Well, our culture assumes that people will only be happy when they are free to pursue

sexual satisfaction in any way that they choose.

And this idea has infected the church as well, with the result that many professing Christians

are left confused and broken as a result of sexual sin, whether their own or someone else's.

Welcome to the Radical with David Platt podcast.

The latest sermons from teacher, author, and pastor David Platt delivered weekly.

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Well, in today's message from David Platt out of 1 Corinthians, chapter 6,

we'll see that true satisfaction comes when we trust God's design for our sexuality.

And the good news for those who need forgiveness and healing for sexual sin

is that the one who created us and knows what's best for us has sent his own son to make us new.

So here's Pastor David Platt with the sermon titled Beauty and Brokenness, Sexuality Part 1.

From 1 Corinthians, chapter 6, verses 9 to 20.

If you have a Bible and I hope you or somebody around you does that you can look on with,

let me invite you to open with me to 1 Corinthians, chapter 6.

1 Corinthians, chapter 6.

And while you're turning there, I want to set things up today for our time in the Word in a couple of different ways.

One, we are beginning a new series today that we're calling Beauty and Brokenness,

Sexuality, Singleness, and Marriage, and 1 Corinthians, chapter 6, and 7.

So almost a year ago when we moved all of our gatherings online,

we were in the middle of walking through the book of 1 Corinthians in the Bible.

And in light of events going on, last March around the world we made adjustments.

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