SHOWNOTES FOR EPISODE 036
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1. We fill in the blanks – We can see what we would like and imagine it with our minds. We only have part of the picture about sexuality. We want the truth. We want to know answers, but we go to bad sources to get understanding.
2. Our sin nature wants us to cross lines – Our sin nature alone moves us to rebel against God. It encourages us to be selfish and lustful.
3. Our flesh lies to us – Satan’s lie is that we are missing something great. If we cross a line, we will somehow be fulfilled.
4. We have deeper needs we are trying to meet – We are lonely, so we reach out. We feel rejected, so we reach out. We are looking for value and acceptance, and we reach out. We seek out to forbidden things to medicate our pain and help with our wounds.
5. We believe the lies of our culture, media, and Hollywood – Popular culture tells us that the forbidden is wonderful, perfect, adventurous. It tells us that all sex is the main thing. It feeds us lies about what marriage is all about. Culture makes monogamy and sexual purity prudish and boring.
6. Our desire for beauty has been perverted – We have a deep desire to recognize beauty and value in God’s creation and in people. But we have perverted that. We have learned to associate beauty with sexual pleasure. Instead seeing God’s glory and worshipping Him, we seek out our own lustful pleasures and worship false idols.
7. Legalism – Some of us have been forced to live by very strict rules. We feel like our freedoms have been restricted and we rebel. We have been told that sex is bad, and it makes us want it more. We are shamed for thinking normal sexual thoughts and doing for our hormones in a legalistic culture. It sometimes makes us want the forbidden more.
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Background – Joe Little “Crimson Red”
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