Today on Summit Life with J.D. Greer.

Marriage and Sex were designed by God to address one of the deepest needs of the human soul.

The need for companionship, for intimacy to be fully seen and fully known, fully loved. And in that intimacy that we experienced

with somebody else in a really mysterious way it would point us beyond that

horizontal relationship to our vertical relationship with God. Sex is not just a physical act, it's a soul act. Welcome back to Summit Life, the Bible Teaching Ministry of Pastor J.D. Greer. I'm your host

Molly Bitevich. You know, I think it's safe to say that our culture has some deeply held and deeply flawed

ideas about sex.

But to fully understand and respect the sanctity of this topic, we have to go to God who created it and to his word which is very

clear about how we should view it. Now this may not be the best day to introduce your young

kids to our programs, so if you have elementary age children listening with you

we'd encourage you to find this message later on your own at J.D.grier.com where

you can always listen free of charge. In today's message, Pastor J.D. explains how sex

addresses one of our basic soul needs to be fully known and fully loved, but it

also gives us a taste of God's amazing love for us.

So grab your Bible and let's join Pastor JD right now.

Matthew Chapter 19, the big idea in this series, Forever Family, is that what Jesus teaches about marriage in

Matthew 19 not only revolutionizes marriage but also everything connected to

marriage and so we've looked at singleness, for example,

dating. Today we're going to apply Jesus's understanding of marriage to one of the

most complicated and potentially awkward parts of our lives and that is sex.

Now, Matthew 19-3, and the Pharisees came up to him, him of course being Jesus, and they tested Jesus by asking,

was it lawful to divorce one's wife for any cause?

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