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• Illustration: Using an extended list of situations and consequences, Ortberg outlines the massive impact that sex has had on our culture.
  Transition: The question is, Why?

• Sex is more than a physical act involving body parts and nerve endings.
• What goes on with your body is inextricably linked to your soul.
• God, as a Trinity, exists as a perfect relationship; we are created in God's image.
• Genesis 1:27; 2:21–24

• Many people engage in premarital sex out of a need for connection—a fear of being alone.
  - Illustration: G.K. Chesterton said, "Every man who knocks on the door of a brothel is really looking for God."
• In the end, sexual immorality is so destructive because we leave little pieces of our soul in every bed we occupy.
  -Illustration: Jim Detmer compares sexual immorality to getting your tongue stuck to a frozen pipe and then walking away.
• God is not opposed to pleasure and sex because he created them; however, he does know the possible consequences.
  - 1 Corinthians 6:13b–20

• Sexual immorality will damage you, no matter how much you try to cover it up.
• All of us are confronted with a choice: Will I honor God's design for sexuality?

• Those who say, "marriage is just a piece of paper," are wrong.
  - Illustration: Ortberg describes three situations where "just a piece of paper" is very important, for example: a paycheck and a diploma.
• Those who say, "I don't feel any guilt or shame," are either living in denial or have lost the ability to feel guilt or shame.
• Those who say, "Staying pure is too hard," are incorrect; it has been done by millions of people for thousands of years.

• Choose to be sexually pure because sex is not about body parts and nerve endings; it's about your soul.