Guard My Eyes | Girls Gone Bible

Okay, is that how you do it? Okay. No, Ariel, you guys can tell she's not chronically online. Okay, what is that? It's just like, you just clock it. It's just like. Why are you kissing? I'm Ari. Why are you kissing all day today? All right guys, hi, I'm Ange. And I'm Ari. And this is Girls Gone Bible. And we are a faith-based podcast where we talk all things spirituality, mental health, and Bible. We're so happy to be here. We love you guys so much. Thank you to all of our writers, day ones, who've been with us from the very beginning. You do that, you do the lip thing. Yeah, seriously? Thank you, we can love you. I love you guys. I love you guys so much. And I love, more than anything, like the humor between us and you guys. First of all, Gigi Beying is the funniest. We send each other memes all day. I love all of them. Oh yeah. Oh yeah, we do. There was a girl that, a sweet, sweet girl, and Ari meant to send me a video, a reel of one of those like large women jumping into the pool and she sends it to like a Gigi Beying audience. And then like girl, and the girl texted and messaged it to me and said, LOL, Ari didn't mean to send me this. But I'm so happy she did it. And I'm like, Ari did. I was a lady diving off like a cliff. And I'm like, Ari like floating. I'm like, you can't be accidentally sending things to the wrong people. I love how everyone's timeline is AI now. I am so sorry. I am so sorry. Okay, and I have another internet fiasco. I'm friggin, I got a red light ticket. Yeah, what's up with that? I have to go to court. Oh, I'm going to jail. Do you understand? I got a, I know, I got something. Yeah, I think it was like a red light ticket too. We're both going to friggin jail. You would have thought I slaughtered a man. I was bawling my eyes out in the courtroom. I was on the phone with my mom. I'm like, mom, it's done. Like it is done. She's like, you're friggin. All I had to pay was $65. I didn't even have to. Is that how you were going to jail? I think I'm going to jail. Well, I'm not going to go. Where is terrifying? Ari and I grew up going to court. We had to be in court a lot. That's a different, that's a story for another day, guys. We, can I be, okay, that's a story for another day. That's for GGB plus. No, we should talk about our court stories. Can I be honest? Ari and I have had to go to court together for a family member. So we'll just leave it at that. No one will ever understand. No one will ever. No one will ever know us praying in tongues in court. Like just like, you guys don't know what we've been through. It's too much. It's too, we honestly, if we had a show, I can't even, well, if I'm being honest, I think that might be next. Can you imagine? You know what I want to do so bad guys? We, I actually asked our team and then Ari got mad at me. I want to go on like one of those survivor shows. So bad. Can you guys imagine me going on a survivor show? Imagine you and me together. You would put me through how? Well, cause I'm not going to let us lose. Screaming at me. Let's go Ari. Ari, I'll come on. I'm putting my liner on. I would be putting on, I know they would take our lip liner away. We know concealer. She wanted to go on the military show. What's that called? Can you imagine us crawling through tunnels? I would have the time of my life. I know you would. I know you would. What does that say about me? I'd be friggin trying to find an extension court to dice in my bangs. I know, but I'm the same. I would also want to dice in my bangs, but then I'd also want to go hard. I know you would. Just tell everyone though. Just why don't you tell everyone how, you know, I don't lose a game. What game? You know that we've played games of bachelorats and I'm very competitive and I win. Help them. Yeah, she is, oh, Ari's actually very competitive and she wins games. What else? She's also gorgeous and. I will get out of your resume. She's actually amazing and she's also. I said that I might go sit in a Catholic church and find a Catholic man. I think your husband's Catholic. I think he is too, honestly. I think he is too. You'd love a nice Catholic in a suit and like. Can't you see it? I see a Catholic in a suit. He's got a rosary in the pocket. Like always he's like. Brain him. He's not even brain him. Brain him. I see it for you. I do. I know. What's he look like? I don't know, Ari. I don't want to play this game. Absolutely. So you've been making me play this game for three years. Tell them the story about when I was manic and depressed. I thought she was a psychic. She thought I was psychic. So when we first met and I told her like, I hear from God, you can hear from everybody hears from God. She took that as I was psychic. And so she wanted me to like get the crystal ball out. And ever since then she's even been asking me what her husband look like. And I don't know. You're just like so desperate and you're like going out of your mind. You need dancers. Yeah. You'll call us psychic. Cause I did. I was like, how could I? I broke those curses though. You did, didn't you? You did full deliverance. I did. No. No. I