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each other and the child. Additional
verbal or formal instruction merely
reinforces learning.
Wrong sexual feelings develop not
only out of a wrong culture but also
out of ignorance. Hush-hush about
sex in homes has reaped a fearsome
price. Many you ng· people are not
taught any right and wholesome atti–
tudes about sex. They are taught no
right standards of sexual conduct.
They are not taught that certain sex–
ual practices are wrong or damaging
and why they are to be avoided.
The seedbeds of unfortunate
emotional or sexual feelings may be
laid in the earliest years of life.
Many young persons do not under–
stand their feelings and emotions
because they lack proper associa–
tion or communication with under–
standing or concerned parents who
could help to evaluate their feel–
ings. Without proper parental
example, !ove, concern and guid–
ance, wrong or misguided affec–
lional feelings toward others can
begin lo sti r sexual feelings and
slart a wrong pattern of association
in the mind.
Millions of individuals simply
follow peer practices or any "excit–
ing" erotic emotion or thought that
crosses their minds. They seem
"natural." But what they may not
realize is that wrong thoughts and
feelings can be learned not only
from olhers, but from their own
unconlrolled lhoughts- and these
thoughts are not always natural,
but can be injected into their minds
unknowingly by an evil spiritual
source- by Satan or his demons.
A person may have allowed him–
self or herself to respond to such
cmotions or patterns so early in life
that they become a "natural" part
of the way they have always felt.
They look back on their life and
conclude they m.ust havc been
"born that way.."
Misgulded Choosing
Humans seek excitement, a sense
of worth-something to fill the
void, emptiness or loneliness of
their lives. Whenever wrong sexual
or emotional seeds are allowed and
cultivated they will grow-in youlh
or even after one is married.
Scripture warns us, "Be not
deceived; God is not mocked; for
whatsoever a man soweth, thal shall
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he also reap" (Galatians 6:7).
To sorne, extramarital or homo–
sexual thoughls or acts (a person
may not even realize whal they are)
seem a way to find affeclion, gain
attenl ion, recognition, security or
money. Maybe they seem a way of
proving sexual prowess. Maybe
they seem the only option available,
given one's desires, feelings or fears
about the opposite sex.
One wrong thought, uncontrolled
or accepted, leads to still more.
Maybe a person doesn't know be
should resist temptation. Maybe he
doesn't care. Minds that feed on
wrong emotional or erotic thoughts in
various fantasies (especially mastur–
bation fantasies or in conjunction
with specific kinds of pornography)
will eventually have them ingrained
as desires and emotions.
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Too many cop out and totally
blame others for their problems
and emotions in life.
One's society or culture may be
partly to blame. Parents may or
may not have set a right example in
their relationships and teaching.
Satan may have lempted. But indi–
viduals also repeatedly allow them-
selves lo respond to wrong ways of
living and thinking.
A person, young or old, may
choose to rebel against even right
teaching and example. He or she
can decide to go bis or her own
way. Satan did. Scripture warns,
"Your adversary the devil prowls
around like a roaring !ion seeking
sorne one to devour.
Resist
him .
.. "
(l
Peter 5:8-9, RSV).
Godly Sexua lity
God is very concerned about the cul–
tural and family environments of
human beings. Family and environ–
ment is where the foundations of
human relationships and sexual feel–
ings, values and ideas are established.
God is also concerned about the
physical, mental and talent abilities
and traits human parents pass on to
their offspring. Wrong sexuality
opens the door to rapid degeneration
and physical and spiritual disease of
lhe human body, mind and spirit.
Only if humans follow God's
revealed laws about right relation–
ships to God and between the sexes
can true happiness, fulfillment and
social stabi lity be achieved. o
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