I'll tell you, this is a text that is relevant for our time, a text that's very relevant. We're in the midst, I don't need to tell you, of a sexual revolution in this country. We're faced with it, and whether we like it or not, people have decided to change things in this country. What happened last Sunday night in the Super Bowl, with just a little piece of it, just a piece of it, And it's embarrassing people that they didn't think it'd embarrass, it bothers some people that didn't think it would bother, but it's typical of what's going on in our world. Those people that do that, that's just the tip of the iceberg. of what they're trying to do, and they're just testing. They're testing the waters, they're seeing how far they can stretch it. We're just in the midst of a sexual revolution. We've been in that for some time. The last president helped lead the way in that way, and you know that as well as I do. But things have changed, they're changing in this country where there's very little shame and very little ability to blush anymore. We are very much like the city of Corinth. Corinth was a city that was open and broad-minded. In fact, it intertwined their sexual revolution with religion. They had there in Corinth a temple, and it is said that there was like a thousand prostitutes involved in this. Their very religion involved prostitution. In fact, their very way of life involved the giving of themselves in sexual immorality. And that involved not only people married, but people unmarried. Corinth was that way. And the church at Corinth, you can tell by chapter 5 and chapter 6 and chapter 7, that there was some immorality that was going on in that church that was being tolerated. It was being tolerated very much because of the nature of the times. They weren't as alarmed as they ought to be about those type of things. Now, to the church at Corinth, the message can be summed up there, as you look in verse 18, where he says, to flee fornication. To flee fornication. What he's talking about in this chapter is maintaining sexual purity. The word fornication is a broad term. We tend to think of the term adultery in a narrow sense, where it involves people that are married. Fornication is broad enough to include homosexuality. It's broad enough to even include incest. It's broad enough to include bestiality. It's broad enough to include sexual relationships between people that are not married. It's a broad term. And what he says here is to flee fornication. Now the first few verses that I read to you point us to the serious nature of this whole subject. He wants us to be very clear that people who practice immorality, that it's a way of life to them, it's a practice in their life, that they're not going to inherit the kingdom of God. He says that. He says one thing that we ought to know that. Everybody ought to know that. that this sexual revolution just won't cut it with God, and that people who are, what he describes there in those verses, practicing this wickedness, that they will not inherit the kingdom of God. It's something we ought to know, and it's something we have to be careful lest we be deceived. And many preachers are helping to deceive people today, because they have turned grace into lasciviousness, and they have overlooked clear statements in the Bible. You may try, you look at these verses, and you try to harmonize it with all your theology. But friend, be very careful when you go against clear statements in the Bible. A clear statement like this right here, where it says, don't be deceived. Now, we're talking about all that he deals with in this text, and it's very obvious that he comes down to this matter of morality. Then, verse 9, he talks about the effeminate, and the abusers of themselves with mankind. Basically, what you deal with there in those two verses are homosexuality. The word effeminate means soft, soft to the touch. And there are two ways of understanding this. In the temple, they had what are called panamites. They had little male prostitutes, boys. They were there for homosexual pleasures. And the effeminate would refer to them. But then, also, in a homosexual relationship, there's one person that's dominant, and the other is more or less subject to that person, or weaker, softer. And so, some have said that when you deal with the effeminate, if you take two homosexuals, it's interesting. Watch it. You've got two lesbians together. One of them will look like a man. One of them will walk like a man. One of them acts like a man. And the other is more like a girl. Have you ever noticed that? Start noticing. I don't want you to go around noticing things like that. It stands out though. And it's that way with male homosexuals. There's the aggressive one, and then there's the weaker one. And you see that. Well, some have said that this word effeminate is referring to that one that's weaker in that relationship, and then the abusers of themselves and mankind is the aggressive one. Well, what he's talking about is clearly homosexuality there, and he condemns that. But he goes on to deal with sexual immorality on a wider scale. Now, having pointed out the seriousness of the