FEAR God to FLEE Lust | Overcoming Sexual Temptation

we're gonna take a look at the story of joseph  um today if you have your bible uh or if you have   your phone um let's open to Genesis 42 and verse  18. then Joseph said to them the 3rd day do this   and live for I fear god do this and live for I  fear God flirting with sin leads to falling in sin God do this and live for I  fear god flirting with sin leads to falling in sin fleeing from sin is only because  we have a fear of the Lord   fear of the Lord leads to fleeing from sexual sin. Being familiar with God leads to flirting  with sexual sin virginity is a gift you'll   give to your spouse virginity is only till  you get married the moment you get married   virginity is no more but purity sexual purity is  not till marriage sexual purity is for eternity and a lot of focus a lot of emphasis is placed   on keeping yourself pure until you  get married that's not what purity is   purity is not abstaining from sex because you  need to still be pure even after you get married   purity is the issue of the heart has nothing to do  with physical things it manifests in the physical   but first and foremost it is spiritual the root of  walking in purity sexual purity is the fear of god   and i just want to highlight something and if if  we could um maybe close the doors uh when people   walk in and let people just be in the lobby  who are in the lobby that would be really nice   i want to mention with you something about  life of Joseph that we're going to touch   on the area of purity and the area of fear of  the lord if you're taking notes write this down   fear of the lord is the only thing that will  get you through situations that are not fair   fear of the lord is the only thing that  will get you through things that are not   fair in life Joseph went through four types of  seasons in his life that were characterized by   4 types of coats the first coat is the one  the father gave him which his brothers ripped   apart the second coat is the one that portifor  gave him which the potiphar's wife took apart   the third one is the one that jail gave him  which then pharaoh replaced and the fourth   coat is the one that pharaoh gave him which  put him in the palace four seasons beloved son   a slave prisoner and a prime minister or somebody  who was in the palace four seasons of his life and   you see one thing he gets betrayed he gets lied  to he gets things get thrown at him and joseph   maintains his purity joseph maintains his holiness  there was no bible there was no church there was   no pastor there was no ten commandments there  was none of that stuff yet he lived more pure   than many of us who have the holy ghost have the  bible have the church and know about the cross   what was the secret there was no teaching on  forgiving your brothers who sold you up no his   brothers didn't just hurt him they sold him like  that's messed up like talk about dysfunctional   family meaning my family is dysfunctional  you don't know what dysfunctional family is   compared to him when your brothers debate whether  to kill you or sell you that's dysfunction   and they decided let's take an easy way at  least we can make some money let's sell him   and joseph finds forgiveness watch this never  went to an encounter never had a preaching on   forgiveness never had none of that stuff you're  like how could somebody be young has his life over   13 or 15 years of his life totally destroyed  totally destroyed by this crazy people and he   finds forgiveness he survives through all of that  and joseph gives us a secret he said i fear god   i'm going to tell you what our  problem is we only love him and therefore we flirt with sin therefore when  unfair situations happen i lost my faith why   because my parents got divorced my dad died out  of cancer my mom died i don't want to downplay the   hardships and the unfairness but i'm going to tell  you one thing my great grandpa who sat in jail for   10 years and then tied to a horse dragged around  the village while the villagers threw rocks at him   and died from three days later from a brain  damage got treated worse than you did why did   he not lose his faith because it was the fear  of god i just finished two books on martyrs   honestly heart broken with what people went  through and they did not lose faith and i   see these young people i'm disappointed with  slavic church they hurt me are you kidding me   do you know why because your love for God  is big your fear of God is non-existent without the fear of god the unfair things in life  will throw you out of the church hypocrisy church   politics church biting and gossip all of that  stuff will throw you out not because of that it's   because lack of the fear of god throws a person  out when your seasons change have you noticed   when seasons change many of us get sick and get  allergies that's exactly what happens spiritually   seasons change you start getting persecuted you  start being attacked people start blackmailing   all kinds of things and people lose faith why  do they lose faith not because their faith is so   weak it's because it's not anchored in the fear of  the lord when you fear god you don't go to church   because people treat you well you go to church  because of god the same way you go to walmart you   don't go to walmart because of the cashew or the  lady in the front smiles that you go to walmart   because you need some pants or you need some  things and you go in there you don't care which   atheists are there homosexuals are there people  dressed up like a guy who's trying to figure   out which bathroom they need to go you're there  on the mission you got your stuff and you left   when you go to a coffee shop you do exactly the  same thing you don't go this huh uh that person i   saw him last time in the other coffee shop they're  a hypocrite double face they go to two different   coffee shops at the same time no when you go to a  coffee shop you get your coffee you sit down and   you do your thing but when you go to church you're  looking everywhere around this person doesn't   treat me