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Tempting · Outcast

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All right, God bless everybody.
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Thank you for those that have been listening and for those
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that are new welcome. Amen.
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But before we always, we always start, we always pray so.
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All right. Thank you Father, for everything
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that You've done. You are the one true living God,
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and there's no one who is greater than You.
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You are sufficient in our moments of temptation.
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You, O Lord, are the only thing we should be running to because
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You are the solution for it. We cannot fight our own battles,
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for we are weak. And O Lord, remind us, O Lord,
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that we are weak, and for that reason we need to come to You
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every time. Holy and mighty you are.
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And there's no one who is greater than you.
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Lead us to the absolute truth, for there's no one who is
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greater than you. Amen.
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Amen. All right, So I know before we
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talk before, like in another episode, we did talk about
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fleeing to righteousness, right? Yeah.
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You know, I kind of, I kind of want to talk today, bro, a
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little bit like, like how, how we, how we feel when we're being
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tempted so people can have perspective because like, right,
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you know, a lot of people I guess that are new here.
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Yeah, yeah. Maybe it's a it's a new thing
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that you guys hear someone speaking like, oh, flee to
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righteousness because you know, some pastors, some people, some
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leaders, they tell them, oh, you know, you should go for a walk,
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you should go on a bike ride, right, right.
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You should go hang out with your friends.
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Not but the scripture says flee to righteousness, submit to God,
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right? So if you do flee to those
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things and using the and you're using them as a coping
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mechanism, eventually when you get back, the temptation will
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still be there. But when you dwell among the
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presence of God, temptation like it let go it let's go of you and
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you feel like this victory. Yeah, exactly this win.
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So how do you feel when you're being, like, tempted?
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Well, well, just depends on and everybody, right?
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Yeah. They could have different the,
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the, the, the desire is there, but the, the, the need of
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something could be different for you, for me, right.
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Like, for example, and it's the most common thing amongst
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Christian men or believers in our modern time.
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And I'm just going to say bluntly is, you know, perhaps,
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maybe now the access to pornography, and that's a, a
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common factor for all Christian men.
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I know it's comfortable, right? I know you're like, Oh my God,
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here we go. But that's just like in a broad
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sense. Yeah.
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Within that there's many different types of plantation.
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One is into something, you would call it like a in the secular
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world, like a kink or whatever, right into certain specific
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things within that world. Yeah.
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And everybody experiences them differently, watches it or falls
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into the station of watching it. And even speaking to you about
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it is very weird. I also don't want to use this as
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a form of therapy, but right. Right.
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Yeah. Why I bring that up because I'm
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using the most common one. But then I will touch other
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other things that others don't go through.
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It's just certainly just me, right?
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Right. Yeah, yeah.
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But. When, when growing up or or at
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least before I got serious back in 20, 2012, you know, I was
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like a young man, I believe. Well, the besides the fact that
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I'm a believer also you as a young man, you know, the desire
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to want to self satisfy. You have this, this, this
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impulse to want to feel satisfied, right?
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Your hormones are just you're young, you're young, you're,
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you're designed to procreate. So you want to like release.
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So you want, you have that desire, right?
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Yeah. And so for a guy, the hormones
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are like a 24/7 reset reset. Yeah, it always resets.
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Ready the next day, ready the next day, you know, and so that
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that sometimes women understand that the guy just feels this way
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pretty much all the time, right, right.
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So that's why like that's why they they shun on the men, like
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all men are unloyal. That statistically speaking can
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be true in the secular world. I'm sure in the in the in the
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Christian world that may not be the case maybe still a number
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there. But so because I am saying that
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every time you know, I was in the service of God.
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It could be preaching out industry or writing a Christian
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music you're reading scripture and all that being involved one
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of my friends being like a mentor to me.
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I would always find myself like in in a place where the moment I
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felt like I, I went to my like to my room, or if I was assuming
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slightly by myself, I almost felt like I felt like if, if, if
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I didn't go occupy myself with something else, I would like
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immediately fall into that. And I'll tell you that in the
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beginning I started doing that without knowing right with what
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you said. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Right. And the struggle of a of a man
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was already there. But now when I got serious with
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God, it was different, right? The fear of the Lord was there.
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So I was just like, God, please have mercy.
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This desire is a brilliant man. It it it persecutes me because
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like, I want to do it. Yeah.
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Simultaneously, I don't want to, right?
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Do you know what I? Mean.
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Yeah, yeah. Like you, you feel like you're
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just like, oh Lord, this. Is.
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Like so I feel so unworthy like right now, right?
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Exactly. We're talking about 2011 towards
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2012. And that time I wasn't
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necessarily reading scripture as much as I would until it got
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serious. And then I started reading about
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Romans and I, I come across when Paul says before I find this
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mystery within the flesh tells about all these things and he
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says how that what I want to do. I don't do what I want to do.
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I don't do it right. And then I felt like kind of
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like relating to him. I was like, alright, well, there
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you go. I feel that.
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So glory to God, I've been able to from that time, 2012 until
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2016, maybe even 18I managed to stay strong.
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But in those moments of that, I've, I've stretched it.
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I've also sometimes gotten into the trap of fleeing, not
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necessarily towards righteousness, but I would flee
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into these little things. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Music or I would do I would get occupied right, because I I felt
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that that what you said, what what do we feel when we get
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into? And so the the best, you know,
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and I'm sure Errol the man will pull this.
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Whoever's listening will relate to will relate to this.
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It's like it's this is this is not, it's not like basically for
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for me, like if let's say I'll have a long day, if I go into my
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room already the the room, the the body has memory.
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Yeah. Of a moment of relaxing.
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Now the flesh is it. We need to release.
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We need to release. And like, simultaneously, I get
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almost excited that I'm about to do that and I catch myself
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thinking already I'm entering into a battle.
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Absolutely. Right at that moment.
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Do you know how that feels? You know what that.
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Feels like yeah, yeah, absolutely.
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You like some for some reason, you walk into your room where
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you sleep and you feel like I'm about to about to release and
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you almost like even get excited about it, right?
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But then you catch yourself. Why?
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Why are you thinking like this? Yeah, yeah.
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They're like, Oh my God, no, I'm going to, I'm not going to leave
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this room. What should you have done at
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that moment rather than leaving? Should have immediately gone to
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God. Right on.
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Your knees on your. Knees pray, right?
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So that that's a moment where at least I can describe it that
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way. I hate it so much that
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simultaneously when I'm about to be alone, it almost excites
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itself. Yeah, like, no, I totally always
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we're. Alone.
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And we're about to release, right?
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Yeah. And we're like, wait, what?
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Right. Yeah.
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Yeah, yeah. No, 'cause you know, the flesh
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wants to do what the flesh wants to do, but the Spirit wants to
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do what the spirit wants to do. Exactly.
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So it's like there's like a battle going on right there
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between the flesh and the Spirit.
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Yeah, yeah. That's the best the the the
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expression expression I can right?
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I can give at least for me, right?
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That's on the most common thing every guy goes through.
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On top of that, you might go through like other things that
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you're into. Absolutely.
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Yeah. But that, that's one thing I can
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describe to you that occasionally even till right now
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happens. And that's not to say that
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doesn't mean I speak, as I'm not in a walk with that.
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No, Right, Right. It's just.
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To start with, we are designed to procreate, right, right?
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And since, you know, we're single, the body feels that like
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that design, right? And so although that's even an
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element already, now what of now the element of when temptation
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is involved? And then since scratching out
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the door, all these other things also compound to it, right?
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Then all of a sudden you get bombarded.
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Yeah, demons too. Spiritual.
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Beings you know. All that, all that stuff.
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Right, then all of this starts to happen.
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Besides the fact that you already are a man, or vice
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versa, you have that impulse, right?
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Already, Naturally. Yeah.
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Yeah. And.
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And because of our good and bad, now that desire gets magnified
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right here. Then comes plantation and the
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enemy trying to attribute the demon trying to influence you.
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And all of these elements compound at the same time,
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right? Especially trust me when I tell
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you, these beings behind the scenes, they know you're a
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believer. They're after you, right?
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The scripture wouldn't say then that the enemy is like the
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lying, roaring, lying you can devout.
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Exactly. So in regards to sexual
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temptation, I can confidently say this is something that
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we've, we feel it's almost like, or if, maybe if I can like
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pretty much describe it this way, it's almost like that
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excitement, it causes anxiety at the same time, but then at the
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same time you're like, why is this happening?
