following program is sponsored by seattle open door church yet all 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 your look at your lesson is the introduction that we cover the concept that sexual abuse is such rassmann is an issue in our society and that has been very popular late in the news about what's going on with political figures and movie stars and all this other stuff in the hollywood has been happening how long how long such rassmann and sexual abuse been happening forever since there is a human being's ok so it's not like it's something new instance of has been going on at times were more aware of and less aware of it later on in the course when talk about the hypocrisy of the hollywood hypocrisy of our culture because our culture in the sixty's had the sexual what this sexual revolution pretty much anything c be looked down on and then our society came to place women can act look dress do whatever they want to do they can be just as sexual men everything else and then all of a sudden when that's ok then what happens in our culture today to say no that isn't acceptable ok and so then there it becomes confusion what is acceptable what is an acceptable and then it becomes that that that now you they have training classes and sexual harassment and in those training classes at workplaces if you say to a woman that's a beautiful hairstyle you can be charged with sexual harassment really really they actually teach that that you're not supposed to say that's a nice dress if you say that's a nice dress that may be a sexual innuendo and you could be pulled into the office and talk to him so they take that totally out of context now part of that is always going to be as long as there's a society that's controlled and ruled by people there's always going to be those extremes because there's no no no no foundation because if you get rid the bible is the foundation and you're trying to come up with this foundation to found changed ation changes based upon the culture right then what we talked about so regard to how somebody may act or behave you don't have the right to violate them and if they say they've been violated have they been violated if they believe they've been violated they feel they've been violated been violated now mean you may disagree over what that violation is but it needs to be a place that we never give the message and all that that i teach i'm not giving a message that it's ever ok for you to decide if somebody is being violated or not well i don't think i'm sexually abusing them or i don't think i'm his office so it doesn't matter but then she was a very young in turn they could easily be manipulated and now all what's happening in the hollywood is all those young actress this they're saying they were manipulated so the whole point is the culture changes all the time why we're teaching the class is because we did go to the bible because the bible gives us the standard how to live the bible gives a stand how to deal with sexuality and we go to the bible is going to have the same foundation in the bible as principles of the same yesterday today and forever so when the old testament is written the new test was written there are principles there that are political ball to today we understand  today is ok to have become an it to want your neighbor's wife ok so some of those things have never changed and so we need to go back to the bible as the foundation what we want to do today is if you go to your lesson go to page two you want to look at some w definitions we will look at some definitions of what some words mean and there's a lot of words that are in the bible that i want to cover those definitions are so that when we start doing the lesson you understand what the meanings are so the first where we look at sexual harassment what is the meaning of sexual harassment if you look in the bible you'll never find the word sexual harassment is not there but what we can do is so what does the dictionary say what is the definition six rassmann was right next to the marriage vows oh yes paul's making the comic as i used to look for the marriage bells in the bible all the time and never found them they're not there so if you look for there's certain days you look in the by you'll find it or you can find then the bible no but are there principles in the bible about being clean yes ok so sexual harassment are there are principles in the bible that will address the topic of sexual harassment yes look at harassment in a workplace or other professional or social situation which involves the making of on wedded on wanted sexual advances obscene remarks so the kind of the definition of webster's would be that her sexual harassment normally takes place where in the workplace that's normally where is looked at or professional setting so if you're add a bar set next to a woman if you look at the  right right right but i'm saying the definition of the word sex rest of the word being used but this go back to it so if you're in a bar and you've both been drinking and you make advances to the woman that is somewhat accept it because of the setting but is that acceptable in god's eyes no and in our society it's not it is acceptable but i will tell you in another two weeks of won't be acceptable ok because people start coming out that when i was at the bar this is what happened and i found myself in this bad situation i was thankful iraq kay and i would argue if you're at a bar does that mean you want to have sex does it but we make that assumption right but management sex rassmann is talking about workplace professional social situation is talking about the fact or somebody has some authority over you something else of control over your life doing nothing wrong and then there's the advances that are made in there the comments that are made kay is sexual advances or obscene remarks and so there's comments that are made with innuendo with that the sexual innuendo that's what sexual harassment is would you agree overall that's the definition of sexual harassment anybody think is have a different definition has that pretty much the definition when you see sexual harassment ends ok then the bible is going to talk about being immoral and i would argue in our society day nobody even knows what immoral means i bet right now if i put on my go pro camera and i walk out down the street and i start acting as the millennial is what immoral is i would tell you there's been there's movement i would argue it has much more to do with media has to do a satan but it has to do with the secular society is what to make people to come form to whatever people want to believe and  have been taught that there that there is no standard there is no more ality there's no values ok so what is that morality it's an ethical an ethical means not ethical ethical means what is right what is the right thing to do so as a pastor should i go and offer to take money out of the offering