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"The Lust of the Eyes"
By Steven L Anderson
Bible Text: 1 John 2
Preached on: Sunday, December 9, 2007
Website: www.faithfulwordbaptist.org
Audio Sermon: www.faithfulwordbaptist.org/120907p.mp3
dear God, I just pray that somehow I will be
able to communicate the truth tonight as it needs to be taught. And in Jesus
name I pray. Amen.
This is a fantastic
chapter in the Bible, but the part that I want to focus on is in verses 15
through 17. The Bible reads in verse 15 of 1 John 2, Love not the world,
neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love
of the Father is not in him.[1] Thats a pretty strong statement. But look at
verse 16 as the verse that I want to focus on.
It says, For all that is in the world...[2]
Now the for there is like the word because.
He says, Let me tell you why you cant love God and love the
world. He says:
all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and
the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. And the world passeth away, and the lust
thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.[3]
Now we see here that
God is telling us that anything that comes from the world, I mean, I dont care
whether it is a TV show. I dont care whether it is their music. I dont care
whether it is a movie, their advertisements. It is going to fall into one of
these three categories. It is going to be
the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, or the pride of life.
Now the one that I
want to preach about and the title of my sermon tonight is, The Lust of the
Now turn, if you would, to Proverbs chapter number six back in the Old
Testament. Right in the middle of your Bible you will find the book of Psalms,
and then the next book is Proverbs. Look
at Proverbs chapter number six. You see,
I think most people understand what the lust of the flesh is. That could be an appetite that is out of
control. The word lust means a very strong, intense desire. It is usually
talking about a desire that is out of control, a desire that you cant control
is what lust is or just a very intense, extreme desire. Covetousness is a word that has to do with
lust. If you study Romans chapter seven
Paul teaches that in the Bible.
But I think most
people understand what the lust of the flesh is. That could be an appetite for
food that is out of control. That could
be an appetite for fornication. That could be an appetite for committing
physical sins of pleasure with your body. But I think many people fail to
understand that there is a difference between the lust of the flesh and the
lust of the eyes. And just what is the
lust of the eyes?
Well, look down at
your Bible in Proverbs chapter six as we are reading this in verse 24. it says,
To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange
woman.[4] And then look at the next statement. Lust
not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her
Now think about this
for a moment. Here God is saying not to
lust after the beauty of a strange woman, of a wicked woman, of an evil woman.
Now, beauty is a visual aspect. Ok, we
are not talking about the flesh here. We are talking about the eyes. We are
talking about a man lusting after the beauty of a woman. That is what it says. Look down at your
Bible. Lust not after her beauty in
thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.[6]
Now what is it about
her eyelids? Should we be like...you
know, I mean, good night. Even the
Muslims expose their eyelids as women.
Right? They will wear black everywhere.
Have you seen them? They wear black head to toe covering every part of
their body. But the one part that is exposed is their eyelids.
Now, what is this
talking about? Lust can be defined,
again, as coveting something, desiring something that doesnt belong to you or,
in the case of the lust of the eyes, it is coveting and desiring to look at
something that you should not be looking at.
Now we live in a day
in 2007 where the foundations of everything that we believe, the foundations of
right and wrong, the foundations of basic morality are being destroyed around
us. Psalm 11:3 says, If the foundations
be destroyed, what can the righteous do?[7] And that is the time in which we are
Think about Bill
Clinton when he was in office, the scandals and the adultery and the filth. And
he actually questioned what does the word is actually mean? I mean he actually had the gall to question
the definition of the word is.
But this is the world
that we are living in. Now, what I am
preaching on tonight should be common sense.
I mean, I should be able to close my Bible and just say, You know what?
There are certain things that you just shouldnt even look at. But I cant
because we are living in a day when our basic morality and our basic reasoning
is being attacked.
You see, if you
would turn to Matthew chapter five I will explain to you what I am talking
about. Matthew chapter five in the New
Testament. Matthew chapter five. And
this is just the introduction. This is just kind of laying the foundation for
the sermon. But I feel like as a preacher as I preach I have to prove
everything from the Bible. I have to prove it all to you. And is something
where I have to go back to these basics because people question these basic
things. And so we have to go back and prove it all. And I dont mind doing
But look at Mathew
chapter five verse 27. The Bible reads:
have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit
adultery: But I say unto you, That
whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her
already in his heart.[8]
Now many people will
take this verse and twist it and they will say, Well, it is not wrong to look
at nudity. You know, it is not wrong to
look at a strange woman or a prostitute or a woman who is dressed indecently.
They say, It is not wrong as long as you are not lusting. I mean, if you just look at it, but you are
not thinking about anything dirty. You are not thinking about anything bad,
thats ok to just look at it as long as you dont have any bad thoughts going
Now look at the next
verse here. Look at verse 29. Let the Bible define itself. It says, And if thy right eye offend thee,
pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of
thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into
What is Gods
solution for the problem of lusting after a woman in your heart? Gods solution is for you not to look. He says, Your eye is the problem. The problem is that you are using your eye to
look at something that you ought not to be looking at.
He didnt say, You
need to change what you think about when you look at these indecently dressed
women. You need to change your heart and your thought pattern when you look at
a woman that is dressed in appropriately. That is not what he said. He said, If you cant keep yourself from
looking, then you would be better off to just rip out your own eye and throw it
in the trash. That is what he said.
And you say, Man,
thats radical.
Well, thats what Jesus preached. And so Jesus here is pinning the blame on the
fact that you are looking. That is the problem.
Now what is the lust
of the eyes? Well, let me explain it to
you this way. And as I get into the sermon I am just trying to define this for
you, what it means. The lust of the eyes is the desire to look at something
that you ought not be looking at. That is what it is. The lust of the flesh is to gratify your
flesh with something that you ought not to be gratifying it with. And the lust of the eyes is when you are
looking at something that you have no business looking at.
Lets say I walk
into the gas station. This is a very practical sermon. There are going to be
applications for men and women in the sermon. But lets say that I, as a man,
walk into the gas station and right under the counter is all the filthy
magazines, all lined up. And it is pornography is what it is. I dont care if
it is condoned by society. I dont care if society will tell you that it is
just mild or fun. Hey, it is pornography. The cover of these magazines is
pornography. It is soft porn.
And when you walk up
to it and all that stuff is lined up what if I said, Well, you know what? I just want to look at it just to see whats
going on with it. You know, I just want to see how bad it is or I am just
curious about it. Now I dont have any desire for what I see or I am not
thinking about adultery or any thing like that, I just want to look at it.
You see, if
something catches my eyelisten to me, sir, listen to me, menwhen something
catches your eye, you are driving down the road and that billboard catches your
eye, that magazine catches your eye, that sleazy hutchie momma or that woman
that is dressed inappropriately, you are in department stores. She has got the
short skirt on or she has got the tight fitting clothes on. Hey, when that
catches your eye, sir, do you know what you ought to do? You ought to look
Now this is common
sense, but this is what needs to be preached because people dont believe
this. You have to look away.
And I am going to
tell you something. When you look back
the second time, you have just committed a sin.
Oh, I didnt think
anything. I didnt think anything about
it. I just looked at it.
Looking at it is a
sin in and of itself, period. And so when you look at something and then you
look away what begins in your heart, then, could be an intense desire to look
back a second time. Why? Because you are
going to commit adultery with the woman in the picture? No. You dont even know who that woman is.
Your desire is to look at it again because your eyes are out of control and
because the lust of the eyes is dominating your heart. That is where you need to decide, I will not
be brought under the power of any. I am not going to let lust control me. I am not going to let sin in my body control
me. I am going to refuse, as David said in Psalm 101:3, I will set no wicked
thing before mine eyes.[10]
He didnt say,
Well, whenever I look at something wicked I make sure I keep my heart right.
He said, No. He said, I dont even want to set it in front of my
eyeballs. I mean God makes this very
basic. He said, You cant stop looking
at women that are clothed in a way that God describes as nakedness, he says,
Just take out your eye. You will be better off.
And that is what the
Bible teaches. And that is what David said, I will set no wicked thing before
mine eyes.[11] And then his next words were, I hate the
work of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me.[12]
What did he mean by,
it shall not cleave to me?[13] Well, in Psalm 101:3 when he said it shall
not cleave to me, what does cleave mean?
Cleave means to bind itself to you.
You see, the Bible says, Therefore shall a man leave his father and his
mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.[14] See, it is saying, Look, we are not going to
be put asunder. What God has joined together let not man put asunder, the
Bible says.[15] And so I am going to stay with my wife and my
wife is going to stay with me. That is what marriage is, till death us do part.
And so here David is
saying, I dont want the work of the wicked. I dont want the works of Playboy magazine. I dont want the works of Cosmopolitan magazine or Ladies Home Journal or whatever these
filthy magazines are that wind up. Hey, I dont want that to cleave to me. I
dont want to walk out of that gas station and have those images with me. I dont want to walk out of that gas station
and have sin with me in my mind. I want to just leave it there. I dont even
want to set it in front of my eyes because there is something that you need to
learn. And that is when things go in, they dont come out.