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Yeah, yeah. Like you get anxious to, to like
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because you know your flesh wants it badly and you.
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Yeah. But you, like, know you want it?
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Yeah. But at the same time, because
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you fear the Lord so much, you do not want to go on to it.
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So there's like that. Line right there that if you
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don't say no, yeah, you're complete to him.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely. But if that fine language is
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ignoring right, you succumb to it Exactly.
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So yeah, that's that's where by expression, that's what I can, I
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can feel sometime, most of the time.
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Yeah, no, yeah, No, it's true because look, we're not saying
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that. I I think like a previous
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episode a while back, we talked about should a Christian always
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be struggling with loss now? Like there's always going to be
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battles, right? But there's a difference when
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you always give into it, you keep giving in to it, keep
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giving in to it, keep Then at that point, you're just, that's
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not even a stroke. That's not even a stroke.
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Yeah, exactly. No, yeah.
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But that's no, no, maybe that is the struggle.
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But the but the struggle is always being one like that that
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like that struggle that the flesh gives you.
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It's always winning. It's always winning that sin is
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always winning and you're giving your obedience to it.
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That's something completely different we're talking about
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like when you're in that mode of suffering because your flesh
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wants to do it, but you're but the fear that you have for God,
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it's like it's over. You know, it's overcoming that
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temptation where you're able to say no, but still you're still
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suffering because of it. There's a difference.
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You know, when I hear like followers saying like, oh, you
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know, I keep falling, I keep falling, keep falling.
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Well, where's your faith? Where's your faith?
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Where's your fight? Where's, where you know, that's
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why the, the, the, I'm, I'm assuming, you know, let's be
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real here, that the apostles, the followers, you know, of, of,
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of Christ during that time, they, they were out and about,
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they were probably fit. They probably had really good
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testosterone. Yeah, their, their, their levels
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now that we know a little bit more than they did.
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Right, right. Yeah, yeah, I'm.
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Sure that their levels were low more.
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Yeah. Better than ours.
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Better than ours. They're receiving vitamins and
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from foods that nutrition from food that we probably don't
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receive on the daily. So what I'm saying is that like
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they also had their battles, but they understood yo enjoy it.
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Trusting God, trusting God that He is, is a true source of
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strength. Would you say now, would you say
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because their source of of food or intake, whatever they may be,
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since it was so at its purest form, would you say that in our
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time, because everything has chemicals and preservatives and
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all this, it's almost like already another thing that kind
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of already sets us up for failure because it puts our
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hormones out of balance. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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And all of this. And that's another thing that we
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have to. Like undergo, right, right.
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Exactly. No, no, it's true because a lot
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of people, I mean, this is just statistics.
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It could be wrong. You know, the only the only
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calculate certain people. But like even let's say like the
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strength of a man decreases every year.
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There's more people with suicidal rates, probably because
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you know, there's so much like chemical imbalance.
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And then on top of that you have demons attacking you and the
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flesh is attacking you. All these things are attacking
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you. And just like kids also with
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that are born with defects because of foods, you know, and
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cancer has increased, so many things have increased.
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So it's like, yeah, like nowadays it's like there's just
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a imbalance of everything. So more than ever, we should
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just trust God and and all that he he is, you know.
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And it's tough because, well, today money talks, right?
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It does, yeah. And unfortunately, you have to
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make a certain amount of money to, to kind of have that
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lifestyle to kind of have somewhat of a balance, right, in
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regards to being healthy, eating healthy, working out and all
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that, right? We don't, at least in this
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world, or at least in the the main cities and suburbs.
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No one does agriculture unless you're like in the countryside.
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Yeah, in the countryside. Yeah, the farm, right, Right.
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But that's another element too, right?
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Yeah, that that couldn't interfere because you're right.
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They they experienced the same thing.
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They were able to speak about it, so they knew.
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So they knew, yeah. But also.
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But there were also times where they didn't even get to eat.
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That is true. So that would also cause also
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some of unbalance to in their in their system because they just
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wouldn't eat. Exactly.
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They had to eat at least something right?
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So they, they, we could say that they've.
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They experienced it all, like, right.