well that person doesn't treat me well  this person mistreats me i just feel like life is   not fair god has not been fair with me that only  exists in a spoiled breath western christianity that lacks the fear of God excuse me let  me say it again that lacks the fear of God   we are obese with the love of god and dying out  of starvation for the lack of the fear of god   the fear of god is not being scared of  god it's being aware of his awesomeness   and living fascinated with how good he is in  exodus God brought people to to the mountain   shook the mountain brought fire down and then  he said this he says i did all of this so you   will fear me you know what Israel did they got  scared so guess what they did they pulled back   and they said we don't want to go and talk to God  Moses you go in and the bible says Moses drew near   fear of God draws you near to God being  scared of God pulls you further from him   fear of God draws you in it's being aware of  the awesomeness of God if you ever drove and   you were slightly speeding slightly so like  15 miles slightly speeding and you were fine   until you saw a police officer everything changed  after that first of all you start speaking in   tongues and then you start beating down yourself  on the chest like the sinner who came to approach   God have mercy upon me a God sinner now have you  noticed that the presence of a police officer   did not bring the change in your driving  it was your awareness of his presence   he was always hiding behind those bushes and  you were driving as crazy as you always drive   it's the moment you became aware of someone  who has been present there for a long time   immediately everything changed you  start driving according to speed limit   you start praying christian music you say God I  promise I will never if he doesn't pull me over   i will increase my tithe from 10 to 20 percent and  then you start making I will go to SMBS school I   God I just I just I love you guys you know that  i love you god you know that I did not mean to   do what i just did there everything changes not  because the police officer was on the road because   you became aware of him the fear of the Lord  is being aware of the God who's always there   fear of the Lord not in the way that he's  going to pull you over and give you a ticket   but aware of his awesomeness aware of his being  fascinated with him not being just familiar but   being fascinated with his glory and with his  power what that does it gives you endurance   to get through the most unfair challenging seasons  of your life without losing your faith that's   the first thing the fear of God does because many  people leave faith today and this is what they say   something happened i couldn't explain  i prayed for healing my mom died   this prophet said nothing happened my friend  the fear of the Lord will get you through all   of that on the other side if you don't have the  fear of God small unfair thing and i'm going to   tell you one thing in five years at least few  of them will happen because this world is broken   we serve in the world that is still under the  domain of satan stuff just happens in this world   there is no way to escape without being scarred  beaten broken sometimes called with things and   being thrown in a blender of life the only thing  that will keep you is what kept joseph i fear god   the second thing i want to mention we're getting  to purity reverence for god is the only secret to   going deeper in the relationship with god write  this down a reverence for god is the only secret   to going deeper in relationship with God many  christians have a relationship with God but they   lack reverence for God any relationship that  lacks reverence is one step short of religion any relationship that lacks reverence is one step  short of being religion why because everything   lives and operates by rules and rules cannot give  life only god gives life relationship with god   for it to go deeper there's one secret it's  reverence for god watch this in joseph's life   two verses genesis 39 verse two and three the  lord was with joseph and he was a successful man   genesis 39 verse 21 but the lord was with joseph  and showed him mercy now when you read this no   problem but think about this first season  of his life he is favored by his father the   bible doesn't say the lord was with joseph it was  obvious when your daddy gives you the nicest car   and the daddy gives you his credit card  God doesn't have to tell you he is with you   you're already telling everybody God has blessed  me you know when God says the Lord was with Joseph   it's when his brothers betrayed him twice in the  bible the lord the bible says the lord was with   joseph first time it says when he got betrayed  and the second time we get thrown into jail   and the bible finds it it's almost like ironic  god says and the lord was with joseph why because   these were the times where i'm pretty sure  joseph did not feel like the lord was with him it did not say the lord was with joseph when he  got promoted to be the second man in egypt and   now all the wealth of Egypt he managed the bible  does not say the Lord was with him then and the   bible does not say the Lord was with Joseph  when he got honored and favored by his father   it says the Lord was with Joseph when he got  betrayed and then the Lord got with Joseph   when he got thrown into jail and labeled as  a sex offender and somebody who uses women   how was it that the Lord was with Joseph what  is the secret of this presence of God with   Joseph see many of us want to be with God what i'm  talking about is when God is with you relationship   with God is when you are with him reverence  for God is when god starts being with you   what is the secret of that it's reverence  for God I have people especially young   people all the time and come and ask me  questions like this how much do you pray   how much do you fast how much bible do you read  and i know what they're asking they don't want   to know my numbers they want to know the secret of  the depth of relationship with god for