Engage

Sex / Lust / Pornography Pt. 2

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Participants: Jay Rosario & Daniel McGrath (Host), Ariel Roldan

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00:19 Hello, again. My name is Jay Rosario
00:21 and welcome to Engage.
00:23 A program that deals with relevant issues
00:27 and challenges facing young adults
00:29 in their Christian journey.
00:31 Today we have a very interesting program
00:33 and we wanna encourage those that are of minor age
00:37 or young children that if parents consider it
00:41 unsuitable for them to be present
00:43 because of the nature of our discussion,
00:45 we encourage children to be absent from this segments.
00:49 Joining us today we've my good friend, Dan.
00:52 How is it going, Dan? Good, Jay.
00:53 Thanks for having me.
00:54 So, Dan, what exactly are we gonna be talking about
00:57 that's so sensitive today.
00:58 Well, today we're talking about
00:59 the issue of pornography.
01:01 It's an issue that we as Adventist
01:03 or as Christians have kind of pushed under the rug.
01:05 We haven't really talked about it
01:07 openly which is what we're trying to do today
01:09 because we wanna-- we want the Bible to speak
01:12 for itself and the Bible says so much about it.
01:14 So that's why we've also invited
01:17 our good friend Ariel here.
01:19 Ariel Roldan. Roldan.
01:20 Let's bring Ariel Roldan.
01:21 Thanks for coming backing, Ariel.
01:23 My pleasure. We appreciate that you're here.
01:24 I'm so glad to see you guys again.
01:26 For those of you-- for those that don't know
01:28 who you're, Ariel,
01:29 just may be you can say a few words about yourself.
01:32 I'm currently pastoring in Michigan
01:34 and also finishing my Masters of Divinity at Andrews.
01:38 I've been married for almost five years now
01:40 and I have a beautiful eight month old little girl
01:43 that is learning to give daddy big wet kisses.
01:46 Nice. I'm loving it.
01:47 So soon you're gonna have white hairs. No, no.
01:49 'cause of the wisdom and the experience of a father.
01:51 Uh, I don't know, but I don't know if maybe
01:53 I'll have hair left.
01:55 I wouldn't mind if it's white.
01:57 Yeah, well, we're talking about pornography today.
02:00 This is a sensitive issue for many people. Yes.
02:03 And I think some people are probably tempted to think
02:05 that it's not a big issue.
02:07 And I just want to read a couple of statistics here
02:09 just to start us off because I think they speak more than,
02:14 you know, what we may be have heard.
02:16 12% of all websites on the internet,
02:19 the entire internet, 12% of those
02:20 are dedicated just to pornography.
02:22 Worldwide? Worldwide.
02:23 Worldwide internet. Worldwide internet.
02:25 25% of all internet searches are for porn.
02:28 That's one quarter of all-- everything that's--
02:30 every time you do a Google search you do four times
02:32 and one of those will be for porn. Wow. Wow.
02:35 35% of all internet downloads, worldwide downloads,
02:39 35% of those are related to porn. Hmm.
02:43 37%--this isn't just an issue for,
02:45 you know, that teens
02:47 or secular people struggle with 37% of all pastors
02:52 said that it was a struggle. Wow.
02:55 And 51% of those pastors said it was a temptation.
02:59 So this is a big thing and it's not just something
03:01 for that men struggle with,
03:02 six out of ten women struggle with it. Wow.
03:05 That was surprising to me, I didn't know that.
03:06 60%. 60% of women.
03:08 Those are--those are pretty disturbing numbers.
03:10 So and the Bible says a lot about this.
03:11 May be you could just open us up,
03:13 maybe recap a little bit of what
03:15 we talked about in the last program and lead into,
03:18 you know, why this is, you know,
03:20 what the Bible says about this.
03:22 Pornography needs to be placed with any context
03:25 and basically pornography is a sexual act
03:29 being portrayed visually via print or video
03:33 nowadays in various forms but the context is sex.
03:37 And in order to discuss something like this
03:39 we need to go back to the Bible
03:40 and allow the Bible to put the context of sex around it.
