Have you felt chained to porn, perversion, and the lies of the enemy?Has your past led you down a path of cycles of sexual sin?
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hey welcome to this week’s sermon i am so glad that you are here no matter if your usual or somebody sent you the link i believe that god has a message just right for your life at this time hey i want to let you know that this is a series that is going to help you win in relationship and if you want to take that to another level in resource i want to let you know relationship goals is still out everywhere the book as well as the study guide and for everybody who’s already gotten it thank you for being a part of changing the world for everybody who has not bought this from somebody else they need this in their life and if you’ve never heard of relationship goals this book was written to help you win in relationships i’m telling you that god cares about every one of your relationships and we want to help you win so this sermon is about to give you revelation get ready as we go into this week’s sermon listen i know you’re at a home or wherever you’re watching this from i’m so grateful that you have made it to the last week of our relationship series and um i don’t know about you but this whole thing has been transforming and revolutionizing our lives and the lives of so many and today um i really do have a word that i want to share with you before i do that um the first thing i want to say is that i miss everybody like i miss seeing people i miss hugging y’all i’ve missed taking pictures with y’all we are praying for you transformation church i mean there are thousands of you that have been so faithful in the midst of this pandemic and on behalf of myself and natalie again every week i just want to let you know that there is not a day that i am not thinking of you as your pastor that i’m not praying for you that we are not seeing or what is going on and then speaking protection over you and i just want you to know that that even in this time no matter what it looks like no matter what it feels like we have an anchor and his name is jesus christ and even if the storm keeps coming even if you don’t know if you’re taking your kids back to school you got to be their teacher this year or or all of these different storms that are coming god says i will be your anchor and before i start anything else somebody needs to hear that word right now because you feel like you’re capsizing and god says you’re not going to drown cause i’m gonna be your anchor somebody just need to say i have an anchor come on somebody say i have an anchor and his name is jesus and um as we prepare to to really just go into this next half of the year um many of you are new to transformation church and you just really started attending in the past year within the past year i want to let you know about something that we do around transformation church to preserve health and wholeness for our organization when i first became the pastor of transformation church um my oversight pastor many of you know him pastor tim ross he’s gonna be preaching later on uh this year here at tc and i cannot wait for you to hear that because it’s going to be fun nama no but our oversight pastor he told us he he said to me and natalie when you became become the leaders of this church i need you every year to take a month off for sabbatical and i was like there’s no way i can take a month off i i became the pastor in february and he said yeah in july you need to take a month off because you need to rest you need to get new revelation and you need to rejuvenate and literally as i obeyed as i submitted as i became sub to the mission yes your pastor is submitted like this is not something that we’re just doing whatever we think is god gives human authority and we listen to that and as we’ve been submitted to that it has been one of the most refreshing things that has ever happened our sabbatical usually is in july but god told me that i needed to finish this series and today i’m about to speak a word but in the month of august middle of august all the way to september your pastor’s going to be resting away i’m not going to be preaching and you know most pastors when they start saying these things they do it secretly like i’m not going i’m not going to tell the people listen y’all know we live transformation church we hot humble open and transparent i ain’t hiding nothing for y’all if i go on a vacation i’ma post a picture do you hear me no matter of fact i’m not gonna be on social media i’m gonna be gone from social media for 30 40 days why because i need god to fill me up if we’re going to do everything that god has said for us to do in the future i got to get sealed up i got to give time to my children and look in their eyes and play legos and not be worried about a post or a text or praying for for this or that i gotta get in that place because if i do that i believe that the future of our church we won’t get to do this for a short period of time with potency we’ll be able to do it for a long time does anybody want to do this for a long time okay so so if we’re going to do this for a long time we have to create boundaries a sabbath god tells us to do that weekly and i’m going to model this in front of you for everybody that’s freaking out right now like chill out this is how we got to this place of success and effectiveness relationship goals the original series came out of sabbatical planet not buried was the series god gave me out of sabbatical crazy faith is the series god gave me out of sabbatical y’all missing it i don’t know what god’s about to do out of this sabbatical but i need you to be praying for your pastor because as i rejuvenate and get revelation from god spend time with my family spend time with my wife spend time alone just being able to process all god has done y’all know it’s only been one year since we uh walked into this miracle that we’re in right now god has done so much but i want to be able to process it and then get fresh vision everybody say fresh vision because once i get fresh vision watch out where we’re going as a ministry where we’re going as a church and so i’m asking something from you i’m asking you to be faithful to god’s house even when the leader is not here [Music] you all know it it’s it’s some of y’all have the attitude past mike ain’t gonna be there then i ain’t gonna be there i’m a sabbatical too at the same time here on sabbatical well the crazy thing about it is this is an opportunity every year for spiritual maturity see the bible talks about us maturing and going from place to place only a baby gets fed one way [Music] like a baby is somebody who has to be fed by a bottle or a baby but when you become fully mature it may not be my preference but if it’s going to nourish me it may not be the thing that i’m used to but if it’s going to keep me full that’s what i’m going to go towards and i’m asking you and i know many of you are going to take the challenge to spiritually mature i would not let anybody touch this platform that is not hearing from god and i promise y’all over these next few weeks i have some of the world’s greatest speakers that are coming to speak god’s word to you i would never ever let anybody feed the flock food that was not high quality but i’m asking you right now lock in we’re about to start fun month next week and it’s going to be themed and we we have a culture code of fun at transformation church we enjoy it all and we’re gonna have games and giveaways and we’re gonna draw people in but what i want you to be is open to what god wants to do through your life when i’m not here now most leaders wouldn’t say this to you because they want the vision to be built on them but i want to be very clear about this this is built on a strong vision vision not just a strong individual and until the church is about the kingdom and not a king we will only see incremental growth but i am at transformation church this morning and i know that there are some people who god told us in january that the word for the year was shrunk so we’re getting stronger this year so while we’re out i’m asking you to pray for me and pastor natalie to pray that god would give us wisdom insight increased passion love that our children would feel surrounded that as we share ourselves with the whole world that god would let there be a unique um divine presence in our home i’m just asking you like i don’t ask you for much but i’m asking you right now and i’m promising you one thing that when i step back in this pulpit after today i am going to be full of what god has given me for you your family and for our future if you agree with that can you say amen come on in the chat let me see some amens and some praise hands and let’s get ready to go into the word today yeah i feel it now i feel it now i’m ready had to get that out of the way i do not know how long i’m about to preach again this sunday but y’all i’m about to go on sabbaticals so everybody who who needs a shorter word come back next week but i got to unload this clip right now because we are in week 10 of a series we’re calling relationship goals reloaded this is your last chance oh you already know this has been one of the most amazing series and i really believe that the reason god has allowed this series to go viral and allowed people to be able to consume this con content all the way from from white house all the way to people being on horse rides and at beaches and all over the world they’re consuming this content is because god wants us to win in relationships somebody needs to say that god wants me to win in relationships somebody needs to say it one more time by faith god wants me to win in relationships and i know for some of you with all the damage that’s happened in relationships and all the pain that’s been caused because of relationship and all the pain you have caused because of relationships that seems like a real far-off thing but i’m telling you that if you get the right goal in your situation and you begin to aim at that goal you can reach relationship goals and the great thing is god does not want you to do it without him and that’s why we’ve gone for 10 weeks in this series and if you go back and and and you look at um the the the og i’m calling it or the original relationship goal series there’s eight messages there 18 messages almost 20 hours of content all facets of relationships to help you win and then we took it and god told me to make it my first book and this right here y’all i didn’t even really get to tell y’all on transformation church of steel but this is a 12-week new york times best selling book glory to god [Applause] [Music] the reason i say glory to god is because number one god is using the foolish things to confound the wise he’s taking somebody who’s never written a book before and he says i’m gonna pack it full of content that points people to me and then i’m gonna allow it to be able to be successful in culture i’m going to take christ and put it in the middle of culture there are people calling that don’t want nothing to do with our jesus but want to know how we got a new york time bestseller baby you can’t do it for us without jesus and we’re getting able to witness and share god and we’ve done devotionals and we’ve done all these things why it’s because god is trying to get a message to his people and it has to start with people seeing us as believers actually model the principles of the word of god and in this book and that’s why i am passionate i did not have this and it made me make a lot of mistakes and hurt a lot of people because i did not know how to aim at the goal that god wanted for my relationships but you got me and today i want us to go deeper into this thing so um okay let’s just go to the bible because today is it’s going to be kind of emotional for me because this is personal today we almost got out of this series without hitting this and thursday morning god arrested me and gave me a burden to talk about something but i want to tell you why we have to talk about it look at john 8 31 let’s go there jesus said to the people who believed in him okay these are people who believed in him you are truly my disciples if everybody say if because everybody wants to be