The End (Acharyth) (Video) — Michael L. Brown

Let me just ask you one question. Let me just ask you one question. We asked this last night when we had a similar eruption. What do you, the word tells us, first Peter, that we love him without having seen him.

Some here may have had a genuine vision, but otherwise we've never seen Jesus the way we see one another. And we followed him and rejoiced in him by faith. We've experienced him in a real way, but we've never seen him.

And we've talked about his return, but we don't have the slightest glimpse of what that moment is gonna be like. But we know among other things that there'll be a shout. And I wonder what the shout will sound like when we see Jesus.

Revival, Hunger, and the Manifestation of God's Power

Who knows when God may just break out in fresh power. Revival came suddenly and moved us into a place we haven't been before. Who knows when we break into that next level. Something struck me so plainly, and then Lendl began to talk about it.

Something struck me so plainly. It wasn't anything new, but it just was so plain to me. There was a time when we talked about seeing people running to the altar. Maybe we'd seen a glimpse of it here and there.

Now it's so commonplace. We can be in an auditorium, Steve, where someone can preach, and we can see thousands of people and hundreds running, and we rejoice that it touches our heart every time, but it's no surprise.

If we didn't see it, we'd be surprised. When we hear about people during the summer running in, wearing shorts, and they come running to the altar, and they get carpet burned as they run and skid in on their knees.

You know, one of the young men that was baptized tonight, I was especially excited to hear it because he got, remember he said he didn't plan on being here. He went to a basketball court to buy drugs and instead ran into students from the school of ministry.

It's us! Well, you know, we talked about some of these things and knew that these kind of things would happen with regularity and seasons of revival, and we're seeing it, but there's so much else that, listen, let's just be honest.

We're just not seeing. And there are too many sick people that we're praying for that are dying, and too many crippled people that we're praying for that are still, and it just struck me with such plainness, the power is not there.

But you know, in a moment of time when God arises, because there's been so much hunger and there's been so much thirst and there's been so much desperation, that when that wall of unbelief crumbles and when that power is released, we're gonna see things that'll take our breath away.

Thank you for everything you've done. We acknowledge every work of your grace, every work of your power, everyone you've saved, everyone you've healed, everyone you've delivered, but Lord, we'd be insulting you if we stopped there.

We'd be taking spiritual pennies when you're offering millions spiritually. Manifest your power, manifest your glory. Is it not written, if we believe, we will see your glory? God, we believe. Anointed worship leaders know exactly what to do at moments like this.

Send your power, send your power And wait, our hearts are hungry for you Out of this world, we've seen only small amounts of what you can do With one touch of your glory, the nations can crumble With one touch of your power, lives will be transformed Just a little time, and it's our desire, Lord It's our desire, Lord, it's our desire, Lord

We're asking for something we've never seen. We're asking for something we don't even know about. We read your word, Lord. We know that you're a God that's able. We're so tired of seeing the church profess what they don't possess.

We're so tired of doing it ourselves, Lord. So we just pour our heart out and we just tear our robe. We wait on you, Lord. Show your power. The world will know you are God. Move into every church in our nation.

Every church across the nations, Lord. Those that are dead and dry and so full of everything but you. Break religion, Lord. And let the true fiery believers rise to the top, Lord. Show your power.

Lord Jesus, Jesus. I want everyone here just to close your eyes, whether you know the Lord, whether somebody brought you in here tonight and you don't even know why you're here. Won't hurt you to pray these words.

And if what we're saying is real and we know it is, then God's gonna hear you. Just close your eyes right where you are. Just say this out loud. Heavenly Father, you know me. You know where I live. You know who I am.

Make yourself real to me tonight. Touch me. Speak to me. Change me. In the name of Jesus. Amen. Amen. Thank you, Lord. You can be seated. Blessed be your name, Lord Jesus. I found out I had a flight to Minnesota last Sunday, seven in the morning and talked to my assistant, Scott.

I said, we gotta change the tickets. I wanna leave later. And he was about to do it. I said, just forget it, leave it. And I got on that plane and was flying out. Then the next flight from Atlanta, Pastor Kerry Robertson actually believes that if you're a Christian and you die in Pensacola, you go to heaven by way of Atlanta.

Well, anyway. I got on the next flight and a man sat next to me, turned out to be just 26 years old. He had a colleague behind him and I thought, well, why don't I switch seats so he can sit next to his colleague?

And I thought, well, maybe he wants the window seat. I'll just leave it. Then another woman came on, began talking with him, another colleague. And I thought, why don't I offer to switch seats with her so he can talk?

And I thought, no, I'll just stay there. Turns out he was on his way from Baton Rouge through Cincinnati to Minnesota when last minute they wheel off the flight attendant. She's suddenly been stricken with appendicitis.

They wheel her off in a stretcher. And they say, we don't have sufficient flight crew for this. We're gonna have to reroute you through Atlanta. And last minute, he ends up on my plane. And about 2 3rds through the flight, he's watching me right at my computer.

And he says, are you an author? I said, yes. Asked me, you know, is it religious, spiritual stuff? Yeah. And he said, you know, the last nine, 10 months, he said, and I fly a lot, and this is not your normal flight conversation, trust me.

He said, you know, the last nine, 10 months, he said, I've been trying to find God. And he said, I don't know if this is a right question to ask, he said, but, he said, could you tell me how to find God?

Evangelism and the Call to Salvation

Well, we talked for about 45 minutes, and I didn't feel just to pray with him. I wanted things to go even deeper. I wanted him to understand more. I talked to him about sin and need for salvation and why it only comes through Jesus.

And he got off the plane. I got his card with his pager number. I said, listen, I'll give you the details where I'm preaching tonight. We paged him. He called back. He said, listen, I'm tied up tonight.

I've got work to do. I'll see if I can make it out tomorrow night. Instead, Sunday night, there he is. He said, I changed my schedule to be here. And he was raised Catholic and dragged to church, and just like a man talked about being hurt by the Southern Baptist Church, friends, people have been hurt by every church, every name, every denomination.

And he was raised in a church that was just full of tradition, but no God. And he was at the service, and people were dancing and celebrating, and I said to him, a little different than Catholic church, huh?

And he said, yeah, but it's a good different. And the end of the night, he was on his knees with hundreds at the altar, and the college pastor from that church went over, talked to him, and next thing he's praying, next thing, tears streaming down his cheeks, and he comes up to me afterwards, just hugging me.

He said, I never dreamed. I had no idea. And the next night, without us calling him or anything, there he was the next night in the service. And you know the neat thing is, Jesus is working, the Holy Spirit is working all over the place.

I know there are plenty of places where there's resistance, but that was just God's reminder. His Spirit's working, His Spirit's moving everywhere. I called Nancy on the phone, I said, if this guy doesn't come to Jesus, there's something the matter with me.

I mean, if a fish comes to you with an open mouth and says, do you know what a hook looks like? I mean, hallelujah, the Lord is good. Steve Hill with Pastor Kerry Robertson and Bill Ansara, our worship leader at the school, our music director, and Lisa Ansara, who works in the music department here.

They're just getting back from New Zealand, but we've gotten wonderful reports about the moving of God there. And in fact, I was just told by the daughter of the pastor who coordinated the event, not only were altars filled with people getting right with God and crowds grew, but one day they had a question and answer session, and Pastor Kerry Robertson was there, and they said to him, someone asked him, and said, well, we've heard about the cost of revival, the price of revival, what about the fruit?

And before he could answer, he just began to weep, and the Spirit just broke out. They had to cancel their meetings through the afternoon. The Spirit just fell in power. God's moving in New Zealand, God's moving in Minnesota, God's moving in Pensacola, God can move wherever you live.

Amen? God can move wherever you live. We're so glad that you're here. Let me just find out again, how many are visiting with us? This is your first week visiting the revival. Why don't you just stand, if this is your first week visiting the revival.

God bless you. Let me ask this, how many of you came to the revival this week from outside the United States? Would you raise your hands? If you came from outside the United States, remain standing, okay?

If you came from outside the United States to be with us, okay, great. Well, bless you folks, we're thrilled that you're here. Welcome all the Americans that are here. Let me encourage you to get everything you possibly can while you're here to open your heart to God, not to be in any hurry.

If you're not leaving tomorrow morning, then by all means, join us in the Family Life Center at 11 o 'clock. There's a message that, a theme that I've come to hundreds of times in study and prayer and preached on it many times through the Word about the fire of God.

Fire is an awesome subject in the Word, and Rod Lashbrook, who works with you, just sharing about the work going on among the Faiyue people in Erie and Jai, and Klaus is a real hero to me, to many of us.

He's labored sacrificially for more than two decades in conditions, I don't know how dark, dark gets when you're out at the end of the earth by yourself sometimes, but the Lord's faithfully blessed our brother, and I just want us to pray for Klaus and his wife, Doris.

In fact, if we could just have, we've got a couple of faculty members standing there, Bert and Ron and Sonny and our pastoral staff. If you could just, Klaus, just raise your hand so folks know who we're praying for.

Just stand right over there. We just want to bless you, brother. We want to hold your hands up. We want to say that you're never forgotten. Doesn't matter where you are, that we feel a sense of standing with you in the work there.

But could we pray the blessing of God down upon him? Gracious Father, Lord, you've been so faithful. You've done such an awesome work. There's so much light where there had been so much darkness. There's hope, oh God, where there had been none before.

Lord, there's a kingdom, Lord, of your people. Saved, redeemed, healed, set free. Lord, I know there's a great crown awaiting your servant. I know as he and his wife have sacrificed much. Lord, the enemies come against them with everything he's got.

And I pray for blessing. We ask for blessing. Blessing upon Klaus and Doris and their children. Everything they need, give to them. Oh, God, shower grace on them. May the years that lie ahead be brighter than anything they've known in the past.

May every burden be lifted, Father. Do a new thing in their lives. Do a new thing among the Faiyue people. Glorify Jesus in them and through them. And show your fatherly heart of concern and graciously and tenderly meeting every single need they have.

Bless them, Father, bless them. And Lord, we ask that you would speak to us and change us in the name of Jesus, amen. Amen, you can be seated, you can be seated. What I'm about to say to you, I don't say lightly.

The Aharit: Seeing the Final Consequences

But for many of you, tonight's message will be the difference between heaven and hell. The difference between life and death. And many of you have heard thousands of messages and have forgotten most of them.

Just like I have heard so many messages and could not tell you what many of them were about years later. But I tell you, you will never forget this message. My heart has been bursting with this. As I've looked out at you, sometimes it's been difficult even to back away and just to worship because of the burden of this.

Years ago, a truth opened up to me from the word that's so basic and simple and plain. And over a period of many years, there was never a theme that I preached on twice in the same way from the word, except God would bring me back to this one.

And I'd preach it in different parts of the world and I'd see somebody years later and they'd come up to me and remember this. I've been in the revival now for almost four years. Preached many Wednesday night and Thursday night services and some Saturday night services and now some Friday night services.

And in a revival service, I've not yet preached on this. It was not until I wrote my 10th book, Go and Sin No More, that I even put this in print. I have to have a special sense from God to bring this.

I never wanted to be trivialized in my own heart, in my own life, I never wanted to be common. I tell you, this has saved me from sin. And I want you to turn with me to Proverbs, the 19th chapter. I don't think it's going to take me a long time to deliver this.

Proverbs 19, verse 20, and then we'll be elsewhere in Proverbs. Before I get into this message though, I'm going to give you a Hebrew lesson. You say, a Hebrew lesson? You said this is the most important message some of us will ever hear.

Difference between life and death, a Hebrew lesson. Correct. In fact, I want all of you to begin by clearing your throat. And I want you to repeat a word after me. That word is acharit. Say it again, acharit.

Here's your little Hebrew lesson. In Hebrew and Arabic and the other related languages called the Semitic languages, sometimes prepositions, sometimes words having to do with the order of things or direction, they come from parts of the body.

For example, if I want to talk about someone being right next to me in Hebrew, I say they're by the hand. They're right next, they're by the hand. When I'm standing in front of someone, I am literally to the face.

I'm facing that person, to the face. When I want to talk about something that's on top, the top of a mountain, I talk about the head of the mountain. And because this is on top, this comes first. Words for first, words for beginning come from the Hebrew word for head.

The word acharit is related to the Hebrew word for back. And it literally refers to that which comes after. This is the principle. From your vantage point, looking on at me, you cannot see my back. Everyone in front of me, looking at me, you cannot see my back.

Here I've got a suit on. Everything looks fine. But if I sat on something, maybe I sat on wet paint and the back of my suit was completely marred. You can't see that from this angle because you cannot see the acharit.

You cannot see that which comes after. And Satan's great device that he has used to destroy countless hundreds of millions of lives is to blind you to the acharit. And your whole means of salvation and deliverance and perseverance is to never lose sight of the acharit.

That which comes after. The final consequences. The end. When the Hebrew prophet, when Isaiah spoke about in the end of days, he spoke of the acharit of days. That which comes at the end. That which comes last.

And this verse, Proverbs 19, 20, sums up the whole purpose of the book of Proverbs. And in so many ways, the whole purpose of everything God does. Listen to advice and accept instruction and in your acharit, in your final end, you will be wise.

