"The Purification of The Bride"

"Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear; forget also thine own people, and thy father's house." (Psalms 45:10) I can remember after I first got saved, how that I took an evaluation of all the stuff that I had in my life that needed to be removed; stuff like all the pagan things I had collected over the previous ten years of my life; some with mystic or supernatural sentiment, some that were just flat out evil, and some of which I struggled to part with, like my collection of vinyl records. It wasn't that I did not want most of these things anymore, because most of the things that I had collected had sentimental value, or were like trophies collected for reminders of certain areas of my life; but it was more a matter of purification in my life towards being joined with Jesus Christ, and how I believed God was telling me that I needed to clean house; something that we all should do periodically anyways, as we tend to collect things that do not glorify God, nor do they add purity to our lives. My biggest issue now is movies, primarily my very large collection of movies, some of which are not the kinds of things that I am proud to display, and are usually kept separate from the rest of my collection. If you have a movie collection of any sort, then you might understand what it is that I am talking about; then again, if you have a movie collection like I have, you might ask someone else to weed through your collection, because it is hard to remove everything that means more to you than it should.
Start with all the 'R' rated movies, with the exception of The Passion of The Christ and maybe Gladiator, all of those movies that are rated 'R' have either nothing which brings glory to God, nor do they purify our minds, or edify the Holy Spirit that is within us. I can watch some pretty rough stuff on my own, but as soon as I try and share the same movie with someone else, I feel shame for something that is being said, or for something that is shown; things that I hardly even notice watching the movie by myself. Basically, my point is about purification in our lives for Jesus, and how this verse speaks more about the former things than it does of people, such as family or friends. It is those pagan, worldly, and even religious practices which do not belong in our relationship with Christ that we must separate ourselves from, and bring nothing into our relationship which would be considered an idol, which is something that comes between us and God...
Today is trash day; time to clean out some worldly stuff!!! "And the evil spirit answered and said, Jesus I know, and Paul I know: but who are ye? And the man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them, and overcame them, and prevailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded. And this was known to all the Jews and Greeks also dwelling at Ephesus; and fear fell on them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was magnified. And many that believed came, and confessed, and showed their deeds. Many of them also which used curious arts brought their books together, and burned them before all men: and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver. So mightily grew the word of God and prevailed." (Acts 19:15-20)