 Keep your underwear on so it's gonna be about purity We heard about purpose this morning We talked we heard about repentance yesterday. I believe that God is wanting to take us into Holiness and take us into purity for us to fulfill our purpose and The title you're gonna see the word that comes in the scripture in just a moment But I want to tell you start out with the fact that purity is something that most of us desire too little and we desire it too late Walking in purity is what God wants for us. We have the Holy Spirit who is holy and God wants us to live in purity I just finished a book called Single ready to mingle it's gonna be released in in the summer and it deals about dating I hear a lot about relationships in the church I preach a lot of sermons on relationships. We'll hear a lot about Keeping your virginity, which is very important But Bible doesn't talk a lot about dating how to find your spouse How to find mr. Right the Bible's emphasis is very huge Unsexual purity because purity applies to your singleness and it applies to your married life Purity applies to a teenager and purity applies to an adult It applies to a son and it also applies to the father. It applies to a teenager and it applies to the pastor Purity is not only to a person who is trying to get married and trying to keep their virginity Because see purity is more than virginity You can be a virgin and not be pure But you can't live in purity and not walk in virginity as a single person I lost my virginity at the age of 24 on the wedding night to my wife the greatest day in my life Some of you just don't know what to do with that information absolutely do nothing just keep staring at me But that is the day you look forward to and we keep our virginity so that we can lose it To the right person at the right time Right But I can tell you one thing that when I got married and and you know We had that physical relationship and something that we continue I wasn't living pure all my teenage years or all my even young adults years Some of you know my testimony of how the Lord delivered me from the from the demonic spirit of pornography You can live in virginity as a young person and not walk in purity In fact, some people use the Holy V as a sense of pride while in reality The only thing that they have is the Holy V, but there is no purity in their life at all And so today my message is not going to be just to keep your virginity. Keep your physical purity I want to talk about purity. I want to talk about how to live in purity here how to live in purity in here It is the will of God that you live pure life It is the will of God that you live pure life before you get married and when you get married the idea that once they get Married purity will not be necessary is extremely wrong I cannot tell you how many people would reach out to me through social media and in personal contact Who are married and who thought that once they get married their purity life will be fixed when they will no longer Need to restrain their urges for sex Marriage doesn't fix purity if it would God wouldn't send the Holy Spirit to live in you. God will give you a ring The Holy Spirit is the one that helps us to live holy So I want you we're gonna look at few verses right now to explain what the purity is and then dive in into Practically how to walk in purity Psalm Psalm 24 verse 4 is this Who can ascend the hill of the Lord or who may stand in this holy place? He who has clean hands everybody say clean hands Everybody look wave your hands at me your hands both of your hands now clean hands everybody say clean hands and Then this is after that pure heart point to your heart Clean hands Pure heart have you noticed it doesn't say pure hands. It says clean hands So hands is something you can see correct A heart is something you cannot see correct So purity is not physical Cleanness is physical Purity is invisible. It's a hard issue. It's something you cannot see purity is not Virginity virginity is clean hands and God says when you walk into my presence I want your hands to be clean means I want you to have physical purity physical cleanness But that is not what the purity is purity is pure Come on So clean hands is something you can see and Pure heart is something nobody else can see let's look at one more verse and that's in the New Testament in Matthew chapter 5 verse 8 Everybody knows it blessed are the what? Blessed are the what? For they shall see God so God is saying that pure in heart. It's interesting. It doesn't say pure in the body Meaning you can keep yourself clean you can keep yourself from sexual connections You can keep yourself even from dating and at the same time be perverted in the heart and in the mind And the Bible doesn't say those who have virginity will see God. It says those who have purity in heart The problem with the church folk is the church folk judges based on our physical purity physical cleaness And they cannot see our inward and the heart purity and therefore you can remain a Total pervert on the inside But because you're a virgin and you're not sleeping around and you're not dating anybody that anybody can see in church And if you are dating you're doing so secretly that you don't post it on social media That you can still walk around with a sense of pride and with a sense of godliness When I was in the Ukraine we lived there we had this Thing where my mom and my dad would have guests over and the guests you know how in Ukraine they don't plan days in a head They just tell you we're coming So 15 minutes later the mama and daddy would come there was five of us I'm the oldest of five and she will tell us to do this she will say clean the house So we had 15 minutes to clean the house You can't clean the house in 15 minutes. You need five hours the kind of mess we would make we needed five hours to clean The house, but we had 15 minutes So what we would do is what every Ukrainian teenager learned to do is we would take Advantage of the space behind the couches and under the beds because that space is there for a reason So we would take everything that was Visible that you could see and we would quickly put it behind the couch What didn't fit behind the couch went underneath of all the beds Why so that in 