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god knows what you like he knows our

propensity

and he has compassion when we come home

come back home as quickly as possible

though your sins being startled

they shall be white as snow though they

be red like crimson

they shall be his wolf so whatever

inheritance whatever god

still wants to do for you to you through

you in you

don’t lose anymore jesus christ broke

the curse

so don’t ever talk about you being

cursed again if

you know jesus christ the curse the

consequence of the law

is broken the greatest miracle of all

is when you dip yourself in the blood of

jesus christ for the forgiveness of sins

and the gift of eternal life we have

become

a sex saturated society

tv music

smart devices

all give us access to and permission

for this particular

sin

it has become the drug of choice within

the culture

and as the culture has

devolved

increasing in that devolution of the

culture

has been promiscuity

gone crazy there used to be shame

associated with it guilt associated with

it

now it’s become like mcdonald’s

drive-through fun

or even worse yet 24-hour stop and go

and it is wreaking havoc in our world

unwanted and unplanned pregnancies

creating whole

industries that are supported by the

government to facilitate the abortions

of the children that are not wanted due

to the

sexual activity creating a response

even by the church to promote life

and not to abort but the high cost

involved in even doing that as a result

of the consequence of the sin

diseases have run rampant

stds are coming in all shapes and sizes

as the medical community has to amp up

to fight against the consequences

of the sexual free-for-all

that the culture has endorsed and that

far

too many within the culture even

christians have adopted

when we look at our own struggles when

we look at our own lives

we can see back

areas of disobedience in this area that

has cost us

there are many who can look back and say

with regret

i wish i hadn’t

there are many who’ve been used abused

and thrown away

when play time was over

sex was created by heaven not by

hollywood

it was god’s idea and god’s creation and

the bible says

and what he created was good

satan is an expert at taking what has

been created

by god for good and to turn it around

against us

for bad

in genesis chapter 6

he opens up the chapter with the world

having to be destroyed in the first

seven verses

because demons inhabited men who had

relations with women

giving birth to children and all manner

of wickedness

so the whole world had to be destroyed

so satan used

sex in order to get women pregnant in

order

for wickedness to spread so that god has

to now

send a flood and judge the whole world

because

it was viewed as irredeemable

international consequence

for rebellion in this area

and the problem with this particular

area

is it is the most natural area to sin

in because it is

birthed out of a natural god-given

desire it’s not

when you have to go out there and find

something

it’s the something is already there it’s

built

into our human makeup

so let’s start off with why it was

created

god created sex since it comes from

heaven not hollywood

to inaugurate and renew a covenant

a marriage covenant that’s why it was

created

so it was not merely for entertainment

it was a covenant that was entertaining

what the culture has done is remove the

covenant but want to maintain the

entertainment

and therefore a major purpose of it

the major purpose of it has been ripped

from the definition

of it

now paul gives an extended discussion of

this

in first corinthians chapter six and i

do want you to turn there because

he gives a theological understanding of

this area

that we need to take into account as we

move forward here today

we’re being somewhat didactic or

teaching today because

i want you to understand it i want us to

understand it so that we can

no matter where you’re starting from

begin to acclimate ourselves

in order to recover what god’s will will

allow in the consequences of our

rebellion here

he says in verse 9 of

chapter 6 of first corinthians or do you

not

know that the unrighteous will not

inherit the kingdom of god do not be

deceived

neither fornicators or adulterers or the

effeminate

or homosexuals or thieves or

covetousness or drunkards or revilers

or swindlers will inherit the kingdom of

god

he says this lifestyle

blocks you from inheriting the kingdom

of god now don’t misunderstand that

he doesn’t say it stops you from

entering the kingdom of god

you enter the kingdom of god based on

faith in the finished work of jesus

christ

but you inherit the kingdom of god that

is you accrue the benefits of the

kingdom of god

having to do with lifestyle

so while you may be on your way to

heaven heaven may not be on its way to

you

because when you adopt this lifestyle

he says that inheriting that is

receiving the benefits

of the kingdom do not accrue to you

he says in verse 14 such were some of

you that’s

that’s how that’s how you rolled in your

unsaved days

but you are washed and sanctified and

justified in the name of the lord jesus

christ that’s not who you are now

now it may be how you feel but that’s

not who you are

that we’ve been duped into thinking

it’s only natural

the desire is natural

the activity is not

