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Thanks for listening to 34 00:01:34,080 --> 00:01:37,200 Speaker 5: our podcast and thanks for supporting the ministry. If you 35 00:01:37,280 --> 00:01:39,880 Speaker 5: enjoy today's message, why don't you be a blessing and 36 00:01:39,959 --> 00:01:42,600 Speaker 5: share it with a friend. We appreciate you and pray 37 00:01:42,600 --> 00:01:48,080 Speaker 5: put God's very best in your life. 38 00:01:54,960 --> 00:01:55,840 Speaker 3: God bless you. 39 00:01:56,360 --> 00:01:58,600 Speaker 5: It is always a joy to come into your homes 40 00:01:58,640 --> 00:02:01,160 Speaker 5: each week, and we come with good news. We come 41 00:02:01,200 --> 00:02:03,720 Speaker 5: with a smile on our face because we know that 42 00:02:03,760 --> 00:02:06,440 Speaker 5: God is a good God. When you serve him, when 43 00:02:06,440 --> 00:02:08,600 Speaker 5: you draw night of Him, God will draw nut of Hugh. 44 00:02:09,000 --> 00:02:11,120 Speaker 5: He's got great things in store for your lives. And 45 00:02:11,120 --> 00:02:13,520 Speaker 5: we're going to be talking about some of that today. 46 00:02:13,600 --> 00:02:15,079 Speaker 5: And if you're ever in our area, though, I hope 47 00:02:15,080 --> 00:02:17,040 Speaker 5: you'll stop by and see us. We'd love to have 48 00:02:17,080 --> 00:02:18,760 Speaker 5: you be a part of one of our services. But 49 00:02:19,040 --> 00:02:21,560 Speaker 5: thanks so much for tuning in today. I like to 50 00:02:21,560 --> 00:02:23,720 Speaker 5: get started each week with something kind of funny. And 51 00:02:23,760 --> 00:02:26,640 Speaker 5: somebody sent me this email, and I might mention that it 52 00:02:26,639 --> 00:02:29,640 Speaker 5: was from a woman, but it says, according to the 53 00:02:29,680 --> 00:02:33,360 Speaker 5: Alaska Department of Fish and Game, while both male and 54 00:02:33,440 --> 00:02:38,080 Speaker 5: female reindeer grow antlers in the summer, male reindeer drop 55 00:02:38,160 --> 00:02:41,240 Speaker 5: their antlers at the beginning of winter in late November. 56 00:02:41,720 --> 00:02:46,120 Speaker 5: Female reindeer keep their antlers until the spring. This means 57 00:02:46,200 --> 00:02:50,080 Speaker 5: all of Santa's reindeer, from Rudolph to Blitzen had to 58 00:02:50,120 --> 00:02:53,320 Speaker 5: be female. She goes on to say, we should have 59 00:02:53,400 --> 00:02:56,320 Speaker 5: known only women would be able to drag around a 60 00:02:56,400 --> 00:03:00,640 Speaker 5: fat man in a red velvet suit all around the 61 00:03:00,639 --> 00:03:01,520 Speaker 5: world and one. 62 00:03:01,400 --> 00:03:02,720 Speaker 3: Night and not get lost. 63 00:03:05,000 --> 00:03:08,240 Speaker 5: All right, hold your bibles up, say it like you 64 00:03:08,320 --> 00:03:09,200 Speaker 5: mean it. Are you ready? 65 00:03:09,400 --> 00:03:12,560 Speaker 3: This is my Bible. I am what it says I am. 66 00:03:13,160 --> 00:03:15,760 Speaker 5: I have what it says I have, I can do 67 00:03:15,800 --> 00:03:18,480 Speaker 5: what it says I can do. Today I will be 68 00:03:18,560 --> 00:03:22,840 Speaker 5: taught the word of God. I boldly confess my mind 69 00:03:22,919 --> 00:03:25,320 Speaker 5: is alert, my heart is receptive. 70 00:03:25,680 --> 00:03:29,480 Speaker 3: I will never be the same. In Jesus' name, God 71 00:03:29,520 --> 00:03:30,119 Speaker 3: bless you. 72 00:03:31,080 --> 00:03:34,720 Speaker 5: We've been talking about staying in the right environment, how 73 00:03:34,720 --> 00:03:38,880 Speaker 5: important it is that we surround ourselves with good influences. 74 00:03:39,320 --> 00:03:43,000 Speaker 5: We have to realize that we are constantly feeding ourselves, 75 00:03:43,480 --> 00:03:48,360 Speaker 5: not physically, of course, but spiritually. Everything we watch, everything, 76 00:03:48,400 --> 00:03:51,600 Speaker 5: we listen to, the people we choose to be around, 77 00:03:52,040 --> 00:03:54,960 Speaker 5: the thoughts we choose to dwell on. All of these 78 00:03:55,000 --> 00:03:58,760 Speaker 5: things are feeding our inner man. Just like a computer, 79 00:03:59,040 --> 00:04:02,560 Speaker 5: we are continually being programmed, and we can either feed 80 00:04:02,640 --> 00:04:06,680 Speaker 5: ourselves life or we can feed ourselves death. If you're 81 00:04:06,720 --> 00:04:10,160 Speaker 5: watching a bunch of junk on television, people that are 82 00:04:10,160 --> 00:04:15,240 Speaker 5: not respectful, people that have no integrity, no morals, unfortunately, 83 00:04:15,440 --> 00:04:18,440 Speaker 5: you're just feeding yourself death. Well, hey, you say, Joel, 84 00:04:18,600 --> 00:04:20,719 Speaker 5: it's just entertainment. It's not hurting anything. 85 00:04:21,480 --> 00:04:21,640 Speaker 2: Now. 86 00:04:21,680 --> 00:04:24,640 Speaker 5: The fact is, if you put garbage in, you're going 87 00:04:24,680 --> 00:04:27,880 Speaker 5: to get garbage out. If you hang around people that 88 00:04:27,920 --> 00:04:31,000 Speaker 5: are negative and critical, before long, you're going to be 89 00:04:31,040 --> 00:04:35,440 Speaker 5: negative and critical. It's because you're feeding yourself the wrong things. 90 00:04:36,120 --> 00:04:39,120 Speaker 5: We've all heard that saying you will become what you eat. 91 00:04:39,880 --> 00:04:42,760 Speaker 5: That's why the Bible tells us to guard our hearts. 