 God is good and all the time Amen. Amen. It's important to constantly remind ourselves of what our God is doing remind ourselves constantly that our God is in the business of healing people our God is in the business of Raising people up restoring them and we are going to see hundreds and hundreds and thousands of people healed here We already have seen plenty of people who share minor testimonies And the testimonies that we have here, you know people that lift something or drop something or fall somewhere But sometimes the small falls they could be very very damaging and we are believing we're gonna see a lot more It is our vision to believe to see people healed in Jesus name the church in China That is exploding today as we speak under persecution. It's not exploding because the ministers there are extremely eloquent It's not exploding because everyone there has high connections with the government It's exploding under one condition because a little girl who's 17 years of age who leads a church of 5,000 people Has a connection with the higher power That when the general who persecutes her little church of 5,000 people has a daughter who's dying out of leukemia a General doesn't go to the doctor a general will go to the very girl whose church is persecuting With the girl who has leukemia and say pray for her Or else you'll be in prison Girl prays for his daughter. She gets healed of leukemia and he says I will be a Christian But I can't lose my job. So I will be still a communist on Monday and The reason that's why there is millions and millions. There's more Christians in China than probably any other nation in the world Today though this country is being persecuted Why because Christianity there is not growing even by just inviting people to awesome church Christianity there grows because people pray and they receive answers and they pray To the same God we don't have God number two and they have God number one We have the same kind of a God the same kind of a the same kind of access to him Can somebody say amen and therefore we have to be a people of vision that this is the place for miracles This is the place where people on drugs will be free what people in cancer will be healed What people who have a verdict of it over medicine medical verdict in their body that they will no longer continue to live After this many years that things will change and we are also going to raise up mighty generals and mighty people of faith and war That when you get a diagnosis You don't ask cancer how much it gives you to live You give cancer the amount of time it has to leave You don't wake up in the morning and say how much of work I have to miss because of this flu You tell that flu how much it has time to leave And you act like a boss Because the boss of the universe lives inside of your spirit and if you don't practice that authority with the flu How are you gonna practice that authority with anything else? It has to start with the smallest things you walk around and the next morning if you wake up and the symptoms are still there So you little poor devil get out of my house right now You get mad you get angry why because you have to take authority. This is very practical This is not something out there in the sky. This is very practical smallest things that come against you You have to walk in authority. You're not weak warm of the dust. You're not little winnie You're not little wussy. You're not little weak spiny person You are a strong person not because of your height not because of your biceps not because of your income But because of who lives inside of you by faith the spirit of God Does somebody say amen and so we are raising up a powerful army of visionaries We are praying for this. We are sowing money We are sacrificing our life so that we can see we can be a hope to our city I am not gonna have cancer. I drink water. I exercise I sleep good fast. Everything's gonna be fine and so with you Right, but our city needs the message of hope There are people who are older people today There are people who are younger who need the healing message of Jesus We are not praying for healing for ourselves We are praying for healing for people who are still yet sick and don't know Jesus Because some of them will meet Jesus when they will meet him as a healer because somebody say amen And so we have a powerful vision. We want to see many home groups start We want to see many leaders raised up to become leaders to challenge in our community to bring hope Where there is despair and as of today our vision is we want to see Just in next few months when I see 50 home groups being released 50 home groups being started to be a church That trains mighty generals. That's why it is Friday night stings when we come at 845 Everyone is welcome because actually this Friday is gonna be the first lesson that we are going to do and It's gonna be an hour lesson and then there's gonna be a prayer after that. I challenge every person Let's come Let's be trained. Let's stay for prayer to pray for our city Right now. We have huge problems in our city. Our city is not getting better and Blaming police department blaming the Mexicans blaming the blacks blaming the Russians blaming the the thugs Or blaming this or that it's not gonna solve anything Now with legal parts will still legal people still need to do their part people Some people need to go in prison some people need to be this and that they need to do their part But we need to do our part We need to meet together and we need to begin to pray for our city so that violence will end in our city So that people will not die so that police and firemen the teachers and people that these people will walk and have a Dignity in their career and will have respected Positions in our community not something that they will be mocked despised and thrown rocks at and the church needs to step it up That's why I went on Friday night turn off the TV Put on your shoes You come here at 10 o'clock. We're praying for our city at 10 o'clock We are praying for the violence to end We are praying for the