and I'm sure everybody enjoyed the other so moving on and we know that Atma Gandhi's teaching were not limited to about independence and civil rights but he was visionary about environment also and he predicted at that time also that if businesses will continue probably will face some environmental problem and also the you know world is facing the biggest challenge of food and nutrition security as well as maintaining environment and in this election he is doing all the work and to give some perspective what he is doing now I invite Dr. Sudeel Yadav our research team leader for environmental sustainability to deliver a seminar on feeding the world while protecting the planet. Good morning. It's my great pleasure to be here to talk on this great occasion on June 5th while we were talking here about World Environment Day at the same time we also told that Indian Embassy has been you know agreed to do this celebration together so it's a it's a great pleasure for us and we are thankful for that one and then when we were discussing about the World Environment Day so we thought when we get this opportunity to discuss with you some of the thoughts what could be the the topic and the topic which is top of our mind is of course first is feeding this world but then how why feeding the world what we can do for the planet so that's that's where we thought that probably we can share some thoughts and kind of leave you with that message and working together in that direction. I mean I already talked about this great quote of Mahatma Gandhi from my perspective I see positivity to start with this call that when Mahatma Gandhi said that this earth has enough resources for our need so there's a lot of positivity in that one so it's not about like we are at the end of the earth there is sufficient resources but there's a word of question here that we need to careful what is need and what is greed and that's where I think there is a great lesson which can be taken and the first one of the big challenge which is in front of us is this far growing world the world is growing so fast much faster than a solution which we can think of to appeal the world so that's a big big challenge in front of us to address the challenge this agriculture revolution started you know with a with the first phase of what they call intensification what what the what farmers were doing at that time were basically cutting the trees burning the forest and doing agriculture there and then shifting somewhere else so that was the first phase in terms of agriculture revolution where basically the the the forest are replaced with the agriculture land and if you look at in terms of the expansion in 1600 it was around 1 billion hectare agricultural land and we are about 5 billion hectare by now so we are keep expanding the agriculture area and most of these this area is under cereal crops so that's where again the perspective of food that as we were clearing the land we were growing food mainly here but the question comes how far we can go with this expansion or whether we are reached to the peak of agricultural land expansion looking at the data different scenarios some of the scenarios is saying that we are almost there in terms of reaching the threshold of expanding land we don't have much further to expand the land to grow food for for feeding this growing world thought we reach to the second phase of agriculture revolution which was intensification and intensification is basically growing more per unit area so with the same piece of land you you grow more food because we don't have now much privilege to expand the land so we are focusing on growing more food per unit area and this started and we all know around green revolution with three three major things major activities first one was talking about high link soil duration variety so that was kind of a big boost to the world when when we were able to do this research and finding these these varieties which which can produce much more than what the tradition value were producing but then it it also added with a lot of fertilizer inputs for producing more at the same time there was significant investment on irrigation these three steps of these three initiative lead to increasing the production of food in the world so why we talk about I just a revolution basically the center of talk so open is rice and we talk about whether it's about what environment day or one food security day we talk about rice and the question is why we talk about rice why rice and if you look at the facts that what what I mean I was saying that rice is not a crop rice is a life rice is a culture it feed 4 million people in the world 56% of the world population is dependent on rice it cover 10% of the problem in the world so it has a significant contribution or part in the land use it's also grown by 144 million family which is 25% of work families so one fourth of work family is dependent on rice and it's also basically contribute to 40% of the world's poor along with that it's in terms of economy had the 6 billion annual value to the world and that's take us the point why why rice is center of talk when we talk about whether feeding the world or protecting the planet so that's that's what we would like to discuss further the third phase we talk about intensification we talk about intensification and then basically the consequences without this agricultural definitely the research which was done the progress which was done in terms of intensification and intensification help us to feed the world so the hunger in the world has been decreased significantly and this was done basically by three major cereal crops maize wheat and rice which basically produce about 60% of world food energy intake so these three crops really help in terms of handling the undernourishment of the world's population but while while we were focusing on feeding the world we kept bias towards the food looking at the ecosystem service wheel which which is basically important to keep this balance you know in terms of sustainability we did a lot of efforts which indeed were important to our food and and that imbalance this ecosystem service wheel which basically not only look at the provisioning of food but it also played a lot of role in regulating sporting and the cultural aspect again it's the the whole system level thinking rather than looking at one component of food and then we get the when we get biased towards food we felt these consequences there are big news concerning news the wetlands in the world are relying at a very sharp rate what that mean in terms of sustainability of food system recently in time there was news that you will report that one billion species could go extinct again the question arise what it mean for the sustainability of the food which we are producing and I was about this news the nice time that a baby born today the climate and their future and that's kind of a feeling that the the climate change last night I was watching news of you in the UK and one thing which talks me that he had here he talked with the star and the music that was asking how was the meeting and there was debate about what what he feel about climate change but one common agreement that he said this Charlie talk about future the reason that can be hand over a safe planet to future the reason and Trump said I agree with that so that was the point is no matter what you call it we need to protect the planet that's the key and talking about climate change global warming as we know is a top of our head our researcher the development partner the investor the country are talking about it so global warming basically what happened that when we see the sunlight some of this is absorbed by by our by different gases and and that one of the earth and some of these gases which contribute in absorbing this heat are called a greenhouse gases or in other way greenhouse gas effect which which result in heating of our surface there have been debate whether the warming is taking place or not data is saying yes there is a significant increase in in the temperature in fact the news which are coming from my country is that in some of the some of the state the temperature already hit 50 degree 50.4 yesterday one of the one of the district so it's turning like a whole you know so this is really a concern that the temperature is increasing and when we talk about greenhouse gases there are two major gases one is methane another is nitrous oxide which contribute a load to this greenhouse gas effect so global warming and if you look at both methane emission as well as nitrous oxide emission agriculture sector play a major role in terms of emission of these gases and that's where again we need to look at how we do over practices versus protecting the environment so again talking about methane talking about nitrous oxide all a sudden the rise is again center of the talk that rice play important role in global warming and if you look at the facts the data which is available that rice consume or how it is said that rice consume 50% of world's total fertilizer it takes 35% of world fresh water used in agriculture and also it contributes 1.5% of greenhouse gas emission as a single drop 1.5 is a load but then I as a researcher I I I slowly argue with the point of facts versus perception and some of the example you might have read many times that rice consume 2,500 to 5,000 liter of water to produce one kilogram of grain so that's a common kind of new which I I hear that's a perception the fact is farmer supply 2,500 to 5,000 liter of water to produce one kilogram of water these are two very different things and that's that's where the opportunity lies that it's not the plant requirement it's the practice the second thing is there is a lot of news that you know rice contribute a load towards