I think I'd just like to pray one more time and ask God's help on the ministry of the word.

Lord, this is our last time together.

Some of us will never see each other again in this life.

And that may be very brief, it may be a long time.

And I want to be a help to these friends. And so I ask that you would come and anoint me for the ministry of the word. I want to preach the word of God as it really is, the

word of God, in the power that you supply with a special spirit-given enablement, anointing, unction,

power, illuminating force so that the mind and the heart will be awakened to the glories of your supremacy.

So that our hearts will enlarge our capacities for suffering will increase, and our possibilities

and powerful enablement for purity. disabilities and And in all of that we want you to be magnified. We want you to look great. We want to make much of you in all of our lives.

So I ask for your help in Jesus' name.

Amen.

Well, on Friday night I waved the banner of two convictions.

One, sexuality is designed by God as a way to know Christ more fully.

Let me put a parenthesis in here before I tell you the second conviction.

That statement does not contradict what I said during the question and answer session last night in defense of the

possibility that in some people singleness will be an experience of more humanness than if they were

married.

Even though my first point here was just sexuality is granted as a way of knowing Christ more fully.

And the reason it's not a contradiction is because when God calls a person as he does

some to singleness he makes all that is required there another means of knowing him more

fully than if they had been married and had sexual intercourse often.

Sexuality is not the only way that we know God more fully than if we don't have it.

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