Ed Young - Adultery

May 13, 2025 | S25:E115

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The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young | Ed Young - Adultery | May 13, 2025

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What's in a thought?
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Just a thought-psht?
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A lot more than most of us would imagine.
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When you have a thought, when i have a thought,
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You know what takes place?
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Immediately, there is triggered in your brain and in my brain an
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Electrochemical response that surges throughout our body, and
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Electrical magnetic waves goes through every part of your being
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And every part of my being because it's all linked up
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Together when we have a single thought.
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In fact, when you and i have a single thought,
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Over five hundred billion reactions take
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Place just that instant with one thought.
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Now we've identified only about two thousand
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Of those reactions; but that's how
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Magnificently we are constructed.
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And if we could hear these chemical waves, and these
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Electric waves as they go through our body with every
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Thought, i think you would hear a mighty symphony being played.
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A thought-a single thought.
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In other words, it's almost like your brain and my brain is a
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Kind of laboratory, and when we have a single thought in your
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Brain and in my brain; chemicals are given off and electrical
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Impulses are given off that affect everything about you,
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And everything about me just with a
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Pwhoo-single thought-single thought...
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I have a little book someone gave me entitled,
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Who switched off my brain?
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The author of this book says it's so important how our brain
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Functions and what we think about; this author says that
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87% of all physical and mental illnesses stem and
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Originate with our thoughts-87%.
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And her thesis, the author of this book, she says there's only
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13% of your illness and my illness, physically, mentally,
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Emotionally, psychologically, etc...
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Comes from our environment, from the food we eat,
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Or from our dna makeup.
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Now i would debate with that study.
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I think you could reverse it and say, "well, what do we eat?"
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And our environment and our dna affects our health, and
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Therefore, that affects our thought process,
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So i think it's like arguing the chicken and the egg.
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Which is more important?
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The body to wholeness and health,
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Or the mind to wholeness and health?
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And i don't think anybody knows.
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The returns are not in.
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The truth is, we know more about saturn relates to mars way out
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There in the ionosphere, than we know of how your brain
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And my brain relates to our bodies.
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We still don't know very much about that,
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But we do know they are tied together.
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We know they are united, mind and body, and we've discovered
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That in marriage, it is the whole body and the whole life of
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A person engaging with someone of the opposite sex in marriage,
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And it takes place with a whole life,
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And the whole body of the other person.
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You can't just have body to body;
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You have also have to have life to life.
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Life to life, body to body is marriage.
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Body to body is adultery outside of marriage.
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And by the way, unless someone gets too pious here,
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Need to understand that every one of us here have broken
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Every one of the commandments.
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Anybody want to debate that?
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That's what jesus said.
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He took it away just from the physical act and said in our
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Minds-in our minds, we break this commandment, and he says if
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We don't clean up our minds, we need to take radical action.
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It's pretty radical to punch out one eye, isn't it?
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To cut off one hand...
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He did not mean that literally.
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He was saying there are things we have to run from; we have to
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Cut out of our lives in order to be pure; in order to have
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Marriages that grow and sizzle, that are relevant
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And practical for this 21st century.
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And so we're talking about adultery.
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There is mental adultery; there is physical adultery, and the
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Physical adultery is deadlier.
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We can't really rank sin, though mental adultery is also deadly.
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But physical adultery plays back into your body and into my body
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When we commit physical adultery.
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That's what paul says, see?
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That's what paul says...
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It, it affects who you are inside more than any
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Other sin-sexual immorality does.
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To show you how serious it is, there was a group of women.
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When their kids got in school,
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They decided they would study french.
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And so eleven women got in a french class together, and they
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Were one day at a meal, and one of women, they got close and
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They would share their thoughts and share a little extra,
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Extracurricular activity with the other women, and they
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Were, and one woman said, "well, how many of us..."
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(eleven of them) "how many of you women have been faithful to
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Your marriage, faithful to your husband
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All the time you've been married?"