methane emission again it's a perception the fact is the methane is emitted by a bacteria which only survive under flooded condition so if you flood the rice it will emit if you will not flood the rice it will not emit or it will be reduced so the point which I want to make here is the problems are associated with production practices and that's where sometimes we don't look at the root cause of the problem we look at what we can kind of see so we had to really look at what is causing the problem and coming together to solve that one and that's where Amina was mentioning some of the innovation which it is doing our focus is on these root cause that how we can help farmers to change their practices and so do we have solution to reduce environment footprint when we come talk about rice yes we do have Amina mention about some technology we have a bunch of technologies which are good to review these environment footprint but the important point which we need to be very careful that all these technology has trade off and we need to understand those trade off it's not about that here's the problem and we solution this is nature of what we call the basic nature that if you are gaining somewhere you are losing somewhere we need to understand that spin off with different technologies the other topic which I would like to touch and this is kind of again quite hot topic is air pollution and we are getting different news from India from Delhi from Beijing that the air quality is deteriorating very fast and interestingly it's not about what things are happening in that particular particular state or particular province I was in South Korea in Seoul last week and I saw this smoke and I was surprised with nice weather I said how and they said it's coming from China and same thing is in Delhi it's not like the smoke is from Delhi it's also coming from nearby state the point is the natural resources for everybody it's not about what you are doing we need to do collective action otherwise if somebody will not join that collective action because of their practice we may also be affected so it's a great point of coming together and this again I found this very interesting you know this new line that there is more power here came from India's farming revolution so that the last part is very interesting the farmer farming revolution and again linking back to the point of intensification and life stroke so what is happening that because of intensification the turning around period between two groups is very small and from what power that we do that they use one net stake and that's all so we need to look at from practice perspective that what how we can empower farmers that they can still go with that small turn around period and grow more food while we can avoid this burning of rice stroke this is that the NASA is from the north India from one of the state Punjab all these red points are indicating where the burning is happening so it's a quite concerning concerning area which we are again we need to do collective action so what can be done if you don't burn the straw what are the options and Asia produce about 300 tons of straw it's a huge amount of straw and if you look from positivity this is a big big asset which we have with us and it can be used there are different options India is progressing very well we use it as a mulch again protecting the the water and also protecting the building the soil it can be incorporated it can be removed the bailers a lot of work is going on using the bailers and I get more more excited about this ultimately use of the straw and it is quite active in that area to find out what what can be done we can use it as a compost we can use it as a field for life so there is some upstream work now it is doing in terms of using it for biofuel that's another energy kind of green energy which we can use and more interestingly for different biodegradable products so there are packaging material packaging boards with the right straw there are utensils you know party utensils with the right straw there are ports with the right straw and it's all about thinking out of the box rather leaving that burning is the only option there are many other options which can be which can be explored in terms of sustainable use of this again what we call that it's a it's a golden asset if you want to use it but it's all about from our perspective we focus alone on understanding the trade-off whatever options you offer as I said there's a spin-off and so looking at when you burn when you remove whether parsley or fully or complete there's a trade-off you may use the toxicity of air but you may add in house gas so how we can reduce the overall trade-off so we need to look at that spin-off and pick that options where the trade-off is minimal I have to touch a bit about when we are talking about consequences start talking a bit about solution called problems in my opinion you know they did a great job coming up with such a number of development goal it's a big big move which is very appreciated however what happened that while we explored become up with excellence sustainable development goal there has been major focus towards to FDG which is basically zero hunger and no poverty indeed these are very important very important but again that balancing the ecosystem here we missed that trick so we are looking these such development goal in silos that I have seen different agencies they are saying we are working on this goal this goal and that goal and from my perspective that's where the problem start that's where the trade-off start that focus on too much on one side you leave a lot of negative impact on other side how we can come together again it cannot be done by one institute one agency the new collective action that we move we take this sustaining the ecosystem as the backbone as the driving factor for feeding the world and this basically instead of picking one or two we need to link it with ecosystem service wheel and if we use the sustainable development goal towards strengthening the ecosystem that will take us to a point where we can feed the world and we can protect the planet and that's what the United Nations has declared that the next decade will be I mean the focus will be on ecosystem storing the ecosystem and I think we need or need to to support that move we all need to think from that perspective so I would like to I mean this is this was an attempt to share the broad overview about about our direction to our producing food and protecting the world and I would like to finish my talk with again this great call by Mahatma Gandhi that be the change you want to see in the world don't ask other you know to do it be part of it and if we will be part of it and I'm sure that we can address we can what Mahatma Gandhi said that we have the resources to feed ourselves but also protecting the world thank you very much okay we have some time for some question if anybody have any comments any perspective you want to add on this so for the top thanks every time I listen to a talk of yours I learn many new things life is a big discovery city I wonder if you could home in a little bit on on India and issues around diversification of crops and how that fits into your overall vision of feeding the world and conserving the planet and and I would like to go back John he always is one of the person who has to look like a team from a very different perspective a very big picture at that again looking at technology and I can see that it's very very important going back to the point of we don't look at technology perspective looking at the bigger picture so when it comes to the top diversity case and it's all about that country level we need to think what are the best places to grow food in terms of again quantity but also the environmental footprint and there's a lot of initiative going going on now in the country that how we make the the eastern India the football of the country so we know that the rise has again the practice how they grow rising in North India had a large so how we will see that needs again I believe collective actions in terms of how different organization come together a in terms of research good options but also the policy environment that how the country come forward with those kind of strong decisions that if we had to do it we had to do it otherwise we will keep talking about environment footprint food security and we will continue with the same pace so that's a very very important topic in the direction of the protecting the environment depicted as part of the problem, and what are you using actually addressing these additional trade-offs, making sure that we produce enough rice, that rice becomes the backbone of healthy diets, but still produce under sustainable practices. What are you using that for? Thank you. This is a very, very good question, and again, a very common question, and I like to cite an example of iodine, that when there was a big deficiency of iodine, there was a lot of talk going on how we will make it sure that iodine leads to people, and they looked at different mediums and they finally landed on salt, and the point was because salt is consumed by everybody, and that's where when there's a talk about nutrition, there's a lot of discussion going on, changing the diet, which is definitely one of the options, but then how to reach this about 7 billion people. So one common kind of agreement is why don't we use a medium which is already reaching to 4 billion people, which is rice. So I think we have an opportunity to increase the nutritional value of rice. Rice, I would like to strongly say rice is not a part of the problem. The part of the problem is how you look at the rice. So there are practices which can be changed. With our partners, we are working to improve the iron content