1 – If you don’t get in trouble . . .
2 – If you get away with it . . .
3 – If nobody knows . . .
4 – If you don’t hurt anyone . . .
5 – If nobody criticized or condemned you . . .
6 – If you think it’s okay . . .
7 – If ‘friends’ think it’s okay . . .
8 – If you repeated (and repeated) . . . and nothing happened . . .
9 – If God didn’t send lightning bolts or other judgment . . .
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10 – If all the above—
Then you must have had safe sex.
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Did you have safe sex ?
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BUT . . .
THEN . . .
THEREFORE . . .
Did you have safe sin ?
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If all ten “Ifs . . .” are indeed your experience, add one three-letter word—
IF nothing happened, IF no judgment . . . Y E T !
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Perhaps you are the person who waves off, laughs off, any negatives from your lifestyle.
Perhaps you will read what is next anyway.
Perhaps it will start a crack in your sealed wall, which is actually your prison.
Perhaps not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Perhaps you are aware of, and may be experiencing some of, ‘the rest of the story’ with “. . . YET”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Are you waiting for some of the consequences to get stronger, some of God’s judgments to get stronger, to get your attention sufficiently, to change ?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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