I am telling you.
You think, Oh, yeah. I can look at all this and it is not going to affect
me. Things are going to go in. It is
going to be a lot harder to get them out than it was to put them in. It is going to take a long time to get those
pictures out of your head. Thats why
this is so dangerous because God is teaching us in Psalm 101:3 that when you
look at things that you are not supposed to look at, it cleaves with you, a
little piece of it stays with you up in your mind and that is what God is
teaching us.
Now here is the
world we are living in. People think that it is ok to look as long as you dont
lust. The fact that you are looking is
demonstrating your lust. Your lust is
what made you look the second time and the third time and the fourth time. Lust is what caused you. Because why is it
you looked the second time? Because you
wanted to, because you wanted to look at something with your eyes, that is
Think about this
term. I just learned this term from my sister about six months ago. Eye candy.
Ok, who has ever heard that term?
Put up your hand. I had never even heard it. Eye candy. And she said,
you know, TV is just eye candy for men.
It is eye candy. And that is a
great description of what I am talking about. You know, candy is something
that, boy, kids, they have an intense desire for candy. You know, they want to
put that sugary little piece of candy in their mouth and man is it good.
But do you know what? The sinful heart of man, the lust of the eyes wants to
sit down and just as putting that sugary candy on his tongue, gratifies his
taste buds. He wants to fill his eyes, his sinful appetite to look at sin and
immorality and ungodliness. That is what
the lust of the eyes is. Are you understanding it tonight, what the lust of the
eyes is? Desiring to feast your eyes on
what is wrong and what really belongs to someone else.
Think about what
Jesus said in Matthew five. He says,
You have committed adultery with her.[16] Now in order to commit adultery either you
have to be married or she has to be married. That is what adultery means. Did
you know that most of those women that you are probably looking at on the TV
screen and on the magazine covers, did you know that most of them are probably
married? It is sad to say, but a lot of
them are probably married. You are looking at a woman that belongs to another
man and you are feasting your eyes and lusting after another mans wife. Or
perhaps you are married yourself and you have your wife that God has given to
you and yet you choose to feast your eyes on someone elses wife and to enjoy
her beauty with your eyes. And God says, Lust not after her body? No. He said, Lust not after her beauty. Dont even lust after her beauty.[17]
Dont even feast your eyes and stare at a woman that doesnt belong to you have
the lust of the eyes dominating your life.
So people think it
is ok to look as long as you dont lust.
It reminds me of the people who think it is ok to have idols as long as
you dont worship them. You know, this is the kind things that we deal
Oh, it is ok to look as long as you are keeping a clean heart.
Oh, it is ok to
have idols in your house as long as you dont worship them.
You say, What are
you talking about? Who has idols in
their house?
All kinds of people
have idols in their house. You have got
idols like little statues of Jesus, little statues of the virgin Mary. You have got little statues of gods and Jesus
the true God. But do you know what? That is not...that aint Jesus that little
statue, that long haired hippie you got there isnt Jesus anyway, ok?
Have you ever seen
that picture of Jesus where he has got the really long hair parted in the
middle and he looks like a Springer Spaniel? It is the one that the Momons have
in their house where his hair is really droopy like this. You know, those droopy ear dogs. Do you know
what I am talking about, Springer Spaniels?
Only a couple of people get the joke.
All the [?] say they
are not worshipping it. It doesnt
matter because the Second Commandment of God is, Thou shalt not make unto thee
any graven image.[18] Then, he later said, Dont worship it.[19]
But, you know, you ought not even make it.
Dont make the idol and you dead sure wont worship the idol. Dont bring the abomination into your house
God said. He said, Dont bring idols into your house. Dont bring the pictures
and the idols of the heathen even into your house.
Remember in the book
of Deuteronomy God said, When you go into the Promised Land, destroy all their
pictures, destroy their idols?[20] Dont bring the accursed thing into your
house lest thou be accursed like it.
You see, you are not
going to worship idols if you dont have idols in your house. And you are not
going to lust after women if you dont look at pictures of indecent women or
look at women out in public, if you just keep your eyes where they are supposed
to be. God says, Look right on. Dont
look to the right hand or to the left. Look straight on ahead.
Hey, you are not
going to have that problem because the Bible says, Make not provision for the
flesh, to fulfill the lusts thereof.[21]
I will give you the whole verse, Romans 13:14. But put ye on the Lord Jesus
Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.[22] He is saying, Dont even put yourself in a
position where you have the opportunity to gratify the flesh. That is what he
is saying. Dont even...why would you
want to be just one step away from a wicked sin?
Because you know
what comes right after the lust of the yes is the lust of the flesh. That is where it takes you next. Think about
King David. King David let this take over in his life. King David was supposed
to be out fighting battles and leading the nation to war. And he was just up on the roof just bored,
lazy, just doing nothing, walking around on the roof. And he looks over and sees through a window
off in the distance a woman bathing completely nude just in the shower. He just
looks through the window and sees her.
Now what he ought to have done is said, Whoa, man. And went back in the
Would he have
committed any sin at that point, if he just accidentally saw something and just
said, Whoops, sorry, and went down the stairs? Everything would have been fine.
But what did he do? He looked away. And
then the lust of the eyes kicked in. I dont think his next thought was, Boy,
I want to commit adultery. I think his
next thought was, Boy, that looked good. I think Ill take a second look.
And so he said, I
think I will look a little more. And then he began to look a little more. And then as he began to look a little more,
when lust hath conceived it bringeth forth sin.[23]
And what happened is when he looked at it the lust of the eyes kicked in and he
wanted to look at it and then as he looked at it, then the lust of the flesh
kicked in, he called for his servants and said, Go bring that woman to
me. And he committed adultery with
her. Then when lust hath conceived, it
bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.[24]
And many, many people died because of that sin.
Four of Davids own children died because of that one sin that he
committed because he had let the lust of the eyes...
See, I dont even
want to go there. I dont want to get to
that point. I want to just nip in the bud right at the eyes. Be done with it. That is what Jesus said to
be done with it, with your eyes.
But look, if you
would, at...turn to Genesis 13 and Ill...Ill explain something to you in the
meantime. Turn back to Genesis 13.
Now here is another
thought about Jesus words in Matthew chapter five. He said, But I say unto you, That whosoever
looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery.[25] And we
talked about that, that, yeah, it is talking about one or more people are
married in the equation. ...hath committed adultery with her already in his
Now, personally I
believe that not only is the person who is looking upon the nudity sin, are
they in sin. But I personally believe
and I think it is clear from the Bible that the person who is exposing their
nakedness is also in sin.
You say, Pastor
Anderson, you know...
And sometimes
like...especially like Amanda here in the front. Sometimes she rolls her eyes
at me because she is like, Pastor Anderson, why are you stating the obvious?
You know, I will say
things that are just so basic. And she rolls her eyes like, Come on, everybody
knows that.
But Im like,
Amanda, everybody doesnt know that.
Now everybody should
know that. But she rolls her eyes, and I
am rolling my eyes in my heart with her because I am thinking to myself, Isnt
it so stupid that I even have to say this.
Do you know what I mean? And so I
see where you are coming from with that.
But the Bible says
in Revelation 3:18just, you dont have to turn there. I am just going to read
some Scripture while you are in Genesis 13.
I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be
rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy
nakedness do not appear.[27]
God says it is a shame when your nakedness is exposed. And so you have two people committing a sin
here. One person is exposing their
nakedness and another person who is setting wickedness before their eyes by looking
at it.
You say, Pastor
Anderson, what are you talking about when you say nakedness?
I am talking about
what the Bible says nakedness. The Bible says that when a woman has her thigh
uncovered it is nakedness, Isaiah 47:3.[28] The Bible says that when a man has his
thighs uncovered it is nakedness. That is Exodus 28:42.
And I am not going
to go there. I have shown it to you in
many sermons. But that is nudity. The girl in the short skirt is showing her
nakedness. The girl in shorts is showing her nakedness if they are above the
knee. Hey, I am talking about nudity as God defines it.
The Bible says in the book of Isaiah. It talks aboutand excuse the term, but
this is what the Bible saysit says that men had their buttocks uncovered. It
said it was nakedness. Look it up in
your Bible.[29] It says that is nudity. That is
And, do you know,
thats... you say, Well, you are crazy.
Hey, that is the style among girls right now with their low rider
You know, girls
ought not even be wearing pants, number one.
Put on a skirt and be feminine and be a lady. But do you know what? Why dont you pull up your skirt where it
needs to be pulled up, girls? And why
dont you...you know, and if you do choose to wear pants and be an abomination,
then, you know, at least pull up your pants, would you? And quit showing your
And I am going to
tell you something. It is a sin for the
girl who is showing her nakedness and it is a sin for the guy who looks at it,
period. And that is the truth.