families to be restored for people to stop shooting and other people for families to stop being divorced We have a vision and this vision will become a reality Because with this vision comes also prayer. There are people who are dedicated for it I was reading actually today about Jim Carrey the the funny actor from Hollywood in 1987 he was very poor. He was very poor. He was so poor that poor didn't qualify for him He wrote a check to himself for 10 million dollars and in this check he wrote to himself For acting services Rendered, you know and the rendered for acting services means a paycheck for his acting skills and he put on that check the date Thanksgiving 1995 so this was 1987 Write a check for 10 million dollars a person who is broke a person who doesn't have connections And he has a vision keeps this check to himself in Hollywood And you know you look at him He played in Dumb and Dumber and Dumb and Dumber 2 and people always have this. Oh, he's a stupid He only plays stupid some of you are stupid But you only play smart He actually plays stupid, but he's actually very smart and when I read the story I was challenged I was like, you know what? It's better to pretend to be stupid But to act really smart When you have a vision and you have a check for 10 million dollars laying and you tell yourself, you're gonna be a millionaire You can play whatever stupid you want on the TV. You're not stupid off of them when the camera is off And the interesting part is 1994 he received his check for 10 million dollars for playing the stupid and Dumb and Dumber But he's not dumb and he's not Dumber He's smart. I want us to also be smart. Don't look at your situation today Don't look at this auditorium and don't look at your city Look at your vision Look at your dream because that is exactly what's gonna be a reality very soon Your dream is the check you have wrote for your future and that check you're gonna cash If on that check is I am gonna be nobody if on that check is my city Oh, I'm gonna move out of choice city. This is known and people keep coming and saying it's in the middle of nowhere There's nothing to do here. I was like the devil is a liar if you come with that kind of attitude Don't come into my city. I mean, this is the most amazing city It's in the middle of the center of Washington and it's God's glory is here I had some friends from Portland who came and they're like in the middle of nowhere this pure desert this hole What are you guys doing here and next morning? He's like man, the weather is so wonderful He's like and you guys have a Columbia River. They went running in the morning. I was a guys don't go running It's in the middle of nowhere. You will get lost. I was like don't walk outside because we are in the hole You might get sucked in And I rebuked him and I said when you come into my city leave your Portland Negativity and depression in Portland. I'm like tri-city is a wonderful city That's right Right, buddy I was like, I don't want one minute of your Portland weather and I don't want one minute of your Portland attitude Keep it to yourself. We live in an awesome city and while we are here We are gonna appreciate it love it and pray for it and have a vision that we will have a revival in our city in Jesus name And I'm like, how awesome you guys are so awesome yet you come to tri-cities to learn a few things Because maybe in the middle of nowhere in the deep hole There is gonna be an awesome city an awesome revival and an awesome move of God Do you know why because you are here and I am here and most importantly God is here Can somebody say amen? Come on. Let's put our hands together one more time for Jesus Christ So I want to see every person if you're wanting to grow in Jesus this Friday 845 Let's come and learn more and then at 10 o'clock I want us to come for prayer if you cannot come for six hour prayer You come for an hour whatever you can handle but at least you need to show up so that you pray for your city I show up here and people say well, I work next day. So is my wife So is half of the people who come for prayer and stuff So this is not an excuse that I work next day You usually do not go to sleep on Friday at 845. Please don't lie to the preacher And so I want to see everybody at prayer. We're gonna see the glory of God. Amen. Amen. Let's open the Bibles We will continue The topic that I mentioned last Wednesday. I want to mention few more thoughts tonight in Psalm 24 verse 3 and verse 4 says the following Who may ascend into the hill of the Lord or who may stand in his holy place? He who has clean hands somebody say clean hands and A pure heart somebody say pure heart Who has not lifted his soul to an idol nor sworn deceitfully Psalm 24 verse 3 and verse 4 This is talking about who can ascend the hill of the Lord means who can spend time with God continuously Who can have a relationship with God that is permanent and that lasts beyond Sunday mass or just Easter Christmas only Who can ascend the hill of the Lord and he gives us few criterias. He says that people who have clean hands people who have pure hearts These are the people who can do that and I'm gonna add one more thing to it because Bible talks a lot about also It's about people who have a cool head People who also have a head We all have head, but sometimes that head inside is full of things that are not good Our garbage can has better content than things sometimes in people's heads and Therefore what's inside of our head is very vital and today I want to just kind of talk about relationships and I want to talk about purity and We are going to title this message heart head and hands We're gonna talk about the three ages Your heart we're gonna talk about your head and we are going to talk about your hands the first thing Let's talk about our heart When I say your heart, I don't mean that thing in your heart that pumps blood When I when Bible speaks about your heart, it's not talking about the purity of a physical organ It's talking about a purity of a human spirit a heart is a man's spirit a Heart is actually