Sermon Series
|
Audio / Video Text Recommend Subscribe Help
Streaming Audio: PowerPoint Presentation:Click here after starting sermon audio to bring up slides and visual aides which go along with the sermon. [May take 1-3 minutes to open.] Once the first slide appears you can follow along with the message and use the arrow keys to advance the slides.How to edit and use
Please help keep this ministry free by honoring our system...
Please Choose:
Help spread the Word by using the recommendation links, above...it's a proven system that keeps this ministry free!
Grace Notes Sermon Ministry:
NOTICE! Our sermons are free to download, copy and paste, edit and use as you see fit...but only our free subscribers get the newest messages, featured sermons, and some gifts we shower on them from time to time!
SEXUALITY, IMMORALITY, AND PURITY Heb. 13:4
Years ago there
was a movie called, "My Best Friend's Wedding."
Well, I attended my best friend's wedding, and there I married my
best friend.
Today is a
great day to say something that needs to be said:
God’s plan for sex includes 1 man and 1 woman,
within the marriage relationship.
More than a
billion dollars will be spent this year on sex-ed, most of it centering
on what has become known as “safe sex”.
There is no sex safer than sex within God’s plan!
The world’s
version of safe sex is not based on morality at all.
Their theme is:
“Since you can’t be good, be careful”.
God’s version of safe sex is abstinence until marriage,
I Peter 2:11
Dearly beloved,
I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly
lusts, which war against the soul…
Yet Biblical
morality is laughed at, belittled, called archaic, and old-fashioned.
Entertainment:
Rarely in daytime TV will you see lovers who are
married to each other.
(evening sit coms as well) If it’s not pre-marital sex it’s
extra-marital sex…
Advertising: Sex
is the #1 seller of everything from beer to perfume to jeans,
toothpaste, and breakfast cereal.
“appeal to mankind’s baser instincts”
In the ‘60’s,
Hugh Hefner said, “sex is a normal function of the body, it is a desire
that man shares w/ the animals, just like sleeping or eating, therefore
it is not wrong to satisfy these normal desires”.
Society has
swallowed that philosophy, hook, line, and sinker.
“Just throw off all your inhibitions, and if it feels good, do
it.”
As kids
we were taught
evolution in the classroom…and now we are acting like it.
If you tell a teenager that they are an animal for long enough,
he will eventually prove you right!
Josh McDowell
was one of Christianity's foremost experts on teenagers.
His research
showed that in evangelical church circles:
65% of teens
have had some kind of sexual experience before the age of 18.
43% say they have actually gone all the way.
He asked them where they learned their values in this area, and
73% said, “from the movies.”
The numbers have worsened since his day.
The good news
is that of the 35% who had no experience, the vast majority said the
reason was because of a commitment they have made to God.
I’m thankful
for a handful of teens who have pledged that, from this day forward, I
will abstain until marriage…I will live by God’s plan…/adults who
recommit to purity/faithfulness.
A Senator in
I’m thankful
for a power greater than a hurricane, He’s the Creator of the hurricane,
He’s the One that kept my wife and myself pure for each other, He’s our
powerful God!
We’ve allowed
Sex to become a dirty word.
What should be a beautiful picture of love, marriage, and home, it’s now
associated w/ words like
perversion/aids/prostitution/lesbianism/homosexuality.
Society is learning that there is a penalty for sexual immorality. But rather than coming
back to God’s standards, and obeying God’s laws, society says, “Let’s
see what we can do to alter the consequences of our actions.”
Let's find
cures for STDs, since they are inevitable!
Unwanted
pregnancy? Just do away w/
the consequences!
Don’t let
anyone get in the way of you having a good time!
3 Words:
SEXUALITY/IMMORALITY/PURITY
1.
Sexuality
Sex is not a dirty word.
Teenagers:
your generation did not discover sex.
God
originated it for the benefit of all,
within His
guidelines.
Parents:
Don’t make faces at me for using the word sex.
Your kids are hearing lies about it every day and today they will
hear the truth.
Older folks:
Don’t look so holy at me for talking about God’s gift…you’re here
because of it. (The
has been only 1 virgin birth and you’re not it!)
Heb. 13:4 (on screen)
“Marriage is honorable in all, and the bed undefiled.”
Listen
carefully:
When a man and a woman enter into a marriage contract, the seal
of that covenant is their union physically.
To give away your virginity before marriage is far more serious
than you ever thought possible…as you give away the seal to your
marriage contract.
Someday you
will fall in love for real with someone and marry them, and you will
wish with all your heart to give them the most wonderful gift you ever
could, your purity, but I remind you today you can only give it away one
time!
Married
couples:
Just as the
physical union w/in marriage
seals
the covenant of marriage,
so a union outside
of your
marriage w/ anyone else
is what breaks
the covenant.
Sex is not a physical act alone. There is a spiritual and emotional dimension to sex. If you leave them out, then you lower it to the level of animals.
That’s what the
pornography industry is doing.
Making women into things, objects to be used.
“Bunnies” & “Pets”
-Just animals. Nevermind
that you have feelings and a soul and a heart.
Any
blurring
of the sexual distinction is wrong.
Girls are wearing guys clothes and guys are decorating themselves
up like women.
My wife and I
drive around town and have to ask each other, is that a male or female?
Is it a Mr., and Miss, or a mistake?
The girl walks like Tarzan, the guy is walking like Jane, and
they both smell like Cheetah!
Like the
preacher who stood before the couple at their wedding and couldn’t tell
bride from groom, he said, “Will whatever you are take whatever that is
to become whatever you're gonna be!”
This is no joke as our Supreme Court last week basically paved
the way for the nation as a whole to approve of same sex marriage!
God made us
different for a reason, and any blurring of that difference is wrong.
1st
word: Sexuality…
2.
Immorality
We looked
earlier at Heb. 13:4…here’s the rest of the verse:
“but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge!”
I Thess. 4:3 “for this is the will of God…that ye should
abstain from fornication.” (pre-marital sex)
Illustration--Let’s
build together An
ice cream sundae:
Bowl—intellectual union
Ice cream—emotional union
(like turns to love)
Toppings—spiritual union
(share goals and dreams)
Whipped Cream—physical union after marriage
Here’s the
danger: if you enter into
the physical relationship before marriage, the other 3 parts stop
growing immediately!
All you have is the whipped cream…not in love…but in lust!
5 Dangers of pre-marital sex:
1.
Counterfeit
love
Relationships based on sex do not last!
Start w/ physical and then find out you don’t even
like each other. You never
grew together intellectually, emotionally, or spiritually!
You stand there w/ nothing but a handful of whipped
cream, and it gets old, and you throw that away too!
But…if you start the physical after marriage, the other 3
parts just keep on growing!
Then you have more than a sexual partner, you have a best friend who
really loves you.
Real love is
patient, pure, and unselfish.
Girls, when that guy says, “I just can’t wait”, you’ll know
he doesn’t love you. When he
says, “If you really love me, you’ll prove it!”, you take it as
the insult of the ages and slap him so hard his brains ring like church
bells on a cold morning!
Danger of
counterfeit love…
2.
Emotional
consequences
Young ladies:
Studies show a
direct correlation between pre-marital sex and personal emotion
problems…
Guilt/anxiety/loss of self-respect
Guilt
is the most destructive emotion we can have.
It robs you of sleep, peace, joy, self-worth, and your fellowship
w/ God.
It leaves you shattered, uncertain, and unproductive.
And you lose
that “glow” that always accompanies sexual purity.
Hear this
ladies, and I’ll tell you how men think…
…there’s something mysterious about the unknown.
There’s something very attractive about the unknown.
9 times out of
ten, once you reveal yourself to
the guy:,
once the mystery
is gone, so is he…he’ll drop you like a hot rock!
And that won’t feel like just another break-up, it will feel like
a divorce.
3.
Physical
consequences
Wages of sin is
still death!
Drunkard—in
danger of cirrhosis of liver
Smoker—cancer
in the lungs
Glutton—cardiovascular disease
Sexually
impure—in danger of diseases w/ no cures.
There are many diseases besides AIDS which have no cure, and all
carry long-term consequences, and all are spread around thru a crowd of
people willing to have sex outside of the protection of marriage!
