Does God Hate Sex? Series

Look at the films etc that you watch. Are the sexual relationships ever depicted as between a husband and a wife? What is the world saying there? Sexual relations are an isolated event and they have no consequences but the physical. There is no comeback, but the physical. We know, we know that is a lie. In our heads we know it is not true but still in our hearts we want to believe it to be true. We want the lie to be true because we want to redefine sexual immorality according to our standards and not according to the Word of God. Every time you have sexual relations outside of marriage you rob yourself of the sexual experience that God wants you to have within marriage. Your sexual sin results in relational chaos within marriage with your marriage partner. It results in relational chaos with your children and potentially with your grandchildren, with friends, and with society. If you don’t believe the Word of God on this you are either deaf to the Holy Spirit and or deliberately deceiving yourself.

As I finish this sermon let me turn for a moment to some practical advice. Parents you will want to take this on board for yourselves but also I would humbly suggest you want to teach it to your children. They may be smart at maths, English and science etc but they are not that intelligent when it comes to this area of life that you should leave them to figure it out for themselves. If you don’t teach them the truth about sexual relations and the consequences they will buy into and believe the lie of the world. Can I humbly suggest that as parents you need to open your eyes to the reality of the world in which your children and teenagers live today. We live in a nation with the highest teenage pregnancy rate in Western Europe. We have a soaring divorce rate. 33% of teenagers in the UK are sexually active before the age of 16 (from the Royal Institute of Public Health) Do you think the teenagers within HTW are immune to all this sexual pressure? In the same statistics 40-50% of 14-15 year olds said they wanted their parents to give them advice in this area of life. Where do you think they are getting their education and their standards from in this area of their life if you are not teaching, and modelling, it from Scripture? Parents, I seriously challenge you on this, look at their Bebo sites and what their friends are posting on those sites. Don’t accept they have it hidden with passwords. Look at what they watch on the internet, in the cinema and on TV. Censor their viewing and their computer games. Take a look at teenage magazines that come into your house. Young people hear what God says to you this morning: Sexual activity is not just a physical act. It has relational consequences that will affect the rest of your life and which you will take into every relationship, including marriage, if you get married. I know you are better educated in this whole area than previous generations but please, please, I beg you, obey the Word of God in this area.

Turn with me as we finish to Proverbs 4 verses 23-27. The writer tells us there are four areas we are to guard or be aware of in our lives and I would suggest to you that they are the key to helping all of us in this battle field of sexual holiness and wholeness.