Ed Young - Your Body Is A Temple

April 14, 2026 | 27:29

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  • Your body.
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  • My body
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  • Is a church.
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  • It's a temple.
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  • We received christ.
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  • The holy spirit came in
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  • And united with your spirit and with my spirit.
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  • And they're inside of you and inside of me there is a temple.
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  • It's like the temple that was built.
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  • And the very literal presence of god
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  • Was there in the holy of holies in your life.
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  • And in my life.
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  • There's a holy of holies there, a sacredness there
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  • That belongs to god.
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  • Sex was invented by god.
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  • People really?
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  • Hey! that's stunning.
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  • Sex is is sacred.
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  • It is holy. it is special.
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  • What is it for?
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  • Procreation.
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  • Have babies for pleasure.
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  • And also it is for a symbol,
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  • A beautiful symbol.
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  • A metaphor of how you and i come
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  • To relation with god through jesus christ in marriage
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  • And marriage.
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  • And so we come to corinth,
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  • A totally sexualized culture.
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  • We have the church there that all of a sudden
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  • The culture of corinth
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  • Begins to flow into the church.
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  • And we've already seen that as we talked about,
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  • Sexual sin right up in our study.
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  • A prominent member of the church was guilty of incest.
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  • And they hadn't looked over that.
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  • He was so wealthy, so well-known.
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  • Everybody knew about it.
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  • And all of a sudden, the corinthians,
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  • They said, you know, the church is almost like we are.
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  • They just don't tell it.
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  • They have an underground relationships there.
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  • So the witness of christ was being muted.
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  • It was being pushed away.
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  • The exclusivity of god in christ
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  • And his formula and plan for a life that's
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  • In this life and beyond this
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  • Life was being pushed away.
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  • So we know that cards
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  • Was totally sexualized.
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  • I'll tell you something else.
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  • Do you know what these states
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  • Of america has been totally sexualized.
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  • List all the problems we have.
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  • Name them bang bang bang bang bang.
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  • And with few exceptions,
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  • It revolves around the misunderstanding
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  • Or the misuse of this most
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  • Sacred relationship of sexual.
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  • We have been sexualized like corinth. now,
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  • I thought about this and i said,
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  • Where is there an illustration?
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  • Where is there
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  • Something that we can use to parallel how all of us.
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  • Everybody hear
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  • Somebody say, i've never had a problem with sex.
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  • You'd be a liar.
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  • You're not. be telling the truth.
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  • All the way through.
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  • I develop from puberty forward.
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  • There's so much confusion, so much misinformation.
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  • And now all of this has been exploded into areas
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  • That we sit back and say, i can't believe it.
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  • And i thought about it.
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  • No, what cut you is
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  • It's a southern vine, a plant
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  • That is carnivorous.
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  • Say the leaf. it is fluent.
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  • Kudzu came into america
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  • From the orient in 1846.
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  • It came in.
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  • And a little pot.
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  • It had purple flowers, a beautiful aroma.
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  • It was
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  • Growing lovely.
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  • 1846.
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  • But soon they discovered that kudzu could be used
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  • On the banks of rivers, and it would prevent erosion.
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  • And so they planted it
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  • Only to discover
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  • You just can't control kudzu.
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  • It just grows.
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  • It expands.
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  • And everybody in the world
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  • Has tried to kill it in different ways.
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  • You can burn it.
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  • It'll come back.
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  • You can take an uprooted and some seeds will be there.
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  • It'll come back.
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  • You can take in insecticides.
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  • You can take herbicide. put it on.
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  • It will come back.
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  • You can try to smother it.
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  • That's the best thing.
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  • Or you can put walls around it.
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  • It'll grow over it.
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  • In fact, today in
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  • The united states of america.
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  • Listen, over
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  • 7 million acres are covered in cuts.
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  • It grows about 120,000 acres a year.
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  • And sometimes a foot a day.
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  • You say, what is 7 million acres?
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  • 7 million acres would cover the state
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  • Of virginia.
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  • It's pervasive.
