Hot Seat - Sexuality
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Psalms 119:
1 Joyful are people of integrity,
who follow the instructions of the Lord.
2 Joyful are those who obey his laws
and search for him with all their hearts.
3 They do not compromise with evil,
and they walk only in his paths.
4 You have charged us
to keep your commandments carefully.
5 Oh, that my actions would consistently
reflect your decrees!
6 Then I will not be ashamed
when I compare my life with your commands.
7 As I learn your righteous regulations,
I will thank you by living as I should!
8 I will obey your decrees.
Please don’t give up on me!
9 How can a young person stay pure?
By obeying your word.
10 I have tried hard to find you—
don’t let me wander from your commands.
11 I have hidden your word in my heart,
that I might not sin against you.
12 I praise you, O Lord;
teach me your decrees.
13 I have recited aloud
all the regulations you have given us.
14 I have rejoiced in your laws
as much as in riches.
15 I will study your commandments
and reflect on your ways.
16 I will delight in your decrees
and not forget your word.
There are conversations that you just avoid. Why? Because they are controversial. We have chosen to have these contrivoersal conversations in a series called Hot Seat. We have been looking in the book of Psalms, writer David, to see what God has to say about these issues. What does God have to say.
We are going to look at the subject of sexual purity. Why is sexuality a difficult conversation? It has impact. It impacts politically and personally. We have to have this conversation letting the bible speak.
We value the Bible
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was with God in the beginning. 3 Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. 4 In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. 5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.
6 There was a man sent from God whose name was John. 7 He came as a witness to testify concerning that light, so that through him all might believe. 8 He himself was not the light; he came only as a witness to the light.
9 The true light that gives light to everyone was coming into the world. 10 He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him. 11 He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him. 12 Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God—13 children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband’s will, but born of God.
14 The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.
15 (John testified concerning him. He cried out, saying, “This is the one I spoke about when I said, ‘He who comes after me has surpassed me because he was before me.’ ”) 16 Out of his fullness we have all received grace in place of grace already given. 17 For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. 18 No one has ever seen God, but the one and only Son, who is himself God and is in closest relationship with the Father, has made him known.
19 Now this was John’s testimony when the Jewish leaders in Jerusalem sent priests and Levites to ask him who he was. 20 He did not fail to confess, but confessed freely, “I am not the Messiah.”
21 They asked him, “Then who are you? Are you Elijah?”
He said, “I am not.”
“Are you the Prophet?”
He answered, “No.”
22 Finally they said, “Who are you? Give us an answer to take back to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?”
23 John replied in the words of Isaiah the prophet, “I am the voice of one calling in the wilderness, ‘Make straight the way for the Lord.’ ”
24 Now the Pharisees who had been sent 25 questioned him, “Why then do you baptize if you are not the Messiah, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?”
26 “I baptize with water,” John replied, “but among you stands one you do not know. 27 He is the one who comes after me, the straps of whose sandals I am not worthy to untie.”
28 This all happened at Bethany on the other side of the Jordan, where John was baptizing.
29 The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world! 30 This is the one I meant when I said, ‘A man who comes after me has surpassed me because he was before me.’ 31 I myself did not know him, but the reason I came baptizing with water was that he might be revealed to Israel.”
32 Then John gave this testimony: “I saw the Spirit come down from heaven as a dove and remain on him. 33 And I myself did not know him, but the one who sent me to baptize with water told me, ‘The man on whom you see the Spirit come down and remain is the one who will baptize with the Holy Spirit.’ 34 I have seen and I testify that this is God’s Chosen One.”
35 The next day John was there again with two of his disciples. 36 When he saw Jesus passing by, he said, “Look, the Lamb of God!”
37 When the two disciples heard him say this, they followed Jesus. 38 Turning around, Jesus saw them following and asked, “What do you want?”
They said, “Rabbi” (which means “Teacher”), “where are you staying?”
39 “Come,” he replied, “and you will see.”
So they went and saw where he was staying, and they spent that day with him. It was about four in the afternoon.
40 Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, was one of the two who heard what John had said and who had followed Jesus. 41 The first thing Andrew did was to find his brother Simon and tell him, “We have found the Messiah” (that is, the Christ). 42 And he brought him to Jesus.
Jesus looked at him and said, “You are Simon son of John. You will be called Cephas” (which, when translated, is Peter).
43 The next day Jesus decided to leave for Galilee. Finding Philip, he said to him, “Follow me.”
44 Philip, like Andrew and Peter, was from the town of Bethsaida. 45 Philip found Nathanael and told him, “We have found the one Moses wrote about in the Law, and about whom the prophets also wrote—Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.”
