Vigilance in a Culture of Perversity

• Spiritual Warfare and Temptation [00:04:25 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor describes the Christian life as a great battle between good and evil, light and darkness, emphasizing that believers must stand up against temptation using God's word.
• Cultural Celebration of Sin [00:10:41 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor contrasts the past, where sin was hidden, with the present, where evil is celebrated and flaunted, citing the definition of 'rejoice' in Proverbs 14.
• National Repentance [00:13:41 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor argues that national affluence does not exempt a country from God's judgment, urging a return to days of repentance and humiliation similar to those of Washington and Lincoln.
• National Repentance and Judgment [00:13:19 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor argues that America is not exempt from God's judgment due to its practice of sin, calling for a national day of repentance and humiliation similar to historical precedents set by leaders like Washington and Lincoln.
• The Nature of Perversity and Delight in Evil [00:14:34 ▶️ 📄]
  > He defines 'delight' in perversity as an exuberant, gleeful satisfaction in committing evil, using the analogy of a shark attack to describe the frenzy and thrill associated with sinful acts.
• The Seared Conscience [00:20:02 ▶️ 📄]
  > Citing 1 Timothy 4:2, the pastor explains that persistent lying and hypocrisy cause the conscience to become 'seared with a hot iron,' resulting in a heart that no longer feels conviction or recognizes sin as wrong.
• Devious Paths and Spiritual Off-Ramps [00:23:45 ▶️ 📄]
  > He contrasts believers who desire to draw close to God with those who have 'devious' paths, looking for an 'off-ramp' to depart from faith when trials occur, highlighting the separation between true believers and nominal gatherers.
• Deliverance from Evil Men [00:26:06 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor references Psalm 140 and 1 Corinthians 10 to warn against self-reliance, urging believers to recognize their weaknesses (like a drunkard avoiding a bar) and cry out to the Lord for deliverance from violent and evil men.
• Temptation and Divine Sovereignty [00:27:07 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor explains 1 Corinthians 10:12-13, warning against self-reliance and introducing the concept of 'father-filtered' trials, asserting that God allows only temptations believers can withstand and provides an escape.
• Sexual Immorality and Idolatry [00:32:26 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor connects the Greek word 'pornea' to pornography and idolatry, arguing that sexual immorality is essentially worshipping oneself and surrendering sexual sovereignty, which is foreign to God's design.
• Cultural Critique of 'Choice' [00:36:11 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor critiques the cultural phrase 'woman's right to choose' in the context of abortion, using an analogy of SpaceX to argue that choices have irreversible consequences and that the fetus is a distinct human being, not part of the mother's body.
• Works of the Flesh vs. Kingdom Inheritance [00:40:02 ▶️ 📄]
  > Citing Galatians 5:19, the pastor lists sins like sorcery (hallucinogenic drugs) and orgies, warning that habitual engagement in these behaviors disqualifies one from inheriting the Kingdom of God, regardless of self-identified Christian status.
• Sexual Immorality and Biblical Definition [00:42:23 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor defines 'immoral woman' and 'seductress' as 'stranger woman' or 'foreigner,' indicating conduct that is alien to God's design for male-female marriage.
• Spiritual Bond of Sex [00:54:14 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor argues that sexual contact creates a spiritual bond joining Christ to the partner, warning that premarital sex joins Jesus to a 'hooker' and destroys the believer's spiritual standing.
• Physical and Medical Consequences [00:56:21 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor cites CDC reports to claim that sexual activity outside monogamy radically compromises the immune system and destroys the liver, equating it to alcoholism.
• Cultural and Political Commentary [00:57:42 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor transitions to criticizing California legislation regarding sex offenders and human traffickers in elected office, using it as a concluding illustration of societal decay.
• Cultural Decay and Sexual Immorality [00:57:09 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor lists societal issues, specifically focusing on the failure of legislation to ban sex offenders from office and the protection of sexual abuse, framing it as evidence of living in 'the days of the Bible' and a culture of filth.
• Evangelism and Salvation [00:59:40 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor transitions from cultural critique to the gospel, asserting that Jesus sets believers free from sin through His death and resurrection, replacing 'garbage and baggage' with Himself.

• Sermon Illustration [00:11:26 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor shares a personal childhood story about his father using methylate, a painful antiseptic, to treat wounds. He uses this as an analogy for how God's truth stings but is necessary for healing, contrasting it with a culture that celebrates sin rather than being stung by truth.
• Sermon Illustration [00:15:20 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor uses the analogy of a shark attack to describe how evil operates: taking a bite and then going 'nuts' with blood, illustrating the frenzied thrill of committing sin.
• Sermon Illustration [00:17:18 ▶️ 📄]
  > He employs an old saying about horse thieves to explain that one becomes a criminal in God's eyes through the intent and desire in the heart/mind before the physical act is committed, contrasting this with human jurisprudence.
• Sermon Illustration [00:19:25 ▶️ 📄]
  > He warns that if a Christian ignores God's call to stop sinning, God will 'put it on billboards in Times Square,' exposing their sin publicly.
• Sermon Illustration [00:20:22 ▶️ 📄]
  > He compares a seared conscience to skin that has been severely burned and calloused, losing the ability to feel sensation, illustrating how a heart becomes numb to sin.
• Sermon Illustration [00:27:33 ▶️ 📄]
  > He uses a personal anecdote about his past struggles (excluding drinking/drugs) to illustrate the principle of avoiding temptation: a person with a drinking problem should not go to a bar for water, but should carry water with them to avoid the weakness of alcohol.
• Sermon Illustration [00:27:26 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor shares a personal anecdote about his past life, noting that while he didn't struggle with drinking or drugs, he had other sins, illustrating that everyone has weaknesses.
• Sermon Illustration [00:27:44 ▶️ 📄]
  > An analogy comparing a recovering alcoholic going to a bar for water to a believer seeking to avoid temptation by placing themselves in tempting environments, illustrating the danger of proximity to one's weakness.
• Sermon Illustration [00:38:00 ▶️ 📄]
  > An analogy comparing abortion to a passenger in a SpaceX rocket traveling at 17,000 miles per hour trying to 'choose' to get out mid-flight, illustrating the irreversible nature of the choice to conceive and the distinct humanity of the fetus.
• Sermon Illustration [00:43:47 ▶️ 📄]
  > A hypothetical scenario referencing 'Bubbles sleeping with Rocky' to illustrate the concept of 'unsanctioned flesh' and foreign conduct outside of God's marital design.
• Sermon Illustration [00:46:07 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor tells a story of a 94-year-old man who came to his office crying because he had an erotic dream, illustrating that sexual temptation does not cease with age and must be fought throughout life.
• Sermon Illustration [00:47:17 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor uses a hypothetical scenario of a woman flirting with a man at a copy machine, analyzing her body language (eye contact, shoulder brushing) and words ('I wish my husband listened like you do') as calculated lures to separate the man from his wife.
• Sermon Illustration [00:48:38 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor references the biblical story of Potiphar's wife and Joseph, noting that she cast 'longing eyes' upon him, to illustrate how immoral individuals use physical attraction and persistence to lure victims.
• Sermon Illustration [00:53:11 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor uses an analogy of people slipping and falling on a frozen driveway to describe the path of the immoral woman, which is slippery, declining, and leads inevitably to ruin with no return.
• Sermon Illustration [00:55:59 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor references a 'greased pig' sliding down a slip-and-slide to hell to describe the irresistible and destructive nature of the immoral woman's path.
• Sermon Illustration [00:57:42 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor cites specific California legislative events: a bill originally seeking to prohibit sex offenders and human traffickers from elected office was amended to exempt pedophiles; a bill to ban sex offenders failed in the California Senate committee; State Senator Scott Weiner was accused of pushing for exemptions; and Governor Newsom signed a bill protecting sex offenders who have homosexual sex with minors.

