Participants: J.D. Quinn (Host), Tom Shepherd
Series Code: HPOV
Program Code: HPOV000035A
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00:16 Welcome to Heaven's Point of View.
00:18 My name is J.D. Quinn 00:20 and we are following the series Love, Marriage, Sex and Divorce 00:24 according to the New Testament. 00:26 My special guest, our host is Dr. Tom Sheperd. 00:31 And Tom, this is I think one of your favorite parts 00:34 of this particular series. 00:37 Yeah. 00:38 And I know that we studied, excuse me, 00:40 I know that we studied the first, 00:41 now we're gonna catch 00:43 the last half of 1 Corinthians 6. 00:46 1 Corinthians 6 is, of all the passages 00:49 that I studied with the students 00:50 in this course that I teach, 00:53 I'm just deeply struck by the amazing theology 00:59 that Paul brings to bear in this particular passage. 01:02 So I enjoyed a lot talking to the students about it 01:06 and just walking through it 01:08 and trying to explain what Paul means. 01:11 So I think what we should do is read the whole passage. 01:14 I think it's always good to read the scripture. 01:16 When I teach Sabbath school, I tell my Sabbath school class, 01:21 when you know we don't have any time for anything else, 01:23 let's read the Bible. 01:25 Amen. We read the scripture. 01:27 And actually in Sabbath school class 01:28 that helps a lot because some people, 01:30 well, may be they haven't read every, 01:32 they haven't studied the whole lesson. 01:34 And this gives them a context. 01:35 And then we talk about what the Bible says. 01:37 Focus our attention on what the Bible says, 01:39 so that's what we'll do here. 01:40 1 Corinthians 6:12-20. 01:43 Why don't you read it for us? 01:45 "All things are lawful for me, but all things are not helpful. 01:48 All things are lawful for me, 01:50 but I will not be brought unto the power of any. 01:53 Foods for the stomach and foods and the stomach for foods 01:56 but God will destroy both it and them. 01:59 Now the body is not for sexual immorality, 02:02 but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. 02:05 And God raised both the Lord 02:07 and will also raise us up by His power. 02:10 Do you not know 02:12 that your bodies are members of Christ? 02:14 Shall I then take the members of Christ 02:16 and make them members of a harlot? 02:18 Certainly not! 02:20 Or do you not know 02:21 that he who is joined to a harlot 02:23 is one body with her? 02:26 For, "The two," He says, "shall become one flesh." 02:30 But he who is joined to the Lord 02:32 is one spirit with Him. 02:34 Flee sexual immorality. 02:36 Every sin that a man does is outside the body, 02:39 but he who commits sexually immorality 02:41 sins against his own body. 02:43 Or do you not know 02:46 that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit 02:49 who is in you, 02:51 whom you have from God, 02:57 and you are not of your own? 02:59 For you were bought at a price, 03:02 therefore glorify God in your body 03:05 and in your spirit, which are God's." 03:08 Right. 03:10 Amen. Yeah. 03:11 Now-- Wow. 03:12 We noticed last time when we studied this 03:14 that the key to understanding this passage 03:19 is that Paul is responding to certain slogans 03:23 that were that the Corinthians used to hate. 03:28 Yeah. 03:29 Sometimes when I read this in class, 03:31 I teach my students how to read the Bible aloud. 03:34 Because well, a lot of people just don't know 03:37 how to read the Bible aloud too well. 03:39 And that was a little tough on the reader right there. 03:42 I want them when they are preachers 03:45 to encourage people to open their Bibles 03:47 and have their Bible with them. 03:49 So I tell them, when you tell them 03:51 to look up a passage or the scripture, 03:53 repeat the reference three times. 03:56 So that gives them time to open their Bible 03:57 and find it and everything. 03:59 So I said how would you read this 04:01 to really get across that Paul is using the slogans. 04:04 And so let me just give a little example 04:06 of reading verses maybe 12 and 13 04:10 so you get a little feel for that. 04:12 And see if you can tell which words are the words 04:16 that are the Corinthian slogans 04:18 and which words are Paul's words. 04:20 By the way, by the way I read it, okay. 04:22 So here we go, this is verse 12, 04:24 1 Corinthians 6:12. 04:27 "All things are lawful for me, 04:30 but not all things are helpful. 04:32 All things are lawful for me, 04:35 but I will not be enslaved by anything. 