thing, he moves quickly to say and to show that it's not a matter of Christian liberty. Now, the Bible teaches Christian liberty. The Bible does teach Christians that you and I have the liberty as we grow in grace under God to come to see things for ourselves. The thing that he uses in the Bible are things like meat, meat offered to idols. And he deals with that here in the letter to Corinth. But now, look at verses 12 and 13. All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient. Now, I think what probably you, to understand this verse as Paul meant it, you put quote marks around this, all things are lawful unto me. And in doing that, you realize that Paul is putting something back to them that they've put to him. To take this idea, well, all things are lawful unto me. Well, Paul then begins to deal with their idea of Christian liberty. That's obvious, just as clear as you read this passage, that everything is not lawful. What I mean, homosexuality is not lawful. Being a feminine is not lawful, being an adulterer is not lawful, being a thief is not lawful, being covetous, all the... So it's obvious he doesn't mean to take the position that everything's okay. What he's doing, put the quote marks on there and think of it in terms of something they've said. And he says, well listen, if you're going to use that, understand not everything is profitable in the Christian liberty. That ought to govern your Christian liberty. And then bondage. Things bring you into bondage. And so that ought to govern you. He is certainly not okaying sexual immorality. To take that from the text is to go against everything the whole text says and the Bible says. Then put your quote marks on the next one. Meats for the belly and the belly for meats. And you can almost hear that argument. See, it's natural. You get hungry, you have an appetite, you eat. Okay, meats, God made the belly for meats and the meats for belly, the belly. Well then you have sexual desire. sexual desire. God made us, we have this desire, it's just natural. See, that's the kind of argument that Paul is combating that perhaps is put to him with the quotation marks. In other words, Paul is not agreeing with this position, but he aims to show them, notice that God is going to destroy both it and them, and that the body is not for fornication. Sure, meat is for the belly, and the belly for meat, but don't take that logic and say, well, if I have a natural appetite, God gave it to me, and it's alright to satisfy that natural appetite. He clearly shows that that's not the case. He says, no, the body is not for fornication. But it is for the Lord, and the Lord for the body, and that God that raised up the Lord is also going to raise up us by our power, by His own power. Keep that in mind. Keep that in mind that there's going to be a resurrection, and even an accounting for what we do. And so He deals with the seriousness of sexual immorality. He deals with this idea of Christian liberty, and deals with those two things. But then he comes to really the heart of what he has to say about this whole issue. And he uses these terms, know, and you could say, consider this. Here's something you should know. You should understand this. And the first of the things he talks about is Our relationship to the Lord himself. When we talk about maintaining sexual purity, we must look at fornication and our relationship to Jesus Christ. Look at verse 15. Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? Now he's talking to Christian people. People who say that they know the Lord. Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them the members of a harlot? God forbid, or may it never be, it's unthinkable. That's his idea. What? Know you not that that which is joined to a harlot is one body? For two, saith he, shall be one flesh? When the Bible speaks of this one flesh idea, it's obvious from this And even the next chapter, that when the Bible talked about becoming one flesh, he had in mind, he was thinking about, the Bible was talking about the sexual relationship between a husband and a wife, man and a woman, where they become one. But notice, he says in verse 17, but he that is joined to the Lord is one spirit. Now here is his argument. As a believer, I have come into a union with Christ in spirit. I am one with Christ. I am in a union. By the way, all of my salvation is dependent upon this union. I have His righteousness based upon that union. His death upon the cross is mine based upon union. Salvation is by grace, it's by faith. But what faith does, it places me in Christ. It puts me into a union with Christ. It's kind of like when you get married, there's a union. And this union, where the man and the woman come into a union with each other, and what is the one, becomes the other. And what belongs to the one, now belongs to the other. And they share in this union, it's not all the two, but one, and they share this together. Well with Christ, that's how it is. With Christ I am in a union with him, a spiritual union, whereby his death becomes mine, my sins are laid upon his cross, his sacrifice becomes mine. It's in union with Christ that I'm saved. Now here