And so there are
really two people in sin here. But it
says in Habakkuk 2:15, Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink, that
puttest thy bottle to him, and makest him drunken also, that thou mayest look
on their nakedness![30]
Nahum 3:5. Behold,
I am against thee, saith the LORD of hosts; and I will discover thy skirts upon
thy face, and I will shew the nations thy nakedness, and the kingdoms thy
See, it is a shame
to be nude. It is a shame to expose your nakedness to the world.
Behold, I come as a
Jesus said in Revelation 16:15. Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he
that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his
2 Corinthians 5:3. If
so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.[34]
Put some clothes on.
Be clothed. Dont be found naked. Put clothes on.
You say, Pastor
Anderson, why do you preach this?
Good night. Go out
there in the world everybody is stripped half naked in our sinful licentious
society. Come with me to work one
day. You know I work in department
stores all the time because I inspect fire alarm systems. That is my secular job. And just come with me
to work one day. Come with me to
Dillards department store where we service the cameras. Come with me to Kohls and Bed Bath and
Beyond. Hey, you will see all kinds of people that are dressed unbelievably
naked is what it is. Hey, put some clothes on.
Nothing...there is
Just because our
society accepts it, hey. This is my society right here at the house of
God. The Bible is my cultural guideline
here. I dont go by what the world goes by. I dont love the world. I love the
Father. And the Father said, Nakedness
is a sin.
But we are living in
a day where people do not even believe that nakedness is a sin. It is the truth. I will prove it to you.
Oh man, you know,
these people they dont want you to...they dont want the girls in the short
skirts. They dont want the low cut top?
But what do they do? They
build...they dig a hole in the ground, right?
They dig a hole in the ground, fill it with water, put a bunch of cast
iron fence around it and all of the sudden all the girls put on their
underwear, their colored underwear and it is ok. And it is called a bathing suit.
Suddenly it is ok
because people dont believe that it is a sin.
Now what if those
same girls...I would like to see...and I would like to see those same Church
youth groups that have the mixed swimming and all the girls in the bikinis and
the bathing suits. I would like to see
those girls show up for Sunday morning church dressed like that. Boy, the pastor would throw a fit. Everybody would throw a fit. I mean they
would be throwing a blanket over them or something say, Good night, would you
cover up? Here is a towel. Here is a
blanket. Put something on. This is obscene.
But suddenly you go
to the beach, you go to the swimming pool and all of the sudden it goes out the
And, you know, here
is an area that is not popular. It has never stopped me before. It is not going to stop me now. But here is another area that is not
popular. But, you know what? Women who go to a male doctor and just
disrobe in front of a male doctor. Why? Because they dont believe that nakedness is
a sin. Because he is not lusting, supposedly.
Because we all know
what is going on inside his mind. He
takes a polygraph detector test right before and after every visit.
I had...my mind is
as clean and pure as the driven snow.
Yeah, right. Good night. He is a man. He is a red blooded
man like anybody else. Do you know what every male gynecologist ought to do? He
ought to take a scalpel and a lancet and cut out his own eye and throw it in
the trash. That is what the Bible says.
He ought to just remove his own eye.
I am not kidding. He has got all
the tools to do it. He ought to do it.
I am telling you
what. Hey, why dont you decide whether
you believe that nudity is even a sin.
But, see, we have twisted the Bible and said it is only a sin if you
think a dirty thought. Hey, it is dirty just to look at it. You have already gotten dirty right there.
Period. Quit lowering the bar of morality. Quit lowering the bar of what is
right and wrong.
Hey, why dont we
lift up the standard high and say, Right is right and wrong is wrong, period?
But where did I have
you turn, Genesis 13? Look at Genesis
13. And I am going to get off the
subject of nakedness, ok. Because we are
talking about the lust of the eyes, but I dont want to spend my whole sermon
talking about clothing and nakedness and things like that. Look at Genesis 13. Well look at another kind of wrong lust of
the eyes. That is the topic tonight.
Genesis 13:8 says:
Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I
pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen; for we
be brethren. Is not the whole land
before thee? [verse nine] separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: if thou wilt
take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if thou depart to the right
hand, then I will go to the left.
Lot lifted up his eyes...[35]
Lets see what he
does with his eyes.
It says:
beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before
the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the
land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.
Then Lot chose him all the plain of
Jordan; and Lot journeyed east: and they
separated themselves the one from the other.
Abram dwelled in the land
of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in the cities of the plain, and pitched his
tent toward Sodom. But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the LORD
So here we have
Abram and Lot.
Abram says, I will give you the choice. If you go this way, I will go
this way. Lets split up. I am going to give you the best of the land. I am
going to give you first pick.
Lot lifts up his eyes and he looks and he sees
the well watered plain, the beautiful land. And it was like the garden of the
Lord the Bible says. It was like the land
of Egypt. And it was so
Then he looked at it
and he said, This is where I want to live.
But in that plain
there were many cities. And the worst city of all was a city called Sodom and the men of Sodom were wicked and
sinners before the Lord exceedingly the Bible says.[37]
So what does it say
he did? He pitched his tent toward Sodom.[38]
Good night, man.
Theres north, south, east west. Why are
you pitching your tent towards Sodom?
Because think about it. Every day when he gets up in the morning he walks out
the front door of his tent, what does he see in front of him every day? Sodom.
So first he is just
living in the general vicinity. You know, he is just living in the plains,
nothing wrong with maybe living in a well watered area. Great.
But the problem is every time he went out the front door he is looking
at Sodom. He
gets up the second day, he looks at Sodom,
goes about his business. He gets up the
third day, looks at Sodom.
And I would venture to guess that his tent probably just kept moving closer and
closer towards Sodom
because he wanted to see more. He is
looking at it. You know, he is
fascinated by it. Whatever the case may be.
And he just kept
moving that tent closer and closer to Sodom.
Well, all the
sudden, the next thing you know, in the next chapter in Genesis 14, ok, he is
living in Sodom.
Now how did he get there? God doesnt
even tell us when he moved to Sodom
or how he moved to Sodom.
It just says, well, he pitched his tent towards Sodom.[39] And then you get to Genesis 14 and he is in Sodom.
And you are like,
And God is saying,
Of course he is in Sodom.
That is what he looked at all day. He has been looking at it in chapter 13. Of
course he is going to be there in chapter 14. And then by the time we get to
chapter 18 God sends...you know, God comes to Abraham and tells Abraham he is
going to destroy Sodom.
And Abraham, of course, pleads for the life of his nephew Lot.
And then in Genesis chapter 19I am just hurrying through the storybut in
Genesis 19, you know, God sends his two angels to Sodom. Their mission is to go there and to
see if it is just as bad as he said it was. And their mission is to get Lot and take him out of Sodom.
And so the two angels come there. They come to grab Lot. And look, if you would, at Genesis 19 verse
17, Genesis 19:17. Now how did Lot end
up in Sodom? Because he looked at Sodom too many times. He kept looking at it and looking at it and
looking at it just like David looked at a woman that was bathing.
But look at Genesis
19 verse 17. This is what the angels are
saying when they take Lot and his wife and his
two daughters out of Sodom. In verse 17 it says, And it came to pass,
when they had brought them forth abroad.[40] Four people: Lot,
Lots wife and Lots
two daughters. That he said, Escape for thy life; look not behind thee.[41] Do you see that? He is saying, Dont even look at that
place. Look not behind thee, neither
stay thou in all the plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed.[42]
And then look at
verse number 23. The Bible says:
sun was risen upon the earth when Lot entered into
the LORD rained upon [San Francisco.
Im sorry. I mean] Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out
of heaven; And he overthrew those cities, and all the
plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the
his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.
Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he stood before the
LORD: And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all
the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as
the smoke of a furnace.[43]
It was gone. It was
just smoke and ashes after God destroyed it.
You see, Lots whole problem was that he was looking at Sodom. That is how he
ended up there. And then when God explained to him what he was going to do,
when God revealed to Lot how filthy and how
wicked it was. And when these men had actually attacked Lot
in chapter 19 and actually tried to violate Lot
himself and the angel smote these Sodomites, these queers with blindness and
grabbed Lot into the door and pulled them out
of the city. He said, Dont look back. Leave Sodom.
Leave it behind. Be done with it. Dont even look back at that wicked
But as the old song goes, I left my heart in San Francisco... You know, that could have
been Lots wifes theme song. She left her heart in San Francisco, literally. She left her heart
in Sodom. And
so she is leaving Sodom. And the lust of her eyes. I mean think about it. She had just been told not to look back. She
knew she wasnt supposed to look back.
She was running away and maybe they could hear the fire and brimstone
beginning to fall or maybe they could know that Gods judgment was coming and
the sun was just up and God was beginning to destroy it. And she had a lust in her heart that said, I
have to look back. I just have to look at it one more time before it is gone.