I remember one time, after yielding to the flesh, it was a relatively minor thing, you might say. But afterwards, I was grieved in my spirit and I said to myself, if I could only remember the way I feel now, if I could remember that before I was tempted the next time, I'd never sin.

If I could remember the way I felt after sinning and hold on to that, the next time temptation came knocking at my door, I'd say no. Because I'd remember the acharit, I'd remember the final consequences.

Sexual Sin and the Warning of Proverbs

And I want you to turn with me to Proverbs five. What I'm gonna talk to you about is real life. I've had close friends of mine destroy their ministries, destroy their lives, destroy their marriages because they lost sight of the acharit.

Proverbs five. You will find more lengthy sections in the book of Proverbs dealing with sexual sin than any other specific sin. You'll find the theme of wisdom throughout. But if you're looking for one specific sin that's nailed and spoken of in particular, at length, whole chapters devoted to it, it's sexual sin.

And when Paul gives lists of sins in his epistles, he lists sexual sin first. And what we've heard confessed to more at this altar than any other sin, including from visiting pastors and ministers, is sexual sin.

Nehemiah 13 reminds us about Solomon, the one that we understand, wrote these very words that it was sexual sin that destroyed him. My son, pay attention to my wisdom. Listen well to my words of insight that you may maintain discretion and your lips may preserve knowledge.

For the lips of an adulteress drip honey and her speech is smoother than oil. She's so pretty. She makes you come alive. She's got what you need. Look at her at the front of that magazine cover. Look at her calling to you on your computer screen.

Look at your smile. Look at her smiling at you in the workplace. Her lips, her face, her curves, her figure. She's got what you need. If you'll only give yourself to her, you'll be satisfied. If you'll only go that way, that fulfillment you're longing for will come.

She's special. The lips of an adulteress drip honey and her speech is smoother than oil, but her acharit, in other words, the final consequences of associating with her, her final end, the final end of those who join with her, her lips drip honey, her speech is smoother than oil, but her acharit is bitter as gall, sharp as a double-edged sword.

Her feet go down to death, her steps lead straight to the grave. She gives no thought to the way of life. Her paths are crooked, but she knows it not. There's some stories that I've read and people I've known and their stories have impacted me and some of them I've never forgotten.

When one of our grads heard what I was preaching on tonight, I just said the word acharit, he remembered it, and he remembered this very illustration. There was a rich businessman on Long Island, married man, and I read this account in a newspaper one day while going to teach in New York City years ago.

I never forgot it. A young lady met him, offered him what he wanted sexually, meet me at such and such a place and we'll have some fun together. Here he is, a married man, here she is, young, beautiful, giving him whatever he'll want if he'll only come along.

As the story read, he met her at the location, but when he went in, instead of just her, there was a whole gang of people with her and they jumped him, beat him up, tied him up, threw him in their vehicle, and then brought him to an abandoned building in the city.

There were extra thick boards on the windows so that you couldn't hear him from the outside. And they began to beat him. They began to burn him with cigarettes. The men began to sexually abuse him to the point of injuring his organs.

They were waiting for ransom money and his wife was coming up with it, but before the money even arrived, they beat him to death. They forced him to relieve himself in a diaper. The last five days, they gave him no food.

I began to think of that picture. I began to think of this man's Aharit. If he could have only seen, if he could have only seen himself shut in that room screaming for mercy, sexually burned with cigarettes from head to toe, beaten, humiliated, abused, if he could have only seen his Aharit, I don't care what that young lady offered him.

I don't care if a thousand young ladies offered him whatever he wanted. He would have said, no, I won't touch it. But that's not the way of the devil. The devil comes with the emotion of the moment and the need of the moment.

Oh, he's just what you're looking for. You've got one opportunity to be with him. How can you say no? The lust and the passion rises. See, some of us have forgotten something about sin. Sin is tempting.

The devil knows the weakness of the flesh and sometimes we don't even need the devil to do it because we give ourselves over to the weakness of the flesh. The devil pushes people like Esau. What do you need a birthright for?

What do you need these things for the future? You're hungry now. Forget about the consequences. Forget about what's gonna happen later. Forget about the fact you'll end up in jail. Forget about the fact it'll destroy your marriage.

Forget about the pain. Forget about the sexually transmitted diseases. Forget about the unwanted pregnancy. Forget about right now you're hungry. Forget about the fact that you're a minister and you gotta preach tomorrow.

