Amen. How we doing, church? You ready for this? Well, the first three weeks have been fun,

having it, talking about what it means to be a man, what it means to be a woman. Last week,

we encourage you to date. Anybody going to date last week? Come on a date last week. Come on testify.

Some of you guys were listening. After the 9 a.m. series, we had a young man

proposed in the lobby, and so that happened, so praise God for that. They were probably in

prep for this one. So the fun is going to come to a screeching halt right now. We're going to

talk about sex and sexual immorality, and we are going to have a very frank discussion,

and I would just, maybe you'll jot this down I'm like

the mailman I don't write it I just deliver it okay and we live in a sex saturated society but the church

rarely talks about it I don't know if you grew up in church but you know I grew up southern

Baptist kind of sometimes when I would go, and we

didn't talk about this. When I was in seminary, I had somebody asked one of our, he was actually

the professor of preaching, which I did very poorly in that class, and he said, no, we don't

talk about that, they'll figure it out. They'll figure sex out. Now, just as you

observe our society, you think we're figuring it out okay, or you think we may need a little

instruction here in regards to sex and sexuality? And then, again, man, I, you know, I grew up

in kind of the true love waits era, and basically the way the youth pastors that would teach

us in high school and the college pastors in college, you know, basically,

whatever our question was about can we or should we,

the answer from the Bible was always no.

I used to always think, why in the world do we have to have an entire Bible?

It should be a three by five card, and the answer is just no.

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