WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:02.060 you 00:30.000 --> 00:33.060 you 01:00.000 --> 01:03.060 you 01:30.000 --> 01:33.060 you 02:00.000 --> 02:02.000 you 02:18.000 --> 02:24.000 let's get started 18 oh thank you come here 02:25.000 --> 02:34.720 thank you baby all right let's go to 18 18 take the name of Jesus with you on the 02:34.720 --> 02:37.000 first 02:37.000 --> 03:01.000 take the name of Jesus with you child of sorrow and of woe it will joy come forgive you take 03:01.000 --> 03:13.000 it then where are you go precious name oh how sweet hope of earth and joy of heaven 03:14.000 --> 03:23.000 precious name oh how sweet hope of earth and joy of heaven 03:25.000 --> 03:33.000 take the name of Jesus ever as the shield from every snare 03:34.000 --> 03:52.000 if temptations round you gather breathe that holy name in prayer precious name oh how sweet hope of earth and joy of heaven 03:52.000 --> 04:03.000 precious name oh how sweet hope of earth and joy of heaven 04:04.000 --> 04:22.000 oh the precious name of Jesus how it thrills our souls with joy when his loving arms receive us and his sons or tongues employ 04:22.000 --> 04:31.000 precious name oh how sweet hope of earth and joy of heaven 04:31.000 --> 04:42.000 precious name oh how sweet hope of earth and joy of heaven 04:43.000 --> 04:44.000 all right 04:45.000 --> 04:52.000 with bowing sorry falling prostate at his feet 04:52.000 --> 05:00.000 king of kings in heaven crown him when our journey is complete 05:00.000 --> 05:09.000 precious name oh how sweet hope of earth and joy of heaven 05:09.000 --> 05:20.000 precious name oh how sweet hope of earth and joy of heaven 05:21.000 --> 05:22.000 all right 05:22.000 --> 05:29.000 hey Eli and Rikki sit one pew back and I'll see if you really guys are serious about singing or you're just trying to bug the girls 05:29.000 --> 05:32.000 so sit one pew back because the girls are like 05:33.000 --> 05:37.000 and then sing just as loud as you're singing just not right next to the girls ear 05:39.000 --> 05:42.000 it'll serve you well to remember that when you start liking girls 05:45.000 --> 05:48.000 helping you out here you don't know it but I am 05:51.000 --> 05:54.000 I feel bad they're singing really loud and the girls are like 05:55.000 --> 06:02.000 so I'm just like I want them to sing loud I appreciate it don't turn it off just don't do it in their ears 06:06.000 --> 06:07.000 yeah there you go 06:08.000 --> 06:16.000 all right well we welcome to Spring Crest Baptist Church today is March 8th yes right 06:16.000 --> 06:23.000 yeah and our Sunday morning service 1030 a.m. Sunday evening 430 and then Wednesday service is at 530 p.m. 06:23.000 --> 06:31.000 and then we have the Sunday soul winning time at 2 p.m. now I know you guys said you had four and then Sylvia 06:32.000 --> 06:38.000 four for a whole group so that puts us at 160 for the year 06:38.000 --> 06:48.000 yeah we're well over halfway to beating last year's and we've got so many more events so last year was kind of a you know as we transitioned 06:48.000 --> 06:53.000 we didn't have as many events in the beginning of the year other than the big one so that actually is helping a lot 06:54.000 --> 07:02.000 and so we have obviously the birthdays that I kept getting wrong and the Wycliffe's anniversary and then if you guys get a chance 07:02.000 --> 07:05.000 Pastor Cobb we did mention it earlier but you weren't here 07:05.000 --> 07:13.000 today is their 49th anniversary of serving at Spring Crest Baptist Church so 49 years ago they showed up so yeah that's a 07:18.000 --> 07:22.000 Pastor Cobb's been preaching longer than most of us have been alive so I'll just 07:25.000 --> 07:30.000 you were born and he was like preaching the word he's like let's get people spiritually born 07:30.000 --> 07:39.000 spiritually born and then we have the soul winning marathon March 21st and then March 22nd we have Pastor Bruce Mejia First Works Baptist Church 07:40.000 --> 07:45.000 coming to preach for us then on April 4th the day before 07:47.000 --> 07:55.000 the day before Easter we are participating in the mega soul winning marathon so we're not the only church that will be participating 07:55.000 --> 08:04.000 God willing there's churches all over the world we just actually were looking at the update there's already groups in Sweden and the Philippines just all over the place 08:05.000 --> 08:14.000 and then Pastor Shelley with a steadfast they're gonna have a Baptist bias and they'll be announcing all that stuff as those numbers roll in 08:14.000 --> 08:21.000 so what I like to do on that day we can be more strategic I'm gonna try to see as many people we can get as many people as possible 08:21.000 --> 08:29.000 so I can split up like the Spanish and the English so we can go and really hit all the receptive areas that would be ideal 08:30.000 --> 08:39.000 there's a QR code there just scan it and register even though I know you guys are coming but it's more for just getting an idea of how many total soul winners 08:40.000 --> 08:48.000 there will be participating in this worldwide event and then April 18th we have the University of Houston soul winning marathon 08:48.000 --> 08:53.000 Brother Jerry is leading that and we'll get more details as we get closer to that 08:54.000 --> 09:01.000 and then I'll finally remove this but congratulations to everybody that received a gift card for the January reading we're March 09:02.000 --> 09:10.000 every month this year that we have 31 days if you read your New Testament those 31 days we'll go ahead and do some rewards similar to that 09:10.000 --> 09:18.000 pray for all the expecting mothers especially Christian Rogers she did experience some complications but apparently everything is okay 09:19.000 --> 09:31.000 and then Marcel I think experiencing first trimester woes and that's not always the most pleasant from what I hear 09:31.000 --> 09:43.000 so and then on the back pray for everybody on the prayer list and we'll add the name Elliot so that was who I went to go see at the medical center 09:44.000 --> 09:55.000 pray for a couple things he got saved and just pray I mean I went I was very thorough but when you're at the hospital with a lot of drugs you want to make sure that it's 09:55.000 --> 10:06.000 but he's getting it from all like his brother is a member of steadfast like I don't think that guy slips through the cracks we're gonna say so I gave him the gospel 10:07.000 --> 10:17.000 he got saved but I guess the thing I'm trying to say is just we just always want to make sure in a situation like that where especially the tumor he has in his brain 10:17.000 --> 10:30.000 and so just pray that number one there wasn't any confusion number two that the surgery goes well it's a 24 hour surgery on Tuesday you've got three young girls 10:31.000 --> 10:41.000 and of course they're stressing out they're worried so just just be with the family and of course Nicholas he's a he's a great soul winner and he's dedicated to steadfast 10:41.000 --> 10:55.000 that's his brother they're only apart by 11 months so you know that's always a really tough thing but just pray for brother Elliot for the surgery and then what would be great is if we can get him out and baptized 10:55.000 --> 11:07.000 you know after salvation right but he was in great spirits actually I was really encouraged by him like he got me kind of got me pumped up he just had those like great outlook on life he's taking it one step at a time 11:08.000 --> 11:20.000 and you would think for someone who's about to go undergo such a big surgery he'd be more concerned but he's just really laid back and he's doing his best so just pray for that whole situation 11:20.000 --> 11:32.000 and also just pray and I'm grateful for all the soul winners that went out whether it's one soul at the hospital or four out soul winning they're all the same to the Lord Jesus Christ so we're grateful for all of it 11:33.000 --> 11:46.000 and with that being said just we added him there you pray for the little girls and then if we can do it you know just send them meals or anything that would be the only thing I would say because the the the moms there taking care of all the kids 11:46.000 --> 12:03.000 of course they're trying to just get him through that whole situation and then we need to contact brother Keith has it other than that let's turn our hymns over to page 20 page 20 when I see the blood and then we'll have brother Jerry read for us first Corinthians 5 and then we'll get to the preaching 20 when I see the blood 12:16.000 --> 12:41.000 Christ our Redeemer died on the cross died for the sinner paid all his dues all who receive him need never fear yes he will pass will pass over you 12:41.000 --> 12:58.000 when I see the blood when I see the blood when I see the blood I will pass I will pass over you 12:58.000 --> 13:12.000 Jesus can say as he has promised so we will do oh sinners hear him 13:12.000 --> 13:36.000 when I see the blood when I see the blood I will pass I will pass over you 13:36.000 --> 13:56.000 judgment is coming all will be there who have rejected who have refused oh sinners hasten let Jesus in then God will pass will pass over you 13:56.000 --> 14:14.000 when I see the blood when I see the blood when I see the blood I will pass I will pass over you 14:14.000 --> 14:34.000 oh what compassion oh boundless love Jesus has power Jesus is true all who believe are saved from the storm oh he will pass will pass over you 14:34.000 --> 14:54.000 when I see the blood when I see the blood I will pass over you 14:54.000 --> 15:16.000 I was order first Corinthians five and brother Jerry repress 15:16.000 --> 15:27.000 first Corinthians chapter five first Corinthians chapter five 15:27.000 --> 15:37.000 it is reported commonly that there is fornication among you and such fornication is not so much as named among the Gentiles that one should have his father's wife 15:37.000 --> 15:45.000 and ye are puffed up and have not rather mourn that he hath not that he hath done this deed might be taken away from among you 15:45.000 --> 15:54.000 bribery as absent in body but present in spirit have judged already as though I were present concerning him that hath so done this deed 15:54.000 --> 16:04.000 in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ when you are gathered together and my spirit with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ to deliver such and one 16:04.000 --> 16:13.000 unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus your glorying is not good 16:13.000 --> 16:23.000 know ye not that a little leaven leaven at the whole lump purge out therefore the old leaven that you may be a new lump as you are unleavened 16:23.000 --> 16:31.000 for even Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us therefore let us keep the feast not with old leaven 16:31.000 --> 16:40.000 neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators 16:40.000 --> 16:50.000 yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world or with the covetous or extortioners or with idolaters for then must ye needs go out of the world 16:50.000 --> 17:01.000 but now I have written unto you not to keep company if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator or covetous or an idolater or a railer or a drunkard or an extortioner 17:01.000 --> 17:13.000 with such and one know not to eat for what have I to do to judge them also that are without do not ye judge them that are within but them that are without God judgeeth 17:13.000 --> 17:25.000 therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person let's pray heavenly father we thank you Lord for your son Jesus thank you for your word just be with Pastor Reyes as he brings the message today 17:25.000 --> 17:30.000 just let us have ears to hear Lord we pray this in Jesus name amen 17:43.000 --> 18:01.000 and we'll continue our study on the different attributes or characteristics of the different sins of the people that get basically kicked out of church 18:01.000 --> 18:12.000 right like we don't just arbitrarily just start kicking people out of church there's a specific list that the Bible gives us and we started out with railing and I preached that sermon before 18:12.000 --> 18:21.000 and of course railing I started with it because that's what we had to deal with that brought up a lot of the teaching that we've done over the last couple of months 18:21.000 --> 18:41.000 but as I was going through it I figured we would just go through each one of those individually and just preach an entire sermon on it and even though I was looking I didn't realize I thought I preached less on it my mind is I have this really cool note taking app and it links everything I've done and I've preached quite a bit on fornication 18:41.000 --> 19:01.000 it's still it's something that needs to be preached on a lot more it's actually a rampant problem in the entire world right and so the title of the sermon this afternoon is the leaven of fornication the leaven of fornication and fornication is not adultery I just want to make that clear 19:01.000 --> 19:27.000 fornication is when individuals have it's not relations outside of marriage but they're not married right adultery is when you basically decide to be with someone else while you're married you decide to just engage in that activity with somebody else but when you do that before marriage or even after marriage and you're just moving like you're just partner after partner that's fornication but the Bible is actually really it's a really interesting 19:27.000 --> 19:57.000 it's a really horrible sin for two reasons number one it's a sin of the flesh right it's a sin that affects us personally but also there's a spiritual application where we then fall into committing fornication spiritually against God against the church against the Lord Jesus Christ the Bible gives us not just a couple of verses it's a rampant problem throughout the entire Old and New Testament and it's a rampant problem 19:57.000 --> 20:27.000 both the physical act of fornication and the spiritual act of fornication we'll touch on that here today but something really stood out to me here today as we were reading this is right there in verse number nine it says I wrote unto you an epistle not to accompany with fornicator you know and I've preached that obviously this is the sin of the believers and the sins that certain believers are doing but here he says to fornicators just general he says 20:27.000 --> 20:57.000 yet not all together with fornicators of this world and notice how he said of this world so he's talking to everybody in general right he says or with covetous or extortioners or with idolaters for then must he needs go out of the world but then in the verse 11 now he says but now I have written unto you not to keep company if any man that is called a brother so he's saying hey this is a problem that's part of the world and he says so don't don't don't associate with fornicators don't associate with the covetous don't associate with the 20:57.000 --> 21:27.000 extortioners don't associate with the idolaters because then you must need to go out of the world but then he says you know what it's gotten so bad that even your brothers if they meet this criteria you should keep company with them and he says if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator or covetous or idolater or a raider or a drunker or an extortioner with such and one no not eat you know one of the things that we should really learn to apply in the bible 21:27.000 --> 21:57.000 that I think would help all of us and including me like you know one of the things I mean I apply it but I think there's something we can even take a step further and a step further is that we just need to take this at face value right the bible says there at the end it says but them that are without god judge it therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person anybody who's committing these sins especially 21:57.000 --> 22:27.000 if they're a brother you know what they are they're wicked you know too many times we have a bleeding heart attitude where someone is doing something but they're not that bad you know I get along with them they're nice the bible says if they're doing this they're wicked period end of story right it says hey if they're a fornicator wicked if they're covetous wicked if they're an idolater wicked if they're a raider wicked if they're a 22:27.000 --> 22:34.680 Drunkard wicked if they're an extortioner wicked for such with such-and-one. No not even no not eat 22:35.280 --> 22:37.560 Like you wouldn't eat you shouldn't even be like 22:38.240 --> 22:44.440 Fellowship him with his individual. Why does it say eat because how do you regularly meet with other people? I was talking to brother Jerry 22:45.120 --> 22:48.200 But I mean I've done it with all you guys. How do we fellowship with each other? 22:48.200 --> 22:52.600 What do I usually say? Hey, if somebody's hanging around and I haven't hung out with you without hey, let's go get some dinner 22:52.860 --> 22:54.860 Let's go get some lunch pastor Cobb 22:55.540 --> 22:59.060 Like a week ago was like hey, I haven't we haven't hung out in a while 22:59.060 --> 23:04.060 You know what we went to go do we went to go eat we went to Chipotle and we had a gay old time 23:04.180 --> 23:09.320 It was brother Heath and me and brother. I mean pastor Cobb and sister Linda 23:09.320 --> 23:14.740 We had some good chip, but it was really the fellowship. So the Bible says hey, you shouldn't even 23:15.220 --> 23:19.180 Hang out with these people like you shouldn't eat with them. They shouldn't be around you 23:19.700 --> 23:23.780 And it's again it goes back to what I was saying this morning like or I don't know this morning 23:23.780 --> 23:26.620 I'm gonna say tonight. I'm kind of it's been a long day 23:26.620 --> 23:30.920 But basically it starts to permeate and it's contagious, right? 23:31.020 --> 23:34.700 you don't want to be surrounded with these individuals because they'll start to affect your life and 23:35.220 --> 23:42.660 These sins are the sins that God is concerned with that are really wicked and that they shouldn't be associated 23:44.940 --> 23:50.660 That we commit but they're not necessarily here I'm not gonna kick you out from we'll address them from the pulpit 23:50.700 --> 23:56.380 But if anybody's committing any of these sins and we as a church find out especially if I find out 23:56.380 --> 23:57.380 I'm just telling you right now 23:57.380 --> 24:04.540 I will just ask you to not return until you clean this up because that's what God's commanded not because that's 24:04.900 --> 24:09.680 As a matter of fact, I'm glad I commanded it because I'm such a like sometimes I feel bad 24:09.780 --> 24:15.340 And that's what I'm trying to say like we need to get past our emotions because our emotions will lie for us 24:15.620 --> 24:21.780 The Bible says the heart is deceitful and wicked above things like can know it not even 24:22.420 --> 24:26.720 Know yourself, right? We tend to get emotionally involved in other people's lives 24:27.020 --> 24:31.300 It makes it really hard for us to actually hold hold them accountable to the light 24:31.420 --> 24:34.860 That's why nobody will do anything to the list of people that are at 24:35.740 --> 24:40.820 Because everybody's been gifted and donated to and nobody wants to offend anybody 24:41.140 --> 24:47.580 So all those people are just gonna get away with all kinds of abuse and murder and all all kinds of wicked things that they did 24:47.860 --> 24:49.460 But just a really quick 24:49.460 --> 24:53.420 I said I hadn't done this in a while and I hadn't and I just figured it's good to always bring up 24:53.420 --> 24:57.460 But I wanted to come at it from a different way. So usually I bring statistics 24:58.420 --> 25:01.620 That but you know, what's one of the things that I hadn't done is, you know 25:01.620 --> 25:07.340 I went to the CDC and I was looking up sexually transmitted infections now in my day we used to call of 25:08.300 --> 25:10.300 Disease now they call it infection 25:11.100 --> 25:16.300 you know, it's so weird how they're always trying to just like downplay this stuff, but 25:17.220 --> 25:20.620 What I had noticed was just how long of a list this is 25:21.220 --> 25:25.500 So if you just go to this is on the CDC website, I looked this up yesterday 25:25.500 --> 25:31.820 I just typed city CDC and then I just typed in STIs. I didn't type anything else and 25:32.380 --> 25:37.180 Then it gave me this long list of of all the diseases think about this is 25:38.140 --> 25:41.060 You don't even you probably won't know what half of these are and which is fine 25:41.060 --> 25:45.820 You don't need to I'm just saying this is what the kind of stuff people just walking around with I talked about it last week 25:45.820 --> 25:51.300 You know, it's just disgusting to think about how many people have some kind of diseases like mycoplasm 25:52.140 --> 25:53.260 genitalium 25:53.260 --> 25:55.060 bacterial vaginosis 25:55.060 --> 25:56.140 chlamydia 25:56.140 --> 25:59.340 congenital syphilis or regular syphilis genital 25:59.860 --> 26:02.420 HPV genital herpes gonorrhea 26:02.980 --> 26:04.980 pelvic inflammatory disease 26:05.380 --> 26:06.780 trichomoniasis 26:06.780 --> 26:09.820 Like this is just like the basic list of people 26:09.900 --> 26:13.160 This is the most common stuff people are just walking around with all the time 26:13.160 --> 26:18.940 And the way that they I've kind of figured out the way the CDC puts this is most of the time that what they're naming 26:18.940 --> 26:20.940 Is the ones that are curable? 