Sex In A Broken World (2-20-22)
Sex In A Broken World
Sex Is Good
February 20, 2022
God created it, sin distorted it.
3 Fundamental Assumptions:
- God is for you.
- God is a good father.
- Sex is good.
Where is the line?
A better question: What does holiness look like?
Purpose
- Procreation
- Connection
- Pleasure
Purpose has a context.
Genesis 2:23-25
23 The man said,
“This is now bone of my bones
and flesh of my flesh;
she shall be called ‘woman,’
for she was taken out of man.”
24 That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh.
25 Adam and his wife were both naked, and they felt no shame.
Longing for Shalom
Peace with God
Peace with others
Genesis 2:18
The Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.”
John 10:10
The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.
Romans 8:18-27
I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. 19 For the creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed. 20 For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope 21 that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the freedom and glory of the children of God.
22 We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. 23 Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption to sonship, the redemption of our bodies. 24 For in this hope we were saved. But hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what they already have? 25 But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently.
26 In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans. 27 And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for God’s people in accordance with the will of God.
My purpose is not to pursue pleasure, it is to pursue Jesus.