Love in the Making 2019

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Proverbs 365 Ministries

Kezia Chisholm

Lost & Found

My Heavenly Father, I just thank you so much for another opportunity to speak.

I thank you for the voice that you have given me.

I pray at this moment that any attacks of the devil, Lord, that you may bind them in the name of Jesus, that you may speak to all of our minds in a manner that we are able to understand that by your grace when we leave this place Lord that we will know that we truly have had an encounter with you may your presence be within this place and Jesus name I do pray amen.

So here we have the sanctuary which is based upon Exodus 25 to Exodus 40.

It was God's command to Moses to build a tabernacle for God to dwell amongst his people in the wilderness.

It was to be essential in the relationship between God and Israel and the primary focus of their wilderness experience.

The verses are very repetitive in describing in detail the materials and the construction of the tabernacle.

1 of the reasons why I wanted to use the sanctuary to help us understand how we can overcome certain behavioral activities because I'm coming from a construction background.

So me personally I enjoy seeing things coming from nothing to something and to see how God, our own savior, has specifically designed a structure that he's made it clear that this is how we're able to separate sin from the sinner.

Through symbols, it shows us how God solves the sin problem.

Its overall design and services show the nation of free slaves a three-dimensional panorama of the plan of salvation.

So another thing, too, with my background, at school, we used to have to make lots of models, so I figured you know what also helps is to see it visually what God meant when he was talking about the sanctuary.

We are unable to understand how God can separate sin from the sinner at it is done in the sanctuary services.

When Christ has finally separated sin from us, we will eventually be able to join our Savior in heaven and live with him where there will be no more sin.

And of course, that's our end goal, to be pure before God.

So when it comes to the sanctuary message, I know there are lots of ways to present it.

There's different symbols, different ways to look at it.

So this is just 1 way to look at it regarding our walk with God.

So here, like in the picture, we have our gate.

And then we have our altar of burnt offering, and then our labor, and then we go to our holy place, and then to our most holy place.

And then surrounding that area is the wilderness like the outside of the courtyard.

So this is just kind of like a bird's-eye view of what I just mentioned.

So at the bottom that's the gate and then the altar of offerings and then the labor.

The most holy place where you have 3 furniture pieces and then you have the most holy place with the Ark of the Covenant with additional pieces inside of it.

And then a little squiggly line surrounding that, that is the wilderness.

So this is just a bird's-eye view of the sanctuary.

So regarding the encampment, the wilderness outside the courtyard area.

So now we're going to be talking about the surrounding.

So not necessarily this part, but just surrounding.

But those that encamp before the tabernacle toward the east, even before the tabernacle of the congregation eastward, shall be Moses and Aaron and his sons, keeping the charge of the sanctuary for the charge of the children of Israel.

And the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.

So we're going to focus right now on what it says, but those that encamp before the tabernacle toward the east.

And then also shall be Moses and Aaron and his sons, and the strangers that cometh nigh shall be put to death." So when it mentions the before part, so that's before meaning like the surrounding area, so before we enter, oops, a little pick me up, so before the surrounding, before the actual sanctuary, it mentions before.

So we're talking about now the surrounding areas.

And then it shall be Moses, Aaron, and his sons.

And then also, the strangers that come nigh, the non-Israelites, the non-believers.

When it comes to this topic, we know that it's not necessarily just a non-believer struggle, but in totality it's a struggle that some of us have, even within the faith.

So when it comes to sex, premarital as well as adultery.

Premarital sex, because these are 1 of the things I realized growing up I did not know.

And some of that is because I did not grow up in a Christian household.

So premarital sex, that's occurring or existing before marriage.

And adultery is voluntarily sexual intercourse before a married person and a person who is not his or her spouse.

If you don't know which 1 to check, to which 1 you are, you could always think about your taxes.

Because 1 thing I always found interesting is even people who are engaged are like, well, we're almost married, so we could almost do it.

But it's like when you're doing your taxes, it's like single or you're married.

