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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Welcome to the Winning Walk with Doctor ed Young.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Before we get.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
To today's message, we want to tell you about an
insightful sermons series from doctor Young called The Church Awake.
Our world is teetering on the edge of disorder and disaster,
and this series sounds an inspiring call for the church
to awaken and engage your culture with clarity and conviction
on important issues, standing confidently on truth than bending to
(00:26):
the pressures of the world. This series is our thanks
for your gift to help keep the proven truth of
God's Word reaching you and others around the world through
this program. So be sure to request your copy of
The Church Awake when you give just call one eight
hundred three five oh Walk one eight hundred three five
oh nine two five five. Now let's get started with
(00:49):
today's teaching from Doctor Young.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Friends was a television sitcom that ran for some ten years.
I never saw an episode, but I did see the
last one. Over eight million people watched the last episode
(01:13):
of Friends. Those who critique this sitcom said, when I asked,
what is it about, and their answer was nothing?
Speaker 2 (01:30):
But that's really not true.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Of the six primary characters, studies have revealed over ten
years they had more than eighty five different sexual partners. Now,
(01:54):
don't say that I'm so pious that I stood against
friends of all things, But what was the underlying motive?
What was really going on? Friends, like so many things,
even eighteen years ago, was trying to normalize all kind
(02:19):
of sexual activity. The writers it was humorous, it was cute,
it was relevant, and you got to walk through the
lives of these different personalities and all kind of high pressure, brokenness, humorous,
multifaceted sexual encounters, and the purpose was accomplished. It was
(02:45):
to normalize any kind of sexual activity. Now that's been
eighteen years ago. Look how far we have the rest
since we laughed and joked and used sex as a
(03:07):
humors thing, and now all of a sudden it has
become the normal kind of life that evidently people in
the modern world live. Friends was a story in which
there were no sexual boundaries, no boundaries. What happens when
(03:35):
there are no boundaries? What if in a major city
there were no traffic lights, no stop signs, no directional signals,
there was no way to guide us with no boundaries,
What do you think traveling in that city would be like?
(03:55):
Go back to the very beginning, God you did boundaries.
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth,
a difference, a boundary. There was darkness. God brought in light,
a boundary between darkness and light. And then we know
(04:18):
that God begin to create living beings. And when God
created man and woman, have you performed that first marriage
in the garden? You know the form that leave, cleave
one flesh, no shame, and the leaving of a man
(04:39):
and his wife in a covenant relationship, distance from father
and mother and all other things.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
There's a boundary there.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
The highest priority is to your mate, your wife, your hug.
There's a boundary created, and that boundary is destroyed between
good and evil. There is an absolute boundary, by the way,
if you want to find the first woke question asked,
(05:13):
It was the first question ever asking the Bible.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Man.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
What a beautiful situation? Adam and Eve married, fabulous splendor
and celebration. You know what Thomas Aquinas said about sex
between Adam and Eve. Thomas Aquinas said that was the
most beautiful, dynamic, fulfilling, a live, creative sexual act of
(05:38):
any two individuals ever in history. Why they were both
absolutely pure. It' a total giving, a total receiving. And
therefore we see boundaries are put up between a husband
and a wife, between parents and all other people, but
the boundaries come down in the intimacy of marriage. Then
(06:03):
we see Satan appears in the third chapter of Genesis,
and he asks that woke question, that crazy question. He
says to Eve, Indeed, indeed you could see almost a sneer. Indeed,
you can eat of any tree of the garden. Other words,
(06:25):
he was at, are any boundaries?
Speaker 2 (06:28):
You mean? You and Adam can.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Supervise, be stewards all of creation? And Almighty God is
putting down no boundaries. You could eat of any tree.
You won't do it, He said, no, No, there's one.
We got one boundary. Then we know the deceptive conversation
of the devil, as.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
He fooled Eve, as he food Adam, just the way
he fools us.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
If you eat of this tree and go across that boundary,
you'll be like God. You not only know all that
is good, but you will be introduced to evil, and you.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Will not surely die. Run your own life.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
It's okay, do what you want to do, have no boundaries.