10 minutes when the guests would come in they would see a clean house But it only looked clean to them. We all knew God forbid You look behind the couch See purity is what's behind the couch Cleanness is what people see Purity is an inward issue The emphasis that we place and honestly wrongly I have been placing for a long time in my ministry is Under cleanness make sure you look clean Make sure that you change your status on Facebook. You still say that you're in complicated relationship with that boyfriend change that to single Make sure that you don't do this physically and you don't do that and that's very important clean hands God says clean hands. We need to have clean hands But this is where I stop and God talks about the place behind the couch The pure heart we're gonna look at one more verse about purity and then we're gonna talk about how to walk in purity Exodus chapter 28 verse 42 and 42 43 and this is the verse that I got the title of the message for keep your underwear on Exodus chapter 28 verse 42 says the following and you shall make for them linen Trouses to cover their nakedness they shall reach from their ways to their to their ties and They shall be upon Aaron and his sons when they come into the tabernacle of meeting or when they come near the altar to minister in the holy place that they do not incur Iniquity and die it shall be a statue forever to him and his descendants After him when I was younger and I was reading this verse what he was saying God tells to Moses that I want you to make trousers. I Did not understand what trousers meant. I thought it was some deep word for some kind of a spiritual activity so when I saw trousers I was like Amen and Ways down I was like praise God the glory of God and then I've read a simple translation what it didn't use word trousers It says under garments and some translation says this you should make them underwars Yeah I was like disgusting. I was flip that page I don't want to read about God talking about undies to Moses say hey make sure Aaron wears underwars to church I mean imagine this that's in your Bible where God tells Aaron Moses make sure Aaron and all of his sons when they come to worship make sure they have their underwars I got Okay, all right. All right any goddess and there's specific particular ones I want I want their height to be particular God is like I don't want just any kind of underwars. I want a particular kind of under what's not there There's one thing about Can I borrow you and I'll tell you the way every illustration I use it's the embarrassed people so you'll be embarrassed Come over here Come right here. Uh-huh. Yeah Underwear, you know what underwear is? It's something that's under what you wear Very simple Can I ask you a question right now? Do you think he wears an underwear or not? Based on what you see Take a picture of it so we can post it in we don't know in fact now you you hope he does You believe he does you have really good faith, but honestly nobody knows why because an underwear is something that you wear Under what people see I want you to see this God tells priests You will dress outward Lee Something that people will see you will put the garment of righteousness. You will put the garment of praise You will put the breastplate of righteousness You will play put the shoes of this God says all of that is great And when you come to church people will say amen a man of God a woman of God, you know Look at how she worships look at her Bible has like yellow pink everywhere Look, she even has a notebook look I mean she takes photos of the quotes and posted a woman is a woman of God She posts every single day a photo from a different angle and put a scripture in the bottom to inspire the world That's the only discipleship and evangelism she does but hey She's doing it for the glory of God. And so you're looking on the outside. You're like man. This is awesome But see when God says when you come into my presence God is asking stay there God is asking one thing He says what's under all of that? Do you have an underwear? Meaning what's under What you present God tells Aaron if you show up in my presence. I know if you got your undies on and If you don't have them on could you be kind to put us the verse again? He says this he says they will incur Iniquity and die For not because they didn't wear a garment. It's because they did not wear an underwear in his presence You need purity to be in God's presence You need purity to be in God's presence and you need purity for Relationships for those of you who one day will be married you will understand without purity your relationship with your wife Is not gonna be good and and many people want to live pure because they don't want to have hidden sin and and Shame in front of their spouse by God in here says to Aaron and to his sons He says I want you to wear an underwear because I Get offended when you come in and your stuff is not covered To make the matters worse, you know what he said This shall be a statue Until the coming of Jesus Christ and after that I removed that no it does not say that if you look in the screen behind me It says this shall be a statue for him and his descendants forever Meaning as the royal priesthood of the New Testament God is still expecting you to wear an underwear in his presence Now, of course, I'm not speaking about an underwear that you buy in Walmart. I Am talking about an area of our life That's hidden from the public eye an area of our life That's hidden from the news feed from the feed of our Instagram from the stories of our Instagram from the Facebook from the snapchat the areas of our life that are hidden that are under your wear The purity The life the private life right here and right here. God says that life That purity is what I look at when you come into my presence purity is Wearing your underwear in God's presence purity Is taking care of your private inward thought life Emotion life where nobody else can see it Where nobody can track it where nobody can have an evidence against you But it's right here and it's right here and God says when you come into my presence. You better wear an underwear Meaning you better come in purity and purity is not that you don't have a boyfriend. Oh, I'm pure