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Men, 2 Samuel 11, what a pretty rough part of the Bible that is, isn't it? That chapter's got some pretty nasty stuff going on there and I want to focus particularly on the first four verses of 2 Samuel 11. So first four verses, which starting from verse 1, 2 Samuel 11 reads, and it came to pass after the year was expired at the time when kings go forth to battle that David sent Joab and his servants with him and all Israel and they destroyed the children of Ammon and besieged Rabah but David tarried still at Jerusalem and it came to pass in an evening tide that David arose from off his bed and walked upon the roof of the king's house and from the roof he saw a woman washing herself and the woman was very beautiful to look upon and David sent and inquired after the woman and one said is not this Bathsheba the daughter of a lion the wife of Uriah the Hittite and David sent messengers and took her and she came in unto him and he lay with her for she was purified from her uncleanness and she returned unto her house. So the title of my sermon today is nakedness and pornography, nakedness and pornography. Let's bow our heads and a word of prayer before we get going. Father I thank you for your word, I thank you that the Bible just shows us so much and shows us the pitfalls of so many things and and that it's not just all you know rose-tinted that there are some hard truths in the Bible and there's some some bad stories in the Bible and I thank you for for the truth of your word. Please help us now to well help me to to be filled with your spirit to preach the message that you've laid on my heart boldly and clearly and help those in in in the room today and I was watching online as well to to just take in everything that I say to have open hearts open ears and want to act upon what your word tells them today and in Jesus name we pray all of this amen. Okay so nakedness and pornography is that something to be talked about in a church? Well yes it is isn't it that is something to be talked about in a church it is a massive issue in the world and that means it's going to be an issue in churches too so for those of you that are sitting there thinking well you know we're Christians aren't we yeah you're Christians but if things affect the world it's going to affect you too okay no one here is sinless this is a massive problem in our society this is a growing problem this is a big deal and in fact while I was looking at some statistics in this nation around the world on it I kind of thought why didn't I preach this earlier you know it's taken me a year to preach this topic this is a massive deal okay so if anyone's sitting there thinking but you're in a church but there are kids here yeah look I'll be delicate with this don't worry we're not going to start going too graphic with this but it's a big deal it's a topic that needs preaching people need to hear about this. Turner Ephesians 5 well I read you a few stats to start off with according to a City University of London study four in five 16 to 17 year olds in the UK had seen online porn the majority of those have seen it on the day of the survey more of those 63 percent had seen it on social media rather than pornographic websites which was 47 percent okay so it's not just look it's a big difference when when I was young and it was kind of you know top shelf in a in a news agent or going down to some adult store with blacked out windows now you're talking about social media which pretty much all these kids are on yeah especially the worldly kids anyway now add to that that I would imagine a bible believe in Christians I would hope that a bible believe in Christians interpretation of what pornography is would probably mean that every single social media user is viewing porn probably on a daily basis and we're going to have a look at the interpretation of that in a minute now you might be sitting there going well mainly hormone filled teenage boys yeah that's all it is just a bit of a laugh isn't it just a bit of a laugh hey you know boys will be boys because that's how the world looks at it isn't it well according to some wicked bbc survey and it was a wicked bbc survey and I wouldn't recommend it and this was just written but you can imagine the sort of stuff they're trying to promote with it but this was a survey of a thousand 18 to 25s some 77 percent of men acknowledged they had viewed x-rated content that's x-rated content in the last month compared with 47 percent of women okay that's a lot isn't it that's a lot within the month 31 percent of men felt they'd been addicted to porn but only 14 percent of women said the same 31 okay that's nearly a third of this nation of 18 to 25 year olds feel like they've been addicted to porn that's a big deal isn't it something where a third of our nation of of young men feel they've been addicted have admitted to that as well and that's one in seven women and that's not a small number either is it if I preach on the sin that affected one in 50 people I don't think people would be that shocked one in seven women okay that is massive isn't it that's a big deal in this nation this needs preaching about doesn't it okay this needs preaching about a preacher is commanded to preach these things isn't he yeah yeah a preacher is commanded to preach it you'd have to know as I was told in Isaiah 58 wonder cry aloud spare not lift up thy voice like a trumpet and show my people their transgression and the house of Jacob their sins okay and look like I said if it's in the world it's going to be in the church okay and look we're not doing a you know a hunt here see who reacts in a funny way look that's not what I'm here for I just want to preach it okay I want to preach the truth today about this so Ephesians chapter 5 look at verse 8 for you were sometimes darkness but now are you light in the Lord walk as children of light so that's Paul telling Christians to behave as we should because it's not automatic is it it's not automatic any of you that have heard these sort of Christians that think that because you're saved suddenly you're just going to be the walking on on water and you're going to be absolutely perfect in every way no that's that's a lie of the devil it's not automatic at all for the fruit of the spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth now we need to get in the spirit don't we need to get in the spirit everyone here needs to be in the spirit and that should be our goal on a day-to-day basis to get in the spirit proving what is acceptable unto the Lord and I'm hoping this sermon will do that as well verse 11 and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness but rather reprove them we're to reprove the works of darkness aren't we okay as Christians we should be reproving the works of darkness verse 12 says for it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done to them in secret it is a shame to have to speak about these things yeah it's embarrassing to have to speak about these topics but verse 13 all things that are approved and made manifest by the light for whatsoever does make manifest is like when it's reproved when it's lit up by a preacher with the word of God it's real isn't it okay it's real it makes it real to those in here and action that needs to be taken doesn't it verse 14 wherefore he saith awake thou that sleepest and arise from the dead and Christ shall give thee light so we should all be waking up and taking this sort of thing seriously shouldn't we because it is a serious business verse 15 see then you walk circumspectly not as fools but as wise redeeming the time because the days are evil wherefore be ye not unwise but understanding what the will of the Lord is so verse 15 there circumspectly means cautiously with watchfulness every way with attention to guard against surprise or danger and we all need to to guard against this okay we all need to be on guard against it not just for ourselves but for our kids as well those of you with kids you need to be on guard you need to be aware of this you need to be looking out for this because the stats are high with youngsters as well okay really high and the effects on them is massive as well um it says here not as fools but as wise don't be a fool about it okay don't be a fool when it comes to this subject when it comes to this topic verse 16 says redeeming the time because the days are even if you redeem the time i'd imagine you're not going to be wasting it in this sort of sin either verse 17 but uh it says wherefore be ye not unwise but understanding what the will of the Lord is so be wise and make sure you understand what God's will is and i'm hoping that that's going to be clear from this sermon because ignorant ignorance isn't an excuse okay ignorance on this subject isn't an excuse God's will is in this book isn't it okay God's will is in this book and look there are plenty men of God preaching God's will okay and there are people preaching even about this sort of subject so ignorance well i wasn't really aware isn't an excuse and hopefully after today it definitely won't be either