Unblemished Roses - Edwin Eby

Well, thank you, brother Levi we Uh. I found out two things

that I didn't know before. I apparently you just went through an hour before

I tried, and they told me to go home, so I did,

and I remember crying like a baby for a couple of hours. I got

that because I'd really wanted to visit the brothers there. But and then secondly,

I just say, God, bless you allus for humbling yourself enough to

let a man from Pennsylvania come here and preach. But there's a little bit

of fertilizer back there, So thank you for letting me come here. And

tonight tomorrow is a first day of a new week, and I don't wanna

keep us too late. Tonight, we're gonna skip over our theme song and

we'll thing all four versus that tomorrow morning we're plan to do that. And

so we're just going to UH speak this evening. Thank you for the young

folks UH sitting here in the center where I can speak UH to your hearts.

If I may turn with me and your bibles to Matthew chapter five.

There's never any excuse for sin, But I had sometimes wish that in my

growing up life, in my youth that the preachers would have seemed to care

more about us than they did. And so I'm not here criticizing that.

I'm just trying to tell you why I ask brother Leland whether you could sit

here so I could speak to you, because see, there's something going on

for you older ones that are sitting back there watching right here, right here

in these benches, sit your next preachers and Sunday school teachers and bishops and

fathers and mothers, never hear sit in the moments and and all that.

I used to be in a dairy business, and some dairy farmers were smarter

than other ones. Others were wiser, I think is the better word.

Some would put tremendous attention on the young cattle. You're not cattle, but

they would put tremendous attention on the young cattle because if they could succeed in

the in giving a good environment for young cattle, they had to battle wan

almost and then others. They spent a lot of time on the upper end

trying to make a show piece there and sometimes neglected the the the young cattle.

That's a mistake, and that's a mistake, and the devil is always

back here in these to and say we're going to invite you to listen along

this evening and maybe you can learn something. And maybe here and now I'll

say something to you that maybe you can and that you can learn. But

I'm speaking tonight to the young folks because it's very very important. And if

it's anywhere that I'm going to back up a few more years. If it's

anywhere to ex minnight Christian and Baptists people, whatever word you want to give

there, where we could improve is that is the teaching and the training and

blessing on these little youngsters sitting back here that we think aren't even listening yet.

And this is not a child training session, but I'll just give this

quickly for you, fathers and mothers. You must learn to teach your little

children to hearken. I'm talking about from one years till like two or three

years. Your will is imposed on their will. And I understand relationships.

That's another situation. I was at one of the holmes here and the little

boy asked if he could pray bless his heart. We have a couple of

grandchildren like that. If you can keep those kind of relationships going, that's

good. But they must learn to hearken. If you miss that, it

just trickles down. So if you can do that, and God can bless

that, and then it can come through the youth and they have an openness

and they can begin to be a friend with you, and they are not

afraid to talk to you about the things that are important in your life,

and you're not afraid to talk to them. And God can do something really,

really powerful in a broken world. So God bless you there. But

here in Matthew chapter five, Jesus told his disciples to sit down and he

was going to teach them the rules of his new kingdom on earth and how

to live in him. And in verse three he talks about those that are

poor in spirit. Now, you young men already know that the world has

a different spirit. It has a proud spirit. And Jesus said, if

you're going to be part of me, you need a different kind of spirit.

The world has a proud spirit, but his people have a meek spirit.

Proud spirit is make your mark, you know, make your boundaries,

make your mark, see me, the vehicles you drive, whatever it is,

work world tools. This goes on, so Jesus says that we need

a meek spirit. In verse four, he says a poor spirit or those

that mourn, And I think he's just vacancy, saying that the world is

just laughing their way in unrepentance. They just have a good old time.

And we want you as young people to have a good life. But what

is going on here is the world has a proud spirit and they are just

laughing. They don't have a poor spirit. They're just laughing. They're light

way through life, hilarious. Nothing matters as long as you're having Foundagies says,

no, we have a different spirit, and in verse five he says

that blessed are they meek, for they shall inherit the earth. The world's

stubborn they really are, these transgender bisexual people singers, whatever it is.

