following program is sponsored by seattle open door church yet open door church is committed to loving god loving people and loving life our doors are open to whomever no mass required seattle open door church the god as we look at the bible verses today and sexuality of all the concepts about walking in purity and sexual purity and honoring you with our bodies we pray father god we would learn something that would help us to maybe not be a person who is one who would walk in sexual harassment or sexual abuse somebody and also that we would find ourselves that we may would be in a different environment that would be more or less of that would be less likely for us to be sexually abused or sexually harassed and pray this in jesus name amen so the last two weeks we have a time with sexual harassment with the definition of it was in looking at different words the concept of sexual harassment we talked about our society brings that mixed mixed message society turns around the billboards that women are made into sexual objects and then yet men are supposed to see women as sexual objects ok and then we have it that the media does pro trade what everybody wants said it's ok nothing wrong with that and then when somebody then approaches somebody says hi you look beautiful and then in our society day you may be charged sexual harassment for saying that that person looks beautiful and so they come about it in the mix message their sex is ok any place in their way it's ok but does a person have a right to say no absolutely they have a right to say no if they say no you're supposed to honor the no but what if they give you a mixed message so they turn around and they are flirting with a coworker and they're flirting with you and they're making sexual innuendos and then you're supposed to not take those sexual innuendoes to really mean something that they're just joking around you see all the confusion that can happen there and now all of a sudden our culture saying certain things are wrong even though they've been ok for a long time and i think they are wrong but the problem is is that where do you draw the line in what we want to look at is what does the bible teach was the biblical approach to the topic of sexual sexual purity because if we follow the buy of what you think or to keep us out of trouble why do you think if we apply the principle of the bible and i have even shared some of you a lot of you know the principles the bible when it comes to sexuality but if i don't share a single bible verse with you do you think that whatever the bible verses i share will be helpful to you to keep you out of trouble do you think that you have a better life are do you think the bible is outdated then it doesn't matter what the bible says anymore because that's what trouble for who is guilty so even though you follow certain guidelines can you still get in trouble because we live in an attic wicked evil world but if i follow the principles i'm less likely to get in trouble and by the way was  trouble with god that's what matters there was a false accusation matters is that we're right with god regardless of people say or do anything else the bible actually says and peter says is better to suffer for doing right than the suffered for doing wrong ok so this look at our lesson now this is lesson number one we did the introduction last week less than one bible verses and sexuality the bible address the topic sexuality in a very direct manner the bible is not silent when they to the topic of sex and is very direct in the ism very direct principles if the guidelines and principles taught in the bible regarding sexuality are followed a person is certainly not going to be a perpetrator of sexual harassment in fact their actions behavior will clearly reflect the person  has nothing whatsoever to do with sexual harassment or sexual impurity one of the reasons why the secular world is in such disarray in regards to sexual harassment is because there's the total denial of the sin of fornication and acceptance of adultery and sexual perversion at the doors of sexual impurity are small and wide open there's going to be dolls who create an atmosphere for sexual harassment to occur and those who have an ongoing behavior of sexual harassment is it true that if there's a denial of such a would say they're never a political some would say that's old fashioned what is kind of old fashioned comes from thousands of years ago ok but because something is all does that make a bad does it make a wrong yet in our culture if something isn't in the new they then it's not the good thing is not the best thing we're always looking for more milk and for more and it's the same thing when it comes to sexuality there is absolutely no reason for a christian to be involved in sexual harassment or sexual abuse other than if they choose to ignore all the guidelines in the bible they need to understand that their behavior is not only sin but evil in the eyes of god now you know in our society you don't call it the evil now you do know that because it's not politically correct because what is good as bad as bad as good many times in our culture and i made a statement here i said that we need to understand when we're walking in sexual immorality is not only sin it is evil this apostle paul talking he says i'm afraid that when i come again my god may humiliate me before you and they may mourn over many of those who have sinned in the past and that repented of impurity immorality and sensuality which they have were words the definitions last week but he said i made my morning over those who have what sinned so if you do those things have you sinned ok what about if i really love the person does it does it say foolishness oh do you know what that if you're walking a full god calls that evil to what is walking in fullish innes making bad choices and bad decisions that every day you'd make a choice biased by emotions and feelings and serving then you make a decision about his foolish got cause that is right here says all these evil things so do we want to cut that part out i know we need to do we need to get a white out and white out that things that we do and get rid of them because the things we do aren't evil and then the things that other people do will put their names down and then