What kind of an
intense desire would make a woman turn around and look at it and become a
pillar of salt? I mean, she is killed.
You know, she is destroyed in a moment because she just said, I must
look at it.
You know, this is
the same thing that you experience, sir, when that indecent picture is out
there. And it is everywhere. It is in the gas station. It is in the
Hey, you feel that
lust of your eyes saying, I have just got to look at it.
And you know it is
enough to destroy you. It was enough to destroy King David. It was enough to
destroy Lots wife.
Hey, I love the
short verses in the Bible. You know, those verses that are just really short in
the Bible. Jesus wept.[44]
Rejoice evermore.[45] Pray without ceasing.[46] You know, these very short verses.
How about this one? Remember Lots wife.[47]
Thats the whole verse Remember... Luke 17:32. Remember Lots
That is enough of a
thought for one verse. I mean that is
just the Holy Spirit chose to just put that one little thought there. Remember Lots
Why, God? Why should I remember Lots
wife? Remember how just looking at
something can kill you. Remember how just looking at something can destroy you.
He said, Good
night. I just dont think that looking at something...I mean, just looking at
something can destroy me?
Well, God killed in
1 Samuel chapter six verse 19, he killed 50,070 people. Did you get that
number? Fifty thousand and 70 people
because they opened the ark and looked inside. He killed over 50,000 people just for looking
at something that they werent supposed to look at.
You see, looking at
something, the lust of your eyes, can destroy you. Your eye can destroy you.
Your whole. Your eye can ruin your life if you dont learn to control your
Job said it this
way. He said, I made a covenant with mine eyes.[50] He said, I made a deal with my eyes. I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then
should I think upon a maid?[51]
He said, I made a
covenant with my eyes and said, You are going to look at what I tell you to
look at. And you are not going to look at women that are dressed indecent. You
are not going to look at another mans wife.
You are not going to look at these images that Hollywood and TV will portray for you.
You say, I dont
know if the lust of the eyes really applies to me. I am a woman.
Well, you know,
what? So was Lots
wife. And yet she had a problem with the
lust of the eyes. See, it was a little
bit different problem. But your eyes
will be tempted, ladies, to look at things that you ought not look at. Like how about the soap operas on TV? Your lust of your eyes and your, Oh, I just
have to turn it on, you know, All My
Children or whatever. If it is even
still on the air. That show has probably been on the air for like 75 years or
something, you know.
Oh, I have to see As the Word Turns and I have to see General Hospital and I have to watch,
you know 90210 and Friends and whatever it is. I dont
know. Im preaching its probably these old shows.
You know why I am
preaching is old shows because I havent had a television in seven years. I quit pitching my tent toward Sodom seven years ago.
Thats why I dont have a television.
You see, Sodom is on your TV
screen. When you get home and flip that thing on you just flipped on Sodom, period.
You say, Well, I
dont know if it is Sodom.
Well, you know, Jesus called it this way in Revelation chapter 11, you know the
revelation of Jesus Christ where he is showing John the things that must surely
come? He says it this way. He says, Do
you remember the city where our Lord Jesus Christ was crucified? It is spiritually
called Sodom
and Egypt.[52]
That is what he said. He is talking about present day Jerusalem which is a wicked place by the way,
wicked sin there, filthiness that goes on there.
I have talked to people that have been to Israel and been to Jerusalem. It is a wicked, ungodly place,
pornography abounds, sin abounds. And do
you know what? It has a spiritual name, Sodom.
And I am going to tell you something, when you flip on your TV you are watching
You say, Well, I
can quit watching it any time.
You know what? There
are a lot of people who think they could quit watching TV, they cant. Try it.
If you could quit watching TV then go four weeks without watching television.
If you go four weeks without watching television you will probably never watch
it again because when you dont watch it for four weeks, when you get out from
under its witchcraft, when you get out from under its sorcery spell that it has
you under, you know, when you break free from that control that it has over
you, dominating you. I mean, have you
ever seen how addicted people are to TV?
I mean they go to a hotel room and turn it on.
I know it is not a remote control. It is my cell phone. But it worked out good,
didnt it?
You know, they turn
on the TV. I remember working out of
town with people and we would wake up in the morning and turn on the TV and
then they would go brush their teeth.
Im like, Why is
the TV on? They are not even watching it.
They just turn it
on. It is like instinctively.
And then you will
say. You will say to them, Hey, lets turn off the TV, please. You know, lets
turn it off. We dont need this on.
Oh, ok. Sure. I
dont mind turning it off.
They will turn it on
five minutes later. And they...it is not because they are trying to, you know,
disrespect you. It is not because they
are trying to just defy what you are saying. They just accidentally turned it
on because it is almost like a knee jerk reaction to just if there is a TV turn
it on, turn it on.
Do you know what I am
talking about? I mean you just walk in the house and just...I mean when I grew
up thats the way it was. You walk in
the house you just turn on the TV. Like
you didnt even think about it. You
just...the TV is there. You just walk in.
You just turn it on. And then you go make a sandwich. Then you go fix
yourself a snack. Then you go shave or
do what you need to do. You just turn on
the TV. It is there. You turn it
But when you turn it
on you just pitched your tent towards Sodom. Dont tell me. I wasnt...listen. I wasnt born yesterday,
I am not a fool.
Dont tell me that Sodom
is not on the TV because it is. I mean, dont tell me that there is a prime
time show that doesnt have these filthy sodomite queer characters, because it
does. I remember when I was in high
school. I was 17 years old. The show
came out Ellen. Ellen, the
first...was going to be the first lesbian sitcom. It was ripped off the air.
That was in 1999. That was 1998 or
whatever it was. They ripped it off the
air. And they said, No. People couldnt handle it.
Twelve months later
it was back on the air. And twelve
months after that, every prime time show had sodomite characters. Thats how fast it happened.
And I dont know all
the details of what is on TV. I couldnt
even name the shows for you. You know, I
could maybe name a few that I have heard about, but I couldnt really name all
the shows. I mean, I dont really know what they are. But I promise you it is just filled with,
with sodomy. I promise you it is just
filled with gays and lesbians and freakos.
I promise you.
And you know
what? Even if it is not...
You say, Well, I dont watch that stuff. I just watch the weather. I just watch the
cooking channel.
Those guys cooking
on the cooking channel are a bunch of queers.
You know they are.
Oh, you know, I
just throw in a little bit of this.
Good night. Be a man.
Oh, I just like...I
just watch the home decorating show.
Oh, good night. Whats that guys name? This guy was on when I
was a teenager. Christopher Lowell. And who has ever heard of that guy? Is that what his name is? I got the name right? Christopher Lowell. That gay little piece of
trash. I would like to beat the fire out
of him.
Somebody needs to beat him
with the ugly stick. I am going to tell you
something. The TV is filled with
sodomites. The whole agenda behind TV is
a brainwashing session. And the reason that you watch it is because your eyes
lust to see all those beautiful women on there or all those robust men on there
or all those...you long to look at all the explosions, right? You want to see all the explosions and you
want to fly in the jets in the airplanes and, boy, it will really tickle your
eyes, wont it?
But I am going to tell you something. It
has a...it is just putting filth into you, just step by step.
You see, think about
TV this way. And I dont want to spend the whole sermon on TV. I am kind of
getting off on a tangent, but I dont mind doing it for a good subject.
But think about this for a moment. This
is how TV works and this is how the movies work. It is just like this church, ok. The way that we operate...the way that I
choose what to preach and the way that I preach I dont try to teach you the
whole Bible in one service.
All right. Turn to
Genesis chapter one. Ok, we are going to
get it all tonight, ok?
Would that make any
sense? Am I trying to preach every
subject tonight? Am I preaching on
salvation tonight? No. Am I preaching on eternal security tonight? No. Am
I preaching on the preservation and infallibility of Gods Word tonight? No. Am I preaching on the trinity? Am I preaching on the deity of Christ
tonight? Am I preaching on soul winning
tonight? No. Because this is my philosophy. Every service you come to I try to teach you
one major thing. Tonight I am trying to teach you about the lust of the eyes
and its destructive influence on your life.
If you come on
Wednesday, John chapter seven, I will teach you John seven.
If you come next
Sunday morning I will teach you one thing. It might be something doctrinal from
the Bible. It might be all about heaven.
It might be all about hell. It might be all about the salvation. It
might be all about whatever...fill in the blank. Music, it might be about
music. It might be about praising
God. It might be about being thankful or
unselfish, some sermons I preached recently.
It might be about any number of things. But I am trying to communicate
to you one thing.
People have come to
our church and said, Oh, I cant believe it. I came here to church and you
didnt even preach the gospel.
You think I am going
to preach the gospel every service so that you visitor can be happy? No. I
preach...I dont preach the gospel every service. I preach the gospel all
afternoon on knocking doors. Maybe you could have come with me. You would have
heard it. You would have heard it many times if you would have followed me
around today knocking doors with the rest of us out soul winning.
And, Oh, I cant
believe you didnt preach the gospel.
