning god created the heavens and the earth."
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In this simple statement, we find the answers to the
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Question, where did i come from?
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Why am i here?
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Where am i going?
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And we find in these opening chapters of genesis, a
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Description of how god created everything that is in the world.
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And you'll remember that on the sixth day of creation,
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He performed his crowning work of creation,
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The creation of mankind.
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Look at verses 26 through 28, "then god said, 'let us make man
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In our image, according to our likeness, and let them rule over
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The fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the
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Cattle and over all the earth and over every creeping thing
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That creeps on the earth.'
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And god created man in his own image.
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In the image of god he created him; male and female,
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He created them.
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God blessed them and god said to them, 'be fruitful and multiply,
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Fill the earth, and subdue it and rule over the fish of the
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Sea and over the birds of the sky and over everything that
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Moves on the earth.'"
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Now, in this passage, we find several
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Important principles about god's purpose from the beginning.
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First of all, man is created in the image of god.
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Would you write that down?
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Man is created in the image of god.
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Look at verse 27, "and god created man in his own image,
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In the image of god he created him."
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That hebrew word for image literally means statue.
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A statue is a representation of something else.
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You and i have been created as statues, as images
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Of someone greater than us.
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We are created in the image of god.
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Now, you may love your dog, you may love your cat,
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You may treat them like little gods, but they're not, okay?
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They were never created, the bible said, in the image of god.
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Only man has been created in the image of god.
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There is a great gulf between the animal world
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And in humanity.
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All flesh is not the same flesh.
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We are not just an evolved form of the animals.
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The bible says there is a great gulf of separation between
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Men and animals.
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In 1 corinthians 15:39, paul "all flesh is not the same
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Flesh, there is one flesh of men and another flesh of beast and
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Another flesh of birds and another of fish."
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The bible says, god created man in his own image.
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Principle number two, god separated mankind into two
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Categories; male and female.
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Look at verse 27 again, "he created him; male and female."
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There are two categories of creation, not three.
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God did not create mankind; male, female, and question mark.
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It is male and female.
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Now, i don't want to get off into the weeds this morning, but
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We understand that since the fall, because of the fall, there
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Have been some genetic abnormalities that occur.
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You see it in people who are born deformed, people with
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Handicaps.
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There are genetic deformities that are part of the fall, but
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Don't miss the big point.
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The big point is god's original purpose in creation is two
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Categories of human beings, male and female.
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And in those two categories you find an equality.
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The fact that he said he created the male and female means
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That both are equal in the sight of god.
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Don't ever forget that principle.
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Don't let somebody tell you that the bible says
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That women are inferior to men.
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Nothing could be further from the truth.
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Peter said women are fellow heirs with men to the grace
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Of god, he created them male and female.
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There's an equality, but listen, equality doesn't mean sameness.
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God never meant for men and women to be the same.
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If men and women were created to be the same,
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Then one is unnecessary.
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Why didn't god create everybody to be a man?
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Because there is a difference in function even though there's an
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Equality in stature before god.
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And you see this difference from the very beginning in creation.
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He created them male and female, and that means there's a
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Difference in the way we act.
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There's a difference in responsibility.
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There is a difference in how we relate to one another including
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How we relate to one another sexually.
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And that's where you find in the bible and why you find the
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Prohibition against homosexual behavior.
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I want you to write down some of these verses.
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People who say, "well, nowhere does the bible
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Talk about homosexuality."
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Listen to what the bible says.
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Leviticus 18, verse 22.
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You--talking to men.
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"you shall not lie with a male as one lies with a female;
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It is an abomination."
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Leviticus 20, verse 13.
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"if there is a man who lies with a male as those who lie with a
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Woman, both of them have committed a detestable act;
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They shall surely be put to death.
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Their blood guiltiness is upon them."
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Could you be any more clear about what god thinks
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Of the homosexual act?
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He says it is detestable.
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He says it is an abomination.
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That's the word of god.
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Now, some people would say, well, wait a minute, you
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Christians, you are so hypocritical because you just
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Pick and choose which verse is out of the bible
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You want to obey.
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Because in those same levitical passages, it also prohibits what
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You can eat and how you can dress, and it prescribes that
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You go through all of these rituals in your worship and
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Offering bloody animals as a sacrifice.
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You don't do those things.
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Why do you disregard those rules but you pull out and adhere to
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These rules?
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Well, there's a very simple reason for that.
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There's a very simple answer.
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The only rules of the old testament that apply to us today
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Are those rules that are repeated in the new testament.
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We don't live under the old testament.
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We don't follow the jewish rituals for diet and worship
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And law.
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We don't follow those anymore, they are part
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Of the old testament.
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The word old means old, okay?
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It doesn't apply to us any longer.
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The--we live under the new testament, the new agreement,
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The new law of god.
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And the only parts of the old testament we repeat--we follow
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Are those parts of the old testament that are repeated
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In the new testament.
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The new testament says nothing about dietary restrictions.
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It says nothing about how you dress about wearing pieces
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Of garments that have two fabrics in them.
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It says nothing about how you plant crops.
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It has nothing about sacrifices.
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Those things are old, but the bible does repeat in the new
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Testament, commandments about adultery and
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Premarital sex and homosexuality.
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You know, i just don't understand why it is some
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Christians wanna go back and try to live under the old testament.
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It's gone. it's been done away with.
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It is idiotic to go back and try to keep the dietary restrictions
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And the feast and all that.
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Paul said they are shadows of what is in the past.
