By Keeping Sex in Marriage

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Leading The Way with Dr. Michael Youssef

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🗓️ 4 December 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

In this uncompromising message, Dr. Michael Youssef confronts today’s moral collapse with Jesus’ teaching from Matthew 5:27–30: “You shall not commit adultery.” Exposing the idolatry of sexual sin—even within the Church—he declares that God’s design for sex is a holy gift reserved for marriage between one man and one woman. Lust begins in the heart and must be mortified, not managed. With bold clarity, Dr. Youssef warns that unchecked temptation leads to destruction, but repentance brings restoration. Only the power of the Holy Spirit can enable believers to pursue purity, deny self, and live under Christ’s righteousness. God’s grace is sufficient to cleanse every sinner who turns to Him in faith and repentance. If today’s teaching stirred a question, burden, or need for prayer, you don’t have to walk through it alone. 🙏 Pastoral Care & Prayer Teams Our trained prayer partners and pastoral care team are available to pray with you and offer Biblical support. https://ltw.org/care 💬 Receive personal answers to your faith questions—anytime, day or night—at: https://myfaithassistant.com If you’ve been blessed by this podcast, please consider a tax-deductible donation to help extend this ministry—so another person can be encouraged, prayed for, and pointed to Christ. ❤️ Support Leading The Way: https://www.ltw.org/donate

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0:00.0	Dr. Michael Youssef, introducing the sensitive topic ahead on leading the way audio.
0:07.0	Look with me, please, at what Jesus said regarding the Seventh Commandment,
0:12.0	thou shall not commit adultery.
0:15.0	It's found in Matthew 5, verse 27 to 30.
0:19.0	Jesus is not speaking about normal attractions. He's not even talking about the temptations that we all face. He's not even speaking about the thought that is fleeting. Now he's talking about being obsessed with someone who is not your husband or your wife.
0:43.4	We live in a sexually charged culture.
0:47.2	So knowing that Dr. Youssef's message today is called,
0:50.3	Appropriating the happiness that is in you by keeping sex and marriage will probably create one
0:56.9	of two responses. One, it can make you turn away, thinking that Dr. Youssef and the Bible are out
1:02.7	of touch with the reality of life in 2025, so why even take time to listen? Or two, it can challenge you to lean in closer, to better hear what God's word has to say about
1:15.5	biblical living in today's world.
1:17.9	Choice is yours, but I do hope that you'll pause.
1:21.0	Ask God to open your heart to his word.
1:23.5	And listen as Dr. Michael Youssef passionately proclaims uncompromising truth from God's word
1:30.8	on leading the way. And do know, nothing will be inappropriate for sensitive years in this message.
1:37.8	The focus is all on God's word and being more like Christ. So now let's listen together.
1:47.6	We have been seeing in this throughout the series of messages how on the sermon of the Mount God the Son who came to earth
1:55.0	was revealing to us, expounding to us, telling us about God the Father's original intent when he gave those
2:05.3	commandments to Moses. I don't think there's ever been a time in history, to my knowledge,
2:13.0	and a little bit of history. We're a denomination after denomination, after denomination, that have become
2:21.6	obsessed with what they call human sexuality. It occupies their convention time. It occupies
2:30.9	their debates. It occupies their thoughts. They have made an idol of this issue,
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