No. I dont preach
the same sermon 500 times, ok. I am
trying to feed Gods people. I am trying
to edify the body of Christ here and there is more to the Bible than just
salvation. Salvation is the number one thing in the Bible, but there is also
preaching against sin. There is also preaching Bible doctrines. And so I am trying to communicate to you one
thing. You got that?
And then each service. So if you come Sunday morning, Sunday night, Wednesday
night for a whole year, ok, you just got 52 times three, you just 156 Bible
truths. You probably got a lot of doctrine on salvation, a lot of preaching on
sin, a lot of stuff about reading the Bible, memorizing the Bible, prayer,
inspiration to go soul winning, helping other people. Wherever.
This is the way TV
and the movies operate. They are not going to shove the whole thing down your
throat in one go. Every TV show and every movie has one twisted wrong thing
that they are trying to teach you. It is like a devils church service. And let me just explain it to you. And I remember when me and brother Dave were
down here. We were eating at the Panda
Express or whatever it was in the Arizona Mills. And we walked up and down the movie posters.
And it was like a game for us. We said,
Ok, this is what this one is trying to teach.
This is what this one is trying to teach. This is what is wrong with this
one. And we walked up and down. We just
saw the pictures of all the movies.
Ice Age, promoting evolution. Next.
You know, and you
just move down the list. I just...I was
just in Five Electronics yesterday. I saw a DVD for a movie called I Now pronounce you... and it was like
two guys names, Frank and whatever.
Adam and Steve or whatever. I dont know.
It had the
list. It just...I dont know. And what
are they trying to do? They are just trying to desensitize you to this gay
marriage. You know, that is what they are doing.
You see Ice Age. It is just trying to teach you
You say, Oh,
theres a lot of good things about it.
Yeah, but it has got
one wicked message that it is putting into you. And you can go down the list
whatever it is. You know, another one
has got a girl in a really short miniskirt in a seductive pose. Well, that one
is just trying to destroy your morality. It is just trying to get you to lust
and mess up.
And this one, the
leading character is got long hair and he looks like a sissy. You know, I mean you just look down the
You say, Well, I just watch The Andy
Griffith Show.
Ok, you are talking
about The Andy Griffith Show where
Gomer Pyle is a queer in real life that died of AIDS? You are talking about The Andy Griffith Show that is about a man who lives with his aunt,
you know, because...and he is raising the son by himself and he...? What?
Are you talking about The Andy
Griffith Show where everybody drinks and it is fun? Do you remember that? Do you remember The Andy Griffith Show where they never go to church, where they
never talk about Jesus Christ, they never read the Bible, they never mention
anything about God? But they are really happy without God and without
Oh, but I just like
Leave it to Beaver.
You know, Leave it to Beaver where the Ward
Cleaver and June Cleaver are married to other people in real life and yet they
kiss each other on the screen? Stop and
think about that. How would you like it, honey, if I were an actor and I kissed
some other mans wife on the screen?
You say, Well,
thats different because they are actors.
Oh, it is different
because they are getting paid to do it? Thats called prostitution.
Look. This is the
truth. The people that are kissing on
screen arent married to each other. They are married to somebody else. Their wife, their husband is out in the cold
somewhere. They are making out on the screen with June Cleaver. That is what is
going on.
And these are the
mildest shows that we can think of.
These are back in the golden days of television. I Love Lucy.
You mean I Love Lucy where Ricky Ricardo works in
a bar in a dance club, in a night club?
Look, I am telling
you something. TV has an agenda. And it may not be trying to just show you
everything that is ungodly and smut, but it is just giving it to you a little
bit at a time, a little bit at a time, one thing here, one thing there, one
thing here.
I was on the airplane and they had some wholesome family PG rated movie that
they were playing for the holidays. You know, and there was a pastor sitting
right next to me. Ok, I am sitting right here and this other pastor is sitting
right in front of me and one seat over. Right here, boom. And, you know, I read
my Bible the whole flight. He is reading
some book, you know, some liberal book from the Christian bookstore, ok.
So hes got his
little Christian bookstore book. I got
my Christian bookstore book right here, the only book that there is, the King
James Bible. And I am reading it. And
his daughter, you know, she is just...the whole time, you know, just
watching...watching the movie.
You know, and I am
not watching the movie. You know and I
didnt have the sound. You know, and I
didnt have the headphones, thank God. But I look up at the movie and the
leading character has got long shaggy hair. Every scene they have got alcohol
in their hand. They are all holding alcohol in their hand. And I notice that in
the movie I look up an these people are kissing, right? They are not married.
These people are kissing, right?
And then a minute
later all of the sudden the lady and her daughter and this guy are all in their
pajamas making breakfast in the kitchen.
I wonder what
happened. Oh, it didnt show
anything. It is a really clean
movie. It doesnt show any nudity.
Look, people are
kissing and then the next thing you know they are all making breakfast in their
pajamas. What do you think happened? And
this is what this guy is letting his teenage daughter feast her eyes on, some
long haired sissy is going to come sweep her off her feet and they are all
going to wear jimmies and make toast in the morning.
Hey, it is straight
out of hell, my friend. And I am just preaching you the truth tonight.
The biggest thing
that is wrong about television, the biggest thing that is wrong about movies is
not the kissing and it is not he nudity.
Ill tell you what is wrong is the philosophy. Ill tell you what is wrong is the wickedness
that it promotes. I dont care if you never see any nudity on there. I dont care if you never heard a cuss word.
Ill tell you what. You are learning about life without Jesus. You are learning
that people are happy and live their lives without church, without Jesus,
without the Bible. And they go to bed on the first date. That is what you see
on TV. That is what it is all about.
That is what they are promoting.
It doesnt matter
whether you see it. Your kids are
learning about it, that that is acceptable, that that is appropriate, that that
is normal.
I had somebody challenge me on this the other day. They said, What about Little House on the Prairie?
I said, Good night.
Can you at least give me a challenge? Can you at least pick a show that is
going to be hard for me to tear apart?
I said, Michael
Landon is a homo. He died of AIDS. Thats a fact. You know, the guy, Michael
Landon, Little House on the Prairie,
the long haired queer little sissy. He
died of AIDS. He is a homo, ok.
And do you know what
my dad hated about that show?
Reverend...whats that guys name? I dont know. I didnt watch the
show. But Reverent whatever. Theyve got this lame pastor. The go to this
church and they got this sissy pastor with his collar turned around backwards
like a Catholic priest. And I remember
my dad...
And we, you know, we
always had TV in our house and watched TV in our house. But my dad hated that
pastor, ok. And we would be watching Little House on the Prairie and as soon
as that pastor would come on
Little House on the Prairie my dad would begin to scream at the television.
And, you know, we had the television and the movies and
everything. But, man, my dad could not tolerate that pastor on Little House on the Prairie. And that
pastor came on and he would scream at the TV and say, That liberal phony,
idiot. That pastor is so mamby pamby. He never preaches on sin. He never
yells. He never hits the pulpit. He is
just up there always just a feel good, positive only...
But thats the truth. The religious guy on TV is always
portrayed like this with a limp wrist. Isnt that the truth? The pastor is always kind of sissy. Anybody
who is religious is a little bit of a sissy.
Well, there is a lot of truth to that. But do you know what?
The Bible is not a sissy book. That is, if you have got a King James. The Bible is not a wimpy book. The NIV is for
pansies and wimps. It sure is.
I dont want to get into it.
It is another whole sermon. I was
tossed between two different sermons tonight. Ok. And it was in the other sermon so you will
get it some other time.
But it was all the wimpy things in the NIV, the sissified little things in the
Hey, I am going to tell you something. The Bible teaches
manliness, strength, fighting. Yes it does. Fight the good fight. Stand up for
what you believe. I get so tired of
these little sissified little Twinkies behind the pulpit who call themself a
man of God. Do you know what they should be called? Male of God, because they are not a man. They
wont stand up and tell it like it is.
Everybody runs them.
Every woman in the church runs them.
Every deep pocketed deacon runs them and tells them how it is.
Hey, a real man stands up and says what he believes and he
doesnt care what anybody thinks. And he
is fighting for it and he stands for it and he does what is right and says what
is right and acts like what is right with no regard to what people think about
That is manliness. The man in America is gone.
You know, the prophesied, I believe, of America in
Jeremiah 51 when God said, The man within thee are become as women. They have
forborn to fight.[53]
That is what it says. It said, Your men
are like women.[54]
I think God is talking about America. I mean, I think that is part of it, part of
the application there. Men who are like
women, men who are sissies. Why? Because you start them out when they are this
age watching the wiggles. And then you
wonder why they grow up and they wiggle around when they walk, you know.
I see guys in the store.
Hey, why do you wiggle like that?
Its because they watch the wiggles. You showed it to them. You had the television in your house for them
to watch it on and then you wonder why they wiggle around.