in the rice, the gene content in the rice, the overall main quality of the rice, and if for some of the aspects like zinc or so, we already have increased, you know, double the amount which is used to be. So think about it that as soon as you will get success, you only need to 4 billion people. There cannot be more strong channel to reach that number of people, but at the same time, I mean, it's not down only. I mean, still don't forget we have other, you know, 50% population, where comes the crop diversification. So most of Asia and Africa, it's a rice-based system because of agroenvironment. So once I was talking to the farmer and I asked, hey, can you grow something other than rice? And he said, yes, I can grow water lily because the only water lily will survive in rainy season. So the agroenvironment, you know, give us that opportunity that will look solution around rice. So I think that's where we used to, for 4 billion is, we see kind of low hanging fruits about increasing the nutritional value of rice, but with rice-based system, crop diversification, probably we can answer that further. Any more questions? So thank you for an excellent talk. Once again, I learned a lot from your perspective. My question to you is, I mean, it is obvious to a lot of us that adding organic carbon content to the soil is one of the key ways of achieving nitrogen use efficiency. I mean, IR8 actually performed very well because it has the capacity to use nitrogen very efficiently in a very effective manner. So how can breeders, from a breeders perspective, keep on focusing on this use? I mean, we seem to have been adding more and more nitrogen, which is making soil into cement. But how do we focus on adding more carbon into the soil and also breeders also? How do you see yourselves giving the message to the breeders to improve the nitrogen use efficiency as a character in the variety itself? Thanks, so this is again an excellent question with more research focused. I used to present one slide, which is one of my favorite about nitrogen use efficiency. And I think sometime now speaking as a researcher, we use this parameter kind of for the benefit of our own publication or so. For example, high nitrogen use efficiency doesn't mean that it's a good indicator. We have faced problems of soil mining. While on low nitrogen use efficiency, we have faced problems of water pollution like in what is happening in eutrophication in China. And that's where we need to see the balance that it's not about, that's the message which probably I'll give to breeders. It's not about targeting that your target is improving the nitrogen use efficiency to a certain level. We need to look at from uptake perspective that how much uptake plant is taking and using it in terms of translocation to the grain. So reducing the uptake from the soil and having the more efficiency to converting into the grain. That's the part. It's not only improving the, in the part we have a lot of focus on like less uptake or more uptake from the soil. So now I think we need to look at the plant process that how within the plant things happen that we get more grain without mining or washing of nutrient to the water bodies. So that's on nitrogen side. For soil health side, I think that's an interesting discussion going back to the rice straw management. And that's something where we need to look at in terms of decomposition of straw where we can really, really help. Use of straw where again we can really, really help. The silicon content in the straw where we can help. So we need to really look at the whole value chain that where we want to use the straw and I think that message can go to Greta in terms of improving the plant rate that that straw can be used for the soil health perspective. So broadly in that aspect. I can still take a couple of more questions. Congratulations Dr. Yadav. It was a very, very informative lecture that you gave. Just a comment first that we all have vegetarian food for lunch today keeping with the theme being environmentally sustainable and to help ameliorate climate change. You mentioned briefly about the activities that Ivi is focusing on alternate uses of straw. Can you elaborate a little bit about that? Thank you very much sir. We have in fact a whole wing which is focusing on the use of straw. So basically what we are looking at is when we incorporate straw there's a lot of greenhouse gas at me sir. So we thought let's look at if we collect it. So first thing it is working on these balers like what are the different way to collect. There's a lot of portion involved. So how we will reduce that cost. That's number one. Second area where we are looking at is when the straw is collected how to improve the value of the quality of feed for livestock. So as it is the quality of rice straw is not so good. So how we can further improve the quality of the straw so that it can be used for livestock. So there's a lot of work going on which in fact is a very very important topic. Areas like Eastern India, Uri Saab Bihar, there is a large fellow in the dry season. So you have rice followed by fellow and livestock we have seen that in some of the area livestock were grazing and they basically injured their nose because it's a salty soil and they don't have anything to eat. So how we can improve again the feed value. But then there's a lot of focus going on other use. There's a whole attempt going towards the Muslim industries that how rice straw can be used. But more recently we are working on the biofuel that how we can use to convert it in the biofuel. We also have you know some research going on but I presented about the ultimate product. But the major focus is animal feed, improving the quality of animal feed, biofuel composting. These three are the major where it is thinking that this large amount of straw about 300 metric is here can be used for that. Just to add on what Sudhir has mentioned is about straw management. One of the important technologies we showed about the happy seeding machine for that going to burn the residue you keep the residue in the fields as an in situ residue management or straw management. So instead of even checking out because time window is very very less. That's why the challenge is even collecting straw waiting to the beeler and everything takes time and transporting that huge amount of straw to other uses takes time. So one of the you know potential is to use that machines in situ straw management and planting the next crop in the full rice straw. In that way we are addressing the issue of burning as well as we are addressing the issue of soil health which is also concerning particular Punjab Hyena. So if you maintain the straw in the field it will decompose it out of the crop. And that comes to the point of understanding the agro environment. So in Punjab Hyena northern part of India where we have only one rice straw the second season is kind of dry season and they go wheat. In that scenario it's much much better to keep straw on the soil surface while talking about south east Asia where there are full rice. So then there's a trade-off with the greenhouse gas emission. So if you keep that straw and then you basically add water that increase the as I said the bacteria which result in emission of greenhouse gases. So that's where we are looking at kind of the the bacteria of opsoons and picking it depending on where it fit very well rather than saying this is the one which will like one side fit also. Can I have one more question? Asadir, another challenge that we have in agriculture is you know our farmers are getting older there's people young people are no longer interested in agriculture. So what do you think we can do to engage the youth in agriculture? Thanks June that's that's a very good question and I think to see it as kind of business with dirt it's no longer that kind of business and that's where the direction we need to move. We need to look from a perspective of youth see it as a as a business like other sectors and there has been a lot of development where basically different agencies are involved including Erie. Looking at the modern technologies looking at kind of you know all high-purpose technology which can come to agriculture and change the pace of the debate is done now. So Rinder just mentioned about HEPIS either. So before you were thinking how to handle that show now we have machines, we have billers, we have talking about advanced technology there is a lot of development going on using drones for agriculture your half of the work can be done by drones for the for the community and I think that's the direction we need to do we need to go that instead of thinking about a business with dirt this is a business for food business for planet and that's the message which we need to give the youth and not only the message but also the the options to do it efficiently. It's not a question it's really a comment I love seeing threads in talks and having done a lot of Indian history at university. It's interesting we're here celebrating 150th anniversary of the birth of Mahatma Gandhi and you were talking about iodine and salt and it reminded me of course that one of the earliest non-violent protests by Mahatma Gandhi it was the salt march so they're very nice to see all these connections run through this morning comment not question Good morning and thank you for your very informative talk. My question is I'm Krista Deva from the ASEAN Center for Violators. Thank you for the invitation here because we are also celebrating World Environment Day my question relates to what you said about how collective effort is very important and how all these moving parts would have to come together towards concerted action. I'd like to ask how much biodiversity is being taken into account when innovations are