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*REAL RELATIONSHIPS*
*(THE LOVE YOU’VE ALWAYS WANTED)*
*#1: Pure Sex – Whether You’re Single or Married*
Pastor Greg Henneman
April 15, 2007
Text: 1 Corinthians 6:18-20
Key Idea: Sex is spiritual.
Goal: To become more spiritual!
*INTRODUCTION*
· Promote BASE Classes…
We’re starting a new series today called REAL RELATIONSHIPS: THE LOVE YOU’VE ALWAYS WANTED.
And today we’re talking about sex: *Pure Sex – Whether You’re Married or Single…*
Sound interesting?
This may be the only sermon all year long that you won’t mind if I go a bit overtime!
*You’ll see on your outline that we have three major questions:*
· Why is sex such a big deal?
· What do women need to know about men?
· What do men need to know about women?
*A.
Why is Sex such a Big Deal?*
*1.
Sex is about connection.*
Sex is so much more than just the physical act of two bodies coming together.
It certainly includes that, but it’s so much more.
*Rob Bell, in his book “Sex God”, says that the word sex comes from the Latin word /secare/,* which means to sever, to amputate, or to disconnect from the whole.”
It’s where we get our words sect, section, dissect, and bisect.
*Our sexuality, then, has two dimensions.*
First, our sexuality is our awareness of how profoundly we’re severed and cut off and disconnected.
Second, our sexuality is all of the ways we go about trying to reconnect.
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*And so this guy always has a girlfriend.*
It’s become a joke with his friends that the day he loses a girl he finds another.
And he talks about the great sex he’s having all the time.
They even joke, “Oh, he’s traded her in for a better model.”
*The question is, “Why does he need all these girls?”*
Is it really that he’s just a party animal and it’s all instinct?
Or is there something more to it?
What’s his real need?
And if we could get at that, maybe he wouldn’t need all those girls?
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*/Genesis 1:27 "/**/So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them."/*
God creates mankind as male and female.
The whole idea of sex is God’s idea!
Sex is not dirty.
Sex is not bad.
Sex is spiritual!
Sex is holy!
Why?
Because God created it; it’s his design!
*/Genesis 2:24-25 "/**/For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.
/**/The man and his wife were both naked, and they felt no shame."/*
*The story of mankind begins with a man and a woman connected.*
They are naked.
They are “one flesh.”
They are transparent and open and vulnerable –and they feel no shame!
When they have sex they come together physically.
The man penetrates the woman –and their physical one-flesh-ness is a reflection of their emotional and spiritual harmony.
They are connected –with each other, with God.
Their physical oneness expresses the spiritual and emotional oneness that they’re enjoying!
*I love that phrase “they were naked and felt no shame.”*
They weren’t just physically naked –they were totally naked!
No secrets!
No baggage!
Nothing to hide! Nothing to fear!
They were known and loved and connected.
*So sex is God’s idea.
It’s good.
It’s right.
It’s wonderful.*
Did you know that one entire book of the Bible is given to sexuality and romance?
*/Song of Songs 1:2 “/**/Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth— for your love is more delightful than wine.”/*
I wish we had time to some passages out of the Song of Songs…some pretty racy stuff in there!
So the Bible holds sex up as a wonderful gift of God.
Jesus spoke of the beauty of marriage and sexuality.
*But there is one thing that Jesus said that has bothered me a lot and bothered my wife a lot.*
Until recently when I started to see it in a new light.
*/Luke 20:34 "/**/Jesus replied, “The people of this age marry and are given in marriage.
/**/But those who are considered worthy of taking part in that age and in the resurrection from the dead will neither marry nor be given in marriage, /**/and they can no longer die; for they are like the angels."/*
*My wife and I used to talk about this.* “Honey, I can’t imagine being in heaven and knowing you but not being married to you! Do you mean that we’ll actually lose this special love relationship that we have?
I’m not sure I like heaven!
No marriage, no sex in heaven?”
I’ve come to see it in a better light –I think in a more biblical light.
*When the NT writers talk about Christ coming again, they oftentimes use the language of a wedding banquet.*
Christ is the groom and we, the church, are his bride.
When Jesus comes back it’s going to be like a wedding party.
We’ll have a huge dinner reception and we’ll be so close to God it’s like we’ve married him!
*/Revelation 21:2 "/**/I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband."/*
*It’s like a wedding day –and God and we are going to be married!*
If you read on in Revelation 21 it says that God will be with us.
God and Jesus will be so close and personal that we won’t need the light of the sun because they will be our light.
In the light everybody is fully known.
Isn’t that what people crave in sex?
To be known.
To be embraced and accepted and loved.
*Revelation 22 says that the curse will be lifted.*
Right now we live in a cursed world.
Even the best of relationships have some problems.
And we all know that one of us is going to stand over the casket of the other one someday.
*Sex is that brief moment when everything is ok with the world, *even when it’s not.
Sex is a retreat from the pain and brokenness of life.
It’s an expression of the newness and freshness and creativity and hope that we all yearn for!
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