03:44 And my favorite place to go to as you guys know
03:47 for the last thing is Genesis.
03:48 Genesis. Oh, good memory.
03:50 Chapter 2. Chapter 2 verse 7.
03:55 For me all of these discussions
03:57 regarding sexuality we need to go back to the original.
04:01 And in Genesis Chapter 2:7 we've a loaded passage,
04:05 very powerful passage in verse 7.
04:07 Jay, could you read it for us please?
04:09 Genesis 2:7 says "The Lord God formed the man
04:11 from the dust of the ground
04:13 and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life,
04:15 and the man became a living being."
04:18 The creation of a man was not something that was,
04:23 here's this part about man
04:24 and here's this part about man
04:25 and here's this part about man.
04:27 Man as a whole was sexual,
04:30 because He created male and female.
04:33 And as a male or as a female
04:36 we have components to ourselves
04:38 that all are inter-matching, you cannot separate.
04:41 And you have our mental aspects or intellectual,
04:45 we have our emotional.
04:47 We have our physical, which includes the sexual.
04:51 That sexual act itself is the most
04:52 simplified way of saying it.
04:54 And then of course we have the spiritual component
04:56 to who we are as a whole.
04:58 And though we may separate the components
05:01 the reality is that all of me
05:02 is all of those components at the same time.
05:04 You cannot separate one from the other
05:06 and pornography does exactly that.
05:09 It tries to rip out the physical aspect
05:13 and isolate it and present it as the whole.
05:17 Like this is the entire sex act.
05:21 Where in reality it's a rip-off,
05:22 it's a knock off because it's actually 25%
05:25 of what a human can experience sexual--
05:26 It's almost incomplete.
05:28 Extremely incomplete and extremely false.
05:31 As we get more into the program
05:33 I had to do some research to this and be careful.
05:36 I mean we talk about pastors and things like that.
05:39 Paul says, "If you think you're standing,
05:41 watch-out you might fall in."
05:43 This is a trap that I think
05:44 many pastors need to tread lightly.
05:46 So when I did research I prayed a lot.
05:48 I didn't want to, you know,
05:49 be going to places where I shouldn't,
05:51 but some of the side effects that I would see--
05:55 this one particular documentary done by the BBC.
05:59 Then I focused on the industry itself,
06:02 but focused on male actors.
06:04 And one of the things that baffles me
06:05 was most of these men in their early 20's are experiencing
06:10 difficulties experiencing arousal
06:14 and so they take things like Viagra
06:16 at the ages of 19, 20, 21, 22, 23 even though it will harm
06:21 their hearts in the long run.
06:23 The money obviously is a driver for them
06:25 but during the interview they spoke
06:26 about how it is no longer pleasurable.
06:29 The drive for it is money not the sexual act.
06:34 So for me it just convinced me further
06:37 that what the Bible was saying is true
06:38 and that it is not only just an incomplete act,
06:41 it is an act that will get impoverished
06:43 and less and less pleasurable as it continues on.
06:47 Just like we read in Psalm 16:11,
06:49 "The pleasures that God
06:50 provides for us are everlasting."
06:53 But in Hebrews 11:24 and 25 we learn that
06:56 "The pleasures of sin are temporary."
06:59 Now, Ariel, what if-- what if a viewer says,
07:01 "well, that's fine, Ariel,"
07:04 but, you know, may be somebody
07:06 who just simply watches it or may be they say,
07:08 well, after all sex is something
07:10 that is that God has created
07:13 and it doesn't hurt the observe the mere act
07:18 or is there a danger to observing and is it--
07:22 do people generally just observe?
07:24 I mean what's the problem with this?
07:26 The problem is that speaking pharmacology,
07:32 my background as a nurse, these are big words,
07:34 this means speaking about drugs.
07:35 Okay, thank you, I don't have--
07:36 I have no idea what you're talking about.
07:38 Speaking about drugs, you have heroin,
07:40 cocaine and all these big guns
07:43 and then you have nicotine and marijuana.
07:46 These are the gateway drugs.
07:47 They are the bridges that will get you to those.
