These things happened to them as examples for us... (1 Corinthians 10:11)
1. King David: Sexual Immorality profile:
Lust, Adultery - 1 Samuel 11
Suffered:
1. a sword shall never depart from your house
2. adversity raised up against him in his own house
3. Wives taken from him and given to his neighbor
4. Wives slept with in the sight of everyone
5. Death of 1st born child with Bathsheba
Suffered:
1. a sword shall never depart from your house
2. adversity raised up against him in his own house
3. Wives taken from him and given to his neighbor
4. Wives slept with in the sight of everyone
5. Death of 1st born child with Bathsheba
6. Children affect by his sin
2. Amnon, Son of David: Sexual
Immorality Profile: Lust, Rape, Incest, fornication - 1 Samuel 13
Suffered: Physical Death
Suffered: Physical Death
3: Tamar, Daughter of David: Sexual
Immorality Profile: Rape - 1 Samuel 13
Suffered: shame, Grief, Spiritual Death, desolated, identity thief, anger, hurt, pain, emotional and physical abuse.
Suffered: shame, Grief, Spiritual Death, desolated, identity thief, anger, hurt, pain, emotional and physical abuse.
4: Ham, Son of Noah: Sexual
Immorality Profile: Pornography- Genesis 9
Suffered: Family Linage being cursed.
Suffered: Family Linage being cursed.
5. Abraham: Sexual Immorality
Profile: Adultery - Genesis 16
Suffered: Hatred by his wife , strife arise between wife and slave had to live apart from first son Ishmael, oldest son mocking youngest child, had to send oldest child away, had to live separated from oldest child, torn between separation.
Suffered: Hatred by his wife , strife arise between wife and slave had to live apart from first son Ishmael, oldest son mocking youngest child, had to send oldest child away, had to live separated from oldest child, torn between separation.
6. Lots two daughters: Sexual
Immorality Profile: Incest, Fornication- Genesis 19
Suffered: enemies of Israel /consistently at war for their sins. God brought judgement against them
Suffered: enemies of Israel /consistently at war for their sins. God brought judgement against them
7. King Solomon: Sexual Immorality
Profile: Bigamy- 1 Kings 11:11-40
Suffered: Kingdom torn away from him and given to his subordinate after his death, predecessors was only left one tribe to rule over, Jeroboam son, one of Solomon’s officials rebelled against him, adversary was raised up against him.
Suffered: Kingdom torn away from him and given to his subordinate after his death, predecessors was only left one tribe to rule over, Jeroboam son, one of Solomon’s officials rebelled against him, adversary was raised up against him.
Learn this powerful lessons from the lives of the Bible Personalities and strive for sexual purity.
(This article is culled from an assignment done by Pastor Derashay Zorn during her Sexual Morality Leadership course training with Rufus Elijah Yamoah)
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