26:21.260 --> 26:27.140 Right, and they obviously consider HIV curable. I don't think it's curable. Nobody said it's curable 26:27.260 --> 26:31.100 But of course they give they pump you so full of drugs that now they can maintain it 26:31.220 --> 26:37.220 But it's not anything that's ever going away if someone has full-blown AIDS, right? Because HIV is the infection 26:37.580 --> 26:44.740 They have it for life, you know, just because magic Johnson looks good because he's got millions of dollars. The guy is just basically 26:45.340 --> 26:49.860 Riddled with that disease. He's walking around. He's basically a Petri dish of disgusting them 26:49.860 --> 26:55.740 Like, you know, I don't know why anybody likes magic Johnson. It's gross, but that's a whole other conversation for another day 26:56.020 --> 26:59.620 But another row interesting statistic, this is from the World Health Organization 26:59.740 --> 27:07.800 It says around one in five people in the US have a STI on any given day 27:09.060 --> 27:10.740 with roughly 27:10.740 --> 27:12.900 68 million prevalent infections 27:13.620 --> 27:15.620 estimate estimated 27:15.660 --> 27:19.100 Pits it to the statistic because I couldn't you know, it takes them a while to update in 27:20.100 --> 27:21.780 2018 27:21.780 --> 27:25.380 You think it's gotten worse or it's gotten better. It's gotten worse 27:26.740 --> 27:33.300 68 million people that's like 20% of the population is walking around with some kind of disease 27:34.180 --> 27:36.180 related to fornication 27:37.140 --> 27:41.900 Says while over 1 million curable STIs are acquired daily 27:43.020 --> 27:44.220 worldwide 27:44.220 --> 27:50.940 Every day 1 million people get an STI because they're committing fornication throughout the entire world 27:51.860 --> 27:53.340 So that's what? 27:53.340 --> 27:55.340 365 million people a year 27:55.940 --> 27:57.940 That's insane 27:57.940 --> 28:02.380 Estimates just roughly 70 to 71 usdites occur daily in the US 28:02.460 --> 28:09.320 So in the US obviously part of that million but almost a hundred thousand people in the US get an STI 28:09.660 --> 28:12.500 Every day in the US. So today we woke up 28:13.460 --> 28:15.740 70,000 people were riddled with a disease 28:17.140 --> 28:22.700 You how come you say how do they know this because you know what's going on fornication is happening all the time 28:22.860 --> 28:30.860 It's happening daily daily somebody contracting something from somebody else because they're not doing it within the confines of marriage 28:30.900 --> 28:35.340 Which is the only play the only the only to face to not get it a STI 28:35.820 --> 28:41.420 Is to abstain before marriage or just be with the person you're married with for the rest of your life? 28:41.940 --> 28:43.700 Because there's no 28:43.700 --> 28:45.940 That's it. You're just with that person. There's nothing 28:46.460 --> 28:48.460 to exchange right 28:49.180 --> 28:52.140 Now I thought this was an interesting statistic here 28:52.780 --> 28:58.900 As of 2022 estimated HIV infections in the in the US by transmission category 28:59.700 --> 29:01.700 There were 31,800 29:01.740 --> 29:05.020 estimated new HIV infections in the US in 2022 of 29:05.980 --> 29:07.420 those 29:07.420 --> 29:14.380 And this is why we get flack but it guys it's right. It's this is from their own website. I'm not making stuff up 29:14.380 --> 29:16.380 I didn't go to some 29:16.780 --> 29:17.980 Right-wing 29:17.980 --> 29:21.340 Moral Baptist, you know independent fundamental 29:22.180 --> 29:28.180 Radical website that said this is skewed skewed the numbers. No, this is from the CDC the Centers for Disease Control 29:29.620 --> 29:33.660 67% of those 31,000 or 21,400 29:34.180 --> 29:39.780 Were among gay bisexual and other men who reported male-to-male contact 29:40.900 --> 29:44.780 so almost 70% of all HIV is 29:45.260 --> 29:47.260 from the sodomites 29:47.380 --> 29:50.460 Almost I mean it's insane the other 22% 29:51.380 --> 29:56.140 were amongst heterosexuals and the reason that that happens is because 29:56.820 --> 30:00.760 The problem with sodomites or queers is that they go every way 30:01.340 --> 30:06.600 So unless you're actually keen to that you shouldn't be fornicating baby. You're fornicating. You don't know any better 30:06.900 --> 30:12.820 You just you don't know who you're with. That's the other reason you shouldn't just do that stuff, right and then 7% 30:13.820 --> 30:15.820 Were among those who inject drugs 30:15.980 --> 30:21.300 So, of course if you're exchanging needles blood transfusions in the wrong setting without a cleanliness 30:21.620 --> 30:25.580 You're gonna pick up not just that you're gonna pick up a boatload of diseases 30:25.780 --> 30:30.200 That's why you know, we don't ever just help out bums on the street 30:30.300 --> 30:32.700 Look if you're young and you're healthy go get a job 30:33.700 --> 30:39.520 You know 90% of bums in America are just drug addicts that don't want to go get a job 30:40.520 --> 30:47.040 I mean pastor Cobb called me one day like a year ago. We had a bum here. It was a big old jerk stole our 30:47.320 --> 30:53.240 You know our our bin for our mail and he was like sleeping out and we came here like dude. You got to go 30:53.240 --> 30:58.360 Oh, you're not gonna help me out. No, get out of here. We don't got time for you. Oh 30:59.040 --> 31:04.760 You know, and he was I think he said he didn't believe in God or something to the effect. It's like I don't care get out 31:05.480 --> 31:09.480 You know and I've dealt with a lot of drug addicts because for a long time 31:10.320 --> 31:12.560 Brother Bobby was the charter founder member of 31:13.360 --> 31:14.760 alcoholic anonymous 31:14.760 --> 31:20.840 but with that came the fact that they just opened it up to anybody who had a drug addiction and brother Bobby was like 31:21.360 --> 31:25.600 If you ever met him, he was like five foot nothing and he was ordinary as all get out 31:25.880 --> 31:30.760 He was in his 90s and he still carried a roll of dimes in his pocket in case he had to throw down 31:31.400 --> 31:34.420 90 year old guy just waiting to be thrown down. I'm not kidding 31:34.420 --> 31:39.680 Like brother Bobby was like you always got to carry a roll of dimes in your pocket because you never know you're gonna have to 31:39.680 --> 31:44.360 Punch somebody I was like brother Bobby. You're 90 years old. He's like well 31:44.360 --> 31:47.600 You just you got to be ready when the explosion happened over here 31:47.600 --> 31:50.440 I don't know how many of you know, but I'm Brit more there was a big plant that exploded 31:50.440 --> 31:54.520 You remember that a couple years ago where it blew up like for several blocks 31:54.520 --> 32:00.040 It costs like it rattled and messed up foundations and homes. Well, his house was only a few blocks away 32:00.040 --> 32:05.080 and he had a caretaker and the caretaker had to like calm him down because he was a 32:06.000 --> 32:07.400 Prisoner of war in Korea 32:07.400 --> 32:13.560 So he actually he was actually imprisoned in Korea for several months and he came back through an exchange 32:13.880 --> 32:19.840 So he was he was rough around the edges. So when he heard that explosion he went to his closet got his shotgun 32:20.360 --> 32:23.520 Put a chair in front of the window and sat with a shotgun 32:23.520 --> 32:26.760 I mean I didn't window in the door. He thought the enemy was coming 32:26.800 --> 32:29.960 So he was ready for him like and this was a 90 year old man 32:30.520 --> 32:33.040 Waiting for somebody to walk through the door so he could shut him down 32:34.240 --> 32:37.560 Just to kind of give you an idea. I don't know where I was headed with that 32:37.560 --> 32:40.200 Oh that he would bring all the drug addicts 32:40.200 --> 32:46.280 But so he was really rough and he was really direct so all the people that were going through AA that had issues 32:46.680 --> 32:50.360 He's like the first thing that he had him do was he forced him to come to church 32:50.600 --> 32:55.280 Like part of the program is if he was their sponsor they had to come to Spring Crest 32:55.400 --> 32:58.680 So there's times where it stunk in here like it was just 32:59.280 --> 33:03.520 Rancid because they had just gotten off the streets and like we're looking over here 33:03.520 --> 33:09.500 I can still remember those like one two three four like his daughter was here and a bunch of drug addicts and then 33:10.080 --> 33:16.560 Brett Lorky was over here. All these guys are like addicted to math and all that stuff, but you know what came with that like 33:17.520 --> 33:19.520 The 33:19.800 --> 33:21.800 You know what all of them are dead 33:22.280 --> 33:25.640 Brother Bobby of old age everybody else because of drug use 33:26.040 --> 33:32.120 Brett Lorky's no longer here his daughter's no longer here and you know, brother Tommy's son is no longer here 33:32.120 --> 33:34.120 all of them from drug addiction and 33:36.840 --> 33:44.560 Brother Bobby went 54 years after he committed to never drink again and he never drank they he was actually he's he's a celebrity status in 33:44.720 --> 33:47.320 A alcoholic and I'm here in Houston 33:49.760 --> 33:51.760 I'm sorry 33:53.760 --> 33:55.760 He got James Drury down here 34:00.520 --> 34:03.960 Okay, so if you know who James Drury is pastor that's a little bit before my time 34:04.120 --> 34:08.080 but if you know who that guy was apparently is a famous actor him and and 34:08.600 --> 34:11.920 And brother Bobby like would would go to the meetings down here 34:11.920 --> 34:15.880 So he was like he was a like he would sell that thing 34:15.880 --> 34:17.840 I'm just telling you guys I heard about it 34:17.840 --> 34:22.440 but here's a couple key facts just to really get this thing going and then I got you a couple points for you is 34:23.440 --> 34:26.280 You know right here more than 1 million curable 34:26.800 --> 34:31.120 STIs are required every day worldwide between ages of 15 to 49 34:31.960 --> 34:39.120 The majority of which are asymptomatic in 2020. They're an estimated 374 million new infections in people 34:39.480 --> 34:44.560 Including the main ones being chlamydia gonorrhea syphilis trichomoniasis 34:45.120 --> 34:50.480 An estimated 8 million adults between ages 15 to 49 old were infected with syphilis in 2022 34:51.560 --> 34:57.480 An estimated 520 million people aged 15 29 or 13 percent worldwide 34:58.680 --> 35:03.640 Have herpes simplex virus type 2 infection the main cause of general herpes 35:04.400 --> 35:08.480 HPV infection is associated with over 311,000 cervical cancer 35:09.400 --> 35:11.400 deaths each year 35:11.800 --> 35:15.640 1.1 million pregnant women were estimated to be infected with syphilis 35:15.840 --> 35:20.680 And you know that's horrible because if they have that infection, you know who it carries on to the child 35:20.680 --> 35:25.120 And then the children are born with this infection and then they have to deal with it all their lives 35:25.800 --> 35:30.380 You know, this is just you know, the the consequences are horrible for fornication 35:31.080 --> 35:33.080 STIs have a direct impact on 35:33.640 --> 35:37.080 the reproductive system, you know infertility 35:37.840 --> 35:42.200 Cancer pregnancy complications, I mean you name it and 35:42.800 --> 35:49.520 Then on the last point here is or the last fact is drug resistance is a major threat to reducing the burn of gonorrhea 35:49.880 --> 35:56.800 Worldwide, it's so prevalent. There's so much of it that way basically what ends up happening is there is what's called 35:57.920 --> 36:01.000 microevolution, but it's not the way it's not really the 36:01.360 --> 36:02.880 The 36:02.880 --> 36:10.200 Survival of the fittest is what happens with bacteria and viruses as they mutate to get resistance to the new drugs 36:10.720 --> 36:12.280 usually 36:12.280 --> 36:16.720 Most of the time it's a weaker version of itself. But the reason that they