SEXUALITY

 SEXUALITY

I. GOD’S ORIGINAL DESIGN

Gen 1:26-28

Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them

have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle,

over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” 27  So God

created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and

female He created them. 28  Then God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be

fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the

sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth

Psalm 8:4

What is man that You are mindful of him, And the son of man that You visit him? 5

For You have made him a little lower than the angels, And You have crowned him

with glory and honor. 6 You have made him to have dominion over the works of Your

hands; You have put all things under his feet

Psalm 139:13-16

For You formed my inward parts; You covered me in my mother’s womb. 14 I will

praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Marvelous are Your works, And

that my soul knows very well. 15 My frame was not hidden from You, When I was

made in secret, And skillfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. 16 Your eyes

saw my substance, being yet unformed. And in Your book they all were written, The

days fashioned for me, When as yet there were none of them.

The instructions in the Manufactures Handbook…

II. THE BEAUTY OF SEX

The sexual revolution that began in the late 50’s and 60’s has turned sex into

something other than the beauty God created it to be. It’s become almost a dirty

word.

1. It’s the forging of a union

Gen 2:24

Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and

they shall become one flesh

1 Cor 6:15-17

Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the

members of Christ and make them members of a harlot? Certainly not! 16  Or do

you not know that he who is joined to a harlot is one body with her? For “the

two,” He says, “shall become one flesh.” 17  But he who is joined to the Lord is one

spirit with Him

2. It’s Covenantal and Sacred

Deut. 22:13-19

“If any man takes a wife, and goes in to her, and detests her, 14  and charges her

with shameful conduct, and brings a bad name on her, and says, ‘I took this

woman, and when I came to her I found she was not a virgin,’ 15  then the father

and mother of the young woman shall take and bring out the evidence of the

young woman’s virginity to the elders of the city at the gate. 16  And the young

woman’s father shall say to the elders, ‘I gave my daughter to this man as wife,

and he detests her. 17  Now he has charged her with shameful conduct, saying, “I

found your daughter was not a virgin,” and yet these are the evidences of my

daughter’s virginity.’ And they shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city.

18  Then the elders of that city shall take that man and punish him; 19  and they shall

fine him one hundred shekels of silver and give them to the father of the young

woman, because he has brought a bad name on a virgin of Israel

Ex. Hymen in a lady

Def. A membrane which partially closes the opening of the vagina and whose

presence is traditionally taken to be a mark of virginity

3. It is pure within the confines of marriage

Hebrews 13:4

Marriage is honorable among all, and the bed undefiled; but fornicators and

adulterers God will judge

4. It’s designed to bring great pleasure.

Proverbs 5:18-19

Let your fountain be blessed and rejoice with the wife of your youth. 19 As a

loving deer and a graceful doe, let her breasts satisfy you at all times; And

always be enraptured with her love.

5. It should be Monogamous

Proverbs 5:15-17

Drink water from your own cistern and running water from your own well. 16

Should your fountains be dispersed abroad, Streams of water in the streets? 17

Let them be only your own, And not for strangers with you.

6. It’s a Conjugal right

1 Cor 7:3

Let the husband render to his wife the affection due her, and likewise also the

wife to her husband

1 Cor 7:5

Do not deprive one another except with consent for a time, that you may give

yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again so that Satan does not

tempt you because of your lack of self-control

7. Sexual temptation is a good reason to get married

1 Cor 7:2 AMP

But because of the temptation to impurity and to avoid immorality, let each

[man] have his own wife and let each [woman] have her own husband.

Acts 15:19-20

Therefore I judge that we should not trouble those from among the Gentiles who

are turning to God, 20  but that we write to them to abstain from things polluted

by idols, from sexual immorality, from things strangled, and from blood

III. UNLAWFUL FORMS OF SEXUAL RELATIONS

Leviticus 18:6-29 AMPLIFIED BIBLE

1. Sex with Kinfolks is unlawful

Lev 18:6

‘None of you shall approach anyone who is near of kin to him, to uncover

his nakedness: I am the LORD None of you shall approach anyone close of kin

to him to have sexual relations. I am the Lord.

