The Joy of Being A Eunuch for the kingdom of God

# The Joy of Being A Eunuch for the kingdom of God.

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- Not all men accept this statement;

+ Not everyone is going to like the way God has defined marriage.

+ Not everyone will accept it.

+ But some are eunuchs from birth, others by the hands of another, and others still make themselves such.

### Now why would anyone make themselves a eunuch?

# Well for the sake of the kingdom of heaven.

* In other words:

- Somebody would forgo all sexual impulse for the sake of the kingdom of God.

- Now this is a revolutionary idea.

- In the ancient world success was having children.

- A man was measured by his wealth, his servants, and his children.

+ To not marry, to forgo having children on purpose was out of touch with much of the surrounding culture.

+ So why resist culture?

+ Why resist the natural impulses of bodily passion?

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- In we are told to follow Paul's example.[^1]

+ In we are told to practice the things we Paul practiced.[^2]

* To practice what he teaches and the God of peace will be with you.

* Which brings us back to

- Paul says "I will not be mastered by anything."

- He then says, as if retorting to someone who responds.

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### "Food is for the stomach and the stomach is for food, but God will do away with both of them."

- This was a pretty common refrain among those in the world.

+ I was made for doing this?

* In fact we hear this same thing today

- along with the variation:

+ "I was made this way."

> Yet the body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord is for the body.

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