he takes it deeper theologically

he says all things verse 12 are lawful

for me

but not all things are profitable

all things are lawful for me but i am

not mastered

by anything so whenever

anything in your christian life

my christian life our christian life

holds us hostage

it is spiritually illegal

says i will be mastered or controlled

by nothing including my passions

i have them but i’m not going to let

them rule me

he takes it deeper food is for the

stomach and the stomach

is for food but god will do away with

both of them

yet the body is not for immorality but

for the lord and the lord is for the

body

because corinthians had this problem

they had this problem

they had this sexual immorality problem

people had come out of that lifestyle

and now they were in church but that’s

what they knew that’s how they function

that’s how they rolled

and they had a they had a philosophy

their philosophy is

food is for the stomach and the stomach

is for food translation

you have an appetite when you have an

appetite and you’re hungry

you go eat because you got a stomach

your stomach is growling for food so you

go get the thing that’s

out there designed to satisfy what your

stomach is crying out for

in order for your stomach not to cry out

for it anymore because

food was made to satisfy the cry of the

stomach

because the body is crying out to be

relieved and to be

satisfied so just like the stomach cries

out for food and you satisfy the stomach

for food

when the body calls for sex then you go

start knocking boots that’s just

what you do they were saying that that

is the

natural expression of the desire

god intervenes into this discussion

and he says that is not correct

he says while food is for the stomach

and the stomach is for food he says

yet your body verse 13 is not for

immorality

but for the lord and the lord is for the

body

so your body is not for anything you

want to do with it

just because it’s your body and he

explains why

now god has not only raised the lord but

will also

raise us up through his power

in other words if god got jesus up from

the grave

he can get you up from the illegitimate

bed

because he’s in the resurrections so

since he’s in the resurrections just as

he got jesus up out of the grave

he can get you out of that yielding

to that legitimate passion that’s being

addressed in an illegitimate way he then

goes deeper do you not know

that your bodies are members of christ

shall i then take away

the members of christ and make them

members of a prostitute

may it never be or do you not know that

the one who joins himself to a

prostitute

is one body with her for he says and the

two

shall be one but the one who joins

himself to the lord

is one spirit with him

he says when you have sex you enter into

a union

you enter into a union

and you are now as a christian unified

with christ

so what wherever you go you take him

with you

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anytime anywhere fleeing morality verse

18 for every other sin

that a man commits is outside the body

but the immoral man sins against his own

body he says

that this sin is unlike any other sin

because of the unique internal damage it

does to the soul

what he says is this sin is unique

because

when you disconnect from it you take

some of your

soul with it

and it’s not hard to testify that that’s

what happens

in scenarios that paul

is describing he goes deeper

or do you not know that your body is a

temple of the holy spirit who is in you

whom you have from god and that you are

not your own

for you have been bought with a price

therefore glorify god with your body

you are not your own you have been

purchased

he makes an interesting statement he

says

your body is the temple of the living

god the temple of the house of worship

so whenever you have sex you have church

it was designed to be a worship

experience because he says it is a

temple

temple is a place of worship you are to

glorify god

he says with your temple

because it was designed for the

establishment of the and the renewal of

a covenant and so

he wants us to understand

the seriousness the depth

of this matter

so much and so that hebrews 13 4 says

fornicated and adulterers he will judge

therefore sex for the believer is not

merely a physical thing

nor is it merely an emotional thing

it becomes a spiritual thing

now we have a problem and the problem is

that there is the reality

of life there is this reality

that we’ve been through things we’ve

done

things we’ve looked at things been

entertained by things

we’ve denigrated ourselves into things

and

we pay the price for that

if stories were told across the room of

regrets of mistakes of sins of

disobedience of iniquity of

transgressions

of failures of whatever would be the

best word to describe the departure from

god

and its consequence economically

spiritually relationally

psychologically emotionally the

testimonies would be replete because

of all the different backgrounds and

experiences that are represented

in the room and so the question becomes

well what do we do now

how do we recover

how do we beat back whatever

consequences that god has allowed

to take place because his standard has

been

violated at whatever level and for

however long that violation has occurred

because of a situation that happened in

john 8.

