Developing Compassion for the Sexually Abused - Part 2

Living Proof with Beth Moore

Beth Moore

Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 25 February 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Beth continues this three-part series in an effort to explain what it's like to be sexually abused and how you might picture it and even try it on. In Part 3, she'll gives families, friends and churches of victims hope-filled ways to come alongside the victim and help them carry that burden.

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0:00.0	Living Proof with Beth Moore is sponsored by the friends and partners of Living Proof Ministries.
0:07.3	God ordained that a certain amount of rulership would be inherent to the human. That inherent in us
0:16.6	is something that gets to rule over some aspect of God's creation.
0:25.6	Well, you can imagine if that would be true for the birds of the air as it goes on to say,
0:31.6	or herds and flocks, how much more important is the right to get to rule over our own bodies.
0:53.6	This is our own body, and it was given to us in holiness and honor by God, and we get to treat it as such.
1:07.2	Here's where this begins to turn, because when the rule that we have the inalienable right to exercise over our own bodies is violated, particularly in a way that is in the very intimate realm of our sexuality, that wall gets breached.
1:29.7	There's a loss of safety and control.
1:36.2	And unfortunately, there's a loss of a sense of self-worth.
1:40.4	And I want to stop for a moment, and I want to re- reemphasize this because it's a loss of the sense
1:47.4	of self-worth and not a loss of the self-worth because we have to know that our value before God
1:56.1	cannot and has not ever decreased a single atom can Can I get somebody in the house to believe that?
2:04.4	It may be the loss of a sense of self-worth, but it is not the reality of that loss.
2:11.4	It's important for us to know that there is no age that is invulnerable to sexual abuse.
2:17.7	Like, well, if it happens at this age, it's not so bad.
2:22.6	Like if they're an adult, why would that be so upsetting?
2:27.2	I mean, for heaven's sake, the woman was 40 years old when she was assaulted that ought not to be that bad and that seems so outrageous for
2:37.6	most of us to think through but there are attitudes exactly like that i read not long ago about the
2:44.8	devastating rape of an elderly woman and my heart just broke for her because not only was she dealing with the physical
2:54.0	anguish and pain and damage to her body, but the pure demoralization of it is unimaginable.
3:05.1	I think in terms of a child, the losses are so compounded because there's
3:12.2	also the colossal loss of innocence, of coming into a knowing that cannot be unknown.
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