Purity - Cleansing for World Evangelization — George Verwer

But so you hesitate to mention them because you don't want people to go over there and then not not find a copy but I just Have chosen them with the hope that if You can't get them at the book table here that you'll just write the title down and try to get these books.

One is one of the main training books. We've used in OM for years spiritual leadership by Oswald Saunders Formerly the leader of OMF. He's in heaven now just last year. I Had the privilege of meeting this man in Singapore many years ago and he's always been a Model a little time with him in New Zealand as well a couple years ago.

Just a very very basic strategic book on leadership. And you may not think that you're going to be a leader In the work of God, but you're probably going to be in for a surprise. First of all, there are all kinds of leadership.

And even to be a father you need to be a leader. Did you know that? Actually to be a mother you need to be a leader because the father keeps going off to preach. So the mother has to take on the leadership.

So principles of leadership are so basic. They're there for everybody and if you haven't read that yet I'm sure one of the purposes God's brought you here is to get that book. This is one of the first books that we ever really studied in OM.

It's now in 30 languages. It's a hard-hitting book. Recently one of our main leaders stood up and pointed out in this book the things he didn't agree with. So it's it's obviously not OMS handbook but in fact after he Did a very good critique of the book it inspired me to reread it and I thought it was great.

There are a couple things that perhaps represent a Worldview that may not be a hundred percent accurate just the way he says it. It's an old book I followed that man all of his life single man William Macdonald one of the most godly persons I've ever been able to follow right through his life and though that books got a few things that Might seem a little bit over the top.

I believe it's one of the great books on discipleship I found like brother Andrew said it's easier to cool down a fanatic than warm up a corpse. So if this book kicks a little too hard, you know, somehow you write to me.

I'll send you a copy of my book on balance. My daughter said to me some years ago dad. You're getting extreme in the balance thing. True discipleship William Macdonald very inexpensive. I saw a few copies on the table.

Recommended Books for Discipleship and Missions

Books about the Muslim world. They're not so many of them. But here's two one about Turkey we've been focusing on Turkey because Operation world for November 3rd 4th and 5th or 4th 5th and 6th is about Turkey.

And here's an easy to read book like a novel about Turkey gives you a lot of background. It's a true story of one of the first young men led to Christ by the OM teams when they went to Turkey those early days.

So my big father he's in heaven now but the story continues to be used of God. I Don't know why the story of Lilius Trotter Was not in print before last year because she was one of the Giants one of the missionary Giants of past generations.

Story of a woman who pioneered missionary work in North Africa written by Patricia singin. I always used to pronounce that st. John, but it's singin and she just gone to heaven another Dear saint in glory.

Patricia singin her nephew is the OM leader of our work in Central Asia. So if you're interested in books about the Muslim challenge There's one that will really warm your heart until the day breaks the life story Lilius Trotter.

How many have you ever been blessed and challenged by something by a W Tozer a? W Tozer was a pastor in Toronto for quite a few years. I'm listening to a lot of his tapes. Read most all of his most of his books and years ago a friend of mine.

I Think we requested it took some quotations from about 20 other Tozer books and Put them together in this little book gems from Tozer if you want something powerful for your quiet time. Which might become a little noisy as you read this and cry out to God for mercy.

Then I recommend this gems from Tozer Again I saw a few of them there on the book table. It was also encouraging to see this new music tape. Frank Fortunato the leader of OMS music ministry just talked to him on the phone as well, and he's produced this new tape of His kingdom is coming and Frank has done a similar presentation at major missions conferences.

Moody Bible Institute. I was just talking to a pastor on the phone in Pittsburgh. He says I got Frank coming here for our missions conference in February. Well you may not get to be able to get Frank to your missions conference.

But you can get that cassette into your Walkman and there's some new songs there. About world missions. We declare your majesty burning me rain in me when his kingdom comes a Great cassette. I suggest you pick that up.

Isn't it exciting to just go and pick up some of this literature. I've already read through that weekly paper. They're giving you a free Christian weekly Paper out there. I've already prayed through Mine to some degree and it's exciting.

Repentance and Spiritual Renewal in the Church

So much is happening here in Canada. It's amazing. There's so many organizations so many churches. I Would have thought the revival to break out any minute. Certainly have enough structures spending enough money, but it's course it's gonna take some prayer.