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  • It grows.
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  • It consumes.
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  • Much like
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  • The sexual drive that god has given us.
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  • When it gets out of control,
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  • Kudzu
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  • Wraps around us.
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  • It did in the days of the corinthian church,
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  • And it is still wrapping around us as we as a nation
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  • Have become almost totally sexualized.
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  • So paul
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  • Addresses this problem very clearly.
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  • He's already talked about incest.
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  • The church discipline.
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  • This man.
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  • But we have the beautiful truth.
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  • He was disciplined because of immorality
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  • In first corinthians.
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  • But in second corinthians
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  • We see the beautiful story of they brought him back.
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  • He came back in faith.
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  • He's restored fully in the life of christ
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  • The healing and forgiveness of the body.
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  • Through christ.
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  • We see that we've been through that.
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  • But now we come to the end of
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  • The sixth chapter of first corinthians.
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  • And this end of the sixth chapter
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  • Is sort of a prelude
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  • As we go into first corinthians chapter seven.
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  • And ladies and gentlemen,
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  • You have never seen anything and sexual confusion
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  • And a jungle like we're going to walk in
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  • As we go into first corinthians chapter seven.
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  • So paul is sort of getting some things straight,
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  • Some presuppositions,
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  • Some foundations.
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  • Before we get into the kudzu
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  • Jungle,
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  • As he walks us through all kinds
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  • Of sexual perversion and relationships.
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  • So let's look at the end
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  • Of first corinthians
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  • Six, verse 12 through verse 20.
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  • Hope you have your bibles with you.
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  • If not, take your computers or your iphone
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  • And turn to first corinthians 1220.
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  • You can dial it in. speak it in.
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  • Maybe you have an app there already.
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  • Let's look at it.
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  • Profound words
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  • From god's man.
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  • Chapter six, verse number 12.
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  • And he says, i have the right to do anything.
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  • And he says that twice i have the right to do anything.
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  • In one verse paul said, i have the right to do anything.
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  • And then before he gets into the explanation of that,
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  • And i'm sure he said that he puts
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  • That phrase in context.
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  • He is setting the record straight on a couple of things
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  • That the corinthians were quoting him about.
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  • They were they were saying, paul said,
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  • Everything is right to me.
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  • I can do anything and everything.
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  • And then paul puts that in context and said,
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  • Wait a minute.
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  • There are a couple of limitations,
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  • And we know why.
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  • He would have said in teaching the church, i can do anything.
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  • He was trying to
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  • Explain to them that christianity is not a do
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  • And don't religion, like mostly
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  • All the other religions that they had
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  • And all the other religion in the world?
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  • He said, christianity is a relationship
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  • With god almighty, provided for us
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  • By way and through the lord jesus christ.
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  • And he said, i can do all things, but only in christ.
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  • Little different.
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  • I can do all things only in christ.
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  • And then he says, there are two limitations to this.
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  • And he was trying to explain the difference in legalism
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  • And freedom.
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  • Freedom can lead to license
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  • Unless it's put in banks limitation.
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  • Paul says, i can do all things.
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  • And then he says the first limitation here,
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  • But not everything is beneficial
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  • To understand that in the context of the greek,
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  • He is saying,
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  • I can do all things, but everything is not beneficial.
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  • And he's talking
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  • In a sexual context here and a sexual context here.
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  • He said not everything is beneficial
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  • Because in sex, the implication is
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  • Someone else is involved.
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  • He understood that we are our brother's keeper.
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  • So therefore,
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  • The sexual act is not something that's done in isolation
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  • Because someone else is involved.
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  • He said this is for abstention.
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  • Remember our principle in marriage celebration.
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  • Outside of marriage, purity, chastity.
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  • And that is our principle.
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  • Paul said, i can do all things,
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  • But i don't have that kind of so-called freedom.
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  • Which ends up in bondage,
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  • Which we've already been saying about, have we not?
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  • We already heard about.
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  • It leads to bondage.
