 I counted a privilege to speak to young men. It has to feel like I'm a young man, but when I look in the mirror it doesn't quite look like it. But, you know, young men, your life is before you. And Brother Dale read that verse about God's call. God has called each one of you. And you probably thought of this, you know, you're all unique. You know, there's never been another person exactly like you. And all the thousands and millions of people, no one has been exactly like you. Well, is that what I felt around my legs? Kitty, kitty, kitty. You better get in the pulpit and lay down and take a nap so you don't interrupt. Now the kitty is gone. But you know there's no one else exactly like you. Never has been, never will be. You're unique. You have connection with people, friends with people, connections here, connections there. There's no one exactly like you. And there's only one life, only one time. How did Brother Phil say last night on the gravestone, a date here and a date here and the dash between? We're in the dash. And you only get one time at it. Only one time. And it's up to us. It's our choice. It's our decision what we do in our life. Before you were born even, God had a purpose for you. And the one thing is your physical body. You were born of mom and dad, the physical body. And this is a mystery. But when God, when the conception in your mother's womb, God decided the person he put in there. And the one thing is your body and the other thing is your person. You're unique. You're a person. And like Dale said, you're called by God. How would it be like if I was going to say the president of the United States? But I'd like to maybe change that. Someone like that would say, hey, I need you. I want you. Trying to think of another name I could use, because I'm not sure if I'd want to be called by the president of the United States. But if someone important says, listen, you, that's the way it is. In your circumstances, in your family, in the body he gave you, the family he gave you, the place you are, God says, you, I need you. I want you. And it is a challenge. It is a wonderful thing, only one time. And I want to encourage you and young men to go at it with all your heart. Give it all you have. Just make sure you do the right thing. But give it all you've got. Give me a one chance, one opportunity. And you're called by the king of kings. And how will I live it? That's my choices, my choice. I'd like to encourage you to give it all your energy, but to the real cause. We can get sidetracked and we'll talk about that in a little bit. Let's open our Bibles to 1 Timothy 4, verse 12. This is a verse directed to Timothy, but it's directed to the youth and to us. What if we all stand and read it together? 1 Timothy 4, verse 12. Try to read it slowly and read it together. Let no man despise thy youth, but be thou an example of the believers in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity. You may be seated. Have you ever felt that someone despises you because you're young? Have you ever felt that you almost resented that someone didn't put much importance in you or sort of neglected? We understand that, but you know what's the most serious thing is when you yourself neglect your youth. When you yourself don't put importance on your life. We have 24 hours in a day, seven days a week, four weeks a month, 12 months in a year, and how many years? We don't know. We don't know. 60 years, 30 years, 64. I was in the COVID ward and I committed it to the Lord. I thought this might be at 64 years and I move on. It was a good experience. I worship God through that. You don't know how many years you have it. You don't know how long your life is going to be. But I'd like to challenge you and the joy, the thrill is to give it all I've got for a real cause. What if you'd come to the end of your life and feel like you've wasted your life? I can just do it again. We've all experienced that on short-term experiences. We said, I blew it. I should have done something differently. But now we're looking at your total life. Whatever that is, it's going to be 30 years. A young man, a good friend of mine, I think he was 32, 33, and he discovered he was full of cancer. And the doctor said too late. He was one of these tough guys that didn't want to admit that he was sick and didn't go to the doctor until it was way too late. And I told him some people live 50 years, 60 some live, and some live 32, get ready to die. And he did. Beautiful experience. Beautiful experience. He got ready to die and just the day he died when he was asked, I asked Alexis, are you ready to go? He was struggling to breathe with a smile on his face. He said, yes, I'm ready to go. His was only 30. I forget now 33 or so. We have no idea how many years we have. But if you want to live your life to the fullest and do the right thing, do it now. Don't wait for later. Do it now. Be an example of what a believer of Jesus Christ is like. Sometimes we wish, and I understand I did that too, sometimes we wish we'd have a different circumstance. If I would only have different parents or a different church, if I'd have a different body, if I would be just anything that's not just me. But you know, that's not the issue. The issue is God made you the way you are and put you where you are. And the thing we have to each do is what does God want me to do? Right here, what does God want me to do? And in a group like this, I don't know where all you're from. But God designed a purpose for you, right where you are. The future we don't know. I've been through things that when I was young I didn't know I was going to be there. You don't know what else is coming. But right now, give it all you've got. Go full, full for the cause of the Lord Jesus Christ. Be an example. I think I