The United States is being devastated by the wildfires of immorality, pastor, conference speaker and award-winning author Greg Laurie writes in a World Net Daily column. “[H]omes are being devastated. Families are being devastated. And unless we take precautions, we could be the next victims of the fires of lust, passion and immorality.”
Many Christians have a false sense of security—thinking that a particular sin cannot touch them. But that very presumption is a display of pride that can set someone up for a fall.
Samson was one of those who thought he was immune from temptation.
“In the Old Testament, we read that he killed a thousand of Israel’s enemies, the Philistines, with the jawbone of a donkey. In Samson’s mind, what was one woman going to do to him?” writes Laurie, who is senior pastor of Harvest Christian Fellowship in Riverside, California, and Harvest Orange County in Irvine, California. “But Delilah (whose name, by the way, means ‘delicate’) began to break down Samson’s resolve and resistance until finally he confessed to her what the secret of his supernatural strength was. If only he could have come to his senses and realized that he was falling into a trap.”
Just as lust devastated Samson, it is ruining lives today—and even ending lives through the spread of sexually transmitted diseases, Laurie writes. And it is destroying thousands of marriages through pornography and/or adultery.
“In our increasingly value-free society that will not allow the Ten Commandments to be posted in the classroom but will freely hand out condoms, the only way we will infuse values back into society is through the home,” Laurie writes.
Adultery and immorality are breaking up marriages and families. Certainly, sexual temptation has been with us for a very long time. “But I think we would all have to agree that our times of sexual looseness and permissiveness are unprecedented in human history. Historians would have to look back at this civilization and culture as one that was absolutely obsessed with sex,” he continues.
Certainly, Hollywood is contributing to the problem with a constant bombardment of sex.
“God has warned us in the Scriptures for our own good,” Laurie writes. “And please know this: There is no such thing as a quick fling. When you cross the line of protection God has placed around you, you do so at your own peril. And the repercussions of it can go on for months, years and even a lifetime.”
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