to who they are this is talkin to every single one of us in gnosis says twenty three and all these evil doings proceed from within and defile the man it says that they all come from us not outward is all these decisions that we make as all the things that we do but this is all these evil doings so is murder evil is adultery evil is slander evil is pride evil is being foolish evil there's a difference between being foolish and dumb are there some people dumb because they don't have an education or some people die because they have a mental condition where they never have grown up mentally have a down syndrome kid can he be dumb or all down syndrome kids dumb or all of them fully know being foolish is that you may even have the information but you don't operate on that information so if you look at it again that sexual sin is not only sin it's evil matthew five twenty seven twenty nine you have heard that it was said you shall not commit adultery but i say to you that everyone who looks at a woman who lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart if your right eye makes you stumble tear it out and throw it from you for it is better for you to have lose one of the parts of your body than your whole body to be thrown into hell so it says that jesus says that we're not only to commit adultery we're not to lust after a woman or woman to lust after man and women don't get off the hook ok says that jesus says that adultery in lusting in god's eyes are both evil is that what that says absolutely says that he says that you have committed adultery in your heart so if i am married and i look at another woman i say i really want to be with that woman i start lust after that woman god is saying that that is adultery now this take this into sexual harassment if i believe this births and they are this verse be sexually harassing anybody no because if i turn around and there is a female and i make an sexual advances to them or i'm a consensual comments to them in a sexual manner have i committed adultery in god's eyes yes what will that do if i'm a christian and i want to fall the word i am not be one who's going to actually harass a woman because i know that that would be considered adultery in god's eyes but if i'm a las person i don't believe in the bible guess what happens i'm married and i don't think there's anything wrong with me because we're just having fun do you see the difference so all i can remember before i was a christian and i said a lot of things i did a lot of things and i never feel guilty about them with at all there's no guilt there was no shame there is nothing so i would make comments i could make comments to women i could make all kinds of things i could say hey this have sex i could do all that and there was no guilt there was no shame there was no embarrassment because i don't have the spirit of god living within me and so probably in the old days if they looking women they came into my line would that be sexual harassment yeah but you know what it was ok then was it arse's side didn't have an issue with that but in god's eyes it was not ok but i wasn't married so that makes it ok no no but if i was married what would that make the wife i doubt feel if i was married by the way i was married in my first marriage i was married and i did some of that because i don't have the spirit of god in me i don't believe in god i don't believe in jesus soul i lived like that the last because i was lost but what about as a christian should there be a difference as a christian and that jesus was talking to is actually talking to christians ok he's to talk and those are going to become christians he's given a guideline that is there and he says you should just throw out your eye get rid of your your eye if you're if you lost there be a lot of guys blind don't take that literally will know what you've been doing because but both your eyes are god we know what you're doing before your eyes disappear idolatry sorcery him to drive jealousy outburst of anger disputes dissensions factions all those different things guess what those are all deeds of the what the flesh or the does the flesh evil yes what is one of the things in here immortality impurity again what is a tie to strife jealousy a dollar tree all those kind of things it is a little something to think about no swindlers when herod the kingdom of god such were some of you but you were washed but you were sent to fight but you were justified in the name of the lord jesus christ and the spirit of our god that is a very strong passage there would you say that's a pretty direct passage kay is says that serve people are not going to go to heaven is that true is that what it says that if they don't repent because a sob such were some of you so that means there are people who used to be that way that are no longer that way ok now it says that you are sanctified which means you are set apart you were justified your made right before god and that you are born again fo you not going to heaven so as yourself they should based upon your do's and don'ts ok but if you're a person that claims the name of christ will you continue to do these things are you truly born again if you continue to do these things so notice that different than being a drunk her because a drunkard is who you are that's how you define yourself you are a person who makes a habit of lives a lifestyle of being a drug and that is different than somebody who struggles wrestles with so if you are a believer we may struggle wrestle with things some things at times but that shouldn't be identity but if this says here that fornicators wrong headed to can we've got so if you have sex outside of marriage you won't get to heaven i could tell you there would be people who took that literally they guess what they probably wouldn't do some of the things that they do if they took that literally but what does our culture do what does churches do will it really does that mean that what does it mean if it doesn't mean that what does it mean why was it there why did why was first print the in six written if it doesn't mean what it said yes god just threw it in there out of a says you know what i'm a tell pa and it wasn't really god that told paul paul came up with the dim self you see what you have to do you have to start