god’s disciples but they do not want to keep all of the qualifications that he requires to be able to really live this thing out he said you will be my disciples if you remain faithful to my teachings and watch this and you will know the everybody say truth and the truth will set you free everybody just shout at me one more time truth that’s a cuss word in church most of the time we want to give relatively around what happened we want to give the pg version of what really is going on we want to give the quotation version of i’m struggling i’m going through um we’re friends but what’s the real everybody say truth and i think the problem in the body of christ right now is we try to pacify everybody so we don’t say the real truth we try not to offend every anybody and try to make everybody comfortable oh if you say what it really is well that’s where the enemy gets to win he gets to win in darkness in silence and obscurity because we don’t tell the full truth and today i’m coming to tell the truth i’m not going to allow this series to end without a skirting and with us skirting around the real issues that are plaguing people right now because god says the truth will set you free and the problem with the body of christ is most people do not have freedom the the problem is they come to the altar they get prayed for they heard a sermon that felt good and they feel better they don’t have freedom i pray for people and counsel people that they listen to the message they they pray with the pastor like today i feel better but but you’re not free and the reason that many people are not free is because they don’t start with the first ingredient of freedom which is truth and this is what god says he says these people was like yo we’re not we’re not bound these same people the same people that if i’m talking to you right now you’re listening on your couch you’re thinking this is for somebody else but watch this right now they said but we’re descendants of abraham we’ve never been slaves to anyone what do you mean you will be set free that’s what people think right now the religious spirit makes you think that somehow if you have given your life to christ or if you watch church or if you give an offering there’s no way i can be bound but god is talking to people who have been believers but they’re still bound jesus replied i tell you the truth everyone who sins is a slave to sin so everyone who’s dealing with your private missing the mark it’s funny we’re talking about relationship goals and all the word sin means is missing the mark it’s like there’s a goal and you completely miss it he said everybody who sins is a slave to sin and then he goes on to say a slave is not a permanent member of the family but a son is a part of the family forever he’s talking about himself now he’s saying i’m a son so if the son if i set you free you are truly free yes i realize that you’re the descendants of abraham and y’all are religious and you think you’re better than everybody and yet some of you are trying to kill me right now kill my words right now kill the transformation i want to do in your life right now because watch this this is so important because there’s no room in your heart for my message god began to tell me he said michael the freedom that people need is available it’s standing right in front of them it has already been paid for but when i come to give my message some people have no room in their heart to receive the message that would free them and this was me for years playing in church singing hallelujah helping other people but i had a loud culture my own opinions people’s ideas to feel my heart so every time god tried to come and pour into my heart there was no room for his message and before i start today i’m asking somebody right now to make room for the truth because if your heart is full of it and i don’t know what it is for you but some of us our hearts are full of culture our hearts are full of ideas our hearts are full of pain god says i need you to release that so i can put a message in you that will actually give you freedom and freedom is what you really want freedom is what you’re really looking for freedom from the ideas and the hurts and the pains and the bondages somebody shot at me freedom i’m telling you right now that if you’re full of it it hinders you from receiving the message of jesus some of us are full of lies but it’s not the truth full of opinions but it’s not the truth full of ideas but it’s not the truth full of traditions oh yeah i’m talking to some of my older seasoned saints because you live what this young boy don’t tell me you the same way you’ve been for 30 years and you’re still bound because you’re full of tradition but not the truth you’re full of your experiences that you’ve now believed is the truth because it’s what you experienced but it was formed in a lie and so it’s still not the truth well pastor mike what is the truth like no no no no maybe you should ask who is the truth because the truth has a name his name is jesus and john 14 6 tells us this is so gangster because god tells you by himself he says jesus told them he said i am the way if you need another name for me aka the truth and if you need one more i am the life no one can come to the father except through me write down my first point because this is the precursor to what i really want to talk about jesus is the truth so if you read that scripture again and you will know the truth and the truths will set you free it could also read and you will know jesus and jesus will set you free so if that’s the truth if i go around the room and virtually into your room and ask how many people actually know jesus tons of hands would go up but then if i ask how many people are actually free tons of hands would go down but i know jesus but i’m still bound that means that i must not know him in the way that he wants me to know him and i have not been able to experience the true freedom that he gives i’m going to help somebody today write this point down the truth requires the truth let me put it a little different the truth jesus requires the truth my real story this is what i want to get to if the truth sets you free have you ever told anybody the real story if the truth jesus can set you free he requires you to be truthful and that means you got to tell your real story uh-oh this is where people start logging off uh this is where people start logging off cause if somebody really knew the real story the depths of def divisive and perverted thoughts if they really know what you thought and you typed if they really knew and most of us have not been real with the one who already knows it so today i thought i would model it i told y’all that this would be the most vulnerable message because i honestly don’t care what happens after this because i’ll be able to really you know how people be like i’m living my truth i’m living my truth that usually is an excuse for people to say whatever they want and not feel bad for whose feelings they hurt in the thing today i’m actually gonna model living in your truth i have a public confession to make and um thousands of people are watching and i’m just gonna say it i have been in abusive relationship for over two decades i’ve been in an abusive relationship for over two decades and it has not been with pastor natalie i’ve been with another and today i’m calling names because this relationship almost robbed me of everything that god promised me and the person i’ve been in an abusive relationship with her name is pornography and the crazy thing about it is i’m not the only one that she’s been visiting there are thousands if not millions of people watching this right now and you’ve been in the same abusive relationship thinking you were the only one but being damaged from the inside out and today i’m coming to put this nasty foul spirit that has been walking secretly the halls of people’s minds thoughts and relationships ravaging families and generations and i am coming to put it on front street today and that thing on the inside of you that’s uncomfortable it’s that spirit trying to bind you but today i am coming to tell the truth that this foul spirit that has crept its way into the church into the pulpits behind every musician behind every camera operator behind every children’s church worker behind everything that has been trying to slowly steal the virtue and the purity i feel the presence of god coming on me today i will stand in the full authority that god has given me as a minister of the gospel of jesus christ and i’m exposing this silent killer of relationships i’m talking to you pornography and the ramifications that have come to change people’s minds and today i’m going to expose you for everything you took me through this is personal this is so personal and i’m gonna expose you so that other people may be able to have light or revelation on their relationship because there’s some people watching right now pornography that you have so jacked up that they think this is not for them that they think that that movie with those scenes in it don’t affect them they’re so desensitized to the crap you don’t put them through that they’re allowing it to perpetuate to their children but today by the power of the holy spirit i stand and i call you what you are you’re a demonic spirit that is coming to desensitize and dehumanize god’s children and today i’m serving you notice that you will no longer be able to run ravage on god’s people i need i don’t know who you are but you need to by faith just begin to praise god you will no longer be able to keep us bound you will no longer be able to keep us quiet we’re about to expose this foul spirit i am about to go off right now because this crap had me trapped for two decades doing everything god saves to do but still going home and being drawn to the lust of my flesh in a way that would rob me of my purpose and my future this relationship with pornography it suffocated my destiny it destroyed my marriage before it even started it built such insecurities in me that i lost my own freaking identity and i know you don’t hear no pastors talking about it because they’re probably struggling with it and i know it’s un it’s unusual to have somebody come this straight forward uh uh this straight forward with it but there’s so many people that you pastor every week that we’re talking about the surface issue and the real issue is there’s this subtle this subtle silent sludge that’s on the ground floor of all of their decisions that is on the bottom belly of all of their beliefs and it dirties and muddies the purity that god called us to how do you know pastor mike because i lived it i stood catering to pornography for years and today i’m asking the holy spirit to give me wisdom i told the team before i came out here i said this is like seeing your abuser face to face this is that crap that almost cost me natalie and isabella and mj and ava why are you emotional pastor mike because i was trapped in it for so long and i was around people and they saw everything that i did but they didn’t know what i was struggling with and i just want to come out here it may be just for one person but there are images and ideas and videos and thoughts and things that have been in your mind as you’re just trying to move past it and keep going and keep praising god and moving forward my best days are ahead it continues to keep you in a place where the enemy can keep you in shame and keep you in guilt and keep you in doubt and have a little secret thing that you just know how to do when you’re stressed or to release yourself or to be able to get off of this anxiety high or just be able to feel something i’m coming to talk about the compromise of porn that’s the title of my message today and we almost made it out of this series and that thing was going to be able to ravage some people’s lives for another two years until we did this series again but no i’m standing in the authority that i mean god woke me up at 5 30 on thursday morning and he says if you don’t fight porn people will die and so today i’m standing here and it’s emotional because i’m i’m having to put myself out there in a full way but if my truth will set somebody free it’s all worth it father i’m asking you right now i got to pray right