Temptation to be Loved

“The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is to love and be loved in return”. We all just want to be loved. But sometimes, we look for love in the wrong places. Often our world equates love with sex. In order to be really loved, you’ve got to be doing it as often as possible! 25% of Australian teenagers have had sexual intercourse by the time they turn 16 and 40% of 16 year old boys have deliberately looked for sex websites. This means that there is a great temptation for Christian teenagers to look for love in the wrong place.

Is God against sex? No not at all, he invented it! But God is against sex being done the wrong way, outside of His plans for it. The Bible calls this sexual immorality. In Corinth there was a church 2000 years ago that had people known for bizarre, Jerry-Springer style sexual immorality: A man hooked up with his dad’s wife.

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Sex and Worship

Overcoming Sexual Sin, is a sermon by Mark Driscoll. It’s not just for young single Christian guys. It’s for old or young, male or female, Christian or non-Christian. In it Driscoll does more than just deal with the question of how to deal with sexual temptation. He helpfully shows how people are idolaters when they replace worship of the creator for worship of his creation. He then argues that sex is one of the key things that people worship. Check his notes or the sermon for more.

He finished with 11 points on how the Christian can replace the desire to worship sex with a deeper passion to worship the Creator: Jesus.

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