04:38 Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food 04:40 and God will destroy both of them one and the other. 04:45 The body is not meant for sexual immorality, 04:48 but for the Lord, 04:50 and the Lord for the body. 04:51 And God raised the Lord 04:52 and will also raise us up by His power." 04:56 Now could you tell 04:57 which parts were the Corinthian slogans? 05:00 Yes. 05:02 Which part? 05:03 Oh, I'd say that are all things. 05:06 Yeah, when they said all things are lawful for me. 05:09 I said it, quick. 05:10 And all things are lawful for me. 05:12 I said it quick, 05:13 I said it kind of like in a sing songy voice. 05:16 And then I made a big pause. 05:18 Yes. 05:20 And then I gave Paul's answer. Yes. 05:22 And that's what we studied some the last time 05:23 which is these first verses and I sort of getting an idea 05:26 that Paul is responding to the Corinthians 05:30 and the slogans that were going around with them 05:33 and all these different ideas that they had 05:36 he responds to them. 05:38 This time actually what we're gonna look at 05:40 is besides responding to their slogans, 05:43 their slogans in verse 12, slogans in verse 13, 05:47 slogans in even in verse 18. 05:50 But this time we're gonna focus our attention on another part 05:55 of what Paul says in this passage. 05:57 And that is he uses the phrase, "Don't you know." 06:02 "Don't you know." "Do you not know." 06:05 Now those words appear, 06:08 those phrases appear three times in the passage. 06:12 In verse 15, in verse 16 06:15 and then again, in verse 19 and 20. 06:17 So we want to look at each of those passages 06:20 but first just let's get a little idea. 06:22 Why does he say do you not know? 06:25 Well, in the apostle's writings, 06:28 the apostle Paul, 06:29 fortunately we have so many different books by Paul, 06:31 so we can compare them. 06:33 In his writing, this type of argumentation 06:36 introduces doctrinal ideas 06:39 that he believes every Christian should know. 06:43 Or principles of life that all thinking people 06:47 would recognize and acknowledge. 06:49 So when he says "Don't you know," 06:51 what he is actually doing this referring back to the class 06:56 where they learn to be a Christian. 06:58 You know, we would say the baptismal class, 07:00 you might say the Sabbath school class. 07:03 And those experiences, 07:05 he's saying, do you remember 07:07 what we studied with you in those lessons. 07:09 You know, we should prepare-- 07:11 Insinuating that you ought to know. 07:12 Yeah, you ought to know. 07:14 This is something you should remember, as a Christian. 07:15 This is, this is something 07:17 that every Christian should know. 07:20 Or it's something that is a principle of life 07:25 that is so common 07:27 that everybody would agree and recognize it. 07:30 So an example is found in Romans 6:3, 07:33 for example, when Paul says, "Or do you not know 07:36 that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus 07:39 have been baptized into His death?" 07:42 Oh, when did they learn that? 07:43 Oh, they learn that when before they were baptized. 07:46 Romans 6:16, "Do you not know 07:48 that when you present yourselves 07:50 to someone as slaves for obedience, 07:52 you are slaves of the one whom you obey, 07:54 either of sin resulting in death 07:56 or of obedience, resulting in righteousness?" 07:59 So he uses an example from their Greco-Roman world. 08:02 And he says, 08:03 "Well, you know what happens when you are a slave?" 08:06 Well, of course. A slave has to obey the master. 08:08 Well, whoever you give yourself over to 08:11 that's who you're going to obey like a slave. 08:14 Romans 7:1, "Or do you not know, 08:16 brethren, for I am speaking to those who know the law, 08:19 that the law has jurisdiction 08:21 over a person as long as he lives?" 08:23 Well, of course, every Jew would agree to that. 08:25 They all knew that. 08:27 But it occurs in 1 Corinthians as well. 08:29 1 Corinthians 3:16, 08:31 "Do you not know that you are temple of God 08:33 and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?" 08:35 This is something you should know as a Christian. 08:37 1 Corinthians 6:2, "Or do you not know 08:40 that the saints will judge the world? 08:42 If the world is to be judged by you, 08:43 are you incompetent 08:44 to constitute the smallest law courts?" 08:47 So he says, "Oh, where did you find? 08:49 Well, when we did that?" 08:50 Well, we would say, 08:51 when we did that prophecy series. 08:53 We're talking about the second coming of Jesus. 