All right, Shalom sisters, Most High Christ bless you all. I'm Sister Anna from the House of Bishop Yawza for North Carolina, Gastonia. So today's topic is going to be is battling lust within. So ask yourself, are you battling with lust? Do you know that lust is poison and it will bring you down to corrupt you?
All right, so I want to show two videos. First about Tyler Perry. I think we are.
Better off just keeping it professional. Well, you know we're way past that. I find myself very attracted to you. I find myself very married. A guy can dream, right?
I can't stop you from dreaming. What do you dream about? I don't really dream anymore.
What do you dream about? You? I'll call it three names that you can describe it, which is enticement, brainwash, and being stupid. So the first video with Tyler Perry, she's being enticed by this rich man who has a lot of money, and she falls into sin, right?
She falls in love with him, she's married, and she fornics Kate. But at the end of the day, she gets AIDS. So yes, he's HIV.
So she gets aid. Second video are the side chicks. So she's married to this. She's going out with this married man, knowing that he got kids and he's married.
She gets pregnant by him. Now, he don't even want her at all. So what she does? Now she goes through pain. She's going through stress.
She knows she's having his baby, but he don't even want her. I was not expecting you. Yo, you talking about your wife?
No. No, what are you talking about? Alexis, I ask you one more time.
Did you talk to her on this date? I don't, we, Jeremy. Yo, get your hands off me, man.
Jeremy, I- Did you talk to her, yes or no? Yes. Okay, and what did you say to her? She pulled up on me asking me, she pretended to be you first of all, I thought you were meeting me at work.
Alexis, have you lost your mind? What did I do wrong? What are you talking about? What did you do wrong?
Do you not realize that you a side chick? Huh? Side chicks stay on the sideline and shut they mouth, man.
Why are you talking to me? You're ruining my life right now. I'm sorry?
Ruining your life? Alexis, I was woken up in cold water to all my clothes being burnt in the backyard and you're just here having to tell me your life. You don't even want to be with her.
I helped you out. I did you a favor first of all. What did you say?
You just gotta find out anyways. What did you say? Who's on teller?
Not me and you! Jamie, that house? You know that's our house! What are you talking about? We love each other!
You don't even wanna be with her! You are delusional! Okay?
You crazy! You are supposed to stay on the sideline and keep your mouth shut. I can't believe you're talking to me like this right now.
You're nothing but a good time, Alexis. You was the time that I needed to take my mind off of Ernestine. And now you want to break your mouth? That's how you talk to me, Jeremy? This is how you start off a family, Jeremy?
I was sending money. We was never going to be a family. Really? And now that's definitely been. So now you want to say this after your wife doesn't want to be with you?
So what you going to do? She don't want you anymore? You going to go right after her? You going to chase after her?
Or you going to be here and be a father? I'm really trying not to spaz right now. I'm really trying not to be crazy right now.
The whole BFM is just a work out. Don't touch me. I don't care nothing about you. I don't care nothing about that baby.
If I don't see you ever again, I swear to God, I will be great. I would be great! I can't believe you're talking to me like this.
I can't believe you wanted my life like this. I didn't mean for her to find out like that. Do you think I meant for her to find out like that?
Look, you told her everything. You don't even know how she was talking to me. I should have ghosted you a long time ago.
And that's my problem. Ghosting me is insane. I'm not about to let you talk to me like that.
First of all, you wanted to be here. You wanted to be with me. When you were arguing with your wife, you were with me.
You do not want to be with her. Just because she don't want to meet you, all of a sudden you want to act like this? This is not the Jeremy that I know.
You're the biggest mistake I ever made in my whole life. I swear to God. Really, Jeremy? The biggest mistake. So what I'm telling you right now, I want you to delete all my information.
All right, don't contact me. Don't hit me up. Oh, the baby, I don't care about that baby.
I don't care nothing about that. Watch out. Jeremy, don't touch me.
Really? Don't touch me. Move.
Where are you going? I don't know. That's not gonna be a problem. You're gonna get home.
You're gonna be here at home. I don't know where I'm going. Jeremy, we can live here together.
What are you talking about? There's plenty of room for both of us. You don't even have to go.