I am in a union with Christ. But he says, listen, now your body is a member of Christ. It's a part of Christ. And now his point is, if you're in a union with Christ, how then can you take your body, which is by that union is a member of Christ, how can you take that and make it a member of a harlot? See, what he's saying, you have a relationship with Jesus Christ, and when you go into sexual immorality, it isn't just you. Now, you have a union with Christ, and you're taking that which is united with Christ, and involving it in wickedness. Now, he wants them to understand that. See, beginning to understand, to maintain sexual purity, we have to come to see it as God sees it. See, we have to have a view of it. One of the problems that we're having, and what they're trying to do in this sexual revolution, is make it common. They're tired of hiding in the closet in homosexuality, but at the same time they're tired of us making them feel bad for fornication and adultery. And they want to build a promiscuous society without guilt. And so they have, through television, through music, through many other means, they have sought to make it so it's not such a big deal. But what the Word of God is teaching us here is, it is a big deal. And I believe beginning to maintain sexual purity is to see it as a big deal. And it's to see it as serious business. And what he's saying there is, you've got to know this. You should be understood about this. It should be clear. You can't go anywhere without Jesus to go with you. You're united with Him in spirit, that makes your body His. And you take that body and make it the member of a harlot. How can that be? How can it be? That's what he says. God forbid. May it never be! May it never be. And so he's pointing out the nature of this thing. The serious nature by showing fornication in our relationship to Jesus Christ. But then he goes a step further and shows us fornication and sinning against our own body. Look at verse 18. Free fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body. But he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body. Now, he starts with this flee fornication, which means run. It means flee. It means to put to flight. It means to get away from it. It's like Joseph running from this thing. Get away from it. That's the point. He makes it strong. It's imperative. It's continuous. Make it the way of your life to flee. sexual immorality, making sure practice to run from it, get away from it. And then he shows that it does something to our body. When he says every sin that a man doeth is without the body, when he talks about this, it isn't as though he excludes fornication from that list. But what he is trying to show that in a very particular way, That to commit fornication is to sin against your own body. Now, many sins are against your body. Alcoholism, for instance, destroys the person who's involved in it. And so we cannot say that fornication alone is a sin against the body. That isn't what he's meaning to say here. But he is meaning to say it in a very special way. You know, we say things like sin is sin. There is a truth to that, but not all things are equal in consequence, or not all things are measured the same. And that's true in the Bible. Fornication is different, is what he's saying. It's different in how it affects the body, even as opposed to alcohol or other types of sins. Fornication does something. It leaves its mark on the body. It does something to you emotionally. It does something to you in the sense of the guilt, the feeling that it brings to the people's lives that are involved in it. You can't get away from that. And it affects girls even worse than boys. I think those who study and those who counsel people who are ridden with guilt from immorality of their past would tell you that young girls suffer a great deal more. It leaves a mark upon their conscience. It leaves a mark upon their emotions. And there are some ladies and men that for their whole life, it sets them on a path of destruction. Sexual immorality does that. It does affect us with guilt. There's another thing. It does something to us that can never be done, undone. A young man, a young woman, once they give themselves to someone in an immoral relationship, they can never undo that. I'm thankful they can be forgiven. We can all be forgiven and have new life for our sins. I mean, God can bless and help, so I don't mean to say that. But there's a sense in which you can never undo that. It's affected you. It affects your body. But then this sin, in a very particular way, is known to produce diseases in the body. Diseases now, we are faced with it, are incurable. And in the past, they always have been associated with that. You do something against your own body. Someone said that the fornicator is a victim of his own sin. And so he's pointing this out. And to remind you, he's wanting us to see a biblical viewpoint of this thing. First of all, you're a fornication in your relationship to the Lord. And you're a fornication about what it does to you. It will cause damage to you for life. There's no question I think that a lot of the psychological problems that we