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HUMAN SEXUALITY
I. What you always wanted to know about sex but were too
spiritual to ask
A. I Corinthians
6:12-20
B. Reason for
these lessons
1. children ask questions
a. Sometimes
just...."why?"
b. be glad for every opportunity to talk to
your children about
sex
2. All
of us have questions
a. married people... "What can my
husband & I do
in sexual fulfillment
& what is taboo?"
b. Singles...
"How far can I go on a date & not
displease God?"
3. We
are bombarded with all types of information
on abnormal or perverted sex
4. We
are bombarded with TV & Movies on how "normal”
it is for single people to have sexual relations
together....how normal it is for married people
to commit adultery
5. Our
children are educated on sex from other
children; immoral teachers; or bathroom walls
C. The Bible
teaches us about our sexuality
1. Satan
didn't give us sex
2. Satan
didn't invent sex
3. Hugh
Hefner didn't invent sex
4. God
gave us our sexuality
D. My planned
lessons
1. Thought
of the title, "Things God wants you to
know about human sexuality"
a. too stiff....heard a tape entitled:
b. "What
you always wanted to know about sex
but were too spiritual to ask"
2. Tonight’s
lesson - "Immorality" (sex outside the
bounds of marriage)
E. About our
context..-! Cor. 6:12-20
1. In
this chapter-3 times Paul says:
"Don't
you know"... (repeat)
2. idea he is telling us sins God wants us to know
about
3. six times he refers to sex, prostitutes, or
sexual
intercourse
4. eight times in nine verses he talks about the
body. .."the body"...
"The body"..."the body"
5. put it all together...."Things God wants you to
know about your body & sex"
F. Verses 12-13....arguments they were making
for
engaging in immorality
(i.e. popular sayings in
1. "All things are lawful for me"
(in quotes in NIV)
2. "Food
is for the stomach and the stomach is for
food"
G. beginning in vs. 15 - 3 reasons for not
committing
immorality
V15...."Don't you know" (mentally
underline)
V15...."Don't
you know" ...second reason
V19...."Don't
you know" ....third reason
HERE
IS THE OUTLINE OF TONIGHT'S LESSON
H. Read the passage
I. History...
1. City of
2. Worshipped the goddess Epaphrodites
a. temple in midst
of the city
dedicated to her
a. temple in
midst of the city dedicated to her
b. 1,000 temple prostitutes walked the
streets of
c. A very basic & intragal
part of worship of
Epaphrodites
involved immorality
d.. Christians
converted from worship of Epaphrodites
brought into
the church this same philosophy of
sexual
misconduct.....& tried to justify it
3. This is the problem Paul was addressing
there
4. Not unlike the same problem of today
a. with the
advent of the "birth control pill" that
makes
sexual contact relatively safe
b. with the
advent of the automobile, with hotels &
Motels
c. with the
advent of the airplane making anyone safe
& secure & anonymous in
a matter of minutes or
hours
d. With the
computer and pornography and chat
rooms
e. with sex so
widely discussed as being normal
between
any two people who desire to share in it
5. I don't doubt that I am talking to some of
you who have
made a regular
part of your dating practice; sexual
immorality of
some kind....perhaps you are now
married....or
single
Or
some married person who has had one or more affairs
6. The questions we raise is what does God's
word say
about this
J. The Victorians sought to have love
without falling in sex
The modern person seeks to have sex,
without falling into love
K. The
Corinthians tried to justify their behavior with these two
statements
1. Verse 12 - "All things are possible
for me"
(First
argument)
a.
God's grace does cover all
types of sin...all sin
b.
Paul had to address this
problem in Rom. 6
1) Look at Rom.
2) Rom 6:1-2
c. they twisted Paul's teaching that we are
not
justified by Law; but by grace....not by eat
certain foods & restrictions .... but
by grace
2. They didn't realize that
"freedom" was not freedom to
do as you
please.....but the power to do as you ought
to do
Freedom comes within the context of
boundaries
V12 he mentions the first/ "Not all
things are Profitable"
....or beneficial
A tree may want to be free
from the soil – wind comes -
-
uproots tree - tree dies
A
child wants to be free from fenced in yard
3. Second
argument - V. 13
a. God
made stomach; right?
b. God
made food; right?
c. God
gave me hunger; right?
d. God
gave food to satisfy hunger; right?
4. Same
arguments today
a. God
made my body; right?
b. We
are animals with sexual appetite; right?
c. We
don’t get mad at other animals......why not us?
5. PAUL'S
ANSWER -
a. God
did not make body for immorality
b. we are NOT
ANIMALS
c.
