Participants: Pr. Joshua Nelson (Host), Kimberly Pearson, Kory P. Douglas, Marquis Jackson
Series Code: PC
Program Code: PC000018
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00:01 The following program discusses sensitive issues.
00:03 Parents are cautioned that some material 00:05 may be too candid for younger children. 00:39 Hello, and welcome to Pure Choices, 00:41 I'm your host Pastor Joshua Nelson 00:43 and I'm so glad you decide to join us. 00:45 We have an exciting program lined up for you today. 00:48 We have a lot of guests here today, 00:50 my friends actually, so I'm really excited about this. 00:52 We can talk about making pure choices. 00:55 And so I just want to start by introducing our panel. 00:58 I'm gonna start with my brother, 00:59 my friend to my left here Kean Baxter, 01:03 who is an MDiv graduate at the seminary. 01:06 Yes, sir. Yes, sir. 01:07 And good friend of mine, good friend of mine. 01:08 We also now have over here our Pastor Marquis Jackson, 01:13 who is the pastor in the South Atlantic Conference 01:17 and we also have Chaplain Pearson-- 01:21 Kim Pearson who is the assistance chaplain 01:23 at Oakwood University, and also we have K. P. Douglas. 01:28 Pastor Douglas, who is the Pastor 01:29 in Central States Conference. 01:31 And so we have a great panel for you, 01:33 this day and we just gonna right into our discussion. 01:36 We're talking todayabout sex, 01:38 and really talking about "Who Invented sex?" 01:41 That's our title for today. 01:42 "Who Invented Sex?" 01:44 And so we wanted to just start by just clearing the air. 01:46 What is sex? 01:48 Let's just talk about it. What is sex? 01:49 Not, not about what satan says sex is, 01:51 but what does God say, sex is? What is sex? 01:57 Sex is a connection of-- connection marriage 02:00 between man and woman. 02:01 God created in-- in creation of man and woman 02:05 be together and sex is used for procreation. 02:09 But also is an even for enjoyment. 02:11 Okay. Between husband and wife. 02:12 Okay, so you're saying that it is used for procreation, 02:16 but it's also some-- some level of enjoyment? 02:18 Okay, so in the Bible do we find 02:21 that God was the one that admitted sex? 02:24 Definitely. 02:26 Well, me now I think if you're a Christian 02:28 and then you have to go with that, 02:29 you know, I mean, we don't believe in evolution. 02:31 The bible says that you know, God gave Eve to Adam 02:34 and you know he told them be fulfill multiply eventually 02:36 but we have to believe if we are Christians 02:38 that God is the one who gave them 02:40 the gift of sex in the context. 02:43 I believe we should establish that as well 02:44 in the context of marriage. 02:45 Right, and that's an important point to make 02:48 because it was something that was made 02:51 when He brought the two together, right? 02:53 And so that's important for us to realize 02:55 so-- but we also what you said 02:57 Pastor Jackson was important 02:58 because you said it also was made for pleasure. 03:01 But do we have a problem with that, 03:03 to say, that God made sex for pleasure? 03:05 I think that would do, I think that, 03:08 you know, the word sex even has become so taboo 03:12 that we forget that-- yes, 03:14 God made it for procreation, but God made it to be 03:16 pleasurable and to be enjoyable, you known, 03:19 I think some times we take that dynamic out of it 03:22 make we'll make it something bad and something 03:24 you know, nasty and let's not talk about that. 03:26 But sex was made to be pleasurable, enjoyable. 03:29 When God made creation everything about creation 03:31 He said, it was good. 03:33 So that includes sex, and I think we forget that. 03:36 Maybe that's something do with the way that we view God. 03:38 We always view God as serious about business 03:42 but when we reflect on ourselves and we understand 03:47 that He made us in His image with these feelings, 03:52 with the sense of humor, 03:54 it has-- should help us 03:57 understand God better who He is. 03:59 What type of person He is. 04:00 Okay. 04:02 So when we talk about sex, 04:03 just make sure we clear the air. 04:04 We are talking about penetration, 04:06 we're talking about penis into a vagina, 04:08 we are not talking about-- that's what we talking, right? 