being developed when trade-offs are being considered because we can't move one toward and try to discuss climate change for example without taking into consideration biodiversity and there is an important connection between biodiversity and agriculture. Thank you. Thank you very much for the question but also bringing this dimension of biodiversity. Talking broadly not about it broadly this is a concerning area and you have seen that the news which is coming about one million species which will be extinct it's really concerning and the bitter reality is that we are not taking biodiversity seriously that's that's that's the really challenging question which we need to a first thing we need to accept it that we are not taking it very seriously and then we need to take actions. I think you would be here yesterday we had a talk and that was focused on biodiversity and in an area basically we have this research program on environmental sustainability and we have different domains it has five domain climate, water, energy, soil health and biodiversity and it's very very interesting that rice fields are called as human made wetlands and we are looking at the biodiversity in in in this human made wetland and it's amazing but then our concern is that as we are moving towards intensification what that means to that biodiversity and that was like yesterday talk but going back to your point that I think it's an essential part of ecosystem service we cannot take risk to to to ignore it it's it's must and I think we need to again be collective collective action that how we think about human their food but also about other species. Thank you. All right, let's thank Stakli Yadav for his inspiring seminar. Thank you. 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So let's take a look then at the third and the final way you can get credited with an RBI so For this situation there must be less than two outs And there it's an error is made on the play But the and so obviously a run is going to score in order for there to be an RBI But it has to be a run A runner that would have ordinarily scored from third base. So a runner runner, you know scores Run that ordinarily scored From third base, it's kind of a long definition there So so remember on this play up top here We're saying that there aren't are no errors on this play, but this one this one gives us You know the the leniency kind of to say, you know, sometimes A batter still does deserve credit for the RBI even if an error is made on the play So we could say that this this could happen if Let's get our fielders up here So say we have a ground ball hit then to to the shortstop and so usually You know and and this would probably be on a play where we don't actually have These guys here this runner this runner here. Let's just say we have the runner on third base and so we the ground balls hit to the shortstop, you know this this batter is going to be running the first and and this runner will will run home The shortstop he's So, you know, he has the option to throw the ball home and try to get this guy But let's say he's just he's content to get the out. So he throws it over to first He gets this batter out.   So You know, if we just had this first First, you know peace possibility of a way to get an RBI it would this run would not Count as an RBI for the batter because there would have been an error on the play Even though, you know, it's pretty obvious here That the run would have scored, you know, if it if it wasn't for the air It was because of the batter basically putting the ball into play that the run scored And that's exactly why we're giving the the batter's credits for RBI's in the first place. So in this situation it This third third piece here makes complete sense to to award the batter with the RBI That that situation probably won't happen as much as these two But these are the three ways that you can get a run batted in as with most things in baseball There are a few exceptions to these rules and so we'll take a look at those in the next video


I'm going to continue and take one step forward today in this message series that will be called redeeming rainbow. We're going to talk about the idea of sex today. Now Apple, you know, has a new icon, a new emoji where a man can get pregnant. Who would have thought in the 21st century we can fly people to, you know, moon and to the stuff and believe in weird, bizarre things that men can get pregnant. Recently one of the sidekicks of Mr. Beast, who has probably one of the most subscribed subscribers on YouTube, over 140 million subscribers. And the reason why I'm highlighting that is because his sidekick, you know, Chris Tyson, who, you know, came out and publicly started to defend different form of sexuality.  And a lot of people, your kids, watch Mr. Beast because he makes a lot of pretty funny videos. And somewhere behind the scenes I do see the enemy is trying to fill this hidden encrypted message to our children through the emojis, through the videos that, hey, it's okay. It's normal. What your parents are saying is outdated. The world is evolving. Your God is oppressive. He is harsh. There's a different version of God that you can experience where he's more loving, tolerant, has rainbow collars, and he embraces every form of sexuality, even those that are not socially accepted or at least were not socially accepted. Something is shifting in our cultures. We already know.  In the 1960s, sexual revolution broke out in America. Make love, not war. Free sex. Embrace your passions. Don't try to suppress your desires.    And around that time, there was a person who I believe single-handedly, single-handedly affected the moral spectrum or the sexuality of our culture. And this guy, he was a zoologist in Indiana University, Alfred Kinsey. He's called the father of sexual revolution. He redefined sexuality for us in America, especially in school education, our legislation, as well as a lot of things that are happening around the world. What he did is, through his two books, it's called the Kinsey Report. It's today being used in universities. It's used as the basis for legislation to change our laws. And it's used as the basis to change the world view on sexuality in America, what is called Kinsey Reports. He wrote two books. One is called about human sexuality of males and the other one is human sexuality of females. They were written in about 1950s. In those books, two books, what he did is he brought taboo topics and shocked statistics about how the things we think are not accepted, are actually practiced behind the scenes, and the America should change its laws to adapt to its norms that we are afraid to admit we have. For example, one of the things is he said 17 percent of farm boys have physical relationship with animals. He said that over 70 percent of women have an affair and not only it doesn't affect their marriage, it actually helps their marriage. He said 10 percent of males are practicing homosexuals. He said that in 1950. Right now Gallup Report is saying that currently 2023 only 5.6 percent of population in the United States are practicing homosexuals, 5.6 percent. So the fraction of our population that are openly living LGBTQ community lifestyle is not 10 percent, it's only 5.6. So this man fabricated, exaggerated reports to show to the American audience that the things we are afraid of are actually happening behind the scenes, there's these norms we should adapt to that are really sexual sins and sexual perversions. A few things that I will highlight.  Alfred Kinsey team researched the most deviant sexual behavior in America and passed it off as normal. He said that these behaviors are biological normal, they don't hurt anybody and they should be morally acceptable. People should act under impulses with no inhibition or guilt. The challenge is this, is most of the people that he interviewed, they said about 17,000 people he interviewed for his report, most of them were people who were locked up in jail as sex offenders and pedophiles. In fact one of his books used experienced experts or trained pedophiles, nine of them, to tell us information about sexuality of children and he got that information from pedophiles. They should have locked him up in jail for that. But his research affected so much of the culture that one guy was inspired by his research and actually started a Playboy magazine.   That's exactly what happened. Some of you say well Vlad whatever he did was weird, bizarre, it doesn't matter but I'm gonna share a study that was done. In 1951, a study at the University of California, psychology students were split into three groups. Some group studied Kinsey's research for nine weeks as a form of education and two other groups studied normal teachings on sexual education and other stuff. After nine weeks they did a sex quiz on three groups and this is what they found out. Students who learned about Kinsey's work were seven times more open to premarital sex and twice as accepting of adultery. Number of students open to same sex experience went from zero to 15%. They were less swayed by religion or parents' rules about sex. What does that tell us? The rise of millennials wanting to identify and identifying as part of the LGBTQ community. If you look at the statistics today compared to my parents generation, my generation and the generation after me, the rise of the homosexuality, you may say where did it came from? You have to understand one thing. When you teach people particular things, something happens. It opens them up to particular experiences. The Bible says you shall know the truth and the truth will set you free. If truth sets us free, lies bind us. When you begin to teach a culture for a long time that you came from animals, we begin to behave like animals and then we begin to throw away the sexual restraints. We begin to throw away the Judeo-Christian views on sexuality and we let children who are very susceptible be filled with lies about their sexuality.  