said this the other day, at the beginning of my time in Chachagua and starting to make friends in the town there was no people and I was making friends. And I had this problem that because I have blue eyes and light skin, light skin is not as much my blue eyes gave me away and I tried to speak Spanish well I don't think it could have detected but that's hard to do. But I was looked at as a foreigner. I still am because of my blue eyes. I could tell you where I was driving in an old land rover and I said, I wish I had brown eyes. I'm going to hide a little bit and not look as much like a foreigner. You know that it's not always the best thing to look like a North American. I threw that in for an extra. But I said, and then the Lord spoke to me. He said, it wasn't audible but just be what Jesus would be in your body in Chachagua. What would Jesus be with blue eyes in Chachagua? And I changed that for you. Your body, the body we have is fascinating when you study the DNA. The possibilities in DNA is incredible. Have you studied that? The possibilities and that was designed the nose you have, the hair I have, the mouth I have, big little, sometimes our weight issue we have a little bit to do with that. But the body I have, so many things about us was designed. We had nothing to do with it. What would Jesus do? What does Jesus want to do in you? Would you wish he could tell you? Hey Jesus, what do you want me to do? I was just thinking about that the other day in Chachagua. Maybe it was after my COVID experience I was thinking, am I doing what God wants me to do? Or am I wasting my time? And we don't know the future and that's not the important thing right now. Right now where you are there's something for you to do right there and give it all you've got. If you have a struggle with your father or your mother you have a struggle getting along with some ministers, some other people, people at the job. Right now one of the best things you can do is learn how to relate well to that person. Years ago, before I was married when I was going to get married I was working with a man. He was a nice man. When we were off the job he treated me great. We were good friends. But on the job I don't know, was it a medication he took or what he was an older man and he'd get all worked up and he'd yell at us workers. I never had people yell to me like that. He'd yell at me. Sometimes his demands were unreasonable. I think it was partly because of a medication he was taking that got his nerves all worked up. But anyway, I was not used to that. He couldn't stand to see any of us workers we were working at a sale barn and a sale barn has a lot of things to do on sale day. He would want this and he'd come out and yell at us and do this and put us at things and sometimes it wasn't even reasonable and the workers they'd grumble and complain. I had to say hey, this is an opportunity. I'm going to take this opportunity to learn how to respond like Jesus to it. One day he asked us to wash a truck and the other workers said that is, it was cold. You get cold weather up here, don't you? It was pretty cold and he asked me to wash a truck with cold water and the other workers said how in the world does he do that? I said I'm going to do it with all my heart. That was such a wonderful experience. One time there was a place to crawl down underneath some scales. Some of the other workers said I'd never go down there. There's rats down there. I won't go down there. Well he asked me to go. I think he thought I would and I did. In the name of Jesus here we go. Bloop down underneath there and doing some difficult things. You know that became a wonderful experience for me. Yell at me. But I decided I was going to use that as an opportunity to become like Jesus and to grow. Doing things that and you know when I left after we were married then and I left and went back to Costa Rica when I said goodbye to him I cried more saying goodbye to him than I did to my own father-in-law. Because that type of relationship of submitting to him and honoring him and just doing it with you I did something between us. It's interesting. But you know you have a difficult circumstance look at it. This is an opportunity to develop what Jesus wants you to develop. To be. You think your father's hard to live with? That's a good question. Who's hard to live with? You're your father. Well we don't need to get into that. But what we need to look at is whatever the difficult circumstance is you can develop the ability. I remember another time I was working with a man it was hard to work with him. He would just constantly be picking at me and telling me this and correcting me and correcting me and correcting me. It was just sort of hard to work with him. And then again the Lord brought that thought hey this is an opportunity. I'm going to do it with joy. I'm going to do it in the humble myself and just enjoy myself and do everything he yells me to do. Do the best I can. So wherever we are wherever you are right now I'm not talking about sitting in your bench here but when you get home right now is a beautiful place where you develop the character of Jesus Christ in your life and become an example of the believers. A believer is a person who believes in Jesus and imitates Jesus is a disciple of Jesus become like Jesus. So right now where you are you make that your goal I'm going to develop to be like Jesus and when unreasonable things come to your life or difficult things come you say okay every time some difficult come say okay here's my chance here's an opportunity to develop the character of Jesus. Try that. Temptations, difficulty I want to be like Jesus. An example. And you know what will happen around you people look at you and say hey this young man something about him. We can all