04:10 Okay, that sex. 04:12 Well, is that the-- is that the extent of sex, 04:16 I don't know. 04:17 Well, I mean, let's talk about it for a little bit. 04:20 I think part of the problem in defining sex 04:24 is that there are so many now, connotations 04:27 to sex that when you say sex, 04:29 is it oral sex, is it-- you know, 04:31 sex between man and woman, 04:32 but now there are so many different variations of sex 04:36 that it's hard to pen it down, 04:39 but I think when we look at the original meaning of sex 04:42 it was between Adam and Eve 04:44 and we know that it was in creations. 04:45 So that's how God originally-- 04:47 you know, wanted it to be 04:49 between man and woman, and it was good. 04:51 And so you can't have God without a man and a woman. 04:54 The putting of them together is the image of God. 04:58 Okay, and we what to touch on that as well, 05:01 and that so important that you-- 05:02 we recognizing now that God is the one that introduced sex. 05:05 Yeah. You know, to us. 05:07 And what were you saying, Kean? 05:09 I was gonna say we have to remember 05:10 that God made us multidimensional begins 05:14 and that sex is a holistic activity 05:18 so it includes physical body it an includes emotions 05:23 and it also includes spirituality. 05:26 And a lot of times we forget that, 05:28 we think it's just a purely physical-- 05:31 exactly. 05:32 But there is-- 05:33 there is an exchange on mutidimensions here. 05:35 Okay. 05:36 That's pretty deep to think about. 05:39 Kim, are you gonna payback on that? 05:40 Yeah, I was gonna say that, 05:42 I think what you said is correct, we always take sex 05:45 and make it a physical thing but we forget 05:47 that when the Bible says that you know, 05:49 Adam knew Eve, you know, he knew her emotionally 05:53 and spiritually and physically and so when think about sex, 05:56 we think about intimacy, 05:58 intimacy is a part of sex. 05:59 So when we're talking about things of someone 06:03 else and we're talking about sexual things, 06:04 but our emotions are involved, 06:06 that's part of the sexual experience 06:08 that we have to include. 06:09 We try to define what sex is? 06:12 It's not just a physical thing 06:14 but it involves your emotions and involves 06:16 your body how you feel physically 06:18 and it involves where you're spiritually. 06:20 Sure, sure, and that's so important. 06:22 And so that's why I'm wondering just wonder 06:24 why it is in that-- in the church, 06:26 which is you know, 06:28 representatives of God on earth. 06:29 Why is that we have a hard time taking about sex? 06:32 You know. 06:33 Well, I mean, I can give probably few-- 06:35 a few reasons I think the most obvious one is, 06:37 in our society, you know, 06:39 sex is not really presented in the good light. 06:41 You know, from you're kid growing up 06:42 every time you sex its on televisions, 06:44 in the magazine, you know, on commercials now. 06:47 You know, it could be a commercial about soap, 06:49 it could be a commercial about rice and you know, 06:51 beans or something, some how 06:53 it is some of kind of sex content in that you know. 06:55 and you know, on television you know 06:57 whenever sex scene happens, it's always so raunchy, 07:00 it's never, never about your two people being in love 07:02 or whatever, it usually it's happening out side of marriage, 07:05 it's usually so much cheating on somebody, 07:07 or somebody committing adultery, 07:09 and so you know, when we just think about sex 07:11 on how you know based on how we been educated by society. 07:14 Or what sex is. 07:15 It doesn't really seem like something 07:16 you should talk about in church, you know, so-- 07:19 And that's what I been-- that what the big concern is 07:21 because we have a church, we need to be in a situation 07:23 where we are becoming more, 07:25 more relevant to debunked myths. 07:30 Too many times we've allowed the society 07:31 and all those various things to establish to culture 07:34 when God is called us 07:35 to be the ones who establish a culture. 07:37 And unfortunately our children well, 07:39 I don't have any children yet but you know, 07:41 young people, younger people in this environment 07:44 are observing things and they hearing it one side 07:47 but they are not hearing it from the church. 