said, when they, when the, my friend did deliverance on me, I said, I honestly, this was like dead serious. I was like, I might start throwing up green and like my head might, I might start calling up your walls. My head's been, That is so. What does that movie called? The, uh, I don't know. Those are awful. Awful. Awful. You are so creepy, man. What? Oh, this is the best you know. You are so creepy. So Ari and I, you guys remember that one episode where Ari goes, you're so creepy, man. Ari and I started saying that all the time, like to anything, anybody, oh, you're so creepy, man. Like we don't actually mean it. We're just saying it. And we're on tour. This is like a thing. You're so creepy, man. And we're on tour. And our poor tour manager, what he puts up with us, I wish you guys could be on a fly on the wall. We put him through hell. We put him, I mean, we are nightmares, not like divas, just like we can't, we don't know what's going on. We don't have our heads on our neck, you know that. And especially if we know somebody else that's responsible is involved, I mean, it's all. It's all, like if we know someone else is responsible. Yeah, we really don't use my brain. Because if they're not, then I know I have to like step up. That's what it is. Yeah. And then, yeah. And so Chris, our tour manager is texting us what we want for lunch for Suicri. For no reason, TxTan. And I go, you're so creepy. And he thought you were serious. He's like very A type in literal. And so he obviously doesn't hear it in the accent. He just reads, you are so creepy. And he texts back and goes, I'm so creepy. He just asks for your sweet green one. You're so creepy, man. There is nothing you can do about that. Can we make that with our new merch? You're so creepy, man. Yeah, that and my mugshot of the red light ticket. Yeah, on the mugshot I took of you today. Okay guys, we are playing heads up friggin Bible edition Let's go. Old Testament women, no, let's do Jesus. Or do you want to do David? Cause you love David. Well, I do love David, but I'm really into Paul right now. So. Oh shoot. Oh gosh. Paul's my favorite. Paul's your favorite. Okay. I'm just, I love Paul. Scared. David. I am scared. Nervous. It doesn't work out. Doubtful. Doubting Thomas. It's a word. What, I don't know if this is going to work. Waiting season. Will it happen? I don't know. Are we okay? Warray. Oh man. You are a. Angel. Oh gosh, I'm so embarrassed. Is that not what you were saying? Shoot. Okay. That's not what I meant. Okay. You are a. I don't know what to say. Genius. I don't know what happened. Shoot. Star. Star. Okay. What's going on? Can't with you. Brilliant. Angel. Okay. I'm, I'm, I'm going to not eat and. I'm not going to starve. Fast. Yes. To my feet. He is a. Lamp unto my feet. Yeah. Jesus Christ is my. Lord and savior. Yeah. You were once this. That could be a lot of things. You were once, uh, you judgey. Gossip. Farsi. I was a Farsi. Wow. Oh man. That was so good. Oh, she is a. Good girl. Good. At the well. Woman. The woman at the well. What was she? She was a good Samaritan. Yes. Good. What did they do to Jesus? Crucified him. Christ crucified. They nailed him to a cross. Look, look. They put him in bondage. Look. Yeah. They tied his hands. What did they do? Hand cuffs. I'm going in the car. The cop car. All right. That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it. That was so good. Okay. You're good. Oh, oh, oh. Um, ah, you, you reap what you. So. But it's a person that. So yeah. Yes. You got it. Oh, Jesus goes out onto this thing and it's on the water because they want to do this. They want to fish. Yeah. But it's a blank. The first word, second word, the thing that they're in. A boat. Yes. Oh. Way maker, miracle worker, promise keeper. That word. Okay. Okay. But that word. Blank keeper. Promise keeper. Okay. Oh, make me a miracle. Make me a miracle. Mary of, she poured the oil on Jesus's feet. Alabaster jar. Mary of, it's a place. Mary of Bethany. Make me a Bethany. Okay. Let's go. Um, oh. Wait, why am I forgetting his name? That's it. Matthew. What was his job? Money. Matthew. Tax collector. Yes. Yeah. Come on, come on. Oh, he nailed them to a cross. What is that act? What is that? Sacrifice. No, when they nailed Jesus to the cross, it was Christ in Christ. Crucified. But it's the crucifixion. Sure. He did it. Oh, Jesus turned blank into blank. He watered into wine. Yes, girl. That snake. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yes, yeah. Oh, I have so much. A buffet. 