08:56 Chapter 9, verse 13, 08:58 "Do you not know that those who perform 08:59 sacred services, eat the food of the temple, 09:01 those who attend regularly to the altar 09:03 have their own share from alter?" 09:05 So he says, you know, 09:06 this is common knowledge kind of stuff 09:08 that everybody that's a Christian or a Jew 09:11 would know about these things. 09:12 So when he says in 1 Corinthians 6:15. 09:15 "Do you not know 09:17 that your bodies are members of Christ?" 09:20 That is something-- 09:22 That he is emphasizing that we should know. 09:24 We should already know that as a Christian. 09:27 So the first one is there, we just read it in verse 15. 09:30 "Do you not know 09:31 that your bodies are members of Christ? 09:33 Shall I then take the members of Christ 09:35 and make them members of a prostitute? 09:38 Never." 09:39 He says. 09:41 Now in verse 15, Paul states that the Corinthians bodies, 09:46 their own bodies are members of Christ. 09:50 Now the problem is 09:52 we use the word member in several ways. 09:55 You know, we use the member, 09:56 like you're a member of the church. 09:58 He's the member of the church. 09:59 But when we speak of a member of our bodies, 10:03 usually it's a limb or an organ of our bodies. 10:05 Okay. 10:07 That's what we're talking about. 10:08 So he's talking about bodies so he says 10:11 may be he sort of mixing his member, 10:14 his concepts a little bit 10:16 but he says do you not know that our bodies, 10:21 "Do you not know that your bodies 10:23 are members of Christ?" 10:25 So your bodies are members of Christ. 10:27 Now he's already taught 10:29 and Paul teaches we've seen it in Ephesians, 10:31 Paul teaches that our bodies 10:35 that Christ is the-- what of the church? 10:37 Head. He is the head of the church. 10:39 And then the church is His-- 10:41 Body. His body. Okay. 10:43 So we as individual members are as Paul is suggesting here, 10:48 we are so closely identified with Jesus, 10:52 so closely identified we are His people 10:55 that we are described as His limbs and His organs. 11:00 So this leads Paul to a rhetorical question 11:03 that's a shocking question. 11:05 He says, so then 11:07 dare I take the limbs or the organs of Christ 11:11 and make them the limbs or the organs of a prostitute. 11:16 Now it doesn't take much imagination 11:19 to think about what he's talking about here. 11:21 He said, okay to go and have sex with a prostitute 11:25 then you're taking, 11:26 now you are a member of the church. 11:27 And now you are taking the "body of Christ" 11:32 to that pagan temple to sleep with that prostitute. 11:36 Do you suppose that Jesus would go there? 11:39 See that's the kind of thing he's saying. 11:42 Is that really okay to take Jesus to a prostitute? 11:48 Well-- He says, certainly not. 11:50 You know, of course not, 11:51 it's the term in Greek as me genoito 11:54 which is a very strong negative. 11:57 It's like perish the thought, 12:00 don't even think that, God forbidden, 12:02 now the word God is not in the phrase 12:04 but it's just kind of strong-- 12:06 Heaven forbid. Yeah, heaven forbid. 12:08 It's like this strong negation. 12:11 He does not say actually, he does not say join. 12:16 He does not say join, 12:18 shall I take the members of Christ 12:19 and join them to a prostitute actually? 12:24 He says, but rather shall I make them 12:29 members of a prostitute? 12:31 Stressing all the stronger, the concept of union. 12:35 You know the two become one flesh, right? 12:39 And so it's a horrible idea. 12:42 And so he rejects this horrible idea 12:45 by saying no, that's impossible. 12:50 That's verse 15. That's verse 15. 12:51 Now we go the second "Don't you know." 12:54 Yeah, the second "Don't you know" 12:56 is in verse 16 and in verse 17. 13:00 So why don't you read those two verses for us again? 13:02 Okay. Verse 16 and 17. 13:07 "Or do you not know 13:09 that he who is joined to a harlot 13:12 is one body with her? 13:14 'For the two,' he says, 'shall become one flesh.' 13:17 But he who is joined to the Lord 13:20 is one spirit with him." 13:22 Okay. 13:23 So the second "Don't you know" section 13:26 is in these verses, verses 16 and 17. 13:29 It explains or it gives a reason why 13:32 the question in verse 15 13:37 gets that negative answer. 13:42 So the question was, 13:43 "Shall I then take the members of Christ 13:45 and make them members of a prostitute?" 13:47 That was the question that he asked. 13:49 He explains and gives you a reason why 13:51 he gave the answers he did in verse 15. 13:54 Why is it true, Paul that that should never happen? 