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  • So that when you say, well, i'm free to do anything,
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  • But when we do anything and everything, particularly
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  • And especially that sexual area, it involves somebody else
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  • And we end up in bondage,
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  • Bondage.
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  • We live in a hookup generation.
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  • No harm, no foul, no big deal.
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  • But we know physiologically that's absolutely not true.
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  • Every person that you have ever had sex with in your life,
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  • The dna of that of you, is still with him or her.
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  • And the same way both side.
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  • It is still there.
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  • It is a molecule kind of thing.
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  • Our molecules are
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  • Involved when sex happens.
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  • There's a hormone that goes out from the male
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  • And a hormone that goes out from the female.
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  • And in those hormones that go out,
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  • They call them monogamous hormones.
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  • They're supposed to mean this is a permanent,
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  • Holy, sacred thing.
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  • Everybody wants a happy home.
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  • But let's be honest.
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  • A happy home doesn't just happen.
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  • It's built.
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  • It's shaped.
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  • Day by day by day.
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  • That's why i want to encourage you to read
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  • This little booklet, cardinal rules for a happy home.
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  • This 90 day devotional is from
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  • Decades of real life pastoring,
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  • Counseling, and building my own home and family.
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  • In the page of this book each day
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  • You will find a simple rhythm
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  • As of scripture,
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  • Practical, down to earth navigation,
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  • And a guided prayer to help you bring it all home.
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  • Your home on what matters the most in christ
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  • Centered, foundation, practical, down to earth.
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  • Your life.
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  • Because when christ is at the center, guess what?
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  • Everything else changes.
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  • Conversations change.
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  • And so he begins, and he
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  • Says, this is the first thing you have to watch out for.
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  • This is all things are with me, but involves or to be.
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  • When he says,
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  • I have the right to do anything,
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  • But i will not be mastered by anything.
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  • Sex is highly addictive
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  • And it's beautiful in marriage.
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  • It's beautiful and married.
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  • Outside of marriage, it is absolutely deadly
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  • And devastating.
  • 00:14:04.400 --> 00:14:06.869
  • It'll cut your heart and your life.
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  • You see the problem they had in corinth?
  • 00:14:08.604 --> 00:14:11.774
  • The corinthians. plato.
  • 00:14:12.274 --> 00:14:13.876
  • Aristotle, socrates.
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  • They all taught that ideas the body,
  • 00:14:15.644 --> 00:14:18.414
  • The soma, and the body is over here.
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  • And here's the soul.
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  • Then the spirit. it's over here.
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  • And they told you it doesn't matter
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  • What you do with your body, it's going to die.
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  • It's going to vanish.
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  • Oh, but you had to take care of your soul and your spirit
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  • And christianity comes along.
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  • The apostle paul says, nonsense.
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  • Your body and your soul, your soul, your spirit.
  • 00:14:40.602 --> 00:14:43.706
  • There's a whole is there.
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  • And you can't separate the physical from the spiritual
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  • As they did there in ancient corinthians.
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  • You can't do it.
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  • And paul is reminding us of the hold.
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  • Have you ever been to a graveside service or a funeral?
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  • And some colored clergyman
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  • Said, ashes to ashes and dust to dust.
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  • When you hear that, you know you're not dealing
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  • With a biblical understanding of life and death.
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  • Did you get that?
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  • Ashes to ashes, dust and dust
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  • Says that this body dies.
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  • We were made from dirt and dust,
  • 00:15:23.846 --> 00:15:25.948
  • And therefore this body goes right back to dirt and dust.
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  • That is not the teachings of christianity.
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  • That is platonic paganism,
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  • Because in christianity,
  • 00:15:37.393 --> 00:15:39.161
  • The body and the soul and the soul and the body
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  • Go together and the body is sacred,
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  • The body is important and what you do with your body
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  • Is connected with who you are in spirit and personality.
  • 00:15:47.569 --> 00:15:50.973
  • We're going to see that we get to first corinthians 15.
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  • It's the most fabulous chapter in the world, i think.
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  • Talk about life now and afterlife.
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  • We'll get there in a few years.
