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Obsessed With Sex and Sexuality
Our nation is a country obsessed with sex and sexuality.
You don’t think so?
Explain, then, all the references to such on the magazine covers
at the supermarket checkout stands. It can be embarrassing at times to
be standing in line, surrounded by all the smut.
Explain, then, the millions of internet pornographic websites.
Explain, then, the billboards along our highways, especially in
our inner cities. Beer companies to car advertisers use pictures of
provocatively clad (or unclad) women to sell their products.
If our nation is not obsessed with sex, then why all the
‘comedies’ on television that use references to it as punch lines in
their jokes? When the networks choose sound bites to advertise a
particular show, why do they choose the ‘bites’ in which sex is
mentioned? You know why. Sex sells. It attracts attention. Our nation
does not shudder in horror at such brazenness, but is fascinated by it.
Can you explain, then, why so many people dress as to reveal so
much skin? Truly, Spring has arrived and ‘bare season’ is here.
If our nation is not preoccupied with sex, why then so much
nudity and fornication on the theater big screens?
Go to a shopping mall, and you’ll see more evidence of what we’re
suggesting. The massive blown-up posters of Abercrombie & Fitch and
Victoria’s Secret almost jump through the store glass windows at a
person.
Is our nation obsessed with sex? Friend, if one could take all
the pictures and references to such and replace them with pictures and
references to a food -- say, broccoli -- would not all say our country
is obsessed with broccoli? Our mania is undeniable. And it’s ungodly.
As Christians in a sex-crazed society, what can we do to remain a
godly people?
First and foremost, we cannot be a part of such madness.
We can be in the world, but not of the world. Specifically, our
discipleship to Christ will not allow us to buy certain magazines and
books, or watch most of today’s movies or television shows. Neither will
we dress like the world does, but as people “professing godliness” (1
Timothy 2:10).
Further, we must DAILY guard our minds from being attracted to
this filth. We must zealously resolve that we will “not be
conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of [our]
minds” (Romans 12:2).
Nor can we allow ourselves to become desensitized by all this
shamelessness. Truly, we should be a people that shrinks back in
disgust, knowing that the Lord is displeased with a people who do “not
know how to blush” (Jeremiah 6:15).
Finally, we must be a people who “hate” this infatuation with
sex, recognizing it for what it is, a “false way” that is leading our
nation to hell (Psalm 119:128; 9:17).
Dear Christian: Don’t find yourself caught up in this obsession!
--Mike Noble
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