92 00:04:43,279 --> 00:04:46,440 Speaker 5: You have to guard what you take in because it's 93 00:04:46,440 --> 00:04:50,279 Speaker 5: going to affect everything about you. See, our ears and 94 00:04:50,320 --> 00:04:54,800 Speaker 5: our eyes are the gates to our souls. Everything we watch, 95 00:04:55,240 --> 00:04:58,719 Speaker 5: everything we listen to, gets down on the inside. It's 96 00:04:58,760 --> 00:05:02,440 Speaker 5: being permanently stored. And if you're feeding yourself a bunch 97 00:05:02,480 --> 00:05:06,760 Speaker 5: of trash, watching the wrong things, hanging around the wrong people, 98 00:05:07,200 --> 00:05:10,560 Speaker 5: or even dwelling on the wrong thoughts, whether you realize 99 00:05:10,560 --> 00:05:14,000 Speaker 5: it or not, that is affecting you. And I'm challenging 100 00:05:14,080 --> 00:05:18,160 Speaker 5: us today to be extremely careful what we put in 101 00:05:18,839 --> 00:05:22,240 Speaker 5: because eventually it is going to come out. For instance, 102 00:05:22,600 --> 00:05:24,800 Speaker 5: if you make the mistake of getting up every morning 103 00:05:25,320 --> 00:05:29,960 Speaker 5: dwelling on negative, discouraging thoughts, thinking about your problems, thinking 104 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:32,680 Speaker 5: about what a lousy day is going to be, all 105 00:05:32,720 --> 00:05:36,480 Speaker 5: you're really doing is feeding yourself death. You are programming 106 00:05:36,520 --> 00:05:39,599 Speaker 5: yourself to have a lousy day. On the other hand, 107 00:05:39,839 --> 00:05:41,800 Speaker 5: if you'll get up and say this is going to 108 00:05:41,800 --> 00:05:44,880 Speaker 5: be a great day, I know God's favor surrounds me 109 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:45,800 Speaker 5: like a shield, and. 110 00:05:45,760 --> 00:05:47,360 Speaker 3: I am excited about this day. 111 00:05:47,960 --> 00:05:51,640 Speaker 5: When you do that, you are feeding yourself life, and 112 00:05:51,680 --> 00:05:52,880 Speaker 5: you're going to draw in the. 113 00:05:52,839 --> 00:05:53,760 Speaker 3: Good things of God. 114 00:05:54,480 --> 00:05:58,480 Speaker 5: You attract what you continually think about, just like a magnet. 115 00:05:58,600 --> 00:06:01,279 Speaker 3: You are going to draw in what you're always dwelling on. 116 00:06:02,080 --> 00:06:04,159 Speaker 5: And the Bible tells us in the Book of Joshua 117 00:06:04,480 --> 00:06:08,520 Speaker 5: that night and day we should meditate on God's word 118 00:06:09,400 --> 00:06:11,400 Speaker 5: all through the day. In the back of your mind, 119 00:06:11,440 --> 00:06:13,719 Speaker 5: you should be thinking, I am strong in the Lord. 120 00:06:14,279 --> 00:06:16,880 Speaker 5: I can do all things through Christ. I am a 121 00:06:17,000 --> 00:06:19,920 Speaker 5: victor and not a victim. My children are going to 122 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:24,039 Speaker 5: fulfill their destiny. See that's more than just positive thinking. 123 00:06:24,520 --> 00:06:28,279 Speaker 5: That's feeding your inner man life and victory. You're feeding 124 00:06:28,320 --> 00:06:29,040 Speaker 5: your inner man. 125 00:06:29,040 --> 00:06:29,840 Speaker 3: The right things. 126 00:06:30,680 --> 00:06:32,599 Speaker 5: And this is just what my mother did back in 127 00:06:32,680 --> 00:06:36,080 Speaker 5: nineteen eighty one when she was diagnosed with terminal cancer. 128 00:06:36,920 --> 00:06:38,000 Speaker 3: She got about. 129 00:06:37,839 --> 00:06:40,840 Speaker 5: Fifty eight scriptures that had to do with healing, and 130 00:06:40,880 --> 00:06:43,719 Speaker 5: she began to meditate on them. I'd hear her going 131 00:06:43,760 --> 00:06:46,919 Speaker 5: all through the house quoting those scriptures under her breath. 132 00:06:47,480 --> 00:06:50,040 Speaker 5: She even put them up so she could see them 133 00:06:50,360 --> 00:06:54,240 Speaker 5: on the refrigerator. She saw with long life, God satisfies me. 134 00:06:54,839 --> 00:06:58,800 Speaker 5: On the bathroom mirror. God is restoring health underment on 135 00:06:58,839 --> 00:07:02,320 Speaker 5: the back door, I will live and not die. See, 136 00:07:02,320 --> 00:07:06,400 Speaker 5: she was feeding her inner man life, meditating on God's word. 137 00:07:07,120 --> 00:07:09,760 Speaker 5: And she could have so easily sunk down into that 138 00:07:09,880 --> 00:07:13,400 Speaker 5: dark hold of depression. She only weighed eighty nine pounds. 139 00:07:13,480 --> 00:07:16,520 Speaker 5: The doctors gave her no hope, but mother chose not 140 00:07:16,640 --> 00:07:19,600 Speaker 5: to dwell on that. Instead, she chose to dwell on 141 00:07:19,640 --> 00:07:22,520 Speaker 5: the fact that the things that are impossible with men 142 00:07:22,760 --> 00:07:24,000 Speaker 5: are possible with God. 143 00:07:24,600 --> 00:07:26,520 Speaker 3: And not only that, she put. 144 00:07:26,400 --> 00:07:30,680 Speaker 5: Up pictures of herself when she was very healthy. She 145 00:07:30,800 --> 00:07:33,640 Speaker 5: had a picture of herself riding a horse in Montana. 146 00:07:33,840 --> 00:07:37,000 Speaker 5: She had that in the kitchen. She put up several 147 00:07:37,040 --> 00:07:41,080 Speaker 5: of her wedding pictures all over the house. Everywhere she looked, 148 00:07:41,520 --> 00:07:45,160 Speaker 5: she saw herself strong and healthy. She saw herself full 149 00:07:45,200 --> 00:07:49,160 Speaker 5: of life and energy. She saw those scriptures that reinforced 150 00:07:49,160 --> 00:07:53,320 Speaker 5: her faith. What was she doing feeding her inner man life. 151 00:07:53,800 --> 00:07:58,040 Speaker 5: She was feeding her self hope, faith, victory. I'm challenging 152 00:07:58,080 --> 00:08:01,280 Speaker 5: you do the same thing up every morning and feed 153 00:08:01,320 --> 00:08:06,280 Speaker 5: yourself life, feed your self hope, feed yourself victory. Everywhere 154 00:08:06,320 --> 00:08:09,760 Speaker 5: you look you should see things that inspire you. Put 155 00:08:09,840 --> 00:08:14,360 Speaker 5: up scriptures around your house, in your office, in your car, 156 00:08:14,760 --> 00:08:18,400 Speaker 5: put up pictures that inspire you. What you see is 157 00:08:18,400 --> 00:08:21,080 Speaker 5: going to get down in you. I have pictures up 158 00:08:21,080 --> 00:08:24,480 Speaker 5: all over my office of things that remind me of victory. 159 00:08:25,000 --> 00:08:27,960 Speaker 5: I have that big key that the city gave us 160 00:08:28,000 --> 00:08:30,800 Speaker 5: to the Compact Center. When I look at that, that 161 00:08:30,920 --> 00:08:34,080 Speaker 5: inspires me. That reminds me that God can do more 162 00:08:34,080 --> 00:08:36,400 Speaker 5: than we can even ask or think. I have a 163 00:08:36,440 --> 00:08:38,600 Speaker 5: plaque that our publisher sent us when we sold our 164 00:08:38,640 --> 00:08:39,800 Speaker 5: first million books. 