why because I'm not dating anybody Oh, I'm pure why because I'm not sleeping. I'm pure why I don't watch porn I'm pure why because I don't masturbate. I'm pure why because you know what? I have not had a sexual encounter since the last time I broke up and I'll repent that says, you know, that is great That's clean hands, but that's not purity of heart. Purity of heart is what's happening here and what's happening right here That's a purity of heart Thank you so much. Do you have an underwear on? No, don't My god have mercy. I Just ask the simple question. Yes or no. Okay, please God. Okay. Well, but then can I really take his forward for it? No But we're not gonna want for a check this that's between him and God in other words. I can ask you. Hey, are you living pure? Uh-huh, but in reality only you and God knows that Only you and God knows that and that's what I want to talk about for just a few remaining of the moments It's how to walk in that purity this message And I saw the moment I announced this some some older people get up and left in which is fine This this purity message is not for the singles it's for us as the men and women of God and It applies to the married folk as much as it applies to the single folk So let's open to Paul's instruction I'm gonna give you three simple points of how to walk in purity And I believe the Holy Spirit is gonna do something very special as we hear this brief message And it will be easy to remember this verse. It's two two twenty two Second thing with the chapter two verse 22. So four twos Second Timothy chapter two verse 22 Very simple. Can we read it together on the count of three on the screen behind me one two three? Who messed up you messed up? Oh, I did. Okay, so we're gonna read it one more time because I messed it up one two three Amen. Amen. Amen. Put your hands together for yourself. You did an amazing job Some of you who did not read the Bible today, you just did That's your Bible reading plan for today, hallelujah verse of the day my God And so we're gonna break this verse down into three simple parts and let this verse speak to us the first thing that I want you to see in Reaching purity is that Paul says to pursue Peace righteousness so to pursue purity pursue pursue So write this down if you're taking notes is that purity is not a point you cross It's a pursuit an ongoing pursuit or pursuit after Jesus Purity is not a point you reach. Oh When I get married then I'm pure. Oh when I'm when I stop consuming pornography I am pure when I stop staring at girls butts then I'm pure When I stop looking for ladies who wearing yoga pants in the gym. I'm pure The same thing gonna be applied to girls when I stop doing this, then I'm pure Purity is not a certain level you reach where you stop struggling. Paul doesn't say purity is a point It's a constant ongoing pursuit When you stop pursuing you stop purity even if you don't commit physical sexual immoral sense Purity is not a point you reach. It's a pursuit of the Jesus So the goal is not to pursue purity The goal is to pursue Jesus and as you pursue Jesus that purity becomes a result My problem was I got introduced to pornography at a very young age I think it was about 12 years of age It was the first time that in the Ukraine somebody showed black and white magazine photos It was half of the page that was ripped up I can't recall what I saw but I just remember that I saw for the first time women who could not afford clothes And I thought it was funny I didn't think of anything sensual or sexual or arousing in it except I knew that it was probably wrong And I knew that if my dad finds out I'm gonna get a Ukrainian Holy Ghost Pentecostal spanking So I hid those images like David hid God's Word in his heart I hid them in my pocket and then I lost them somewhere and never thought anything about it until we moved the United States and about Six months into being in the United States and some of you heard my testimony And I'm just gonna repeat it for those who have not heard it before an American neighbor asked us to house his seven or eight cats and gave us a key Payment for seven days for us to take care of his house and as we were taking care of his house It was always a dream of mine to be able to see how white people live For you those of you occasions, please forgive me, but I was 13 year old dream that I had okay My dream was to see what they have in a refrigerator. I wanted to see what they have in their basement I wanted to see what they have in the shed outside, and I wanted to see what they have in their closet I wanted to see everything without them knowing I'm looking at it So this was a perfect opportunity to see a fulfillment on my dream having a keys to this guy's house for seven days Feeding his cats and guess what I did I went everywhere. I Checked under the bed. I checked behind. I was just this curious cat walking around checking every single thing And then I stumbled upon a closet a bunch of VHS tapes with They were pornography tapes, but I convinced myself that it could have been might have been what if perhaps It's like billy grams or Catherine Coleman's crusade tapes put in the wrong tape covers I'm not lying to you. I actually had that thought circulating in my head And so I wanted to do just to check double check and so I put the tape in Unfortunately, it was not a Catherine Coleman or Billy Graham's crusade. It was ungodly wicked horrible I didn't stop watched it felt really really really nasty really horrible I felt like somebody put me in a pile of poop and kept me there for 40 minutes And it smelled good until you get out and then you're like it just just felt like I wanted to scrub stuff I don't mean just it was self-discussing and I said I'll never ever do it again only to do it again the next day Only to do it again the next day the next day Until I was now praying and hoping that the neighbor will come back and take the keys away because I could not stop This was the day where we had no internet the only internet we had is we had the AOL six month trial period I don't know if you guys remember those for those of you. Yeah, and after the six months You don't buy the internet you buy you get another CD CD Rome put for six months So that was the day this was