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A Parable about Sexuality - continued...
This material courtesy of Acts 17:11

Such were the perversions of those bored with waiting on the King and his promised message, but who retained the dream that they had barely acknowledged: that these sets must mean something. By now many sets were on the wrong channel, color distorted, image warped, antenna bent, even physically damaged.

Others, however, waited for the King to broadcast the promised message, and guarded their sets carefully so that they could get the clearest, most accurate picture.

Then one day the King decided to send his message. Those who had waited and kept their TV sets at the original settings got an incredibly powerful and vivid message from the King on the meaning of life, just like the King had promised. When this happened, they were very glad that they had not tampered with their sets before the broadcast. Now they understood the reasons why the King had told them to be so careful with such a delicate and powerful instrument in the first place.

The others, however, had mutilated their sets by screwing up the knobs for self-amusement before the King sent his message. When it came, it was garbled and warped. There were ghost images. Many were broken. Some were on the wrong channel and got nothing. These people were very sad that they had tried to get an "image" while none was being sent, and thus had ruined their chance to get the King's real message in its pure and perfect form.

Of course there is no such land or King, and the TV sets are merely a parable of sexuality. God gives us our sexuality and tells us:

Eph 5:31-32 (NIV) "For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh." This is a profound mystery--but I am talking about Christ and the church.

The purpose of the sexes, according to God, is so that we might understand the mystery of the relationship between Jesus and his bride through marriage. This is a profound mystery indeed, for it the meaning of life.

But each of us only have been given one set. If we "turn it on" before God speaks we will certainly get something, but not what God intends. And if for fun we turn the knobs, it may get more interesting but we will always get "de-tuned" from the station and/or "warp" the eventual image and/or put an odd "tint" to the color. And if we change the channel or worse, we may get nothing and wonder why God made such lavish promises about this set to begin with.

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