um okay so like i said nakedness and pornography in its various forms it's not just some laugh you know boys being boys like i said proverbs 14 9 says fools make a mock at sin but among the righteous there is favor okay there's nothing funny about it it's not an amusing thing it's not just oh well that's the way it is all nudie pics or whatever kind of cute little words are after it no fools make a mock at sin okay remember that as we go through this sermon let's start with nakedness turn over to genesis too so some might say well what's the big deal weren't adam and eve naked yeah and i find that people seem a little too fascinated with that part of of genesis um especially the i don't know if anyone's seen any of the kids kind of cartoony books and someone got sent one here by someone some online watcher said he's sending me some literature for the kids it was kind of a kid's genesis type something about kids with dinosaurs on the front cover was kind of cleverly angled top of whatever which which is a dinosaur which kind of got the bit on the neck back of the neck like this anyone say again stegosaurus thank you okay i've got a dinosaur x-ray okay so with the stegosaurus so it's cleverly guarding you know adam sitting on it riding it now i just but why out of all the pictures to be on the front of the book it's weird isn't it people are fascinated with it okay really because because it's wickedness really being fascinated with that sort of thing but anyway yeah as you can imagine the kids didn't get to see that now um god here in genesis chapter two he's just made eve look at verse 24 genesis 2 24 says therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother and shall cleave unto his wife and they shall be one flesh and verse 25 says and they were both naked the man and his wife and were not ashamed now there's a bit of a point made there that they were not ashamed isn't it why because that was something unique that was something unique where there was no sin okay where there was no knowledge of good and evil it was unique there was no issue with nakedness but go forward to genesis chapter 3 and verse 7 they've just eaten of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil look at verse 7 and the eyes of them both were opened and they knew that they were naked and they sowed fig leaves together and made themselves aprons so the first thing they do is try to cover their nakedness okay first thing they do first say and they heard the voice of the lord god walking in the garden in the call of the day and adam adam and his wife hid themselves in the presence of the lord god amongst the trees of the garden and lord god called unto adam and said unto him where art thou and he said i heard thy voice in the garden that i was afraid because i was naked and i hid myself and he said who told you that thou was naked has thou eaten of the tree world i commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat now at face value here adam has lost his innocence he's just lost his innocence and is now ashamed of his nakedness okay just that just kind of first application here adam then if you know the story he blames eve eve blames the devil you know it just goes into the blame game there god reads them the right act and then in verse 21 unto adam also and to his wife did the lord god make coats of skins and clothe them now obviously the spiritual application there is adam and eve are trying to cover their nakedness and you you could say that's their sin they're trying to cover their sin themselves adam hides from god because of his sin and look how often do we see that hey don't we see that don't we see that so often the majority of the times when you're knocking the door a lot of the people are just hiding from god they don't want to hear what god's got to say ultimately because of their sin because of that separation because not wanting to acknowledge their sin adam's hiding from from him there you know it always makes you think of in john chapter three you know men love dark rather than light because their deeds are evil and here he's hiding from the light of god isn't he because of that sin but but god has to shed blood to pay for the sin doesn't he okay and and we see that picture there with with him making the coat of skin but back to the just the face value just the first application god didn't say to them i'll take off those silly fig leaves and enjoy being naked did he didn't say go you know we'll just call it naturist eden and you know now when i kick you out just go and find a nice place to hang around naked no he made them clothing didn't he he made them clothing because with the knowledge of good and evil god wants us to cover our nakedness okay god made them clothing god wants nakedness covered in fact the next time it's seen in the bible it involves noah and the wickedness from his son ham and we're not going to go there but basically his son ends up two of his sons end up walking backwards to not see his nakedness while they're covering him they have to turn to revelation 16 15 says behold i come as a thief blessed is he that watcheth and keepest his garments lest he walk naked and they see his shame and again the primary application people seeing your nakedness is shame it's embarrassment it is embarrassing okay and look away from the confines of a marriage it is an embarrassment and that's pretty obvious isn't it okay it is inbuilt until the conditioning and the brainwashing everything else is hitting you it is inbuilt to be embarrassed of nakedness isn't it okay and as children start getting older and getting that knowledge of good and evil they start to feel that shame about nakedness okay that's just that's standard you know you think about it with you know in many areas of life look you don't want people to see you naked do you okay it's not well it's just because i oh it's i just don't look very good it doesn't matter how you look it's embarrassing okay you don't want to be seen naked wherever great you think you are i have a great your body is or whatever look nakedness is a shame okay that's the truth of it but the world likes to fight against that doesn't it okay the world likes to likes to convince you that you're in the wrong that somehow you're too uptight that you're some sort of you know whatever they call it some fuddy duddy etc and look how many of you anyone who's been to just a health and exercise gym how many of those gyms just have communal changing rooms i mean there are some there is no other option you can't even go in a cubicle you have to get changed in front of other people that's just bizarre isn't it communal showers what's all that about i remember that from young at like sports teams and stuff it's just weird and you feel weird but you've kind of been convinced that well you're uptight it's you that's got the problem no it's weird it's not right just because the world says it's okay it doesn't mean it's okay does it okay because we should feel shame we do feel shame because i don't want to be standing in front of either men or women standing there stark naked because there's no reason for i mean literally you could put up a bit of cheap mdf couldn't you in between and you could get exactly the same amount of people in there couldn't you okay and it's not going to cost much but it is weird it's very weird and you know especially since being saved it started bugging me more and more and more and i remember um i remember when the kids were a swimming club where's that swimming club it was um i don't remember which one it was in leatherhead wasn't it okay and and it used to get packed you can about anyone taking their kids to swimming lessons these sort of classes and that sometimes they're really busy these places and all the change rooms always is full and what people do is they just leave all their stuff in the changing room which is really annoying and then you you kind of go in and you have people banging on the door and stuff because their stuff's in there and it just gets really irritating and they had this kind of this area where they had this because they had sports it's like a big leisure center and other things and then they had these individual cubicles on the outside of this kind of this this bench in the middle with lockers but they had cubicles all around it so the normal thing to do when you go to get changed would be to go into the cubicles wouldn't you think yeah especially when you've got children swimming lessons all over the place yeah okay now i i took my kids to come out i took them into this bit so they got their stuff from the lockers put them into into a cubicle each and you they you can imagine they were mortified because soon after i'm shouting at grown men who are who are just walking around with their kit off yeah and it's like they're a kid and i even said to the guy i said can you put some clothes on we're in a change room i said no look there are children running around what's wrong with you end up in the row with this guy he was he was literally going like this and and they try and pretend that they're just so so just you know just so at ease