who you are on inside. It's your spirit on inside Not your emotions not your mind that is your soul your spirit is your conscience your subconscious and your intuition Your spirit is actually who you really are on inside what you see right now is the person's body Who you don't see is the real person when you call Vladimir You actually and I come that's my body, but the real Vlad is inside of this body who you cannot see That's my spirit. That is who I am You must understand that we as Christians and we as humans first of all as humans We are spirits who live inside of the body When you grew up in school in a typical modern school today where they teach you that especially intelligent people They teach you very intelligent so-called things that most likely we have come from monkeys and You teach that to a kid who is very young that he comes from monkeys then he grows into high school You teach him more you give him more evidence that he comes from monkeys and monkeys are animals and The difference between monkeys is that monkeys have bodies, but they don't have spirits inside So when you teach a generation that you are a monkey and They look at their life as that's all I have is a body inside It's interesting that by the time they graduate they begin to act like Monkeys and Therefore when you have teenagers you don't teach them abstinence you give them condoms because you don't teach abstinence to monkeys Animals cannot be taught self-control Animals have to be managed around their wildness and that's exactly what we have in our generation and we have this epidemic We're like why do we have unwanted pregnancies? Why do we have sexual transmitted disease and we have to bring the teaching in school of teaching this case that they need to behave and act when in reality when you program a software in their mind that they do not have a spirit But that they only bodies and their monkeys their behavior will copy that and then no amount of teaching No amount of condoms and no amount of other lectures will actually undo the damage that you create to a person by calling them a Descendant from an animal, but then we go to another extreme and that is the religion and Religion of course we abhorred the idea that we come from monkeys We elevate another idea, which is also very dangerous where we try to teach people or Pretend or give people unrealistic idea to become angels Now angels have another dilemma Monkeys have bodies and they don't have spirits Angels have spirits They don't have bodies and Therefore angels do not have sexuality like you do Angels do not have relationship things like you do they do not have that and many times when people come to a church Or they come to a religious sector they immediately say well if God is to please be pleased with me I have to become like an angel. I have to be a person who has no desire for relationships I have to be a person who is completely void of those things I have to be like an angel, but reality you cannot be an angel because you have something angels don't you have a body Therefore you are not an animal you are not an angel You are a human you have a spirit inside and as a person who has a spirit inside you have to control your sexuality Not live like an animal where your sexuality controls you and Not to pretend to be an angel where you pretend or try to reach a certain state where you don't have a sexuality You do have it. It was given to you by God at the day of your birth by giving you a body and as a spirit Being inside you have to control it. Why this is very important because purity in the Bible is always connected to the heart The Bible says blessed are the pure and hard blessed are the people who have pure and hard We read right now that pure clean hands and pure hearts. What does this mean? That means that your spirit is where everything starts Not with your head or not with your mind When most people talk about purity or when when girls talk about purity and they say, you know I want to let go of the attachment that I have had or guys saying, you know, I want to control my thoughts I want to avoid, you know looking through my Facebook and all the Facebook recommends me all of these people who have half of clothes Missing and I want to control myself from you know, looking through my Instagram instead of looking at the popular page Would always as popular pictures that flood my mind with lustful things I want to be able to to walk clean in the mall without looking at the girl who Victoria who has happens now have no more Secrets revealed all of them and stuff and when the guy saying, you know What I want to control my thoughts and if you have any decency in your head You will be a guy who was saying, you know what? I want to control my head But the problem with your head is this is that your head only control is controlled by your spirit When your spirit is weak when your spirit is not developed your head cannot be really controlled No matter how hard you try it cannot be managed Your first that must be developed is your spirit. It is your heart That is the area that must be developed and it must be grown and once that is developed your mind Your body has chances to be improved the person cannot be pure until he stops ignoring his spirit Your spirit must be a priority that must be developed if you want to live holy or pure in the area of relationships You don't start with a computer software that monitors your behavior from pornographic sides You don't start with going through everyone you follow the postings. You're like, you know what? This is really feeding me in a negative way. I'm gonna follow them. That's not where you start You don't block those girls who keep sending you pictures of themselves in the restroom and they keep putting into the wrong address You instead of their husband Order well if they're not married they shouldn't be sending nothing at all You don't start there and usually people that's what they do when they come to church They begin to follow Christ and they're like, I need to clean up my head. I need to clean up my life That