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Why does God care about my sex life?

Augustine's Prayer, ““Lord, Give me chastity, but do not give it yet.”

When it comes to matters of sex and sexuality we are dealing with a topic that is an ethical issues, moral issue, a worldview issue, and theistic issue

Thinking men of every age and culture have been concerned with what kind of world this truly is.

Is it a material world running by itself, or is it a spiritual world and run by unseen powers?

Does this interlocking system which we live in explain itself, or does its secret lie in mystery?

Does the stream of existence begin and end in itself, Or is its source something greater and outside itself?

Christian Theology claims to have the answer to all these question and it begins with God the Creator

A.W. Tozer says, “What comes into  our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.

The History of mankind will probably show that no people has ever risen above its religion, and man’s spiritual history will positively demonstrate that no religion has ever been greater than its idea of God.

Worship is pure or base as the worshipper entertains high or low thoughts of God.”

Christian Theology begins with God’s design

Genesis 1 God establishes order out of chaos

Creation Order:

Location Inhabitants

1.

Light and Dark 4. Lights of Day and Night

2. Sea and Sky 5. Fish and Birds

3. Fertile Earth 6. Land animals (including man )

7. Rest and Enjoyment

God is transcendent-

God is outside the limits of His Creation

time and space- don’t affect the creator of them

The limits we feel in this life, have no restrain on God

R.C. Sproul says, “When we speak of the transcendence of God, we are talking about that sense in which God is above and beyond us.

Transcendence describes His surpreme and absolute greatness.

Transcendence is used to describe God’s relationship to the created world.

He is Higher than the world.

He has absolute power over the world

the world has no power over Him

Transcendence describes God in His consuming Majesty and points to to the infinite distance that separates Him from every creature

This is the God of Genesis 1 - An all powerful creator who is far beyond His creation.-

So Holy

His love is a Holy Love

His Justice is a holy Justice

His Mercy is a Holy Mercy

His Spirit is a Holy Spirit

Genesis 2

A Closer look at the creation of Man, Where see God forming Man for the dust with own hands, and then to cap this amazingly intimate act, God breathes life into His creation.

God is imminent to His creation

God is close to His creation

This not to confused with pantheism, because God does Transcend His creation, but God is omnipresent in His universe.

Days 1-5 God establishes a world with order and all the means to sustain man

If you were to buy a fish you would buy all the things needed to sustain that fish

a bowl

the water

food

God established a world that would sustain mankind, and be maintained by mankind.

The last act in the creation narrative is God instituting Marriage

When it comes to matters of Sex and Sexuality there God’s way and no other way

Man cannot fulfill His call to be fruitful and multiply without union with His helper the woman.

There is a complimentary biologically, emotionally, and spiritually

Adam says “Bone of my Bone, and Flesh of my Flesh”

The women came out of the man, and when they are joined together in marriage the two complementary halves now become one

One man one woman

Not Adam and Steve

Not Adam, Evet, Ellen and Eve

Jesus affirms God’s original Design

Jesus the only savior and Lord, who shed the same blood for the heterosexual and the homosexual who came to seek and save the lost, and who went to the outcast, didn’t practice affirmation inclusion, but practiced transformational inclusion.

The Jews had caught this women in adultery and bring here before Jesus and demand that she be condemned for her sin by being stoned to death- Jesus in all wisdom says “you who are without sin throw the first stone.

They slowly drop their stones and from the oldest to the youngest they walk away each returning their own way leaving Jesus and this women.

Jesus looks at this women who was probably full of shame and fear, and simple asks her “where did they go?

does no one condemn you?”

And he ends with this statement “Neither do I condemn you; go from now on sin no more

Jesus reaches out to where we are and transforms us by His love- This Jesus affirms God original Design

There is only one pattern for marriage and right relationship:

Suppose I made a cookbook call “Healthy desserts recipes.”

I say at the very beginning “because I don’t believe in sugar, and i don’t think it is healthy you won’t find sugar in any of the recipes. in fact every recipe is sugar free.”

I used word sugar 4 times- would you conclude that sugar is not a big deal, No it is such a big deal it is excluded from every recipe in the book

Every recipe from marriage and family is one man and one woman- there is no other recipe given

“Children honor you father and mother”

“Husbands love your wives”

“Wives honor you husband”

The New Testament affirms Old Testament

Look at the Law:

Two types of Laws that we see

To Keep them separate (these were not enforce on everyone)

Dietary

Clothing/ garments

Universal Moral Laws

Don’t murder

dont commit adultary

Those that are universal are reinforced in the New Testament and apply to everyone- By Jesus, Paul and Other New Testament Writers.

The Cananite and all the others in the promise land were judge by God based on these universal moral laws-

God calls these sexual acts an Abomination

That which is utterly detestable in the sight of God, particularly sin and idolatry

That which God calls an abomination does change because I now do that act with someone I love

Whether that is Homosexuality, or adultery, or cohabitation- it doesn’t change God’s sacred order

Jesus Says “I did not come to abolish the law of the prophets”

What does Jesus Do when it comes to these Laws of Sex and Sexuality- He expands on them takes them to a higher level

No longer is adultery just an act, but it becomes adultery of the heart

The Bible hasn’t Changed, and it wasn’t till the sexual revolution and the decline of society that these beliefs about sex and sexuality have been challenge- 2000 years this has been the belief of bible believing Christians

And before that by Jewish tradition and Rabbinic teaching

Also the practice of Homosexuality and other Sexual sins aren’t new to this generation.

The Romans

The Greeks

many ancient civilizations practiced homosexuality

Whenever it comes to the Bible and the teaching found within it can be offensive, and hard, but if it is the truth then there needs to be a response.

Homosexual’s, transgender and any other groups like this interpret the bible through the lens fo their sexuality- that brings confusion-

They say “I am gay, I am Lesbian, I am bisexual”

Rather then interpreting their sexuality through the lens of scripture-we are all humans who fall and sin and all need salvation