with it yeah it doesn't even bother him but he's literally taking one bit of clothing out at a time out of his lot of stark naked yeah next bit out of the locker because he couldn't take a few things at once could he yeah and i've been in look look don't think like i hang around these changes but i've been i've been working i've been working in gyms a long time yeah and and i've been going to gyms a long time and it is weird you get people that will put on their shirts and ties and start using the hair dryer while they're still half naked okay they're weirdos and obviously a lot of them are just out and out weirdos yeah okay this guy i end up telling him off then in the middle of telling him off and we got in a bit of a row and he's going are you calling me a pervert i said yeah you're a pervert yeah you're a pervert there are children what is wrong with you some other guy just walks in naked this is honestly yeah this is leather head leisure center this isn't like you're thinking what sort of a hoard are you taking your kids to this is a leisure center with kids everywhere and this is the world that we live in oh but we're uptight aren't we oh no no i'm just so uptight i mean you know what i care about a grown man just walking around start naked like he's got a towel put the towel around you you know but no no because really ultimately he's probably was a stinking pervert wasn't he but the they try and make you he's going well why have you got a problem what's your what do you mean why have i got problems they've got children who are about to walk out of a cubicle and you're standing there completely stark naked and anyway that's just a little side note on that but the world the world sees things differently doesn't it and the world tries to make us feel and act as if we're the ones that are uptight about it but no it's a shame isn't it it's a shame lest he walk naked and they see his shame turn over to exodus 28 because what exactly is nakedness what is nakedness is it the loins the loins being the central region well yes but in exodus 28 the priest garments are described exodus chapter 28 and verse 41 exodus 28 41 and thou shalt put them upon Aaron my brother and his sons with him and shout anoint them and consecrate them and sanctify them and they may minister unto me in the priest's office and thou shalt make them linen breeches to cover their nakedness from the loins even unto the thighs they shall reach and by the way that doesn't mean hot pants to the top of the thighs that's to the thighs in covering the thighs okay otherwise it would have just been for the loins yeah okay that's covering the thighs from the loins to the thighs now turn over to exodus chapter 20 why are the thighs nakedness because they give people impure thoughts basically okay just you know one of one of the reasons and and god obviously knows best here in the same way that the loins go to the top of the hips the top of the hips are basically up here okay and when you start uncovering lower down there that in in my day that was a provocative photograph you know someone was kind of with something really low slung at that that was a bit of nakedness okay that was the sort of thing that you would just see on on a clean cut sort of image okay that was it nowadays it's sadly very very different but the loins the loins and the thighs here he's talking about being nakedness now god actually takes very seriously in the same way as well if you had someone who is lifting up just even a skirt a dress even at half the thigh again that's a provocative photograph okay that was very that was clearly showing some form of nakedness again now it's just water off a duck's back isn't it god does take it very seriously now between chapters 20 and 32 of exodus moses is in mount sinai and god is giving them giving him sorry all these commandments and soon after the 10 commandments he says in excess 20 verse 26 neither shout they'll go up by steps unto mine altar that thy nakedness be not discovered thereon and i had one of these anonymous clowns on my sermons you get these guys sometimes come on youtube and they don't seem to be able to to go by their name and it was the sermon i did pull up your trousers or pull your trousers up like a man yeah and i was talking about the girding up your loins being pulling up your trousers and and this guy was basically trying to argue that this verse proves that they wore skirts because he says neither shall i go up by steps unto mine or because a lot of people they just really really want to believe that men used to wear dresses and skirts again very odd isn't it okay even though the bible talks about breaches and hosin etc and and look we've just read haven't we just a few chapters along him describe exactly what he wants the priest to wear because who goes up to the altar it's the priest it's the priest so in this same conversation in mount sinai because it is the same conversation if you look through those chapters he specifies the priest's clothing which includes linen breeches long shorts or short longs whatever you want to call it covering the loins and the thigh to cover the nakedness yeah so what is this passage saying it's saying that being beneath someone in a pair of shorts is discovering their nakedness and look steps could even be a ladder could it could be angled steps whatever it is i don't want to be beneath any of the men in here okay wearing a pair of long shorts down to the knees i don't want to be underneath them while they're walking up a pair of steps okay that's what it's saying now you could look at two possible reasons for that one is probably an unpleasant angle and secondly it's probably because you're likely to see up the linen shorts one of the two either way that's what god's calling nakedness because he's just made it clear that covering the thighs and it's got nothing to do with men wearing dresses because he's just told them to wear linen breeches okay pretty clear for me this guy took him a little while and then eventually i don't think he wanted to accept it but he was one of those though but anyway um right so like i said thighs are nakedness okay and throughout civilized history civilized nations influenced by the bible people are dressed decently haven't they look at your bulletin if you've got a bulletin in front of you and just while i was thinking about this sermon i was thinking about south end beach 100 years ago okay 100 years ago look at how people are dressing and uh for those of you that aren't here i should have had like a bigger one i could put there we go this is south end beach 100 years ago and if you look at south end beach 100 years ago it looks to me like i can't see any nakedness there can anyone see any nakedness there okay and i made sure here i definitely don't want to be making a bulletin picture with nakedness there but no there wasn't any nakedness what about that compared with now the state of it now hey oh no because that's because yeah everyone's just got got much wiser now haven't they yeah much less uptight about it isn't it much better that when you go down the beach all you can see is people bearing the nakedness is that better oh but at least they can get a a better full body tan well they're still not getting a full body tan so why are the thighs that important are the thighs that important why why are the breasts that important to to be suntanned anyone explain that to me no why why is it that him look we want to yeah getting some sun on you is nice isn't it yeah it's good for you you you don't have to do that by being literally borderline completely naked do you okay and it's not just beaches is it and look how they dress at the beach there you wouldn't even see out on the street now would you okay nowadays what you see when you go out on the street just absolute nakedness everywhere if the thighs are nakedness wow okay it's everywhere and look and and like i said as well like that lower part of the abdomen let alone things that leave nothing to the imagination anyway so even if they're covered there's a difference isn't there between what should be an undergarment and what people are wearing nowadays is an overgarment um look it is it is an absolute state now isn't it what's what's the big difference for me people aren't even trying to attempt to follow the Bible anymore are they okay that's that for me is the difference and there's nothing new under the sun i'm sure in many nations the more ungodly they've got the more this has happened but like i said that was only a hundred years ago and okay at worse it's women especially and we see this with women but it is men as well dressing half naked just trying to get negative really because it is negative type of attention isn't it and at the worst it's they're basically prostituting themselves okay isn't it bad turn in Leviticus chapter 19 proverbs chapter 7 verse 10 talking about the strange woman speaks of a kind of clothing where it says and behold there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot and subtle of heart so the way many women dress today is probably worse than how a harlot dressed