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Human Sexuality in a few of its many guises

Human Sexuality in a few of its many guises. 1 Corinthians 7:1-32. The Plan of God. And some Pharisees came to Him, testing Him, and saying, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any cause at all?”

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Human Sexuality in a few of its many guises

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  1. Human Sexualityin a few of its many guises 1 Corinthians 7:1-32

  2. The Plan of God And some Pharisees came to Him, testing Him, and saying, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any cause at all?” And He answered and said, “Have you not read, that He who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, ‘For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and THE TWO SHALL BECOME ONE FLESH’? Consequently they are no longer two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate.” Matthew 19:3–6

  3. Modern Human Sexuality Divorces Census Bureau's Statistical Abstract of the U.S

  4. Modern Human Sexuality Cohabitation Rutgers University, The State of our Unions 2003: The Social Health of Marriage in America “An estimated 40 percent of all children are expected to spend some time in a cohabiting household during their growing up years.”

  5. Modern Human Sexuality Cohabitation is OK? Barna, George, A New Generation of Adults Bends Moral and Sexual Rules to Their Liking October, 2006

  6. Modern Human Sexuality Pornography Revenues US porn revenue exceeds the combined revenues of ABC, CBS, and NBC $ Billions May 19, 2005 Congressional testimony transcript, Summit on pornography and violence against women and children. Report of the Attorney General's Task Force on Family Violence, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., 112.

  7. Modern Human Sexuality Pornography Revenues Dr. Victor Cline identified the progressive nature of pornography addiction..Need for pornography escalates both in frequency and in deviancy. One in five adults in the United States has an STD 87 percent of child molesters were regular consumers of hardcore pornography… 19 million new STD infections occur annually. Barna, George, A New Generation of Adults Bends Moral and Sexual Rules to Their Liking October, 2006

  8. God We love, because He first loved us. 1 John 4:19

  9. Biblical Human Sexuality • Celibacy May Be Necessary… (v1). 1 Cor. 7:1 Now regarding the questions you asked in your letter. Yes, it is good to live a celibate life.

  10. Biblical Human Sexuality • Celibacy May Be Necessary… (v1). • Look to Marriage for Sexual Fulfillment (v.2) But because there is so much sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman should have her own husband. 1 Corinthians 7:2

  11. Biblical Human Sexuality • Celibacy May Be Necessary… (v1). • Look to Marriage for Sexual Fulfillment (v.2) But because there is so much sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman should have her own husband. 1 Corinthians 7:2

  12. Biblical Human Sexuality • Celibacy May Be Necessary… (v1). • Look to Marriage for Sexual Fulfillment (v.2) • Sexuality Means Sacrificial Love (v.3-5) 1 Cor. 7:3 Let the husband fulfill his duty to his wife, and likewise also the wife to her husband.

  13. Biblical Human Sexuality • Celibacy May Be Necessary… (v1). • Look to Marriage for Sexual Fulfillment (v.2) • Sexuality Means Sacrificial Love (v.3-5) • REAL sacrifice, too! 1 Cor. 7:4 The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does; and likewise also the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does

  14. Biblical Human Sexuality • Celibacy May Be Necessary… (v1). • Look to Marriage for Sexual Fulfillment (v.2) • Sexuality Means Sacrificial Love (v.3-5) • Don’t “Spiritualize” Away Your Sexuality! 1 Cor. 7:5 Stop depriving one another, except by agreement for a time that you may devote yourselves to prayer, and come together again lest Satan tempt you because of your lack of self-control. I say this as a concession, not as a command…

  15. Biblical Human Sexuality • Celibacy May Be Necessary… (v1). • Look to Marriage for Sexual Fulfillment (v.2) • Sexuality Means Sacrificial Love (v.3-5) • Don’t “Spiritualize” Away Your Sexuality! 1 Cor. 7:5 Stop depriving one another, except by agreement for a time that you may devote yourselves to prayer, and come together again lest Satan tempt you because of your lack of self-control. I say this as a concession, not as a command…

  16. Biblical Human Sexuality • Celibacy May Be Necessary… (v1). • Look to Marriage for Sexual Fulfillment (v.2) • Sexuality Means Sacrificial Love (v.3-5) • Don’t “Spiritualize” Away Your Sexuality! • Celibacy is a Gift: an Opportunity! 1 Cor. 7:5 I wish that all men were as I am. But each man has his own gift from God; one has this gift, another has that … v26-28 I think then that this is good in view of the present distress, that it is good for a man to remain as he is. Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to be released. Are you released from a wife? Do not seek a wife. But if you marry, you have not sinned; v32 “I would like you to be free from concern. An unmarried man is concerned about the Lord's affairs--how he can please the Lord…”