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Like what is of the flesh? They experienced it all.
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So yeah. And even more than ever, like,
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I, I mean, no, it's probably just as bad as today.
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But like, you know, back then they still have like, temples
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where they were have, you know, like a bunch of orgasms,
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literally porn. I don't know.
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He said no, no, He speaks about that in Romans, Yeah.
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Orgies. Exactly.
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Orgies. Like right there you were able
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to just walk in and it was a thing and enjoy it.
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Societal. Thing right, right.
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So they, they experienced everything pretty much like what
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we experience, you know, now, like you said, in today's time,
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it's just more magnified. It's more, it's everywhere, you
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know, you could be scrolling and all of a sudden something that
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triggers your flesh spikes, it like all of a sudden, like
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you're just like battling now. Yeah, yeah.
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You know. And back then it was more like
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you had to either like, go see it or maybe there might be a
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chance where someone might be walking naked and then you start
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lusting, you know. So it's.
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It's interesting though. Yeah, yeah.
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And that's just something that it's common amongst men and,
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well, I wouldn't say all women, right?
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But well, now with all of this, what's that?
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What's that word promiscuity that women have now and the
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social platform that they, you know, promote their bodies and
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all that stuff. That's just at another level.
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Yeah. This is an abomination, really.
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But that's just something I use, but I also have other things of
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my own right, right. And everybody like, for example,
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I always say, well, there's something wrong with secular
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music. Well, I'm a musician.
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So that's, that's another thing, right?
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Because as a musician, I, I know the context of, of chord
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progressions and how that affects your emotions and what
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that does, right? You would think like, oh, I'm
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feeling the Holy Spirit. No, you just like the chord
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progression the way it's was produced, yeah.
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That right exactly. And that kind of just tricks you
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as a musician. Yeah.
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And in the Christian community, there's not like great music, if
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I'm be honest, like in regards to that production.
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Yeah, no, yeah, it's always. Going to be in the secular word
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that the the music is much more. Yeah.
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Like greatly. I agree.
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And better production, right? So that for me as a musician is
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a a temptation, especially if God has called me out,
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especially when James sends a few to you.
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If it is a sin, if it's been revealed to you and you don't do
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it to do it, the good to. Do it is a sin exactly.
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So like even for me that, that, you know, rejecting some gigs,
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like secular gigs, I still get them.
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Like it's not like before, right?
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It's just barely anything. Call me once every 2-3 months,
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but there's always that. Why not make some extra cash?
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At what expense? I'm getting, right?
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I'm getting involved with people who are don't believe in God,
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get involved in the atmosphere. It's just, it's just a lot of
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things, right, You know? Right, right, right.
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No, it's true. And so that that to me is is a
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temptation that I undergo as a musician.
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Yeah. No as working out.
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Not necessarily. I've never had that issue when I
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was working out. Because in the beginning when I
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decided to lose weight, it was because I was in 2009, like
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severely overweight. Yeah, yeah.
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And they told me that my health condition.
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So I was like, you know, I started working out.
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A friend of mine and my brother started helping me out.
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I just went running, running, running.
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Then I started lifting weight because I felt relaxing, right.
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But there was a side effect of that.
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The more I would lift, the side effect of feeling the desire of
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wanting to satisfy became greater.
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Yeah. Yeah.
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Like. Right.
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I was anticipating that. So that's pretty much it in
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regards to music. I would assume that every guy
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also is it's weakness is the woman.
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And so in our time, we have this tendency to to come up almost
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like worship it. Yeah.
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And and run after it like a like a dog would chase it.
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You know it's toy when you you throw it at it.
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Right, it's true. Yeah, so like that's another
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thing. So that that's so much that
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would be my issue. But music, but quite honestly,
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anything after that just I'm not saying it like perfect anything
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that but I always just run to to Christ, right.
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Yeah, but for you what? What is what you express?
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Well, I mean if you is. There a way?
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Do you describe that form of temptation?
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Like form of temptation? Yeah, like, yo, when I'm being
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tempted, like when I'm being tempted hard and I just do not
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want to give in because like of my fear for God, my, my respect
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for God 'cause I know God is a holy God.