I mean I remember when I was in Bible college. [?] I just
wanted to grab them and start shaking them.
What are you doing? I started
slapping them in the face and throw them on the ground. Wimp! Be a man.
But I am going to tell you something. When you pitch your tent toward Sodom you are going to
start acting like a Sodomite.
Now was Lot a
sodomite? Of course not. Lot was a
saved, born again Christian, ok. But the
problem was he was living in Sodom. The guy was a wimp. The guy is a sissy. The
guy just let people push him around all the time. Think about it. These guys are, Oh, guys, pleas dont do
this to these two men who are coming to me.
Think about Lot. Please
dont do this. Oh, here. You can take my
daughters instead.
What a wimp. Why
didnt he say, Get out of here? Why
didnt he say, You have to go through me first to get to these two guys that
are in my house?
Oh, no, no, please dont do that.
You know, I always thought it was funny that, you know, when
the angels show up at Abraham in Genesis 18 Abraham tells his wife, Go fix
something to eat for these guys.
Do you remember that?
He says, Go fix something to eat.
Genesis 19 the two angels, the same guys show up at Lots house he goes into the kitchen and fixes something
to eat. He doesnt even call...you know,
he doesnt even tell his wife what to do. He is a little house husband. His wife was probably at work. His wife was probably wearing her little
business suit somewhere at the office and he is in there cooking for the
Why? Because he is
hanging around a bunch of Sodomites all day.
You know that...You dont tell me...are you going to tell that Lot probably didnt have any effeminate tendencies
hanging around a bunch of queers all day? It is going to rub off on you my
I mean sometimes I will see guys in 2007 and it is like at
first I think that they are a queer. But then I just realize that is just the
way our society is now. You know, maybe they are not even...maybe they are
straight, but maybe they are just dressing that way because they look at it
all...because their tent is pitched towards Sodom.
Ill tell you something. I want to turn my tent...I want to
pack up my tent and get as far away from Sodom
as I can. I can tell you that right now.
I am going to pack it into my little backpack and I am going to run screaming
in the other direction from Sodom
because I dont want to be anywhere near it because as soon as I start to look
at it, pretty soon I am going to be there. As soon as I start to be there I am
going to start hanging around with them and liking them and acting like
And that is where the manliness has gone in our
country. So, again, you put your little
boy and your little son in front of TV shows that dont have any touching like
the wiggles and they dont have any nudity. They didnt say anything bad, but
the guy that they are looking at is a sissy and a wimp.
You put your little girl in front of a show that is all fine
and dandy. There is nothing wrong except all the women are wearing pants on
television, every single one of them. All the women on television have a low
cut top. All the women on television are
decorated like a Christmas tree because that is what they look at all day. That
is what they are going to dress like. That is what they are act like and that
is what they are going to talk like.
And so there is a lot more danger in television than you
think. Dont let your lust and your
appetite to fill your eyes with eye candy ruin your morality and destroy
you. Just as Lots
wifes eyes destroyed her, just as the men of Bethshemesh in 1 Samuel chapter
six, their eyes destroyed them when they just had to look at something.
Why? Curiosity. They wanted to look inside the ark when God
commanded them not to. Curiosity. Hey,
curiosity killed the cat.
I have heard people say, Well, I just looked at pornography
because I was curious.
You know what? Theres certain things that you need to be
simple concerning evil the Bible says.[55] And so we ought not even to look at it. And even try to learn it or understand it or
know what it is.
There are many things.
Here is another thing. I am out of time.
But the Bible says in Proverbs 23, Look not thou upon the wine when it
is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright.[56] He says, Dont look at alcohol. At the last
it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.[57]
Now what happens after you drink the alcohol? He says,
First you look at it. First you look
at alcohol. Next thing you are drinking alcohol and then step three it says, Thine
eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things.[58]
So he says, First you look at alcohol. Next thing you know you drink alcohol. Next
thing you know you start looking at strange women. And the fourth thing is you start to utter
perverse things. You start to say dirty
Now if it werent wrong to look at strange women then why is
God saying here this is why you shouldnt drink alcohol because you will behold
strange women. Does he says you will
lust after their flesh? No. He says you
will start to see them. You will start
to look at the strange women, the evil woman, the woman that flatters with her
appearance, the woman who is dressed in a sleazy way, in a seductive way. He
says, You will look at her when you consume alcohol. When you drink alcohol your eyes will be drawn to what...
You wont even be able to control your eyes when you drink
alcohol. Your lust will be out of control.
The whole sermon tonight is this. There is more to lust than just the lust of
the flesh. There is also the lust of the eyes.
There are things. Let me just sum up the whole sermon for
you right now. There are things that you ought never to look at. You ought never to look at the other
gender. You ought never to look at nudity
ever. The only time nudity is permitted between the genders is between a man
and his wife. That is what the Bible
teaches in Genesis chapter two. The only
time nudity is permissible between a man and a woman, a man and his wife. You ought never even look at nudity of the
other gender. You ought never even look
at alcohol. You ought not even look at
the stuff that is on television. It is obscene.
And there is going to be a desire that creeps up inside of your sinful
flesh that is known as the lust of the eyes that is going to tempt you and try
to get you in your sinful flesh to look at something that you ought not look
at. And you have got to resist that
temptation. You have got to fight the temptation.
And when the billboard is there fight the temptation. When
the TV is there, dont even have it there. But when the TV is there out there
in public and you see the TV screen, fight the temptation to look at it. When the magazines are on the magazine rack,
fight the temptation.
You say, Are you perfect?
Have you never looked at some of the junk I look at?
Hey, Im not perfect.
But, you know, I am going to fight it every day of my life. And I am not going to sit there and justify
sin and say, Well, it is just out there everywhere. You have got to look at it.
Im not going to look at it. I am going to fight it. And I dont want to lust with my eyes and
fill and gratify my eyes with images of things that are sinful.
Lets bow our heads and have a word of prayer.
Father, I pray that
something in the message tonight would get a hold of somebody in this room that
maybe they have a problem in this area with lust, maybe a man who has a problem
with lust. It is so prevalent that Hollywood
just crams it down our throat. Madison
Avenue crams it down our throat. The
billboards and magazines...
Dear God, please just
give the men in this room the strength that David had when he said, I just am
not going to do it. He said, I will set no wicked thing before my eyes.
And, God, every lady in
this room, help them also to withstand the lust to watch the television, to
watch the sinful programs, to watch Oprah Winfrey, to watch Ricky Lake,
to watch all these shows that are an abomination, to watch the soap
Dear God, please just
help every woman in this room to resist the temptation to look back at the
Sodom that maybe they once enjoyed, maybe in their unsaved condition or maybe
when they were a weaker Christian or maybe earlier on in their Christian life
and they were a weak Christian and they were not living for God. They used to
feast their eyes on TV which is just nothing more than Egypt and Sodom. But, God, I pray that every lady in this room
would say, You know what? I want to leave Sodom, never to look back, never to look back.
God, help us to
control our eyes. We love you and thank you for everything that you do for us.
Thank you for saving us and forgiving all sins.
[1] 1 John
[2] 1 John
[3] 1 John
[4] Proverbs
[5] Proverbs
[6] Ibid.
[7] Psalm
[8] Matthew
[9] Matthew
[10] Psalm 101:3
[11] Ibid.
[12] Ibid.
[13] Ibid.
[14] Genesis
[15] See
Matthew 19:6; Mark 10:9
[16] See
Matthew 5:28
[17] See
Proverbs 6:25
[18] See
Exodus 20:4
[19] See
Exodus 20:5
[20] See
Deuteronomy 29:17
[21] Romans
[22] Ibid.
[23] See
James 1:15
[24] James 1:15
[25] Matthew
[26] Ibid.
Revelation 3:18
[28] See
Isaiah 47:2-3
[29] See 2
Samuel 10:4; 1 Chronicles 19:4
Habakkuk 2:15
[31] Nahum
Revelation 16:15
[33] Ibid.
[34] 2
Corinthians 5:3
[35] Genesis
[36] Genesis
[37] See
Genesis 13:13
[38] Genesis
[39] See
Genesis 13:12
[40] Genesis
[41] Ibid.
[42] Ibid.
[43] Genesis
[44] John
[45] 1
Thessalonians 5:16
[46] 1
Thessalonians 5:17
[47] Luke
[48] Ibid.
[49] Ibid.
[50] Job
[51] Ibid.
[52] See
Revelation 11:8
[53] See
Jeremiah 51:30
[54] Ibid.
[55] See
Romans 16:19
[56] Proverbs
Proverbs 23:32
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Joan Marsh
|Joan Marsh
|Dorothy D. Rosher
July 10, 1913
Porterville, California, U.S.
|August 10, 2000
(aged 87)
Ojai, California, U.S.
|Other names
|Dorothy Rosher
|Years active
|John D. W. Morrill
Charles S. Belden
Joan Marsh (July 10, 1913 – August 10, 2000), born Dorothy D. Rosher, was an American film actress. Her father was Charles Rosher, an award-winning cinematographer. She was a child actress before becoming an adult thespian.
