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Now, 28 00:01:24,680 --> 00:01:28,040 Speaker 4: God bless you. It's a joy to come into your homes. 29 00:01:28,200 --> 00:01:31,080 Speaker 4: We love you. If you're ever in our area, please 30 00:01:31,080 --> 00:01:33,560 Speaker 4: stop by and be a part of one of our services. 31 00:01:33,760 --> 00:01:36,200 Speaker 3: I promise you we'll make you feel right at home. 32 00:01:36,440 --> 00:01:38,680 Speaker 4: But thanks so much for tuning in, and thank you 33 00:01:38,720 --> 00:01:41,160 Speaker 4: again for coming out today. And I'd like to start 34 00:01:41,200 --> 00:01:44,160 Speaker 4: with something funny. And I heard about this wealthy man. 35 00:01:44,520 --> 00:01:46,280 Speaker 3: He was known for being eccentric. 36 00:01:46,480 --> 00:01:48,800 Speaker 4: He's having a big party at his house and in 37 00:01:48,880 --> 00:01:52,520 Speaker 4: his backyard he had a huge pool filled with alligators 38 00:01:52,560 --> 00:01:55,800 Speaker 4: and sharks. He said to the guests, anyone that'll swim 39 00:01:55,840 --> 00:01:59,000 Speaker 4: across my pool, I'll give you anything you want. In 40 00:01:59,040 --> 00:02:01,560 Speaker 4: a few minutes, there was a splash and a man 41 00:02:01,680 --> 00:02:05,320 Speaker 4: was in there going ninety to nothing, dodging alligators, maneuvering 42 00:02:05,360 --> 00:02:06,240 Speaker 4: around the sharks. 43 00:02:06,440 --> 00:02:08,120 Speaker 3: He made it to the other side, just in the 44 00:02:08,200 --> 00:02:08,600 Speaker 3: nick of. 45 00:02:08,600 --> 00:02:11,680 Speaker 4: Time and God out as frantic as convened. The wealthy 46 00:02:11,760 --> 00:02:14,320 Speaker 4: man said, I can't believe it. You're the bravest person 47 00:02:14,360 --> 00:02:16,519 Speaker 4: I've ever met. Now, what is it that you would want? 48 00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:19,240 Speaker 4: The man said, what I want more than anything else 49 00:02:19,520 --> 00:02:21,440 Speaker 4: is the name of the person that pushed me in. 50 00:02:23,680 --> 00:02:26,400 Speaker 4: Hold up your bibles and say it like you mean it. 51 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:29,720 Speaker 4: This is my Bible. I am what it says I am. 52 00:02:30,200 --> 00:02:32,520 Speaker 4: I have what it says I have. I can do 53 00:02:32,600 --> 00:02:35,040 Speaker 4: what it says I can do. Today I will be 54 00:02:35,120 --> 00:02:38,880 Speaker 4: taught the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind 55 00:02:39,000 --> 00:02:42,200 Speaker 4: is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be 56 00:02:42,280 --> 00:02:46,880 Speaker 4: the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want 57 00:02:46,919 --> 00:02:50,360 Speaker 4: to talk to you today about being selective with what 58 00:02:50,520 --> 00:02:51,560 Speaker 4: you feed yourself. 59 00:02:52,440 --> 00:02:55,600 Speaker 3: Our ears and our eyes are the gates to our soul. 60 00:02:56,400 --> 00:02:58,399 Speaker 3: What we watch, what we listen. 61 00:02:58,240 --> 00:03:02,799 Speaker 4: To, who we associate with that's constantly feeding us. You've 62 00:03:02,840 --> 00:03:06,120 Speaker 4: heard the saying you are what you eat. If you 63 00:03:06,160 --> 00:03:10,079 Speaker 4: eat junk food all the time, twinkies, SODA's, candy bars, 64 00:03:10,160 --> 00:03:13,240 Speaker 4: you're not going to be very healthy. Why you're feeding 65 00:03:13,280 --> 00:03:17,399 Speaker 4: yourself the wrong things In the same way, if you're 66 00:03:17,440 --> 00:03:20,920 Speaker 4: watching things that are unwholesome, listening to things that are 67 00:03:21,000 --> 00:03:25,239 Speaker 4: dragging you down, hanging around people that gossip. Then, because 68 00:03:25,280 --> 00:03:28,560 Speaker 4: you're feeding your inner man junk food, you're not going 69 00:03:28,600 --> 00:03:31,240 Speaker 4: to be as strong and become all that God's created 70 00:03:31,280 --> 00:03:35,080 Speaker 4: you to be. You have to be extremely careful as 71 00:03:35,080 --> 00:03:38,800 Speaker 4: to what you take in. Today, more than ever, we 72 00:03:38,920 --> 00:03:42,600 Speaker 4: have opportunity to feed on wrong things. There are over 73 00:03:42,640 --> 00:03:48,720 Speaker 4: five hundred channels on television, We have the Internet, smartphones, magazines, billboards. 74 00:03:48,920 --> 00:03:53,040 Speaker 4: Every place we turn there's information trying to influence us. 75 00:03:53,640 --> 00:03:57,120 Speaker 4: It's not all bad, there's nothing wrong with being entertained, 76 00:03:57,520 --> 00:04:00,920 Speaker 4: but you have to stay on guard. With the good, 77 00:04:01,240 --> 00:04:05,920 Speaker 4: wholesome entertainment comes a bunch of trash programs now have 78 00:04:06,040 --> 00:04:09,640 Speaker 4: people airing out their dirty laundry, showing you all the conflict, 79 00:04:09,760 --> 00:04:14,640 Speaker 4: the backstabbing, the jealousy, the dysfunction. With so many outlets, 80 00:04:15,040 --> 00:04:18,839 Speaker 4: the shock value keeps getting turned up higher and higher. 81 00:04:19,680 --> 00:04:22,960 Speaker 4: What we thought was far out and bizarre twenty years 82 00:04:23,000 --> 00:04:24,480 Speaker 4: ago is no big deal now. 83 00:04:24,920 --> 00:04:27,960 Speaker 3: It's just totally normal, that shock value. 