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And one hand went up out of eleven.
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Now a woman went home and told her husband-said we were eating
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Together, and, and named the woman who asked how many had
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Been faithful and said only one hand went up, and she said,
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"that wasn't my hand."
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And her husband said, wha, wha, what?
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You've been unfaithful?" she said, "oh no!
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I haven't been unfaithful, but i didn't raise my hand."
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And the husband said, "well, why didn't you raise your hand?"
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And she said, "i was ashamed."
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That's like being ashamed that when there's a flu epidemic,
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You don't have the flu!
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This is our world, and there's so
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Many kinds of deadly affairs.
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Look up there.
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I want you to see all the kinds of affairs.
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We put some names-this is not original
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With me-some names of, affairs.
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There's the friendship affair-self-explanatory.
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There's the office affair.
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There's be a good neighbor affair.
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There's a cup of coffee affair.
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There's the seize the moment affair.
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There's the people helper affair.
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There's the old acquaintance fair, affair.
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Stop right there for a minute.
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We have a counseling service in our church
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You may or may not know about.
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We have twelve psychotherapists, godly men in trai,
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Men and women-christians who, who work in counseling,
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And they tell me that there is an epidemic of
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Affairs that start with facebook.
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They start online.
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Someone runs down someone they went to college, they went to
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High school with; someone they used to know in their hometown.
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They begin to talk, and they, they exchange pictures with
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Them, and they may even show them to their mate;
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But said this has led to so much immorality,
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You wouldn't believe it.
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In fact, there, there's a lawyer's group that specialized
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In divorce, and they just came out with this statistic.
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Said, "81% of those who are trying to prove
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Infidelity in their marriage have used facebook and the
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Correspondence that took on there.
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Therefore, in our counseling, you know what
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We say to every married person?
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Get off facebook!
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Get out of all this junk because it leads you astray.
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It's happening over and over again in our culture.
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(audience applauds).
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Another kind of affair-that's the old acquaintance.
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The same interest affair.
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You know, we like the same things, we're so luck mo...
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Uh, the western affair.
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Let me stop and explain that one.
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The western affair is like, you know, the guy who puts
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A notch in his gun every time he kills somebody,
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The old westerns?
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Well there's some men who put notches in their belt
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Every time they sleep with a woman.
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Oh yeah, very prominent in our culture.
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Sure...
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And then the last one, the pornographic affair.
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Primarily men, some women.
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Did you know that's an epidemic in america?
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Listen carefully: the 7th largest business in
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The united states is pornography.
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And some believe it is the most
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Profitable business in america today.
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And it touches christians especially-all of us,
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But christians especially because it is pleasurable,
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And it is secret.
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And we have the idea that it doesn't hurt anybody, forgetting
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That pornography is an adulterous endeavor that rips
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Out your soul and will destroy the heart of your marriage,
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Your christian witness, and affect you and your family
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For years, and years, and years to come.
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It is highly addictive.
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What we hear, what we see, and it is a devastating,
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Devastating habit, and a deadly habit.
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We have hundreds of men, right now in our church in
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Support groups who are crying out for help,
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Saying it's taken the very life and vitality out of them.
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As young boys, it was masturbation, and now it moves
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Into pornography and another area, and it is deadly
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Gentlemen-don't think there's no harm, no foul.
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It affects the deepest part of your soul.
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Let's look at the three major causes.
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These are big categories.
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There, there are, there are hundreds of causes of adultery,
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But i, i put them under three big categories.
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I think you could put all the other
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Causes as subsets under this.
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Look at it on your screen.
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First of all, undeveloped emotion, undeveloped emotions.
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If you marry somebody who's still adolescent.
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If you marry somebody like that,
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That's a setup for adultery.
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By the way, these causes doesn't mean,
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"well, i have a license for adultery..."
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Don't, don't make it, don't make that mistake.
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I'm not saying that by any...