now father i’m asking you right now that you would penetrate the hearts of people that you would word my mouth father god i’m doing exactly what you asked me to do father and i thank you because of it by the power of the holy spirit people are coming out of darkness and they will be brought into your light in the name of marriages will be saved from this message right now people who are single that have been so steeped in this father god there’s freedom coming to them right now god i thank you right now for your presence being evident and you’ve given us wisdom in jesus name amen somebody say amen so let me give you some truth because a lot of people like that’s not my issue i clicked on the wrong live stream today i promise you pornography is either affecting you and you don’t know it or it’s affecting the people you love and you don’t know it what percentage of christians men and women do you think view porn monthly this statistic treat me out these aren’t just unbelievers these aren’t people who are just in the world because you know they don’t even care like people that are in the world they just you know that’s just some breasts that’s people having sex this is it ain’t a real movie unless they got a sex scene and it explicit and all this other stuff like so they don’t even i’m talking about christians people that show up and give and serve how many people do you think according to a study that was done a year ago 64 of all christian men and 15 of all christian women admit to viewing porn every month let’s go even deeper men are generally more vulnerable um in this area but the sad truth is every day it’s increasingly being more prevalent and vulnerable for women and they usually get into it for a different reason usually it starts with comparison insecurity and curiosity they’re going to try to find out how i can do something better to please my man or how i can learn to do something it starts off a lot of times educational and they don’t understand but that quickly they can get trapped into that same um um entanglement with this idea of pornography nearly nearly 40 million americans view porn monthly 40 million if you’re the right age between the age of 18 and 30 raise your hand in your homes on 18 to 30. okay people in the room 18 to 30. the statistic goes up 79 of men between the age of 18 to 30 watch porn every month out of every 10 men seven of them are watching porn consistently now you’re going to tell me that the way you treat people is not affected by what you’re viewing you’re going to tell me that the way you look at people and the way that you process what they’re doing is not affecting or is not affected by this check this one this one tripped me out the barna group researched and said that 50 56 of young people believe that not recycling is immoral so if you don’t recycle your morals are jacked up but out of that same group of people only 32 believe pornography is immoral so it’s more morally right for you to put a plastic bottle in a can and put it on the corner than to view two people having all types of sexual um encounters that’s that’s the world we live in okay where did porn come from it can be traced back and i’m doing this for all the science nerds for people like well tell me where where porn came from porn kane can be traced back to to uh 80 79 when in the ruins of pompeii and what they found was the first erotic um paintings and depictions of various sexual acts to cause sexual arousal it proves that porn was around even in biblical times well what does the bible say about porn the word pornography as constructed in the english language is not in the bible but the two root words are pornea and graphi the greek word pornea however appears so many times in the new testament and i want you to write down this word because it’s where we get the word prostitute it’s where we get the word pornographic or pornography from pornea means prostitution whoredom fornication adultery or sexual immorality it’s like a catch-all word when it’s used in the bible for anything that is perverse or wicked and the word wicked all it means is things that are turned like it’s something you ever seen wicked furniture it’s a bunch of ties and twists that’s the enemy’s whole idea to take something that was straight and to twist it to take something that was uh the right way and to make it something that’s what perversion looks like and and that’s what the enemy came to do in the garden when he said he is that what god said all he was trying to do was pervert or twist or distort or or twist around make it wicked and i’m telling you that it’s so slight but it’s so deadly and the bible talks about this word pornea being where we get prostitution from and this thing comes to visit some of the greatest men and women of god in the bible people like david people like solomon and today i want to talk about one that i feel like we can draw some some conclusion out of i want to talk about samson y’all remember samson samson who was so strong he was a judge in israel he was so strong and he ruled and he could do mighty feats and he had long hair and he never cut his hair because he took a nazarite vow that said i’m devoted to god and i won’t be around strong drinks and i won’t touch dead animals and i’ll do these certain things to keep my life devoted to you like many believers do when they start off very strong but what ended up happening is that samson had some issues with pornea or pornography of his day or the lust of his flesh look at it in judges 16 verse 1 it says one day samson went to the philistine town of gaza and spent the night with a prostitute word soon spread that samson was there so the men of gaza gathered together and waited all night at the town’s gate they kept quiet during the night saying to themselves when the light of the morning comes we will kill him but sampson stayed in bed only until midnight he woke up and he’s like oh snap i need to get up out of here then he got up took hold of the doors of the town gate because they usually locked him at night so some nobody could get in and nobody could get out so he didn’t have the key so he took the gates including the two posts this was how strong he was he lifted them up by the bar and all and put them on his shoulders and carried them all the way to the top of the hill across the hebron let me help you understand what’s happening right now this is a man who has strength and success beyond measure but he still has an achilles heel of sexual perversion can i help you it doesn’t matter how much money you make it doesn’t matter how many followers you have it doesn’t matter how many zeros are in the bank it doesn’t matter who calls you boss or boss man or boss lady if you have an achilles heel that the enemy can keep you in he will use it every time to draw you back and what he’s trying to do right now is still walk in the full power and the strength that god gave him and still dabble with the things that bring him back and i know you judging him right now but if we can take a peek inside of your life how many things are we acting like god is doing and we’re strong in this area but there is some achilles heel there’s some perversion there is something that the enemy keeps pulling on because we’re still doing it in the middle of the night he didn’t get up in the middle of the day it said he laid with that thing in secret and people found out about it and he woke up in the middle of the night and he tried to sneak out of the bed he paid to be in and i don’t know who i’m talking to right now but many of us are trying to sneak out of the bed that we paid we’ve given up something to be in and it has all started with the thoughts the mind the ideas the perversion and the pornography and i know this is hard to hear some of y’all’s like is this supposed to be talked about in church if it ain’t talked about here we deal with the consequences of it here we try to put you back together after the enemy has robbed all your pieces and this is what happens to samson because sexual sin is deceptive it never looks like what it really is can i be clear with you any time you ready to do anything sexually it always over promises and under delivers always it always oh it’s just one night it’s just a little bit it’s just a little porn it’s just a little idea it’s just a little taste it’s just a little sip it’s just a little and and it always is gonna make it feel better it’s always gonna take us to the climax it always is gonna make us be who we’re supposed to be for that moment yolo we only live once i’m just gonna do my thing i’ma live my life and what it ends up doing is it takes what is valuable from you and leaves you to your own devices i was studying the ancient eskimo and how they would catch wolves the ancient eskimo to catch a wolf would take fresh blood and put it on a post and it would put the blood on it and then it would put water on it and freeze it and then it would put another layer on the sharp post and then it would put um water on it and freeze it and they would do this thing over and over again and on the last thing they would put a fresh coat of blood and then they would stick it in the ground and what they would do is they would go back in and wait because what happens is the wolf had a keen sense of smell and it would smell the fresh blood on the post and it would go over and when nobody was looking it would lick it and it would keep licking it until unbeknownst to the wolf he had already cut himself and he’s licking his own blood [Music] and his lust for what he was doing would end up killing him the eskimo would come back in the morning and next to the pulse would be a dead wolf that was killed by its own lust ah and that is the picture of so many of our lives that are robbing us from our relationship goals we go with what we feel we lick this thing until it cuts us and we don’t even know we’re killing our own self the bible says that sexual immorality is the only sin that we commit that is not against anybody else it’s against ourselves i’m preaching in here and you think it’s something that only you can feel and it’s not harming anybody yes it is it’s harming the most important person you let me give you a point pornography gradually lets you kill you that’s all it does well i just want to see it one more time this is the last time i’m going to do this this is the last time i watched this movie no i’ll skip over the parts like i won’t even uh that’s not no big deal and all it does is it lets your lust it lets you kill you how do you know pastor mike because this was my life for years it was me robbing myself of the destiny god had put on my life because i was following my desires and that’s why james 1 14 it says temptation comes from our own desires look this in the bible james 1 14 temptation comes from our own desires which entice us and drag us away it’s not anybody else’s fault that i’m attracted to those things that’s in me somewhere let me let me help you i don’t like fish okay and i know some of y’all think that’s sacrilegious and all that stuff you want catfish pepsi i’m like not salmon no none of it i don’t like seafood and so if somebody brings in a bunch of seafood my desire for that thing is null and void i’m actually sometimes depending on how strong it is i’m disgusted by it because in me i don’t have desire for it but if you bring some chinese food orange chicken kong bao chicken general souls chicken you bring honey chicken any chicken and i get a whiff of that the only way i can be enticed is if there was a seed of it on the inside of me and a lot of people try to blame their situations on it and i understand there are situations where we are exposed to things too early and all those different things because we are sinful beings there’s already a seed of that on the inside of us so i only can be drawn away by what’s already in me this is what they didn’t tell me in youth group this is what they didn’t tell me at church this is what they didn’t tell me as an adult i’ve been in church all my life and i’ve never heard a message on pornography not one time yet it was the main thing that was draining me of the life that god promised me so this is what happened to samson because because how did sam get here like how did he get to the point