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If you can keep your hand 
off that mouse, guys,

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the world will open up to you.

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Restore to me the joy of your salvation,
and uphold me with a willing spirit.

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Psalm 51:12

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I don't have any problem

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with us doing all kinds of things

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to surround men and women

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with protections against sexual sin,

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I think that's a very good idea.

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It's just not the main point.

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If that's where you 
fight the battle continually,

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you will never get to the
root of the issue.

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The root of the issue here

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is this renewed heart,

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this joy and gladness;

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the bones that God has broken

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healed with the joy
of our salvation.

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The misuse of the beautiful 
gift of sex

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is a symptom of a disease,

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not the disease.

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And that's why this psalm
doesn't mention it.

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And it's the main issue!

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Or we thought it was
the main issue.

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It's not the main issue.

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This is the main issue.

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Restore to me the joy
of Your salvation,

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because when that joy fades,

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I click on pornography.

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When that joy fades,

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I start cruising the neighborhood.

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When that joy fades,

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I get an itch for another woman.

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When that joy fades,

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on and on and on...

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every sin on the outside
is symptomatic

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of the absence of this joy.

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What does your heart 
say about Christ?

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Late at night,

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all alone,

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in front of an Internet screen,

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mouse ready to click,

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what does your heart say

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about Christ over pornography?

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For God did not call us to uncleanness,
but in holiness.

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Therefore he who rejects this, does 
not reject man, but God... 1 Thess 4:7-8

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And I pray that You 
would come upon this gathering,

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and do a work that will ripple

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to the end of time,

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and to the end of the world

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in Jesus' name, Amen.

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Thousands were walking away
from the dream they once dreamed

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for global impact,

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because of sexual sin
in their lives,

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and sexual failure in their past.

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Thousands who have
dreamed a dream

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of being radically significant
in the world,

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doing something,

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laying down your life,

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sacrificing anything to spread
the renown of Jesus Christ

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to the cities and the nations

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and the campuses;

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and then,

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you lost it.

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And one of the huge reasons

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he said that it was being lost

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was that there was so much

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guilt,

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and a sense of unworthiness

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because of sexual failure

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that the guilt and the unworthiness

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finally bled down into a gnawing

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sense of spiritual powerlessness,

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yielding the dead end street,

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the dead end dream

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of middle class, American,
comfortable, secure

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security.

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The great tragedy of 
Christian young people's lives

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is not masturbation,

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it's not fornication,

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it's not being a peeping tom

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or a curious cathy on the Internet.

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The tragedy is that Satan uses

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the guilt of all those failures

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to strip you of your once radical dream

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and to put in its place

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a life that is happy and safe

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and secure, American, middle class,

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filled with superficial pleasures,

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so that you someday die

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on your lakeside rocking chair,

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wrinkled and useless

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and leaving a big, fat inheritance

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to your middle-aged children

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to confirm them in their worldliness.

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That's what he wants to sell you

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because you failed so badly.

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And the only alternative is that.

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Instead of what you once dreamed

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for Christ and His Kingdom.

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And I have not come here

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to waste your time or my time.

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I have come with a passion

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that you not waste your life.

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Our people are laid waste

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with sexual temptation.

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Why?

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Because our souls have shriveled up

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to the size of a t.v. sitcom.

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I mean, can you imagine

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soaking in front of soaps or sitcoms

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for hours on end,

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and then going to a church

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where they don't give 
a rip about theology,

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and then thinking 
you're going to have

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any fiber in the tree of your faith.

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You're just going to get blown flat.

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That's what's going to happen.

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And so find the right church,

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and read your Bibles, 
and read the right books.

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Theology

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with passion for Jesus

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can conquer biology.