Consenting Adultery Series

We are a brainwashed generation.

Ill.—The movie Titanic is a good example of this. That movie had people believing that you can fall in love in a matter of hours, have sex with them, and then regard them in your heart as the love of your life for the rest of your life. That is silly. Now I know some claim love at first sight, but I also hope the young ladies here will realize that love at first sight is usually cured by taking a second look!

The good news is from the same McDowell youth survey that showed a majority were sexually active, the minority who were not, when asked why not, said it was because of a commitment they had made to the Lord Jesus Christ! That tells me that we must do more than just tell them to ‘just say no’...we need to lead them to a meaningful relationship w/ the Lord, and teach them about commitment by making some commitments ourselves. Adults, we need to make some changes in our homes and our habits, and then we can ask our kids to.

Don’t just roll over on this one and say w/ the masses, “just be safe.” Or, “If you can’t be good, then be careful!” There is no sex safer than sex within God’s plan!

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…

You know it and I know it...there is something stronger than sinful desire.

A Senator in Washington once said, “today’s teens are just hormone hurricanes, and you can’t stop a hurricane.”

I’m thankful for a power greater than a hurricane, He’s the Creator of that hurricane, He’s the One that kept my wife and myself pure for each other, He’s our powerful God!

Ill.—some say sex is just a natural God given appetite that we need to fulfill. I’m here to remind you that it is an appetite from which you will not die if it goes unfulfilled! Stop eating and you’ll die. Stop drinking and you’ll die. Stop having sex and you will not die. [you may feel like you’re going to, but you won’t]

I need to pause to tell you to relax and not get up tight when we talk about this subject of sex...you’re here because of it! Your kids are hearing lies about it every day and today they will hear the truth. (There 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.”

Our society has discovered that there are certain penalties attached to sexual immorality. But instead of conforming to God’s plan, they say, let’s see if we can get around the consequences. If there’s a danger of getting a disease, that’s ok, just use protection. And then they have the nerve to say, after all, they’re 95% effective! [imagine 100 of you get on an airplane and the flight attendant says the bad news is we’re going to crash, the good news is that only 5 of you will die!]

If you get pregnant, that’s ok, we can destroy the evidence! No consequences, no problem.

God’s plan for sex includes 1 man and 1 woman, within the marriage relationship.

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