the day where we there was no television my parents were so pentacostal We didn't even have a television in our house So this was the day where living pure was easy year and so after this encounter with the neighbor's house I was like my god, please forgive me. I'll never do it again only eight months later to find out Like a drug addict addicted to drugs. I found myself being addicted to Consuming pornography left me feeling dirty. I was a disciplined man. I thought I was a disciplined man I was disgusted with myself. I hated myself. I started to preach at that time already a young man I would go to my pastor for accountability and I'm gonna share my deliverance story in just a moment But in my mind I developed this thing that I was not pure I wasn't pure though I was a virgin I wasn't pure and in my mind I said this if God gives me freedom From pornography I will be pure So purity in my mind was this reaching a point what I no longer watch pornography and that's the problem That's not what purity is Purity is not reaching a point Where you don't do that sin that you do right now. That's not purity Paul says to pursue Meaning if you don't pursue it you can't walk in purity and Even if you stop a consuming pornography even if you stop sleeping with your boyfriend Even if you repent of your lesbian lifestyle Even if you walk away from sexual immorality you get married and you have an ongoing physical intimacy That doesn't guarantee purity if you park your devotional spiritual life in the garage of your religiosity and After I got delivered from pornography. I found out the battle with lust The battle and the struggle here continued, but there was this sense of pride. I no longer watch the stuff So I am good, but see if you're not pursuing You're not pure Purity is not a point you reach purity is a pursuit after God I want you to see this verse about Samuel in the first Samuel About Saul I'm sorry in the first Samuel chapter 15 verse 11. It says the following I greatly regret that I have set up Saul as a king for he has churned back from following me And has not performed my commandments. It grieved Samuel and he cried out to the Lord all night Could you underline if you believe underlining your Bible is not a sin what it says over there. He has not followed me God didn't accuse Saul for not believing in him. He didn't accuse Saul for churning his back under temple sacrifices of the lambs he says you know Sam Saul used to be follow me Everywhere I was he followed me. I go right. He goes. I'm sorry camera people. He goes right. I go left I Go to uncomfortable places and Saul used to do exactly that he go right behind me right behind me right behind me Right behind me. He goes right behind me everywhere. I went and then something happens it over there He arrived Listen, he arrived I Go he's sitting He's not doing anything bad He's not following me is there's no more pursuit. He parked on the side of his Particular breakthrough for Saul it was he became a king for you is you beat that addiction And then this is what this says. I want you to see the scripture It says when he stopped following me He says and has not performed my commandments any time you park at the particular level with your walk with God You start compromising Physically it always happens. It's a matter of time for Saul He started disobeying God in that area in that area Why because the pursuit is the only thing that keeps me in purity So the root of my purity is the pursuit of God the result of my pursuit of God is pure lifestyle Are you comprende with what I'm saying? You can come back. Thank you start following again. My God, hallelujah. Thank you Jesus So the first thing that I wanted to share with you guys today about purity is the point It's not a it's not a point you reach you You don't park at the particular time or a particular because I find people who when they are Needing to be free from a particular sin They are pursuing God they're desperate and then when you reach the freedom from that sin There becomes this complacent parking where you sit down where you park at that freedom and you say you know what I am good I arrived, but that's not what purity is. That's what freedom is That's not what purity is what purity is is a constant pursuit So if you got free from that addiction if you got delivered from that God says the same way you were pursuing me Where you were addicted continue to pursue me. Otherwise some other addiction will slip you back in and you will not be performing my Commandments because you're not pursuing me purity is the pursuit somebody say amen If you write things down write this down. We need purity to be in God's presence and we need God's presence to live pure We need purity to live be in God's presence and we need God's presence to be pure the fruit of the Holy Spirit is Self-control it doesn't say it's the work of the Holy Spirit. It's the fruit Fruits I see how my trees in the backyard produce fruit. There is no sweating There is no child like you know like You don't see striving you see yielding trees Naturally produce the Holy Spirit saying this is that if you make it your goal to pursue me without striving without Purity self-control all those things will begin to come natural Effortlessly the only effort you have to put in is to run after him So all their effort is not to be free Is to run when you put the effort to run God says I put the effort to Bring purity that even when you free I bring deeper levels of purity with every season of your life Because being free is not God's goal. God's goal is purity of heart. You can be free But not walking purity and that's why some of us what happens is that we walk in freedom and We think well, I beat this sin. I beat that addiction I no longer struggle with that But at the same time the purity of heart is deeper than that and you can't do that by trying to make yourself pure You can only do that by putting an effort to pursue and God says now that you put in a time to pursue I'm not talking about just showing up to church I am not talking about having a u-version Bible app pop a verse in the morning and I read one verse I'm now fed with God. You know what? I'm not like pleasantly plumb, but I need more than a crumb to get me fed Oh, I