a few decades ago isn't it it's worse than how a harlot dress oh we're so liberal and progressive you're so progressively wicked yeah isn't it it's absolutely it is we're progressively wickeder and wickeder and it gets worse and worse yeah people want to act like like people like ourselves have got a problem like we're some sort of weird uptight and oh well let let them you know let them dress how they want no it's wicked i want to see that when i go down the street and and hopefully everyone else feels the same deep down they shouldn't want to see that should they because it's wicked it and we're going to talk about what that does as well now okay even worse though even worse than how you dress is how you dress your children isn't it even worse than that because you've got people dressing their children like literal whores and literal rent boys okay no i mean the men now young men the young boys now what is it like weird deck shoes with no socks and trousers half rolled up around the ankle and tight little t-shirts and half slung track it's just absolutely camp isn't it it's absolutely wicked and the and the girls it i mean i i talked about this i think in a sermon a few months back man it's absolutely terrible isn't it how people dress settled and it's not just like him in my day there were sadly girls that would sneak off to their liberal friend's house and get changed before going out now their parents are walking out with them dressed like that now they're holding their dad's hand and walking out like what is that what absolutely wicked isn't it it is terrible and that's that's what we're dealing with that's what we're dealing with in society and a part of that is the influence of what we're going to see in pornography everywhere and look and so much of it is coming away from the bible isn't it and leviticus chapter 19 when you turn verse 29 says do not prostitute thy daughter to cause her to be a whore lest the land fall to whoredom and the land become full of wickedness because that's what really they're ultimately doing aren't they because first they're learning that dressing like that is get some attention that's what they're doing to validate themselves a lot of the time isn't it because whether they're they've got men craning their neck when they drive past or not with a lot of women is how it validates their own looks isn't it and sadly as we know it's not really about looks a lot of the time it's just about how provocatively you dress as to whether or not they get the old neck neck crankers and everything else as they drive past and the horn beeping and and the rest of that stuff but they get used to that sort of attention they get used to that and then they start to learn how to get more attention and a lot of the time it's a it's a bad slippery slope isn't it and look how we dress our children is important isn't it isn't that important yeah and yeah look if if someone lives in your home if you're a man of a house yeah you pay the bills they live under your house you're the spiritual head of that house it is up to you how they dress isn't it yeah it should be like oh well she's just a bit old to tell no no she's not too old who's the man of the house who makes the rules who's the boss yeah in the same way if you're boss of a company you can have a dress code there can't you the same way at your home you should have a dress code because it's not it's not just when you come to church is it and i hope with people here it's not just when you come to church okay i'm not saying you have to get in your sunday best to walk around the home can if you like but what i am saying is that you should be covering your nakedness shouldn't you okay and you should be dressing modestly women and men as well okay oh well now i'm at home i can walk around in my speedos no okay you should be covering your nakedness okay go back to second samuel 11 because sadly it leads on to so much more sin nakedness doesn't it so second samuel chapter 11 and back to verse one and it came to pass after the year was expired at the time when kings go forth to battle that david sent joab and his servants with him and all israel and they destroyed the children of ammon and besieged but david tarried still at jerusalem and it came to pass in an evening tide that david arose from off his bed and walked upon the roof of the king's house and from the roof he saw a woman washing herself and a woman was very beautiful to look upon there's so much wrong here isn't there in those first two verses but let's just focus on this first part for now if bathsheba is washing herself do you think that she's fully clothed anyone think she was fully clothed there now it's not talking about her hands and face because i don't think that would be washing herself would it if she's washing her hands or she's washing her feet i think it would have said she's washing her feet she's washing her hands she's washing herself why was she washing herself in potential view of anyone why was she why was she in potential view of anyone oh well it was only the king's rooftop well still she's in potential view i'm sure there was a way she could have washed herself without being in view of the king's rooftop now i might be reading into the text here maybe maybe she was you know completely careful about it i don't think so here okay she's washing herself i'm not saying that she was stark naked but i think there was there was more on show than probably should have been now like i said you know he was on the king's rooftop the rooftop seemed to be mentioned a few times in scripture so it's not that it's just it was only his i think look people go up on the rooftop she should have found a private place that wasn't to be viewed by anywhere any rooftop for me to be washing herself isn't that obvious isn't it i have at home we have frosted glass on our on our bathroom window but i tell you what every time anyone gets in the shower at home because that frosty glass isn't quite good enough is it we still pull down the blind now that could get pretty annoying because sometimes you put it up too far and it gets caught on the top and other times you know my wife's recently put a plant there which the leaves seem to come out a bit faster it's a bit annoying you know they're snagging as you but you still do it don't you okay and i hope most people here would still do it because when you're lit up it you know especially in the evening and you got the light on and it's not light outside you can be lit up can't you and look i don't i don't want to be and don't neither does anyone else in my house want to be on view to anyone else okay and you you make you take those precautions don't you okay well i don't think Bathsheba has here what was the result for this married woman well first David was looking upon her wasn't he he was looking upon her and let's move on to you know the second point of this sermon or second subject and that's pornography i keep a finger there and turn over to first peter chapter two what is pornography well dictionary dot com gives this definition sexually explicit videos photographs writings or the like whose purpose is to elicit sexual arousal listen to that again sexually explicit videos photographs writings or the like whose purpose is to elicit sexual arousal or the like so or something similar whose purpose is to elicit sexual arousal so i submit unto you that based on that definition we are all in on data with pornography on a daily basis okay based on that basically something similar whose goal is to elicit sexual arousal just think about some of the billboards you see when you drive down the road think about the adverts being on youtube on your phone if anyone watches anything else when you're watching most things you're going to get adverts that are trying to cause sexual arousal innuendo what about innuendo writings it said here writings what about the amount of innuendo i mean you have like just just what seems to be apparently comical innuendo and it's always sexual innuendo so often it is isn't it like i said youtube look you can i was just an example yeah on our work like the church youtube account so that look in case you're going oh well it's algorithms look i ain't getting nothing's getting scrolled on that the only thing that goes on that is live preaching or any other preaching okay myself and pastor tom's the only ones that access it and you know we we uh we were doing something here weren't we looking through the different um looking through some of our videos or something on it and then it just suggested next you know kind of has like at the end like an end screen on whatever we're on it's got like a sort of all these different things and one of them is just some some women in like basically underwear you know or just like the way it was done it was just why on earth is youtube suggesting that i was showing something i think uh with uh with my daughter on the way here and again just out of nowhere you know i was scrolling for for something i was looking for and it's suddenly just this bizarre video there and youtube does that doesn't it and things will come