see in America have to do with promiscuity that's come to America. A lot of the teenage suicide I think if you could trace it back, it's traced to the effect of promiscuity upon their life. I'm not saying it all the time, I'm not saying it always, but I think you and I, if we look and see that people have done something and they realize they can never undo what they've done, it's a sin against your body. Then the third thing he talks about in this passage is fornication and the body being the temple of the Holy Spirit. What, verse 19, don't you know or know you're not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost, which is in you, which you have of God, and you are not your own, for you're bought with a price, and we know what that price is, don't we? The price of the blood of Jesus Christ. Peter said we are redeemed not of corruptible things like silver and gold, but with the precious blood of Jesus. We've been bought with a price. The light that I know in Christ costs a great deal. It costs me nothing, but it costs Him everything. So I've been bought with a price. He says, therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's. You know, in the second century, there was a heresy known as Gnosticism. People claimed to have more knowledge, insight. And I think the beginnings of it you see in the first century. But basically, one of the things they did was they separated the spirit from the flesh. And they didn't want to tie these together. And one of the outcomes of that is it didn't matter what you did with your body, it's your spirit that matters. You'll hear people teach some of that type of stuff even today. But this passage tells us your body is important. That what you do with your body is very important in the sight of God. That God has redeemed you. You're bought for the price. Not only your spirit, but your body itself is going to be redeemed. God himself is going to transform our mortal bodies. That's what the Bible teaches in 1 Corinthians 15. But notice, he says this, that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit. Which is in you. You have a God. And you are not your own. In other words, you do not have a right to do whatever you want to do. Now I belong to Jesus. You know what the Bible says? Or the psalm writer said? Now I belong to Jesus. I'm not my own. I wish the Holy Spirit would imprint this upon our hearts tonight. That wherever we go and whatever we do, we do not have a right. Once we say we're blood-bought, We own that He is Lord! He owns me! You say, I'll not be owned by anybody. Then you'll never know the Lord Jesus Christ. You'll never know Him. He calls upon you to yield yourself to Him. To deny yourself and to pick up your cross and follow Him. And we do not have a right, and it owes Christians to understand that. We do not have this right over ourselves. But notice he says, you're the temple. In other words, your body is a temple. It's a sacred thing. One of the things that's so terrible about what's happening in America is we can't discern between what's holy and what's karmic. A few months ago, we saw an entertainer get married just for the weekend, 55 hours. Doesn't seem to bother anybody, but listen, marriage is sacred. And you shouldn't play with it like that. And when we start playing with marriage like that, it begins to give us a light feel of marriage. And our marriages begin to fall apart when we take them lightly. Marriage is sacred. It's sacred. I think about, I cannot help but realize with the Super Bowl last week, to me the abomination wasn't as bad what she did as what churches did. I feel pity for the preacher that doesn't have enough of God about him. that does no better than to bring a Super Bowl TV into the sanctuary. You can disagree with that all you want, but I'm glad I'm doing the preaching. I'm telling you, I feel sorry for people who that's their preacher that has no more spiritual discernment than that. No more discernment. You say, what's wrong with Super Bowl Sunday? I don't have time to even tell people things like that. I don't have time tonight, but what it's doing, it's causing us to, we cannot discern between what's sacred and what's not. My, I can't even imagine that some churches would have seen that in the sanctuary. Even then would somebody walk up and say, my, my, what are we doing? Got that in this church. The church house is for preaching. It's for worship. It's for the glory of God. We want to watch the Super Bowl. Let's just stay home and watch it. You have my permission. I mean, listen. Hey, I'm saying you got God's permission at all. But I'm telling you, don't try to convince me to have a Super Bowl Sunday. You don't want to go to church. Stay home. Don't drag the church down. Somebody say amen. I feel like the preacher, can I get a witness? Tonight, you didn't come for all this, did you? But the body is sacred. Your body. That tells me something about my body. This is a temple. The Holy Spirit dwells within me. It dwells within you. Now that affects the body, doesn't it? I have to have a high view. As a Christian, I'm not a tree hugger. I'm not an environmentalist wacko. But I'll tell you this, it