April 10, 2025

Christianity and Pornography Pt 1

Christianity and Pornography Pt 1

A discussion about Christianity and pornography

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A discussion about Christianity and pornography

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Looking at our world from a theological perspective. This is

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the Theology Central podcast, making Theology Central Good Evening everyone.

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It is Thursday, April tenth, twenty twenty five. It is

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currently eight eleven pm Central Time, and I'm coming to

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you live from the Theology Central studio located right here

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in Abilene, Texas. Now, if you were to walk into

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church on Sunday and you had your clipboard, you know

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that clipboard I tell everyone to carry and go to

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church and ask questions and then report back to me

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all the answers, which no one ever does. But I

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keep telling people to go to church and ask questions.

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But if you were to go to church on Sunday,

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walk in with your clipboard, and you said, Okay, what

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do you feel about society as a whole? Today? On

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this whatever it'll be April the thirteenth, whatever it'll be

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on Sunday. I think it's April the thirteenth, this April

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roll Sunday. What do you feel about society as a whole?

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What do you think most of the people in your

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church will say about society? Well, they say it's a mess,

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it's falling apart, it's corrupt, it's it's got all these problems.

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We're in trouble. I don't know how much longer we

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can go. I remember back in the day when things

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were wonderful and things were great. Everything's a problem. I'm

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pretty sure, pretty quickly that most of the people you

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ask are going to say something negative about society, and

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they're going to say something like, society is in a mess.

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It's a mess, society is falling apart, it's corrupt, it's

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we've got to do something about it. I think that's

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the majority opinion by most Christians. I believe that's I

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think that's a fair assessment. I don't think i'm being

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I think i'm being very fair. I think I'm being fair.

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That's what many would say. And the other day I

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picked up a cop be the sort of the Lord newspaper.

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This is the February twenty first, twenty twenty five issue

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of the Sort of the Lord newspaper. And I picked

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it up and I ended up on page nineteen, and

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I see why is society such a mess? Why society?

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Why is society such a mess? And I'm like, oh,

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this is this should be good because the sort of

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the Lord newspaper is going to tell me why society

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is in such a mess, and I made a prediction.

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My prediction was, I bet I'm not going to agree

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with what the article is going to say and the

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sort of the Lord newspaper. Why Because when it comes

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to so many issues that Christians talk about, how they

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diagnose the problem and the solution for the problem, I

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almost always disagree with. Now. I may agree, at least

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in part that there is a problem, but the way

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they diagnose it, the solution they come up for it,

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I'm almost always like, this is just incorrect. I completely disagree.

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To give you an example, now, I'm not going to

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read about it. I'm not going to talk about this article.

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Now we're going to get back to it, but we

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are going to be talking about something that many would

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say is a problem in society, and we're going to

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listen to how Christian basically tries to diagnose the problem

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and their solution to it, and I'm going to disagree

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with it. Whatever this supposed issue is in society, When

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Christians talk about those problems and try to give a solution,

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inevitably I disagree. A good example just the other day

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we talked about fear fear right Christians talk about that society,

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so many people are fearful and they're filled with worry,

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and they're filled with anxiety. And this is a problem

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because fear, worry and anxiety is a sin. And how

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do you fix it, Well, you just stop having fear worry.

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You just trust God and stop doing it. And they

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give you a very law based approach. And I think

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law is never the solution. And when it comes to

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the moral problems in society, Christianity loves to give law

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law law. They think law is the solution to everything,

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and I strongly disagree on that from a thilological perspective.

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So what we're going to do this evening is we're

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going to in a sense, we're going to not necessarily

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responding to an email, but we're gonna be We're going

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to be doing something inspired by an email. At six

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twenty eight pm Central Time this evening, I received an

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email with this subject line, the Tech No Sin Challenge,

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the techno Sin Challenge, the techno Sin Challenge. Now tech

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technology no Sin, So the techno Sin Challenge just the

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idea that this is a challenge about not sinning when

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it comes to the use of technology. And as soon

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as I'm telling well, any challenge about us not sinning

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is already a philologically a mess, because the reality is

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I don't care if I stop sinning using technology. I'm

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in a perpetual state of sin. Let me state it again.

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This is the basic foundational principle that this podcast puts

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forth over and over and over that I, for some

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weird reason, I'm in a disagreement with all of Christianity.

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Here's the reality. You can say, tech, no sin challenge.

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We're going to challenge you not to sin using technology.

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But here's the reality. You can get rid of all

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the technology. You can smash it, you can throw it

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in the trash, and you know what, the reality will

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still be. I'm in a perpetual state of sin. Why

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God says be holy as He is holy. I will

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never be holy as God is holy. I will not

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be holy in my thoughts, my words, my deeds, my desires,

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my feelings. I'm always in a state of sin because

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I fall short of that clear command, be holy as

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He is holy, Be perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect.

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I will never be that. I'm in a perpetual state

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of sand. Love God with all your heart, mind you

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get the idea. I'm always in sin. So immediately when

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I see the tech No Sin challenge, the techno Sin challenge,

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I'm like, oh boy, this is going to be some

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challenge about me not to sin with technology. Already I'm

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going to be in disagreement. But let me check it out.

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So they gave a link, right, and someone under it

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said they give a link. The link takes me to

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sermon Audio, and there is the it's not a sermon,

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it's the audio of a radio program that does air

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on sermon Audio, right, And and the radio station that

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airs it is available twenty four to seven on the

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sermon Audio app or on the Sermon Audio website. Right.

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But the person who emailed this says, I don't know

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what to make of this exclamation point. Okay, So they

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go on and say some good things. On the one hand,

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the guy seems to be genuinely sincere and to care

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about young people and not want to see them ruin

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their lives. You can hear how much he cares, and

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you know what, that's a that's a good thing to

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point out. I'm glad because sometimes when someone sends me

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something to review, I'm just gonna go in thinking, Okay,

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let me, I'm trying to take apart this theologically, right,

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I'm trying to take this apart ideologically, and I may

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not even be paying attention to anything like that. So

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I'm glad they pointed it out that and and that's great.

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I mean, that's awesome that someone cares that they are sincere.

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But sincerity when it comes to theology becomes very irrelevant

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ultimately from a theological perspective. But from a personal perspective,

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it's great that they care and great that they're trying

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to do something. But on the other hand, this approach

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parallels what you said about things like dungeons and dragons

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or heavy metal. It has the same idea that the

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sin is outside of you and you can keep it

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from getting in you by following well in this case

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his advice, Christianity always does this. The sin is out there,

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you got to stop it from getting in here. And

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now you need my three step program, four step program,

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five step program. A lot of times you need to

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buy their book. I I was on YouTube, I don't know,

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watching a video. Hello, I think I was watching a

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video by Lacrae because La Craye is kind of responding

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to all of his critics that tell him he needs

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to repent. I think it may have been his video,

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but I don't know which video I was watching, but

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there was an ad and it was an ad about

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basically how you can stop looking at porn. And all

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you need to do is you got to go to

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their website. You got to give them all your personal information.

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I don't know if it cost anything, and then they'll

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give you access to They don't just give you a

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link to the video. No, no, no, you got to go

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to a website, give them all your information, which sounds like,

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you know, data mining. They're trying to get all of

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your information so they can then sell your data. But

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then you can get the video and it will tell

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you how to stop watching porn. Right now, I've seen

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there's been books written about how to stop doing it,

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there's been videos. Everyone supposedly has the solution. What the

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problem continues so Christian, but the basic principle is always

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it's out there, here's what you need to do to

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stop doing it, and it's always things you need to do,

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which means it's very law based. So again, I just

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like when Christians talk about fear, they do it from

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a law perspective, they talk about porn from a law perspective,

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they talk about dungeons and dragons. Harry Potter, it's always law, law, law.

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Christians think the law is the solution to anything, whatever

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the problem is. Just give people the law. Here's five

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things you need to stop doing, five things you need

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to start doing, and that will fix every single problem.

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But after two thousand years of Christianity and everybody's been

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given the law over and over and over, stop, don't

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do this, stop do this, don't do this, it still

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hasn't fixed anything because we're still centers that should give

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the church pause and go, hmm, maybe this law approach

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doesn't work, but it never seems to do so. But

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we're we're What we're going to do is we're going

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to listen to the audio here. And I didn't read

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everything in the email. I didn't read everything in the

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email because he goes on and he offers some very

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good points, and I'm very grateful that the person sent

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this to me. All Right, so what we're gonna do?

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And I labeled this part one. And here's the reason

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I'm going to label this part one. And I want

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to make this very clear, because someone will misconstrue this

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is not even really about the program. We're just going

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to use the program to get to this deeper discussion, right,

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We're gonna get to this deeper discussion about law, how

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why it doesn't work even though Christians continue to try

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to sell this as a solution. And we'll talk a

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little bit about how Christians address the subject of pornography.

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But then I'm going to address it in a way

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that most Christians never ever ever discuss it. In fact,

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I even went to artificial Intelligence, gave it my idea,

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and it says, well, nobody in Christianity addresses the problem

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the way you are suggesting, so most likely nobody in

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Christianity will appreciate what you're trying to do. And I'm like, well,

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thank you so very much, Artificial Intelligence. You can take

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the rest of the evening off you jerk. Okay, all right,

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now I didn't say that, but AI is always telling me, hey,

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your idea may be sound, it may be good, it

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may be logical, it maybe iological, but nobody in Christianity

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is gonna want to hear it. So you just well

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stop wasting your time and go do something else, right,

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And I'm always like so so grateful, so well, So

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I think this is what we're gonna do. We're gonna

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we're gonna talk a little bit about this. We're gonna

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talk a little bit about this from a well, I

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think this is the way we'll approach it. We're gonna

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do this whole discussion about Christianity, and I guess pornography

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is what we'll call this, but we're it's not really

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about pornography. We're gonna really kind of start about the

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law kind of Christians once again, their weird approaches to things,

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and then we'll be talking about pornography. But I'm gonna

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try to show you how Christianity gets this so wrong,

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because there's a there's a deeper question to pornography, then

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the way Christianity approaches it, there's a deeper issue then

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not in then I guess we'll kind of make maybe

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we'll put this a part of a broader series. Then

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we're gonna go to this article about what is wrong

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with society? What is wrong with society? Because this article

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disturbs me deeply, Right, why is society such a mess?

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Because it's it's really what it says is the reason

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for society being in a mess is utterly frightening. It

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is one of the most disturbing articles I've ever read

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in a Sword of the Lord newspaper. I even gave

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it to artificial intelligence, and artificial intelligence was like, is

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this serious? Is this a joke? Because this is crazy?