Jeremy. Don't. Alexis. Keep your hands off of me. So I want to go into Proverbs 6 verse 25. Proverbs chapter 6 verse 25 lest not after her beauty in thine heart neither let her take thee with her eyelids.
Then you are a silly woman will fall in love for beauty and for wealth. They get charmed and they get they get they give in into lust. So if they give into lust it's going to be a painful trap. So at the beginning Lust feels very beautiful. You feel good about it.
But at the end of the day, you might get a disease. You might get pregnant. You might get killed. You get into a painful trap. And sisters don't even think about what they're going to get themselves into when they're lusting after other men.
I want to go into 2 Corinthians 10 verse 13. 2 Corinthians 10, verse 3. Yes. For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh. So Sister Luz, this is one of the biggest sins that people fight mentally and physically. It's a spiritual war where the adversary, the devil, and the demons are fighting you.
These thoughts in your mind will lead to wickedness and not to... And to disobey Christ. Right.
So therefore, sister, we need to guard your mind. Right. From these thoughts that could keep you away from Christ. So how you guard your mind.
Right. Is by spot. Studying, praying, applying.
Right. And fasting too. And reading your four chapters a day. So I want to define lust. Lust, a sudden, powerful, almost overwhelming desire of something you know is bad for you.
Okay, so the point in lust is a sudden and powerful desire, right? So a lustful spirit will creep in your mind slowly. So it starts very small, but at the end of the day, it will mess you up.
It will mess you up. You know, so the main job of lust is to keep you in sin. So do you know that lust alters your brain chemistry where your hormones can go delusional?
You become irrational, insane. You can start thinking crazy. Your personality changes and you become a complete mess.
So, sister, we need to take care of our bodies. So let's see what God says in First Corinthians six and 19. First Corinthians chapter six, verse 19. What? No, you 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.
God says here that we belong to him. So why are we messing our bodies up doing sinful and foolish things? Yes. God says that our body, we need to take care of our bodies, not to destroy. He gave these bodies to us for a reason, to take care of it.
So we have to start making bad choices and wickedness in the world. You know, we have to stop doing sinful stuff. Let's go to 1 John 2 verse 16. 1 John 2 verse 16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
So there's three sinful things of the flesh, which is lust of the flesh, which is physical, desires. and temptations. Number two, lust of the eyes, which is desires of the material possessions. And number three is the pride of life, which is arrogancy and self-centeredness. If you have all three of these, your stable mind has no self-control at all.
You have lost it. You're making excuses just to lust for other things. You're delusional.
You have no discipline at all. I want to go into the video that describes lust becomes your idol. Right.
So Paul said, I had not known. sin but by the law and he had not known lust except the law say thou shall not covet why because that's what lust is lust can be anything that you're dealing with ain't gotta be you watching porn lust can be uh some shoes or something your lust become what your idol that's what your lust become it could be your children sports sports is one of the biggest man i'm i'm I be at work, man. Brothers know the whole team.
They know the staff. They know the guy that hold the door, the ticket man. They know everybody that's on the team.
They know everybody that plays a part in the stadium. Okay? That thing becomes idolatry.
Following these, obsessed over players and stuff like that, those things become your idols, man. They become idolatry. So unless... Lust kills you physical and emotionally and mentally.
How it does that? It gives you stress. You cannot love or relate with others.
You can start making excuses for everything. It hurts you. You start seeing others through the eyes of lust.
Lust is a mental battle with yourself and it kills you, kills your confidence and joy. I want to show this video. with describes what's the difference between lust and love. Do you know the difference between lust and love?
And this is an important difference to understand and to know because not all of us are in love with somebody, we're just lusting after them. Well, for one, the big and primary difference between lust and love is that love is selfless while lust is selfish. Love is always going to look towards the betterment and the well-being of the other person while lust is always going to focus on yourself.
Lust as well deals with satisfying the temporary desires of the flesh. While love has to actually deal with wanting intimacy with somebody. When you're lusting after somebody, you don't really want to be intimate.
You just want to get your fun and that's it. Lust is based purely on outward appearance while love is more focused on the inner character. Lust is also fickle and quickly switches between a variety of people while love is enduring, very patient, and is focused on one. So if you find yourself being in a relationship or wanting a relationship and you want to know the difference on whether or not you're lusting or loving somebody, keep these things in mind. And if it's lust, don't go after it.
