Sexual Brokenness and God's Healing Grace
Life can be challenging when dealing with sexual brokenness, leading to shame, guilt, and dysfunction. Despite our struggles, God offers grace and healing, longing to make us whole. Examining the story of Samson reveals the consequences of succumbing to temptation and the importance of staying true to one's faith. Let us reflect on the message of redemption and restoration found in God's Word.
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THE REAL WORLD WHEN WE TAKE A GOOD, HARD LOOK AT THE CONTENT OF OUR MINDS, ITCAN BE UNSETTLING TO SAY THE LEAST. I AM TALKING ABOUT MYSELF HERE. I AM ALSO TALKING ABOUT YOU. LIFE CAN BE DIRTY EVEN FOR GOOD CHRISTIAN GUYS. MOST OF US HAVE BEEN SEXUAL INJURED IN OUR LIVES. SECRET SINS OF A SEXUAL NATURE ARE ESPECIALLY HURTFUL AND LEAD TO A HOST OF PROBLEMS, INCLUDING SHAME, GUILT, DEPRESSION, DISEASES AND AN INABILITY TO BE AN EFFECTIVE LEADER.SEX WAS CREATED BY GOD TO BE JOYFUL BUT OUR SINFUL APPLICATION HAS LEAD TO SO MUCH PAIN AND DYSFUNCTION. SEXUAL BROKENNESS HAS MANY FACES. MY POINT? GOD KNOWS ABOUT ALL THE UGLINESS WE HAVE BEEN TALKING AND THINKING ABOUT AND HE LOVES US SO VERY MUCH! GOD LONGS TO MAKE YOU WHOLE. HE WANTS TO FILL YOUR HEART AND MIND WITH THE THINGS OF GOD. GOD OFFERS US GRACE AND HEALING AT THE VERY WORST WE CAN BE. HE CAN MAKE US HIS BEST. LETS SEE WHATGOD S WORD HAS FOR US.
THE REAL WORD 16ONE DAY SAMSONWENT TO GAZA,WHERE HE SAW A PROSTITUTE.HE WENT IN TO SPEND THE NIGHT WITH HER.2THE PEOPLE OF GAZA WERE TOLD, SAMSON IS HERE! SO THEY SURROUNDED THE PLACE AND LAY IN WAIT FOR HIM ALL NIGHT AT THE CITY GATE , THEY MADE NO MOVE DURING THE NIGHT, SAYING, AT DAWNWE LL KILL HIM. 3BUT SAMSON LAY THERE ONLY UNTIL THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT. THEN HEGOT UP AND TOOK HOLD OF THE DOORS OF THE CITY GATE, TOGETHER WITH THE TWO POSTS, AND TORE THEM LOOSE, BAR AND ALL. HE LIFTED THEM TO HIS SHOULDERS AND CARRIED THEM TO THE TOP OF THE HILL THAT FACES HEBRON.4SOME TIME LATER, HE FELL IN LOVEWITH A WOMAN IN THE VALLEY OF SOREK WHOSE NAME WAS DELILAH.5THE RULERS OF THE PHILISTINESWENT TO HER AND SAID, SEE IF YOU CAN LUREHIM INTO SHOWING YOU THE SECRET OF HIS GREAT STRENGTHAND HOW WE CAN OVERPOWER HIM SO WE MAY TIE HIM UP AND SUBDUE HIM.EACH ONE OF US WILL GIVE YOU ELEVEN HUNDRED SHEKELS[A]OF SILVER. 6SO DELILAHSAID TO SAMSON, TELL ME THE SECRET OF YOUR GREAT STRENGTH AND HOW YOU CAN BE TIED UP AND SUBDUED. 7SAMSON ANSWERED HER, IF ANYONE TIES ME WITH SEVEN FRESH BOWSTRINGS THAT HAVE NOT BEEN DRIED, I LL BECOME AS WEAK AS ANY OTHER MAN. 8THEN THE RULERS OF THE PHILISTINES BROUGHT HER SEVEN FRESH BOWSTRINGS THAT HAD NOT BEEN DRIED, AND SHE TIED HIM WITH THEM.9WITH MEN HIDDEN IN THE ROOM, SHE CALLED TO HIM, SAMSON, THE PHILISTINES ARE UPON YOU! BUT HE SNAPPED THE BOWSTRINGS AS EASILY AS A PIECE OF STRING SNAPS WHEN IT COMES CLOSE TO A FLAME. SO