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kind of fits together with our Salem series, the Satanic Panic,

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the Slayer album, the Fear a discussion, the long Gospel

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Bible study. It all kind of fits together. And a

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lot of times that's just what happens. Things start kind

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of having connection. But are you ready to do this?

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So this was uploaded on sermonadio. I don't know the date.

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a week ago, and they did a program and this

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of the program. I'm gonna play the intro so you'll

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get all the information, but the name of the message

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is are the broadcast is the tech No? The tech no?

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Sin Challenge, the Tech No Sin Challenge, clever title. Here

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we go. We're gonna listen to this, and again, it's

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not about this. Everybody's gonna be like, ooh, I'm not criticized.

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All I'm doing is taking what they're saying, and we're like, okay,

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this is the typical Christian approach. There's not gonna be

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anything very too unique about this. When you strip down,

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they may dress it up differently, but when he gets

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down to it, I guarantee you it's going to be

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don't do it, don't do it, don't do it, don't

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do it, don't do it, don't do it. Stop stop, stop, stop,

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and then they're going to give you all these little

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techniques to stop. But that, to me is the Christian

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approach to every just stop it. Just don't remember these

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fifteen rules. And Christianity doesn't figure it out, it doesn't work.

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Israel had all the roles in the world, and they

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send and send and send and send and continue to

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sin and sin and sin. And that's why they needed

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a new covenant, because someone who is going to have

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to come who did not sin to pay for the

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sins of all of us who continue to sin. And

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to die so that his perfect obedience could be imputed

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to my account, because I'm going to continue to sin

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no matter how many laws you give me, because I'll

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never be able to keep the law. I know that

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blows away everything Christianity teaches, but it's just theological fact

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and only theological fact. It's reality. But here we go.

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Are you ready? Let's jump into this. I want to

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how far we're going to get. All I care about

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that the law doesn't work as the cure for all

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the moral problems that Christians thinks that it fix. It

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never was designed to fix it. Right here we go.

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an overnight overnight program that's really really good to listen

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to if you want some kind of something spiritual to

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listen to overnight. But during the day they air this

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cross talk program well, and they typically are dealing with

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issues in the culture, things that concern Christians, things that

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may be wrong in the culture. And I think, inevitably,

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just like all Christian programs that's been doing this since

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I became a Christian, the solution tends to always be

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it's either political culture, war, law, and then it's from

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a thiological perspective. They may maybe calling for some kind

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of civil law, but almost inevitably, from a thiological perspective,

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it becomes about law law. It's not a gospel approach

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almost ever, because the evangelical world has thrown out a

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But here we go, joining us on crosstalk here on

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VCY America, Ladies and gentlemen. Technology is on the increase,

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and it's development well, we can hardly keep up with it.

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And with the proliferation of technology also comes increase access

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to websites and pop ups and ads that are designed

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to lure and to derail individuals from living a life

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of purity. I was looking at some information earlier today,

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and according to Life Plan, we live in a pornified culture.

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Now, please note it's the pop ups, it's the ads

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that try to lure us away from purity, tries to

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lure us away. So it's like we all are pure,

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but then there's these things that lures away from purity.

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I will argue, we're never pure because we're in a

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perpetual state of sin. So already I'm in disagreement. Nothing

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lures me away from purity because I'm in a perpetual

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state of sin twenty four hours a day, seven days

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a week, because I do not love God with all

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my heart, my body, and so I do not love

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my neighbor as myself. I do not love my enemy.

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I am not holy as God as holy. I can

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go on and on and on and on, and on

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and on, and where does this impurity? Where does this

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sin arise from? It doesn't arise from a pop up,

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arise from the fortification of the culture. It arises because

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sin is it might. It's inside of me. It's who

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I am, Ladies and jail. If someone says, who are

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you a sinner? Who are you a sinner? That's what

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you are, at your very core, your very essence, your

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very nature. You are a sin. And that nature pollutes

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every part of you. So you're not lured away by

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that which is external. You're already lured away by that

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which is internal. The reason the external has any power

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at all is because of what's inside of you. Inside

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of you already wants, it desires, it thinks, it craves,

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it all those things, so already. I think Christianity always

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has this completely backwards. In fact, I will argue from

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a thiological perspective, the reason Christianity gets this always backwards

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is every Christianity at large is practically and functionally Pallagious.

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They're Pallagians, they believe in Pallagianism. But Pelagius's entire understanding

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of humanity. Pelagius was condemned as a heretic in the

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early Church. But Pelagius one because everyone's operating basically from

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this idea that we're good on the inside, we're pure,

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we're innocent. It's the bad people. It's those bad people

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and the bad stuff that they try to sell us. Well,

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they wouldn't be selling anything to us because we wouldn't

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be buying if we were so pure in the inside. Okay,

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it doesn't work. It's like the best example I can give.

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I have literally zero, no, zero desire for alcohol. There's none,

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and there's nothing inside me that wants it, that desires it,

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or even likes it. So you can give me nine

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hundred and fifty seven alcohol commercials. You can give me

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beer commercials, wine, hard liquor, whiskey, tequila, whatever, whatever, a

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drink out there, rum, it doesn't matter. I'm like, great commercial.

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if it's heartwarming, Okay, like the horses carrying, the pulling,

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the said the Budweiser, uh whatever whatever that the horses.

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I don't know all the different things in the beer commercials,

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but I may, oh, look that's beautiful. It's got the

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holiday music, and they're pulling the wagon okay, and they're

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bringing beer to the town near you're whatever they're doing, Okay.

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remotely has any impact on me. Right, And that's how

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it works, because there's going to be something in me

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for something to lure me to it. It doesn't put

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the desire in me. There's going to be something in

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me that wants it. That's typically the way it works,

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all right. But let's so already you can see. I

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believe that this is a pelagious idea, Pelagian idea that hey,

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you're basically pure and innocent, and this stuff lures you

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away from your purity. You don't have any purity, you're

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The report that more people view internet pornography every month

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than Netflix, Amazon, and Twitter combined.

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I can't remember the third thing. I'll back it up

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here in a minute. So now here's the thing, all right,

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they they, they're all. So everybody's looking at porn all right? Now?

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Is everybody looking at porn because the desire for porn

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was put in us by an external, external source? Or

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is everyone looking at porn because there's something in us

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that wants and desires it. See, that's the deeper question

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that Christianity never seems to want to address. And it

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goes beyond just a sinful nature. It goes beyond that.

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I mean, yeah, but let me let me back this up.

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Let me back this up. Okay, here we.

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Go individuals from living a life of purity. I was

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looking at some information earlier today, and according to Life Plan,

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we live in a pornified culture. They report that more

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people view internet pornography every month and Netflix, Amazon, and

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Twitter combined.

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and X or Twitter combined. You take all the views

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of Amazon dot Com, X and Netflix and more people

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are looking at porn. Now. I don't know where that

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statistic comes from. I don't know, uh, I think they

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said so. I don't know what it's based off of,

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but let's just say it's true. Now, what's the issue.

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See now what some people say, well, the issue is

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we got to stop looking at porn. To me, that's

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not the issue. The issue is why what is inside

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of people that desires it, that wants it, and it

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goes It's not everybody wants to just go well because

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it's sin. It's sin, it's satan, it's the devil. That

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is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard in my life.

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It goes to something deeper. There is something deep inside

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of us that people want, that people need, that people desire.

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an emotional components. It goes much much deeper, and anyone

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who wants to dig into it and study it, you

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can find all of the discussions in literature about it.

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It goes much much deeper than that. It's not so

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simple as just saying stop doing it, it's sin. It

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goes so much deeper, and nobody ever wants to address

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that from a biblical perspective. See, they're giving you these numbers.

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This is where you start with kind of like, you know,

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the panic, Oh my goodness, everyone's looking a porn. Society

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is crumbling. What are we going to do. What are

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we going to do? So they're gonna give you the panic, right,

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you gotta you always have to instill the panic. There's

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witches in Salem. Oh Satan is in the music. You've

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got to everyone's left. We've been pornified. There's pornification of America.

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We're all in trouble. Okay, what are we gonna do?

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Because that means my kids, my husband, my wife, my daughter,

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my son, my pastor, my deacon, my older my postman, everyone,

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my doctor. Everyone. Now I'm not saying that they are

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screaming that, but it's already. By giving you a shocking

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number like that, you're already like, whoa, that's a lot

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of porn. That's a crazy amount of porn.

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In twenty sixteen, people watch four point six billion hours

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of pornography at just one of the more than forty

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two million pornographic websites. That's equivalent of five hundred and

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twenty four thousand years spent watching porn in a single year.

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See, these numbers are just staggering. Billions of hours watching

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porn on one site. On one site, it's a lot

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of porn. Some people watching a lot of porn. What

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are we going to do about this? What are we

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gonna do? This is crazy? What is going on? What's happening?

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The Psalmus wrote, as recorded in Psalm one oh one,

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verse three, I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes. Well,

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our guest today is issuing a warning about technology and

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is encouraging individuals to take the techno Sin challenge. Joining

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us today, we welcome Gary Becker. He is director of

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technosin dot Org. There an organization that's committed to point

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to each eternal soul to the Cross of Christ, to

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point people to the holy character of Christ, particularly in

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our digital world, and to get people established in Bible

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teaching churches. Gary, thank you so much for joining us today.

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It's good to be with you.

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Jim Well, Gary, I met you here this past week

461
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at the Men for Christ conference that was taking place,

462
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and I know you're very impassioned and concerned about where

463
00:27:00.400 --> 00:27:03.799
we are at in technology, the lure that is there,

464
00:27:03.920 --> 00:27:06.240
the impact that it's having on it. But when we

465
00:27:06.279 --> 00:27:09.720
first talk about technology, we can't escape it. It's actually everywhere,

466
00:27:09.759 --> 00:27:12.000
isn't it.

467
00:27:12.000 --> 00:27:15.079
It is coming at us from more screens on the

468
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planet than people on the planet.

469
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Yeah.

470
00:27:17.039 --> 00:27:22.079
Yeah, Now, just make sure we understand the way you're

471
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hearing this, it's through technology.

472
00:27:24.720 --> 00:27:25.079
Okay.

