3. Killing Lust with the Gospel
Colossians 3:5 Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.
1 Corinthians 6:9-7:5

4. Assumption: sex is just an appetite, like eating.
Cultural Sexual Ethic
Three Questions:
Is sex desirable?
Is sex consensual?
Is sex safe?
Assumption: sex is just an appetite, like eating.

5. Biblical Sexual Ethic
Sex is a gift to be used to celebrate, renew, and strengthen a covenant.
Adultery – Sex outside a covenant.
Sexual Immorality – Sex without a covenant.
Lust – strong desire for sex regardless of any covenant.

6. Bible is not Sexual Repressed
Genesis 2:24
Proverbs 5:18-19
Song of Solomon

7. “We aren’t married but we are committed.”
Cultural Sexual Ethic
Commodity – Sex is what you want.
Currency – Sex will get you what you want.
“We aren’t married but we are committed.”
How do you define commitment?
Sex minus a covenant makes it a tryout.

8. Sex without a covenant is destructive.
1 Corinthians 6:16-17
Matthew 5:27-30

9. Gospel Hope – Ephesians 5 Jesus Justifies his Bride
Jesus knew his bride and entered into a covenant with her anyway.
He knows your sexual brokenness and loves you anyway!

10. Gospel Hope – Ephesians 5 Jesus Sanctifies his Bride
Jesus washes his bride to make her pure and radiant
He sees you as he will make you – pure and radiant.

11. Gospel Faith – Our Response
John 8
Make Jesus the lover of your soul.
Leave sexual immorality behind.
Single: sex does not complete you, Jesus does (Paul 1 Cor. 7:8-9)
Single (but burning): Let Jesus prepare you for a covenant.
Married: use sex to strengthen and renew your covenant (1 Cor. 7)