• Pastoral Charge [00:05:58 ▶️ 📄]
  > Write down the command to stand up against temptation
• Pastoral Charge [00:13:41 ▶️ 📄]
  > Repent as a nation
• Pastoral Charge [00:19:49 ▶️ 📄]
  > Confess sins to God privately to avoid public exposure and judgment.
• Pastoral Charge [00:28:37 ▶️ 📄]
  > Memorize 1 Corinthians 10:13 regarding common temptations.
• Pastoral Charge [00:28:55 ▶️ 📄]
  > Memorize the scripture verse regarding common temptation.
• Pastoral Charge [00:42:25 ▶️ 📄]
  > Write down or note the definition of the 'immoral woman' as a 'stranger' or 'foreigner' in conduct.
• Pastoral Charge [00:55:10 ▶️ 📄]
  > Ask a woman out on a date with the intent of marriage.
• Pastoral Charge [00:57:35 ▶️ 📄]
  > Evaluate the truthfulness of the sermon's message.
• Pastoral Charge [00:59:40 ▶️ 📄]
  > Turn back to God and start with Jesus.

[00:00:00] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_00]
[00:00:00] I want to just say that as we study this today, just a little warning, if you have to get up and leave, it will probably incriminate yourself by getting up to leave. It's pretty intense stuff. If you have young people here today, it's probably be a pretty good idea
[00:00:15] to pack up and go outside or maybe take them to their class, but it's going to be adult because the Bible is going to be very adult here in a moment. Okay? You guys all right?
[00:00:28] okay I'll read verse 10 if you read verse 11 and let's measure let's take in every word when wisdom enters your heart and knowledge is pleasant to your soul

[00:00:41] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_01]
[00:00:41] discretion will preserve you

[00:00:44] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_00]
[00:00:44] understanding will keep you to deliver you from the way of evil from the man who speaks perverse things

[00:00:51] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_01]
[00:00:51] from those who leave the paths of unrighteousness to walk in the ways of darkness

[00:00:57] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_00]
[00:00:57] and here's where we go today in our study who rejoice in doing evil and delight in the perversity of the wicked.

[00:01:04] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_01]
[00:01:04] Whose ways are crooked

[00:01:06] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_00]
[00:01:06] and who are devious in their paths.
[00:01:08] To deliver you from the immoral woman, from the seductress who flatters with her words.

[00:01:15] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_01]
[00:01:15] Who forsakes the companion of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God.

[00:01:21] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_00]
[00:01:21] For her house leads down to death and her paths to the dead.

[00:01:27] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_01]
[00:01:27] None who go to her return.
[00:01:29] nor do they regain the paths of life.

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[00:01:32] So you may walk in the way of goodness and keep the paths of righteousness.

[00:01:37] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_01]
[00:01:37] For the upright will dwell in the land and the blameless will remain in it.