THE SECRET OF HIS STRENGTH WAS NOT DISCOVERED.10THEN DELILAH SAID TO SAMSON, YOU HAVE MADE A FOOL OF ME;YOU LIED TO ME. COME NOW, TELL ME HOW YOU CAN BE TIED. 11HE SAID, IF ANYONE TIES ME SECURELY WITH NEW ROPESTHAT HAVE NEVER BEEN USED, I LL BECOME AS WEAK AS ANY OTHER MAN. 12SO DELILAH TOOK NEW ROPES AND TIED HIM WITH THEM. THEN, WITH MENHIDDEN IN THE ROOM, SHE CALLED TO HIM, SAMSON, THE PHILISTINESARE UPON YOU! BUT HE SNAPPED THE ROPES OFF HIS ARMS AS IF THEY WERE THREADS.13DELILAH THEN SAID TO SAMSON, ALL THIS TIME YOU HAVE BEEN MAKINGA FOOL OF ME AND LYING TO ME. TELL ME HOW YOU CAN BE TIED. "HE REPLIED, IF YOU WEAVE THE SEVEN BRAIDS OF MY HEAD INTO THE FABRIC ON THE LOOM AND TIGHTEN IT WITH THE PIN, I LL BECOME AS WEAK AS ANY OTHER MAN. SO WHILE HE WAS SLEEPING, DELILAH TOOK THE SEVEN BRAIDS OF HIS HEAD, WOVE THEM INTO THE FABRIC14AND[B]TIGHTENED IT WITH THE PIN. AGAIN SHE CALLED TO HIM, SAMSON, THE PHILISTINES ARE UPON YOU! HE AWOKE FROM HIS SLEEP AND PULLED UP THE PIN AND THE LOOM, WITH THE FABRIC.15THEN SHE SAID TO HIM, HOW CAN YOU SAY, I LOVE YOU, WHEN YOU WON T CONFIDE IN ME? THIS IS THE THIRD TIMEYOU HAVE MADE A FOOL OF MEAND HAVEN T TOLD ME THE SECRET OF YOUR GREAT STRENGTH. 16WITH SUCH NAGGING SHE PRODDED HIM DAY AFTER DAY UNTIL HE WAS SICK TO DEATH OF IT.17SO HE TOLD HER EVERYTHING. NO RAZOR HAS EVER BEEN USED ON MY HEAD, HE SAID, BECAUSE I HAVE BEEN A NAZIRITEDEDICATED TO GOD FROM MY MOTHER S WOMB. IF MY HEAD WERE SHAVED, MY STRENGTH WOULD LEAVE ME, AND I WOULD BECOME AS WEAK AS ANY OTHER MAN. 18WHEN DELILAH SAW THAT HE HAD TOLD HER EVERYTHING, SHE SENT WORD TO THE RULERS OF THE PHILISTINES, COME BACK ONCE MORE; HE HAS TOLD ME EVERYTHING. SO THE RULERS OF THE PHILISTINES RETURNED WITH THE SILVER IN THEIR HANDS.19AFTER PUTTING HIM TO SLEEP ON HER LAP, SHE CALLED FOR SOMEONE TOSHAVE OFF THE SEVEN BRAIDS OF HIS HAIR, AND SO BEGAN TO SUBDUE HIM.[C]AND HIS STRENGTH LEFT HIM.20THEN SHE CALLED, SAMSON, THE PHILISTINES ARE UPON YOU! "HE AWOKE FROM HIS SLEEP AND THOUGHT, I LL GO OUT AS BEFORE AND SHAKE MYSELF FREE. BUT HE DID NOT KNOW THAT THELORDHAD LEFT HIM.21THEN THE PHILISTINESSEIZED HIM, GOUGED OUT HIS EYESAND TOOK HIM DOWN TO GAZA.BINDING HIM WITH BRONZE SHACKLES, THEY SET HIM TO GRINDING GRAININ THE PRISON.22BUT THE HAIR ON HIS HEAD BEGAN TO GROW AGAIN AFTER IT HAD BEEN SHAVED. JUDGES 16 -NIV THE DEATH OF SAMSON 23NOW THE RULERS OF THE PHILISTINES ASSEMBLED TO OFFER A GREAT SACRIFICE TO DAGON THEIR GOD AND TO CELEBRATE, SAYING, OUR GOD HAS DELIVERED SAMSON, OURENEMY, INTO OUR HANDS. 24WHEN THE PEOPLE SAW HIM, THEY PRAISED THEIR GOD,SAYING , OUR GOD HAS DELIVERED OUR ENEMYINTO OUR HANDS, THE ONE WHO LAID WASTE OUR LANDAND MULTIPLIED OUR SLAIN. 