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Our work with young Native Americans has only increased my wife's appreciation for Indian jewelry. One night I was busily involved in a conversation, and Karen was over in the corner and she was just quietly working on some jewelry, actually she was painstakenly trying to glue some tiny little pieces of turquoise into a bracelet setting. And then I heard, "Oh oh." I said, "What happened?" She said, "I got some glue on my finger." I said, "OK." She said, "It's super glue." And instantly her thumb and her forefinger had become part of the bracelet. Oh no, the ads were right, that stuff bonds instantly. It bonds permanently. We had our own ER, and spent probably an hour trying to unglue Karen - a lot of hot water, home remedies, carefully pulling. I'll tell you it was painful. But finally we were able to give Karen back her thumb and finger.
Well I'm Ron Hutchcraft, and I want to have A Word With You today about Super Glue.
Our word for today from the Word of God comes from I Corinthians, Chapter 6. I'll begin reading at Verse 16. Do you not know that he who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in body. For it is said that two will become one flesh. But he who unites himself with the Lord is one with Him in Spirit. Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a man commits are outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body. Now these are words from the inventor of sex. And it reveals something that many people just don't realize about sex until it is too late. Sex is emotional and spiritual super glue. It deeply bonds people to each other whether they are aware of it or not. And like Karen and her ring, you will bond - even if you never meant to. And like Karen, it is painful to separate when you have done something that permanently bonds. This one flesh is quoted from God in what He says about a married couple usually. "Let no man separate that couple," He says. See sex is designed by the Creator to be inside a lifelong love covenant called marriage. It is designed to permanently bond people. But when you do it outside of the marriage covenant it still has all its bonding power. It deeply attaches you soul to soul with your sexual partner - even if it is the totally meaningless sex with the prostitute the Bible says. You can't stop the bonding.
Now, tape bonds to whatever you stick it on, but if you stick it to different surfaces over and over, eventually it won't stick any more. People don't realize that every time they get really involved physically with someone they are giving away more of their "bond-ability" - their ability to give and receive lifetime love. And then in the one relationship you really want to work, the bonding is much weaker than God ever created it to be. And when you try to end a relationship that has been heavily physical, it is like trying to separate two pieces of paper that have been glued together. It rips both people apart, because two people who have been sexually committed were never meant to separate.
If you ask Karen, she would say, "Be very very careful with super glue, or you will end up bonded when you really shouldn't be, and it will hurt a lot to separate what's bonded." See that is your Creator's advise about sex. Keep it special - keep it saved for your lifetime partner. Don't push the limits physically. And if you have already gone too far, come to Jesus cross, and hear His promise, "I will remember your sins no more." Let Him begin to restore your emotional and spiritual virginity. Whatever you have done before today, from today on, doesn't ever have to matter again. Jesus can make you clean!
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