{"id":302816,"date":"2013-09-19T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-19T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/%series%\/what-genesis-does-say\/"},"modified":"2013-09-19T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-09-19T15:00:00","slug":"what-genesis-does-say","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/familylife-today\/what-genesis-does-say\/","title":{"rendered":"What Genesis Does Say"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bob Lepine talks about what did, and did not happen in God&#8217;s creation of man, woman, marriage, and sex.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91,"featured_media":294104,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"https:\/\/web.familylifetoday.com\/fl2013-09-19.mp3","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"00:","filesize":"27.8M","filesize_raw":"29153464","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":""},"categories":[2805],"tags":[2991],"podcast_series":[7973],"cwp_profile":[3142],"series":[2101],"class_list":["post-302816","podcast","type-podcast","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gods-plan-for-marriage","tag-sex","podcast_series-do-christians-have-it-wrong-on-sexuality","cwp_profile-bob-lepine","series-familylife-today"],"acf":[],"episode_featured_image":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1001\/2024\/09\/FLT-Podcast-Cover-2-508x508-3.jpg?w=508","episode_player_image":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1001\/2023\/02\/image-scaled.jpg","download_link":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast-download\/302816\/what-genesis-does-say","player_link":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast-player\/302816\/what-genesis-does-say","audio_player":null,"episode_data":{"playerMode":"light","subscribeUrls":{"apple_podcasts":{"key":"apple_podcasts","url":"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/familylife-today\/id212174303?mt=2&app=podcast","label":"Apple Podcasts","class":"apple_podcasts","icon":"apple-podcasts.png"},"google_podcasts":{"key":"google_podcasts","url":"","label":"Google Podcasts","class":"google_podcasts","icon":"google-podcasts.png"},"spotify":{"key":"spotify","url":"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/0j5UaKdQOHQCuo1bt0ebEm","label":"Spotify","class":"spotify","icon":"spotify.png"},"youtube":{"key":"youtube","url":"","label":"YouTube","class":"youtube","icon":"youtube.png"}},"rssFeedUrl":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/feed\/podcast\/familylife-today","embedCode":"<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"ZVFElt5X3Y\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/familylife-today\/what-genesis-does-say\/\">What Genesis Does Say<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/familylife-today\/what-genesis-does-say\/embed\/#?secret=ZVFElt5X3Y\" width=\"500\" height=\"350\" title=\"&#8220;What Genesis Does Say&#8221; &#8212; FamilyLife\u00ae - A Cru Ministry\" data-secret=\"ZVFElt5X3Y\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\"><\/iframe><script>\n\/*! 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I mean, as long as you kind of agree on everything and you\u2019re in love\u2014or at least, in lust.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Interviewer: <\/strong>\u201cDo you have any moral sexual boundaries?\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Male: <\/strong>\u201cBoundaries? There are no boundaries!\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Male: <\/strong>\u201cYeah, whatever feels good!\u201d [Laughter]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Male: <\/strong>\u201cI guess if it\u2019s by consent\u201d\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Interviewer:<\/strong> \u201cSo what is sex for, really?\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Female: <\/strong>\u201cCan we talk about this?\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Male: <\/strong>\u201cAre we supposed to be\u2014?\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Female: <\/strong>\u201cTo get a man!\u201d [Laughter]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 This is <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> for Thursday, September 19<sup>th<\/sup>. Our host is the President of FamilyLife<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>, Dennis Rainey, and I'm Bob Lepine. The culture certainly doesn\u2019t have a biblical world view as it relates to human sexuality; but the truth is, in the church today, the boundaries are starting to break down, as well. We\u2019ll talk about that today. Stay tuned.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd welcome to <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>. Thanks for joining us on the Thursday edition. We\u2019re going to start on Page One of the Bible today; aren\u2019t we?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> We are. In Genesis 1:27, it says: \u201cSo God created man in His own image. In the image of God, He created him.\u201d Then, God didn\u2019t stutter. He said this: \u201cMale and female He created them.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> I don\u2019t think we realize what\u2019s at stake in the national debate around human sexuality because it\u2019s no mistake how the Bible begins and how God created men and women. He created us with two distinct sexes to represent Who He is and what He is like to all of humanity.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Yes. I had an opportunity to speak on this subject of human sexuality at Redeemer Community Church in Little Rock as a part of a sermon series. I had a chance to really dig in and address some of the places where the Bible and the culture are at odds with one another. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> I listened to the message, in its entirety. I came back to Bob and said, \u201cYou didn\u2019t waste any words.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> [Laughing] You only have so much time, and there\u2019s a lot to say!\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> And there was a lot to say; but this is a really, really helpful perspective of how, I think, our listeners can gain courage in engaging around issues in the culture today\u2014but do it in a way that has humility, that has love, that has kindness, and has a winsomeness about it that enables us to have an ongoing conversation\u2014that doesn\u2019t just occur at the water cooler at work, but may occur over a period of time with some of our office workers.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Alright; are you ready? Should we just hop in and start listening?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> Here is Bob Lepine\u2014speaking on \u201cDo Christians Have It Wrong When It Comes to Human Sexuality?\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t[Previously Recorded Message]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> If you have your Bible\u2014I hope you do\u2014I want you to turn to the very first page. I want you to turn to the book of Genesis, Chapter One. We are in a culture today that is moving farther and farther away from the clear teaching of Scripture about God\u2019s purpose and God\u2019s design for human sexuality.