84 00:04:28,200 --> 00:04:31,280 Speaker 4: Yes it can get your attention, Yes it can be 85 00:04:31,480 --> 00:04:34,960 Speaker 4: entertaining in a sense, but it's also filling your mind 86 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:39,120 Speaker 4: with trash. It's also poisoning your spirit. If you put 87 00:04:39,200 --> 00:04:42,840 Speaker 4: trash in, you're going to get trash out. If you're 88 00:04:42,880 --> 00:04:49,320 Speaker 4: watching programs where people are constantly compromising, being unfaithful in relationships, 89 00:04:49,520 --> 00:04:52,839 Speaker 4: don't be surprised if you find yourself in that situation. 90 00:04:53,720 --> 00:04:57,719 Speaker 4: If you're watching people being dishonest, stabbing people in the back, 91 00:04:58,080 --> 00:05:01,640 Speaker 4: doing whatever they can to get ahead, that's all going 92 00:05:01,720 --> 00:05:06,159 Speaker 4: into your subconscious mind. Little by little is becoming more 93 00:05:06,279 --> 00:05:11,240 Speaker 4: and more acceptable. What's happening is it's desensitizing you. The 94 00:05:11,320 --> 00:05:15,039 Speaker 4: shock value is wearing off. Before long, you may think, hey, 95 00:05:15,160 --> 00:05:18,680 Speaker 4: that's really no big deal. A few years ago, a 96 00:05:18,720 --> 00:05:21,680 Speaker 4: young man walked into his high school and shot and 97 00:05:21,839 --> 00:05:25,920 Speaker 4: killed three of his classmates. He was a model student, 98 00:05:26,480 --> 00:05:29,679 Speaker 4: had no history of violence, from a well to do family. 99 00:05:30,160 --> 00:05:33,359 Speaker 4: The authorities were puzzled. They asked him, how could you 100 00:05:33,480 --> 00:05:36,760 Speaker 4: kill so easily? He said, it's no big deal. I 101 00:05:36,880 --> 00:05:40,280 Speaker 4: kill every day. He was talking about the video games 102 00:05:40,320 --> 00:05:43,800 Speaker 4: he had been playing for years. He had become desensitized 103 00:05:43,800 --> 00:05:46,880 Speaker 4: to killing. He'd watched it on the screen happen so 104 00:05:47,040 --> 00:05:49,880 Speaker 4: long that the line between make believe and. 105 00:05:49,920 --> 00:05:51,640 Speaker 3: Reality had become blurred. 106 00:05:52,200 --> 00:05:55,880 Speaker 4: The scripture says don't give the enemy a foothold. 107 00:05:56,400 --> 00:05:59,320 Speaker 3: Notice he can't take it. We have to open the door. 108 00:06:00,040 --> 00:06:02,800 Speaker 4: One of the biggest doors we open is through our 109 00:06:02,880 --> 00:06:08,560 Speaker 4: eyes watching things that are unwholesome. Proverbs fifteen says only 110 00:06:08,640 --> 00:06:12,600 Speaker 4: a fool feeds on trash. Friends, You're going to become 111 00:06:12,880 --> 00:06:17,039 Speaker 4: what you eat. Take inventory of what you're feeding yourself. 112 00:06:17,600 --> 00:06:20,479 Speaker 4: What are you watching, what are you listening to? What 113 00:06:20,640 --> 00:06:24,559 Speaker 4: kind of values is that portraying? Is it building you up? 114 00:06:25,120 --> 00:06:26,040 Speaker 3: Is it wholesome? 115 00:06:26,440 --> 00:06:31,239 Speaker 4: Inspiring you to be better? If not, make the necessary changes, 116 00:06:31,440 --> 00:06:35,039 Speaker 4: don't feed on trash. When you watch something on television, 117 00:06:35,080 --> 00:06:38,039 Speaker 4: you watch a movie, it's just like you're inviting those 118 00:06:38,080 --> 00:06:41,880 Speaker 4: people into your house. You need to ask yourself, do 119 00:06:41,920 --> 00:06:44,600 Speaker 4: I want them in my home? Do I want to 120 00:06:44,640 --> 00:06:47,160 Speaker 4: hear all their secrets? Do I want to see all 121 00:06:47,200 --> 00:06:51,240 Speaker 4: their dirty laundry? Some of what's on TV today is 122 00:06:51,279 --> 00:06:55,919 Speaker 4: to appeal to the lowest common denominator. People fighting with 123 00:06:56,040 --> 00:06:59,640 Speaker 4: family members, all kinds of bizarre situations. It's kind of 124 00:06:59,720 --> 00:07:02,160 Speaker 4: like a wreck out on the freeway where everybody wants 125 00:07:02,200 --> 00:07:03,760 Speaker 4: to stop and just see what happened. 126 00:07:04,160 --> 00:07:06,560 Speaker 3: That bar keeps getting set lower and lower. 127 00:07:07,480 --> 00:07:11,800 Speaker 4: Do yourself a favor, stay far away from that, no 128 00:07:11,800 --> 00:07:14,840 Speaker 4: matter how off the wall it gets. I was at 129 00:07:14,840 --> 00:07:17,600 Speaker 4: a grocery store a few months ago, at the checkout 130 00:07:17,640 --> 00:07:21,120 Speaker 4: line and one of the magazine headlines read two headed 131 00:07:21,200 --> 00:07:24,800 Speaker 4: men in a love triangle with an alien from. 132 00:07:24,640 --> 00:07:25,440 Speaker 3: Out of space. 133 00:07:25,680 --> 00:07:30,040 Speaker 4: Details Inside, I thought, no thanks, I am not a 134 00:07:30,040 --> 00:07:33,360 Speaker 4: garbage can. I'm not going to fill my mind with poison. 135 00:07:33,720 --> 00:07:37,040 Speaker 4: Only a fool feeds on trash. 136 00:07:37,360 --> 00:07:37,720 Speaker 3: Listen. 137 00:07:38,840 --> 00:07:42,720 Speaker 4: Life is too short, your time is too valuable to 138 00:07:42,800 --> 00:07:47,080 Speaker 4: feed on anything other than what's building you up. So 139 00:07:47,200 --> 00:07:50,800 Speaker 4: one nineteen says, God keep me from paying attention to 140 00:07:50,880 --> 00:07:54,200 Speaker 4: what's worthless every time we turn on the television. 141 00:07:54,240 --> 00:07:55,239 Speaker 3: We should pray that prayer. 142 00:07:55,280 --> 00:07:58,040 Speaker 4: God keep me from what's worthless every time we get 143 00:07:58,040 --> 00:08:01,560 Speaker 4: on the internet, walk by the magazine. God help me 144 00:08:01,640 --> 00:08:05,320 Speaker 4: not to waste my time getting hooked on something that's 145 00:08:05,360 --> 00:08:07,480 Speaker 4: not adding any value to my life. 146 00:08:08,360 --> 00:08:09,280 Speaker 3: Here's what I've learned. 