the scribes bring a woman to jesus

while he’s teaching in the temple and

they say to him

teacher because you’re teaching jesus we

caught this woman in adultery in

the very act and when they

say what should we do jesus stooped down

the end of verse six and with his finger

began writing on the ground

but they kept pressing him what are we

going to do with her verse 7

jesus says he that is without sin cast

the first stone

but he stoops down again and he writes

again

they said the law of moses

said we should stone her

so they are thinking about the law and

talking about the law

and the divine standard is on their

minds for the test they’re doing

jesus deals kneels down and writes once

he that is without the sin

cast the first stone he kneels down and

writes a second time

so if you’re telling me you’ve never

been immoral if you’re telling me

you’ve never done this or that or the

other

throw the first stone you you you lead

the way

so i can be true to the law of moses but

i just want you to know

just so you know after you’ve thrown

your stone

and we call your number

just make sure you understand some rocks

are coming your way

and so jesus as only jesus could do

through the same law in their face

that they were throwing at him

it says that they begin to walk away

so now it’s just jesus and the woman

it’s just jesus and so they’re standing

there

and jesus straightening up says to her

in verse 10 woman

where are they did no one condemn you

where are the people at i don’t see them

well

nobody here throwing those stones

and she says

no one lord

now the scribes that call jesus teacher

she calls him lord

she affirms the uniqueness of jesus

christ

no one lord

my accusers are not here

and then jesus hits her with the mother

lode

short statement

but pregnant with theological truth

i do not condemn you either

go from now on sin no more

and i want me taking away your

condemnation

to be the motivation for you to go and

sin no more

the law says i’m going to hurt you

because

of what you’ve done god does not change

the law

the standard it’s still sin but what

grace does is shift the motivation

in other words i want you to respond to

me

out of the fact that what could have

happened

didn’t happen even when the lord

disciplines us the bible says

he disciplines us for whom the lord

loves he disciplines so even

consequences of discipline

come out of a heart of love he wants

the motivation for the transformation

to be the goodness he extends to you

even though you deserve stones

but what do you do if you already messed

up you already blown it you’re already

suffering the consequences

you’re hurting from it you’re

disappointed at it

but you’re saying like she said jesus

lord lord

lord i’m i recognize you and i want that

grace

and whatever the grace and the mercy

will allow

in terms of me moving forward since i

can’t change yesterday

wish i could if i could i would but i

can’t

but i’m here today and i want to go

different tomorrow

well most of us do this we send our

clothes to the cleaners when they get

dirty right

we shut our clothes to the cleaners

because they’re stained

so you take your clothes to the cleaners

and they begin their process

of cleaning it up you go back and you

pick up your clothes the next week you

know why you send your clothes to the

cause you want to wear them so you want

to wear them again so you want them

clean and pressed and

and you want to because you want to look

good in your clothes so you take them to

the

so what i’m trying to tell you is jesus

has a cleaning business

he’s got a cleaning business and he

knows you can’t get it clean like he can

get it clean

so he says if you will bring your dirt

to me

come unto me all ye that labor and a

heavy laden

and i will give you if you bring your

dirt to me

and you recognize who i am and what i

have to offer in fact

not only do you bring your clothes to me

but i got a pickup service

i will meet you because i want to get

rid of this dirt

and the reason why i want you to bring

your dirt to me

is cause i want to wear you and i want

to look good in you

and i want when you say i’m a believer

in jesus christ

i want you to be well dressed i want you

to be well

pressed i want you to look good so that

you can

show me off and if any folk from your

past

come up wanting to stone you cause they

remember what you used to be

and what you used to do and how you used

to act

you can show them the new jacket you can

show them the new pants

you can show them the new shirt you can

show them the new tie

they say yeah i used to be dirty but

i’ve been to the cleaners

and jesus christ has washed me white as

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one of the great challenges of life is

our sexuality

we’ve been given it in our humanity

and god has given us parameters for the

exercising

of it when that fire leaves the

fireplace stuff starts to burn down

doesn’t it

our own lives our own guilt

our own relationships

because it’s a fire run wild it has left

the compartment that god has created for

it which is

of course marriage but i’ve got good

news for you today

god forgives

throughout the bible you see many sexual

failures

but you also see the forgiveness and

grace of god

healing those who have disobeyed him in

this area

the bible makes this a unique sin

because it’s a covenantal sin

and it affects you and your well-being

as well as

others who are affected by

immorality one of the great

things that god does in the bible

is that he sanctifies sex

he doesn’t make it a bad thing he

doesn’t make it a negative thing

he calls it a beautiful thing in fact

there’s a whole book that celebrates sex

song of solomon so god is not a gangster

he’s for it

he wants to promote it he just wants you

to have a high view of marriage for it

but when we have operated outside of it

and are bearing the consequences of it

and there are many

illustrations of that in the bible

he has a cleaning service he can clean

us up

he can wash us he can iron

so that we become spiritually pure again

and can go on with our lives having been

healed

of our moral failures so don’t give up

on yourself

or others who are getting right with god

because god knows how to show compassion

to the repentant

in this area

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