That's what it was. Today, it's different. Today it's about promoting other forms of sexuality and tapping into everybody's dirtiest thoughts and impulses and say that is not dirty. That's okay. You're not the only one. Everybody has them. And you should explore it.  What we have instead is we have camps and safe houses provided by tax dollars in a Washington state where you can run away into and the doctors can perform surgeries that will be in line with your most devious thoughts. Instead of changing your thoughts, we can remove perfectly working body organs. This was happening in our culture and the man who helped to fashion that in 1950s was Alfred Kinsey. The worst part about him isn't the only thing that he used pedophiles and sexually immoral people as a form for his study is that he believed and taught that children from birth have orgasms and pedophilia and incest benefits children. This is one of the reasons why the target is on children today in our schools that you should trust your little child, whatever they feel shouldn't be taught. You should just trust those feelings and those desires and foster them even if they go against the social norm, against biology and if they go against the teachings of the scripture. He went so far into that in fact in his book 1948 sexual behavior for the human male recounts experiments of nine pedophiles he employed for his research. He includes the chart that includes that these trained pedophiles were inducing orgasms in babies as young as five years of age. It's sick. It's like the stuff that I was studying and preparing I almost threw up. I'm like how can somebody take this as a research to be used to change people's minds? But it was. How were the children and infants judged by having these experiences that he claims that they can have? Kinsey looked for several behaviors, violent convulsions, groaning, sobbing, violent cries and abundant of tears. Even trembling and fainting is cruciating pain and screaming. What normal parent will look at that as a sign of trauma abuse? He said it's a sign that the child is experiencing pleasure, sick, demonic, barbaric.  That's why we have to stand by biblical values because the culture won't. The biblical design for sexuality as the Bible teaches us is different. But I want to just for a moment speak to those of you who are maybe Christian and the idea that we're talking about this makes you a little bit uncomfortable.  First of all, we unconditionally like our God, love people, because we were one sinners too and it was Christ who redeemed us. We were not born righteous, we were born sinners and many of us have done things. You see our testimonies, we don't hide away the stuff God delivered us from. We're not ashamed of the power of the gospel. We're ashamed of sin, we're not ashamed of sharing our story and letting you know, listen, that's who I was, but that's not who I am. Here at Hungry Jen, we don't just show all of the people who have a perfect lives, we show, listen, this is how perfected we can be through Jesus. Come on somebody, in the second sanctuary, give the Lord a round of applause. Yes, it's strong language, yes, hearing from a drag queen on Sunday morning. My slightly be like, man, was it the right service? I brought my kids too and everything. Well, they bring those people to read stories to the children. It would be good to hear of somebody who got delivered from a drag queen to a child of God, a pastor and delivered by Jesus. Come on somebody. So let me make something else very clear. Disagreeing with somebody is not a form of hate.  Well, why is it that community when they disagree with us, it's not hateful for them? Yes, Christians are intolerant. We do believe Jesus is the way, not a way. We are intolerant in that sense. We believe there's only one way to the Father and that is Jesus. If there is somebody who will come, whose birth will be supernatural, walk on water, calm the storms, die at 33 and rise again and says, he is the way, I'll be lean to consider it, but there has been nobody else. Buddha's tomb is still there. Muhammad's tomb is still there. Jesus' tomb is empty. So what he says, I'm willing to bank my life on that. Not on Kinsley's reports, on God's report. Whose report will you believe? I will believe the report of the Lord. Amen. With that said, do not trade your birthright for a cultural ball of soup. Culture will offer you temporary acceptance and say, if you believe our propaganda, you will be accepted. You will fit in. You will be a part of this. It's cool now. It's trendy to come out. So many people are becoming gays. It's because it's cool and it gives them, they're not good at a lot of other things.  And young people want to be a part of the cause. So they feel like a marginalized, suppressed, oppressed community by the religious bigots and all of those things. So it gives them a sense of identity. But please understand, if you deconstruct from Christianity to fit in into your culture, you will stand before God and give an account. What will you say then? This young man told us, he prophesied, did all these things, had a relationship with God, but had no reverence for God. You can know God loves you and have absolutely no fear of God. Because fear of God causes us to run from sin, not celebrated. Fear of God causes us to call sin of what it is. Not a weakness, not an alternative lifestyle, but it's abomination. And we have too many people today, what they did is they sanitized the Bible to the way that it conforms to their lifestyle instead of bringing the Bible for what it is for the Bible to transform their lifestyle. One of the reasons that Hungry Jen, we don't conform and we don't affirm gave lifestyle, we've seen too many people delivered from that. We've seen the Bible and Jesus gives us power to be set free from that. And our God does not change because our culture evolves. Our God is loving, but he's not tolerant of sin. He judged sin on the cross. He's a holy God. Amen. So I want to invite you into that. What is God's design of sex? He designed it, not playboy, magazine, not the culture.  The first time we see a man saw a woman naked, it was a husband and a wife. If you're seeing somebody naked and it's not your spouse, it's a sin. So the only person you should be seeing naked is your spouse. God designed it between husband and the wife. For what purpose was sex designed?  I've heard one person boasting, I think they had about 16 children and he says, I've never seen my wife naked. How did they make those children? They said, none of your business. Sex wasn't just designed so that you have children, even though it was for procreation, for pleasure, also for protection. Protection from what? The Bible says in Corinthians, a man, instead of burning with lust, should get married. Now at first it seems like, oh wow, the Bible tells a man to run away from lust into marriage and everybody who's been married knows that marriage can fix your lust problem. But Paul is saying that marriage, marital bed, and healthy intimacy in marriage does provide a sense of protection for a man and a woman. Come on somebody, more protection, Lord.  The Bible says that Adam knew his wife. Sex is also for comfort. Adam, the Bible says David, he slept with Bathsheba and he comforted her. And so those are the purposes why God gives us physical relationship within marriage. Another thing that we want to highlight, and that is this, is that sex is a superglue in relationships. In Corinthians it says if a man joins, has a physical relationship with a prostitute, they will become one. That's where we get this idea that people can have soul bonds, or some call it soul ties, through sexual intimacy with somebody. That's why the Bible says man should leave his father and mother and cleave to his wife and they will become one. That word one means that there is that superglue. So those of you single people who are like, you know, this person that I'm interested in is like a car on the lot. I need to test drive it before I know if it's good. And so I need to, you know, take them to bed and I want to see how good they are sexually before I can commit to them. Well, the problem is the person is not a car, you test drive.  It's more like a superglue. Now how many of you went to Walmart and bought superglue, like let me open it and try it on my fingers to see if it works. Nobody does that. You trust that it works. And if it doesn't, you'll return it, but I can guarantee you every superglue will work. And you don't put it on your finger to test it. You always put it where you intend it to permanently cement and glue something. You don't want to practice sex. That belongs on your wedding night. Why? Because it will permanently cement something. If you don't believe me, why after the breakups that had sex involved is the hardest to heal from to overcome and get over why something in you went into something in them. Something in them went into something in you. If you don't believe it, how many deliverances we do where demons enter through sex, there is a transfers that happens not only of the soul, but even of the spirit of a person during that. It's a superglue. And you don't want to glue yourself with somebody you don't want to be permanently with. The Bible also tells us that sex is for service, meaning we serve each other through sex. I love that illustration in the Bible, because as a husband and as a wife, you must understand sex is not a chore. It's part of your serving to your spouse. Their body belongs to you, your body belongs to them. Now I do want to mention something, because this verse in Corinthians many times is used typically by men to demand or force sex. Paul used this verse to encourage men and women to give each other in satisfying their spouse, not as a right to demand it or force it from their spouse. Christianity is not about force or demanding. It's about willingly serving to your spouse. All forced sex, even within marriage, without consent is rape. Even if it's your spouse, it doesn't belong in marriage, it's not biblical, and a person like that should be reported to police and go to jail.  