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Battle Over Sexuality

Winning Walk with Ed Young

November 1, 2020

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The Winning Walk is the international teaching ministry of Dr. Ed Young.

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Ed Young: Where did man'ssexual revolution begin?
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Let me give a little precursor.
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Time Magazine, in 1964, askedthe question: What does sexual
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guilt mean to you?
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Ask it to a lot of people.
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What is sexual guilt?
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In 1964 the answers came backmany ways, but most of them
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overwhelming said it means whenyou break certain moral laws
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dealing with sex.
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That's sexual guilt, 1964.
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Time Magazine asked the samequestion recently, and it said:
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What does sexual guiltmean to you?
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And the answers came back overand over again saying not
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enough sex.
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Sexual guilt in '64 meant this,sexual guilt today, in the eyes
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of the public, means this.
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What happens, we've becomea totally godless basically
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society in which God has beenkicked to the curb.
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He's no longer convenient, he'sno longer popular, he's no
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longer accepted, he's beenkicked to the curb.
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Some years ago David Frost wasinterviewing Madeline Murray
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O'hair, remember her, theinfamous atheist?
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Madalyn Murray O'Hair, and shewas saying to David Frost, there
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is no God.
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And she was giving her case forbeing no God, and Frost was
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saying, oh, yes,there's a God, oh, yes.
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And finally Frost stopped herand said, "I want to show you
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that most everybodybelieves in God."
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And he asked the audience there:How many of you believe in God?
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And almost every hand went up.
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How many of you believethere's a God?
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All the hands went up.
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Madalyn Murray O'Haircontinued to debate,
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but if she had said this--follow me.
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She didn't say this, if she'dbeen thinking, you know what
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she'd have said?
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Well, let me ask the audienceanother question, do you believe
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that God came in fire on Sinaiand gave ten commandments as to
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how we are to live?
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Do you believe in a God whovisited this earth in human
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flesh and died on a tree, diedon a cross, so his blood would
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save all of us?
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Do you believe in a God who hascalled upon his sons and
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daughters to live a certain kindof lifestyle, which is surrender
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to him?
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Do you believe--if she hadasked that to the audience--
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in the God of the Bible?
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I don't believe many hands wouldhave gone up, you see.
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I don't believe many--If God isout there or up there, somehow,
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God, I'll call on youif I need you.
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Oh, we believe, most of us, insome kind of supernatural power,
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but a God that asks forsurrendering life and more, oh,
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I don't want that kind of God.
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That's not the kindof God I believe in.
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This is the foundation that gaveus room to have a sexual
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revolution in the societyin which we live.
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And what has happened?
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I'll tell you what has happened.
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Do you believe that a dead thingwill make you happy?
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In our sexualized culture, a lotof people believe that a dead
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thing can make you happy.
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Anybody believe that?
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Sure we do.
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Let me show you how this isexpressed in the book
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of Ephesians.
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Ephesians chapter number 2, thefirst verse reads, "You were
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dead in your trespasses andsin," and then in verse 5,
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"Even when we were deadin our trespasses."
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We have the idea that all sortsof immoral activity, doing my
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own thing, making my owndecisions, running my own life,
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deciding what's right and wrong,there are no absolutes,
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expressing myself sexuallyanytime, anywhere, any way with
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anybody, those are things thatwe practice in all kinds of
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disturbed ways, and they aredead things.
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Did you get that?
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Sin is a dead thing, it's not aliving thing, and we have the
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idea that a dead thing,expressing our own life in our
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own terms will make us happy,and it never has and it
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never will.
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This is sort of part of theresults, the bottom line of a
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totally sexualized society movedfrom any kind of moral
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foundation and roots.
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So we see man's sexualrevolution, but I want us to put
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it juxtaposed with God's sexualrevelation.
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What does the Book say aboutthe whole area of sexuality?
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We have the idea, they tell us,well, you're in the church,
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y'all don't like body, y'alldon't like sex, man, y'all are
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just reserved back there,you're a bunch of Puritans.
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How stupid erroneousis that really?
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God gave us our sexuality.
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God provided for intimacy inmarriage that is beautiful.
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Where did marriage come from?
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Genesis.
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God created man and woman in hisown image, right?
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And the beautiful picture thereof a rib out of Adam was formed
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into Eve, they didn't become twoindividual beings very long
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until they became one.
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And then we have marriageperformed by God himself in the
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garden of Eden.
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And what is it?
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What was marriage?
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He said two became one.
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And what followed up with whathappened in marriage?
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They were naked and unashamed.
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Leave, they left everything.
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Marriage is when your mate, theone that you are united with for
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life, is the number-oneconsideration of everything in
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your life.