You say, he’s
only willing to be w/ me, she’s only willing to be with
me. Don’t be so sure!
If they’re willing to do it w/
you then they’ll do it w/ others and probably already have.
When you go to
bed w/ someone, you go to bed with their entire sexual history, and w/
everyone who THOSE people had been with.
The wages of sin is still death.
Danger of
counterfeit love,
Emotional, Physical consequences…
4.
Marital
consequences
I’ve counseled
w/ people who say, “It’s ok for her and me to do this, because we know
we’re gonna get married.”
No, it’s not ok. Why? Because God said it’s not ok…who are you to rewrite the rules? You may not marry them!
The average
teen falls in love 10 times before they get married.
The average teen on Facebook is in a relationship w/ a different
person every other week [or hour, Chris!]
Even if you do marry them, you have reduced your
chances for a happy marriage because you have chipped away at the
foundation of trust. In the
back of your mind you will always know that the person you married is
capable of immorality. They
were willing to sin w/ you before marriage and they’re capable of
sinning against you now that you are married.
Then there’s…
5.
Spiritual
consequences
But, Bro.
Jerry, don’t you believe that God forgives?
YES I DO!
But
forgiveness and
consequences are 2
different
animals. (ill.—line) We think that both exist on the same line, that the closer we get to forgiveness the further we move from consequences…not so!
David sinned w/
Bathsheba, then committed murder…and in 2 incredible passages of
scripture we see an awesome forgiveness that David requested and
received--but let me ask you, were there still consequences?
Yes.
God said, “David, you will live in a valley of tears the rest of
your life. The sword will
not depart from your house.”
[2 lines!]
He buried a
baby that died. Then one of
his sons raped his daughter.
And God said it was direct results of his sin. Sexuality, Immorality…
3.
Purity
How to stay pure:
1.
Protect your mind
The eye-gate and the ear-gate are so important…the
pathways to the mind.
II Pet. 2:14
(on screen) “eyes full of
adultery”
Once upon a time a boy was born to Christian parents,
he was active in church in the youth group.
One day his g’pa introduced him to soft-core porn.
After a few years it was no longer enough, so he moved on to
hard-core porn. After a
while, it was no longer stimulating, so he began to see prostitutes.
Then he began raping prostitutes.
Then he started killing them.
His name was Ted Bundy!
Men, protect your eyes.
The Bible says, “I will set no wicked thing before my eyes.”
Claim that verse.
Job said, “I have made a covenant w/ my eyes, why
then should I THINK upon a maid?”
Get away from music whose theme is predominantly lust
and sex. (difference between
the sex spoken of in rock music and country music is one is easier to
understand!)
2.
Don’t accommodate sin If you can’t walk into the video store and stay pure, then don’t walk in!
If you can’t flip around the channels w/out looking
for something dirty to look at then cut it off! Maybe you can't have an
unfiltered computer!
If you can’t be alone together in that car then don’t
be.
“Make no provision for the flesh.”
3.
Decide in advance
Make a pre-determined decision to stay pure, and that
you won’t date anyone who hasn’t made the same commitment. Words of a fool: “He’ll change after we’re married.”
You say:
“It’s too late
for me, preacher.” (I’ve already given it away)
Good news!
One day a woman was brought to Jesus, taken in the very act of
adultery. She expected to be
condemned, but Jesus said, I don’t condemn you, go and sin no more!
Can’t change
the past, but your future is spotless!
Recommend this sermon to others. [A new window will open. Rate this sermon from 1 to 5 'stars' with just a click, then close.]
Grace Notes Sermon Ministry:
NOTICE! Our sermons are free to download, copy and paste, edit and use as you see fit...but only our free subscribers get the newest messages, featured sermons, and some free gifts we shower on them from time to time! Help keep this service free by recommending it using the links above the sermon
|
|
All Sermons and PowerPoint Slideshow Presentations ©Copyright Jerry Shirley and Grace Notes Ministries® unless otherwise credited. These resources are yours to use freely, but only in public worship services or private study groups and devotions. They may not be sold, republished or retransmitted in any form without written permission.