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThis morning, I want to speak to what I think are the two primary issues where the culture is at odds with the biblical teaching about sexuality. The first issue is\u2014we\u2019re going to talk about sexual\u2014what the Bible calls sexual immorality\u2014sex outside of the bonds of marriage. Obviously, we live in a culture where that is not the commonly accepted idea of human sexuality. The second thing we\u2019re going to look at is what the Bible has to say about homosexual acts. Again, the Bible is clear on this; and the culture thinks it knows better than the Bible. So, these are the two big areas where I think the Bible and the culture are at odds. That\u2019s what we\u2019re going to talk about this morning. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThe truth is, the culture has already won the argument, on both of these issues, with most people. We just have to acknowledge that we live in a day where we hold the minority view. You undoubtedly realize that if you believe that sex should be reserved for a man and a woman in a committed, monogamous relationship for a lifetime, then you are out-of-step with what most people in the culture believe. I\u2019m sure you realize that if you believe that homosexuality is morally wrong or unnatural, then you have, over the last five years, moved\u2014in this culture\u2014from being a part of the majority to being in the minority.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThe culture is not moving in the direction of the Bible on this subject. The culture is moving in the opposite direction. It is aggressively rejecting and declaring its independence from biblical teaching in the area of human sexuality. I think it\u2019s important for us, before we get too much into the immorality side of human sexuality\u2014I think we have to look at the morality side. What is it that God had in mind when He invented human sexuality in the first place?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tFor some of you, that statement was just revolutionary: \u201cGod invented human sexuality.\u201d Verses 27 and 28 of Genesis 1: \u201cAnd God created man in His own image. In the image of God, He created him; male and female He created them. And God blessed them; and God said to them, \u2018Be fruitful and multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea and the birds of the heavens and over everything that moves on the earth.\u2019\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tLet\u2019s just stop there. I want to make six observations about those two verses, related to the issue of human sexuality. First of all, when God created man, as male and female\u2014in that act\u2014He was creating sexuality. It\u2019s His design; it\u2019s His idea. The second idea\u2014our sexuality is connected to the fact that we are the same species but different in gender. To put it another way, in order to have sexuality, as God intends for it, you have to have both a man and a woman.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tNotice, too, that the very first instruction\u2014and here is my third observation\u2014the very first instruction God gives to the man and the woman, in Genesis 1, is: \u201cBe fruitful and multiply.\u201d The command to \u201cbe fruitful and multiply\u201d involves, by God\u2019s design, sexual engagement, on our part. That engagement, by the way, comes and it says: \u201cGod blessed them and God said to them, \u2018Be fruitful and multiply.\u2019\u201d So part of the blessing of God is this command that they be engaged, sexually, with one another. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBy the way, the connection between sexuality and repopulation\u2014we have to acknowledge that there is a connection there. It\u2019s not that God did not have any other way to repopulate. He could have taken lots of dust forms and breathed life into them; He could have taken lots of ribs out of lots of people and made new people. He didn\u2019t. He said, \u201cThis is how repopulation is going to happen.\u201d Their engagement with one another is high on His priority list. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe should see that there is a connection between sexuality and having and raising children. In some cases\u2014and it\u2019s mysterious to us as to why\u2014a man and a woman come together in marriage and are unable to conceive. I don\u2019t know why that happens, but God\u2019s design is that a man and a woman would come together and they\u2019d be able to bear children. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThere\u2019s nothing in the design that indicates that it\u2019s supposed to work with a man and a man coming together to have kids\u2014or a woman and woman. You say, \u201cWell, science can do this and that.\u201d Yes, but what science can\u2019t do is take the seed of a man and the seed of a man and make a baby. Science cannot take the egg of a woman and the egg of a woman and make a baby; okay?\u2014because God\u2019s design is a male and female coming together to make children, which is the point here. In order to have biological children, by the means that God designed, you need a man and a woman.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSo, in summary, God made us male and female. Our sexual differences are built into that. His gift of sexuality is a <em>good <\/em>gift. It\u2019s connected to conceiving, and bearing children, and raising them. Now, we\u2019re going to jump from Genesis 1\u2014one whole chapter\u2014to Genesis 2. We\u2019re going to zoom in with God, at the end of Genesis 2, and we are going to see more of what He had to say about the creation of the man and the woman on the sixth day of creation.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tLook at Verse 20 of Genesis 2. You remember that the man has given the names to all of the livestock, to all of the birds of the heavens, to every beast of the field\u2014but \u201cfor Adam there was not found a helper fit for him.\u201d Now I have to just stop right here because I looked up that word, \u201cfit\u201d, in the original language. I wanted to know, \u201cWhat does that mean\u2014\u2018fit\u2019?\u201d Well, it\u2019s <em>neged<\/em>\u2014the word\u2014not \u201cnaked\u201d\u2014but <em>neged<\/em>; okay?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<em>Neged <\/em>is a word that means: \u201cfacing, or toward, or corresponding to\u201d.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIn other words, there is no creature that God has created that Adam can face or that Adam can correspond to. There is a hint of sexuality in that fitting together. This is a reference to the fact that the man and the woman are designed to fit together\u2014to complement, to correspond. That\u2019s not true of men and men. That\u2019s not true of women and women. You stand them\u2014face to face\u2014they don\u2019t <em>fit<\/em>.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tVerse 21: \u201cSo the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall on the man and while he slept, He took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh. The rib that the Lord God had taken from the man, He made into a woman and brought her to the man. The man said, \u2018This at last is bone of my bones, flesh of my flesh. She shall be called \u2018woman,\u2019 for she is taken out of man.