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He does not dwell in sin, you know, he does not delight in
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sin. You know, when I'm, when my,
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when my mind is racing right with, with thoughts and my mind
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starts to shift back and forth. God, you are holy and in
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temptation tries to fight back. God, you're a whole like I'm
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just like, and in those moments, bro, I like my heart is so
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deceiving. I started to like feel within my
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heart like like man, dude, I'm so unworthy.
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I'm so unworthy because I know how I know that God is a holy
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God. He's he is so holy that we don't
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even know how like truly like holy he is.
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We just know that he's beyond, beyond, beyond.
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And when I'm going through those moments, I just feel so
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unworthy, bro. Even though I'm battling and I
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have not given in to the temptation, still I still feel
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so unworthy. You know what I mean?
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Yeah. Yeah.
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Like, like, oh, man, this is messed up.
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This is so messed up. It well that's what I was trying
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to say yeah when you're like you go into that you go into your
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room and like you got the speed of light right wow great yeah
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we're gonna. Yeah, yeah, Yeah.
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Well. You're like, wait, what?
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Exactly. You're like God, what I might
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think. Why am I thinking like?
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This. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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You're just like, this is not right.
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Like have mercy on me. Right.
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Yeah, because, you know, Christ, Christ did say we're not going
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to skip over that. Christ did say if you've done it
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in your heart, you've already committed it.
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So that's what I'm saying. Like when I have those moments
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where I'm fighting like, and going to God and I'm like, God,
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take this away from you now. God let's God, you know, allows
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you to suffer, allows you to suffer.
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He allows because, you know, James does talk about let
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suffering play its full effect. So at the end you lack nothing,
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right? So in those moments were like
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temptation and I'm praying to God and it's still there, right?
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I still keep fighting. I still keep fighting and I tell
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God I'm like God, you know, I believe that you're gonna take
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this away. My faith, my loyalty is to you.
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And I do not want to like think about this anymore.
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It keeps racing in my mind. Exactly.
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OK, so that's a good thing that you're saying that because when
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you're in that, you're literally being honest.
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Yeah. God, what is what is this?
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Exactly what? Is going on.
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Here, right, because you don't, you don't know what's like what
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to do. You're just like God, like.
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You're just like, it's, it's almost because I'm like from
24:00
within you, you can almost identify the one who is you and
24:04
the one who is not you. Yes, because there have been
24:07
moments where I catch myself, I'm like, no, I'm making myself
24:11
lost. And then there are moments where
24:12
it's like, where is this coming from?
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And I have to be honest with myself.
24:17
The moments I catch myself, I'm making myself lost.
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I immediately like tell God, I'm like, God, I'm sorry, this is
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just me. But then when it's something
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fight like behind the scenes, like or my flesh or anything
24:27
that this trying to like, you know, come to me behind the
24:31
scenes, that's when I like, I'm like, God, what is this?
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I don't know what to do, you know?
24:37
It's like, but this is not just on the desire of the flesh or in
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regards to your sexuality, right?
24:44
Yeah, yeah, yeah. But lust can also be an
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anything. Absolutely.
24:47
It could be an absolute anything, right, In regards to
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the bloodlust you like killing Yeah.
24:53
And if let's say you, you ran from that, you came to God and
24:58
you and then now you feel that impulsion to wanna that maybe it
25:04
might be you or something else and you're just like, what is
25:07
going on, right, right. It could be the.
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Loss full of materials. Yeah, all of this, the vanity of
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life. It could be anything.
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Yeah, it could be homosexuality. Anything.
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Anything. Yeah.
25:16
For example, like a contractor was like, you know, hey man, I'm
25:21
going to he he said a a curse word like I'm not going to say,
25:24
but I'm going to make, I want, I'm going to teach you how to
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make blank money, right word. And I'm like, oh, really?
25:32
Well, yeah, that would be great. I would like to be able to
25:35
acquire an amount of finances, right, to be able to help
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people. That's what I said to him
25:41
because but, but in a split second I was like, I wanted to
25:45
say, yeah, right. And I was like, we I want to
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yeah, yeah, I greatly, I really want to yeah.
25:55
But then I was like, no, I'm here to serve my Lord, to feed
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and and give him to drink. Exactly.
26:01
That's what I'm here for. Exactly.