147 00:08:09,800 --> 00:08:13,520 Speaker 4: If you're not selective in what you watch, the television 148 00:08:13,600 --> 00:08:17,600 Speaker 4: will determine your character. The television will determine who you are. 149 00:08:18,480 --> 00:08:22,560 Speaker 4: Statistics tell us the average person will spend more time 150 00:08:22,640 --> 00:08:27,600 Speaker 4: watching television than anything else other than working and sleeping. 151 00:08:28,200 --> 00:08:30,800 Speaker 4: When it's all added up, ten years of our life 152 00:08:30,840 --> 00:08:34,000 Speaker 4: will have been spent watching TV. By the time a 153 00:08:34,080 --> 00:08:37,760 Speaker 4: child graduates from high school, he will have watched eighteen 154 00:08:37,880 --> 00:08:42,000 Speaker 4: thousand hours of television compared to twelve thousand hours spent 155 00:08:42,120 --> 00:08:46,600 Speaker 4: in school. Parents, don't let the television be a babysitter 156 00:08:46,640 --> 00:08:47,360 Speaker 4: for your children. 157 00:08:47,920 --> 00:08:49,760 Speaker 3: Don't put your five year old in there. Let them 158 00:08:49,760 --> 00:08:50,880 Speaker 3: watch whatever they want. 159 00:08:51,160 --> 00:08:55,360 Speaker 4: You choose something wholesome, something that's going to strengthen their value, 160 00:08:56,040 --> 00:09:00,440 Speaker 4: not something that will erode what you're teaching them. Where 161 00:09:00,559 --> 00:09:04,280 Speaker 4: the number of violent acts during prime time is twelve 162 00:09:04,320 --> 00:09:08,080 Speaker 4: per hour, the number of violent acts during cartoons is 163 00:09:08,120 --> 00:09:11,760 Speaker 4: forty two per hour. If you plant your children in 164 00:09:11,760 --> 00:09:14,440 Speaker 4: front of the television, they may grow into something that 165 00:09:14,480 --> 00:09:20,040 Speaker 4: you don't like. Very often, television glamorizes the wrong things. 166 00:09:20,960 --> 00:09:25,719 Speaker 4: Most marriages portrayed on TV are not healthy, loyal, faithful. 167 00:09:26,120 --> 00:09:30,120 Speaker 4: TV Guide said ninety one percent of intimacy shown on 168 00:09:30,160 --> 00:09:34,800 Speaker 4: television is outside of marriage. 169 00:09:33,880 --> 00:09:35,080 Speaker 3: Nine times out of ten. 170 00:09:35,400 --> 00:09:39,880 Speaker 4: What's glamorized is the affair, that's the fun, that's the passion, 171 00:09:40,160 --> 00:09:41,760 Speaker 4: being unfaithful running around. 172 00:09:41,880 --> 00:09:45,720 Speaker 3: You only live once. If you watch that long enough, 173 00:09:46,000 --> 00:09:48,640 Speaker 3: it's going to chip away at what you know is right. 174 00:09:49,280 --> 00:09:52,480 Speaker 3: If you're not careful. It'll cause you to lower your. 175 00:09:52,320 --> 00:09:55,800 Speaker 4: Standard and think, hey, everybody else is doing it. That's 176 00:09:55,920 --> 00:10:00,880 Speaker 4: television determining your character. Be selective wh comes on that 177 00:10:00,960 --> 00:10:04,600 Speaker 4: you know is not good. Be disciplined to change the channel. 178 00:10:05,040 --> 00:10:07,320 Speaker 4: That's why God created the remote control. 179 00:10:07,720 --> 00:10:09,880 Speaker 3: You don't even have to get up, just push the button. 180 00:10:09,960 --> 00:10:10,719 Speaker 3: Swifched on by. 181 00:10:11,520 --> 00:10:16,280 Speaker 4: If not, you're feeding the flesh. Anytime you feed the flesh, 182 00:10:16,520 --> 00:10:19,840 Speaker 4: it's going to lead you away from God's best. The 183 00:10:19,880 --> 00:10:23,520 Speaker 4: scripture says, it is the thought life that pollutes us. 184 00:10:24,400 --> 00:10:28,120 Speaker 4: If we watch the wrong images, the wrong thoughts will follow. 185 00:10:28,760 --> 00:10:32,360 Speaker 4: Before long, you'll find yourself in temptation that could have 186 00:10:32,440 --> 00:10:35,520 Speaker 4: been avoided if you'd have just been disciplined in what 187 00:10:35,679 --> 00:10:40,000 Speaker 4: you watch. I like to watch television, especially sports, but 188 00:10:40,080 --> 00:10:44,160 Speaker 4: I've learned sometimes when a questionable commercial comes on, even 189 00:10:44,240 --> 00:10:47,000 Speaker 4: during the ball game, I gotta switch off for thirty 190 00:10:47,040 --> 00:10:48,880 Speaker 4: seconds and come back when it's over. 191 00:10:49,120 --> 00:10:50,760 Speaker 3: I'm not going to let that pollute me. 192 00:10:51,520 --> 00:10:54,120 Speaker 4: The other day, I was at a hotel gym working out, 193 00:10:54,160 --> 00:10:58,040 Speaker 4: and every TV in this little gem was tuned into 194 00:10:58,080 --> 00:11:01,160 Speaker 4: the making of the sports illustration Swimsuit Edition. 195 00:11:01,920 --> 00:11:02,800 Speaker 3: I asked the young. 196 00:11:02,640 --> 00:11:04,600 Speaker 4: Man working there, would he please switch it over to 197 00:11:04,640 --> 00:11:05,480 Speaker 4: the football game. 198 00:11:06,160 --> 00:11:09,960 Speaker 3: I know he probably thought, I'm stiff, old fashioned, strange. 199 00:11:10,040 --> 00:11:11,760 Speaker 4: But you got to come to the point where you 200 00:11:11,880 --> 00:11:16,240 Speaker 4: realize your destiny is too great, your assignment too important, 201 00:11:16,600 --> 00:11:20,680 Speaker 4: your future is too bright to let something pollute your life. 202 00:11:21,920 --> 00:11:25,679 Speaker 4: We have enough to overcome that we can't get away from. 203 00:11:25,920 --> 00:11:30,400 Speaker 4: Let's not make it harder by putting on wholesome things in. Well, 204 00:11:30,480 --> 00:11:31,720 Speaker 4: you say, Joe, it's not hurting me. 205 00:11:31,840 --> 00:11:36,840 Speaker 3: I'm strong. It's just entertainment. Yes, it may be entertaining. 