Episodes
Thursday Feb 28, 2013
Love Stinks #7: Sex Rules!
Thursday Feb 28, 2013
Thursday Feb 28, 2013
Flee Sexual Immorality
12 “All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are helpful. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be dominated by anything. 13 “Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food”—and God will destroy both one and the other. The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. 14 And God raised the Lord andwill also raise us up by his power. 15 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 prostitute? Never! 16 Or do you not know that he who is joined[d] to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For, as it is written, “The two will become one flesh.” 17 But he who is joined to the Lord becomes one spirit with him. 18 Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin[e] a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body. 19 Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, 20 for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.Principles for Marriage
7 Now concerning the matters about which you wrote: “It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman.”2 But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband. 3 The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband. 4 For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does. 5 Do not deprive one another, except perhaps by agreement for a limited time, that you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
Outline:
- Bringing Sexy Back
- Fleeing the False Sexy
- Sexy Hope
Thursday Feb 21, 2013
Love Stinks #6: A Life Pleasing to God
Thursday Feb 21, 2013
Thursday Feb 21, 2013
4 Finally, then, brothers,[a] we ask and urge you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, just as you are doing, that you do so more and more. 2 For you know what instructions we gave you through the Lord Jesus. 3 For this is the will of God, your sanctification:[b] that you abstain from sexual immorality; 4 that each one of you know how to control his own body[c] in holiness and honor, 5 not in the passion of lust like the Gentileswho do not know God; 6 that no one transgress and wrong his brother in this matter, because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as we told you beforehand and solemnly warned you. 7 For God has not called us for impurity, but in holiness. 8 Therefore whoever disregards this, disregards not man but God, who gives his Holy Spirit to you.
9 Now concerning brotherly love you have no need for anyone to write to you, for you yourselves have been taught by God to love one another, 10 for that indeed is what you are doing to all the brothers throughout Macedonia. But we urge you, brothers, to do this more and more, 11 and to aspire to live quietly, and to mind your own affairs, and to work with your hands, as we instructed you, 12 so that you may walk properly before outsiders and be dependent on no one. Outline I. Sanctification: The Answer nobody gives to the question "what is the purpose of dating?" II. Sanctifi-what? Sanctification is the will of God for you (even in dating), what is it? III. Sanctification applied practically to dating.Saturday Feb 16, 2013
Love Stinks #5- Jesus and Sex
Saturday Feb 16, 2013
Saturday Feb 16, 2013
Feb 13- S-E-X is a gift that tells a story with your body, Eph 5;
SCRIPTURE PASSAGE-
[22] Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. [23] For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior. [24] Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands.
[25] Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, [26] that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, [27] so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish. [28] In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. [29] For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church, [30] because we are members of his body. [31] “Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.” [32] This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church. [33] However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.
(Ephesians 5:22-33 ESV)
Big Idea- Far from being a cosmic accident, the Act of Sex is a message from God speaking a profound and essential message.
Point 1: Sex is only a blessing in the context of a marriage between a man and his wife.
Point 2: When you have sex with someone, your body makes a promise whether you do or not.
Point 3: So, what is Sex saying?
Tuesday Feb 12, 2013
Love Stinks #4- Friendship is a Supernatural Blessing!
Tuesday Feb 12, 2013
Tuesday Feb 12, 2013
1 John 1:1-10
That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we looked upon and have touched with our hands, concerning the word of life— 2 the life was made manifest, and we have seen it, and testify to it and proclaim to you the eternal life, which was with the Father and was made manifest to us— 3 that which we have seen and heard we proclaim also to you, so that you too may have fellowship with us; and indeed our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ. 4 And we are writing these things so that our joy may be complete. 5 This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. 6 If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. 7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin. 8If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. 9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 10 If we say we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.
Big Idea: Eternal Life & Christian Growth Are Nourished in Friendship
- Friendship is a Supernatural Blessing
- Friendship Helps Us Know Our Deceptive Sin
- Friendship Helps Us Believe the Promises of God.
Monday Feb 04, 2013
Love Stinks #3- Trading God for Sex
Monday Feb 04, 2013
Monday Feb 04, 2013
The Two Immoral Sisters
Ezekiel 23 The
word of the Lord came
to me again: 2 “Son
of man, there were two women, daughters
of the same mother, 3 who
acted like prostitutes in Egypt, behaving
promiscuously in their youth. Their breasts were fondled there, and their
virgin nipples caressed. 4 The
older one was named Oholah,[a]and
her sister was Oholibah.[b] They
became Mine and gave birth to sons and daughters. As for their names, Oholah
represents Samaria and Oholibah represents Jerusalem.
5 “Oholah
acted like a prostitute even though she was Mine.
She lusted after her lovers, the Assyrians: warriors 6 dressed
in blue, governors and prefects, all of them desirable young men, horsemen
riding on steeds. 7 She
offered her sexual favors to them; all of them were the elite of Assyria. She
defiled herself with all those she lusted after and with all their idols. 8 She
didn’t give up her promiscuity that began in Egypt, when
men slept with her in her youth, caressed her virgin nipples, and poured out
their lust on her. 9 Therefore,
I handed her over to her lovers, the
Assyrians she lusted for. 10 They
exposed her nakedness, seized her sons and daughters, and killed her with the
sword. Since they executed judgment against her, she became notorious among
women.
11 “Now
her sister Oholibah saw this, but she was even more depraved in her lust than
Oholah, and made her promiscuous acts worse than those of her sister. 12 She
lusted after the Assyrians:governors and prefects, warriors splendidly dressed,
horsemen riding on steeds, all of them desirable young men. 13 And
I saw that she had defiled herself; both of them had taken the same path. 14 But
she increased her promiscuity when she saw male figures carved on the wall, images
of the Chaldeans, engraved in vermilion, 15 wearing
belts on their waists and flowing turbans on their heads; all of them looked
like officers, a depiction of the Babylonians in Chaldea, the land of their
birth. 16 At
the sight of them[c] she
lusted after them and sent messengers to them in Chaldea.17 Then
the Babylonians came to her, to
the bed of love, and defiled her with their lust. But after she was defiled
by them, she turned away from them in disgust. 18 When
she flaunted her promiscuity and exposed her nakedness, I turned away from
her in disgust just as I turned away from her sister.19 Yet
she multiplied her acts of promiscuity, remembering the days of her youth
when she acted like a prostitute in the land of Egypt 20 and
lusted after their lovers, whose sexual members were like those of donkeys and
whose emission was like that of stallions. 21 So
you revisited the indecency of your youth, when the Egyptians caressed
your nipples to enjoy your youthful breasts.
22 “Therefore
Oholibah, this is what the Lord God says:
I am going to incite your lovers against you, those you turned away from in
disgust. I will bring them against you from every side: 23 the
Babylonians and all the Chaldeans; Pekod, Shoa, and Koa; and
all the Assyrians with them—desirable young men, all of them governors and
prefects, officers and administrators, all of them riding on horses. 24 They
will come against you with an alliance of nations and with weapons, chariots,
and[d]wagons.
They will set themselves against you on every side with shields, bucklers, and helmets.
I will delegate judgment to them, and they will judge you by their own
standards. 25 When
I vent My jealous rage on you, they
will deal with you in wrath. They will cut off your nose and ears, and your
descendants will fall by the sword. They will seize
your sons and daughters, and your descendants will be consumed by fire. 26 They
will strip off your clothes and take your beautiful jewelry. 27 So
I will put an end to your indecency and sexual immorality,
which began in the land of Egypt, and you will not look longingly at them or
remember Egypt anymore.
