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Holy Sex
Part 1

2. If God created sex as a gift to married people why is sex such a struggle?

3. 1,000 Years of History
Necessary Evil – Roman Catholic

4. Blessed in marriage – Protestant
1,000 Years of History
Necessary Evil – Roman Catholic
Blessed in marriage – Protestant

5. Wonderful gift – Moderns
1,000 Years of History
Necessary Evil – Roman Catholic
Blessed in marriage – Protestant
Wonderful gift – Moderns

6. 1,000 Years of History META-SEX Necessary Evil – Roman Catholic
Blessed in marriage – Protestant
Wonderful gift – Moderns
META-SEX

7. God designed sex to be an encounter with the Divine.

8. Sex as Holy
Created by a Holy God

9. Sex as Holy
Created by a Holy God
Holy by design

10. Sex as Holy
Created by a Holy God
Holy by design
Specific purposes

11. Specific Purposes of Sex
Create the “one flesh” experience
Genesis 1:24

12. Specific Purposes of Sex
Create the “one flesh” experience
Represent the Christ / Church relationship
Ephesians 5:31-32

13. Specific Purposes of Sex
Create the “one flesh” experience
Represent the Christ / Church relationship
Procreation
Genesis 1:28

14. Specific Purposes of Sex
Create the “one flesh” experience
Represent the Christ / Church relationship
Procreation
For worship
I Thessalonians 5:18

15. “We shouldn’t be afraid to discuss what God wasn’t ashamed to create” - Dr. A. Gardner “Sacred Sex” p. 15

16. It is only in the sexual union of both male and female that the full image of God is represented.

17. God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.
- Genesis 1:27

18. God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.
- Genesis 1:27

19. If “oneness” = Image of God

20. If “oneness” = Image of God And sex = Oneness in marriage

21. If. “oneness”. = Image of God And sex. = Oneness in marriage Then sex
If “oneness” = Image of God And sex = Oneness in marriage Then sex = Image

22. It’s not how intensely you feel in human sexuality, it’s what the total experience is supposed to represent.

23. How Does This Truth Serve Us?

24. How Does it Serve us?
Reveals

25. How Does it Serve us?
Reveals
Frees

26. How Does it Serve us?
Reveals
Frees
Opens

27. NEXT LESSON Is All Sex Holy?