do that. You don't have to have a lot of money you don't have to a lot of be real I'm thinking of a Spanish word again handsome you don't have to be handsome you don't have to have a lot of education you don't have to be very smart some of us are not as smart as others I consider I'm a lot less smart and my brother Paolo even my wife I'm always smarter than I am as far as intelligence goes but that's not important we can all do it we can all commit ourselves to things that are important and to be what Jesus wants me to be right now and if you are what Jesus wants you to be right now there's no telling where he's going to take you there might be some of you here like what Dale said the other day there might be some of you the Lord is calling now to a mission field and there's some interesting situations we need some tough young men there's some place in the mission field that not everyone can handle it the physical strain and sometimes going without things without all the accommodations that we have here you know the North American especially you up here we're right behind you Costa Rica is just right behind you we're catching up with you actually but you know we have so many things we have so much money with so many things I mean we can just live such ease and pleasure and fun it's so nice would you be willing to sacrifice a bunch of that and go to an outback difficult place walk around with a backpack on your back with a toothbrush toothpaste one of those 99 cents deodorant what about it forget about the expensive colognes too bad I'm getting old so I have to carry a bunch of pills with me too but anyway but you know would you be willing to that what if God would call you now some of you God's going to call you to say right where you are and be like Jesus right there but the beautiful thing about this if you have a goal to become like Jesus we can all do it we can all commit ourselves to Jesus that Jesus just helped me to respond the next time dad scolds me the way I don't like it the next time this happens the next time the boss the people I work with they do something I don't like make a goal that every time you're going to intently show what Jesus would do oh life gets exciting life gets exciting it's worth it times are evil I don't know sometimes I think the end is right here the way circumstances look in this world it seems like the end of the world is just any day I don't know God doesn't tell us but I'd like to encourage you if it is not what if we're going to be here yet another let me see on an average you young men or what 20 let's say 20 what if we're going to be here another 40 years see about my age this this world is getting worse and things are getting more difficult but you are called maybe lord wants the next 40 years if ever he wants people to rise up and shine to be like Jesus and to do it boldly I'm not talking about being proud and outwardly aggressive on people but to have the courage to be different don't be afraid to be different that's what's worth it to us there's no honor to be like that be like all the rest and disturb what everybody does anybody can do that but to stand up and be something different maybe even church I mean in the world the people you work with maybe even in your church you can make a goal to be the most committed and be a good example in your own church please don't just follow the crowd who was this morning in our prayer group someone saying he witnesses to college students and he was surprised to find out that college students how did he say I'll say it in my words they don't think much do you know something most people don't think much in my experience most people don't think much they just follow the crowd they just bum along behind the others just do what everyone else does I want to encourage you to stop and think serious decisions what you want to do who you want to be and where you're going think please think most people don't most people just follow their nose no follow other people's nose they just follow around and bum around after the crowd hey that's no honor there's no glory to that I mean anyone can do that the whole world does it all these fads and fashions these wild fashions purple hair and tattoos all over following the crowd there's no honor to that I'm calling you and Jesus is calling you to stand down and be a little different than the rest and that might even be in your own church group unfortunately but it is that way in our churches we have people that are more committed than others and you can pick them up pretty fast the way they look the way they talk the things they do don't follow the wrong crowd just as I'm going to serve the Lord and be all the way for him you you be an example you you don't have to be very smart to that you don't have to have a lot of money you don't have to be handsome you don't have to have a lot of education but you can decide I'm going to be an example to others you have younger brothers if you don't have younger brothers as other men younger than you in the church group around you our young boys need heroes need heroes to follow my boys are getting older my youngest son is 27 darkest is 25 they're getting a little older now I'm challenging them to be the heroes but here's brother Linwood I know him he's my wife's nephew I remember the first time I met you Linwood I'm just a little baby I think he was just starting to walk but you know what I know Linwood and I admire Linwood he's the person I could tell my I could tell your sons or whoever boys hey follow Linwood follow Linwood and if now I'm talking to the fathers maybe you could someone in your church that's a hero and isn't a good example hey would you please take my son fishing or do something with him would you please because I want my son to be with you