up and it's like oh well you must have looked at something like that no that's just it's in your face everywhere youtube obviously is social media like i said before that is massive isn't it social media absolutely everywhere and you could have just blocked everyone that you think that sort of thing you're going to get adverts come up suggested videos you get all this stuff it's everywhere isn't it absolutely everywhere again if if it's something whose purpose is to elicit sexual arousal movies you're watching movies look how much of it is for it it goes on that as well doesn't it yeah it's again trying to elicit sexual arousal and it's absolutely everywhere the risk for christians is that we get desensitized to it isn't it okay that's the risk that we get desensitized to it because of the world i saw a few studies talking about the size of this issue in christian churches in the states and that's talking about baptist churches in the u.s how many young christian men have problems with it and why why is that maybe it's not being preached about enough do you think maybe it's not being taken seriously enough maybe they think that a single men and women it isn't a problem because people a lot of people think that don't they well if you're single it's not really a problem is it you see this really if you're single well you know better to watch porn than to burn you know well i don't agree first peter chapter 2 and verse 11 says dearly beloved i beseech you as strangers and pilgrims abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul beseech you pleading look whether it's videos or some absolutely like of sorry some absolutely dirty rotten filthy disease infested harlot or it's just some attention-seeking provocative slut somewhere in the attire of an harlot either way it's a fleshly lust which wars against the soul isn't it either way yeah look it doesn't have to be the most debased thing you could think of it look either way it's warring against the soul do you think that god wants you joined unto an harlot whether you're single or not do you think that does he want you unequally yoked together with unbelievers single men out there single women out there okay like i said that obviously goes for women as well that uh by all accounts are tempted by this as well not in as great numbers but it does happen as well first john 216 says for all that is in the world the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the pride of life is not of the father but is of the world yeah but it stops me fornicating single man single woman does it really though does it really so this is from a christian charity called enough is enough they've got a website got some interesting stuff on there the the findings of a study on teenagers back in 2005 show that that basically watching porn normalizes sexual harm promotes aggression towards women shapes negative attitudes and behaviors towards women affects healthy intimate relationships can lead to addiction there are other studies that show our brains react to pornography the same way an alcoholic might react to seeing a drink advertisement okay it's massively addictive another one says that researchers believe that pornography's intense stimulation of the brain brings about significant changes to the brain similar to drug addiction okay it's massively addictive it's highly addictive does anyone want want to just oh well you're single yeah that's all right what does that mean you're just gonna you know once you find someone that's it done away oh but if you go back to the greek in first corinthian 7 9 instead of saying but if they cannot contain let them marry for it is better to marry than to burn it actually reads but if they cannot contain let them lust over some rotten worldly whore for it is better to become some deranged porn addict yeah than to burn do you think that's what it says but i i i did yeah i did a term of greek once yeah i know what the greek actually said but it's not just the singles out there is it because it's not according to a 2014 pornography survey and in case any of you are single in here thinking that right oh no no honestly i don't look it's not just singles according to a 2014 pornography survey and statistics proven men ministries study this survey says that 55 percent of married men say they watch porn at least once a month compared to 70 percent of not married men okay a little bit less but that's still a lot isn't it the following percentages of men say they view pornography at least several times a week so with the 18 to 30 year old 63 percent the 31 to 49 year olds 38 percent the 50 to 68 year olds 25 percent and with women that was 18 to 30 year 31 sorry 30 year olds 21 percent 31 to 49 year olds five percent 50 to 68 year olds zero percent so once your wife gets over 50 you're in the clear guys you don't have to keep checking your history but but but look many there are look there are some bizarre relationships out in the world and again there can be that in christianity as well but you know some will go oh well it's consensual it's a consensual thing maybe they both think it's okay they're open about it because we have an open relationship we watch it together well a university of oklahoma study of married couples who watch porn revealed married couples who watched porn increased their risk of divorce by nearly 200 more than doubling their chances of heading to divorce court wow 33 of women watch pornographic videos of you explicit photos at least one time per week apparently according to that study so there's some different stats there but anyone thinking yeah it's probably not that bad i hope no one's thinking that turn back to second samuel 11 because whether you're single or married it's sinful and look at its simplest form well it doesn't say thou shalt not watch pornography no but it is covetousness isn't it at its simplest form it's covetousness you're coveting something that's not yours and is unobtainable oh well what about if you're single well i don't think the singles when they're ogling some picture watching some video are actually considering marriage i don't think they're looking at some some slut somewhere some whore somewhere whatever else you want to call them and thinking yeah well that might be you know a future wife for me okay so really you're covering something that's unobtainable because god makes it clear that you shouldn't be young together with unbelievers and i i would i would say that if a christian and look christians can and maybe will sadly do things like that and get involved in that sort of industry and pictures and everything else well if they are yeah you definitely shouldn't be looking at her as wife material okay you're coveting what you can't have but it also leads on to more sin doesn't it so let's look back at second samuel 11 and verse two and it came to pass in an evening tide that david arose from off his bed and walked upon the roof of the king's house and from the roof he saw a woman washing herself and the woman was very beautiful to look upon again i'm convinced of some amount of nakedness david sees he lusts verse three and david sent and inquired after the woman and one said is not this bathsheba the daughter of eliah the wife of uriah the hitite so then when lust has con sorry when lust hath conceived it bringeth full sin doesn't it at verse four and david sent messengers and took her and she came in unto him and he lay with her for she was purified from her uncleanness and she returned unto a house what was the result of this story adultery wasn't it adultery and then murder i mean what a what a wicked story isn't there but look how it all started it all started and look had bashiba been single it still would have been adultery because david was married but look at verse three and david sent and inquired off the woman and one said is not this bashiba the daughter the wife of uriah the hitite so not only was he told that she was married but the husband is on the list of david's 37 mighty men yeah the husband is out on the front lines fighting a war that david should have been fighting i mean how wicked is that just being told that that's who her husband is one of your mighty men one of your loyal soldiers who's out there fighting for you and look once the idea started it was too late for him wasn't it look at verse four and david sent messengers and took her and she came in unto him and he lay with her for she was purified from uncleanness and she returned unto a house notice how david didn't force her didn't say he forced her did it she came in unto him and he lay with her that for me is consensual okay that's consensual and what's all that about so bathsheba and look this these few verses don't paint a very good picture of bashiba do they okay she's out there washing herself in view of at least david who knows who else she gets called called to go along there she could have refused couldn't she and we saw worldly queen vashti don't we and esther refuse to just dance or not maybe not even dance just to show her beauty to be prance paraded in front of people by king ahasuerus isn't it and look here