is not where it starts if you start there your victory will be short-lived Everything starts with a spirit your spirit inside. What does it mean to start with a spirit? That means that your spirit must be strong For your spirit to be strong it must be developed your spirit like every muscle in your body does not get developed on its own Once you develop it and then it will develop you Once you grow it and then it will grow you How does your spirit get developed it gets developed when you connect yourself with the higher spirit? Your spirit doesn't get developed when you go You're gonna attract other higher spirits that you're not gonna be happy with and Then you're gonna lose your spirit your soul your body and everything We're talking about connecting the only a human spirit can be developed under one condition if it's under influence of a higher spirit That higher spirit is your choosing either a spirit of depression spirit of fear demonic spirits Or Holy Spirit But you and I choose my spirit must come under influence of the higher spirit Which is the Holy Spirit and then my spirit gets strong? When my spirit gets strong my body and my head and my mind becomes a servant Obedient servant when my spirit is weak when my spirit is broken the Bible says there is a verse in Proverbs that says that a Mary a hard a merry hard does good like medicine, but a broken spirit dries the bones What this means is this when a human spirit is weak Their body will suffer When your human spirit is weak your health will deteriorate When your human spirit is weak your mind cannot be controlled a Merry hard does good actually your spirit is a medicine to everything else in your life And we look well this is true and if you read health self-help books You will find out that to be true the only problem is that in every self-help book the challenge is you develop your spirit by Focusing on your spirit Christ tells us we develop our spirit by linking it to a higher spirit the Holy Spirit and When the Holy Spirit begins to influence your spirit something happens your spirit becomes a medicine to your body To your mind and to everything in your life you can control your thoughts after that because your spirit is Developed how do you develop your spirit? You make time for a connection with the Holy Spirit That connection cannot be done when you're doing your makeup and that connection cannot be done when you're eating your breakfast That connection has to be done when you are undistracted The connection that brings you closer to the Holy Spirit is when you have the least distractions and those least distractions happen usually in the morning before the sunrise Before everybody wakes up to tell you something about today send you the emojis before the snapchat before people upload their latest Instagram pictures Before Facebook before anything you wake up 15 20 30 minutes earlier before anybody else It's still dark. It has a really good feeling when you wake up before the Sun goes up gives you this this boost Makes you feel like a champion, even if you didn't do anything just woke up Something happens to your spirit when you wake up a little bit earlier and before you eat breakfast Before you do anything you get a cup of water and you go into your room Why a cup of water is important because it wakes wakes your body up and you take a time and you recognize at that moment Inside is a spirit and you speak and connect With the higher spirit the Holy Spirit and you say Holy Spirit. I welcome you Holy Spirit I love you Holy Spirit. Let this day be under your supervision. Something happens. You walk out of that feeling nine feet tall You walk out of that a giant Something happens with your mind at that moment during that day your mind becomes your best servant You tell your mind to do this it does that Attitude is strong you're full of cheerfulness. You're full of joy every problem is under your knees I mean you walk around strong. What happened your spirit got connected with the higher spirit And it became a medicine to your body and to your mind You cannot overcome lust if you start with the mind It has to start with coming with our spirit under influence of the Holy Spirit Somebody say man number two and that is our head Our head is something that we have to protect the mind the Bible says in Matthew chapter 5 That he who commits sexual sin in his mind with another woman or another man has committed a sexual sin already in the eyes of God What that means is this when a person's spirit has made a contact with the Holy Spirit and That has to happen now. I know some people here. They are not mourning people You are an evening person, which is completely fine Make your time with the Holy Spirit in the morning. The reason why is this your mind is a blank page Not an evening in the morning You may be an evening person do your awesome activities in the evening But in the morning is when you're blank and the first person who should write on your blank page is not Facebook Not your boss not your Bego and not your yogurt It's the Holy Spirit He's supposed to be presented with the blank page first come under influence of the highest spirit The best spirit in the world the Holy Spirit which doctors Sorcerers people who are connecting and channeling spirits people who practice all kinds of witchcraft and darkness They constantly prioritize their connection with demons and those demons destroy them You prioritize your relationship with something higher and you will see what he will do to you He will raise you up Holy Spirit will never belittle you when you walk from a connection with the Holy Spirit You will always feel taller than you are Because when you elevate him, he will always drag you with him And he will lift you up you will know that some of you know what I'm talking about when you walk out from that time And I'm just talking about a praying little rosemary's. I'm not just talking about reciting prayers I'm talking about realizing you're in a room with the spirit of God and you're making a contact If you're struggling with lust If a