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We live under the new agreement, but in this new agreement, there
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Are prohibitions against homosexuality.
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For example, in romans 1, verses 26 and 27, paul said, "for this
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Reason god gave them over to degrading passions; for their
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Women exchange the natural function for that which is
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Unnatural, and in the same way also, men abandoned the natural
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Function of the woman and burned in their desire toward one
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Another, men with men committing indecent acts and receiving in
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Their persons, their bodies, the due penalty of their error."
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God's word says homosexuality is unnatural.
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Literally, that means it is against nature.
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It is against the laws of god.
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It is against the natural law of god and there are severe
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Consequences in every area of life for it.
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Or consider 1 corinthians 6, verses 9 and 10, paul said, "or
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Do you not know that the unrighteous shall not inherit
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The kingdom of god?"
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Who are the unrighteous?
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"don't be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor
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Adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals, nor thieves, nor
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The covetous, nor drunkards or revivals or swindlers shall
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Inherit the kingdom of god."
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Did you get that?
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Homosexuals paul said, will not inherit the kingdom of god and
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Neither will adulterers.
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If you've ever committed adultery, you don't get to go to
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Heaven, the bible says.
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And by the way, jesus said if you've ever lusted in your heart
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After another person who's not your mate,
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You're guilty of adultery.
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So nobody who's lusted gets to go to heaven.
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No homosexual gets to go to heaven.
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No fornicator, that's premarital sex.
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If you've ever had premarital sex, you're out as well.
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If you're a covetous person that is somebody who's ever desired
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What somebody else has, you're not making it to heaven,
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You're going to hell.
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If you're an idolater, what's an idolater?
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It's anybody who loves something more than they love god.
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If you've ever loved a possession or a person more than
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You've loved god, count yourself out.
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You're not going to heaven.
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Nobody's going to heaven on their own.
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Verse 11 says, "but you were washed.
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You were covered with the blood.
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You were sanctified, you were forgiven."
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Ladies and gentlemen, there is no sin from which you
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Can't be forgiven.
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Homosexuality is not the unpardonable sin.
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You can be forgiven of homosexuality, you can be
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Forgiven of any sin, but get this, to be forgiven of a sin,
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You first must admit that you have sinned, and we have to
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Admit what the bible says.
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Homosexuality is a sin.
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That's what the bible teaches.
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There's a prohibition against homosexual behavior.
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Secondly, that leads to there is certainly a prohibition against
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Homosexual marriage.
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Well, jesus never talked about homosexuality, and he certainly
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Never said anything about homosexual marriage.
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Oh, yes, he did.
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Where did he talk about it?
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He talked about it in matthew 19.
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Turn over to matthew chapter 19.
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Remember the pharisees were trying to trip jesus up and they
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Came to the lord and they said, "lord, is it lawful for a man to
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Divorce his wife for any reason at all?"
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Some of the pharisees believed in no fault divorce, others were
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Very strict about it, so they wanted the lord to try to take a
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Stand and trip himself up.
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So they said, "lord, answer this divorce question for us."
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He was so wise in how he did it.
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He went to the old testament that they said they revered.
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Verse 4, matthew 19, "and jesus answered and said, 'have you not
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Read that he who created them from the beginning made them
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Male and female,' and he said, for this cause, a man shall
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Leave his mother and father and shall cleave to his wife, and
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The two shall become one flesh.
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Consequently, they are no longer two, but they are one.
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What therefore god has joined together, let no man separate."
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What jesus is saying is if you wanna know the answer to the
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Divorce question, let's go back and see god's original plan
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For marriage.
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Genesis 1 and genesis 2.
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It is one man with one woman for a lifetime.
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That's god's plan.
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Jesus affirmed god's plan and by setting god's standard, one man
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With one woman for life, he is saying that any deviation from
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That standard, not just gay marriage but any deviation,
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Adultery, premarital sex, unbiblical divorce, those are
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All sins because they don't measure up to the standard, the
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Perfect standard of god.
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Jesus did address the marriage question.
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He said it's one man with one woman for a lifetime.
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You know the bible is not a cafeteria where you get to go
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Through the line and pick and choose those parts
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That you like.
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It doesn't work that way.
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If you're a follower of christ, you accept
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All of christ's teachings.
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Now, i know there's some people who say, "well, i just wish
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We didn't talk about this gay marriage stuff,
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It is so controversial.
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We should just keep silent about it and not talk about it.
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We do not do the world a favor when we stay silent about
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What god has said.
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♪♪♪
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Jeffress: the evidence is undeniable.
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Spiritually, morally, and as a society, america is headed
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In the wrong direction, and god's word tells us
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Exactly where that road leads, but i wanna be clear.
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No political party and no government policy is
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Going to turn this nation around.
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Only jesus christ can do that.
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Consider how people view issues today like
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Abortion, same-sex marriage,
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Or gender identity, and compare that
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To 50 or 60 years ago.
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The difference is frightening.
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And next time i'm going to explain why these drastic
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Changes in morality are actually a
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Sign of the last days.
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Jeffress: in the last days, the antichrist is gonna speak
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Out against god and he's gonna speak out against
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The people of god.
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He's going to attempt to wear them down.
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He will also try to make alterations in times
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And in the law.
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He's saying that this final world dictator will seek to
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Change the most basic laws of humanity.
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Two of the message,
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"the new moral disorder"
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Robert Jeffress - The New Moral (Dis)Order (Part 1)

June 17, 2026 | 27:29

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