  • 00:16:00.282 --> 00:16:02.351
  • The rate we're going.
  • 00:16:02.351 --> 00:16:05.354
  • But what is he saying?
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  • He's saying i can do anything i want to do.
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  • But in the sexual area, somebody else involved.
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  • So there is the exclusivity that god has put in marriage.
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  • You say, i can do anything i want to do
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  • Except something that might be addictive.
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  • And we have the idea.
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  • Well, it's not against the law.
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  • Therefore it must be all right.
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  • There's the law of man and the law of god,
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  • And we follow the law man,
  • 00:16:36.085 --> 00:16:37.920
  • Unless it is in conflict with the law of god, right.
  • 00:16:37.920 --> 00:16:41.023
  • There is a higher law that we operate in.
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  • Paul is saying i can do anything,
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  • But i don't want to hurt other people.
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  • He said i can do anything but some this highly addictive.
  • 00:16:52.134 --> 00:16:56.238
  • And so it needs to be in boundaries.
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  • Cut to works well to keep from erosion
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  • On the banks of rivers.
  • 00:17:04.279 --> 00:17:06.648
  • But kudzu outside its bounds is so pervasive
  • 00:17:06.648 --> 00:17:11.353
  • And it destroys everything it touches farms,
  • 00:17:11.353 --> 00:17:14.957
  • Ranches, forests.
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  • On and on it goes.
  • 00:17:16.191 --> 00:17:17.726
  • And it is so overwhelming.
  • 00:17:17.726 --> 00:17:20.762
  • That's the way it is with human sexuality outside the bounds
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  • And the parameters that god has put there.
  • 00:17:25.534 --> 00:17:28.670
  • And then he goes ahead.
  • 00:17:29.171 --> 00:17:30.305
  • He says, by the way, you corinthians, corinthian
  • 00:17:30.305 --> 00:17:33.876
  • Christians,
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  • These three things you need to know
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  • Before we get in chapter number seven.
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  • Whoa.
  • 00:17:43.185 --> 00:17:45.053
  • Don't read it in a modern translation.
  • 00:17:45.053 --> 00:17:47.022
  • You'll be frightened to come to church.
  • 00:17:47.022 --> 00:17:48.290
  • By the way, you better come and let me handle seven.
  • 00:17:48.290 --> 00:17:51.527
  • He says there's three things you gotta know.
  • 00:17:51.527 --> 00:17:54.496
  • First of all,
  • 00:17:54.496 --> 00:17:56.698
  • Look there in verse 15 he said, do you not know
  • 00:17:56.698 --> 00:18:00.335
  • That your bodies are members of christ himself?
  • 00:18:00.335 --> 00:18:04.039
  • Shall i then take the members of christ
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  • And unite them with a prostitute?
  • 00:18:06.708 --> 00:18:10.012
  • When you and i give our body to jesus christ
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  • To be our savior and our lord.
  • 00:18:12.881 --> 00:18:16.485
  • We don't belong to ourselves.
  • 00:18:17.119 --> 00:18:19.621
  • We become.
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  • Hold on to this.
  • 00:18:20.822 --> 00:18:22.090
  • A part of the trinity.
  • 00:18:22.090 --> 00:18:24.393
  • Look back, if you would, in john chapter number 17,
  • 00:18:24.393 --> 00:18:28.463
  • The high priestly prayer of jesus
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  • Before he went to the cross and was resurrected.
  • 00:18:32.434 --> 00:18:35.571
  • Look what he says.
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  • John 17.
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  • Verse 21
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  • That all of them may be one father,
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  • Just as you and i are in me, and i in you.
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  • May they also be in us,
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  • So that the world may believe that you have sent me.
  • 00:18:54.423 --> 00:18:58.860
  • I have given them the glory, said jesus,
  • 00:18:58.860 --> 00:19:02.798
  • Talking about christians that you gave me.
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  • And they may be one as we are one, i and them, you and me,
  • 00:19:05.968 --> 00:19:10.372
  • So that they may be brought to complete unity.