relationship area in your life is a mess You don't start with reading books on relationships. You start with developing your spirit By connecting with the Holy Spirit tomorrow morning That means before you go to sleep. You tell the Holy Spirit. I'm gonna see you at five in the morning Upstairs. I'll have a glass of water. Make sure you have a glass of blessings I'll see you tomorrow And you fall asleep with that why because the first thought that will be when you wake up in the morning It will be the last thought that was on your mind before you went to sleep will be the first thought will be on your mind when you wake up And you make sure you make that bargain and you come you connect with him in your spirit During the day when the issue when it comes to lust It will be so much easier when it comes to other sexually more immoral things It will be easier to overcome number two is the head the head We still have a role to play when it comes to the head It's our mind it's what's going on in our thoughts and what I mean by this by the head is that God wants us to Protect the kind of information we let slip into our head throughout the day for example From going to gym and sometimes, you know, I mean you see all the all the ladies in the gym You know are not wearing baggy clothes. Everybody wears as tight as possible. We're like, geez Prophetically, but a lot of people wear prophetically, too. Like that's that's how I want to look in 10 years Put it on you're like, man, it's gonna break It's gonna slap But the point is this is that people who go to gym and we have a lot of men who do go to gym You must understand when you're working out and you see somebody who comes in or maybe sometimes even Some girls in church who would walk in and you're like, whoa What is that happening when you look second time? What happens is that image goes straight into your head? subconscious at first nothing might happen, but then you're tempted with another image a little bit later from a movie There was maybe some scene that you should have not watched in the first place the movie or maybe something that instead of churning your head You're like, well, I just want to see what happens and you saw what happens Another thought went into your subconscious and then you got those little lyrics of the music that it's it's about the beat I know it has all of these sexual explicit information, but it's all about the beat. Trust me I'm just a musician. I know about music and this is a good music the fact that it has everything about sexual Oh, it's fine. You don't realize you have the stuff going into your subconscious in the moment of temptation Guess what Satan will use to cook up lust in your head every information you permitted to come there Satan cannot use playboy magazines. You didn't watch Satan cannot use nude pictures. You didn't open He can only use the things you looked at to cook up something in your head where your palms begin to sweat You begin to masturbate you begin to do sinful things and you're like man feel guilty again I should have not done it. Where does it all start with it starts with this when the person walks throughout today? And instead of saying no this doesn't belong in my head You're cutting away from Satan having material to cook during your temptation and during your temptation He throws things but there's nothing to throw why because not that you're perfect not that you never saw anything bad But it just when something would come up you would you would click away. You would look away. You were saying no I'm not gonna look at that. I'm gonna turn that off. I'm gonna go ahead I'm not gonna watch the movie because before watching a movie you have to go on Google type the movie and type parental guide And it will tell you every questionable scene it has the cost words It has you don't go into a movie theater watching a movie and well if it's something bad, I'll turn away really You have to filter that because when you let those things go into your head you're giving Satan who hates you with his guts Ingredients to cook a poison to kill you with and then you come. Oh, please pray for me I just get flooded with lost full thoughts lost full thoughts you pick up during the day without filtering your head You have to protect your head by watching It's the minor things then when you protect it and temptation comes in and there's nothing to stir you unless because there is nothing there Protect your head for girls you have to protect your head also from novels Because gross pornography is not what they watch. It's what they read the 50 shades of stupid 50 shades of gray or 50 shades of gray they came out You know they discovered That women watch pornography only 20% 20% you know There's 20% of women that watch pornography as compared to men. It's very high and they've created and they found a Secret for pornography for women and the 50 shades of gray is just the beginning. It's a women's pornography That's what it is What pornography does to the mind of men? erotic Material does to the heart of a woman and men or women who will say well watching pornography is nothing wrong I'm not doing anything bad, you know, if I masturbate. There's nothing wrong. I'm not herming anybody. I'm satisfying my own needs People sometimes say that or if I read that it won't do me any damage or sometimes people would watch Bachelor famous show Bachelor Why would you want to watch Bachelor? You have one guy dating 13 girls at the same time That's polygamy and you're watching you're like, oh, this is so cute. What is cute that guy dating 13 girls at the same time? That's insane Now, please understand. I know there's probably awesome guys over there But please understand if you watch that like that don't be surprised if the guy who dates you also dates 20 other people The only thing you're lacking is a video camera and Somehow it is wrong when a guy treats you like that But it is not wrong for you to treat yourself like that by filling yourself with other examples Because if he does that it is wrong, but the fact that I feel myself with