she could have just said no couldn't she she could have said no not interested what would have happened maybe you would have got angry i don't know but but she she consented here didn't she no that is absolutely wicked and if you know the story what happens well your eye gets killed as we've seen just in that chapter there and then result after that the baby that she's impregnated with dies as well and then the repercussions continue don't it with absolem you get um i think even then david's wives are then are then basically you know whatever you want to call it take it taken by other men by absolem really and just the whole thing like what a state of affairs happened after that all because of what how did it all start with the nakedness doesn't it start with the nakedness and it continued with david looking upon her it was a woman washing in view of david and david looking and lusting after her wasn't it but the adultery wasn't committed after was it it wasn't committed after because the first case of adultery well matthew 5 28 says but i sound to you that whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her have committed adultery with her already in his heart and look when you when men or women start lusting after others you're basically entertaining the idea of adultery if someone in the equation is married okay if anyone in that equation is married you you're entertaining the idea of adultery aren't you soon as you start looking then look in your heart you're committing adultery if you're lusting after them and same it goes for men and women there and if you're not it's likely fornication really isn't it okay if you're single and there's no one married involved in it now what about you know well it's another single christian how about that how about if you're lusting after a single christian lady or man if you're a lady well if top of your criteria for marriage is sexual lust then you're in for a rough marriage okay because that's not what you should be looking for is it okay so how do we avoid all of this the nakedness the pornography the repercussions what can we learn from this story well look at uh look at verse one there back to verse one and it came to pass off the year was expired at the time when kings go forth to battle that david sent joab and his servants with him at all israel and they destroyed the children of ammon and besieged rabah but david tarried still at jerusalem so point number one is stay in god's will isn't it stay in god's will david should have been going forth to battle shouldn't he david should have been leading his men to battle that had a previous battle with the amnites a year previously and it was time to fight again i think is what it's saying there at the time when kings go forth to battle it was a year later you see this a few times in scripture it's sort of a year later and then they say it's time for battle if you're hanging around at home instead of fighting for god yeah you're skipping soul winning to lie on your bed yeah i would say that you're probably more likely to fall into this sort of sin how about that if you're if you're swerving church to have a lazy day at home you're skipping you're skipping church you're having a lie-in instead of reading your bible all of those things for me you're not out fighting for god you're not serving god you're more likely to fall into this sort of sin aren't you we should be in the will of god we should be trying our best to be in the will of god in every area of our life we should be in the will of god then we're more likely to resist that sort of sin because look when you're feeling spiritual you're more likely to act spiritual aren't you yeah when you're not at church when you're not reading your bible when you're not out solely when you're not praying to god those are obviously like those four big points aren't they those four key points in a christian's life when you're not doing those things you don't really feel that spiritual even when you miss out one of those things david missed maybe he just missed out that one battle maybe it was a one battle but when you miss out one of those things you're not really feeling like you're in the will of god are you and when you feel out of the will of god you're more likely to be tempted by this sort of sin so make sure obviously clearly and that goes for everything in life doesn't it for any sort of lust of the flesh but here we're talking about this sort of sin this nakedness is this pornography saying the will of god psalm 119 verse 80 you don't have to turn there says let my heart be sound in thy statutes that i be not ashamed so when our heart is is sound in the statutes of god and his statutes include all those things i just talked about then then you know there's less likely that you're going to be in that sort of shame that embarrassment of what is filthy sins aren't they okay look at uh where we are in first samuel sorry second samuel 11 and verse 2 and it came to pass in an evening tide that david arose from off his bed and walked upon the roof of the king's house and from the roof he saw a woman washing herself and a woman was very beautiful to look upon so said like you know kind of number one we're staying god's will number two stay busy stay busy evening tide is evening not night so david is lounging around in bed in the evening okay so it's not night time he obviously is able to see her and yeah maybe she was lit up with with you know lanterns or whatever i don't know but look it is evening time it doesn't say night time okay so he's lounging around in bed in the evening he's at a loose end and he goes on to the roof that's what it's saying here isn't it he's just kind of got really not much to do thinking what shall i do and he goes on to the king's rooftop and that that's a big part of this isn't it because he shouldn't have really just been wandering around on the king's rooftop in the evening he's a king he should be busy she should have been out fighting a war for starters shouldn't he but no he had to climb a staircase at least yeah yeah maybe a ladder okay nowadays the woman washing herself is at the tap of a button isn't she nowadays the woman washing herself and much much much much much much much worse is literally at the tap of a button like how bad is that how how real is that temptation for for men and women of god every single day okay it's not that you've got to well get look you can be busy and still be lured into that temptation can't you i was looking at some stats at men on work many actually at work who had admitted to having looked upon inside the vast majority of men at some point at work okay and with women it was quite high as well so look you can you can look at this and go well you know wicked david etc imagine him now if it had just been at the click of a button he wouldn't have even had to go up onto the rooftop okay and we we have to be aware of that don't we because it is a very real danger it's something we need to be wise about something we need to be wise about with our kids as well as they grow older because oh well no they could oh they've been raised in the church not going to be any issues there no you need to get whatever parental controls you can you look really for me look unless you know you've got some real control you know exactly what they're doing they shouldn't just be just unsupervised on computers should they okay that's nuts for me that's absolutely crazy especially as they get older especially as they know how to search for things and everything else look because foolishness span the heart of a child it's bound the heart of an adult isn't it okay so look we need to be wise about this sort of thing but here he should have been busy shouldn't he he should have been out fighting battles for god instead of loitering at home and eyeing up Bathsheba which is what he's doing and we should all be busy shouldn't we there is plenty to do in life without being a christian now if you want to serve god as well there is plenty to do isn't there okay if you if you haven't got anything to do and you're to the point where now i might as well just browse some someone you know washing themselves or worse and and naked pictures and naked videos and the rest of it look find something to do there's stuff to do for god really you're neglecting things of god because you could be doing things of god couldn't you okay we all have look you want to you want to have some leisure time doing other stuff great but when your leisure time's going into sin find something to do for god because we we should be busy shouldn't we that's why in genesis it said cursed is the ground for thy sake okay it's for our own good that was genesis 317 by the way now look at again in verse two the second half it says and from the roof he saw a woman washing herself and the woman was very beautiful to look upon so stay in god's will stay busy stay covered yes stay covered especially the women but it does apply to both doesn't it okay it's not just the women it does apply to both had had bashiba not been washing herself in view of david i don't think any of this would have