13:57 He utilizes the concept of Genesis 2:24, 25 14:02 which we've already seen before in these studies. 14:05 To indicate that sexual union turns two-- 14:08 Into one. Into one flesh. 14:10 If they are one, then they are no longer two. 14:15 All right. Yes. 14:16 The two become one. 14:18 This is what led him-- 14:19 So in his eyes they never separate. 14:21 Well, yeah, when you come and join to that 14:24 you become one flesh with that prostitute. 14:26 Yes. Yes. Yeah. 14:27 So they are not separate, they are joined together. 14:30 That is what led him in verse 15 to say 14:32 that a Christian consorting with a prostitute 14:35 was equal to making the limbs or organs of Christ 14:38 into those of a prostitute. 14:40 All right. 14:41 So that's underlining the idea 14:43 that the Christian becomes a part of the prostitute, 14:45 it's the theological concept of the unity of marriage 14:49 that is referred to back in Genesis 2. 14:52 Depicted and symbolized by sexual intercourse. 14:56 If you use it wrongly you become united with that 14:59 which is immoral and you become immoral. 15:03 All right. 15:04 So you see when Paul speaks of this 15:08 and when the Bible speaks of this, 15:09 they say that when you have these relations 15:12 you become one flesh. 15:15 Now that obviously has sexual connotation 15:19 of what happens in sexual intercourse, 15:22 the two joined together. 15:24 But the Bible's sense of this is actually deeper 15:27 than just a concept of physical union. 15:31 There's a psycho social union as well. 15:37 You could say even a spiritual union 15:39 that takes place between people. 15:41 And I like to explain to young people that you know, 15:47 there's some things you can do with anybody. 15:50 I could go on a bicycle ride with you, 15:53 I could go on a bicycle ride with Shelley 15:55 or with anybody, you know. 15:57 We could have a nice meal together at a restaurant, 15:59 we can do a program like this together. 16:02 There is one thing and one thing only 16:06 that I only do with my wife. 16:07 And that's sexual relations. 16:09 So if you take that and use it in a different way, 16:14 you break its symbolism. 16:16 It no longer has that picture of just you and her. 16:20 Now you have made out the problem of, 16:23 you know, linking it with somebody else. 16:25 And you never can forget or go away from that. 16:30 The idea of "casual sex" is an oxymoron. 16:36 Yeah. It's a misnomer. 16:38 There's not such thing as casual sex. 16:42 Sex is this union, this united kind of experience. 16:46 So the Bible says 16:47 it should be reserved for marriage. 16:49 Yes. 16:50 Because it symbolizes that commitment 16:53 that you have made to one another. 16:54 And it's beautiful in that sense 16:56 because actually in sexual intercourse 16:59 you both are having fun. 17:01 You both are having joy, 17:02 you're giving joy and you're receiving joy. 17:04 And you're experiencing it together 17:06 so it's a pretty powerful uniting kind of an experience, 17:11 one that God has specially designed 17:14 for husband and wife alone to experience. 17:18 So Paul says 17:21 that you mustn't do that 17:25 but interestingly he doesn't end 17:27 on that negative note as he talks about. 17:30 Instead he turns towards the positive concept 17:33 of being joined to Christ. 17:34 Amen. 17:35 So in contrast to the one flesh 17:37 that would happen if you went to the prostitute, 17:40 he talks about becoming one spirit with Christ. 17:45 Now some people might get the idea 17:47 that this is sort of dualistic that you have a body, 17:49 you have a spirit, something like that. 17:53 Instead, actually it's a union of the human with the Lord, 17:56 similar in nature of the union between a husband and wife. 18:00 Why is it not dualism? 18:02 Because the body part of the equation 18:04 isn't earthly body 18:05 that is not suppose to be joined to a prostitute. 18:09 Now if Paul were actually talking about dualism, 18:12 this Greek idea that you have an eternal soul, 18:15 eternal spirit and your body is like the prison 18:18 that you're encapsulated in, 18:21 that you get free from when you die. 18:23 If Paul were teaching that, 18:25 he would say as the Corinthians did 18:27 that it does not matter what you do with the body 18:31 as long as the spirit is joined to the Lord. 18:34 And of course, he rejected that idea already. 18:37 Because for Paul, 18:39 resurrection is an important concept. 18:42 As we said before that you dare not sleep around 18:46 because of the resurrection. 