It's gonna take Perhaps a little more repenting. Is that the favorite thing in your church repenting people brokenness repenting people. Confessing faults one to another getting right with God. Is this the biggest problem in this in this town?

This is known as quite a Christian town. Is that the biggest problem? Too much enthusiasm for Jesus. Too much evangelism. Too much love for Christ too much vision. AW tozer said to think this was the greatest problem in the average town was like sending a squadron of policemen to the nearby Cemetery to guard against a major demonstration by the residents at midnight.

So probably it's not the biggest problem in town, let's pray together Lord. I just thank you for the printed page. I Thank you that so many people have had their lives turned upside down through little books like true discipleship gems from tozer.

We thank you for the power of the reality the sovereignty of your Holy Spirit who is working in many many people and many churches right across Canada. And we are praying on the basis of Matthew 9 That you are going to send out labors into the harvest field.

Grip us Oh God with the reality of what this is about. For we ask in Jesus name Amen, I always like to use at least two Bibles when I preach. This is Fraser Church's Bible full full of papers and notes and business cards and.

And then this is my own I'd like you to turn with me to the book of Timothy 2nd Timothy chapter 2. This is the authority for our missionary work the Word of God. We've tried to point that out This morning.

Moral Purity and Faithful Endurance in Christian Service

I want us to look at 2nd Timothy chapter 2 for the kind of challenge. I believe we need in this Day and age as we face so much confusion and so much compromise. Compromise. Someone was sharing with me today That I guess I'm a bit out of date.

That a major church movement here in Canada. It's actually approved, you know a Christian Church. Whatever they may stand for they have that name has actually approved homosexual marriage and homosexual practicing homosexuals ministering in the pulpits.

I Never I knew the church, you know was going downhill. I've always known that ever since I was converted, but I didn't know it was going downhill that fast. And I just talked to a man on the phone and major Lutheran denomination May make the same decision a task force has suggested that they make it.

But they're going to take it to their local churches and my Lutheran friend is hoping that it's going to be you know thrown out. But it is unbelievable That the church perhaps will eventually become more worldly than the bar.

I Want to speak to you this afternoon about the subject of moral purity. We don't want just a lot of people to go to the mission field. We want the men and women That are going to stick. We're not called to some kind of evangelical sprint we are called to a holy ghost marathon.

And we see plenty about that plenty of that Challenge about that in the Word of God in 2nd Timothy chapter 2 it says thou therefore my son Be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus and the things that thou has heard of me among many witnesses.

The same commit that of faithful men who shall be able to teach others also now therefore endure hardness as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. No man that wareth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier and If a man also strived for masteries yet He is not crowned except he strived lawfully the husbandman that laboreth must be first partaker of the fruits.

Consider what I say and the Lord give thee understanding in all things enduring hardship. As a good soldier of Jesus Christ God is calling us to many things. We cannot summarize the Christian life in one sentence unless as a great preacher from Britain once said at a conference I was at we simply say the Christian is in Christ.

By the way, if you study the epistles you'll find that is the main description of a Christian. You study it in Christ the person who is in Christ. But as we go on from there and that's one of the reasons we have the New Testament to see what that's about.

We'll discover there's many ways to describe the Christian and one of the ways That is certainly a lot Less acceptable these days is when the Bible talks about the Christian as a soldier of Jesus Christ.

I preached in an Anglican Church in Cambridge University town. And I guess I in passing mentioned something about being called to be soldiers of Jesus Christ and spiritual warfare. And the lady dear woman wrote me Deeply offended that I would use military terminology in the church.

The ideas that people have about Christianity as if it was some kind of passive Blase a sort of a peace movement when we see clearly in the Word of God a Clarion call to do battle in the name of Jesus Christ.

We have Ephesians chapter 6 where it tells us to take the shield of faith wherewith we can stop all the fiery darts of Satan. The fiery dart that I want to focus on this afternoon. Here's the fiery dart a moral impurity.

I don't want to limit myself to that, but I don't want to become too broad. Because I think we have to face the reality. That immorality is an epidemic in the church there's hardly a single church that's not having major problems in this area and.

That we are also going to face this and are facing it on the mission field. One of the friends I challenged to the mission field the woman director on his field fairly known mission society of the day.

Was a practicing lesbian. Blew literally blew the whole work apart. He said my own experience in Mexico prepared me for my experience on the field. It's interesting because his own experience in Mexico one of the very first teams was really bad.