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I am saying these are general causes,
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General realms for adultery.
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So, undeveloped emotions, adolescent.
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What's an adolescent?
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Best definition i've ever heard-adolescent is someone
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Who's split right in the middle.
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Someone on this side is an adult; on that side is a child.
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Teenagers, right?
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One minute a teenage girl will make a decision.
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You'll say, "i'm so proud of her!
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She's made a big-time, adult decision..."
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And the next hour, she'll make a decision.
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You say, "you know, she acts like she's 9 years old!"
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That's an adolescent.
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And a lot of us have married adolescents.
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A lot of people marry adolescents.
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They've still got these emotional holds.
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All of us are not totally mature-i understand that.
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But some people are really, really
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Immature in so many, many areas.
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For example, the area of being spoiled.
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If you married somebody else-their mom and dad, they
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Just-the wo, the sun would rise and set on that son and
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Daughter-"boy, i'm going to give them anything and everything,
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And i want to provide for them
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And have the things i didn't have..."
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And they're totally spoiled.
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If you married someone like that and they've had
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A token of success in life, that's a setup.
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They're, they're a setup for somebody who says,
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"well, i deserve this.
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I work hard, and i am successful..."
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I'm thinking of, of a couple, and he, he slept with a lot
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Of kids when he was in high school, and he married
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This beautiful, wonderful girl, and they joined the church,
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And they had a couple of children.
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After about three years, he began to sleep around and go
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Here and go there at meetings, and he became an adulterer.
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And finally it was discovered, and, and they asked him why in
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A counseling environment, and he said, you know,
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"is it a problem with the kids?" "we got great kids..."
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"problem with your wife?" "oh no, i love her!
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We have wonderful, uh, love relationship together."
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"is it a problem with your job?" "oh no!
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I'm doing fine there..." "is it a problem..."?
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"no, no...everything was great."
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"well then why do you, why are you unfaithful?"
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And he finally said, "well, i guess it's
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That forbidden fruit thing..."
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Know about the forbidden fruit thing?
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Here's adam and eve in the garden of eden.
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They had-god said, "you can eat of the fruit of the trees of all
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These garden, all these trees-thousands of trees!
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Man, isn't that enough for you, adam?
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Except one-just one.
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Out of all the trees on the planet in a pristine
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Environment, only one tree you can't eat out of, adam!"
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"oh!
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Just that one?"
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It's the forbidden fruit thing...
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Remember "candid camera"? some of us remember that.
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Remember, they, sometime they'd walk down the street, and one
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They had a wall there, and they had a big hole there and says,
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"don't look through this hole..."
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(audience laughs).
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And they took pictures of people who walked by it.
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Well normally you wouldn't look through the hole,
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But the don't-and they would look...
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Uh, the other day in, in the hall of the church, they, they'd
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Painted, and they'd put up a sign, "wet paint."
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And i walked by in the morning-"wet paint"-and i came
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Back by about an hour later and it was still up, and i said,
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"you know, i wonder if that paint's dried?"
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(audience laughs).
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It hadn't dried!
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There's something about prohibitions, isn't it?
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That, that's like kids, teenagers, adolescents.
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"don't you smoke!"
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Well, you get a chance to smoke, and you know,
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Well, you're gonna do it!
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Paul tournier, the psychotherapist said that
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Children begin to grow up when they begin to do things in
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Secret, not necessarily bad thi...
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Secret from their parents; when they begin to have things they
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Don't tell their parents, like a little girl.
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The parents said, "now when you go and walk across the street,
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Make sure you walk on this side and not on that side..."
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But her friend took her and she walked on the street on that
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Side, and she didn't tell her parents.
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See, that's a part of growing up.
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That's childishness, and a lot of people
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In marriages are still adolescents.
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"oh, i, i can't do that!
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That's wrong!"
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Oh, it has unusual appeal as they begin to play that
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Pornograph in your mind, and you play it out in reality and have
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Some rationalization-"well, my marriage isn't all that
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I thought it was gonna be!"
