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Jack Graham - Guard Your Heart

November 30, 2025 | 29:30

Jack Graham - Guard Your Heart
Dr. Jack Graham's mission is to glorify God by introducing Jesus Christ to as Lord to all people.
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Power Point with Jack Graham | Jack Graham - Guard Your Heart | November 30, 2025
  • Just because i'm a pastor doesn't mean stress doesn't
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  • Affect me. the weight of responsibilities, the pressure
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  • Of deadlines, the burden of caring for others - it all can
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  • Add up. but here's what i've discovered. god has never
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  • Intended for us to carry these burdens by ourselves. that's
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  • Why i want to put my book “breaking free from stress” in
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  • Your hands today.
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  • This isn't just another self-help guide of time
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  • Management, but it is the truth, straight out of god's
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  • Word, to help you break free from the stress that can
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  • Enslave, chain, and shackle us. in “breaking free from stress”
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  • You'll discover biblical principles for finding peace in
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  • The middle of all that chaos. practical tools for managing
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  • Life's pressures, and most importantly, how to rest in the
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  • Promises of god when everything can seem overwhelming.
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  • Of our savior through your gift today.
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  • Thank you for giving, and may you break free from the stress
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  • That can hold you back for your good and for god's glory.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • There is no person that god cannot save!
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  • There is no promise that god will not keep!
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  • There is nothing that our god cannot do!
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  • Sexuality is a god-given gift. but adultery... sexual sin
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  • Perverts and pollutes this gift. god has established
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  • Marriage as the way to personal fulfillment, satisfaction and
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  • Intimacy. one man, one woman committed to one another for
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  • Life!... jesus said in matthew 19, verse 6 that he created
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  • Them in the beginning male and female, and the two should
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  • Become one flesh.
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  • God takes two people, a man and a woman, and brings them
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  • Together, blends their lives, their personalities, their
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  • Backgrounds, their bodies into one. and while it seems like it
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  • Wouldn't work-- some are saying marriage is antiquated, it
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  • Can't work today, god says, "i will make it work if you will
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  • Let me." it's divine mathematics; it's... it's music
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  • When it happens god's way. it's like a violin and a bow:
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  • Separately, not so much, but you bring the bow and the
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  • Violin and together they make magnificent music.
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  • Our sex-crazed culture tries to convince us that any kind of
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  • Sex is normal. and therefore we are systematically dismantling
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  • Traditional, biblical marriage. we believe god created the
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  • Physical act of marriage, not only for procreation and
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  • Reproduction, but for the enjoyment of the human race,
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  • For the pleasure of mankind, for genuine intimacy. so this
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  • Is god's idea! and you can't improve on god's idea.
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  • David was a man after god's own heart, the sweet shepherd and
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  • Singer of israel, who rose to kingdom power. but he failed to
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  • Guard his heart! and with a sense of entitlement, while his
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  • Generals are off to war, david is loitering about in
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  • Semi-retirement at his palace when he sees a woman bathing.
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  • He looks, and rather than turning on his heels and asking
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  • God to give him strength to maintain his purity, he looked,
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  • He looked, he looked again. he took her as his own, committed
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  • Adultery. he then arranged the murder of the woman's husband,
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  • Uriah the hitite.
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  • Think of the commandments that david broke! he coveted another
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  • Man's wife, he took her from him, he lied about it, he
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  • Committed adultery, he ended up committing murder by consent in
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  • Arranging this murder of uriah. plus, he dishonored god and
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  • Committed spiritual adultery. worshipped the idol. when god
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  • Chose to use a word to describe idolatry he called it spiritual
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  • Adultery. not being faithful and true to god. and david paid
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  • A heavy price for his sin.
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  • It's dangerous and it is destructive. how so? let me
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  • Just mention four ways. one, when you commit this sin, you
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  • Do incredible damage to your spouse... your husband or your
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  • Wife. you betray them, you break your promises, you
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  • Destroy trust. and so often adultery is covered by secrets
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  • And lies and deceit and cheating that is often worse
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  • Than the act itself. now, thankfully it is possible to
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  • Restore a marriage broken by betrayal. thankfully, there is
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  • Forgiveness and your spouse may choose to forgive you and work
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  • Again to restore the marriage. and i've seen that happen. and
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  • We celebrate the grace of god in that. but it is exceedingly
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  • Difficult and hard, and often takes a lifetime to rebuild the
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  • Trust. this is why jesus provided a just cause in the
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  • Sermon on the mount a release clause, if you will, because of
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  • Divorce by adultery or adultery provides for a just cause for
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  • Divorce. because it is such a betrayal of your spouse, and it
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  • Hurts very deeply.
