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.<\/p>\n\n
Then the unexpected happened. The 3,500-ton destroyer HMS Sheffield<\/em> was sunk by a single missile fired from an Argentine fighter jet. Later, an investigation revealed that the Sheffield's<\/em> 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.<\/p>\n\n Men and women 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 avoid to penetrate our mind, we're in big trouble.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":0,"template":"","tax_ctp_audience":[306],"tax_ctp_authors":[],"tax_ctp_categories":[165],"tax_ctp_format":[171],"tax_ctp_illustration_types":[411],"tax_ctp_multimedia":[],"tax_ctp_point_editor":[],"tax_publications":[140],"tax_ctp_tags":[3764,3931,4236,4482,4747,4958,5134,5236,5261,5263],"tax_ctp_topics":[378,388],"class_list":["post-47076","sermon-illustrations","type-sermon-illustrations","status-publish","hentry","tax_publications-ct-pastors","tax_ctp_tags-desert","tax_ctp_tags-failure","tax_ctp_tags-indifference","tax_ctp_tags-mistakes","tax_ctp_tags-purity","tax_ctp_tags-sexual-immorality","tax_ctp_tags-temptation","tax_ctp_tags-vigilance","tax_ctp_tags-warning","tax_ctp_tags-watchfulness"],"acf":{"scripture_references":[{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null},{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null},{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null}]},"yoast_head":"\n