25WHILE THEY WERE IN HIGH SPIRITS,THEY SHOUTED, BRING OUT SAMSONTO ENTERTAIN US. SO THEY CALLED SAMSON OUT OF THE PRISON, AND HE PERFORMED FOR THE WHEN THEY STOOD HIM AMONG THE PILLARS,26SAMSON SAID TO THE SERVANT WHO HELD HIS HAND, PUT ME WHERE I CAN FEEL THE PILLARS THAT SUPPORT THE TEMPLE, SO THAT I MAY LEAN AGAINST THEM. 27NOW THE TEMPLE WAS CROWDED WITH MEN AND WOMEN; ALL THE RULERS OFTHE PHILISTINES WERE THERE, AND ON THE ROOFWERE ABOUT THREE THOUSAND MEN AND WOMEN WATCHING SAMSON PERFORM.28THEN SAMSON PRAYED TO THELORD, SOVEREIGNLORD, REMEMBER ME. PLEASE, GOD, STRENGTHEN ME JUST ONCE MORE, AND LET ME WITH ONE BLOW GET REVENGEON THE PHILISTINES FOR MY TWO EYES. 29THEN SAMSON REACHED TOWARD THE TWO CENTRAL PILLARS ON WHICH THE TEMPLE STOOD. BRACING HIMSELF AGAINST THEM, HIS RIGHT HAND ON THE ONE AND HIS LEFT HAND ON THE OTHER,30SAMSON SAID, LET ME DIE WITH THE PHILISTINES! THEN HE PUSHED WITH ALL HIS MIGHT, AND DOWN CAME THE TEMPLE ON THE RULERS AND ALL THE PEOPLE IN IT. THUS HE KILLED MANY MORE WHEN HE DIED THAN WHILE HE LIVED.31THEN HIS BROTHERS AND HIS FATHER S WHOLE FAMILY WENT DOWN TO GETHIM. THEY BROUGHT HIM BACK AND BURIED HIM BETWEEN ZORAH AND ESHTAOL IN THE TOMB OF MANOAHHIS FATHER. HE HAD LED[D]ISRAEL TWENTY YEARS.
REAL TALK IF YOU MADE A LIST OF ALL THE THINGS YOU THOUGHT ABOUT IN THE LAST 24 HOURS WHAT WOULD IT SAY ABOUT YOU? DO YOU THINK GOD LOVES YOU IN SPITE OF YOUR SEXUAL SIN? WHY ARE WE SO BROKEN WHEN IT COMES TO SEXUAL SINS?
REAL STEPS WHAT WE LEARN FROM THE LIFE OF SAMSON IN JUDGES 16: START WITH THE EYES. WE AS MEN ARE INFLAMED BY WHAT WE SEE. CONTROL WHAT YOU LOOK AT. GO FOR REAL PLEASURES IN LIFE NOT SUBSTITUTE ONES. SUBMIT YOUR WILL TO GOD. SEE THE LONG TERM EFFECTS OF YOUR CHOICES. STOP LIVING FOR THE MOMENT. DEVELOP AN ACCOUNTABILITY SYSTEM. YOU CAN ALWAYS CHANGE AND DO THE RIGHT THING. SEE YOURSELF AS GOD SEES YOU. SAMSON IS LISTED IN HEROES OF THE FAITH IN HEB. 11.
TIME TO CLOSE TO CLOSE THIS LESSON I THOUGHT I WOULD OUTLINE A SIMPLE PLAN FOR ACCOUNTABILITY. 1. GET A PIECE OF PAPER AND WRITE DOWN THE SIN ISSUES OF YOUR LIFE. I HAVE A PROBLEM WITH _______________________________________________________________________________. IT TENDS TO HAPPEN MOSTLY WHEN OR BECAUSE ______________________________________________________________. WHENEVER I SIN SEXUALLY AFTERWARDS I FEEL _______________________________________________________________. I KNOW I HAVE HURT_________________________________________________________________________________. IT COULD LEAD TO THIS IN 10 YEARS______________________________________________________________________. 2. SHARE THIS WITH YOUR ACCOUNTABILITY PARTNER. THEN TAKE THE NEXT STEPS: I NEED TO ASK THE LORD S HELP FOR THIS SIN OF _____________________________________________________________. THEN TAKE RESPONSIBILITY TO _________________________________________________________________________. I WILL MEET WITH MY ACCOUNTABILITY PARTNER EVERY WEEK TO PRAY AND FIND A SOLUTION. NOW GOD I WILL MAKE A CONSCIOUS DECISION TO END THIS IN YOUR LIFE AND SEEK AND GRACE AND RESTORATION THAT THE LORD OFFERS!