making the bible not true you have to start finding a reason for it to not be true because you don't like the fact what it says nothing  and i add i think some vaster story but they have not been bold enough to do that they let it come out so here's still able in here so here's that taking that concept here's the idea some of live this lifestyle i've lived this lifestyle ok so some of live that lifestyle if i ran for office they could go back and talk to every person has ever known me right and they'd probably find out some stuff about me defend myself it's easy as soon as i run for office by the way all of you going to look at my dirty laundry so here's where it is right now some of that you know ahead of time this is what my life was like this this and this but guess what that's not who i am since of accepting christ i'm a different person now that i accepted christ if you want to use my past against me go ahead but god doesn't use against me i'm running for office for who i am today not who i was in the past what would happen what if we all lived that way whether we ran for office or not because the some people are living with guilt from the past of all the things they did and they want nobody to know what they did because they're guilty and feel shame about what they did if you're forgiven you're forgiven if somebody brings it up you're able to say  i was you see isn't that what it says verse eleven such were some of you that's who you used to be that's not who you are today and out of it if we applied this principle we understood the seriousness of what there's certain things that we do that i would tell you that there would be days that we wouldn't say or do that because sexual harassment sexual abuse we just want to do it because we understand the standard that this passage stop being being real true surround us say in the year two thousand and seventeen just wipe out that passage so god doesn't change and he gives us what doesn't change so that we can change because now that i know the see i have a choice so now we have a choice we see that pass each we know that there is the potential if i'm on a job or someplace else as a potential of sexual harassment taking place either dead can occur to me or to some that i could produce something could be a target of sexual harassment if i follow the principles just the back passage of we shared right now guess what if you follow those passages you don't have to worry about that let me tell you something we're going to get into it later but this doesn't only apply to the person who would be looked at as the person that's the the perpetrator this applies to the person who can become the victim of sexual harassment because if i am a person and most the time it's minute against women is not all the time but most of the time that's where the accusations been if i'm a woman and i am acting in a lustful manner can i have more potential somebody sexually harassing me so i fight draft talk like i'm a woman who doesn't really have any morals can't somebody assume i don't have any marls but if i ply the principles here well i act that way i would act answer no you won't see or less likely to find yourself in those situations this cause a prayer this is best to rich do you need to know jesus christ your lord and savior jesus said behold i stand at the door and not going to be one hears my voice and opens the door i will come in robust and thirteen org and we have information on frequently asked questions about christianity we let you know step by step out accept jesus christ you lord and savior encourage you to go to there is hope t v or that is there is hope t v dot org also will let you know if you would like to talk to me person you can always give me a call toll free anytime one eight six six one g door churches are vision is loving gun loving people loving life now that's the vision for a church to love god to love people love life let me tell you something that if you love god and love people you will love life you know why some people don't love life they don't love god or they don't love people if you love god you don't love people you won't love life let me tell you something else when you love life you will love people you will love god it goes both ways and out of it if you have a love and a passion for god god i just love you with all my heart thank you jesus so you've done so much for me laura i just love you lord what can i do for you that's what happens when you have true love love the lord what can i do you love me how can i love you you know god is going to answer love people that's what he's going to say he's going to say love me because you only love him and you but he know the greatest commandment love the lord thy god with all your heart soul mind and the second greatest commandment is what love others as yourself so loving god leads to loving people let me tell you if you love god or i love you so much what can i do he says i want you to love this person over here i want you to love this person over here i want you to do this for this person here almost are you start loving people start loving gun you don't think that you have some fire in you you know that you have some love in you that you start loving life you're excited about life can i tell you one reason most people aren't excited about life most people aren't excited about life what are they chasing to chase now after dig when you love life there's accent about life  there's a fire let me tell you if you say i don't have a fire in me why don't i have a fire in the wind i'm not excited about life you're probably not loving god loving people try it just try it if you if you think life is kind of boring to start saying god  love people and let me tell you you won't be able to love people the way god has you to love them unless you start loving god alone i my life and i'm a deadbeat human being i'm a deadbeat christian i'm the boss blowing christian there is gonna change me love people you realize you don't have the ability when you go until you've got a gun god give me the ability to love people and heal heal you know you do this to show you how much he loves you and he realized how much he loves you you can't help but get back to love life church once you know 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