this strong man now being carried away and just following his flesh well it’s because i found something out and that’s why you can’t just read a story of the bible you really really need the whole chapters of the bible so you can get context for what was happening i went back to um um chapter 14 and judges and what i found out is that sam was was ready to get married and and found this beautiful woman and he got married to her and at the wedding they used to have a week-long feast what happened was his wife betrayed his trust and and she told some of her friends like the bridal party a secret about him that really made him feel horrible what ends up happening and he was like i’m done with this and he at that night he didn’t even spend the night with her he went to live back with his mama and daddy and because of the pain he went back to the thing that was comfortable to him and what happened was then the wife just a few days later marries the best man from the wedding she was like ah you never mind i’m gonna go with jerome anyway because he killed okay and so she goes over here and marries him and now to feel the void that was there that’s how he ends up in the bed of prostitutes there’s always a root there’s always a reason maybe you don’t know it maybe you haven’t taken the time to actually sit down and discover it but there is always a route to why you go to images and videos and ideas to fulfill the thing that you feel like you’ve been robbed of let me put it to you in a point pornography is always rooted in some unhealed pain every time you get addicted or watch pornography you’re trying to fulfill a void that cannot be fulfilled by that foul thing and that’s why you have to keep going back to it because it’s like when you’re thirsty and you get a quarter a cup a little shot glass of lemonade number one lemonade make you thirsty anyway so like you drink some lemonade you want more lemonade i don’t know if i’m the only one but i can drink a gallon of lemonade and still be thirsty like like it’s like that it says you keep going to it but what you really need is water maybe living water and i came to encourage somebody who’s been steeped with these thoughts and images and ideas and lifestyle and now it’s played out in action we need to go back to the root baby by the power of the holy spirit we are going to find the thing that allowed you to be hurt the thing that violated you the thing that left you with a void and we’re going to put jesus in that void today and we’re going to believe that god will fill you up but you won’t ask god to fill you up if you don’t think you’re empty you won’t ask god to heal something that you haven’t revealed and that’s why we have to walk in truth that’s why some of you for the first time today are going to admit you struggle with this some of you for the first time today are going to admit why you’ve been distant from your wife or your husband come on i’m talking about real stuff right now your wife is sitting in the room and can please you but you’re in the bathroom masturbating because there’s a pain of rejection you used to be rejected and so that one time when she was on her cycle and she said that she didn’t want to have anything or she she was having a bad day or something was going on i got to talk about real stuff right now because i counsel these people right now and what ends up happening is now you get more comfort by going and sneaking away with pornography when you can have the real thing in the room but because there’s an unhealed pain there and some of you convince yourself like i convinced myself what’s better to watch pornography and masturbate and do all these things because i’m really not hurting anybody else but you’re hurting the only person that will be connected to anybody else yourself pornography is the only thing that could rob me and have me comparing my wife to people that we don’t either one of us ever know we don’t even know these people now i’m comparing her to things that aren’t real that are edited that are are are done in multiple takes and do all of these different things oh i’m about to be real in here today people who are augmented and blown up and plastic filled and pushed down and all this other stuff and i allow these images to go into my mind and my heart and now i am comparing the best thing that ever happened to me to something that never actually happened boy boy boy boy this is the lie of pornography but i want to empathize with you if you’ve ever been stuck in pornography there is some unhealed pain there that it’s rooted in let me be honest with you my first introduction to pornography was before the age of five years old we were in a hotel traveling on the road doing ministry with my parents and what ended up happening was those movie channels turned from flubber and space jam and it went to freaky kong and uh uh let me stop and i can’t explain what happened but i saw something that made me feel something i’ve never felt before and i didn’t have the ability at that moment because i knew it was wrong but it felt so right i didn’t have anybody to tell the truth to or i didn’t feel like i had anybody to tell the truth to and from that mo five years old y’all my daughter’s six right now she’s about to be seven like i want you to think how young five years old is i want you to think how many things now are shaped now when i’m walking up to a lady and you can ask my parents from a young age i always had a fascination with boobs my mama said yes you did i would walk up to ladies and gentlemen oh so sweet person michael not past michael at the time oh so sweet michael and they would hug me and i would find my hand down in their shirt and be trying to feel something those images made me curious about something that i had to explore and from the age of five years old i started this war with this image in my head and some of us right now are 30 years old 40 years old 18 years old 55 year old 60 and you’re still warring an image that you saw in your head and then it progressed we got older and the only time i’m just gonna tell it all in middle school we used to go to barnes and nobles to look at books because we didn’t have the internet the internet was like coming up like and you had to have real money money to have the internet back then and so we would go to barnes and nobles and i was just so curious and mischievous and i i saw that there was a section of magazines that had plastic on them and i was like what is the why is this why is there uh let me just and i pulled one down and i looked at it and playboy and hustler and see when you when you open yourself to that type of thing everything else comes with it so immediately my mind says i got to see this i want more images i’m not satisfied there’s not enough i want to see everything and what i did was i would go get an espn magazine and back then an espn magazine was a big old magazine i’m telling all the secrets it was a huge magazine and so i would take an espn magazine and i’d put the pornography magazine in the middle of it and i would go to the children’s area of barnes and nobles on yale i’m exposing you today you devil i i can’t i and i would spend hours looking at women and looking at men and looking at all kinds of things and and all this other stuff and then it progressed to when i was in in middle school in the locker room and then boys would start bringing pictures that they found and their dad and all this stuff and it became a cesspool of images and thoughts and ideas and then little girls would come and flash us in the locker room they would run by during p.e and they would flash us and now it wasn’t just on paper it was in real life and now i get to see real breast and and that color and that size and this all this other stuff and what it did while i was supposed to be doing math while i was supposed to be doing english while i was supposed to be finding out who i was in my identity in christ i became obsessed with these images and these thoughts and these ideas and the varieties and those people i would see people in clothes and i wouldn’t even see them in clothes i would be trying to figure out what’s under those clothes what type of bra did they have on did they have on a thong or boy shorts did they have because all of these images and they was silent the whole time this was all happening in the background not one word spoken over out of my mouth but everything running in my head because it was actually in my heart what do you need prayer for michael doesn’t need prayer for school every youth camp every every church event i just want to pray that i stay focused i was not telling the truth the truth would be what do you need prayer for i have the images and a sexual addiction and things that i keep going for and i make room for it and i’m trying to stop but i don’t have anybody to tell and the enemy kept me in a lie of secrets and he kept me in a lie that was spiraling down and it was slowly seeping me of purpose it was slowly taking away my desire to progress i didn’t want to do anything even that i was good at i wanted to just do the thing that satisfied my flesh at the moment and this went on for years until we got dial up aol internet and i was doing music and my dad i remember him coming in and saying mike do you need internet for your music stuff and i said yes sir i definitely need internet for my music stuff but one of my friends had told me that on the internet you could find pictures and not just pictures they took it up a level that you could find videos of people producing because i had to imagine everything before but now i could see it for real and i remember setting alarms to wake up at two o’clock in the morning [Music] see y’all don’t even know what the noses are those noises are but if you had aol dial up that mug told on you by yourself young you’ve got mail that mug was loud and i would i would dial up and then i would just type in whatever my mind thought and there would be images that come up and for 6.99 you can see the full length video and for 2.99 you can be able i can’t tell you how many times i subscribed and unsubscribed this stuff i got to be honest i i take the free one day trial i i remember two times i took my daddy’s card to try see when when you when you start down this path the the flesh is never satisfied and so it wants to keep going and first first thessalonians 4 3 tells us that god’s will is for me to be holy to stay away from all sexual sin better better said than done that’s hard and then it progresses do you get cell phones and i loved the iphone but it was the worst thing that ever happened for my sexuality i love the access that it gave me to different things but then the access that it gave me started to kill my destiny because i could be in the back seat of the car with fred hammond playing with blessed on the radio and i could be back there with the silent off on my phone looking up pornography and every parent that’s shocked right now calm down that phone you gave your kid when they were nine they’ve seen pornography let me help bust this bubble in church we will live in the truth what ends up happening from there it becomes habitual i have it everywhere that i go like i don’t have to really it’s pouring in the pocket no accountability nobody to share it with only get with friends who do the same type of thing so now i have accountability in the wrong thing i have community in the wrong thing and what ends up happening it leads you down a path that robs you and i came to a point where i had to realize the video would never fill the void visual would never fill the void i was insecure as a young man as talented as i was i was a lot more chubby back then and people used to make fun of me sometimes and i turned that in and i never really i never really talked about it people used to make fun of my nose and how big my nose was and all this different stuff and i would have insecurity about certain things that made me say i will not approach a young lady i will not go towards them i will satisfy myself and that pushed me that was the pain that pushed me to pornography and you think you’re talking about your kids and saying little things about them oh that’s just a joke what are you pushing them to [Music] you think that you think that