If it feels good, if it seems good, And we
hear all the time the wild this myth that anybody
can listen to.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Oh, just follow your heart, you'll be all right. Yeah,
just follow your passions. There's no problem that don't have
any boundaries boundaries. But what happened when Adam and Eve
hate that fruit that appealed to the eye.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
It was delicious and it was everything you would want.
And Eve said, man, I've never had any fruit like this, Adam,
you tried. Adam said, is absolutely delicious. But what happened
immediately the same thing that happens to you and to
me when we cross God's boundaries. They're naked, never noticed.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
A chain. I have to be covered. I have to
go and hide, Eves.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
I have crossed a boundary that God had given to us.
And therefore what else happened? Now there was a wall
between Adam and Eve, humanity and God. We cross his boundaries,
we lose that beautiful opportunity we have as Adam and
(08:52):
Eve had to walk in the cool of the evening
with Almighty God.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
What a privilege that is crossing a boundary.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Now, let's just take an examination, and let's just look
for a moment as what it is like in marriage
in intimacy to live within.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
The boundary of God.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
What is it like in marriage to live within the
boundary of God? And then we're going to see what
it's like in marriage to live outside the boundary of God.
And then we're going to take a panoramic view of
sexuality as it is being expressed in the United States today.
(09:47):
And let me tell you what's going on. This is
a little subset here. We read over in Peter. First, Peter,
a frightening verse, be of sober spirit, be.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
On the alert.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
In other words, Peter say, hey, wake up, Sound'm familiar.
Not walk, but wake up your adversary. The devil prowls
around like a roaring line, seeking someone to devour. That's
one side of the picture. Look at the other side
of the picture. Turn if you would, to first Chronicles.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Sixteen nine.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
For the eyes of the Lord moved to and fro
throughout the earth, that he may strongly support, He may
applaud those whose heart is completely hit. So you've got
God and you got the devil, and you got the
devil looking.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
All over the earth.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
To find somebody they can devour. Know anybody's been devoured.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
By the devil? Has the devil chewed on you and
chewed on me.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Oh. Absolutely, Satan is looking for someone to devour.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
At the same.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
Time, God is looking for someone to bless, for someone
he can applaud, ladies and gentlemen. When you and I
learn to live a life and we're interested only in
the applause of God, you're on your way.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
You're on your way.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
So we have these two forces, almighty God and the
devil searching out. And what's the devil looking for? He's
looking for someone who's living outside the boundaries of biblical
truth of God. What is Satan looking for? Someone living
(11:58):
outside those parameters?
Speaker 2 (12:00):
What is God looking for? Looking for people.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
Who lives inside those parameters, so he can bless, so
he can applaud, so he can use. So we begin
with marriage, the basic institution, the family, the institution Satan
and the woke culture is most dedicated to destroying his
(12:24):
marriage and the family.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Marriage and the family the first target. But I've got
good news.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Those marriages who are living inside biblical truth.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Are growing.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
More people got married last year. Ever in the history
of our land, the rate of divorce is declining rather rapidly.
First time in generations. You see, men and women are scovered.
They're finding out, particularly in this last generation, that living
(13:09):
together in purity and harmony, and living.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
Together in love and having children.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
They discovered that in this relationship that sexuality and intimacy
and joy and fullness really genuinely works.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
And changes everything about their life.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
This is a wonderful trend in marriage today. You see
marriage lived according to God's principles inside his parameters.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Let me tell you what happens. In Ephesians five.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
God tells us how married sores and sains and grows,
becomes more excited, more creative, and he just gives us that.
I'm going to summarize the two words he tells the wives,
you cheer for your husband. Tells a man you do
one simple thing. You encourage you cherish your wife. Women
(14:12):
cheer men cherish you got that. Hey, look, if you'll
just cherish your wife, wives, you're just cheer for your husband,
it'll change everything. And finally it becomes a natural thing
that you do.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
We men, we are so shallow.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
And we're so timidd and our egos are so big. Boy,
we need a lot of cheering wives. Your call according
to God Ephesian five, I'm summarizing you're to be cheerleaders
for your husband. Husband, you are to cherish your wives.