206 00:11:36,320 --> 00:11:39,600 Speaker 4: You, but it's filling you with all kinds of wrong values. 207 00:11:40,040 --> 00:11:43,880 Speaker 4: And sooner or later, if you put trash in, somehow, 208 00:11:44,120 --> 00:11:48,000 Speaker 4: some way, the trash is going to come out. Years ago, 209 00:11:48,440 --> 00:11:52,080 Speaker 4: there was a very popular cable television show where every 210 00:11:52,160 --> 00:11:54,680 Speaker 4: other word was a curse word and had to be 211 00:11:54,760 --> 00:11:58,480 Speaker 4: bleeped out. It was the furthest thing from wholesome and 212 00:11:58,640 --> 00:12:02,200 Speaker 4: uplifting that you could possible fine. And this person I 213 00:12:02,240 --> 00:12:05,480 Speaker 4: knew he was hooked. He loved watching it, and he 214 00:12:05,600 --> 00:12:09,280 Speaker 4: was trying to convince me why it was okay. He said, Joel, 215 00:12:09,400 --> 00:12:12,520 Speaker 4: if you can just get past all the cursing and 216 00:12:12,640 --> 00:12:16,240 Speaker 4: pasted all the cheating, and pasted all the dysfunction. You'll 217 00:12:16,280 --> 00:12:21,400 Speaker 4: find that really they're a loving, caring family, and I 218 00:12:21,440 --> 00:12:22,839 Speaker 4: don't even doubt that that's true. 219 00:12:22,840 --> 00:12:24,240 Speaker 3: But here's the point I'm making. 220 00:12:25,160 --> 00:12:28,440 Speaker 4: You could go out to the garbage dumpster today, and 221 00:12:28,520 --> 00:12:31,720 Speaker 4: if you dig around long enough, you could probably find 222 00:12:31,840 --> 00:12:32,719 Speaker 4: a little piece of. 223 00:12:32,679 --> 00:12:34,760 Speaker 3: A biscuit that's halfway edible. 224 00:12:35,160 --> 00:12:37,160 Speaker 4: But you know as well as I do, it's not 225 00:12:37,280 --> 00:12:39,880 Speaker 4: worth digging in the trash trying to find one. 226 00:12:39,760 --> 00:12:42,599 Speaker 3: Little morsel of something good. You're better than that. 227 00:12:44,200 --> 00:12:50,080 Speaker 4: You are a temple of the most high golf called chosen, appointed, approved. 228 00:12:50,240 --> 00:12:52,320 Speaker 3: Now do your best to keep your temple pure. 229 00:12:53,360 --> 00:12:55,920 Speaker 4: When I was younger, I had a sports car that 230 00:12:56,000 --> 00:12:58,520 Speaker 4: I loved so much. I took great care of it. 231 00:12:58,520 --> 00:13:02,199 Speaker 4: It was a performance car, had a big engine. I 232 00:13:02,240 --> 00:13:05,680 Speaker 4: would wash that car practically every other day, and I 233 00:13:05,679 --> 00:13:09,280 Speaker 4: would only put the very best in the engine. Every 234 00:13:09,320 --> 00:13:12,360 Speaker 4: three months. I would change the oil whether it needed 235 00:13:12,360 --> 00:13:15,520 Speaker 4: it or not. I put the high performance oil in it, 236 00:13:15,679 --> 00:13:18,160 Speaker 4: not regular oil. But this oil cost about twice as 237 00:13:18,240 --> 00:13:19,480 Speaker 4: much as regular oil. 238 00:13:20,200 --> 00:13:20,600 Speaker 3: Back then. 239 00:13:20,640 --> 00:13:23,760 Speaker 4: If you wanted to, you could put regular gasoline, but 240 00:13:23,840 --> 00:13:28,000 Speaker 4: I always put the highest octane gasoline. I wanted that 241 00:13:28,080 --> 00:13:31,319 Speaker 4: car to perform at the highest possible level. 242 00:13:32,080 --> 00:13:34,240 Speaker 3: Well, that's the way you need to see yourself. 243 00:13:34,559 --> 00:13:40,959 Speaker 4: You are a high performance, extremely valuable, incredibly talented, uniquely 244 00:13:41,080 --> 00:13:45,160 Speaker 4: gifted person. How much better will you run? How much 245 00:13:45,200 --> 00:13:48,680 Speaker 4: faster will you go? How much fuller will your life be? 246 00:13:49,240 --> 00:13:52,040 Speaker 4: If you will be selective as to what you put 247 00:13:52,080 --> 00:13:56,280 Speaker 4: into your engine. Sure you can get by with watching 248 00:13:56,320 --> 00:13:59,880 Speaker 4: things that are questionable, listening to things that drag. 249 00:13:59,640 --> 00:14:03,360 Speaker 3: You down, hanging around people that erode your values. Your 250 00:14:03,400 --> 00:14:04,480 Speaker 3: car will run. 251 00:14:04,600 --> 00:14:08,199 Speaker 4: But I'm talking about reaching your highest potential. I'm talking 252 00:14:08,200 --> 00:14:12,360 Speaker 4: about becoming everything that God's created you to be when 253 00:14:12,440 --> 00:14:15,480 Speaker 4: we put the right things in. Not only that, how 254 00:14:15,520 --> 00:14:19,640 Speaker 4: many problems will we avoid? How much temptation will we 255 00:14:19,720 --> 00:14:22,840 Speaker 4: not have to deal with? This is where David missed it. 256 00:14:23,320 --> 00:14:26,520 Speaker 4: David was a great leader, He loved God, He wrote 257 00:14:26,560 --> 00:14:31,040 Speaker 4: beautiful psalms. But David let his guard down and wasn't 258 00:14:31,080 --> 00:14:34,360 Speaker 4: disciplined in what he watched. One night, he was on 259 00:14:34,440 --> 00:14:36,480 Speaker 4: the top of his house and he looked out and 260 00:14:36,520 --> 00:14:40,400 Speaker 4: saw a beautiful woman taking a bath. All David had 261 00:14:40,440 --> 00:14:43,800 Speaker 4: to do, in modern day terms, was changed the channel. 262 00:14:44,440 --> 00:14:47,960 Speaker 4: Turn away, don't even go there. God will always give 263 00:14:48,000 --> 00:14:52,000 Speaker 4: you a chance. You will never be tempted beyond what 264 00:14:52,120 --> 00:14:55,200 Speaker 4: you can handle. The scripture says, God will make. 265 00:14:55,040 --> 00:14:56,440 Speaker 3: A way of escape. 