473
00:27:25.279 --> 00:27:28.880
The way this is being broadcast is through technology. The

474
00:27:28.920 --> 00:27:31.559
way you would download it is through technology. So let's

475
00:27:31.640 --> 00:27:36.119
just make it very clear. Okay, they're using technology. I'm

476
00:27:36.119 --> 00:27:37.960
not saying that they're against technology. I just want to

477
00:27:37.960 --> 00:27:41.720
make it very clear that technology is we're actually using

478
00:27:41.759 --> 00:27:44.039
it right now. Okay, And just note that the first

479
00:27:44.079 --> 00:27:47.319
verse quote is is one oh one three. I will

480
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set no wicked thing before mine eyes. I hate the

481
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work of them that turn aside. It shall not cleave

482
00:27:52.200 --> 00:27:55.440
to me. All right, So the idea is this is

483
00:27:55.480 --> 00:27:58.240
the Sawi thing. I will set no wicked thing. Now

484
00:27:58.279 --> 00:28:00.359
we can get into a major discussion about it, because

485
00:28:00.400 --> 00:28:03.400
these are typically the psalmist. It's like a prayer. It's

486
00:28:03.480 --> 00:28:07.519
like expressing a desire what they want to happen. But

487
00:28:07.720 --> 00:28:11.039
this will be. This will be. Then typically by pastors,

488
00:28:11.039 --> 00:28:14.799
it's turned into a law. Do not set any wicked

489
00:28:14.839 --> 00:28:18.400
thing before your eyes. Do not do it. Don't look

490
00:28:18.400 --> 00:28:21.160
at wicked things, don't look at wicked things. Stop looking

491
00:28:21.200 --> 00:28:23.920
at wicked things. And that's great. You can rip out

492
00:28:23.920 --> 00:28:26.119
your eyes and you'll never look at another wicked thing.

493
00:28:26.480 --> 00:28:30.720
The only problem is the wickedness that you can never

494
00:28:30.759 --> 00:28:36.319
stop looking at, is the wickedness inside of you. I

495
00:28:36.359 --> 00:28:39.680
know Christianity doesn't like this truth, but it's literally the

496
00:28:39.720 --> 00:28:45.200
biblical truth. Jesus himself says, it's adultery, fornication comes from

497
00:28:45.240 --> 00:28:50.759
within the heart. You can stop looking at wickedness, but

498
00:28:50.799 --> 00:28:57.039
the wickedness resides in you. Right, That's that's a foundational truth.

499
00:28:57.119 --> 00:28:59.119
We'll get into that a little bit more. But let's

500
00:28:59.119 --> 00:29:00.640
see where they're gonna go. We're just going to go

501
00:29:00.680 --> 00:29:03.640
a little ways because I again, for this episode, I

502
00:29:03.759 --> 00:29:06.279
just want us to talk about the law. I want

503
00:29:06.319 --> 00:29:08.799
to talk about the law because this is already you

504
00:29:08.839 --> 00:29:11.119
can tell this has already had it in a law

505
00:29:11.200 --> 00:29:16.920
based way, and the program almost everything is law based.

506
00:29:17.000 --> 00:29:18.839
In fact, what I'll do in a minute, I gave

507
00:29:18.880 --> 00:29:22.200
the transcript. I gave the transcript of this program to

508
00:29:22.400 --> 00:29:25.599
AI and said, AI, look at this and tell me

509
00:29:25.720 --> 00:29:29.039
if it gives a law based perspective. And AI broke

510
00:29:29.079 --> 00:29:30.920
it all down. So in a minute, I'll just I'll

511
00:29:31.000 --> 00:29:32.880
kind of go through what AI has to say about

512
00:29:32.880 --> 00:29:35.519
this instead of us listening and trying to review fifty

513
00:29:35.559 --> 00:29:37.720
one minutes of audio. But I'll let you hear a

514
00:29:37.759 --> 00:29:38.440
little bit of it.

515
00:29:39.759 --> 00:29:42.079
You know, you served in the pastor for several years,

516
00:29:42.119 --> 00:29:44.920
and you're engaged, have been engaged in ministry for many

517
00:29:45.640 --> 00:29:49.240
How have you been seeing technology derail or even take

518
00:29:49.559 --> 00:29:50.559
individuals captive.

519
00:29:52.599 --> 00:29:56.039
It's been like the apostle Paul walking into the city

520
00:29:56.079 --> 00:30:01.079
of Athens and finding the whole city given over to idolatry,

521
00:30:01.759 --> 00:30:05.599
and two thousand years later we find everyone bowed down

522
00:30:05.759 --> 00:30:10.039
to a smartphone, everyone looking down. Yeah, we'll call it worship.

523
00:30:10.599 --> 00:30:14.680
Every platform is out to addict everyone, even the good ones,

524
00:30:15.079 --> 00:30:18.759
but especially the bad ones, trying to addict and pull back.

525
00:30:18.839 --> 00:30:21.599
From the gaming platforms to the social media, to the

526
00:30:21.640 --> 00:30:26.680
news outlets, everything bent for a return to addict and

527
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to control the eyes.

528
00:30:29.880 --> 00:30:33.519
Yeah, and you mentioned that, which is just drawing people

529
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in social media. I mean, that's just constant. The gaming

530
00:30:36.680 --> 00:30:42.000
platforms reveal to us, real to parents who perhaps they're saying,

531
00:30:42.039 --> 00:30:44.759
that's not part of what I look at at social media,

532
00:30:45.079 --> 00:30:49.079
but no doubt their young people are. What is happening

533
00:30:49.160 --> 00:30:51.039
on those gaming platforms today.

534
00:30:52.160 --> 00:30:55.960
Well, the attention span is shrinking down to a few

535
00:30:56.160 --> 00:30:57.480
second clips.

536
00:30:59.319 --> 00:31:01.599
Okay, I just have to laugh, and I'm not trying

537
00:31:01.640 --> 00:31:03.640
to be mean. I understand that they're being sincere, but

538
00:31:03.680 --> 00:31:06.359
I have to laugh. So first he goes back to

539
00:31:06.400 --> 00:31:09.279
the Bible and talks about idolatry everywhere. Well, and we

540
00:31:09.359 --> 00:31:11.960
kind of got this thing thing going on today because

541
00:31:12.000 --> 00:31:16.279
nothing ever changes. That's the point, nothing ever changes, because

542
00:31:16.319 --> 00:31:18.759
the problem is it it doesn't matter if it's a

543
00:31:18.799 --> 00:31:22.000
gold statue, it doesn't matter. If it's an Atari system,

544
00:31:22.119 --> 00:31:24.720
it doesn't matter. If it was MTV, it doesn't matter

545
00:31:24.720 --> 00:31:26.880
if it was a comic book in the nineteen fifties,

546
00:31:26.960 --> 00:31:29.720
there's all. It doesn't matter if it's playing cards, if

547
00:31:29.720 --> 00:31:33.119
it's the theater, if it's the opera. Christians are always like,

548
00:31:33.160 --> 00:31:35.880
these are the things that are destroying us. Look, we're

549
00:31:35.880 --> 00:31:39.359
all turning into false worshipers there. We're always something that

550
00:31:39.400 --> 00:31:42.559
we're yelling about that that's happening, and so what's going on? Oh,

551
00:31:42.759 --> 00:31:45.559
these things are destroying the attention span. I heard this

552
00:31:45.680 --> 00:31:49.720
in the nineteen eighties, like MTV's destroying the attention span.

553
00:31:50.400 --> 00:31:54.160
We're always screaming that something is doing something and it's

554
00:31:54.200 --> 00:31:56.759
breaking us and it's destroying us, and it's the head

555
00:31:57.039 --> 00:31:58.559
and what are we going to do now? I'm not

556
00:31:58.599 --> 00:32:01.079
saying they've gone to full blown pan but they're clearly

557
00:32:01.680 --> 00:32:06.319
all these numbers about pornography. Oh no, okay, now what's

558
00:32:06.359 --> 00:32:11.599
happening on these gaming programs? Okay, our platforms. So everything's

559
00:32:11.640 --> 00:32:13.839
going to be like, there's the problem, there's the problem,

560
00:32:13.880 --> 00:32:16.319
there's the problem. Okay. We can agree on the problem

561
00:32:16.440 --> 00:32:18.640
or disagree in the problem. The issue is what's going

562
00:32:18.720 --> 00:32:19.359
to be the solution.

563
00:32:22.880 --> 00:32:26.559
And if it's not short enough, it's too short. Okay,

564
00:32:26.559 --> 00:32:30.839
it's never too short to grab those eyes. And I

565
00:32:30.839 --> 00:32:33.279
think of a verse about how the eyes of a

566
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man are never full. If I were Satan's salesman, I

567
00:32:37.240 --> 00:32:41.359
would come up with something that you could never fill up,

568
00:32:41.440 --> 00:32:44.240
and it would just be a return sale item again

569
00:32:44.279 --> 00:32:49.480
and again. Our eyes, coming from a heart that needs help,

570
00:32:50.240 --> 00:32:53.119
is never full until it's filled with God.

571
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And oh now I love that he did mention the heart,

572
00:32:58.319 --> 00:33:03.279
But just now, the heart is never full right until

573
00:33:03.319 --> 00:33:09.759
it gets God. Is the heart with God full? Come on?

574
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Are you completely satisfied? Are you completely content in your life?

575
00:33:13.000 --> 00:33:15.839
You've got God? Are you completely content? Does God give

576
00:33:15.880 --> 00:33:20.640
you complete contentment? Now people will say yes, I'm completely

577
00:33:20.680 --> 00:33:24.799
content as they are sitting on their nice couch listening

578
00:33:24.920 --> 00:33:28.720
on their one thousand dollars phone or five hundred dollars phone,

579
00:33:28.880 --> 00:33:33.000
looking at their you know, four thousand dollars television and

580
00:33:33.000 --> 00:33:36.119
they're you know, three hundred thousand dollars home, or even

581
00:33:36.200 --> 00:33:37.759
even if the home is cheap, or the point is,

582
00:33:37.839 --> 00:33:39.720
they got their home, they got their they got the

583
00:33:39.759 --> 00:33:42.480
things they like, they've got the things that their hobbies,

584
00:33:42.599 --> 00:33:45.079
they've got the think that they've got their wife. They've

585
00:33:45.079 --> 00:33:47.519
got their husband, and they've got their this, and they

586
00:33:47.599 --> 00:33:50.599
got family, and they got this. But my heart is

587
00:33:50.680 --> 00:33:54.680
full of God and I've got everything. No, no, no,

588
00:33:54.680 --> 00:33:56.880
no no. You want to know if you'll be content

589
00:33:57.519 --> 00:33:59.359
with God? And God is the thing that will give

590
00:33:59.400 --> 00:34:04.599
you contentment. Get rid of everything else nothing nothing, no family, no,

591
00:34:04.599 --> 00:34:12.239
no intimacy, no connection. Not just be alone. Just be alone, nothing, nothing, nothing,

592
00:34:12.639 --> 00:34:14.840
and then tell me how how content you are. See,

593
00:34:14.960 --> 00:34:18.000
Christianity loves to say the heart will never be satisfied

594
00:34:18.079 --> 00:34:20.719
until it gets God, and then it will be satisfied.