07:50 And so pornography is a gateway entity
07:54 into--leading us into practice things like self-abuse
07:59 or self-pleasuring which is also known as masturbation.
08:03 This self pleasuring act in itself is actually
08:06 and even more impoverished a practice
08:08 that leaves the person feeling less fulfilled than
08:14 if we do not practicing it.
08:16 Many people-- there is controversies
08:18 obviously because science does research and does studies
08:21 and as I looked at articles on different medical journals
08:26 there is no clear definitive answer
08:29 saying its harmful or its not harmful,
08:32 self-pleasuring is something harmful or not.
08:34 But I began to look at the word of God for answers.
08:38 Some day the medical world may agree
08:40 or disagree but it's relevant.
08:42 I think the word of God so far to me
08:44 has proven to be pretty accurate.
08:46 So the track record of the word
08:47 I think gives me confidence that some of the principles
08:50 what we find here will give us
08:52 some definite-- definitive answers.
08:55 I'll like for us to turn to the Bible again
08:57 to Genesis Chapter 2. Genesis again.
09:00 Genesis is loaded with information.
09:02 And I'm going to kind of share a little bit of my journey.
09:07 I did not just decide one day to decide,
09:09 oh, I like to have seminars on sex.
09:11 I was a young man with questions
09:14 and coming from a Hispanic culture,
09:16 my culture--like we discuss in our previous program
09:20 it's been highly taboo
09:21 and there was no clear answers for questions.
09:24 And one of the questions that I had that with verse 23.
09:29 Genesis Chapter 2, verse 23,
09:30 Dan, could you read it for us? Sure.
09:33 "And Adam said, this is now bone of my bone,
09:35 and flesh of my flesh. She shall be called Woman,
09:38 because she was taken out of Man." Okay.
09:41 You've a--the actual place where man and woman
09:46 become their own sexual entity a man and a woman.
09:50 And, Jay, could you read verse 24 for us?
09:52 Sure. This is the clincher.
09:53 Verse 24 says "Therefore a man shall leave his father
09:56 and mother and be joined to his wife,
09:57 and they shall become one flesh."
10:00 In that last part I went to my dad and I said,
10:02 dad what is one flesh?
10:04 And my dad began to stutter
10:06 and sweat and sweat and Maria, called my mom.
10:11 Your son has something to say to you.
10:13 Leave. It's very uncomfortable.
10:15 Sure. And so it haunted me.
10:18 I began to ask what is one flesh, what is one flesh.
10:21 And this journey led me to 2nd--
10:24 1st Corinthians, Chapter 6.
10:25 We can keep our finger in Genesis,
10:27 Chapter 2 and turn real quick to 1st Corinthians, Chapter 6.
10:35 I think that our viewers can hopefully also see
10:38 that when you have questions about the Bible,
10:40 if you don't have all the answers in one section,
10:42 you'll probably find it in another section.
10:43 Right, that's right. So the Bible answers itself.
10:48 In 1st Corinthians, Chapter 6 verses 15 and 16. I'll read.
10:55 "Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ?
10:59 Shall I then take the members of Christ,
11:01 and make them the members of a harlot?
11:04 Certainly not. Or do you not know
11:07 that he who is joined to a harlot is one body with her?
11:12 For the two, He says, shall become one flesh."
11:17 Now Paul here is quoting what passage from the Bible?
11:19 Genesis. Genesis 24.
11:21 In the context often God makes the declaration
11:24 and the two shall become one flesh.
11:25 What was that context in Genesis Chapter 2?
11:29 The relationship that Adam and Eve
11:30 are gonna have to with each other.
11:32 What was that context?
11:33 Marriage. Husband and wife. Marriage, husband and wife.
11:36 What is this context
11:37 in which Paul is quoting the same passage?
11:41 Adultery. Yeah, exactly.
11:43 Yet the same results. Interesting.
11:46 So most people think, you know,
11:48 now when pastors would speak about this passage
11:50 of that two shall become one flesh and, you know,
11:52 in weddings we talk about this.
11:54 We always put into context that this can only happen
11:56 when you get married, but Paul quotes
12:00 this in a relation in a context
12:02 that there is no love,
12:04 there is no emotional attachment,
12:06 there is no emotional commitment.