That porno's calling to you. Give yourself to the moment. Listen to the warning of Proverbs. Now then, my son, listen to me. Do not turn aside from what I say. Keep to a path far from her. Do not go near the door of her house lest you give your best strength to others in your years, to one who is cruel.

Let strangers feast on your wealth and your toil and rich in another man's house and in your acharit you will groan when your flesh and body are spent. I remember visiting someone in the hospital. I got a call from a pastor I'd just met.

He said, is there any way you can get to the hospital? There's someone there, needs ministry. I didn't even know the person. She had shacked up with a guy. Good relationship, nice guy. Not married, but that's okay.

Shacked up with this guy. Had a baby with him. Some years after that, the baby dies mysteriously. No one knows why until she comes down with AIDS and they realize what killed the baby. There she was in the hospital.

Couldn't talk. All the tubes in her mouth withered away. I just began to talk to her. She hadn't received the Lord yet in her life. I just began to talk to her. Turns out, later that night she was gone.

Later that night she entered eternity, I believe, right with God by his mercy. I began to talk to her and say, if you could have seen this, could have seen your baby dying, could have seen your own life cut short, would you have ever gone near this guy?

No. Only could have seen the Aharit. Only could have seen everything stripped away. Friends that have walked with God for years, ministers of the gospel. It takes a long time to climb up that mountain.

Takes a long time to climb up that place where people respect you. And you have a reputation for integrity and honor and trustworthiness. But you can fall from that mountain in one minute. You can open the door, open the door, open the door, open the door, and then take one step and you're through it.

In your Aharit, you will groan. If only, if only I could go back and do it over. If only I could have seen what was coming. You ever have a dream and in that dream you've committed some horrible crime or some horrible sin?

And you wake up and, thank God it was just a dream. The problem here is you wake up and it's not a dream. You wake up and there's your board sitting there, your church board, and you're confessing adultery and it's not a dream.

And there's your wife out the door and it's not a dream. God bless you brothers from New Hope Home as the Lord is restoring your lives and restoring your families. How many baptismal testimonies have we heard when people said I lost it all?

For what? For a little pleasure? For momentary satisfaction? For fleeting fulfillment? For what? To satisfy some animal desire? In your Aharit you will groan when your flesh and body are spent. You'll say how I hated discipline.

Why didn't I listen? Why didn't I listen before I went that way? I used to be free. I wasn't bound. I wasn't a slave. I was free to do the will of God. I was free to be holy. I was free to say no to wrong relationships.

I was free to say no to temptation. Why didn't I open the door to the devil? Why didn't I listen? Why didn't I go forward at the altar that night? Why didn't I completely shut the door? Let me just warn some young people here and I say this to you by the spirit.

It's not just something that I'm throwing in and it's not just percentage with several thousand people here, it fits. I say this by the push and unction of the spirit. Some of you here are playing games with the devil by leaving the door open to the possibility of a wrong relationship.

Leaving the door open to the possibility of sin if that opportunity comes and your only hope friend is to slam the door on the devil's faith and to turn the opposite way and walk away and leave it behind.

Otherwise you will go down. You will say how I hated discipline. How my heart spurned correction. Anyone that works with me knows that I'm easy going as far as people making mistakes. I make mistakes, you make mistakes.

I forget to mail this thing out, you forget to make that phone call. We make mistakes. And students can make mistakes and blow it in certain ways and we're just forgiving and loving and compassionate.

But when somebody won't receive correction, that's it. When somebody hardens their heart to loving rebuke, that's when I tremble. When somebody can't hear a word of life designed to deliver them from the snare of the enemy, pride comes up.

Or who are you to talk to me? Or because they're holding on to this and they're clutching to the sin that's going to damn them to hell. That's when it's dangerous. You'll say how I hated discipline. How my heart spurned correction.

I would not obey my teachers or listen to my instructors. I've come to the brink of utter ruin in the midst of the whole assembly. I remember meeting this family. What a tragedy. Years ago. I doubt the wife is alive anymore.

I doubt one or two of the other kids are alive anymore unless God miraculously intervened. I was preaching and brothers told me a sad story. They introduced me to the family. The husband was gone, he was dead.

Oh, he had been a preacher. He had been used by God. There are people that have been in this revival touched by God that are in backslidden conditions right now and others lost and in hell. I wish with all my heart it were not true and I hoped when we started to school that it would not happen.

Although I knew I was hoping against reality. But I hope we wouldn't get a casualty report about a grad that messed up and blew it. Someone came to me the other day with a broken heart and said, you know, so and so, one of the pioneer students in the school, one of the first 84 to graduate, you know, he's bound by sexual sin and messing up his life.