[00:01:42] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_00]
[00:01:42] But the wicked will be cut off from the earth and the unfaithful will be uprooted from it.
[00:01:50] And all God's people said, Amen.
[00:01:52] You may be seated.
[00:01:53] So we're looking at this series, this chapter we've titled, themed out will save your life. You'll see, obviously, you're starting to see a hint of it even now in the reading. The wisdom of God will, in fact, save your life. So it is incumbent upon
[00:02:11] every single one of us to pay absolute attention to God's word, the Bible. And it may be possible that today, maybe you're watching right now, or maybe you're here right now, and God's arrow will
[00:02:24] strike your heart. And if that happens to you today, I want to encourage you, take it, suck it up. Let God hit you with everything he's got so that he might save your life, so that you might
[00:02:40] turn from your wicked way and pursue God and find not only life, but eternal life in Christ.
[00:02:48] So let God have his work with you today. Don't be so proud that you've got to get up to think that you got to protect yourself or reach over to the TV and turn it off because you think all of a
[00:02:57] sudden now you've got something else to do. And a warning would be something like this. Hmm, I think I need to change the oil in my car. And you don't even have a car. You'll know that that's the devil
[00:03:08] trying to get you from hearing the truth. But God's wisdom will save your life. And we've learned that the entire book of Proverbs is the way of wisdom. We have been learning this. In verses one
[00:03:22] to five, it's time for us to wise up as a people against the worldly wisdom of this world. We learned in verses six through nine that we need to show up to the opportunities that God provides for us. You can read all about that in those details later or look
[00:03:38] at our previous study. And last week, verses 10 to 13, we saw that it's not only wise up, show up, but we need to wake up to the fact that there's good and that there's evil. And
[00:03:48] we are to choose today whom we will serve. What will we serve? Will it be evil? Will it be good?
[00:03:57] And this draws a line right down the heart of your life, the heart of your home, the heart of your community, the heart of this nation. There's the good and there's the evil. And listen, folks,
[00:04:08] somebody's going to win the day. And whatever area, good and evil are being battled out. I say whatever area. I believe it's in every area. In politics, in business, in our society, in churches.
[00:04:25] Good and evil warring. Light and darkness warring. The spirit and the flesh warring. We're in a great war. We're in a great battle. And so we now look at this fourth argument, verses 14 to 19, and that
[00:04:39] is that we are to stand up as a people of God. Look at verse 14. We read it there a second ago.
[00:04:45] and it says in verse 14, who, that is those who are evil, rejoice in doing evil. They love doing evil, and they delight in it. Now, again, approach the Bible as a skeptic. The evil,
[00:05:00] is there such a reality? The Bible says there is. Could such a person who's evil rejoice? The Bible says they do, and the Bible tells us that they delight in perversity. That is of the wicked,
[00:05:15] Verse 15 says, whose ways are crooked. We're going to learn all about that. And who are devious in their paths. Wow. Verse 16, to deliver you from the immoral woman, from the seductress who flatters with her words, who forsakes the companion of her youth and forgets the covenant
[00:05:32] of her God. For her house leads down to death and her paths to the dead. We're going to see how remarkably scientific that is. Verse 19, none who go to her return, nor do they regain the paths
[00:05:47] of life. Number one church, jot it down if you would, we're going to be called by God to take a stand. And it's pretty obvious verses 14 and 15 is that to stand up against temptation. Will
[00:05:58] you mark that down? Will you write that down? None of us are exempt from it. I wrote a little book called Temptation and nobody bought it. You want to know why? Because the title of the book
[00:06:11] was called Temptation. Somebody told me, you should have put like puppies and daisy and flowers on the cover and said something like, something else other than Temptation. Because if you buy a book that's titled Temptation, then people are going to think, look, that guy just bought a book on
[00:06:29] Temptation. He must be one who's being tempted. The ridiculous thing about that path of logic is every single one of us as christians are under an onslaught of temptation the only person who was not tempted in this world is somebody who just died the moment you die is the moment temptation
[00:06:51] is no longer launched at you by satan temptation hits every believer it hits every unbeliever it's one of satan's tactics and you and i the only way listen the only way that you and i are going
[00:07:07] to be able to be victorious over temptation is by standing up in the power of God's word against it.
[00:07:15] You cannot deny it's gonna come to you.
[00:07:18] It comes.
[00:07:20] And so what do we do?
[00:07:21] How do we war?
[00:07:23] And so just a reminder, because verse 14 comes right off of verse 13.
[00:07:27] Verse 13 is the foundation that launches us into this challenge to stand up against temptation.
[00:07:32] It says in verse 13, for those who leave the paths of uprightness, To walk in the ways of darkness.
[00:07:41] This is the number one thing, is to now give up, to be interested in.
[00:07:47] This is not a verse, nor is it a theology here regarding losing your salvation.
[00:07:53] The question is, do you even have it?
[00:07:55] That's the most important question you should ask yourself this morning.
[00:07:58] Am I really a Christian?
[00:08:00] Now look, as a Christian, you and I are going to be tempted.
[00:08:03] But as a Christian, you and I will never, never be abandoned by God.
[00:08:08] we will be tested and the test will come from God and it's tailor made from God a temptation is something that Satan fabricates to launch against you the Christian is tested trials we call them
[00:08:26] that comes from the Lord Satan pulls out one of his arrows and puts it into his bow and will launch it right at you because he knows your weakness and all of us have weakness
[00:08:40] but we need to fight them.
[00:08:43] By the way, it's my opinion.
[00:08:44] This is gonna sound kind of corny only because they don't know how to say it rightly but I know what I believe.
[00:08:52] I'm not afraid of those areas of temptation.
[00:08:56] I'm not afraid of those.
[00:08:58] Do you know what I'm afraid of?
[00:09:00] I'm afraid of those areas where I think I'm strong, where I think I can take care of this because when you are in a state of warfare and temptation is being shot at you, you're on guard. Look right now, we're here right now. It's a nice day. It's a Sunday and
[00:09:18] we're kind of relaxed. Some of you are going to go to the beach. Some of you are going to go to the game or some of you, whatever, whatever. It's nice. Let me tell you something. If all of a sudden
[00:09:28] we could snap our fingers and we could be in some war zone, you'd want to throw away your flip-flops and get some boots. Why? Because your environment changed. And right here, right now in your heart
[00:09:42] and your life, we need to have an environmental change in our lives to wake up to the fact that on the outward, we may look comfortable. On the inside, we need to be vigilant soldiers
[00:09:53] because we are spiritually at war. And so when he says here in verse 14, who rejoice in doing evil, marking the word rejoice, look what this word means.
[00:10:05] If you and I didn't live in the 21st century, it would be hard to believe, but you and I are going to understand this just perfectly well. That the evil who depart from the path or the ways of
[00:10:16] God, they rejoice. And the word means they're glad. It means to be glad about it. Glad about it, to be made happy about it, to make merry about it, to be pleased, to celebrate. Oh boy, to celebrate.
[00:10:34] Do we live in a world that announces evil, the kind of evil that 50 years ago would be hidden?
[00:10:41] Are you guys awake?
[00:10:42] I need you to be awake because I'm not even awake.
