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Pastor Chuck Swindoll | Insight for Living – Straight Talk about Mora... · INSIGHT FOR LIVING: Biblical Wisdom For Everyday Living

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  Speaker 1: Ever, notice how some people joke about immorality. Our culture
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  Speaker 1: treats moral failure not as tragedy but as entertainment. Behind
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  Speaker 1: the laughter, however, are real stories of broken families, devastating consequences,
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  Speaker 1: and shattered trust. Today, on Insight for Living, Chuck Swindahl
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  Speaker 1: gets personal about moral purity. He shares his own story
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  Speaker 1: about facing overwhelming temptation as a young marine stationed in Okinawa,
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  Speaker 1: Chuck was surrounded by godless living and he was far
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  Speaker 1: from home. From his series titled Contagious Christianity, Chuck presents
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  Speaker 1: what he calls straight talk about moral purity.
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  Speaker 2: Turned over to the dusty old ancient writings of a
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  Speaker 2: sixth century prophet named Hubacchak. We're not familiar with him,
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  Speaker 2: but we surely are with his times. He's a man
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  Speaker 2: who lived in the fog. His book is an ancient
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  Speaker 2: call to repentance. It is a cry to God, who
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  Speaker 2: is holy, for some intervention. It's not just a cry,
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  Speaker 2: It's a scream. He says, hellong o, Lord, Well, I
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  Speaker 2: cry for help and you will not hear. I cry
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  Speaker 2: out to the violence, and yet you don't deliver. Why
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  Speaker 2: those questions sound familiar? How long? Why Why don't you
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  Speaker 2: unfold your arms and get with it in this old,
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  Speaker 2: polluted world of ours? Why don't you say, why do
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  Speaker 2: you make me see iniquity and cause me to look
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  Speaker 2: on wickedness? Yet destruction and violence are before me, Strife
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  Speaker 2: exists and contentions arise. Therefore the law is ignored. Justice
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  Speaker 2: is never upheld. The wicked surround the righteous. Therefore justice
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  Speaker 2: comes out perverted. Verse twelve. I thought you were holy?
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  Speaker 2: Aren't you? Holy? Scholar? Kyle Yates is right. Habacca could
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  Speaker 2: not reconcile a bad world with a holy god. It
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  Speaker 2: was a world of personal iniquity and wickedness. Verse three.
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  Speaker 2: Why dost thou make me see iniquity? The word means lying,
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  Speaker 2: vanity and idolatry. It would include that, why do you
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  Speaker 2: cause me to look on wickedness? Term encompasses oppression, robbery,
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  Speaker 2: and assault. There are homicidal deeds going on in the
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  Speaker 2: streets of your people. God. Aren't you Jehovah of Judah?
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  Speaker 2: Aren't you the god of this nation? Where are you God?
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  Speaker 2: Verse four? The law isn't upheld, and when it is,
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  Speaker 2: it's compromised. There's legal compromise, brutal violence, personal iniquity, relational wrangling,
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  Speaker 2: legal compromise. That sound familiar? Does that sound familiar to
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  Speaker 2: anybody else? I thought you were Holy God? Where are you?
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  Speaker 2: How could you allow this to happen? There's a moral
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  Speaker 2: pollution that comes from the smog, and I'm tired of
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  Speaker 2: sucking it in. I'm tired of its diseased impact on
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  Speaker 2: my body. I'm tired of talking about a holy God
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  Speaker 2: in a world of unholy people. Habaccock screamed, but Jeremiah
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  Speaker 2: just quietly sobbed. Go back, if you will, you'll go
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  Speaker 2: back in your bible to Jeremiah six. But we're really
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  Speaker 2: going a few years ahead in time. He lived a
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  Speaker 2: little later than Habaccak, though not by much. Jeremiah lived
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  Speaker 2: to see the end of an era. He saw the
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  Speaker 2: nation fall. That's why he wrote lamentations. It's another name
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  Speaker 2: for weeping. He's called the weeping prophet. He doesn't scream,
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  Speaker 2: he doesn't fight, he doesn't even argue. He just sobs.
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  Speaker 2: He writes his prophecy in tears. Verse eight. Be warned,
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  Speaker 2: oh Jerusalem, Jeremiah six' eight be, warned LEST i be
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  Speaker 2: alienated from, you LEST i make you a, desolation a
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  Speaker 2: land not Inhabit verse, Ten to whom SHALL i speak
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  Speaker 2: and give a warning that they may? Hear, behold their
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  Speaker 2: ears are. Closed see that's the result of living in the.
