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The guiding principle in our culture today is “if it makes you feel good, do it”.
This falls short.
The thing about discussing these topics, and many other topics, with non-Christians is that it doesn’t matter to them that the Bible says to do one thing and not another.
But if the thinking of Scripture makes more sense, that will make them think more about it!
Sex
The message that we get in music, TV, movies, writing, social media, magazines, etc. is that sex is nothing more than a physical act.
It can be whatever we want it to be outside of that.
Just for pleasure, for love, for having kids, whatever.
God says it’s more than that, and really, so does physiology.
“Sex is just a physical urge, just to make you feel good.
It’s fine for two consenting people to engage in recreational sex to make each other feel good.”
The lyrics to Ed Sheeran’s Shape of You help explain the culture’s idea of how sex works.
And last night you were in my room
And now my bedsheets smell like you
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One week in we let the story begin
We're going out on our first date
In the Tinder/hookup culture that we live in, we’re told sex isn’t really part of the emotional aspect of things unless you want it to be.
At one of the churches I served in before coming here, I told a teenage couple that I had only had sex with one person and their jaws hit the floor.
It was like I had said something crazy like… Like I had a hole in my head!
You’re being told that sex comes first, if that’s good then the relationship follows, and you should be engaging in sexual activity to simply satisfy a physical desire.
You’re being lied to!
There’s more to sex than just a physical desire that needs to be met like being hungry.
Scientific research backs that up.
depression in promiscuous people
chemicals released in the brain
Most people hope to be married one day.
participating in the hook up culture takes away from your marriage culture.
It cheapens how special intimacy is with a spouse, which is one of the things God made sex for.
God promises to be satisfying, fulfilling, and to tell you who you really are and that you belong.
God promises to love you better than any sexual partner – real or digital – ever will.
And he will do that for free.
You won’t have to “put out” in order to get that love.
You don’t’ have to be the “best he’s ever had” in order to keep it.
God promises a pleasure so real (on earth as it is in heaven) that it’s worth never having sex again.
But God promises that if you do have sex according to his plans – it will be better sex than you can experience anywhere else.
–Seth Stewart
This is what we respond to the culture with.
That God has a more fulfilling way.
And we respond in love, not hate!
The goal is not to make people feel bad, but better in Jesus!
What we have to remember is that God wants something better for us than what the world is offering, then we have to make the decision to trust Him.
Even if it means denying yourself, which is a big part of the next thing we’re going to look at.
Sexuality
Here’s what I’m talking about when I say sexuality, being heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, and whatever other sexuals there are now!
“Love is love.
Do whatever your feelings are leading you to.”
The culture says that whoever you’re attracted to at the moment, go for it.
That’s ok, nothing wrong.
You’re born that way.
Also by the way, if you disagree with this belief then you’re a bigot and you hate people.
Here’s the new song from Taylor Swift
You are somebody that we don't know
But you're comin' at my friends like a missile
Why are you mad?
When you could be GLAAD?
(You could be GLAAD)
Sunshine on the street at the parade
But you would rather be in the dark age
Just makin' that sign must've taken all night
You just need to take several seats and then try to restore the peace
And control your urges to scream about all the people you hate
'Cause shade never made anybody less gay
So oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh
You need to calm down
You're being too loud
And I'm just like oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh (oh)
You need to just stop
Like can you just not step on his gown?
You need to calm down
And we see you over there on the internet
Comparing all the girls who are killing it
But we figured you out
We all know now we all got crowns (video has drag queens here)
You need to calm down
Explain a little at these points.
Before moving on from this, let’s acknowledge though that there are people out there acting from hate rather than love.
There are people who should calm down!
But back to what we’re really discussing, the “born this way” idea.
This is very dangerous.
If we follow the idea that whatever “way” you’re born you should pursue, is there a line to that?
This is very dangerous and it goes against God’s Word.
If any natural desire that you’re born with is ok, what do we do with ones that are universally accepted as dangerous?
We’re all born with sinful desires.
Some argue that we see some animals that are homosexual and that means it’s an acceptable and natural desire.
That’s a really dangerous argument...
Rather than looking to ourselves for how to live, we must live according to how we were created to live.
Genesis
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If there is no God and humanity’s purpose is to advance our species, how does this help?
But there is one God and He made us and He made sexuality a certain way, and for humans to get the most out of it, to flourish, we must live according to the way we were made to live.
And it , it plainly says that homosexuality is sin.
We engage our culture by telling them, and showing them, that we don’t hate gay people, but we do stand on God’s design in love for everyone, believing God’s design is best for everyone!
We also need to remember that homosexuality is not on another level of sin.
There can be Christians who struggle with homosexual attraction.
We’re going to talk about one more issue tonight.
Gender
“Gender is different than your biological sex and it is fluid.”
Our culture is telling us that gender is fluid, the way you feel in your head can be different from your biology.
It can be something you totally make up even!
The same ideas about going with your feelings and being “born this way” that we just talking about with sexuality are used by the culture to explain transgenderism.
The Bible does not directly address or mention transgenderism, but it does say this
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