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To: HiTech RedNeck

I hope it isn’t ever legalized. I am weak when it comes to the sins of the flesh. I know this so I avoid situations where I could be tempted because I love my wife and family. However, if it was legal and brothels around my neighborhood? I don’t want that kind of temptation.


41 posted on 05/14/2018 7:30:34 PM PDT by OIFVeteran
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To: OIFVeteran
Good for you. We're all weak, but not all want to admit it.

I avoid situations where I could be tempted

You might enjoy this true story:

Many pastors were in Philadelphia for a multi-day conference, with their evenings free. As the afternoon session ended and they moseyed out to the lobby, one said to another, "The Cardinals are playing the Phillies tonight. Wanna go?"

Before the other could even reply, another pastor who had overheard the question erupted: "You're going to a BASEBALL game? Pastors?! How can you even call yourselves Christians?"

Astonished, the two innocents questioned their interrogator, and they discovered he had once had a baseball obsession that nearly cost him his pastorate and his family--so now he avoided it at any cost and strongly discouraged others.

Of course, they calmed him down and 'splained things to him, and then they each grabbed dinner: hot dogs at the ballpark. And the third continued, like you, avoiding tempting situations.

45 posted on 05/14/2018 9:15:38 PM PDT by Hebrews 11:6 (Do you REALLY believe that (1) God IS, and (2) God IS GOOD?)
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To: OIFVeteran

A fixed house of ill repute isn’t the only way to cheat. It’s as close as Craigslist. I’d call a cat house an evangelization target.


46 posted on 05/14/2018 9:17:00 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
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To: OIFVeteran

I mean I as HTRN. Not you. Everybody who is in the Lord has to know what orbits of life are of profitable service.


48 posted on 05/14/2018 9:26:09 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
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