Marsh made her first film appearances as an infant in 1915.[1] She appeared in the short film The Mad Maid of the Forest (1915) and also the Universal Pictures film Hearts Aflame (1915), billed as Dorothy Rosher. After a number of baby roles, Marsh became a child star in Mary Pickford films such as Daddy-Long-Legs (1919) and Pollyanna (1920).[1]
She made her last film appearance as a child in 1921, and returned to films with a role in King of Jazz (1930), in which she sang with Bing Crosby. She played W. C. Fields' daughter in You're Telling Me! (1934). She continued in small roles until the early 1940s.[1]
During production of Charlie Chan on Broadway (1937), Marsh met and later married writer Charles Belden, who had co-written the film's screenplay. The marriage ended in divorce in 1943, and the following year Marsh made her final film appearance in Follow the Leader (1944).[1]
She later managed a stationery shop, and died in Ojai, California in 2000.[1]
Selected filmography[edit]
- How Could You Jean? (1918)
- Johanna Enlists (1918)
- Women's Weapons (1918)
- Daddy-Long-Legs (1919)
- Suds (1920)
- Pollyanna (1920)(*as Dorothy Rosher)
- Thou Art the Man (1920)
- Little Lord Fauntleroy (1921)
- King of Jazz (1930)
- Inspiration (1931)
- Three Girls Lost (1931)
- Maker of Men (1931)
- Are You Listening? (1932)
- Speed Demon (1932)
- High Gear (1933)
- It's Great to Be Alive (1933)
- Three-Cornered Moon (1933)
- You're Telling Me! (1934)
- We're Rich Again (1934)
- Anna Karenina (1935)
- What Becomes of the Children? (1936)
- The Lady Objects (1938)
- Fast and Loose (1939)
- Road to Zanzibar (1941)
- Secret Service in Darkest Africa (1943 serial)
- Mr. Muggs Steps Out (1943)
- Follow the Leader (1944)
- The Helena Independent, "Paul Harrison In Hollywood", Monday, December 2, 1940, Page 6
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Pretty Nice End to the WeekendJune 1st, 2014 at 6:34 am by Ken Brewer under Weather
TODAY: We will see somewhat similar weather compared to Saturday. The difference will be a little bit more humidity, and a little bit of instability. This means that we could see a few pop-up thunderstorms by late-afternoon and early evening. I would not cancel plans, just check radar before heading out by late afternoon and evening. Highs will reach the mid 80s once again.
THIS EVENING: There will be a chance of some showers and thunderstorms lingering this evening. Temperatures will start in the 80s, then fall into the 70s during the evening.
OVERNIGHT: We could see a few showers and thunderstorms overnight and for the morning commute Monday. Lows will only drop into the upper 60s.
MONDAY: A storm system will move into the state gradually during the day. there will be scattered showers and some thunderstorms around anywhere at anytime. Highs will reach the low 80s.
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A rubber band pistol was confiscated from algebra class because it was a weapon of math disruption.
Why should you never make fun of a fat girl with a lisp?Because she's probably thick and tired of it!
Why did Captain Kirk's wife have a turd on her head?Because William Shatner!
Sorry folks its been one of those days, i do appologise.Sorry.
Well her garden is manicured to within an inch of it's life. all straight lines and very regimental (apart from the weedy lawn. I reckon shes in her early 60's, although to be honest it's hard to tell really.
Why do you want piccies Dolly lol
Maybe I should go round and flirt with her husband. That ought to scare him.
Hi Emma and everyone else on this thread. Ive thouroughly enjoyed reading through everyones chat. Its made me chuckle more than once. Diddy im with you on the enjoyment of the garden with a glass of wine till it gets too dark to see. And Emma i too have a miserable neighbour so i can relate with you also. My neighbour constantly moans about my dog howling which is rare and expected as she is part wolf! I loved the idea about the weed seeds. very amusing lol
lmao Charlie, I'd pay to see the look on the sour-pusses face hahahahahahaah
Hello Sash
We moved here last year, and I'm happy to say our neighbours are great now I have them under control... Flirting does work, by the way... ;-)
I knew very little about gardening before we bought this house, don't really know much now, but more than I did, I just love it, I have a well planted 100ft of garden at the back and a nice piece at the front too, I often sit out on the upper level at dusk with my dog, we both love watching the light go dim. I also garden in the rain. It's a whole new world, lol.
Tut Tut mazzy flirting with people.
Paddy and his missus were lying in bed one night when paddy turns to his wife and says,right that does it molly i'm going down i'm fed up with that bloody do barking all night long.Yap! Yap! Yap all bloody night.I,m going down to sort this out once and for all.5mins later paddy comes back upstairs and mollies cries,paddy what the hell have you done.Paddy replies,I've put it in our garden to see how they like it.
Emma I have just found something that will get your neighbours back up.
start off a nettle or cumphrey feed and tip it all along his hedge row what a stinker it is.
Tut tut Fidget lol.Dirty deeds are done at night Emma.
I'd rather just nuke her Azalea with Glyphosphate (joking, ofcourse)
That sounds a good idea,go for it,put some on his lawn while your at it Emma
Noooooooooooooo lol
Go bring out the devil in you,go for it
TEA SAVE MEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! Diddy's makin me do it!!!!!! lol
Psml. your wicked lady pure evil lol
Hi em hows missery arse getting on.?
Well I haven't heard much, haven't even seen her. I suppose I'll see her today, as my and the hubby will be out in the garden banging lengths of wood into the raised bed frame. I hope she enjoys it
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As we prepare publish this year's Celebrity 100 list of the most powerful entertainers and athletes on Wednesday at 8 AM ET, we're taking a look back at a few memorable celebrity stories from the past. Here's our March 20, 2000 look at rising basketball superstar Kobe Bryant as he mastered the art of the endorsement shill.
Shooting For World
From Los Angeles to Milan, Kobe Bryant's game is all business. By Brett Pulley
March 20, 2000
JUST EIGHT YEARS AGO A WEEDY 13-YEAR-OLD named Kobe Bryant came to America. Born in Philadelphia, he had lived most of his life in Italy, where his father played professional basketball. So when he returned to the U.S., his English was bad — he was especially befuddled by street slang. But he had a skill city kids understood. "Basketball was the common denominator," he recalls. "On the court, I could communicate." Today, Bryant, 21, is a master communicator, off the court as well as on. One of the National Basketball Association's superstars, he's in the first year of a six-year, $71 million contract with the Los Angeles Lakers. Not bad, you say? Well, endorsement deals for everything from Adidas Adidas shoes to Mattel Mattel toys earn him more each year than he makes for shooting hoops. Slang? Please. Now he writes it. His first rap album, Visions, will soon be released by Columbia Records.
Who needs Michael Jordan when the world's got Kobe? From the first day he skipped college to go right to the pros, Bryant emerged as the heir apparent to Air the pitchman. "In a post-Michael Jordan NBA, we're searching for the player who can capture the fans' imagination," says Meredith Ashley, a product manager at Mattel. "Kobe definitely does that." In fact, Bryant has entrepreneurial moves even a young Jordan didn't have. In December he paid less than $2 million for a 50% stake in Olimpia Milano, a storied yet financially troubled pro basketball team in Milan, Italy. "It gets me back where I grew up," Bryant says.
It also positions the player-owner as an ideal worldwide endorser. "Markets are spreading globally," he says, sounding more like a business school student than a six-and-a-half-foot, 215-pound shooting guard. "It gives me gives me a lot of leverage in business deals." Kobe played that leverage perfectly with Upper Deck, the sports trading card and collectibles company. It wanted Bryant as a spokesman to help build its business in the U.S. and Europe. No problem, Bryant says, but you'll have to be an Olimpia Milano corporate sponsor. And when news of Bryant's Olimpia deal reached Giorgio Armani, the Italian fashion designer suggested that his company and Kobe could be, as one Armani executive put it, "a perfect fit." Bryant is now a member of an elite group of entertainers and athletes who dress up daily as walking Armani advertisements.
Want to hear some more leverage? The NBA itself is marketing stars like Kobe overseas as part of its own ambitious foreign expansion plans. Says Jerry West, the Lakers' executive vice president: "If they successfully make this league more global, then Kobe's team could become more valuable." Advertisers and the NBA need more Kobes: He doesn't drink, spends little time at night clubs, doesn't use profanity in his rap lyrics, and he has no entourage other than family members. "He's a little cocky, a little arrogant," says his father, Joe Bryant, who will run Olimpia Milano and who himself was an NBA player before finishing his career in Italy. "But he's not disrespectful." Or as one executive who works with Kobe put it: "He's like everybody's adorable little brother." That's one reason advertisers love him. His contract with Adidas, recently extended for five more years, is for an estimated $8 million a year, and is believed to be the second-highest-paying sneaker deal for a team athlete, after Jordan's contract with Nike. Upper Deck pays him $1 million a year. He also has deals with Sprite, GTE, Spalding and Nintendo.