because you're a good example now what I'm saying is you be that person that every young person in the church can follow you and say this is the man I want to follow fathers should be that too but I'm not talking to fathers and I'm talking to you that you're an example in your youth group that's worth looking up to and worth following and someone could say let me see your name is Andrew I can hardly read that this and a father would say hey Andrew or hey Andrew would you mind just taking some time with my son would you mind just taking off in the afternoon with him taking me pizza I'd rather go to the outdoors and I love the outdoors take him for a hike give him a hard hike I can't do those anymore especially after COVID but you take him out and give him a hard hike give him a difficult time outdoors and just those young boys say Andrew is a hero how old are you Andrew 19 Andrew is a hero I don't know you Andrew I have no idea but you know they say Andrew is here follow Andrew I like my boys to be with Andrew and I'm just using him as an example he's sitting right here looking at me but that could be all of us that should be our goal that I'm a person that is an example to the younger ones and I want to be a blessing an encouragement don't just go for the mediocre don't just go for being a cheap follow the crowd type of person just follow the crowd everybody can do that a dog can do that just follow what the other dogs do but to be a person committed that's outstanding in his values in his commitment the way he lives the way he thinks that's a challenge and it's open to each one of us different ways some of us talk a lot some of us talk too much I talk so much I often take my foot in my mouth some of you are quiet that's okay you don't have to talk a lot just be a quiet man a quiet example committed to the Lord Jesus Christ with all our gifts it doesn't matter which gift you have just decide you're going to be like Jesus Christ and you're going to live in a way that other people say this is someone I'd like to imitate I'd like to become like him you yes you true feet fruit brother Dale was talking about the fruit thing fruitful lives I'll just throw this in I what is fruit that's worthwhile you men up here in North America can make more money probably than about anywhere else in the world maybe go to Alaska or maybe some other places I don't know you can make more wages I don't know but you men can make more money than most people in the world you know what you get to be an old man you come to the end of your life all the money you made is not worth a dime make money work if you do something do it right do it right do it well I'm not against making money but that should please that that would not be your goal please that's a very low goal to make money is shooting too low shoot higher please if you work do it right do it well provide for your you can start saving for your marriage or whatever you can use your money then to support the Lord's work in other places your money doesn't have to be a problem the problem is if money is your goal and if your goal is I want to have one of those I don't know if any of you did one of those last pickups at home it's the big dodge ram you know anybody gets in one of those dodge rams wow at home I don't know about up here one time I ride motorcycle I don't have one I did years ago I had this little hundred I forget now it was Suzuki or Yamaha but I had this little motorcycle one time a friend told me to get on one of the big one one of those big motorcycles I forget what I was going to do I wasn't and I put the helmet on and I got on that big motorcycle and I went through town it was a midnight preacher motorcycle and you know what I noticed the girls looked at me the girls they didn't know who was under the helmet who was under the helmet that's a low goal I'm not saying you can't have a motorcycle but you know if you get these big cars and big motorcycles or whatever these big things and they look at you wow that's the foolish people that look at you that way anyone that has any common sense to know there's more to life than Jesus said your life does not consist of the things you own don't go for that I mean I'm not saying you have to buy a junkie I drive a 99 model a van I don't say have to drive a 99 model that's okay you can get some of the newer but don't make it your goal to stand out and have the best when the world is going worse the world needs more than men driving big Dodge Rams I'm not what's your thing up here but the world needs something shoot higher than that and make sure that the money you make that you use it for people the kingdom of God is people now that doesn't mean that we're going to all be out relating to people counseling people working directly with people but you can be involved in this activity is the exciting activity here all these people together that unit makes all kinds of people to put this together I've heard people tell me they just love to organize this it seems to me like you have some brethren here that love to do it and they do a good job I've been impressed I've been trying to learn some things here some of the way they organize and do things here you have some men that know how to do that but one man tell me he says I do not want to preach I do not want to teach but I love to organize and work out if you would tell me to take care of the lodging and the food I just don't think I would not handle that yeah can I say this I'd rather preach I'd rather preach and do that I hope that's not sounding proud but what I'm saying is we all have different parts but anyone that participates you raise your hand to volunteer and you go over there and you help over there you're part of the project and what is the important thing in this project the