that completely acceptable Because of course, I'm not watching it to see how relationship supposed to be done I'm just watching it to see how what the truth is and we're not the truth is I'm just watching to see some dating tips how to compete with other girls It's like a guy saying I'm gonna watch pornography. I just want to see how God designed a body of a woman It's one thing when you're struggling with lust it's another thing when you're struggling with your head And when you're delusional I'm not trying to step on anybody's toes. I want to step on everybody's toes I Just want us to realize as believers guys. This is a battle. We all have to fight. We have to control our head This is not about Wrong, right. This is about your head if I would invite you to my house and You say I am thirsty and you're like one of those water drinking camels who drinks water like every two steps You need to drink water and let's say you come to my house He's like I just need to have water and I said, I'm sorry. We don't have any but I still have some in my toilet What if I take you to my tomb to my bathroom? It's still water It sure looks clean And I will give you 20 reasons why it's good for you because it's still water and it still looks clean Do you see anything there swimming? No, it's good for you. How bad do you want it? the worst person in this room would never ever in their deepest thirst Satisfied their need drinking water from a toilet Yet we will treat our soul Not even to that level I Wouldn't pay you I couldn't pay you to drink water from a toilet yet you and I we would pay So that the Hollywood will dump their toilet water into our mind and then we wonder why do Relationships never work. Why do I constantly struggle with lustful thoughts? Why do constantly cannot enjoy a marriage relationship? I mean, it's so boring. There's no a passion and excitement Stop drinking from a toilet and it will help If we can read in Romans chapter one and this is what it says in the Roman chapter one It says because although they knew God they did not glorify him as God Nor were thankful. So this is what it means. They didn't develop their spirit by coming under influence of the Holy Spirit They didn't connect with God. This is what happened the second thing But became futile in their thoughts and their foolish hearts were darkened What does it mean when a person didn't develop their spirit? Their heart their mind went out of control Anyone who is ruled by their mind will be ruined by their mind Anyone who is ruled by their mind instead of their spirit soon will be ruined by their mind I had a friend that I went to school with About some 10 years ago 10 or 13 years ago a wonderful guy. I looked up to him. He was a little bit older than me He did Bible studies and Hanford high school. He was someone that I was a little bit intimidated by He was a very spiritual very authoritative alpha personality. It's a very great guy We went to visit elderly homes with him We did, you know, we've visited homes saying and preach and did all of these things but this man had a weakness and He got married his beautiful family three children and he started to work outside of town and I Lost contact with him for many many years. I won't mention his name and I've distorted few details about his life for a purpose and I remember when last year I Somebody brought to my attention this person's name and I said way I went to school with him We did Bible studies together. He was my leader at the time and they say you know that out of that particular state This guy was caught in the hotel when he was ordering a service of a 14 year old girl And he was ready to pay for sex services for for like a like a prostitution And this was actually an FBI investigation where they pretended to be a 14 year old girl And he went online ordered that services goes to hotel to meet with a 14 year old girl And he meets with FBI agent gets arrested and goes in prison He goes out of an abail, but his picture is all over Google now his background is ruined. I don't know how his wife handled it And I remember when I when I said I was like the fact that he got caught tells me one thing There are other things he's done where he never got caught What touched me is this is that every person no matter how religious you think you are When your spirit is not connected with the Holy Spirit your mind is crazy and When your mind takes over It will ruin you. It doesn't want to lift you up. It promised I will gratify you I will satisfy your needs, but in reality it's out to crush you Ruin your reputation ruin your character ruin your just your integrity as a person and look at that man today And everything is shattered to live with the background is one thing when you've done drugs It's one thing when you've done that, but it's another thing to live as a man Who was a sex offender degrees? I don't know which degree to live like this all your life Is a shame and It's a shame you will out And I know that's not your destiny, but I'm asking all of us to understand your mind is not gonna help you It will betray you trick you and embarrass you Therefore make it your servant and in order for your mind to be your servant You have to develop your spirit to be your master Somebody say man and that is the secret and that is the key and the how do we control our head? Like I mentioned we control our head by Refusing to take the information that the world offers every single day to us into the corridors of our mind Protect your head when you walk throughout the day certain images come up certain billboards Do bouncing eyes? You just bounce and if your eyes don't want to bounce you do this punish them. You said churn hurry up faster It's a second look that will kill you the first look is an accidental second look is a deadly one after second look That's when that information goes slips into your subconscious and after that guess what happens now Satan has Ingrediences to cook it and guess when he's going to cook it when you're the most vulnerable and the most weak He's not gonna cook it at the right