all day they get they fine this is just how our family is we just talk what are you pushing them to you may never you may be dead before they ever tell anybody out of their mouth what they’ve been doing to try to fill the void of the lies and the death that you spoke into them in the name of a joke and what ended up happening is that the people around me and me not having my identity formed in christ because i was so young when those images came in it pushed me to pornography to where it had a hold of me i was bound by that thing for years the same way this strongman samson was bound and all it takes is a bound person meeting a right opportunity to meet their demise let me say it again a bound person with the right opportunity they will meet their demise look at it in judges 16 verse 4 some time later we don’t know how long samson fell in love with the woman named delilah now this is already after pornea or pornography or sexual immorality already had his heart then the opportunity met his damage and her name was delilah she lived in the valley of zurich the rules of the philistines the rulers of the philistines went to her and said entice samson we know he got an issue we know there’s some secret thing we seen him with the prostitutes we know there’s something that’s drawing him away something in him he said entice him and tell him tell us what makes him so strong and how we can overpower him and and tie him up securely and each of us will give you a 1 100 pieces of silver i did the math on it there were five people who said this it was 5 500 um a little more than 500 pieces of silver it would have been the average when you do the calculation to 31 years worth of yearly wages they were about to pay her to entice him so delilah said to samson please tell me what makes you so strong and what it would take to tie you up securely if if um if any hoochie come up to me and sweet talking to find out my weakness leave her alone see this goes on three more times and samson is so comfortable in his delusion that he doesn’t even realize that he’s compromised i call this message the compromise of pornography because that word compromise is an interesting word the first part of it is comp which means free like if i go somewhere and they’re like i’m giving you something complimentary this is comp like here’s a drink here’s a room that we’re comping and so what happens with pornography is it’s something that makes you think it’s free that it’s not hurting anybody that is something that’s innocent this is a comp visual i’m not really doing it to anybody this is really not doing it it’s comp but then it says the last part of that word is promise and what you’re doing is that you’re giving away for free the promise that god has for you you are compromised you are in a place that you don’t even realize that you are handing over destiny that you are willingly giving up your children that you are that you are standing and handing over the freedom that christ gives you the comp is actually giving away your promise compromise and you can be so twisted in sexual perversion and thoughts and images you ain’t even watched in a long time but you never dealt with the root of the thing that you were dealing with so it’s just sitting underlying there are people that are married right now and you can’t figure out why your sexual life is not going to another level it’s because it’s not just you and him laying in that bed there are so many people that are weighing down that bed that’s why ah that’s why that’s why some of you can’t figure out why you can never commit right now studies show that there are many men that are right now that have erectile dysfunction that cannot be able to perform or be attracted to a woman because they spent years with pornography pleasing themselves that they are more attracted to the idea of a woman than an actual one and what ends up happening is this is actually i want you to see how stupid the enemy is this is actually coming against the actual creation process of humanity if god can keep men away if the devil can keep men away from their god-given reproductive um relationships that they’re supposed to be in he cuts off a generation from being born because they will not be intimate with the uh they will not be intimate with a woman and these are the lies you can get so stuck in this stuff where it’s more pleasing to please yourself then to sacrifice for another samson gets so deep in this thing that he’s just toying with delia so much so where the truth comes out in the midst of deception remember i talked about the truth be careful when you get so comfortable in deception that then you feel comfortable to tell the truth he’s laying in the lap of his assassin get that picture he’s laying in the lap of pornea he’s laying in the lap of his downfall and ends up telling her yeah my secret is is if you cut my hair all my strength goes and she rocks him to sleep the same way that pornography has walked our generation to sleep it’s not a big deal but it is eroding all your relationships you can’t even hire a woman at your company without thinking in pure thoughts about her just rocked us to sleep so normal now it’s so it’s so it’s it’s just something we have to live with this is just being a man this is just being a woman like this is what we have to live with and it’s rockless to sleep and the philistines came in look what they did look what they did they cut off his hair and then they gouged out his eyes the gates they went to the place of vision and that’s why pornography is so deadly because it goes through the gates it takes over all of this through the ice that’s why i got to give you this point what pornography leads to is more dangerous than pornography [Music] what pornography leads to is more dangerous than pornography let me just go ahead and tell you what pornography leads to pornography leads to perversion and what people don’t understand is that pornography is the gateway to you leaving a perverted life a twisted life i’m gonna explain it to you because many of you don’t see the bible tells us in proverbs 14 12 that there is a path before each person that seems right but it ends in death so what i found out in my journey and i hope that this truth brings you life today because i wish somebody would have told me i wasted 20 years i wasted 20 years i could have been helping people i could have been perfecting my gift i could have been working on what god had called me to but i wasted 20 years in this cycle on this journey that seemed right to me in this cycle of messing up and coming back and doing all this other stuff but it was leading me to a life of perversion that i did not know if i could come back out of if i wouldn’t have found the grace of god but perversion does not start with perversion that’s why pornography is so devastating because what pornography he gives you is a prevision pre vision when i’m looking at pornography i’m getting a pre-vision of something god wants for me out of the context that he designed it in so when i see that image or see that magazine or i see that video it’s giving me a foresight or a foreknowledge of what i’m supposed to have but in the wrong context that’s why you have to stop pornography at the sight of it that’s why if you see that it says nudity or if you see tvma those things used to make me want to watch i watch more dumb movies because i saw a n for nudity and tvma and xxx the movie was the dumbest thing in the world i wish i could get my time back but what i wanted was a pre-vision a pre-vision that was distorted by culture distorted by somebody else who was hurt and what happens when you walk through a prevision is you do not have the vision that god has for you and i walked through a pre-vision and i would watch pornography every night when i came home and what happened when you walk through the door of pre-vision what you do is give the enemy watch this you give the enemy permission yup the enemy can’t come in unless you let them and many of us have given the enemy permission so when i see pornography the first thing i do is i walk through the door of a pre-vision oh this is how women and men are supposed to act oh this is how we’re supposed to connect oh this is how i’m supposed to talk to a woman oh this is the lingerie she’s supposed to wear oh this is how their boobs are supposed to look oh this is how long their thing is supposed to be oh this is how and i get a pre-vision not a god-ordained vision not something that god gave to me i get a pre-vision from a pervert and i walk through the door and when i walk through the door i give the enemy permission to plant any image that he wants to in my head to normalize the thing that god says is bad and evil and make that something that i want to do and the thing that god says to all of you is the greatest thing that he gave you was choice so when you step into the attacks of the enemy you still have a choice you don’t have to be overtaken by this that’s why he says in the word i place before you life and death and then gives you the answer to the test choose life don’t give it permission to come in because if the enemy gets permission not from anybody else but from you that pre-vision turns into permission and i walk through the door and no matter what anybody else says those little thoughts the thing i saw at five the thing that i saw at 12 the thing that i saw at 18 the thing that tried to follow me into marriage what happens is you start making this one is dangerous you start making provision yup you start making provision for the enemy now let me go back and give you an and a definition see because you got a pre-vision yeah this pre-vision right here this was the thing that you didn’t mean to see this is the thing that somebody exposed you to an uncle or a cousin like you can’t you can’t do anything with this it happened to you the pre-vision but after the pre-vision you get a choice to make and most people act like the permission wasn’t their choice but this is your choice and permission means you give consent or authorization to and i was too young i didn’t understand it i had nobody to talk to those pre-visions that came on the movie channel the pre-visions that i saw in playboy magazines they turned into me feeling like i had to give it permission like i was left out like i didn’t know enough to be in a relationship that’s what the enemy will try to do well how are you going to be with one person or how you got you need to know more that’s how he’s trapping a lot of the ladies like you don’t want to be somebody who don’t know what to do and know how to flip it and twerk it and dirk it and nerk it and so you need you need to find out some things and what we do is we give the enemy permission and then we start providing provision look what the word provision means the providing or supplying of something this was the most dangerous part for me because when i started making provision that means i was catering to it i’d not go to things i like to do to make sure i made time for pornography i would spend money that i did not have to make sure that my pornography my baby was provided for i would i would hide and buy extra apps and do all kinds of stuff to make sure that the images that i gave permission had enough time excuse me i was devoted to pornography i took away my vote and i said whatever you want me to do i’ll do it for you i’ll chase girls i’ll jump out in outside of and inside of people’s windows i have given and made provo provision for you look what romans 13 14 says but clothe yourself with the lord jesus christ the messiah and make no provision for the flesh stop thinking the evil cravings in the physical nature to gratify its desires and its lust and for over two decades i knew nothing but making provision for it i would know i had to get up in the morning for school or i had a big a big presentation or something it didn’t matter there are many nights i got no sleep because the flesh is never satisfied i’d find one thing and then it’d lead to another and i would give myself time limits no only 30 minutes and then it would be three hours later and then i’d say well only two hours and then it would be five hours later and it was sucking life and it was planting images and it was giving me everything