Alice Cooper, rock star singer, says the whole idea behind the music.

Thing for me is rebellion, so be careful with your music rebellion music.

And Alice also says, which is a man by the way with a girl's

name. The worst thing in the world for me is the authority thing.

So you live in a very sinful world that is just rebellious. And then

in verse six, Jesus says that we hunger and thirst after righteous instance.

That means have a teachable spirit. I know that you know a lot of

things, but you don't know everything yet. And God still wants to teach

you some things yet. And the old cannot do without the young. I'm

not saying that, but you will keep on learning things. And to have

a teachable spirit is the entrance right into the King of God. I've always

preached and taught you cannot be a Christian with an unteachable, redebellious spirit.

In verse seven, he talks about being merciful for the mercy, for they

shall obtain mercy. And there's a lot of factors here, but he goes

on here and says, blessed are they merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.

So if you're a merciful person, then you shall also receive mercy.

But those who are not merciful don't generally receive mercy. Back. Be of

a teachable spirit, be of a merciful spirit find satisfaction in God. Because

the world is revengeful. It's not easy to be merciful, especially if there's

something of injustice, and there's something in us that knows when injustice has happened,

and there's something in us, and it's not of Christ that seeks revenge

revenge. So the world is a revengeful world in which you live be forgiving

and kind. And in verse eight he speaks about the pure in heart.

The world that we live in, and if you've grown up in and know

nothing else about, is full of all kinds of wicked imaginations. And not

only imaginations, but the deeds and the acts. Yes, and blessed are

the pure in heart, for they shall see God. And then he talks

about peacemakers. And we live in a suing, revengeful world that is attempting

to protect itself, and Jesus says, no, we will live a life

that's not always protected against all the evil that comes about in the world.

And so if you're going to live in God's kingdom, there's some things that

God wants that are total opposites. We talked about that on the very first

even total opposes. But Jesus in these words says, this is how to

live in my kingdom. And you will be a light like we talked about

last evening, where all the darkness in the world cannot put out one small

candle but tonight I want to focus on verse eight. Blessed are the pure

in heart, for they shall see God. The Bible other places tells us

that without holiness, no man shall see God. It is true that a

person who is or not pure in heart will not see God in heaven or

in the future. But there's something even equally important, and that is people

who do not have pure lives. Young men who or young ladies who are

not pure in their heart, they can't even see today's life accurately. So

not only is it about the future, it's about the presence. So a

person who has impureness in their heart, they won't even see God in daily

activities. They'll miss him and they'll make wrong choices, so you won't even

see God correctly there. And so my subject tonight is pureness of heart,

soul, and body. And I have titled the message Unblemish Roses. And

I went over to the store this afternoon. I had in my mind and

I thought a very different message for tonight. But there was some things that

I was working with today that caused me to believe that maybe somehow I could

speak to the young people tonight and speak about pureness of heart and so I

brought these rasores as a little illustration. Pure means just that it's not a

hard word. It means stainless or spotless or unmixed with other things. Now

it just happens to be that almost all of my work life all always wear

white shirts. I just do. I'm not telling you that your life would

always be that. I'm just using that as an illustration. I wear white

shirts, so those white shirts are much easier stained. And I like to

eat cheese curls and sometimes stains my shirt, so white shirts are hard to

keep clean and lost mostly can scrub out all of the dirt that I get

on them. But since I live in an office kind of environments most of

my life, I just understand that white shirts. So the whiter and the

pure that your life is, the more temptations or the more attacks you will

have from the avenger of blood to make it dirty. But if it gets

too dirty, there's a trace there and you just can't get it out.