They need to be secure, They need to be at home.
(14:49):
They need to feel needed and wanted and special and
know that you'll be there no matter what. Wives that
cheer and husbands a cherish boy those relationships. I guarantee you.
I'm five baby captain marriage. I wouldn't marry fifty eight years.
(15:11):
My wife graduated to be the lord two years I
was single. I'll be married three years in this Christmas.
Let me tell you something I can stand in and
tell you it absolutely works.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Cheering and cherishing, cherising and cheers. That's all we have
to do, guys. That's all we have to do, ladies.
Or you can just stay.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
The way you are, always that choice. Let me tell
you what happens when this takes place. There's a beauty
in your intimacy, in your intimacy, in the intimate part
of your relationship that you cannot even imagine. What is
(15:54):
the purpose of sex, creation, pleasure? And it is a
symbol of Phesian says the husband loved his wife as
Christ loved his church. It is a symbol that relationship
that a Christian had with God to the love of
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Jesus Christ.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
For you and me. When we let him run our life,
we don't run our own lives. Very simple. There was
a book I heard about. It is entitled Christianity and Sex,
and you open it. There was nothing on the pages.
It was meant as a joke.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
But if somewhat said, the joke is on the jokester,
because in Christianity, sex is central and vital to the
marriage relationship. Central and vital to the marriage relationship. Why
(16:56):
is the church so obsessed with sex? Says all of
those and all the sexual relationships we see around us.
Why is a church so obsessed with sex? I'm gonna
tell you why.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
It's because God is holy. It's because sex is holy.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
That's why the church is obsessed with sex, because sex
itself is holy. Do you realize then, when a husband
wife comes together and you enter into the secret garden
and intimacy of a personality, one flesh to become one
(17:32):
in that mystical union. God in expressing love in marriage,
combines two things power.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
And pleasure. Pleasure in procreation and power in creation.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
Because when two come together and there is a new birth,
there is created.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
Think about it, clearly, plainly there.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
Is created a life made in the image of God
that will last far ever, nobody will ever be a
part of a bitterer miracle than that.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
As long as we live sex as holy, sex is sacred.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
So we live our marriage out of the boundaries that
God has given us. Biblically, as to how marriage functions,
does it sound like a bad thing to anybody?
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Oh, man, that's there. I've got a cherish, I've got
a cheer Oh that's the way God has signed it.
That's the which to operate.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
Now, let's look at a marriage that is living outside
of God's boundaries.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
Two people that do not know God and.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
Have not received Jesus Christ, and are getting married without
having the same playbook the Bible, without operating on the
same principles.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
I don't see how that marriage lasts for thirty seconds.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
It really doesn't because of infidelity, because of neglect, because
of so many infinite number of reasons. Because I don't
see how they can work, certainly not as God designed them.
With cheering, you cherity, because you operate on different principles.
You seek life. You're saying, well, I'll say love as
(19:26):
long as I get what I want from my wife,
or I get what I want from my husband. We
think love is just a noun and it's something you do.
It's an action till death do you part man, and
it grows in intensity, enjoy, and confidentiality. It just continues
to explode before us, marriage, even a heterosexual marriage, is
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not functioning properly outside the boundaries that God has given
us clearly in biblical ti truth homosexual marriage. First of all,
I think that's a misnomer. I don't think there's such
a thing as a homosexual marriage. God defined marriage man
a woman, a man a woman. He didn't stutter, he
(20:17):
didn't back up. He just said that is the definition
of marriage, and any other relationship there, even though it's
been legitimized by the law of the land, is not
really marriage itself. It cannot function because once sane sex
marriage came into law, why not have two wives three husbands?