themselves   I'm not saying they think I'm deep with God but  for themselves the real questions they're asking   is how can i go deeper in my relationship i'm  gonna tell you one thing i can tell you my numbers   numbers hours days of fasting the  hours of studying the bible do not   get you deeper if you lack the most important  ingredient which is reverence for god   i know people who don't pray as long as i  do don't fast as long as i do who are as   deep and deeper in their relationship with  god because those things like fasting and   prayer and scriptural reading it is to fuel the  fear for the lord but it's not your secret to   going deeper with god never copy somebody else's  acts of their intimacy imitate the root of that   which is reverence for god that's why  you can sometimes look at your parents   you're like man but they don't pray three hours a  day they don't read 20 chapters they don't watch   that many youtube sermons like i do they don't  go to as many conferences but their relationship   with God you throw them to hell and back they'll  come back burning you're like what's the secret   fear of the Lord reverence for God what  young people lack today is exactly this   what we need today is exactly this is reverence  for god so number one the reverence for god   is the only thing that will keep us away from  unfair situations we come we're gonna come back   on the other on the other side the second one is  reverence for god is the only secret for deeper   relationship with god i like to say like this fear  of god is the key to the fire of god number three reverence for god is the only key for relevance  in this world a reverence for god is the only key   to relevance in this world youtube can give you knowledge only  the fear of god will give you wisdom   the bible says the beginning of wisdom is what finishing a BA the beginning  of wisdom is getting a masters   the bible doesn't say the beginning  of wisdom is getting your doctorate   the bible says the beginning of wisdom is the fear  of God look at Joseph's life have you noticed that   Joseph possessed something that egyptian magicians  and smart people did not possess without going   to college and university he had wisdom he was  able to get thrown into a house within few years   run the whole house where the owner trusted  him with all the passwords to everything   gave him all his credit cards and all the keys to  everywhere and a guy did not have a college degree   they threw him in jail and instead of being  offended that i'm better than this my gifts are   don't qualify for this little bad place Joseph  quickly becomes a warden in jail runs the whole   prison without a college degree how can a man  being a slave a stained reputation who run things   everywhere he ends up wisdom you don't get wisdom  from college you get knowledge from college you   don't get wisdom by taking e-courses and classes  you get wisdom there's only one thing that gives   you wisdom it is the fear of God. When you fear  God, God endorses your life i'm all for college   i'm all for degree especially in this country  you have to go get a degree but one thing that   degree will do is that it will help you to know  science and you will not know how to stay married   that's why there are doctors who teach  finance who are broke like a joke   that are professors and counselors who  will counsel you and therapists who will   therapeutically therapy you okay i just came up  with a word and then you look at their own life   and you find out marriages you're like if you  know so much that you're telling me and i'm paying   you 160$/hour why this thing doesn't  work for you because knowledge is not wisdom   knowledge you get in a university  wisdom you get in the fear of God   and what we have with young people today our  people my generation as our parents did not have   degrees but they had the fear of God therefore  they build businesses they build families and they   build ministries a young generation is growing up  and we are standing on their shoulders and we went   further than them we got degrees we got things and  we can't put two things together we speak english   we speak russian and we can't speak when we  speak in tongues and we can speak to our opposite   sex our spouse why because knowledge is not  wisdom knowledge comes from youtube it comes   from university it comes from courses wisdom  comes only from one place it's the fear of God   i look at my parents who barely speak english  who came 20 years ago my dad and my mom were not   able to finish school a former school because  they were christians and they were not allowed   to go to a university when my dad  applied they told him right away   you can't go in in other words you you  christian you can't take college courses   when they move to the united states you  know i observe their life from a side   they don't speak well english they don't have  necessarily my mom works assembling wheelchairs   and my dad distributes mail as a mailman they  raised five children i've never seen my parents   curse at each other i never seen my dad play  video games or being glued to a television   they built a very nice home i won't tell you  the number very very nice home for cash my mom   drives a tesla she doesn't know how to drive  it i had to show her how to do that stuff   her car got stuck in the middle of the road  she's like what i do keeps beeping they're   one of the most generous people i know my  dad worked the post office long 10 12 hours   would eat dinner run to church run the maintenance  in the church and run all the bookkeeping   when the church wanted to give him a gift  of a thousand dollars he declined and says   give it to somebody who's in need I look at  them they're very quiet people and I'm amazed   i look at people in this culture and my generation  who have more degrees than a thermometer can put   their life together fighting like cats and dogs  in dead to their eyeballs and i look at my parents   and i brag and when i look i can find one thing  about them and it's not their education you may   say oh they're hard