Each person, the Bible calls it, we're called to serve each other, not force each other to meet our needs, amen. The Bible also teaches that sexual desires are to be controlled. They are not your boss, and they shouldn't be driving you. In Colossians, in Thessalonians, I apologize, Paul says, let each man learn to rule his vessel. See, animals are ruled by their sexuality because they have bodies and no spirit. Angels are spirits but no body, so they deny. They don't have sexuality. The Bible says the ones in heaven don't have any. The demons, of course, they have different stuff. But angels, they are spirits, no bodies. They can take on the body, but they just don't have a physical body as like us. So they don't have that sexuality, sexual needs. Animals have bodies, but they don't have spirit, so therefore, animals drive, urges drive them. This is what happens in our culture. We have students, they get trained from the little age all the way until they finish their master's degrees.  You came from a family of animals millions, millions, millions of years ago. When you teach a generation that they are nothing but beasts, it's difficult for them to control urges when you are conditioned to live like an animal. But I want to tell you, you are not a beast. You're made in an image and likeness of God. You can control your urges. You can control your sexual desires.   My body wants it. I just feel this urge. I can't control it. The fruit of the spirit is self-control. He gives us that control. We can live. It doesn't mean that we deny it. We live like angels and see when I was younger, I wanted to be an angel. So the desire for opposite sex is not the sin. It's when you have illegitimate forbidden desires that go outside of God's parameters, those are sin. When I was younger, I would come up and say, Lord, make me take away my desires for a woman. I don't want to desire a man, a woman.  And I said, Lord, kill it. And of course, I thank God he didn't answer all of that prayer. Because I would quickly start growing wings and be in heaven. See, God doesn't want to kill it. He wants to give you power to guard it, control it, possess it. Why? Because you are not an angel, at least not yet. Somebody's like, man, I am an angel. This happened to be the bad one, the demon. No, my friend, you're not an angel, but you need to not allow the culture to condition you to live like an animal.  No, my friend, you can be a human being. Not an animal, not an angel, but an image barrier who has a body, who has a soul, but is a spirit. Therefore, I have desires, but through the power of the spirit, I can control those desires. Come on, somebody. Let's give the Lord a clap, offering those of you in the first and second sanctuary. Somebody shout, I'm a human. Somebody shout, I'm not an animal. Somebody shout, I'm not an angel. Amen. Now, anything that God designs, Satan seeks to create deviation, distraction, distortion of it. Hannah plays cello. Hannah on our team here, she plays a beautiful instrument, cello. And cello has really two big parts. One of them is the bow, and the other one is the cello. Now I'm not a musician. Now imagine first time that you would see an instrument that's composed of two parts. How that instrument works is that cello cannot produce music without the bow. The bow cannot produce music without the cello. The bow needs the cello, the cello needs the bow. And when they come together, they make music. God created a male and a female in such a way that when they come together, they make a baby. And there is a design that's attached to the way you were formed in your body as a cisgender, heterosexual male, heterosexual female, the way you were formed by God when we come together, we make something beautiful. Now it does not mean that a male cannot be fulfilled without a female, our identities in Jesus. But we also have a role on this earth to multiply, to fill heaven and earth with God's image barriers. What Satan likes to do is he likes to take sexuality from the realm of God's designed place and place it into the realm that it doesn't belong to. Think with me. For those of you who do gardening, and I don't do gardening, my parents do, and other people do gardening, but maybe you do gardening. In gardening, you have to have soil for the flower bed or for anything that has to do with plants, soil, nurturous soil, good soil. As you put that soil there, it nurtures the flowers. Take exactly same soil that nurtures flowers added to your salad during the dinner. It will no longer be nurturing. It will become dirty, nasty, and it will become something that's not healthy. Actually, it will become dirt. Why? Because in the flower bed, it's a soil. On your dinner plate, it's dirt. Sex is powerful, but it's nurturing. In the flower bed, as God designed between a husband and the wife, it causes nurture, bonding, comfort, protection, pleasure, procreation. When you take it outside and you put it into a dinner plate or you take it into a same sex relationship, me and my boyfriend or me and my girlfriend instead of a heterosexual cisgender between husband and the wife relationship, what you begin to experience is guilt, shame. What you begin to experience is sexually transmitted diseases. What you begin to experience is things just don't flow together. It's not working together. Did you see that guy that was writing a shopping card in San Antonio? You didn't see that? Now a shopping card is to put groceries in. He decided to take it and put himself in it and drive it. Now, you may see that as creative and you may say, well, that's exactly what we do with sexuality. We just take it outside of the social construct and we add it to something else. But the Bible calls it abomination because it's different. Unlike the shopping card, our bodies, our emotions were created by a creator and they have a particular designation that flow with that design. Everything we buy, we have warning labels on them today. You know, don't use it like this. Take this pill, for example, if you take melatonin, it's supposed to help you sleep and you treat it like Advil.   There are certain things that are designed for particular ways and if we stay within those designs and those designations, the world is safe, there is love and harmony. When they are taken out of those designations, we begin to bring harm and we begin to not only offend our creator, but we begin to hurt ourselves as well. And the Bible makes it very clear that sexuality outside of God's design is incest, adultery, fornication, bestiality, homosexuality, prostitution, and rape. Just because sex is powerful and beautiful, it doesn't mean you can do it with anyone, anything, when and how. It's like a gun, you get it, it's powerful. My wife has a gun, it's a beautiful Kimberley company, I think that's what it's called. I got a different one though, we bought a safe yesterday. One of the reasons is because the old gun is powerful.  I can't walk in on the street with my gun, like with an iPhone, just for protection.  And I can say, but I bought it, it's mine, I can do whatever I want with it well. There are certain social norms that because it's so powerful, it has to stay hidden. There are certain legislations, certain safeguards for it. If I would be walking in the mall and just waving it like this, well it's mine, I can do whatever I want with it. That's where our culture says it's mine, well the thing about it, it's not just about you, you belong to God, He created you, He has certain safeguards and secondly, it's not just about you, it's about your children, it's about your grandchildren, it's how your lifestyle affects people that you bring into this world. And we have to build a holy, wholesome environment in our generation. Somebody say amen. But the real issue and the real problem guys that we have in our culture is what Paul had in his and let's go to Romans chapter one. Paul deals with this in Romans chapter one and he says the following and I'll read just randomly verses verse 22, professing to be wise they became fools and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man and birds and four footed animals and creeping things. Therefore God also gave them up to uncleanness in the lusts of their hearts to dishonor their bodies among themselves, 25, who exchanged the truth of God for the lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the creator who is blessed forever and amen. For this reason God gave them up to vile passions for even their women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature. Verse 27, likewise also the men leaving the natural use of a woman burned in their lust for one another. Men with men committing what is shameful and receiving in themselves the penalty of their error which was due. 2000 years ago the culture Christians lived in was not much different than our culture. Romans inherited a lot of their ideas from Greeks. Greeks were not necessarily sexually pure, they had gods and they also had cold prostitutes. Romans took it to another level, their gods Zeus at one time transformed himself into an eagle to steal this young man whom he made into his husband or his partner. He was a practicing homosexual God. Also it's no wonder when Paul was writing this Nero the emperor took one young man castrated him and made him into his wife. Sometime later Nero married another man and Nero made himself a wife and his husband became a husband. The culture was so perverted it was pedophilia was very normal. Modern men regularly had physical relationship with teenage boys. Temples were filled with prostitution, male and female prostitutes, please understand. What you see today on the streets of America, America is becoming more like Rome every single day. From our governments, big tech as well as everywhere, perversion is becoming normal. Paul did not endorse it. He wrote stuff against it. In here he gives us three problems. Number one he says this, everything started with one thing. Men exchanged the image of God for their own image. Now for those days in Rome they had gods that they built with their hands and they worship them. At first they may seem like well what's wrong with that? Well the demons would come and take the place of those idols and now demons actually control those people. Things differ from Roman, pagan culture is because Christians didn't worship gods that they made, Christians worshiped God that made them.  