His team leader. Never forget it. I was in Mexico with my wife about to go to Spain. I came back met these people at the border gave him the training week left for Chicago. I got in Chicago my good friend.

I was going to be the leader of that team going to Veracruz. Had a whole load of neckties in his suitcase that he was going to just take into Mexico that is actually smuggling. It's going to take them into Mexico and give them away with the books.

I thought the books because they were going to do book selling would go faster if they got a free tie and at the second customs point in the Mexican border he got arrested. As they found these ties he panicked.

He's very nervous, and he got arrested and put in prison as a smuggler. I Just get to Chicago is a very difficult trip. I was driving a very elderly missionary the only thing more old was her car. I mean, this is the oldest guard ever driven in my life all the way to Chicago.

And I had to get in a plane and go back to the Mexican border and get this man out of prison. That summer. For my friend who later went to the field in Asia now are very famous missionaries written many books.

That summer was a disaster because this fell on his leadership. It just came apart after that experience. But he said you know the troubles on that team and seeing things go wrong seeing unanswered prayer.

That's what it seemed like that summer. Prepared me for this thing. I was to face on the mission field which is beyond anything that I ever could imagine. We're not talking recent history here. We're talking 30 years ago when he arrived the field in Asia and found this Moral impurity going on there's such a danger that as Christians we lack Sanctified imagination and divine spirit led initiative because we feel so inadequate.

So many Christians seem to say well this needs to be done and that needs to done be done, but who am I? You know, I've got my own problems. I'm no great man or woman of prayer. I don't have a knowledge enough knowledge of the word.

I'm not living every 24 hours a day in revival. Who am I to do anything about these situations? It's a great mistake. We need a grassroots movement of moral purity. We need young people who are willing to walk right up to their Christian leader and if and if they sense the right moment in The boldness to ask that Christian leader if he's living in moral purity.

I've never been afraid of anybody asking me that. My daughter asked me that once when she was having struggles in her faith. She walked right up to me. She said dad. I want to know whether you have been faithful to mother all of her life.

I Had been it would have it would have been worth being faithful. Just to be able to answer my daughter much less all the other blessings from being faithful. God is calling his people to openness and honesty.

We're told in the book of John and James we should confess our faults one or another and pray for one another that we may be healed. We're commanded in dozens and dozens of places in the Word of God. We're commanded in a general way concerning holiness concerning purity concerning integrity concerning reality.

These are the watchwords of God's people. Turn with me to first Timothy Chapter 4 verse 12. Perhaps this could be the key verse for this little session together. First Timothy chapter 4 verse 12. Let no man despise thy youth.

But be thou an example of the believers in word in conversation in in love or charity in spirit in faith and in Purity till I come give attendance to reading to exhortation and to Doctrine though there is a teaching factor and what I'm sharing with you this afternoon.

Perhaps there's more an exhortation factor when George Whitfield led his teams of men and women across Britain and across America he would call them oftentimes exhorters. And the ministry of biblical exhortation is an important ministry and Also the ministry of exhorting one another encouraging one another asking.

Asking our friends and our brothers and sisters in Christ how they're doing. How can we pray for them? Because I don't believe if you're wrestling in the area of your sexuality and moral purity. I don't believe generally you're going to win that battle on your own.

We need one another. In the very earliest days of OM because of the influence of Billy Graham. Who talked openly about sex? I? Guess I was too naive and too young a Christian to know there was any other way.

Then I went selling books door-to-door and one of the books I went selling was Clyde Naramore's book about sex. It's one of the first Christian books. I think the first believe it or not was Stephen Alford.

Another mighty mighty man of the spirit still alive today. Great Bible expositor. Who's wrote a book to sanctity of sex. And I just praise God that the Church of Jesus Christ. Going back many many decades has not been silent on the subject of sex.

Unfortunately, it was also often a remnant of people speaking out. The average Christian not reading Christian books, especially back in the 50s and 60s weren't there weren't many of these books. I Didn't get much teaching on this subject.

Even today we find in our asking around. So few people speak about sex. Over 500 verses in the Bible about sex. We should be studying the Word of God three chapters in Proverbs alone. In the Netherlands one of the leading healing evangelists.

He would be the equivalent to oral Roberts for anybody in the Netherlands. Just confessed all during his 20 years of ministry sleeping with prostitutes all 20 years. Does that surprise you. I can assure you it doesn't surprise me at all.

