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What Sex Outside Marriage Says About You

Ask Pastor John

Desiring God

John Piper, Unknown, 163859, Pastor, Ask, Theology, Desiring God, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Questions

4.83.8K Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2015

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

God has set boundaries for sex not because he wants to deny us some hidden pleasure, but because he wants us to experience the best joy possible.

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This week we are talking with Speaker and author Paul Trip, Paul is the author of a really

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helpful book titled Sex and Money.

0:12.9

And Paul, one of the themes throughout the book that you make and it's an important

0:15.7

one is that sexuality is never secular.

0:20.4

Sex is always spiritual, sex is always worship.

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Explain this dynamic for us.

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Well, in order to understand the worship nature of sex, again you have to go back to how

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we were constructed.

0:32.6

Worship is not first an activity.

0:36.1

In many Christians when you, when they hear the word worship, they hear Sunday morning,

0:42.0

a service, a gathering, or it's a real cool church, Saturday night.

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What's important to understand is that worship is first my identity before it's ever my activity.

0:54.2

I don't just worship on Sunday.

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I mean, I don't really worship my way through every moment of every day, every situation,

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every location, every relationship involves worship.

1:06.4

I mean, you could argue that if you took apart the motivation of human beings,

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the only thing we ever do is worship.

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And what does that mean?

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It means that something is always lured over my heart.

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Something is always controlling my heart, the heartbeat, the seat of my thoughts, the seat of my

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emotions, the seat of my will and my choices.

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So it's the control center of my humanness.

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