You want to know the photo of God? Look at Jesus. He is the image of invisible God. The second thing different between Christians and Romans and pagan Romans is that Christians differed with their sex ethic. All ethic was different in the ones of Romans. Christians believed in marriage between a man and a woman.  They didn't believe in rape, they didn't believe in incest, in polygamy and so many other things and so Christians were different. And Paul begins to draw that line and then he tells us in Romans that when we exchange the image of invisible God into an image of idol after that we suppress the truth and we exchange the truth for a lie.  Our culture did exactly the same. Now we don't have Buddhists that we worship in our houses. We don't have things wooden. What we have is we have an image of God in our mind that we created, a God that's intolerant, a God that changed with times, a God that's not oppressive and tells us what to do, a God that doesn't change because we created him. It's an image of a God who doesn't exist but he exists in our mind and this image is actually what demons attach themselves to. When we make this God after that we change the truth. We suppress it first after suppressing and suppressing and suppressing. Kinsey's report, others reports came and now we change the truth into a lie. And God steps back and he gives us up, guess to what, our own passions for us to self-destruct. Today our truth is what matters instead of God's truth. But to follow your own truth is like following a wheelbarrow. You're the one guiding it. Yeah, I know what the truth is. You're changing it every generation. When sailors are in the storm they're not led by a candle in the ship. They're led by external fixed points that guide them called the sun, the stars and the shore. Our culture has replaced outside external points that guide, used to guide us into We light a candle called being inclusive, tolerant, affirming to everything and we say this is our guide of truth and we keep tweaking it every generation and we get confused, lost and become pagan, occultic now because we know we're not at peace with the real God. We're only with peace with the God we made in our own mind and our own hearts. Amen. If your theology has not affected your sexuality, you haven't truly been sanctified. Your belief has to affect your bedroom. That's what it did for Christians. Zeus was the God of Romans.  Christ is the God of Christians. That's why we live a different life. For those of you who are like, Vlad, just talk to me about Jesus. Don't tell me anything else. What I do, who I do with and everything, but you must understand the second thing that separates Christians from pagans is their sexual ethic. You cannot separate your theology from your biology. You cannot separate your belief from your bedroom. You cannot separate, I just believe in God, but don't tell me what and who I should sleep with and everything because our God is not just a spare tire in our trunk. He's not just somebody I believe in. Just in case there is hell, I don't want to be there. He is the Lord of our life. He's the said I'm the way, the truth and the life. He didn't say I'm just one of many gods. He says I am the truth. He says he is the son of God and he proved by rising from the dead. And therefore I'm going to bank my life on Jesus. I'm going to trust in Jesus. I don't know about you. You can trust the culture. Maybe you want to trust your generation. I'm going to trust somebody who made generations. His name is Jesus Christ. His word will not pass. The Bible says the flower fades and the grass withers. But the word of the Lord endures forever. He says that this generation will pass, but not one comma and a dot will pass before they will not come true. His word is eternal. Somebody give God some praise right now in the second century. Somebody give God some praise right now. The last thing that I want to highlight and that is deliverance. Beckett Cook was born in Texas, but then he moved to L.A. Moved to L.A. because it suited his gifts and his creative side, as well as his homosexual orientation. At the young age, he was sexually abused by one of his father's friends. And he started to live as an open gay person, came to California, worked for ads for Nike, Louis Vuitton, as well as helped work with very famous photographers for different, very successful companies. One of the things that he constantly felt is sense of emptiness. Every boyfriend he had, male boyfriend, cheated on him. There was a sense of brokenness that was there. At one time he was at this party in Paris, and this emptiness became so real. He started to question, why do I exist? Is there more to life than this? He entertained the thought of God, but he knew clearly what God thought of him because God didn't endorse that lifestyle.  She was a devout Christian. She never ashamed or called him with names. She loved him, but she knew and she made sure he knew what God believed about his lifestyle and she prayed for him. Interestingly, he actually recently shared his prayer point, her prayer points. And I'm going to highlight them. It was a very powerful warfare prayer, prayer that went like this. Lord, deal aggressively with the enemy. Lord, come against him in all powerful name of Jesus with the sort of the spirit with the word of God. She would say, Lord, I ask you that you will commend these things to be removed from my son, Beckett, spirit of homosexuality, desire for homosexuality, denial of his heterosexuality, remove all the blocks of truth. We bind you, Satan, in the name of Jesus. Beckett belongs to Christ. She prayed and prayed and prayed and she died. She didn't see his son. Her son come to know Jesus. Two years later in the coffee shop in LA, he sees people reading the scripture in the coffee shop. So he comes up to them and he says, are you guys Christians? They're like, yes, we are. And his second question to them was, what do you believe about homosexuality? They said, we believe the Bible says it's sin. And he says, if this would have happened five years before that, I would tell him, your God is outdated, repressive.  What's wrong with you? But he says, because of what happened six months or five months before that in Paris, a sense of emptiness. He says, I was willing to listen to them as they told me the gospel right there. Almost like they were attacking me, but they were not attacking me. So like before that, I would have felt like their belief attacked me. But this time I knew that my own lifestyle was judging me. He said, I went to church. See, the mom's prayers were still working. Openly gay living in the Hollywood lifestyle comes to church. Pastor preaches a sermon on the cross. He says, the conviction of God hits me. I come and give my life to Christ. Beckett renounces his old life. Commits to follow Jesus as a disciple. In fact, writes a book that starts to help a lot of people become Christians and come from that community and that lifestyle. And he says, I didn't embrace identity as a homosexual.  And today he lives for Jesus. If you are in this room today, I want to appeal to you. If you believe that, you know, I can love God.  What is wrong with that? Well, there's few things you need to consider. Not only homosexuality was not God's design for sexual expression, but God clearly called it abomination. Practicing homosexuals will not inherit the kingdom of God, the Bible says.   Homosexual is finds his identity in his sin. A Christian is somebody who finds his identity in his savior. We are new creation. We don't drag our old life into this new life.  He wants to be the Lord of everything about you, not 98 percent of you. Can somebody say a man being tempted with homosexuality is not the same thing as identifying as homosexual. Every Christian can be tempted with all kinds of bizarre, sinful and wicked things, but we can find assurance that being tempted with something doesn't mean you are sinning it. Our Christ savior was tempted to worship the devil in the wilderness. He didn't make him sinful. Being tempted with something that sinful doesn't make you sinful. But when you take on the sinful nature, sinful inclination and desires and said, this is the way God made me. This is the way that I was born. This is the way that I am. And now Christ has to change himself to accommodate me. My friend, what you just did is you exchange the truth of God for a lie. You exchanged it for the lie. All of us were born in sin.  