165 00:08:40,160 --> 00:08:41,120 Speaker 3: That inspires me. 166 00:08:41,480 --> 00:08:43,760 Speaker 5: When I look at that, that tells me that there 167 00:08:43,760 --> 00:08:46,880 Speaker 5: are no limits with our God. We have scripture verses 168 00:08:47,000 --> 00:08:50,559 Speaker 5: up all over our house. I recognize what we see 169 00:08:50,800 --> 00:08:53,400 Speaker 5: is going to get down in us. Well, you said, Joel, 170 00:08:53,440 --> 00:08:54,520 Speaker 5: I don't have anything like that. 171 00:08:54,679 --> 00:08:56,959 Speaker 3: Man, if you only knew my life. No, you can 172 00:08:56,960 --> 00:08:57,600 Speaker 3: find something. 173 00:08:58,160 --> 00:09:00,319 Speaker 5: At least get up in the morning and go look 174 00:09:00,320 --> 00:09:04,040 Speaker 5: at God's creation, Look at the sunrise, look at the trees, 175 00:09:04,080 --> 00:09:07,560 Speaker 5: look at the flowers. Take in God's beauty. Find something 176 00:09:07,600 --> 00:09:11,520 Speaker 5: that inspires you. You got to feed yourself life and victory. 177 00:09:12,559 --> 00:09:12,800 Speaker 3: I know. 178 00:09:12,880 --> 00:09:15,280 Speaker 5: I like to start my day the first thirty minutes 179 00:09:15,400 --> 00:09:18,000 Speaker 5: or so just thanking God for what He's done in 180 00:09:18,040 --> 00:09:22,200 Speaker 5: my life, just meditating on his promises, taking in his beauty. 181 00:09:22,520 --> 00:09:25,440 Speaker 5: That helps to start the day off right. See, don't 182 00:09:25,520 --> 00:09:28,360 Speaker 5: just rush out of your house in a hurry, running late, 183 00:09:28,480 --> 00:09:32,200 Speaker 5: pressured by work. No, take time to feed yourself life. 184 00:09:32,600 --> 00:09:35,600 Speaker 5: Pay more attention to what you're putting in. I know 185 00:09:35,679 --> 00:09:38,040 Speaker 5: some people when they get up in the morning, first 186 00:09:38,080 --> 00:09:40,680 Speaker 5: thing they do is turn on the news. They fill 187 00:09:40,720 --> 00:09:43,760 Speaker 5: their mind with all the killings from last night, all 188 00:09:43,800 --> 00:09:45,719 Speaker 5: the accidents, all the tragedies. 189 00:09:46,200 --> 00:09:47,600 Speaker 3: That doesn't do anything positive. 190 00:09:47,920 --> 00:09:50,120 Speaker 5: And yes, I like to watch the news, but I 191 00:09:50,160 --> 00:09:52,720 Speaker 5: don't believe it's healthy to start our days off like that. 192 00:09:53,360 --> 00:09:56,640 Speaker 5: Start your day off in an attitude of thanksgiving. Start 193 00:09:56,679 --> 00:09:59,480 Speaker 5: the day off in a positive frame of mind, thanking 194 00:09:59,520 --> 00:10:00,040 Speaker 5: God for. 195 00:10:00,040 --> 00:10:01,000 Speaker 3: What He's done in your life. 196 00:10:01,520 --> 00:10:03,920 Speaker 5: That's gonna help set the tone for your whole day, 197 00:10:04,760 --> 00:10:07,920 Speaker 5: even when you drive to work. Learn to feed yourself 198 00:10:08,000 --> 00:10:10,680 Speaker 5: good things. Don't just flip on any station. Why don't 199 00:10:10,720 --> 00:10:13,440 Speaker 5: you put on a good praise CD. Why don't you 200 00:10:13,480 --> 00:10:16,400 Speaker 5: put on music and let that life and victory that's 201 00:10:16,440 --> 00:10:19,600 Speaker 5: on the inside get down in you. I found most 202 00:10:19,640 --> 00:10:22,360 Speaker 5: of the time we're gonna be feeding ourselves something. We 203 00:10:22,440 --> 00:10:24,960 Speaker 5: might as well feed ourselves the right things. I know 204 00:10:25,040 --> 00:10:27,240 Speaker 5: the other day I was in a restaurant and this 205 00:10:27,360 --> 00:10:30,120 Speaker 5: song came on and I'm sure the men meant well, 206 00:10:30,200 --> 00:10:33,200 Speaker 5: but it was so pitiful, It was so sad. He 207 00:10:33,240 --> 00:10:35,560 Speaker 5: was singing about how his wife had just left him 208 00:10:35,960 --> 00:10:39,000 Speaker 5: and now he was all broken hearted and so lonely, 209 00:10:39,080 --> 00:10:41,320 Speaker 5: and he didn't have anywhere to go, and he's just 210 00:10:41,360 --> 00:10:44,000 Speaker 5: about to ride off into the sunset, all broken and 211 00:10:44,040 --> 00:10:46,880 Speaker 5: defet it. About halfway through, I thought, man, I'm about 212 00:10:46,880 --> 00:10:51,680 Speaker 5: to go with you. I found myself starting to get depressed, 213 00:10:51,760 --> 00:10:55,000 Speaker 5: hanging my head, and I thought, later, who in the 214 00:10:55,040 --> 00:10:58,920 Speaker 5: world listens to that junk? All that's doing is ministering 215 00:10:58,960 --> 00:11:02,360 Speaker 5: death to you. I heard somebody say, if you play 216 00:11:02,400 --> 00:11:05,960 Speaker 5: a country Western song backwards, the man gets his wife back, 217 00:11:06,040 --> 00:11:10,959 Speaker 5: his truck back, and his dog back. Put on good 218 00:11:11,280 --> 00:11:14,120 Speaker 5: praise music. Put on music that's gonna build you up, 219 00:11:14,920 --> 00:11:17,800 Speaker 5: music that's gonna inspire you and not drag you down. 220 00:11:18,640 --> 00:11:20,400 Speaker 5: I know when I used to get in my car, 221 00:11:20,520 --> 00:11:22,400 Speaker 5: first thing I do is turn on the news. Do 222 00:11:22,400 --> 00:11:24,280 Speaker 5: you know what I do now? I put on I 223 00:11:24,320 --> 00:11:26,640 Speaker 5: am a friend of God. I put on Lord, you 224 00:11:26,679 --> 00:11:31,080 Speaker 5: are good. Your mercy endures forever. You gotta be careful 225 00:11:31,280 --> 00:11:34,520 Speaker 5: what you listen to. Your ears are not garbage cans 226 00:11:34,559 --> 00:11:36,680 Speaker 5: to fill with a bunch of trash, take care of 227 00:11:36,720 --> 00:11:39,920 Speaker 5: your temple. Every day. You should listen to good music. 