(20:40):
You know, you see the purpose of all of our
WoT philosophy is to do away with marriage and to
flatten it out where all kind of sexual promiscuity is
open and legal. And don't bother me, it's what God
has made me like to even blame.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
God for all the evil.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
Disparacy is under there. Now, let's look at the general
sweep of sexuality in America today. Do you remember about
a month ago I told you that we looked up
on the internet and discovered there were sixty eight different
(21:19):
expressions of gender and sexuality. Remember that that was on Monday,
and I looked it up again on Thursday and it
became seventy two. Now that's been a month ago, But
I looked it up this past week, this past Thursday,
and there have been four more editions. Now, folks, this
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is a tragic idea. It is a tragic situation in
our culture today, and it breaks my heart.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
And I'm not standing here.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
To be superpissed, but we need to understand that every
single person in this room who are alive in the
twenty first century, we have all been food and lied
to in different ways in the sexual area. We all
stand up and say guilty as charged. Don't move away
(22:17):
from that. So therefore we see these who have been abused,
and these who are confused, and these who who think
somehow their body doesn't measure up to their mind, and
all this dysphoria that we see all around us.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Let me tell you it absolutely breaks my heart.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
One Corinthians four fourteen and fifty. I do not write
these things to shame you, but to admodish you as
my beloved children. For if you were to have countless
tutors in Christ, yet you would not have many fathers.
But in Christ, Jesus I became your father. Through the Gospel.
(23:09):
Paul had earned the right to be the authority in
the Corinthian Church because he had brought them to faith
in Christ and founded the church.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
On this good news.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
We know. The Gospel is the good news of Jesus Christ.
His virgin birth has send this light, his death on
the cross, his resurrection, his ascension to heaven. He has
within it the balance of grace and truth. Without that balance,
the Gospel becomes invalid. Grace alone leads a license, the
attitude that we can do anything we want because we
(23:42):
are under grace and God will forgive us. Truth alone
is not the gospel either, because that leads to legalism.
So the Gospel must have the balance.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
Of grace and truth.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
We too must possess that same balance, because like Paul,
we are commissioned to share.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
They're the good news the Gospel. Wherever we go.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
We hope today's message has encouraged you to build your
life on the proven truth of God's Word, and we'd
love to encourage you even more by sending you Doctor
Young's eight message series, The Church Awake. This powerful series
will help you understand cultural trends and the threat they
represent to marriage, to family, and to a biblical worldview,
and equip you to courageously take your stand against the
(24:28):
forces that seek to silence you and compromise your witness.
So call now to request The Church Awake is our
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Speaker 2 (24:45):
Two five five.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Thanks for being with us today on the Winning Walk
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from God's Word.
Welcome to the Winning Walk with Doctor ed Young.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Before we get.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
To today's message, we want to tell you about an
insightful sermons series from doctor Young called The Church Awake.
Our world is teetering on the edge of disorder and disaster,
and this series sounds an inspiring call for the church
to awaken and engage your culture with clarity and conviction
on important issues, standing confidently on truth than bending to
(00:26):
the pressures of the world. This series is our thanks
for your gift to help keep the proven truth of
God's Word reaching you and others around the world through
this program. So be sure to request your copy of
The Church Awake when you give just call one eight
hundred three five oh Walk one eight hundred three five
oh nine two five five. Now let's get started with
(00:49):
today's teaching from Doctor Young.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Friends was a television sitcom that ran for some ten years.
I never saw an episode, but I did see the
last one. Over eight million people watched the last episode
(01:13):
of Friends. Those who critique this sitcom said, when I asked,
what is it about, and their answer was nothing?
Speaker 2 (01:30):
But that's really not true.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Of the six primary characters, studies have revealed over ten
years they had more than eighty five different sexual partners. Now,
(01:54):
don't say that I'm so pious that I stood against
friends of all things, But what was the underlying motive?
What was really going on? Friends, like so many things,
even eighteen years ago, was trying to normalize all kind
(02:19):
of sexual activity. The writers it was humorous, it was cute,
it was relevant, and you got to walk through the
lives of these different personalities and all kind of high pressure, brokenness, humorous,
multifaceted sexual encounters, and the purpose was accomplished. It was
(02:45):
to normalize any kind of sexual activity. Now that's been
eighteen years ago. Look how far we have the rest
since we laughed and joked and used sex as a
(03:07):
humors thing, and now all of a sudden it has
become the normal kind of life that evidently people in
the modern world live. Friends was a story in which
there were no sexual boundaries, no boundaries. What happens when
(03:35):
there are no boundaries? What if in a major city
there were no traffic lights, no stop signs, no directional signals,
there was no way to guide us with no boundaries,
What do you think traveling in that city would be like?