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  • Secondly, you do damage to yourself. the scripture says in
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  • First corinthians 6:18 that this sin in particular--this is
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  • One of the ways in which it is in a category in and of
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  • Itself-- this sin is against your own body; it's a sin
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  • Against yourself. you don't have to be a therapist to know
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  • Of the psychological, emotional, as well as physical
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  • Miseries as result of committing this sin. adultery
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  • Is the result of a pattern typically of sinful bondage;
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  • Satanic bondage. and most often it doesn't just happen one
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  • Night or one time.
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  • This sin is most usually not a blow out, but a slow leak in a
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  • Person's life. a series of compromises and choices that
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  • Start in the heart and end up in action. and once you commit
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  • Sexual sin of any kind, it becomes easier and easier and
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  • Easier. and you become morally weaker and weaker and weaker.
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  • And the enemy satan will attack you at the point of your
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  • Vulnerability, your weakness. so that's why it's so much
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  • Easier to commit this sin again and again and again. that's why
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  • We have so many serial adulterers. it's a bondage, a
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  • Stronghold in peoples' lives. it's dangerous.
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  • I remember years ago speaking to a pastor friend of mine who
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  • Had fallen into sin, sexual sin. i asked him, "how could
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  • You stand up every week and preach god's word and pray and
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  • Lead a church while this was going on?" seriously, i can't
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  • Have a fight with deb graham and stand up here and preach!
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  • Much less, betray our wedding vows! i said, "how? how could
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  • You do this?" and his answer was what i've heard many times
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  • In many different ways. "well, every time i did it, i... i
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  • Promised god i would stop. it would never happen again. but i
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  • Couldn't stop."
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  • It's a sin against yourself! there are few sins that can do
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  • As much damage to your mental and emotional and spiritual
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  • Wellbeing as immorality and infidelity.
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  • Thirdly, you do damage to your children. how often are
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  • Children sacrificed on the altar of a man or a woman's
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  • Lust. the lives of countless children are ripped apart and
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  • Even ruined by adulterous parents. oh, i know, people say
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  • Children are resilient, children will get over it.
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  • Well, children typically are resilient and many do get
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  • Through it. they don't get over it; they get through it. but
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  • I'm telling you, children are hurt and harmed by this sin.
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  • And in particular it does damage to your children because
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  • When you get involved in this infidelity, you give up your
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  • Moral authority to lead your family. you lose the respect of
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  • Your children and even your grandchildren. adultery says to
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  • A child, “your mother is not worth anything. i am a liar and
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  • A cheat and an adulterer. and you, child, don't matter. what
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  • Matters is what i want.”
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  • Every child has the right to grow up in a home filled with
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  • Love and commitment, where mom loves dad and dad loves mom.
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  • Years ago, youth specialist and preacher evangelist jay strack
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  • Said over and over again, and it's right. he said the most
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  • Important question your teenager is asking is does dad
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  • Love mom? does mom love dad? because love in your home
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  • Provides security and safety that all of our children need.
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  • So you do damage to your children, you do damage to
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  • Yourself, you do damage to your spouse. you do damage to the
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  • Church! first corinthians chapter 12, verse 26 tells us
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  • That we are all members of the same body. the church is not
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  • Some organization that you join; it is the body of christ
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  • And it is a family of faith. therefore, we have a
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  • Responsibility and an accountability to one another!
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  • Don't say... if you're a member of the church and you name the
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  • Name of christ, don't says what i do is my business and not
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  • Your business! what you do is my business as a brother in
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  • Christ it's my business. and what i do is your business. we
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  • Are mutually submissive and accountable to one another in
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  • The body of christ. and if you are a christian, you have the
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  • Moral responsibility to maintain fidelity and
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  • Faithfulness to god's family!