228 00:11:40,240 --> 00:11:42,320 Speaker 5: Put it on in your car, put it on at 229 00:11:42,320 --> 00:11:44,000 Speaker 5: your house. Feed yourself life. 230 00:11:44,040 --> 00:11:45,439 Speaker 3: In Victory, I. 231 00:11:45,440 --> 00:11:48,920 Speaker 5: Read where the average American spends four hundred hours a 232 00:11:49,040 --> 00:11:51,920 Speaker 5: year in their car driving back and forth to work, 233 00:11:52,440 --> 00:11:55,320 Speaker 5: and I thought, how many people use that time to 234 00:11:55,360 --> 00:11:58,599 Speaker 5: feed themselves the wrong things. They feed themselves things and 235 00:11:58,600 --> 00:12:01,200 Speaker 5: they're just gonna drag them down. And maybe you don't 236 00:12:01,200 --> 00:12:04,520 Speaker 5: particularly like listening to music, but you should at least 237 00:12:04,640 --> 00:12:07,440 Speaker 5: listen to something that's going to help you grow. That 238 00:12:07,559 --> 00:12:10,720 Speaker 5: is very valuable time, and you should use it to 239 00:12:10,880 --> 00:12:15,040 Speaker 5: increase and improve yourself. In fact, one study said that 240 00:12:15,120 --> 00:12:18,840 Speaker 5: if we'd spend that same drive time listening to teaching 241 00:12:18,920 --> 00:12:22,120 Speaker 5: tapes over a three year period, that would be the 242 00:12:22,160 --> 00:12:23,520 Speaker 5: equivalent of spending two. 243 00:12:23,520 --> 00:12:25,000 Speaker 3: Years in college. 244 00:12:25,120 --> 00:12:27,640 Speaker 5: I think about how many people just go year after 245 00:12:27,720 --> 00:12:31,000 Speaker 5: year feeding themselves jump and they wonder why they're depressed, 246 00:12:31,040 --> 00:12:32,920 Speaker 5: why they're negative, why they have no joy. 247 00:12:33,520 --> 00:12:35,800 Speaker 3: Now you've got to check up on what you're feeding yourself. 248 00:12:36,400 --> 00:12:38,679 Speaker 5: Had a man tell me just the other day how 249 00:12:38,720 --> 00:12:41,679 Speaker 5: he had struggled with depression and just being negative year 250 00:12:41,720 --> 00:12:44,720 Speaker 5: after year. But he said Joel, I got your CD 251 00:12:45,000 --> 00:12:48,120 Speaker 5: on not Losing your Joy, and I started listening to 252 00:12:48,160 --> 00:12:51,280 Speaker 5: that in my car every day driving back and forth 253 00:12:51,320 --> 00:12:53,760 Speaker 5: to work. He said, I've probably heard that message a 254 00:12:53,840 --> 00:12:56,920 Speaker 5: thousand times. I can almost quote it verbatim, but I 255 00:12:57,000 --> 00:12:59,760 Speaker 5: just keep listening to it. See, he was taking that 256 00:12:59,800 --> 00:13:03,160 Speaker 5: time time to feed his inner man life. He recognized 257 00:13:03,200 --> 00:13:05,880 Speaker 5: the importance of what he was putting in. You don't 258 00:13:05,880 --> 00:13:07,640 Speaker 5: have to listen to my CDs. You can listen to 259 00:13:07,640 --> 00:13:10,120 Speaker 5: somebody else's. They're not as good as mine. 260 00:13:09,880 --> 00:13:10,760 Speaker 3: But you can still listen. 261 00:13:12,640 --> 00:13:17,240 Speaker 5: But find something least, I'm honest, find something that feeds 262 00:13:17,240 --> 00:13:19,680 Speaker 5: you life, something that's going to build you up. And 263 00:13:19,760 --> 00:13:22,520 Speaker 5: if you're struggling in a certain area, do what he did. 264 00:13:22,880 --> 00:13:25,559 Speaker 5: Find something to target that area, and just listen to 265 00:13:25,600 --> 00:13:28,600 Speaker 5: it over and over again. But every chance we get, 266 00:13:28,760 --> 00:13:31,440 Speaker 5: we should be putting things in that's going to help 267 00:13:31,520 --> 00:13:33,680 Speaker 5: us increase, things that are going to help us grow. 268 00:13:34,600 --> 00:13:37,480 Speaker 5: All through the Bible, it compares our life to the 269 00:13:37,480 --> 00:13:40,240 Speaker 5: life of an eagle, And if you study the egle, 270 00:13:40,800 --> 00:13:45,000 Speaker 5: you'll find that the eagle strength is found in its diet. 271 00:13:45,760 --> 00:13:49,040 Speaker 5: And what's interesting is the eagle won't eat anything dead. 272 00:13:49,760 --> 00:13:52,480 Speaker 3: The egle only feeds off of live foods. 273 00:13:53,240 --> 00:13:56,440 Speaker 5: Now other birds in the same category somewhat like a 274 00:13:56,679 --> 00:13:59,960 Speaker 5: vulture or a buzzard, they'll eat anything they can get. 275 00:14:00,720 --> 00:14:03,720 Speaker 5: In fact, their whole existence is based off of other 276 00:14:03,800 --> 00:14:06,720 Speaker 5: dead animals. But not the eagle. He doesn't take the 277 00:14:06,760 --> 00:14:10,600 Speaker 5: easy way out. He flies upstream to look for salmon. 278 00:14:11,240 --> 00:14:14,480 Speaker 5: He has incredible vision. He can spot that salmon. 279 00:14:14,200 --> 00:14:15,680 Speaker 3: Up to half a mile away. 280 00:14:16,120 --> 00:14:18,720 Speaker 5: He sweeps down there and grabs that salmon, and he'll 281 00:14:18,760 --> 00:14:21,800 Speaker 5: have that fresh fish for dinner. But see the eagle, 282 00:14:22,360 --> 00:14:26,080 Speaker 5: unless he's in captivity, he only feeds off the live foods. 283 00:14:26,760 --> 00:14:29,120 Speaker 5: And the Bible tells us we are to mount up 284 00:14:29,200 --> 00:14:33,080 Speaker 5: with wings as the eagle, not as the buzzard, not 285 00:14:33,200 --> 00:14:36,400 Speaker 5: as the vulture, not as the chicken, And just like 286 00:14:36,440 --> 00:14:38,840 Speaker 5: that eagle, our strength is going to be found in 287 00:14:38,880 --> 00:14:39,400 Speaker 5: our diet. 288 00:14:39,720 --> 00:14:41,760 Speaker 3: It's going to be found in what we're putting in. 289 00:14:42,720 --> 00:14:45,680 Speaker 5: You can't go around eating a bunch of dead junk 290 00:14:45,800 --> 00:14:49,480 Speaker 5: and expect to stay strong and healthy. This is true physically, 291 00:14:49,520 --> 00:14:52,920 Speaker 5: but I'm talking, of course today about spiritually. If you're 292 00:14:52,960 --> 00:14:55,920 Speaker 5: hanging around with people that gossip, you need to recognize 293 00:14:55,960 --> 00:14:57,360 Speaker 5: what they're feeding you is dead. 294 00:14:58,080 --> 00:14:59,760 Speaker 3: If you eat it long enough, it's gonna get down 295 00:14:59,800 --> 00:15:00,240 Speaker 3: in you. 296 00:15:00,840 --> 00:15:03,160 Speaker 5: If you're watching a bunch of junk on television, a 297 00:15:03,280 --> 00:15:06,280 Speaker 5: junk on the internet, you're feeding yourself dead things. 