It's just going to lead you into sexual immorality. Let's go into 1 Peter 4 verse 12. 1 Peter 4 verse 12. Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial, which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you. So sister, we're going to go through the fiery trials. There's a lot of tribulation we have to go through. But God uses our fiery trials to test us.
So our genuine character of faith is our test. through your through our trials so be mindful sisters christ is watching us and all the books are open he's gonna watch us he want to know what sister anna is doing what sister tomorrow is doing all right so you have to be careful and be in pay attention and focus and stay faithful of what choices you're gonna make don't let lust mess you up i want to show this video which indicates about uh lust you which is a sin and God's ways is is of getting is getting your attention through his laws so we must take heed of these scriptures sisters we have to take heed of these scriptures this is the book of proverbs chapter 5 and verse 21 for the ways of man are before the eyes of the lord and he pondereth all his goals so God knows what your lusts are when he tries you it's to try to show you your lust He doesn't throw and say, let me tempt this brother with a spirit of being a whoremonger. Let me tempt this brother with some crack.
That's not what he does. He knows what you're dealing with. This is why David, I always mention this, he says it in Psalms. He says, search me out and find out any wrong way in me.
You've got to open yourself up to that. And how does he do that? By your steps. You know, we talk about man's goings of the Lord and we and we do that to say, oh, you know, this is what God wanted. And and that's true.
He's going to order your steps as such. But along that path, there are trials there so that you can purge things out of you. On the other hand, if we let lust overtake our spirit and mind, this will happen.
I got three videos to show a few pictures. The first one is the devil, the lust of a spirit. So the devil would take you and this is how you become when the spirit takes you.
The other one is a picture of the sperm counts. How many men you have half slept with? Your value as a woman goes down to zero.
Because it counts how many men you have had. The other one is you've been drift by social media. So you will get enticed, brainwashed through TV, social media, by music, fashion. We get destroyed just by social media.
Everybody's on Tic Tac. Everybody's on Netflix. All these strange movies, you know.
We all messed up, you know. And the other. The other video is about how some of the sisters go into masturbations, you know, watching porn, you know. That really ruins you mentally, you know, because your thoughts become actions later on.
You keep watching porn and porn and porn, that's going to become an action later on, you know. So you have to be careful sisters those who are battling with lust keep watching this So a lot of people don't like to talk about like masturbation and porn and it's because it's like a personal thing with what? They be doing behind closed doors, right? But it's still very much real that a lot of people are doing and that a lot of people are struggling with So soon as you even get a lustful thought of doing something Immediately cast off that thought and say I rebuke and cast off the spirit of lust right now in jesus name because this is how it goes Soon as we get the thought, we sow a feeling.
And when you get that feeling, that feeling becomes an action. But that action will become a habit. And that habit will be turned into where we will be going. So as soon as that thought comes, you need to rebuke it and then go into prayer.
Sit in God's presence and then tell him, you know, God, I'm going through this, but deliver me from this temptation. Deliver me from evil so I won't fall into it. And thank you for doing it. Thank him because there's no temptation that's too great to overcome.
But after you go into prayer, you need to get in your word. Sit down in the presence of God and hear what God is saying. You need to distract your mind because the devil will continue to try to put in your mind.
I promise you, if you submit to God, the devil will flee. Let's go into Matthew 26, verse 41. Matthew chapter 26, verse 41. Watch and pray that ye enter not into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.
So it talks about the flesh and the spirit. So the flesh is weak. and the spirit is always willing. So the flesh will give into those temptations and desires, even when it might not be the best choice. So the spirit is our mind and soul and the flesh is the moral and physical body where it will depress the desires, addictions, compulsions to oneself.
So sisters, how are you feeling? Are you feeling weak? We can give into it. We must be vigilant and pray that we won't fall. Of course, we're going to fall seven times, you know, into these temptations, you know.
But at the eighth time, we have to get up. We have to fight the good fight. Yes, battling with lust, you will lose your confidence.
You might become anxious. You might be depressed. You might be irritated, moody, lose motivation, lose your self-control.
And living even a fantasy life because lessing after other things, that's a fantasy life. That's not real, you know. So beware of things like that.