at that moment He's gonna use that when you're tired alone by yourself something else flips on the computer Oh And the person falls and the person first falls into pornography and falls into other things and these things eventually to other other Things until the enemy destroys a person completely watch your thoughts and those of you who maybe some things I mentioned about certain TV shows and everything maybe in your mind like well He's a preacher and everything If you don't respect your soul to that level, okay Don't do this but think about doing this go drink toilet water Treat your body to the same degree you treat your soul How would you feel you will get sick? That's exactly how your soul is right now sick The only bad part is a lot of people don't care about their soul and they're like animals literally forgive me for this phrase Like animals allow whatever comes in mistreat They will never in their wildest dreams will treat their body to that degree that they will allow their soul to be treated Watch whatever comes into it and you will see you'll be victorious If you don't watch it the enemy will use that to trick you and to play games against you and to defeat you Somebody say man the last thing is hands So the first one is our spirit the second one is our head which is our mind and the last thing is our hands our hands Speak of relationships our hands speak of connections that we have with other people That as Christians when we begin to we have to set guardrails in your relationships, and I'm gonna throw a few a few things One is a wisdom thing and the other one is the Bible thing the first wisdom thing and that is this if you're not ready for marriage You're not ready for dating Now I'm not gonna get any immense from high schoolers because I know you have prom and if you don't bring somebody to prom You're gonna lose your salvation or pardon heaven Your identity is gonna be crushed and somehow because everything depends on bringing the most cutest girl to prom If that is really the competition Wow Listen to me very carefully If you are not ready for marriage Then dating is not an option for you You may say, but I'm lonely get a dog You may say that I just I just need somebody to love me to just be there for me get a cat Get a go into a home group Well, I'm still lonely sign up for prayer line If you are a kid you're 16 years of age You're barely found a right to go to that little place where you're working in fast-food chain restaurant And you feel like that because you got admitted to that job that gives you the right to date because in our world today dating is a game Dating is same thing as actually going rollerblading. It's a fun thing teenagers do The only difference with rollerblading is when you throw the rollerblades off the rollerblades don't bleed Rollerblades don't have a heart that beats and hurts and dates do when you go with somebody on a date Their heart gets attached and guess what happens then their heart gets broken and then this goes through the cycle and somehow in your mind You're convinced this prepares you for a better relationship by getting into a relationship breaking up getting breaking up From what I stand it looks like it prepares you for divorce not for the relationship You must have what will I do in high school? You will do your homework You will actually graduate your high school not with just with the GED you will graduate with a 4.0 You will have a good chance to go to a good university. You will have no unwanted pregnancies No sex with just many diseases. No heartbroken. You'll be more focused That doesn't mean that you will be a person who doesn't have you know likes or anything But you will be a person who is focused and when your time comes don't worry. You won't be weird It's the weird you should want to be because the normal is not something you want in your life When you're not ready for marriage if you may be in college right now You're saying I'm head over heels with with my assignments. I just but I everybody in college has a girlfriend. You're not everybody You're unique You're different when you're not ready for that. You're not ready for a date Now but what Christians do is we sneaky we do this thing called just talking when you know, you're not ready for a relationship physically or publicly what you do is you allow yourself to be loosed emotionally and You start to and when somebody says just talking I first I thought it actually meant just talking. I Found out what that actually means That means we already planned how many kids we're gonna have When I say just talking it already means we already know where we're gonna go for a honeymoon That already means people are making out people are snuggling together and people are living as a married couple all under the banner of this false notion Just talking you're not just talking You're letting your heart get ahead of your convictions And you got to protect your heart if you said that this is not a good time for you for a relationship Avoid just talking that means if a brother in Christ wants to fellowship with you. There is a home group There's a group text message There is no personal stuff that you get involved opening up your heart and the next thing that happens is you fantasize him during prayer And you begin to go into fourth dimension and all of the other things because you're allowed your heart to go too far and One of the people becomes attached and something happens And now you're like all I need to put my school inside or I need to do all of these things aside Why because we're just emotionally attached and I know I wasn't ready to get married yesterday, but I'm ready today Because you're attached and why are you attached because you didn't guard your hands hands means your text messages You gotta guard your text messages for most people get emotionally attached through Communication and it's not guys a lot of times are awkward. They love to fall in love over text message Guys love to fall in love over as long as you are far from them. They love you the moment you get close Lose