18:48 Now when I tell this to students in class 18:50 that great reason for not sleeping around 18:53 as a resurrection, 18:55 they have never heard anything like that before. 18:56 Well, share it in case those people, 18:59 in 25 words or less. 19:00 Can you do that? 19:01 The idea? Okay. Yeah. 19:03 Well, Paul says that you cannot, 19:07 you cannot, you should not just-- 19:10 the Corinthians were saying 19:11 it doesn't matter what you do with the body 19:14 because it's all gonna be destroyed. 19:16 And so it's a eschatology of destruction. 19:20 Okay. 19:21 Paul says, no, no, no, no, no. 19:24 God raised up Jesus Christ from the dead 19:26 and that's what he's gonna do with our bodies as well. 19:28 He raised Him up, He's gonna raise us up. 19:30 That's an eschatology of resurrection. 19:33 So because you're gonna be raised 19:35 and that the resurrection is one of the great proofs 19:38 in the New Testament 19:40 that Paul is not a dualist, he's holistic. 19:43 You don't have a soul, you are a soul. 19:45 And it's important that this body 19:47 is the body that Christ will raise 19:49 when He comes again. 19:50 So it's important what you do with it now. 19:53 So you mustn't use it the wrong way, 19:55 you must use it in the right way. 19:57 The reason you should not sleep around 19:59 is because of the resurrection. 20:01 Yes. 20:03 It's really interesting to see in the New Testament 20:04 where the teaching 20:06 about the resurrection shows up. 20:07 This is one of the most surprising ones 20:09 that most people never think of, 20:11 they've never heard of. 20:13 Well, we better press on here. 20:14 We're running short on time. 20:15 So it's not dualism that he's talking about. 20:18 The joining to the Lord in one spirit, 20:21 read the Holy Spirit is not some allowance 20:24 for joining to a prostitute 20:26 instead it's the opposition to it. 20:28 It is not an emphasis on division but on union. 20:31 We are-- you are either united to a prostitute, 20:33 if you do that you can't be united to the Lord. 20:36 So this is illustrated by the steps in his argument. 20:39 In verse 15, he says, 20:40 "Your bodies are members of Christ. 20:42 Shall I link them to a prostitute? 20:43 No." 20:44 Verse 16, "One joined to a prostitute is one body, 20:47 one joined to the Lord is one spirit." 20:49 Paul begins and ends his argument 20:51 with union with Christ. 20:53 In between is the wrongness of linking up to a prostitute. 20:58 Okay. 20:59 But we have to pause here 21:00 and look at how Paul uses the term perinea 21:03 which is used in our passage in verse 18. 21:06 The term perinea, the sexual immorality, 21:08 is used 25 times in the New Testament. 21:11 Of which 10 appear in Paul's writings. 21:14 He uses the term to refer to incest 21:17 to visiting a prostitute to sex outside of marriage. 21:21 So he's against this kind of sexual immorality. 21:25 Right. 21:27 Yes. 21:28 So let's look at the third "Don't you know" 21:32 Yeah, the third "Don't you know" 21:34 is in verse 18 and 19. 21:35 So why don't you read verse 18 and 19. 21:37 Verses 18 and 19. 21:40 "Flee sexual immorality. 21:42 Every sin that a man does is outside the body, 21:45 but he who commits sexually immorality 21:48 sins against his own body. 21:50 Or do you not know 21:52 that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit 21:55 who is with you, whom you have from God? 21:59 And you are not your own--" 22:01 Right. Yeah, go ahead. 22:03 "For you were bought at a price. 22:07 Therefore glorify God in your body 22:09 and in your spirit which are God's." 22:12 Okay. Which belong to God. All right. 22:15 So it's in verse 18 and 19 that he responds 22:20 and he gives his third "Don't you know". 22:22 As verse 16 supports the argument of verse 15. 22:27 So verse 19 and 20 22:29 support the argument of verse 18. 22:31 Yes. 22:32 In verse 18 the apostle compared the idea of dualism 22:35 where sinning with your body could be argued 22:38 to be separate from your spiritual life. 22:40 Every sin is outside the body, that's their slogan. 22:42 Every sin is outside the body. 22:44 Paul insists, no, 22:46 the one who practices sexual immortality 22:48 sins against their own body. 22:49 Why is that? 22:51 Because in verse 19, the Christian's body 22:54 has two outstanding characteristics 22:56 that are incompatible with sexual immorality. 23:00 These two characteristics 23:02 are the body is the temple of the Holy Spirit. 23:07 And you don't belong to yourselves 23:10 because you were redeemed at a price. 23:14 Both of these ideas link our life to something 23:18 that is outside of ourselves. 