Let's go into Romans 12 and 2, what God says. Romans 12, verse 2. And be not conformed to this world, but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect world. will of God.
So we must not Follow the things of the world. God is a jealous God, and we need to pick God or you pick the world. Which one? You can't have both, right? So we must pray and have some kind of self-control, discipline, and give everything to God.
Whatever you're going through, give it to God. He'll take care of it. Don't stress it.
We must seek God first, get close to God, and especially run from sin, run from these temptations. You have to run and resist the devil. Let's go into James 4 and 7. James 4, verse 7. Submit yourselves, therefore, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
Sister, we must submit ourselves to Christ and resist the devil temptations. If we follow what God says, Evil will subside from your life. So the more you read your chapters, the more you pray, the more you study, the more you fast. Eventually, slowly, you know, this evil is going to go away from you, you know. So evil will be there all the time.
It all depends how you're going to take it. How are you going to choose it? You know, why are you going to decide? Are you going to decide to go into those sinful thoughts, those sinful acts, or are you going to follow Christ?
So therefore, you need to do is to acknowledge God first, fight these temptations, and resist the devil. And then if you have problem with these things, Call a friend. Communicate.
Call a sister. That time that you acknowledge that you're lusting for something and you think you want to act upon it, call a sister. Just take a phone call.
Just call a sister. So I want to show you these videos. It will show you how to look, how lust look like and how you're going to overcome it.
So the spirit of lust is going to work on your mind. So I want to show three videos, which is just how. Temptation becomes your friends.
How? The spirit overtake you and how you're going to overcome temptations. Hey man, you look like you're bored. Here he go. What's with the attitude?
We used to be best friends. Yeah, used to, as in not anymore. Come on, don't be like that. Let me help solve your problem. Only problem I got right now is you, so bounce.
Come on, man, don't do me like that. We had a lot of good times in the late nights. You had a good time.
I was confused. And it's 3 p.m., you freak, go away. We can watch your favorite stars in HD. Yeah, I'm calling God. Whoa, whoa, get your filthy hands off me.
All right, all right, I backed up, but listen, you don't want to do that, man. Come on, I'm just playing. I'm not trying to play with you, with your bored self.
I already called him anyway. I didn't hear you call his name. Yeah, because he can read my mind. Ding dong.
I don't know. I don't think he heard you this time. I heard him. Bounce. He already said no.
Yes, get that him. You're not cool anymore anyway. Dang, man. Is he ever going to stay gone? He'll try to tempt you every now and then, but you change your ways.
It doesn't look like he feeds you anymore. He doesn't. I'm a new man. I'm locked in with you. Okay.
My man. Now that's how you repent. Okay. Listen, man. What's the holdup, man?
Hurry up. Let's go. You know what, guys?
I'm not sure if I should be doing this. Man, what you afraid of? Listen. All we doing?
We're just gonna go over there, we're chillin', watchin' a movie, you ain't doin' nothin' wrong. You know what, you're right, you're right. We're just goin' over there, we're gonna watch a movie, we're gonna chill, nothin' crazy.
Oh no, yeah, yeah, yeah, just movies, movies. We just chillin', you know what I'm sayin'? Exactly, now put that key in that ignition, then let's go. Yeah, you're right, okay, okay. All right, so where we goin'?
Ooh, here he go. We're goin' on a sneaky link. Woo-hoo-hoo! Bless you, you disappoint me on so many levels. No, okay, sneaky link, huh?
Oh, okay, okay, listen, Holy Spirit, I know what it looks like. I promise you, I'm just goin'. She's going over her house and we're gonna watch a movie. That's it. Yeah, son, I'm gonna tell you right now.
You go over there, it's not gonna be just a movie. What'd you mean? My boy, you're gonna fold as soon as you get over there.
Well, how do you know? Because she fresh out the shower with that cocoa butter lotion on. Wait, hold on. Cocoa butter? You would've folded that fast?
Yep. Yeah. Would've happened in a matter of seconds.
Cocoa butter? It's just a wonderful smell. She smells so good. Would've folded like a paper airplane. That's bad, man.
All right, okay, okay. So what do you want me to do? Listen, son, I've talked to you about this.