happened would it now i'm not saying she's completely to blame but it wouldn't have happened would it because she also committed adultery she committed adultery she was out there washing herself she was basically i think at least some form of nakedness i think that she probably wasn't completely modest appalled at that point and look we should be dressing in modest apparel with shane facing this and sobriety okay we should shouldn't we and that goes for everyone and and it's not just at church that includes at the beach doesn't it oh it doesn't matter when you're at the beach is that true oh it doesn't matter when you're at the swimming pool look look you can still take your kids swimming in modest apparel okay there's some good stuff you get you can get it here by the way as well and there is there are swim skirts oh you look like a weirdo so what you look like you look like someone actually cares look like somebody's not prancing their children around looking looking like something out of one of these sort of videos or movies that we've just been talking about why is it suddenly different when you're at the swimming pool oh oh but when they're doing sports that's okay then is that okay when they're doing sports i actually left the gymnastics class of my daughters by the way not my own i'm not really a gymnast but this is a homeschool gymnastics class because they banned my daughter from doing it in a skort and skort is basically a skirt over shorts yeah because you can imagine with gymnastics it's not really you know you can be in some pretty bizarre positions and stuff so she no can't wear it so what do you mean can't wear it actually pulled pulled me over oh no no she'll have to take that off and she had i think you had leggings underneath yeah no no just the leggings i don't want to just leggings okay so what's wrong with leggings you ask me because leggings are undergarments you're not going to do it in a pair of tights are you because they're completely skin tight because they're not for me that's nakedness as well oh well it's okay because they're covering it look we're not muslims okay it's not oh well you can dress like a man in a pair of trousers and everything oh well as long as we cover our heads oh we're really modest it actually said to me when i got in a row about it they were going to me oh we'll speak to uh whatever her name is because she's a muslim she's dealt with this and this one's a jehovah's witness i don't care what they think about it yeah i just care what the bible what does the bible say the bible doesn't say there's a problem with women having their arms uncovered does it okay we don't have to cover every little inch and have veils over our heads and everything else look they want to do that in their cult they can do that in their comp i just care what the word of god says okay and the word of god says that thighs is nakedness i want my kids to cover their thighs and i also don't i want them to be modestly dressed as well okay and modestly dressed isn't with things skin tight to their figures anyway we ended up leaving because no no it's health and safety health and you can't make this stuff up you've got boys there in in like baggy shorts and and again boys doing gymnastics well that's another sermon for another time yeah but baggy shorts baggy t-shirts oh no that's okay because it might get caught in the equipment at school but anyway so yeah we left there and i did get a refund that was good uh but but yeah look make a stand hey make a stand because no one else is are they and if we just keep just blending in with the world it just gets worse the bar just gets lower and lower and lower and we just keep getting lower and lower and lower don't we okay and we can make a polite stand you don't have to start calling everyone wicked and perverts and everything else but i think that time i did all right with that but look you still make a stand yeah the word of god's clear on that we should be as men and women stank and look as men it's not right well all bets are off and i've talked about this before and i do it again oh well it no no but not when you're on a bicycle though because on a bicycle it's okay to just have every single detail on show to people what because i'm on a bicycle yeah that's all right isn't it to go in skin tight gimp outfit because i'm on a bicycle you're tottering down you see them in the high street something like tottering down in their cleats literally in skin tight lycra that is perverse isn't it that's weird oh i might lose a second off my average time for that course when i'm running red lights and everything else because i've got a you know show everyone on strava or whatever i'm at palm on that i've actually done it even quicker than them because that's what it comes down to isn't it oh well it's none of them none of them are pros and even if they are pros i still think it's wrong because god's clear about that isn't it but look none of them are pros and and yet for them it's so important you gotta have the lycra on no i i did a lot of cycling when i was young yeah i used to cycle all over the place when i was a kid and i never had to wear a pair of lycra pair of lycra i never wore even the cycling shorts you know and if i did i would have put it underneath something because i didn't want to look like a weirdo okay but now oh well it's okay because there's however many million middle-class weirdos running around on 10 grand bikes with like with with 200 pound lycra suits on it's weird yeah it's weird and really for me it's still showing nakedness isn't it but guys as well same you know we're in the sports and all that stuff short shorts short shorts are queer okay and i had this is something i had to deal with this someone who's into tie boxing look i had to kind of come to terms with that short shorts are queer okay wear something else wear something longo or wear something underneath them as well look it's queer and and that's in many sports there is that and and same look look same with the girls as well again when you're doing sport it doesn't mean it's okay to dress like a man does it look the bible's clear not not to wear that that pertaineth unto a man so if you as a woman think that oh well now i'm doing a sport now my kid's doing a sports okay for them to dress like a man well for me god doesn't want you doing that sport if you can't do it without dressing like a man if you can't do it without revealing nakedness men if you can't do it and i don't think there are many sports where men can't do it without dress like a woman i would say probably tossing logs in scotland if they still do that in in kilts don't do it man yeah any other sports like that i think that's about it that's all i've got off the top of my head but look just don't do it okay it's clear you know because look we should be staying covered we don't want to be attracting that sort of attention because it can lead on to more sin now also don't forget that how you behave is affecting other people if you find that something that you're dressing the way you're acting yeah and look a lot of women look a lot of women are in tune with this stuff okay a lot of men are as well okay you know when you're being looked at like that women okay you know don't you okay and look and sadly for a lot of women they spend a life trying to be looked at like that because that again that's they're kind of that that's where they're getting their whatever the word i used for earlier that's just gone off the top of my head but you know second validation thank you someone's listening at least okay but it is that's when they that's when they get their validation a lot of the time they've had that from young and they're you know it's validating their good looks they're feeling like they're you know that men are looking at them that's a good thing so that continues a lot of the time but as christians do we really want that now look this i'm not saying right you have to look as rough as you possibly can okay women if you look if anyone even thinks you look slightly pleasant you're out of god's will i'm not saying that okay and same with men as well i'm not saying you know make sure you've got stains down the front of your top and you don't brush your teeth and make sure that your hair's all over i'm not saying that yeah look we should have some self respect as well but you're not trying to get that sexual lust are you okay you shouldn't be trying to go for that you shouldn't be standing in front of the mirror before you go out obviously especially not going to the house of god but in anywhere you shouldn't be looking at the mirror going right how am i going to get lusted after today okay sadly women do because when you're doing that when you're doing that proverbs 28 10 says who so causeth the righteous to go astray in an evil way he shall fool himself into his own pit but the upright shall have good things in possession okay so if you're causing the righteous to go astray like that and you can do that can't you okay look christian women are going to be around christian men a lot if you're trying to just look at that a