You Were Made For Love

You Were Made For Love

Series: Exodus

Speaker: Chris Oswald

Sunday Morning

Date: 6th October 2024

Passage: Exodus 20:14

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Title: You Were Made For Love Text: Exodus 20:14

Introduction:

This week I was thinking about Faraday cages. Einstein had three pictures of three scientists in his study, Isaac Newton, Michael Faraday, and James Clerk Maxwell. Faraday was a great experimental scientist. And I suppose these days he is best known for the Faraday cage. Which is an enclosure meant to protect an object from electromagnetic fields.

And the reason I was thinking about Faraday cages is that as I pressed into our text, I began to realize how much misinformation about the subject is buzzing around in the world.

Our text is Exodus 20:14, “You shall not commit adultery.”

Back in 1943, an academic named Walter Langer was tasked with writing a psychological profile of Adolf Hitler. And it is in those writings we find a phrase that has gained some popularity:

“People will believe a big lie sooner than a little one, and if you repeat it frequently enough, people will sooner or later believe it.”

The world is full about big, bold lies about sex. We are living in a psy-op. Propoganda is buzzing all around us. And that’s why I began thinking about a Faraday Cage. I wondered – how do we protect people from all of the misinformation?

Now, I want to concede on the front end that to the outside world, any effort to “protect yourself” from the world’s lies about this sin is going to appear crazy. In other words, to the world, your faraday cage is going to look like a tinfoil hat.

Which is what the word of God predicts.

1 Peter 4:4 reads:

With respect to this they are surprised when you do not join them in the same flood of debauchery, and they malign you; but they will give account to him who is ready to judge the living and the dead.

In a world gone crazy, sanity appears to be insanity. I said a moment ago that the world is filled with sexual propaganda. We’re being played.

So that’s what I think the Lord would like us to do today on this subject. Let’s put a stake in the ground and discern truth from lies. Let’s deprogram and perhaps even develop some protection against the world’s lies on this subject.

Before I do that, I want to show you this kind of sermon is biblical. Let’s take a look at 2 Corinthians 10:4-5

“For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine power to destroy strongholds. We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ,”

Many of us are familiar with that phrase, “take every thought captive and make it obey Christ.” But we might not realize that Paul is not talking about individual believers. He is talking about his own ministry. One thing Paul does with his ministry is he tears down intellectual strongholds that are raised against the knowledge of God. He invades the castle of bad thinking and captures thoughts and forces them to obey Christ.

You can feed a congregation on these kinds of sermons alone. But from time to time, people need help seeing through the lies that surround them in the popular culture. So that’s what we will do today.

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