SEX IS NOT JUST LIKE ANYTHING ELSE …

I CORINTHIANS 6:12-20

 

SEX IS SPIRITUAL, SEX IS CONNECTED TO YOUR BODY, YOUR BODY IS CONNECTED TO THE SPIRIT OF GOD AND THE SPIRIT OF GOD IS ONE WITH YOUR SPIRIT …

 

WHAT DID THE CORINTHIANS BELIEVE ABOUT SEX AND SPIRITUALITY?

 

SEX IS ALL ABOUT BEING FREE … Vv.12

 

“ALL THINGS ARE LAWFUL FOR ME”

 

“PROSTITUTES WERE OFTEN WELL EDUCATED, INTELLECTUAL, ARTISTIC, JOVIAL; THEY ENTERTAINED NOT ONLY WITH THEIR SEXUAL SERVICES, BUT WITH STIMULATING AND INTELLECTUAL DISCUSSIONS, POETRY, SONG AND DANCE, AND WITTY STORIES. THEY COMBINED BOTH FINE INTELLECTUAL AND SENSUAL PLEASURES. IN CORINTH AND MEGARA THERE WERE EVEN SCHOOLS FOR PROSTITUTES. THEY WERE OFTEN IN SERVICE OF A DEITY, CALLED THE “FOALS OF APHRODITE.”

 

ONE FIRST-CENTURY MAN WROTE:

“WE HAVE HARLOTS FOR PLEASURE, MISTRESSES FOR CONCUBINEAGE, BUT WIVES TO PRODUCE CHILDREN LEGITIMATELY AND TO HAVE A FAITHFUL GUARDIAN OF DAILY AFFAIRS.”

 

SEX IS ALL ABOUT APPETITE, Vv.13

 

THE BODY WAS UNIMPORTANT, Vv.13

 

DALE S. KUEHNE, SEX AND THE i WORLD

“WE LIVE UNDER 3 TABOO’S WHEN IT COMES TO SEXUALITY;”

 

1. DON’T HARM ANYONE,

 

2. THERE MUST BE CONSENT,

 

3. DON’T JUDGE THE MORALITY OF OTHERS,

 

PAUL ANSWERS THE CORINTHIANS,

 

SEX IS PHYSICAL AND SPIRITUAL, Vv.14,15,19

 

PAUL’S ARGUMENT: THE PRESENCE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT IN YOUR BODY MEANS THAT GOD AFFIRMS YOUR BODY.

 

THE BODY IS THE TEMPLE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT …

 

THE BODY WILL BE RESURRECTED …

 

“SEX IS A FIRE SO POWERFUL, SO PRECIOUS, SO CLOSE TO THE HEART AND SOUL OF A PERSON AND SO GODLY IT EITHER GIVES LIFE OR TAKES IT AWAY.”

 

POINT: IF THE NATURE OF SEX IS NOT RESPECTED IT CAN BE A PERVERSE THING THAT DECAYS THE SOUL …

 

SEX IS PERMANENT, Vv.15-16

 

“C.S. LEWIS, “THE CHRISTIAN IDEA OF MARRIAGE IS BASED ON CHRIST WORD THAT A MAN AND WIFE OR TO BE REGARDED AS A SINGLE ORGANISM. THE MALE AND FEMALE, WERE MADE TO BE COMBINED TOGETHER IN PAIRS NOT JUST ON A SEXUAL LEVEL BUT TOTALLY COMBINED. THE MONSTROSITY OF SEXUAL INTERCOURSE OUTSIDE OF MARRIAGE IS THAT THOSE WHO INDULGE OUTSIDE OF MARRIAGE IS THAT THEY ARE TRYING TO ISOLATE ONE KIND OF UNION FROM ALL OTHER KINDS OF UNION, WHICH WERE INTENDED TO GO ALONG WITH IT AND MAKE UP FOR THE TOTAL UNION. THE CHRISTIAN ATTITUDE DOES NOT MEAN THAT THERE IS ANYTHING WRONG ABOUT SEXUAL PLEASURE ANYMORE THEN THE PLEASURE OF EATING. IT MEANS YOU MUST NOT ISOLATE THAT PLEASURE AND GET IT BY ITSELF ANYMORE THAN YOU OUGHT TO TRY TO THE GET THE PLEASURES OF TASTE WITHOUT SWALLOWING AND DIGESTING BY CHEWING THINGS AND SPITTING THEM OUT AGAIN.”

 

SEX IS PROVIDENTIAL, Vv.17

 

WE ARE MARRIED TO CHRIST …

 

WE ARE MEMBERS OF CHRIST …

 

 

APPLICATION: Vv.18-20

 

FLEE ...

 

GLORIFY …