that i didn’t want and robbing me of the things that i did want so what happens what many of you are doing right now it’s innocent because you’re walking through a pre-vision just an image just just oh excuse me just an instagram post oh because you know the instagrams can be pornography for you too the bible tells us if you look upon a woman or a man lustfully you’ve already committed adultery in your heart as a man think is in his heart you don’t got to touch her to be trying to figure out and and you don’t have to touch him to be trying to figure out how it works this works for men and women and what you’re doing is getting pre-visions and that pre-vision when you walk through that door there are people you need to unfollow today there are people that you know every third picture is something of their body that turns you on and gives you pre-visions of what you want yeah i’m in your business right now because you acting like i can’t handle it i’m a grown person that’s still broken from the inside your sin is controlling your life and perversion is turning you around and you think you’re dealing with it right now but wait till it shows up in your kids see because what you don’t know is that my father tommy todd aka the captain man of god he had the same problem his his prevision was different than mine he tells me a story of him walking in new york with a pocket full of quarters as he was there with the grambling state marching band he was a drum major and they went down this certain street so he could get a pre-vision and he took those quarters out of his pocket and it wasn’t magazines on the internet it wasn’t laying down with prostitute but it was called peep shows and what he would do is put a quarter in and a curtain would go back and he would see a nude woman and those previsions that he said he stayed up all night looking at gave the enemy permission and he didn’t know it but he would have five sons and the old testament tells us that the sins of the father can pass down to the third and fourth generation he didn’t stand up and change it he tried to keep it away he was still a good person and so he was moving out of he didn’t talk about the hurt it came from and so unbeknownst to him he had five sons all of them dealt with pornography and two of them had babies out of wedlock christian home glory to god in the highest prayer fasting everything but if you don’t shut these previsions off and you give it permission not to just ravage your life but then go to your children then you start making provision for it it’s crazy that it was my father’s desire to make sure we had enough and get us internet that made me be able to feed my lust he didn’t know that but it’s that unchecked thing that we never talked about it and now i had a tool to be able to satisfy and make provision for it and this is why it’s so dangerous because when you start making provision for your lust you don’t want to open this door this door has crap in it that some people can never come back from this is the door of perversion yup uh there it is perversion when you open the door of perversion everything changes i open this door the word perversion means to lead astray morally to turn away from the right course and i know some people’s like i this is too much it’s i i cannot take all of this it doesn’t matter click it off there’s somebody whose life is about to be changed because of this when you open the door to perversion this door leads you into open spaces there’s no limit limit this is how you start off by watching men and men men and women have sex and it’s never enough so the bar goes up and now that doesn’t satisfy me now i’m watching men and men and women and women and now i’m watching bestiality bestiality men having sex with animals and now i’m watching people have sex with poop and i’m watching people have sex with trees and i’m watching people beat people in slavery and now i’m watching pedophilia because when you open the door to perversion everything is fair game when this door opens that’s why i said pornography is the gateway drug to perversion because when you get into perversion you’ll steal you’ll lie you’ll manipulate you’ll change it doesn’t matter it just started off with a little pre-vision that then i gave permission and then i started making provision and then it took me into perversion and this is how people have whole islands of children that this is how people rape people this is how this is how a father can give birth to a child and then molest them how in the world do you see a baby girl being born with your dna in it and when they get 8 9 10 11 then you start molesting them you don’t do that because it just started out there that turned into full-on perversion let me give it to you in the bible this is the most dangerous place to be and i’m talking to you and i want to tell you the truth because if i don’t tell you the truth you won’t look for the truth and the truth is the only thing that can set you free look what romans 1 24 says it says so god abandoned them oh my gosh this is the worst thing that can ever happen so god abandoned them to do whatever their shameful things their hearts desired as a result they did vile and degrading things with each other’s bodies they traded the truth about god for a lie they traded the truth about god for a lie they traded the truth about god for a lie so they worshiped and served the things god created instead of the creator himself is the writer of this in 2020 is the writer of this on instagram and twitter today it said listen they they traded it in and worshiped and served things that god created instead of the creator himself who is worthy of eternal praise amen that is why god abandoned them to their shameful desires even the women turned against their natural way to have sex and instead indulged in sex with each other and the men instead of having normal sex relations with women burned with lust for each other men did shameful things with other men and as a result of this sin they suffered within themselves the penalty they deserved since they thought it foolish to acknowledge god since they thought god’s way was dumb since they thought god’s way was antiquated and that’s just for those christian people and i’m telling you right now that thing that’s trying to distract you and fights you right now it’s the truth of god’s word that’s trying to penetrate your heart but i need to ask you is your heart open enough to receive the message right now that’s why i read that in the beginning it says since they thought it was foolish to acknowledge god he abandoned them to their foolish thinking and let them do things that should never be done perversion their lives look at the result their lives became full of every kind of wickedness the twisted the turn the perversion sin greed hate envy murder quarreling deception malice behavior and gossip is that the world we live in today they are backstabbers haters of god insolent proud boastful they invent new ways of sinning and they disobey their parents they refuse to understand break oh gosh they refuse to understand they break their promises they’re heartless and have no mercy they know god’s justice requires those who do these things they deserve to die yet they do them anyway worse yet worst yet the worst part about it is they don’t just do it to themselves they encourage others to do it with them i have to expose this because pornography is not an innocent picture or video it is the gateway to perversion which is the point what god says if you really want it that bad go ahead it’s like the prodigal son i want my money now i want my inheritance now and the dad’s trying to talk sentence to him and say listen man just stay here he’s like but if you really want to go down this road of perversion here it is where does that end up the prodigal son eating slop with pigs when he was born to be royalty and i don’t know who you are but what’s happening to many of us is that when we go down this road of a pre-vision giving the enemy permission and then we we start providing for it and we end up at perversion it ends us eating in a place that we never thought we would be before but i have good news for you through jesus christ something else can happen today i believe is going to be a turning day for so many people that what happens when you get god into your life and you get truth into your life we can use these same steps follow me right now if we can get a prevision of who god called us to be if we can get in the word and find out that god says we’re his masterpiece that even though i’m steeped in pornography and all this stuff right now god says that i’m the head and not the tail that i’m above and not beneath i see myself free from lust and pornography i see myself being able to sleep and not go to that website i see myself i got a vision of me whole of me walking in victory as a man of valor as a woman of virtue a prosperous person who’s able to bless people i got a pre-vision that’s what god wants to give you today a new vision of yourself a vision before you get there of who he’s called you to be before you are formed in your mother’s womb he is saying i need you to read your word because i have a vision of you and this is the thing you got to understand proverbs 28 29 18 where there is no vision what do people do they perish or another translation says they cast off restraint they stop caring but blessed is the one who heeds the wisdom of god’s instructions how does a young man or young woman like me who was so steeped in perversion that i would lie that i got into into situations where i had car insurance fraud on my record where i was doing all these things do y’all know what that came from that came from the seat of pornography that came from these pre-visions that led me down the path of perversion it’s one of those things that you ever seen a highway where you get off on one thing and somehow you end up way over there it’s because it’s not a straight line anymore this thing takes you to all kinds of places that you never thought you would be i’m thinking thoughts that i never would think before that i used to judge other people for thinking i was having those thoughts every day why because the prevision takes me to perversion but if i can get a new vision of who god calls me to be you can see yourself pure some of you ladies need to see yourself not having sex with no other guy until you’re married you need to see yourself i’m too valuable to be wasting my treasure on pigs why would i cast these pearls on these pigs some of you guys need to get a picture and a vision of yourself saying yeah i could go smash that i could be with them but what i carry is the seed of generations i will not waste my seed i will not waste my seed on something that is pleasurable for me and that does not do what god called it to do which is produced many of us are masturbating and wasting our seed literally that’s mike that’s too graphic it’s too real it’s the truth and god’s saying today i want to give you a new vision and when i give you a new vision guess what you give me you give me permission when you when you start to see what god sees about you then you step into giving god permission to guide you to lead you into all truth that’s why we need the holy spirit because he said he will pray on our behalf the things we don’t know how to pray he will lead us into the truth that we don’t know how to get to ourselves he don’t want us to come out here and figure it out he says i will be the paraclete the one that walks alongside you and helps you but he’s a gentleman he ain’t going to knock the door down you got to give him everybody say permission that’s why the bible says in matthew 18 18 he says do you know what type of power you have truly i tell you whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven do you know you can give permission to god and then you get permission from god to loosen buying things some of y’all prayer life needs to get more ignorant y’all too soft with y’all prayer i remember when i was battling through this and i had already given the enemy permission to show me whatever image and do all this other stuff when i got filled with the holy spirit i started loosing and binding stuff i said in the name of jesus i command