\u201d Now, there\u2019s a lot in that, but all I want you to see is that when God fashioned the woman to be a complement to the man, He was not yet done with the crescendo of His creation. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIt is not until He takes the man and the woman that He has created and He puts them back together and \u201cthe two become one flesh\u201d\u2014in that act of marriage and sexuality\u2014we arrive at the summit. When God reaches the <em>pinnacle<\/em> of creation, it\u2019s that point in which human sexuality is experienced. He brings the two back together in that pinnacle. It says: \u201cTherefore, a man leaves his father and mother and holds fast to his wife.\u201d He can\u2019t be talking about Adam and Eve right here, because Adam and Eve don\u2019t have a father and mother. He\u2019s talking about generally\u2014He\u2019s looking forward so men leave father and mother and cleave to wife\u2014the two become \u201cone flesh\u201d\u2014joined together in that summit.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI think there\u2019s something central and profound in the sexual act, as a part of marriage, as designed by God. It\u2019s no wonder, as a result of that, that Satan would take delight in trying to undermine, pervert, and destroy our human sexuality. Is it any wonder that this <em>is <\/em>the big deal in the culture?\u2014because, if Satan wants to attack, he\u2019s going to attack at the headwaters\u2014and <em>this is it.<\/em> God designed sex to happen inside of marriage for, at least, a few reasons.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tNumber one: It draws us closer in union to one another. God wants the husband and wife to be <em>one<\/em>. The sexual act is a part of\u2014the recurring, ongoing participation in sex is a part of\u2014the tool\u2014the instrument that God uses so that we can experience a closer, richer, deeper relationship with one another. He also wants to teach us more about the relationship between the Father, the Son, and the Spirit in the Trinity. There is oneness within the Trinity\u2014within that relationship. There are three persons, but they are one. In marriage, there are two persons; but they become one. We learn something about the intimacy that God enjoys within the context of the Trinity\u2014the intimacy that the Father has with the Son, and the Son with the Spirit, and the Spirit with the Father and the Son. We learn about that when we experience a taste of it in the oneness that we enjoy as husband and wife\u2014which is not limited to our sexuality\u2014but is expressed in a unique way in our sexuality.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIt also teaches us something about the nature of real love because, in order for our sexuality to be expressed in the way that God intended it, the key aspect needs to be an unselfish sexuality. Husbands and wives, who learn God\u2019s design for sexuality, learn that it requires\u2014not a selfish approach to sexuality\u2014but a giving approach\u2014an unselfish approach. Finally, we get, as Paul says in Ephesians, Chapter 5, we get a picture of the relationship between Christ and the Church when we see the husband and wife relationship. Our sexuality is tied to that. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSo, \u201cWhy is it that God says sex should not happen outside of the bonds of marriage?\u201d\u2014Because, in a marriage relationship, we enter into a covenant relationship with one another. In that covenant, we make promises to one another. The promises are promises about abiding with one another in all kinds of settings\u2014creating a place of security, loving one another\u2014no matter what is going on\u2014all the way to the finish line. That\u2019s the covenant promise. God says sex should not happen outside of that promise being in place because, when sex happens outside of that promise being in place, you may experience physical pleasure, but there will be an emptiness\u2014there will be an aching in your soul. There is something missing. There is a defrauding. There\u2019s hollowness to the sexuality that you\u2019re experiencing because it\u2019s <em>not<\/em> the culmination of the promise. It\u2019s happening apart from the promise.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tGod\u2019s covenant promise, to us, is mirrored in the covenant promise of marriage. That\u2019s why we say to one another when we get married, \u201c\u2026for better or for worse, in sickness and in health, for richer or poorer,\u201d\u2014\u201cNo matter what, until death parts us, I\u2019m here,\u201d\u2014and I\u2019m not just \u201chere,\u201d but, \u201cI will love you.\u201d When we make that promise to one another, we are mirroring the promise that God makes to us when He comes to us and adopts us into His family and unites Himself to us in Christ. So sex should not happen outside of marriage, in part, because it should not happen outside the bonds of that covenant. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSecondly, if our sexual union should produce offspring, it is best for the offspring that they grow up in a relationship\u2014in the bonds of a covenant relationship between a husband and a wife who are loving one another and who are together. If a child is growing up in a setting where there is one parent or where two parents are not bound together in covenant love with one another, that child is missing something.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tGenesis 2 ends with this glorious declaration that the husband and wife come together. The man leaves father and mother and cleaves to his wife\u2014the two become one flesh. Then it says, \u201cThe man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed.\u201d That\u2019s an odd thing for the writer to throw in here. \u201cWhy does He bring up their nakedness and why does He say they\u2019re not ashamed?\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWell, we\u2019re going to find out because, in just a few verses, we\u2019re going to see how that\u2019s undermined. He wants to show the right picture in the garden\u2014is the man and the woman coming together, there\u2019s the sexual union taking place, they are transparent with one another, there is no shame, they\u2019re protected, and they feel safe. Nothing is broken yet. But in Genesis 3, when they declare their independence from God\u2014when they say, \u201cI don\u2019t need God,\u201d there\u2019s something significant that happens. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tYou know the account of the Fall\u2014we won\u2019t go through that\u2014the first six verses of Genesis, Chapter 3\u2014where the serpent comes to the woman, and he tempts her. She takes the fruit, and she eats it, and gives it to her covenant partner who is with her. He eats it. The two of them have declared their rebellion against God, in that moment. By the way, every one of us, ever since then, has followed that pattern. We have all declared our own independence against God. Their act of rebellion is complete; and what is the next thing that happens, after Adam eats it, in verse 7? \u201cThen the eyes of both were opened and they knew that they were naked. They sewed fig leaves together and made themselves loincloths.