(03:55):
Go back to the very beginning, God you did boundaries.
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth,
a difference, a boundary. There was darkness. God brought in light,
a boundary between darkness and light. And then we know
(04:18):
that God begin to create living beings. And when God
created man and woman, have you performed that first marriage
in the garden? You know the form that leave, cleave
one flesh, no shame, and the leaving of a man
(04:39):
and his wife in a covenant relationship, distance from father
and mother and all other things.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
There's a boundary there.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
The highest priority is to your mate, your wife, your hug.
There's a boundary created, and that boundary is destroyed between
good and evil. There is an absolute boundary, by the way,
if you want to find the first woke question asked,
(05:13):
It was the first question ever asking the Bible.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Man.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
What a beautiful situation? Adam and Eve married, fabulous splendor
and celebration. You know what Thomas Aquinas said about sex
between Adam and Eve. Thomas Aquinas said that was the
most beautiful, dynamic, fulfilling, a live, creative sexual act of
(05:38):
any two individuals ever in history. Why they were both
absolutely pure. It' a total giving, a total receiving. And
therefore we see boundaries are put up between a husband
and a wife, between parents and all other people, but
the boundaries come down in the intimacy of marriage. Then
(06:03):
we see Satan appears in the third chapter of Genesis,
and he asks that woke question, that crazy question. He
says to Eve, Indeed, indeed you could see almost a sneer. Indeed,
you can eat of any tree of the garden. Other words,
(06:25):
he was at, are any boundaries?
Speaker 2 (06:28):
You mean? You and Adam can.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Supervise, be stewards all of creation? And Almighty God is
putting down no boundaries. You could eat of any tree.
You won't do it, He said, no, No, there's one.
We got one boundary. Then we know the deceptive conversation
of the devil, as.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
He fooled Eve, as he food Adam, just the way
he fools us.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
If you eat of this tree and go across that boundary,
you'll be like God. You not only know all that
is good, but you will be introduced to evil, and you.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Will not surely die. Run your own life.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
It's okay, do what you want to do, have no boundaries.
If it feels good, if it seems good, And we
hear all the time the wild this myth that anybody
can listen to.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Oh, just follow your heart, you'll be all right. Yeah,
just follow your passions. There's no problem that don't have
any boundaries boundaries. But what happened when Adam and Eve
hate that fruit that appealed to the eye.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
It was delicious and it was everything you would want.
And Eve said, man, I've never had any fruit like this, Adam,
you tried. Adam said, is absolutely delicious. But what happened
immediately the same thing that happens to you and to
me when we cross God's boundaries. They're naked, never noticed.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
A chain. I have to be covered. I have to
go and hide, Eves.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
I have crossed a boundary that God had given to us.
And therefore what else happened? Now there was a wall
between Adam and Eve, humanity and God. We cross his boundaries,
we lose that beautiful opportunity we have as Adam and
(08:52):
Eve had to walk in the cool of the evening
with Almighty God.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
What a privilege that is crossing a boundary.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Now, let's just take an examination, and let's just look
for a moment as what it is like in marriage
in intimacy to live within.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
The boundary of God.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
What is it like in marriage to live within the
boundary of God? And then we're going to see what
it's like in marriage to live outside the boundary of God.
And then we're going to take a panoramic view of
sexuality as it is being expressed in the United States today.
(09:47):
And let me tell you what's going on. This is
a little subset here. We read over in Peter. First, Peter,
a frightening verse, be of sober spirit, be.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
On the alert.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
In other words, Peter say, hey, wake up, Sound'm familiar.