07:49 And so one thing I learned, 07:50 you know, as a child, my parents were to teach me 07:53 than me learn in in the streets 07:55 because I've learning the streets 07:56 it will be a totally attain of view of it. 07:58 And that's the problem, they never hear 07:59 anything from church, talking about it 08:02 and it seemed as though it's bad, it shameful 08:05 and so they get that wrong prospective on it. 08:07 You know, I that satan has done a job with that 08:10 because even when we send you know in the garden 08:13 the first thing we do, we saw that we were naked 08:15 and we covered ourselves and we were ashamed. 08:17 And so we do not want to even come to God 08:21 you know, we hid from Him 08:22 and still we're hiding doing things in the dark, 08:25 in the shadows? 08:26 The funny thing is the world keeps it 08:28 real with our young people and the church isn't. 08:32 They can go to their friends and get 08:35 what they feel is real information truth, 08:37 you know, the good, the bad and the ugly 08:39 and they're talking about it, they're talking about it 08:41 on you know, in social media. 08:43 Right. 08:44 And in the church it's not necessary 08:45 being expressed in a way 08:47 where we keeping it really the younger to. 08:49 So if I want information, whom I gonna go to? 08:51 Am I gonna go somebody whose is gonna keep it real with me 08:53 tell me the truth or am I gonna go somewhere 08:55 where my hand is gonna get slapped. 08:56 Well, I'm gonna be shying for thinking or feeling 08:59 or wanting you know, things that you know, 09:02 "God created" in understanding 09:04 how to get those in ligament ways. 09:05 All right, Kory. 09:08 Definitely, definitely, what you know, 09:10 I would add another, dimension to that 09:12 because we talked about the outside influences 09:14 but just like we said earlier you know, 09:16 sex is an intimate thing, you know, 09:18 and as intimate-- you know, 09:20 an even private beings you know, 09:22 if this not something that 09:23 we do really want to put out there, 09:25 you know, to think that people would be thinking about us 09:27 what we're doing in our bedroom 09:28 or what we're doing with our wife, 09:30 you know, our husbands you know, 09:32 that's not the kind of things we want to hear out there. 09:34 I mean, maybe the younger generation now you know, 09:36 pull everything on Twitter and Facebook. 09:37 Right. 09:38 You know, but for the most part you know, 09:39 all the people are not really gonna just you know, 09:41 just starting talking my things 09:42 that happened in the context of their private home. 09:45 You know, so I believe that-- that intimacy 09:47 and that us being a private beings, 09:50 you know has something to do to with the fact 09:51 that we don't really want to talk about it. 09:54 You know, along with that intimacy requires vulnerability 09:58 and God is calling the church to be venerable for us 10:03 to be venerable one with another. 10:06 The only way that's possible is 10:08 if our faith has not in our own righteousness 10:11 but into righteousness of Christ. 10:13 So we can talk about sex, we can talk about our mistakes 10:17 and we can be free with that 10:20 because we know that we're not under condemnation 10:24 we know that we all have this God given urge 10:29 and we can so we can talk about our past 10:31 and our failures and our mistakes 10:33 without the need to you know, keep up the appearances. 10:38 So righteousness by faith is so important 10:42 with this issue of our venerability and intimacy. 10:46 Yeah, and that so-- so actually you said that 10:48 because I'm just thinking about identity, 10:51 you know, and how we don't really know 10:53 who we are enough to really even talk about these things 10:56 and really right now in our generation 10:59 and the young people you know, 11:00 the Facebook and Twitter 11:02 they are trying to establish an identity. 11:03 You know, about who they are. 11:05 So what does sexuality have to do with telling us 11:08 who we are our identity? 11:12 I think it goes back to I'm kind of remember 11:15 who said it but it's intimacy, you were seeing into-- 11:20 I think Kim said and then, 11:22 Kory said something else related to it. 11:25 It's intimacy on multiple dimension, multiple levels, 11:29 physical, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual, 11:34 and so you-- we have to have 11:36 a secure identity in order to led somebody in, 11:42 so there has to be some-- some work done on the-- 11:46 on the front and before we allow that-- 11:48 that is possible. 