GYC SE Conference 2021: If Not Now, When? If Not I, Who?

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GYC Southeast

Plenary Sessions

David Wright

How to Know God’s Will for Your Life

Who Invented Sex?

The Thing the Devil Hates

A Father’s Love

Are You an Evolutionist?

Never Enough

We're going to talk about a serious topic today, and I'm going to start with this illustration.

He's a 32-year-old busboy who came across a Forbes 400 magazine, And in that magazine were some of the most wealthy people of America.

People like Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Oprah Winfrey, Ted Turner, Warren Buffet, George Soros and others.

And everyone on that list, he found some way to have a personal grievance with and he started researching, researching, researching as best he could from every public source online, on his public library to find out details about each of these individuals.

And he had a journal, he had notes in his Forbes 400 magazine of all of these details and then he started making phone calls to their banking institutions.

And he would use these details to try to convince the person on the other side of the line, that he was their financial advisor, and he was the 1 that was supposed to shift certain things around.

And every time he was trying to just grab a little bit more information, a little bit more information, even if it was just, what is the bank balance?

He's being whisked away on his private jet.

He wants to know his balance so he can make this big purchase.

So bit by bit as he gets this information, he comes to the point where he has access to 80 million dollars that he has siphoned away into an offshore account.

When he was later interviewed in prison, when they caught him, it was back in 2002, he still didn't see himself as a criminal, he says, I'm just doing community service.

I'm redirecting these funds where they could be better used.

It was known as 1 of the biggest identity thefts in history.

Maybe it's been surpassed by now, I don't know.

But in a similar way, I believe the devil is making hundreds and hundreds and thousands and thousands of attempts each day to steal from every 1 of us something that God created that is so precious.

In fact it's so precious we have it before the Fall.

There we have creation in the Genesis account, we have the Sabbath, we have man and wife, and in that union we have this beautiful thing called sex.

So I'm asking the question today, who invented sex?

You know we live in a day and age when this world is so sex crazed and everywhere we go there's a screen, screen, screen, screen.

We live in a social media age and throughout social media is this, well counterfeit of what God's original design was.

Sometimes it's subtle, other times it's not so subtle at all.

And each time a seed is planted, and a seed is planted of what sex is, or, should we say, what it isn't.

I came across this article, it came out just in September of this year, how TikTok serves up sex and drug videos to minors.

And in this article they talk about, it's from the Wall Street Journal, they talk about how they set up an account for a 13 year old, underage, and very quickly this account starts getting feeds.

And you're not sure exactly where it comes from, but there's that scroll, and there's a, oh there's a cute puppy, and oh that looks delicious, and oh here's a new way to do your hair, or whatever it is.

And part of that feed was suggestions for sex, suggestions for drugs, maybe even just something as innocent, if we could say that, as a marijuana leaf on top of a birthday cake.

And so as they're going through this feed, as you're going through this feed, they have these algorithms in TikTok.

And don't be alarmed, or don't think for a moment that it's just TikTok that's doing this.

YouTube and all the others are doing it as well.

But as you go through the feed in TikTok, and as you hover, you say, huh, what is that?

And it's calculating how many seconds I look at that image, that video, as opposed to, I don't know, a picture of Tahiti or something.

And it doesn't necessarily matter if that's your interest or if it's just a curiosity or if you're just dumbfounded that this is a thing.

It's calculating the seconds that you spend there and it says, ah, they like this.

I will give them more and more and more and very quickly in a matter of days, this account they set up for a 13 year old was getting videos and pictures of pay for pornography.

But I tell you, the devil has never before had such a tool, such a device, that is with us at all times in our pockets, that's constantly begging for our attention, and not just begging for our attention but sowing seeds That are counter to everything the Holy Spirit wants to do in your life I'm so thankful that just this last year, where I come from, Fletcher Academy has decided to ban all smartphones except for the Gab phone.

There is a camera on there, but there's no data, which means there's no apps.

Is that a silver bullet that solves everything?

No, but I talk to the deans there and they say, oh my goodness, it's so much better.

For the first time that I can remember having worked here, people are downstairs in the dorm playing board games, going out to recreation and exercising and mountain biking and on Saturday afternoons they want to go for hikes before, no we're just going to stay in our rooms.

We live in an age where this pipeline is coming so strong and so fast and so hard and we think, oh it doesn't affect me.

I think of this verse, 1 Peter 5, verse 8.

Be sober, be vigilant, because your adversary the devil...

Walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

And folks, people are being devoured, I believe, at a faster rate today...

In the privacy of their own room, wherever they choose to be, as long as I have a connection.

I hear some people say, well, pastor, I have a good filter.

Now, I'm not talking about the filter on your phone, that's probably a good idea.

I'm not talking about going to a gab phone, that's probably a good idea.

I have something on my phone that keeps me accountable because as a male I don't feel that I am above or beyond any of this stuff.

But I hear people say well pastor I have a filter so I you know I know and I don't look at that kind of stuff, and I just kind of dismiss it.

And folks, let's think about a filter for a second.

We have air filters, oil filters, water filters, the whole thing.

But the reality is a filter is not a muscle that gets stronger with use.

So a filter is not necessarily the answer.

So let's get back to our question though.

Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother and shall cleave unto his wife, and they shall become 1 flesh." Leave and cleave and become 1.

That was a purpose that God invented sex for.

Perhaps not the only purpose, but certainly 1 of, if not 1 of the major purposes of sex and sexuality.

And they were both naked, and the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.

Oftentimes when I ask this question, why did God create sex?

First question I get back, or answer I get back, procreation, kids to populate the earth.

I went to school and had a teacher once that he had the understanding and the belief that that was the only reason God designed and invented sex.

And so he had 2 kids and he had sex 2 times.

If you read the book Song of Solomon there is no question That there is an element of pleasure that goes along with sex.

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