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  • The witness and influence of the church is so damaged when
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  • You sin in this way! in fact, romans 2:24 says that the
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  • Gentiles blaspheme god. they mock god because of the sin
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  • That is in the church. no wonder the church in america is
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  • Having so little impact when countless members are
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  • Unfaithful to their promises. look, if we don't have the
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  • Power that we claim to change our lives... if we say god has
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  • The power to change my life... if we don't have the power to
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  • Control our lust, how can we try to change the world?
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  • Number four, you do damage to your relationship with god.
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  • Damage in the sense that your walk with god and your
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  • Fellowship with god is lost. not your relationship if you're
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  • A christian... you're secure in christ, but your walk with god,
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  • Your witness and your relationship with god is
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  • Severely damaged. this ought to be the first reason you don't
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  • Commit this sin!
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  • When david sinned and ultimately repented, with
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  • Bitter tears he cried out, "against you, god, and you only
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  • Have i sinned." now he had sinned against himself, he had
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  • Sinned against the nation, he sinned against uriah the... the
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  • Husband of bathsheba, he sinned against bathsheba, he sinned
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  • Against his wife, but ultimately david, the man after
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  • God's heart knew that "i have sinned against you, o god."
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  • When joseph resisted the seductions of potiphar's wife
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  • In egypt... when she reached out to take him and grabbed his
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  • Coat, said come to bed with me, david... or rather joseph was
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  • Handsome and young and vibrant and he was tempted, but he ran
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  • Out of the room. better to lose your coat than lose your
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  • Character. that's why the bible says relative to this sin, this
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  • Particular sin, flee fornication, run from this sin.
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  • Don't hang around and try to fight it. don't give the devil
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  • A stick to hit you with. put on your pf flyers and get out of
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  • There! get out of that situation. do whatever it takes
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  • To remove yourself because this sin ultimately is against god.
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  • Joseph said, "how can i do this great wickedness and sin
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  • Against god?"
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  • Now in the final closing moments of this message, i want
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  • To give you some preventative medicine. preventative medicine
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  • Is the best kind of medicine. and i want to give you some
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  • Steps that you can take to affair-proof your marriage, to
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  • Keep your heart and your life pure.
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  • Number one, cultivate your relationship with god. seek god
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  • With all your heart. don't give your heart over to anyone or
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  • Anything else, apart from him and his ways. the scripture
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  • Says in colossians 3:1 "set your affections (your desires)
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  • On things above and not on things below." let your heart
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  • Be for him. let your love be first and foremost to him,
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  • Because to love god with all your heart, your mind, your
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  • Soul and your strength, to love your neighbor as yourself,"
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  • This is... this is the collaboration of the
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  • Commandments. this is what jesus said it's all about.
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  • Cultivate your relationship with god.
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  • Pray for purity. galatians 5:16 tells us "walk in the spirit
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  • And do not fulfill the lust of the flesh." or to put it
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  • Another way, feed the spirit, starve the flesh. feed the
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  • Spirit; starve the flesh. and how do you feed the spirit? the
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  • Word of god is our food which nourishes us and builds us up
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  • Strong, that we may exercise faith, that we may resist
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  • Temptation. the psalmist said, psalm 119; "how shall a young
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  • Man cleanse his ways? by giving attention... by paying
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  • Attention to god's word. god's word.
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  • The scripture says in that same psalm, "hide god's word in your
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  • Heart... "let me hide god's word in my heart that i might
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  • Not sin against you." fill your mind, your heart, your life
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  • With god's word, wisdom for life, and strength for
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  • Everyday. cultivate your relationship with god. if you
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  • Will love jesus and fill your life with him, if you will walk
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  • In the spirit, he will strengthen you to keep your
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  • Promises, resist temptations and live in victory. the
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  • Greatest motivation you can have for living in purity is
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  • God himself. "blessed are the pure in heart for they will see
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  • God."
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  • Number two, continue to grow in your relationship with your
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  • Spouse. when you get married that's just the beginning, of
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  • Course. it's a beginning of a lifetime of commitment
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  • Together; husbands loving their wives as christ loved the
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  • Church; wives submitting themselves unto the lord and to
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  • Their husbands in lasting love. this is god's will; this is
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  • God's way, that we be friends and lovers, that we keep the
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  • Home fires burning.
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  • Keep them burning. worship together, pray together. the
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  • Best defense is a good offense when it comes to a happy
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  • Marriage. i say to young people marriage is worth waiting for,
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  • And i say to married people, your marriage is worth working
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  • For.