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You married a kid, an adolescent.
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Look at the next one.
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Unresolved conflict.
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You know, in a lot of families, the way conflict is handled,
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Usually the male-they just, "i'm not going to argue.
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I'm through..."
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Then we just go into our cocoon; we go into our shell.
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We're not gonna argue.
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"just go ahead-you have your problem.
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I'm not gonna get with it..."
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And a lot of marriages, when there's unresolved conflict, you
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Know, they, they, they're in the ring together, and they're
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Boxing, and finally the husband goes in his corner, and the wife
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Goes in her corner, and they stay in their corner.
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You live your life; i live my life, and they never do really
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Relate until they come in the middle of the ring,
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Exchange a few blows now and then.
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Then they go back in their corner...
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Am i speaking to anybody?
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What should happen?
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Ii corinthians 5:18 says, "we are reconciled with god."
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Jesus christ gets you and me right with god.
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Isn't that terrific?
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And therefore, because we get right with god, then we are to
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Be in the business of reconciliation.
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What needs to happen to this man or woman in the corner-they need
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To say, "o' god, revive my marriage, my heart."
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And they need to see where there involvement in silence, or
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Whatever the situation and get right with god on their knees,
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And then get up and go and walk in the middle of the ring
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-if necessary, walk on the other side of the ring and
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Try to find mutual reconciliation.
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There'll be conflicts.
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We've got to know how to resolve those conflicts in marriage, and
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The way to do it is not to bury it
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And cover it up and push it down.
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This is what happens.
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And a way to handle some of these confli...
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What are the conflicts over?
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Children, money, sex, schedule -i mean,
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A lot of things, a lot of things conflict.
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And how do we avoid some of that?
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Ephesians 4-"don't let the sun go down on your wrath."
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Man, don't, don't go to sleep until you begin to talk, begin
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To get your hearts and lives together.
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Now you have to stay up late a lot of nights.
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Jo beth and i have.
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Don't go to sleep.
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Don't let the sun go down on your wrath.
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When you let the sun,
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Your heart is bruised over a conflict.
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One mate is bruised.
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You sleep on it.
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The next morning, that bruised heart becomes a cold heart.
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You know how that is -you're nice, but,
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You're just too nice, you know...
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Cold.
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Don't look so pious!
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You know exactly what i'm talking about,
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Every married person here...
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It, in a bruised heart, you spend the night with that;
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It becomes a cold heart.
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You stay with it a week or so, it becomes a hard heart.
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Now you've intensified the problem.
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You stay longer than that, it becomes an apathetic heart.
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By the way, when a couple comes and they're fighting and
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Arguing, that's an encouragement.
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It's when they come and they, they're apathetic.
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They'll say, "you know, i don't really care-psht!
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Hah-i'm just-psht!
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I, i don't have-it doesn't matter, whatever she does,
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Whatever he does-makes no difference..."
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You see, that's when the holy spirit really has to do a work.
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So a lot of unresolved conflict, when someone can be with someone
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Else and, and, and there's not conflict, no matter what the
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Situation, and there can be intimacy there.
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There can be sharing there.
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All of a sudden they end up in bed.
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It's because they go home and
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There's so much conflict there...
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You gotta deal with it. bring it out in the open.
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Turn the lights on!
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Third thing: unmet needs.
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Everybody has needs.
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The difference between the creator
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And the creature is needs.
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The creator, god the father, god the son,
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God the holy spirit-they are a self-contained entity,
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The god is.
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The god head is self-contained.
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There is all there to give the fullness.
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God doesn't need anything.
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God is a self-contingent being.
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We are contingent beings as human beings.
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Though we're made in the image of god, we all have needs.
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A new-born babe has more needs than any
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Other animal, remember, on this earth?
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A baby needs a longer time of care than any other animal, and
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When that child is growing, the little girl says,
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"did i do good, mom"?