  • 00:19:10.372 --> 00:19:14.743
  • You can have diversity and still unity, folks.
  • 00:19:14.743 --> 00:19:18.013
  • We need to understand that.
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  • Then the world will know that you sent me
  • 00:19:19.848 --> 00:19:22.784
  • And have loved them even as you have loved me.
  • 00:19:22.784 --> 00:19:26.088
  • What's jesus saying?
  • 00:19:26.088 --> 00:19:27.956
  • He's saying the father, the son, and the holy spirit
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  • Are in a holy, reverent dance together.
  • 00:19:32.027 --> 00:19:35.530
  • And as a christian,
  • 00:19:35.530 --> 00:19:36.865
  • He invites all of us to come and dance with them.
  • 00:19:36.865 --> 00:19:40.602
  • Dance with him.
  • 00:19:40.969 --> 00:19:42.971
  • So would we take our body
  • 00:19:42.971 --> 00:19:46.642
  • That belongs to god in christ
  • 00:19:47.276 --> 00:19:50.345
  • And unite with a prostitute?
  • 00:19:50.345 --> 00:19:53.915
  • No, it doesn't work like that.
  • 00:19:53.915 --> 00:19:56.151
  • Then he goes on to say, how could anybody take a body
  • 00:19:56.151 --> 00:20:01.123
  • That christ is in you and christ in me,
  • 00:20:01.123 --> 00:20:03.091
  • And we're a part of that holy dance of father, son,
  • 00:20:03.091 --> 00:20:06.261
  • And holy spirit and lead it into immorality.
  • 00:20:06.261 --> 00:20:09.831
  • And to pernilla,
  • 00:20:10.232 --> 00:20:12.234
  • That's the strong greek word for illicit sex.
  • 00:20:12.234 --> 00:20:15.504
  • So he said, that's the first thing
  • 00:20:16.238 --> 00:20:17.706
  • You got to know, man, that just won't work.
  • 00:20:17.706 --> 00:20:19.841
  • That just cannot be.
  • 00:20:19.841 --> 00:20:22.377
  • Then he says, verse 16, do you not know that he who
  • 00:20:22.377 --> 00:20:25.580
  • Unites himself with the prostitute is one with her
  • 00:20:25.580 --> 00:20:29.418
  • In body?
  • 00:20:29.418 --> 00:20:30.519
  • For it is said, the two shall become one flesh.
  • 00:20:30.519 --> 00:20:33.288
  • Genesis two but whoever is united with
  • 00:20:33.288 --> 00:20:36.958
  • The lord is one with him in spirit.
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  • Flee, run from sexual immorality.
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  • All of the sins a person commits are outside the body,
  • 00:20:43.932 --> 00:20:48.637
  • But whoever sins sexually sins against their own body.
  • 00:20:48.637 --> 00:20:53.875
  • Sexual immorality affects us,
  • 00:20:54.509 --> 00:20:58.580
  • Disturbs us, and we see the high,
  • 00:20:59.314 --> 00:21:02.818
  • High realm of promiscuity in every area of life.
  • 00:21:02.818 --> 00:21:06.822
  • College. universities. neighborhoods.
  • 00:21:06.822 --> 00:21:09.057
  • Clubs. activities.
  • 00:21:09.057 --> 00:21:10.459
  • Organizations. businesses.
  • 00:21:10.459 --> 00:21:12.160
  • You go on and on and on.
  • 00:21:12.160 --> 00:21:13.929
  • Today.
  • 00:21:13.929 --> 00:21:17.566
  • What's happening?
  • 00:21:17.999 --> 00:21:20.268
  • And paul says other sins are out here.
  • 00:21:20.268 --> 00:21:23.338
  • Why? she steals swindle.
  • 00:21:23.872 --> 00:21:26.575
  • But the sexual sin is in here.
  • 00:21:26.575 --> 00:21:28.844
  • And it affects our body, our psyche, our sleep,
  • 00:21:28.844 --> 00:21:31.913
  • Our emotional stability.
