Coming to Grips with Your Sexual Past
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Ours is a sexually broken world. Many people experience the emotional pain that comes with past sexual relationships. Abuse, extramarital liaisons, and sexual exploitation all contribute to damaging the delicate emotional balance of our sexuality.
In this eBooklet, Dr. Lutzer explains the consequences of sexual bonding and the reason for sexual addictions. From the story of a sexually broken woman in the New Testament, this eBooklet explains the requirements for experiencing the sexual healing that Christ can bring to every wounded person.
Here is the much-needed hope that many people desperately long for as they attempt to put their past behind them. With sensitivity and understanding, Dr. Lutzer addresses people where they are and shows them how to get to where they should be.
Erwin W. Lutzer
Dr. Erwin W. Lutzer is Pastor Emeritus of The Moody Church, where he served as the senior pastor for 36 years. He is an award-winning author and the featured speaker on three radio programs that are heard on more than 750 national and international outlets. He and his wife, Rebecca, have three grown children and eight grandchildren and live in the Chicago area.
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Coming to Grips with Your Sexual Past - Erwin W. Lutzer
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Introduction
Ihate him for what he did to me, but I’d marry him today if he asked me to!"
This eighteen-year-old girl had every right to loathe her pseudo lover, a married man who awakened her sexuality by his advances and seductions. He promised that she would be his sweetheart forever, so she felt secure with his affection. But when the affair was discovered he blamed everything on her, falsely accusing her of initiating this sexual liaison. She was betrayed and humiliated and asked to leave the church where they both attended.
Yet, incredibly, she was willing to risk everything and marry him, if only he would ask! Though he was married and the father of three children, this young Christian woman was willing to break up a marriage to have the affection of this man, the first with whom she had had a sexual relationship.
This experience was so indelibly stamped on her soul that even the man’s betrayal could not chisel him out of her heart. When she realized that he would not leave his wife and children for her, she sought fulfillment with other lovers, going from one man to another to satisfy her awakened longings for intimacy. Even if she didn’t particularly enjoy these liaisons, she felt, in her words, this is the price I have to pay to mean something to somebody.
Why can one immoral relationship begin a search for other sexual partners in a vain attempt to find fulfillment? This booklet is written to answer that question and others. Your Sexual Past will explain:
• The power of sexual sin
• The development of sexual addictions
• The doorway to sexual forgiveness and healing
Our sexuality is the most sensitive aspect of our personality. We are fundamentally sexual beings with deep inner needs that we are tempted to meet even at great risk. If we do not channel those desires correctly, we can embark on a destructive path filled with broken promises that will eventually lead us to a painful dead end.
Pornography is not the only doorway to the world of sexual brokenness, but it is one of the most popular. Young people who watch movies replete with various forms of sexuality often find their passions so stimulated that they want to act out everything they have seen. At least one-half of all high school students are sexually active before graduation. Any thought that AIDS might frighten them into maintaining their virginity till marriage seems ill-founded. Yet those who have sex before marriage jeopardize their chances for a happy relationship. (The reasons will be explained later.) This explains why we have so many sexual problems in marriages.
Then there are those