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  Speaker 2: Fog that's the result of sucking up the. Smog your
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  Speaker 2: ears get stopped and you can't hear the spiritual message
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  Speaker 2: That god is. Giving they cannot. Listen see the way
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  Speaker 2: he puts, it the word of The lord has become
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  Speaker 2: a reproach to. Them they have no delight in. It,
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  Speaker 2: Ah get off that. Stuff get up with the. Times,
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  Speaker 2: man that's the sign of the. Smog verse. Eleven i'm
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  Speaker 2: full of the wrath of The. Lord i'm weary of
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  Speaker 2: holding it. In i'm, Boiling i'm Churning verse. Thirteen from
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  Speaker 2: the least of them even to the greatest of, them
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  Speaker 2: everyone is greedy for. Gain does that sound. Familiar that's
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  Speaker 2: living in the. Fog that's part of the. Smog we're
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  Speaker 2: fighting for. Gain there's a competition to get, more more
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  Speaker 2: and to make matters. Worse from the prophet even to the,
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  Speaker 2: priest everyone deals. FALSELY i, mean it's bad enough that
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  Speaker 2: it's in the law, courts but it's now in the Pulpits.
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  Speaker 2: Jehovah what do they tell, me, well they deal. Falsely
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  Speaker 2: they have healed the wound of your people just. Slightly
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  Speaker 2: look at what he. Says they keep Saying shallom. Shalom
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  Speaker 2: when there is no, shallom there isn't any. Peace and
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  Speaker 2: if you don't think that's, bad look at the next verse.
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  Speaker 2: Fifteen were they ashamed because of the abomination they've? Done,
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  Speaker 2: nope they were not even ashamed at. All they did
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  Speaker 2: not even know how to. Blush ever seen that in The?
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  Speaker 2: Bible Before Lord. God WHEN i minister to your People,
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  Speaker 2: judah AND i see them come with all the, POLLUTION
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  Speaker 2: i Notice god that there are no more red. Faces
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  Speaker 2: no one seems shocked. Anymore it's what we shall call.
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  Speaker 2: Compensating in order to handle the shock of our, day
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  Speaker 2: we compensate by remaining free of. Shock that's part of
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  Speaker 2: living in the. Fog and it would be bad enough
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  Speaker 2: if it were just in my, world WHERE i am
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  Speaker 2: forced to rear for precious children who carry into their
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  Speaker 2: homes a lifestyle they build upon our foundation in a
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  Speaker 2: world that's increasingly more. Polluted the ultimate telltale sign of
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  Speaker 2: a lack of holiness is that we no longer blush
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  Speaker 2: when we find. Wrong we make, jokes about. It it's,
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  Speaker 2: funny and if you don't, laugh you're a, prude you're,
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  Speaker 2: weird you're kind of. Crotchety you getting, older MAYBE i
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  Speaker 2: don't like to laugh about that much anymore Because i'm
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  Speaker 2: ideal always with the consequences of. It, see people don't
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  Speaker 2: come to me and our staff talking about the joys
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  Speaker 2: of illicit. Sex they come with the horror stories of
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  Speaker 2: what do they do now about their? Family or what
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  Speaker 2: do they do about this, disease or what do they
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  Speaker 2: do with this incestuous relationship that has torn the place?
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  Speaker 2: Apart what do they do with this information that's going
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  Speaker 2: to blow the thing out of the water now that she's,
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  Speaker 2: Pregnant what are they gonna? Do it would be bad
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  Speaker 2: enough in the, world but it is now in the,
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  Speaker 2: church even this. Church and so WHEN i see In
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  Speaker 2: First thessalonians chapter four straight talk about moral, PURITY i
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  Speaker 2: am grateful That god talks that way about. It i'm
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  Speaker 2: grateful he doesn't. Stutter i'm even more grateful that he doesn't.
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  Speaker 2: Laugh he tells me straight what to do about, it
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  Speaker 2: and he leaves me with a. Choice because, actually if
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  Speaker 2: you boil holiness down to its basic, sense you come to,
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  Speaker 2: obedience don't. You as the nineteenth Century scottish Theologian John brown,
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  Speaker 2: said holiness does not consist in mystic, speculations enthusiastic fervors
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  Speaker 2: or unco man did. Austerities it consists in thinking As god,
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  Speaker 2: thinks and willing As god. Wills that's what the apostle
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  Speaker 2: is asking of the reader in chapter four Of First.