We are made for the LORD
d. we are the
dwelling place of God's Spirit
6. V.
20 - "GLORIFY GOD IN SEX" Context is sex
a. Adam
& Eve - "be fruitful & Multiply"
then said,
"THAT IS VERY GOOD" - (Before fall)
b. Prov. 5 -
"man is to be exhilerated by his wife”
1)
By their sexual
c. Deut. 24:5, when a young man gets married
he is
to have
a year off to enjoy his new bride & bring
happiness to her
d. Song
of Solomon - erotic
1) has
to do with married love
GODS CREATED SEX; IT IS TO BE
ENJOYED BY MANKIND;
IT PLEASES GOD WHEN MEN AND
WOMEN USE THIS GIFT PROPERLY…..
DISPLEASES GOD WHEN TRAMPLED
UNDER FOOT; CHEAPENED
V 20 - "GLORIFIES
GOD"
7. Man
says, "Man is for sex" ~ Not "Sex is
for man"
a. if sex abused - come up empty
b. if used properly - fulfilled
c. our bodies will be raised up - glorify God
8. CONCLUSION:
V. 12 - You might have liberty; but a
liberty has boundaries
v. 13 - God gave us sex as a gift to be
used in its proper
way
L. Rest of
chapter - 3
reasons why NOT to engage in immorality
1. DO
YOU NOT KNOW (all three) - V15; V16; V19
2. Go to V19 first.....
a. We
were bought with a price
b. You
are a slave to sin - or to Christ
(Your body belongs to Him)
1) If I borrowed you coat
2) came
to services - used as a doormat
3) How would you feel?
4) That's the point - your body
does not belong to
you
c. We
are the temple of the Holy Spirit
1) Would you think of
committing fornication in
the church building
2) You might say "in the
Sanctuary???"
CANT HIDE FROM
GOD 3) Bible never refers to the building
as a sanctuary
4) Your body is the
SPIRIT
5) Commit fornication in the
very place where
God dwells
3. Next
go to V15.......
a. struggle to understand
b. We
are each members of Christ’s body
1) 1 Cor.
2) Church & body
3) each members –
purpose
example
of when one member is hurt
example of when
one doesn't work right
(dentist & novacaine - act it out.....words)
a) Try to talk
b) Try to smile
c) try
to drink coffee (dribble on shirt)
c. part of your body has become paralized
d. You
have taken away part of the use & function
e. YOU
are a part of the Body of Christ
1)
you take away and paralize
2)
you have weakened it
3)
you have taken away that part as a Christian
model
f.
ALSO, Like inviting Christ to join
you in halotry
1) Would you invite Christ? -
BLASPHEMY!
2) That's what you're doing (READ
VERSE)
g. recap - first reason is that we no longer own our
bodies;
they are rented (at best)
the second
reason is that our bodies are members
of the body of Christ
4. the third reason is that it affects a person forever
a. Read
vl6
1) more
takes place than a biological function
2) spiritual union -
a) Bible uses term
"knowing" one another
b) WILLIAM
HAMILTON
c) cannot as
single; only in marriage
d) Cannot completely give; only
hurried
shame
3) Parable of girl went to college
Tempted – seeing so
many others -
wrote home to father - "sometimes wonder
what
I’m waiting for"
His reply: "I can answer you in six words – ‘you
are waiting to be free’
Free from the nagging voice of
conscience
Free from the gray shadow of guilt
Free to give all of yourself (not a
panicky fraction)
Something deep inside you knows what great
influence over the
rest of your life
that first sexual union with another person can be.
That same instinct tells you not to blurr it; not to waste it; not to make it
cheap and small."
4) C. S. Lewis –
'"Every time a man and
woman enter into a sexual relationship, a
spiritual bond is
formed between them which must be eternally
ENJOYED or ENDURED."
b. Go
back to vl6
c. Far
more than biological linking of bodies
d. That's
why Matthew 19:9
e. Change
takes place - story of girl who's friends
keep needling her to “turn loose".....
"I can always become what you are, you can never become what I am"
5. Now
go to V. 17-18
.
a. What
it means to "flee immorality"
b. Joseph
& Potipher's wife
c. When
tempted - FLEE
M. Close:
1. If
you have already violated
a. No
words of comfort; can't undo
b.
God forgives - accept that
forgiveness
c. must
face consequences of your actions
2. If you have not given in
a.
I want to encourage you
b.
Tell my children; "you
only cross that line once,
you can never go back to pure innosense"
c.
What you bring into a
marriage........
d.
After married...... can never
go back & undo any
adultery .....never unadulterated again
1) can be forgiven;
mate & Christ