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You leave every otherrelationship, father, mother,
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even children, brother, sister,friends, you leave everything
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else, leave.
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Exclusivity.
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Man, woman together, leave.
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Then you cleave.
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And the word there is likesuperglue, you cleave, you can't
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let go of, you are one.
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We leave, we cleave, we becomeone flesh, a whole new
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personality, a whole new being.
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And then you're naked, and youhave no shame,
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total vulnerability.
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This is marriage.
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This is marriage.
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And we see it pictured so manytimes in the Scripture, but the
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picture that I just loved sowonderfully is found in
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1 Corinthians chapter number 6.
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Listen, "Do you not knowthat your bodies
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are members of Christ?
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Shall I then take the members ofChrist and make them members of
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a prostitute?
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May it never be!
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Or do you not know that the onewho joins himself to a
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prostitute is one body with her?
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For he says, 'The two shallbecome one flesh.'
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But the one who joins himselfto the Lord is one spirit
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with the Lord."
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Then he says flee, run,immorality.
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"Every other sin that a mancommits is outside of the
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body--" follow me--"but theimmoral man or woman sins
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against their own body."
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Here's the verse, 19, 1Corinthians 6, "Or do you not
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know that your body is a templeof the Holy Spirit who is in
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you, whom you have from God, andthat you are not your own?
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For you have been bought with aprice: therefore glorify God in
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your body."
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We said that life is sacred,sex is holy.
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Wives, when you got married, youknow longer own your body.
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Men, when you got married, youno longer own your body.
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Your body is owned by your mate.
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If a lot of marriages wouldreally practice this, taught
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right here in this same chapter,man, marriages would take on new
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dimensions right now.
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Right now.
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And then we see, well,what is permission?
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Why do we have sexuality?
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What is sex?
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The Bible says in marriagethere's celebration, there's
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joy, that's a beautiful,beautiful, intimate relationship
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we described it.
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But the Bible also says anysex--listen--any sexual
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expression, immoral expression,outside of marriage, a man and a
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woman, is porneia.
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Porneia.
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And porneia is under thejudgment of God, and porneia in
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any kind of dimension will sapthe joy and the strength and the
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life of anybody who livesa life of porneia.
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That is, fornication, sexoutside of marriage, adultery,
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sex other than withyour marriage partner.
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That same-sex attraction andrelationship that follows up
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that attraction, LBGTQ,et cetera.
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And anything with sex outside ofmarriage is porneia and is under
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the judgment of God.
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You say, boy, I don't like that.
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You got a problem with theBible, you don't have a problem
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with me.
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You've got a problemwith the Bible.
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And so we see, under all ofthis, we have been bought with
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a price.
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You know what the wordporneia means?
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It means to be sold out.
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We give ourselves to porneia, weare sold out to porneia, we sold
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out to the flesh, and then bythe same token, the Bible
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teaches that Christhas bought us back.
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We were sold, he's bought usback, and he has restored us.
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And therefore sex is holy,it is separate,
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exclusively in marriage.
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Now, where doesthe church fit in?
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How do we live, perform, respondto all the challenges we have,
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particularly the areaof sexuality?
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How does the church come in, howdo we get in the middle of this?
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Well, first of all, peopleoutside the church, they're not
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interested whether or not whatwe teach is truth, they really
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are not, most of them.
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Whether the Bible is true, Jesuscame back from the dead, was
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raised by the Father, that's notwhat people outside the church
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are interested in.
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You know what they say?
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Why are you so bigoted?
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That's what they say.
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Why are you and the church sonarrow, so bigoted?
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That's what they say.
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We have to understand--and manyof us yet do not get this who
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are in the church and know theLord Jesus Christ--that that
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can never be a part of who weare, because bigotry, it can
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never be a part ofthe body of Christ.
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Now, with our clear Biblicalstand on sexuality and many
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other things, they say, well,you're legalistic up there.
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We're not legalistic.
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Legalism was Judaism.
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They had 200 and something lawswritten in the Old Testament,
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some 300-plus interpretations ofthose laws, and they were
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burdened down.
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And we're gettingsome of this now.
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There is this vocabularyproblem.
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If somebody says something and,boy, you said this, you used the
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wrong word there, my goodness,you are so bigoted.
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I've told you this before.
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I had a funeral here some yearsago when our female professional
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basketball team had won thenational championship and the
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point guard on there whom Iknew, wonderful little lady,
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sweet little Christian,had cancer and died,
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and I had thefuneral right here.
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People were everywhere.
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And in the funeral I said, youknow, she was a great
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little gal.
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Great little gal.
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Well, I went back to my office,my phones were on fire.
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You called her a gal!
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I said, look, I callmy wife a gal.
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Do you not know the song,as for me and my gal?
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Where have you been?
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I'm not gonna let you take galout of my vocabulary.
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I meant that withthe highest esteem.
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You see, you got thisvocabulary monsters.
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You see it in the marketplace,you say the wrong thing, the
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wrong time, my goodness, man,you'll be called to the office.
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So the bottom line iswe are not legalistic.
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Legalism is keeping allthose rules and laws.
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What did Jesus sayin Matthew 11?
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I'll paraphrase it.
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I'll paraphrase.
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He said, "Come follow me."
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He said, "Take me in yourself,hang out with me,"
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in other words.
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And he said you'll find freedomand joy and meaning and value
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and fun and significance.
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You won't be burdened down withall these little don't do this,
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don't say that, don't go therethat Judaism did.
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He said, "I'm not a legalist."
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Christianity can never bedefined by what you don't do and
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what you do.
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Well, I don't do this,and I do that there,
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never is defined like that.
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It's that relationshipwith Christ.
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Therefore, we are not legalists,we do not fall under that area.
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Also say, well, you'rehypocritical.
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You know, you say one thing andyou live another way, and I know
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there's someone who is a quoteChristian end quote Christian
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and their language and what theydo and how they act and what
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they've done.
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You're just a bunchof hypocrites.
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Let me tell you something.
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In a degree, none of us live upto all that we profess and
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believe, but we're in the pathof seeking to live up to it, are
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we not, if we're in Christ?
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It's like judging the ImpossibleDream.
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You know the song?
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Now if I would sing that,you might say, you know,
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I don't like that song.
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Man, that song.
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But bring our guy Jeff out, lethim sing, oh, I love that song!
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What was the problem?
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With the song?
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Not with the singer.
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In hypocrisy, what istheir problem?
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It is with you and me, it's notthat which we're going to be and
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that which we ought to be,but thank God we're not what
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we used to be.
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It's not--
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We are hypocrites in a sense butunderstand that we're on a path
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of sanctification, so thatcharge against us just will
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not stand.
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And then what's the other word,judgmental.
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Well, that church,they're so judgmental,
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they're gonna judge meand judge me about that.
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[laughs]
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The Bible says youshall not judge.
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I shall not judge.
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Now, understand, God has alreadyjudged some things, so we don't
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have to do a lot of judgment,do we?
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God said thou shaltnot commit adultery.
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That's already beensettled, right?
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God has pronounced judgment onso many of these moral things.
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What God has judged,it is there.
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But we're not to judge,we're not qualified.
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Only God can do that.
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God has already judged somethings, we read it in the Book,
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that which he has judged,but we're not in the
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judgmental business.
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That's not who we are as membersof the family of God, to point
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those fingers out there.
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And finally, the thing thoseoutside the church say most
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about us, you up there,you are so intolerant.
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Oh, from those who are18 to 35, that is the thing,
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the charge we hear, youare intolerant up there.
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Let me say something.
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We accept, in the body ofChrist, anybody and everybody
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from every kind of background,every kind of sexual decision,
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every kind of race, creed,culture, we accept anybody
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and everybody.
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We accept all.
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That's who the church is.
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There's no entity, any personalive that we do not accept in
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the church, nobody.
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Let me give you a descriptionhere, and I love this, right
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back there in Corinthians.
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And Paul is talking about, hesays, those who do not inherit
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the kingdom of God.
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Now, imagine a churchmade up of people like this.
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Would we acceptall those people here?
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Listen at it.
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He said: Do not be deceived,neither fornicators, sex outside
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of marriage, nor effeminate,goes up talks about an
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idolatrous, or homosexuals,sex with the same gender,
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nor thieves, nor covetous,nor drunkards, nor revelers,
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nor swindlers, will inheritthe kingdom of God.
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Now, look at this list.
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How'd you like to have a churchfull of, look at the list,
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fornicators, idolaters,adulterers, lesbians,
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homosexuals, thieves, covetous,drunkards, party
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revelers, swindlers.
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They'll not inherit.
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How'd you like having churchcome?
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Would we welcome all thosepeople there and say we
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accept you?
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We accept you, and we will seekto love you, care for you, and
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listen to you, and counsel you,and befriend you
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any way we could?
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Would We accepta group like that?
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Let's get honest, folks.
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That was the makeup ofthe church at Corinth.
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Oh my goodness!
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Paul says you will not inheritthe kingdom, but he says but
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such were some of you in thechurch here now, but you were
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washed, you were sanctified, butyou were justified in the name
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of the Lord Jesus Christ and inthe spirit of our God.
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We could make a list just likethat if we looked at all of us
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here, couldn't we?