26:02
Exactly. So like, even in those moments
26:05
as a business owner, dude, I've snapped, I've snap out.
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Of it, yeah, yeah. You know, exactly.
26:09
And so, and that's just a, that's a temptation because if I
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were to, to actually go all hell, bro, it, it, the results
26:17
for the world tours or for someone in the world would be
26:20
great. But I I would, I think I would
26:23
lose myself. Now, you, you would probably
26:25
neglect your spiritual life, right?
26:27
Yeah, yeah. And that's when I like, it's
26:31
like simultaneously I'm like, that'd be great, right in my
26:37
thoughts. I'm like, Nope, this is what I'm
26:39
going to say. Nope, this is not what I'm going
26:41
to say. This is what I'm going to say,
26:41
right, right. I was like I would like to
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acquire a significant amount of finances so that I can help
26:45
people. Yeah.
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And as you know, we're helping people, right?
26:50
Yeah. Yeah.
26:51
Even without acquiring those finances.
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Exactly, Exactly. With the nonprofit that we're
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doing. So.
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Right. I'm just saying that lossful
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things, the desires, the temptation, it could be
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anything. Doesn't have to be like you're
27:02
lost, right? It could be you envy something,
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or jealousy or materialist. It could be anything.
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Yeah. The vanity of life, Jack, trying
27:12
to pursue your career life. Yeah.
27:14
You know what I mean? No, no, it's true.
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Exactly. And and your heart will always,
27:19
always never trust or even try to deceive you because in those
27:23
moments of where I'm just like God, I feel so unworthy.
27:26
Those moments, I feel almost like a shame to go to God.
27:30
But I know that's just my heart. I don't want, I never want to
27:33
use that excuse that a lot of Christians use.
27:35
Oh, I'm not perfect. God understands.
27:37
I'll never want to use something like that because to me that
27:41
just sounds like a cowardly excuse.
27:44
It sounds like, well, I'm too weak.
27:45
I'm just going to give in. Dude, and I will tell you that
27:50
has happened. To me in the past, no, me too.
27:52
Me too. I'm like, what?
27:54
Right. You could have literally just
27:56
owned this. Yeah, with God strengthening, he
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just. You just want it.
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Exactly. Now, yes, we are.
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We are unworthy. Absolutely.
28:06
It's true that the heart is not lying to me there, but however,
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that doesn't give me the the right or to, to to just be like
28:14
I'm just going to give and I can't do this.
28:16
No, that's why that's why the apostles kept writing.
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Enjoy the suffering. Let it play out with full
28:22
effect. So you will lack a nothing
28:25
exactly because you know, in those moments where you do not
28:28
allow temptation to, to make you fall, you actually gain more
28:33
wisdom because you're not double minded.
28:36
You are trusting in God, and you if you ask God, He will give it
28:39
to you. The double minded would
28:41
otherwise be letting your heart condemn you.
28:44
Yes. And you're giving into that and
28:47
you actually believe it. And you chosen the capacity in
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which the condemnation that the the heart provides.
28:54
Yes to your life, exactly do. You know what I mean?
28:56
No, no, no, absolutely. Exactly.
28:58
Yeah, yeah. So that that's that's intense
29:02
because we're talking about this, right?
29:05
We say like some believers, like I came to Christ, sin supposed
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to be wiped off what? Yeah, I don't know where they
29:13
get that from. Bro, we're not exempt from sin.
29:16
We're not, you know, I asked the question.
29:18
We're just ruling over it. That's that's it because.
29:21
Our allegiance is to God through Christ, like, like Paul said.
29:25
Exactly because of Christ, we're able to overcome it.
29:28
And I I asked a question the other day to a Bible study.
29:31
I was like, yo, did Christ come to die for sin?
29:36
Or did he come to die for the forgiveness of sin, meaning you
29:41
have access to God not to ask for forgiveness?
29:44
And they all were like, well, that's a good question.
29:47
And and they came to conclusion he came to die for the
29:50
forgiveness of sin, Right, Right.
29:51
If he had to come and die, if he actually came to die for sin,
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yeah, yeah, yeah. For sin himself.
29:56
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Honestly, bro, if that was true,
30:02
then it makes sense why sin would be wiped out of your life.