46 “Nazareth! Can anything good come from there?” Nathanael asked.
“Come and see,” said Philip.
47 When Jesus saw Nathanael approaching, he said of him, “Here truly is an Israelite in whom there is no deceit.”
48 “How do you know me?” Nathanael asked.
Jesus answered, “I saw you while you were still under the fig tree before Philip called you.”
49 Then Nathanael declared, “Rabbi, you are the Son of God; you are the king of Israel.”
50 Jesus said, “You believe because I told you I saw you under the fig tree. You will see greater things than that.” 51 He then added, “Very truly I tell you, you will see ‘heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending on’ the Son of Man.”
1 Jesus returned to the Mount of Olives, 2 but early the next morning he was back again at the Temple. A crowd soon gathered, and he sat down and taught them. 3 As he was speaking, the teachers of religious law and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in the act of adultery. They put her in front of the crowd.
4 “Teacher,” they said to Jesus, “this woman was caught in the act of adultery. 5 The law of Moses says to stone her. What do you say?”
6 They were trying to trap him into saying something they could use against him, but Jesus stooped down and wrote in the dust with his finger. 7 They kept demanding an answer, so he stood up again and said, “All right, but let the one who has never sinned throw the first stone!” 8 Then he stooped down again and wrote in the dust.
9 When the accusers heard this, they slipped away one by one, beginning with the oldest, until only Jesus was left in the middle of the crowd with the woman. 10 Then Jesus stood up again and said to the woman, “Where are your accusers? Didn’t even one of them condemn you?”
11 “No, Lord,” she said.
And Jesus said, “Neither do I. Go and sin no more.”
17 For the law was given through Moses, but God’s unfailing love and faithfulness came through Jesus Christ.
As we have this conversation… we are going to be full of GRACE & TRUTH. Jesus was full of grace and truth.
Women caught in adultary - “I do not condem you leave your life of sin
YOUR A SINNER/WRONG I’M NOT GIVING YOU WHAT YOU DESERVE GRACE
Jesus didn’t water down the truth but he didn’t go around the law and he didn’t put a condition on grace
Goal - full dose of Truth & Grace
We - we are not going to look at sexualy purity through our eye BUT Bible. God’s words doesn’t change.
PRAY
CHURCH - repent! The stats are the same DIVORCE, PORN, in the church than the outside of the church. Admit our own moral shortcoming. Then address the moral issues of the world.
Two, repent of the hostility against sexual impurity. Anger / Hostility
Three, repent of not teaching GRACE & TRUTH. Most churches will not talk about sexuility or they will be just GRACE just TRUTH
Ill - Just As I Am
What would happen if we accept people.
When was the last time you heard someone say, adulatory, porn, same sex. I may not agree with you but I accept you just where you are. Let’s be a church were people can come and talk.
Sexual sin isn’t reactionary… It is a process people are lured. Temptation. What if people could share? Safe place? Say what I fill?
Sin Scale
Same Sex Impurity - Heterosexual Impurity THE SAME
All sin breaks God’s heart.
Sexual sin is not the start of the problem is is the result of one. I’ve taken my eyes off Jesus. Most stay in sexual sin because it satisfies the core being of who they are. Sex is not the source of love, intimacy and relationship it is a supplement. Don’t use sex as a substitute.
Sex is a Godly expression that flows out of a healthy intimacy withing the confines of a heterosexual marriage - that mean one man one woman one lifetime.
Celibacy is the godly option for everyone else - single males and females.
People that label themselves Gay Christians take the center stage away from Christ. I’m not a straight Christian. It’s an IDENTITY issue.
If I’m a Christ Follower then I’m a CHRIST FOLLOWER. Don’t put anything in front of Christ.
I’M NOT GOING TO ANSWER ALL YOUR QUESTIONS THIS MORNING
FOUNDATION TRUTHS
We are all broken people
5 For I was born a sinner—
yes, from the moment my mother conceived me.
Psalms
They way I was born is not the way I’m suppose to be. We are all broken people. desires, dreams BROKEN This changes the way I think about myself and the way I think about other people.
6 All of us, like sheep, have strayed away.
We have left God’s paths to follow our own.
Yet the Lord laid on him
the sins of us all.
Isaiah
What shape does your brokenness take? It may be that you are greedy, addict or a cheat…
5 The purpose of my instruction is that all believers would be filled with love that comes from a pure heart, a clear conscience, and genuine faith. 6 But some people have missed this whole point. They have turned away from these things and spend their time in meaningless discussions. 7 They want to be known as teachers of the law of Moses, but they don’t know what they are talking about, even though they speak so confidently.