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That's a really good thing. I see one little something, something, and I'm like, oh, that does not feel good. That makes me feel something so quickly. And I think the further away you get from sin and from darkness and from just like anything that doesn't glorify Jesus, you become so sensitive to it. I never want to be desensitized to the things that I see. Because yeah, I've just seen such a major transformation in my life when I really took it seriously that I don't want to see anything dirty. I don't want to see anything weird. I don't want to see anything, even not even like anything necessarily sinful, but being on social media is really detrimental because it's like you fill your mind with scripture. You fill your mind with the things of God and then you get on Instagram two seconds later and you're sent completely opposite messaging. Do you know I was on social media the other day and I just was like, I had a day off. So I was just like scrolling for about an hour and I got off it and I felt so sick. Like I didn't feel good. Isn't that crazy? I believe at 100%. That's how I feel. And I've been on social media. I told you guys I took that fast and it was amazing. And then I get back on social media, like I said, just like I never left. And it's the hardest thing to balance, especially for us. Like our job is on social media. We're supposed to be on there. And it's so detrimental. So obviously it's not completely avoidable, but I think awareness is key. Awareness to how easily we're influenced and manipulated. And I have a little story before we get into scripture. You guys know I'm on like a journey with body image and food and just like a lot of, you know, disordered eating stuff. And I have, I'm like in shock, blown away by the improvement that I've made in relationship to my body. And I'm so grateful to Jesus. It's crazy. I've made so much improvement. And I like never thought that I'd have breakthrough. I have such a healthier relationship to my body. And that's not obviously to say it's perfect, but I definitely don't fiend for thinness like I used to. Or yeah, just put such an emphasis on that. Like I feel so much freedom in my body. I feel so much freedom with food. It's crazy. I still have like safe foods, not even safe foods anymore. I just, I'm plain and I like what I like, but I will eat things that I wouldn't have eaten before. I've got, I don't think about food the way that I used to. It doesn't, I never feel stressed out. I never feel like, oh man, was that bad? What I just ate, should I not eat? Like I have just food freedom. And freedom doesn't mean that you just eat like necessarily whatever you want. It just is that I don't think about it. It's not something that hangs over me that I worry about. You know what I mean? I know this isn't part of the episode, but I wanna ask you for some people that are struggling with eating disorder, what have you done? Like what are the steps and stuff? Yeah, I'll tell you the one thing that I've done other than fast or not fasting, other than praying and bringing it to Jesus every day. I've spent a long time praying over my body every day, laying hands on myself. And I think I've said this before, but just blessing my body to eat and to receive nutrients and like to enjoy food and praying over my mind, praying over my stomach, just like praying over those neuro pathways that have been so manipulated all these years. And just praying, praying, praying, and don't stop praying. And even if you feel like nothing is changing, you keep praying because I promise you, your prayers are working. And even the intention of praying that there would be a shift in your mentality towards food, I believe is like you coming into agreement with that reality and it does something to your brain. You know? I've been doing that with my mind. Let's go. Every morning, I will literally physically put my hands over my head and pray over my mind. And it's even, you're coming into agreement that this is the reality that I wanna live in. That's so good. So what were you saying? And so obviously praying, accountability, having people help me like, you know, and call me out if they're like, everything okay? Like, but the one thing that my friend Johnny put me on, that I'm so like, so grateful to him for this is, he encouraged me to track my protein. I think I've said this before, but to track my protein and eat my body weight in protein every single day. And for me, I could not, I can't believe the impact that it's had on my life that just hitting 120 grams of protein a day, I thought I was doing it because my body needed that food and it needed those nutrients, which it did, but I had no idea the psychological effect that it would have on my brain to switch from always thinking about how can I eat less today? Cause that was always my mentality. How can I like portion my meals and spread them out to where I can eat as little as possible to get through the day. And then I shift to how, oh my gosh, it's 3 p.m. and I've only had 40 grams of protein. I have to eat. I have to eat. No, no, just you track it yourself. You see the nutritional facts, like a piece of chicken is whatever, however many grams. So you track it throughout the day. And now that I've been doing it so long, I don't need to track it because I know I can, I can tell now, but again, going from how can I make sure I eat as little as possible to switching completely and having a goal to eat more because I would realize every day, oh my gosh, I still haven't hit my goal. I need to eat more by the end of the day. I'm like, oh God, I get in another 40 grams. So that mental switch of eating less to hitting a goal to eat more has been