Because I've been in the trenches for 20 for 37 years when I first went to Mexico one of the first missionaries in Mexico. Committed adultery by running off with the best girl in the choir. When I first went to Europe the head of a Bible school, my dear friends a Bible believing man.

Had seduced one-third of the women in the Bible school. The church never caught him. The church knows little about discipline and spiritual discernment. The police in that country caught him and he was in prison.

For many many years. I met him when he came out a changed man. I'm told that when Jimmy Baker comes out He'll be a changed man now under the shepherding to some degree of Charles Colson. The Word of God is very clear on the subject of sex and we are told you are told as young people.

I know not all of you are young. You're told very clearly that you need to be an example and you need to know the reality of purity and Honesty in your own life and in your own walk with God. It is Absolutely basic and Of course, it is going to be a battle.

That's why the Apostle Paul later to Timothy in chapter 4 verse 7 said I have fought a good fight. I have finished my course. I have kept the faith In another place. It says that we should flee. Flee youthful lusts.

This is chapter 2 again. We're back in 2nd Timothy chapter 2 verse 22 Flee also youthful lusts. But follow righteousness faith love peace with them the call of the Lord out of a pure heart 16. I'm sorry to say before my conversion.

I was a pornoholic. You know what an alcoholic is, don't you? He's someone that cannot live without alcohol till he destroys himself. And it's so strange because I was against drinking alcohol even before I was a Christian because my I saw my drunken Grandfather only twice in my life.

That was enough to scare me away from that. But I got hooked on pornography at 16 not the heavy kind of stuff that's floating around today, which is just so unbelievable. What's called mild pornography, but it was not mild in the air and the enemy's efforts to destroy me.

And after I became a Christian, I knew this was wrong. I knew it was wrong. Even before that I was I was sort of struggling with it. But I didn't have the power to overcome it and after my conversion I experienced a surge of motivation and power To gain the victory and this pornography went up in smoke.

My dear mother didn't even know I had this material and It wasn't so easy however to get it out of my mind. And I was there in the mind. And for a number of years many years just occasionally Satan would try to roar back and destroy me.

Through the lust of the eyes finding a piece of pornography on sitting on the table on a train in England. Once I was in a prayer walk. Some of you heard me preach at Urbana and I shared this story of being on a prayer walk as a Christian leader I guess 15 years ago and there was a pornographic magazine hanging in the tree.

And oh how I would love to been able to testify how I just in the power of the Spirit zapped that magazine and it Disintegrated but instead that magazine on that occasion made a fool out of me for a few minutes.

I mentioned this because so few people seem to be willing to mention that they're struggling and that they've had difficulties and When I do just mention these things I get the most amazing range of letters and some of these letters.

From Christians have said they say the same thing often. I've never shared this with anybody in my life. I don't know how they're living. I don't know how they live with himself. Men in the ministry men and women on the mission fee.

Confession, Accountability, and the Struggles of Christian Leaders

I'll never forget a graduate of one of Canada's leading Bible colleges if we don't think that a good Majority of young people in Bible colleges are having serious struggle with sexuality. Then I would just claim you're living in an unreal world.

You are living in some kind of fantasy bubble and the sooner you get out of it the happier you will be. This young man graduated from one of Canada's leading Bible colleges. He was out on the mission field.

It would be indecent of me to describe the sexual sins. He engaged in in the mission field. He never shared it with anybody. He was engaging in similar sins sins when he was graduating and receiving his diploma back at Bible College.

Finally, he heard me share a message similar to this and he couldn't bear the darkness in his soul anymore. But he couldn't verbalize it. I was in Nepal at the time and so he sat on a typewriter and he typed out two pages of the most Unbelievable sin and lust that he'd been living in in India off and on always sort of repenting but never gaining the victory.

And on and on it went until he was ready To just end it all spiritually. I had the privilege of taking that young man on as a as a Timothy and mentoring type of thing. It took two years. And I saw him come through.

I saw him lick big victoriously though. Even during that time of living victoriously once a woman and one of the ports when our ship came in Nailed him. You cannot imagine when our ship comes into a port.

These young men just walk off the gangway. Women are just there just throw their bodies at them. Just like Somebody was selling you popcorn going into the cinema. And I would ask you to pray for the men and the women on our ships because almost all ports of the world are sex Centers, I was just reading in operation world.