266 00:14:56,640 --> 00:14:59,560 Speaker 4: On the inside, You'll hear an alarm going off. You'll 267 00:14:59,560 --> 00:15:01,720 Speaker 4: feel an unrest, a little voice telling. 268 00:15:01,480 --> 00:15:02,800 Speaker 3: You this is not good. 269 00:15:03,120 --> 00:15:06,120 Speaker 4: Change the channel, don't hang out with these people. Get 270 00:15:06,160 --> 00:15:09,560 Speaker 4: out of this environment. We will never make a mistake 271 00:15:09,840 --> 00:15:13,600 Speaker 4: without God first warning us. In fact, if you look 272 00:15:13,680 --> 00:15:17,320 Speaker 4: back over your life the bad choices you've made, most 273 00:15:17,520 --> 00:15:20,080 Speaker 4: likely you can remember again and. 274 00:15:20,080 --> 00:15:23,120 Speaker 3: Again you heard the alarm. God was dealing with you. 275 00:15:23,000 --> 00:15:26,240 Speaker 4: You knew it wasn't right, but you ignored that voice 276 00:15:26,280 --> 00:15:27,120 Speaker 4: and did it anyway. 277 00:15:27,680 --> 00:15:30,680 Speaker 3: That's what David did. He ignored the warning. 278 00:15:30,360 --> 00:15:33,280 Speaker 4: And instead of going away, he did just the opposite. 279 00:15:33,360 --> 00:15:36,160 Speaker 4: He went and got the binoculars. Thought, wow, the favor 280 00:15:36,160 --> 00:15:38,000 Speaker 4: of God, the right place, the right time. 281 00:15:38,960 --> 00:15:39,600 Speaker 3: Not hardly. 282 00:15:40,000 --> 00:15:43,840 Speaker 4: He had an affair. He ended up having her husband killed. 283 00:15:44,440 --> 00:15:47,880 Speaker 4: One bad thing after another. It could have all been 284 00:15:47,920 --> 00:15:51,440 Speaker 4: avoided if he would have been disciplined in what he watched. 285 00:15:52,120 --> 00:15:56,520 Speaker 4: The good news is David learned from his mistake. Psalm 286 00:15:56,560 --> 00:16:00,000 Speaker 4: one O one, verse three. He made a vow to God. 287 00:15:59,760 --> 00:16:04,000 Speaker 3: He said, God, I will set no evil thing before 288 00:16:04,040 --> 00:16:04,560 Speaker 3: my eyes. 289 00:16:05,320 --> 00:16:07,440 Speaker 4: He was saying in effect. God, I've blown it in 290 00:16:07,480 --> 00:16:09,960 Speaker 4: the past. I've asked for your forgiveness. But God, I'm 291 00:16:10,000 --> 00:16:12,720 Speaker 4: making a decision. I am not going to look at 292 00:16:12,760 --> 00:16:17,280 Speaker 4: anything that's unwholesome and impure. We should all make that 293 00:16:17,400 --> 00:16:20,280 Speaker 4: same vow. God, I'm gonna change the channel when I 294 00:16:20,320 --> 00:16:23,040 Speaker 4: know it's not good. God, I'm gonna listen to the alarm. 295 00:16:23,040 --> 00:16:26,080 Speaker 4: I'm gonna be sensitive. I'm gonna keep my mind, my thought, 296 00:16:26,120 --> 00:16:29,920 Speaker 4: life pure. See, I've learned God's not trying to keep 297 00:16:30,040 --> 00:16:31,200 Speaker 4: us from something. 298 00:16:31,520 --> 00:16:33,360 Speaker 3: He's trying to get us to something. 299 00:16:33,920 --> 00:16:36,160 Speaker 4: In other words, God's not just trying to make our 300 00:16:36,200 --> 00:16:37,000 Speaker 4: life miserable. 301 00:16:37,600 --> 00:16:38,520 Speaker 3: Just be super. 302 00:16:38,280 --> 00:16:40,400 Speaker 4: Strict, and you can't watch that. You can't hang out 303 00:16:40,400 --> 00:16:41,600 Speaker 4: with them, you can't have any fun. 304 00:16:41,800 --> 00:16:43,400 Speaker 3: It's just the opposite. 305 00:16:43,480 --> 00:16:45,960 Speaker 4: If you will do it God's way, you will have 306 00:16:46,040 --> 00:16:49,040 Speaker 4: more fun than you've ever had before. God will take 307 00:16:49,040 --> 00:16:51,239 Speaker 4: you places greater than you've ever imagined. 308 00:16:51,600 --> 00:16:53,600 Speaker 3: God is trying to get you to. 309 00:16:53,600 --> 00:16:57,600 Speaker 4: An abundant, fulfilled, amazing life. Now let's do our part 310 00:16:57,920 --> 00:17:01,800 Speaker 4: and be selective. All through the scripture, our life is 311 00:17:01,880 --> 00:17:04,639 Speaker 4: compared to the life of an eagle, And if you 312 00:17:04,720 --> 00:17:08,960 Speaker 4: study the eagle, you'll find that its strength is found 313 00:17:09,119 --> 00:17:12,720 Speaker 4: in its diet. What's interesting is the eagle will not 314 00:17:12,840 --> 00:17:17,359 Speaker 4: eat anything dead unless he's in captivity. The eagle only 315 00:17:17,440 --> 00:17:21,480 Speaker 4: feeds off of live food. Other birds, like the buzzard, 316 00:17:22,040 --> 00:17:26,080 Speaker 4: the vulture, the crow, they feed off of dead carcasses. 317 00:17:26,359 --> 00:17:29,600 Speaker 4: They'll eat anything they can not the eagle, he doesn't 318 00:17:29,640 --> 00:17:32,840 Speaker 4: take the easy way out. He flies over the stream 319 00:17:33,000 --> 00:17:35,920 Speaker 4: and looks for fish, and he'll swoop down and get 320 00:17:35,920 --> 00:17:39,600 Speaker 4: a fresh salmon for dinner. The scripture tells us that 321 00:17:39,680 --> 00:17:43,200 Speaker 4: we should mount up with wings, not as the buzzard, 322 00:17:43,480 --> 00:17:46,440 Speaker 4: not as the vulture, not as the chicken, with wings, 323 00:17:46,840 --> 00:17:51,159 Speaker 4: as eagles, and just like the eagle, our strength is 324 00:17:51,200 --> 00:17:54,040 Speaker 4: going to be in our diet. Our strength is going 325 00:17:54,080 --> 00:17:57,199 Speaker 4: to be what we're taking in. You can't go around 326 00:17:57,240 --> 00:18:00,840 Speaker 4: all day eating dead food and expect to be and healthy. 