Think You're Safe?
Theme of the Week: Targeted for Temptation?
Sunday, September 25, 2005
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Who Said It…Bill Perkins
Bill Perkins's wit and penetrating stories make him a sought–after speaker who straddles categories. He conducts business and leadership seminars for companies. He's launched a ministry called the Million Mighty Men. But he's also the teaching pastor at Coast Hills Community Church in McMinnville, Oregon. Bill likes to lift weights and scuba dive, often with one of his three sons. What He Said…Think You're Safe?
During the 1982 Falkland Islands conflict, the British Royal Navy felt that its ships were safe from attack because of a sophisticated defense system that identified enemy missiles and shot them down. Attack after attack was repelled with no damage to a British ship.
Then the unexpected happened. The 3,500-ton destroyer HMS Sheffield was sunk by a single missile fired from an Argentine fighter jet. Later, an investigation revealed that the Sheffield's defenses did pick up the incoming missile, correctly identifying it as a French-made Exocet. But the computer was programmed to ignore Exocets as friendly. So the ship was sunk by a missile it saw coming and could have destroyed.
Men who want to be sexually pure in our impure society are like battleships floating on the open sea. A constant bombardment of sensual missiles is fired our way every day. If our defense system allows missiles we should see coming and avoid, to penetrate our mind, we're in big trouble.
Adapted from When Good Men Are Tempted (Zondervan, 1997) by permission.
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