Why does God care about sexuality? It's His idea, a picture for us and His rules for His creation. Part 1

1. The Talk
1 Corinthians 6:9-20

2. 1 Corinthians 6:9–20
9 Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not
inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived;
neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor
effeminate, nor homosexuals, 10 nor thieves, nor the
covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers,
will inherit the kingdom of God. 11 Such were some of
you; but you were washed, but you were sanctified, but
you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ
and in the Spirit of our God.

3. 12 All things are lawful for me, but not all things are
profitable. All things are lawful for me, but I will not be
mastered by anything. 13 Food is for the stomach and
the stomach is for food, but God will do away with both
of them. Yet the body is not for immorality, but for the
Lord, and the Lord is for the body. 14 Now God has not
only raised the Lord, but will also raise us up through
His power. 15 Do you not know that your bodies are
members of Christ? Shall I then take away the members
of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? May
it never be! 16 Or do you not know that the one who
joins himself to a prostitute is one body with her?

4. For He says, “THE TWO SHALL BECOME ONE FLESH.” 17 But
the one who joins himself to the Lord is one spirit with
Him. 18 Flee immorality. Every other sin that a man
commits is outside the body, but the immoral man sins
against his own body. 19 Or do you not know that your
body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom
you have from God, and that you are not your own? 20
For you have been bought with a price: therefore
glorify God in your body.

6. Sex is the new religion in America
LGBTQ
Gender Fluid
31 genders recognized in NYC
Incest renamed Genetic Sexual Attraction
Pedophiles renamed Minor Attracted Persons

7. Marriage and Sex
God’s idea Marriage is an
object lesion
God has rules for
his creations

8. Sex in marriage
Procreation……………Genesis 1:28
Intimacy………………..Song of Solomon 2:6
Companionship……..Malachi 2:4
Pleasure…………………Proverbs 5:19

9. God’s idea
God created man in His own image, in
the image of God He created him;
male and female He created them.
God blessed them; and God said to
them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and
fill the earth, and subdue it…”
Genesis 1:27–28
God’s creation
Only one way to be fruitful & multiply

10. Jesus reaffirmed
‘FOR THIS REASON A MAN SHALL LEAVE HIS
FATHER AND MOTHER AND BE JOINED TO HIS
WIFE, AND THE TWO SHALL BECOME ONE
FLESH’? So they are no longer two, but
one flesh. What therefore God has
joined together, let no man separate.”
Matthew 19:5–6
One flesh is a sexual relationship
God does the joining

11. Two Components
1. Leave
All other relationships
2. Cleave
Adhere to one another

12. Image Bearers
In His own image He created them
As image bearers of God, we desire a relationship with
Him and with each other. And when a man and a
woman come to together sexually, it is the highest form
of being known by one another.

13. God told Adam & Eve to be fruitful…
Genesis 1:31a…God saw all that He had made, and
behold, it was very good.
Notice: VERY GOOD

14. Marriage is an object lesion
1 Corinthians 6:13b…Yet the body is not for immorality,
but for the Lord, and the Lord is for the body.
Prohibition
Our body is God’s

15. Remember Greek
thinking?
Do you not know
that your bodies
are members of
Christ?
1 Corinthians 6:15a
What we do with
our body counts!

16. Remember what Jesus said?
Mark 10:8…AND THE TWO SHALL BECOME ONE FLESH; so they
are no longer two, but one flesh.
Paul also quotes this
Not multiple joining's but one

17. One flesh to one spirit
1 Corinthians 6:17…But
the one who joins
himself to the Lord is
one spirit with Him.
The closeness of
marital intimacy is a
picture of our spiritual
intimacy with the Lord.
Exclusiveness of
relationship

18. High Priestly Prayer
John 17:21–23…that they may all be one; even as You,
Father, are in Me and I in You, that they also may be in
Us, so that the world may believe that You sent Me.
The glory which You have given Me I have given to
them, that they may be one, just as We are one; I in
them and You in Me, that they may be perfected in
unity, so that the world may know that You sent Me, and
loved them, even as You have loved Me.