just pray I should not my favorite Caleb song and my way to work and those 10 minutes while I'm eating my Burrito from Taco Bell and I'm also putting on my makeup and I'm spending my time with God now That is a great thing that you have going with the Lord. I applaud you But that looks more to me like being parked in a garage then pursuing You got to pursue the Lord you got to pursue the Holy Spirit if you want to live in purity number two if we look at the verse again in Second Timothy chapter 2 verse 22 it says flee youthful us but pursue So the second thing that I want you to write this down is that we are not called to fight lust But to flee it God didn't anoint us to fight lust He only called us to flee Lust he called you and I to fight Satan, but not lust I find it interesting that the Bible nowhere says for us to fight lust. It always says to flee lust But to fight the devil. Can I tell you something lust is stronger than the devil you can beat the devil you can't beat lust The only way you beat lust is run from it At the same time as you're running from God you're running from the from lust You never call to run from the devil you're called to run from lust because lust is bigger than the devil Why is lust worse than the devil? It's because it connects to something inside of you called flesh and So God says through Paul to my generation. He says it to me. He says it to you. He says this. He doesn't say fight He says run From it. I don't want to run from it. I can beat it. That's your problem I cannot tell you how many young men have come up and say passive lot pray for me. Why I'm fighting with lust and That's the problem Stop fighting. I said we're in the Bible. Did you see God called you to fight with lust? That is why you're losing because you're picking a fight with an enemy God thinks you can't win and you're asking me to help You win when God says you can't I was like I can't pray for you to fight lust I can only pray for you to obey the Bible and flee lust You know her see Joseph fighting Porifer's wife He didn't try to evangelize to her Because if he would try to evangelize to her both of them would go to Lake of fire You don't see Joseph laying hands on her and casting out a spirit of harlotry out of her Joseph goes into the house and the moment the chica start giving him those dirty looks and she's been doing it for a very long time He looked at that and he kept on walking. He pretty much started ignoring her and she grabbed on him And he what did he do can they say come over here? I know your daddy didn't love you Let me pour some love of the father You know what you know woman what you need you just need love Like you're fishing for lust you never had an actually somebody loved you your husband hasn't been paying attention to you You know, let me just just just right here on my shoulder No, Joseph ran from her. I'm gonna give you practical things now on how to fully lust Underneath of this point right down a cut off the hand Which in other words means remove trigger points in your life cut off the hand What I mean by fleeing lust is this is that there are things in our life that are trigger points For lust that they need to be simply cut off Jesus says if your hand causes you to sin, what did he say? He didn't say bring it to an altar call He did not say have the pastor pray for your hand What did Jesus say? But my hand is also used to help people It's only sitting on one day out of the month the rest of the 29 days. It's doing good I need God to change my hand and this is the problem is that we're not fleeing Situations where on good days are good. It's just on the weekdays. They're pulling us into sin Put it for his wife is not always lustful and horny She'll not said that word. Sorry bleep that out But if her wife is not always like that. She's a nice woman She just has those days when she acts to like this I can't just so run from her and this is what I find with people you need to identify Your hand that causes you to sin for some of you. It's very simple. It's your Instagram But half of the other time that you don't fall into sin Instagram is good You fellowship with other people you even brought people to church because of that And so what you're doing is there Lord sanctify my Instagram because it's using good things and God's idea For you to flee lust is for you to remove even if it's doing good things for you on good days So this is what we do instead of cutting off the hand, which is what God says we come up and say Lord deliver me I have people that come up all the time and say pastor lot pray for me because I'm battling with lust my responses They shouldn't be battling you should be fleeing. Okay, pray for me to help me to flee Lust second question. I ask is this which hand are we cutting today? Oh No pastor, I'm gonna keep all my hands all my feet and all my fingers and I say you can't receive freedom from lust without something being removed What's being removed? Well, well, well, what's being removed? No, it's just all in my heart That's the Jesus did not say cut your heart. He says cut a trigger point There is trigger points for lust for some people the trigger points is simple. It's at night. They relax I believe a single person a person who is not married should not have free time. I Believe when you say free time devil says my time For the single unmarried people especially young men free time in the evening to relax is demonic time You should stay as busy as you possibly can Did you know why Joseph didn't come in sin with body for his wife? He was busy in the house. Did you know why David fell in when sin with Basheba? It's because David got up in the evening on the balcony after he slept all day instead of fighting He was relaxing and that's why Satan got him. He couldn't get Joseph like that So remove free time. Oh, so what do you want me to do? Never have a free time. Nope You've been singing to Jesus. You gave him your all your whole life. It's not yours So what do you do with free time you read you write you stay away from free time because that's your trigger point What else is your trigger point? Could it be snapchat? What else it could be could be internet But I can't believe you would say for me to turn off my internet until God