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1 : God’s plan for sex
Why are we talking about this?
Is it a “bigger sin” than others?
L’intention de Dieu pour la sexualité
No—but it is more prevalent than many, and with more drastic consequences.
Set the scene with abuses in church culture
Porn
Concubinage
Dating
Why should this be taken so seriously?
The seriousness of the matter:
Piper: Designed by God
to know God more fully
: The undeserved mercy of God
: faithless Israel
: God’s judgment
: A new covenant
The consommation in Christ:
Piper: “Therefore, God created us in his image, male and female, with personhood and sexual passions so that when he comes to us in this world there would be these powerful words and images to describe the promises and the pleasures of our covenant relationship with him through Christ.
Piper: “Therefore, God created us in his image, male and female, with personhood and sexual passions so that when he comes to us in this world there would be these powerful words and images to describe the promises and the pleasures of our covenant relationship with him through Christ.
“God made us powerfully sexual so that he would be more deeply knowable.
We were given the power to know each other sexually so that we might have some hint of what it will be like to know Christ supremely.
“God made us powerfully sexual so that he would be more deeply knowable.
We were given the power to know each other sexually so that we might have some hint of what it will be like to know Christ supremely.”
2) God’s plan to protect us: knowing him
: Sexual language to describe knowing God
This is not mere intellectual knowledge.
The intimacy implied here is unthinkable.
The path to purity:
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3) Practicals 1: Sex in marriage
Paul’s insistence that sex not be put off for too long
The goal?
That our minds might be focused to love God rightly…which enables us to love each other rightly.
What about
What about those couples with sexual problems (physical or psychological)?
Don’t consider it a non-issue, but don’t panic either.
To more fully understand Christ’s love for his bride
For having children…to make disciples…to understand God’s love for his children.
2) Practicals 1: Sex before marriage
NOT JUST ABOUT THE ACT
Porn
Dating
Living together
Not a small affair (reminder of week 1)
3) Practicals 2: Sex in marriage
Paul’s insistence that sex not be put off for too long
The goal?
That our minds might be focused to love God rightly…which enables us to love each other rightly.
What about those couples with sexual problems (physical or psychological)?
Don’t consider it a non-issue, but don’t panic either.
To more fully understand Christ’s love for his bride
For having children…to make disciples…to understand God’s love for his children.
4) God’s plan to protect us: knowing him
: Sexual language to describe knowing God
This is not mere intellectual knowledge.
The intimacy implied here is unthinkable.
The path to purity:
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