[00:10:48] We, 50 years ago in our culture, the sin was hidden.
[00:10:52] Now it's celebrated.
[00:10:54] The Bible, a 3,000 year old passage of scripture is saying watch out because there will be those who depart from the ways of truth and of God and they will celebrate their sin.
[00:11:06] They will be so glad about it.
[00:11:08] They'll be made happy about it.
[00:11:09] They'll make merry about it.
[00:11:12] Does it sound like I'm making this up?
[00:11:13] or is this incredibly accurate?
[00:11:16] Don't you love the word of God?
[00:11:18] Even when it stings, it's a good kind of sting.
[00:11:22] I don't know why, sorry, interrupting myself.
[00:11:26] Is anybody old enough to remember?
[00:11:27] I don't know what it was.
[00:11:28] In our home, there was one thing that was the cure-all for everything.
[00:11:33] And my dad would go get it.
[00:11:34] We hated it.
[00:11:36] It was called methylate.
[00:11:38] Please raise your hand if anyone knows.
[00:11:41] Several of you know.
[00:11:41] Okay, if you got hurt and you're bleeding, the last thing you wanted to do was to tell your dad that you've been injured. Why? Because he would hold you down and unscrew that little knob and
[00:11:57] pull out that thing, which to make it worse, has got like a little needly pricky thing on the end, which doesn't help. It could have been cotton, but no, they're thinking, this is to be applied to wounds and injuries. And it's very, it stains everything it touches.
[00:12:11] And they would put it in, but that's not it. You forget about the stain and you forget about the fact that you cut yourself on the glass because the methylate hurts so bad that you would yell
[00:12:21] and scream. And the more you yelled and scream, the more your dad felt good that you were getting healed. Methylate. It's probably illegal, which is why you haven't heard about it in a long time.
[00:12:36] but it stings. And it's supposed to be putting out all of these bad things. God's truth stings.
[00:12:46] But we live in a world right now when people, instead of being stung, they rejoice and they flaunt sin like never before. If you don't think we're living in the last days, I don't know
[00:12:57] where you're looking or what you're thinking. But when we dedicate things like an entire month to the celebration of perversity. We are far from God's way. And as a nation, the Bible makes it clear, every nation that practices such things, God says he will judge. And America is not exempt.
[00:13:19] God is not in heaven waving a red, white, and blue flag, folks. He is the holy almighty God, and he hates sin. And just because we're affluent, and just because we're the global world power,
[00:13:32] and because we have this, that, and the other thing, don't think that those blessings have somehow put us in some special relationship with God.
[00:13:41] We need to repent as a nation, as a nation.
[00:13:45] Wouldn't it be good that we'd have leaders that would say, like Washington did, of course, that we need to have, Lincoln did this, we need to have a day, this is how they called it,
[00:13:55] we need to have a day of repentance and humiliation and prayer.
[00:14:03] That's what they called it, humiliation.
[00:14:05] It's when we woke up to realize we need to repent of our sins because we've been humiliated by what we've allowed and what we're engaged in, and we need to pray and seek God.
[00:14:15] Our national leaders used to call such things, and now in our day and age, if a national leader called such a thing, they'd probably kill him or shoot her or remove them.
[00:14:28] It doesn't matter.
[00:14:29] The church should be calling this out.
[00:14:31] It's the voice of the church that should matter.
[00:14:34] and this word rejoice, and it's bizarre, right? They rejoice in doing evil. They love it, and they celebrate it. The word delight, very similar but different. The word delight here, that they delight in perversity. The word delight is the word that means they become exuberant,
[00:14:55] animated, gleeful, satisfied, once having committed the evil. The Bible tells us right here that There are those who plot evil and think it up and rejoice at the thought of it, and then once they execute it, they become exuberant.
[00:15:10] It's almost, they're thrilled about it, and then once they commit it, they're supercharged over it.
[00:15:18] It's like a frenzy.
[00:15:20] Think of a shark attack.
[00:15:22] They just, they take a bite, and then if there's blood, they go nuts.
[00:15:26] Evil's like that, and it's destroying our world and our culture, and one of the reasons why is that it's allowed to.
[00:15:34] What are we supposed to do? Speak up. Make some noise. Get involved. Hold our leaders to account and say something as a believer. Look, you don't have to be a believer. Ask somebody who cares.
[00:15:53] They're very bold about it. Do we celebrate righteousness? We should. Do we celebrate doing the right thing? We should. Should we not be thrilled about things that are wholesome and good?
[00:16:05] Doesn't the Bible tell us that we should be speaking of those things that are edifying and lift people up?
[00:16:16] I hope that you see that there's a war against what's good and what's evil.
[00:16:22] The one who rejoices in doing evil and delights in perversity of the wicked, the word perversity means, and this is powerful stuff, to be fraudulent because they are fraudulent.
[00:16:33] I'll come back to this in a moment.
[00:16:35] With a forwardness or a boldness, a confidence in doing any or all perverse things. The Bible says, and you judge. Now, look, even though the Bible is actually judging you and I, I want the skeptic in the house
[00:16:50] to just judge the Bible right now. Is that Hebrew word accurate? That those who celebrate sin are very confident about the perversities that they are supporting? The answer to that is yes, which is why you're so quiet.
[00:17:09] And look, to be fraudulent because they are fraudulent, you say, well, that's a silly statement.
[00:17:14] Not really, it means this.
[00:17:18] Why does someone, this is an old saying, of course we don't do this here anymore, but why would somebody steal a horse or a car or whatever you have?
[00:17:32] Why would somebody steal a horse?
[00:17:36] Yeah, the reason why people steal horses is because before they steal the horse, they are a horse thief.
[00:17:48] You say, no, wait a minute.
[00:17:49] I'm a judge, pastor.
[00:17:50] I sit in court.
[00:17:52] Or somebody might say, I'm an attorney.
[00:17:54] I'm a prosecutor.
[00:17:55] That's not true.
[00:17:56] You're wrong.
[00:17:58] I'll tell you why.
[00:18:00] You don't become a horse thief after you steal the horse.
[00:18:06] The reason why you stole the horse is because you had the thought in your mind, I want that guy's horse.
[00:18:13] and because it's in your heart and it's in your mind you go after it to take it and you do that because that's what you are you do not become a criminal when you commit a crime according to God
[00:18:29] you become a criminal when you come commit a crime in our human jurisprudence of doing things I get that but when do you become a criminal in the mind and in the knowing of God God knows your thoughts
[00:18:44] He knows your heart. And this is remarkable. And God knows there are those that are rejoicing in perversity and they plan on it. They plot in it. It's like, oh boy, I can't wait to dive into this
[00:18:58] next time or to come back to that or to do this thing. The Bible says to the believer, watch out, know this, your sin will find you out. If you're a believer, if you're a non-believer, look,
[00:19:13] you got other problems bigger than that. But for the believer who's dabbling in sins that he ought not to be dabbling in, God is saying, you better repent. If you don't, I'm going to let the world
[00:19:25] know about it. You know, that's how God rolls. You know that? If God is speaking to you and he's saying, stop stealing horses, stop doing that thing. If you don't listen to him, and if
[00:19:37] you are a Christian, if you are a Christian and you're not listening to him, he will put it, so to speak, on billboards in Times Square. Your sin will find you out. You don't want that to
[00:19:49] happen. You want to come before him and confess before him and he'll take care of it. Wow, that's what you want to do. But quite remarkable is the way of the wicked. They just stay at it. 1 Timothy