working no no that's a result  they say oh they manage their money well that's a   result you may say oh they um you know they work  diligent they serve the church that's a result   but at the root of it all it's what they had and  their parents had is my parents they fear God it's my cry that i don't know more than i fear God it's a deception of this age to over  educate yourself and you can make a bank   and then spend all of that on divorce lawyers  spend all of that by one dumb mistake that you   knew better not to do that why because knowledge  comes from college fear of god brings wisdom   in all you're getting get a fear of god i  want to encourage you to go to college i want   to encourage you to get a degree i want you to i  want to encourage you climb the corporate ladder   but i want to tell you something that ladder  is shaky when you fall great will be your fault   unless one thing that will keep you harnessed to  a high place if God ever takes you it will not   be your degree it will not be your knowledge it  will not be your political connections it will be   the fear of god it's what kept your parents  it's what kept your grandparents and dear slavic   people for those of you from a slavic background i  beseech you by the mercies of God that's one thing   we need to learn from the previous generation  that's one thing you need to get on your knees   and pray for more than your husband and your wife  and for God to help you pass an exam because even   if you fail that exam you can still succeed in  life god will still take you if God took Joseph   through jail and reported first house and he  was successful in everything they threw in him   without a degree so can you if  you will have the fear of God are you with me amen now number 4. um let me mention one more thing  about fear of God number 3.   lack of the fear of God opens the door to a spirit  of fear one of the best ways to overcome anxiety   depression fear chronic fear of people is  not ask God to remove it as God to replace it   by giving you better fear healthier fear when  you are afraid there is no place for the fear of   God in your life Jesus says do not fear those who  kill your body and then he says fear only one who   can burn it both in hell and your soul in other  words Jesus says don't be afraid just fear God the cure to fear is the fear of God   God doesn't want you to be void of fear  he wants you to be possessed by his fear chronic fear of people fear of witnessing fear  of rejection fear of getting married fear of   being cheated on fear of driving i remember  prayed for this girl who couldn't drive for   four years because she was an accident and  there was this fear all these fears melt   in the fear of the lord live with the fear of god  you will be free never to fear man to be who god   called you to be the last point and this this one  is we're going to talk about the the fornication   the sin so Joseph has a reverence for God and it  causes him to go deeper in the relationship with   God because God was with Joseph Joseph had this  wisdom that came from God even though he didn't   have a lot of education that came from college  joseph was a was able to get through all of this   hardships in life without losing his faith  becoming bitter and cranky and mean because   of the fear of god and there's the last thing  is the fear of god will cause you to flee sexual   sin instead of flirting with sexual sin write  this down the fear of God will cause me to flee   sexual sin instead of flirting with sexual sin  there's a verse in Genesis 39:12 and she caught   him by his garments saying lie with me but he left  his garment in her hand and fled and ran outside   in second timothy chapter 2 verse 22 flee also  youthful lusts but pursue righteousness faith   love peace with those who call on the name of  the lord out of a pure heart proverbs 16 6 in   mercy and truth atonement is provided for iniquity  and by the fear of the lord one departs from evil   this is what fascinates me boris without teachings  and purity without a local pastor without a local   church without ten commandments indwelling of  the holy spirit the power of the blood without   the new testament without your mom and dad telling  you stay away from sexual purity impurity Joseph   without all of that runs in a place and a culture  where it was totally acceptable and permissible   in that culture to satisfy your sexual desire was  similar for you to grab a burger in mcdonald's   sexual immorality was not viewed as a view today  in our culture and this woman the scripture says   she was every day nagging nagging Joseph  Joseph was a young handsome good-looking man   he had sexual desires he was physical  there was a biology that was in him   he was abandoned so he could say you know what  yeah it's okay for me to yield in because my life   has been difficult and she keeps nagging nagging  nagging nagging and joseph keeps doing his work   and then something begins to happen one day  this woman she came and she just grabbed him   and this would have been a good  moment to say let's pray together   let's join hands i see you never had  a father in your life there's a father   wound and you i just i just really feel that  god wants me to lay hands on you right now   father i just pray that you will embrace so let  me embrace you right now as a as like a father   that you never had this would be a good moment to  evangelize flirt to convert god never called you   to date those he anointed you to evangelize to the  bible tells us to win the world not to date the   world and for those are like well i'm just going  to he promised when we get married he will come   and he will get saved honey that's a lie there is  one holy ghost and that's not you you were never   called to convert that homeboy through your dating  one of the first principles Adam learned when God   told him I want you to go look for a spouse God  says it's not good for you to be alone and then   the scripture says god sends him on the assignment  to name the animals and then there's this phrase   there in genesis it says init was not