astronomical. It's changed everything. It is so simple. It's one little practice that you track your protein and you hit your goal, which is your body weight in protein. I'm not a doctor. I don't figure know what other people should be eating. This is what worked for me. But it's that one little switch. So it's like, it's all mental. Everything is so mental. And so that is how I have gained so much freedom. And yeah, like truly giving it to Jesus that I don't have to look like anything except what I look like. And asking God to put love in my heart for that and heal those. Anyway, so this is what I was gonna say. So I am off of social media and I come to such a good place with my body. Just like, I'm like, I love my curves. I love my body. I love what I look like. It might not be like perfect 24 hours a day, seven days a week, but it's my body. And it doesn't, I finally got to a place where I was like, it doesn't need to look like anything. Like you could just look like what it is. I exercise, I eat well. I don't need to think about it more than that. I'm not a model. I'm not a freaking bikini model that needs to show my, you know what I mean? There's no reason why I need to look a certain way other than how I look. Whoever I marry one day is not gonna be like, oh yeah, you have a six pack. So I finally got to a place where I was like, okay, I don't need to look like anything except what I look like. There's no goal to reach. I don't have to be so sickly thin. And my body can't look like that anyways. That's not my body. So you have to accept your body like you do. If your body looks a certain way, you have to accept it. I get to such a good place. And I just remember this being such a specific moment for me. I get to such a good place. And I go on social media and I see one girl who is so thin and she's like a model. And that's probably what this girl looks like. That's probably her natural weight. Like she should look like that, you know, or not. Maybe, I don't know, but there are girls who are very thin who should look like that because that's their body. I look at that and all of a sudden immediately my mind is flooded with I need to starve. I need to be thin. I need to look like that. I wanna have separation in my arms. I wanna have my ribs showing. Immediately I was actively aware of what was taking place in my mind where I was like, I don't feel this way anymore. I love my body. I genuinely do. But seeing one girl who looked away that I used to think that I should look immediately brought me back to that place. And it made me realize this was my first thought because I'm able to control. If I feed my mind that stuff too much, I will go back to that. And I do sometimes. However, I have enough awareness to be like, I don't wanna live that life. So I can balance it and I'm careful. I immediately thought about a man or a woman who goes on social media and sees a girl or a guy in an outfit or doing something or in a pose that is like provoked something in them and how easily imagine a man who hasn't masturbated, hasn't watched porn, hasn't seen anything immediately goes like, like the temptation that you face and how easy it is to go to a place in your mind that you don't wanna go to. This is why we're talking about this today because guarding your eyes is absolutely everything. I know. I know. I know. I think about how much I had to change my life. Not because I had to. It just naturally like I couldn't watch certain things anymore. Like I love that you said that because it's true. It's just, your appetite really does change. Yeah, I think for me, you know, I don't know. You think because I'm single, I wouldn't struggle with this. Yeah. But, I do struggle with loss sometimes. I do. And so, yeah, I just really have to, I really watch what I watch on TV. I really watch what I listen to. I really try to guard my eyes. I mean, I remember a couple of times a friend had put on the show and, yeah, I just, I can't do it. It does. It makes you feel really lost fall. Like certain things will make you feel really lost fall. And you just, I don't know. I just, I want to be as holy as possible. I do. I think it's the most beautiful thing. And I want to live a really holy life. And I want to honor God behind the scenes. And I know how fruitful it is and how good I feel when I don't live like the world does. I love that you say, like honor him behind the scenes. What we do in secret is just the most important thing. What we do in private, how we protect ourselves in private when nobody's watching. It's not about what anybody else thinks. It's not about other people thinking you're holy. I think a lot of Christianity can be performative at times where you want other people to think that you are holy or pure or blah, blah, blah. But you, we should all get to a point where what we do in private is so much more important than what we do in public. Like I want to be someone who genuinely does the right thing when nobody's watching. You know? Me too. You are. You are too. No, you. No, you. No, seriously. Yeah, I think I've, yeah, I, it's, it's, again, like it's, it's, it's, it's so hot living in the world. Yeah. Talk about it. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, everything that we see is crazy. Every movie, I mean, I can't even freaking watch TV anymore. You can't watch anything because the messaging is so dark. And like, guys, I can't watch a freaking kissing scene. I can't do it. Like I literally can't, I can't do it. I can't see people kiss on Instagram. I can't see people kiss anywhere. I don't want to see it. Matthew six verse six is then your father who sees what is done in secret will reward you. And I will tell you when I resist those temptations of living like the world and really guarding my eyes and all of those things, I feel so rewarded. Yeah. Like it feels good. You know, like when, when God says I'll turn beauty from ashes. It's true. Like people think we're crazy. Like us crazy Christians. Like, we can't do this. You can't, like, no, he really does make beauty from ashes. He knows what you saw and lived for. When you lived of the world. It you know, it's, it's like for me. I remember being like, how am I going to let all this stuff go? Like I've been living this way my whole life. And now I look back and I'm like, how could I, how did I ever live like that before? How did I ever watch that and listen to that stuff? How did I, how did I live like that? How did I go to these places? How did I talk like that? Like things that that's another thing you need to guard. Like the way you talk, the way you speak, like we have to, yeah, and just, it's just the closer you get to Jesus, the more that stuff just becomes gross to you. And there's been times where I've fallen back and I've watched certain things and I, you know, get a little crazy with the music, but, yeah, I think as, it's, I think I, I don't know, but it's hard as a human being not to feel lustful at times and not to have thoughts. And so I have to guard my mind extra, you know? A hundred percent. I mean, dog, look at David Bathsheba. No, seriously, I'm being serious. David, sweet David, saw Bathsheba bathing and homeboy gave up every, like he threw it all out the window because of what his eyes saw. I don't want to see nothing that puts me in a position like that and seriously, I know we're kidding, but like, and it's not even just about lust. It's about anything. It's about anything comparison. You're on social media and you're looking at things and you're looking at their life, their relationship, their job, their house and, and then jealousy comes up and covetedness. Covenantness? Yes, thank you, Ari. No, seriously. And all this stuff comes up and you start comparing yourself and you're tempted to compare and you're tempted to covet and you're tempted to do all these things because of what you're seeing. And like, you can't live in fear. You can't live, but to be aware that like, at any moment, the things that I'm seeing and the things that I'm watching are going to make me feel something that might not necessarily be the best thing. And it might not even be something sinful. You see somebody else on Instagram gain a massive accomplishment or do a big thing or get the thing that you've always wanted and you got to watch your heart because you can so quickly be tempted to be jealous or be competitive or be compare is compare. Yeah, it just like, you just be aware. You just be a so, so aware. And even what I said about the eating disorder, like imagine how quickly I was feeling so good, so solid. And just seeing one thing threw me off track really quickly. And I was like, that was crazy. I see, like I said, can't see anybody kissing. Like I literally can't see. Oh, this is. Can I see anyone kissing? I don't know. And this is another thing too. I think this is what obviously like modesty has been a journey and we've, yeah, like when we started Girls Gone Bible, there was pick like ways in which we posted and dressed and all the things that were not honoring to God. And it's been the biggest blessing of our lives to walk this journey of like truly honoring God with everything we are, everything we wear, everything we post. And I think I always do like a double triple check when I'm posting on Instagram because I think I hit a point at one point. I remember when I first started walking with Jesus and I heard like, you don't wanna make a brother stumble. Right, we all are like, but it's their responsibility. It's there, like they should be able to control themselves. Which yes, that's not absolving them of the responsibility of controlling themselves and not lusting over a woman. However, God makes it so clear to not make a brother stumble. I think about like when I post on Instagram, like the idea of like genuinely making a brother stumble is so sad. And I know that might sound weird, but like making a guy feel something that dishonors God and being a part of that is so sad to me. And so like, I even think about women. I never want a woman to be afraid of her husband like going to my Instagram page. I know, I know. Because I know that like men are so susceptible to, like they can't, they should not see things that they shouldn't be seeing. Does that make sense? So it's just, it's so imperative that we're so careful with what we watch, what we see here at Gates Eye Gates. Yeah, like I said, we wanna do, we wanna honor God behind the scene. This show is brought to you by BetterHelp. All right guys, let's talk about this season for a second. The days get shorter, it gets dark at like 4 p.m. like it is right now. And suddenly everyone's mood is matching the sky. A little gray, a little quiet, a little black. And it's always around this time that we realize we need each other. I mean, we always do. We need each other. 