[00:20:02] chapter 4 verse 2 tells us these wicked speak lies and hypocrisy, having their own conscience seared with the hot iron. This is where we're going today. I told you that's why it's a hard message. People who speak lies and hypocrisy long enough, their conscience becomes seared,
[00:20:22] and the Bible says, uses the terminology, a hot iron. A hot iron. Have you ever seen someone who has been severely burned? Their skin is calloused. Imagine that happening to your heart. Your heart eventually becomes so sin-bent in the realm of perversity that you can't feel anything anymore.
[00:20:44] When you don't feel anything anymore, it means you're not feeling the conviction of God.
[00:20:48] You don't even think it's wrong anymore.
[00:20:50] And so you don the colors, you don the outfit, you don the team, the jersey, so to speak, of evil.
[00:20:59] And God says, we're living in a time like that.
[00:21:01] And God is calling our young people and the old people and all people in between to stand up and resist these evils.
[00:21:12] in Romans chapter 1 verse 18 the Bible says for the wrath of God is revealed by the way the Greek word in the original Bible says this for the wrath of God is being revealed
[00:21:25] it's happening now from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness make fun of the truth mock the truth and the Bible warns us about these things like this. But listen, Romans chapter one, verse 28. And even as they did not like to retain God
[00:21:51] in their knowledge, I don't want to think about God. Don't talk to me about God. I don't want to hear it. God gave them over to a debased mind or reprobate mind. How do we know? To do those things
[00:22:07] which are not fitting or not correct, not proper, being filled with all unrighteousness and what?
[00:22:14] Sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness, full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil-mindedness. Yikes. I want to take a shower after you read this verse.
[00:22:28] They are whisperers and backbiters, haters of God, violent, proud boasters, inventors of evil things. And he goes on, evil things. But their mind has been seared. Question to you is this, why should you trust God? Why should you believe in the Bible? Why should you look to Christ who
[00:22:45] died on the cross for your sins and rose again from the grave? It's the same Bible telling you this morning that there's a perversity out there and there are those that are bent on wickedness.
[00:22:55] And God is saying, I want you to stand and I want you to be different from the world. I want you to walk away from them. And I want you to walk closer to me. I want you to forsake wickedness and pursue
[00:23:05] righteousness. God is announcing this to all of us. He's announcing it to this nation. The things that plague our lives are self-inflicted wounds. Look, of course, apart from those things that are native to a fallen world. I'm not talking about cancers or leukemia. No, I'm not talking about
[00:23:29] that stuff. I'm talking about the things that we do against God and then we reap of what we've sown and it's not good. Those are what I call self-inflicted wounds. We also see in verse 15
[00:23:45] regarding us resisting standing up against temptation. It says in verse 15, whose ways are crooked and who are devious in their paths. And this word crooked means to be twisted or like a twisted branch. It's a branch that's not supposed to be twisted, but for whatever reasons,
[00:24:03] it's twisted. The word also means a crooked path, a perverted, or that which is perverted, opposite view of reality. The Bible says that those who are wicked have a perverse view of reality.
[00:24:25] Think of this for a moment. You said, Jack, that's kind of extreme. I'm going to show you something at the end of this message that is going to prove that point right there in real
[00:24:38] time. Wow. And then devious. The word devious means having the desire to turn aside. You want to turn aside. You want to depart. You want to go off course. Now, this separates the believer from the unbeliever. There are those who will congregate into what we'll call a religious or
[00:25:00] spiritual gathering. And yet there are those in that gathering that are longing and pursuing and desiring to draw close to God, to know God, to love God, and to find out more about God and
[00:25:15] to find out who they are with God and in God. And I hope that's you. I hope that's us. And in the same group, the same gathering, there are those who have that same burden, passion, if you can put
[00:25:31] those words together? To have their path altered. They're looking for an off-ramp. And you say, I just can't believe somebody would be looking for an off-ramp. You're not going to know if they're looking for an off-ramp, but you'll know this, that when stuff happens, they'll take the
[00:25:52] off-ramp. And I'm building up. I'm building up to something. If they see an off-ramp up ahead, before they get there, they've decided to take it. Are you hearing me? This is important.
[00:26:06] Psalm 140 verse 1 says, Deliver me, O Lord, from evil men.
[00:26:13] Preserve me from violent men who plan evil things in their hearts.
[00:26:18] They continually gather together for war.
[00:26:21] They sharpen their tongues.
[00:26:23] Who takes their tongue to war?
[00:26:26] I thought that was funny when I was looking at that verse earlier this week.
[00:26:30] Because they're ready to go to war.
[00:26:33] It didn't say about them getting a tank.
[00:26:36] It says they sharpen their tongues like a serpent.
[00:26:39] Isn't that interesting?
[00:26:40] What an interesting word that is.
[00:26:42] The poison of ass, adders, poisonous snakes is under their lips.
[00:26:46] Yikes, wow, graphic.
[00:26:54] But what does deliverance look like?
[00:26:55] The psalmist cries out, deliver me, oh Lord.
[00:26:57] So we wanna ask the question, what does that look like?
[00:26:59] Lord, will you deliver me from the evil that is around me?
[00:27:04] And I believe the answer's in 1 Corinthians 10, verse 12.
[00:27:07] and it says, therefore, let him who thinks he stands take heed lest he fall.
[00:27:13] In other words, watch out for what you think are your strong points.
[00:27:17] Don't trust in yourself.
[00:27:19] And we're all prone to that.
[00:27:21] Watch out.
[00:27:23] You know what verse 12 means to me?
[00:27:26] Now, I've never, when I was in the world, I had my sins, but drinking or drugs was not one of them.
[00:27:33] I just didn't, that didn't compute to me.
[00:27:36] For somebody, that's you.
[00:27:37] but trust me, I had my other problems.
[00:27:41] But it would be like this.
[00:27:44] If you have a problem drinking and you're on your way home from work and you're thirsty, you don't go to Joe's Bar and Grill to get a glass of water.
[00:27:57] Does that make sense?
[00:27:59] If you want to stop drinking, carry water with you, drink that, but don't drive by some saloon to quench your thirst because you'll be gravitated toward what?
[00:28:15] The alcohol, because that is your weakness.
[00:28:18] Now, if you know that, that becomes something you're very strong against, right?
[00:28:25] You're on guard against it.
[00:28:27] Verse 13, no temptation has overtaken you except such as common to man.
[00:28:33] In other words, Satan will lie and say, it's okay, it's okay, just do it.
[00:28:37] God will forgive you.
[00:28:38] And then you cross the line and Satan goes, you're going to hell, look at you, you're gonna burn.
[00:28:42] There's no way back for you.
[00:28:43] that's hopeless. Well, you might say to yourself, well, people aren't tempted like I am. I want you to memorize that verse. Every single one of us get hit to the same degree. It might be packaged
[00:29:01] differently, but we're in this boat together, folks. But watch this. No temptation has overtaken you such as is common to man, but God, hallelujah, is faithful who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able. So Satan's launching attacks. And this is where we get the term
[00:29:22] father filtered. You ever heard that term before? Satan might be launching against your life through people, through things. But as a believer, what makes it through into your life has got to get the father's approval. Even though he didn't send it to you, he'll allow it knowing that you in