12:07 There is no commitment at all except financial.
12:10 Yet he says the two shall become one flesh.
12:14 So you're saying that there is a certain kind of bond
12:17 that the physical act of intimacy
12:21 brings about whether you're married or not.
12:22 That's right.
12:24 There--there is laws that are placed
12:26 within our bodies that I think sometimes
12:28 we do disservice to ourselves by not knowing these things.
12:32 And this journey again like I told you
12:33 it wasn't just me looking for answers regarding sexuality.
12:37 I was a massage therapist as well for many years
12:38 and when we were in Loma Linda
12:40 Dr. Hershey who teaches neuroanatomy at university
12:44 He gave us a brief, very brief
12:46 short lecture on the nervous system
12:49 but some of the things he said they were beginning
12:51 to put the pieces together for me
12:52 and then I read some more books
12:53 and then I went into nursing school
12:55 the whole picture just came together for me.
12:58 We have five channels through
13:00 which our brain gets feedback
13:03 or information from the outside world. Wow.
13:05 We have our sight, our smell, our taste,
13:08 our touch, and our hearing. Right.
13:11 I'm gonna ask you guys and the viewers at home,
13:13 they can also, you know,
13:14 have their wheel spinning with this question.
13:17 Think of an activity
13:19 in which you're gonna use all five of those channel,
13:23 all five of those highways into our brain,
13:27 at full blast, full strength, full throttle.
13:33 Can you guys think of one activity
13:36 that a human being could experience
13:38 that would engage all five at the same time full power?
13:44 Skydiving. That's the only one I go through.
13:47 How is that? How--
13:49 I guess you tasting the air.
13:50 Tasting the air. Yeah. Yeah.
13:53 And what are you touching there?
13:55 Touching the wind. No.
13:57 Skydiving, it will stimulate some,
13:59 you know, rollercoaster,
14:00 you know-- but I'm asking all five.
14:03 All five. There's only one.
14:06 Intimacy. Sexual intimacy.
14:08 What is the largest organ in the body?
14:12 It's the skin.
14:14 And when a couple experience sexual intimacy
14:17 they are using the largest organ that they have,
14:20 the God has given us,
14:21 because there is no clothing obviously.
14:24 And you have touch,
14:27 we have our own hormonal sense, you know.
14:29 If they take your socks and my socks
14:31 and they make a bloodhound smell it
14:33 and we go running into the woods.
14:34 Well, if it take only your socks
14:36 and smell your socks, the dog will find you
14:38 because you have your own scent.
14:40 Actually I think the dog will die.
14:45 But the point is this, we all have our scent. Right.
14:48 In our society, in our western society we bathe,
14:50 we have deodorant, so we mask it. Sure.
14:52 But we can pick it up when we're into intimate act.
14:55 Our pheromones are kicking in our own special scent. Wow.
14:58 Our bodies pick it up. We see each other naked.
15:02 We hear things during, you know,
15:04 the act that we don't typically hear
15:05 on a everyday basis.
15:07 And obviously the five senses like you said,
15:11 Dan, are full engaged
15:12 and it creates a mark in the brain.
15:17 Our brains are not static.
15:18 back years ago, medicine you see think
15:20 that our brain was static.
15:21 Now they know better.
15:22 They know that our brains even right now
15:24 on a day to day basic structurally physically
15:27 the structure of the brain is continually changing,
15:30 is continually developing.
15:32 Not just from experiences but even thought processes.
15:34 Our thoughts can physically change
15:37 the structure of our brain.
15:39 And so if I partake of an activity
15:41 with an individual that will engage
15:45 all five senses at the same time full throttle,
15:49 will that leave a mark in my mind?
15:52 So for me personally that is how I reconcile
15:55 the passage of that the two shall become one flesh.
15:58 Because I'm married, my wife is in Barium Springs
16:01 but we are one flesh here.
16:03 Everything that she is and like I said
16:06 this is looking at it holistically
16:08 not just only physical.
