How God Can Redeem Your Sexual Brokenness
Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast
Focus on the Family
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🗓️ 17 August 2023
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Sex is meant to be a gift from God', but how can you see it as a blessing when you've made many mistakes? Jim Daly and Dr. Juli Slattery share how the gospel can redeem you from sexual brokenness. You'll also hear a powerful story from Dr. Greg Smalley, as he chats with his wife Erin and John Fuller.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey friends, here's the latest episode of my podcast, ReFocus with Jim Daily, featuring |
| 0:04.6 | former NFL player, Benjamin Watson. He shares about protecting the lives of every human being, |
| 0:10.4 | pursuing justice for all. Visit ReFocus with JimDaily.com. |
| 0:20.7 | Well, here's an important question. What was the message you heard as you grew up about sex? |
| 0:26.4 | Was it that it's God's design? Was it that we don't talk about that because it's special? |
| 0:32.3 | Was it something that had shame associated with it? There's a lot there, and we're going to unpack |
| 0:38.9 | a little bit today on the podcast. I'm John Fuller, along with Greg and Aaron Smolley. They |
| 0:43.6 | lead the focus marriage team. And Aaron, there are some common messages probably that you've encountered |
| 0:51.1 | that are symptomatic or representative of what most people seem to have heard. What do you think? |
| 0:58.8 | So often, what individuals experience in their family of origin is that sex isn't talked about |
| 1:04.8 | at all. So then, thus, as kids, we make assumptions, and as we grow into adolescence, and then into |
| 1:11.0 | 20s, 30s, whatever, and we get married, we realize, we didn't talk about this. So what does it mean |
| 1:17.3 | about sex? Is it shameful? Is it dirty? Is it sinful? Why didn't we talk about it? And then we get |
| 1:23.8 | married and all of a sudden, like, let's have sex. And oftentimes, we're not viewing it as it was |
| 1:30.8 | really intended for this gift, this enjoyment, pleasure for all these different purposes, the |
| 1:38.2 | unity that comes through it. And we're not seeing it for that. Plus, then there's messages we |
| 1:43.0 | receive from well-meaning people about what your job is as a wife. What does a godly wife do |
| 1:48.8 | around sex? And what does a godly husband do around sex? So it's just recognizing all of that |
| 1:53.8 | influences our experience. It's so important to identify what am I believing about sex, and |
| 1:59.4 | is it aligning with what's true? And of course, our truth comes from God's Word, not from man, |
| 2:05.5 | from God's Word. Yeah, identifying, naming it, and exposing it to biblical truth. That's so |
| 2:10.6 | important, not just for what we believe about sex, but all of life. But let's go ahead and hear |
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