Love, Sex, and Lasting Relationships 05

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Wake Up World! Theres a Better Way To
do Relationships

• Ephesians 511-14

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Where there is no revelation, the people cast
off restraint but blessed is he who keeps the
law

• Proverbs 2918 (NIV)

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I Will Always Remember
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Why is Sex Such Serious Business to God?

• Ephesians 511-14

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The Command

• And do not participate in the unfruitful deeds of
  darkness, but instead even expose them
• Ephesians 511 (NASB)

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The Reason

• for it is disgraceful even to speak of the
  things which are done by them in secret.
• Ephesians 512 (NASB)

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The Explanation

• But all things become visible when they are
  exposed by the light, for everything that becomes
  visible is light.
• Ephesians 513 (NASB)

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The Invitation

• For this reason it says, Awake, sleeper, and
  arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on
  you.
• Ephesians 512 (NASB)

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• Just as light silently reveals all things for
  what they really are so it is when Gods people
  model purity and love in relationships they
  expose sexual immorality for what it really is .
  . . lustful, destructive, self-worship.

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Answering Gods Call to The Second Sexual
Revolution
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• 1. A revolutionary way to about human
  sexuality.

THINK
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• 1. A revolutionary way to about human
  sexuality.
• Sex is sacred. Hebrews 134

THINK
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Hebrews 134 (NASB)

• Marriage is to be held in honor among all, and
  the marriage bed is to be undefiled for
  fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

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• 1. A revolutionary way to THINK about human
  sexuality.
• Sex is sacred. Hebrews 134
• Sex is serious. 1 Corinthians 615-20

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1 Corinthians 615-20 (NASB)

• 15Do you not know that your bodies are members of
  Christ? Shall I then take away the members of
  Christ and make them members of a prostitute?
  May it never be!

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1 Corinthians 615-20 (NASB)

• 16Or do you not know that the one who joins
  himself to a prostitute is one body with her?
  For He says, The two shall become one flesh.
• 17But the one who joins himself to the Lord is
  one spirit with Him.

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1 Corinthians 615-20 (NASB)

• 18Flee immorality. Every other sin that a man
  commits is outside the body, but the immoral man
  sins against his own body.

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1 Corinthians 615-20 (NASB)

• 19Or do you not know that your body is a temple
  of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have
  from God, and that you are not your own?

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1 Corinthians 615-20 (NASB)

• 20For you have been bought with a price
  therefore glorify God in your body.

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• 2. A revolutionary way to the
  opposite sex.

ATTRACT
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• 2. A revolutionary way to the
  opposite sex.
• Inward character. 1 Peter 33-4

ATTRACT
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• 2. A revolutionary way to the
  opposite sex.
• Inward character. 1 Peter 33-4
• Outward modesty. 1 Peter 33-4

ATTRACT
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• 2. A revolutionary way to the
  opposite sex.
• Inward character. 1 Peter 33-4
• Outward modesty. 1 Peter 33-4
• Upward devotion. 1 Peter 33-4

ATTRACT
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1 Peter 33-4 (NASB)

• 3Your adornment must not be merely
  externalbraiding the hair, and wearing gold
  jewelry, or putting on dresses

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1 Peter 33-4 (NASB)

• 4but let it be the hidden person of the heart,
  with the imperishable quality of a gentle and
  quiet spirit, which is precious in the sight of
  God.

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• A revolutionary way to to the
  oppositesex.
• As Courtship vs. Dating
• As Brother/Sister Boundaries

RELATE
FRIENDS
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Dating vs. Courtship

• Age of Dating12 years
• 13 years
• 14 years
• 15 years
• 16 years

• Who Have Sex Before Graduation91
• 56
• 53
• 40
• 20

Utah State University Study Among 2,400 Teens
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• A revolutionary way to to the
  oppositesex.
• As Courtship vs. Dating
• As Brother/Sister Boundaries

RELATE
FRIENDS
FAMILY
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• 3. A revolutionary way to to the
  oppositesex.
• As ofChristHow can I
  help him/herbecome more likeChrist?

RELATE
FOLLOWERS
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