From the Series "Biblical Sex" at Heritage Community Church.

3. •1 Corinthians 6: 12 You say, “I am allowed to do
anything”—but not everything is good for you.
And even though “I am allowed to do
anything,” I must not become a slave to
anything. 13 You say, “Food was made for the
stomach, and the stomach for food.” But you
can’t say that our bodies were made for sexual
immorality. They were made for the Lord, and
the Lord cares about our bodies.

4. •14 And God will raise us from the
dead by his power, just as he raised
our Lord from the dead. 15 Don’t you
realize that your bodies are actually
parts of Christ? Should a man take his
body, which is part of Christ, and join
it to a prostitute? Never!

5. •When you join yourself to a
prostitute, a fantasy porn star,
a casual partner, you’re joining
your mind or body but not your
lives. God created sex to be
experienced in the covenant of
the whole life.

6. •When you prostitute your life
by giving only your genitals to
another person, you are
becoming one physically, but
remaining very separate in the
whole of life. This is missing the
mark sexually.

7. •There is no higher view of
sex than that of the Bible.
The Bible promotes sex as
the life-giving force that
God designed it to be.

8. •A single person or barren married
couple can fulfill God’s plan of being
fruitful and multiplying just as much
as a married person with kids.
•The point is that the goal of human life
is not to be married and have sex. The
goal is to be creative…continually
creative (married or single).

9. •Singleness does not equal
incompleteness. And marriage does
not equal completeness.
•When you take the whole of scripture
into account, to be complete is to
experience Jesus as our true spouse.
Jesus is the only one who can make us
fruitful…and multiply that fruitfulness.

10. So, it is very plausible that a person
could be born with a physiological
same sex predisposition, and the
environment they live in provoke
that disposition, leading to
destructive behaviors – just as in the
case of diabetes.

11. The Bible teaches that just
because someone has a
predisposition toward
brokenness, does not mean they
have to accommodate that
broken predisposition with
behavior.

12. •The Bible doesn’t condone any sexual
deviation from biblical sexuality, including
homosexual and heterosexual deviation
from the original design. We struggle with
many sinful predispositions, but God is
here to help us resist our sinful
predispositions…and stop abusing food,
chemicals, games, cyberspace, or
sexuality. Sin hurts – God heals.