Why Does God Care so Much About My Sex Life?
Ask the Pastor with J.D. Greear
J.D. Greear
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🗓️ 4 December 2023
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Do you remember the first time someone had “the talk” with you? Chances are, they didn’t pick up their Bible to walk you through God’s view of sex.
In this episode of “12 Truths & A Lie,” Pastor J.D. walks through 1 Corinthians 6, showing us that sex is more than just biology, but a deeply spiritual reality. In our day, with so much confusion about sex, we need this teaching more than ever.
You’ll learn how God designed sex, where our society gets sex wrong, and what we can do with our own sexual guilt and shame.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to Ask Me Anything where Pastor J.D. Greer answers your questions. |
| 0:22.2 | We are actually in the middle of a bonus series as J.D. is answering some of life's biggest questions. |
| 0:28.3 | This series is called 12 truths and a lie. |
| 0:32.6 | So in 1st Corinthians 6 specifically, Paul wants to show them that there are some lofty, incredible |
| 0:38.9 | things about sex that these Corinthians just don't understand. |
| 0:42.9 | The problem, he says, is not that you have too high of you of sex. |
| 0:46.7 | The problem is that you have far too low of you of sex, specifically. |
| 0:51.7 | He wants to tell them that there are some spiritual dimensions to sex because God |
| 0:56.8 | made us, here's your nerdy word for the for the week, God made us a psychosomatic unity, |
| 1:03.5 | a unity between our bodies and our spirits. Those are are indelibly right now unified, |
| 1:09.2 | inextricably unified. What that means is that our soul, |
| 1:11.9 | our psycho and our body, soma, are one. You can't neatly separate one from the other. Yes, it's true |
| 1:18.1 | that when our body dies, our soul goes on to be with Jesus, and it is disembodied for a while, |
| 1:22.9 | but that's not the way that our soul was created to be. And so when we're in that state, |
| 1:27.5 | scripture says we're uncomfortable. We're longing to be clothed with our resurrected bodies. |
| 1:32.4 | Our soul is created to be united to a body. And thus, Paul is going to argue, because our bodies |
| 1:38.3 | and souls are integrated, sex is far from a meaningless physical activity. Sex has an extremely spiritual dimension to it. Check it out. Verse 9. He says, don't you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God's kingdom? Do not be deceived. No sexually immoral people, idolaters, adulterers, males who have sex with males, no thieves, greedy people, drunkards, verbally abusive people, or swindlers will inherit God's kingdom. |
| 2:04.5 | Sexual sin is not the only sin he mentions in that list, but note how many different times he brings it up in that list. |
| 2:11.2 | In verse 12, Paul starts his reasoning. He says, everything is permissible for me, but not everything is beneficial. |
| 2:17.9 | Now, I want you to notice the quotes that are around the phrase, everything is permissible. |
| 2:23.3 | To really make sense of this passage, you have to understand what Paul is doing. |
| 2:27.0 | He is quoting some of the popular slogans of the day and then rebutting them. |
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