595
00:34:20.880 --> 00:34:23.880
Then you will find satisfaction. Well, then all these people

596
00:34:23.960 --> 00:34:26.440
have God seem to also have a whole lot of

597
00:34:26.480 --> 00:34:29.719
other things. And in interesting that even the church, where

598
00:34:29.800 --> 00:34:32.000
it's supposed to be about God. But they got to

599
00:34:32.000 --> 00:34:35.199
give you why pot luck and this and this activity

600
00:34:35.320 --> 00:34:38.719
and this activity and this activity and this group and

601
00:34:38.760 --> 00:34:40.280
this and we got to be in small groups so

602
00:34:40.280 --> 00:34:42.159
we can build relationships. And we need this and we

603
00:34:42.199 --> 00:34:44.400
need this and we got to have this. We wh wha, wha, wha,

604
00:34:44.440 --> 00:34:47.199
whoa whoah. I thought all we needed was God. Come on,

605
00:34:47.639 --> 00:34:50.639
Oh we need all we need is God. We don't

606
00:34:50.679 --> 00:34:54.719
need anything, we don't need anybody. We should be me,

607
00:34:55.159 --> 00:35:04.119
myself and I plus God, perfect satisfied, perfect contentment. So

608
00:35:04.400 --> 00:35:07.199
Christianity always preaches that, hey, we'll never going to be

609
00:35:07.239 --> 00:35:09.039
satisfied until we get God. Well, if we get God

610
00:35:09.079 --> 00:35:11.800
and then we're fully satisfied, well then why why does

611
00:35:11.800 --> 00:35:15.679
so many Christians look at porn? Why does so many

612
00:35:15.719 --> 00:35:22.000
Christian marriages end up in divorce? Why is there discontentment?

613
00:35:22.760 --> 00:35:26.039
Just think of how much frustration and irritation shows up

614
00:35:26.039 --> 00:35:29.000
in your life on a daily basis because things don't

615
00:35:29.079 --> 00:35:32.079
go your way. You should be completely satisfied no matter

616
00:35:32.119 --> 00:35:35.719
what happens. No matter what happens, your husband shouldn't be

617
00:35:35.760 --> 00:35:38.519
able to do anything to mess up your satisfaction and contentment.

618
00:35:38.519 --> 00:35:41.840
Because you have God, you should be completely satisfied. Typically

619
00:35:41.880 --> 00:35:46.079
our frustration, irritation and anger and fighting is because we're

620
00:35:46.119 --> 00:35:48.719
not satisfied, We're not happy with the way something goes.

621
00:35:48.760 --> 00:35:52.760
So there's a sermon that was preached today that was

622
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uploaded the Cermonadia website about spiritual satisfaction. I want to

623
00:35:56.599 --> 00:35:58.880
hear what they have to say, but let's continue. Let's

624
00:35:58.880 --> 00:36:01.119
continue filled.

625
00:36:00.880 --> 00:36:03.079
With the Holy Spirit. And so that's the key to

626
00:36:04.079 --> 00:36:06.440
the whole ministry, and I'd love to share about how

627
00:36:06.480 --> 00:36:10.000
it's started. Yeah, what God is doing in it, and.

628
00:36:10.400 --> 00:36:13.440
Yes, heart, we're certainly going to do that. But I

629
00:36:13.480 --> 00:36:16.239
also want to point this out. People will think no

630
00:36:16.280 --> 00:36:19.679
one is harmed, and you know, pornography won't impact me.

631
00:36:20.360 --> 00:36:22.760
These gaming sites are not going to impact me. Social

632
00:36:22.800 --> 00:36:25.280
media and the things that happen in there. But you

633
00:36:25.320 --> 00:36:28.880
point out that once you see something you can't unsee it.

634
00:36:29.000 --> 00:36:30.039
Would you comment on that?

635
00:36:31.480 --> 00:36:36.280
Well, for time's sake, since we're already at thirty six minutes,

636
00:36:36.320 --> 00:36:37.840
and I still want you to go find it's called

637
00:36:37.840 --> 00:36:42.239
the Techno Sin Challenge. It's on the Cermonaudio app. Download it.

638
00:36:42.280 --> 00:36:44.400
I want you to listen to everything they have to say,

639
00:36:44.920 --> 00:36:48.519
but I'm going to kind of transition a little bit here, right,

640
00:36:49.119 --> 00:36:50.679
because I want to kind of get to the main

641
00:36:50.760 --> 00:36:53.440
point I want to focus on in this particular episode,

642
00:36:53.559 --> 00:36:56.280
So I gave AI the entire transcript. This is what

643
00:36:56.320 --> 00:36:59.320
AI said, based on a close reading of the cross

644
00:36:59.360 --> 00:37:03.199
talk with gar Marry Becker transcript you provided. Law based

645
00:37:03.239 --> 00:37:07.920
solutions are introduced almost immediately and repeated constantly throughout the program.

646
00:37:08.119 --> 00:37:10.760
Here's a breakdown of how quickly, how often, and how

647
00:37:10.800 --> 00:37:14.239
exclusively law is used as a response to the problem

648
00:37:14.280 --> 00:37:18.039
of pornography and digital sin. Number one, How quickly is

649
00:37:18.079 --> 00:37:21.199
this law introduced as a solution. Within the first two

650
00:37:21.280 --> 00:37:24.239
to three minutes law is introduced. Psalm one O one

651
00:37:24.400 --> 00:37:26.960
three is quoted, I will set no wicked thing before

652
00:37:27.000 --> 00:37:30.239
mine eyes. That verse becomes the foundational slogan for the

653
00:37:30.400 --> 00:37:33.400
entire program. From that point forward, the discussion is framed

654
00:37:33.519 --> 00:37:38.280
entirely in terms of avoiding wickedness, choosing purity, resisting temptation,

655
00:37:38.920 --> 00:37:43.480
all law, with no explanation of grace, justification or the

656
00:37:43.480 --> 00:37:47.360
Gospel as the foundation. This sets the tone. Sin is

657
00:37:47.360 --> 00:37:51.800
something you avoid by effort, vigilance, and behavior. The solution

658
00:37:52.000 --> 00:37:56.719
is to obey commands more fervently. Just obey, Okay, God's

659
00:37:56.760 --> 00:38:00.559
holiness is something you must live up to with right choices,

660
00:38:00.679 --> 00:38:03.880
almost implying that with the right choices you can be holy.

661
00:38:03.960 --> 00:38:07.880
With the right choices, you can get to purity. How

662
00:38:07.880 --> 00:38:11.679
often does the law reappear throughout the entire transcript? Law

663
00:38:11.679 --> 00:38:15.119
based solutions dominate nearly every segment. Here are the most

664
00:38:15.199 --> 00:38:21.960
repeated themes behavioral modification and external accountability. Stickers on phones

665
00:38:22.000 --> 00:38:24.000
to remind you not to sin. Put a sticker on

666
00:38:24.039 --> 00:38:26.320
your phone telling you not to look at wicked things

667
00:38:26.320 --> 00:38:31.039
not to sin. Sledgehammers and marshmallows as visual object lessons

668
00:38:31.079 --> 00:38:33.400
to show you how to destroy or fix a phone.

669
00:38:33.840 --> 00:38:36.400
Phrases like you don't have to go to prison. You

670
00:38:36.440 --> 00:38:38.760
can fix this with a marshmallow. And I don't know

671
00:38:38.800 --> 00:38:42.440
exactly what the marshmallow things are. Maybe we'll get at

672
00:38:42.440 --> 00:38:44.159
some point we'll be able to review all of this.

673
00:38:44.639 --> 00:38:48.000
These are not gospel solutions. They are moral behavioral techniques

674
00:38:48.239 --> 00:38:53.320
law repackaged as visual theater, moral challenges, and personal responsibility.

675
00:38:53.880 --> 00:38:58.639
Tech yes, sin, no, Jesus, yes, wasting life No, that's

676
00:38:58.719 --> 00:39:01.719
kind of the way it goes tech. Yes, tech is good.

677
00:39:01.960 --> 00:39:05.440
Sin no Jesus, yes, wasting your life? No, you have

678
00:39:05.519 --> 00:39:08.320
to make the right choice. Dedicate your phone to God.

679
00:39:08.599 --> 00:39:12.960
Don't click. Think before you click, think before you drink.

680
00:39:13.000 --> 00:39:16.639
A kind of concept just say no. From the eighties

681
00:39:16.679 --> 00:39:19.400
and the War on drugs. Every one of these statements

682
00:39:19.480 --> 00:39:25.519
is a command, imperative, not indicative. They tell you what

683
00:39:25.760 --> 00:39:30.239
to do, not what God has done for you. Repeated

684
00:39:30.280 --> 00:39:34.960
warnings of consequences. Every click leaves a footprint. God sees

685
00:39:35.239 --> 00:39:38.360
everything you do. You could end up in federal prison.

686
00:39:38.559 --> 00:39:41.000
You're one click away from destroying your life. I can

687
00:39:41.039 --> 00:39:43.920
fix this before I have to fix your marriage. Fear

688
00:39:44.000 --> 00:39:46.599
is used to motivate purity, which is a hallmark of

689
00:39:46.679 --> 00:39:51.119
law based preaching. Old Testament legal citations, constant appeals to

690
00:39:51.159 --> 00:39:54.519
Psalm one oh one, verse three in Matthew eighteen nine

691
00:39:54.559 --> 00:39:58.400
through ten. Plucking out your eyes never expounded in Gospel terms,

692
00:39:58.440 --> 00:40:02.599
always applied as direct command for behavioral correction. Is the

693
00:40:02.639 --> 00:40:05.719
Gospel ever clearly presented. And then it goes on to say,

694
00:40:05.719 --> 00:40:09.840
but the bottom line is it's law, law, law, law, law, law, law.

