Eli writes and asks this, Dear Pastor John, in a message titled, For Men, Augustine Sin

and Sovereign Joy.

You said this.

The pleasures of God, your book, is not a book about sex at all except that everything

about God is about sex.

In quote, can you provide more clarity on what you meant by everything about God is about

sex?

Well, the first thing to clarify is when I say everything about God is about sex, that's

not a unique statement about sex.

I would say the same thing about everything.

Everything about God is about everything, meaning everything about God relates to everything.

Everything about God shapes the way we think about everything and the way we handle everything

and the way we feel about everything and the way we do everything or it should.

In other words, nothing in the world, absolutely nothing has existence apart from God.

And therefore, nothing in the world has meaning apart from God.

God designed everything and created everything and holds everything in being, governs everything

for his purposes and his purposes always include supremely the display of the fullness of

his glory, that is, everything about God.

Therefore, sex exists because God designed it, God created it, God sustains it, God governs

it and it gets its meaning from God.

And that meaning is the display of the fullness of the glory of God.

And the fullness of the glory of God includes all that God is, or as I said, everything about

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