And that church ruin like regrets for things that we do from carelessness. And

yes, God does forgive. I don't want to miss that tonight. In

any stretch of the imagination, God is a forgiver. Our brother talked about

that tonight. And yet there is value in never, in keeping yourself very

pure, in carefulness in life. There's another word that you probably don't hear

very often, but it just means chase, and it has a very similar

meaning, but it has a deeper thought than one of pureness. In that

pure infer's absence of uncleanness, whereas chase infers that dirt and filth is all

around. But all around there's all around, there's dirt and filth, but

that person still stays pure in that environment. If I would wear this white

shirt into a welding shop and was able to work in that welding shop and

keep my shirt chase, So there's even a deeper meaning there yet than pureness,

and God wants it for you. Maybe I'll refer to this later,

but if I don't just sit now, because once a person walks into a

particular sins, especially moral sins, then there's always there's something lost there,

something is lost there that can never be gotten back. Probably the worst thing

about that is that you're always tempted. So if men or women never fall

in to temptates, there's a real strength that comes from that. Now.

I took a couple of those off of there, and we didn't ruin it

very much, but there's some of its beauty has been lost that can never

be recovered. So entering into sins of some kinds ruins some of its beauty

that can never ever be regained, even in forgiveness. And so that is

the emphasis of this talk, Not so much forgiveness, although I don't want

to miss that. The emphasis is a commitment to remain chased. Now,

I'm going to give some very simple things here. The devil and his cohorts,

his peers, all the rules, all the things that he uses.

They are not pure. That's simple, but we need to know it.

The devil is impure. You mess around with the devil, some petals are

going to come off of your flowers in some way, because everything about the

devil is black and evil and sinister. And it's almost too simple to mention,

but it's important just to think about it a moment tonight. He is

deceptive, He is deceiving. He does not tell you the truth. He

tries to trap you in some little ways, and one trap after another.

But just remember that behind his charisma, there's only one thing is, and

that is to trap you and to ruin you, and to defil you in

your body, soul, and spirit, to take away from you the peace

and the security and the rest from you, or take from you, or

to steal from you holiness of life. And the Bible says that he is

the father of lies, because all of the pleasure of the offers really is

misery and righteousness and sadness and discontent, and well turns with me. Let's

just take the time to read Proverbs chapter seven, and here we have the

story of a simple man. Maybe we'll back up first and read verse thirty

three of chapter six, speaking about thirty two speaking about a man or a

person who committed a dawtrey, lacks understanding and destroys his own soul, and

he gets a wound and a dishonor he shall get and his reproach shall not

be wiped away. There's something there when men do this. And let's read

here, my son, verse seven, chapter seven. Keep my words and

lay up my commandments with thee. Keep my commandments and live in my law

as the apple of thine eye. Bind them upon thy fingers, write them

upon the tables of your heart. Say unto wisdom. You are, my

sister, and call understanding your kinswoman, that they may keep you from the

strange, woman from the stranger, with flatteress with her words. For at

the window of my house, I look through my casement or window, and

behold, among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths a young man,

void of understanding, walking passing through the streets near her corner. And

he went away to her house in the twilight, in the evening, in

the black and the dark knight, And behold I met him, a woman

with the attire of a harlet and subtle of heart. She is loud and

stubborn, and her feet by not in her house. Now she is without

now in the streets, and she lies in wait at every corner, a

woman powered by the devil. So she caught him and kissed him, and

with an impudent face, said, undo him, I have peace offerings with

me this day. Have I paid my vows? Therefore come I came I

four to meet THEE diligently to seek thy face. And I have found THEE.

I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved works,

with finding the elegipt I perfumed my bed with murr I loves and cinnamon.

Come, let us take our fill of love. Unto the morning, let

us solace ourselves with loves. For the goodman is not at home. He

is going a long journey. He has taken a bag of money with him,

and will come home at the day a point. With her much fair

speech, she calls him to yield. With the flattering of her lips.

She forced him. He goeth after her straightway, as an ox go to

the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stalks, till

a dart strike through his liver, as a bird caught in the snare,

And knoweth it not that it was to take his life. Hearken unto me

now they were for old children, and attend to the words of my mouth.

