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What Did Jesus Say about Sex?
by John Ortberg
Text: Matthew 5:27-30
Topic: How to achieve sexual righteousness
Big Idea: Maintaining five basic commitments will safeguard sexual righteousness.
Keywords: Morality; Purity; Sex
We must acknowledge and confess our sexual fallenness.
- Lust is as much a sexual sin as adultery.
- All people have been affected by sexual fallenness.
Accept God's gift of human sexuality.
- Sexuality is a created gift from God.
- Righteousness is the presence of right attitudes about that gift.
Keep God's standards of purity.
- Restrict sex to the permanent commitment of marriage.
- Singles have a unique struggle in this area.
Fulfill the marital sexual relationship.
- The marital sexual relationship is a God-ordained duty to one another.
- Fulfilling sexual relationships take effort.
- Illustration: Ortberg shares the story of disastrous events from his own honeymoon, illustrating his naïve assumption that the marital sexual relationship comes easily.
- Sexual relationships often need healing before finding fulfillment.
Teach your children godly sexuality.
- God designed the family as the primary place for sexual education.
- Awkwardness cannot prevent faithful training.
- Illustration: Ortberg humorously illustrates how his grandparent's hesitation at training their son led to his dad's misunderstanding of sexual righteousness.
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