A biblical sexual ethic EXPLAINED

A biblical sexual ethic EXPLAINED

(MULTILINE REVEAL TINY)

SEX FACTS:

1. Sex is a thing.

That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh. (Genesis 2:24 NIV)

1. Sex is a thing.

This “united into one flesh” comes from the Hebrew word, “ECHAD”, which essentially means, “fused together at the deepest level”.

1. Sex can be a thing.

God created sex to be a not just a .

1. Sex can be a thing.

The more something is, the more it needs to be shown.

A BIBLICAL SEXUAL ETHIC:

Honor marriage, and guard the sacredness of sexual intimacy between wife and husband.

God draws a firm line against casual and illicit sex. (Hebrews 13:4 MSG)

Marriage should be honored by all, and the marriage bed kept pure, for God will judge the adulterer and all the sexually immoral. (Hebrews 13:4 NIV)

1. God designed sex to be used in a relationship.

There’s more to sex than mere skin on skin. Sex is as much spiritual mystery as physical fact.

…We must not pursue the kind of sex that avoids commitment and intimacy, leaving us more lonely than ever. (1 Corinthians 6:16-20 MSG)

1. Following a biblical sexual ethic will:
2. Bring you to God’s design for your life.
3. Cause you strife and pain in life.
4. Give you greater and greater in your relationships.

Study after Study shows that the people with the best sex lives are monogamous, heterosexual married couples who had few or no partners before marriage… and the reciprocal is true. The people who report the lowest levels of sexual satisfaction are promiscuous singles with frequent sexual encounters. – John Mark Comer, Loveology

The divorce rate for couples who live together before they get married is 50-80% higher than the national average. And the infidelity rate for couples who live together before they get married is 2-8 times higher than the couples that don’t live together first. – Andy Stanley, The New Rules for Love, Sex, and Dating

A SPECIAL NOTE TO ALL MARRIED COUPLES:

1. Sex should be a of your life and schedule.
2. it, for it, and about it.

Now, getting down to the questions you asked in your letter to me. First, is it a good thing to have sexual relations? Certainly—but only within a certain context. It’s good for a man to have a wife, and for a woman to have a husband. Sexual drives are strong, but marriage is strong enough to contain them and provide for a balanced and fulfilling sexual life in a world of sexual disorder. The marriage bed must be a place of mutuality—the husband seeking to satisfy his wife, the wife seeking to satisfy her husband. (1 Corinthians 7:1-4 MSG)

BIG IDEA:

for others what it looks like to for your life.

Christians can mess up and receive God’s free pardon. God’s scandalous grace covers all of our wrongdoings, and He dishes out such grace liberally. But it’s one thing to struggle and fail, and quite another to call sin good and wrongdoing righteousness. Christians—genuine Christians—must strive to live in line with the Creator’s intentions and celebrate the good gifts He gives to His people.

– Preston Sprinkle