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The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young | Ed Young - Your Body Is A Temple | April 14, 2026
- 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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- We're not talking about something complicated here.
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- 15 minutes.
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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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- Take that first step today.
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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.
- 00:13:48.851 --> 00:13:52.354
- Sex is highly addictive
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- And it's beautiful in marriage.
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- It's beautiful and married.
- 00:13:59.094 --> 00:14:00.562
- 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.
- 00:14:06.869 --> 00:14:08.604
- 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.
- 00:14:13.876 --> 00:14:15.644
- 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.
- 00:14:21.817 --> 00:14:23.352
- Then the spirit. it's over here.
- 00:14:23.352 --> 00:14:25.921
- And they told you it doesn't matter
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- What you do with your body, it's going to die.
- 00:14:27.456 --> 00:14:29.925
- It's going to vanish.
- 00:14:29.925 --> 00:14:31.126
- Oh, but you had to take care of your soul and your spirit
- 00:14:31.126 --> 00:14:34.063
- And christianity comes along.
- 00:14:34.697 --> 00:14:36.231
- The apostle paul says, nonsense.
- 00:14:36.231 --> 00:14:39.635
- Your body and your soul, your soul, your spirit.
- 00:14:40.602 --> 00:14:43.706
- There's a whole is there.
- 00:14:43.706 --> 00:14:45.808
- And you can't separate the physical from the spiritual
- 00:14:45.808 --> 00:14:50.212
- As they did there in ancient corinthians.
- 00:14:50.212 --> 00:14:54.049
- You can't do it.
- 00:14:54.450 --> 00:14:56.118
- And paul is reminding us of the hold.
- 00:14:56.118 --> 00:14:58.554
- Have you ever been to a graveside service or a funeral?
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- And some colored clergyman
- 00:15:02.758 --> 00:15:05.260
- Said, ashes to ashes and dust to dust.
- 00:15:05.260 --> 00:15:08.797
- When you hear that, you know you're not dealing
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- With a biblical understanding of life and death.
- 00:15:13.569 --> 00:15:16.705
- Did you get that?
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- Ashes to ashes, dust and dust
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- Says that this body dies.
- 00:15:21.143 --> 00:15:23.846
- 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.
- 00:15:25.948 --> 00:15:29.551
- That is not the teachings of christianity.
- 00:15:29.551 --> 00:15:33.288
- That is platonic paganism,
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- Because in christianity,
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- The body and the soul and the soul and the body
- 00:15:39.161 --> 00:15:41.764
- Go together and the body is sacred,
- 00:15:41.764 --> 00:15:44.266
- 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.
- 00:15:50.973 --> 00:15:54.443
- It's the most fabulous chapter in the world, i think.
- 00:15:54.443 --> 00:15:57.780
- Talk about life now and afterlife.
- 00:15:57.780 --> 00:16:00.282
- 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.
- 00:16:10.793 --> 00:16:13.796
- So there is the exclusivity that god has put in marriage.
- 00:16:13.796 --> 00:16:18.033
- You say, i can do anything i want to do
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- Except something that might be addictive.
- 00:16:21.070 --> 00:16:25.207
- And we have the idea.
- 00:16:25.707 --> 00:16:26.708
- Well, it's not against the law.
- 00:16:26.708 --> 00:16:30.112
- Therefore it must be all right.
- 00:16:30.112 --> 00:16:33.348
- There's the law of man and the law of god,
- 00:16:33.348 --> 00:16:36.085
- 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.
- 00:16:41.924 --> 00:16:46.728
- Paul is saying i can do anything,
- 00:16:46.728 --> 00:16:50.566
- But i don't want to hurt other people.
- 00:16:50.566 --> 00:16:52.134
- 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.
- 00:16:57.039 --> 00:17:00.109
- Cut to works well to keep from erosion
- 00:17:00.109 --> 00:17:04.279
- 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.
- 00:17:14.957 --> 00:17:16.191
- 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
- 00:17:20.762 --> 00:17:25.534
- 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
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- 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.
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- 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
- 00:18:10.012 --> 00:18:12.881
- 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.
- 00:18:19.621 --> 00:18:20.822
- 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
- 00:18:29.198 --> 00:18:32.434
- 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.
- 00:18:48.016 --> 00:18:51.920
- May they also be in us,
- 00:18:51.920 --> 00:18:54.423
- 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.
- 00:19:02.798 --> 00:19:05.968
- 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.
- 00:19:18.013 --> 00:19:19.848
- 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
- 00:19:27.956 --> 00:19:32.027
- 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.
- 00:20:36.958 --> 00:20:40.128
- Flee, run from sexual immorality.
- 00:20:40.128 --> 00:20:43.932
- 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.
- 00:22:19.961 --> 00:22:21.830
- We need to know.
- 00:22:21.830 --> 00:22:24.232
- Do you know that your bodies are.
- 00:22:24.232 --> 00:22:27.002
- Whoa!
- 00:22:27.002 --> 00:22:29.204
- 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.
- 00:22:47.322 --> 00:22:47.956
- My body
- 00:22:47.956 --> 00:22:50.292
- 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?
- 00:23:23.959 --> 00:23:24.993
- Sexual.
- 00:23:24.993 --> 00:23:26.194
- 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.
- 00:23:48.149 --> 00:23:51.386
- Sheep.
- 00:23:51.586 --> 00:23:54.055
- Sheep,
- 00:23:54.055 --> 00:23:56.224
- Sheep can take.
- 00:23:56.224 --> 00:23:57.092
- 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.
- 00:24:00.562 --> 00:24:02.430
- They eliminated that straw.
- 00:24:02.430 --> 00:24:04.099
- Just get a flock of sheep.
- 00:24:04.099 --> 00:24:05.600
- 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
- 00:24:18.914 --> 00:24:22.083
- By the lamb
- 00:24:22.417 --> 00:24:23.351
- 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
- 00:24:28.924 --> 00:24:31.826
- 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.
- 00:24:53.748 --> 00:24:55.550
- It kills kudzu and cleans up your life.
- 00:24:55.550 --> 00:24:59.421
- And in my life, that's the direction in which we run.
- 00:24:59.421 --> 00:25:04.092
- Amazing.
- 00:25:04.359 --> 00:25:05.994
- The lamb,
- 00:25:05.994 --> 00:25:08.396
- The grace of god.
- 00:25:08.396 --> 00:25:11.099
- All who are wrapped up
- 00:25:11.099 --> 00:25:14.135
- In the kudzu
- 00:25:14.469 --> 00:25:16.771
- Of sin.
- 00:25:16.771 --> 00:25:19.741
- Everybody wants a happy home.
- 00:25:19.741 --> 00:25:22.744
- But let's be honest.
- 00:25:22.744 --> 00:25:24.245
- A happy home doesn't just happen.
- 00:25:24.245 --> 00:25:27.148
- It's built.
- 00:25:27.148 --> 00:25:28.416
- It's shaped.
- 00:25:28.416 --> 00:25:29.851
- Day by day by day.
- 00:25:29.851 --> 00:25:31.987
- 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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- In the page of this
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- Book each day you will find a simple rhythm
- 00:25:48.403 --> 00:25:51.740
- As of scripture,
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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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