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWhat God had brought together in Genesis 2\u2014the pinnacle of His creative work\u2014joining the man and the woman together in marriage and uniting them in one flesh\u2014now starts to unravel. Suddenly, what had been without shame before\u2014all of a sudden, there is a sense of shame. This is directly related to their sexuality in their marital union. The first point of attack, for the enemy, is the point of attack of marriage\u2014dividing the man and the woman. The first thing they realize, after their rebellion, is that what God had made perfect has now become imperfect. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tHere is, maybe, the most significant thing I\u2019m going to say to you all morning; okay? So, if you\u2019ve been kind of glazing over or uncomfortable with any of this, now is the time to lock-in. In the midst of all of the cultural noise and confusion about sexuality, here\u2019s what the Bible says is the condition of our sexuality\u2014we are all fallen, broken people. In our fallenness and in our brokenness, we are all sexually-broken. In the area of human sexuality, every one of us has disordered and ungodly sexual desire. It\u2019s because of our rebellion against God.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe\u2019re all in the same room\u2014in the same boat together. Your disordered sexual desire and my disordered sexual desire may be two different expressions of it, but everybody in the room has got it. Anytime we engage in any kind of passion-stirring sexual behavior, outside of marriage, we are declaring to God that we know better about what\u2019s good for us than He knows. That\u2019s why sexual behavior, outside of marriage, is called \u201csinful\u201d in the Bible because it is, essentially, saying to God, \u201cI\u2019m going to do what I think is best regardless of what you have said.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSo, when God says: \u201cLook, I\u2019ve got a gift for you. Here\u2019s the gift\u2014only, use it this way; and it\u2019ll be a great blessing for you.\u201d You say: \u201cYeah, yeah. I want to use it over here!\u201d\u00a0 What you\u2019re saying to God, when you do that\u2014is you are saying, \u201cI know better than you, God.\u201d That\u2019s the sinfulness of sexual expression. Do you understand that? When we talk about sexual sin, what we\u2019re really saying is that your choice to engage in sexual behavior\u2014sexual activity\u2014outside of the bounds God has created for it, is really a statement to God that you\u2019re going to do it your way. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t[Studio]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Well, you can tell I was kind of talking fast there. There\u2019s a lot to say on this subject. We\u2019ll have a chance to hear the rest of this message this week. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> I thought you did a great job covering a really tough subject today. You know, as you were talking, I couldn\u2019t help but think about John, Chapter 8, and the woman who was caught in adultery. How the Pharisees\u2014the religious community\u2014all had stones, where they were about to stone her. Jesus walked up and asked the question, \u201cWho among you is without sin?\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> Of course, it says: \u201cOne by one, they dropped their stones and left. Jesus said to the woman, \u2018Neither do I condemn you either. Go and sin no more.\u2019\u201d It wasn\u2019t just a lavish grace that said, \u201cKeep on keeping on!\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> It was a lavish grace that invited her into real life. That\u2019s what we\u2019re to do, as His ambassadors\u2014is to so represent Christ that people who are caught in all kinds of sin can be invited out by someone who is winsome, loving, gracious, humble\u2014and admits their own brokenness in a generation of broken people and says: \u201cYou know what? Let me tell you where I found life! Let me tell you Who has brought adventure to my soul and Who has given me a perspective of life that really is worth me surrendering my life to Him,\u201d\u2014which is what you talked about at the end, Bob. You talked about people needing to do what Jesus Christ called them to do.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Yes, and if folks will go to our website, at FamilyLifeToday.com, over on the left side of the screen, where it says, \u201cResource Center\u201d, under that heading, there\u2019s a tab that says, \u201cTwo Ways to Live\u201d. It really does spell out that there are two ways for us to live\u2014one is under our own authority and the other is under someone else\u2019s authority\u2014in this case, under the authority of the One Who created us\u2014the Creator of the universe. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI want to encourage listeners\u2014especially, those who would say: \u201cI\u2019ve been living based on my own desires and passions. I\u2019ve not been living according to God\u2019s design and pattern for my life.\u201d Go to FamilyLifeToday.com and read that article, \u201cTwo Ways to Live\u201d. Again, you\u2019ll find it on the left side of the screen, under the tab that says: \u201cResource Center\u201d. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWhile you\u2019re on the website, there are some other resources we have available to help you with this issue of human sexuality. There\u2019s a book called <em>Sexual Sanity for Men<\/em> and another book called <em>Sexual Sanity for Women.<\/em> Both of those books are available. You can order them from us, online, at FamilyLifeToday.com; or you can call 1-800-\u201cF\u201d as in family, \u201cL\u201d as in life, and then, the word, \u201cTODAY\u201d. We\u2019ll send those books along to you. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIf you are interested in downloading this complete message that we\u2019ve featured today\u2014we\u2019ve had to edit it for our broadcast purposes\u2014if you\u2019d like to hear the entire message, go to FamilyLifeToday.com; and you can download the mp3 file of this message.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tQuickly, we want to say, \u201cThank you,\u201d to those of you who make programs, like today\u2019s program, possible. We could not do what we do without you. You know who I\u2019m talking about. I\u2019m talking about our Legacy Partners, who provide monthly support for this ministry\u2014and those of you who will get in touch with us, from time to time\u2014you hear something on the program, or you visit our website, or somehow God just impresses it on your heart that you ought to pitch in and help out with the cost of producing and syndicating this program. We appreciate your support. In fact, this week, we\u2019d like to say, \u201cThank you,\u201d when you make a donation to support <em>FamilyLife Today <\/em>by sending you a couple of resources designed to help you deal with the pace of life\u2014the whole issue of busyness. We\u2019ll send you a CD\u2014with a conversation we had with Joanne Kraft about what she did, as a mom, to slow things down in her home\u2014and a copy of Dr. Tim Kimmel\u2019s book, <em>Little House on the Freeway.