19. The oneness of God
(The Trinity)
The oneness of the believer
(The Body of Christ)
The oneness of marriage
(One Flesh)

20. The
relational
aspect
Ezekiel 16:8…Then I passed by you
and saw you, and behold, you were
at the time for love; so I spread My
skirt over you and covered your
nakedness. I also swore to you and
entered into a covenant with you so
that you became Mine,” declares the
Lord GOD.
Levirate marriage
Love, protection, covenant,
faithfulness

21. Covenant
A promise made by God
that is based on His
character
A promise made to God
based on His character

22. Calls to a
monogamous
relationship
Isaiah 54:5…For your husband is
your Maker, Whose name is the
LORD of hosts; And your
Redeemer is the Holy One of
Israel, Who is called the God of
all the earth.

23. Your
cheating
heart
 Broke covenant with your
husband…Jer. 31
 Going after foreign gods is
prostitution…Jer. 3
 Adulteress making treaties with
other nations…Ezk. 16
 Faithless Israel divorced by
God…Hos. 2

24. Ephesians 5
New Testament imagery
The Mystery of Marriage

25. The
Mystery of
Marriage
Ephesians 5:1…Therefore be imitators
of God,
Ephesians 5:23…For the husband is the
head of the wife, as Christ also is the
head of the church, He Himself being
the Savior of the body.
Ephesians 5:29b–30…but nourishes
and cherishes it, just as Christ also does
the church, because we are members
of His body.

26. The
Mystery of
Marriage
(continued)
Ephesians 5:24a…But as the
church is subject to Christ, so
also the wives…
Ephesians 5:25…Husbands, love
your wives, just as Christ also
loved the church and gave
Himself up for her,

27. The
Mystery of
Marriage
(concluded)
Ephesians 5:33…each individual
among you also is to love his
own wife even as himself, and
the wife must see to it that she
respects her husband.
Love
Respect

28. Love
Marriage is the only relationship that models real love
‘ahab-OT Hebrew; all love, covenant context
Agape-self sacrificing love
Philia-friendship or fondness
Storgay-protective love
Eros-romantic love

29. Imagery we can understand

30. Our presentation is a
betrothal
2 Corinthians 11:2…For I am
jealous for you with a godly
jealousy; for I betrothed you to
one husband, so that to Christ I
might present you as a pure
virgin.

31. A picture of the rapture
Matthew 25:6…But at midnight there was a shout,
‘Behold, the bridegroom! Come out to meet him.’
Matthew 25:10…And while they were going away to
make the purchase, the bridegroom came, and those
who were ready went in with him to the wedding feast;
and the door was shut.

32. The New Heaven and
Earth
Revelation 21:2…And I saw the
holy city, new Jerusalem,
coming down out of heaven
from God, made ready as a
bride adorned for her husband.

33. Relationships with God are pure
1 Corinthians 6:18…Flee immorality. Every other sin
that a man commits is outside the body, but the
immoral man sins against his own body.
Who does the body belong to?

34. God has rules for his creations

35. You are
a new
creature
1 Corinthians 6:9–10…Or do you not
know that the unrighteous will not
inherit the kingdom of God? Do not
be deceived; neither fornicators, nor
idolaters, nor adulterers, nor
effeminate, nor homosexuals, nor
thieves, nor the covetous, nor
drunkards, nor revilers, nor
swindlers, will inherit the kingdom
of God.

36. Honor
Hebrews 13:4…Marriage is to be held in honor among
all, and the marriage bed is to be undefiled; for
fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

37. God values His relationships
1 Corinthians 6:13b…Yet the body is not for immorality,
but for the Lord, and the Lord is for the body.

38. Our take away
1. God desires an exclusive relationship
2. God honors His covenants
3. God values “One Flesh” relationships
4. Our marriages should be the physical manifestation of
the invisible reality of Jesus and His bride, the church.