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The Porch

Lust & Self-Control

The Porch

Watermark Community Church, Dallas, TX

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.93.3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2018

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

In today's society, we are told that lust and sex outside of God's design are harmless, but that couldn't be farther from the truth. In this message, we discuss the dire consequences that come with the vice of lust and bring to light the path to freedom gained by the virtue of self-control.

Transcript

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0:00.0

How are we doing, porch?

0:07.0

Come on, come on, continuing our vice and virtue series.

0:19.0

I want to start by just kind of flashing back to my life before Christ.

0:24.0

I'm here in Dallas, Texas. I'm not walking with Jesus out of college.

0:30.0

And every Thursday, Friday and Saturday night was spent at a bar or a club.

0:36.0

And really one particular club that we would always go to.

0:39.0

So I moved five times all within one mile of lower Greenville.

0:42.0

And so that's kind of was the uptown of that day, the West Sevent, the Baker Street in Houston.

0:48.0

It was just the place where you would party.

0:51.0

And so we would go to this particular place all the time.

0:54.0

And on one Friday night, I'm there.

0:57.0

And here's what would happen is we start at the apartment with the tequila shots.

1:02.0

And then from there, we would move to beer.

1:05.0

And then we'd go to the club. And that's when we'd open the bar tab and start with the mixed drinks.

1:10.0

Because I would dance better when I was drunk.

1:13.0

Or at least I would think I'd dance better when I was drunk.

1:17.0

And so anyways, we're there. I'm moving my way to the dance floor.

1:22.0

And so dancing, having a good time, see this blonde girl across the way.

1:28.0

We might make eye contacts, smile at each other.

1:31.0

She starts coming my way. And this is awesome.

1:35.0

And so we're dancing. And it starts off a little bit of space in between.

1:40.0

She has long blonde hair, beautiful, short little tiny dress.

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