important thing in this project is what God is doing in people's hearts and get excited about what God is doing in people's hearts your own heart and in other people's hearts broken homes broken families oh there's so many people out there crying and needing help commit your life to helping people because anything that's worth it is investing in people and like I say if you have to work after any money that's okay you have to save some money to get married that's great I mean I'm not against making money but the goal is not just things the kingdom of God is not buildings it's not cars we need those but the kingdom is not you know I have to have a big building a lot of big fancy cars and I need a big this and a big that no the kingdom of God is people so commit yourselves to helping people and you you even if you don't talk much you can make friends with someone in your church in your neighborhood years ago there was a little boy and he didn't know looks he was it's not important to me and I'm just saying this is an example because I think that was part of the problem he didn't look quite like some did he was a little different and I remember back when we used to have just gravel roads we had better roads and I'd come by with my old Land Rover and sometimes he'd stand beside the road and throw rocks at me this little boy little guy like this and throw rocks at me I said what's going on with this little boy you know what I did I started to wave at him, smile at him be friendly to him he quit throwing rocks at me he's not converted yet but he's been to church a few times he still respects me and loves me I don't know if he remembers the rocks but I do the little boy is there anyone in your life who's sort of a misfit he has a hard time fitting you know there's a lot of people around you that need a friend and every one of us can be a friend to someone might be in your church group you know each church group it shouldn't be that way but sometimes in our church group we have people that are not quite as accepted have you ever noticed how the little cute little boys and the cute little children get all the attention still worse how all the cute girls get all the attention that should not be that way you should be a friend you can be a friend to someone you can encourage someone every one of us can do that some of us will talk more but we can all be friends and being a friend to someone you can change a life someone in your area we each have sort of an area we function in your area there's people that you can maybe love and take time for you don't have to do some serious theological studies if you want you can have Bible studies but there's a person in your life that just caring for them just taking the time to be his friend I had people in my life that did that they just come and I don't know if you do as much here as we do at home we do that a lot put our arm around people that's part of our culture and I can hardly talk to people without doing that but someone just come around and put his arm around and say hey how's it going what you been doing hey would you like to go for a hike would you like to go fishing would you like to do something with me wanna ride with me I'm gonna take a trip wanna ride with me ask your dad see if you can make a difference and some people you can change their life they feel alone and when people feel real alone and feel like no one cares for them feels like to sort of out they can easily slip out and move out and you can make a difference by being a friend to the ones that don't have many friends in our youth groups even here I don't think it should be happening here much in our youth groups are certain people that are more popular than others the man that can crack jokes he can say things and there's others that are sort of quiet and maybe feel like they don't fit quite look for those and be a friend to those people we have lots of different ways and things we can do to focus on people and I'm not saying you shouldn't make money I'm not saying you can't have your hobbies I have a hobby I love to take bird pictures I like birds and I I haven't had a chance here yet I heard some this morning I haven't even had these men they work me hard here they keep me going they give me a little break I'd go out and look for some of your birds but I haven't had time next week I will have a hobby that I do on the side and I enjoy taking pictures of birds I don't have one of the expensive cameras I don't need an expensive one I have a good time with a cheaper one but I have a good... there's no wrong to have hobbies but I would ask you a question is the hobby worth all the money that some people put in hobbies hunting I'm not against hunting I like animals I have a hard time shooting a deer I think and yet if I'd live up here the way you have with all the deer around I might go hunting put some meat in the freezer and I'm not against that but I'm not sure about the people that spend thousands of dollars just to go out and hunt it doesn't provide much food it's just a thing of... those are values you need to think about I want you to think about it I'm not against a hobby you can use your hobby to connect with people I had this one young man we were discussing something about birds I told him about he was a tour guide and I told him about migration he didn't know anything about migration birds, I don't know why he didn't we get all the migrators down there but then I told him that I love nature because when I love nature I worship God for me out in nature I worship God and then I had some email contact with him and he tapped into that I like that it's a blessing, you can invite someone young to go with you and make it a ministry I'm not against hobbies but I'm going to challenge you to stop and think about