Pastor John, several listeners have emailed to ask this question, how far is too far for

an engaged couple to go sexually before marriage?

It's a really important question.

Our culture is, of course, a wash in sexual titillation.

You can hardly open your internet without some advertising on the side of awakening some

sexual desire or watching advertisement between the TV program or going to any movie almost

without some kind of titillation.

It's really amazing what we're having to deal with these days.

And so when a young man, a young woman or an older man, an older woman, if that matter,

begin to hang out together.

What should they do physically is utterly crucial to ask.

The Bible is our guide and our authority.

It does not have a single sentence somewhere that says, okay, engaged couples, okay, couples

that are starting to date.

Here's what you can and can't do.

And so the way we have to approach it is by putting together truths from the Bible,

which when they come together, lead to sick conclusion.

So let me try to put together a few of those and I'll see if I can be brief here.

Number one, sex is good.

I don't want to start with mainly, oh, bad, bad, bad, watch out, watch out.

Sex is good.

First Timothy, four, three, the days are coming when people are going to forbid to eat certain

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