Beautiful Resistance: It's Time to Have the Talk - Part 1
January 15, 2023


1 Corinthians 6:9–11 (NIV) Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor men who have sex with men nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

Three Messages Culture Gives Us about Sex:
· Sex is

a big deal
· Sex is a big deal
· Sex is a deal

Genesis 1:26–28, 31 (NIV) Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.” So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them. God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it.” … God saw all that he had made, and it was very good.

God

sex with a divine :
Sex is God’s design for of more people. (Genesis 1:28)
Sex is the of marriage. (Genesis 2:24-25)
Sex is an act of for human enjoyment. (Proverbs 5:18-19)
Sex is an of what Jesus did for us. (Ephesians 5:31-32)