2. Sex with your Mother is Forbidden

Lev 18:7

The nakedness of your father, which is the nakedness of your mother, you

shall not uncover; she is your mother; you shall not have intercourse with

her.

3. Sex with your father’s wife is forbidden

Lev 18:8

The nakedness of your father’s wife you shall not uncover; it is your father’s

nakedness.

4. Can’t have sex with your sister or brother

Lev 18:9

You shall not have intercourse with or uncover the nakedness of your sister,

the daughter of your father or of your mother, whether born at home or

born abroad.

5. No sex with son or daughter

Lev 18:10-11

You must not have sexual relations with your son’s daughter or your

daughter’s daughter; their nakedness you shall not uncover, for they are your

own flesh. You must not have intercourse with your father’s wife’s daughter;

begotten by your father, she is your sister; you shall not uncover her

nakedness

6. No sex with your aunt or uncle

Lev 18:12

You shall not have intercourse with your father’s sister; she is your father’s

near kinswoman. 13 You shall not have sexual relations with your mother’s

sister, for she is your mothers near kinswoman. 14 You shall not have

intercourse with your father’s brother’s wife; you shall not approach his wife;

she is your aunt.

7. Sleeping with your son in law or daughter in law is forbidden

Lev 18:15

You shall not uncover the nakedness of your daughter-in-law; she is your

son’s wife; you shall not have intercourse with her.

8. No sex with your sister-in-law or brother-in-law

Lev 18:16

You shall not have intercourse with your brother’s wife; she belongs to your

brother.

9. No intimacy during menstrual cycle

Lev 18:19

Also you shall not have intercourse with a woman during her [menstrual

period or similar] uncleanness.

10. It’s forbidden to have sex with another’s husband or wife

Lev 18:20

Moreover, you shall not lie carnally with your neighbor’s wife, to defile

yourself with her.

11. Sex without marriage is not allowed

12. Sex with animals is forbidden

Lev 18:23

Neither shall you lie with any beast and defile yourself with it; neither shall

any woman yield herself to a beast to lie with it; it is confusion, perversion,

and degradedly carnal.

13. Sex with the same gender is forbidden

Lev 18:22

You shall not lie with a man as with a woman; it is an abomination.

1 Cor 6:9-10

Do you not know that the unrighteous and the wrongdoers will not inherit or

have any share in the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived (misled): neither

the impure and immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor those who

participate in homosexuality, 10 Nor cheats (swindlers and thieves), nor

greedy graspers, nor drunkards, nor foulmouthed revilers and slanderers, nor

extortioners and robbers will inherit or have any share in the kingdom of

God.

14. New Testament uses Sexual Immorality and Inordinate Affection

1 Thess. 4:3-4

For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you should abstain from

sexual immorality; 4  that each of you should know how to possess his own

vessel in sanctification and honor

Col 3:5

Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication,

uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness,

which is idolatry

The NT doesn’t change the Leviticus laws.

Ex. Ludicrous to think because we are under grace you can sleep with your

mom and its ok.

IV. SAME SEX PRACTICES

Three sides of this issue (1. What God says about it 2. An aggressive militant effort to

normalize it; 3. People made in the image of God and loved by God caught in the

middle)

1. What God says About it

a. It is sin and abominable.

Lev 18:22

You shall not lie with a man as with a woman; it is an abomination

Abomination. Repugnant or detestable act, person, or thing. The idea of

abomination derives from the specific demands God’s holiness makes upon

his people. Adjectives frequently used for abominations in the OT are

“abhorrent,” “loathsome,” “unclean,” and “rejected (Baker Encyclopedia of

the Bible).

