Hey everybody, this is Jeff. Matt is traveling right now, so it's up to me to do a little

quick intro about where we are. Yesterday, Matt started a conversation about a list of very bad

things from Galatians chapter 5 verses 19 through 21, which reads, Thusly, The Acts of the

Flesh are obvious, sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery, idolatry and

witchcraft, hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions,

factions, and envy, drunkenness, orgies, and the like.

I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God.

In yesterday's episode, Matt got as far as the first item on that list, sexual immorality,

and we're going to find out how much farther he gets on that list today.

My guess is not much farther.

So I'm going to play some music, and we'll find out together.

Music music and we'll find out together. This is complicated in terms of the reality of this aspect of the human experience.

I get it. I get that probably a majority of people have pretty significant insecurity and hurt in this area.

I also get why in recent years there's been

an interest in reimagining parts of the Bible where God seems to be speaking very directly to

his commands and his expectation, his ideal for what sex is. Look, if you have weird sex stuff, if you have screwed things up, if you have been hurt, or you have hurt, or the idea of sex and sexuality or your past or whatever, if that makes your compass spin and it's hard and it's something that you feel guilt about or anger about or

whatever man do i have empathy and patience and compassion for you i'm not bringing up this passage

like this whole season wasn't just a game to get to that two-word phrase sexual immorality so i could be

like there now i get to lecture all-word phrase, sexual immorality, so I could be like, there. Now I get to

lecture all my friends on the internet about how the things ought to be. No, at least for me,

that's not the point at all. This is one of those things that is so vulnerable, so fragile,

such a sharp instrument that's so hard to wield properly, that I think it's the kind of thing that rather than pointing us toward running away from God and trying to reimagine what God wants so that it kind of fits with our particular version of brokenness, I think instead the reality of the pain, the insecurity, the difficult things that can come along with questions about sex, sexuality, sex stuff is the kind of thing that's supposed to send us running to Jesus and running to the gospel.

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