found see  the word found indicates somebody's been looking   so that tells me that Adam is naming  the animals and looking for a spouse lord no and then there she was a monkey it was the closest thing to a human yeah  a few little surgeries needed to happen   like a tail too much hair other stuff  i mean but isn't god can move mountains   can god do surgeries of course he can adam's first  temptation bring someone to god for god to fix there was nobody else on the earth except  something closest to him which was a monkey and adam has a choice one  i bring her to god say lord   could you do a surgery or i come back  to god with disappointment and says God   could you make someone for me before God sends  you eve the devil will always present you a monkey and this monkey you will try to attempt to  evangelize your mama your daddy will tell   you that boy that's a hidden that girl she clubs  not Jesus drop her like a hot potato walk away   from that but there is no good voice in the church  all of the women like church parking lot it's just   you know the good ones are taken and the only  thing that's available is a handicap i heard some   girls say that about christian boys they're just  not you know that one he's he's so hot so is hell   but he's so fine he's so amazing you don't  understand he loves God demons believe in   God and they're going to hell which God the bible  says do not be equally unyoked with unbelievers   what does that mean that means the  question is not whether they believe   in God the question is do they follow Jesus Christ   oh but I'm gonna win him to God now I understand  there are stories of people who are who did this   stuff and they evangelized and the person  got saved and now those people serve God   that's an exception that is not our command my  brother fell from a second story building right in   front of my eyes straight into concrete splash his  head blood gushed out of everywhere he survived   today he has a long hair does that mean all of us  should jump from a second story building head down   of course not just because he survived he's not  your example he's an exception of the mercy of god   those people who flirted to  convert and he somehow worked out   praise God for his mercy but that  is direct disobedience to God's word Joseph did not flirt to convert Joseph fled did not flirt fled why because when you have  a fear of god you flee sexual immorality   you don't fight it father god in the name of Jesus  I just pray that this woman of God this excuse   me this this horrible woman that's tempting  me right now to be turned to a woman of God   no no no no bible says to flee not fight not pray  against it not declare it not annoying with oil   not fast and pray run when you walk in the mall  and victoria who has no more secrets the goal   is not to cover her with clothing your goal is to  and keep on going god did not call you to clothe   her with righteousness and dignity god called  you turn your head around and keep on walking   flee not fight bible tells us to fight the devil  it doesn't tell us to fight lust it tells us to   run from lust you know what that means probably  what that means is you'll never win against lust   you can win against the devil not against lust the  only way you win against lust is to run from it   young man a lot of times come into the pastor  lord i've been fighting with lust i'm like stop   stop stop find me a scripture where it says  to fight lust i said that is your problem   even god says you shouldn't fight lust it  says you should flee it start fleeing it   and then you'll win joseph fled not  flirted religion gives us excuses to flirt   a reverence for god empowers us to flee right  is that religion gives us excuses to flee   it's to flirt what is it to flirt what does  it mean it's when you say but it's not sin flirting is when you're asking yourself  this question pastor how far is too far   because what you really want to know is this  how much of sin can i do and get away with it how close to the line i can get without  falling into hell like i know we're dating   and i know that we're in the relationship plus  i mean really what what is the big deal i mean   we're fiance in a month we're gonna be married  doing exactly the same thing that god says not to   do right now like i don't see a point well let me  give you an illustration if you have a pot in your   house with the plant okay the dirt within that  plant part is called soil it nourishes the plant   now if you don't think that there's any difference  between sex in marriage and two days before   marriage then let me give you an assignment today  at home go take the soil from the pot and put it   on your dinner plate along with your  salad broccoli and mashed potato and let's see if it will nourish your  dinner experience it's the same soil exactly same one nourishes the  plant and stains your plate same sex in marriage nourishes the plant put it  in the plate of a fiancee dating life it stains it joseph flees sexual temptation he doesn't flirt  with it if you don't learn to flee when you are   single you are way behind to learn to flee when  you get married sexual temptation doesn't stop   when you get married precious young man let  me remind you marriage has never delivered   anybody from pornography only jesus does that  if you think that once i'll have free sex   i'll be able to no longer watch pornography you  are so deceived first of all there's nothing going   to be free in marriage the only thing free  that you're going to get is going to sleep   on a couch for free everything else my homie  you're going to have to give your life for it   and sex is not like you see in porn in pornography  because in pornography it's an act it's not a real   thing the woman is is an actress she's  called an adult actress she's not a wife   that will never work and next thing happens is  all of your pornography addiction it will begin   to stain your marriage i want to encourage  you instead of looking for marriage look for   deliverance look for freedom look for that so  that you can walk in pure and if you're saying   