11:49 You know, I like to say as well, 11:51 so with generation before so unfortunately, they said, 11:54 there's many times that they went for it, 11:56 even when I was in college, 11:57 I do remember a lot of people while they are in college 12:00 that would get married and stuff like that, 12:02 but there main that I have been the right reasons 12:04 because unfortunately with in a few years 12:06 they got divorced, may because they thought 12:08 Jesus gonna come back or anything like that. 12:10 And when those divorces happened 12:12 there is a little bit of fear of being-- 12:15 of being venerable. 12:16 Of sharing of things and that is a-- 12:19 that's a slow degrade 12:20 that a slow effect to next generation. 12:24 Because this generation is a generation 12:26 that is based of relationships 12:27 and if we have not become relational with them, 12:30 they gonna find relationships somewhere else. 12:31 And we had to be very careful about that. Yeah, that's right. 12:33 And I think when he said is very important 12:35 we were created to be in relationship. 12:38 That's how we were designed. 12:39 So there is a natural desire to want to be in community 12:43 and be in relationship but you know, 12:45 sometimes we have trouble of finding our identity 12:49 as a person with in a group of environment 12:52 and so we define ourselves by how people see us. 12:55 So in a society that is overly sexualized I'm important, 13:00 I'm valued because I'm sexy, because I'm attractive, 13:05 because someone wants to be intimate with me, 13:08 I'm valuable, and so it destroys that-- 13:11 the identity by the more you know, 13:13 we have to use sex as a way to define ourselves, 13:17 and so think if you go back to the garden, 13:19 if you could destroy our identity through tainting sex 13:23 then you can destroy the identity of God. 13:25 Yeah. Who God is. 13:27 And so I think that is very interesting. 13:30 Yeah, yeah because God identity is really the fact 13:33 that He created man in His own image male and female. 13:38 You know, I got it. Kory, go ahead. 13:39 And I was gonna say you know, 13:41 what's was and what's Satan has done 13:43 this perfect man is that you know, 13:46 it's shoulld be something that we celebrate 13:48 being created in God's image. 13:50 Being given to your ability to be in marriage in communion, 13:52 in intimacy with one another, given the ability 13:55 People who don't deserve 13:57 you know the ability to recreate. 13:58 God has given us sex to be enjoyable, to recreate 14:02 and to experience intimacy, 14:03 that's something we should celebrate. 14:05 You know, but yet we have come to the point 14:07 where we are ashamed of being made in God's image. 14:11 My Lord. 14:13 I was gonna say that this topic has, 14:16 it's implications on God's character, 14:18 God made it that way that the our marriage relations 14:22 if He talk about it in if us-- Paul talks about it 14:24 in Ephesians chapter 5 I believe where he says, 14:27 husband's love your wife's, wife respects your husband's 14:30 then he says, husband's you have to lay down your life 14:34 before your wife like Christ 14:36 laid down His life for the church. 14:38 So when we have intimacy issues, 14:41 when there is divorces all the time 14:44 when there is abuse, you know, 14:49 and of all sources-- of all sorts 14:53 it has implications on God's character. 14:55 Because the world is gonna look at the church 14:58 to get a picture of God. 15:00 And until that picture is-- 15:03 what's the word I'm looking for? 15:04 Restored? 15:05 Restored accurate. 15:08 Then God's character is not vindicated 15:11 and He is not glorified and He can't come back. 15:13 So is that complimenting how Satan says, 15:16 I would be like most high, so as he is replace-- 15:18 he's trying to replace God in that position, 15:20 where he is suppose to accomplish, 15:22 he suppose to show God where he and still Satan 15:24 trying to put his thumb print in it to change a whole-- 15:27 try to change whole prospective of sex. 15:29 Okay. 15:30 I think-- well, 15:31 I think is very interesting about that is 15:33 we need to talk about changing the prospective 15:35 we understand that there is Adam 15:38 and that Adam was created in God's image 15:39 and there is Eve the union of them together, 15:42 completes the image of God. 15:44 So if you alter, replace or a change 15:48 any of those true components you alter the image of God. 15:53 And so our identity gets messed up because-- 15:57 Because our identity is in God. Our identity is in God. 15:59 So let's talk about this thing now. 16:01 marriage and how it completes you, 16:02 we've talked a little bit before, 16:05 I'm not sure how we're gonna really say this 16:06 because the panel was little divided here 16:09 about there is marriage completes you. 16:12 So Pastor Jackson, you had admitted something about 16:15 when God says, I will make a helpmate? 