Let not thy heart decline to her ways. Go not astray in her

past, for she has cast down many wounded. Yea, many strong men

have been slain by her. And her house is a way to hell,

going down to the chambers of death. So that is an illustration. And

we carry these things around in our pockets. The devil and his subjects are

black. That's my point. Number two. God, on the other hand,

is pure and white seed. There's no gray area. Holiness and light

must surely be connected or inseparable. For God is the light of the city,

and there is no need of the sun in that city where you want

to go. And he is calling you for single affection, single affection,

consecration, decision, and holiness in your mind and your spirit. And he's

calling you to a city of light where sin can never enter. And Bob

says, need anything that defies, neither whatsoever work with the abomination or maketh

a lie, but only those who have written in the Lamb's book of life.

So God, on the other hand, is completely pure. The devil

is completely black and sinister. And the Bible says, and Jesus taught that

only those who are pure shall see God. Turn your bibles to first Thesalians,

chapter four. There are some words there, First Thesalians four. I

believe it's verse seven. For God has not called us onto uncleanness, but

unto holiness. The point here is that God is saying there is no safe

sin. There's no safe sin. Rather, we have many scriptures that we

should be se apart from sin, and Christian chastity or holiness is going to

be a basic doctrine of anyone who wants to live and abide in Christ.

Turn with me to Timothy five, verse twenty two. I believe it's first

Timothy. I don't have it marked here one of the Timothys. I missed

it in my notes. It's first Timothy five, verse twenty two. Lay

hands suddenly on no men. And I'm not sure what all that means.

I'd be willing to be taught more on that, but what I do know

it says, neither be the taker of other men's sins, Keep thyself pure.

In Psalm twenty four, the Bible reads like this, this is old

Testament. And to twenty fourth Psalm it reads like this, verse three,

Who is it that shall be able to ascend under the heel of the Lord,

or who shall be able to stand in his Holy place? And the

answer is this, only he that had clean hands, and only he that

hath a pure heart, and only he who had not lifted up his soul

on divinity nor sworn deceitfully. Back over in first Thettlingians, chapter four,

you're already there. We'll go back there again. That was verse seven we

looked at and in verse three of chapter four first Thessalonians, it reads like

this, this is the will of God, young people. In Bibles go

often the only one knew what the will of God is? Where's the will

of God? The will of God is even that your sanctification, that ye

should sustain from moral uncleanness. That's what that word means, that you would

stay. You want to know the will of God, and that every one

of you should know how to live his life in sanctification, honor, not

in the lust of compucuisince where that's our brother was talking about, even as

the gentiles which know not God. And so one second Peter three, verse

eleven, Seeing then that all these things be dissolved, what manner of persons

ought you to be in all holy life and godliness? So I find,

as an older father, grandfather and preacher, that when there are impurities in

a person's life, almost without exception, you'll find other areas of defeat,

such as bitterness and other downfalls of life. Almost always those are sound there.

So on all of those premises, so far, I like to build

a number of thoughts and stir up your minds, young people, you are

wonderful. You are the next church. We cannot do without you. Any

church that does not have young people is a dead church, long before it

happens, or long before we think it happens. Any church that does not

have a growing, vibrant group of young people is already dead before they know

it. But you do live in probably unprecedented times, and there is no

new sin. The devil has always been centered. But while there is nothing

new, there is a very growing darkness. It's getting worse and worse.

The tools that he has are many more. It's unprecedented. Evil is not

just present, but it's flourishing, it's growing, it's being openly advocated.

You know, you are living in a very sinful world. They are calling

wrong right and right wrong, and some have even declared that you're living in

a world where it's getting better. But that's false. The book doesn't say

that it's getting worse and worse, and it will continue to get worse and

worse until God says it is enough. But that is no reason to believe

that you cannot live a pure life, because there's another factor there here going

on. Not only do you have, not only are all those tools against

you, You have a zillion tools that your parents and grandparents did not have.

You can look up every single Bible verse about purity. You can look

up every single Bible verse that you want on your phone, just like that.

See they didn't do that. They had to get out of strong concordance

and they had to labor through that. Well. So not only on the

one side do you have all the darkness. On the other side, you

have a lot of advantages that your grandparents did not have. Don't forget that.

And we hear these old guys wanting to talk about the good old days.

Don't believe it. See that's just them trying to reckon with getting older.