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So guys, if anybody is making you feel stupid because I know how that's a whole other thing by the way. When you come from the world and you have a bunch of worldly friends and then you start following Jesus and they're kinda making fun of you and saying, Oh gosh, you're so dramatic. You're such a Christian. Yeah. I think I probably did that to you a couple of times. I am so good at it. I am so good at it. But you know, he called us not to be like the world. Preach. He called us not to be like the world. It's just living a life empowered by the spirit. You don't have to be like nervous. You don't have to be scared. Truly you have not been given a spirit of fear but of power of love and of a sound mind. The spirit empowers you, fills you with love and then gives you a sound mind to where you don't have to be afraid because the Holy Spirit inside you leads you to the places you should go and away from the things that you shouldn't be engaging in. And like, I just think, like you said, holiness, purity for the love of God. If you are a GGB gang member, you guys, being pure is the coolest thing in the world. It truly is. Like you should have a value for purity that is so, so high and more important than anything in your life. Purity and what you see, what you put your hands to and in your heart, the motives of your heart. Like to be, to pursue a life of purity and a life of holiness is not only the call of God on our lives, but it's the best and it's beautiful and to feel clean, to feel like you are glorifying God, to feel like you are turning away from things, even if they're not a big deal, it's just, it feels so good every time I make a decision to be like, that's probably not best for me. I actually don't need to see that. I don't wanna, I've been on social media for too long. I think I'm gonna get off. It's just so empowering. Well, do you know what it does? Like when God says the pure in heart will see God. Exactly. When you are living and just holiness, whenever I'm really guarding my eyes and I'm living in that, living purely, the way I can hear God, the way I can see God, the way I can, it's insane. Like the way I can, there's a closeness you have to Him when you're walking in true holiness. It is so true. It is so true. You are absolutely right. Something, Kulianos always says, he's like, purify the eyes of our soul so that Jesus would be our greatest vision. Like we see with our eyes and then we see with our spiritual eyes. Our physical eyes need to be pure and our spiritual eyes need to be pure and they're connected. They're so connected. I want to see Jesus above everything else and I know that impurity dilutes my vision of Him. I can't see Him. I'm like, if we're sitting here, taking on, numbing out on social media, digesting all this stuff, like this nasty stuff on television, music, all these music, like degrading, all this stuff, how can we be pure in heart and really see God and hear God? You can't. I remind myself of that when I'm numbing out, looking at just weird stuff on TV. Like big women. Oh Lord, I'm like, no, but that's, can I be honest? You can't say that. No, but I'm serious. They're not real people, are they? No, but one thing, no, listen. Yeah, listen. Hold me to this. Okay. I want to study scripture. We should be studying scripture more than we're scrolling on the phone. It's okay sometimes to just like, wanna scroll. Let's try to study scripture and be in the Bible more than more on our phones. What's the scripture you got? I just wanted to read this little part from Job. All right, you love Job. You know I love Job. I told, you love Job. I at the end of Job, he said. Ari goes through Aaron. Well, I do it too. I'm sitting here talking about Saul and David for the past three months. I love this moment in Job 31. I love the idea of setting boundaries. Setting boundaries are beautiful. Boundaries for purity, boundaries for what you see, boundaries for the way you engage in social media. So important. And what I think is so important for everybody is to decide what type of life you wanna live and what type of things you wanna engage in, what type of videos, movies, things you wanna see. Like truly, setting a boundary means making a decision that this isn't good for me and I don't need this. Job 31 verse one. I made a covenant with my eyes not to look lustfully at a young woman. And I love this so much because Job sets a boundary to be proactive in resisting temptation. So he sets the boundary before the young woman ever comes. He