16:09 The way God wants this one flesh
16:11 to take place is complete that though
16:14 we're a part we're still one.
16:17 When a person would engage in the act or sexual--
16:21 sexual act with a prostitute,
16:23 everything about the prostitute will become here
16:26 and for the person as well.
16:28 I don't know if you guys are following. Just like fusion.
16:29 Yes, that's a good word. Emotional fusion.
16:32 Emotional, physical, spiritual--
16:34 See we can't separate,
16:37 we can't separate the physical from the other ones.
16:39 Once we engage this one we'll engage them all
16:41 because all are part of who we are.
16:43 So this is true then it gets a little bit complex
16:47 if one has more-- several partners. Correct.
16:52 That they're engaging in sexual intimacy
16:54 because they be-- is it possible to become
16:56 one flesh with more than one person?
16:58 What this is a law that God put in us.
17:02 And it was a blessing of a law,
17:04 physiological law that when a man would marry a woman
17:08 that bond would take place and would last how long.
17:11 In Genesis Chapter 2 there was no death.
17:13 It was supposed to last for eternity.
17:16 Sin entered the world but that law stayed with us.
17:20 So for me to partake of multiple partners,
17:24 I like to use this illustration of Scotch tape
17:26 and I've done it in churches and other venues
17:29 where I'll ask for one young man
17:31 and five young ladies.
17:32 Because usually the guys are the ones that,
17:34 you know, the stereotype is the guys
17:35 the more promiscuous ones.
17:37 And I will use the tape as the guy's brain,
17:40 it's a form of parable
17:41 and I would stick it to the ladies sweaters
17:43 and I will say they become one flesh and peel it off.
17:46 And then go to the next lady
17:48 and they become one flesh and peel it off
17:50 and I will go through all five
17:51 and then I would ask the people
17:52 what has happened to the Scotch tape?
17:55 What has happened to its ability to stick?
18:00 You have something interesting,
18:01 you've the sexual revolution in this country
18:03 during the 60's and 70's
18:04 and then you have divorce sky rocketing.
18:08 Promiscuity leads to an inability to commit. Wow.
18:13 So for me just opening up a world of cause an affect
18:16 and I'm not saying that this is the all and all.
18:18 But I'm searching that this plays
18:20 a factor into what we've seen as a society
18:22 that not more than half marriages are failing.
18:25 And how many of those marriages are entering into it,
18:27 in that relationship with a clean piece of tape.
18:30 Now, you know, you kind of ensured ourselves
18:35 that what that does for someone
18:36 who has multiple sexual partners.
18:39 But what about somebody who isn't,
18:42 you know, active with other people but,
18:43 you know, may be--
18:45 They're self-pleasuring? Self-pleasuring,
18:46 yeah, that we talked about.
18:47 Well this is where I think
18:49 we were talking about early the medical data,
18:53 the studies done are not gonna congruent,
18:55 you know, some does show something others that don't,
18:58 but the Bible-- if we take these concepts
19:00 that we've already looked at
19:02 and they are physiologically real, it has happen.
19:07 If you apply it to the act of self-pleasuring
19:10 I would look at it like--
19:11 are you guys familiar with Pavlov? No.
19:15 Pavlov was a Russian physiologist and also--
19:20 he wanted to study psychology as well.
19:24 And by accident he was studying
19:27 the salivary glands of dogs.
19:29 And he noticed that his assistance would come in
19:32 and in the routine would rattle the cage
19:34 obviously to bring the food to the dogs.
19:38 But there were times that they'll not bring food
19:39 they'll simply come observe the dog.
19:42 But in the reputation of bringing,
19:43 opening the gate bringing food,
19:45 opening the gate bringing food,
19:47 the dogs associated the rattling
19:48 of the cage with the food.
19:50 So when they-- the assistants
19:51 who come just rattling the cage
19:53 the dogs would salivate.
19:54 And that became Pavlov's classical condition
19:57 where you're responding to a stimulus
20:00 that is not related to food as if it was food.
20:05 Self pleasuring, Dr. Jorge Meyers
20:08 and his wife Nibia did a seminar on marriage.