695
00:40:09.920 --> 00:40:11.760
We'll listen to just a little bit more to see

696
00:40:11.760 --> 00:40:14.559
if we get to the law portion, or at least

697
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to some more discussion, and then what I want you

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to do is what I'm going to try to do

699
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to end this for this episode, and we're going to

700
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continue to work on this as I want to try

701
00:40:25.079 --> 00:40:28.639
to demonstrate to you that law is not the solution,

702
00:40:29.119 --> 00:40:31.480
never has been, never will be. But we'll listen to

703
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just a little bit.

704
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More until it touches your home, until it touches your

705
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heart closely. Maybe that's someone on that internet and that

706
00:40:41.760 --> 00:40:45.639
picture is smiling on camera. Maybe there's a gun pointed

707
00:40:45.800 --> 00:40:53.920
off camera in human trafficking. That's someone's daughter, that's someone's child.

708
00:40:54.079 --> 00:41:00.920
And the Bible speaks of this powerful problem of our eyes.

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If fine, I offend thee pluck it out, Jesus said.

710
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And the very next verse which hit me strongly in

711
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Matthew chapter eighteen, was take heed that you despise not

712
00:41:10.880 --> 00:41:13.000
one of these little ones, for I stand to you

713
00:41:13.880 --> 00:41:18.599
that in heaven their angels do always behold the face

714
00:41:18.639 --> 00:41:22.880
of my father. And that never hit me related to

715
00:41:22.960 --> 00:41:25.719
this eye problem. But it's the next verse, verse ten

716
00:41:25.800 --> 00:41:29.760
in Matthew eighteen, about how God tears for how we

717
00:41:29.840 --> 00:41:31.559
raise and point the next generation.

718
00:41:31.840 --> 00:41:34.639
Yeah, so I'd like you to just you know, share

719
00:41:34.679 --> 00:41:37.639
your passion. Gary, tell us about your ministry. How this.

720
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Okay, So immediately goes to basically law, just giving us

721
00:41:42.760 --> 00:41:46.280
verses to try to convince us not to do anything.

722
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These are law, all right. So here's the thing, all right,

723
00:41:50.760 --> 00:41:54.599
this is central to a proper law gospel theology. If

724
00:41:54.599 --> 00:41:57.199
you're ever going to have a proper law gospel theology.

725
00:41:58.119 --> 00:42:01.159
There was a central concept and it goes straight to

726
00:42:01.239 --> 00:42:05.199
Paul's teaching in Romans and Galatians. So I'm going to

727
00:42:05.239 --> 00:42:08.440
try to give you a somewhat detailed, structured outline of

728
00:42:08.519 --> 00:42:13.480
the philological and biblical arguments that the law does not

729
00:42:13.840 --> 00:42:21.920
stop sin. It exposes it, it provokes it, it entices it.

730
00:42:21.920 --> 00:42:25.400
It was never given to eliminate sin, but to reveal

731
00:42:25.480 --> 00:42:28.880
it and drive us to grace. I know this goes

732
00:42:28.920 --> 00:42:34.320
against almost every Christian teaching, but it's literally historical, at

733
00:42:34.400 --> 00:42:38.599
least Reformation Christianity. Coming from Luther, this is very found.

734
00:42:38.760 --> 00:42:40.679
I think it comes all the way from the apostle Paul,

735
00:42:40.920 --> 00:42:43.199
who was the one who really promoted this in Romans

736
00:42:43.199 --> 00:42:46.119
and Galatians. Let me state it again, the law does

737
00:42:46.199 --> 00:42:51.360
not stop sin. It exposes it, It provokes it, it

738
00:42:51.840 --> 00:42:57.639
entices it. It was never given to eliminate sin, but to

739
00:42:57.760 --> 00:43:03.599
reveal it and drive us to grace. So let's go

740
00:43:03.760 --> 00:43:08.119
through this first. The misunderstanding of law. Let's start with

741
00:43:08.119 --> 00:43:10.800
the misunderstanding of law. All right, I'm gonna kind of

742
00:43:10.840 --> 00:43:12.079
give you a basic If we're gonna look at the

743
00:43:12.760 --> 00:43:14.960
misunderstanding of law, then we're gonna try to look at

744
00:43:15.039 --> 00:43:17.760
law's purpose, and then we're gonna look at the law

745
00:43:18.440 --> 00:43:21.639
what the outlaw actually does, and then we'll look at

746
00:43:21.639 --> 00:43:25.280
theilological reasons and then yeah, we'll just kind of work

747
00:43:25.320 --> 00:43:27.159
through this outline. I could. I could break down the

748
00:43:27.320 --> 00:43:30.039
entire outline, but it will take If I try to

749
00:43:30.039 --> 00:43:32.280
give you the entire outline, that'll take most of the time.

750
00:43:32.480 --> 00:43:34.800
So we're just gonna just work through it in real time.

751
00:43:34.840 --> 00:43:36.480
I think that's the best way. Instead of trying to

752
00:43:36.519 --> 00:43:38.400
give you the outline then going back through it, we'll

753
00:43:38.440 --> 00:43:40.320
just go through it in real time, all right. So

754
00:43:40.960 --> 00:43:47.559
here we go Number one, the misunderstanding of law. The

755
00:43:47.679 --> 00:43:52.840
misunderstanding of law. The common assumption, if we give people rules,

756
00:43:53.239 --> 00:43:55.920
if we give people laws, if we give people commands,

757
00:43:56.199 --> 00:44:01.199
they will stop sinning. That's the basic idea, even if

758
00:44:01.280 --> 00:44:03.840
Christians don't necessarily want to say it that way. It's

759
00:44:03.880 --> 00:44:07.320
the assumption, hey, hey, hey, hey, if it's a youth rally,

760
00:44:07.480 --> 00:44:09.719
just don't do this, don't do this, don't do this,

761
00:44:09.760 --> 00:44:11.599
don't do this, don't do this. And there's always all

762
00:44:11.599 --> 00:44:14.880
these steps. Okay, oh, if it's pornography, you need accountability,

763
00:44:14.960 --> 00:44:17.000
you need a filter, you need to smash your phone,

764
00:44:17.079 --> 00:44:19.039
you may need to do this, you may do this,

765
00:44:19.199 --> 00:44:21.760
you may to do and it's always like a list

766
00:44:21.800 --> 00:44:24.920
of things to do. And I mean, there's already theological

767
00:44:24.920 --> 00:44:30.280
problems with this, but it's always very law based. The

768
00:44:30.320 --> 00:44:35.079
Biblical truth is the law reveals sin, it cannot and

769
00:44:35.360 --> 00:44:39.800
does not remove it. And I think some of the

770
00:44:39.840 --> 00:44:42.440
key texts we can look at I'm not going to

771
00:44:42.519 --> 00:44:44.400
read them all right now, but you can look at

772
00:44:44.519 --> 00:44:48.960
Romans three, Romans five, Romans seven, and Galatians three, and

773
00:44:49.000 --> 00:44:52.800
we'll be making references to passages in those sections of scripture.

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00:44:53.840 --> 00:44:58.199
So the misunderstanding is that, hey, law, what can fix it?

775
00:44:58.440 --> 00:45:00.800
You just need laws, you just need rules, and then

776
00:45:00.840 --> 00:45:04.360
you'll stop sinning. But it doesn't work that way, all right,

777
00:45:04.719 --> 00:45:09.679
So that's the misunderstanding. Next, let's look at the purpose

778
00:45:09.840 --> 00:45:12.360
of the law. The purpose of the law is not

779
00:45:12.760 --> 00:45:18.440
moral reform. But revelation. Let's state it that way. The

780
00:45:18.480 --> 00:45:22.360
purpose of the law is not moral reformation. It's not

781
00:45:22.519 --> 00:45:26.440
moral reform. It's not to reform us. It's not designed

782
00:45:26.440 --> 00:45:35.159
for behavioral modification. It is revelation. It is revealing something. Right,

783
00:45:35.639 --> 00:45:40.239
for example, look at Romans. I believe chapter three. I'm

784
00:45:40.239 --> 00:45:42.599
gonna try to look at some of these passages, but

785
00:45:42.639 --> 00:45:43.960
I'm going to be kind of just trying to give

786
00:45:44.000 --> 00:45:47.400
you the basic concepts here. All right, Romans Chapter three,

787
00:45:47.519 --> 00:45:49.960
verse twenty. Therefore, by the deeds of the law shall

788
00:45:50.000 --> 00:45:52.480
no flesh be justified in a site. For by the

789
00:45:52.719 --> 00:45:57.159
law is the knowledge of sin. The purpose of the

790
00:45:57.280 --> 00:46:00.480
law is not reform. It's not to ref for you.

791
00:46:00.599 --> 00:46:04.360
It's not to not for behavioral modification. It's to reveal something.

792
00:46:04.519 --> 00:46:09.440
It is revelation. Romans three twenty. Through the law comes

793
00:46:09.519 --> 00:46:12.880
the knowledge of sin. The law is a mirror. It's

794
00:46:12.960 --> 00:46:15.840
not a bar of soap. It's not soap. It's not

795
00:46:15.920 --> 00:46:19.760
to clean you. It's it's to reveal. It's to show you.

796
00:46:20.159 --> 00:46:23.800
It was given to show sin, not to win power righteousness.

797
00:46:23.960 --> 00:46:27.559
It diagnosed it. It will give you the diagnoses. It

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00:46:27.599 --> 00:46:33.920
does not heal you. The law was designed to reveal something,

799
00:46:34.360 --> 00:46:38.679
not to heal you, not to modify your behavior. And

800
00:46:38.760 --> 00:46:41.599
it's a mirror saying, hey, this is how you come

801
00:46:41.639 --> 00:46:45.719
to know what sin is? As it says again, it

802
00:46:45.840 --> 00:46:49.960
is by the law. Is the knowledge of sin. The

803
00:46:49.960 --> 00:46:55.440
purpose of the law is revelation, not reforming you, not

804
00:46:56.159 --> 00:47:01.840
behavioral modification. You have to get this down because almost

805
00:47:01.920 --> 00:47:05.559
church after church seems to completely misunderstand this. Go to

806
00:47:05.639 --> 00:47:15.400
Romans chapter seven. Romans Chapter seven, Romans chapter seven, Verse seven.

807
00:47:15.639 --> 00:47:18.480
What shall we say, then, is the law sin God

808
00:47:18.559 --> 00:47:21.800
forbid nay? I had not known sin, but by the law,

809
00:47:22.039 --> 00:47:24.440
for I had not known lust, except the law had

810
00:47:24.480 --> 00:47:28.800
said thou shalt not covet. If it had not been

811
00:47:28.840 --> 00:47:31.239
for the law, I would not have known sin. Paul

812
00:47:31.400 --> 00:47:33.760
uses the example of coveting. He did not know what

813
00:47:33.800 --> 00:47:35.840
it was until the law said do not covet. But

814
00:47:35.920 --> 00:47:38.800
once he knew, it didn't help him stop coveting. It

815
00:47:38.840 --> 00:47:45.519
made it worse. The law is it's to reveal, it's revelation.

