Battle of the Sexes: Sex and Homosexuality

Intro:

Last few weeks:

Created order

Ordinance of Marriage

This week: Sex and its distortions

So, we know how God created mankind. We know how God commanded them to be fruitful and multiply. So what does that tell us about sex?

5 Things:

Sex is in the confines of marriage

Hebrews 13:4 ESV

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.

This is making a very clear statement pointing all the way back to the Old Testament

2. Sex is between one man and one woman

Romans 1:26–27 ESV

For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.

Here we see God say, “You want your filth, take it. And take all that comes with it.”

Levels of Promiscuity

Prior to the AIDS epidemic, a 1978 study found that 75 percent of white, gay males claimed to have had more than 100 lifetime male sex partners: 15 percent claimed 100-249 sex partners; 17 percent claimed 250-499; 15 percent claimed 500- 999; and 28 percent claimed more than 1,000 lifetime male sex partners. Levels of promiscuity subsequently declined, but some observers are concerned that promiscuity is again approaching the levels of the 1970s. The medical consequence of this promiscuity is that gays have a greatly increased likelihood of contracting HIV/AIDS, syphilis and other STDs.

Similar extremes of promiscuity have not been documented among lesbians. However, an Australian study found that 93 percent of lesbians reported having had sex with men, and lesbians were 4.5 times more likely than heterosexual women to have had more than 50 lifetime male sex partners. Any degree of sexual promiscuity carries the risk of contracting STDs. Physical Health

Common sexual practices among gay men lead to numerous STDs and physical injuries, some of which are virtually unknown in the heterosexual population. Lesbians are also at higher risk for STDs. In addition to diseases that may be transmitted during lesbian sex, a study at an Australian STD clinic found that lesbians were three to four times more likely than heterosexual women to have sex with men who were high-risk for HIV.

Mental Health

It is well established that there are high rates of psychiatric illnesses, including depression, drug abuse, and suicide attempts, among gays and lesbians. This is true even in the Netherlands, where gay, lesbian and bisexual (GLB) relationships are far more socially acceptable than in the U.S. Depression and drug abuse are strongly associated with risky sexual practices that lead to serious medical problems.

Life Span

The only epidemiological study to date on the life span of gay men concluded that gay and bisexual men lose up to 20 years of life expectancy.

Monogamy

Monogamy, meaning long-term sexual fidelity, is rare in GLB relationships, particularly among gay men. One study reported that 66 percent of gay couples reported sex outside the relationship within the first year, and nearly 90 percent if the relationship lasted five years.

3. Sexual sin is a big deal because it does something permanent

1 Corinthians 6:17–20 ESV

But he who is joined to the Lord becomes one spirit with him. Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body. Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.

1 cor 1:16-

First, we are made in the image of God.

we are made in the image of God. Anytime we take part in sexual sin we making a mockery of the image of God.

Anytime we take part in sexual sin we making a mockery of the image of God.

Second, sexual sins are different because they mark us.

sexual sins are different because they mark us.

When you have sex with someone your body releases a chemical - oxytocin - when you have sex. It ever releases with the same strength as the time before.

Do you see? Your body was never made to have multiple sexual partners, because it was never meant to release the chemical connection with the same intensity again.

We were designed for one partner and one partner only. When you begin sleeping around you begin leaving and allowing others to leave an emotional mark on you that is detrimental.

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“It’s also the key to bonding, as it increases levels of empathy. Women produce more of this hormone, oxytocin, although it’s not clear why, and this means they are more likely to let their guard down and fall in love with a man after sex.

However, the problem is that the body can’t distinguish whether the person we’re with is a casual fling or marriage material”

Because we weren’t meant for that life. We were created for one sexual partner, to become one flesh in a way that only a man and woman can.

Second, If you are a Christian you have been bought by the blood of Jesus dying on the cross. You are no longer your own.

Our body is the temple of the Lord. Don’t defile it.

4. Sexual sin, like all sin, can be forgive if we seek forgiveness

1 Corinthians 6:9–11 ESV

Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

God’s grace is great. But, his grace only comes with our repentance, which means what?

Stop, and ask forgiveness.

1 Corinthians 1:6–9 ESV

even as the testimony about Christ was confirmed among you— so that you are not lacking in any gift, as you wait for the revealing of our Lord Jesus Christ, who will sustain you to the end, guiltless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. God is faithful, by whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.

Application

The demand on our lives is to live a life worthy of the Gospel. At the simplest, most basic form the things we do with our sexuality is a reflection of how we see God.

If you truly believe you are made in his image, and that your body is a temple, then you wont defile it with the garbage of sexual sins.

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