box that would be called on unethical or immoral less pay back so it's not illegal there's a lot of things or a culture there are absolute immoral unethical but they're not illegal and the problem is if you let the cultured make your decisions make your days due to your your understanding of what is true based upon the culture definition of the word and the dictionary because the word immoral is a greek word that's the definition the bible is written in the new testament writ in what so when we read it we should see understand  the definition of the words based upon the language of the bible was written him we can evil how many they actually think immorality is evil but the bible calls immorality evil does say that in our culture an immoral person is an evil person you can't say that in our culture do what you can and what your god but you're judged you're condemned why you you you must be a mean vicious hateful person if you sell call something evil it's foul on principle corrupt depraved do you know what do you want to be around a person with a taint you yell ugly ok so the bible talks about immorality in those definitions impurity anything ok when you get to that point so if they come about this is talking about when there's impurities in something there's something that is mixed with something that's not supposed to be there so you have impure water means or some things in the water that's not good this is talking about not substances in the bible to says impure is talking about us people human beings that we could be impure we can have something in us that's not supposed to be in us is that true absolutely since you ality there's another word in the bible since you ality the joy meant expression or personal pursuit of physical especially sexual pleasure the contention of being pleasing are fulfilling to the senses sensuality doesn't that does not only a deal with this issue of sex sensuality is talking about our senses and it's talking about if somebody is a person of sensuality is that they're trying to make themselves feel good the trying to please their census so i would say drug addicts are very sensual people if you look at the definition is that true does that mean they have to be sexual no some drugs you won't be sexual just one one saying they get to so i did the sexual is the feel is something that's pleasure ball is pleasure wrong it's pleasure sin no but if you're doing things for the sake of pleasure and you and you let go of your morality cannot be sensuality if you're starting to chase after the the feelings the spiritual highs and so you're chasing after a spiritual high that can become sensuality why because then you try to fill the place years of the senses of the body as to the bill in the spirit that makes sense because there's a lot of christians today don from one church to another church to one meeting to another meeting trying to get another jesus high if you get in a jesus high you're going to get in jesus high that's all about your senses that's all about your feelings that's not the spirit mean because a spirit man doesn't have to chase after all that because the spirit man is to filled in jesus alone carousing now i had a wrong definition  definition of carousing is is pretty much a a rave ok a party animal ok that's what it is it's it's about where there's excessive drinking and edit and there's this craziness and now you don't know how to get it right you're paying a terrible price for a terrible choice and doing whatever it takes the future have it even before you feed your body is it any wonder that so many addicts see no way out but there is a fair spotlight on sound with me today as richard over director of bird even house i think the expression falling off the wagon is becoming more and more prominent referencing when people return to addictive behaviors after making initial attempts to get free sobriety always a struggle to maintain for former addicts or as it is it possible to overcome the state of fragility of lives possible overcome but to be honest most of us won't take the do the work the time the humble enough to be godly counsel the less fragile is a risk their sobriety the recovery but it's a challenge because like many addicts will tell you is they're living in a forty nine year old body with about a thirteen year old mind and a foot structure there and i believe that's the thing that that the addict any person of any kind of addiction they need structure in their life and so that we're there the other thing is we focus on those who want recovery so our house is unique we don't always sell the house stuff because it's very good about who we i think the biggest thing is that our program is how to change the way you think and our perspective really is that how many christians are struggling with addiction another one is their struggles going on the family maybe there's somebody that  y for women this is pastor rich at the time of this interview we did not have a house for women i'm excited to announce that we now have a house and sea tac for women need to learn all about it by going to our web site their haven house six this is basta read 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 and rubberstamp thirteen says we have a call upon the name of the lord will be 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 love god you don't love people who want love like 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 and you said god i just love you with all my heart you jesus so you've done so much for me but i just love you dad what can i do for you that's what happens when you have true love love your book at night 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 already love him anybody 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 all star you start loving people start loving god 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 where they're chasing they're chasing after dick but you love life there's accent about life and there's a fire let me tell you if you say i don't have a fire and 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 help me to love people and let me tell will be able to love people the way god has you to love them unless you start loving god so long i am 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 ok you know what i'ma start loving people well so you start loving people file people on loving you start to love people and they backstab you so what do you do with that give up yes you do well still you give up but when you start to love people you realize you don't have the ability who you loving life will open door church once you know that regardless of where you've been or what you've done god loves you there are doors are open to anyone and everyone their services are sunday mornings at eleven seattle open door church is located at six twenty five south west one hundred forty ninth street in peoria next to the southwest courthouse