doesn't wait until it happens that he's faced with the temptation. He decides beforehand, like I know who I wanna be. I know what type of things I wanna engage in and this is a boundary that I'm setting. And I wrote down that it was about purity and self-discipline. Those are my two favorite words, purity and self-discipline. Like understanding that sin begins so often with what we look at. Like so much of what happens to us, the sin that we engage in, like the darkness that we involve ourself in begins with what we see and then we get an idea and then it's enticing. Like it's just, yeah, it sounds vague but I feel like it applies to literally every little area. I have had moments of seeing a girl who's so thin on social media and then decide that I'm gonna go on a fast. Girl, God, Jesus did not tell you to go on that fast. Liar, you know what I mean? Oh, I'm so good. I, I, I didn't get that joke. That's okay, nobody probably did. Wait, because the eating? Yeah. Because the devil told you to fast so you wouldn't eat? Yeah, yeah. Okay, yeah. Like, or I got the idea. I saw a girl that was thin and then I'm like, oh, I should fast that I, but it came from what I saw. You know what I mean? Yeah. And then I love this reflects what Jesus later teaches in Matthew 528. Anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart. Anybody who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery in his heart. So Job, way before Jesus ever teaches this, says, I will not look lustfully at a young woman. And way later, Jesus comes along and says, hey, if you look at a woman lustfully, you've already committed adultery, which I think is just so crazy in Job valued purity. He makes this covenant with God, which is a sacred promise because he values purity. And he's like, this is what matters. It matters to God, so it matters to me. That's the type of life that you're meant to live as a Christian. If it matters to God, it has to matter to me. That's how I truly base my hope. That's why scripture is the most important thing to me in the world. It is the infallible word of God. It is the most authoritative thing that we have in faith. Even Jesus submits to the word. So technically the word is above Jesus. Isn't that crazy? So God honors his word. So I'm gonna honor his word. God honors holiness. I'm gonna value it as well. I'm gonna honor and value purity as well because that's what he cares about. And so I think that is like, what a true life of being empowered by the spirit is, is that you choose to love the things that God loves. I wanna get something to help grab. Yeah. And I love this too because Job's decision wasn't about public perception. It wasn't about other people. Nobody else saw the covenant that he made with God. It wasn't that he was trying to look good to people or be righteous or any of those things. It was between him and God because he knows that God sees everything. And nothing has put the fear of God in me more than knowing that he sees everything. Can you get away with things? Yes. But no, you actually can't. Because the only person that actually matters that you're truly responsible and accountable to is God. And there's nothing that you can do that he won't see. And that's not in a fearful way. It's in a reverent way of like, I'm gonna live my life. That is the fear of God. Yes, because I love you and you're watching and you care. Every move I make matters to you. Not because you're gonna punish me and you're angry with me, but because you think so highly of me. Like God thinks highly of us. He thinks we're amazing. He thinks we are capable. He thinks by his spirit, there's nothing we can do. So it breaks his heart to see us fall short. And then we read this scripture earlier that it's Matthew 6, 22 to 23, the eyes, the lamp of the body. If your eyes are healthy, your whole body will be full of light. Oh, that's crazy. Again, the eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are healthy, your whole body will be full of light. But if your eyes are unhealthy, your whole body will be full of darkness. Doesn't it feel like that now that you're on the other side? Yes. That when you consume with all that stuff, it just feels, you don't feel good. You don't feel good. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness? And just to break it down, the eye is the lamp of the body. So what you focus on and look at determines what fills your heart and mind. Your eyes are like windows, either they let in a lighter darkness. And for some people that might be just like, oh, that is so annoying. It's so true. Like everything that you are is determined by what you take in with your eyes. And then if your eyes are healthy, which means that if you're focused on things that are pure, godly and true, your whole being will be filled with light. If you focus on the things of God, you will be a keeper of light. Your entire being will be a keeper of light so that others may find it. And then if your eyes are unhealthy, so if you fix your gaze on sin, greed, lust or envy, that darkness will fill your inner light. Pride, negativity, jealousy, lustfulness. If you're someone