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Today we are going to hone in on the importance of warning signs, alarms, guardrails in the area of sexual immorality.

When scripture says that it mean sexuality that does not take pace within the covenant relationship of the marriage of a man and women.

This is what the Apostle Paul says about sexuality outside of that protective environment.

to be clear this is not about sex,

No religion of worldview thinks more highly of sexuality.

No other worldview cares more for human flourishing through sexuality, it just so happens that God attaches great value to the person inside the body involved in sexual activity and wants their value attached when the act of sex takes place!

The world seeks to divide the person from the act, the body from the soul, and Christianity is not willing to do that, we think too highly of the person.

This is what Paul says....

PRAYER

Right off the bat.... here is the issue with a subject like this.

This is one of those....oh you’re a pastor you have to hit this stuff every once and awhile.

Here we go.

The sex talk!!

And if you are sitting here saying…not me.

Don’t need it.

I’m fine in my marriage, my thought life, pure baby pure, but you do not see the need for warning signs, alarms, hazard signs, you are the person on Survivor who says I am in control of the game, and gets.....what do they call it on Survivor.

“Blind sided”

It is my hope and desire that by the end of today’s message you would put guardrails, alarms in place so that you will never get blindsided in the in area.

Today I want to talk about what I think is the most important area.

This is the area that’s most needed, but it’s also the area where we find the most resistance.

In fact, whenever I talk about this subject, and I do from time to time, even though I feel like I repeat myself, I’ve decided I just don’t care—we just can’t talk about this enough.

Whenever I talk about this subject, I feel literally like one of those Old Testament prophets who’s yelling and screaming and everybody is just passing by ignoring him, and that no matter what I say and no matter how I illustrate it, no matter how graphic I am and no matter how ridiculous I get, no matter how creative I get, the average person goes, “Yeah, well, that’s what we would expect a preacher to say,” and then he or she just goes right back to business as usual.

But if we as a culture would begin establishing some guardrails in this one particular area, it would impact poverty in our nation, it would cause an amazing change in our inner cities in our country, it would begin to reduce the number of people in prison in our country, and thousands and thousands of little boys and little girls would be tucked in by Mommy and Daddy on the weekend instead of swapping back and forth every other weekend to visit Mom and Dad because they’re not together anymore.

most needed, but it’s also the area where we find the most resistance.

In fact, whenever I talk about this subject, and I do from time to time, even though I feel like I repeat myself, I’ve decided I just don’t care—we just can’t talk about this enough.

Whenever I talk about this subject, I feel literally like one of those Old Testament prophets who’s yelling and screaming and everybody is just passing by ignoring him, and that no matter what I say and no matter how I illustrate it, no matter how graphic I am and no matter how ridiculous I get, no matter how creative I get, the average person goes, “Yeah, well, that’s what we would expect a preacher to say,” and then he or she just goes right back to business as usual.

But if we as a culture would begin establishing some guardrails in this one particular area, it would impact poverty in our nation, it would cause an amazing change in our inner cities in our country, it would begin to reduce the number of people in prison in our country, and thousands and thousands of little boys and little girls would be tucked in by Mommy and Daddy on the weekend instead of swapping back and forth every other weekend to visit Mom and Dad because they’re not together anymore.

about this subject, and I do from time to time, even though I feel like I repeat myself, I’ve decided I just don’t care—we just can’t talk about this enough.

Whenever I talk about this subject, I feel literally like one of those Old Testament prophets who’s yelling and screaming and everybody is just passing by ignoring him, and that no matter what I say and no matter how I illustrate it, no matter how graphic I am and no matter how ridiculous I get, no matter how creative I get, the average person goes, “Yeah, well, that’s what we would expect a preacher to say,” and then he or she just goes right back to business as usual.

But if we as a culture would begin establishing some guardrails in this one particular area, it would impact poverty in our nation, it would cause an amazing change in our inner cities in our country, it would begin to reduce the number of people in prison in our country, and thousands and thousands of little boys and little girls would be tucked in by Mommy and Daddy on the weekend instead of swapping back and forth every other weekend to visit Mom and Dad because they’re not together anymore.

subject, I feel literally like one of those Old Testament prophets who’s yelling and screaming and everybody is just passing by ignoring him, and that no matter what I say and no matter how I illustrate it, no matter how graphic I am and no matter how ridiculous I get, no matter how creative I get, the average person goes, “Yeah, well, that’s what we would expect a preacher to say,” and then he or she just goes right back to business as usual.

