Subject – The Christian Church – Understanding the Entrapment of Emotional and Sexual Entanglement: Process of Immorality –Step 2 – Lets Talk About Sex – There was no sexual involvement – Part 8 of 15 Startling 6.65 minutes Statistics on Sexual immorality and sexual purity – Five Secrets to Sexual Purity – David D. Ireland, Ph.D via link This is a highlight moment from the sermon “Five Secrets to Sexual Purity” by David D. Ireland, Ph.D. Watch the full 47 minutes sermon via link on 5 Secrets to sexual purity OTAKADA.org content count 2,115, 864 Sunday, 13th of October 2019 Blog link: https://www.otakada.org/no-sexual-involvement Nuggets of Wisdom – A person is born with desires of the eyes and ears, and a liking for beautiful sights and sounds. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to immorality and lack of restriction, and any ritual principles and propriety will be abandoned. – Xun Kuang Immorality, violence, and divorce, with their accompanying sorrows, plague society worldwide. – Joseph B. Wirthlin However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue. – Wilhelm von Humboldt Without moral progress, stimulated by faith in God, immorality in all its forms will proliferate and strangle goodness and human decency. Mankind will not be able to fully express the potential nobility of the human soul unless faith in God is strengthened. – James E. Faust As a pastor, I addressed the sorts of issues I see people struggling with most and the issues talked about most directly and most frequently in the New Testament. That leads us to recurring concerns with sexual immorality, relational sins, and vices associated with the breaking of the Ten Commandments. – Kevin DeYoung Key verses for Today: 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 10:12-13 The Message (MSG) 11-12 These are all warning markers—danger!—in our history books, written down so that we don’t repeat their mistakes. Our positions in the story are parallel—they at the beginning, we at the end—and we are just as capable of messing it up as they were. Don’t be so naive and self-confident. You’re not exempt. You could fall flat on your face as easily as anyone else. Forget about self-confidence; it’s useless. Cultivate God-confidence. 13 No test or temptation that comes your way is beyond the course of what others have had to face. All you need to remember is that God will never let you down; he’ll never let you be pushed past your limit; he’ll always be there to help you come through it. 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 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. Process of Immorality – Step 2: Emotional, nonphysical involvement – “But There Was No Sexual Involvement” Read the story of Jummai and Femi Complete emotional involvement Jummai had been out of the work force for ten years. She had been working at another kind of job: that old dutiful wife and mother. But suddenly, she was faced with a situation she never imagined would happen. Her husband left her for another woman. Jummai and her husband were both Christians. They had been very active in the local church. However, because their marriage had lacked good communication, they had tried counseling. It didn’t help much, and finally, things fell apart and her husband left. The final blow was when he said he loved someone else. Jummai began putting her life back together. She had to take care of her son, and she wanted to get on with her own commitment to the Lord in spite of what had happened. One of the counselors she and her husband had consulted asked her to be his office receptionist. Femi was the head of a small Christian counseling association. He was married, had two children, and was an ordained minister. Jummai knew the other women in the office and looked forward to the job. Being receptionist allowed her to be in the centre of all the activity of the office. She loved the work and the
