When our kids come asking ‘why’, we better have a better answer than ‘because its wrong’ or ‘because we must fear God’, which of course is generically still correct because the bible says so, but insufficient in this generation of permissiveness and supposed freedom of expression.
What are we dealing with specifically? Why does it offend us? Should we do anything about it?
Should these messages be taken as norms, these are at stake: Sexuality, promiscuity, marriage as institution.
Why is sexual sin wrong? Which verses mention explicitly? Furthermore, how do we reconcile the practice’s expressed in the old testament whom mockers often quote?
What’s wrong with promiscuity? Why is it OK to wear tight and revealing clothing at the beach or swimming pool but not OK to wear them in church or other settings? Is it an issue of context/culture or an issue of principle? Does the bible does address promiscuity? Does it, specifically?
Perhaps yes indirectly to above, but how many of us can articulate? Or what about the Islamic worldview? They seem to address these issues reasonably head on with required head coverings and consequences when violated. Does this then make Islam the better religion?
We know that this cultural onslaught will only grow, and we can only minimise, not prevent completely. As parents, our children are by being discipled by us whether you like it or not. The moment they observe or even smell the hypocrisy of which we say and do, we inadvertently open a channel of excuse for them to do the same. Couple that with the mask we put on in church.
We must not underestimate or misunderstand the evil guised under positivity found in these messages. You realise how intolerable our society has become because should we even speak up or oppose, we somehow become intolerable ourselves.
-–
The reason we are against racism is because a person’s race is sacred. A person’s ethnicity is sacred. You cannot violate it. My race is sacred; your race is sacred; I dare not violate it. The reason we react against the issue of homosexuality the way we do is because sexuality is sacred. You cannot violate it. How do you treat one as sacred and de-sacredlize the other?
Sex is a sacred gift of God. I can no longer justify an aberration of it in somebody else’s life than I can justify my own proclivities to go beyond my marital boundaries.
Every man here who is an able-bodied man will tell you temptation stalks you every day. Does it have anything to do with your love for your spouse? Probably not, because you can love your spouse with 100% desire to love the person, but the human body reacts to the sight entertained by the imagination and gives you all kinds of false hints that stolen waters are going to be sweeter. They are not. They leave you emptier. So a disposition or a proclivity does not justify expressing that disposition and that proclivity. That goes across the board for all sexuality.
When God created mankind and womankind, it was His plan, not our plan. It is extraordinary what He said. He said, ‘It is not good for man to live alone.’ Well, man wasn’t living alone; God was with him. Why did He say that? He created the mystique and the majesty and the charm and the complimentary nature of womankind in a way that made it possible for her to meet his emotional needs that God, Himself, put only within her outside himself from himself in her in that complementariness. It is a design by God.
RZ