The Christian Church – Understanding the Entrapment of Emotional and Sexual Entanglement: Cause of Immorality and How to Overcome Them – Lets Talk About Sex – Real Stories from Real Vulnerable People – Don’t Think You Are Immune – Part 4 of 15 #Discipleship #Question&Answer #Q&A #Christianity #Immorality #Trap #Entrapment #Sex #Adultery #Fornication #Relationship #Emotions #Entanglement #Purity #SexualPurity #SexualObsession #Obsession #Addiction #SexualAddiction #vulnerability #immorality #affair #security #secretary #PersonalAssistant #Marketplace #rejection #loneliness #MarriageCounselor #dating #Couples #Marriage #divorce #separation #immunity Subject – The Christian Church – Understanding the Entrapment of Emotional and Sexual Entanglement: Cause of Immorality and How to Overcome Them – Lets Talk About Sex – Real Stories from Real Vulnerable People – Don’t Think You Are Immune – Part 4 of 15 Watch this 5.26 minutes’ video of a woman who sleeps with men to safe their marriages and men signs for this on her website – interesting! OTAKADA.org content count 2,115,792 Sunday, 8th of September 2019 Blog link: https://www.otakada.org/causes-of-immorality The Christian Church – Understanding the Entrapment of Emotional and Sexual Entanglement: Cause of Immorality and How to Overcome Them – Lets Talk About Sex – Real Stories from Real Vulnerable People – Don’t Think You Are Immune – Part 4 of 15 Nuggets of Wisdom – Marriage Counselor feedback from different anonymous couples – Take notes Counselor after involvement with counselee. “We’d been married six years and bad two children when we started seminary in California. My wife concentrated on the kids; I was consumed with study, secular work, and weekend ministry We grew apart. The pattern continued in our first pastorate. She raised the children; I studied, preached, taught Bible classes, and counseled. Then a crisis threatened an end to my ministry. I was put in a vulnerable situation. At that time, I found it easier to turn to women I had counseled than to my wife.” “Christian woman after marriage ended: “My marriage ended suddenly1.1 knew I was in a vulnerable position, but I didn’t really know what that meant. 1 became emotionally dependent on a good friend. 1 know now that being vulnerable means that you have to be very careful not to depend on someone in an unhealthy way.” “Christian businessman after involvement with coworker. “Unless a person is actually out looking for an affair, I would say the biggest cause of immorality is vulnerability. The biggest obstacle in overcoming the danger of a vulnerable situation is a lack of communication with your spouse.” “Pastor after involvement with church member: “I personally have a need to be a hero. I need to be the guy with the answers, who can solve your problems—the guy who can really take care of you. That’s my messiah complex As a result, when I see someone hurting I want to fill that need. When there is a response to that action, it lays someone like me open to a real vulnerability.’ “Christian woman after broken relationship with her husband: “I was in such pain that I wanted to get relief. I did not understand how really vulnerable I was to doing something stupid. I was not on guard. 1just wanted relief from the pain of loss and loneliness.” (NOTE: The quotes are from people who were involved in part of the process that can lead to immorality. They are direct quotes, though written anonymously They stand alone, needing no explanation. Personal experience is one of the best teachers. May we all learn from these insights and never get to the point where we think we can’t fall or fail) Key verses for Today: 1 Corinthians 15:33-34 Living Bible (TLB) 33 Don’t be fooled by those who say such things. If you listen to them you will start acting like them. 34 Get some sense and quit your sinning. For to your shame I say it; some of you are not even Christians at all and have never really known God Psalm 127:3-5 Living Bible (TLB) 3 Children are a gift from God; they are his reward. 4 Children born to a young man are like sharp arrows to defend him. 5 Happy is the man who has his quiver full of them. That man shall have the help he needs when arguing with his enemies Exodus 20:14 –17 14 No adultery. 15 No stealing. 16 No lies about your neighbor. 17 No lusting after your neighbor’s house—or wife or servant or maid or ox or donkey. Don’t set your heart on anything that is your neighbor’s. Matthew 5:27-32 Message Adultery and Divorce 27-28 “You know the next commandment pretty well, too: ‘Don’t go to bed with another’s spouse.’ But don’t think you’ve preserved your virtue simply by staying out of bed. Your heart can be corrupted by lust even quicker than your body. Those leering looks you think nobody notices—they also corrupt. 29-30 “Let’s not pretend this is easier than it really is. If you want to live a morally pure life, here’s what you have to do: You have to blind your right eye the moment you catch it in a lustful leer. You have to choose to live one-eyed or else be dumped on a moral trash pile. And you have to chop off your right hand the moment you notice it raised threateningly. Better a bloody stump than your entire being discarded for good in the dump. 31-32 “Remember the Scripture that says, ‘Whoever divorces his wife, let him do it legally, giving her divorce papers and her legal rights’? Too many of you are using that as a cover for selfishness and whim, pretending to be righteous just because you are ‘legal.’ Please, no more pretending. If you divorce your wife, you’re responsible for making her an adulteress (unless she has already made herself that by sexual promiscuity). And if you marry such a divorced adulteress, you’re automatically an adulterer yourself. You can’t use legal cover to mask a moral failure. 1 Corinthians 6: 9-11 – New Living Translation 9 Don’t you realize that those who do wrong will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don’t fool yourselves.
