The God Of Sex Counterfit Gods
Series: Counterfeit Gods
June 05, 2022
Michael Boyd
The God Of Sex Listen on Mixlr @ http://mixlr.com/pastorgbcsl My Radio Stream @ http://s36.myradiostream.com:21402/listen.mp3 Watch us on You Tube Live @ htttp://www.youtube.com/gracechurch-slus/live Grace Baptist Church Podcast https://podpoint.com/grace-baptist-church-of-second-life-podcast Titus 2:11-14, 11 For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people, 12 training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age, 13 waiting for our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ, 14 who gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people for his own possession who are zealous for good works. Romans 1:22-27, 22 Claiming to be wise, they became fools, 23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things. 24 Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, 25 because they exchanged the truth about God for a 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 dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; 27 and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.
Episode Notes
God designed sex to intimately connect us to our spouse.
Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.” (Gen. 2:24)
God designed sex ito accomplish several purposes:
Our God is a Father who likes to give His children good things.
All of God’s gifts are given to point us back to Him.
The gifts that God gives us should cause us to love and worship the Giver more deeply.
II. This is what happens when God has to compete with His own blessings.
Sex is beautiful until it loses its spiritual context.
Food and other forms of pleasure are wonderful until they become ends in themselves.
When God’s gifts become our gods, then the gods become tyrants and we become enslaved.
When God’s gifts become our gods, then they become a destructive force rather than the blessing they were designed to be.
Today, 67% of people believe that it is okay for unmarried people to be involved sexually.
Today, 63% of people believe that it is okay to be involved in same sex relationships.
Today, 70% of people think it is a good idea to co-habitate before marriage.
Romans 1: 22 Claiming to be wise, they became fools, 23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things. 24 Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, 25 because they exchanged the truth about God for a 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 dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; 27 and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error. (Romans 1:22-27)
Pleasure has this unique trait: the more intensely you chase it, the less likely you are to catch it.
Instead of satisfaction, we experience emptiness and an almost immediate hunger for something more.
Instead of experiencing satisfaction and joy, we are left with loneliness, guilt, shame and self-loathing.
The battle begins and takes place in the mind.
What took place in Sodom and Gomorrah began in the minds of those men.
What took place on David’s rooftop started with an innocent glance and a thought.
That Amnon noticed Tamar’s beauty and had a lustful thought, it seemed harmless enough.
The battlefield of the gods is in our hearts, our minds.
Our heart is shaped by our thoughts, then our thoughts determine our words and actions.
Proverbs 4:23, Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it. (NIV)
Paul directs us to “take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.” (2 Cor. 10:5)
Our Response
Question 1: How well am I controlling my thought life?
In what ways am I playing with fire?
What might be lacking in my intimacy with God?
And as she spoke to Joseph day after day, he would not listen to her, to lie beside her or to be with her. (Gen. 39:10)
A – Avoid.
N – Say “No!” immediately.
T – Turn to something magnificent.
H – Hold the pure thing in your mind until the temptation is gone.
E – Enjoy the greater pleasure of spiritual things.
M – Move on to meaningful Christ-exalting activity.
The god of sex promised us satisfaction, yet he left us lonely and ashamed.
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