Welcome to Studies with Stearman.

Join us as we look deeper into the Bible.

Strengthen your faith with us, even as we see the day approaching.

And now, here's Gary.

We are a society almost totally given over to sensuality to the point that nobody sees

anything wrong with it because it becomes a kind of standard.

The Bible is an adult book and there will be a lot of scripture in the next couple of weeks

that we will just kind of move

right across, and you can read it yourself, and you'll know what it means.

But the thrust of 1st Corinthians is this. Paul was writing to a people in ancient Greece

who were absolutely secular, superior in their way of looking at life, thought of themselves

as culturally, morally, ethically superior. They had more money than anybody else. They had

virtually anything that they wanted, if they set their mind to it. And they had become utterly given over to sensuality.

Now, chapter five, which we looked at last week, talked about a report from the congregation that

there is what the Bible refers to as fornication among you. And such fornication is not so much as named among Gentiles.

Just a four-letter word today, porn. It's there. It's everywhere. And what I want to do is try to

convey what I believe Paul was attempting to convey, and that is that in a world such as this and such as we live in today,

and by the way, I fight this same battle, I'm not any different from anybody else.

In a world such as we live in today, you have to try to see yourself not as the human being you now are,

but as the spiritual being you're going to be.

You have to see yourself in that way.

Progressively, you have to change the view of yourself, so that at last you began to say,

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