298 00:15:06,800 --> 00:15:09,800 Speaker 3: And here's the thing. You can live off that dead food. 299 00:15:10,480 --> 00:15:13,640 Speaker 5: An eagle can survive eating with the vultures and the 300 00:15:13,720 --> 00:15:17,240 Speaker 5: chickens and the buzzards. But here's the problem. He's never 301 00:15:17,320 --> 00:15:20,920 Speaker 5: gonna soar. He's never gonna become what God created him 302 00:15:20,920 --> 00:15:23,960 Speaker 5: to be. And in the same way, if you're dwelling 303 00:15:24,280 --> 00:15:27,120 Speaker 5: on the wrong thoughts, filling your mind with a bunch 304 00:15:27,200 --> 00:15:31,120 Speaker 5: of trash, sure you'll survive, but you'll never sore us. 305 00:15:31,320 --> 00:15:35,040 Speaker 5: You'll never experience God's abundant life. And I'm asking us 306 00:15:35,080 --> 00:15:39,040 Speaker 5: today to take inventory of what we're feeding ourselves. What 307 00:15:39,120 --> 00:15:41,760 Speaker 5: kind of movies do you watch, what kind of music 308 00:15:41,800 --> 00:15:44,360 Speaker 5: do you listen to? What kind of friends do you 309 00:15:44,480 --> 00:15:48,560 Speaker 5: choose to hang around? All these things are feeding us. Now, 310 00:15:48,560 --> 00:15:50,720 Speaker 5: I really believe some of you would go to a 311 00:15:50,800 --> 00:15:54,440 Speaker 5: whole new level if you just quit feeding yourself dead things. 312 00:15:55,240 --> 00:15:58,200 Speaker 5: You shouldn't hang around with people that are negative, people 313 00:15:58,200 --> 00:16:00,760 Speaker 5: that compromise, people that gossip all the time. 314 00:16:01,040 --> 00:16:04,040 Speaker 3: That junk can rub off on you. Do you know 315 00:16:04,200 --> 00:16:05,760 Speaker 3: spirits are transferable. 316 00:16:06,640 --> 00:16:09,120 Speaker 5: You get around somebody that's jealous all the time, and 317 00:16:09,160 --> 00:16:10,640 Speaker 5: that old jealous spirit can get. 318 00:16:10,480 --> 00:16:11,760 Speaker 3: Off on you. 319 00:16:11,760 --> 00:16:14,360 Speaker 5: You hang around people that are negative and critical, and 320 00:16:14,400 --> 00:16:17,120 Speaker 5: you just watch and see if over time you don't 321 00:16:17,160 --> 00:16:20,080 Speaker 5: start to become more negative and critical. That's why it's 322 00:16:20,080 --> 00:16:23,440 Speaker 5: so important to surround yourself with people that have what 323 00:16:23,520 --> 00:16:27,120 Speaker 5: you want. I do my best to surround myself with 324 00:16:27,240 --> 00:16:30,520 Speaker 5: people that are givers and not takers, people that are happy, 325 00:16:30,560 --> 00:16:31,920 Speaker 5: people that have a dream. 326 00:16:31,640 --> 00:16:32,440 Speaker 3: For their life. 327 00:16:32,880 --> 00:16:37,000 Speaker 5: I recognize that spirit can come off on me even 328 00:16:37,080 --> 00:16:39,600 Speaker 5: when we listen to music. The words may seem good, 329 00:16:39,840 --> 00:16:42,320 Speaker 5: the beat may be kind of catchy, but what we 330 00:16:42,400 --> 00:16:45,880 Speaker 5: really need to know is who is this person that's 331 00:16:45,920 --> 00:16:49,360 Speaker 5: feeding my inner man? What do they believe, what do 332 00:16:49,440 --> 00:16:51,880 Speaker 5: they stand for, what kind of life do they live? 333 00:16:52,720 --> 00:16:55,160 Speaker 5: Their spirit can come through that music and get off 334 00:16:55,200 --> 00:16:58,840 Speaker 5: on me. Young people, you have to be extremely careful 335 00:16:59,120 --> 00:17:01,640 Speaker 5: because there's so much out there today that's destructive. 336 00:17:02,160 --> 00:17:02,760 Speaker 3: And you may not. 337 00:17:02,760 --> 00:17:05,720 Speaker 5: Think it's hurting anything and you're just having fun, but no, 338 00:17:05,880 --> 00:17:07,520 Speaker 5: this is a spiritual principle. 339 00:17:07,640 --> 00:17:08,600 Speaker 3: It's getting in you. 340 00:17:09,320 --> 00:17:12,520 Speaker 5: When you say Joel, everybody's doing it. Everybody listens to 341 00:17:12,560 --> 00:17:17,320 Speaker 5: this group. Everybody watches these movies. Now listen, you're not everybody. 342 00:17:17,480 --> 00:17:20,600 Speaker 5: You are a child of the most high God. You 343 00:17:20,720 --> 00:17:25,000 Speaker 5: have a destiny to fulfill. The enemy would love to 344 00:17:25,080 --> 00:17:27,960 Speaker 5: drag you down and get your computer all messed up, 345 00:17:28,480 --> 00:17:31,040 Speaker 5: program with a bunch of junk to where you don't 346 00:17:31,040 --> 00:17:34,040 Speaker 5: make good choices in life. No, don't fall into that trap. 347 00:17:34,160 --> 00:17:37,000 Speaker 5: Stay on the high road, you say, Joel, I know 348 00:17:37,119 --> 00:17:39,840 Speaker 5: this movie has a few bad scenes, got a little 349 00:17:39,840 --> 00:17:41,880 Speaker 5: bit of bad language, just a little bit of nudity, 350 00:17:42,000 --> 00:17:43,440 Speaker 5: but overall it's pretty good. 351 00:17:44,080 --> 00:17:46,280 Speaker 3: No, let me tell you are made for more than that. 352 00:17:46,920 --> 00:17:49,520 Speaker 5: That's like digging around in a garbage can trying to 353 00:17:49,560 --> 00:17:50,880 Speaker 5: find a good biscuit to eat. 354 00:17:51,560 --> 00:17:53,679 Speaker 3: Sure you may find something, but what about all that 355 00:17:53,720 --> 00:17:55,680 Speaker 3: other junk that's gonna get off on you. 356 00:17:55,800 --> 00:17:59,080 Speaker 5: Now, be selective, feed yourself only things that are gonna 357 00:17:59,080 --> 00:18:03,600 Speaker 5: build you up. Proverbs fifteen fourteen says only a fool 358 00:18:03,760 --> 00:18:06,960 Speaker 5: feeds on trash. I know some people they've been sitting 359 00:18:06,960 --> 00:18:09,639 Speaker 5: around for the last twenty two years watching soap operas 360 00:18:09,680 --> 00:18:12,720 Speaker 5: every day, and they're convinced it's not affecting them. They 361 00:18:12,760 --> 00:18:15,000 Speaker 5: tell me, Oh, Joel, I know the difference between right 362 00:18:15,040 --> 00:18:18,879 Speaker 5: and wrong. It's just entertaining, And yes, it may be 363 00:18:19,119 --> 00:18:22,399 Speaker 5: entertaining you, but it's also filling your mind with all. 364 00:18:22,320 --> 00:18:23,520 Speaker 3: Kinds of wrong values. 