putting all that money in that there's a lot of things like that what do your shoes cost I heard at home someone just the other day they were saying he bought a pair of shoes that cost 80,000 Colonies that doesn't mean much to you hey Dale you're better at math 120,000 oh that's not much your shoes cost more than I said but anyway I'm not saying 100 but there can people can spend that crazy, down there that was a lot I said I would never buy shoes for that price I'm not saying 120,000 sorry I know that your shoes up here are better quality I'm not going to quote figures that's not the issue because I don't even know my sons are wiser they lived all their life with their father buying the cheap things so my son they don't do that they don't overdo it but they make sure they buy something good they've learned from me but you know what I'm saying you're getting these expensive shoes that cost way beyond a good shoe you're spending money for things that really if Jesus were standing beside you and watching you how would you feel all the hungry people all over the world the needs that are around the world you should think about that and how you spend your money and I think that the crowd I'm looking at now is not I'm pretty sure that is not carried away with that but I just want to encourage you even that is something important money, sports, pleasure it's not wrong to enjoy a game I used to play volleyball I sometimes do if I play volleyball with the youth it's clown because I I've got some extra weight on me and I have a hard time getting up but anyway, it's not wrong to play a game of volleyball it's not wrong to play a game together our church group gets together and they play games but when you play a game make it a thing not of competition make it a thing of there was this game it's like volleyball but you knock a ball over and you knock this ball back and forth have you seen that game? anyway, we were playing that with some of my brothers in law and myself and a bunch of children and we had so much fun especially me and one of the brothers in law we decided to just encourage the children come on, do it, do it and we were just having and everyone was having fun we didn't care who was winning we just had fun together that's the way to play have a good time together get the old men in there the young men, the children and Kerry, come on, not this single come on, you got to do this right no, enjoy it, games are good I'm not against games but make them a thing of encouragement not competition not just, oh I did it that time I made a good one and the other one left him down no, we should be in encouragement games are okay if we do them right we don't get wrapped up in that thing to where any of these things can get us way off track get us way off track and then we're not an example of men real, noble men I'm giving a challenge to you today to be noble men men that the people say hey, that's the kind of man I want my son to be or someone will say that's the kind of man I want to marry a good man that doesn't make much difference doesn't make much difference what kind of car he drives doesn't make much difference what kind of shoes he wears but a good quality heart that a woman can say I can trust him I can trust him go for it, go for it all of you each in your position there's some dangers some distractions and I like to talk I had 10 minutes yet I like to talk about the big danger we have this is pornography I can't finish this without addressing this and a crowd this size some of you had trouble with this hopefully some haven't but I like to challenge you to stay away from that if you've had trouble you have fallen I would encourage you please see kelp I'm really looking forward to what Tim well let me see I've got to think of his father to think of his last name Kipper has to say tonight my heart goes out I've tried to help but I want to hear I want to hear what Tim has to say about helping people that have fallen into pornography and addiction and I was a terrible thing I've laid my hands on married men and say God please this man could forget all those things he saw cleanse him from all these things so he can really love his wife I want to try to explain to you and I'm going to be able to tell you why pornography is so evil and so damaging sexual life is designed by God God designed that man didn't devil didn't God designed sex but you know sex is a kind of relationship that you can have only with one woman I have a wonderful wife we enjoy our life together but you know if I'm gone she's at home if I would look for another woman and get another woman in my life what would happen to my relationship with the precious one I have at home right away I'd put a bear unit the sexual intimacy the sexual closeness can only be with one man and one woman you can't have two women and love them both I asked a man once that was not my experience how do they handle this how can they love all these different women and he was wise because he knew he said the truth is you don't love them you don't love them you just use them so the idea is this for you and this is each one of you well some of you the Lord might call the single and that's fine that's a high calling Jesus was single, Paul was single and I could speak a whole bunch on that but I'm not going to right now if God calls you to single that's great it's a special calling but I just want to tell you all that to understand this to have a good sex relationship with anyone it's got to be only one person and it's got to be with the person that you love that you're going to commit yourself to my wife and I have lived together for 36 years we've cried together we've struggled together we've raised children together we've had some hard times together but we're filled filled together