the images in my mind to bow to the word of god in my life i take every vain imagination captive by the power of the holy spirit i am attracted to that but i will not give in to my desires i am binding every lie of the enemy of insecurity on the inside of me that would make me feel that i need to go to this instead of be rejected from that i’m telling you right now you have permission to loose and bind things in your life that’s what god gives us [Music] and if you give god the ability to give you a prevision and you give him permission then god is so faithful he always gives provision man god started surrounding me with books and commentaries and videos and community of people that i was like okay uh i’m struggling i know it doesn’t seem like it but um i’m dying on the inside and i allowed god to give me a cocoon of resources of people the best thing he ever gave me was my wife the greatest provision god ever gave me was natalie todd and i remember just two years ago me walking through a deliverance process and let me say this if it took you 20 years to get into it you might have to walk out of it i know everybody in church tries to make it seem like and it is possible god can take it away in an instant that wasn’t my story i walked into it and i had to walk out of it all the way into marriage and god oh god showed me something that happened to me a little neighborhood boy came over to our house when i was young and he started playing with my private area and i had pushed that thing so far out of my memory and my thoughts and my ideas that i didn’t share with anybody and a year ago maybe two leading the church doing great things for god i got to tell the truth the enemy tried to bring that thing back up in me and and cloud me with shame i didn’t even do it i didn’t even ask for it it happened to me but that perversion tried to still have a hold of me while i was touching the whole world but god made a provision i was at the office at 15 19 and i called natalie and i said i got to tell you something she said what come here come like just come and i ran home in the middle of the day and god provided for me and i ran to her in the bedroom and i was on the floor that’s a grown man crying in her lap and i said baby this happened to me when i was young and at that moment god’s provision came through my wife she began to speak into me the grace of god she began to tell me how valuable i was to him she began to tell me that this was the last day that this would ever be able to have a hold on me because god does not do work in the dark he only does it in the light and i can’t tell you what the prayer was and i can’t tell you what happened i know that day when god sent provision through another human being to pray for me to be accountable with me to be able to stand with you to now understand my struggle more [Music] then god took me from a place of perversion and he brought another door somebody say another door see when you allow god to do it there’s another door somebody say another door see when you allow god to give you a vision of who he wants you to be in your life you don’t watch the images you don’t stay at the pornography you don’t go there you begin to move into the the permission for god you can do whatever you want to do in my life if you want me to be a pastor if you want me to lead these young people if you want me to stay here if you want me to go there you have permission to do whatever you want to do and god you’re a great provider i was young but now i’m old and i’ve never seen the righteous forsaken if you want deliverance god said i’ll provide for you and when you walk through this door the door of perversion is no longer an option god turns the door of perversion into the door of promise somebody needs to shout with me right now that god is exposing the lies and today is gonna be the day that some of you for the first time in your life say i’m done with perversion i’m knocking down the door of my promise somebody just got a shot of praise right there i said give god a shout of praise right there somebody’s promise it’s being unlocked right now freedom is coming to you right now [Music] it’s time for the promise but that’s that’s why i can no longer compromise with pornography i can no longer let those images i don’t care if they’re a social media whatever delete them if they get a rise out of you in any way cut them off if that show makes you tingle in areas that aren’t supposed to be tingling stop watching it but it’s my favorite is it worth your destiny because once perversion is there it knows no bounds is what the bible says the flesh is never satisfied so today i’m asking you let’s not just get a pre-vision and permission and and provide and get a promise for the wrong things let’s get it for the right things and that’s why god says in philippians this is my favorite verse in the entire bible because this is the verse that got me out of pornography addiction for it is god who is it who is it who is it for it is god who works in you both to will and to do his good pleasure another translation says he gives you the desire and the power to do what pleases him i confess this over my life all the time that i don’t just want the desire god i don’t have the people have tried to stop pornography with willpower that ain’t gonna work you need the power of the holy spirit and today some of you need to surrender your sexuality completely and fully to god you can’t do this without the holy spirit so practically pastor mike what do i do the first thing i had to do was confess i want you to write it down confess you need to tell somebody and i know this one this one hurts because you feel like this may damage some relationships or this may be the end of your marriage or this may be the thing that that takes you out this is what i’m asking everybody the grace that you need right now i need you to extend to others wives let me talk to you for a second this is going to be the first time that some of your husbands tell you the truth i feel this so strongly in my spirit that remember god can only do work in the truth and they’ve been scared because they actually do love you and if they told you they know it would hurt you and break your heart and it will but i’m asking you to lovingly restore them with grace be what they need now and then y’all can heal together but there’s some men listening to this today’s the day you get to come out you get to tell the truth you get to live in real freedom and yes there’s going to be consequences but do you know what happens when the enemy loses his power over your life you experience freedom for the i have been free from pornography for over five years and when i tell you now remember i’ve been married for 10. so it followed me into my marriage it was on and off trying to figure out how to stop and not but now i brought my wife into the fight with me we got code words now girl i’m thirsty and she said i’m a water fountain you hear me [Music] whatever you need we can fight together because the enemy wants you to be divided he wants to he wants to divide and conquer but god wants you to be unified because only in unity there’s a commanded blessing this is where we pull the cover off in the church today and we say we’re going to tell the truth even if the truth hurts you need to confess let me say it like this you have to confess to god and repent to him for forgiveness so some of you at the end of this service is going to tell god god i’m sorry i’m sorry i’m repenting i’m turning from this and god is faithful to forgive you but he doesn’t stop there most of us want to just stop at confessing to god but he says clearly in his word in james that you have to confess one to another you have to confess to people for healing so you confess to god for forgiveness but you have to confess to another person for healing and that’s what i’ve done with my wife and i’ve done with my pastors and i’ve done with my mentors and i’ve done i confess this is my struggle this is what i dealt with this is what and i can’t tell you what happens but god by his grace you just feel this burden lift it’s like something comes up off of you because no longer you’re holding something that you were never meant to hold and this is going to be the practical step that some of you make thousand might give me another practical step okay i got you right now you need accountability you cannot do this alone you need community you need correction and watch this c word amber lee talked about it earlier today and you need counseling christians need counseling you can have faith and still have undealt with trauma you need somebody to help you unpack that thing somebody needed to help me unpack the perversion that happened to me when i was young you need somebody to help unpack the way you felt in your family or never feeling significant or being too sexualized or whatever it happened you need somebody to help you unpack that so you can really live in freedom and then you need community around you i was able to tell my friends my closest friends four months ago what a few months ago what happened to me as a young child and they got around me even when i heard that that they heard it i was embarrassed and i was i was ashamed and they said hey listen this is what happened to me and this is how we’re praying for you and this is how we’re standing with you that community and that counseling and even correction might turn that off give me the passwords to that if you anywhere close to me you know the passwords to my phone to my email like i got to be around people i trust because everybody know my passwords why because i lived in secret too long that i have to go to the opposite end of the spectrum i don’t have no no reflecting glass where nobody next to me can’t see my phone i leave everything open because i will not be pulled back into bondage i will stay free [Applause] and there’s all type of resources that you can get you can get things with covenant eyes and you can get things uh read books every man’s battle and all that but you need to come back to the dig on wednesday night because we’re going to give you practical resources we’re going to talk to you through it we’re going to give you wisdom because pornography can no longer defeat god’s people and if you want to change and transform it’s available to you but you’re going to need to confess you’re going to need accountability and this is one thing that helped me you’re going to have to fast now i know this is not a sexy term in church but the bible tells us in mark 29 mark 9 29 that some things only change by prayer and fasting and i can tell you that when you stop the cravings for food and lustful things it does something in your spiritual life it you push away something but it’s teaching you the same stamina to be able to say no to the enemy and while i’m saying no to this i’m pressing into this why it’s not just a diet i’m saying no to things my flesh wants to say yes to the thing that gods want and some of you this is a season where you’re going to have to fast fast all tv fast all social media fast sugar fast sweets when i oh i’m telling you how bad do you want to change how bad do you want this to be stopped in your bloodline or do you want it to pass on to generation to generation will history say that you were the one that took a stand and became a man of purity and value and a woman of virtue and i’m going to tell you the last thing that really helped me confession accountability fasting one i didn’t know was gonna help me but it was generosity when i decided to start tithing for real something broke off of my life in the area of perversion because i used to put my treasure into things that would help provide for my perversion i used to pay for websites i used to put extra gas money in the car to go to people’s houses and do different things i was putting my treasure the bible says in matthew 6 where your treasure is your heart will be also and when i made a decision to put my treasure in the kingdom of god it was like my heart was ripped from perversion and it went to the things of the kingdom and i don’t know who this is for because you may have tried everything but this is one thing you didn’t try i’m telling you freedom came to me as i begin to do this me and