The reason why I separated you from everything is because I'm trying to protect you. Protect me from what? From going down a path that's not meant for you. I don't want you dwelling in these kind of things because I don't want you living in the dark.
I don't want you giving pieces of yourself away like this. What if I really like this girl? And that's okay. But that means that y'all should be keeping God at the centerpiece of the relationship.
God values those things in marriage. But you gotta be patient and we gotta build to that. Y'all should be keeping close to the things that he values.
Y'all should be leading each other closer to him. I don't want you going down that dark road again. I don't want you going through that kind of pain and hurt anymore.
I don't want you to lose yourself dwelling in lust. I don't want to lose you to sexual pleasures. That's why I need you to stay connected with me.
I've got plans to prosper you. I've got plans to give you a hope and a future. Don't settle for this temporary pleasure because I want to give you eternal joy.
I want to give you eternal joy in Christ. Okay? You feel me?
Okay. Yeah. You're right. Appreciate you, Holy Spirit.
Okay. No doubt. Now let's go get something to eat, man. I'm starving.
Now for real, on the way Chick-fil-A! So we not going over there? Okay.
That's what it looks like in the spiritual realm when you overcome temptation. Watch this. Just one more time. Come on, Josh.
One more time wouldn't hurt. You can always try again tomorrow. For it is written, I am not controlled by my sinful nature. I am controlled by the Spirit.
You're right, but this kind of thing takes time. You can't just go cold. For it is written, I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. They're just words, Josh.
For it is written, all scripture is given by inspiration of God. You're not Jesus. He was perfect.
He could resist, but you're just a human. You don't have the power. It is written, the same power that raised Jesus from the dead lives inside of me. You've heard this before, Josh. Let's be real.
It is written, no temptation has overtaken me. The righteous fall seven times and rise again. Come on, man.
God understands your struggle. After this, just repent and get back up. Submit yourselves. What are you doing?
Fear for the God. You'll never be free from this. Resist the devil. You are the one.
I dare you. Need to be real. Amen.
Alrighty, so to finish the class, I want to go into this last topic, this last scripture, which is James. 1 verse 12. James chapter 1 verse 12. Blessed is the man that endureth temptation, for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him. All right, so we want to have the crown of life.
We want to get into the kingdom, right? So we have to preserve ourselves through our trials by keeping faith. We have to be faithful. If we want to have the kingdom and be blessed and get the blessings from the most high, we must endure these temptations without giving up.
So we have to stay focused, sisters. We have to stay faithful. We have to be in the spirit. And I say arise, O daughter of Zion, and repent. So the last video is from Captain Amaziah from Atlanta.
which he talks about repent. Shalom Israel, most high in Christ. Blessed is the captain Amaziah. I'm in IUIC DC.
I got one scripture for you. Okay. Galatians chapter five, verse 17 shows us that the flesh is going to fight against the spirit. spirit when you repent. You understand?
It's a battle within. When you come to this truth, you're going to be fighting yourself. Your worldly self is going to be fighting against your spiritual self.
The flesh versus the spirit. Which one are you going to let win? Most High in Christ, bless.
So today's topic is going to be about chastity, all right? So before I start talking about charity, I want to talk about, I want to show a video on Brian Cumlin, who's talking about chastity and how important it is to hold to sex, on sex, until you get married. Promoting total abstinence. Total abstinence, yeah. How practical a message is that for today's young kids?
It's very practical because I think the stereotype is that everybody's out there doing it. you know that the image is because sex so sort of speak i guess would say it sells you know because of in the media from print to whatever it gives you the impression that everyone's doing it so it's encouraging i think the young people that this is just a normal way of acting a normal behavior but not everyone's really doing it there's people out there there's a lot of young people that are really trying to withstand Maybe they haven't been sexually pure their whole life, but a lot of them are trying to change their mind and say, I don't want to give in to that peer pressure. I can make a decision on my own. But what do you tell kids who don't have much and say, hey, why shouldn't I enjoy my own sexuality? It's one of the few things I have access to.
Well, because it is that. It's something very precious. It's something that's very, I think it's the most highest valuable gift that a person can have is their own body.
And that's really how I look at it personally, is that, you know, you need to take care of your body, take care of yourself. and not just give it around or pass it around like butter out of the table or anything of that nature. When you tell kids that, what do they say? Well, some of them are saying, well, you know, I understand what you're saying, but it's hard. You know, I mean, my friends are telling me this.