16:20 Yeah, as I was looking this, was reading 16:21 in Genesis Chapter 2, in that-- in Genesis Chapter 2 16:25 when God created Adam on a sixth day, He says, 16:30 as He create Adam he says, not go man to be alone, 16:32 I'll make someone compatible for him. 16:36 And then after that-- that He starts naming animals. 16:39 So Adam God knew, he's gonna give Adam, 16:42 but Adam did not yet know it at that moment. 16:45 And so after He named the animals 16:46 and he saw male and female then He realize 16:48 what he was also liking, not saying 16:50 that he was incomplete but he was incomplete 16:53 but when Eve came she help compliment him 16:57 to fulfill the image of God. 16:59 Okay, So-- 17:00 what complementary and completing 17:05 are different things when God made man, 17:08 when He was finished with Adam 17:10 He said it is good, he was complete and whole. 17:12 Did He say it? 17:13 When Adam was done 17:16 and so I think that Adam was a whole man, 17:20 and then he introduced Eve to him 17:24 to I got to say, put together the image of God. 17:27 So -- 17:28 Time out. You remember when He put him to sleep. 17:31 Right. 17:32 He took something from them. 17:34 So at that point he wasn't complete, was he? 17:37 He was complete before. 17:39 He was complete but then God took-- 17:41 it says rib, but we-- we gonna understand that 17:45 when Adam saw Eve he said that this is born of my bone 17:48 and flesh of my flesh. 17:49 So he took a part of Adam out. 17:53 So was Adam complete before and then became incomplete? 17:56 Right. You cannot take something that is not there. 17:59 So-- 18:00 So he is complete? Adam had to be complete. 18:02 God took from Adam made Eve and then together 18:07 they complement each other he says 18:08 I'll make a help me through your help, make for you. 18:12 Not the other half and I think that is sometimes 18:14 where sex get-- confuse 18:17 because I think I bring half of me 50% 18:20 you bring half of you 50% and then we come together 18:23 and now make a whole, 18:24 no, I have to be a whole women, a whole person. 18:27 Complete in Christ. 18:28 If you notice, Adam and Eve both had experiences with God 18:32 before they met with each other. 18:33 That's right. Yeah. 18:34 So this might be one of the reasons 18:36 why lot of marriages aren't working out, huh? 18:40 Possibly maybe because they have that 18:42 become complete in God-- 18:44 Individual for-- 18:45 Before they try to come together. 18:47 And you know, complement each other. 18:51 Amen. 18:52 Okay, so we have feel okay by this 18:55 or, Kory, gonna tell something? 18:56 Well, I want to say this is why because you know, 18:58 we're talking about sex 18:59 and this is why sex is so important 19:01 when it's done in the right context you know, 19:03 because it may-- it helps to make 19:05 the marriage more complete, it helps to add the intimacy 19:08 and together in this you know, 19:09 them actually becoming literally one flesh. 19:12 You know, if so like you said, I mean, 19:14 that's why some marriages are probably failing right now, 19:16 probably because of sex and that's why it so important 19:19 that we should be even be tackling 19:20 the need the topic of sex 19:21 and what it means. 19:22 Yeah, because God really designed for men and women 19:25 to cleave together to become one flesh, right? 19:28 And so that's the purpose 19:30 suppose to come together become one flesh 19:32 and it's not supposed to be torn-- 19:34 torn apart. 19:35 I was gonna say that in addition to that 19:38 we talk about sex, we always look at it 19:40 from a intimacy perspective which is fine 19:44 but I think we forget about the physiological, 19:47 neurological implications that sex has on the body. 19:51 When you know, you have sex, you have an organism 19:54 that the hormones that are secreted 19:57 are there to bond you with the other person. 20:01 So when you have sex with someone 20:02 you are not just physically bonding with them, 20:06 you are emotionally and chemically bonding 20:09 with that other person, 20:10 that's why it's the process of becoming one. 20:13 So every time you have sex with someone 20:15 you are creating not just physical bonds 20:18 but neurological bonds to all of these different people, 20:22 if you having multiple partners. 20:24 Right. 20:25 I was gonna say that anything that the devil attacks a lot 20:30 is something that we should look at 20:32 because he knows it's important so this is why he is try-- 20:36 he's done so much to pervert it. 20:40 Because he realizes the implications on the-- 20:44 multiple levels. 20:46 He realizes the-- the connection 20:48 that between human engaging sex 20:52 and how that reflects on the Creator, 20:55 so he is done so much to-- to try to pervert it 21:00 and he has done excellent job 21:03 and to get church people not to talk about it 21:05 but everybody else in the world you know, 21:07 all sorts of abuse, you have-- even insists 21:14 and I mean, think of how that this destroys lives. 21:17 Yeah. 21:18 And you know, that's when they say-- 21:20 it's knownthat two things that came out of creation 21:23 that still that we say here to our 21:25 it's marriage and a Sabbath. 21:26 And the devil is been working hard to destroy both of those. 21:29 Because it shows God in His love and His care for us. 21:33 But look at the parameters, look at how God did creation, 21:36 God created the parameters 21:38 and then put in place what goes there. 21:41 So when God made the heavens and earth, 21:42 He made the from there all those things 21:44 and then He puts something inside of it. 21:46 Then God made plants and water, you know, 21:49 before He put the animals there. 21:51 So God made parameters for things 21:53 before he made provision. 21:55 So God created marriage 21:57 and then put sex inside the marriage. 22:00 So if you look at how creation is set up, 22:03 that is how it supposed to be 22:05 with in these different parameters. 22:07 So I think that's so powerful 22:09 when you look at the creative power of God, 22:12 God didn't just wanted to be out whatever, 22:15 He put it in a place where they will be safe 22:17 and nurture and care for and taking care of just like 22:20 he did with every other aspect of the creation. 22:22 Yeah, and can you say then that marriage 22:24 then was put into the Sabbath? 22:25 Is it connected at all? 22:27 When it was-- anyone comment on that? 22:29 I think so. 22:31 All right. I believe so. 22:32 But I don't if we getting a head of ourselves? 22:33 Go ahead, go ahead. If we could start talking about it. 22:35 I mean, you know, then this taboo was well, 22:37 you know, shall we do it on the Sabbath or not, 22:39 I believe you know, because of what it represents 22:42 that commentarial that oneness, remember 22:44 we believe that the Sabbath is all about God 22:46 coming close to us in relationship, 22:48 as close as He can possibly get. 22:50 He know an intimate moment. 22:52 what we have described the Sabbath 22:53 as actually gonna funny is on, you know, 22:55 when a mother-- I'm not a mother, 22:57 so I can't really speak out her-- 22:58 you know I can't speak out of it. 22:59 Its be Okay. 23:00 For one when a mother gives birth, 23:02 the first thing they do is they baby to the mother 23:05 and mother get to know experience 23:07 the baby for the first time. 23:09 they experience each other, they been together 23:11 for nine months, but now they've you know, 23:13 the baby gets experience to mother up close in personal 23:16 and you know, what God does in the Sabbath, 23:17 that's He creates Adam, right? 23:20 And then He has that personal moment 23:22 that intimate moment with him on the Sabbath, 23:24 on the seventh day, its' like He gave birth to him on Friday 23:27 Sabbath He got to hold him close 23:29 and so you know the Sabbath is that same thing 23:31 you know, it's about intimacy, 23:33 it's always all rolled up together. 23:34 Yeah, and He brings Adam and Eve together, all right? 23:38 He bring them-- yeah, 23:39 together to cause to make the marriage, right? 23:42 Yeah. 23:43 And I think we need to-- some of the date around 23:47 that whole idea of sex on the Sabbath 23:50 might stand from our view of sex that again 23:54 it been taboo for so long, it's been viewed 23:58 in some religions as-- as dirty, 24:02 so may be some of that has kind of crept into-- 24:05 into our faith and we feel like sex is not something 24:10 that we talk about and its' definitely not something 24:11 we do on the Sabbath because Sabbath is holy. 24:14 But God is holy, God created us holy, 24:17 sex is holy in the right context. 