So that always helps out if you're trying to figure out, am I in premarital sex?

When it comes to pornography, printed or visual material containing the explicit description or display of sexual organs or activity.

Masturbation is to stimulate one's own genitals for sexual pleasure.

This is a happy life and a love for the fable that the devil devised.

So of course the devil he's so cunning and he tells us like this is amazing this is something great.

When Jesus was in Gethsemane, Satan was trying to tempt Jesus.

In Desire of Ages, White mentions, placing Jesus upon a high mountain, Satan caused the kingdoms of the world in all their glory to pass in panoramic view before him.

The sunlight lay on temple cities, marble palaces, fertile fields, and fruit laden vineyards.

The eyes of Jesus so lately greeted by gloom and desolation now gazed upon a scene of unsurpassed loveliness and prosperity.

Then the tempter's voice was So, Satan was just saying that I could give you all of this in the sense of like the sexuality, all that, get the pleasures right now, but clearly he has been hiding from us the evils of it so he's telling us that we could have it on now.

The traces of evil that Satan didn't tell us about so the hidden evils of sex of course premarital adultery and of course like I mentioned the taxes Because of course when you're having sex within marriage, that is the right timing.

But any time outside of that, that's where there's an issue.

So there's a Comparison outside of future spouses.

Prior to me coming to Christ, I actually used to pray, I was like, Lord, just make sure I don't get pregnant, or I have any STIs.

Because in my head, I was just like, well, I looked at God as a genie.

So I never saw him as a pure holy God, but more so of someone who could just grant me my wish.

Secrecy is in lies, emotional distress, wear a condom, safe sex.

So growing up, I was always told, well, you could just wear a condom.

But what people had failed to realize that yes, you could wear a condom, but the issue is it doesn't protect you from the emotional distress.

It does not protect you from when you're feeling lonely, when you're feeling empty, when you're feeling worthless.

Like the condom does not protect you from the mental issues that you have after committing that.

Not emotionally honest to yourself or others and sexual bonded soul ties.

Sexual bondage and soul ties, that is a hard thing to break from because that takes time, especially having to free yourself from that person and realize that I'm not gonna go back to that person because there's always that bondage to that person.

Hidden evils of pornography and masturbation.

Low productivity due to spending too many hours watching porn, erectile dysfunction, changes our brain pattern.

So this was 1 thing I found to be so amazing because I didn't think that pornography had the ability to change my mind.

It wasn't like, you know, when someone's high or when they're drunk, you could kind of tell that, okay, someone would be a little off, a little funny.

But when it comes to pornography, you can't see, you can't tell when somebody just watched porn.

But unfortunately, what's going on in your brain, you can't see it.

But say you know everything's good, you never touched porn.

But here's your brain on porn so you can see like the mass like the brain surface it's definitely different from what's on the further right side but of course this all varies when it comes to the years of usage as well as your lifestyle habits.

The hidden evils of pornography as we continue into this is linked to sex trafficking.

So I knew it was linked to sex trafficking, however, I didn't care.

I knew that people were possibly being sex slaves, I knew that possibly they were being raped and all that.

I didn't care because I was just like, well, it grants me my immediate gratification that I wanted right now.

It's artificial, unrealistic expectations of partners.

So sometimes what happens with pornography is that you start placing these expectations on your partner saying, okay, what I saw in pornography, my spouse is going to perform as a porn star.

And failing to realize that's 2 different things.

And you're putting these expectations that are not really good for the partner because now it creates an unhealthy relationship for your partner.

Another thing, too, especially if you're using toys and it's not really how the key naturally works.

When I mention key, I'm regarding the male's key.

So you know we have the key and the hole, right?

Unfortunately, what happens sometimes with this behavior, we start bringing in these certain toys and these toys necessarily isn't naturally how God created the male to function so when we start becoming so dependent upon this we're failing to realize that that's not God's design like that's not how the key naturally works.

The evils of masturbation there's false intimacy it kills love it's selfish It's seeking his or own pleasure if the spouse doesn't get it right.

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