God wants to liberate our sexuality from the shackles of lust not because he’s opposed to our sexuality, but because he’s so committed to it. This message was given on December 14, 2014 at New City Church in Calgary by Pastor John Ferguson. For more info visit: www.newcitychurch.ca

2. God Gives Us His Words of Eternal Life
Matthew 5:27-30
Today’s Scripture:
Found on page 810 in our guest Bibles.

3. Does God
care about
my sexuality ?

5. Matthew 5:27-30
27 “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not
commit adultery.’ 28 But I say to you that everyone
who looks at a woman with lustful intent has
already committed adultery with her in his heart.
29 If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out
and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one
of your members than that your whole body be
thrown into hell.

6. Matthew 5:27-30
30 And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it
off and throw it away. For it is better that you lose
one of your members than that your whole body
go into hell.
Leader: This is the Word of the Lord.
Unison: Thanks be to God!

7. Sexual union is
1 God-designed

8. And God saw
everything that he
made, and behold, it
was very good.
~ The Prophet Moses in Genesis 1:31

9. “
”
If anyone says that sex,
in itself, is bad,
Christianity contradicts
him at once.
CS Lewis, Mere Christianity

10. “
Lust: craving sexually what God has
forbidden. To lust is to want what you
don’t have and weren’t meant to have.
Lust goes beyond attraction, an
appreciation of beauty, or even a
healthy desire for sex—it makes these
desires more important than God.
” ~ Joshua Harris, Not Even A Hint

11. Sexual love is
2 covenantal

12. “Then the man said, ‘This at last is bone of my
bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called
Woman, because she was taken out of Man.’
Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother
and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become
one flesh. And the man and his wife were both
naked and were not ashamed.”
~ The Prophet Moses in Genesis 2:23

14. “Don’t you know that when you sleep
with someone, your body makes a
promise whether you do or not!”

15. Sexual purity
3 is vital

16. “What comes out of
a person is what
defiles him. For from
within, out of the
heart of man, come
evil thoughts, sexual
immorality, theft,
murder, adultery….”
~ Jesus of Nazareth in
the Gospel of Mark, 7:20

17. “
”
The heart
wants what the
heart wants.
~ Woody Allen

18. Hell is simply one’s
freely chosen identity
apart from God on a
trajectory into infinity.
~ Tim Keller, Pastor
Redeemer NYC

19. Main Idea
God wants to liberate our
sexuality from the shackles
of lust not b/c he’s opposed
to our sexuality, but b/c he’s
so committed to it.

20. Submit your sexuality
1 to Christ’s Lordship

21. “
”
Give me
purity.
But not yet.
~ Augustine of Hippo

22. 2 Embrace the healing
of the Gospel of Jesus

23. “
”
Jesus stubbornly
befriended, welcomed,
and embraced sexual
sinners and misfits and
outsiders and outcasts.
People like you and
me….

24. “
” ~ Jared Ayers, Liberti Church
There is no scar or
stain that is in too deep
for the cleansing
embrace and grace of
Jesus. You are Jesus’
kind of people.

25. 3
Battle lust
well…
…b/c it is
your enemy

26. “
”
The Catholic novelist
believes that you
destroy your freedom
by sin; the modern
reader believes that
you gain it that way.
Stephen Prothero, “Sin Boldly”
Flannery O’Connor

27. “Having lost all
sensitivity, they have
given themselves
over to sensuality so
as to indulge in every
kind of impurity, with a
continual lust for
more.”
~ The Apostle Paul in
Ephesians 4:19 (NIV)

28. “
”
You can gorge
yourself on lust,
but you’re always
going to be
hungry.
~ Joshua Harris, Not Even A Hint

30. flickr images courtesy of:
Cindy Schultz: http://www.flickr.com/photos/29008389@N03/6083587632
Will Foster: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mazakar/2777932633/
marian b. http://www.flickr.com/photos/marcinbrzezinski/3626256142