You read it for yourself in operation world about about Thailand. Quite a blunt little book this in fact, maybe we'll maybe we'll read that see if we can find Thailand, I think it was during the month of October That we got to Thailand.

It's actually alphabetical order. So it should be pretty easy to find Thailand. Bangkok the sin capital of Asia most of the country's estimated 100 ,000 and 700 ,000 prostitutes that's 100 ,000 male prostitutes.

700 ,000 female prostitutes operate in Bangkok over 2 million people Derived their income from the sex industry. Many girls are kidnapped or sold into prostitution slavery. Most of the 35 ,000 street children of the city end up in this evil AIDS has become a major scourge with at least 500 ,000 infected by 1992 and a projected 4 million by the year 2000.

Pray for all who seek to minister it to these tragic people. I remember a bright-eyed Bible school student Going out as a semi independent missionary to Bangkok. I'll never forget it very gifted very gifted speaker.

Within six months in Bangkok, he was finished the ministry the evangelism. And he was a slave to every kind of vice sexual sin the mind could ever grasp. Bible college graduate evangelist. Old Maxwell used to say I'm sorry that the book is out of print.

World missions total war and The first and major war is within. The first and major war is going to be fought in Canada. It's going to be fought in your house in your car. It's going to be fought in your heart and in your mind as the fiery darts of immorality in their many different ways.

Attempt to destroy you or confuse you or discourage you sometimes. I'm dealing with young people Who are not in any kind of major moral problem. They are struggling with normal adolescent Sexuality and some difficulties connected with that and yet they have more guilt on them.

That someone else is out committing major adultery. So the kind of ministry and the kind of counseling we're involved with with young people in this arena is Is quite varied and our message is not the message of the law.

It's a message of grace. It's a message of forgiveness. It's a message of spiritual balance showing young people. They are going to wrestle with aspects of their sexuality all their life. You don't arrive at some point.

How unfortunate there are actually some people that teach that you will arrive at a point through some Sanctification hocus-pocus where you will never be tempted again. You'll never sin again. You've arrived.

One of the smaller denominations that teaches that in the United States. The leader of that whole area of four states in the United States. Relatively famous man unknown up here has just been put in prison for 20 years of sexual abuse among women.

I guess he wasn't quite practicing what he was preaching. I'll tell you why I wasn't practicing what he was preaching because it is impossible to practice what he was preaching. We will be tempted all of our life not in the same way people in their 80s are not tempted the same way somebody who's 16.

But the battle goes on. Sometimes it's only the appearance of evil. I remember having to ease an older man out of OM because he couldn't keep his hands off the women. And I said we cannot have this in a youth movement and he said well look I don't have sexual problems anymore.

I'm it's you know, I'm just fond of these young women. I just want to show them a little love and I said, you know, it's not uh, and he's out. And I believe in some ways in his own heart. He was quite innocent.

He wasn't really Planning anything sexually for these women, but in our kind of movement, it was the appearance. The Word of God Commands us to avoid the appearance of evil. People used to think Billy Graham was an old fuddy-duddy.

Because Billy Graham would not go anywhere with another woman. He'd always have his wife with him or another man. Because he wanted to avoid the appearance of evil. Some of these terrible scandal magazines try to push Women into the arms of Billy Graham.

Just get one photo of some, you know. Loosely clad woman grabbing on to Billy Graham it would go. Well, they'd sell it for thousands to these scandal papers you pick up when you're trying to buy groceries.

And when I heard Billy Graham was doing this Years ago. I decided you know, I'm gonna do this. And most of the time I've been able to practice That and avoid Pitfalls never dreaming in those early days that I would ever be anybody even even in a tiny way famous.

Whatever that means, but we know Satan is out to destroy the work of God. And if he can get some of these leaders at the top, he can drag old churches. He can drag old movements down into Into the mire so to speak.

Because they just love. They just love to print these things even the Christian magazines. Christianity today just printed the story of a very famous Indian Christian leader Theodore Williams who just confessed adultery.

And immorality it has shaken India. You're not into world missions. You may not know his name, but anybody into world missions. WEF 82 ,000 beyond the main mission societies in India. They know the man I Don't know why Christianity today has to produce a quarter-page article about such things with a photo.

I know so many godly people doing great things. They've never had their photo in Christianity today. It seems even with Christian magazines. You'll somehow get a few more lines if you commit immorality personally I'd rather not have any publicity at all myself.