bothers me to see people throw trash out the window, side of the road. Does it bother you? I think you've got to have, well excuse me, I get off on things, but you've got to have less sense than a kindergartner. Just kick it out the window, and I don't mean to offend your good senses. But that, I think, will not destroy the environment. I'd be against throwing trash in the rivers. Wouldn't you? All of that. Why? Because it's God's. God made it. And He gave us Lordship over His creation. He expects us to take care of it. I believe that. They're sacred things. And the body is that. And that's what He's teaching here. That the Holy Spirit lives within us. I am a temple. See, and all of this is in the context of sexual purity. He wants us to know We have a relationship with Jesus Christ. How can we take that which is a member of Christ and make it a involvement in sexual immorality? It's a sin against our own body. How can we so do that? And then third, he teaches us that the body is a temple. Oh, for a high view, you lower yourself. You lower yourself when you lower yourself to immorality. You're better than that. You're bigger than that. You're more important. You're a sanctuary. You're a temple. Well, then he comes to the seventh chapter. Not only does he deal with the sexual relationships, sexual morality, and our relationship to Christ, and sexual morality, and our relationship to our body, and sexual morality in relationship to our body being the temple. But in the seventh chapter, he deals with fornication and sexual morality in relationship to marriage. And there's no break in the passage. He's dealing with some questions they have, whether a Christian that's not married can get married, and whether they have to get married or whether they don't have to. In the whole chapter, he deals with that. Well, in the marriage, he lays out some things here. He says it's, notice chapter 7, verse 1. Now, concerning the things wherever you wrote unto me, it is good for a man not to touch a woman, nevertheless to avoid fornication. Let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband. Now, notice the context. He's already dealing with three fornications, so he comes down to marriage. It says this is God's design. How do you deal with the sexual drive within us that God has placed there? He talks about marriage. That's where you deal with it. And that's God's design. Every man have his own wife and every woman have her own husband. Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence, and likewise unto the wife, the wife to the husband. One translation says that like this. Let the husband give his wife the affection, the rightful affection, the affection that's due to her. And likewise also, let the wife to the husband, the husband to the wife, and the wife to the husband. Now what he's talking about is the sexual relationship. Now if you feel a little insecure about us talking about that, understand we're reading from the Bible. We're reading from the Bible. That's why I said when I began to read that whole passage, you say, wow. If you understand what he's saying, wow. He says to avoid fornication, God's way is for people to be married. And within that marriage, that a wife has a duty or a debt, a human influence, to her husband. And the husband to the wife. You don't have to think long to realize there's a need both of them have. Half of what's wrong in a lot of couples and their problems is that men have no concept their wife has a need just like they do. Don't blush. Just look up. We always look up here. Nobody knows you're embarrassed. Notice he says that. And then he goes on to say the wife has not power over her own body but the husband. And likewise also the husband has no power of his own body but the wife. That means you don't have the right to do what you want. When you get married you give up the right to yourself. That's in the Bible. This is very vital in a marriage, the reality of what is said right here in this verse. I think sometimes the problems couples have is that they've never given themselves to the other person. As this book says right here, that you don't have the power, you don't have the right. It is hard for me to really get to the point here. But I will tell you what, after a while, so many headaches descend. What he's dealing with here, listen, the problem, the Corinthians, there was all kinds of sin out there, and there's sexual temptation. And what he's saying to God's people is, you're married, don't look to the world. The couples ought to have such a relationship with each other, they'll have to look to the world. I don't have the power. I'm in a union where I have given myself. You're in a union where you've given yourself. You're getting there if you alter! I'm going to tell you. We're already looking at the serious side of fornication, but he goes to this marriage thing. You don't deal with what the Bible says there. You're dealing with sin. I know it's quiet. It's quiet up here. It's worse here. But it's wrong. It's wrong for a man to shun his wife. That's wrong. You made a commitment. This book tells you. You have a debt. I hate to think of it that way. Do