you know what it's hard to be pure wait until you  get married purity battle will not go away because   you have marriage purity battle will always  be there because you have flesh and therefore   the best way to begin to practice your lifelong  pursuit of purity is today when you are single why   because you are disciplining your flesh you are  teaching your biology to submit to your theology   your sexuality to submit to your spirituality your  this carnal chemist you desire to submit to christ   and as you discipline your flesh today then when  you get married and there's a secretary at work   and then when you go on some kind of a business  trip and somebody's like oh hi and all of this   stuff you're able to overcome it why because you  have developed that habit when you were engaged amen joseph he flees people today flirt  nobody falls into sexual sin without   first flirting with sexual sin write  this down flirting leads to falling we don't fall until we flirt that is why when  people ask me this question vlad how far is too   far i always ask him the question back i said  you shouldn't be asking is this wrong should   we hold our hands should we kiss should we do this  should we do that you're asking the wrong question   the question is not is it wrong the question you  should be and i should be asking is is this wise   in light of your past in light of your dreams and  hopes and future in light of temptation in light   of your calling is this wise why we should be  asking that question because nobody does what's   wrong until they do multiple things that are not  wise the reason we do those unwise things because   we're convinced they're not wrong you can find a  bible verse to justify holding hands is not wrong   and i'm not here to debate with you with that but  i do know multiple unwise things will lead to you   falling into the wrong thing and then you'll be  like i don't know what happened well i'm going to   tell you what happened unwise unwise unwise unwise  and then you cannot help but do what is wrong that   you always said i'll never cross that line i'll  never do that you will cross that line because   it's a domino effect what's unwise will lead to  doing what is not wrong flirting leads to falling   look at king David before David committed murder  he committed adultery before he committed adultery   David the bible says he slept all day and woke  up in the evening and walked on his balcony   before that the bible says it was time for kings  to go to battle not for warriors kings it means   david was supposed to be in battle kings have to  go to battle and david decide to stay home chill   and netflix now let me ask a question was it wrong  for david to stay home and not to go to battle   there's no commandment in the bible that says it's  wrong was it wise for the warrior to stay home   no it was not wise he should have been with  his man question number two was it wrong for   david to sleep all day and play video games  the night before all night like is it wrong   there's no scripture for that but was it wise for  an adult man what the heck was he doing the whole   night i don't know asleep all day like don't get  me wrong that's not wise question number three was   it really his fault that he got out of the balcony  and poor bashiba couldn't afford shower curtains   was it really his fault that  he looked that he saw her   the first look doesn't count like but it wasn't  wise to be looking that direction i'm pretty sure   he knew that's where the showers are at down  over there if you go in jerusalem you will see   where his place was like it's downhill you  just see everybody what everybody is doing   look one unwise thing second one wise thing third  unwise thing and then guess what begins to happen   he dials his assistant can  you give me her instagram name   i just want to know how she i just want to  know what God is doing in her life right now he's messaging bashiba hey girl how you  doing your husband's working for me are   you guys all right there like you seen  the new food in the water it's been kind   of cold lately hey i just have some extra stuff  could you just stop by i just want to bless you she stops by hey can i pray for you let's join  hands together and next thing that happens next   thing that happens is he commits the wrong thing  he commits the second wrong thing he commits this   third wrong thing and then god begins to send  the sword on his house for as long as david   lives he brings him such a headache and such a  heartache i want to encourage you if you want to   walk in purity you have to stop flirting that's  the only way to stop falling into sexual sin   you should not draw the line at where the sin is   you should draw the line at where the things that  stimulate the sin is ticta could be a good example struggling with pornography or lust don't  stop pornography stop with stimulates   lust i remember there was a season where  instagram had this popular page and i found   myself not looking at instagram but at the popular  page i knew what i was looking for i was looking   for anything that had flesh and no clothes my  wife started to feel weird about it not i didn't   tell her anything just she's like is everything  okay i was like oh yeah honey everything is fine   but i knew something was wrong and  then i might confess i said listen i   i didn't fall into pornography but i i  feel like i'm i'm i'm i'm on the edge   and i told her she prayed for me she delivered  me i thought she's gonna kill me though she   laid hands on me and she's like you spit in  the fornication come out of them yes yes yes i deleted instagram at the time for a year same  thing happened with tick tock about a year ago   my tic toc actually exploded  like 270 000 followers   and i started noticing i wasn't uploading  i was browsing through my free time and   started to feel this thing you're drawn to the  edge but i know i'm i'll never fall i'll just   see how like how other people fall two people  uh three people were being recruited to be a   chariot drivers for this rich man oh thank you for  giving me a