Other things in the Bible that are an Abomination

 defective sacrifices (Dt 17:1)

 magic and divination (Dt 18:12)

 idolatrous practices (2 Kgs 16:3)

 Meat of certain kinds of animals that was ritually defiling, whether

touched or eaten (Lev. 11:10–13).

 three-day-old sacrificial meat (Lev. 7:18).

 idolatrous objects of pagan origin (Jer. 4:1; 7:30

b. It’s Contrary to the laws of nature

Romans 1:18-32

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and

unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness,

19  because what may be known of God is manifest in them, for God has

shown it to them. 20  For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes

are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His

eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse… 24  Therefore

God also gave them up to uncleanness, in the lusts of their hearts, to

dishonor their bodies among themselves, 25  who exchanged the truth of God

for the lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator,

who is blessed forever. Amen. 26  For this reason God gave them up to vile

passions. For even their women exchanged the natural use for what is

against nature. 27  Likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the

woman, burned in their lust for one another, men with men committing

what is shameful, and receiving in themselves the penalty of their error

which was due. 28  And even as they did not like to retain God in their

knowledge, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do those things which

are not fitting; 29  being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality,

wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit,

evil-mindedness; they are whisperers, 30  backbiters, haters of God, violent,

proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

31  undiscerning, untrustworthy, unloving, unforgiving, unmerciful; 32  who,

knowing the righteous judgment of God, that those who practice such things

are deserving of death, not only do the same but also approve of those who

practice them.

 There is a such thing as unrighteousness and ungodliness v.18

 The revelation of God is in every human v.19

 The revelation of God is so clear we are without excuse. v.20

 There is a such thing as uncleanness. v.24

 It’s possible to worship the Creature more than the creator. v.25

 There is a such thing as vile passions. v.26

 There is a natural use and a use that is against nature. v.26

 There is something that is considered shameful. v. 27.

 There is a form of sex that is immoral. v.29

Chromosomes

XX in the female and XY in the male.

The chromosomes, sexual organs and reproductive organs determine sex, not

feeling or desire

Ex. My height…

Ex. My skin color…

2. The image bearers

Gen 1:27

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male

and female created he them

Ex. Bruce’s Story

Ex. Ed Silvoso Story

Ex. Woman at the well with five Husbands

PROBLEM: It’s often a root of rejection that opens the door for homosexuality.

Many view anything other than wholesale acceptance as rejection of them.

To be against homosexuality does not mean you are against homosexuals

3. The Agenda

a. Everyone must embrace it

b. If you don’t you are bigoted, homophobic and mean

c. HR5 –

This bill destroys bathroom privacy. It would welcome both

genders into every bathroom in America.  

It eliminates gender standards for religious K-12 schools and

daycare centers

It forbids counsellors from giving professional help to those

facing unwanted same-sex desires or actions

It criminalizes those who share their own story of finding

freedom in Christ from homosexuality in a book or speaking

engagement.

And there is NO RELIGIOUS EXEMPTION to this bill! 

The 1964 Civil Rights Act outlawed state-sanctioned discrimination that

caused systematic economic and material harm to black Americans. The

Equality Act is different: It forces every American to agree with controversial

government-imposed ideology on sexuality or be treated as an outlaw. The

Equality Act demolishes existing civil rights and constitutional freedoms.

All single-sex spaces will be open to both sexes under the Equality Act. The

Equality Act adds sexual orientation and gender identity rules to Title III of

the Civil Rights Act on “public facilities” as well as to public accommodations

Ex. Man in girls sauna naked with legs open

V. MARRIAGE GUIDELINES

Heb 13:4

Marriage is honorable among all, and the bed undefiled; but fornicators and

adulterers God will judge

Ex. Use nature as a guideline… (Entrance and Exit)

Porn leads to lust and more marital dissatisfaction

Ex. Arranged Marriages

In the U.S., while the divorce rate hovers around 40 or 50 percent, the divorce

rate for arranged marriages is 4 percent. In India, where some estimate that

90 percent of marriages are arranged, the divorce rate is only 1 percent. Are

low divorce rates a sign that arranged marriages work?

VI. ADVICE FOR SINGLES

1. Marry a believer

2. Abstain from sex in the grace of God

1 Thess. 4:3

For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you should abstain from

sexual immorality

3. Get married if you can’t sustain yourself

Ex. Arranged Marriages

1 Cor 6:13

Foods for the stomach and the stomach for foods, but God will destroy both it and them. Now

the body is not for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body