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Killing Lust with the Gospel
Colossians 3:5 Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.
1 Corinthians 6:9-7:5
Cultural Sexual Ethic
• Three Questions:1. Is sex desirable?2. Is sex consensual?3. Is sex safe?
• Assumption: sex is just an appetite, like eating.
Biblical Sexual Ethic
Sex is a gift to be used to celebrate, renew, and strengthen a
covenant.
• Adultery – Sex outside a covenant.
• Sexual Immorality – Sex without a covenant.
• Lust – strong desire for sex regardless of any covenant.
Bible is not Sexual Repressed
• Genesis 2:24 • Proverbs 5:18-19 • Song of Solomon
Cultural Sexual Ethic
Commodity – Sex is what you want.Currency – Sex will get you what you want.
“We aren’t married but we are committed.”
• How do you define commitment?• Sex minus a covenant makes it a
tryout.
Sex without a covenant is destructive.
• 1 Corinthians 6:16-17• Matthew 5:27-30
Gospel Hope – Ephesians 5Jesus Justifies his Bride
• Jesus knew his bride and entered into a covenant with her anyway.
• He knows your sexual brokenness and loves you anyway!
Gospel Hope – Ephesians 5Jesus Sanctifies his Bride
• Jesus washes his bride to make her pure and radiant
• He sees you as he will make you – pure and radiant.
Gospel Faith – Our Response
John 8
• Make Jesus the lover of your soul.
• Leave sexual immorality behind.o Single: sex does not complete you,
Jesus does (Paul 1 Cor. 7:8-9)o Single (but burning): Let Jesus
prepare you for a covenant.o Married: use sex to strengthen and
renew your covenant (1 Cor. 7)