Coming unto Christ is the test of fire of reality, for it makes us face the fact that our sin is our greatest problem. Every day a believer has to face the reality that original sin distorts us, present sin distracts us, and inner sin manipulates us. This distortion, distraction, and manipulation creates a distance between us and our God. We’re at war, and the sooner we realize it, the better.
Sexual suffering is accompanied by great shame, for sexual sin is intrinsically destructive: it persecutes us, imprisons us and seduces us to do its will; sexual sin will not rest until it has captured its object; when our conscience condemns us, Sometimes we try to fight, but when shame imposes isolation, we hide exactly the people and resources we need, this worries us, until Satan deceptively promises that sweet relief will come only by receiving this lustful look, clicking on the Internet link. , or turn off the lights of our rooms and hearts, embracing the like bearer of the divine image that God forbids us to embrace.
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- Sexually wounded sheep.
- Will sacrifice faithful marriages.
- Precious children.
- Fruitful ministries.
- Productive work.
- And reputations immaculate for immediate and illicit sexual pleasure.
We can sincerely pray for the release of a particular sexual sin, only to be deceived when its forgery seduces us. When we pray for the deliverance of sin through Christ’s atoning blood, it means that I know the true nature of sin, not that I no longer feel its attraction. If you want to be strong your way, God won’t answer you. God wants you to be strong in the Risen Christ.
Sexually hurt people? You and I must know deeply the following biblical realities if we are to find freedom in Christ and serve other sexually injured people:
God proves his love for us for the fact that Christ died for us, when we are still sinners (Romans 5:8). Christ’s death is personal. It’s “for us. ” If you are in Christ, your atoning love comes with the power to save you from your sin and your guilt. Sexual sin produces three things that depart from God’s love. First, his practice over time damages consciousness, making us insensitive and mute for the second place, because sexual sin develops in secret, it isolates us from God’s family. burden of sexual sin, they see Jesus, because his yoke is about the love of God. God is love and he is for you. He intercedes for you, he wants you to know his love.
As I healed my sins, my bones grew old because of my constant groans throughout the day. Because your hand overwhelmed me day and night, and my vigour became a summer drought. I confessed my sin to you and I did not hide my wickedness. He said, I will confess my transgressions to the Lord; and you forgaved the wickedness of my sin (Psalm 32:3-5). We live in a world that increasingly teaches the idea that forgiveness of oneself solves shame. The notion of forgiveness for oneself comes from a false and deficient anthropology of personality. We do not believe ourselves and therefore cannot forgive ourselves. Because God is for you, he wants to forgive and restore it. He loves the contrite and humiliated heart.
He sent them his word, healed them, and delivered them from what was mortal to them. (Psalm 107. 20). Sara with a broken heart and thinks of her wounds (Psalm 147. 3). By his blood, Christ satisfied the righteousness of God. In this supreme act of love lies the solution to the persistent guilt of sexual sin. By the wounds of Jesus we are healed (Isaiah 53:3).
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, Father of mercy and God of all comfort!He is the one who comforts us in all our tribulations, that we may comfort those who are in any anguish, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God (2 Corinthians 1:3-4). Sexual sin has consequences that we cannot control or even see until the Holy Ghost removes flakes from our eyes. Sexual sin is a relentless tyrant. Abortion requires the death of the fetus. Homosexuality requires condemnation of God’s order in creation. Adultery requires the betrayal of vows made before God and the destruction of one flesh. Pornography requires sex slaves and throws women and children into sex trafficking. When believers commit a sexual sin, we spit in the face of God. When believers repent and abandon sexual sin, we are restored.
God’s providence has a place for your pain. As you see (still) what others blinded by sin cannot see, you are an arrow to God himself. You see the blood on your hands, you feel that your pain and your guilt are repressed and you work as an ambassador for God.
There was no temptation that was not human; But God is faithful and will not allow you to be tempted beyond your strength; on the contrary, with temptation, it will provide you with deliverance to endure it (1 Corinthians 10:13). We in the church are the means of escaping from each other. God has already provided a means of escape, not only through His Word and Spirit, but also through the body of Christ and the simple practice of hospitality. The door open to your home and heart is the escape of a brother or sister.
Jesus said, “Certainly I say unto you, there is no one who has left the house, no brothers, no sisters, no mother, no father, no father, no children, no fields, for me, and for the gospel, that I no longer receive in the present one hundred for one of houses, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, and fields, with persecution; and, in the world to come, eternal life?(Mark 10:29-30).
Jesus speaks here of God’s family whose love, presence, and goodness are what the Lord uses to reward him?One hundred times what you needed to leave to come unto Christ. The gospel is expensive. And it’s worth the cost.
But these biblical principles are not reminders. He cannot serve the sexually wounded until he is filled with the Word of God, drinking long and regularly from his deep wells. Our sexually injured neighbors do not need to be educated first in the Christian worldview; must be brought to the cross. Before we can do this, should we enrich ourselves with the Word?(borrowing the title of A. W. ‘s book. Pink [Enriching himself with the Bible? Faithful Editor]). We ourselves must know that, for God, repentance is the starting point.