327 00:18:01,720 --> 00:18:04,119 Speaker 4: If you're hanging around people that gossip all the time, 328 00:18:04,400 --> 00:18:08,399 Speaker 4: recognize what they're feeding you is dead. If you're watching 329 00:18:08,440 --> 00:18:11,919 Speaker 4: things that are questionable and unwholesome, you're eating dead food. 330 00:18:12,560 --> 00:18:16,600 Speaker 4: And yes, the eagle can survive eating with the chickens, 331 00:18:16,680 --> 00:18:20,560 Speaker 4: the buzzards, the crows, but the problem is he's never 332 00:18:20,640 --> 00:18:23,680 Speaker 4: going to soar. He's never going to become all God 333 00:18:23,680 --> 00:18:24,679 Speaker 4: has created him to be. 334 00:18:25,800 --> 00:18:28,679 Speaker 3: Some of you today. If you would just change your. 335 00:18:28,600 --> 00:18:31,520 Speaker 4: Diet, you would go to a new level. If you 336 00:18:31,520 --> 00:18:34,879 Speaker 4: would make the decision to quit watching the programs that 337 00:18:34,920 --> 00:18:38,040 Speaker 4: are polluting your mind and causing you to compromise, If 338 00:18:38,080 --> 00:18:40,040 Speaker 4: you quit hanging out with the people that are always 339 00:18:40,119 --> 00:18:43,680 Speaker 4: gossiping and keeping your stirred up, if you'd quit eating 340 00:18:43,720 --> 00:18:46,560 Speaker 4: so many dead things, you would see God's favor in 341 00:18:46,600 --> 00:18:47,280 Speaker 4: a greater way. 342 00:18:47,960 --> 00:18:50,080 Speaker 3: You're going to become what you eat. 343 00:18:50,920 --> 00:18:53,520 Speaker 4: Maybe you've gone to lunch with the same people at 344 00:18:53,560 --> 00:18:58,480 Speaker 4: work year after year. They're negative, they complain, they talk 345 00:18:58,560 --> 00:19:02,200 Speaker 4: bad about other people. You don't have to hurt their feelings. 346 00:19:02,640 --> 00:19:04,200 Speaker 4: You don't have to go in there tomorrow and make 347 00:19:04,240 --> 00:19:06,639 Speaker 4: some big announcement. Man, I heard something at church. I'm 348 00:19:06,680 --> 00:19:09,959 Speaker 4: getting away from you. If you do, don't tell them 349 00:19:10,000 --> 00:19:14,359 Speaker 4: it was me. Now, just very suddenly, you need to 350 00:19:14,359 --> 00:19:18,520 Speaker 4: start spending less and less time with them, gradually, start 351 00:19:18,560 --> 00:19:23,040 Speaker 4: breaking away by little. You are an eagle. You were 352 00:19:23,119 --> 00:19:25,719 Speaker 4: never meant to feed off of dead food. If they 353 00:19:25,760 --> 00:19:27,879 Speaker 4: want to be a crow, a chicken, a buzzard, that's 354 00:19:27,960 --> 00:19:30,120 Speaker 4: up to them. That's their choice. But that's not who 355 00:19:30,160 --> 00:19:35,680 Speaker 4: you are. Psalone says, do not sit inactive in the 356 00:19:35,720 --> 00:19:37,119 Speaker 4: path of the ungodly. 357 00:19:38,080 --> 00:19:39,200 Speaker 3: You want to be blessed. 358 00:19:39,480 --> 00:19:43,560 Speaker 4: You can't sit there passively and let that gossip poison you. 359 00:19:44,160 --> 00:19:46,600 Speaker 4: It's not up to God, it's up to you. He's saying, 360 00:19:46,800 --> 00:19:50,240 Speaker 4: find somewhere else to eat lunch. When a program comes 361 00:19:50,240 --> 00:19:53,280 Speaker 4: on it's not wholesome and you feel the alarm going off, 362 00:19:53,520 --> 00:19:56,480 Speaker 4: you cannot sit inactive. You got to pick up the 363 00:19:56,560 --> 00:19:59,840 Speaker 4: remote control and change the channel. God's not going to 364 00:19:59,880 --> 00:20:04,600 Speaker 4: do do it for you. Be proactive, not inactive. Or 365 00:20:04,640 --> 00:20:07,040 Speaker 4: maybe all your friends are going to see a movie 366 00:20:07,440 --> 00:20:10,080 Speaker 4: you don't feel good about it. There's an alarm going 367 00:20:10,119 --> 00:20:12,679 Speaker 4: off down in here. Well, you can't just go with 368 00:20:12,800 --> 00:20:15,080 Speaker 4: the flow and think, well, they may get upset, they 369 00:20:15,160 --> 00:20:17,840 Speaker 4: may not understand. They may make fun of me, they 370 00:20:17,840 --> 00:20:19,160 Speaker 4: may think I'm old fashioned. 371 00:20:19,760 --> 00:20:20,840 Speaker 3: You have to ask. 372 00:20:20,640 --> 00:20:23,680 Speaker 4: Yourself, am I going to live to please people? Or 373 00:20:23,720 --> 00:20:26,040 Speaker 4: am I going to live to please God? Am I 374 00:20:26,119 --> 00:20:28,360 Speaker 4: going to be a buzzard and stay on the ground, 375 00:20:28,800 --> 00:20:29,240 Speaker 4: or am I. 376 00:20:29,200 --> 00:20:34,000 Speaker 3: Going to be an egle and soil? Don't sit inactive. Listen. 377 00:20:34,040 --> 00:20:36,159 Speaker 4: If you're going to be an eagle, it's going to 378 00:20:36,200 --> 00:20:40,440 Speaker 4: take more work. It's going to take being disciplined. Some 379 00:20:40,520 --> 00:20:44,200 Speaker 4: of your friends may not understand. They may get upset. 380 00:20:44,920 --> 00:20:48,440 Speaker 4: Here's what I've learned. Not everyone is willing to pay 381 00:20:48,480 --> 00:20:52,320 Speaker 4: the price to be an ego. Yes, everyone wants to soar, 382 00:20:52,840 --> 00:20:56,320 Speaker 4: but not everyone is willing to deny their flesh and 383 00:20:56,400 --> 00:20:59,320 Speaker 4: not feed off a dead food. Bottom line is this, 384 00:20:59,680 --> 00:21:02,280 Speaker 4: If you gonna soar with the eagles, you can't hang 385 00:21:02,320 --> 00:21:05,399 Speaker 4: out with the chickens. You cannot sit inactive when you 386 00:21:05,520 --> 00:21:08,120 Speaker 4: know something is not God's best. You got to be bold, 387 00:21:08,200 --> 00:21:11,560 Speaker 4: rise up and make that change. Years ago, Victoria and 388 00:21:11,560 --> 00:21:14,440 Speaker 4: I were at a Broadway plane. It was a top 389 00:21:14,560 --> 00:21:18,000 Speaker 4: rated show, and somebody had given us very expensive tickets 390 00:21:18,080 --> 00:21:21,280 Speaker 4: right up front. And we got there, but every other 391 00:21:21,400 --> 00:21:24,280 Speaker 4: word was a curse word for the first fifteen minutes, 392 00:21:24,800 --> 00:21:27,359 Speaker 4: and some of the scenes were very risky, and I 393 00:21:27,440 --> 00:21:29,679 Speaker 4: kept thinking that it was going to get better, but 394 00:21:29,760 --> 00:21:33,240 Speaker 4: it never did. Finally, I whispered to Victoria, I don't 395 00:21:33,280 --> 00:21:36,640 Speaker 4: want to feed myself this junk. I value who I am, 396 00:21:36,680 --> 00:21:39,760 Speaker 4: and we just very quietly and discreetly stepped out. 397 00:21:40,520 --> 00:21:42,680 Speaker 3: Yes the tickets were expensive, Yes. 398 00:21:42,600 --> 00:21:45,440 Speaker 4: It was valuable, But do you know what's more valuable? 