brings that deliver it I can't live without internet. Well, then you need to make a decision. Do you want to live in sin or? Do you want to live in? Freedom, but I want to live free without internet. I want to live free. I'm sorry with the internet Jesus did not have internet. He survived You will be just fine. I use it for my homework. Stop lying to yourself. You don't even go to school. I Do research what research do you do? I need to stay current with the news. The news is very simple There's a whole thing going on in the government Donald Trump is the president and everybody hates him That's about the news for the next two years. I just described it to you Well, I need to stay I need to stay see you have to ask yourself a question if you are serious about About fleeing then you have to be serious about removing a hand. I Remember I was free already and few years ago. I start getting I Start sensing that I'm being tempted with Instagram. There's a popular page on Instagram You know where like you click in between the buttons over there And it puts just different random pictures and I started to in my free time Look through scroll through the Instagram just to numb The fact that I was busy with other stuff and scrolling through but deep inside my flesh was looking for this it was looking for skin I Know it was looking for I Know what I was scrolling for I wasn't clicking on anything But I was hoping to see something. I'm a married man, and I'm a pastor But nobody can see that This continued for a few weeks. I didn't look at it, but I just kept scrolling hoping my flesh was hoping to find Skin and until I realized I'm coming to the edge of the cliff already And I'm beginning to sense the same temptations that I experienced when I was in bondage But I'm my justification is this I'm not committing sin. I'm not looking at anything and I am chilling And so and then I told my wife About it a lot of times husbands come and say I struggle with lust and I said tell your wife she'll deliver you. Oh No, she'll kill me. I was like, that's what I mean by delivering you Trust me. I can't tell anybody except my wife But I knew I had to tell my wife and the reason why I had to tell her is because a few days before that She started to say this she's like something is wrong with with us. I said everything is fine I take you on a date your happy woman. You got everything that you need But secretly already I know something is happening there and and these women they have this like Holy Ghosts and tennis They know everything that's wrong. You can cover it delete the browser history everything and she comes in She's like I just I just feel like we're not close and you're like putting balonis on her Like oh, we're just so amazing. I booked the vacation I bought a ring for you and I cleaned your car and everything and the woman's like nope That's not gonna cut it. You're doing something wrong And my wife, you know, she's not a prophetess, but she was just kind of complaining about something was going on I remember it was Friday night. We're about to go to sleep and I can't sleep and the Holy Spirit said Vlad If you don't tell your wife, you're gonna fall back into pornography tomorrow He said you're coming you playing games already. You're coming close and you are doing what's wrong It's about a few years ago. So I tell her and I'm expecting like You know, and I would deserve every because it would help me maybe to be delivered from that And so my wife she she did not do that. She she got on her like she sat down in the bed and she laid hands on me and I was delivered like she didn't beat me praise be to God. She prayed for me. She put I remember Who's like, holy? I've never had this happen. It's a It's like Lord, I just pray you would deliver this wicked perverted person She didn't say like that. She didn't say like that. She just said kind words After she prayed I said I'm turning off Instagram and for about 12 months. I removed Instagram completely didn't lock in one time Even though I felt delivered. I knew one thing the devil has me on the hook But the problem with Instagram is that I was getting good followers Like I was really hoping to break 5,000 followers and I was this close and I am free already Why don't you touch enough my Instagram? My hand is good But see you have to understand It's good on good days If it's a tool in the hands of the devil on the bad days, that means the good and the bad has to go And this is where a lot of us are saying, huh? I don't think I agree with you Keep living in sin Stop, you know what? Stop asking God to deliver you if you're not obedient to his word Stop asking stop coming to the altar and saying Lord do this Jesus said clearly if you want to be free from lust He did not say have pastor pray for you. He did not say have anointed man Put his hand on your head and you to follow the power of God Then you get up and you keep using exactly the same trigger point if you want to flee from lust That means you have to remove trigger points. What is your trigger point identified and remove it? The second part about fleeing lust that's not just the trigger points don't eat of the tree Meaning there are certain things you can't remove You just have to not look at and discipline your eyes not to look at for example God didn't call you to remove Victoria who has no secrets from the mall You can't you know I saw I know some of you you really want to change your city and you want to change all of that But in reality you're gonna fail in that you can't remove that if you're working out and you're going to the gym You know, you're not gonna go to every single girl. I say hey, could you next time wear something a little bit more baggier? You can't go to every single girl in church. I say hey Could you please wear a skirt a little bit longer and you know like this part a little bit closer? God gave you clothes to cover not to reveal didn't your mama tell you that you know and all this stuff You can't do that because that's not practical There are things in life that will be trigger points that you cannot remove it's out of your control In that case you have to do that what God told Adam to do with the tree of knowledge of good and evil don't eat of it Meaning don't stare if