little bit sultry a little bit seductive trying to make them look and and men vice versa any of that look that's wicked isn't it okay you'll fool yourself into your own pit yeah and that's something to bear in mind and that's something to bear in mind with with look it's not just obviously the loins other parts of the anatomy as well like think about that think about are you seeing some effect depending on how you wear because people go oh well it's only that so women just walk around you know they can have everything out just for everyone to look at is that okay is that okay look if that's causing an issue and if that's a sexualized part of you then for me like look you don't want to cause the righteous to go astray in an evil way okay something to bear in mind isn't it now look at the end of that that verse again and from the roof he saw a woman washing herself and the woman was very beautiful to look upon right so number one i said stay in god's will number two stay busy number three stay covered and number four stay pure see what i did here with the stay bits yeah i hope no one's missed that either okay stay pure the wicked world says look but don't touch doesn't it but looking leads onto touching doesn't it okay that's the truth and in this country in this day and age it's everywhere you look isn't it absolutely everywhere david should have looked away shouldn't he he shouldn't have looked upon her the second he saw that there was a woman down there washing herself he should have looked the other way now look i'm not saying that every man in here if you can't look the other way that's it you're wicked you you would you would have done exactly the same as david but you know what you're you wouldn't have done what david did had you looked away okay and and look david he looked upon her and then that just conceived lust in there after that keep your eyes pure men keep your eyes pure refuse to look avert your eyes do what you can not just when you got your wives next to you not just when you're in front of people not just when you're you know with church people avert your eyes because the truth is there's going to be men and i hope not here but there's christian men around the world that once they're away from everyone at church they're probably neck craning and everything else maybe worse maybe wolf whistling and beeping and and i'm joking but truthfully there i bet there are and i bet there are safe christians that do that when they think that it's safe when they're with their work buddies when they're with their workmates when they're in the van with the work guys i'm not saying if you work in a van whoever does work in a van you know that that's it just because you're in a van but there is that there is that that cliche with the white van man isn't there it's a bit of a cultural thing there um but look look avert your eyes don't don't look don't look and nowadays that's not just when you're out driving down the road and some woman in the attire of an harlot walks by because now that includes when you're scrolling down on your phone that includes when you're looking at a video that includes when the advert comes on and suddenly it's some tick tock or gyrating or whatever else it look don't look turn away your eyes click click you know click your phone off whatever you need to do look it is important serious though isn't it no no you know i made light of that but really it is serious isn't it okay because it is an issue because look when you start looking at other women and you're looking and you and you're entertaining that idea no i'm not saying that means that's it you're going to actually commit physical adultery you're already committing it in your heart when you're lusting okay for starters but secondly i think you're that much more likely because you're entertaining the idea of other women you're entertaining the idea of lusting after someone else don't do it do your best do whatever you need to do like if you have to come off social media come on is it that important if you just can't you just can't not but stop and pause and look and lust don't do it come off it do what you have to do if you can deal with it you can deal but look you need to be sensible because if you want to ruin your life do you want to start looking at other women then what's next after that then you start inquiring after other women i'm not saying look i'm not saying anyone that's ever looked at this stuff is going to but there is that risk isn't there there is that risk and look and it's not just men here don't entertain the flirting silver-tongued you know adonis women as well don't look the tradesman that comes and he just wants to try and look so so cool and smooth or whatever look whatever it is that that that might tick tick a woman's box just don't even entertain it yeah it's not okay none of it's okay okay it's wicked really isn't it okay don't entertain it shouldn't be looking at someone last after then whatever that is that makes you do that don't have to turn it but matthew 6 22 says the light of the body is the eye if therefore thine eye be single thy whole body shall be full of light but if thine eye be evil thy whole body shall be full of darkness if therefore the light that is in thee be darkness how great is that darkness now i know we're nearly done guys and i've gone over a little bit turn over to psalm 119 where there's a section which just sums it up to me so psalm 119 you're going to go to verse 33 so 119 verse 33 where it reads teach me oh lord the way of thy statutes and i shall keep it until the end give me understanding and i shall keep thy law yea i shall observe it with my whole heart that's staying in god's will isn't it verse 35 make me to go in the path of thy commandments for then therein do i delight that's staying busy for me you're gonna go in the path of his commandments verse 36 incline my heart unto thy testimonies and not to covetousness and one of those testimonies is staying covered not not uncovering your nakedness verse 37 turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity and quicken thou me in thy way that's staying pure isn't it verse 38 establish thy word unto thy servant who is devoted to thy fear turn away my reproach which i fear for thy judgments are good behold i have longed after thy precepts quicken me in thy righteousness we should fear the reproach of god how do you think he feels about these sorts of sins by the way how do you think he feels about one of his children just and think about like the worst sort as well looking at that sort of filth looking at pornography i don't think he's he's just looking down going oh well it's okay well you're not you're not committing the act of adultery you're not committing the act of fornication it's just uncleanness isn't it it's uncleanness it's filth lasciviousness whatever you want to call it it ended there that that passage with quicken me in thy righteousness that's to be refreshed reinvigorated in his righteousness and that in in that context there and that should be our desire shouldn't it and i don't think you're going to feel like that if you're staring at nakedness and the rest of the filth out there are you are you going to feel just quickened in god's righteousness that really what it does is put a block doesn't it puts a block between you and god if that's something and if you're like and again look i'm not trying to scan and see what sort of reactions i get here honestly i'm not yeah because for me i there could be here there could be people that that will have a problem that will possibly have been or are addicted to this there might be people watching online like that further down the line maybe today maybe not they might not but there might be people that some sometime down the line could have been okay and it's a it's a big deal all right it's not a joke it's not a laugh it's not something to just be fobbed off as oh well that's just what the world does it is a big deal okay because it leads on to worse because it's wicked because it's filthy really isn't it and we should just try our best to just avoid it at all costs so tactics for that number one we're staying god's world number two stay busy number three stay covered and number four stay pure and on that let's pray father i thank you for your word i thank you for some of the harder lessons in the bible passages like second samuel chapter 11 there and and just you know the all the truths that we can get from that of which i've only just scratched the surface and the lessons we can learn from it and thank you that um i thank you that you make it clear what you expect from us that that where your standards are that we should have standards too and um have a debase the world continues to become that that you don't change your your word doesn't change how you want us to live doesn't change um please help us to to want to live for you help us to want to serve you help us want to behave how you want us how you want us to and uh just bless everyone in here um help them to to act upon this even if it's just a safeguard for the future and in jesus name we pray all of this amen