399 00:21:45,720 --> 00:21:47,240 Speaker 3: The temple that God has given me. 400 00:21:47,880 --> 00:21:52,560 Speaker 4: I'm not gonna sit inactive and let somebody jump trash 401 00:21:52,720 --> 00:21:56,919 Speaker 4: into me. Friends, we are not garbage cans. Our ears 402 00:21:56,920 --> 00:22:01,000 Speaker 4: and eyes are not trash. Receptors have every right to 403 00:22:01,040 --> 00:22:03,560 Speaker 4: make the play, make the movie, make the program, but 404 00:22:03,640 --> 00:22:04,400 Speaker 4: we have every. 405 00:22:04,280 --> 00:22:05,280 Speaker 3: Right not to watch. 406 00:22:06,440 --> 00:22:09,720 Speaker 4: If someone's telling off colored jokes around you, you don't 407 00:22:09,760 --> 00:22:11,919 Speaker 4: have to try to straighten them out. You don't have 408 00:22:11,960 --> 00:22:14,440 Speaker 4: to go read the Bible to them, but you should 409 00:22:14,600 --> 00:22:18,879 Speaker 4: care enough about your temple to quietly step away. Don't 410 00:22:18,920 --> 00:22:22,720 Speaker 4: sit inactive. I was driving home years ago in my 411 00:22:22,800 --> 00:22:25,040 Speaker 4: car and it had a long day and lot had 412 00:22:25,080 --> 00:22:28,320 Speaker 4: come against me. And turned the radio on. The first 413 00:22:28,359 --> 00:22:31,600 Speaker 4: thing I heard was You're no good. You're no good, 414 00:22:32,040 --> 00:22:35,600 Speaker 4: You're no good. I thought it was over. Then she said, baby, 415 00:22:35,680 --> 00:22:41,480 Speaker 4: you're no good. I thought I've got enough to deal with. 416 00:22:42,720 --> 00:22:45,040 Speaker 4: Then having this lady that I don't even know tell 417 00:22:45,080 --> 00:22:49,879 Speaker 4: me four times that I'm no good, I didn't sit inactive. 418 00:22:49,960 --> 00:22:52,800 Speaker 4: I pushed the button turned on the Lakewood CD, and 419 00:22:52,960 --> 00:22:55,120 Speaker 4: I heard, I am a friend of God Lord. 420 00:22:55,240 --> 00:22:57,119 Speaker 3: You are good all the time. You are good. 421 00:22:59,359 --> 00:23:03,720 Speaker 4: It's amazing the difference between dead food and live food. 422 00:23:04,560 --> 00:23:07,679 Speaker 4: It's in a restaurant Once guy was up there, playing 423 00:23:07,720 --> 00:23:10,040 Speaker 4: his guitar and singing, and he announced that he had 424 00:23:10,080 --> 00:23:12,600 Speaker 4: just written a new song. We all turned around to listen, 425 00:23:12,640 --> 00:23:15,400 Speaker 4: and I'm sure he meant well, but this was the saddest, 426 00:23:15,520 --> 00:23:19,160 Speaker 4: most depressing song. He started singing about how his wife 427 00:23:19,240 --> 00:23:23,080 Speaker 4: had left him and he was broken, hard and lonely 428 00:23:23,200 --> 00:23:25,160 Speaker 4: and had nowhere to go, no friends. 429 00:23:25,320 --> 00:23:27,120 Speaker 3: He's just gonna ride off into the. 430 00:23:27,119 --> 00:23:30,840 Speaker 4: Sunset, fade away, depressed and defeated. And about halfway through 431 00:23:30,840 --> 00:23:32,920 Speaker 4: the song, I thought, man, I'm coming with you. I'm 432 00:23:32,960 --> 00:23:36,720 Speaker 4: depressed too. I didn't want to eat the rest of 433 00:23:36,760 --> 00:23:42,040 Speaker 4: my dinner. All that's doing is feeding your death. I 434 00:23:42,160 --> 00:23:45,240 Speaker 4: like what somebody said, if you play a country Western 435 00:23:45,280 --> 00:23:49,240 Speaker 4: song backwards, the man gets his wife back, his horseback. 436 00:23:48,720 --> 00:23:49,520 Speaker 3: And his dog back. 437 00:23:51,320 --> 00:23:53,960 Speaker 4: If you're going to be an eagle, you got to 438 00:23:54,040 --> 00:23:58,200 Speaker 4: learn to tune things like that out. Can't always get away, 439 00:23:58,720 --> 00:24:00,800 Speaker 4: you may not have a choice, but you can tune 440 00:24:00,880 --> 00:24:03,439 Speaker 4: it out, not dwell on it. In other words, you 441 00:24:03,520 --> 00:24:06,960 Speaker 4: may work around people that are negative and sour. You're 442 00:24:07,000 --> 00:24:09,240 Speaker 4: in an environment where there's dead food and you have 443 00:24:09,359 --> 00:24:10,280 Speaker 4: no control over it. 444 00:24:10,600 --> 00:24:11,320 Speaker 3: Here's the key. 445 00:24:11,720 --> 00:24:14,720 Speaker 4: Before you get there, you need to put in extra 446 00:24:14,840 --> 00:24:18,200 Speaker 4: amounts of live food to get your inner man built 447 00:24:18,280 --> 00:24:21,840 Speaker 4: up and strong. Listen to good praise music, put on 448 00:24:21,920 --> 00:24:25,320 Speaker 4: good faith building messages, things that are going to combat 449 00:24:25,359 --> 00:24:28,399 Speaker 4: that negative I know a gentleman that for many years 450 00:24:28,400 --> 00:24:31,800 Speaker 4: he struggled with depression. He got my CDs on not 451 00:24:31,920 --> 00:24:34,960 Speaker 4: Losing your Joy, and every day on the way to work, 452 00:24:35,160 --> 00:24:37,840 Speaker 4: he listened to them over and over, month after month, 453 00:24:37,880 --> 00:24:40,400 Speaker 4: even year after year. He said, Joel, I've heard them 454 00:24:40,400 --> 00:24:44,880 Speaker 4: probably a thousand times. I practically have them memorized. But 455 00:24:44,960 --> 00:24:46,880 Speaker 4: that's what helps me to stay. 456 00:24:46,600 --> 00:24:48,080 Speaker 3: Strong and overcome. 