Sexual Sanctification Is Not the Absence of Temptation

TGC Podcast

Religion, Tgc, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, The Gospel Coalition, Philosophy, 608017, Gospel Coalition, Christianity

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🗓️ 27 June 2020

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Christopher Yuan points believers toward God-pleasing sexual identity—recognizing that our identity is not defined by our sin, but by Christ.

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0:39.3	believers, pastors, and church leaders to shape life and ministry around the gospel.
0:46.3	On today's episode we bring you a breakout session led by Christopher Yuwan on Holy
0:50.9	Sexuality. This workshop was originally held at the Gospel Coalition's
0:55.8	2019 National Conference in Indianapolis.
1:00.8	We live in a world of infinite shades of gray, not just 15. Ambiguity is now a virtue. Sexual freedom has essentially become the religion of the land.
1:22.0	The deception of our historical epoch is this. Your
1:27.7	sexual desires define you, determine you, and should always delight you.
1:35.0	Since the fall of Adam and Eve,
1:38.0	the human heart has set itself in defiance against God's perfect ways.
1:48.8	And I love what John Piper said yesterday about idols because we have turned sexual identity into an idol,
1:53.0	and yet idols have no currency in heaven.
1:57.6	And yet this idolatry we find in the world
2:01.1	and even in the church is on a collision course with the good news of Jesus Christ.
2:07.0	Just as my life was on a collision course with the gospel.
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