say is stronger 36:16.720 --> 36:19.000 It's not necessarily that stronger in 36:20.160 --> 36:24.920 Structure it's stronger because the the drug that they're using no longer works on it 36:25.000 --> 36:28.680 That doesn't mean anything other than the fact that they found their way around the drug 36:28.680 --> 36:35.000 So the virus learns how to get a loophole around the drug and what they're saying here with this is that a problem with this 36:35.000 --> 36:41.720 Is that there's so many variations now because it's so prevalent that they're not able to keep up with the mutations 36:42.000 --> 36:45.480 Of gonorrhea to the point where it's now drug resistance 36:45.480 --> 36:49.000 It just means that all these viruses have found a loophole to all the drugs 36:49.400 --> 36:55.320 So you're getting pumped full of drugs and it's not doing anything for you. I mean just imagine being sick all the time 36:56.000 --> 36:59.400 Here's a couple more things, you know more than over 30 different bacteria 37:00.480 --> 37:05.400 Viruses and parasites are known to be transmitted through STIs, you know and 37:06.080 --> 37:09.240 Some can be transmitted from the mother to child during pregnancy 37:09.840 --> 37:11.480 childbirth 37:11.480 --> 37:13.480 breastfeeding unsafe blood transfusion 37:14.320 --> 37:15.400 transfusion 37:15.400 --> 37:22.200 Eight pathogens are linked to the greatest incidence of STIs of these four are currently curable 37:22.600 --> 37:25.400 But the other four are not hepatitis B 37:27.280 --> 37:29.280 HSV HIV and HPV 37:30.080 --> 37:33.880 Right, and I'm using the acronyms because at the end at this at some point 37:33.880 --> 37:40.200 I'm just gonna get tongue-tied in addition emerging outbreaks of new infections that can be acquired by STIs contacts such as 37:40.840 --> 37:44.440 M pox which we found out and pox was strictly 37:45.360 --> 37:49.200 Bags, right because that's they're doing some nasty stuff 37:50.200 --> 37:52.200 Shegela suneha and as they're 37:53.120 --> 37:58.960 meningitis Ebola seca as well as the reemergence of neglected STI such as 37:59.480 --> 38:01.400 lympho granuloma 38:01.400 --> 38:02.280 the nerium 38:02.280 --> 38:03.040 I 38:03.040 --> 38:08.840 Mean, basically we're just bringing back all the old stuff and we're keeping the new stuff like it's so bad out there 38:09.160 --> 38:11.760 You're like, are you trying to gross up a little bit? 38:11.840 --> 38:16.920 But what I'm trying to point out is the fact that when you get away from God you think there's no problem 38:16.920 --> 38:20.200 It's a prevalent problem, you know Hollywood 38:21.000 --> 38:26.160 Everything we'll try to paint it as this pretty picture. It's not it's not a pretty picture at all, right? 38:28.080 --> 38:32.440 Last thing I have for you here and then we'll get to the first point is the scope of the problem 38:32.520 --> 38:37.180 It's that STI's a proud profound impact on just the reproductive health 38:38.440 --> 38:40.200 the world 38:40.200 --> 38:42.200 Right, even though there's more than 1 million 38:42.840 --> 38:44.840 curable this 2020 38:45.440 --> 38:48.720 It right here it just says that 250 more 38:50.160 --> 38:52.320 254 million of those people were living with chronic 38:53.640 --> 38:57.240 hepatitis B or chronic instances of this stuff like 38:59.080 --> 39:02.480 It's man and they tell you stuff that's like it should be common sense, right? 39:02.800 --> 39:07.240 STI is like herpes gonorrhea syphilis can increase the risk of HIV acquisition 39:07.240 --> 39:12.200 Of course because your immune systems basically shattered you have no way to protect your body 39:12.480 --> 39:15.960 Right mother mother to child transmission of STI can result in stillbirth 39:16.760 --> 39:19.120 neonatal death low birth weight and 39:19.760 --> 39:21.760 prematurity sepsis 39:21.960 --> 39:26.440 neonatal conjunctivitis and congenital deformities 39:26.800 --> 39:29.120 You wonder why there's so many issues not just with 39:30.080 --> 39:34.300 Autism like linked to vaccines, but it's also linked to just the unhealthy 39:35.520 --> 39:38.200 Lifestyles that we're living including fornication 39:38.760 --> 39:44.880 Right HPV infection causes cancer of the cervix or other cancers 39:46.120 --> 39:50.600 In 2022 hepatitis B resulted in 1.1 million deaths 39:51.480 --> 39:53.480 most from cirrhosis and 39:53.480 --> 39:54.920 HEPO 39:54.920 --> 39:58.480 HEPATOcellular carcinoma or liver cancer 39:59.560 --> 40:03.720 STI such as gonorrhea and chlamydia are major cause of pelvic inflammatory disease and 40:04.480 --> 40:09.000 Infertility and women it's a what is basically what am I saying? It's a judgment from God 40:09.600 --> 40:14.840 Right people are just like oh, you know live and let live you only live once 40:14.840 --> 40:17.080 I can't believe you're gonna be with the same 40:17.400 --> 40:20.040 Woman the rest of your life or the same man the rest of your life 40:20.320 --> 40:23.040 Actually, you can because God said that's the way it should be 40:23.560 --> 40:30.360 Now I'm not picking on you if you've ever fornicated or look if you've ever fornicated just don't do it anymore 40:30.640 --> 40:34.960 Right if you're fornicating stop and if I find out I'm kicking out right 40:35.360 --> 40:39.000 But the ideal is especially because I see and that's why I 40:39.720 --> 40:44.840 Purposely picked it towards the end towards the evening because that's usually when we have like the smaller group 40:44.840 --> 40:46.640 But we also have a lot of the kids left 40:46.640 --> 40:53.720 You guys that are listening even if it's not impacting you just pay attention if you're ever tempted just how gross it is 40:54.520 --> 40:58.180 And how yet if you get one of these diseases sometimes it's for life 40:59.060 --> 41:02.900 And then like you the worst part is then you have to tell everybody about it 41:06.540 --> 41:12.260 You have contagion then nobody wants to be around it's almost as bad as like leprosy in the Bible, right? 41:12.500 --> 41:18.300 Well, let's go to the first point. Let the first point I want to let's go to verse first Corinthians 6 verse 18 41:18.300 --> 41:22.740 I got a couple points for you, but I really just wanted to bombard you with this on purpose 41:22.860 --> 41:25.860 So that we see the challenge it and here's the problem 41:26.500 --> 41:31.340 If it's that rampant, you know where it's also rampant in church 41:32.620 --> 41:38.840 Because there's no way that you have that many people and it doesn't affect the church and the reason that it affects the church 41:38.840 --> 41:45.300 And I'm just talking in general right now. Not just new I feature. It's because pastors aren't willing to preach about it 41:45.300 --> 41:49.400 It's uncomfortable for me. I mean, I'm not it's not my favorite sermon 41:49.400 --> 41:54.660 I love hard preaching, but I do not like getting up here and being like hey, let's talk about sexually transmitted disease 41:55.300 --> 42:00.460 Right. Nobody wants to like say that I have my kids in the audience. You have your kids in the eyes 42:00.460 --> 42:02.860 You're like, ooh is that's a but we need to tell our kids 42:03.980 --> 42:09.240 You know, sometimes it's weird to me when parents like I'm not saying these parents, but sometimes parents will be like well 42:11.340 --> 42:16.200 Actually you want your kids to hear everything from church you don't want them to hear from it's somewhere else 42:16.700 --> 42:21.260 Because that church at least I'm doing I'm doing my best not tiptoe around the issue 42:21.260 --> 42:25.620 But tiptoe around the visual of it all right, like I don't want to defile your mind 42:25.700 --> 42:30.540 But I do want to gross you out a little bit so that when you get older if you're older if you're older 42:30.540 --> 42:34.540 You know what I'm talking about? But if you get older you're like, you know what? I remember how gross that was 42:34.540 --> 42:35.980 Let me not let me not mess up 42:35.980 --> 42:41.660 But go to first Corinthians 6 the first point after you call it's just the actual sin of fornication 42:43.500 --> 42:50.220 Right any sexual sin outside of marriage fornication is just the activity between unmarried people 42:51.780 --> 42:56.420 Right and what does it do it destroys purity and also corrupts our society 42:58.100 --> 43:01.180 The reason that our society is the way it is is because it's corrupt 43:02.220 --> 43:07.120 Look, I don't care if you're a little girl in the audience or you're a little boy 43:07.900 --> 43:10.820 You get to your you get to the marriage bed 43:11.340 --> 43:16.260 Undefiled that means you you go to you become a virgin and I'm telling you right now 43:17.060 --> 43:21.700 Here in church it is cool in the eyes of God to be a virgin 43:22.580 --> 43:25.380 And you say why are you saying that if you don't get it? Don't worry 43:25.380 --> 43:31.100 But one day you're gonna run into people that think you're uncool if you're a virgin and you tell them to go kiss the lemon 43:31.140 --> 43:33.460 You tell them to go you can tell them even worse 43:33.460 --> 43:38.220 You can tell them your pastor said so because it's not cool to be anything other than what God said 43:38.460 --> 43:40.980 You know, we grew up in public school 43:41.500 --> 43:49.420 We grew up with that peer pressure and nobody told us how bad it was instead they promoted that stuff and then it causes all 43:49.420 --> 43:51.420 kinds of issues and challenges 43:52.020 --> 43:54.460 not just from the the 43:54.940 --> 43:56.260 physical 43:56.260 --> 44:01.040 Disease part but even the psychological I didn't they don't even mention here 44:01.040 --> 44:07.540 But for example syphilis is one that can attack the brain it can cause all kinds of serious issues for sure syphilis does 44:07.860 --> 44:10.420 I'm pretty sure the others do but syphilis for sure does 44:11.020 --> 44:15.900 But go to 1st Corinthians 6 verse 18 and the Bible says there I mean sorry verse 50 44:18.980 --> 44:25.460 The Bible says no you not that your bodies are the members of Christ hey don't do it because your bodies are the members of Christ 44:26.740 --> 44:30.820 Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them the members of an harlot? 44:31.660 --> 44:33.460 What's a harlot a? 44:33.460 --> 44:39.580 Whore someone who sleeps around who has no commitment to the thing that God asked her to do 44:39.980 --> 44:45.700 Right God forbid what no you not that which is joined to know harlot is one body 44:46.140 --> 44:53.040 For to say for to say he shall be one flesh, but he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit 44:53.740 --> 44:56.380 houses flee for indication 44:57.580 --> 45:01.100 Every sin that a man doeth is without the body, but he that committed for 45:03.060 --> 45:08.580 His own body so it's even worse because it's double you're not only sinning against God, but you're also hurting yourself 45:10.140 --> 45:12.020 the Bible says 45:12.020 --> 45:17.700 For you are bought with the price therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit which are God's 45:18.260 --> 45:21.900 The Bible says in Hebrew 1314 you know I mean you don't have to turn it for the sake of time 45:22.500 --> 45:26.780 13 for the Bible says marriage is honorable and all and the bed undefiled 45:27.060 --> 45:34.620 But whoremongers and adulterers God will judge hey you want to be you want to get to the marriage bed in an honorable state? 