My boyfriend is telling me that. I'm getting pressured here and there. You know, but I say, hey, if I can sort of abstain from being a for nine years and not practicing sex, then I say it's probably a little bit easier for you than me.
You practice what you preach. You've abstained totally. Yes, I have. You don't think that odd? Um, and today by the norm, yeah, of course, I think it is because most people and the stereotype athletes especially are in general promoting otherwise, you know, hey, have fun, you only live for so long, going out there and, you know, make as many babies as you can it seems like.
And that's not only from athletes, but it's from just men in general. We're not talking about having, we're not talking about making babies, we're talking about having sex here. I mean, it is, it is a part of life's experience. You don't think you've missed anything in life as a result?
No. No, I don't. I don't think I missed anything.
I mean, if you look at the potentials, you know, out there, or what I could have missed, you know, maybe the lady I was probably with, probably maybe being pregnant, you know, maybe some particular sexually transmitted disease, just a question in my mind, you know, or just really emotionally giving myself to somebody that I know I'm not going to be with for the rest of my life. I don't think I missed out on anything. I think it's worth the wait. How hard has it been to abstain?
Hey, see, I mean, we've all heard, you know, Will Chamberlain's claim that he slept with 20,000 women and Magic Johnson, women by the thousands. Basketball players live in life's fast lane. There are a lot of young ladies and a lot of road stops. How hard is it? How hard is it?
It really just depends on the individual. You know, if your appetite is great, then, you know, it's going to be as hard, it's going to be hard as you name it. But for me, for someone who's really not looking for that, it's pretty easy. I mean it's very easy, but it's pretty easy because I'm not really out there I'm not trying to get close to the fire because if I do I probably will get burned because I'm not a superhuman being I'm someone that can fall I can slip I can't stumble and definitely make mistakes.
What are your teammates? What are the other NBA players? I can only imagine Well, there are those that will say man you are crazy. You know you're crazy what you're saying It's just you know you're out of this world.
It's very unrealistic for yourself as being an NBA player as well as what you're trying to tell the other young people. They're going to do it. But then there are those that really try and encourage and say, hey, all these other things. They're saying they must not be working because you look at what's happening with the single parents.
You know, you look at as far as even the children as babies having babies. Hey, we got to give them another message out there. So I applaud what you're trying to do. All right.
So chastity is a pure and beauty to our souls and grace into our bodies and peace to our desires. So let's go into the definitions. All right. Chastity, the state or practice of refraining from extramarital.
or especially from all sexual intercourse. Let's go and see the word restraining, which is keeping yourself under control, which means controlling your actions. So let's look at the key words, virginity, self-denial, purity, absences, modesty, and goodness.
So charity is a pure word and action where you recognize your body to be. a temple of the Holy Spirit. So Christ says marriage is honorable. I want to go into Ephesians 5 verse 3. Ephesians 5 verse 3, but fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it be not once named among you as becoming saints.
So Christ says that we should not or talk or engage in any of sexual immorality, impurity, or unrighteousness behavior. Impurity refers to uncleanness and being defiled. In other words, living an unholy life.
Therefore, the world will brainwash you, will try to make it seem like it's all good out there. They will entice you. But we must learn to hold on all sexual desires. So how we avoid these things like, you know, uncleanness? We have to stay away from sex before marriage.
We have to hold on our sexual desires and temptation and we have to be pure and golly. So Christ do not tolerate any unrighteous acts and Christ expects us to handle our body respectfully and to love ourselves. So.
Beauty is a flower of charity, which means that charity is a beautiful brochure that can be practiced in positive ways. How? By treating yourself with dignity and worth, by being responsible, by living a pure life and having value and purpose, by being disciplined, faithful, and resisting the devil.
Let's go into 1 Thessalonians. 4 and 7. 1 Thessalonians 4, 7. For God has called us uncleanness, but unto holiness. Okay.
So we are obligated to avoid any sexual immorality by controlling our own bodies. Christ created marriage to be perfect. Therefore, as daughters of Sarah, we must strive to be holy.
and follow these commandments. Let's go into, I want to show a post that says the difference between three words, which are chastity, absentee, and celebrity. All right. So chastity is controlling your thoughts, words, actions, and honoring God's covenant.