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You think we couldn't find allof that right here in
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church today?
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I guarantee we could.
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I'd be on that list, you'd beon that list, different ways,
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different sins, yeah, yeah,that could describe us.
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But thanks to God that'swho you used to be
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and that's not who you are.
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Therefore we arethe accepting business.
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But because we accept allpeople, it does not mean we
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applaud or we approveof all people.
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Acceptance, thosein some areas of sin,
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thinks it means approval.
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And that's what aboutthree-fourths of the churches in
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this city and in America havedone, they have approved tryin'
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to be culturally accepted, andwe stand on biblical principles
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and say simply we will seek tolove and care and listen and
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help you anyway we can, butacceptance is not synonymous
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with approval.
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You see, that's the Christianethic in which we must be
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a part of.
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The biblical view, the church'sview, as how we handle the
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sexual revolutionwhich we're in.
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And the bottom line, we'd betterstand up and speak the truth
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in love.
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Because we are in a battle forthe very heart and soul and the
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moral fiber of our nation,and right now we're losing
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the battle in sex.
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[applauding]
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Man by the name of BrianCampbell, along with three other
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friends in Ohio, Brian wasdecided to go on a camping trip
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with three of his buddies.
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And they went to the Red GulchRiver Canyon, beautiful place in
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Kentucky, they went there tocamp out, four guys from Ohio.
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And as they camped out, if youread about it, Brian Campbell
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pitched the hammock between twotrees and got in it, went to
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sleep before his buddies, it wasright on the precipice there,
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droppin' down into the canyon.
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And his buddies saw him get upout of the hammock, began to
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walk around, they realized, youknow, Brian is sleepwalking.
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And so he's walking around,sleepwalking, and he gets to the
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edge and nobody says anything tohim, and he falls over down in
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the gulch.
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Man, they run over there andlook down and they see that,
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fortunately, he landed in a treethat saved him.
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And they call 9-1-1, and rescuepeople came and took about an
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hour to get there, and they wentdown there, rappelled down
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another 30 minutes or so, andthey took a basket down, and
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they put him in it.
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He was still alive miraculously.
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Put him in the basket, they werelifting up, about halfway up he
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was knocked out, he awoke, hewoke up and he looked around and
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saw what had happened, and hewas just astounded.
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And they brought him back up andthey saved him.
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And they asked his friends, theysaid, look, you saw him, he was
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sleepwalking, he didn't knowwhat he was doing, didn't you
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see he was on the edge?
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He could fall off.
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Why didn't you warn him?
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And they said wedidn't want to scare him.
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We didn't want to scare him.
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Listen.Listen, folks.
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There's a lot of peoplesleepwalking, family, friends,
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children, son, daughter,neighbor, co-workers, people
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we've known, they're justsleepwalking through all of this
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saying we hope by some magicalway all the moral challenge
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would be just dissipate.
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Listen, we have a call unto Godto sound a warning and speak the
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truth in love, because they willsooner or later fall off the
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cliff and be obliviated.
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male announcer: For a limitedtime Dr. Ed Young would like to
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send you a copy of his sermonseries, "Culture Clash."
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Ed Young: Ladies andgentlemen, we are in a war.
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male announcer: There's a battlegoing on for the moral fabric of
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our culture.
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The church, marriage, truth, andlife itself are all under attack
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by those who wish to remove Godfrom our world.
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Ed Young: They're seekingto redefine everything
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in our culture.
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male announcer: So how do westand strong in our faith and
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help turn the tide when ourculture seems lost?
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In his series, "Culture Clash,"Dr. Ed Young gives us the
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answers from God's Word to themoral crisis we face today.
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These uncompromising messageswill challenge you to stand up
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and help win ourculture back to God.
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To get the series, "CultureClash," call the number on your
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It's our gift to you for yourfinancial support of
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♪♪♪
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♪♪♪
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Ed Young: The sexualrevolution has literally
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transformed our society,redefining marriage, family,
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and even our understandingof gender and identity.
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The issues we face today arewatershed issues, leaving us in
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a moral wasteland.
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The question: What are we to do?
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First recognize how important itis for everyone who knows the
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truth to speak in love to thosewho need clear biblical answers.
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We also need the courage tomaintain an authentic witness
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before a world that desperatelyneeds to hear the Good News.
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And if we need to understandthat it will cost us something
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to stand up and speak a clearword for Jesus, for sexual
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purity, for morality.
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Let me personally thank you forstudying the Bible with
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us today.
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And I also want to expressappreciation for this weekly
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television programyou make possible.
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It is with that partnership wecontinue to broadcast the truth
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of God's Word to a listening,watching world.
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Be sure to join me againnext week right here
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on "The Winning Walk."
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