How We Dishonor God in Our Sex Lives

We dishonor God when we fail to mirror the Trinitarian reality and beauty in our relationships.
     ~ by Glenn Stanton

We can dishonor God in our sex lives just as we can dishonor Him in any other area of our lives. We dishonor Him when we serve ourselves. We dishonor God in our sex lives when we fail to mirror the Trinitarian reality and beauty in our relationships…

We May Never Use another Person as an Object, Sexual or Otherwise

Pornography dehumanizes sexuality and depersonalizes people by turning the viewer into a taker and the one viewed into an object. The danger is that we start to see others in our lives the same way we see the object in the magazine, movie, or website: as a nobody, a thing that exists for our pleasure.

Therefore masturbation, like pornography, is incomplete because it doesn't involve the communion of two self-giving people, one to another. It's sex for one and isn't God's ideal for us; it's merely taking from one's self and doesn't mirror the nature of the Trinity….

The Monstrosity of Premarital and Extramarital Sex

The human sexual embrace, this most intimate and ultimate of all human giving and vulnerability, ought to take place in a union of total and permanent surrender of two people. That's what marriage is: both the public and personal dedication of a man and woman to forsake all others and give themselves fully—body, mind, and spirit—to another...

From My Crazy Imperfect Christian Family, published by NavPress.

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Help Stop The Sexualisation of Children!

Following the release of government’s National Family Policy, the South African Police Service (SAPS) recently re-launched the Family Violence, Child Protection and Sexual Offences Units (FCS).

The reinstatement of the specialised FCS units is encouraging news for families especially in light of the recent spate of child abductions, rapes and murders in South Africa.

There appears to be a sudden spike in child crimes around the country. Please encourage your congregations to set aside time to specifically pray into the heinous attacks on children.

I am maintaining pressure on Parliament to finalise and pass the Anti-Trafficking Bill this year. I must commend Zara Nicholson of the Cape Times whose excellent articles exposed the corruption inherent in the sex industry and focussed attention on the abuse of sex trafficking.

Check out these excellent expose's Inside the Sex Trade and Committee Mulls Trafficking Bill

Some more encouraging news, this time from the UK is that the government of David Cameron has struck a deal with Britain’s top four internet providers to protect children from pornography.

Subscribers to four of the UK's biggest internet service providers will have to "opt in" if they want to view sexually explicit websites, as part of government-sponsored curbs on online pornography.

David Cameron will unveil the measures at a meeting with the Mothers' Union, a Christian charity.

The group's chief executive, Reg Bailey, led a review in tandem with Department of Education staff into the commercialisation and sexualisation of children. The Bailey report earlier this year produced a raft of proposals to shield children from sexualised imagery.

The recommendations of the report - Letting Children be Children, published on 6 June 2011 - included providing parents with one single website to make it easier to complain about any programme, advert, product or service, putting age restrictions on music videos and ensuring retailers offer age-appropriate clothes for children.

Government and business will partner on initiatives like ending the sale of inappropriately "sexy" clothing for young children, for example underwired bras and T-shirts with suggestive slogans.

I have sent this report to Home Affairs Deputy Minister, Fatima Chohan. FPI in partnership with the Film & Publication Board is looking at ways to effectively protect children from pornography.

While shopping for clothing for our grandchildren, Arlene and I could not help notice that children’s clothing, underwear and swimwear are becoming increasingly age inappropriate.

The sexualisation of children is becoming a major problem in South Africa. Major retail stores are following this bizarre international trend and must be confronted by responsible parents.

As we approach the Christmas holiday season and in view of the alarming rise of sexual attacks against young children – I encourage Christian parents to please remain vigilant.

If you notice age inappropriate children’s clothing in a store, please politely inform the manager of the increase in sexual violence against children and request he remove the merchandise.

If a store ignores your request, please send the name of the store, its location and the description of the offending clothing to me at enaidoo@familypolicyinstitute.com  so I can pursue the matter.

Standing

Errol Naidoo

http://www.familypolicyinstitute.com/

Remedy for any addiction

The Remedy for your addiction is; read your bible as many times as possible a day and pray pray pray at very chance you get!

Inappropriate Adult content

Parental / Christian / Human / Marriage Control

Vodacom (South Africa)has implemented measures to protect you or your children from being exposed to illegal and inappropriate adult content, including gambling, violent and sexually-based material.  All contract and prepaid customers can bar access to adult content on a Vodacom mobile phone by dialing:

*111*123#

from the mobile phone concerned.

Please contact your local Mobile Network in your country and find out what measures are being put in place the keep the evil out of your homes.

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Sex vs Sexual Sin

God is the creator of sex. Part of his purpose in creating sex was for our pleasure. But God also set limits for the enjoyment of sex, for our protection. When we go outside those boundaries, we enter into sexual sin. These Scriptures are provided as an aid for those who wish to study what the Bible says about sexual sin.

1 Thessalonians 4:3–7

God's will is for you to be holy, so stay away from all sexual sin. Then each of you will control his own body and live in holiness and honor—not in lustful passion like the pagans who do not know God and his ways. Never harm or cheat a Christian brother in this matter by violating his wife, for the Lord avenges all such sins, as we have solemnly warned you before. God has called us to live holy lives, not impure lives. 

Galatians 5:19
When you follow the desires of your sinful nature, the results are very clear: sexual immorality, impurity, lustful pleasures ...

Ephesians 4:19
Having lost all sensitivity, they have given themselves over to sensuality so as to indulge in every kind of impurity, with a continual lust for more.

Ephesians 5:3
Let there be no sexual immorality, impurity, or greed among you. Such sins have no place among God's people. 

Cellphones a big porn risk to children

Johannesburg - At least 90% of children aged between eight and 16 with internet access have viewed porn online - often by mistake, says the cellphone industry's self-regulating body.

It said on Monday that 22% of teen girls and 20% of boys had sent inappropriate photographs of themselves via SMS, which were finding their way on to porn sites.

Russel Stromin, head of the Code of Conduct Committee for the Wireless Application Service Providers' Association, said children had easy access to mobile devices, such as cellphones with the internet. This meant the number of children viewing and sending inappropriate material was widespread.

"As the industry body for the mobile applications industry, we encourage our members to provide parents with tools to protect their children," said Stromin.

This could mean blocking access to adult sites on a child's cellphone, but also talking to children and warning them, Stromin said.

All cellular providers could block access to specific sites, he said, while illegal sites could be blocked for everybody.

"Parents can dial their provider's customer service number and request the site to be blocked."
Mobile phones were increasingly being used to solicit youth aged 12 to 25, and protecting young people had to become a priority.

"Globally, mobile service providers have taken the lead in this area, with the mobile alliance against child sexual abuse content being launched at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona in 2008," Stromin said.
 
"Blocking your children's cellphones from accessing adult content is a good start, but it's only the beginning of what parents need to do."

- SAPA