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  Speaker 2: Thessalonians he got his foot in the door by that
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  Speaker 2: last part of chapter three when he gave us some
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  Speaker 2: guidelines on how to really. Live remember that last, Time
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  Speaker 2: remember those comments he gave, Us and it just thrilled,
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  Speaker 2: us especially as he got to the, end and he
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  Speaker 2: said verse, thirteen That god may establish your hearts unblameable in.
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  Speaker 2: Holiness what a great way to live unblameable in. Holiness
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  Speaker 2: confidence is being. UNBLAMEABLE i, mean it's better than having
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  Speaker 2: the answers to all the questions on the. Test there's
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  Speaker 2: no security like being free to. Blame That god may
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  Speaker 2: establish your hearts unblameable in, holiness so that you can
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  Speaker 2: smile at, life you can take it in all of its.
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  Speaker 2: Pleasures and when marriage comes and you enjoy the partnership
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  Speaker 2: of that opposite, sex you have the joys of sexual,
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  Speaker 2: delights the likes of which would Cause god to. Laugh
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  Speaker 2: he's pleased with. That he applauds that he invented, it
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  Speaker 2: he created. It he, said it will be in that
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  Speaker 2: context that it will reach its. Fulfillment AND i honor
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  Speaker 2: that the marriage bid is, undefiled free to, blame but
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  Speaker 2: you take it out of its original, context and blame
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  Speaker 2: associates itself with it and all the miseries in. Accompaniment So,
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  Speaker 2: paul since he lived In, corinth which was so much
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  Speaker 2: like one of our cities In. California not exclusive To,
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  Speaker 2: california but it seems as though we have cultivated the
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  Speaker 2: notorious reputation for fast living out. Here it isn't, exclusive
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  Speaker 2: but it seems as though we are the byword for
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  Speaker 2: corinthianizing in our. Day and he lived In corinth when
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  Speaker 2: he wrote this. Letter he could have been looking out
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  Speaker 2: of his window one morning and prompted by something that
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  Speaker 2: had happened in the night, before as he saw the
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  Speaker 2: same street with the people, there and he knew The
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  Speaker 2: thessalonians lived in a city that had its, Temptations and
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  Speaker 2: so he, said, finally, brethren we, request and we exhort
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  Speaker 2: you in The Lord, jesus that as you received from
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  Speaker 2: us instruction as to how you ought to walk and Please,
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  Speaker 2: god just as you actually do, walk that you excel still.
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  Speaker 2: More underline, that excel still. More we have words for that.
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  Speaker 2: Today go for, it give it your best. Shot don't
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  Speaker 2: just drift, pursue be a gimper, or as my father
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  Speaker 2: would often, say get with. It get with, It paul
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  Speaker 2: says to the, reader just as we have written, you
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  Speaker 2: and just as we told you when we were with,
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  Speaker 2: you to really, walk get with. It make something happen
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  Speaker 2: in your. Life don't just drift along in the fog of. Mediocrity,
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  Speaker 2: excel go the second, mile go beyond the. Expected if
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  Speaker 2: you're A c, student try your best for a. Bee
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  Speaker 2: if in life you tend to be rather laid, back
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  Speaker 2: remember as your work, comes and as you're to give
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  Speaker 2: yourself to, it give yourself to. Diligence overcome that tendency toward.
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  Speaker 2: Laziness that's all involved in the. Excelling the Reason i'm
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  Speaker 2: landing on it and massaging it in a little bit
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  Speaker 2: is that the passage that follows is a direct out
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  Speaker 2: working of that excelling. Lifestyle you, know the commandments we
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  Speaker 2: gave you with the authority of The Lord. Jesus excel
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  Speaker 2: in that now in verses three to. Six in The
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  Speaker 2: realm of, Morality abstain from Immorality verse, Three this is
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  Speaker 2: the will Of god your, sanctification that, is that you
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  Speaker 2: abstain from sexual. Immorality you want to excel in your,
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  Speaker 2: walk then you'll have to come to terms quickly with
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  Speaker 2: your lust. Battle and it will be, that and it
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  Speaker 2: won't stop when you turn. Fifty and it won't be
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  Speaker 2: over just because you lost a. Mate and it won't
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  Speaker 2: end because your geography, changes or because you happen to
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  Speaker 2: be a, woman or because you are well, educated or
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  Speaker 2: because you live behind the walls of a prison or a,
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  Speaker 2: monastery or are led to remain. Single this is the
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  Speaker 2: will Of. God very seldom will you find such straight
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  Speaker 2: talk in. Scripture you don't even have to pray about.