365 00:18:24,160 --> 00:18:27,680 Speaker 5: And if you watch people over and over again being 366 00:18:27,800 --> 00:18:31,400 Speaker 5: unfaithful in relationships, stabbing somebody in the back over here, 367 00:18:31,520 --> 00:18:35,359 Speaker 5: manipulating somebody over here, well, little by little, that's chipping 368 00:18:35,400 --> 00:18:38,520 Speaker 5: away at your values. The more you watch, the more 369 00:18:38,560 --> 00:18:41,880 Speaker 5: comfortable you're gonna get. And before long, if you're not careful, 370 00:18:42,000 --> 00:18:44,760 Speaker 5: you'll think it's okay to do what they're doing. What's 371 00:18:44,760 --> 00:18:49,000 Speaker 5: happened very subtly, very cleverly. You've been deceived into lowering 372 00:18:49,040 --> 00:18:53,480 Speaker 5: your standards. Friends, you will become what you eat. You've 373 00:18:53,480 --> 00:18:55,879 Speaker 5: got to be selective as to what you allow in 374 00:18:55,960 --> 00:18:59,639 Speaker 5: your temple. Your ears and your eyes are gates, and 375 00:18:59,680 --> 00:19:03,480 Speaker 5: only you can control what you allow in you know 376 00:19:03,520 --> 00:19:05,920 Speaker 5: as well as I do. In this society that we're 377 00:19:05,960 --> 00:19:09,400 Speaker 5: living in, sex is what sells. If you're gonna keep 378 00:19:09,440 --> 00:19:12,080 Speaker 5: your mind pure, if you're gonna keep your temple holy, 379 00:19:12,640 --> 00:19:13,840 Speaker 5: you've got to stay on guard. 380 00:19:13,880 --> 00:19:15,200 Speaker 3: You've gotta be on the offensive. 381 00:19:15,720 --> 00:19:18,359 Speaker 5: I know, even at our house, we get these catalogs 382 00:19:18,359 --> 00:19:20,240 Speaker 5: in the mail, and you know what some of the 383 00:19:20,280 --> 00:19:23,560 Speaker 5: catalogs look like, well, you can either feed off that 384 00:19:23,680 --> 00:19:27,239 Speaker 5: dead stuff and let your mind get polluted, or you 385 00:19:27,240 --> 00:19:30,680 Speaker 5: can choose to just walk away. The scripture tells us 386 00:19:30,880 --> 00:19:33,159 Speaker 5: we should think on things that are pure, things that 387 00:19:33,200 --> 00:19:36,119 Speaker 5: are wholesome. And what I'm saying today is if we 388 00:19:36,160 --> 00:19:39,280 Speaker 5: put trash in, we're gonna get trash out. May not 389 00:19:39,400 --> 00:19:43,239 Speaker 5: happen overnight, but sooner or later you will reap the 390 00:19:43,280 --> 00:19:46,280 Speaker 5: seeds that you've been sowing. And I know some people 391 00:19:46,600 --> 00:19:48,480 Speaker 5: they think they can get away with hanging around with 392 00:19:48,520 --> 00:19:52,760 Speaker 5: the wrong crowd or dwelling on negative, discouraging. 393 00:19:52,200 --> 00:19:54,360 Speaker 3: Thoughts, but it always catches up to them. 394 00:19:55,040 --> 00:19:57,879 Speaker 5: And you know what happens when we continually watch things 395 00:19:57,920 --> 00:20:01,280 Speaker 5: that we know are not right, it is sensitizing us 396 00:20:01,320 --> 00:20:04,240 Speaker 5: to it. In other words, we see it so much 397 00:20:04,800 --> 00:20:07,880 Speaker 5: that it's no big deal. We're not alarmed by it anymore. 398 00:20:08,359 --> 00:20:10,879 Speaker 5: I mean, if you watch somebody cheat on their spouse 399 00:20:10,960 --> 00:20:14,040 Speaker 5: long enough, you'll begin to think it's okay. You watch 400 00:20:14,040 --> 00:20:16,800 Speaker 5: somebody cheating a business deal or stab somebody in the 401 00:20:16,840 --> 00:20:19,760 Speaker 5: back long enough, after a period of time, you kind 402 00:20:19,760 --> 00:20:23,280 Speaker 5: of think, man, that's just business, that's just life. Many times, 403 00:20:23,359 --> 00:20:27,280 Speaker 5: not all the times, but TV glamorizes the wrong things. 404 00:20:27,960 --> 00:20:32,119 Speaker 5: Many times, people that are happy in relationships are shown 405 00:20:32,160 --> 00:20:34,520 Speaker 5: by people that are only not married. 406 00:20:34,880 --> 00:20:37,720 Speaker 3: It's very subtle. It's saying, in a roundabout. 407 00:20:37,200 --> 00:20:39,120 Speaker 5: Way, if you want to be happy, if you want 408 00:20:39,160 --> 00:20:41,240 Speaker 5: to really have fun, you got to cheat, you gotta 409 00:20:41,240 --> 00:20:44,520 Speaker 5: play around. If you watch that junk long enough, you're 410 00:20:44,560 --> 00:20:46,120 Speaker 5: being programmed to accept it. 411 00:20:46,400 --> 00:20:47,800 Speaker 3: Even if it's subconsciously. 412 00:20:48,000 --> 00:20:51,399 Speaker 5: Remember, everything is going in and Jesus said there in 413 00:20:51,440 --> 00:20:55,520 Speaker 5: Matthew twelve, verse thirty five, a good man, out of 414 00:20:55,560 --> 00:20:59,160 Speaker 5: the good treasure of his heart, brings forth good things. 415 00:21:00,040 --> 00:21:04,359 Speaker 5: Evil man brings forth evil things. Notice it's talking about 416 00:21:04,359 --> 00:21:07,280 Speaker 5: what we've been putting in. It's talking about what we've 417 00:21:07,320 --> 00:21:10,479 Speaker 5: been feeding ourselves, what's in our heart. And I'm not 418 00:21:10,520 --> 00:21:13,879 Speaker 5: preaching against television today, but when something comes on that 419 00:21:13,960 --> 00:21:16,560 Speaker 5: you know is not right, that's why God created the 420 00:21:16,560 --> 00:21:20,200 Speaker 5: remote control. You can change the channel, but you cannot 421 00:21:20,280 --> 00:21:22,560 Speaker 5: sit there night after night and watch things that you 422 00:21:22,680 --> 00:21:25,600 Speaker 5: know are not right and not expect it to affect you. 423 00:21:26,520 --> 00:21:30,879 Speaker 5: We have to realize, even subconsciously, it's going in the 424 00:21:31,000 --> 00:21:33,160 Speaker 5: mind is extremely incredible. 425 00:21:33,600 --> 00:21:34,639 Speaker 3: It can take in. 426 00:21:34,600 --> 00:21:37,520 Speaker 5: Things that we're not even aware of. And that's why 427 00:21:37,600 --> 00:21:40,200 Speaker 5: you shouldn't just leave your TV on as background noise 428 00:21:40,280 --> 00:21:43,520 Speaker 5: during the day. Don't just leave any radio station on 429 00:21:43,680 --> 00:21:46,399 Speaker 5: at home or at work. You may not even be 430 00:21:46,480 --> 00:21:49,639 Speaker 5: paying attention, and yet things can be going in that you're. 431 00:21:49,520 --> 00:21:50,040 Speaker 3: Not aware of. 432 00:21:50,520 --> 00:21:52,359 Speaker 5: We have to be on guard, We have to be 433 00:21:52,440 --> 00:21:54,800 Speaker 5: diligent if we're going to keep the junk out of 434 00:21:54,840 --> 00:21:58,920 Speaker 5: our temple and parents, we need to be especially careful 435 00:21:59,240 --> 00:22:02,520 Speaker 5: about the video games that we allow our children to play. 436 00:22:03,320 --> 00:22:06,520 Speaker 5: Many of them are so violent, so graphic today that 437 00:22:06,560 --> 00:22:09,800 Speaker 5: by the time they're ten or eleven years old, they 438 00:22:09,840 --> 00:22:13,160 Speaker 5: think nothing of death, they think nothing of killing, they 439 00:22:13,160 --> 00:22:17,720 Speaker 5: think nothing of fighting. It's slowly lowering their standards. It's 440 00:22:17,800 --> 00:22:21,760 Speaker 5: desensitizing them to it. I was reading about this teenage 441 00:22:21,760 --> 00:22:25,240 Speaker 5: student several years ago. He shot and killed four of 442 00:22:25,280 --> 00:22:29,640 Speaker 5: his fellow classmates. The community and his parents they were shocked. 