28 “For
this is what the Lord God says:
I am going to hand you over to those you hate, to those you turned away from in
disgust. 29 They
will treat you with hatred, take all you have worked for, and leave you stark
naked, so
that the shame of your debauchery will be exposed, both your indecency and
promiscuity. 30 These
things will be done to you because you acted like a prostitute with the
nations, defiling
yourself with their idols. 31 You
have followed the path of your sister, so I will put her cup in your hand.”
32 This
is what the Lord God says:
You
will drink your sister’s cup,
which is deep and wide.
You will be an object of[e] ridicule
and scorn,
for it holds so much.
33 You will be filled with drunkenness
and grief,
with a cup of devastation and desolation,
the cup of your sister Samaria.
34 You will drink it and drain it;
then you will gnaw its broken pieces,
and tear your breasts.
For I have spoken.
This is the declaration of the Lord God.
35 Therefore,
this is what the Lord God says:
“Because you have forgotten Me and
cast Me behind your back, you
must bear the consequences of your indecency and promiscuity.”
36 Then
the Lord said
to me: “Son of man, will you pass judgment against Oholah and Oholibah?Then
declare their detestable practices to them. 37 For
they have committed adultery, and blood is on their hands; they have committed
adultery with their idols. They have even made the children they bore to Me
pass through the fire as food for the idols. 38 They
also did this to Me: they defiled My sanctuary on
that same day and profaned My Sabbaths. 39 On
the same day they slaughtered their children for their idols, they entered My
sanctuary to profane it. Yes,
that is what they did inside My house.
40 “In
addition, they sent for men who came from far away when a messenger was
dispatched to them. And look how they came! You bathed, painted your eyes, and
adorned yourself with jewelry for them. 41 You
sat on a luxurious couch with a table spread before it, on
which you had set My incense and oil. 42 The
sound of a carefree crowd was there. Drunkards[f] from
the desert were brought in, along with common men. They put bracelets on the
women’s hands and beautiful crowns on their heads. 43 Then
I said concerning this woman worn out by adultery: Will they now have illicit
sex with her, even her? 44 Yet
they had sex with her as one does with a prostitute. This is how they had sex
with Oholah and Oholibah, those obscene women. 45 But
righteous men will judge them the way adulteresses and
those who shed blood are judged, for they are adulteresses and blood is on
their hands.
46 “This
is what the Lord God says:
Summon[g] an
assembly against them and consign them to terror and plunder. 47 The
assembly will stone them and cut them down with their swords. They
will kill their sons and daughters and burn their houses with fire. 48 So
I will put an end to indecency in the land, and all the women will be
admonished not to imitate your indecent behavior. 49 They
will repay you for your indecency, and
you will bear the consequences for your sins of idolatry. Then you will know
that I am the Lord Yahweh.”
MATTHEW 26:39! Compare to ezek 23:31-34!
John 8 cf with ezek 23:45
Matthew 26:39 Going a little farther,[a] He fell facedown and prayed, “My Father! If it is
possible, let this cup pass from Me. Yet not as I will, but as You will.”
An Adulteress Forgiven
2 At
dawn He went to the temple complex again,
and all the people were coming to Him. He
sat downand began to teach them.
3 Then
the scribes and the Pharisees brought
a woman caught in adultery, making
her stand in the center. 4 “Teacher,”
they said to Him, “this woman was caught in the act of committing adultery. 5 In
the law Moses commanded
us to stone such women. So
what do You say?” 6 They
asked this to trap Him, in
order that they might have evidence to accuse Him.
Jesus stooped down and started writing on the ground
with His finger. 7 When
they persisted in questioning Him, He stood up and said to them, “The
one without sin among
you should be the first
to throw a stone at her.”
8 Then
He stooped down again and continued writing on the ground. 9 When
they heard this, they left one by one, starting with the older men. Only He was
left, with the woman in the center. 10 When
Jesus stood up, He said to her, “Woman,
where are they? Has no one condemned you?”
11 “No
one, Lord,”[a] she
answered.
“Neither do I condemn you,” said
Jesus. “Go,
and from now on do not sin anymore.”][b]