God created sex to be a beautiful and essential ingredient in marriage, but sexual sin---sex outside the marriage relationship--always hurts someone. It hurts God because it shows that we prefer following our own desires instead of the leading of the Holy Spirit. It hurts others because it violates the commitment necessary to a relationship. Sexual temptations are difficult to withstand because they appeal to the normal and natural desires that God has given us. Marriage provides God's way to satisfy these natural sexual desires and to strengthen the partners against temptation.
Satan’s plan is that people would have as much sex outside of the marriage relationship and as little within the marriage relationship as is possible. His plan is to mask, to hide, the true purpose of sex behind the pleasure it brings simply as a physical act. It is a clever plan that has proven effective time and time again. But, there’s more to sex than mere skin on skin. Sex is as much spiritual mystery as physical fact. As written in Scripture, ‘The two become one.’ Since we want to become spiritually one with the Master, we must not pursue the kind of sex that avoids commitment and intimacy, leaving us more lonely than ever—the kind of sex that can never ‘become one.’
Join us this week for the riskiest sermon I may ever preach. I'll see you at 9:00 or 10:45 for "Good Sex, Bad Sex." Read ahead in 1 Corinthians 6:12-7:7.
We are giving out two resources for married and single men this weekend. If you are a dude, don't miss.
Parents - view this warning from Roger Durbin on Vimeo.
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