457 00:24:48,840 --> 00:24:52,760 Speaker 4: See, he understands the importance of feeding himself live food. 458 00:24:53,280 --> 00:24:57,159 Speaker 4: Sometimes what your thoughts will feed you is dead. You 459 00:24:57,200 --> 00:25:00,760 Speaker 4: cannot sit inactive. Put something in you that will feed 460 00:25:00,800 --> 00:25:03,560 Speaker 4: you victory. It doesn't have to be my messages. It 461 00:25:03,600 --> 00:25:06,120 Speaker 4: can be somebody else's. They're not as good as mine. 462 00:25:05,960 --> 00:25:10,000 Speaker 3: But feeds you something life. I'm only kidding. 463 00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:15,160 Speaker 4: I read where the average American spends four hundred hours 464 00:25:15,200 --> 00:25:18,760 Speaker 4: a year in their car driving back and forth to work. 465 00:25:19,240 --> 00:25:23,120 Speaker 4: Many people use that time to feed themselves the wrong things. 466 00:25:23,560 --> 00:25:25,000 Speaker 3: And I like to listen to the news. 467 00:25:25,119 --> 00:25:28,120 Speaker 4: I like to stay informed, but I've learned the news 468 00:25:28,359 --> 00:25:31,520 Speaker 4: doesn't keep you built up. Once you hear what you 469 00:25:31,640 --> 00:25:34,280 Speaker 4: need to know, you need to move on and use 470 00:25:34,359 --> 00:25:38,320 Speaker 4: that time to feed yourself life. Listen to something that's 471 00:25:38,359 --> 00:25:41,520 Speaker 4: going to help you grow, something that's going to inspire 472 00:25:41,640 --> 00:25:45,000 Speaker 4: you to be better. One study showed that if you'd 473 00:25:45,080 --> 00:25:49,280 Speaker 4: take that same drive time and listen to good teaching CDs, 474 00:25:49,720 --> 00:25:53,240 Speaker 4: then after three years, it's the equivalent of spending two 475 00:25:53,359 --> 00:25:56,880 Speaker 4: years in college. People tell me all the time, Joel, 476 00:25:57,000 --> 00:25:59,520 Speaker 4: I listen to your messages while I run each day 477 00:26:00,119 --> 00:26:02,600 Speaker 4: i'm at the gym. One lady said, Joel, I listen 478 00:26:02,640 --> 00:26:04,679 Speaker 4: to you every night before I go to bed. You 479 00:26:04,800 --> 00:26:06,360 Speaker 4: always put me right to sleep. 480 00:26:07,440 --> 00:26:08,680 Speaker 3: I thought, thanks a lot, But. 481 00:26:10,520 --> 00:26:15,000 Speaker 4: I love the new technology with these podcasts. You can 482 00:26:15,040 --> 00:26:18,359 Speaker 4: have them downloaded to your computer and listen to the 483 00:26:18,400 --> 00:26:22,000 Speaker 4: messages anytime you want. This year, we will give away 484 00:26:22,200 --> 00:26:24,560 Speaker 4: nearly sixty million of my messages. 485 00:26:24,840 --> 00:26:26,200 Speaker 3: It's all free of charge. 486 00:26:26,280 --> 00:26:28,280 Speaker 4: All you've got to do is sign up and it'll 487 00:26:28,280 --> 00:26:31,159 Speaker 4: come every week to your computer and it's a brand 488 00:26:31,160 --> 00:26:33,520 Speaker 4: new message that will feed you life. You should take 489 00:26:33,560 --> 00:26:38,840 Speaker 4: advantage of it. This week, I heard Victoria's cell phone 490 00:26:38,880 --> 00:26:41,320 Speaker 4: going off on the kitchen table. It was buzzing. Went 491 00:26:41,400 --> 00:26:44,000 Speaker 4: and picked it up and the message read I can 492 00:26:44,040 --> 00:26:47,919 Speaker 4: do all things through Christ. She has programmed her phone 493 00:26:48,119 --> 00:26:51,520 Speaker 4: every two hours to send her a scripture. You are 494 00:26:51,560 --> 00:26:54,359 Speaker 4: fearfully and wonderfully made. You are more than a conquer 495 00:26:54,480 --> 00:26:58,280 Speaker 4: She calls that her text message from God. All through 496 00:26:58,280 --> 00:27:01,800 Speaker 4: the day, she's feeding herself life or you said, Joel, 497 00:27:01,800 --> 00:27:04,840 Speaker 4: God's never sent me a text message. Faith without works 498 00:27:04,880 --> 00:27:11,720 Speaker 4: is dead. Program it yourself, friends, we are going to become. 499 00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:12,840 Speaker 3: What we eat. 500 00:27:13,359 --> 00:27:16,760 Speaker 4: Don't feed on trash, be an eagle, be disciplined. 501 00:27:16,760 --> 00:27:18,320 Speaker 3: And what you watch, what you listen to. 502 00:27:18,640 --> 00:27:21,720 Speaker 4: Make a decision to get rid of anything that's dead. 503 00:27:21,880 --> 00:27:25,080 Speaker 4: Don't let that poison you. You were created to sore 504 00:27:25,800 --> 00:27:28,120 Speaker 4: some of you today. If you just change your diet, 505 00:27:28,160 --> 00:27:30,760 Speaker 4: if you just get rid of the negative influences, you 506 00:27:30,800 --> 00:27:34,640 Speaker 4: would see God's favor in a new way. Take inventory 507 00:27:34,760 --> 00:27:37,479 Speaker 4: of what you're putting in, what are you watching, what 508 00:27:37,480 --> 00:27:39,760 Speaker 4: are you listening to, who you're hanging out with, And 509 00:27:39,800 --> 00:27:43,199 Speaker 4: then ask yourself a very important question, what is this 510 00:27:43,359 --> 00:27:46,880 Speaker 4: feeding me? 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