8 We know that the law is good when used correctly.
1 timothy
9 Don’t you realize that those who do wrong will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don’t fool yourselves. Those who indulge in sexual sin, or who worship idols, or commit adultery, or are male prostitutes, or practice homosexuality, 10 or are thieves, or greedy people, or drunkards, or are abusive, or cheat people—none of these will inherit the Kingdom of God.
1 Corinthains 6:9-10
Whatever you brokenness it causes you to step away from God’s best.
Is it my nature or nuture? Origin or learned? Was I born that way? We are all born into sin.
We ALL have a tendancy to take a different path SO it doesn’t matter where it came from… so it nesseciates us comig back to God.
2. We are all deeply loved
If the Bible just talked about brokeness it wouldn’t be good news.
8 But God showed his great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners.
Romans
God loves the homosexual community. It is a lie that God doesn’t love the homosexual. WE don’t get to chose who to love.
Ill - Women at the well. God and sin no more.
God doesn’t I everybody EXPECT - divorce, pornography
If we know God’s love then we express that love to a broken people.
God proved that love… ill - Cross (this much)
3. Forgiveness and sexual healing are found in Christ
9 Don’t you realize that those who do wrong will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don’t fool yourselves. Those who indulge in sexual sin, or who worship idols, or commit adultery, or are male prostitutes, or practice homosexuality, 10 or are thieves, or greedy people, or drunkards, or are abusive, or cheat people—none of these will inherit the Kingdom of God. 11 Some of you were once like that. But you were cleansed; you were made holy; you were made right with God by calling on the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
1 Cor 6:
Do we have anyone here today LIST SINS - we can be made clean. What you do does not determine who you are? True authenticity is confirming to who you are in Christ not your actions.
Ill - Jesus changed Simon’s name. Peter - rock. When you come to Jesus your whole identity is changed. You are not an alcholic you are a CHRIST FOLLOWER. I’m a saint - not because of who I am but because of what Jesus did.
4. Following Christ involves denying self
24 Then Jesus said to his disciples, “If any of you wants to be my follower, you must give up your own way, take up your cross, and follow me.
Matthew 16
Bring problems to Jesus.
20 My old self has been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. So I live in this earthly body by trusting in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
Deny were I don’t align. - I was a man before I’m a pastor
Ill - What does that mean for me? I don’t struggle with same sex attraction. BUT I have sexual temptation. You know how Cheryl and I have stayed pure? Because we have denied ourselves. My desires are not God’s desires I HAVE TO DENY MYSELF.
(Hormone therapy - desire came rushing in)
5. God has a life for us
13 You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body
and knit me together in my mother’s womb.
Psalms 139:13
16 You saw me before I was born.
Every day of my life was recorded in your book.
Every moment was laid out
before a single day had passed.
Psalms 139:
Broken people don’t have the capacity to choose what is best for me. Ill - Parent Perspective
Wrong question - what rules? NO guidelines that reveal His character PROTECTION & PROVISION
Chasity - our sexual desires need to be put under the Lordship of Jesus Christ. Trust God on how my sexual desires to be expressed. I’m not born that way. Submit those urges to Christ. I have to do this! All single people will not have sex.
Sexual desires are expressed in the confines of a heterosexual marriage. NOT CULTURE WE LIVE IN
Do you trust God to have the best plan for your life.
6. We all have a need for Christ
If it wasn’t for Jesus Cheryl and I would be divorce. If you knew the temptations I fight and face you wouldn’t have enough grace to listen to me. I’m not pointing a finger at anyone this morning.
Romans
23 For everyone has sinned; we all fall short of God’s glorious standard.
8 If we claim we have no sin, we are only fooling ourselves and not living in the truth. 9 But if we confess our sins to him, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all wickedness. 10 If we claim we have not sinned, we are calling God a liar and showing that his word has no place in our hearts.
I submit to Christ!
7. Transformed hearts lead to transformed lives
14 Either way, Christ’s love controls us. Since we believe that Christ died for all, we also believe that we have all died to our old life. 15 He died for everyone so that those who receive his new life will no longer live for themselves. Instead, they will live for Christ, who died and was raised for them.
16 So we have stopped evaluating others from a human point of view. At one time we thought of Christ merely from a human point of view. How differently we know him now! 17 This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun!
I’m no longer I’M A NEW PERSON
I’m gay and struggle will I be welcomed here. Yes! Hidden vs In Your Face
Brokenness = cruel, mean | When God’s Words speak.
Are you condoning Homo - No IT’S A SIN just like gossip. We want to address sins and those things that keep us from experiencing a more dynamic relationship with Jesus Christ.