affection is better. Notice he says in verse 5, defraud not one another. What do you mean by that? Another translation puts it, deprive, don't deprive. Don't rob the other person. That would be an ominous translation of that word. Defraud. You're holding back something that's right within that relationship, something you agreed to. I try to deal with this passage when I do marriage counsel. I believe the Bible teaches it. And we live in a sexual revolution out there. And it's not right for a man to shun his wife, and it's not right for the wife to shun her husband. That's just not right. And what happens, what he's saying in this whole passage is when that happens, we open ourself up to the temptation of the devil. Look at the passage, verse 5. To fraud you not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that you give yourself to fasting and prayer. Now, notice that I can't even go to fasting and prayer, I can't even Do that without consent. You say, I run my house, I do whatever I want. Right here, the Bible tells you right there. What are you going to do about that? Then come together again. Notice what he says, lest that Satan tempt you not for your lack of self-control, incontinency. Look at verse 9. For if they cannot continue letting them marry, for it is better to marry than to burn, and that means to burn in lust. Now, you may have never gone through this passage before, and it may embarrass you to go through it, but it's right there. It's for married couples. It's in the Bible. That's how we deal with it. The sexual revolution. One thing we can't do anything about what they do at the Super Bowl. We can't do anything about what this pagan world does. They've got no morality, but in some things they've got absolutely no sense. I mean, they've got no walking sense with some of this stuff. We can't do anything about that. But here he's saying to Christians, there's a knowledge. About your relationship with the Lord. There's a knowledge about what it's due to your own body. There's a knowledge about being in the temple. Then it comes to the marriage. All of this. How do you plead fornication? Well, this is a part of it. Notice how he says it in verse 20. Glorify God in your body. Why don't I just give you a few practical things and look close. We'll go blushing silence. You want to avoid fornication, one thing you've got to avoid, those viewpoints that try to justify it. That was the problem in Corinth, see. Corinth was a place that they had it in religion. It was a way of life to them. And what Paul has to do is show them how God sees it. In the light matter. Avoid places where it goes on. These Christians had to stay away from that temple where they had a thousand prostitutes. You want to avoid it, you've got to take it serious. Take this thing serious. I can hear somebody saying, what does it matter to teenagers? They're not hurting anybody. What does it matter? What it matters is it's an offense to God. That's what matters. What it matters is what the Bible says about it. What matters is, do you say you're a Christian? Then how can you take Christ and make Him a part of that? How can you take this temple of the Holy Spirit and make it a part of that? The Bible says abstain from the very appearance of evil. And I believe that means wherever evil pops itself up. When I see something's evil, I get away from it. The Bible says do not make any provision for the flesh. Make no provision for the flesh. Your flesh is strong enough without you feeding it. I've said it around here before and I'll say it again. My temptation level goes up with my television watching level. I wonder if you'd say that. I guarantee if you listen to country music much, your temptation level goes up. If it doesn't depress you, it'll sure excite you. I mean, think about it. It's the music. That's what I don't listen to because it depresses me. And life is bad enough without me taking something that I know is going to make me sick. You know? Some things I know, I just can't deal with. But anything, this whole message is sexual. By the way, all you have to do is pick up books from rock musicians. And let them tell you what rock music is about. Don't let me tell you. Don't let me tell you what rock music is about. Pick them up. They're on record. They have spoken. And they have said unequivocally that rock music is about sex. And they talk not only about the words, but the music itself is designed to excite you. Essentially. So I don't think music I'll come clean with that. You know the power of music. These piano players can change the way they play these pianos and create a mood in here that quick. They can lift us or they can lower us. Have you noticed that? I mean, sometimes they have me marching right there. Music, music is powerful, powerful! And it drives us on! You make no provision for the flesh. I guarantee you, you take young people and you lower the lights, you get the strobes going, and you blast that music in there, I mean deafening music, and then you get them together, I mean dancing, close. It's going to have effect upon them. You make no provision for the flesh. I've always said if I had trouble with