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Big Idea: Sex is a big deal to God.
Handling sex God’s way should be a big deal to us.
*All Scripture is NIV unless otherwise noted
Hey guys!! , I’m so glad you’re here tonight.
This night is a really important night.
If you remember when we started this series, I said we were going to be talking about a three-letter word: [SLIDE] sex.
Now, like I said in our first week, I know some of you just giggled when you see that word.
Others of you got a little uncomfortable.
Still others of you rolled your eyes.
And then others of you are actually pay attention to the lesson for the first time ever!
All of those responses I just outlined are completely normal and completely understandable.
I’m simply going to
2 reminders
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1. Listen to what God has to say about sex.
I want you to learn from Him, and He really has some important things to say about it.
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2. Please don’t distract other from hearing what God has to say about this.
Sometimes, when we get uncomfortable with a topic, we’ll do things to try to feel a little more comfortable.
We’ll crack a joke.
We’ll look at others to see if they are as uncomfortable as we are; and if they are, we will do things to try to break the discomfort.
In the process, we actually distract ourselves and others from what is going on.
Are we all in agreement?
Good!
Now, some of you may be thinking, “Why are we talking about this at church?”
There are a lot of reasons it is important for us to talk about sex, but here are
Two big reasons we are talking about sex.
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1. God has a lot to say about it.
We’re going to really dive into this more in a bit, but this topic is big deal to God.
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2.
You are being bombarded with messages about it.
What I mean here is you are being bombarded with messages about this.
Think through what you’ve watched, read and listened to in the past week; I’m going to guess this topic was somehow mentioned.
And to be honest, a large amount of these messages do not match up with what God has to say about it.
So, if all of these are true, why would we not take time to talk about it in church?
If I could sum up where we are heading tonight in a short statement it would be this [SLIDE]:
Big Idea for tonight
Sex is a big deal to God.
Handling sex God’s way should be a big deal to us.
Handling sex God’s way should be a big deal to us.
SEX IS A BIG DEAL TO GOD:
Let’s take a moment to dive in and pick apart that first statement: Sex is a big deal to God.
How do we know this?
For starters, God created sex.
Remember in our first week when I showed you this passage:
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23 The man said, “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh;
she shall be called ‘woman,’ for she was taken out of man.”
24 That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh.
I told you that these verses are showing the moment God created sex.
I know it may not seem like that.
But that line, “and they become one flesh;” that is an Old Testament way to talk about sex.
So God created it.
Not only did He create it, he had a purpose in it.
There’s this really smart guy name Dennis Hollinger who is the president of Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary.
He wrote a book where he talks about
Four reasons for God’s purposes for sex
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1. Make Babies.
This Hollinger guy calls it procreation, but that’s just a fancy word for making a baby.
God created sex as the way for us to continue populating the world.
In , God gives His first command to the man and woman He created.
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God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it.
Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.”
God looks at Adam and Eve and says, “Hey, go make babies!”
How do you make babies?
You have sex!
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2. Make Marriage Official.
Smarty pants Hollinger uses another big word for this: consummation.
Look at this verse again.
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:
That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh.
The idea is that the wedding ceremony (exchanging of vows, the ring, etc.) is the commitment to marriage, and the wedding night is the confirmation of the marriage.
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3. Build Love and Intimacy.
God created it to be a very intimate act.
It creates a connection in a way that is completely unique.
It is meant to be something that brings a couple closer together.
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4. Pleasure.
God could have made it something robotic.
Instead, He set this act up to be something that is really enjoyable.
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Go back to the first sentence.
Sex is big deal to God.
Do you see it?
If it’s the key for the human race continuing… it’s kind of a big deal to God.
If it is the “seal the deal” moment to marriage… it’s pretty important to God.
If it builds love and intimacy… two things God is a big fan of, right?
And if He made it pleasurable… it’s kind of a sign that He was a fan, right?
There’s another aspect to this all that helps us grasp how big of a deal it is.
It’s what we are going to call “God’s parameters.”
A parameter is just a fancy word for rules, restrictions or boundaries.
This is where we talk about the second part of our big idea: Handling sex God’s way should be a big deal to us.
Listen closely.
This is SO IMPORTANT.
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