Not walk, but wake up your adversary. The devil prowls
around like a roaring line, seeking someone to devour. That's
one side of the picture. Look at the other side
of the picture. Turn if you would, to first Chronicles.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Sixteen nine.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
For the eyes of the Lord moved to and fro
throughout the earth, that he may strongly support, He may
applaud those whose heart is completely hit. So you've got
God and you got the devil, and you got the
devil looking.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
All over the earth.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
To find somebody they can devour. Know anybody's been devoured.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
By the devil? Has the devil chewed on you and
chewed on me.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Oh. Absolutely, Satan is looking for someone to devour.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
At the same.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
Time, God is looking for someone to bless, for someone
he can applaud, ladies and gentlemen. When you and I
learn to live a life and we're interested only in
the applause of God, you're on your way.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
You're on your way.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
So we have these two forces, almighty God and the
devil searching out. And what's the devil looking for? He's
looking for someone who's living outside the boundaries of biblical
truth of God. What is Satan looking for? Someone living
(11:58):
outside those parameters?
Speaker 2 (12:00):
What is God looking for? Looking for people.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
Who lives inside those parameters, so he can bless, so
he can applaud, so he can use. So we begin
with marriage, the basic institution, the family, the institution Satan
and the woke culture is most dedicated to destroying his
(12:24):
marriage and the family.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Marriage and the family the first target. But I've got
good news.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Those marriages who are living inside biblical truth.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Are growing.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
More people got married last year. Ever in the history
of our land, the rate of divorce is declining rather rapidly.
First time in generations. You see, men and women are scovered.
They're finding out, particularly in this last generation, that living
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together in purity and harmony, and living.
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Together in love and having children.
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They discovered that in this relationship that sexuality and intimacy
and joy and fullness really genuinely works.
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And changes everything about their life.
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This is a wonderful trend in marriage today. You see
marriage lived according to God's principles inside his parameters.
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Let me tell you what happens. In Ephesians five.
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God tells us how married sores and sains and grows,
becomes more excited, more creative, and he just gives us that.
I'm going to summarize the two words he tells the wives,
you cheer for your husband. Tells a man you do
one simple thing. You encourage you cherish your wife. Women
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cheer men cherish you got that. Hey, look, if you'll
just cherish your wife, wives, you're just cheer for your husband,
it'll change everything. And finally it becomes a natural thing
that you do.
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We men, we are so shallow.
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And we're so timidd and our egos are so big. Boy,
we need a lot of cheering wives. Your call according
to God Ephesian five, I'm summarizing you're to be cheerleaders
for your husband. Husband, you are to cherish your wives.
They need to be secure, They need to be at home.
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They need to feel needed and wanted and special and
know that you'll be there no matter what. Wives that
cheer and husbands a cherish boy those relationships. I guarantee you.
I'm five baby captain marriage. I wouldn't marry fifty eight years.
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My wife graduated to be the lord two years I
was single. I'll be married three years in this Christmas.
Let me tell you something I can stand in and
tell you it absolutely works.
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Cheering and cherishing, cherising and cheers. That's all we have
to do, guys. That's all we have to do, ladies.
Or you can just stay.
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The way you are, always that choice. Let me tell
you what happens when this takes place. There's a beauty
in your intimacy, in your intimacy, in the intimate part
of your relationship that you cannot even imagine. What is
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the purpose of sex, creation, pleasure? And it is a
symbol of Phesian says the husband loved his wife as
Christ loved his church. It is a symbol that relationship
that a Christian had with God to the love of
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Jesus Christ.
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For you and me. When we let him run our life,
we don't run our own lives. Very simple. There was
a book I heard about. It is entitled Christianity and Sex,
and you open it. There was nothing on the pages.
It was meant as a joke.
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But if somewhat said, the joke is on the jokester,
because in Christianity, sex is central and vital to the
marriage relationship. Central and vital to the marriage relationship. Why
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is the church so obsessed with sex? Says all of
those and all the sexual relationships we see around us.
Why is a church so obsessed with sex? I'm gonna
tell you why.
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It's because God is holy. It's because sex is holy.
