Relation Shipwreck (3)

Real Relationships

1 Corinthians 6:19–20 NIV

Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies.

EXPECTATIONS OF THE NIGHT:

-BE RESPECTFUL

-BE ATTENTIVE

-BE OPEN

-BE TRANSPARENT

BE STILL/PRAY

STATISTICS

In talking about relationships, there is a disconnect between what is spoken about the churches views of Godly relationships and worldly relationships. We often hear phrases such as “do what makes you happy”, “listen to your heart”, “love is love”.

But what the Word says about relationship are far different than these. Relationships in the biblical sense require much more work than we are often willing to put in. And because of this, we see the devaluing of teenagers in their self image.

The pressure is real. Relationships not chasing after God are relationships that are will not last.

For the majority of teens their first sexual intercourse was with someone with whom they were “going steady” (female teens: 74%; male teens: 51%). Only a small percentage of teens had their first sexual intercourse with someone they had “just met” (female teens: 2%; male teens: 7%).

Among teen females aged 15-19, 42% reported having ever had sex; among teen males, the percent was 44%.

Among younger teens, males are more likely to have had sex than females but by age 17, the probability of having sexual intercourse was similar for males and females.  By age 18, 55% of both males and females have had sex.

Among those teens who had not yet had sex, the most common reasons for abstaining were: “it was against religion or morals,” and “haven’t found the right person yet.

Among high school students questioned about the pressure for sex in high school, 50% said that they’d been pressured into a sexual situation in which they were uncomfortable

Boys were 10% more likely to be pressured by their friends to share sexual experiences.

GIVING YOURSELF ALWAYS HAS A COST

LUST-noun-VERY STRONG DESIRE FOR SOMETHING OR SOMEONE

The problem with lust is that it puts people in a position where they are looked at objectively and not as a person as a whole.

PEOPLE ARE NOT OBJECTS

Each sexual encounter devalues the people involved to a level of worth only found in sexual satisfaction of others.

When we allow the world to guide our relationships, we find we are more empty than we were before.

1 Corinthians 6:18 (NIV)

Flee from sexual immorality.

Sex is not sin, sex outside of marriage is sin. The reasons being is that you are giving yourself to that other person. And that is one part that you can never get back.

Then the man said,

“This at last is bone of my bones

and flesh of my flesh;

she shall be called Woman,

because she was taken out of Man.”

Ge 2:23.

DONT CONFUSE YOUR RIGHT NOW FOR YOUR AT LAST

Matthew 19:5–6 NIV

and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’? So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”

WHAT IS SOCIETY TELLING YOU?

1 Corinthians 6:19–20 NIV

Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies.