I Know | Part 2

In Genesis, God divinely creates human beings institutes marriage and sex. To ‘know’ someone was the description of a sexually intimate act and was not casual but sacred and committed.

Knowing this, we can understand how we should conduct ourselves in such an individualised and over sexualised society. We consider the changing attitudes towards sex in culture and how effectively we, as a church community, can respond in a biblical manner of surrender, self-sacrifice, faithfulness and holiness - whether married or single!

In this series we aim we want to provide a biblical, positive outlook of the context for sex and show how this is a great thing for humanity in both marriage and singleness. To give a clear biblical picture for God’s divine intention for sex and relationships and to teach this as the foundation for our church community.

Transcript

4. SO NOW YOU KNOW WHAT NOW?
5. COULD WE BE HONEST ABOUT SEX?
6. SEX IS GREAT… GET SOME... JUST DON’T HURT ANYONE… UNLESS THEY WANT TO BE HURT… I MEAN IF THAT’S YOUR THING GO FOR IT…
7. “All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are helpful. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be dominated by anything. 13“Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food”—and God will destroy both one and the other. 1 Corinthians 6:12–13
8. NATSAL, THE NATIONAL SURVEY OF SEXUAL ATTITUDES AND LIFESTYLES THE BRITISH NATIONAL SURVEYS OF SEXUAL ATTITUDES AND LIFESTYLES ARE AMONG THE LARGEST AND MOST DETAILED SCIENTIFIC STUDIES OF SEXUAL BEHAVIOUR IN THE WORLD. NATSAL 1 1990–1991 NATSAL 2 1999–2001 NATSAL 3 2010–2012
9. IN NATSAL 1 1990 THE AVERAGE TIMES OF SEX IN A FOUR WEEK PERIOD FOR A HETEROSEXUAL WAS 5 IN NATSAL 2 2000 IT WAS 4 IN NATSAL 3 2010 IT WAS 3
10. 'THE NATION HAS LOST SOME OF ITS SEXUAL SWAGGER’
11. SEX IS GREAT… GET SOME... JUST DON’T HURT ANYONE… UNLESS THEY WANT TO BE HURT… I MEAN IF THAT’S YOUR THING GO FOR IT…
12. SEX IS GREAT… GET MARRIED… AND FOR GOODNESS SAKE DON’T GET CAUGHT HAVING SEX BEFORE YOU DO…
13. Then I heard what sounded like a great multitude, like the roar of rushing waters and like loud peals of thunder, shouting: “Hallelujah! For our Lord God Almighty reigns. Let us rejoice and be glad and give him glory! For the wedding of the Lamb has come, and his bride has made herself ready. Fine linen, bright and clean, was given her to wear.” Revelation 19:6–8
14. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known. 1 Corinthians 13:12
15. But he who is joined to the Lord becomes one spirit with him. 1 Corinthians 6:17
16. CAN WE BE HONEST ABOUT SEX? CAN WE SORT OURSELVES OUT?
17. What have I to do with judging outsiders? Is it not those inside the church whom you are to judge? 1 Corinthians 5:12
18. CAN WE BE HONEST ABOUT SEX? CAN WE SORT OURSELVES OUT? CAN WE RETURN TO THE GOSPEL?
19. AS FOR ME AND MY HOUSE, GOD WILL SERVE IT…
20. And whoever does not take his cross and follow me is not worthy of me. Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it. Matthew 10:38–39
21. For the Christians are distinguished from other men neither by country, nor language, nor the customs which they observe. For they neither inhabit cities of their own, nor employ a peculiar form of speech, nor lead a life which is marked out by any singularity. The course of conduct which they follow has not been devised by any speculation or deliberation of inquisitive men; nor do they, like some, proclaim themselves the advocates of any merely human doctrines.
22. But, inhabiting Greek as well as barbarian cities, according as the lot of each of them has determined, and following the customs of the natives in respect to clothing, food, and the rest of their ordinary conduct, they display to us their wonderful and confessedly striking method of life. They dwell in their own countries, but simply as sojourners. As citizens, they share in all things with others, and yet endure all things as if foreigners. Every foreign land is to them as their native country, and every land of their birth as a land of strangers. They marry, as do all [others]; they beget children; but they do not destroy their offspring. They have a common table, but not a common bed.