Why Sex Is Not the Root of Sexual Sins
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Desiring God
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🗓️ 30 July 2014
⏱️ 6 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Psalm 51 is a psalm of repentance from David after his adultery with Bashiba and the murder |
| 0:11.4 | of Yeraya. |
| 0:12.9 | The adultery is not mentioned in the psalm at all, and of course the question is, why |
| 0:16.7 | not? |
| 0:17.7 | And what follows is a clip from John Piper Sermon, a broken and contrite heart, God will |
| 0:22.2 | not despise from his June 8, 2008 sermon, here's what he said. |
| 0:28.5 | There is not a word about sex in this psalm, nor is there a word about murder, nor is |
| 0:38.5 | there a word about lying, and it all started with sex or did it, no. |
| 0:51.8 | Freud may think everything start with sex. |
| 0:56.0 | All my problems are sex. |
| 0:58.3 | The Bible doesn't see it that way. |
| 1:01.2 | The misuse of the beautiful gift of sex is a symptom of a disease, not the disease. |
| 1:10.1 | And that's why this psalm doesn't mention it. |
| 1:14.1 | And it's the main issue. |
| 1:16.3 | Or we thought it was the main issue. |
| 1:18.5 | It's not the main issue. |
| 1:20.6 | This is the main issue. |
| 1:22.3 | Restore to me the joy of your salvation, because when that joy fades, I click on |
| 1:28.3 | pornography. |
| 1:30.4 | When that joy fades, I start cruising the neighborhood. |
| 1:33.9 | When that joy fades, I get an itch for another woman. |
| 1:36.8 | When that joy fades on and on and on. |
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