Absentee is a sexual purity, having self-respect, and choosing not to have sex. Celebrity is deciding to be unmarried and abstaining from sex. So all of these words that mean the same is just have different definition, but they all mean the same. It means that when you need to refuse, restrain, pull back and avoid to say no, no to sex. All right.
Before until you get married. So marriage is honorable. I want to show this video which says about embracing absenteeism.
Your virginity is the most significant gift you can give your husband. It shows discipline, self-respect, self-control, and self-worth. Virginity is not childish.
Don't let the world push you. Don't feel pressured. Wait until you are ready.
Choosing to have intercourse for the first time is a big personal decision. People think about many different reasons to hold on to their virginity. Religious, spiritual, and moral beliefs, family, personal values, desires, love, and relationships.
Whatever your reason is, it is essential to wait until you are ready. Let's go into Proverbs 4 verse 23. Proverbs 4 and 23. Keep thy heart with all diligence. for out of it are issues of life right so christ says we must be aware of what enters your heart and be mindful of our thoughts and actions we must look ahead be self-disciplined guard your hearts make righteous decision and choose a good path 26 41 41 watch and pray that ye enter not into temptation.
The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak. Sister, we know that flesh is weak, so we have to study, pray, and apply and fast because you're going to have temptations out there. Man will entice you.
You're going to be lusting for other things, and we have to pray and ask the Most High to help you. If you like, if anything. Seek the most high first. And you have plenty of sisters that can help you.
Call up a friend if you are thinking about these thoughts, evil thoughts, and you are tempted to do something. Pick up that phone and call that sister. Don't be ashamed.
You have to confess your faults, right? So we have to pray and fast for these temptations and evil thoughts to go away from our minds. All right? As daughters of Sarah, we must have started.
acting like like like it but we we must gain a better understanding of god's words we must treasure his commandments and apply all the scriptures not only one all the scriptures and they have to we have to apply it daily the most important thing is the application right the application is the most important so god's word will strengthen us if we are weak he will give us the strength to push forward, to move forward. So we have to resist the devil. We have to resist this lawful, the lustful temptation, the desirable temptation, and we must take heed of these scriptures daily. I want to show the post that Bishop Nathaniel says, legs closed, Bible open. So choose it, absences.
is a must. Let's talk about the reasons why. I got seven reasons why. You won't get transmitted disease.
You avoid pregnancies. You allow time to focus on yourself and on the most high. You learn how to grow.
You learn how to have self-control. You avoid to sin and you strive to live a pure, honest life. And you avoid regrets, guilt. and a broken heart so stay away from these lawful sins sisters so this video one i wish i want to show is is a girl about in the world and she's she's telling us about how foolish she was to lay out to lay down with this man so the the video is called that girl christ i just wish i would have never gave my body away to men who were never going to marry me like no it was never going to It was never going to be you.
The enemy will always send distractions your way when you don't know yourself. And when you have that scar of rejection or maybe you didn't have a father figure in your life and you yearn for male attention or male validation or just wanting to be loved by a man, the enemy will use that. against you the enemy will send a man to terrorize you not all men are the same and if you believe that i want you to pray about that because that's how the enemy wants you to keep you stuck and make you believe that you will never find a good man or a good man will never find you and that's a lie that's not how we were supposed to be raised figuring life out like we are always supposed to have a standard for every aspect of our lives so when you don't have a standard you'll fall for anything all right so this girl Goes out with this man. She lays with a man. He uses her.
So she explains how dumb she was in the world. And she explains how important it is to stay pure and not to give up your body just like that. I want to go into 1 Peter 5 verse 8. 1 Peter 5 verse 8. Be sober, be vigilant, because your adversary, the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about seeking whom he may devour.
So sisters, beware, be serious, keep your eyes open. because the world in the world you're going to get challenges you're going to get hard trials you're going to get strongholds and be ready if you're weak these going to destroy you the devil will destroy you so we must have the commandments in our minds in our heart right because the devil will overtake you it will overtake your body and soul so So keep your eyes open, your legs close, Bible open. So before I show this video, so do you know that Christ is giving us mercy for us to get right? Right. So back in the day, 1700, 1900, they had these charity belts.