Today day is your dad, and God would not have put you in

two thousand March sis twenty five. What day is today? Thirty? I

believe, I believe you're right, March thirty. God puts you in March

thirty, twenty twenty four, and it is your day. And it's fine

to sit along the river and fish with Grandpa while he tells you about the

good old days. But the truth of the matter is this is your good

old day. And God has given you everything that you can and everything that

you need to make it. Never forget that. But you must determine,

by the grace of God that you're going to be pure or you will fall.

Just like that, this little things in our pocket will allow us into

any venue. Any shop in the entire world is like that, just a

click or two away, unless you are wise enough to put some controls on

there. And I hear all of this teaching that rules are just take a

place the Holy Spirit. That's not true. We are still living in the

world and we are not nearly as spiritual as we want to be, or

sometimes we think we be, and we just need some controls. So you

are only one click away from any shop in the world unless you decide.

And so the question is, you must be determined and committed, by the

grace of God to stand pure. And I'll ask you tonight, would you

commit to that tonight? Would you decide again to do that? Now?

For sake of time, we're not going to go here. But we all

know what Psal seven says. There's a picture there, and it says that

children are given in their purity from God, and they're given. You are

given to your parents for His glory. That is, you came from God.

You belong to God. Your soul will return to God. And you

were given by God to your parents as a stewardship, and you came pure

to them, and they have a responsibility in life. But in your flesh

and in your heart, and bound up and born in you is the all

kinds of potential for deceitness and wickedness. It's bound up in you. Every

soul here has the potential to be the violence sinner, and to act in

the vallest ways, and to end up behind bars worse than an animal.

But in your birth you were born pure and innocent. You were like this

rose with nothing hindering it in all its purity. And now's a youth.

Once this rose was very tight, but now it's opening up. And that's

where you are. You're becoming this beautiful rose. And you are God's reward

to your parents and purpose in your heart, not tomorrow what God has given

them. You're an extension. In verse four of Psalm seven, it talks

about a picture of a man shooting an ar and so you are. You

are an extension of your parents, and they are shooting you, and you

are going to go places that they will never be able to go. In

life, just like an ara from a mighty man who shoots it. His

purpose is for his power to go where he cannot go and to reach out

there. That's what you are. You are an error, and that's the

picture this PS almost gives. They're in one twenty seven, like a mighty

man who takes an err and his purpose is to take his power beyond himself.

So you are the error, and you are an extension of your parents.

Now back here to the parents, something we don't always like to talk

about very much, but children are a permanent record of our wisdom or lack

of wisdom. They really are, And if we're just willing enough to humble

it accept that fact. It helps us a lot something to ponder that our

children are an extension of ourselves. But back to the youth, you are

an era that will reach beyond your parents. Ponder that we already mentioned this,

so I'll just go on quickly. But in the church, in the

body of Christ, you are extremely important in the building of the Church and

the Kingdom of God, and children who love God and the extension of their

parents and a blessing to Christ committed to pureness and life. There's just not

many of them around. You are attractive in the world. Remember when you

go into McDonald's, people are watching you and you don't know it, but

people are looking at you, and there's certain things they expect from you.

And you're a rare breed. You are a rarity darks in for world.

Stand up to that, commit to that. You're just like these flowers.

And there are many old grandma's and grandpas who wish it that way, but

their families and their homes are broken. There's divorced, there's remarried, there's

hate or revenge, there's all kinds of things. And your parents have made

a lot of sacrifice. And I'll just say one more thing. They've made

a lot of mistakes and you know exactly what they are. But guess what.

You're going to get the chance now to do it. How are you

going to do it now? See? It's your turn. So they've made

a lot of mistakes and you know what they are. But I asked us,

how are you going to do it now? See? And you should

believe the God's highest purpose in your life, and so I'm going to talk

about some practical things here. You should believe that the highest purpose in your

life is serve God with all your heart, and so in mind not to

get married. And I am not a marriage basher. Marriage is beautiful,

Marriage is wonderful, it shouldn't be very far from your mind somehow, but

it is not the ultimate goal of life. And as parents we should not

unduly or wrongly feed that. Let them be calm, pure, growing individuals

first. And if you never get married and you find yourself in Africa as

a missionary because that's what God did, then that is what God did.

