The Sex Talk
10 Sex Statistics
* There is a “sex recession” right now
* In January 2024, a top pornography site hosted 11.9 billion visits
* Yearly, the time spent viewing pornography adds up to a total of 456,000yrs!
* Pornography has surpassed finances as the #1 reason for divorce
* The average age of 1st time viewing pornography is 11
* 62% of teens & young adults have RECEIVED a sexually explicit image & 41% have SENT one
* Every 74 seconds, someone in the US is sexually assaulted
* 70%+ of couples live together before marriage
* 91% of young adult women believe cheating is at least somewhat common
* 10% of US men say that having sex with another woman is not cheating
Matthew 19:8 NIV
“But it was not this way from the beginning.”
The Sex Talk
1. Sex is GOOD!
Genesis 1:27-28, 31 NIV
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.
Song of Solomon 7:6-9 NLT
Oh, how beautiful you are! How pleasing, my love, how full of delights! You are slender like a palm tree, and your breasts are like its clusters of fruit. I said, "I will climb the palm tree and take hold of its fruit." May your breasts be like grape clusters, and the fragrance of your breath like apples. May your kisses be as exciting as the best wine, flowing gently over lips and teeth.
We will never understand God’s NO to sex outside of marriage until we understand God’s resounding YES to sex inside marriage!
It IS sin to…
* lust after someone
* fantasize about having sex with someone who’s not your spouse
* cross physical lines outside of marriage
It is NOT sin to…
* be attracted to someone or notice they are good looking
* have a desire to have sex
* anticipate and be excited about having sex in marriage
The Sex Talk
1. Sex is GOOD!
2. Sex is More than Skin on Skin
Genesis 4:1 NKJV
Now Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and bore Cain.
YADA // Hebrew // to know, to be known, and to be deeply respected
Three-Dimensional Sex
1. Visual - Image
2. Sensational - Pleasure
3. Emotional-Spiritual - Intimacy
Two-Dimensional Sex
1. Visual - Image
2. Sensational - Pleasure
What we’re hungry for is INTIMACY, but what we’re settling for is INTENSITY.
Sex was never meant to be the SEARCH for something missing.
Sex was meant to be the CELEBRATION of something found.
The Sex Talk
1. Sex is GOOD!
2. Sex is More than Skin on Skin
3. Satan Wants to Use Sex to Ruin Your Life
Romans 6:19 NIV
Just as you used to offer yourselves as slaves to impurity and to ever-increasing wickedness, so now offer yourselves as slaves to righteousness leading to holiness.
1 Corinthians 6:18-20 NIV
Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a person commits are outside the body, but whoever sins sexually, sins against their own body. Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies.
“Every man who knocks on the door of a brothel is looking for God.”
– G.K. Chesterton
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