alcohol, I'd drive around a block to avoid going by a store that sold it. If alcohol was my temptation, if I knew that was my temptation, I'd go to back roads from here home to avoid the places that sold it. You cannot make provision for the flesh. But I will say to you this in a practical sense. We talk about taking it serious and we talk about abstaining from the appearance of evil and making no provision for the flesh and things like that. But I want to warn you. Be aware of being stair-stepped into fornication. You won't leap into fornication. Probably nobody in this room... I mean, we were staggered, weren't we? Many years ago, when Jimmy Swagger was found with a prostitute, that staggered me. Honestly, I've gone to hear him preach. I mean, I heard him in person. When they said that they caught him, it staggered me. I never sent him any money, but uh... Leap into that. He got involved in money, that was one temptation. But it was a stair-step thing. Young lady, young man, listen to me. You're a virgin here tonight. I guarantee you, I can tell you, if you get an immorality, what's going to happen? You're not just going to go out tonight, overnight, and get involved in that. What you're going to do is form a relationship. It's going to get emotional. And you're going to be stair-stepped. You know how these relationships are. I mean, I go way back in my mind to think, I want to touch her hand and see what she does. First thing we know, we're holding hands. Now you maybe never were that bashful, but I'm telling you what, it took me a lot of nerve. It took a lot of nerve for me to reach over and touch somebody's hand. But say to another preacher, you're off there. Then you go to another step, and you say, well, she let me kiss her. And you take that step. And it's a stair step, and it's a gradual thing. It's a gradual thing. You don't move from the church pill to sexual immorality, to sexual immorality. It's like that. It's a stair step. That's the way it happens to you men, on your jobs, or in your neighborhood, or where. that somebody starts forming a relationship with you. Somewhere you begin to talk to somebody. Now, they ought to be subject to this often. Maybe you take someone to lunch. Say, I don't see any problem taking a lady to lunch. That's because you're not married to my wife. If you was married to my wife, you'd know better. My goodness. It'd be a ball bag. It'd be an old tie-in-the-sheet thing, you know how it is? Somebody goes to sleep, you tie them up in a sheet, you work them over. But that's how it goes. It's stair-steps, all I'm telling you, it's stair-steps. And there may be somebody, even tonight, under the sound of my voice. You're not at the top of the steps yet, but you're a lot closer. You've been stair-stepped toward it. It's a gradual thing. In a marriage relationship, the best thing is to keep that relationship right with your wife and your husband. Keep affection right. And I'm just talking about the sexual, I'm not talking about that. I'm telling where you love each other. And you know you love each other. David said, I'll set no wicked thing before mine eyes. Take that step. So I'm not going to look at that, but watch that. What you take in with your eyes is going to affect your life. Know the Word of God. The Bible says, Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way, taking heed thereto according to the gospel word. It all starts with taking this thing serious, friend. I can't believe you preach on some of the things you preach tonight. Watch it. We're living in a generation where a girl did what she did on the Super Bowl. Did you think it's time somebody stand up? It's time we said something about these things! We're in this revolution! I'm telling you, just this year, for the date, I'm telling you, two preachers we knew, two preachers, preachers I'm talking about, preachers! They're out of the ministry, never to return. Done! That happens across America, happens to preachers. In many churches, it's going on. We're not addressing it. This is what the Bible teaches. This is the passage. This is the New Testament passage. I'm not saying it's the only one, but I'm telling you, this is the New Testament passage that deals with maintaining sexual purity. And it starts with knowing the serious nature of it. And then it comes to deal with your marriage relationship. That's where it starts. So young people, I say to you, watch it. They'll go stair-step you. It's practical. Set no evil thing before your eyes. The devil seduces you. And it may be going on right now. Let me tell you, I'm done. I'm closing. I heard the tape just like you did. I'm not mean to sit here to tell you tonight that everybody in this room is facing temptation of bad people. I'm telling you there's good people. There's people that love their mama, love their daddy, love Jesus. The Bible says the enemy looks for the precious life. But good people succumbing to this thing. So we preach this tonight and may God help us. May we hear those words, God forbid. Can we do it? God forbid. That may be our mindset. No! Never! God forbid! We have that kind of mindset about sexual purity. Let's stand together.