[00:29:42] Christ have got the ability to defeat it. And what does that do? It winds up dramatically, wonderfully inflicting the kingdom of darkness. I don't know about you, but when you understand that, it's like, bring it on. If nothing can come to me, but his father filtered and Satan is trying
[00:30:01] to kill my home or kill my marriage or kill my kids, destroy this church. Nothing can come through unless it's father-filtered.
[00:30:11] And if it comes to me, if it comes to you, should I say this?
[00:30:15] When it comes to me, when it comes to you, you can stand confidently knowing this did not arrive by an accident.
[00:30:25] God has allowed Satan's evil to get through, though God is not causing it, for me to stand up against the enemy's attack.
[00:30:36] And God will use the believer to punish wickedness. If you don't think so, go look. It just popped into my head. Go look at 2 Corinthians chapter 10, verse 6. When you're obedient to Christ, Christ will use your obedience
[00:30:54] to punish all disobedience. Wow. And he will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will also make the way of escape that you may be able to bear it.
[00:31:10] Hallelujah. Thank you, Lord. That's excellent. And I'll take that. That's a great promise.
[00:31:16] James chapter 4, verse 4. James 4, verse 4 says, adulterers and adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. Or do you think that the scriptures says in vain,
[00:31:35] The spirit who dwells in us yearns, the spirit, that's the Holy Spirit, who dwells in us yearns jealously. It means he owns you, he bought you, and he wants you to be super, super blessed in life.
[00:31:48] Don't go down the wrong path. But he gives more grace. Therefore, he says, God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble. So what should we do? Submit to God. Resist the devil.
[00:32:01] and he will flee from you.
[00:32:05] That's a promise.
[00:32:06] Draw near to God and he will draw near to you.
[00:32:10] Cleanse your hands.
[00:32:11] James is so subtle.
[00:32:12] Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
[00:32:17] Wow, that sounds like a coach talking to you.
[00:32:23] Strong, beautiful.
[00:32:25] And the second thing is this.
[00:32:26] Look at verses 16 to 17 is that we need to stand up against lust.
[00:32:31] Lust.
[00:32:31] it says in verse 16 to deliver you from the immoral woman from the seductress who flatters with her words why does she do this well she forsakes the companion of her youth and she forgets the covenant of her god so this is the introduction in the bible to the adulterous
[00:32:50] woman so but let's be honest i mentioned this last week this is solomon talking to his son he's going to be speaking to his son about the adulterous woman obviously there's the adulterous man right this is not a gender dynamic this is gender fluid in the area of if a woman can do it
[00:33:12] a man can do it and what is that immorality so don't don't ladies don't think well they're really beating up on us girls today this goes uh this goes to all of us what's the old saying if the
[00:33:26] shoe fits. Yeah. And so sexual immorality. I want to, are you guys sitting down? Okay. Hang on to your seats. I want to read this to you. Go ahead and put it up. Sexual immorality. The New Testament
[00:33:45] word most often translated sexual immorality is the Greek word pornea. Pornea. Take one guess what that word could possibly also refer to.
[00:33:58] Porn, pornography, pornographic, pornea.
[00:34:06] It's an ancient word, folks.
[00:34:08] Pornea is also translated as whoredom, fornication, adultery, in association with idolatry.
[00:34:16] I find that interesting because some argue that idol worship preempts all of the adultery or the sexual immorality that's mentioned here because you're the idol that's being worshipped.
[00:34:31] And so if I'm the idol that I'm worshipping, then I accept all offerings to come into my life.
[00:34:39] It's my religion.
[00:34:41] It's my way.
[00:34:43] Idol worship results in sexual immorality.
[00:34:47] Think of it.
[00:34:48] Which is a form of worship.
[00:34:49] Pornea, one's worship of sexual desire, meaning to surrender, watch this, surrender as worship, to bow down as worship, to give up sexual purity, or to yield as worship, to submit as in worship, to willingly hand over your sexual sovereignty as an act of worship.
[00:35:13] You say, I don't believe in that. Yes, you do. Yes, we do. Because listen, when someone yields themselves over to sexual immorality, which is sex outside of God's rule book, God has a plan, to do that outside is to elevate yourself as the one that must be gratified the one that must
[00:35:30] receive from the other person or people and you've set yourself up as the object of deity as it were you've deified yourself and listen when you give yourself over in that act it's not only an act of
[00:35:44] worship what's going on is that you are willingly sovereignly choosing to give yourself over does that makes sense. This is so unpopular. I guarantee you, nobody's getting a sermon like this today in America. You are going to hate me for what I'm about to say next. So I have,
[00:36:11] you have the choice to do whatever you want to do with your body. You can choose. Do you agree?
[00:36:23] Do you understand that? From what you eat to what you swim in or to, it doesn't matter. Whatever you do. There's a sense, as it were, of your sovereignty being acted by your will. And I'm going to do this
[00:36:37] or not do this. Choice. It's called choice. There is a prevailing, absolutely stupid, illogical argument that is never being challenged today because people are afraid. And here it comes.
[00:36:55] Have you ever heard of a woman's right to choose? A woman's choice. Have you ever heard that?
[00:37:02] I believe in that. I believe in a man's right to choose. Think about it. So do you.
[00:37:11] Notice how it's wrongly and selectively applied. Again, I believe in all of our abilities to choose as we will. Look, it may be a bad choice, but that's on you. That's on me. Are you with me?
[00:37:28] Oh, but I'm going to vote for a woman's right to choose. What's the context of your discussion here?
[00:37:34] Of course that's good.
[00:37:36] Of course, if you want to have vanilla ice cream today, that's a woman's right to choose.
[00:37:42] Oh, I see.
[00:37:45] Now we see why people don't bring it up.
[00:37:47] A woman and a man, let's be honest, took two to become pregnant, and then a woman wants to choose after the pregnancy?
[00:38:00] That's like getting in SpaceX, getting launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, and then calling up Elon Musk and saying, I want out now.
[00:38:10] As you travel at 17,000 miles an hour.
[00:38:14] You're not getting out.
[00:38:16] It's kind of like saying, well, you know what?
[00:38:19] All this stuff happened, but I'm going to say it didn't happen.
[00:38:22] Folks, listen.
[00:38:24] A choice was made.
[00:38:26] I'm going to give my body to her or she's going to give her body to me.
[00:38:30] And we're not dumb.
[00:38:32] We graduated from biology.
[00:38:34] Babies are conceived.
[00:38:35] the choice the baby inside the woman is not the woman's body it's a completely different human being it's called dna that's that's not the point of the message today but it stings and it hurts
[00:38:54] because we're talking about the reality of things and our culture has just said no no we will sacrifice anything and everything to defend this statement a woman's right to choose even though it violates so many things
[00:39:10] because pleasure comes first.
[00:39:17] In our nation, God sees this.
[00:39:22] It's a tragic thing.
[00:39:24] By the way, can I say this?
[00:39:26] Well, I'm gonna say it.
[00:39:27] The guy, the guy whose baby that is, if I was the dictator of this country, I would have that guy be 100% responsible for the welfare of that woman and that child, period.
[00:39:51] You know the old saying, you play, you pay?
[00:39:56] It's the result of a choice.
[00:39:58] Choices matter, people.
[00:40:00] Galatians chapter five, verse 19.
[00:40:02] You know, for those of you who are visiting church this week, at least you know, at least you know this is not a church you wanna come back to next week.