816
00:47:45.760 --> 00:47:48.519
It's not for moral reform. So what's the purpose of

817
00:47:48.519 --> 00:47:52.000
the law to reveal? Right through the law comes the

818
00:47:52.039 --> 00:47:54.159
knowledge of sin. If it had not been for the law,

819
00:47:54.159 --> 00:47:57.400
I would not have known sin Romans three twenty, Romans

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00:47:57.440 --> 00:47:59.880
seven seven. And if I said revelation like the Book

821
00:47:59.880 --> 00:48:03.519
of Revelation, I apologize. I think I said it correctly.

822
00:48:03.519 --> 00:48:06.679
That the law's purpose is not reform, it's revelation. But

823
00:48:06.719 --> 00:48:09.960
the scriptures are Romans three twenty, not Revelation three twenty.

824
00:48:10.039 --> 00:48:14.000
Romans three twenty and Roman seven seven. Right, So you've

825
00:48:14.000 --> 00:48:16.559
got to you've got to understand that, all right, the

826
00:48:16.639 --> 00:48:20.519
law's purpose is to it's to reveal something. It's to

827
00:48:20.559 --> 00:48:26.639
reveal sin. Right, the law, actually this is important, provokes

828
00:48:26.960 --> 00:48:33.519
sin Romans seven eight. But sin taking occasion by the

829
00:48:33.599 --> 00:48:40.760
commandment wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without

830
00:48:40.800 --> 00:48:45.719
the law, sin was dead. Concupiscence what a word? Right?

831
00:48:45.960 --> 00:48:50.039
For without the law, sin was dead. So let me

832
00:48:50.119 --> 00:48:53.599
read it from a different translation. But sin seizing an

833
00:48:53.639 --> 00:49:01.079
opportunity through the commandment produced in me all kinds of coveteousness.

834
00:49:01.119 --> 00:49:06.039
Sin seizing an opportunity through the commandment produced in me

835
00:49:06.159 --> 00:49:13.280
all kinds of conveteousness, concupiscence, it lust, desire. The law

836
00:49:13.559 --> 00:49:18.800
arouses sinful desires. The moment something is forbidden, the sinful

837
00:49:18.880 --> 00:49:26.159
heart wants it more. The law actually provokes sin. The

838
00:49:26.320 --> 00:49:30.039
law was not given to reform you or to clean you.

839
00:49:30.400 --> 00:49:35.159
It was to reveal its revelation, and it actually provokes sin.

840
00:49:36.039 --> 00:49:38.840
Now I know this goes against everything, because most all

841
00:49:38.920 --> 00:49:42.199
youth programs are law based. Kids don't do this, don't

842
00:49:42.199 --> 00:49:44.119
do this, don't do this, don't do this, don't do this,

843
00:49:44.199 --> 00:49:46.119
don't do this, don't do this. And all you're doing

844
00:49:46.199 --> 00:49:49.039
is given them law. And all law does is provoke

845
00:49:49.159 --> 00:49:51.719
the very thing you don't want them to do. Because

846
00:49:51.760 --> 00:49:55.760
sin seizing an opportunity through the commandment produced in me

847
00:49:55.960 --> 00:50:02.199
all kinds of coveteousness or concupiscences it. It provokes it,

848
00:50:01.480 --> 00:50:10.559
it creates it, it entices it. People constantly forget that.

849
00:50:11.239 --> 00:50:14.760
Romans seven eleven, Romans Chapter seven, verse eleven. For sin

850
00:50:14.840 --> 00:50:19.519
taking occasion by the commandment deceive me, and by it

851
00:50:19.760 --> 00:50:23.960
slew me. Sin taking occasion by the commandment, we could

852
00:50:24.199 --> 00:50:27.880
read it this way. For sin seizing an opportunity through

853
00:50:27.960 --> 00:50:32.239
the commandment deceived me, and through it killed me. The

854
00:50:32.280 --> 00:50:37.039
commandment becomes a tool for sin to use against us.

855
00:50:37.440 --> 00:50:41.159
The law becomes the occasion for rebellion, not because the

856
00:50:41.239 --> 00:50:46.320
law is evil, but because we are I want you

857
00:50:46.360 --> 00:50:50.000
to see that sin actually provokes sin. It actually it

858
00:50:50.039 --> 00:50:53.400
will seize the opportunity through the commandment to deceive me

859
00:50:53.599 --> 00:50:58.360
and to kill me. That's what the law does. That's

860
00:50:58.360 --> 00:51:02.119
what sin through the law. You take sin, you take

861
00:51:02.159 --> 00:51:08.239
the law. This is the things that happen. The commandment

862
00:51:08.280 --> 00:51:10.199
becomes a tool for sin to use against us. I

863
00:51:10.199 --> 00:51:13.280
want you to hear that the commandment itself becomes a

864
00:51:13.320 --> 00:51:17.559
tool for sin to use against you. Sin uses the

865
00:51:17.599 --> 00:51:26.119
commandment against you, Romans five twenty. Moreover, the law entered

866
00:51:26.239 --> 00:51:30.400
that the offense might abound, but where sin abounded, grace

867
00:51:30.440 --> 00:51:33.199
did much more abound. Now the law came in to

868
00:51:33.320 --> 00:51:38.239
increase the trespass. The law actually multiplies sin, not because

869
00:51:38.280 --> 00:51:41.159
it is flawed, but because sinful people react to it

870
00:51:41.280 --> 00:51:44.519
and rebellion. All of these verses are telling you what

871
00:51:44.840 --> 00:51:48.239
the law actually does, and it's all negative things. There's

872
00:51:48.280 --> 00:51:51.000
nothing positive coming from it in this sense that there's

873
00:51:51.039 --> 00:51:54.639
a negative aspect to what it does because we are sinful.

874
00:51:57.719 --> 00:52:02.000
So the law actually provokes sin. Its purpose is revelation

875
00:52:02.480 --> 00:52:08.320
to reveal, and then it provokes sin. Now, what are

876
00:52:08.320 --> 00:52:11.920
the piological reason fallen? Human nature rebels against the law

877
00:52:12.199 --> 00:52:17.440
Romans eight seven Romans eight seven. Because the carnal mind

878
00:52:17.480 --> 00:52:19.960
is enmity against God, for it is not subject to

879
00:52:20.000 --> 00:52:23.000
the law of God. Neither indeed can it be. For

880
00:52:23.079 --> 00:52:25.079
the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile

881
00:52:25.119 --> 00:52:27.159
to God, for it does not submit to God's law.

882
00:52:27.280 --> 00:52:30.679
Indeed it cannot. The law demands submission, the flesh is

883
00:52:30.719 --> 00:52:33.639
incapable of submitting to it. Therefore, giving more law to

884
00:52:33.679 --> 00:52:37.760
the flesh strengthens resistance, not obedience. You can give all

885
00:52:37.840 --> 00:52:41.519
the law you want, it's only going to strength the resistance,

886
00:52:41.599 --> 00:52:45.639
not obedience. First Corinthians fifteen fifty six says, the power

887
00:52:45.679 --> 00:52:48.199
of sin is the law. I'm going to look at

888
00:52:48.239 --> 00:52:52.480
that in the King James one Corinthians fifteen fifty six.

889
00:52:54.280 --> 00:52:56.800
The sting of death is sin, and the strength of

890
00:52:56.800 --> 00:53:00.440
the sin is law. The strength of the sin is law,

891
00:53:01.239 --> 00:53:03.519
or the power of sin is the law. This is

892
00:53:03.519 --> 00:53:06.840
a shocking phrase. The law, which is holy and good,

893
00:53:07.440 --> 00:53:10.760
becomes the very thing sin uses to gain strength. The

894
00:53:10.760 --> 00:53:14.639
more we rely on law for moral improvement, the more

895
00:53:14.880 --> 00:53:19.639
we empower sins grip. The power of the sin is

896
00:53:19.679 --> 00:53:24.440
the law. The more we rely on law for moral improvement,

897
00:53:24.519 --> 00:53:28.400
the more we empower sins grip. Next, the law was

898
00:53:28.480 --> 00:53:33.000
never given to empower righteousness. The law was never given

899
00:53:33.039 --> 00:53:36.599
to empower righteousness. Galatians three twenty one. If a law

900
00:53:36.639 --> 00:53:39.320
had been given that could give life, then righteousness would

901
00:53:39.360 --> 00:53:43.360
indeed be by the law. Paul says, clearly, no law

902
00:53:43.360 --> 00:53:45.679
has ever existed that could give life. The law was

903
00:53:45.719 --> 00:53:48.159
never intended to make sinners holy. It was given to

904
00:53:48.239 --> 00:53:51.920
shut us up under sin as Galatians three twenty one.

905
00:53:52.000 --> 00:53:53.800
Let me read it again from the read it from

906
00:53:53.800 --> 00:53:56.880
the King James, as well as what the translation I

907
00:53:56.960 --> 00:54:01.599
just read from Galatians three twenty or three twenty one

908
00:54:01.639 --> 00:54:07.519
Galatians three twenty one. It is it is the law then,

909
00:54:07.599 --> 00:54:10.079
against the promises of God. God forbid. For if it

910
00:54:10.119 --> 00:54:13.199
had been a law given which could have given life, verily,

911
00:54:13.280 --> 00:54:15.639
righteousness should have been by the law. See if law

912
00:54:15.719 --> 00:54:18.719
could have actually given life, then rightchlessness should be a

913
00:54:18.760 --> 00:54:21.000
by the law. But no righteousness comes by the law.

914
00:54:21.159 --> 00:54:24.840
It does not give life. The law kills. The law

915
00:54:25.480 --> 00:54:31.280
kills us. It does not give us life. Galatians three nineteen.

916
00:54:31.599 --> 00:54:35.119
Why then, the law it was added because of transgressions.

917
00:54:35.320 --> 00:54:38.719
The law was added after the promise to highlight and

918
00:54:38.800 --> 00:54:44.639
intensify sin, not to resolve it. Galatians three twenty four.

919
00:54:44.840 --> 00:54:47.199
The law was our schoolmaster to bring us to Christ.