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That's why the church is obsessed with sex, because sex
itself is holy. Do you realize then, when a husband
wife comes together and you enter into the secret garden
and intimacy of a personality, one flesh to become one
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in that mystical union. God in expressing love in marriage,
combines two things power.
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And pleasure. Pleasure in procreation and power in creation.
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Because when two come together and there is a new birth,
there is created.
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Think about it, clearly, plainly there.
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Is created a life made in the image of God
that will last far ever, nobody will ever be a
part of a bitterer miracle than that.
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As long as we live sex as holy, sex is sacred.
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So we live our marriage out of the boundaries that
God has given us. Biblically, as to how marriage functions,
does it sound like a bad thing to anybody?
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Oh, man, that's there. I've got a cherish, I've got
a cheer Oh that's the way God has signed it.
That's the which to operate.
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Now, let's look at a marriage that is living outside
of God's boundaries.
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Two people that do not know God and.
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Have not received Jesus Christ, and are getting married without
having the same playbook the Bible, without operating on the
same principles.
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I don't see how that marriage lasts for thirty seconds.
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It really doesn't because of infidelity, because of neglect, because
of so many infinite number of reasons. Because I don't
see how they can work, certainly not as God designed them.
With cheering, you cherity, because you operate on different principles.
You seek life. You're saying, well, I'll say love as
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long as I get what I want from my wife,
or I get what I want from my husband. We
think love is just a noun and it's something you do.
It's an action till death do you part man, and
it grows in intensity, enjoy, and confidentiality. It just continues
to explode before us, marriage, even a heterosexual marriage, is
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not functioning properly outside the boundaries that God has given
us clearly in biblical ti truth homosexual marriage. First of all,
I think that's a misnomer. I don't think there's such
a thing as a homosexual marriage. God defined marriage man
a woman, a man a woman. He didn't stutter, he
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didn't back up. He just said that is the definition
of marriage, and any other relationship there, even though it's
been legitimized by the law of the land, is not
really marriage itself. It cannot function because once sane sex
marriage came into law, why not have two wives three husbands?
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You know, you see the purpose of all of our
WoT philosophy is to do away with marriage and to
flatten it out where all kind of sexual promiscuity is
open and legal. And don't bother me, it's what God
has made me like to even blame.
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God for all the evil.
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Disparacy is under there. Now, let's look at the general
sweep of sexuality in America today. Do you remember about
a month ago I told you that we looked up
on the internet and discovered there were sixty eight different
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expressions of gender and sexuality. Remember that that was on Monday,
and I looked it up again on Thursday and it
became seventy two. Now that's been a month ago, But
I looked it up this past week, this past Thursday,
and there have been four more editions. Now, folks, this
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is a tragic idea. It is a tragic situation in
our culture today, and it breaks my heart.
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And I'm not standing here.
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To be superpissed, but we need to understand that every
single person in this room who are alive in the
twenty first century, we have all been food and lied
to in different ways in the sexual area. We all
stand up and say guilty as charged. Don't move away
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from that. So therefore we see these who have been abused,
and these who are confused, and these who who think
somehow their body doesn't measure up to their mind, and
all this dysphoria that we see all around us.
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Let me tell you it absolutely breaks my heart.
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One Corinthians four fourteen and fifty. I do not write
these things to shame you, but to admodish you as
my beloved children. For if you were to have countless
tutors in Christ, yet you would not have many fathers.
But in Christ, Jesus I became your father. Through the Gospel.
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Paul had earned the right to be the authority in
the Corinthian Church because he had brought them to faith
in Christ and founded the church.
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On this good news.
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We know. The Gospel is the good news of Jesus Christ.
His virgin birth has send this light, his death on
the cross, his resurrection, his ascension to heaven. He has
within it the balance of grace and truth. Without that balance,
the Gospel becomes invalid. Grace alone leads a license, the
attitude that we can do anything we want because we
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are under grace and God will forgive us. Truth alone
is not the gospel either, because that leads to legalism.
So the Gospel must have the balance.
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Of grace and truth.
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We too must possess that same balance, because like Paul,
we are commissioned to share.
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They're the good news the Gospel. Wherever we go.
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