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"you did good, sarah!"
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"dad, would, would i-i'm sorry..."
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"oh, it's all right, billy."
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They need support, and they have needs
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-all kinds of physical, emotional needs.
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We have to be there to hug, and to help, and to counsel,
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And to laugh, and to tease, and to discipline.
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All those needs...
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When we grow up, do we have needs no longer?
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Certainly we have needs.
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Certainly we have needs, and we need appreciation.
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Wives, i want you to listen to me: you need appreciation,
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But your husband, men need about five times
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More appreciation than women.
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I don't know why -we're just a weaker sex.
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We are!
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Gentlemen, we need more appreciation than the women-not
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That we shouldn't appreciate and admire women.
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Certainly that's a part of meeting their need; but men
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Really need it, and when they come and feel like it's only
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Man, what i can get out of you, what i want you to do,
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How you want...
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Also, in your wife or your husband,
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Accept them the way they are.
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I thought for years i married the only woman in
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The world that couldn't be trained.
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We've got to quit trying to train them-man and women,
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Men and women.
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Accept them!
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And that leads people into affairs because the mate is not
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Accepting them, warts and all, and know that
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God will continue to do a work with them.
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God's not finished with them;
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He's not finished with you or me.
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There has to be acceptance, and there has to be affection,
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Genuine affection with one another.
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So, so this is the unmet needs that are there, and when these
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Needs are not met, it sets anybody up for somebody else to
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Come in and to destroy, and to undercurt,
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Undercut that relationship.
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I want to say two things.
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I want to say these two things as dogmatically, as simply,
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But as powerfully as i can state them-two things.
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Write it in steel in your heart and your mind.
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I'm not going to stumble.
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I want to say simply two things to everybody here: number one,
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Adultery is a cosmic sin,
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Because someone who destroys
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The trust in a marriage and the commitment of a marriage one
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Time, ten times, or whatever; you have committed a cosmic sin,
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And you're saying that your pleasure, or this moment in time
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Goes against everything god has taught,
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And everything god holds sacred.
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Adultery is a cosmic sin.
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It's no little peccadillo or a little casual kind
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Of liaison-not at all!
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It's a cosmic sin.
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Number two: adultery is not the unpardonable sin.
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Isn't that terrific?
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We've got to clean up our mind
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-there's that mental adultery.
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Some have to clean up their whole bodies...
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There is that physical adultery;
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But god is in the cleansing business.
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If we confess our sin, he is able and just to forgive our sin
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And to cleanse us of all the trash,
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Including adultery in our lives.
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That's the grace of god.
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Adultery is a cosmic sin, but it is not the unpardonable sin.
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And the bible says about sexual sin-run!
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Don't tarry; don't explain away; don't back off a little bit-run!
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Get out of there!
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Flee!
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That's what joseph did.
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That's what paul told timothy to do,
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And that's what we have to do.
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You don't cut back, cut down, wean myself off of whatever this
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Is and whatever relationship is there,
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Whether its mental or physical-cut and run!
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Take no prisoners!
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Get out of there!
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And you'll be amazed, a day, or two, or three, and it's one day
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At a time, god begins to set you free.
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If, if we had hymnals here-the old hymn books, you can find a
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Theme in hymn after hymn-he breaks the power of cancelled
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Sin and sets the sinner free!
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Freedom!
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Freedom, forgiveness, his grace.
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Dr. young: at some point, every marriage will
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Run into tough times.
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Whether it's miscommunication, money,
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Sex, or in-laws, every marriage goes through a rocky patch.
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Far too often, those rocky patches end up ruining
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Otherwise great, potentially super marriages.
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But it does not have to be that way.
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God designed marriage, and he gave us the keys to have
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A marriage that works, a marriage that sizzles.
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In my book, "the 10 commandments of marriage," i lay out ten
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Ed Young - Adultery

May 13, 2025 | S25:E115

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