little bit more time appreciate you   because i saw minus then i see plus now three  people were being recruited for a chariot driver   for a wealthy man the first guy wanted to show  his skills of how close he can get to the cliff   without falling so he took the chariot so  close that the owner who was watching it wow that's not some excellent driving  the second guy went as far as that one   wheel was sticking out of the cliff  already but still it was balanced that was closed and the third guy he  drove as far from the cliff as possible   and they asked him why he  says i'm afraid of heights and the wealthy owner hired him why he said i  don't want someone driving my family to gamble   with their lives by driving on the cliff god  wants you not to ask yourself a question how   close to sin i can get without going to hell  but ask a question how close to jesus i can stay   so that i am not even tempted to be drawn  to fornication can somebody say amen   how do you practically do that purity  is not a point you cross it's a pursuit   write this down it's not a point you cross when  you stop looking at pornography it's not a point   you cross when you get married purity is an  ongoing pursuit that never ends until you die   virginity is until marriage purity is for  eternity stop viewing purity as something   that i just do until i get married purity  is an ongoing pursuit after god and always   running from sin the second thing i want to  mention is the purity is putting your passions   under the principles of god instead of allowing  your passions to modify the principles of god   this is the problem with the world the bible  teaches god is love the world says love is god   that's why if a guy wants it he gets it and  we have to legalize it in our country why   because well i'm a guy i'm attracted to a guy so  now this is right because my love my passion it   regulates my principles and my laws and so now  we have to change everything in the culture why   because some guy is attracted to another guy  there's a person in california applying for a   license to marry his horse there's another person  that's applying to marry his laptop because he has   feelings infatuation with his laptop this will  never stop you will see in your generation you   people will have licenses and have bestiality why  because the moment you make love god anything goes   christians have god who is love he decides  the principles we take our passions bad good   ugly we submit him to his principles we submit our  biology to our theology we submit our sexuality to   our spirituality we submit that infatuation to our  intimacy with God and we let God regulate that not   us coming and imposing things on God because well  i can't stop it i was born this way get born again now if you're not a christian if you  are here today you're not a believer   honestly do whatever you want you're  still going to hell you're not going   to hell because you're homosexual you're going  to hell because you didn't accept jesus christ   because once you accept jesus christ this is what  begins to happen now you have a lord who has a   constitution and you submit to the constitution  until then you are the lord you make up the rules   as you go good luck but one day when you will  stand at the judgment scene of christ he is going   to condemn you for not receiving and you're gonna  have to pay for your sin so i want to challenge   you today as a christian to submit not only accept  Jesus as a savior submit to him as Lord and submit   your passions the bible says in Thessalonians he  says let each man this is the will of God that we   have sanctification that we know how to possess  our vessel not being possessed by our passions   but possess our passions joseph fled sin but guess  where he ended up at not promotion but in prison   something pastoral that i want to hand  out to you and we're going to pray   purity will always lead to the prison before  release of the palace what is this prison it's   when you have to learn to imprison your passions  prison is not pretty prison is not beautiful   if you don't go through purity and you put your  passions in the prison they will put your purpose   in the prison in a matter of years joseph  ran from lust end up in prison samson   ran with lust still end up in prison both people  were in prison one guy came out of it into his   purpose the other guy came out of it without eyes  without the anointing and died of suicidal death you will be in prison whether you are in purity  or not in purity but that prison can lead to your   purpose or it can lead to your calamity choose  purity choose a time of suffering choose a time   of denying yourself instead of discovering  yourself choose a time of laying down your   passions at the fear of the cross but i want it  don't be like a prodigal son give me what is mine   come to the Lord say Lord make me your servant be  a person who lays your passions down God will put   you through a season of prison where your freedom  will be restricted buddhist prison it's when you   have restrictions on your freedom other people  can do whatever they want you can't other people   can hang out after nine you can't other people can  look through whatever on their phone you can't why   because you are in prison and they can laugh at  you like man look at you so religious look at   you you don't have any freedom and then they were  like ah look at you how did you end up over there   because purity prison leads to palace if you  choose your passion instead of purity you will   be in prison it will be called the prison of  pornography you'll be called the prison of you   constantly sleeping with anything that moves  it'll be called a prison that people will not   going gonna live with you it's gonna be shattered  marriages you'll be disqualified for ministry and   then your eyes will be gutted out meaning you will  have no vision your anointing will be cut out and   then you will die a horrible death with being  totally unfulfilled and you look at your life   you're like man those people lived in prison  for two years i lived my