it. They're right away. Just cold feet all other diseases they get and they quickly just lose it And the best thing to do is if you're a young guy or a young young girl You're not ready for a relationship is this is that you limit your? Connection with another person to just a basic business. How you doing? What's up? What's up? But the moment you start going into deep sharing your feelings one of the people will be attached and Then the other person is gonna have the burden of trying to explain. I didn't mean this That's not what I was trying to lead you on. Amen The second thing that I want us to share is this is that if you're not married you cannot live as Though you are and if you are married you cannot live as though you're not We have a lot of people who are married who live like singles I know a good friend of mine who's actually became just a pastor in In the city not from here and he was a fantastic guy. He's a social junkie He stays with people hangs out with his guys all the time But all of his guys after he got married were still single He would come after a particular service here actually where he spoke I remember taking him, you know Took take him out to eat and he's going back home And he's scheduling a basketball game with his buddies After he goes back to his city to go straight to their house He has a wife that he's been married for four years He hasn't seen her for a few days because he was here with us and here He goes back home goes watches the basketball game and I remember when we talked with him later He said bro, I lived like I was single. He said I saw my wife at night I always lived as though all my buddies were single and so I had to always be with them to disciple them And my wife was suffering and marriage can be destroyed if a guy or a girl lives like they are not married But the problem happens as Christians is when people find a person that they love and they begin to live together Or they begin to live like they are married the Bible calls it actually sin and It is not good actually statistically It is not good for the health of your relationship for the financial benefit of your kids Do a study and you will find out that cohabitation is actually has a very harmful effects And the well-being upbringing of your children your financial income and many other areas And sometimes I hear people say first of all, I'm scared of getting married. I'm like, okay, let me understand this So both of you live together both of you have kids together both you have accounts together, but you're scared of being married Yes, let me understand this. You're not scared of going to hell, but you're scared of getting married But you're scared of getting married Really? I mean this is sin. You're living in guilt. You're living in shame. You're not scared of that, but you're scared of getting married People usually come up with excuses like I wanted to have a big wedding. Well, you should have taught that before And plus you don't need to have a big wedding to have an awesome marriage You can start with something small and when you guys been together for a long time throw the biggest wedding you can But now it will be a sign of appreciation for being together with one another That excuse has to be removed. The craziest excuse I've heard which is still tops my list Is when one person came up to me and I remember I didn't even ask this question But there was boyfriend and girlfriend and I was in a room and they mentioned that they were boyfriend and girlfriend And they were living together and so right away they felt this need to explain themselves I was like dude, I don't care. You guys are you know, not Christians I don't expect you to live like Christians, but the need was to express themselves And I remember he was saying he said when we got together and the night that we were supposed to sleep together We both got on our knees and we asked the holy God to marry us I was like, you did what? I was like, what were you drinking that night? And he's like, I don't need the man of God to marry me. I don't need the city to tell me I am married We know we are married when love is there I was like, wow, that's that's way beyond my patriot. He's like, what do you think? I was like, I have no idea I'm like, so if you have love for your cat, does that mean you're also? I'm like, where is this stop? Couch? Car? I mean, how far do you go? And stuff. So I was like, I don't know, honestly, you go find your church to understand this because this is very too deep for me And I am on a very shallow level. I'm on a very simple level. If you're not married, shouldn't live like married And if you're living together right now, you need to get married. Get married soon And this has to stop. You need to stop living in a life where you open the door for the enemy And you have to, if you have kids, especially together, you have to get married and you have to get married yourself And you have to allow God to go in there, bring restoration and bring things that your life will receive a blessing That you will live without shame and guilt, but you will live with God's peace and God's blessing And one day, when you would date, make a decision We're gonna live together when we're gonna be married Period. Because somebody say amen And God will bless you and trust me, those times, those, that six months, five months, four months, it will pass just like this And once you are together, you will look back, you will enjoy your relationship, you will enjoy your spouse And most importantly, you will look with your smile to Heavenly Father, knowing He is pleased with you Not because you're somehow holier, but it's because you're obedient And He rewards obedience, and He will reward you If you made mistakes in the past, what Jesus told to the woman, He tells you today, go and sin no more Rise up, do right, He will help you How do you do the right? Build your spirit Take over the things in your mind, and then practically set guardrails in your relationship And you will see God's favor and God's blessing in your life Can somebody say amen?