<\/em> We\u2019ll send those along if you can make a donation of, at least, $25 to help support this ministry.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tGo to FamilyLifeToday.com and click the button that says, \u201cI CARE\u201d. Make an online donation that way or call 1-800-FL-TODAY to make your donation over the phone. Ask for what we\u2019re calling \u201cThe Busyness Bundle\u201d. We\u2019ll send that out to you. You can also mail a donation to us. Our mailing address is <em>FamilyLife Today, <\/em>Box 7111, Little Rock, Arkansas. Arkansas is \u201cAR\u201d. The zip code is 72223. I just want to say, \u201cThanks,\u201d in advance, for whatever you\u2019re able to do to support the ministry. We do appreciate you.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe hope you can join us back again tomorrow when we\u2019re going to continue to address the question, \u201cDo Christians Have It Right or Wrong When It Comes to Human Sexuality?\u201d I hope you can tune in for that.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI want to thank our engineer today, Keith Lynch, and our entire broadcast production team.\u00a0 On behalf of our host, Dennis Rainey, I'm Bob Lepine.\u00a0 We will see you back next time for another edition of <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> is a production of FamilyLife of Little Rock, Arkansas.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tHelp for today.\u00a0 Hope for tomorrow.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe are so happy to provide these transcripts to you.\u00a0 However, there is a cost to produce them for our website.\u00a0 If you\u2019ve benefited from the broadcast transcripts, would you consider <a 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Lepine talks about what did, and did not happen in God's creation of man, woman, marriage, and sex.","meta_box":{"show_notes":"","transcript_url":"https:\/\/transcript.familylifetoday.com\/fl2013-09-19.pdf","transcript_content":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 When you compare thinking about human sexuality, there\u2019s a very different standard being expressed in the Bible than what we\u2019re hearing in the culture today.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t[\u201cMan on the Street\u201d interviews]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Interviewer: <\/strong>\u201cHi, can I ask you a couple of questions?\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Female:<\/strong> \u201cWhat\u2019s the question?\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Interviewer:<\/strong> \u201cWhat do you think sex is for, really?\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Male:<\/strong> [Laughter] \u201cReally?\u201d [Laughter]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Female:<\/strong> \u201cI don\u2019t know\u2014love, I guess.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Interviewer:<\/strong> \u201cCan we talk about sex?\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Male:<\/strong> \u201cThat\u2019s a dangerous topic.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Interviewer:<\/strong> \u201cLet\u2019s talk about some of the boundaries.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Female: <\/strong>\u201cSo, they\u2019re really broad. I mean, as long as you kind of agree on everything and you\u2019re in love\u2014or at least, in lust.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Interviewer: <\/strong>\u201cDo you have any moral sexual boundaries?\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Male: <\/strong>\u201cBoundaries? There are no boundaries!\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Male: <\/strong>\u201cYeah, whatever feels good!\u201d [Laughter]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Male: <\/strong>\u201cI guess if it\u2019s by consent\u201d\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Interviewer:<\/strong> \u201cSo what is sex for, really?\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Female: <\/strong>\u201cCan we talk about this?\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Male: <\/strong>\u201cAre we supposed to be\u2014?\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Female: <\/strong>\u201cTo get a man!\u201d [Laughter]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 This is <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> for Thursday, September 19<sup>th<\/sup>. Our host is the President of FamilyLife<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>, Dennis Rainey, and I'm Bob Lepine. The culture certainly doesn\u2019t have a biblical world view as it relates to human sexuality; but the truth is, in the church today, the boundaries are starting to break down, as well. We\u2019ll talk about that today. Stay tuned.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd welcome to <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>. Thanks for joining us on the Thursday edition. We\u2019re going to start on Page One of the Bible today; aren\u2019t we?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> We are. In Genesis 1:27, it says: \u201cSo God created man in His own image. In the image of God, He created him.\u201d Then, God didn\u2019t stutter. He said this: \u201cMale and female He created them.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> I don\u2019t think we realize what\u2019s at stake in the national debate around human sexuality because it\u2019s no mistake how the Bible begins and how God created men and women. He created us with two distinct sexes to represent Who He is and what He is like to all of humanity.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Yes. I had an opportunity to speak on this subject of human sexuality at Redeemer Community Church in Little Rock as a part of a sermon series. I had a chance to really dig in and address some of the places where the Bible and the culture are at odds with one another. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> I listened to the message, in its entirety. I came back to Bob and said, \u201cYou didn\u2019t waste any words.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> [Laughing] You only have so much time, and there\u2019s a lot to say!\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> And there was a lot to say; but this is a really, really helpful perspective of how, I think, our listeners can gain courage in engaging around issues in the culture today\u2014but do it in a way that has humility, that has love, that has kindness, and has a winsomeness about it that enables us to have an ongoing conversation\u2014that doesn\u2019t just occur at the water cooler at work, but may occur over a period of time with some of our office workers.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Alright; are you ready? Should we just hop in and start listening?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> Here is Bob Lepine\u2014speaking on \u201cDo Christians Have It Wrong When It Comes to Human Sexuality?