[00:40:11] Galatians chapter five, verse 19.
[00:40:13] Paul wrote to the Galatian believers there, and he says, when you follow the desires of your sinful nature.
[00:40:19] That's what we're talking about.
[00:40:20] The results are very clear.
[00:40:22] Sexual immorality, impurity, lustful pleasures, idolatry, sorcery, that's a wild word.
[00:40:28] It's Greek.
[00:40:29] It's pharmakai, pharmacy, hallucinogenic drugs.
[00:40:34] I mean, he's not talking Advil here.
[00:40:36] He's talking about sorcery is the kind of drugs you take or something that you smoke or some mushroom you eat and you have a little mind trip.
[00:40:47] that's the word pharmakai. Isn't that amazing? It opens you up to another realm. That's why the translators put the word sorcery there. Spirit entrance. Remarkable. I love the Bible.
[00:41:02] Hostility, quarreling, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambition, dissensions, division, envy, drunkenness, orgies. That's the word there for wild parties. It's the word orgy.
[00:41:14] And other sins like these, let me tell you again, as I've told you before, that anyone living that sort of life will not inherit the kingdom of God.
[00:41:25] That's the Bible.
[00:41:26] You live, this is your life, you're not going.
[00:41:29] No, but I'm a Christian, you're not going.
[00:41:31] According to your logic, you're the only Christian who's not going.
[00:41:36] But I'm a Christian.
[00:41:38] And you live like that.
[00:41:40] This is a habitual lifestyle.
[00:41:42] Pick one, maybe three, maybe four, maybe all, maybe one.
[00:41:44] This is how you live, and then you're a Christian.
[00:41:47] Mm-mm.
[00:41:48] No.
[00:41:50] It's like me living the life I used to live before I met Jesus, and coming to Jesus, and then going back to that lifestyle and living it again, and then saying, but I'm a Christian.
[00:42:05] But I'm a Christian.
[00:42:08] God cannot hear that.
[00:42:11] It doesn't work.
[00:42:16] It burns.
[00:42:16] It stings.
[00:42:17] I understand.
[00:42:18] It should.
[00:42:20] She's the immoral woman, the Bible tells us.
[00:42:23] This is remarkable.
[00:42:24] Please mark this down.
[00:42:25] You see where it says she's the immoral woman and she's a seductress?
[00:42:29] You know what those words are?
[00:42:30] The word immoral means strange woman and the word seductress means stranger woman.
[00:42:38] Stranger.
[00:42:39] Not strange like she's weird.
[00:42:42] Strange meaning foreigner.
[00:42:46] Strange meaning alien.
[00:42:48] Strange meaning, wow, we'll see it. In fact, I'll skip ahead. Look at the word immoral. Look at the definition of this.
[00:42:58] This is who she, who he is, who is a sexually promiscuous individual. To be a stranger, an alien, the same being, but a foreigner. In other words, human, in this case, male or female, but the conduct is foreign.
[00:43:19] It's not supposed to happen.
[00:43:21] Some of you who are listening should be catching on to this.
[00:43:25] The same meaning humankind is made up of what?
[00:43:28] Male, female.
[00:43:30] God says that in marriage, a male and a female come together and it's his blessing.
[00:43:36] It's his design.
[00:43:38] Everything about it's great.
[00:43:40] God says, however, if a male and a male come together or a female and a female come together, it's total destruction.
[00:43:47] same kind, but if they act out of the order, it's foreign. So much so, look at the words that this means. Another, unsanctioned flesh. Wow. So if Bubbles is sleeping with Rocky, what's the translation? That's unsanctioned flesh. Yeah, but he's a guy and she's a girl. Unsanctioned flesh.
[00:44:12] Rocky is not allowed to, what's her name?
[00:44:16] Bubbles.
[00:44:17] Rocky's not allowed to touch bubbles because Rocky and bubbles are not married in the eyes of God.
[00:44:25] He said, Jack, you look like a two-legged dinosaur talking about these things.
[00:44:29] Yeah, I know.
[00:44:31] But you know what?
[00:44:32] Sometimes truth looks like a two-legged dinosaur, I guess.
[00:44:35] Because here's the word of God up here and we are warned against foreign invaders, as it were, into our life.
[00:44:42] the flesh you are not allowed nor supposed to have, or also translated, illegitimate flesh.
[00:44:50] Wow. Where does this pop up in the Bible? I knew you would ask. It's Exodus chapter 20, verse 14.
[00:44:57] You shall not commit adultery. Right there. Seventh commandment. Job chapter 31, verse 1.
[00:45:09] This is awesome. You know, Job was an old man. I wish I had the time. I can't believe this clock.
[00:45:14] It's wrong. I'm going to identify as that clock being wrong. Job 31.1 says, I've made a covenant with my eyes. Why then should I look upon a young woman? Job said that. He's an old man. Let me tell
[00:45:28] you, young guys, listen up, really. Let's pretend no girls are in here right now. Young guys, listen up. If you're having lustful thoughts in your mind and you get those images in your head and
[00:45:40] you're thinking, man, I can't wait to be as old as Pastor Jack. All that stuff will be gone because He's dead. Nope. It doesn't go away. The attacks do not stop. Young guys, listen up. They don't
[00:45:58] stop. You fight. You fight against them. You stand against them. But Satan will never give up.
[00:46:07] Just know that. I had a 94-year-old man come into my office crying. And I thought, he's 94. He's going to tell me finally. I'm dying. After 90, I don't want to live to 94. Although he was quite
[00:46:23] agile, he's crying, and then he finally gets it out. He said, please pray for me. I had a very erotic dream last night, and I'm thinking, dude, you're 94 years old. Is there any hope for any of
[00:46:39] us. Yeah, you fight. You fight. And notice she flatters. The word flatter means that she, the interesting word, the Hebrew word means she makes a distribution with her words. She casts forth her words or his words, put forth, put out to a lure. The word means to divide, implying
[00:47:09] that her actions are intending to drive a wedge of separation. And the word also means to conquer.
[00:47:17] She says things like this. The immoral woman says at the copy machine at work, hi, how was your weekend? And watch this. There's some things that you all know, right? You all know this? Did you know that you're supposed to be very careful? But in fact, you need to know this
[00:47:36] so you don't do this when she comes up and says hey how was your weekend why is she asking me that should be your first thought why is she asking me she could care less
[00:47:55] about my weekend and you say something like that's fine and no it's fine is about enough if you say it's fine how is yours and if she just goes well You know, watch my shoulder.
[00:48:16] Listen up, people.
[00:48:17] Watch my face.
[00:48:18] I'm exaggerating this, but get it.
[00:48:20] It's kind of like, well, watch the eye.
[00:48:25] Listen, tell your sons, watch the eyes.
[00:48:29] Watch the little, these, you laugh, but these are indicators.
[00:48:35] These are big indicators.
[00:48:36] If she goes like this, she's interested in you.
[00:48:38] Did you know that?
[00:48:40] If she goes like this, like Potiphar's wife with Joseph, hi hi joseph the bible says in genesis 39 the bible says in genesis 39 that she cast upon joseph longing eyes longing oh he's just sending all of this flirtatious indicators all of this stuff
[00:49:13] why because listen guys women listen up or maybe you shouldn't listen to this guys, guys are suckers for flattery. Did you hear what she said? Then this is you talking to yourself. Did you, did you hear what she said to me? She said, she's never seen anybody pull a
[00:49:33] ream of paper up like that before. She said, I'm strong. She said, I wish my husband listened like you do. Exactly. Thank you for gasping for air. The moment you hear that it's over. You're doomed.
[00:49:55] The immoral woman will set you up.
[00:49:58] She's got the presentation.
[00:50:00] Satan will see to it.
[00:50:01] You think Bathsheba was a dog?
[00:50:04] Bathsheba had to be beautiful or else David would have said, next.
[00:50:13] The beauty will be there, the attractiveness or the persistence and these bodily messages that are sent, a little touch on the hand.
[00:50:24] Watch out for that stuff.
[00:50:25] When somebody brushes over and then they go, sorry, a little too close.