  • 00:21:32.447 --> 00:21:35.183
  • I remember years ago
  • 00:21:35.183 --> 00:21:37.986
  • An ex-marine came to faith in jesus christ.
  • 00:21:37.986 --> 00:21:41.123
  • He'd been very promiscuous with his life.
  • 00:21:41.123 --> 00:21:43.558
  • About a year
  • 00:21:43.558 --> 00:21:44.726
  • I asked him, i said, jack, what's the biggest difference?
  • 00:21:44.726 --> 00:21:47.396
  • He said, i don't go around frightened all the time.
  • 00:21:47.396 --> 00:21:51.166
  • I sleep at night.
  • 00:21:51.600 --> 00:21:54.069
  • I don't when i see the husband of some of those women
  • 00:21:54.069 --> 00:21:57.572
  • I was sleeping with.
  • 00:21:57.572 --> 00:21:58.807
  • I was always on her.
  • 00:21:58.807 --> 00:22:00.275
  • He said, but christ has set me free.
  • 00:22:00.275 --> 00:22:03.445
  • I'm a new person in christ.
  • 00:22:04.045 --> 00:22:05.814
  • You see, it affected everything about him.
  • 00:22:05.814 --> 00:22:08.250
  • This intimate, god made relationship
  • 00:22:08.250 --> 00:22:11.486
  • Was a symbol of your relationship with mine.
  • 00:22:11.486 --> 00:22:14.189
  • We are gifted to have in jesus christ.
  • 00:22:14.189 --> 00:22:17.325
  • He said, you need to know this
  • 00:22:17.926 --> 00:22:19.961
  • And then look at the last thing he says.
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  • We need to know.
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  • Do you know that your bodies are.
  • 00:22:24.232 --> 00:22:27.002
  • Whoa!
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  • Temples of the holy spirit.
  • 00:22:29.204 --> 00:22:32.774
  • Who is in you,
  • 00:22:33.108 --> 00:22:35.143
  • Whom you have received from god?
  • 00:22:35.143 --> 00:22:38.313
  • You are not your own.
  • 00:22:38.313 --> 00:22:39.414
  • You were bought with a price.
  • 00:22:39.414 --> 00:22:40.982
  • Therefore, honor god with your bodies.
  • 00:22:40.982 --> 00:22:47.022
  • Your body.
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  • My body
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  • Is a church.
  • 00:22:50.292 --> 00:22:53.161
  • It's a temple.
  • 00:22:53.495 --> 00:22:56.064
  • We received christ.
  • 00:22:56.064 --> 00:22:57.199
  • The holy spirit came in
  • 00:22:57.199 --> 00:22:58.700
  • And united with your spirit and with my spirit.
  • 00:22:58.700 --> 00:23:01.670
  • And they're inside of you and inside of me there is a temple.
  • 00:23:01.670 --> 00:23:05.941
  • It's like the temple that was built.
  • 00:23:05.941 --> 00:23:08.176
  • And the very literal presence of god
  • 00:23:08.176 --> 00:23:10.145
  • Was there in the holy of holies in your life.
  • 00:23:10.145 --> 00:23:12.614
  • And in my life.
  • 00:23:12.614 --> 00:23:13.815
  • There's a holy of holies there,
  • 00:23:13.815 --> 00:23:16.251
  • A sacredness there that belongs to god.
  • 00:23:16.251 --> 00:23:21.356
  • What do you do
  • 00:23:21.690 --> 00:23:23.959
  • About this?
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  • Sexual.
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  • Sexual vine.
  • 00:23:26.194 --> 00:23:28.997
  • Kudzu vine that wraps around
  • 00:23:29.598 --> 00:23:32.167
  • Our nation, that wraps around so many of us, past or present.
  • 00:23:32.167 --> 00:23:36.304
  • What do you do about it?
  • 00:23:36.304 --> 00:23:37.405
  • How do you kill kudzu?
  • 00:23:37.405 --> 00:23:39.941
  • For all kinds of ways have been found.