\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t[Previously Recorded Message]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> If you have your Bible\u2014I hope you do\u2014I want you to turn to the very first page. I want you to turn to the book of Genesis, Chapter One. We are in a culture today that is moving farther and farther away from the clear teaching of Scripture about God\u2019s purpose and God\u2019s design for human sexuality.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThis morning, I want to speak to what I think are the two primary issues where the culture is at odds with the biblical teaching about sexuality. The first issue is\u2014we\u2019re going to talk about sexual\u2014what the Bible calls sexual immorality\u2014sex outside of the bonds of marriage. Obviously, we live in a culture where that is not the commonly accepted idea of human sexuality. The second thing we\u2019re going to look at is what the Bible has to say about homosexual acts. Again, the Bible is clear on this; and the culture thinks it knows better than the Bible. So, these are the two big areas where I think the Bible and the culture are at odds. That\u2019s what we\u2019re going to talk about this morning. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThe truth is, the culture has already won the argument, on both of these issues, with most people. We just have to acknowledge that we live in a day where we hold the minority view. You undoubtedly realize that if you believe that sex should be reserved for a man and a woman in a committed, monogamous relationship for a lifetime, then you are out-of-step with what most people in the culture believe. I\u2019m sure you realize that if you believe that homosexuality is morally wrong or unnatural, then you have, over the last five years, moved\u2014in this culture\u2014from being a part of the majority to being in the minority.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThe culture is not moving in the direction of the Bible on this subject. The culture is moving in the opposite direction. It is aggressively rejecting and declaring its independence from biblical teaching in the area of human sexuality. I think it\u2019s important for us, before we get too much into the immorality side of human sexuality\u2014I think we have to look at the morality side. What is it that God had in mind when He invented human sexuality in the first place?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tFor some of you, that statement was just revolutionary: \u201cGod invented human sexuality.\u201d Verses 27 and 28 of Genesis 1: \u201cAnd God created man in His own image. In the image of God, He created him; male and female He created them. And God blessed them; and God said to them, \u2018Be fruitful and multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea and the birds of the heavens and over everything that moves on the earth.\u2019\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tLet\u2019s just stop there. I want to make six observations about those two verses, related to the issue of human sexuality. First of all, when God created man, as male and female\u2014in that act\u2014He was creating sexuality. It\u2019s His design; it\u2019s His idea. The second idea\u2014our sexuality is connected to the fact that we are the same species but different in gender. To put it another way, in order to have sexuality, as God intends for it, you have to have both a man and a woman.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tNotice, too, that the very first instruction\u2014and here is my third observation\u2014the very first instruction God gives to the man and the woman, in Genesis 1, is: \u201cBe fruitful and multiply.\u201d The command to \u201cbe fruitful and multiply\u201d involves, by God\u2019s design, sexual engagement, on our part. That engagement, by the way, comes and it says: \u201cGod blessed them and God said to them, \u2018Be fruitful and multiply.\u2019\u201d So part of the blessing of God is this command that they be engaged, sexually, with one another. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBy the way, the connection between sexuality and repopulation\u2014we have to acknowledge that there is a connection there. It\u2019s not that God did not have any other way to repopulate. He could have taken lots of dust forms and breathed life into them; He could have taken lots of ribs out of lots of people and made new people. He didn\u2019t. He said, \u201cThis is how repopulation is going to happen.\u201d Their engagement with one another is high on His priority list. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe should see that there is a connection between sexuality and having and raising children. In some cases\u2014and it\u2019s mysterious to us as to why\u2014a man and a woman come together in marriage and are unable to conceive. I don\u2019t know why that happens, but God\u2019s design is that a man and a woman would come together and they\u2019d be able to bear children. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThere\u2019s nothing in the design that indicates that it\u2019s supposed to work with a man and a man coming together to have kids\u2014or a woman and woman. You say, \u201cWell, science can do this and that.\u201d Yes, but what science can\u2019t do is take the seed of a man and the seed of a man and make a baby. Science cannot take the egg of a woman and the egg of a woman and make a baby; okay?\u2014because God\u2019s design is a male and female coming together to make children, which is the point here. In order to have biological children, by the means that God designed, you need a man and a woman.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSo, in summary, God made us male and female. Our sexual differences are built into that. His gift of sexuality is a <em>good <\/em>gift. It\u2019s connected to conceiving, and bearing children, and raising them. Now, we\u2019re going to jump from Genesis 1\u2014one whole chapter\u2014to Genesis 2. We\u2019re going to zoom in with God, at the end of Genesis 2, and we are going to see more of what He had to say about the creation of the man and the woman on the sixth day of creation.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tLook at Verse 20 of Genesis 2. You remember that the man has given the names to all of the livestock, to all of the birds of the heavens, to every beast of the field\u2014but \u201cfor Adam there was not found a helper fit for him.\u201d Now I have to just stop right here because I looked up that word, \u201cfit\u201d, in the original language. I wanted to know, \u201cWhat does that mean\u2014\u2018fit\u2019?\u201d Well, it\u2019s <em>neged<\/em>\u2014the word\u2014not \u201cnaked\u201d\u2014but <em>neged<\/em>; okay?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<em>Neged <\/em>is a word that means: \u201cfacing, or toward, or corresponding to\u201d.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIn other words, there is no creature that God has created that Adam can face or that Adam can correspond to. There is a hint of sexuality in that fitting together. This is a reference to the fact that the man and the woman are designed to fit together\u2014to complement, to correspond. That\u2019s not true of men and men. That\u2019s not true of women and women. You stand them\u2014face to face\u2014they don\u2019t <em>fit<\/em>.