Monday, December 8, 2014

Becoming Christ's Mockingjay: Rebelling Against "The Capitol" Of Sexual Immorality

I am a diehard fan of "The Hunger Games" film and its two sequels.  The actors (Jennifer Lawrence in particular) are so great that they make me wish that their characters were real so that I could hang out with them.  In particular, "Mockingjay - Part 1" inspired me to continue my own war against "The Capitol" of sexual immorality, which has destroyed many of my friends and former classmates before they could even get married to begin with.

A lot of Christians don't understand that living for sexual purity is GOING TO WAR.  Once you decide to save yourself for your spouse, your friends (and sometimes even your family members) will turn on you.  The world will do whatever it takes to make you fall into sin so that your Christian witness is destroyed.  On top of that, Satan and his demons will do whatever it takes to destroy you for exposing what they promote as "sexual liberation" for what it really is : a tool of torture, slavery, and death.

Even worse, your own sinful, decadent desires will actually get WORSE when you first go to war.  After all, your "inner terrorist" (i.e. your flesh) craves forbidden sex like a drug addict craves cocaine.  Not to mention that you will become disillusioned by the fact that many activities which the world considers harmless (such as massaging your girlfriend's melons, or, if you're a girl, letting your boyfriend massage your melons) are actually very toxic and dangerous to you.  You may even get to the point where you are so discouraged that you just want to quit.

However, as impossible as it seems, victory can be achieved!  You CAN use a pure life to lead others to Christ as His Mockingjay! 

Being pure so that you can experience "The Sexual Force Unleashed" and "Romantic World Peace" is like committing your life to Christ: it will instantly put you at war with everyone around you, and especially against your own heart.  But through faith in what He did for you on the "hanging tree" known as the cross, not only will you be saved, but you can also experience the mindblowing, sexually-romantic hurricane of ecstasy that He wants you to have with your one-and-only, opposite gender spouse within marriage!

Matthew 10: 34 “Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword." (NIV)