24:19 Yeah. Yeah. 24:21 Well, you know, I've heard people saying 24:23 now do your own pleasure, and that's the reason 24:26 why that people don't having sex on Sabbath. 24:28 But when you look at it you know, 24:29 the Bible says in Hebrews says that 24:31 the marriage bed is honorable and undefiled. 24:33 That's right. 24:34 When you come to that aspect of how God create everything 24:37 He put together the last thing He did was, 24:40 He had man and woman to meet each other 24:42 and then came the Sabbath. 24:44 Even as I've heard Hebrews when they open a Sabbath, 24:48 they open husband and wife through sex, 24:51 sexual intercourse. 24:52 So it's nothing that is wrong 24:54 it is something God has created and He set there for the-- 24:57 for the enjoyment between husband and wife 25:00 to lift up His name so that we can continue to procreate 25:03 but also so our children-- when we have children, Amen. 25:07 We have children that they will see 25:08 and that they will sort the follow up 25:10 and they will continue that to show of image of God 25:12 in them and their eventual husband's or wife's. 25:14 Yeah. Amen. 25:16 So as we're coming to our close 25:17 I just want to ask through out this last question here. 25:19 Why does Satan didn't attack our sexuality? 25:24 Because Satan is mad. 25:26 He is mad at whom? 25:27 Oh, he is mad. He is mad at the church. 25:29 You know, he couldn't defeat Christ 25:30 and so now he is attacking the Church. 25:32 And now he is trying to attack the church in this aspect. 25:34 But Satan said, I shall be like the most high. 25:36 Yeah. 25:37 And so in that process of trying to be like-- 25:41 like God, he has to set up entities that look like 25:47 what God, you know originally created to be so it's-- 25:50 Counterfeit. 25:51 Counterfeit and so you know, if we set up 25:54 all these different ideas of sexuality 25:56 and there some of perverted, 25:58 then I can pervert the image of God. 25:59 If they are skewed then I can skew the image of God. 26:02 If there is all these different kinds of things happening 26:05 there is no consistency then God is not consistent. 26:08 Yeah. 26:09 And so it plays on all those different things 26:11 and if I can question my sexuality then I question God. 26:16 And that's you know, he does the main thing is, 26:17 he know all about the image of God and identity, 26:20 you know, I got little brothers in high school 26:21 and one of the biggest thing 26:22 they are struggling with is who am I? 26:24 And if you can destroy the image of God, 26:25 you know, in us then we're gonna question 26:28 who we are and you know, thought out time. 26:30 You know, and one of the other things I would even add is, 26:33 you know, look at what we're doing now 26:34 we having a show where we got a deep bond, 26:37 you know, the myths about sex, 26:39 you know, and trying to get rid of all these little 26:41 percussive notions 26:43 we could be talking about feeding the homeless. 26:45 Expiring the gospel, you know, 26:46 now we got to go back and do all this, so you know, 26:49 I think you know, satan knew what he was doing. 26:51 Yeah. Yeah. 26:53 And the other thing is satan of course hates creation, 26:57 he hates procreation, he wanted to be in on the creation plan 27:03 but of course he would creative be he not create. 27:05 So that's another reason sex is connected to creation 27:10 and when they were in the garden of Eden, 27:12 Adam and Eve and when they rebelled 27:14 first things they felt was shame. 27:17 And sex now of course is surrounded with shame. 27:21 Yeah. Unfortunately. 27:22 Well, we have to stop there that has told so deep. 27:25 When Bible says in God, God saw everything 27:27 that He had made Him, behold it was very good. 27:30 Yes, even sex. 27:31 And so we have to value the fact that 27:33 God created sexuality, He created our sex, 27:35 He created intimacy and love. 27:37 And so we thank Him of that, we value that, 27:39 and we thank Him for the gift of sex. 27:41 Yeah. 27:42 Well, that's our program for today 27:44 happy you had decide to join us, 27:45 until next time remember to keep making pure choices. |
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