45:34.980 --> 45:37.380 And undefiled because that's what God looks at 45:37.940 --> 45:45.120 Right in the same book in Hebrews it says without faith it is impossible to please God 45:45.220 --> 45:50.780 You know what shows faith when you say Lord. I'm gonna wait till I'm married. That's the way you said to do it 45:50.780 --> 45:54.860 I don't care what the world says you please the Lord and he will take care of you 45:55.500 --> 46:01.820 Right in first Thessalonians 4 verse 3 the Bible says for this is the will of God even your sanctification 46:02.740 --> 46:04.500 that ye should 46:04.500 --> 46:05.780 abstain 46:05.780 --> 46:07.780 from fornication 46:08.460 --> 46:11.500 Abstain what does that stain bees don't do it? 46:12.940 --> 46:18.820 You know the world like oh we need a contraceptives, and we need this we just don't do it 46:19.020 --> 46:21.660 You know how you don't get a disease just don't do it 46:22.340 --> 46:26.180 Right it's real simple. Hey if somebody's sick and 46:27.060 --> 46:31.140 They don't come to church. You know we're not gonna get I'm gonna get sick 46:31.540 --> 46:33.540 But if somebody's sick and they come to church 46:33.980 --> 46:41.620 Well, they didn't have stained from exposing everybody else guess what we're all susceptible to maybe getting that sickness, right? 46:42.580 --> 46:44.540 Which by the way, I mean that's kind of on a side note 46:44.540 --> 46:49.340 I've never really said from the pulpit, and I think you're all adults, so that's why I've never really said it 46:49.340 --> 46:49.900 But yeah 46:49.900 --> 46:51.900 I don't don't ever feel bad 46:52.380 --> 46:57.180 Because I get sex sometimes like if you're sick, and it's really bad especially if you're contagious stay home 46:57.420 --> 47:03.060 You know I did because we don't want to just spread it to where then we don't have anybody church that being said I mean 47:04.140 --> 47:07.220 if you've already on the last stages, you're just copying because 47:09.140 --> 47:12.460 You know that like if you get sick, and then you get better sometimes 47:12.460 --> 47:16.500 You can still be coughing for like a week or two well, then that's I mean if somebody doesn't like that 47:16.500 --> 47:18.460 That's just life, but if you're sick 47:18.460 --> 47:24.540 You know try to avoid that I wish honestly my prayers that we can have other men fill in the pulpit at some point 47:24.540 --> 47:26.580 Because I hate coming to church when I'm sick 47:27.180 --> 47:31.220 You know I tell you guys I don't want to because I don't want to be responsible for you guys getting sick 47:31.820 --> 47:38.020 So I didn't mean to go into that but might as well just address it from here if he's is five verse three the Bible says 47:38.020 --> 47:40.020 I mean verse one 47:40.460 --> 47:47.940 Followers of God as dear children and walk in love as Christ also loved us and has given itself for us an offering and sacrifice 47:48.420 --> 47:51.780 to God for sweet smelling savor, but 47:52.700 --> 47:55.900 fornication and all uncleanness or 47:56.380 --> 48:00.620 Covetousness let it not be once named among you as become its saints 48:01.140 --> 48:08.420 Never neither filthiness nor foolish talking nor jesting which are not convenient, but rather giving of thanks 48:09.100 --> 48:16.020 For this no this you know that no whoremonger nor unclean person or covetousness who is an idolater have any inheritance 48:16.340 --> 48:18.900 in the kingdom of Christ and God 48:19.740 --> 48:24.180 Now I mean to say obviously it's not workspace we know there's verses and even here 48:25.060 --> 48:28.380 Salvation is by grace, but the goal of 48:28.900 --> 48:34.220 Salvation is that you would clean up your life and lead a better life you should 48:34.900 --> 48:40.540 Keep the commandments you should love God you should submit to his authority 48:40.540 --> 48:45.940 You should stop all the cities if you don't do it. You're still going to heaven, but just remember 48:45.980 --> 48:47.980 There's going to be consequences of that 48:47.980 --> 48:53.820 But what this is really saying is that the people that won't inherit is the people that want to continue in this lifestyle 48:54.860 --> 49:00.060 Right one thing is maybe you lived it you got saved maybe even after you got saved 49:00.060 --> 49:03.380 It's something that you're overcoming, but you're you're moving in that direction 49:04.060 --> 49:10.260 Right, but what this is really addressing is those people that just live that lifestyle you say are you saying there's people live like yeah 49:10.260 --> 49:12.660 There's entire industries literally 49:12.860 --> 49:15.940 That's like one of the most common sayings right the oldest profession in the world 49:16.980 --> 49:21.060 And if you don't know don't worry about it, but for those of you that are not and you know what I'm talking about 49:21.580 --> 49:29.380 There's entire cities. There's entire countries that have that industry as their main source of income and industry 49:30.580 --> 49:32.580 Right I mean 49:33.100 --> 49:36.540 You know where I don't like to go to conferences Las Vegas 49:36.540 --> 49:38.940 I've been in Las Vegas maybe once or twice in my life 49:38.980 --> 49:42.460 Maybe three times I can't remember most of it has always been for business 49:42.460 --> 49:47.420 And you know what like it's the worst place to go because I there's nowhere for you to go 49:47.420 --> 49:49.420 I just have to be in the hotel the whole time 49:49.420 --> 49:53.060 I'm like imprisoned in my own world because it's sin city 49:53.060 --> 49:57.660 And it really is and and all everything that you can pick up on your son is being promoted there 49:57.660 --> 50:01.260 Like that would be the worst place for anybody to want to like go 50:01.740 --> 50:04.700 So any because you couldn't keep your eyes clean if you wanted to 50:04.700 --> 50:10.300 Their entire industry is dedicated to this type of sin drugs fornication 50:10.780 --> 50:12.300 Whoremongering 50:12.300 --> 50:17.260 Prostitution all kinds of stuff so we need to be very very careful in the world 50:17.980 --> 50:24.620 Right and the the sin the actual sin of fornication the world treats fornication as normal 50:25.420 --> 50:26.700 You know 50:26.700 --> 50:30.940 And you know, I think that's the biggest thing that we need to be very very careful about 50:31.020 --> 50:33.020 The world treats fornication as normal 50:34.060 --> 50:37.420 You know, and what's interesting is they actually know what the word fornication means 50:37.420 --> 50:43.180 It's like commonly used in like programming and articles and stuff, but they use it as a jest 50:43.980 --> 50:50.140 Like they like we are like the bible thumpers the uppity's, you know, we're just too good goody tissues for everybody 50:50.140 --> 50:52.140 No, we just don't want to be disgusting 50:52.700 --> 50:54.540 Right. I don't you know 50:54.540 --> 50:57.420 But god treats it as a sin that defiles the body, right? 50:57.980 --> 51:04.940 This type of scene is unique because not only does it corrupt your relationship with god, but it corrupts your own body 51:06.220 --> 51:11.980 And there's there's a slew of things that we could go into forget just like the actual disease 51:13.660 --> 51:18.380 They've done all the studies like all this cohabitating and all this creates a lot of you know, just 51:19.100 --> 51:21.900 You it's called what what do they call it in modern day era? 51:22.540 --> 51:24.060 Oh 51:24.060 --> 51:27.900 You know people don't want to date the older woman because she's carrying a lot of what? 51:28.460 --> 51:32.300 Baggage or they don't want to date the older guy because he's carrying a lot of what baggage 51:32.300 --> 51:39.180 You know what baggage is code for it's called issues because you were fornicating and committing adultery and doing all this stuff 51:39.180 --> 51:41.180 You shouldn't been doing right 51:41.820 --> 51:43.500 point number two 51:43.500 --> 51:45.500 the fornicator 51:46.040 --> 51:49.660 Specifically like dealing with whores or whoremongers, right? 51:50.220 --> 51:54.700 The bible not only condemns the sin, but it identifies the person living in it, right? 51:55.660 --> 51:57.580 well 51:57.580 --> 52:03.340 The reason i'm going to give you one little statistic here. It has another go to first corinthians 6 again, but 52:04.460 --> 52:06.360 while roughly 52:06.360 --> 52:08.360 85% of movies released between 52:09.000 --> 52:11.000 1950 52:11.100 --> 52:13.100 1950 not 52:13.160 --> 52:15.160 2025 52:15.180 --> 52:18.700 1950 in 2006 contained some form of sexual content 52:20.460 --> 52:24.220 And it's funny because it says here a significant decline has occurred recently 52:24.780 --> 52:29.660 Studies indicate that while over 80% of films historically featured this kind of content 52:30.460 --> 52:31.900 right 52:31.900 --> 52:33.020 uh 52:33.020 --> 52:40.940 In the top grossing fills has fallen by almost 40% since 2000 with nearly 50% of films lacking it entirely 52:40.940 --> 52:43.340 You're like that's a good thing hooray 52:43.900 --> 52:45.740 But you know what? It's actually not 52:45.820 --> 52:47.340 Because if you really analyze it 52:47.340 --> 52:52.620 Why do movies not need to promote anymore because most people aren't really watching movies like we grew up watching movies 52:53.180 --> 52:55.180 What are they doing now? 52:55.500 --> 52:57.500 social media 52:57.560 --> 52:59.100 forums 52:59.100 --> 53:04.220 You know the web all that stuff. So if you just look the reason for the decline 53:04.940 --> 53:07.100 Is that it's found in what other medium? 53:08.380 --> 53:10.140 social media 53:10.140 --> 53:13.020 60 of social media has some kind of content like that 53:13.720 --> 53:15.500 67 percent 53:15.500 --> 53:21.580 I hate social media like in the sense that sometimes you know brother he was even talking about like they know your age 53:22.140 --> 53:26.060 They know the things that you're dealing with are you getting advertising for all that kind of stuff? 53:26.940 --> 53:33.260 Right. Do you have this problem or you know, are you going through a divorce you're going and it's just promoting 53:33.980 --> 53:35.180 something 53:35.180 --> 53:36.860 video games 53:36.860 --> 53:40.700 Have like 13 percent of video games carry this but you say well 53:40.720 --> 53:45.920 That's not a lot except that they're the top grossing video games, which is the most of the video games that people play 53:46.880 --> 53:50.080 Right. Most people will only play at the top 13 percent of the game 53:50.720 --> 53:56.800 Nobody knows that there's a ton of games that people don't ever play. Did you know that nintendo had like probably hundreds 53:57.440 --> 54:00.240 Video games how many of you played hundreds of video games? 