920
00:54:47.440 --> 00:54:50.840
Its ultimate function drives us to despair of self and

921
00:54:50.920 --> 00:54:53.679
faith in Christ. It's the road that leads to grace,

922
00:54:54.000 --> 00:54:57.880
not the engine of transformation. Let me state that again.

923
00:54:58.119 --> 00:55:01.159
The law is the road that it leads to grace.

924
00:55:01.400 --> 00:55:05.719
It's not the engine of transformation. The law does not transform.

925
00:55:05.800 --> 00:55:09.679
The law does not change. It only reveals. It kills,

926
00:55:09.840 --> 00:55:17.320
It entices, it provokes, It brings forth more sin. The

927
00:55:17.440 --> 00:55:20.960
law cannot transform the heart Hebrews ten to one. For

928
00:55:21.039 --> 00:55:23.039
since the law has but a shadow of the good

929
00:55:23.039 --> 00:55:25.559
things to come, it can never make perfect those who

930
00:55:25.719 --> 00:55:29.440
draw near. The law deals in shadows, not substance. It

931
00:55:29.440 --> 00:55:32.519
cannot reach into the inner man and renew him. It convicts,

932
00:55:32.599 --> 00:55:40.079
it condemns, it instructs, but it never transforms. Tewod Corinthians

933
00:55:40.119 --> 00:55:42.639
three six through nine. The letter kills, but the spirit

934
00:55:42.719 --> 00:55:46.920
gives life. The law is a ministry of death and condemnation.

935
00:55:47.599 --> 00:55:52.559
The letter kills, the law kills. So what happens when

936
00:55:52.599 --> 00:55:56.000
we misuse the law we get legalism. Trying to use

937
00:55:56.039 --> 00:56:01.960
the law to produce righteousness leads to either pride or moralism.

938
00:56:02.119 --> 00:56:06.000
It reduces Christianity to behavior management instead of union with Christ.

939
00:56:06.840 --> 00:56:11.599
Shame cycles when people inevitably fail the law, which they will,

940
00:56:11.679 --> 00:56:14.400
and they do, they spiral into guilt and hide from

941
00:56:14.440 --> 00:56:17.840
God or hypocrisy. You try to produce some form of

942
00:56:17.960 --> 00:56:21.559
outward purity while you still have the same inward corruption,

943
00:56:21.840 --> 00:56:32.039
and you become nothing more than whitewashed tombs. The Law

944
00:56:32.079 --> 00:56:35.280
is holy, just and good, but it was never given

945
00:56:35.320 --> 00:56:39.280
to stop sin. It reveals, provokes, and condemns sin so

946
00:56:39.320 --> 00:56:42.880
that we might see our need for a savior. Only

947
00:56:42.920 --> 00:56:47.639
the Gospel. Only grace, through the only grace in Christ,

948
00:56:48.280 --> 00:56:50.400
ultimately has the power to free us from sin. And

949
00:56:50.440 --> 00:56:53.400
it only frees us from sin. Positionally, it does not

950
00:56:53.480 --> 00:56:55.840
free us from sin practically, you say no, no, no,

951
00:56:55.880 --> 00:56:58.519
it frees us from sin. Practically. You can try to

952
00:56:58.639 --> 00:57:01.559
argue that it freed you from sin A or sin B.

953
00:57:01.880 --> 00:57:03.960
But you're not free from sin because if you're free

954
00:57:03.960 --> 00:57:06.360
from sin, you could be perfect. But since you're not perfect,

955
00:57:06.440 --> 00:57:08.760
you're not free because the very thing that keeps you

956
00:57:08.840 --> 00:57:12.000
from perfection is obviously you're not free from You're in

957
00:57:12.079 --> 00:57:14.960
bondage too, So what is keeping you from getting to

958
00:57:15.039 --> 00:57:18.360
perfection a sin nature, So guess what, You're not free

959
00:57:18.360 --> 00:57:33.320
from sin only positionally. So Christianity's entire approach is law, law, law, law, law, law, law, law, law, law, law, law, law, law, law.

960
00:57:33.760 --> 00:57:38.280
Two thousand years of that sin, sin, sin, sin, sins

961
00:57:38.320 --> 00:57:43.079
and sin, sin, failure, failure, failure, failure, failure, failure, failure, failure, failure, failure,

962
00:57:43.199 --> 00:57:48.320
and failure. Because it was never meant to give us anything.

963
00:57:48.559 --> 00:57:50.960
The only way law is success. You know when law

964
00:57:51.000 --> 00:57:53.599
has done its job and it's successful is when you

965
00:57:53.760 --> 00:57:55.280
end up at the foot of the cross saying you

966
00:57:55.320 --> 00:57:58.039
know what I can't, never can, never will be able to.

967
00:57:58.880 --> 00:58:01.840
I trust in you and your finished work, and then

968
00:58:01.880 --> 00:58:05.320
the righteousness of Christ as it credited to your account.

969
00:58:05.519 --> 00:58:07.960
And then you stand up declared to be perfect and

970
00:58:07.960 --> 00:58:11.039
holy and righteous and obedience, even though you never will

971
00:58:11.079 --> 00:58:15.800
be practically and you never will be practically well. I

972
00:58:15.840 --> 00:58:18.199
can never have victory over anything, or you can have

973
00:58:18.280 --> 00:58:21.280
victory over certain things. Yeah you can. Lost people can

974
00:58:21.320 --> 00:58:24.360
have victory over certain things. Lost people stop doing drugs,

975
00:58:24.440 --> 00:58:28.000
lost people stop drinking, lost people lose weight, lost people

976
00:58:28.079 --> 00:58:31.519
build muscle mass. Lost people can can improve their life.

977
00:58:31.679 --> 00:58:34.559
Fix this, change this. People and all kinds of religions

978
00:58:34.559 --> 00:58:37.280
do that. Muslims do it, Mormons do it, jo Always,

979
00:58:37.280 --> 00:58:40.960
Witnesses do it, Catholics do it, Buddhists. All kinds of

980
00:58:40.960 --> 00:58:44.239
people can can radically transform I mean, every religion, as

981
00:58:44.239 --> 00:58:47.960
the story of my life was so transformed. Everyone can

982
00:58:48.000 --> 00:58:50.480
do that. People can do it through counseling, through all

983
00:58:50.599 --> 00:58:52.880
kinds of things. They all people find all kinds of things.

984
00:58:52.920 --> 00:58:55.239
This is what I was and this is what I am.

985
00:58:55.400 --> 00:58:58.000
I mean, everything sells it that way. Christianity tries to

986
00:58:58.039 --> 00:59:02.280
sell itself on this practical transation. You can pick areas

987
00:59:02.280 --> 00:59:04.920
of practical transformation and you can brag about it. You

988
00:59:04.920 --> 00:59:07.119
can put on your robe with self righteousness, but all

989
00:59:07.119 --> 00:59:09.800
you really are is a whitewashed tomb because on the

990
00:59:09.840 --> 00:59:12.679
inside you got the same corruption that's always been there,

991
00:59:12.719 --> 00:59:15.400
because that corruption never goes away, because your sin nature

992
00:59:15.480 --> 00:59:17.960
never goes away. So GISs what. You can pretend, and

993
00:59:18.000 --> 00:59:21.199
you can pretend, and you can pretend, but inside is

994
00:59:21.280 --> 00:59:25.440
sin sin. You may have stopped sin a but you're

995
00:59:25.519 --> 00:59:28.880
still in sin. You may have stopped a sin, but

996
00:59:29.039 --> 00:59:31.960
you are in sin because you never holy as God

997
00:59:32.000 --> 00:59:34.159
is holy. You never love God with all your heart, mind, body,

998
00:59:34.159 --> 00:59:36.360
and soul. You never love your enemy, you never love

999
00:59:36.400 --> 00:59:38.480
your neighborrasures. I can go on and on and on

1000
00:59:38.519 --> 00:59:40.480
and on and on. So you're in a perpetual state

1001
00:59:40.519 --> 00:59:42.920
of sin. Now you say, well, so I shouldn't care.

1002
00:59:42.960 --> 00:59:45.880
I'm not saying that. Say we have to start with

1003
00:59:45.960 --> 00:59:50.760
this fundamental principle that when we give these law based approaches, Hey,

1004
00:59:50.800 --> 00:59:53.320
don't do this, stop doing this, do this, do this,

1005
00:59:53.400 --> 00:59:55.760
do this, do this, law law, law, law, law. It's

1006
00:59:55.800 --> 00:59:59.880
always about the imperative right. Do this, don't do this,

1007
01:00:00.119 --> 01:00:03.599
do this, don't do this. Here's this technique. Here's a

1008
01:00:03.599 --> 01:00:06.360
sticker to put on your phone. Smash the phone. Do this,

1009
01:00:06.559 --> 01:00:09.280
do this, do this. You can do all of those things.

1010
01:00:11.639 --> 01:00:14.320
You're still a sinner, and you're still going to sin.

1011
01:00:14.840 --> 01:00:17.000
And who knows, even if you just think, even if

1012
01:00:17.039 --> 01:00:21.119
you never look at porn, I know this is a shock.

1013
01:00:22.280 --> 01:00:25.480
Go through the Book of Genesis. I've got a list

1014
01:00:25.519 --> 01:00:28.440
here of every sexual sin that happens in the Book

1015
01:00:28.480 --> 01:00:34.760
of Genesis. There's a lot. All of it happened before pornography.

1016
01:00:35.599 --> 01:00:39.480
Oh how did that happen? Because it's inside of us.

1017
01:00:41.880 --> 01:00:45.039
You may never look at porn, you can still have lust,

1018
01:00:45.679 --> 01:00:48.719
you can still have desires, you can still have thoughts.

1019
01:00:52.960 --> 01:00:55.760
Am I justifying the other? I'm not. I'm trying to

1020
01:00:55.760 --> 01:00:58.440
get us to the root of the issue. The problem

1021
01:00:58.559 --> 01:01:04.199
is inside of me, and I can fight it. I

1022
01:01:04.239 --> 01:01:08.920
can condemn it. I can tell my enter depravity. Seven

1023
01:01:09.000 --> 01:01:13.519
hundred and fifty two laws, that law, all the law

1024
01:01:13.559 --> 01:01:15.639
there is to reveal that how messed up I am

1025
01:01:15.639 --> 01:01:19.000
on the inside. It doesn't clean, it doesn't it doesn't kill,

1026
01:01:19.039 --> 01:01:27.960
it doesn't fix it. Almost every Christian program deals with

1027
01:01:28.000 --> 01:01:30.320
it from a law based perspective. And I want you

1028
01:01:30.360 --> 01:01:32.960
to see law doesn't do that. So let me go

1029
01:01:33.039 --> 01:01:35.320
through all of that that we just covered really really quick.

