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February 25, 2007
*                                                  **/Pure Sex/*
*                                        Part 1: Sex was God’s idea!*
 
/Introduction:/  No one is better qualified to repair something than its designer and creator.
No one speaks more clearly to today’s sexual confusion than God.
 
 
1.
Sex was God’s idea!
Genesis 1-2
 
          A.
For _____________________: the expression of ___________________.
                   Song of Solomon
 
 
          B.
For _____________________: the enjoyment of ___________________.
                   Proverbs 5:18-19
 
 
          C.
For _____________________: the extension of ____________________.
                   Genesis 1:28
 
 
 
2.
You are a ________________________________________________________.
Matthew 5:27-28, 2 Samuel 13
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Sex ______________________________________________________ culture.
February 25, 2007
*                                                  **/Pure Sex/*
*                                        Part 1: Sex was God’s idea!*
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*Opener: /Fever!/*
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*Opening:*
          Fever!
For the next few weeks, we're going to talk about sex; we’ll take an honest look at our sexuality and see what God has to say about it.
Today's message, /Sex was God’s idea/, will lay the groundwork for all we’ll talk about in the next few weeks.
I’m going to give you a theology of sex!  Let's pray.
*Announcements and offering*
Men’s and Women’s retreats coming up—pick up a brochure today at the Information Resource Center.
Men’s breakfast moved up a week—this Saturday at 8:30 in the Commons.
Foursquare Live broadcast on March 10 – stop by the Information Resource Center for info about speakers and registration.
*Introduction:*
*ILL**:* In the early days of the automobile, a Model-T Ford stalled in the middle of the road.
The driver couldn't get it started no matter how hard he cranked or how much he tried to adjust the spark.
Just then a chauffeured limousine pulled up behind him, and a wiry, energetic man stepped out from the back seat and offered his assistance.
After looking under the hood and tinkering with something for a few moments, the stranger said, "Now try it!"
and the engine roared to life and purred like a kitten.
Extending his hand to the driver, the well-dressed man identified himself as Henry Ford.
"I designed and built these cars," he said, "so I know what to do when something goes wrong."
No one is better qualified to repair something than its designer and creator.
The best person to fix a Model T was Henry Ford because he designed and built that car.
He knew it inside and out.
The best person to speak to our sexual confusion is God, because He designed and created us as sexual creatures.
Sadly, God’s voice isn’t heard much in this arena.
Many churches don’t address the subject at all. 
*          ILL:* I became a Christian when I was 13 and in the 8th grade--when a young man's hormones have just kicked in.
Through the next five years of junior and senior high school, there was not one sermon in our church on sex; in fact, I don't think the word was ever uttered in church!
It was as though we all
\\ pretended that sex was something that good Christians didn't think or talk about; it was as if we had all been supernaturally neutered at conversion!
But what we lacked in church, we more than made up for in youth group!
There, pooling our ignorance and guided by our inflamed hormones, we composed a brilliant theology of human sexuality.
(I'll share some of our conclusions with you next week.)
Looking back, I believe it was a sad mistake that those least qualified to teach on this subject did, while those most qualified were silent.
Even today, almost 50 years into a sexual revolution that has shattered families and destroyed lives, many churches remain strangely silent.
While our culture drifts on a sea of moral relativism toward inevitable shipwreck, those who know what God says about this vital subject hesitate to stand up and speak out, or go to the other extreme and issue an angry tirade that smacks of self-righteousness and legalism.
We live in a sexually crazed and confused culture, and it is literally killing people, wrecking marriages, destroying families, and breaking hearts.
This is a time to speak clearly and compassionately, to explain God's purposes and standards for sex, and to extend God's mercy and help to those who have failed and are hurting.
We want you to know God's will in this important area, to receive God's power to do His will, and to experience God's forgiveness if you've failed.
Let’s set the foundation.
I want to say something about God, something about you, and something about our culture.
*1.
Sex was God’s idea!*
The sexual awakening didn't begin in the 60's.
It began at creation, when Adam woke up from the first surgery and saw what God had fashioned.
The story is in *Genesis 2*.
God had created Adam, the first man, but Adam was lonely.
And God said, "It is not good for the man to be alone.
I will make a helper suitable for him."
First, God paraded all the animals by Adam, but no suitable helper was found.
The words "suitable helper" mean "someone who corresponded" to Adam, someone like himself in every way and yet different; someone with whom he could interact as equals, as peers.
The parade of animals wasn't God's attempt to convince Adam to be happy with one of them.
"See, wouldn't you like a nice puppy?
Man's best friend, you know--very loyal, and they never talk back!"
It was just the opposite: God was showing Adam how different he was from everything else, and accentuating Adam's loneliness.
By the time the parade ended, Adam's loneliness was acute: "There is no one for me."
That's when God said, "I've got a little surprise for you; I think you'll like it a lot, but I need your cooperation.
I want to do a little surgery, and I need to put you to sleep."
Adam agreed, God administered the first anesthesia, and when Adam awoke, he took one look at Eve and said, "Wow!
What a hottie!"
That's the literal meaning of the Hebrew words!
That was the beginning of the sexual awakening, and the sparks have been flying ever since.
Sex is in the very beginning of the Bible, in the creation.
Sex, you see, was God's idea.
He designed us as sexual creatures.
*Genesis 1:27-28* "So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.
God blessed them and said to them, 'Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it.'
God saw all that He had made and it was very good."
God created us male and female, sexual creatures.
Sex is not an accident, or an afterthought; it is an integral part of God's design.
And God looked at His design and said, "It is very good."
After everything else He created, God said that it was good, but after creating male and female, God said it was *very* good.
And after 31 years of marriage, I concur; it is *very good!*  God designed us as sexual creatures; sex is God's good gift to us.
Some Christians believe that sex was the original sin; they say that Adam and Eve eating the fruit was symbolic of the first sexual act.
This leads, of course, to the conclusion that sex is sinful, wrong, dirty.
But that is a mistaken view.
Mankind's fall into sin is described in *Genesis 3*, after the creation stories in *Genesis 1-2* in which God created us male and female and commanded us to multiply, and there is only one way that you can obey that command that I know of.
Adam and Eve were making love long before they ate the forbidden fruit.
The Bible never teaches that sex is the original sin; it teaches that sex is God's good gift to us.
But God's good gift was given with some clearly defined boundaries.
Sex is for marriage.
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