54:00.240 --> 54:03.520 You didn't remember going to that one kid who was obsessed with nintendo 54:03.760 --> 54:07.280 And you didn't even know that half the games he had existed because you only played what? 54:07.460 --> 54:14.900 Excitebike and you know duck hunt and super mario bros is super contra. That's what I remember right everything else 54:15.460 --> 54:20.020 You know, it was like the one weird kid who was really obsessed with nintendo who knew how to play all the other games 54:20.020 --> 54:21.860 You'd never heard of 54:21.860 --> 54:23.700 right 54:23.700 --> 54:25.540 forums 54:25.540 --> 54:28.420 Such as reddit and I pick reddit because it's the most popular one 54:29.060 --> 54:32.820 24 percent of reddit has all this kind of content available 54:33.460 --> 54:36.100 television programming outside of movies 54:36.840 --> 54:42.760 70 to 82 percent of all the sitcoms and tv shows and miniseries content 54:44.280 --> 54:47.760 35% of all internet downloads are related to pornography 54:48.920 --> 54:52.280 35% guys, there's millions and millions of websites 54:53.080 --> 54:55.080 That's insane. I 54:55.640 --> 54:57.640 Mean, that's just mind-boggling 54:58.880 --> 55:04.960 12% or 4 million websites exist just for adult content and I think that's that's actually off. I 55:05.740 --> 55:11.060 Don't really believe that because I think that's only documented what's seen because there's in a whole other part of the web 55:11.060 --> 55:16.300 That's called the dark web and it's just crazy out there, right? I was watching this one guy 55:16.300 --> 55:23.060 I don't know if you've seen him this guy who like I guess he worked for the NSA not the one from back in the day 55:23.060 --> 55:29.140 Not a whatever from ten years ago. It's a newer younger kid and he went on the game 55:29.740 --> 55:30.780 roblox 55:30.780 --> 55:34.220 Which I don't know but the kids are looking at me, you know what roblox are 55:35.940 --> 55:39.660 He went in there and just like my name is Ashley 13 year old 55:39.660 --> 55:43.060 They wanted to see how quickly it would be for just older men to start 55:43.660 --> 55:47.340 Private messaging, you know somebody they thought was a young girl 55:48.340 --> 55:52.820 Literally five seconds in a minute. There was like 25 requests 55:52.820 --> 55:54.820 You got a boy 55:57.760 --> 56:03.480 You say pastor why you saying this because we got to say it because my our duty is to protect our families 56:03.800 --> 56:08.200 From this junk because the majority of the world turns a blind eye and they don't think the world's that bad 56:08.680 --> 56:10.680 The world's worse than you think 56:11.240 --> 56:12.680 It's actually 56:12.680 --> 56:17.400 Horrible out there. We just live in a bubble because we're willing to protect our families 56:17.400 --> 56:20.920 So we don't engage in a lot of the crap that's out there, but it's 56:20.940 --> 56:25.460 And Houston is just one of the worst places for human trafficking don't even get me started on that 56:26.580 --> 56:28.580 We go to 1st Corinthians 6 56:29.140 --> 56:34.340 But in 1st Corinthians 5 verse 11, I'll read for you real quick says but now I write until you not to keep company of any 56:34.340 --> 56:36.340 Man that's called a brother 56:36.780 --> 56:43.260 Be a fornicator or covetous or an adulterer or a drunk or an extortioner with such a one no not eat 56:45.100 --> 56:48.500 Right with a fornicator someone who's actually practicing this as a lifestyle 56:48.500 --> 56:50.500 Right 56:50.500 --> 56:53.320 Once they start doing it they're just gonna do it, you know, they're addicted to it 56:53.960 --> 56:58.600 In first Corinthians 6 verse 9 the Bible says no you not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God 56:59.560 --> 57:07.100 The fornicators nor idolaters nor idolaters nor effeminate nor abusers of themselves with mankind nor thieves nor 57:07.600 --> 57:12.600 Covetous nor drunk words drunkards nor revilers nor extortioners shall inherit the kingdom of God 57:12.600 --> 57:17.600 Hey young men pay attention probably four verse three says for the lips of a strange woman drop as a honeycomb 57:18.600 --> 57:23.600 And her mouth is smoother than oil, but her end is bitter as warm wood 57:24.100 --> 57:30.100 Sharp as a two-edged sword her feet go down to the death her steps take hold on hell 57:30.600 --> 57:32.600 And by the way, actually this is just for all men in general 57:33.600 --> 57:36.140 Right because it's not just fornication. You know David 57:36.140 --> 57:42.140 And he looked out at midnight and some young lady was taking a bath and then he committed some of the most egregious sins that are 57:42.140 --> 57:44.140 found in the Bible 57:45.140 --> 57:49.140 Proverbs 7 verse 21 the Bible says with with her much fair speech 57:50.140 --> 57:54.140 She caused him to yield with the flattering of her lips. She forced him 57:54.140 --> 57:58.140 He goeth after her straightway as a Knox goes to the cross 57:59.140 --> 58:04.140 And she says to him, I'm going to give you a bath and you're going to give me a bath 58:04.140 --> 58:07.140 The straightway as a Knox goeth to the slaughter 58:08.140 --> 58:15.140 Whereas the fool to the correction of the stocks till a dart strike through his liver as a bird hasteth to the snare 58:16.140 --> 58:21.140 And knoweth not that it was for his life. It's a trap. That's what it's saying 58:24.140 --> 58:29.140 Picture of something that you didn't think was going to happen that happened unaware 58:29.140 --> 58:34.140 A dart that strikes through the liver is talking about like, 58:34.140 --> 58:39.140 people use dogs, you don't see it coming, 58:39.140 --> 58:43.140 you would never even hear it until it hit you. 58:43.140 --> 58:47.140 If you set up a snare for a bird, they won't see it until it's too late, 58:47.140 --> 58:51.140 you're already caught. 58:51.140 --> 58:56.140 The ox that goes to the slaughter, they don't know they're going to get slaughtered until they're slaughtered. 58:56.140 --> 59:01.140 People say, we need humane, they're animals, 59:01.140 --> 59:06.140 they don't know when they're going to get killed, they just get killed. 59:06.140 --> 59:11.140 As a fool of the correction of stocks, same thing, he doesn't know he's going to get corrected until he's there. 59:11.140 --> 59:16.140 Fornication destroys judgment, 59:16.140 --> 59:21.140 it destroys families, whether before they begin or after they begin, 59:21.140 --> 59:26.140 all the sins in our lives, don't let anybody tell you otherwise, 59:26.140 --> 59:31.140 but this one really can have some serious consequences. 59:31.140 --> 59:36.140 That's why it shouldn't be allowed in the church, because it can create all kinds of misconceptions, perceptions. 59:36.140 --> 59:41.140 Then the problem is that once you create a bad habit like this, 59:41.140 --> 59:46.140 it's just going to carry. 59:46.140 --> 59:51.140 I'm using young men because that's what the world pushes, but it can be young women. 59:51.140 --> 59:56.140 Today, it feels like they're pushing it on young women too, but fornicators, 59:56.140 --> 01:00:01.140 let's say they decide to get married, it's harder for them to be faithful in marriage after they've been fornicating for so long. 01:00:01.140 --> 01:00:06.140 It's just a habit that's been built. 01:00:06.140 --> 01:00:11.140 You've got to be careful of the habits that you produce. 01:00:11.140 --> 01:00:16.140 I'm a young child, my mom got on to me, but she didn't do a good job in this respect. 01:00:16.140 --> 01:00:21.140 I'm not picking on my mom, ultimately it's my fault, but to this day, on occasion, I'll bite my nails. 01:00:21.140 --> 01:00:26.140 I'm 46 years old and I've overcome a lot. 01:00:26.140 --> 01:00:31.140 Once you build a really bad habit, it can follow you for life. 01:00:31.140 --> 01:00:36.140 It's a disgusting habit, it's something that obviously I wouldn't promote to anybody, 01:00:36.140 --> 01:00:41.140 but it's a bad habit. 01:00:41.140 --> 01:00:46.140 You're like, well pastor, you just got to stop. I know, thanks for reminding me. 01:00:46.140 --> 01:00:51.140 There are certain habits that once you've opened that door, it's really hard to stop. 01:00:51.140 --> 01:00:56.140 It's the same thing with fornication, drug use, things of that nature. 01:00:56.140 --> 01:01:01.140 Point number three, fornication is contagious. 01:01:01.140 --> 01:01:06.140 The reason God removes it is because all of these are contagious. 01:01:06.140 --> 01:01:11.140 Arrayler, covetousness, it becomes like a disease. 01:01:11.140 --> 01:01:16.140 It spreads like an infection. 01:01:16.140 --> 01:01:21.140 Go to 1 Corinthians 5, it says, 01:01:21.140 --> 01:01:26.140 It doesn't take a lot for everybody to start doing it. 01:01:26.140 --> 01:01:31.140 The modern church today, the contemporary churches, 01:01:31.140 --> 01:01:36.140 are full of what? Couples that have married and remarried and are living in sin 01:01:36.140 --> 01:01:41.140 and they're all just happy, go lucky because the pastor won't do anything about it. 01:01:41.140 --> 01:01:46.140 You know why? Because the pastor... 01:01:46.140 --> 01:01:51.140 What's that idiot's name? The southern guy that... 01:01:51.140 --> 01:01:56.140 Brother Heath, help me out. 01:01:56.140 --> 01:02:01.140 Greg Locke, thank you honey, I read your lips. Greg Locke, 01:02:01.140 --> 01:02:06.140 the guy's out there, the pastor is saying he's God's chosen anointed and all that stuff. 01:02:06.140 --> 01:02:11.140 The guy literally divorced his wife to marry his secretary. How would he be able to toe the line 01:02:11.140 --> 01:02:16.140 for anybody in this church? He's not. You know what he doesn't preach about? Fornication. 01:02:16.140 --> 01:02:21.140 I guarantee you, he'll preach about this all day long. 01:02:21.140 --> 01:02:26.140 He'll preach about the moral right and the right wing. You know what he won't preach about? 01:02:26.140 --> 01:02:31.140 I haven't heard him ever say a negative word about Donald Trump. 01:02:31.140 --> 01:02:36.140 Donald Trump is a serial fornicator and a serial adulterer. 01:02:36.140 --> 01:02:41.140 It's wicked and God's judging our nation because of that. 01:02:41.140 --> 01:02:46.140 I never voted... I don't know, actually, we voted for Trump one time in 2016 during the primary. 01:02:46.140 --> 01:02:51.140 But since then, we didn't vote for him for president. Trump is whatever. 01:02:51.140 --> 01:02:56.140 I just want to make that clear, I'm not a Trump fan. 01:02:56.140 --> 01:03:01.140 Here's an interesting statistic. 01:03:01.140 --> 01:03:06.140 Key findings on marriage and cohabitation in the US, and this is from the Pew Research 01:03:06.140 --> 01:03:11.140 report from 2019, almost a decade ago. 01:03:11.140 --> 01:03:16.140 And there it said a large share of adults have cohabitated more 01:03:16.140 --> 01:03:21.140 than the people that have been married. In other words, today in America, 01:03:21.140 --> 01:03:26.140 more people are cohabitating than they are married. 01:03:26.140 --> 01:03:31.140 Just let that sink in for a second. That's wild. 01:03:31.140 --> 01:03:36.140 Most Americans, 69%, say cohabitation is acceptable 01:03:36.140 --> 01:03:41.140 even if the couple doesn't plan on getting married. What is it? It's just an attack on God. 01:03:41.140 --> 01:03:46.140 Married adults have higher levels of relationship satisfaction and trust than those living with a partner. 