0910 Single, Ready to Mingle - Obsessive Love

OBSESSIVE LOVE

After this Absalom the son of David had a lovely sister, whose name was Tamar; and Amnon the son of David loved her. Amnon was so distressed over his sister Tamar that he became sick; for she was a virgin. And it was improper for Amnon to do anything to her. But Amnon had a friend… 2 Samuel 13:1-2

(David is 53 years of age, Amnon is 22, Absalom 20, Tamar 15, and Solomon 2.)

Person who is obsessed with you will become possessive of you.

Characteristics of Obsessive Love:

1. When person can’t live without you.

2. When person demands unreasonable amounts of your time

3. When person ignores other aspects of their own life to you

4. When person shows jealously toward anything and any activity that competes for your attention

5. When person follows you and checks up on you when you’re not together

6. Obsessive love begins with intense emotions, flattery and attention but slowly turns into an unhealthy possessiveness of you.

1. Prince will lose his palace if he becomes a prisoner of his passion.

For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you should abstain from sexual immorality; that each of you should know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor, not in passion of lust, like the Gentiles who do not know God

1 Th.4:3-5

Animals are bodies without spirit - ruled by sexuality

Angels are spirit without bodies - don’t have sexuality

We are spirits with bodies - rule sexuality

2. You can’t control what gets passed on to you but you are responsible for what you activate. (Experiences. Choices. Associations)

Afterward it happened that he loved a woman in the Valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah. And the lords of the Philistines came up to her and said to her, “Entice him, and find out where his great strength lies, and by what means we may overpower him, that we may bind him to afflict him; and every one of us will give you eleven hundred pieces of silver.” Judges 16:4-5

Behind every tomato is a farmer.

Behind every Delilah is a Philistine.

Behind every sexual sin is an evil spirit.

Demonized is not ownership but control

Where you are out of control, demons are in control.

Even though demons can’t have Christians but Christians can have demons.

Blood Knife. Wolf is drawn to blood. He becomes irrational. They haunted wolves with their weakness in mind. Dip the knife in blood and bind it to something strong.

3. Submit your biology to theology.

Your sexuality to your spiritually. Your feelings to your faith. Your chemistry to Christ.

Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you. James 4:7

Today, you don’t care what God says, tomorrow, you will not care how she feels.

Dogs swell receptors. 300 million olfactory receptors, we have 6 million. Part in the brain devoted to analyzing smell is 40 times greater than ours.

4. Overthrow nature by the way of nurture.

Python produces more eggs than other snakes. These eggs can’t hatch in any environment. Spirit of divination is actually “python” Acts 16:16

Do not be deceived: “Evil company corrupts good habits.” 1 Corinthians 15:33

Fake friends with crazy advice.

Pretending something you’re not.

Avoiding community, honestly, mentorship, and truthfulness.

Flee also youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart. 2 Timothy 2:22