All of us were born with some kind of a gene within our sinful nature that needs to be redeemed, killed first, and then Christ gives us a new nature. For those of you who are here and maybe you find yourself in alphabet community, you're living and you're proud because it's accepting you and you're enjoying the pleasure of fitting in. I want to tell you that Christianity is rebellious. Christianity is the opposite of culture. To go up, you have to go down. To live, you have to die. It's not going to be like if you think that I can just come to Christian faith and be popular, you don't become Christian to be popular. You become Christian to be saved. Amen. In the genealogy of Jesus, the Bible mentions four women. Interestingly, all those four, three of them lived sexually immoral life. Tamar slept with her father-in-law. Bashiba committed adultery. Rehab was a temple called prostitute. We see Ruth was a Moabite.  And Christ came through all these women. You know one thing about these women, God changed them when they were transformed by being connected to the lineage of Jesus.  Christians are all used to be sinners who were redeemed by Jesus. We all had traumas. We all had dramas. We all had demons, curses. But when we came to Jesus, he set us free. He delivered us because our Savior loves us and our Savior has grace and He has help and He has hope. The final verse that I'm going to read and we're going to give a call to salvation. 1 Corinthians chapter six and verse nine. Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God?  Now, it's interesting when you read that list, you're like, yeah, that's right. Of course, not the fornicators, not those who worship idols, definitely not the ones who cheat on their husbands or wives. Definitely not the thieves. I know somebody who stole something from me. They're not going to heaven, not the covetous drunkards.  Bad people, extortioners, like they they extort all the people, especially now through their social security and all of this stuff. Bad people, but the homosexuals and the saramites, I don't think about that. But the Bible puts them all in one category, because they're all sinners. And God's mind, it's sin, but I love that it doesn't end there. It says this, and such were some of you. It's not just saying, look at these bad people. It says, look at your past, such were some of you. But guess what happened? God didn't become tolerant. We became transformed. It says this, but you were washed. You were justified. You were sanctified in the name of Jesus and by the power of the Holy Spirit. We repent of your sin. Place your trust in Jesus. If you're coming today, our goal as Christians is not to make you straight. Our goal is to bring you to Jesus.   Honestly, it's your decision. You can do as you will. You're your own God. You make rules as you go. I remember a young person met me in a lobby one time and he asked me a question. He says, pastor, is it sin to smoke weed? I said, for you, it's bad. He says, but I can still do it, right? I said, absolutely. He looked at me with these eyes. He said, you're telling me I can smoke weed? Now, I knew his parents. I knew they were praying for him and this boy was as lost as anybody can be. And I liked him.  You know that your mama knows that half of your school knows that because he got kicked out of school for dubious behavior. I said, you know that, right?  I said, if I would be you and I would go to hell, I would smoke all that I can. So at least when I'm there, I know why I'm there. Now, this again, just this is not a conversation you should have with everybody. But this is just I'm just telling you what the youth pastor said to young men. He looked at me, his pupils were like, he said, you kidding me, right? I said, no, I'm just with honest truth. I said, you don't want to follow Jesus. You practicing sin. Just I'm like, live it up. You're going there. You'll probably get there faster, though. At least when you're there, you'll know why you are there. That night he gave his life to Christ. Praise God. If you become straight, this doesn't add to your salvation. We are saved by the grace of Jesus, not by our cisgender heterosexual lifestyle. We are saved by Jesus. And we first come to Jesus the way we are.   You don't take a shower before you take a shower.  Jesus expects you the way you are broken, bruised up, maybe confused. And he wants to wash you with his blood. He wants to wash your shame. What's your wash your guilt? He wants to wash you. The Bible says he wants to sanctify you. It means he wants to set you apart for himself. It's not about Jesus taking you away from something as much as taking you into something. His love, his righteousness, his peace and his Holy Spirit.  Few things that I want to give to those people that are struggling with homosexuality. If you became a Christian, submit your sexuality to God. James 4.7 tells us, Submit to God and resist the devil and he will flee from you. You can't come against spirit of homosexuality until you submit your biology to Jesus. Submit all of your life to God.  Say, Jesus, I'm surrendering my whole life to you. And then you rise up from the submission to God and you say, devil, get behind me. That tendency, those thoughts, those voices, I rebuke you in Jesus' name. The second thing that we must do is we must flee lust. Second Timothy 2, verse 22, it says that flee youthful lust.   If you have apps where you maybe constantly find people, delete those apps, if those apps lead you away from Christ. If you find yourself scrolling through things that cause you to fall into sexual immorality, flee from that stuff. If you're walking in the mall and Victoria, who has no secrets, keeps looking at you, turn your head around, keep on walking straight. And do not need to do spiritual warfare. The God will clothe her with garments of righteousness. Just keep on walking. Flee youthful lust. Some people say, well, I just need to fight it. Yes, there's a time to fight, but there's a time to flee.  The power it down, plug it from the cord and go to a different room. Run from that stuff. Joseph didn't try to convert Portifer's wife. He fled from her. Some of you may be engaged in the immoral relationships. You're like, no, but I'm going to save them. I'm going to convert, you know, I'm just going to really get them saved first. Save your soul first. Get out, run from that. Oh, but they will think I'm some kind of a hater. Listen, it's more important that you save your soul. When you save the relationship first, let God save that person.  That's who you are.   All of this, you take those, those thoughts are not to be trusted. Christians are taught to train their thoughts, not to trust them. Not everything that comes into your head is from God. Not everything should be embraced and accepted. We do warfare with our thoughts.  I should take a gun and blow my brains. I guess what I'm going to do is follow my thoughts. We follow God. We don't believe in Oprah religion, where you follow your heart. We believe in the religion of the Bible that the heart is wicked, meaning your thoughts can be trusted, submit them, literally make them prisoners of you. Take them captive. Don't live in the captive of your mind. Don't make your mind your master. You'll make make your mind you serve it. Amen. Forgive those that hurt you. A lot of people who are in homosexual, even transgender community have been hurt, sometimes seduced, experienced breakdown of a family, having either domineering father or mother, abused, trauma and come to Jesus and let him know that what happened to you. Talk to somebody, seek a counselor, maybe a therapist so that that trauma can be addressed. When you get hurt, you got to address the wound. You know that if somebody gets shot, if their wound is not addressed, it comes in infection and then it spreads and the person can die. Not from the shot, but from the fact that that wound that was never addressed. Don't think the time will heal. Time doesn't heal. Jesus does. It takes time to heal. But time is not the great healer. God is the great healer. Seek deliverance. Lastly, maybe you're seeing that you've repented, you experienced God's love. You believe the truth.  You're not who other people said you are.  But you keep having these lingering thoughts, lingering urges and desires. Come for prayer today. Come for prayer to our church.  Ask for prayer because there is healing. There is hope. There is freedom and there is deliverance. This is not a hate message. This is a freedom message, deliverance message that is hope and that is healing. I've seen homosexuals set free, but I also have seen depression in their eyes. When some knew that it was wrong, tried their best and they said, I couldn't get free. So then they came to that realization because I can't overcome it, I will let it overcome me. It's just the way I am. And because the culture affirms it, they said, I give up and I quit. Yes, in yourself, you can't overcome it. But when you come to Jesus, there is hope, there is healing, there is freedom and there is deliverance. And such were some of you, but you were washed. You were sanctified. You were delivered. If you're addicted to pornography, there is hope for you that is healing for you. If you're addicted to some other ways that you are expressing yourself that are demonic and ungodly. I know you're feeling shame. You're feeling guilt. The Holy Spirit's conviction brings hope, brings light and brings deliverance. The Holy Spirit doesn't conform and doesn't say, oh yeah, just stay in that sin because you're still loved. He says, no, let me bring you to the light where you can experience freedom. So you don't have to live in shame. You don't have to live in your guilt but live in God's light, God's freedom and God's deliverance. Hey, thanks for watching this sermon. If this was a blessing to you, would you let me know in the comments below what stood out to you from this message? What are you taking home with you from this message? 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