and she's the most beautiful woman in the world for me she's my wife the sexual close romantic relationship is that with only one woman what happens if you start on the pornography trail you see this one click on this one and you click on this one click on this one and you're seeing all these women don't give into that and if you had trouble stop it because that's going to hinder you I've tried to I've tried and prayed for people in their marriages having serious problems because men are just trying to imitate what they saw on the on the screen pornography is a terrible thing I want to encourage you all to commit yourselves to one woman and you share that part with her who is she the people I'm talking to you don't know yet you know it was exciting though for me it was exciting the way the Lord led the Lord and moved pieces and things and the day I got married I was so confident this is what God did and it was so wonderful and it still is wonderful but one one how many women have men watched and looked at in the way they shouldn't on the screen that's hurt that's damaging and I would really encourage you some of you if there's someone here tonight this afternoon that has not fallen with that has not gotten into that and I hope your maybe your father's helped I do at home I put some filters on I try to be careful I try to save because another thing I have worked with people that have learned toward homosexuality toward lesbianism and some I have not even fit to talk about some of the desires that men have that they got off of the screen it's satanic somehow it awakens up crazy evil desires so if you haven't touched that I would like to encourage you to commit yourself I will not with the grace of God I hate pornography I've never accessed pornography I'm not saying that bragging but I'm going to commit to that I want to stay to that to the end of my life my burden in my heart is trying to help people that have and I'd like to encourage you if you haven't say I am not going to it's awful tempting it's awful attractive you know like there's a trap here and you want to catch a rat you put something on it like a piece of cheese or some peanut butter and the rat thinks oh that smells good and his little nose twitches you know they do they're their feelers twitching and they this is good I was just reading that in the Proverbs again but the man that goes to the to the woman that's not his wife it's destructive and it's like the trap that so commit yourself because you want to save yourself for just one you want to have a good relationship with one who is that lucky woman we don't know save yourself and I imagine the crowd this size is quite a few of you that have already been in it some of you have probably have already gotten out of it I really want to hear what Tim has to say tonight if you have a problem with this and no one knows about it you've been able to keep it under no one knows about it you'd be surprised some people that have some problems with this if that's the case I would like to encourage you right now that is destructive it's a weapon of the enemy it's Satan trying to destroy you and it will destroy you do something make a break find someone and say brother I have a problem I've had that happen different times I've had old men I've had ministers confess to me and kneel down and cry like little boys we don't have to talk about other people but if you have a trouble and it's hidden no one knows about it do something about it you know what I say that what do I care I'm going back to Costa Rica I care about you and your future do something about it seek someone confess it get it out become accountable to someone let's hear what Tim says tonight about this that you can get out of it praise the Lord you can get out of it you can be free and you can still be a good husband by the grace and the power of the resurrection of Jesus Christ you can become a good husband even if you've messed up like this and so I would encourage you there's people in your life that you can trust I would encourage you to find someone a little older not just appear at your own age maybe find someone a little older a person that you can trust might be your father there might be a minister there might be a respect that you can trust and just open your heart like I said I've never accessed pornography when someone confesses to me about pornography I don't feel like banging him on the head and calling him dumb because I know who I am and I know the temptations I've been through and by the grace of God I haven't if you confess it to someone if you find a good spiritual person he will not feel like you're a healer like you're a failure come brother let's get out of this and we can by the grace of God then you can now from now on you can say no more women in my life and now and you can keep yourself clean and pure and get ready for marriage and the Lord can bless your marriage wonderfully you know you can he will and so I would encourage you with that and just the real purpose of this is that God wants relationships you see all these women on the screen you don't love anyone of them you want to have a woman if God gives you one we have one woman that I said this morning and now that you can look in the eyes and smile and love each other freely love each other I had my problems before I was married I had my problems with purity I was never in pornography I had my own struggles I was converted and I had my struggles even after I was converted but when I got married I'll just tell you this boys when I got married the first morning after the first night we won't tell you anymore about that but I remember stepping outside I went to do something outside outside the hotel and I left in mind so I said thank you Lord Jesus thank you this is so beautiful every time I'd have any sexual experience before I left me guilty feeling dirty and just messed up now here was something just wow God blesses it the Bible tells me to do it if I'm married you know that so keep yourself for that don't let anyone any woman any video anything get you off of that that's worth saving yourself for and then you can be a help if some of you have had the problem not now or if you haven't had the I mean if you had the problem and you're still not out try to get out we need more young men to help other people this problem is all over all over when I was young brother Dale you're older than I am but when I was young brother Raymond you are too brother aren't you when I was young there was something in certain stores and there were various just you know magazines black and white pictures never got in that much either but now it's all over also music you can get the worst music access to anything I don't know what it's all about but I've tried to help people and prayed with people who've been in satanic music I had one night a big strapping boy came to my house scared and his parents came scared stiff because he's listening to this heavy metal music and he was and he's seeing demons he said demons were calling him there's all that it's right it's right at our access and you if you want to be a noble your man if you want to be someone that's worth looking up to and worth live you have to stay away from certain things and you have to decide I try to watch my children I try to help them but I try to help them but the only person that can really really make a break with this is you you're the one that decides I will not never again and some of us need it becomes an addiction it becomes a strong addiction some of us need help it's not wrong with that confess it get out and get help and then in the future listen we need more men that's all I want to listen to Tim tonight I've been trying to help people through some of this and sometimes I feel like I don't I need some more information I need some more input because we're going to have all kinds of needs for this kind of ministry in our world and maybe you can be one of those persons help men come free from the clutches those are clutches of the devil death, read Proverbs anyone who takes the woman, this strange woman in his life like taking fire to your bosom he's talking about something he's not kidding thinking about taking a woman to your bosom but he says it's like taking hot colds of fire and putting it against you stay away from it Proverbs also says hey I'll close with this Proverbs says enjoy the wife of your youth I often tell my wife I'm so glad God tells me to enjoy she's 61 61 years old but she's still the wife of my youth she's my delight and God tells me to enjoy the wife of my youth who's the wife of youth we don't know yet you single men we don't know yet but don't let other women get in the way don't let other things come up you keep yourself for that one person would you single men I have no idea who's single who's married here but all the single men just up up front here because you know what God is interested in you men God needs you men he wants you to commit yourselves to him and the devil is intentionally trying to destroy you so I'd like to just have a prayer for you men oh wow I didn't realize there's so many single men here but God bless you and some of you God's going to call to be single for a long for all your life maybe that's okay we can stand there we don't need to now what I want to do is I want to simply call out to God because God is interested in these men do you know that the future of the church the future of the nation the future of our families depends on after the old people like Dale and the rest of us we gone we're all buried and gone and it's you God is interested in that because you become the leaders or you are already you know you become the leaders God is interested in you men to be committed to truth and committed to him but the devil is also very committed the devil is intent on destroying you have you sense that I have so I want to pray I'm not going to be able to pray for you by name by name I just want to pray for you that God would bless you let's pray heavenly father we call out to your name oh father the glorious king of kings and lord of lords and lord you have called these young men you have called us to your kingdom you have called us to serve and to be noble men in this dark and sinful world and it's getting worse oh lord this world is getting worse but these men can rise up to be a light and a witness your joy to see these men serve you but lord the enemy is out to destroy them each one of them they have been attacked here and there and trying to destroy their commitment their faith and I don't know we do I have no idea all the hearts here and what all is happening but I pray in the we pray in the name of Jesus that your holy spirit would bless and minister to each individual heart you know the needs encourage and strengthen if there's some here tonight they need to come out and confess and make a breath break oh lord give them the inner courage and give them the courage to step out and become free for you lord these men each one in this place would you give grace and your power and your glory that they would be an example of a believer example of Jesus followers an example of Jesus on earth bless them all lord they could be committed keep themselves clean and they could show to this dark sinful world that the world could see could see clean young men and they then develop homes and clean functioning homes oh lord thank you we praise you and we look to you lord in Jesus name amen give hearts and souls to serve the king rise up Terry's law God bless you go with God you're dismissed