whole life in prison   choose your prison let your purity decide your  prison your restrictions and your limits one   of the reasons I didn't talk about dating  today is because bible talks very little   about dating bible talks more about purity  because that's what we need as singles   people who are in relationships and those who  are married let's rise i want to pray with you thank you Father thank you precious Son  and thank you Holy Spirit you are holy   you are righteous Lord we lift our bodies to you  right now we lift our passions our passions God we want to possess them some of us are in this  room our passions possess us right now we are   in prison of our passions our passions are not  in prison of our spirits we want to surrender to   you lord we ask you for sanctification to take  place right now in our life i pray God as this   word was spoken that they will renew the minds  of people it will create an appetite and hunger   to walk in holiness as single people to have  in the last days are our loins girded and our   lambs burning father in the name of jesus i  pray that we will burn with passion for you   i pray that we will have pure hearts and clean  hands in Jesus name raise your hands right now   the bible speaks of clean hands clean hands speak  of physical purity hearts speak of inward as you   raise your hands right now say Lord give me clean  hands and pure heart come on just pray that right   now 60 seconds and say Lord give me clean hands  and pure hearts those of you addicted to stuff   i know that we prayed yesterday and i don't want  to reopen the same thing right now but begin to   right now put your passion in prison begin to  say Lord I yield my passion right now to you   Lord I surrender this infatuation there's some of  you here today you're dating a monkey right now   monkey is a person who you're trying to change you  know it's wrong everybody told you you got to quit   that relationship you're destroying your life  your spiritual life has went to sleep you maybe   start committing sin and right now this is a time  to just do a holy divorce leave that aside send   a text message and to be completely done with it  because God does not want you to be with somebody   you're trying to change God wants to change you  and change that person for you when he brings   you together father in Jesus name i pray for every  young man and every young woman as our hands are   raised I pray that you will give us clean hands  father I pray that you will give us pure hearts   I pray for the single man god that our eyes will  be pure our eyes will be set on fire lord god   that we will not be browsing even in the church  God looking for scourge and looking God for body   parts Lord God to consume and satisfy our lust I  pray Lord god that our eyes will be set on Jesus   Lord I pray right now God that even ladies God  that they will begin to find their love and their   acceptance in you Lord God they will begin to find  their attention from you Jesus be well pleasing to   you lord father i pray in Jesus name for those  of us god who are crippled by our passions God   we made mistakes we lost our jobs we forfeited our  ministry we forfeited our anointing because of how   we live and we live like Samson hot but not holy  we look like Samson anointed but not a point God   not not dedicated not consecrated to you Lord  God we repent of that right now father and we   pray restore our purity restore our consecration  restore our commitment God let our passions let   our infatuation let those things go into the  prison of your principles let them go into the   prison of your word let them go into the prison  of our belief let them go into the prison God   so that we can fulfill our purpose on this earth  God father i pray awaken our hunger for you awaken   our love for you God awaken our passion for you  God if we're gonna burn let us burn for you god come on open up your mouth pray in the Holy Ghost  right now Holy Spirit is a spirit of holiness   if there is somebody who can help you to live a  holy life it is the Holy Ghost it's not going to   be your mom it's not going to be your dad it's  not going to be your pastor it's going to be   the Holy Ghost if this Holy Spirit helped Joseph  when he feared God he can help you you have the   Holy Spirit living inside of you he is the holy  spirit he's going to help you to live a holy life   come on from the balcony to the front every eye  closed without praying the Holy Spirit for just   a few minutes pray in the Holy Spirit the Holy  Spirit sanctify me Holy Spirit purify me those   of you married men browsing and constantly looking  purge you to cleanse you repent of that stuff the  bible says let there be no hint of immorality not   just sin that will disqualify you from leadership  but any hint of immorality that means our eyes   are to be pure our hands are to be pure our  bodies are to be pure la ba ba ba ba koto robo if you lost your purity if you feel like  samson right now you lost your vision   you lost your ministry maybe you lost your  marriage maybe today you found out you're living   in a political polluted world just run to the  front we're going to pray for you right now   it's not for everybody but if you really  feel like man my life is broken i need god   to restore my vision i need god to restore my  purity i need god to restore my passion for him   i need that just come for the next few moments  we as we as we're praying as we're praying hindi spirit of the living God i ask you that  your presence will fall afresh right now   spirit of the living God I ask you  that your holiness will fall right now   spirit of the living God I ask you that  your anointing will fall right now and   break every yoke spirit of holiness  spirit of holiness fall in this place   spirit of holiness right now let every dirt  that every pollution that every sexual addiction   homosexuality lesbianism let every perversion  be removed right now in Jesus mighty name

Channel: Vlad Savchuk

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Length: 54min 59sec (3299 seconds)

Published: Mon Mar 15 2021