How can it be? How can it be? Here was a pastor used by God. He was even a church planter. He got discouraged. And friend, remember if the devil can't come in the front door, he'll come in the side door, the back door or window.

He may not be able to get you to go out and get drunk. Dear man, hear me and if the women are here from waterfront, hear me. Devil knows when you get out of the program, he can't just come and hit you from the front because you're strong, because you're grounded in the word.

But he also knows when the wife says, look, I'm just not ready for you right now. And when that job offer suddenly leaves and when somebody betrays you and steals some money and you're down or when you just have a fight with your spouse or when your friends reject you and you're down, that's when the devil comes knocking.

That same temptation that you said no to for the last six months, he comes knocking when you're vulnerable. This pastor got discouraged, he got down. He was in New York City. He went out and got drunk.

Next thing, he ends up at an orgy. Next thing, he ends up having sex with another man. I don't know what his background was, I don't know if he came out of that or what. Think of the humiliation, think of the shame, think of the pain, think of the grief.

Agony of heart, what did I do? Gets right with God, receives forgiveness, confesses, little by little is restored. Goes back to ministry, everything's okay. No, one night, one sin, one time, AIDS kills him, kills his wife, kills his kids.

If only he could have seen his Aharit, if he could have seen his wife and kids weeping as they lowered his casket into the ground, I don't care how discouraged he got, I don't care how hot the temptation was, I don't care how severe the pain, the rejection was, he never would have touched alcohol.

He never would have gone near those people. He would have said to his family, chain me to the bed, don't let me out of the house. If only he could have seen the Aharit. There are people, I've got friends in this room, dear co-workers, and they know some of these people, and my wife Nancy knows every one of them.

People that we worked with, people that we labored with, people that I submitted to as pastor or leader over me. Over a period of 17 years, four main men, and three out of the four destroyed their ministries through adultery.

I'll never forget the face of one of them. When I heard what was going on, I knew there were problems in his life, I had no clue it had gone that far. When I heard what had happened, and God confirmed to my heart he was guilty, and I called him, he didn't want to talk to me, so I pursued him, I went to his house, and he finally opened up.

After all, he finally opened up, he confessed, he began to cry. We went down to the basement of his house. He had this horrific look on his face, this contorted, anguished look, this agony, and as my heart was breaking for him, I was still praying a prayer, God, don't ever let me forget what he looks like.

Don't let me forget this face. Some beautiful young lady came along. He had opened the door, he had opened the door, he had played games, he had hardened his heart. He let a little sin in here and a little sin in there, a little disobedience in there, and dropped a standard here, and dropped a standard there.

Before that, he was a prey. Somebody came right along. He had his fling, he took off for a week, instead of going to praying fast, as he told us he was doing, he took off with this lady. Oh, he may have had the time of his life, he may have had more pleasure than he ever had before, and all he's got now is a mark in grief, lasting grief, that mark hanging over him.

Reproach. In your Acherit, you will groan. Hear me, friends. People have said this for centuries, it's so true. Satan shows you the bait, he doesn't show you the hook. All the advertising campaigns, all perfect plastic surgery, this, this, this, this.

Oh, if you could only have that. Oh, if you could only touch that. And it's always out there. The glitter of the moment. I remember when I worked in New York City, when I taught Korean students training for ministry in the mid -1980s.

And I'd go at lunchtime and walk over to a Christian bookstore to get some books to read as I'd take the train back. And I remember walking, and on one side of the road was this nude theater, you know, nude women advertised, and on the other side was the identical thing, except it was all men.

And I remember saying to myself, I remember saying to myself, even though the all men thing was no more in my background than it was in my background to be the next Martian president of the United, I mean, it was unrelated to my life.

I remember saying to myself, if the devil can get you in here, he can get you in there. See, once you become a slave, once you become chained, as we preached before, as we lay out in the opening chapters of Go and Sin No More, sin leads to more sin, sin leads to worse sin, and before you know it, you're doing things you never dreamed of doing.

Before you know it, there are cop cars around your house, and you're being carted off for child abuse. How did it happen? The devil blinded you to the aharit, he blinded you to the consequences. And I want you to see something, young ladies in particular, please hear me.

Purity, Modesty, and Avoiding Stumbling Blocks

Look in the sixth chapter of Proverbs, chapter six. You go home, you get on your knees, you read through all the five and six and seven in the book of Proverbs, and ask God to everlastingly burn it in your hearts and minds.