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  Speaker 2: It you know his. Will this is the will Of
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  Speaker 2: god that you abstain From Poor. Naya we get our
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  Speaker 2: word pornography or pornographic from. It abstain means abstain outside.
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  Speaker 2: Marriage have nothing to do with sexual involvements with. Others
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  Speaker 2: that's what it. Means now in the fog of horizontal.
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  Speaker 2: Standards you will be left with any number of. Options
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  Speaker 2: you will be counseled to be, discreet but not A i,
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  Speaker 2: mean let's don't be silly about. This you will be
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  Speaker 2: told it would be dangerous for you to play around
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  Speaker 2: with somebody else's, mate so don't do. That watch out for.
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  Speaker 2: Disease it's unwise for you to cohabit with a partner
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  Speaker 2: in your. Family that's, incest that's, scandalous it's. Illegal if
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  Speaker 2: you're a, teacher you shouldn't be intimate with your. Student
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  Speaker 2: that's not professionally, Wise so don't do. That some would
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  Speaker 2: caution how relieving it is to know exactly where you
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  Speaker 2: stand with the Living Holy. God if you are not,
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  Speaker 2: married you have no business being involved sexually with any other.
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  Speaker 2: Person that's what it. Says that is what it. Says
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  Speaker 2: that is for our, good that is For god's. Glory
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  Speaker 2: now he doesn't leave us with simply a stark. Command
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  Speaker 2: he follows it up with some. Counsel verse, four that
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  Speaker 2: each of you know how to possess his own vessel
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  Speaker 2: in sanctification and. Honor this is the will Of god
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  Speaker 2: that you know how to do. That so you must
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  Speaker 2: become a student of yourself in order to know how
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  Speaker 2: to handle. Yourself, right you know what kind of student you. Are,
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  Speaker 2: academically in order to pass the, course you have to
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  Speaker 2: apply what you know will work in order to pass
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  Speaker 2: the test and accomplish the course and get the degree
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  Speaker 2: or the. Diploma, now in the realm of your intimate,
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  Speaker 2: life each of you is to know how to possess
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  Speaker 2: his own. Vessel there is a bit of disagreement as
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  Speaker 2: to the interpretation of one's own. Vessel some have taught
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  Speaker 2: that it meant for the man his. WIFE i rather
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  Speaker 2: think it has reference to one's, body because it is
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  Speaker 2: used more than just a time or two in The New,
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  Speaker 2: testament this word vessel for the. Body we have this
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  Speaker 2: treasure in earthen. Vessels remember that out Of Tewod. Corinthians
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  Speaker 2: for we are to know how to possess our own,
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  Speaker 2: drive how to gain mastery over, it how to sustain
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  Speaker 2: ourselves in a life of, purity not in lustful. Passion
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  Speaker 2: let me amplify. That let me talk really straight with
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  Speaker 2: you about. It within the, media there are certain things
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  Speaker 2: that we cannot. Handle and you know, yourself as an
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  Speaker 2: adult or as a young, adult well enough to know
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  Speaker 2: that weakens, me then you are wrong to traffic in.
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  Speaker 2: It there are certain films and pictures and magazines that
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  Speaker 2: you AND i cannot. Handle there are certain television programs
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  Speaker 2: we have no business tuning. Into there are certain conversations
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  Speaker 2: that stimulate us from certain people who weaken, us and
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  Speaker 2: to traffic with those people and to run with them
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  Speaker 2: as friends or even quasi, friends is. Foolish it gives
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  Speaker 2: us temptations we cannot. Control and there are certain activities
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  Speaker 2: that stimulate certain, parties certain, places certain seductive pastimes that weaken,
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  Speaker 2: us and we are fools to play with. It just
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  Speaker 2: as a person trying to recover and get on his
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  Speaker 2: or her feet from alcoholism chooses not to live on
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  Speaker 2: the second floor above a, bar, stupid, foolish and it
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  Speaker 2: will lead to. Failure the same kind of thing is
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  Speaker 2: true here verse. Six some would get around it by, saying,
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  Speaker 2: well what we could do is just keep this within the.