[00:50:31] That's exactly what they wanted.
[00:50:32] They're trying to send you a message.
[00:50:34] But the guy, the guy who's not walking in the spirit goes, oh, that's amazing.
[00:50:42] She, I think she likes me.
[00:50:49] She's immoral.
[00:50:50] She exhibits that by her presentation.
[00:50:55] Watch out for this.
[00:50:56] Guy's the same.
[00:50:57] This is a two-way street, people.
[00:51:01] Guys think this.
[00:51:02] You're gonna hate me.
[00:51:03] Go ahead.
[00:51:04] Just, everyone hates me.
[00:51:06] When a woman is wearing certain clothes and she's built a certain way.
[00:51:11] To a guy, she's saying, come and get it.
[00:51:15] And a woman will say, that's not what I meant.
[00:51:18] I just, I want to be pretty.
[00:51:19] Go in and be pretty.
[00:51:22] But a guy, you need to talk to your dad or somebody to find out that those are things that drive guys crazy.
[00:51:31] Be careful.
[00:51:33] Be wise.
[00:51:36] Avoid the immoral man and the man who is a seductress.
[00:51:41] goes the same way.
[00:51:45] He compliments you, always complimenting you, and he's not your husband.
[00:51:52] A little brush, a little look, lies locked, what lies, eyes locked, what is the thing in psychology?
[00:51:59] Do you remember this?
[00:52:00] Three seconds, there's like a three second rule.
[00:52:03] If somebody's looking at somebody, there's a three second rule of eyes locked.
[00:52:07] This is if they don't know each other.
[00:52:08] And then if they look away and then look back, it's over.
[00:52:14] Dude, no wonder why the Bible says run. The Bible says run, flee youthful lusts. Remarkable. It says that her path, look at verse, and it's the end, we're over time. It's verses 18 to 19, we need to stand up to ruin.
[00:52:38] To stand up to ruin would be to run, no doubt about it, to run for her house leads down to death and her paths to the dead.
[00:52:48] None who go to her return, nor do they regain the paths of life.
[00:52:53] This is quite remarkable because see the word leads her path.
[00:52:56] Her house leads to death.
[00:52:57] The word means to slip.
[00:53:00] It means to slip.
[00:53:00] What?
[00:53:02] Slip, fall.
[00:53:03] It means to sink down into her dwelling.
[00:53:06] To be on a wet, slippery path that is on a decline.
[00:53:11] Have you ever seen people go on YouTube?
[00:53:14] You've got those little funny little things of slips and falls where somebody's going down the driveway and it's frozen and they're trying to get to the car just to go to work and they look like they're just
[00:53:22] going through this thing.
[00:53:25] What are they doing?
[00:53:25] They're going down the driveway out to the street until they fall and the Bible says her path is like that.
[00:53:34] You get on her path, you're not getting off.
[00:53:37] You get sucked in.
[00:53:38] Listen, you'll know when a young man and a young woman have crossed the line when their relationship becomes grossly inseparable.
[00:53:50] Meaning, if something breaks them up, if something happens, he can't eat, she can't eat, they can't sleep, they can't do, their relationship has been caught, they've been somehow broken up, maybe he's 13, 15, 16, 18, it doesn't matter when.
[00:54:04] But when one or the other gives themselves over to one or the other for the first time, there is a spiritual bond that you don't even think happens.
[00:54:14] And I don't have the time to back it up.
[00:54:15] the Bible says if you join yourself to somebody, that there's a bond and you're joining Christ to them. And Paul said, don't you know that if you're with a hooker, that you're joining Jesus to that hooker? Why? It's spiritual. Sex is spiritual. You can be that horse thief. You can
[00:54:35] rob a bank. That's bad enough. But physical contact, God has ordained it as a remarkable spiritual event. That's why, look, I'll regain some of my love back here in a moment. The Bible tells us for husbands and wives, you better stay together physically and make sure that you
[00:54:54] maintain that relationship that allows for such an event to be taking place. The Bible says don't stop doing that unless you both agree together to fast and pray and then quickly come back together or else Satan will tempt you. If you're saying today, I'm a Christian, I don't want to be
[00:55:10] celibate? Praise the Lord. Then will you ask a girl out here? Ask her out for coffee. Get to know her. Marry her. But for crying out loud, don't go to the immoral woman who flatters you on your
[00:55:32] screen because the Bible calls it pornea and it will destroy your life. Stand up to the ruin.
[00:55:40] I have so much. You guys scanned it. You guys have the notes though, right? You can study it later. Things like this. Her house leads down, not upward, but pulling you downward like a greased pig. You're already on the slippery slip and slide to hell. That's some of the stuff
[00:55:59] that's in the notes that you could have scanned. On page eight, a question was asked, what are the 10 sicknesses and the diseases among those who are sexually active outside of the bonds of monogamy. This was not a Christian report. It's at length, but this has just been pulled out.
[00:56:21] All of those medical diseases and sicknesses reported by the CDC, I'm just going to dial down on one of them, and that is the destruction of your liver. Isn't it bizarre? Sexual activity destroys your liver
[00:56:38] like alcohol destroys your liver.
[00:56:40] Did you know that your immune system, when you're sexually active, your immune system is radically compromised and your liver is the thing that pays the price.
[00:56:51] And when your liver goes out, your lights go out.
[00:56:57] And I don't mean your house.
[00:57:00] Isn't it amazing?
[00:57:01] The Bible 3,000 years ago said, you mess around with the immoral woman, her path leads to death.
[00:57:09] These diseases will kill you.
[00:57:12] And, oh, there's just so much.
[00:57:14] I'm sorry.
[00:57:16] So you might say, well, Jack, you've been really harsh today.
[00:57:21] I have not been.
[00:57:23] And I'm going to ask you to stand.
[00:57:26] But I'm going to, for those of you who are visiting from out of California, you're going to be so happy that you don't live here.
[00:57:35] So the first slide, in light of all that you've heard today, did I speak truth to you or not?
[00:57:42] First thing, Bill, Bill, his name's not Bill.
[00:57:47] originally, this is a bill, a bill originally seeking to prohibit sex offenders and human traffickers from elected office, from running for office, amended to exempt pedophiles.
[00:58:01] Hey, vote for me. I'm a pedophile. This is in California. Next slide. Bill to ban sex offenders from running for office fails in California Senate committee. Excuse me, what? Bill to ban sex offenders. I want to submit a bill that bans sex offenders from running for office. And do you
[00:58:25] know what the Democrats did in Sacramento? They said, yeah, no, that's a bad idea. Wow. Next one.
[00:58:34] Scott Weiner accused of pushing for exemptions in bill allowing sex offenders to serve in office.
[00:58:42] He's a state senator. Are you hearing this? This is who we keep voting for. Next slide. Or is that it. Oh, to be fair, this is 2020. Governor Newsom signs bill to protect sex offenders who have
[00:59:07] homosexual sex with minors. I'm not making this up. You may not like what I'm saying. I think that's it. Is that it? I'm done. Yes, good. Who wants that? If you don't think we're living
[00:59:23] in the days of the Bible, I'd love to hear your explanation as to how this stuff is out and escalating and being celebrated to where now it is just the way of the culture of this country
[00:59:40] the only hope for america is for you and i and the church to turn back to god and you listen if you don't know you start with jesus you and jesus this is all this filth that you've heard about today
[00:59:54] the stuff that you and i used to live for jesus set us free from it okay he did that by going to the cross. He died for our sins and then rose again from the dead. And if you give him all of
[01:00:09] that garbage and all of that baggage, he takes it away and he replaces it with himself in you.
[01:00:17] And he goes to work in you and you will live because church, the way of wisdom is the way of life. And all God's people said, amen. God bless you.