How does a handsome 21-year-old deal with being a star in a city of stars? By being focused. He was so determined to get a record deal that for the past three years, no matter where he was — on the team plane, in hotel rooms, or at home — he worked on writing rhymes and lyrics. "He's very smart and he has tremendous instincts on the court and in business," says Arn Tellem, Bryant's agent.
So what's he do with his dough ($13 million last year)? Bryant's paychecks are deposited into an account managed by Gary Fournier, a Salomon Smith Barney executive who deals with many celebrities. A spending allowance, taxes and off-season expenses are set aside, and the remainder is invested, with a "considerable amount" going into tax- free bonds. He has a portfolio of blue-chip stocks, and several pieces of real estate, including a Pacific Palisades property that he's turning into a compound for himself and his family.
Besides his team ownership, Bryant has an equity stake in Broadband Sports, which manages fan Web sites for professional athletes, and his joint venture with Columbia calls for him to produce a series of artists. "After the music is solid we'd like to move into producing other stuff, like sitcoms and films," says Jerrod Washington, who is married to the oldest of Bryant's two sisters and serves as executive vice president of Kobe Family Entertainment, Kobe's showbiz company.
Star athletes used to parlay their celebrity status into business ventures at the end of their careers. Nowadays the smart ones do so at the height of their talents. Says Tellem: "They have to have their tentacles everywhere."


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Quarry Continues: Dana Tips Servers More Than He Pays Fighters
Until all fighters are worth millions (never going to happen) the topic of fighter pay will always be here. I mean, who's really happy with what they make for a living? More is always better.
UFC veteran, Nate Quarry, took to the Underground forum earlier this week to debate the topic and give his side of the coin (which we covered intensely) and now we have some new insight from the former UFC middleweight title challenger.
In a great interview with Bloodyelbow.com's Steph Daniels, Quarry continued his tirade over fighter pay.
Here's a snip:
"I always make a reference to my title fight against Franklin. I ask people, 'What do you think a title fight main event, in the MGM Grand on Pay-Per-View will get you?' People usually guess about a million dollars. I got paid $10,000. No Bonus, no nothing. When I lost, I went back to my original contract of $5,000 to show and $5,000 to win. People are shocked by that. They can't even comprehend it. I didn't know any better. My representation was Team Quest. None of those guys knew how to even read a contract, let alone negotiate one. When I came back after my back surgery, they were putting me back on $5,000 to show and $5,000 to win, and I told them I just couldn't do that. So they bumped me up to $10,000/$10,000 and I fought Kalib Starnes and Pete Sell for that pay. Then I called them up and I said, 'I can't do this. You're paying me so little and I have a little girl I'm trying to put through college. There's so much wear and tear on my body for such little money that I'd be better off doing just about anything else.'They gave me a raise, which was much appreciated, and at the end of my career I was happy with the money that I was making. It wasn't bench riding NBA player money, but it was better than I ever expected, and I was very grateful for it.
The more money the UFC pays to the fighter, the better the fighters they're going to have. I've known plenty of guys who have said, 'It's so embarrassing that I'm bartending between fights just to get by.' If they're not working as bartenders, how much better prepared would they be for their fights? The fans would get better fights, and the fighters would feel more comfortable. People generally don't perform well when they're scared for their jobs. They want to know that their jobs are secure. That even if they have an off night, they're safe, because the company cares for them. Dana is famous for tipping his wait staff at the restaurants tens of thousands of dollars, so it would be better for your long term career to serve Dana drinks than it would be to fight for him."
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It's not hard to see why Dana and Rousey are so tight, two douche bags……misery loves company.
You are a fool. Dana likes Rousey because Rousey is a massive draw.
Right buddy, guess will see what kind of draw Lousey brings after the weekend.
LOL same people that thought Tate could of done anything but head butt her fist a hundred times then tap out.
You'll be eating crow after this weekend.
I wonder what Quarry's agenda is here? He has to be doing this for some gain?? Time will tell….I smell a rat.
agenda, rat? you cannot possibly be this thick. how about you dont write any more comments, its sad…
How about you fuck off….lol….The only thing sad around here is you little boy.
I'm with Gargoyle on this one. Quarry has been a quite little company boy for a LONG time. Now suddenly he throws his hat into this fray. And it's strange that they are expecting equal pay to sports which have been established much longer and which have multiple billionaires involved. Until you start seeing big money people buying up fight teams you can pretty much expect the climb to higher wages in mma to be a brutally slow crawl.
You're an idiot. Quarry is just bringing up his point of view from his experiences. If you were in his shoes, you would do the same things. Sheesh, people are dumbasses these days.
Then what is your take? Cant just come in here calling people names without anything to back what you are calling him up lol who sounds sad now? You are breaking a few of the 10 commandments of debating here.
You da man Joe…I look forward to kicking your ass in future debates!!!! lol…
its a struggle to stay relevant as a washed up fighter.
Its a struggle to put food on the table as a current MMA star. How's that one?
I don't see why you differentiate being a MMA fighter to any other job, if you don't like the pay, well you picked a shit career for yourself.
I smell a whaaa? His agenda? Does it matter? He's speaking the truth. What I can't understand is how people are so quick to defend the abysmal money that the UFC pays so many of its fighters. Is the whole country making minimum wage nowadays? Seems like people are impressed when somebody is making 15 thousand dollars a fight, 3 times a year. Wow, that's like $30,000 dollars a year after taxes.
Yes it does matter. And the truth is only about 2% make minimum wage. Don't be a sheeple and listen to these libtards. They are NOT looking out for anybody but themselves. Minimum wage jobs are not meant to be your career. Do you know what these fighters make in the small local shows?? So cry me a river about a guy fighting 2 or 3 times a year making 45K.
Libtards? In the UFC the fighters and fights are the product. Its not a liberal or conservative argument. The UFC is stealing from its talent. We understand that the "bosses" are allowed to pay whatever they can get away with. We also understand that this won't change until healthy competition arrives by way of a well funded alternate MMA promotion. Its just frustrating seeing these legendary ring performances and watching the fighters drive around in 1995 Honda Accords. What's more frustrating is seeing people defend this shit. Its fucking greed. I don't mind greed when you're selling milk. But in MMA, the product is people. And these athletes are being robbed, pure and simple.
I can see how your 1st fight could be a baseline $8,000/$8,000 if you're a nobody. You win, you get a raise w/ short contract, you lose, it's still baseline pay (should be 10K) until you prove you can compete at that level..
It's when fighters still earn low pay for long periods of time is when it becomes outrageous. So glad this issue is building and shutting the defending shills up.
First of all it was a totally different time in the UFC and secondly Quarry got totally smashed in that fight. I'm a Quarry fan but his plights just really aren't all that realistic.
The deal was done before he got "smashed". That has nothing to do with pay. Thats all they said they would pay him to MAIN EVENT a PAY PER VIEW at a huge event. Even though money wasn't as good back then as it is now, it was still good enough to pay him much more, and they are still paying like that now. barao made 18k to WIN his last title fight.
I don't usually comment on these things, but the fact that players in other sports get signing bonuses of millions of dollars and guys like Anderson Silva (the best guys that bring in the most money) only make $600,000 a fight is quite a gap in itself. And I'm not saying $600,000 isn't enough, but why then can't the lower level fighters make, say, $50,000 a fight? That should be pocket change for the Fertittas. I want to know just how much they and Dana make a year. The UFC is the biggest MMA organization in the world. They can afford it.
I'm not sure how much money the UFC has to throw around, but they're clearly not in the business of losing money… Dana can blow his own wad however he wants, but the UFC brass is probably paying some expensive bean-counter to make these tough choices. When Quarry was making 10/10, the UFC was pretty much on the brink according to Dana (he mentions it every time he brings up the Griffin-Bonnar TUF finale). I think Zuffa's problem is that they're basically running their own minor league these days…. and unfortunately, some of these fighters (on bottom half of cards) are still waiting to make the big show.
even half the maincards makes peanuts.. just look at Nate Diaz pay, it's tragic.
This is like shit actors complaining A listers get paid more than them, Its performance driven, if your the man your going to get paid good, if your not then you'll get paid what your worth. If your not happy with what your worth, then stop fucken doing it, no ones forcing you to continue fighting as a career.
Actors have a union, and minimum is set for each job.
Someguy, defender of exploitation! You're a real fucking hero. Anderson Silva, Jon Jones, GSP, they are being underpaid too.
haha, that's not even worthy of a response.
It's a business. You want more money? Get the finishes, or at least bring out the Diego Sanchez in you when you're in the cage!
Diego is underpaid too. Look at his face. It has undergone a complete deformation, and he'll end his career with less than a million in the bank.
Oh I'm not disputing that at all, I was simply referencing how he brings the fire in the cage…
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