30:05
Yeah, yeah, yeah. But he came to die so you can
30:07
have access to the Father. So enjoy the suffering.
30:11
Yeah, and it's not like prior to Christ, no one had access to the
30:14
Father. It just wasn't enough.
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Exactly the blood of. Christ is what makes it.
30:19
Enough. Amen.
30:20
Right. Amen.
30:21
And so to to say, oh, he died for my sins.
30:25
It's done what? You're still going to battle,
30:28
brother? Yeah, it's.
30:30
And the suffering that the pulses talk about, it's not just
30:32
necessarily being ridiculed for being a Christian or not eating
30:36
for days because you're trying to.
30:37
No, no, that's also true. All of that is true.
30:40
But also the suffering that the the flesh is going to put up
30:43
with you. Yeah.
30:43
And Paul talks about neglectation.
30:45
We've talked about this in other episodes.
30:46
Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly the. Spirit and the flesh are on
30:49
contrary for that reason, right? So that you don't get to do what
30:53
you want, He says in Romans. Almost like that what you want
30:57
to do you don't do and that what you don't want to do.
31:03
You do, you do, right? Exactly.
31:05
He's literally expressing the Spirit in the flesh right at the
31:08
same time. But the Spirit wants to do that
31:11
good thing, but the flesh doesn't want to do it.
31:14
And that what? And that what you don't want to
31:16
do, which is the Spirit doesn't want to do, the flesh wants to
31:19
do it. Exactly.
31:20
Exactly. And he correlates that by
31:23
saying, here I have the law, I get to serve God with my mind
31:27
with the law, his law, freedom versus on the other hand, with
31:31
the law of the flesh versus law of sin, right, Right.
31:35
So child, deliver me from this. So this is all things that we're
31:37
talking about. We're just going right now to
31:38
the core of it, right? What's going on from within,
31:42
right? It's the struggle.
31:45
You should, you should not want to be in the struggle.
31:46
You should want to be in the suffering, right?
31:49
Because the struggle is you're struggling, you're tugging.
31:51
Yeah, yeah. The suffering is.
31:54
You're doing it but. But it hurts.
31:57
Like, yeah, exactly, bro. Like when you, when you're doing
32:00
like a bicep curl, you know, it hurts, you know, your bicep
32:04
hurts, you feel the squeeze and it hurts and the tenses up.
32:07
Yeah. But like you're going through
32:08
the suffering and you're doing it.
32:10
Yeah. So in that same way, you know,
32:11
as a follower of Christ, thanks be to Christ, we can do
32:14
everything right. Yeah.
32:15
You know, doesn't, don't, don't look to your left or to your
32:18
right, look to Christ. And because of that, you know,
32:20
we're able to overcome anything. And, and, and if you're pulling,
32:25
you know, if you're going to Christ, you're going to suffer,
32:29
but enjoy it. You're not going to struggle,
32:31
you're going to suffer. There's a difference.
32:33
That's a good point that you made right now, actually.
32:35
What do you mean? That that, that the difference
32:38
between the, you know, like you kind of, well, you didn't really
32:40
explain it that much, but what you just said right now, the
32:42
struggle. Versus suffering.
32:43
Versus suffering. I totally agree with that bro.
32:46
Because suffering is unavoidable.
32:48
You could be struggling, but it's not painful.
32:50
Exactly. Exactly.
32:52
Suffering is painful. Suffering is painful, yeah, When
32:54
you have to let go of things for the sake of Christ, it does feel
32:57
like suffering sometimes, but it doesn't feel like a struggle
33:01
because according to what Scripture says, God's
33:04
commandments are not a burden. Exactly.
33:07
So for example, you could see it this way, right to to wrap it
33:12
up. But the struggle is, or at least
33:15
for the believer, if you're in the moment of struggle, for
33:17
example, someone who's like, Oh yeah, I'm trying to lift the
33:19
weight, but I really can't, right?
33:22
It's like, yeah, I'm trying to, I'm trying to serve the Lord,
33:25
but like I just can't. Right.
33:27
Doesn't sound right. That's the struggle, right?
33:29
You don't feel pain, you don't feel the conviction, right?
33:32
You don't trust in God who is greater than your heart.
33:37
All of these things, all of these.
33:38
Things. Exactly.