443 00:22:29,800 --> 00:22:32,600 Speaker 5: He was a model student, and they asked him how 444 00:22:32,640 --> 00:22:35,440 Speaker 5: he could possibly do it, and he said, oh, it's 445 00:22:35,480 --> 00:22:39,600 Speaker 5: not hard. I kill every day talking about his video games. 446 00:22:39,960 --> 00:22:43,000 Speaker 5: You will become what you eat. And if you program 447 00:22:43,040 --> 00:22:45,119 Speaker 5: your computer with a bunch of junk, it's going to 448 00:22:45,200 --> 00:22:48,119 Speaker 5: cause you all kinds of problems and parents, God is 449 00:22:48,160 --> 00:22:51,480 Speaker 5: going to hold us responsible for our children. We can't 450 00:22:51,520 --> 00:22:54,080 Speaker 5: just drop our teenagers off at the mall and let 451 00:22:54,119 --> 00:22:56,359 Speaker 5: them watch any movie that they want to. There needs 452 00:22:56,359 --> 00:22:58,840 Speaker 5: to be some guidelines. There needs to be some boundaries. 453 00:23:00,119 --> 00:23:03,560 Speaker 5: Use the television as a babysitter for your little children. 454 00:23:03,960 --> 00:23:06,440 Speaker 5: If you plant them in front of the TV, they 455 00:23:06,480 --> 00:23:08,919 Speaker 5: may very well grow into something that you don't like. 456 00:23:09,640 --> 00:23:12,639 Speaker 5: And I know this takes time. We're all busy these days, 457 00:23:12,840 --> 00:23:15,160 Speaker 5: but we have one chance to raise our children. 458 00:23:15,400 --> 00:23:18,360 Speaker 3: Let's make sure that we do it right. Let's be careful. 459 00:23:18,400 --> 00:23:21,320 Speaker 5: What we allow into them is helping to form who 460 00:23:21,359 --> 00:23:26,520 Speaker 5: they are. And I know some of these things we 461 00:23:26,560 --> 00:23:29,640 Speaker 5: don't really have a choice. It seems like almost everywhere 462 00:23:29,680 --> 00:23:32,960 Speaker 5: we look these days, on a billboard or the magazine 463 00:23:33,000 --> 00:23:35,920 Speaker 5: stand at the grocery store, there's some kind of bad influence. 464 00:23:36,200 --> 00:23:37,840 Speaker 5: But what I'm saying today is we got to just 465 00:23:37,920 --> 00:23:40,960 Speaker 5: learn to turn away. Our attitude should be I am 466 00:23:40,960 --> 00:23:43,679 Speaker 5: not going to poison my mind. If you're watching a 467 00:23:43,680 --> 00:23:46,720 Speaker 5: ballgame and a commercial comes on that's not wholesome, just 468 00:23:46,720 --> 00:23:49,840 Speaker 5: flip away, be an eagle, don't feed off the dead stuff. 469 00:23:50,359 --> 00:23:52,639 Speaker 5: Your friends ask you to go see a movie and 470 00:23:52,680 --> 00:23:54,520 Speaker 5: you know it's not right, you don't feel good about 471 00:23:54,520 --> 00:23:55,360 Speaker 5: it down in here. 472 00:23:55,680 --> 00:23:57,359 Speaker 3: Just be bold enough to say no thanks. 473 00:23:57,800 --> 00:23:59,920 Speaker 5: If they want to feed on that junket's up to them, 474 00:24:00,320 --> 00:24:02,800 Speaker 5: but your attitude should be I'm staying on the high road. 475 00:24:03,080 --> 00:24:05,199 Speaker 5: I'm only going to feed off of good things so 476 00:24:05,280 --> 00:24:08,240 Speaker 5: I can stay strong and healthy. And a few years ago, 477 00:24:08,320 --> 00:24:10,840 Speaker 5: Victoria and I went to a Broadway play. It was 478 00:24:10,880 --> 00:24:13,399 Speaker 5: one of the top rated shows during that time, and 479 00:24:13,600 --> 00:24:16,399 Speaker 5: somebody had given us very expensive tickets right up front, 480 00:24:16,720 --> 00:24:19,480 Speaker 5: and so we showed up. But the first ten minutes 481 00:24:19,600 --> 00:24:22,240 Speaker 5: or so, the language was really terrible. 482 00:24:22,680 --> 00:24:23,760 Speaker 3: I mean every other. 483 00:24:23,680 --> 00:24:26,280 Speaker 5: Word was a curse word, and some of the scenes 484 00:24:26,320 --> 00:24:28,800 Speaker 5: were very questionable, and I kept thinking that. 485 00:24:28,760 --> 00:24:30,480 Speaker 3: It was going to get better, but it never did. 486 00:24:31,160 --> 00:24:31,800 Speaker 3: And finally I. 487 00:24:31,760 --> 00:24:34,919 Speaker 5: Told Victoria, man, I don't want to feed myself this junk. 488 00:24:35,560 --> 00:24:37,320 Speaker 5: I know people are gonna think I'm a stick in 489 00:24:37,400 --> 00:24:40,840 Speaker 5: the mud, but I value who I am. I realize 490 00:24:40,840 --> 00:24:43,320 Speaker 5: that it's being recorded on the inside. 491 00:24:44,280 --> 00:24:46,720 Speaker 3: And so we just very quietly stepped away. 492 00:24:47,320 --> 00:24:50,320 Speaker 5: And yes, the tickets were very expensive, Yes they were 493 00:24:50,400 --> 00:24:53,440 Speaker 5: very valuable, but you know what's more valuable the temple 494 00:24:53,480 --> 00:24:58,480 Speaker 5: that God's given me. And I refuse, I refuse to 495 00:24:58,600 --> 00:25:01,200 Speaker 5: allow anybody to just up a whole bunch of garbage 496 00:25:01,240 --> 00:25:04,040 Speaker 5: in me. I don't want that spirit being transferred often 497 00:25:04,080 --> 00:25:06,160 Speaker 5: to me. And I know some people thinking, well, well, Joe, 498 00:25:06,240 --> 00:25:08,879 Speaker 5: you just stiff man, that's not hurting anything. But no, 499 00:25:08,960 --> 00:25:12,520 Speaker 5: if you put garbage in somewhere, in some way, shape 500 00:25:12,560 --> 00:25:14,640 Speaker 5: or form, that garbage is gonna come out. It's gonna 501 00:25:14,640 --> 00:25:18,720 Speaker 5: affect you. If people are telling off colored jokes around. 