the girl is not dressed up like he's supposed to dress up bounce your eyes If Victoria has no more secrets keep walking in the mall. Don't look at her If you are in the gym and somebody's right in front of you and they really are showing You know other parts of their body that have been working out for women just bounce your eyes God says the simple it don't look at it. If you're like Samson, you're not gonna control your eyes. You're gonna lose them The M is gonna take it now for the ladies this applies also. I know from there's a lot of there's a surge of Lust that went in with the young women in our generation today We're now the addiction to pornography is actually coming close to the addiction that men have to pornography If you can lower it down just a little bit I know you're trying to tell me that it's my time and I appreciate that And so but what I would encourage you ladies is this is also is for you Lust is something different. It could be maybe in the form of lusting to have somebody else's body To be like somebody else. I remember I met a pastor a good friend of mine a good teacher and And I asked him something about social media and he says, you know what me and my wife We walked away completely from from Instagram and and I said, you know, why did your wife left Instagram? She said it brought so much depression and anxiety to her trying to compare her real life to everybody else's Fake life. He says she though. She's beautiful. She just couldn't live with that and she's just trying to live up to everybody's Beautiful cool-looking, you know with filters family and she decided to completely walk away from that saying you know what? That's the tree that our generation has the tree of knowledge of good and evil the tree of Instagram And I'm not eating of that that's not gonna be a part of my life And maybe that's the that's the thing that you have to take where you have to Run from things that bring you this this food of the devil and you can't remove the tree You just have to remove yourself from Digesting it there are so many trigger points all around in our generation today They will be begging for your attention and some things you cannot remove they're gonna be there no matter what you have to Discipline your eyes that you move your eyes that you you move your heart from it another part about how to Walk from that is not only we cut off the hand not only we don't eat from the tree And we're bringing this to the close is that if you don't want to want to fall into sexual sin Stop flirting with that sin and stop flirting meaning is this is that we stop asking a question How close can I get to the cliff without falling into it and honestly? I just shared with you my story that happened to me a few years ago And my excuse was this is how close can I get to looking at stuff that without falling into looking at pornography? And that's a problem is that when you start flirting you will fall. I love the fact that Joseph did not ask You know what sleeping with Porifer's wife is a really bad idea but flirting with her chatting with her direct messaging her sending her emojis Is not bad idea a lot of us the problem why we fall into sexual sin is because we don't flee instead of fleeing sexual sin We flirt meaning we flirt with situations. We flirt with people knowing we're not called to be in that relationship You have no business as a young man messaging a young lady in your church in a casual way Would you still do that if you would have a wife? No, that means that has to stop today. Oh You snap chatting and said sending snaps to that person Would you do that if you would have a wife today? No, did you know that the Bible says blessed is the man who finds a wife? It doesn't say blessed is the man who finds a girlfriend meaning she's been acting like a wife before she became a wife Act like a husband act like a wife before you become one stay away from flirting with people flirting with situations and Pushing your limits as close to the cliff as you can without committing the sin that will condemn you to hell And that's called fleeing I love Joseph and Joseph drives me like crazy because I look at this guy And I'm like my God he got rejected. He got bullied. He got abused this guy has a death certificate laying at home He is dead to his family. He has no church. He has no accountability partner. He has no pastor He has no Bible. He has no church services yet when sexual temptation presents to a man Who had a same biological body that you and I have he doesn't flirt he flees We have a church. We have accountability. We have teachings on purity. We have parents We have everything and we flirt with sin and why is that and I find two things that are different between Joseph and my generation One is Joseph told the potifers wife this she says I cannot do this great wickedness before God We call sexual sin great weakness. I Have a weakness brother Joseph didn't see sexual sin as weakness. He saw it as wickedness We call it defeat Joseph called the disobedience That means sexual sin has to be redefined in your mind. It's not a weakness. Weakness is if you can't lift 300 pounds. That's a weakness Weakness is something physical weakness is not consuming pornography. That's not a weakness. That's wickedness and Joseph didn't see sleeping with somebody's wife as a weakness He saw it as a wickedness. If you want to overcome sexual sin, you have to stop Redefining sin as the world sees it and you have to say it. It's not a mistake mistake is if you forgot my number That's a mistake mistake is not if you're staring at somebody's butt That's a sin That's willful deliberate Joyful sin and when you start seeing it like that then you approach it with repentance instead of I'm working on it I can't lift two plates in the gym. I'm working on it. That's my weakness But that is the gym the purity is not like that if you I'm not walking in purity God doesn't see it like I can't lift two plates. God says you are a wicked sinner and The response to that is Lord I repent But if you see your sexual sin as a weakness guess what you're gonna do with it You're gonna work on it instead of repent Another thing that I see in Joseph that's different than than us is that Joseph He fled because he had a fear of