But if we as a culture would begin establishing some guardrails in this one particular area, it would impact poverty in our nation, it would cause an amazing change in our inner cities in our country, it would begin to reduce the number of people in prison in our country, and thousands and thousands of little boys and little girls would be tucked in by Mommy and Daddy on the weekend instead of swapping back and forth every other weekend to visit Mom and Dad because they’re not together anymore.

everybody is just passing by ignoring him, and that no matter what I say and no matter how I illustrate it, no matter how graphic I am and no matter how ridiculous I get, no matter how creative I get, the average person goes, “Yeah, well, that’s what we would expect a preacher to say,” and then he or she just goes right back to business as usual.

But if we as a culture would begin establishing some guardrails in this one particular area, it would impact poverty in our nation, it would cause an amazing change in our inner cities in our country, it would begin to reduce the number of people in prison in our country, and thousands and thousands of little boys and little girls would be tucked in by Mommy and Daddy on the weekend instead of swapping back and forth every other weekend to visit Mom and Dad because they’re not together anymore.

illustrate it, no matter how graphic I am and no matter how ridiculous I get, no matter how creative I get, the average person goes, “Yeah, well, that’s what we would expect a preacher to say,” and then he or she just goes right back to business as usual.

But if we as a culture would begin establishing some guardrails in this one particular area, it would impact poverty in our nation, it would cause an amazing change in our inner cities in our country, it would begin to reduce the number of people in prison in our country, and thousands and thousands of little boys and little girls would be tucked in by Mommy and Daddy on the weekend instead of swapping back and forth every other weekend to visit Mom and Dad because they’re not together anymore.

And today we are going to talk about putting up hazard signs around sexuality.

creative I get, the average person goes, “Yeah, well, that’s what we would expect a preacher to

say,” and then he or she just goes right back to business as usual.

But if we as a culture would

Yeah!!

Now here is the issue with a subject like this.

This is one of those....oh you’re a pastor you have to hit this stuff every once and awhile.

begin establishing some guardrails in this one particular area, it would impact poverty in our

And as a pastor, you gotta start feeling like an OT prophet yelling on the corner, in flip flops and everyone is just walking by rolling their eyes, going you are so behind on this.

But here we go, because, I belief that the biblical ethic for sexuality has been proven to be true; that sexuality is best lived out with in the protective confines of marriage between a man and a woman as described in scripture.

Why is this important

I believe that many of the ailments in our society would become healthier if their were guardrails and heeded hazard signs in this area.

nation, it would cause an amazing change in our inner cities in our country, it would begin to reduce the number of people in prison in our country, and thousands and thousands of little boys and little girls would be tucked in by Mommy and Daddy on the weekend instead of swapping back and forth every other weekend to visit Mom and Dad because they’re not together anymore.

reduce the number of people in prison in our country, and thousands and thousands of little boys and little girls would be tucked in by Mommy and Daddy on the weekend instead of swapping back and forth every other weekend to visit Mom and Dad because they’re not together anymore.

and little girls would be tucked in by Mommy and Daddy on the weekend instead of swapping back and forth every other weekend to visit Mom and Dad because they’re not together anymore.

I believe that there is evidence that culture would begin establishing some guardrails in this one particular area, it would impact poverty, it would cause an amazing change in our inner cities, it would begin to reduce the number of people in prison in our country, and thousands and thousands of little boys and little girls would be tucked in by Mommy and Daddy on the weekend instead of swapping back and forth every other weekend to visit Mom and Dad because they’re not together anymore.

back and forth every other weekend to visit Mom and Dad because they’re not together anymore.

It would actually impact healthcare in this system in our country.

In fact, there’s not one single area in our culture that would not be positively impacted if we could just get this one area correct, if we as a society and if we as a culture would step back and establish some standards of behavior that tripped off our consciences before we stepped over into the abyss.

area in our culture that would not be positively impacted if we could just get this one area

correct, if we as a society and if we as a culture would step back and establish some standards of behavior that tripped off our consciences before we stepped over into the abyss.

In every area of our lives where there is a desire, we need guardrails, but in the area of our physical and sexual intimacy, our desire for physical and sexual intimacy, we need reinforced steel when it comes to guardrails.

And the reason is this.

Because unlike any other area of your life and any other area of my life, you can fully recover from just about any other kind of disaster, but sexual disaster is almost impossible to fully recover from.

You can fully recover from a financial disaster, you can have no guardrails in your life, you can rack up a lot of debt and get into a lot of trouble, but given enough time and enough discipline, you can fully recover from financial disaster.

You can laugh about it.

You can learn from it.

You can teach your children about it and fully recover from it.

The same is true of an educational disaster.