01:03:46.140 --> 01:03:51.140 Duh! Because they're committed. Because my wife knows that we didn't just move in together. 01:03:51.140 --> 01:03:56.140 I made a commitment in the eyes of God to say through thick and thin, 01:03:56.140 --> 01:04:01.140 through sickness and health, through good and bad, I'm there with you. 01:04:01.140 --> 01:04:06.140 That carries way more weight than, hey, let's just see if this thing works. 01:04:06.140 --> 01:04:11.140 Many cohabitating adults see living together as a step towards marriage, 01:04:11.140 --> 01:04:16.140 but the reason they don't is finances and convenience, which is weird. 01:04:16.140 --> 01:04:21.140 Finances and convenience are the reasons for cohabitating, but then cohabitators 01:04:21.140 --> 01:04:26.140 say finances are the reasons they don't get married. 01:04:26.140 --> 01:04:31.140 Wait, you got married, I mean, you got together because it would be easier, like, you know, you could 01:04:31.140 --> 01:04:36.140 make your money go further and it's convenient, but you don't get married because 01:04:36.140 --> 01:04:41.140 it's too expensive. It doesn't even make sense. 01:04:41.140 --> 01:04:46.140 Most Americans favor allowing unmarried couples to have the same legal rights as married couples. 01:04:46.140 --> 01:04:51.140 That's in 2019. I'm going to ask you again, do you think it's gotten better or it's gotten worse? 01:04:51.140 --> 01:04:56.140 I believe it's gotten worse because we're just headed down 01:04:56.140 --> 01:05:01.140 a downward spiral. Proverbs 13, you can go to Proverbs 22, 01:05:01.140 --> 01:05:06.140 Proverbs 13 verse 20, the Bible says, 01:05:06.140 --> 01:05:11.140 Hey, God doesn't want these people in the church because they're fools and they're wicked 01:05:11.140 --> 01:05:16.140 and they'll destroy the rest of us. 01:05:16.140 --> 01:05:21.140 Bible says in first Corinthians 15, 33, be not deceived, evil communications, corrupt good manners. 01:05:21.140 --> 01:05:26.140 And by the way, when I read this, I'm of the belief this is not talking about cussing, this is talking about 01:05:26.140 --> 01:05:31.140 what you're actually saying that could affect the doctrines of the Bible. 01:05:31.140 --> 01:05:36.140 Oh, you shouldn't say a bad word and then they'll take you to this verse. 01:05:37.140 --> 01:05:42.140 And then I'm like, well, okay, I won't say a bad word, but I still think that someone's damned to hell. 01:05:42.140 --> 01:05:47.140 Well, you shouldn't say that either. Just like that guy that, you know, 01:05:47.140 --> 01:05:52.140 I decided to privately message you because I didn't want to cause more harm. 01:05:52.140 --> 01:05:57.140 Hey, how about you tell the truth and if it causes harm is because they rejected the Lord Jesus Christ, 01:05:57.140 --> 01:06:02.140 but somebody's going to pay attention. Somebody's going to listen. 01:06:02.140 --> 01:06:07.140 In verse 22, you're there in Proverbs 22, go to verse 24. 01:06:07.140 --> 01:06:12.140 The Bible says, make no friendship with an angry man and with a furious man thou shall not go 01:06:12.140 --> 01:06:17.140 lest thou learn his ways and get a snare to thy soul. 01:06:17.140 --> 01:06:22.140 Hey, are you saying the fornicated are angry? I don't know if they're angry or not. 01:06:22.140 --> 01:06:27.140 You know what I am saying is that a furious man is likened to someone who's selfish. 01:06:27.140 --> 01:06:32.140 Why do people get mad? Usually beyond, you know, the Bible says be angry and said not. 01:06:32.140 --> 01:06:36.140 So there's righteous anger, but the majority of the time, if we're not angry about the things of God, 01:06:36.140 --> 01:06:41.140 you know why we get angry? Because it imposes on our selfishness. 01:06:41.140 --> 01:06:47.140 Why do you get, I'll give a good example. It's a dumb example, but this is a very common example in most marriages. 01:06:47.140 --> 01:06:52.140 You know, something like leaving the toothpaste cap open, right? 01:06:52.140 --> 01:06:56.140 Or maybe not putting something back the way you like it. You get mad. Why are you getting mad? 01:06:56.140 --> 01:07:01.140 It's not because the person did it wrong. It's because they didn't do it your way. 01:07:01.140 --> 01:07:06.140 And so it's the same thing with fornication. It's a sin of selfishness. 01:07:06.140 --> 01:07:11.140 Because what you're doing is you're fulfilling the lusts of the flesh instead of, you know, 01:07:11.140 --> 01:07:19.140 mortifying the flesh and doing what God says. And so it's a big problem. 01:07:19.140 --> 01:07:25.140 And this is why church discipline exists. These are actually not the sermons that, you know, 01:07:25.140 --> 01:07:28.140 they're not fun to preach. I'm comfortable preaching them because the Bible says it. 01:07:28.140 --> 01:07:31.140 They're just not fun to preach, but we need to preach them. 01:07:31.140 --> 01:07:36.140 You say, are you saying there's fornicators in our church? I'm saying there's fornicators in America. 01:07:36.140 --> 01:07:43.140 I don't know if they're in our church. If they are, I haven't found them out. I'm just saying this is a problem. 01:07:43.140 --> 01:07:48.140 Right? And we don't want that in our church because look, it'll influence the teenagers. 01:07:48.140 --> 01:07:52.140 It'll influence the young adults. It'll influence unmarried couples. 01:07:52.140 --> 01:07:56.140 It'll influence the reputation of the church and it'll influence the preaching. 01:07:56.140 --> 01:08:01.140 Look, look what happened to the preaching of Verity sucks. Right. 01:08:01.140 --> 01:08:05.140 And if you don't know what who Verity is, don't worry about it. But if you know, very Baptist and what happened? 01:08:05.140 --> 01:08:09.140 Statement that was put out by the previous pastor, you know, who's no longer there. 01:08:09.140 --> 01:08:13.140 Roger Menace said that his sin didn't permeate the church. 01:08:13.140 --> 01:08:17.140 You're thinking that all the way that they're acting and the things that they're saying didn't permeate. 01:08:17.140 --> 01:08:20.140 It affected everybody. Of course it did. Right. 01:08:20.140 --> 01:08:24.140 You're either affecting the church for good or you're changing the effect in the church for bad. 01:08:24.140 --> 01:08:30.140 And everything that you do on your own, even if I'm not aware of it, if God's aware of it, you know what? 01:08:30.140 --> 01:08:32.140 It's affecting the church. 01:08:32.140 --> 01:08:35.140 You know, Pastor Thompson came maybe like two, three years ago and he preached. 01:08:35.140 --> 01:08:41.140 One of the things that really stood out to me is like your sins affect the church. 01:08:41.140 --> 01:08:46.140 I mean, I can still hear it to this day. Like and I was sitting there, you know, you want preaching that's convicting. 01:08:46.140 --> 01:08:49.140 And I'm like, man, there's anything I need to clean up. Lord, help me clean up. 01:08:49.140 --> 01:08:51.140 I don't want to be your stumbling block. 01:08:51.140 --> 01:08:57.140 And I don't want you to be my life's hard enough as it is without you having to screw everybody else up. 01:08:57.140 --> 01:09:00.140 Right. So don't do it. 01:09:00.140 --> 01:09:03.140 We're almost done here. But. 01:09:03.140 --> 01:09:08.140 Sin tolerated is sin that then becomes imitated. 01:09:08.140 --> 01:09:13.140 You say, give me a good example called Jeffrey Epstein. 01:09:13.140 --> 01:09:18.140 You know, he he let everything go, whatever they want it. 01:09:18.140 --> 01:09:27.140 And he literally influenced probably thousands of people to do the exact same thing he was doing. 01:09:27.140 --> 01:09:30.140 Right. Abusing all kinds of people. 01:09:30.140 --> 01:09:34.140 I don't know. I'm not going to even go into it. Right. 01:09:34.140 --> 01:09:37.140 Andrew Tate, if you've never heard of him, same thing. 01:09:37.140 --> 01:09:43.140 Influenced an entire generation of young men to think that it's OK to just be a whoremonger. 01:09:43.140 --> 01:09:46.140 He did he. 01:09:46.140 --> 01:09:49.140 Well, it's bad stuff. 01:09:49.140 --> 01:09:57.140 So who you surround yourself, you know, will carry out in your life. 01:09:57.140 --> 01:09:59.140 Sorry, I'm trying to adjust to the light. That one went off. 01:09:59.140 --> 01:10:03.140 I'm just like point number four. 01:10:03.140 --> 01:10:05.140 I've got let me see. I've got two more points for you. Yeah. 01:10:05.140 --> 01:10:08.140 I've got two or three more points for you, but they're quick. 01:10:08.140 --> 01:10:11.140 The spiritual for indicator. 01:10:11.140 --> 01:10:13.140 That's because it's very similar. 01:10:13.140 --> 01:10:21.140 But what's the spiritual for here? Well, look, if you're willing to do if you're willing to defile your flesh and sit against your own body, you know what you're actually doing. 01:10:21.140 --> 01:10:26.140 You're also. Yes, Lord. Spiritually, right. 01:10:26.140 --> 01:10:31.140 The Bible uses fornication spiritually describe unfaithfulness and go to Romans seven. 01:10:31.140 --> 01:10:34.140 I'll read this one for you and then we'll go into other verses. 01:10:34.140 --> 01:10:39.140 But Roman seven, I actually please turn there and I'll wait for you. 01:10:39.140 --> 01:10:54.140 In Romans one, the Bible says, No, you not brethren, for I speak to them that know the law, how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth for the woman which has a husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he 01:10:54.140 --> 01:10:58.140 But if the husband be dead, she is lose from the law of her husband. 01:10:58.140 --> 01:11:05.140 So then, if while her husband live, she be married to another man, she she shall be called an adulteress. 01:11:05.140 --> 01:11:07.140 But if the husband be dead, she is free from that law. 01:11:07.140 --> 01:11:11.140 So she's no adulteress, though she be married to another man. 01:11:11.140 --> 01:11:23.140 Wherefore, my brethren, you're also become dead to the law by the body of Christ that you should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God. 01:11:23.140 --> 01:11:28.140 You know what? God mortified the law so that we would be free to serve the Lord Jesus Christ. 01:11:28.140 --> 01:11:36.140 That's what it's saying here, right? For we were in the flesh, the motions of sin, which were by the law did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death. 01:11:36.140 --> 01:11:45.140 But now we are delivered from the law that being dead, we were held that we should serve in newness of spirit and not in the oldness of the letter. 01:11:45.140 --> 01:11:49.140 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. 01:11:49.140 --> 01:12:13.140 God forbid. 01:12:13.140 --> 01:12:16.140 The Bible saying here, hey, that's what God said. 01:12:16.140 --> 01:12:25.140 Remember, the law doesn't in other verses, it says that the law no longer applies to not that we shouldn't obey the law, but we now. 01:12:25.140 --> 01:12:29.140 But the Lord Jesus Christ, so we should remain faithful to the Lord Jesus Christ. 01:12:29.140 --> 01:12:32.140 That's why we don't want to engage in sin. 01:12:32.140 --> 01:12:42.140 I mean, obviously we're sinners, but the harder we try not to engage in sin, then the sin that we are committing shouldn't be as. 01:12:42.140 --> 01:12:46.140 As fornication or covetousness or something like that, right? 01:12:46.140 --> 01:12:50.140 Rampant drug use, things of that nature. 01:12:50.140 --> 01:13:01.140 For the sake of time, just go to Ezekiel 16 and I'll start to close this thing out right there in Ezekiel 16. 01:13:01.140 --> 01:13:06.140 When Christians love the world more than God, what do they do? They're committing spiritual fornication. 01:13:06.140 --> 01:13:19.140 In 16 verse 27 says, Behold, therefore I have stretched out my hand over thee and have diminished thine ordinary food and delivered thee unto the will of them that hate thee, the daughters of the Philistines, which you're ashamed of thy lewd way. 01:13:19.140 --> 01:13:30.140 Thou hast played the whore also with the Assyrians, because thou was unsatiable, yet thou hast played the harlot with them, and yet couldest not be satisfied. 01:13:30.140 --> 01:13:39.140 Thou hast moreover multiplied thy fornications in the land of Canaan unto Chaldea, and yet thou was not satisfied herewith. 01:13:39.140 --> 01:13:49.140 How weak is in thine heart, saith the Lord God, seeing thou doest all these things to work an imperious whoreish woman. 01:13:49.140 --> 01:14:00.140 In that thou buildest thine enemies' eminent place in the head of every way, and makest thine high places in every street, and thou hast not been as in harlot, in that thou scornest higher. 01:14:00.140 --> 01:14:14.140 But as a wife that committed adultery, which taketh strangers instead of her husband, they give gifts to all whores, but thou givest thy gifts to all thy lovers, and hires them that they may come unto thee on every side of thy hoard of... 01:14:14.140 --> 01:14:16.140 Man, that's some pretty rough words. 01:14:16.140 --> 01:14:23.140 And it's talking about both the physical and the spiritual fornication of the church. 01:14:23.140 --> 01:14:26.140 God doesn't like that. 01:14:27.140 --> 01:14:33.140 Right? Go over to Revelation 2. 01:14:33.140 --> 01:14:37.140 So we have the spiritual fornication. 01:14:37.140 --> 01:14:41.140 It carries over to the church. The church is spiritual fornication. 01:14:41.140 --> 01:14:52.140 In Revelation 2, verse 20, the Bible says, Now, withstanding, I have a few things against thee, because thou supparest the woman, Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, 01:14:52.140 --> 01:14:59.140 to teach and to seduce my servants, to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols. 01:14:59.140 --> 01:15:02.140 And what's interesting is we don't even have time to go into it. 01:15:02.140 --> 01:15:15.140 Just in the book of Revelation alone, fornication is mentioned ten times, most of it dealing with the spiritual state of the church or the people or the nation. 01:15:15.140 --> 01:15:24.140 You know, we're basically committing fornication when the lusts of Christianity in America are for war. 01:15:24.140 --> 01:15:29.140 Where we're so war-hungry, it doesn't even satisfy us. 01:15:29.140 --> 01:15:32.140 What do we read in Ezekiel? It's like, you are unsatiable. 01:15:32.140 --> 01:15:38.140 Don't we have this unsatiable appetite as Americans to just go out and war? 01:15:38.140 --> 01:15:44.140 I've seen more clips that I care to think about with this little, you know, what is it? 01:15:44.140 --> 01:15:48.140 Number one, you know, start, what is it? God bless America. 01:15:48.140 --> 01:15:54.140 And start your engines. And they show like this picture of Donald Trump sending all of his troops to war. 01:15:54.140 --> 01:16:01.140 And they're building up the music. War, war, war. God, God's not a God of war like that. 01:16:01.140 --> 01:16:04.140 God's destroying those that hate him. 01:16:04.140 --> 01:16:13.140 But, you know, our first duty should be to lead people to Christ, not just have this unsatiable fornication spiritually, just destroy the things of God. 01:16:14.140 --> 01:16:19.140 And who, where is it coming from the most? From church. 01:16:19.140 --> 01:16:25.140 The right-wing Christian Republicans are like, yeah, kill them all! 01:16:25.140 --> 01:16:35.140 Calm down, brother. I mean, seriously, it's like, I keep seeing all these videos about, they keep showing a, 01:16:35.140 --> 01:16:40.140 like these videos about how many planes like Iran has and then how many planes the US has. 01:16:40.140 --> 01:16:45.140 You know, what a powerful, you know, army we have. Yeah, we get it. We're powerful. 01:16:45.140 --> 01:16:49.140 It doesn't mean we that just because of that, we just do whatever we want. 01:16:49.140 --> 01:16:53.140 We're not a dictatorship. Well, that could be argued. 01:16:53.140 --> 01:17:00.140 You know, think about the last month, we just took some guy, some president from Venezuela, which is like, hey, we don't like you. 01:17:00.140 --> 01:17:05.140 Take him and his wife. We just randomly decided to attack our ramp. 01:17:05.140 --> 01:17:10.140 And all the surrounding areas just because they said so. 01:17:10.140 --> 01:17:13.140 And not only that, every time we get it, we hear the news. 01:17:13.140 --> 01:17:18.140 They're like, oh, it's going to get worse. You know, it's going to get worse. 01:17:18.140 --> 01:17:23.140 We're not going to tell you because we told you the enemy would know, but it's coming. 01:17:23.140 --> 01:17:25.140 Calm down, brother. And then the last point, I have one minute. 01:17:25.140 --> 01:17:30.140 The last point is why even preach on all this? 01:17:30.140 --> 01:17:34.140 Well, because the purpose of church discipline is to get these people out. 01:17:34.140 --> 01:17:39.140 But you need to know as a church if that action is taken, why has been taken? 01:17:39.140 --> 01:17:43.140 It's not a light manner. I mean, a light matter, right? 01:17:43.140 --> 01:17:49.140 The goal of the church is to grow. And if there's issues, we need to restore and purify the church. 01:17:49.140 --> 01:17:52.140 God says to constantly be sanctifying. I mean, read the Old Testament. 01:17:52.140 --> 01:17:59.140 Everything they did, you know, all the sacrifices, all the offerings, all the atonement was for what? 01:17:59.140 --> 01:18:02.140 Purification and sanctification. 01:18:02.140 --> 01:18:05.140 Go to Galatians 6 and I'll close there. 01:18:10.140 --> 01:18:12.140 The aim of church discipline is for a couple of reasons. 01:18:12.140 --> 01:18:16.140 Number one, we want to protect the church. 01:18:16.140 --> 01:18:19.140 Look, I'm not just so selfish that I just want to protect my children. 01:18:19.140 --> 01:18:24.140 I want to protect your children. I'm not so selfish. I want to just protect my marriage. 01:18:24.140 --> 01:18:28.140 I want to protect your marriages. Right? We need to protect the church. 01:18:28.140 --> 01:18:31.140 And I want to protect the integrity of our doctrines. 01:18:31.140 --> 01:18:35.140 I believe we preach the best doctrines in this area. 01:18:35.140 --> 01:18:38.140 I want to protect that integrity. Right? 01:18:38.140 --> 01:18:43.140 We want to protect the spread of sin. And if possible, we do want to restore the sinner. 01:18:43.140 --> 01:18:48.140 Because in 1 Corinthians 5 later on in Corinthians, that sinner does get restored. Right? 01:18:48.140 --> 01:18:51.140 We don't want to just beat them down. 01:18:51.140 --> 01:18:53.140 Go to Galatians 6. The first one, the Bible says, 01:18:53.140 --> 01:18:58.140 Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, 01:18:58.140 --> 01:19:03.140 Restore such a one in the spirit of meekness, considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted, 01:19:03.140 --> 01:19:10.140 Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ. 01:19:10.140 --> 01:19:16.140 For a man thinks himself to be sinful. 01:19:16.140 --> 01:19:22.140 Another reason these sins are so bad is because they puff you up. Right? 01:19:22.140 --> 01:19:26.140 I mean, the world promotes this thing, especially in this double standard world, 01:19:26.140 --> 01:19:31.140 Where a man who fornicates is a man's man. 01:19:31.140 --> 01:19:34.140 But the Bible says there's nothing manly about that. 01:19:34.140 --> 01:19:36.140 There's nothing cool about that. 01:19:36.140 --> 01:19:40.140 Nowadays, they're trying to make it to where the women are like that, too. 01:19:40.140 --> 01:19:47.140 I don't believe it. I don't buy it for one second that men would ever look at another woman that fornicates and think that she's cool. 01:19:47.140 --> 01:19:52.140 When we were growing up, even in my worldly state, my friends would say, 01:19:52.140 --> 01:19:57.140 Oh, that's not a girl you want to marry. That's a girl you mess around with and you don't marry. 01:19:57.140 --> 01:20:00.140 Women, don't get that reputation. 01:20:00.140 --> 01:20:04.140 Because men will just walk all over you for the rest of your life. It'll be horrible. 01:20:04.140 --> 01:20:06.140 Don't get that reputation. 01:20:06.140 --> 01:20:10.140 So I know this wasn't like the most pleasant of service, but you know what? 01:20:10.140 --> 01:20:14.140 The Bible's not always a pleasant book. I mean, you got to learn it all. 01:20:14.140 --> 01:20:18.140 So let's close in a word of prayer. Heavenly Father, Lord, thank you so much for today. 01:20:18.140 --> 01:20:28.140 Thank you for your blessings. Thank you for allowing us to preach these hard truths so that it's better to just be pricked at and maybe even uncomfortable today. 01:20:28.140 --> 01:20:34.140 But live a peaceable, glorious life with you receiving your blessings for the rest of our life. 01:20:34.140 --> 01:20:43.140 I would rather show up three times a week and get beat up for three times a week to get beat up 24 7 because of all our stupid sin. 01:20:43.140 --> 01:20:46.140 So thank you, Lord, that we have these opportunities to learn this stuff. 01:20:46.140 --> 01:20:52.140 Help us have a great week. Bless the efforts. Watch us for us that are traveling. 01:20:52.140 --> 01:20:56.140 Safe traveling. Mercies and be with those that are sick. 01:20:56.140 --> 01:21:02.140 Be with Brother Elliot as he prepares for surgery on Tuesday and just put your healing hand on him. 01:21:02.140 --> 01:21:04.140 In Jesus name we pray. Amen. 01:21:04.140 --> 01:21:08.140 Let's turn our hand over to page 351. 01:21:08.140 --> 01:21:10.140 Oh, thank you, honey. 01:21:10.140 --> 01:21:13.140 351. 01:21:13.140 --> 01:21:27.140 351. 01:21:27.140 --> 01:21:39.140 Tell it to Jesus on the first. 01:21:39.140 --> 01:21:57.140 Are you weary? Are you heavy hearted? Tell it to Jesus. Tell it to Jesus. Are you grieving over joy? Tell it to Jesus. 01:21:57.140 --> 01:22:15.140 Tell it to Jesus. Tell it to Jesus. He is a friend that's well known. You've no other such a friend or brother. Tell it to Jesus alone. 01:22:15.140 --> 01:22:33.140 Do the tears flow down your cheeks unbidden? Tell it to Jesus. Tell it to Jesus. Have you sins that humans eyes are hidden? Tell it to Jesus alone. 01:22:33.140 --> 01:22:51.140 Tell it to Jesus. Tell it to Jesus. He is a friend that's well known. You've no other such a friend or brother. Tell it to Jesus alone. 01:22:51.140 --> 01:23:04.140 Do you fear the gathering clouds of sorrow? Tell it to Jesus. Are you anxious? What shall be done?