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  • Thirdly, counsel with godly people. seek the counsel of
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  • Godly people. find mentors for your marriage, models that set
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  • The example. and there are many... many.
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  • Seek biblical wisdom. there is safety in numbers. the
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  • Scripture says there is safety in a multitude of counselors.
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  • That means you should never isolate yourself from the body
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  • Of christ, from the people of god. one of the worse things
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  • You can do in life is to get isolated and start coverting in
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  • Secret. never isolate yourself! david was vulnerable because he
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  • Was alone rather than staying in the battle with his
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  • Soldiers. and that's when he started feeling semi-retired
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  • And semi-entitled to whatever he wanted.
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  • Avoid at all costs... (listen to your pastor now...) avoid at
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  • All costs ungodly companions and counsel. proverbs 13:20 "a
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  • Companion of fools will be destroyed." you hang out with
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  • The immoral crowd... you hang out with people who are abusive
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  • In their language, foul mouthed, filthy in their
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  • Actions. you lay down with dogs, you're going to end up
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  • With fleas. "bad company corrupts good morals." that's 1
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  • Corinthians 15:33. psalm 1[:1] says that we're to not take...
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  • To take counsel... "blessed is the man who walks not in the
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  • Counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners,
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  • Nor sits in the seat of the scoffers." get away from people
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  • Who lower your moral restraint, and get around people that
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  • Build you up and strengthen you in your walk with christ.
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  • And i have to say it, turn away from anyone or anything you
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  • Know that is wrong in word, thought and action. be
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  • Ruthless, relentless in resisting temptation. do
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  • Whatever it takes and never, ever justify your actions if
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  • They're wrong! don't get involved with that little
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  • Flirty deal that happens at the office. you know what i'm
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  • Talking about. i don't have to explain it, do i? that little
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  • Touchy, feely thing that starts, those conversations
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  • That begin discussing things that unmarried people... people
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  • Not married to each other should not be discussing;
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  • Business lunches, road trips together. you know exactly what
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  • I'm talking about. we've seen it too many times. counsel with
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  • Godly people. be accountable to your wife, to your husband for
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  • Your time, for your life and your lifestyle, and be
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  • Accountable to others.
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  • The church is a great place to stay strong in your faith. now
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  • I know... we all know you can be living a sinful life and be
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  • Sitting in church every week, but i know this: that if you
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  • Will gather with the people of god with sincerity and faith,
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  • That the church of jesus christ will help you to overcome.
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  • Fourthly and finally, count the cost. remember the warnings of
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  • Scripture that we've given you today. remember your parents'
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  • Counsel. remember what your pastor is telling you. look
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  • Around you and see the devastation that is caused
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  • By... by sin. there is a huge price to pay! you don't break
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  • The commandments; you're broken on the commandments of god when
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  • You fail to obey.
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  • And if you are currently involved in an adulterous
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  • Relationship, or you are considering it, stop it! i tell
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  • You firmly but lovingly in jesus' name, stop it! repent of
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  • Your sin because the bible says in 1 john 1:9, “if you confess
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  • Your sin, he is faithful and just to forgive your sin and to
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  • Cleanse you from all unrighteousness.” the bible
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  • Says, “though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be white as
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  • Snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool”"
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  • Adultery is not the unpardonable sin. it is a great
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  • Sin, it is a grievous sin, but it is not an unpardonable sin.
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  • What do you do with your sin... this sin or any sin? you come
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  • To the cross.
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  • [music]
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  • Hello, everyone. pastor jack graham here, and i want to
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  • Personally invite you to join me for something very special.
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  • It's the patriot tour to washington, dc, april 22nd
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  • Through 27th, 2026. as we celebrate the 250th birthday of
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  • The united states, we're going to visit some of the most
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  • Powerful and historic places in our nation's capital, like the
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  • U.s. capitol, arlington national cemetery, the national
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  • Monuments, mount vernon, and the museum of the bible.
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  • This won't be just a tour. it will be a spiritual journey,
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  • Really. i'll be opening god's word along the way, teaching us
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  • About the spiritual foundations, the biblical
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  • Foundations of our nation, and the hope that we have for the
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  • Future. so registration is now open, and i'd love for you to
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  • Be a part of this unforgettable experience.
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  • For more information and to reserve your spot today,
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  • Text patriot to 59789. can't wait to see you there!
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