  17. Biblical Human Sexuality • Celibacy May Be Necessary… (v1). • Look to Marriage for Sexual Fulfillment (v.2) • Sexuality Means Sacrificial Love (v.3-5) • Don’t “Spiritualize” Away Your Sexuality! • Celibacy is a Gift: an Opportunity! • Marriage is a Gift: “Fire! Fire! Put it OUT!” 1 Cor. 7:5 Now to the unmarried and the widows I say: It is good for them to stay unmarried, as I am. But if they cannot control themselves, they should marry, for it is better to marry than to burn with passion… Flee immorality. Every other sin that a man commits is outside the body, but the immoral man sins against his own body.1 Corinthians 6:18

  18. Biblical Insight for Modern Issues A direct quote from Christ… 1 Cor. 7:10-11 To the married I give this command (not I, but the Lord): A wife must not separate from her husband.

  19. Biblical Insight for Modern Issues • Divorce is Very Un-cool 1 Cor. 7:10-11 To the married I give this command (not I, but the Lord): A wife must not separate from her husband. [11] But if she does, she must remain unmarried or else be reconciled to her husband. And a husband must not divorce his wife

  20. Biblical Insight for Modern Issues • Divorce is Very Un-cool • But we aren’t naïve: divorce occurs. • Remain single, if possible. • Re-marry, if necessary… Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to be released. Are you released from a wife? Do not seek a wife. But if you marry, you have not sinned… 1 Corinthians 7:27-28 Jesus replied, “Moses permitted divorce only as a concession to your hard hearts, but it was not what God had originally intended. Matthew 19:8 Are you released from a wife? Do not seek a wife. But if you marry, you have not sinned… 1 Corinthians 7:27-28

  21. Biblical Insight for Modern Issues • Divorce is Very Un-cool • But we aren’t naïve: divorce occurs. • The Non-Christian Home: Complicated • Stay in the marriage, if possible! To the rest I say this (I, not the Lord): If any brother has a wife who is not a believer and she is willing to live with him, he must not divorce her. [13] And if a woman has a husband who is not a believer and he is willing to live with her, she must not divorce him. 1 Corinthians 7:12-13

  22. Biblical Insight for Modern Issues • Divorce is Very Un-cool • But we aren’t naïve: divorce occurs. • The Non-Christian Home: Complicated • Stay in the marriage, if possible! • God can work there! . [14] For the unbelieving husband has been sanctified through his wife, and the unbelieving wife has been sanctified through her believing husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but as it is, they are holy 1 Corinthians 7:14

  23. Biblical Insight for Modern Issues Don’t you wives realize that your husbands might be saved because of you? And don’t you husbands realize that your wives might be saved because of you? 1 Corinthians 7:16 • Divorce is Very Un-cool • But we aren’t naïve: divorce occurs. • The Non-Christian Home: Complicated • Stay in the marriage, if possible! • God can work there! • Divorce may be necessary for peace… 1 Cor. 7:15 But if the unbeliever leaves, let him do so. A believing man or woman is not bound in such circumstances; God has called us to live in peace

  24. Biblical Insight for Modern Issues 2 Cor. 6:14 Do not be bound together with unbelievers; for what partnership have righteousness and lawlessness, or what fellowship has light with darkness? • Divorce is Very Un-cool • But we aren’t naïve: divorce occurs. • The Non-Christian Home: Complicated • Stay in the marriage, if possible! • God can work there! • Divorce may be necessary for peace… • Better still: don’t marry a non-Christian!

  25. What’s It All Mean? • Learn to Grow Where You’re Planted! • Your Circumstances are NOT your problems! Each of you should continue to live in whatever situation the Lord has placed you, and remain as you were when God first called you. This is my rule for all the churches. 1 Corinthians 7:17 Yes, each of you should remain as you were when God called you. Are you a slave? Don’t let that worry you…1 Corinthians 7:20-21

  26. What’s It All Mean? • Learn to Grow Where You’re Planted! • Your Circumstances are NOT your problems! • Still We Should Seek Opportunity for Change Are you a slave? Don’t let that worry you—but if you get a chance to be free, take it. 1 Corinthians 7:21

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