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  Speaker 2: Family but he corners us here and says that no
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  Speaker 2: one transgress and defraud his brother in the. Matter because
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  Speaker 2: The lord is the avenger in all these. Things i'll
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  Speaker 2: deal with that in the. Moment this would have reference
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  Speaker 2: not only to in general the family Of, god but family,
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  Speaker 2: members the indecent practices of relating to one's daughter in,
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  Speaker 2: law son in, law, mother, stepmother, stepfather and on and
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  Speaker 2: on in the whole realm of incest.
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  Speaker 1: That.
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  Speaker 2: Defrauds the defrauding not only occurs with the person that
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  Speaker 2: one takes advantage, of even if it's done, voluntarily but
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  Speaker 2: the defrauding occurs since it's, secret and there are many
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  Speaker 2: who know nothing of, it and when they find, out
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  Speaker 2: they are damaged as. Well, now to put it very,
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  Speaker 2: Straight god stands clearly against extramarital, sex homosexual, sex sex
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  Speaker 2: with individuals outside of, marriage under any, situation any, Situation he,
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  Speaker 2: says abstain from.
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  Speaker 1: Me.
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  Speaker 2: Now WHEN i say, THIS i am not the only,
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  Speaker 2: voice But i'm a lonely voice in our, day certainly
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  Speaker 2: among public. Figures and because all illustrations can lead to unfortunate,
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  Speaker 2: RESULTS i choose not to use anyone else but myself
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  Speaker 2: as an. Example And i'll tell you my. Story WHILE
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  Speaker 2: i was early married in nineteen fifty, FIVE i finished
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  Speaker 2: my schooling and decided THAT i needed to deal with
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  Speaker 2: my military. Deferment in those, days the military was an
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  Speaker 2: obligation was to be fulfilled AND i chose an outfit
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  Speaker 2: not known for. PURITY i chose The Marine, corps and
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  Speaker 2: part of the REASON i did is BECAUSE i received
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  Speaker 2: the promise from The corps that IF i, JOINED i
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  Speaker 2: would not have to do duty. Overseas and SINCE i was,
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  Speaker 2: married and when one in The marines goes overseas cannot
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  Speaker 2: take his, mate that certainly was appealing to me BECAUSE
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  Speaker 2: i was enjoying life with my bride in our early,
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  Speaker 2: years AS i really wanted to be with. Her but
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  Speaker 2: as is sometime true with the, military they, lied AND
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  Speaker 2: i wound up eight thousand miles from home and suddenly
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  Speaker 2: faced with temptation THAT i had never known. BEFORE i
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  Speaker 2: have a little fun with that, story but the fun
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  Speaker 2: stops right. Now BEFORE i ever dropped the sea bag
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  Speaker 2: off my, SHOULDER i was faced with a. DECISION i
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  Speaker 2: was going to live in a barracks that was full
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  Speaker 2: of godless life. Style over ninety percent headhead or at the,
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  Speaker 2: time had venereal. Disease living in the village was as
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  Speaker 2: common as breathing smog in Southern. California if you lived In,
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  Speaker 2: okinawa you had a naissan on the side and the
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  Speaker 2: chaplain who was to talk to you about. Purity really
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  Speaker 2: joked his way through telling you where to find, penicillin
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  Speaker 2: AND i, realized SINCE i had known the joys of,
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  Speaker 2: marriage that temptation would be incredibly strong LIKE i have
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  Speaker 2: never known it. Since surrounded by men who couldn't have
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  Speaker 2: cared less about the things Of, god away from my
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  Speaker 2: home and wife and my family and all of my,
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  Speaker 2: ACCOUNTABILITY i was just a nameless face on the streets Of.
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  Speaker 2: Okinawa but the grace Of, god the decision THAT i,
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  Speaker 2: made allowed me to speak today with. Confidence HAD i not,
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  Speaker 2: been by the grace Of god preserved from, UNFAITHFULNESS i
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  Speaker 2: would have to pass rather hurriedly and EMBARRASSING lieu over
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  Speaker 2: this passage of. Scripture BUT i want you to know it.
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  Speaker 2: Works it works.
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  Speaker 1: Straight talk about moral. Purity that's the title of today's
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  Speaker 1: message From Chuck. Swindahl we're confident That chuck's insights Into
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  Speaker 1: First thessalonians will lead many, people maybe, you to a
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