But make serving God your highest purpose in life, to serving with all your

heart in Matthew six thirty three, seeking first of God, God and his

righteousness, and then marriage will be added to you. Don't get that reversed.

And parents be careful because violating that has caused a lot of premature desires,

and it creates sometimes and often and feeds unrealistic and extreme feelings which are

God given. But it sometimes pushes our young folks into areas of temptation which

we never really wanted to happen. And when we do, the beauty is

marred a little bit more. Sometimes it starts to look like that. And

this thing, I guess could somehow yet open up and have some beauty left.

So number one, don't make marriage and home your highest priority. It

is a very high one. Number two, be aware that when the time

of your youth and which you're in and begins to open up like this one.

When this was a closed one which we don't have any clothesments here tonight,

it was more protected. But once it starts to get like this,

there's place for there's place for diseases and cracks for temptation to get in there,

and it becomes more susceptible. The older you get, it gets more

susceptible in sects and ruins. And so here's the practical advice. Just be

humble enough to ask your parents to help to be protected. Just ask your

parents to protect you. They were one folks one time, they were young,

and they care more about it than you think they do. And they

have made some mistakes. We have made mistakes. Grandpas and grandmas and mothers

have made many mistakes. And one of the mistakes that we have made is

we have not taken a personal responsibility to go and ask our young people.

And we have often asked them or caused them to have to come and ask

us. And it really should be the other way around. But since I'm

speaking to young people, I'm going to tell them. If your father doesn't,

then you do it and make yourself vulnerable to them and ask them.

Ask them about your friendships, ask them about influences. And you might not

like this next one. One time long ago, I preached the message.

One brother thought, sure I promoting arranged marriages, and I was not.

But I was promoting that maybe more parental involvement or maybe it just okay,

and maybe it's good. If you think that you like Susie, that maybe

you should just ask mom or dad what they think about Susie. The point

is, parents really do want to help protect your beauty so that it could

be in its fullness. They really do, of course they do, and

so don't allow the pedals has the open to be pulled off. And there's

things that you can do, and they don't let your life be like this

and allow Christ and your parents to be your Husbandman, well you don't know

what that is, but it means I went. I walked out there in

Jason this afternoon. He was rooting around there in his strawberries because he wants

them to bloom, and he was reading out the old stuff. I don't

know what it was, but he was preparing them to get a lot of

strawberries on. And I'm encouraging you to let your parents do that. Lean

heart on them, broaden your horizons wisely and carefully, and grow spiritually,

and let your parents teach you about mistakes they made so that you have great

potential in your life. You know that man there in Pisachat, he's twelve.

He couldn't change it anymore. He wore glasses, hearing device, maybe

he had a cane. He had to get a dentist pretty often to keep

some kind of teeth, and he just couldn't do headstands anymore because now life

was gone. See, one day your hair won't be beautiful brown anymore.

It will turn gray, or maybe we'll fall out. But in the meanwhile,

so that's that picture. So now it was over. See, So

that's the thought. So you want your raise to be pure and chase and

beautiful like this rose. And without godly counsel and love and sharing between the

old and the young, there's enormous possibility that the petals will get ripped off

and it can never get fixed. Twelve years we spent with the young people

in our Bible school, which doesn't mean anything at all excepted of twelve years.

Say, I'm telling you there are men that are like this, just

like this one right here. I think they're even like this. And God,

you counsel, and I know you're pretty smart, and I know you're

learning a lot of things that we don't know. But I think maybe Dad

has some things that you might not know about too. And then there's a

verse in the Bible that says, flee youthful nus. Do you know what

that means? Just me get out of there. It means turn around from

there and run from there, and get out of there. See, always

before this there's a crossroads. There's always a temptation before the fall, and

there's always one crossroad before the next one. We read there in proverbs,

like a like a ox or like a beef. They put them in these

shootes. My wife worked in the butcher shop. They put them in their

shotes, and they drive them from behind, and there's one end hang them

up in the butcher shop. So one way that Steer could have done it,

I guess was jumped the fence before he ever got going down the well,

that's a poor that that has some illustrations. Problems there, But don't

get in the shoot. And if you get in the shoot, cause somebody,

get out of there. Flee. Many a young man has indulged in

the first look and fingered the wrong books, and secretly loved the wrong things,

and crave forbidden things. And he's drawing down and down and down,

and we wonder what happened. And over here do you know what romance novels

are. You might not think so, but they are the equivalent in a

woman's mind to pornography. Over here, flee them, get eye away from

them, pick them away, get together at a youth meeting and bring them

out there in the before you eat pizza and get the match and burn them

up. See sexual desires God has given you. And they are right at

their place, but not yet, not yet. Run from it. Flee

from it. And then there's the possibility you just run from this to a

Harley or some other thing that's not of Christ. See if you run,

run to the right place, run to Jesus, run to your parents,

run to holiness, run to righteousness. Run don't just run to another something

else. Our son and this internet thing faces you. Our son is an

arborus and one time I was helping and he lived over here in Boysy area

at that point, and I was here helping him, and he has this

grinder picky thing, and he was up there in a tree and he was

latched into that tree with his harness and all. And I was down there

dragging the limbs that he was cutting off and dragging them and putting them into

chipper. And I was not careful enough. And what I did was the

rope that was tied him into the tree. I didn't up. But when

I drug it across there and put it in that chipper, the cord about

that big around grabbed that thing and just like zee, and he was up

there in a tree and it was going to yank him out, but he

saw it just in time, and he just unclipped just like that. I

didn't seen. Later, I said how was was because I knew that it

was a terrible danger for a guy down there on the ground that didn't know

what he was doing, that that could happen. As I was watching,

and I saw it happen, I just unclipped it, otherwise it would I

don't know what we're done the center that things kind of like that, So

young women flee the in it desire. We want you to look beautiful,

but don't do things that you don't want to do. Don't adorn your body

or unadorn it in ways that causes man over here, you have a responsibility.

Think about that. You have an in it desire to be a nice

image. And roses have their silent, bleak beauty. So does a godly

young woman ladyhood. But it's an in it desire to show it off.

Be careful. You don't want to be desired responsible for evil desires. Wannament

yourself where the meek and quiet spirit unless you pluck off more. You know

what, young man, that's beautiful raised here. I would take this thing

in handle with my hands. I think maybe I could get some beautiful for

a little while. I could get a little bit of beautiful smell out of

that. Did you get that picture? Did you know what I said?

See, you can take this, young lady, as you don't marry yet,

and you can do just that to you, you and yourself. I

haven't preached like this for a long time, but you might get a little

bit of beauty out of it. Just tell him now, cause see what

about tomorrow. Can a man take fire in his bosom and his clothes not

be burned? Can one go on hot coals and his feet not be burned?

How would you answer that question? Perhaps maybe you can pull just one

paddle off of her and she's still pretty nice, or maybe two or three.

But this one is marred, and this one is not. Only the

pure can look back without any regrets. And yes, again, Jesus forgivenessays,

I won't forgive. I'm glad for that. But the question is how

much potential is lost after God puts you together and gives you a family and

this case on so I didn't want to keep you long. May God bless

you to have a pure heart. And I want to encourage you young people

to do that when I all encourage our fathers to take strong positions and ideals

for our families, and do not give in, and not give up in

the battle, and do not settle for less than pure hearts, because that

is the only way that we can see God. And I'm going to close

this meaning tonight a little differently. I'm going to ask everyone to close their

eyes, and if you're here tonight, as a young person, and you'd

like to put us do you know what a steak in the sand means.

It means that I'm going to pray and then we're going to just be silent

for a little while. Anyone that wants to just drive a steak in here

on March thirty, twenty twenty four so that they can think about it tomorrow

or the next day, or next year or in two years. Because steaks

and sand are things that we can look back to. So I would like

if God wants you to just to put up your hand between you and God

that you are making a commitment again tonight. Wherever you are in your life,

pure or impure, just put up your hand and God will see that

and you can remember it in your heart that it's a steak in the sand