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Question 9

Chuck challenges listeners to take inventory—bitterness, wrath, anger (Eph 4), and especially internet pornography—and then urges confession to a trusted brother/sister (James 5:16); what concrete “temple-cleansing” steps would actually change your habits this month, and what excuses do you tend to hide behind when the issue is private sin?

Another way to ask: What specific steps could you take this month to clean out sins like anger, bitterness, or porn, and change your habits? What excuses do you use when the sin is private, and how could confession to a trusted believer help?

Direct Answer Chuck’s concrete temple-cleansing is: inventory your life, identify what grieves the Spirit, repent, and confess to a trusted same-sex believer for help and restoration—especially with hidden sexual sin like pornography. The transcript doesn’t list practical tools (filters, schedules), but it clearly insists confession and purification are necessary if we want more of the Spirit.

Support from Transcript:

He quotes Ephesians 4: “Do not grieve the Holy Spirit… Let all bitterness, wrath, anger… be put away.”
He urges: “take inventory of your life… What’s inside of it?… anything… grieving or insulting the Holy Spirit?”
He explicitly applies sexual immorality to today: “certainly that would apply to internet pornography.”
He instructs a process: “clean out, cleanse and rededicate your temple. Confess your sins… to a trusted brother… or… sister,” citing James 5:16.
He asks a probing question: “How can we be petitioning God for more… if we are currently grieving and insulting the Holy Spirit?”

Discussion Follow-ups Who is your “trusted brother/sister,” and when will you talk? What private-sin excuses show up for you: ‘It’s not hurting anyone,’ ‘I can handle it,’ or ‘I’ll stop later’?

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