God We flirt because we know the grace of God Joseph fled because he had a fear of God We flirt because we know the grace of God the grace is with God loves you no matter what and that's the problem How come he had no anointing and he ran from sexual sin and we have a generation today trapped in sexual sin because we're loaded with the grace of God and This little of the fear of God are you comprende and lastly So the first thing we mentioned purity is not a point It's a pursuit secondly we mentioned is if in order to win We have to flee not fight means you have to run from situations that are wicked You have to cut yourself away from people that are wrong you have to remove all of that and lastly what I'm gonna share with you And we're going to pray second Timothy chapter 2 verse 22 it says this it says flee youthful us Pursue righteous this peace and joy and all of this stuff and then there's this one phrase Would you be kind to give me that verse one more time a detail? Second Timothy chapter 2 verse 22 It says the following is that but pursue righteousness faith love peace and I want you to see this part. It says with those Who call on the name of the Lord out of the pure heart? So my third and last and I believe a most important thing to walk in purity and that is this Purity must be pursued in a community No community no purity Paul tells Timothy if you want to love live in purity flee pursue and then he says this with those Who are calling on the Lord from a pure heart that means you cannot be pure in the vacuum? You cannot be pure on your own you need others Hebrews chapter 12 verse 1 it says that before you seek and run after God it says to round yourself with a cloud of witnesses I like to say like this your crowd creates a cloud over your life Because this is what your friends do to you friends provide influence Influence everybody say influence Have you noticed when you said word influence in the word influence is three letter word that says flu You know how influence works like a flu you catch it when somebody else has it and they're around you When you are around people who are in lust and They are your friends. You catch spirit of lust the same way you catch a flu Simply by being around them Paul says you want to walk in purity. He says you cannot do it because purity and lust are contagious You put yourself in a group of people who are in purity and it's a matter of time Purity begins to come upon you because your crowd creates your cloud. There's a spiritual influence that comes upon you Your tribe creates your vibe The vibes you feel inside is all created by the tribe you have the scripture says this Good habits are corrupted it says this do not be misled bad company corrupts good Habits meaning if you have good habits bad company They will be corrupted Your mama and daddy might have braised you up and said this is the right way to do it I always tell parents this don't pray for your kids pray for your kids friends Everything you planted in them their friends will destroy it Good habits meaning you build those habits for years mama told you daddy told you you put yourself in a bad Environment few years and one thing that environment does it works like a flu you catch it You don't have a flu, but because you're open to the in flu in flu Influence of your friends you catch the cussing you catch the drinking you catch the lying you catch the cheating You catch the crush having a crush on your boyfriend You had you catch everything like a flu and good habits good morals to your mama your daddy gave you Are being destroyed because you're surrounded with people and that's why Paul says to Timothy Flee lust Pursuit purity with with the right people Are you with me? David had the oldest son His name was Amnon Amnon was his oldest son. This guy was supposed to be the next king instead of Solomon and One day Amnon has a crush On his half-sister tomorrow Meaning he wasn't supposed to like her Let's just put her in our in our vocabulary He liked somebody God says you he shouldn't be liking like non-Christian. I just put it like that and He liked her so much He became sick You know when it's lost if it makes you sick Love makes you healthy usually He becomes sick and his friend comes to me and says amigo What's going on? I see you're sick. You're not eating and he says this he said I'm in love with tomorrow and Watch this his friend Tells him I have a solution for you You tell your dad That you're sick Don't tell him the truth that you love tomorrow. Let's tell him you have a fever Have tomorrow come and cook Get all the servants out and want the mark cooks in front of you do with her as you desire and Amnon Has no brains. Why because anytime you have friends that influences you you always lose your brains Always that's how that's how it works your friends They influence you and you stop thinking for yourself because that's the power of friendships That's why Paul says surround yourself with people who are right So they'll influence you in the right way and you lose your brain in a good way and that's exactly what his Stupid wicked demonic friend told him his dad comes and instead of telling dad, you know what dad I Got a lost problem Can you pray for me? He lies to his mentors but exposes his to his friends His mentor his dad could have prayed that demon out of him but his friend consoled him into his funeral Rapes tomorrow hates tomorrow few years later. He dies never becomes a king. I everything God had planned for him was destroyed It wasn't because he had a lost problem. It's because he had the wrong friends Who didn't deal with his last correctly? You can have a problem with lust Put yourself in the right group of people and I'm telling you lust will no longer be a problem You can have a you can have purity put yourself in the group of wrong people and your purity is no longer gonna be there Amen. Thank you for watching this content. I know this was a blessing to you We would like to ask you to subscribe to our channel and click on the bell on our channel So that each time we upload something you can be notified Don't forget to share this content with your friends and family and on social media We're so thankful to you better is not good enough the best Is yet to come