who's chronically negative, can we talk about that? Depression. Yes, guys. And obviously clinical mental health struggles are a different situation and we're not talking about that. But just like an overall pessimistic, cynical, negative outlook on life, where you're just looking for something to be wrong all the time. Of course your life is gonna be filled with darkness. I think I value joy so much. I value positivity so much. Jesus did not die on the cross for me to be miserable, for me to be negative, for me to look for there to be something wrong. Like you really will know them by their fruit and like being negative is just not a fruit of the spirit. And so if you're walking around and you're chronically negative and you're just living with that, something's not right. And of course. Something's not right. You've gotta make a change. You've gotta bring it to Jesus. You've gotta go to therapy. You've got to figure it out. The more negative you are, like you will always be in the pit. Yeah, let me read something. First John 2 verse 6, whoever claims to live in him must live as Jesus did. If Jesus came down in human form and lived a perfect life, sinless and holiness, that is our goal to be like Jesus. And so we are to live like Jesus. We are to live like Jesus. Yes. And so, yeah, it's not a suggestion. It's something we have to strive to do every single day. And I know that sometimes the pruning processes isn't easy. You fall and you get back up, but Jesus really is so patient and he's got so much grace and he sees you and he deals with you in processes and he loves you so much. And again, like we say this, we're so far from perfect, but it's just been the greatest. It's been the greatest honor of our life to live in impurity and holiness and to just get rid of all that junk. Get rid of it. The world looks so appetizing, but boy, we lived of it. Lived of it and we don't want you guys to make the same mistakes that we did. So get out of it. Yeah. Cut it out. And just protect your eyes, protect what you're watching. If you are like us and you came from the world and you struggle maybe with like wanting to go back to your old lifestyle or like you see people having fun and you're like, oh, I want to drink again. I want to smoke again. I want to do these things. And like you're seeing people on social media. Maybe you need to mute those people for a little while. If it's tempting you, if it's pulling you back into a place that you don't want to go. For me even, I know for me, like I don't want to see girls dressing provocatively because it could make me feel like, oh, I would love like if I could wear something like that. Yeah, no, it's true. Yeah. You start going back there a little and you're like, oh, maybe I can do that. Yeah, I mean, and of course you'll start to justify. You'll start to say, oh, was it, look at these people are doing it. It's not even that bad. Even TV shows you'll watch. You're like, oh, wait, that's fine, right? Yeah. So, and again, not to live in fear but to be empowered by the Holy Spirit. So you can start praying for yourself, Lord. Help me protect my eyes. Help me know what to convict me and help me know what I should watch, what I shouldn't watch at all times of the day. Let my eyes truly be a lamp into my soul and let my whole being be flooded with light because of what I watch. Lord, like keep me away from anything that brings darkness into my life. And that's even more of a reason to really make sure that you have mornings because it is so hard with lust, with the world, with social media, like to sit in that time in the morning and pray for that protection over my mind, protection over my eyes. It really is crucial. Yeah, so good. My favorite scripture, the peace that surpasses all understanding will guard your heart and mind in Christ Jesus. I love thinking about, and this isn't even for like temptation, but like if I'm struggling with my thoughts, if I'm struggling with anxiety or OCD, ruminating thoughts, I pray, Lord, I receive the peace of God that surpasses understanding because right now it's guarding my heart and my mind in Christ Jesus. It's beautiful. Guard my heart and mind. Like it is God's job and the delight of His life to guard our hearts and minds. We're not in this alone. We're not meant to put a barricade on our eyes. We're not meant to put a barricade on our eyes and God's like fend for yourself and you better figure it out. He is actively guarding our hearts and minds. We're in partnership with us. We also have choices we can make, but to ask Him every day, Lord, purify the eyes of my soul that I would see Jesus rightly. Purify my physical eyes so that I can see Jesus rightly and just keep me pure. Purify me. Search my heart, O Lord. Search my heart, O Lord. I love you, our love you too. We love you so much, you guys, where your auntie's in Christ. We love being your aunties in Christ. We love being your aunties. We love you guys so much. May the Lord bless you and keep you. May He make His face shine upon you and be gracious to you. May He turn His face towards you and give you peace. We love you. Shalom, shalom.