God's Design for Us
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· 10 viewsThe world we live in is God's world. God's design for us is to glorify Him by living according to His design & purpose.
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Can you be Christian and homosexual? Is it okay to asexual? Is watching porn a sin? Are interracial relationships/marriage biblical wrong?
TRUTH: Truth is found in God because God is truth.
| Can you be Christian and homosexual? | Is it okay to asexual? | Is watching porn a sin? |
SUB-TRUTH: Relative truth is false truth.
| Are interracial relationships/marriage biblical wrong? |
I. Relative Truth versus Absolute Truth
I. Relative Truth versus Absolute Truth
1. Relative truth – What’s true for you isn’t true for me.
2. Truth is God’s – 1) God defines truth 2) The truth God’s truth 3) This truth will set you free.
| Are you living for the reason you were made?
II. God’s Design: Gender Identity/Sexuality
II. God’s Design: Gender Identity/Sexuality
1. God made them male & female. |
2. God made them in His own image. |
3. God created & designed us to bear His image; to be image-bearers.
4. Out of God’s glory He created each human being. Our ultimate satisfaction is found in Him.
5. Our sexuality we were created with, by God, is meant (and was meant) for one man and one woman in the context of marriage.
III. God’s Design: Marriage
III. God’s Design: Marriage
1. Instituted by God for one man and one woman. |
2. Sexuality is God’s idea. It has been since the beginning |
3. Sex was designed by God intentionally and specially for one man and one woman.
4. Sex was designed by God intentionally to function in the context of marriage, which is held in honor to God by one man and by one woman
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5. Lust and porn is included. Sex was designed for two people only. Saving yourself, including your eyes, for your spouse is God’s design and will for you. Train yourself to save yourself.
IV. Homosexuality
IV. Homosexuality
Is a violation of God’s design for the men and women He created in His image.
Any violation of God is sin. Therefore, that sin is offensive to God.
1. What is sin? Sin is disobeying God. ; ,
2. Homosexuality is sin, just like idolatry, lying, coveting, gossip, adultery, stealing, dishonoring your parents, being a Christian and not going to church, etc.
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3. Homosexuality is exchanging God’s truth & design for us for a desire (lifestyle) that is 100% contrary to that truth & design (“I want to be my god, rather than live in accordance to God).
– “Exchanging the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things (1:22-23).” “Exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshipped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen (1:25).”
Homosexuality isn’t a “bigger sin” than other sins. All sin is offensive to God.
1. It’s not okay to not be gay, but rob a bank, lie to someone, cheat on a test, commit adultery, look at porn, look at a person with lust, have sex before marriage, murder, etc.
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8 But you yourselves wrong and defraud—even your own brothers!
V. Response
V. Response
John 8:1-
10 Jesus stood up and said to her, “Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?”
John 8:
10 Jesus stood up and said to her, “Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?” 11 She said, “No one, Lord.” And Jesus said, “Neither do I condemn you; go, and from now on sin no more.”
NEXT PART - January 9th: Tattoos, interracial marriage, and women’s role in the world