natalie made a decision we whenever we get paid all of our increase it doesn’t matter 10 at least is going to god’s local house and we begin to do that and i’m telling you the level of freedom you know when something was on you but you could still feel it on you even when it’s all for you i’m telling you i didn’t even feel that thing no more and some of you need to walk down these steps and let god take you and lead you into a new level of living i had to tell the truth today because perversion and pornography will no longer be able to ravage the people of god any longer not without you knowing not without you knowing that it starts with the little image the little thing the pre-vision and if you if you if you give it too many pre-visions you’re gonna give it permission and if you give it permission you’ll start making provision for it and if you make provision for it it turns into perversion but god can give you a prevision of who you will be and you can give them permission to come into your life and you can bind those things that are not like him and then you will start experiencing the provision of god to give you everything you need both the desire and the power to do what pleases him and you will end up in your promise i am in my promise right now and i know some of y’all are saying well pastor mike i can’t do that you don’t know how jacked up i am the bible tells us that all have sinned everybody has sinned and fallen short of the glory of god and and religion would make you feel that’s why y’all i told my story so that you don’t have to feel no type of way about being clean i’m the pastor of the church and i just told you how deep i was in sin god can free you because what sin comes to do when god makes us we come here into this fallen world and we got a pre-vision and we watch a little porn and we’re going through and we were molested and we were hurt and we messed up and it happened and we were drunk in college and and i had somebody give me some pills and i watched this stuff and it’s just my life is stained and god says he wants me to leave pure and be holy but how can i do that and then i get in relationship with somebody and i call it my relationship goal but all that happens is those soul ties [Music] and us connecting and all the one-night stands it doesn’t end up they’re clean does it make me clean my filth makes them filthy and then jesus comes and he saw that everybody he loved would be steeped in sin and god in him made a plan to say you’re going to have to go down because nobody on that earth knows how to be pure anymore and i need you to take all of the punishment and the pain that they should experience for their sin because the wages of sin leads to death but he says i don’t want to give them that penalty so i need you to take it and all they have to do is receive what you did for them and then i’ll allow them to pour everything that they did that sin into you and when it comes into you i take what the world said was supposed to take you out and i turn it white as snow and i feel prophetically that this is what god is doing as you surrender to him but god i’m still filthy he says surrender would you please submerge your life the lies the perversion the pornography the jacked up the molestation would you please submerge it in me and if you would put it in me i’ll overflow you i’ll allow that thing to wash you i feel the presence of god right here that everything that abuse everything that the lives of the world did everything that the enemy tried to create in you i’ll make you white as snow i’ll take it off and i’ll make it into something clean [Music] hallelujah thank you god today god is saying i’ll take your filthy rags and if you submit them and surrender them to me i’ll make you white as snow it’s taken me a long time to get to this point but i feel deliverance in this house right now if you have been walking around trying to do good works and be better and trying to just do it off a self wheel today is the day to surrender your sexuality it took us 19 sessions to get right here but today god’s saying it’s time to give up and allow me to not just allow you to compromise anymore but i want to give you my promise and my promise is that i’ll save you i’ll heal you i’ll deliver you and i will set you free and if you want freedom today on the count of three i want you to lift your hand wherever you are it doesn’t matter who is there it doesn’t matter who’s around this is not about them this is about you and god some of you are 65 years old and you need freedom 72 years old and you need freedom 18 and you need freedom seven years old and you need freedom and god says i’m here to give you freedom right now if that’s you won you’re making the greatest decision of your life and if you are don’t know how to pray or if you know how to pray i need you to be praying because eternity is on the in the balance right now two you’re making the greatest decision and your name is gonna be written in the lamb’s book of life this decision that you’re about to make took me from being a liar a manipulator so perverted and it changed me not into a perfect man but a progressing man and that’s through this one decision three lift your hands up all over the world even on rebroadcast right now there are people that are making a decision to surrender to god put your hand down i feel the presence of god he’s wrapping his arms all around you right now come on just wrap your arms around yourself just like this come on i feel the presence of god he’s coming to give you give you peace he’s not shaming you anymore he’s not giving you any any guilt anymore he’s taking it all away somebody just just pray this prayer and that transformation we do not pray alone there are thousands tens of thousands of people that are going to pray with you right now come on just say this say god thank you for sending jesus for my sin today i ask you to be my lord and savior i turn from perversion and i turn to my promise my promise is you i believe you lived and you died just for me and today i surrender come on say it again today i surrender just one more time today i surrender change me renew me transform me i’m yours in jesus name amen can we shout all over the world can we give god praise all over the oh come on somebody’s life has been made white as snow come on somebody let’s give god praise hey listen [Music] i’m sorry not sorry it took me that long [Music] that was a long message but some people when you go into surgery it can’t be quick and i believe that god’s doing heart surgery so don’t be quick to get up from the operating table don’t be quick to move and just go out to eat and go to the park put on some worship music after this sit in the presence of god make a space remember that first verse he deals in spirit and truth but some people can’t receive the message because they don’t have room in their heart for it and that prayer god just emptied out some people’s heart and now he’s asking you hey hey let me fill it back up come on lift your hands all over this place say take my life as a sad grief come on say i wanna come on all over the world say only come on lift it up [Music] come on god is changing people come on lift your hands turn that into an altar come on somebody just worship god we’re shutting the door we’re shutting every door the enemy has tried to make us believe and we’re walking into the promises of god hallelujah [Music] come on just give it to him [Music] mel singh said i surrender come on lift that up somebody say hey i surrender that’s what’s happening right now sing all to thee say to thee my blessing i feel the presence of god in this place can we lift that up real quick i need somebody to just say all over the world say i surrender say and i surrender the ideas i surrender my sexuality i surrender pornography i won’t compromise anymore god i won’t give away my promise for free sing all to thee [Music] god today we’re surrendering to you said if you made that decision for jesus today i want you to text the number on the screen over the past two weeks over 300 people have given their life to christ and at transformation church that’s what we clap about that’s what we shout about is transformation in christ and i believe there’s hundreds if not thousands of more that are surrendering today and given they’re not you’re not going to compromise you’re not going to give away your promise for free anymore [Music] you’re going to get the promise of god today i’ve tried to share as transparently as possible and i know that the best days of your life are right in front of you if you want to help on this journey if you want to start with somebody on the dig we’re going to have tons of resources for you on wednesday for you to have help everybody say help you can’t do this alone this will not happen in willpower it will happen by the power of the holy spirit and practical steps that we will be disciplined around but i want you to join us on wednesday night at 7 pm right back here on youtube and if you just made that decision for jesus text this number on the screen let us walk with you we don’t claim to be perfect people we’re people who progress but we know the promises of god are yes and a man over your life so be it he wants the thing that he gives you a vision of a pre-vision of he wants it to actually come to pass when i was so low in pornography god’s grace is so good that he showed me me impacting the world even when i turned my back against him and now i’m standing in the vision that he had for me because i went on this journey and i want you to do it as well i love you i’m praying for you don’t be quick to invite things in this week allow god to speak to you some of y’all are going to go on a fast not a church mandated fast nobody else is fasting god told you shut it down and i’m telling you right now you need to share this with everybody let me let me help you this is not a sexy message this is a saving message like this message will transform send it to a few people private text message put it on your social media let the holy spirit do the work but he needs a vessel to do it through it doesn’t matter if they reject it at least they had the option we are the ministers here we’re the ambassadors of the good news of jesus christ i’m so grateful to lead this church and thank y’all for allowing me to lead in transparency and honesty and truth because i believe that’s the only way people get set free father i thank you for transformation church i thank you father god that you have made this people a people that will turn the world upside down i declare and i believe that the freedom they’re experiencing today will not be a short-lived momentary freedom but i declare and i believe that chains are falling off forever and that you’re not just gonna allow them to be set free but they’re going to be healed healers freed people who free other people and i declare that an army is rising up and father god we will praise you we will spend time with you and we will be devoted to you because we will see the promise of god in our lives in jesus name we agree somebody shot at me amen hey listen me and pastor natalie love you we’ll see you when we’re off of sabbatical and we’ll see you here on wednesday night for the dig and we will see you for prayer tomorrow night at six and we will see you at everything else we got going on i love you go and live a transformed life thank you so much for watching this message and if this has impacted you in any way i’m asking you to do a couple of things number one join transformation nation join us right here every sunday gather your friends and your family and be a part of not just this moment but this movement the second thing i would ask you to do is share share this with your friends your co-workers people that are around you because transformation is just one click away the last thing i would ask you to do is partner with us financially if this ministry is impacting your life transforming you i would ask you to consider pray about what you could give to help us take this message to the whole world i want you to know that we love you and your best days are right in front of you this week i want you to live a transformed life see you next week
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