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Messages by Desiring God

Sex and the Supremacy of Christ: Part 1

Messages by Desiring God

Desiring God

John Piper, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Desiring God, 163859, Preaching, Christianity, Messages, Religion & Spirituality, Sermons

4.71.7K Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2004

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

God designed our sexuality so that we might know him more. He means to guard our sex from being perverted.

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The following resource is from Desiring God.org.

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There's a connection between the beheadings of Eugene

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of Eugene Armstrong and

0:14.4

Jack Hensley,

0:18.4

Nick Berg, Paul Johnson, and this conference and its theme, Sex and the Suprem supremacy of Christ.

0:34.3

I look at them on the internet,

0:37.7

I look at their eyes, I look at their hands. And I think about my hands and my eyes and my faith.

0:51.0

Perhaps Kenneth Bigley is included by now, I don't know.

0:57.0

And then I remember a word from the Lord Jesus who puts it in perspective and makes a very serious link

1:08.8

when he says you heard that it was said you shall not commit adultery.

1:17.7

But I say to you, everyone who looks

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upon a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery in his heart.

1:30.0

So, if your right hand offend you, cut it off and throw it from you.

1:38.0

For it's better to lose one of your members than for your whole body to go into hell.

1:45.0

And if your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out, and throw it from you,

1:52.0

for it is better to lose one of your members than for

1:56.3

your whole body to be thrown into hell.

2:02.0

In other words, there's something vastly more important than whether you lose an eye or a hand or a head.

2:15.4

namely whether you lose your life forever in hell. And the war to which Jesus addressed those words was not the war in Iraq,

2:29.0

but the war against lust.

2:35.3

Therefore, we are not playing games this weekend.

2:41.6

We are not here to pamper you, to add just a little more zing to your

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