502 00:25:18,480 --> 00:25:19,879 Speaker 3: You, you don't have to be rude. 503 00:25:20,160 --> 00:25:22,080 Speaker 5: I'm not saying to condemn them and try to beat 504 00:25:22,119 --> 00:25:24,920 Speaker 5: them down, but I am saying you should care enough 505 00:25:24,920 --> 00:25:27,760 Speaker 5: about your temple to walk away. If you're going to 506 00:25:27,800 --> 00:25:30,320 Speaker 5: be an ego, you've got to stay away from dead things. 507 00:25:30,760 --> 00:25:32,760 Speaker 5: And let me tell you, you may not be able 508 00:25:32,760 --> 00:25:35,520 Speaker 5: to watch everything your peers watch. You may not be 509 00:25:35,560 --> 00:25:39,160 Speaker 5: able to listen to everything your friends listen to. There's 510 00:25:39,200 --> 00:25:41,800 Speaker 5: a price to pay for living in victory. But if 511 00:25:41,840 --> 00:25:44,280 Speaker 5: you'll stay on that high road and only feed off 512 00:25:44,280 --> 00:25:47,800 Speaker 5: of good things, you'll continue to rise higher while many 513 00:25:47,840 --> 00:25:50,919 Speaker 5: of them just flounder around in mediocrity. But there is 514 00:25:50,960 --> 00:25:53,359 Speaker 5: a price to pay. We have to keep our temple pure. 515 00:25:54,040 --> 00:25:57,200 Speaker 5: I think it about Sampson. He had a supernatural birth. 516 00:25:57,720 --> 00:26:00,720 Speaker 5: His mother had never had any children, and the angel 517 00:26:00,760 --> 00:26:03,320 Speaker 5: appeared unto her and said, you're going to have a son, 518 00:26:03,920 --> 00:26:06,560 Speaker 5: and he will begin to deliver Israel from the hand 519 00:26:06,680 --> 00:26:11,160 Speaker 5: of the Philistines. God had a divine purpose for Sampson's life. 520 00:26:11,440 --> 00:26:14,120 Speaker 5: He was chosen and set apart. And you remember how 521 00:26:14,119 --> 00:26:18,080 Speaker 5: he had that supernatural strength and power. But Sampson had 522 00:26:18,080 --> 00:26:22,440 Speaker 5: a major weakness in his character. He didn't exercise restraint 523 00:26:22,600 --> 00:26:25,520 Speaker 5: over what he looked at. He allowed his mind to 524 00:26:25,560 --> 00:26:29,600 Speaker 5: become polluted. It's interesting the first words recorded in the 525 00:26:29,600 --> 00:26:34,040 Speaker 5: Bible out of Sampson's mouth, where I saw a woman and. 526 00:26:33,960 --> 00:26:34,680 Speaker 3: In a nutshell. 527 00:26:34,880 --> 00:26:37,159 Speaker 5: That was the story of his life. He couldn't keep 528 00:26:37,200 --> 00:26:38,160 Speaker 5: his eyes focused on. 529 00:26:38,119 --> 00:26:38,840 Speaker 3: The right things. 530 00:26:39,480 --> 00:26:42,080 Speaker 5: Little by little that led him off of God's best path. 531 00:26:42,640 --> 00:26:45,439 Speaker 5: And if you study his life, although he was called 532 00:26:45,480 --> 00:26:48,639 Speaker 5: to do great things, he spent most of his time 533 00:26:48,800 --> 00:26:54,080 Speaker 5: in mediocrity, hanging out with prostitutes, posing riddles to the Philistines, 534 00:26:54,680 --> 00:26:57,120 Speaker 5: all because he didn't control what he looked at. 535 00:26:57,280 --> 00:26:59,720 Speaker 3: He just kept feeding himself a bunch of jump. 536 00:27:00,520 --> 00:27:03,560 Speaker 5: When the Philistines finally captured him, the first thing they 537 00:27:03,600 --> 00:27:06,840 Speaker 5: did was to gouge out his eyes. They even knew 538 00:27:06,840 --> 00:27:08,960 Speaker 5: that was his big problem. They knew that was the 539 00:27:09,000 --> 00:27:12,160 Speaker 5: gateway to his lost And really it's a sad story. 540 00:27:12,560 --> 00:27:15,679 Speaker 5: When Sampson should have been delivering the people of God, 541 00:27:16,320 --> 00:27:20,440 Speaker 5: he ended up as a slave, blind, grinding at the mill, 542 00:27:20,960 --> 00:27:24,600 Speaker 5: all because he didn't keep his thought life pure. And friends, 543 00:27:24,720 --> 00:27:28,240 Speaker 5: just like Sampson, every one of you has a divine destiny. 544 00:27:28,800 --> 00:27:31,920 Speaker 5: God has chosen you, he has called you, He's put 545 00:27:32,040 --> 00:27:33,359 Speaker 5: seeds of greatness in you. 546 00:27:33,840 --> 00:27:35,840 Speaker 3: But you have to do your part and keep your 547 00:27:35,880 --> 00:27:36,520 Speaker 3: temple pure. 548 00:27:37,160 --> 00:27:40,439 Speaker 5: Now I'm challenging you today to take inventory of what 549 00:27:40,480 --> 00:27:45,280 Speaker 5: you're feeding yourself, your thoughts, your friends, your entertainment. Is 550 00:27:45,320 --> 00:27:48,120 Speaker 5: it building you up? Is it causing you to grow 551 00:27:48,200 --> 00:27:51,360 Speaker 5: and increase? If not, why don't you make some changes. 552 00:27:51,960 --> 00:27:54,840 Speaker 5: Life is too short to go around in mediocrity. Be 553 00:27:54,960 --> 00:27:57,720 Speaker 5: an eagle, stay away from dead things. It's got to 554 00:27:57,760 --> 00:28:01,359 Speaker 5: guard your eyes. Guard your ears the gateway to your soul. 555 00:28:02,200 --> 00:28:04,960 Speaker 5: Learn to get up every morning and dwell on good thoughts. 556 00:28:05,520 --> 00:28:08,080 Speaker 5: Start your day off thanking God for what He's done. 557 00:28:08,520 --> 00:28:11,520 Speaker 5: Put things up around you that inspire you. Listen to 558 00:28:11,520 --> 00:28:14,920 Speaker 5: good music, and all day long, meditate on God's word. 559 00:28:15,560 --> 00:28:18,240 Speaker 5: If you will continually feed yourself good things. 560 00:28:18,480 --> 00:28:19,800 Speaker 3: Let me tell you you'll be an ego. 561 00:28:20,119 --> 00:28:22,639 Speaker 5: You'll have God's strength and power, and you'll begin to 562 00:28:22,720 --> 00:28:25,400 Speaker 5: soar and really live that life of victory that God 563 00:28:25,400 --> 00:28:26,040 Speaker 5: has in story. 564 00:28:26,040 --> 00:28:28,960 Speaker 3: Amen, you receive it today, and I know you do. 565 00:28:30,480 --> 00:28:33,480 Speaker 5: We never like to close our broadcast without giving you 566 00:28:33,520 --> 00:28:36,200 Speaker 5: an opportunity to make Jesus the lord of your life. 567 00:28:36,680 --> 00:28:40,920 Speaker 5: Would you pray with me? Just say, Lord, Jesus, I 568 00:28:41,080 --> 00:28:45,800 Speaker 5: repent of my sins. 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