5:00 Is a spouse that is addicted to pornography ground for divorce? 8:58 What is the difference between the Day of the Lord and the Day of God? 14:32 Can we speed up the Lord's hastening referenced in 2 Peter 3:12 and Acts 1:7 verses? 22:28 What letters is Peter referring to in 2 Peter 3:15-16? 33:01 How should we think about political leaders who support things we like but have serious personal flaws? 39:03 Why did God allow the kings of Israel to have multiple wives? 45:13 Do Muslims have multiple wives so they can have children to carry out their view of the world? 52:41 What are the best Scriptures to contemplate when making big life decisions?

Why God Allows the Battle and How He Leads Us to Victory

A YouTuber with millions of followers aborts his unborn son after a Down syndrome diagnosis and draws 15,000 angry comments for it. Kevin and Danny ask the question...what is the difference between aborting a baby in the first trimester and aborting a baby in the fourth trimester? They discuss the self-worshipping roots of both abortion and pornography...as well as the coming collapse of Social Security.

Paul's argument continues to kill our pride, exposing our self-righteousness wherever it may be hiding out in our lives. Are we looking to make a good show, relying on external attributes and benefits that have been extended to us, or are we honoring God in the secret recesses of our hearts? Once properly exposed, we can lay down our pride at the feet of the Cross, and accept the glory that comes only from Christ and His power in defeating sin and death in and through the Cross on our behalf.

Looking at Matthew 5:31-32 and 19:3-9 1. Divorce v. Marriage (vv. 3-6) 2. A Command v. a Permission (vv. 7-8) 3. An Exception v. a Rule (v. 9) __ The sermon centers on Jesus' teaching in Matthew 5 and 19, emphasizing that marriage, as instituted by God from the beginning, is a sacred, lifelong union meant to reflect the covenantal love between Christ and the Church. It confronts the cultural and religious permissiveness surrounding divorce by distinguishing between God's original design—where divorce is not permitted—and the temporary, grace-based exceptions granted due to human hardness of heart. Pastor Jason underscores that while divorce is not the unpardonable sin, it remains deeply contrary to God's will, leaving lasting scars and disrupting the image of divine fidelity. Through a careful exegesis of Deuteronomy 24 and Jesus' antitheses, the sermon calls believers to uphold marriage as a covenantal, gospel-shaped reality, prioritizing reconciliation, mercy, and vigilance over convenience, urging both the married and the hurting to see marriage as a sacred picture of Christ's enduring love.

I review a sermon about fighting sexual sin.

Pastor Jason uses 2 Timothy 3:16–4:5 to frame an exposition of Matthew 5:27–30, organizing the text under four primary actions: 1. Reproving 2. Correcting 3. Instructing 4. Exhorting First, he explains that Jesus reproves "ear-tickling teaching," referencing how the religious scribes truncated the seventh commandment into a minimal, external restriction. Under this superficial teaching, people felt secure by merely refraining from the physical act, completely ignoring internal desire. Second, Jesus provides correcting truth by asserting His ultimate authority as the divine lawgiver. He clarifies that anyone looking at a woman with lust has already committed adultery in his heart, demonstrating that God's law stringently demands purity of heart rather than just outward compliance. Moving into instruction, the sermon addresses Jesus's radical commands to tear out one's right eye or cut off one's right hand if they cause one to stumble. Emphasizes that "stumbling" in this context is a severe, near-unrecoverable fall from salvation, comparing it to the temporary believers in the parable of the soils who fall away during affliction. Rather than prescribing literal self-mutilation, these extreme commands serve as figurative language highlighting the deep seriousness required to deal with the root of sin. The sermon concludes with a powerful exhortation to pursue holiness, urging believers to make no provision for the flesh, to aggressively starve and kill sin, and to rest their hope in the grace of Jesus Christ.

Introduction 1. Purity Begins with God's Design and Boundaries 2. Jesus Raises the Standard from Actions to the Heart 3. The Anatomy of Temptation and the Cycle of Sin 4. Sexual Sin Damages Spiritual Authority and Discernment 5. Cultural Deception and the Normalization of Lust 6. Grace, Repentance, and Restoration Through Christ 7. Practical Purity and Daily Surrender 8. Purity in Dating, Engagement, and Marriage 9. Purity, Consecration, and Spiritual Power 10. Purity, Spiritual Warfare, and Soul Ties Applications

We continue our reviews of sermons on, Philippians 2:12–13.