20:11 They dealt with this topic in Columbus,
20:12 Ohio several years ago.
20:15 And they spoke about-- not entirely
20:16 what I'm talking about
20:18 but they gave me the foundation to understand
20:20 how when you're going to self pleasure yourself,
20:24 you condition yourself to respond
20:26 sexually to something that is not sex.
20:30 Self stimulation, pornography--
20:34 four months ago, five months ago,
20:35 I stumbled upon a article from the Saturday evening
20:39 post out of all places.
20:40 I know it's not a medical authority to article
20:43 but we had a gentleman that was just secular individual.
20:47 The article was I no longer crave my girlfriend sexually.
20:53 And the guy spoke about how he spooked himself
20:55 because he began as he called it self
20:57 overdosing with pornography to the point
21:00 where he no longer desired the real. Wow.
21:03 He was more responsive to the fake, to the false.
21:08 That's like me saying I'm so hungry
21:11 but I want these that are made of rubber and wax,
21:14 sorry viewers, they thought it's for real.
21:18 I'm craving these types of apples, you know,
21:20 that have no nutritional value for me. Right.
21:24 That'll be crazy for me to say that.
21:26 Well, it's just as crazy for me to say
21:28 I desire more something in print
21:31 or something on a screen than the real thing. Wow.
21:35 And that is a conditioning that takes places.
21:36 Obviously the dogs did not salivate
21:38 the first time around but they got to that point.
21:41 Now Ariel, is-- is the result of--
21:46 as this article you read the overdosing
21:48 of pornography is it-- does it
21:51 only have sexual negative consequences
21:56 or is it because you said that, you know,
21:58 as a whole we're spiritual, we're emotional,
22:00 you know, it's a whole being.
22:02 Does pornography affect not only the sexual
22:05 but does it affect the other areas in our life?
22:07 You cannot touch one without touching the others.
22:09 You remember the Bible says
22:10 we're created in whose image? God's image.
22:13 And when God created us He said let us in our.
22:17 God is social and because he has made us in His image
22:20 we're all so social.
22:21 We craved human contact. Right.
22:24 Especially at the level of intimate relation.
22:27 And for me in my own personal conditions pornography
22:30 and self pleasuring leads you,
22:33 conditions you to withdraw from something
22:36 that will reflect God's character
22:37 but you experiencing something
22:40 that is extremely intimate with your self.
22:43 And you prefer this isolating, self pleasuring activity
22:48 rather than the social interaction
22:50 that God designed us to have,
22:52 so for me it's a direct attack on destroying
22:56 the restoration of God's image
22:57 in human being's heart and mind
22:59 So it doesn't just affect your sexual life,
23:02 it affects your social life-- Spiritual life.
23:04 Your mental life and your spiritual life.
23:05 There is-- I don't think--
23:07 speaking it from a Christian world view
23:08 I don't think that there is any doubt
23:10 that for someone that is practicing
23:13 the act of watching pornography
23:16 and self pleasuring that they will find
23:18 there spiritual life thriving simultaneously,
23:22 it cannot happen.
23:23 Now let's get practical.
23:24 There is a maybe a viewer watching this program
23:27 recognizing that they need help--
23:30 in the last few minutes that we have--
23:33 what as a pastor, what counsel,
23:36 what encouraging word can you give them for number one,
23:40 to inspire them with the fact that victory is possible.
23:44 And number two maybe what are one
23:46 or two or three steps
23:47 that they can undergo to actually experience
23:50 transformation final and total victory.
23:52 If someone feels convicted
23:54 and they realize is there a reasonable intelligent
23:56 reason why I should not be participating in this,
23:59 they can recognize that as evidence
24:00 that the deceptions of Satan
24:03 are being lifted from their eyes.
24:04 They need to thank God that they are seeing us.
24:07 Number two is they need to seek accountability.
24:09 Pornography isolates, isolates their spouse,
24:13 it isolates the pastoring in that context.
24:14 It isolates the wife or the girlfriend with secrecy.
24:18 So you need to confront that by the opposite end
24:20 and you need to find someone that is trust worthy,
24:23 that is spiritual and open up to them
24:25 and say listen this is something
24:27 that I'm struggling with.
