Christian Living
Comfortable With Sin
Part Three
Sexual immorality has been a part of the experience of Fallen Man since the ancient world, but in recent decades, has swept across the United States like a tidal wave, leaving in its wake, a path of destruction.
Any sin, such as sexual immorality, that becomes a lifestyle promotes a major part in the devil’s master plan of destruction. By living in (any) sin, that is to make it a lifestyle, keeps the individual or group out of fellowship with God, and side-lined “on the bench” in the realm of spiritual combat.
Being out of fellowship with God, places the individual and or group right where the devil wants them to be.
When the majority, or even a considerable minority, of any nation’s population is out of fellowship with God, its days are numbered before the increasing levels of divine discipline begin.
There is one difference between the moral degeneracy in past generations and the moral decline taken place in the present time in the USA.
In past generations, those involved in what the Bible defines as acts of moral degeneration, tried to keep their sin a secret, whereas now, in fulfillment of end time prophecy (1), those involved are proud to announce it.
Each illicit sexual encounter puts “another notch” on his or pistol, taking down as many others with him or her.
It wasn’t sexual sin that caused the pre-historic angelic rebellion in Heaven (2). It wasn’t sexual sin that caused the Fall of Man in the Garden (3).
But the devil is quite aware of the destructive part that elicit sexual desires can produce on the individual, national, and global level.
It was sexual intercourse between embodied fallen angels and human woman that brought about a violent species of beings, just before the flood of Noah’s time (4).
It was sexual sin that has caused the fall of many of God’s otherwise greatest servants. It was wide-spread sexual sin that has contributed to the moral decline of many nations and religious establishments.
It is clear that all forms of sexual activities that the Bible labels as sin are influencing the private and public lives of many in the American society, and the “Christian Community” of our day.
For many, the desire for, and participation in, sexual immorality is for them “the sin” that can so easily entangle them.
Its momentary or seasonal pleasure satisfies the momentary or seasonal desires of the fallen nature within us, making it easy to want to overlook the inevitable consequences involved.
1Cor. 10: 13 teaches that there are means of escape available to us, but the question is, do we really want to apply them.
Just as alcoholics should avoid bar rooms, or CHOOSE to order only non-alcoholic beverages when publicly dining or socializing, advancing disciples will learn to do whatever they must do to avoid the particular sin that, as an individual, can so easily entrap them.
One alcoholic once told me that while there are “recover-i-n-g alcoholics,” there is no such thing as a “recover-e-d” one. There will always be, he said, the possibility of a relapse.
Since the fallen nature with its desires does not go away, and in fact increases its pressure, keeping pace with whatever forward progress we make along the road to spiritual maturity, perhaps the same potential relapse could be said for any type of sin, and the need for divine intervention.
We are all creatures of habit, good and bad. When recovering from sin, it will be “enforced humility,” choosing to “cut against the grain,” that will keep the advancing disciple from “falling off the wagon” and returning to what made him fall (5).
In time, what was being accomplished through enforced humility, can become part of a new lifestyle, in which one desires to be conformed to the likeness of Christ (6).
End of Part Three
(1) 2Tim. 3: 1-5 (2) Isa.14: 13 (3) Gen. 3: 6 (4) Gen. 6: 2, 4 (5) Prov. 26: 11 (6) Rom. 8: 29
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