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tVerse 21: \u201cSo the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall on the man and while he slept, He took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh. The rib that the Lord God had taken from the man, He made into a woman and brought her to the man. The man said, \u2018This at last is bone of my bones, flesh of my flesh. She shall be called \u2018woman,\u2019 for she is taken out of man.\u201d Now, there\u2019s a lot in that, but all I want you to see is that when God fashioned the woman to be a complement to the man, He was not yet done with the crescendo of His creation. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIt is not until He takes the man and the woman that He has created and He puts them back together and \u201cthe two become one flesh\u201d\u2014in that act of marriage and sexuality\u2014we arrive at the summit. When God reaches the <em>pinnacle<\/em> of creation, it\u2019s that point in which human sexuality is experienced. He brings the two back together in that pinnacle. It says: \u201cTherefore, a man leaves his father and mother and holds fast to his wife.\u201d He can\u2019t be talking about Adam and Eve right here, because Adam and Eve don\u2019t have a father and mother. He\u2019s talking about generally\u2014He\u2019s looking forward so men leave father and mother and cleave to wife\u2014the two become \u201cone flesh\u201d\u2014joined together in that summit.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI think there\u2019s something central and profound in the sexual act, as a part of marriage, as designed by God. It\u2019s no wonder, as a result of that, that Satan would take delight in trying to undermine, pervert, and destroy our human sexuality. Is it any wonder that this <em>is <\/em>the big deal in the culture?\u2014because, if Satan wants to attack, he\u2019s going to attack at the headwaters\u2014and <em>this is it.<\/em> God designed sex to happen inside of marriage for, at least, a few reasons.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tNumber one: It draws us closer in union to one another. God wants the husband and wife to be <em>one<\/em>. The sexual act is a part of\u2014the recurring, ongoing participation in sex is a part of\u2014the tool\u2014the instrument that God uses so that we can experience a closer, richer, deeper relationship with one another. He also wants to teach us more about the relationship between the Father, the Son, and the Spirit in the Trinity. There is oneness within the Trinity\u2014within that relationship. There are three persons, but they are one. In marriage, there are two persons; but they become one. We learn something about the intimacy that God enjoys within the context of the Trinity\u2014the intimacy that the Father has with the Son, and the Son with the Spirit, and the Spirit with the Father and the Son. We learn about that when we experience a taste of it in the oneness that we enjoy as husband and wife\u2014which is not limited to our sexuality\u2014but is expressed in a unique way in our sexuality.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIt also teaches us something about the nature of real love because, in order for our sexuality to be expressed in the way that God intended it, the key aspect needs to be an unselfish sexuality. Husbands and wives, who learn God\u2019s design for sexuality, learn that it requires\u2014not a selfish approach to sexuality\u2014but a giving approach\u2014an unselfish approach. Finally, we get, as Paul says in Ephesians, Chapter 5, we get a picture of the relationship between Christ and the Church when we see the husband and wife relationship. Our sexuality is tied to that. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSo, \u201cWhy is it that God says sex should not happen outside of the bonds of marriage?\u201d\u2014Because, in a marriage relationship, we enter into a covenant relationship with one another. In that covenant, we make promises to one another. The promises are promises about abiding with one another in all kinds of settings\u2014creating a place of security, loving one another\u2014no matter what is going on\u2014all the way to the finish line. That\u2019s the covenant promise. God says sex should not happen outside of that promise being in place because, when sex happens outside of that promise being in place, you may experience physical pleasure, but there will be an emptiness\u2014there will be an aching in your soul. There is something missing. There is a defrauding. There\u2019s hollowness to the sexuality that you\u2019re experiencing because it\u2019s <em>not<\/em> the culmination of the promise. It\u2019s happening apart from the promise.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tGod\u2019s covenant promise, to us, is mirrored in the covenant promise of marriage. That\u2019s why we say to one another when we get married, \u201c\u2026for better or for worse, in sickness and in health, for richer or poorer,\u201d\u2014\u201cNo matter what, until death parts us, I\u2019m here,\u201d\u2014and I\u2019m not just \u201chere,\u201d but, \u201cI will love you.\u201d When we make that promise to one another, we are mirroring the promise that God makes to us when He comes to us and adopts us into His family and unites Himself to us in Christ. So sex should not happen outside of marriage, in part, because it should not happen outside the bonds of that covenant. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSecondly, if our sexual union should produce offspring, it is best for the offspring that they grow up in a relationship\u2014in the bonds of a covenant relationship between a husband and a wife who are loving one another and who are together. If a child is growing up in a setting where there is one parent or where two parents are not bound together in covenant love with one another, that child is missing something.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tGenesis 2 ends with this glorious declaration that the husband and wife come together. The man leaves father and mother and cleaves to his wife\u2014the two become one flesh. Then it says, \u201cThe man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed.\u201d That\u2019s an odd thing for the writer to throw in here. \u201cWhy does He bring up their nakedness and why does He say they\u2019re not ashamed?\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWell, we\u2019re going to find out because, in just a few verses, we\u2019re going to see how that\u2019s undermined. He wants to show the right picture in the garden\u2014is the man and the woman coming together, there\u2019s the sexual union taking place, they are transparent with one another, there is no shame, they\u2019re protected, and they feel safe. Nothing is broken yet. But in Genesis 3, when they declare their independence from God\u2014when they say, \u201cI don\u2019t need God,\u201d there\u2019s something significant that happens. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tYou know the account of the Fall\u2014we won\u2019t go through that\u2014the first six verses of Genesis, Chapter 3\u2014where the serpent comes to the woman, and he tempts her. She takes the fruit, and she eats it, and gives it to her covenant partner who is with her. He eats it. The two of them have declared their rebellion against God, in that moment. By the way, every one of us, ever since then, has followed that pattern. We have all declared our own independence against God. Their act of rebellion is complete; and what is the next thing that happens, after Adam eats it, in verse 7? \u201cThen the eyes of both were opened and they knew that they were naked. They sewed fig leaves together and made themselves loincloths.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWhat God had brought together in Genesis 2\u2014the pinnacle of His creative work\u2014joining the man and the woman together in marriage and uniting them in one flesh\u2014now starts to unravel. Suddenly, what had been without shame before\u2014all of a sudden, there is a sense of shame. This is directly related to their sexuality in their marital union. The first point of attack, for the enemy, is the point of attack of marriage\u2014dividing the man and the woman. The first thing they realize, after their rebellion, is that what God had made perfect has now become imperfect. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tHere is, maybe, the most significant thing I\u2019m going to say to you all morning; okay? So, if you\u2019ve been kind of glazing over or uncomfortable with any of this, now is the time to lock-in. In the midst of all of the cultural noise and confusion about sexuality, here\u2019s what the Bible says is the condition of our sexuality\u2014we are all fallen, broken people. In our fallenness and in our brokenness, we are all sexually-broken. In the area of human sexuality, every one of us has disordered and ungodly sexual desire. It\u2019s because of our rebellion against God.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe\u2019re all in the same room\u2014in the same boat together. Your disordered sexual desire and my disordered sexual desire may be two different expressions of it, but everybody in the room has got it. Anytime we engage in any kind of passion-stirring sexual behavior, outside of marriage, we are declaring to God that we know better about what\u2019s good for us than He knows. That\u2019s why sexual behavior, outside of marriage, is called \u201csinful\u201d in the Bible because it is, essentially, saying to God, \u201cI\u2019m going to do what I think is best regardless of what you have said.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSo, when God says: \u201cLook, I\u2019ve got a gift for you. Here\u2019s the gift\u2014only, use it this way; and it\u2019ll be a great blessing for you.\u201d You say: \u201cYeah, yeah. I want to use it over here!\u201d\u00a0 What you\u2019re saying to God, when you do that\u2014is you are saying, \u201cI know better than you, God.\u201d That\u2019s the sinfulness of sexual expression. Do you understand that? When we talk about sexual sin, what we\u2019re really saying is that your choice to engage in sexual behavior\u2014sexual activity\u2014outside of the bounds God has created for it, is really a statement to God that you\u2019re going to do it your way. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t[Studio]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Well, you can tell I was kind of talking fast there. There\u2019s a lot to say on this subject. We\u2019ll have a chance to hear the rest of this message this week. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> I thought you did a great job covering a really tough subject today. You know, as you were talking, I couldn\u2019t help but think about John, Chapter 8, and the woman who was caught in adultery. How the Pharisees\u2014the religious community\u2014all had stones, where they were about to stone her. Jesus walked up and asked the question, \u201cWho among you is without sin?\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> Of course, it says: \u201cOne by one, they dropped their stones and left. Jesus said to the woman, \u2018Neither do I condemn you either. Go and sin no more.\u2019\u201d It wasn\u2019t just a lavish grace that said, \u201cKeep on keeping on!\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> It was a lavish grace that invited her into real life. That\u2019s what we\u2019re to do, as His ambassadors\u2014is to so represent Christ that people who are caught in all kinds of sin can be invited out by someone who is winsome, loving, gracious, humble\u2014and admits their own brokenness in a generation of broken people and says: \u201cYou know what? Let me tell you where I found life! Let me tell you Who has brought adventure to my soul and Who has given me a perspective of life that really is worth me surrendering my life to Him,\u201d\u2014which is what you talked about at the end, Bob. You talked about people needing to do what Jesus Christ called them to do.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Yes, and if folks will go to our website, at FamilyLifeToday.com, over on the left side of the screen, where it says, \u201cResource Center\u201d, under that heading, there\u2019s a tab that says, \u201cTwo Ways to Live\u201d. It really does spell out that there are two ways for us to live\u2014one is under our own authority and the other is under someone else\u2019s authority\u2014in this case, under the authority of the One Who created us\u2014the Creator of the universe. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI want to encourage listeners\u2014especially, those who would say: \u201cI\u2019ve been living based on my own desires and passions. I\u2019ve not been living according to God\u2019s design and pattern for my life.\u201d Go to FamilyLifeToday.com and read that article, \u201cTwo Ways to Live\u201d. Again, you\u2019ll find it on the left side of the screen, under the tab that says: \u201cResource Center\u201d. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWhile you\u2019re on the website, there are some other resources we have available to help you with this issue of human sexuality. There\u2019s a book called <em>Sexual Sanity for Men<\/em> and another book called <em>Sexual Sanity for Women.<\/em> Both of those books are available. You can order them from us, online, at FamilyLifeToday.com; or you can call 1-800-\u201cF\u201d as in family, \u201cL\u201d as in life, and then, the word, \u201cTODAY\u201d. We\u2019ll send those books along to you. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIf you are interested in downloading this complete message that we\u2019ve featured today\u2014we\u2019ve had to edit it for our broadcast purposes\u2014if you\u2019d like to hear the entire message, go to FamilyLifeToday.com; and you can download the mp3 file of this message.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tQuickly, we want to say, \u201cThank you,\u201d to those of you who make programs, like today\u2019s program, possible. We could not do what we do without you. You know who I\u2019m talking about. I\u2019m talking about our Legacy Partners, who provide monthly support for this ministry\u2014and those of you who will get in touch with us, from time to time\u2014you hear something on the program, or you visit our website, or somehow God just impresses it on your heart that you ought to pitch in and help out with the cost of producing and syndicating this program. We appreciate your support. 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