33:39
But then you're suffering. I'm not.
33:41
I'm doing it, but it hurts. Yeah.
33:43
But you're suffering. You're suffering.
33:45
You're. Trusting in God.
33:46
Exactly. You're enjoying it exactly.
33:49
So all of these things are like anybody listening when you're
33:53
being appealed, like when you're feeling like you feel that
33:59
desire. Remember when you said yeah,
34:01
desire, you know, gives a birth to?
34:05
Oh yeah, when when the desire is conceived, it gives birth to
34:09
sin, and then sin gives birth to death, right.
34:12
Yeah, it's a, it's a domino effect.
34:14
Exactly. And so like James describes
34:16
what's happening with him when we're driven away by our own
34:19
design. Right, correct.
34:21
You know what I mean? Yeah, man, it's crazy.
34:23
These, these apostles, they, they knew what they were saying
34:26
exactly. We just don't really sit down
34:28
and meditate and understand, number one, probably because the
34:33
question is how much do we trust God in the moments of
34:36
temptation? Because a lot of people, they'd
34:39
rather go to therapy, they'd rather go out for a walk.
34:43
They're right to go hang out with friends.
34:45
But no, these apostles understood it can only be done
34:48
through Christ, period. Nothing else.
34:51
No system, no, no coping mechanism.
34:55
It's just only through Christ that you can overcome any sort
34:58
of temptation, anything. And it's not like you can't.
35:03
You can't. Exactly.
35:05
Just like the apostle make it seem like there is no excuse,
35:09
Paul makes it seem like this is the disciplining of the flesh.
35:12
Peter says be holy, for the Lord is holy.
35:14
Yeah, John says. Remain.
35:17
Exactly. James says let the suffering.
35:21
And play it's full effect. It's like they all understood
35:24
they. Didn't have podcasts.
35:25
No, they didn't have podcasts. They didn't have.
35:27
They didn't have all this stuff that we have that supposedly
35:32
should we not be in a much higher level?
35:34
Should we not? You know what they had, bro?
35:36
Which surpasses everything here on Earth.
35:38
They didn't even have a Bible. I know you know what they had
35:42
bro, The Holy Spirit. Yeah.
35:44
They had the Holy Spirit, and the question is, do we not have
35:48
the Holy Spirit? That's a question we should all
35:51
ask ourselves. Or or.
35:54
We we trick ourselves thinking the Holy Spirit is because our
35:58
emotions tells us otherwise. Exactly.
36:01
You know what I mean absolutely answer to finish it up guys, I
36:05
already said this, this is my second time, but though all
36:07
those who are new listening, press the follow button on
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We're also on Apple Podcasts and those who've been in this
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journey with us listening this advice to hear this, this word,
36:25
share it, share it, it, it, it's OK.
36:29
You can speak to people, to your friend believers, and then talk
36:33
about what's really going on right when you're in that
36:36
moment. Exactly.
36:38
Yeah. Don't.
36:38
Don't be ashamed of the gospel. Yeah.
36:40
You know, our, all our brothers thought the same.
36:44
Should we? We should all think the same
36:45
too. Exactly.
36:47
Yeah. So we're going to finish it up
36:49
with a prayer. Thank you, Father, for giving us
36:53
this opportunity to to to speak about your word, to to speak
36:57
about what's really going on when we feel temptation.
37:00
What is that expression that describing that, that need, that
37:04
want to do it, but at the same time, we don't want to.
37:08
Yeah, we find ourselves excited to want to do it.
37:12
Thank you for allowing us to speak about this.
37:14
And hopefully those who are listening can share with others,
37:17
even if it's one or two or three.
37:19
I know that you're here and oh God, you are the ruler of this,
37:24
you know, the king of this universe.
37:26
You are above it all, hallowed be your name, and that you will
37:29
be done in heaven like it is done in here.
37:31
And give us the daily bread and forgive our trespass as we
37:35
forgive others. And then, and you always remain
37:41
in our lives and give us the strength the Holy Spirit guide
37:45
us and convicts us at any moment.
37:47
Your scripture says in revelation, I believe towards
37:50
the end says that blessed are those who watch their robes
37:53
daily, for they shall have access to the tree alive.
37:58
Amen to the next one, guys.