23:20 Thank you, Jesus. 23:22 Now it first tells us 23:23 where the Godhead condescends to dwell 23:27 making that place holy. 23:29 Surprisingly, that's within our own lives, 23:33 the Holy Spirit comes to dwell. 23:35 Our body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, 23:37 there's some things you don't do in church. 23:42 You don't play basketball in there, you know. 23:44 And you don't bring certain kind of music in there. 23:46 There are some other things you don't do in there 23:48 because it's holy, because it belongs to God. 23:51 Our bodies are like that. 23:53 The second idea describes what Christ did for us 23:57 to bring us to God indicating our great worth 24:01 and the inappropriate nature 24:03 of using someone else's property 24:05 in the way that they don't approve of. 24:09 So this leads Paul to the conclusion 24:11 that you should glorify God in your body, 24:14 should honor Him by obedience 24:15 to His will concerning sexual life. 24:18 Now in conclusion, in conclusion, 24:22 we should notice several things about this passage. 24:26 This passage is filled, it's filled with theology. 24:31 Consider the theological arguments 24:33 that Paul marshals in a mere nine verses 24:37 to deal with the problem of promiscuity. 24:40 First of all, the trinity is opposed 24:43 to sexual immorality. 24:46 The trinity is opposed to sexual immorality, 24:48 God the Father raised Christ and He will raise us. 24:53 So this active resurrection initiates the process 24:57 whereby we can be clean. 24:59 Amen. Right. 25:00 So that's Christ's resurrection. 25:02 God the Father raised Him from the dead, 25:03 there's the Father. 25:05 Christ is the one we are united to 25:08 and who paid the price for our salvation. 25:10 Right. 25:12 And the Holy Spirit dwells in us 25:14 as a temple for the Lord. 25:15 So you have the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. 25:19 Now I tell you what, 25:20 if you look through the New Testament, 25:21 any place you find the trinity is an important place. 25:26 Where the trinity is, 25:27 there's something important going on. 25:29 And the apostle Paul is saying here 25:31 to trinity opposes sexual immorality. 25:35 Paul dismantles the libertine ideas 25:38 that in actuality lead to slavery 25:40 as of the most abject type. 25:43 He counters a materialistic teleology 25:46 that is you know, 25:48 the design of hedonism with a Christological teleology 25:51 of spiritual devotion. 25:53 He replaces an eschatology of destruction 25:56 with an eschatology of resurrection. 25:59 He rejects dualism and affirms holism. 26:03 He hammers on the unity concept and sexual intimacy 26:07 that breaks the oxymoron of casual sex. 26:11 He discredits the idea that one can sin 26:15 and it not affect their spiritual life. 26:17 He presses on the argument 26:20 that we must glorify God in our bodily lives 26:22 because of the grand event of Calvary 26:25 and the consequent indwelling 26:27 of the Holy Spirit in the body temple. 26:28 So if I put it succinctly, libertinism is dismantled, 26:35 teleology is redefined, eschatology is corrected, 26:41 dualism is rejected, the oxymoron is broken, 26:45 the disconnection is discredited 26:48 and the argument is pressed. 26:52 And the thing that we think of, 26:53 you know, when we hear this kind of stuff is, 26:56 wow, why does he use so many theological arguments 27:02 to counter sexual promiscuity? 27:05 You know why? 27:06 Because promiscuity is so strong. 27:09 That he has to bring out all the big guns of theology 27:13 to shoot it down. 27:14 And my, does he put it out there? 27:16 We should be preaching this, 27:18 we should be teaching it to our young people 27:20 so that they can understand that God is serious about sex. 27:26 Yeah. Yeah. 27:27 And he wants us to be faithful and pure. 27:29 Sex is just for marriage. 27:31 And so-- Amen. 27:32 That's 1 Corinthians 6. 27:34 You can see why I already love this passage. 27:36 It's so powerful with so many great ideas. 27:40 And needless to say, 27:42 you certainly unpack it wonderfully. 27:46 Well, it's there and-- 27:47 You know, this is something, this is something 27:49 that is extremely deep. 27:50 Yeah. You know. 27:51 That's the word of God. 27:53 Amen. Amen. 27:54 Well once again, we've gone through a quick 30 minutes. 27:58 We've learned a lot. 27:59 We thank Dr. Sheperd 28:01 and we look forward to our next one. 28:03 Just want you to know 28:04 how much we love you, appreciate you. 28:06 God bless you. |
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