And I think we need to cry out to God for Christian magazines because I'm sure there is a place for reporting these things. But they need a lot of wisdom how they do it or they become just like the world.

It become just like the world world missions total war. The flesh left it lusted against the spirit the spirit against the flesh. The two are contrary. No wonder Paul talked about buffeting the body and bringing it bringing it into subjection.

Biblical Teaching on Marriage, Sexuality, and Holiness

Now I think at this point it's important to look at another scripture in the book of Hebrews to keep this whole thing in perspective. So I'd like you to turn to Hebrews 13 in verse 4. By the way on our book table today.

We don't have many books on this subject. But there are outstanding books on this subject and I'd urge you if you can get a few minutes to go to one of your Christian bookstores and pick up some of the writings of Josh McDowell.

Or other great books that speak openly and honestly on this important subject. Especially a book published by the Navigators called the snare. The snare written by Lois Mowdy is a book specifically aimed at Helping us discern and understand the methodology of Satan against Christian leaders in the area of morality.

I consider it one of the top most important Christian books in the world today and I'm sorry, we don't have it here. The Navigators allowed it to go out of print. They then gave us permission to do a special edition in Great Britain.

But we haven't managed to get that into the pipeline all over the world yet. Hebrews 13 verse 4 is very very clear. Marriage is honorable in all and the bed. Undefiled. But whoremongers and adulterers God will judge according to this scripture according to the Song of Solomon.

According to many other verses like in the Old Testament be thou satisfied with the breasts of the wife of my youth. Have ever heard anyone Expound that verse, you know, we get people talking about how they preach the whole counsel of God.

Well, I haven't heard anybody on that verse yet. I guess they skip it. Why are we embarrassed about sexuality. Sexuality is a beautiful gift from God? Many of you are single, but you still have sexuality.

Some of you may be committed to to a life outside of marriage. As a single man or woman, but you still have sexuality. You're still a sexual being. You need to be shamed of that those impulses that suddenly come in the middle of the night or whenever The Word of God is so beautiful and so balanced about this.

It is my experience that often Christian married couples Have more problems than non-christian married couples when it comes to sexuality. Now a Gallup poll has just been taken in the United States. It's the most devastating Gallup poll in the history of Christianity as far as I'm concerned.

Because this Gallup poll shows that in surveys in the United States. There's basically no difference between the Christian and the non-christian. Imagine the implications of that. Now I'm challenging that I'm gonna do some letter writing.

I just can't figure that out because I know a lot of Christians and I see complete difference in their lives and I know the people that I've been close to over the years I walk in the light with. I know them and I know their lives are different.

Their marriages are different. Maybe that's just such a remnant when they take one of these polls. I don't know which people they survey. Maybe all the godly Christians are praying and don't answer the door or they're out in evangelism.

So they don't get incorporated into the Gallup poll, but it still is a devastating is a devastating thing and my experience is that sometimes Christians are having difficulty in their marriages in the area of sexuality because they think it's really unspiritual.

It's like a man who came to me in Asia about 20 years ago when the ship was in a particular country he said I've just been removed from the ministry because I committed immorality with someone in the choir and He went on to share that His wife was the most committed woman in the whole church and his wife was so winning so many souls and so much prayer.

That she never had any time for sex and she felt really they shouldn't have sex. She thought sex would only take place when they backslid. It's unbelievable and she had no plan of backsliding backsliding she was totally committed.

So they never had any sex. This guy is trying to keep up with this highly dedicated wife. Eventually, he ran out of gas and committed immorality with someone in the choir as the pastor. Of course, he was in trouble and he was fired and I had the joy Sitting with her and sitting with him and showing showing them the biblical plan for sexuality.

Even that verse where it says you should not defraud one another you should not abstain from sex within marriage except for prayer and fasting. Which certainly isn't a big thing in the average family today.

Therefore the sex should be going on on schedule and praise God. Praise God. He put that couple back together some of the greatest thrills in my Christian life Has been to see God putting couples back together and to have biblical sexuality in your marriage.

You often have to work at it a lot harder than you may have expected. When the wedding bells were ringing and you felt so wonderful. I Had the joy of talking to a young couple just the other day and though they were married recently I had the joy of giving him the first Christian book that really lays it out the way it is now.

I know some people are upset with these books by Tim LaHaye and this guy wheat and now there's another book intended for pleasure or Restoring the pleasure, but I personally believe for married people.