1030
01:01:35.360 --> 01:01:37.280
And I know we went through that. I know I

1031
01:01:37.360 --> 01:01:40.280
kept messing up the word concupiscents. I don't have the

1032
01:01:40.280 --> 01:01:42.880
word in front of me, but I messed that up.

1033
01:01:42.880 --> 01:01:45.840
But you know, desires, inordinate desires is what that word means.

1034
01:01:45.840 --> 01:01:49.599
So let's go through this, all right. So the misunderstanding

1035
01:01:49.599 --> 01:01:53.519
of law, the common assumption is we give people rules, laws,

1036
01:01:53.559 --> 01:01:56.199
or commands, they will stop sinning. The Biblical truth, law

1037
01:01:56.280 --> 01:01:59.239
reveals sin, It does not remove it. It cannot remove it.

1038
01:01:59.280 --> 01:02:03.199
All right. Then we started looking at law's purpose is revelation.

1039
01:02:03.800 --> 01:02:06.840
It's not reform. All right. We looked at Romans three twenty.

1040
01:02:07.119 --> 01:02:11.400
Through the law comes knowledge of sin. The law is mirrored.

1041
01:02:11.400 --> 01:02:13.639
It's not soap. It was given to show sin, not

1042
01:02:13.719 --> 01:02:17.480
to empower it. Romans seven seven. If I had not been,

1043
01:02:17.519 --> 01:02:19.079
if it had not been for the law, I would

1044
01:02:19.079 --> 01:02:23.119
not have known sin right. The idea is is he

1045
01:02:23.159 --> 01:02:25.559
did not know sin, or he did not know coveting

1046
01:02:25.800 --> 01:02:28.000
until the law said do not covet. But once he

1047
01:02:28.079 --> 01:02:30.360
knew he didn't, it didn't help him stop coveting. It's

1048
01:02:30.400 --> 01:02:34.400
simply made it worse. The law actually provokes sin Romans

1049
01:02:34.400 --> 01:02:38.159
seven eight. But sin seizing an opportunity through the commandment

1050
01:02:38.440 --> 01:02:41.800
produced in me all kinds of coveteousness, all kinds of

1051
01:02:41.960 --> 01:02:47.159
inordinate desires, concupiscences. Okay, you get the idea Romans seven eleven.

1052
01:02:47.239 --> 01:02:50.639
For sin seizing an opportunity through the commandment deceive me

1053
01:02:50.920 --> 01:02:54.639
and through it killed me. All right, Sin seized an

1054
01:02:54.679 --> 01:02:58.800
opportunity through the very commandment, through the very law, Romans

1055
01:02:58.800 --> 01:03:01.840
five twenty. Now the law all came in to increase

1056
01:03:02.280 --> 01:03:07.679
the trespass. Law actually multiplies sin right, Romans eighty seven.

1057
01:03:08.880 --> 01:03:12.239
What's the problem. Well, fall in human nature rebels against

1058
01:03:12.280 --> 01:03:14.360
the law Romans eighty seven. For the mind that is

1059
01:03:14.400 --> 01:03:16.599
set on the fleshes hostile to God, for it does

1060
01:03:16.639 --> 01:03:20.599
not submit to God's law. Indeed it cannot on Corinthians

1061
01:03:20.639 --> 01:03:23.679
fifteen fifty six. The power of sin is the law

1062
01:03:24.599 --> 01:03:27.519
Galatious three twenty one. If a law had been given

1063
01:03:27.679 --> 01:03:30.239
that could give life, then righteousness would indeed be by

1064
01:03:30.280 --> 01:03:33.119
the law. But it's not. No righteousness comes by the law.

1065
01:03:34.360 --> 01:03:37.519
Righteousness comes through Christ's keeping of the law, imputed to

1066
01:03:37.559 --> 01:03:41.280
your account Galatians three nineteen. Why then the law it

1067
01:03:41.320 --> 01:03:44.880
was added because of transgressions. The law is our schoolmaster

1068
01:03:45.000 --> 01:03:48.440
to bring us to Christ. For since the law Hebrews

1069
01:03:48.480 --> 01:03:50.639
ten to one. For since the law has been but

1070
01:03:50.760 --> 01:03:53.400
a shadow of good things to come, it can never

1071
01:03:53.480 --> 01:03:58.400
make perfect. Those who draw near the letter kills. It's

1072
01:03:58.440 --> 01:04:05.880
the spirit that gives life. There we have it, and

1073
01:04:05.960 --> 01:04:11.639
any victory is positionally. Practically, it's very hard to measure

1074
01:04:11.719 --> 01:04:15.679
success over sin practically, because for whatever sin, you're like, hey,

1075
01:04:15.679 --> 01:04:18.599
look at me, I overcome the sin, and I'll be like,

1076
01:04:18.639 --> 01:04:20.400
and you're still in a perpetual state of sin. And

1077
01:04:20.440 --> 01:04:22.119
if you're guilty of one point of the law, you're

1078
01:04:22.159 --> 01:04:25.039
guilty of all. So how do you even measure Well,

1079
01:04:25.079 --> 01:04:29.480
I stop doing this sin, but you've broken that commandment,

1080
01:04:29.639 --> 01:04:31.960
so you're still guilty of the very commandment that you said.

1081
01:04:32.119 --> 01:04:37.679
You just got victory over. From a theological perspective, so

1082
01:04:37.719 --> 01:04:39.320
you're in a perpetual state of sin. I don't know

1083
01:04:39.320 --> 01:04:41.440
how you measure success when you're in a perpetual stat

1084
01:04:41.480 --> 01:04:43.920
of sin. I'm in a perpetual state of sin, but

1085
01:04:44.079 --> 01:04:46.480
I stop sinning there, But you're in a perpetual state

1086
01:04:46.519 --> 01:04:51.079
of sin. Yeah, and you say, well, that seems very defeatist. Well,

1087
01:04:51.079 --> 01:04:55.400
I know that's kind of the whole point. That's why

1088
01:04:55.400 --> 01:04:58.119
we need imputed righteousness. Now, if we were saved by

1089
01:04:58.239 --> 01:05:01.679
infused righteousness, we could get all practical and talk about

1090
01:05:01.800 --> 01:05:05.199
victory and overcoming things. But it's not the way it works.

1091
01:05:05.719 --> 01:05:07.800
All right, I'm going to stop there. We're sixty five

1092
01:05:07.800 --> 01:05:13.480
minutes now. The next time, well, listen to a little

1093
01:05:13.480 --> 01:05:15.920
bit more of this, and then we're going to get

1094
01:05:15.920 --> 01:05:19.559
to well, the real problem. See, the real problem is

1095
01:05:19.599 --> 01:05:24.800
not only our sin nature. The real problem is the desire.

1096
01:05:27.519 --> 01:05:34.960
It's biological, it's psychological, it's inside of us. I know

1097
01:05:35.000 --> 01:05:37.400
people don't like that, but it's inside of us. That's

1098
01:05:37.400 --> 01:05:39.480
why in the Book of Genesis, people were committing all

1099
01:05:39.559 --> 01:05:43.599
kinds of sexual sin way before the Internet, way before pornography,

1100
01:05:43.880 --> 01:05:47.679
way before Netflix, way before Elvis Presley, way before help

1101
01:05:48.000 --> 01:05:53.239
Elvis Presley, what way before MTV, way before heavy metal,

1102
01:05:54.079 --> 01:06:01.239
way before wrap And you got everything going on in Genesis.

1103
01:06:01.239 --> 01:06:04.920
You've got some you've got polygamy early on Boom, something

1104
01:06:04.960 --> 01:06:07.519
goes down with Noah and whatever happens inside that tent.

1105
01:06:08.239 --> 01:06:11.159
We could get into a whole historical argument that a

1106
01:06:11.199 --> 01:06:13.760
lot of people believe something sexual took place there, not

1107
01:06:13.920 --> 01:06:17.559
just more than seeing nakedness. Maybe maybe we'll get into that.

1108
01:06:17.960 --> 01:06:25.559
We've got rape, we've got incest, We've got we've got

1109
01:06:25.599 --> 01:06:29.039
clearly some homosexual desires going on. All of that's all

1110
01:06:29.079 --> 01:06:32.639
going on. Why is all that happening in Genesis? Sinful

1111
01:06:32.719 --> 01:06:34.840
nature produces all of it, and many of the people

1112
01:06:34.840 --> 01:06:37.400
committing those sins or quote unquote believers in the True God.

1113
01:06:38.400 --> 01:06:41.480
What Abraham does to Hagar, you can try to justify

1114
01:06:41.519 --> 01:06:45.840
that all day takes a woman as no agency, no rights,

1115
01:06:46.559 --> 01:07:01.440
They use her obviously in a sexual way, really messed up. Yeah,

1116
01:07:01.480 --> 01:07:05.119
and guess what when they get all the laws, So

1117
01:07:05.320 --> 01:07:08.880
that means all this is already showing up even before

1118
01:07:08.920 --> 01:07:12.920
anything even is, you know, around So it's because it's

1119
01:07:12.960 --> 01:07:15.119
inside of people. And then when you get to Exodus

1120
01:07:15.119 --> 01:07:17.119
and they get the law, what do they do well

1121
01:07:17.119 --> 01:07:20.639
from Exodus on since and sins and sins and since

1122
01:07:20.679 --> 01:07:26.360
and since and polygamy, rape, adultery, murder, lust. I mean,

1123
01:07:26.440 --> 01:07:29.639
it's throughout the rest of the entire Bible. I wonder why,

1124
01:07:29.920 --> 01:07:36.400
because the law doesn't fix the problem. All right, we'll

1125
01:07:36.440 --> 01:07:40.800
stop there, Thanks for listening. I just kind of went

1126
01:07:40.800 --> 01:07:44.760
against everything Christianity teaches in twenty twenty five. But that's okay.

1127
01:07:45.679 --> 01:07:49.920
I've got historical I got Bible theology and Church history

1128
01:07:49.960 --> 01:07:52.000
on my side. That what I'm giving you is a

1129
01:07:52.159 --> 01:07:55.480
very correct understanding of the law if we truly, But

1130
01:07:55.760 --> 01:07:57.800
Christians don't want to apply the law in a correct

1131
01:07:57.840 --> 01:08:04.719
way because we're a law based and that's where our

1132
01:08:04.719 --> 01:08:06.840
solutions are a mess. Godless