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Published: Feb. 14, 2016, 4:10 p.m.

Message Title:\xa0 \u201cSex\u201d

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An \u201cABSITNENCE = APPROVAL\u201d understanding

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Where GOD wants us to see PARAMETERS FOR PROTECTION, RELIGION wants us to see PARAMETERS FROM PUNISHMENT.

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But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Romans 5:8 (NIV)

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A \u201cDO WHAT YOU FEEL\u201d mentality

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Seek\xa0the\xa0Lord\xa0while he may be found;\xa0call on him while he is near. \xa0Let the wicked forsake\xa0their ways and the unrighteous their thoughts. Let them turn\xa0to the\xa0Lord, and he will have mercy on them, and to our God, for he will freely pardon. Isaiah 55:6-9 (NIV)

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\u201cFor my thoughts\xa0are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,\u201d declares the\xa0Lord. \u201cAs the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. Isaiah 55:6-9 (NIV)

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So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. \xa0For the flesh desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh\u2026 Galatians 5:15-18 (NIV)

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\u2026You have no obligation to do what your sinful nature urges you to do. Romans 8:12 (NLT)

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A \u201cSHAME IS ALL AROUND ME\u201d perspective\xa0

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So now there is no condemnation for those who belong to Christ Jesus.\xa0 And because you belong to him, the power\xa0of the life-giving Spirit has freed you\xa0from the power of sin that leads to death. Romans 8:1-2 (NLT)

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God created Sex

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The\xa0Lord\xa0God said, \u201cIt is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.\u201d Genesis 2:18-25 (NIV)

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\u2026But for Adam\xa0no suitable helper\xa0was found.\xa0 So the\xa0Lord\xa0God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep;\xa0and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man\u2019s ribs\xa0and then closed up the place with flesh.\xa0 Then the\xa0Lord\xa0God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man. Genesis 2:18-25 (NIV)

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The man said, \u201cThis is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called\xa0\u2018woman,\u2019 for she was taken out of man.\u201d Genesis 2:18-25 (NIV)

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That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united\xa0to his wife, and they become one flesh. \xa0Adam and his wife were both naked,\xa0and they felt no shame. Genesis 2:18-25 (NIV)\xa0

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Eden = pleasure and delight

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God set\xa0parameters\xa0for our protection\xa0

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Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge\xa0the sexually immoral and adulterous. Hebrews 13:4 (ESV)\xa0

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God set parameters on sex\u2026 but they are wide parameters

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God designed it to make marriage more dynamic.

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Sex is a thermostat and a thermometer of your marriage.

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Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ. Ephesians 5:21-31

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Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands\xa0as you do to the Lord.\xa0 For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church,\xa0his body, of which he is the Savior.\xa0 Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands\xa0in everything. Ephesians 5:21-31\xa0

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Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her\xa0to make her holy,\xa0cleansing\xa0her by the washing\xa0with water through the word, and to present her to himself\xa0as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless.\xa0 In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself\u2026\xa0\u201cFor this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.\u201d Ephesians 5:21-31

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Men = sex stimulate ours emotions

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Women = emotion stimulates sex

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Men = visually responsive

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Women = relationally responsive

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Men = emotionally modest

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Women = physically modest

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Men = compartmental

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Women = inclusive

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Sex puts us in touch with a world we aren\u2019t naturally in touch with.\xa0

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This is a profound mystery\u2014but I am talking about Christ and the church. Ephesians 5:32 (NIV)

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1. A Commitment to PURITY.
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Pure: free\xa0from\xa0anything\xa0of\xa0a\xa0different,\xa0inferior,\xa0or\xa0contaminating\xa0kind; unmodified

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The goal of saving sex for marriage has never been about saving your virginity\u2026 it\u2019s always been about pursuing purity.

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1. A Commitment to INTIMACY
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