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Messed Up Culture
Our culture is way off course.
We are so messed up and have problems that are so convoluted we have a near impossible time diagnosing them and resolving them.
I have friends who are navigators in the Air Force and the talk about the importance of being exactly on course.
B/C, even a half degree off course becomes a whole big problem.
At first, it seems like you’re right one course, no one would notice that you’re not.
But when you fly for a while just a degree off course you end up miles from where you’re supposed to be.
How did our culture get so far away from where we should be?
The Oscars, for example.
The lowest rated viewership in history.
Why?
One reason, politics.
It used to be fun to watch and see who won.
Now, with the winners, we get their political views.
And, they are one-sided.
If I want politics, I watch cable news.
If I want entertainment, I watch my 2-year old play.
Not Oscars.
Another reason why we don’t watch is the hypocrisy.
A woman is never responsible when a man abuses, harasses, or assaults her; especially when it’s a man in authority over her.
I appreciate the “Me Too” movement raising awareness, getting help for victims, and fighting back against predatory men.
My problem with the Oscars;
Women should freed from ever being treated like, talked about like a sex object.
And, yet, the women presenters at the Oscars dress like sex objects and the movies receiving the awards overwhelming present women in scenes as sex objects.
The men, not so much.
In years past these horrific abuses of women were covered up and the women were left to suffer in silence.
Now, out in the open, men no longer able to easily cover up their abuses on their own, women long victimized are getting help, but the behavior is celebrated and rewarded by victims and perpetrators alike.
And, by rewarding the movies and the actors they contribute to the cover-up by de-sensitizing us to the abusive behavior.
How messed up is that?!
How do we unravel such a complicated mess that permeates our entire society?
Return to a biblical moral ethic.
Commit to abstinence until marriage.
Only be intimate w/ your spouse.
Not once you’re sure your going to married.
Not once you’re in love.
Not on a first date.
And, never just “hook up.”
And don’t stick you head in the sand thinking this is just a young adult’s issue.
Our culture dismisses morals like this as antiquated, old-fashioned, doesn’t apply.
Why try?
Perfection?
No.
But when we fail to keep this standard God has provided us the way to make things right by owning the mistake, admitting it, apologizing for it and stopping it.
The hardest thing we may ever do is stand up to temptation and sin.
Don’t put yourself in a position where you know you’ll be tempted.
If you do, stop before you go too far.
If you do, don’t try to cover it up.
If you do, own it, accept it and the consequences, then, thank God for grace.
This problem is not unique to us nor is it only recent history.
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This is the story about David and Bathsheba.
There is so much wrong about this situation.
And it leaves a number of innocent bodies in the wake.
People never intend to end up in so much trouble.
They let their guard down, begin w/ something that may not even be a sin, just foolishness.
But, if the course isn’t corrected soon enough, a little foolishness become a lot of sinfulness.
To avoid getting so deep in trouble and dealing with life-altering consequences we have to come clean early in the behavior and never complicate the situation by pursuing worse sins and then trying to cover everything up.
The cover up is almost always worse than the crime itself.
And, the second crime worse than the first.
Bad Enough
2 Samuel
David uncovered
David can’t sleep.
So, he gets out from underneath is covers and goes for a walk on his roof in the cool night.
Nothing wrong here, except.
He never should have been here in the first place.
A king was supposed to lead his army into battle.
David didn’t go.
He sent them and stayed behind.
This whole sorry episode should have been avoided if David was where he was supposed to be in the first place.
But, he wasn’t.
Not a huge deal, but off course just a little.Not necessarily sinful, but foolish.
Being a little bit off course is still off course.
And the longer you fly off course the farther you are away from where you’re supposed to be.
The second minute is worse than the first.
The second hour is worse, yet.
David ended up a long way away from where he was supposed to be even though he was in his own bed.
With Bathsheba.
How?
He saw something he shouldn’t have seen and schemed about something he shouldn’t have done.
Bathsheba uncovered
Under the cover of darkness, in place no one could see her; except one man.
Did she know he was watching?
It was dark, she couldn’t see him.
All the men were supposed to be out of town, at war.
And they were, except one.
Culturally, likely the typical place and time a woman bathes.
Should she have been covered up?
A curtain?
She was not doing anything wrong, inappropriate, that any other woman wasn’t doing, too.
If no one is around is it that big of a deal?
No, I don’t think Bathsheba did anything wrong here.
Again, not a huge deal.
just a little off course.
There is nothing to indicate that she did.
David’s palace was on higher ground and built taller than all the houses around.
In the darkness she didn’t see him.
Once he saw her, he didn’t look away, he started scheming.
Sometimes we see things or hear things we shouldn’t,
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