  • 00:23:39.941 --> 00:23:42.444
  • You know the best way they found.
  • 00:23:42.444 --> 00:23:44.546
  • And it really the only way to eliminate it.
  • 00:23:44.546 --> 00:23:47.716
  • You'd never guess.
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  • Sheep.
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  • Sheep,
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  • Sheep can take.
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  • My sheep can go in there.
  • 00:23:57.092 --> 00:23:58.627
  • And when sheets begin to eat the kudzu,
  • 00:23:58.627 --> 00:24:00.562
  • They go all the way down to the roots.
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  • They eliminated that straw.
  • 00:24:02.430 --> 00:24:04.099
  • Just get a flock of sheep.
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  • Get some lambs putting the kudzu.
  • 00:24:05.600 --> 00:24:07.669
  • And it begins to destroy and to kill
  • 00:24:07.669 --> 00:24:09.871
  • And to permeate, eliminating kudzu.
  • 00:24:09.871 --> 00:24:12.140
  • When i saw that, i said, oh, god, thank you for that.
  • 00:24:12.140 --> 00:24:16.144
  • Because how do we get rid of the culture today?
  • 00:24:16.144 --> 00:24:18.914
  • We get rid of the cuts to buy the lamb
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  • By the lamb
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  • Of jesus christ, and he says we are to run.
  • 00:24:23.351 --> 00:24:26.988
  • That's right.
  • 00:24:26.988 --> 00:24:28.924
  • We are to run
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  • From sexual involvement.
  • 00:24:31.826 --> 00:24:34.796
  • That's exactly the counsel
  • 00:24:35.363 --> 00:24:36.898
  • That paul gave to timothy.
  • 00:24:36.898 --> 00:24:39.701
  • That's the counsel
  • 00:24:39.701 --> 00:24:40.802
  • That joseph fathered with the good part of his life.
  • 00:24:40.802 --> 00:24:44.472
  • Where to run.
  • 00:24:44.472 --> 00:24:46.074
  • In which direction do we run?
  • 00:24:46.074 --> 00:24:47.876
  • We run to the cross where the lamb of god is.
  • 00:24:47.876 --> 00:24:51.813
  • There.
  • 00:24:51.813 --> 00:24:53.748
  • His blood takes away the sin.
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  • It kills kudzu and cleans up your life.
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  • And in my life, that's the direction in which we run.
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  • Amazing.
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  • The lamb,
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  • The grace of god.
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  • All who are wrapped up
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  • In the kudzu
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  • Of sin.
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  • Everybody wants a happy home.
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  • But let's be honest.
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  • A happy home doesn't just happen.
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  • It's built.
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  • It's shaped.
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  • Day by day by day.
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  • That's why i want to encourage you to read
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  • This little booklet, cardinal rules for a happy home.
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  • This 90 day devotional is from
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  • Decades of real life pastoring,
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  • Counseling, and building my own home and family.
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  • In the page of this
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  • Book each day you will find a simple rhythm
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  • As of scripture,
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  • Practical, down to earth navigation,
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  • And a guided prayer to help you bring it all home.
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  • We're not talking about something complicated here.
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  • We're talking about just 15 minutes a day.
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  • 15 minutes.
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  • Did you can strengthen your marriage and refocus
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  • Your home on what matters the most in christ
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  • Centered, foundation, practical, down to earth.
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  • Your life.
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  • Because when christ is at the center, guess what?
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  • Everything else changes.
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  • Conversations change.
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  • Priorities change.
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  • Hearts begin to change.
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  • Take that first step today.
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  • Call the number or visit the website below
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  • And get cardinal rules for a happy home
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  • And begin your 90 day journey
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  • Right now.
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  • Whatever season you're in right now, no.
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  • One thing. no.
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  • This god is present.
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  • May his presence guide you and his word.
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  • Sustain you and his spirit empower
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  • You in the days ahead.
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  • Thrilling days
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  • As we walk with him.
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  • And may the good lord bless you
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  • And i'll see you next time
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  • On a winning walk
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  • With jesus christ.
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