24:28 I don't want it in my life anymore.
24:29 I need someone to be accountable to.
24:32 I need you to ask me the hard questions
24:34 on a day to day basis.
24:35 You need to find someone that will hold you
24:37 accountable to your decision to walk away from this.
24:40 Something that-- that I think helps as well.
24:43 I learned this from alcoholic Anonymous.
24:46 I as a nursing student had to attend
24:48 and observe and write a people.
24:50 They would say this phrase.
24:52 I stay sober by keeping other's sober.
24:54 The moment I stop helping other alcoholics
24:57 stay sober I'll drink.
24:59 So as someone that is struggling with sin
25:01 you can help other individuals
25:03 it doesn't have to be the same struggle
25:05 but you can just lead in people to Christ.
25:08 When you are working for the salvation of others
25:10 guess whose salvation you are working for by default.
25:13 Your own. Right.
25:14 So if--because of lack of time,
25:16 thus will be the briefest answers
25:18 that I could provide for you to answer those questions.
25:20 Are there any materials maybe that you recommend viewers
25:24 that this maybe interested in exploring
25:26 this a little bit more.
25:27 Any particular place in scripture,
25:29 maybe particular resource
25:32 that you recommend that would benefit--
25:33 It's not one verse but one verse
25:35 I think will provide a tool. Okay.
25:38 Psalm 119, I think provides the tool
25:43 but it's not the all in all. Sure.
25:45 Psalm 119, verse 11 says,
25:47 "Your word I have hidden in my heart,
25:50 that I might not sin against you."
25:52 So the discipline of memorizing scripture
25:55 I think can be a powerful counter acting intentional act
25:59 that can help purify my thought process
26:01 because you expose yourself to these things.
26:03 You've engrained it through the practice.
26:06 There's an opposite act that you can do
26:07 which is intentionally place Gods word
26:10 into your mind, but it's not magic.
26:12 There is faith involved
26:14 and I think there is also the accountability
26:15 that also needs to be coupled with this.
26:17 And it seems from text
26:18 that really the root is the mind. Yes.
26:21 Sometimes I think we are tempted
26:23 to just cut the fruits
26:25 but the root is really the issue. That's right.
26:27 And the mind and of course
26:28 we told the thoughts mixed with feelings,
26:32 cultivate habits, and finally habits
26:34 make up your moral characters,
26:35 so I think it's a lot about what you put into your minds.
26:39 And I think if young people
26:40 are struggling with this maybe they need to examine
26:45 what kind of material you're putting into the mind,
26:47 what kind of content you're putting into mind
26:49 because that may be a little bit more
26:51 detrimental to the word of God.
26:53 Ariel, in the last few seconds
26:55 that we have is there a final word
26:57 or final message that you'd like to give to a young person
26:59 who is struggling with this.
27:00 I would actually like to appeal
27:01 to the parents of the young person.
27:03 I think parents need to take ownership
27:05 and stop asking, expecting pastor or churches
27:08 or schools to do the work
27:09 that they should be doing in protecting.
27:12 We did speak about, you know, ignorance versus innocence,
27:14 but there is also proactive measures
27:16 that parents need to be aware
27:17 that technology in two buttons
27:20 any kid can be connected with these things.
27:22 So parents need to educated themselves
27:24 and be intentional in their homes
27:26 to provide a sanctuary of purity for their children.
27:28 Wow, fascinating.
27:29 Ariel, I cannot tell you
27:31 how insightful this Bible study has been.
27:33 For me as well, and this is just tip of just the iceberg,
27:36 this is just scratching the surface.
27:37 There is a lot more. Awesome.
27:38 For those of you that have been joining us
27:40 in our program today
27:41 we want to thank you for tuning in.
27:42 We've been really blessed
27:44 to have this subject matter discussed
27:47 and we just want to let everybody know
27:49 that there is hope, there is healing,
27:52 there is restoration and there are answers.
27:55 We want to encourage you to continue
27:56 in the word of God.
27:58 God bless you till next time.


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