So let's show this video. And while you think about it. All right. Infidelity was prevented in the Middle Ages. At that time, relationships were extremely patriarchal and distrustful.
To ensure that their wives wouldn't cheat on them while they were away in battles, husbands resorted to an iron chastity belt with a lock for which only they held the key. This belt had only two small holes for basic needs and didn't allow anything to enter. Upon their return, the husbands would inspect the belt, and only then would they release their wives.
If the belt appeared to have been tampered with, the woman faced severe punishments, which could range from beatings to execution. It was a brutal method of control and oppression. So sisters, as you saw this video, you better fix your face and get yourself right.
Because imagine wearing these belts back in the days. We wouldn't even survive nowadays. So sisters, fix your face and get yourself right. And because we all have to give an account to Christ, right?
So choose your actions and get your minds right. So let's embrace absences. Have self-control. Have self-worth. Don't feel pressure by others.
Wait until you get married and hold to your gift. That's your superpower. Hold to it. You don't have to give up your flower.
I want to show this video that says how you can practice absences. You know what's on the other side of not having sex? Peace.
Peace of mind and knowing that you're not going to catch a disease, you're not going to get pregnant, you're not going to potentially die by risking your entire life to bring someone else's seed into the world. And these are the conversations that we need to be having with our daughters. We need to be talking to them about what is really going on in the world.
Empower them to know their worth, to know their value, Anytime that you decide to lay up with another individual, you are altering your DNA. You are exchanging fluids. You are energetically agreeing to potentially make this person the father of your child.
And why would you risk all that, potentially risking death, for someone that is not committed to you, for someone that has not invested into you? It's not worth it. It's time to close it up, ladies.
And only... Really open yourself up to people that have proven to you that they are worthy. Let's go.
My last scripture would be Sirach 26 and 19. Sirach Ecclesiasticus 26 and 19. My son, keep the flower of thine age sound and give not thy strength to strangers. Sister, we need, Christ says we better preserve our bodies. And don't waste your energy on sinful relationship or lustful or ungodly activity that can harm you in the future.
Respect your body. Respect yourself. Because you're worth it. So sister, never, never question what Christ got for you.
Pray, study, pray, apply, fast. Trust in the process and don't settle for less. So remember, be mindful.
Marriage is an honorable. Respect yourself and your body. Be obedient. Stay in the spirit always.
And be a better version of yourself. So I want to close this video, this class by showing this video. All right.
I'll say shalom. Bless you all. And this video talks about three things to be obedient. Good night.
Thank you for having me. You made the decision to be abstinent. I did this a while ago, long back in the day. And, you know, I was like, I'm living right for God because I'm done with y'all. I'm done and I just I don't want to be with nobody else unless it's my husband and plus I wanted to live right and I wanted to do what was right because I was getting closer to God and I didn't want anything you know get me off track and you know just living that life of sin and I didn't want to do that no more so if you made that decision too I just want to tell you three things that you just need to do on this journey okay number one you need to go ahead and repent because we turn from our wicked ways we we don't want to be the same so number one you need to repent okay number two you need to destroy all those ungodly soul ties because when you think about all them people you was weak i don't know if you was with a lot of people or not you know like you get connected you're connected to that person if you're reading the bible and when you read the bible and it'd be like somebody's living somebody don't say it like they say they knew them you it's it's a connection there it's you need to destroy it so destroy all those and like ungodly soul ties and get rid of anything that person has given you that's not your husband period and number three most importantly though this is very important you should be building your relationship with god because you want to make him proud you want to make him happy you know your goal is to live to please god and to deny your flesh and to live this life you have to deny your flesh every day so you need to be building up your relationship with god you know because this is what's going to keep you right you Oh, and I'm adding this.
It makes it four. But yeah, I'm adding this. You need to be intentional. Like, you have to discipline yourself.
You have to cut off communication with people. You have to delete their numbers out of your phone. And you cannot be listening to Chris Brown taking down. Because you want to stay right.
If you listen to that, you're going to be giving them a call. No, ma'am. No, ma'am. No, ma'am.
Okay. Change your playlist. You need a new playlist.
No more R&B. None of that. Okay. all right that's it