Pastor Joe Pursch

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The Biblical Teaching About
Sex and Marriage

• Pastor Joe Pursch
• Chinese Grace Bible Church
• October 5, 2008

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1. The Critical Perspectives

• A. Getting Our Terms Right

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1. The Critical Perspectives

• Getting Our Terms Right
• 1. Were all ______ Beings

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1. The Critical Perspectives

• Getting Our Terms Right
• 1. Were all Human Beings

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1. The Critical Perspectives

• Getting Our Terms Right
• 1. Were all Human Beings
• 2. Were all ______ Creations

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1. The Critical Perspectives

• Getting Our Terms Right
• 1. Were all Human Beings
• 2. Were all Sexual Creations

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1. The Critical Perspectives

• Getting Our Terms Right
• 1. Were all Human Beings
• 2. Were all Sexual Creations
• 3. Were all ________ Before God

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1. The Critical Perspectives

• Getting Our Terms Right
• 1. Were all Human Beings
• 2. Were all Sexual Creations
• 3. Were all Sinners Before God

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1. The Critical Perspectives

• Getting Our Terms Right
• 1. Were all Human Beings
• 2. Were all Sexual Creations
• 3. Were all Sinners Before God
• 4. Were all ___________ to God

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1. The Critical Perspectives

• Getting Our Terms Right
• 1. Were all Human Beings
• 2. Were all Sexual Creations
• 3. Were all Sinners Before God
• 4. Were all Responsible to God

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2. The Clear Biblical Teaching on Sex and Marriage

1. The Positive _________ of Heterosexuality

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2. The Clear Biblical Teaching on Sex and Marriage

1. The Positive Portrayal of Heterosexuality

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2. The Clear Biblical Teaching on Sex and Marriage

• The Positive Portrayal of Heterosexuality
• 1. A Divinely Designed ___________ Man and
  Woman (Genesis 218-23)

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Genesis 218-23

•  18Then the LORD God said, "It is not good for
  the man to be alone I will make him a helper
  suitable for him."
•  19Out of the ground the LORD God formed every
  beast of the field and every bird of the sky, and
  brought them to the man to see what he would call
  them and whatever the man called a living
  creature, that was its name.
•  20The man gave names to all the cattle, and to
  the birds of the sky, and to every beast of the
  field, but for Adam there was not found a helper
  suitable for him.
•  21So the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall
  upon the man, and he slept then He took one of
  his ribs and closed up the flesh at that place.
•  22The LORD God fashioned into a woman the rib
  which He had taken from the man, and brought her
  to the man.
•  23The man said,         "This is now bone of my
  bones,         And flesh of my
  flesh         She shall be called
  Woman,         Because she was taken out of
  Man."

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2. The Clear Biblical Teaching on Sex and Marriage

• The Positive Portrayal of Heterosexuality
• 1. A Divinely Designed Partnership Man and
  Woman (Genesis 218-23)

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Genesis 218-23

•  18Then the LORD God said, "It is not good for
  the man to be alone I will make him a helper
  suitable for him."
•  19Out of the ground the LORD God formed every
  beast of the field and every bird of the sky, and
  brought them to the man to see what he would call
  them and whatever the man called a living
  creature, that was its name.
•  20The man gave names to all the cattle, and to
  the birds of the sky, and to every beast of the
  field, but for Adam there was not found a helper
  suitable for him.
•  21So the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall
  upon the man, and he slept then He took one of
  his ribs and closed up the flesh at that place.
•  22The LORD God fashioned into a woman the rib
  which He had taken from the man, and brought her
  to the man.
•  23The man said,         "This is now bone of my
  bones,         And flesh of my
  flesh         She shall be called
  Woman,         Because she was taken out of
  Man."

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2. The Clear Biblical Teaching on Sex and Marriage

• The Positive Portrayal of Heterosexuality
• 1. A Divinely Designed Partnership Man and
  Woman (Genesis 218-23)
• 2. A Divinely Designed ___________
  Heterosexual Marriage (Genesis 224 Matthew
  194-6)

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2. The Clear Biblical Teaching on Sex and Marriage

• The Positive Portrayal of Heterosexuality
• 1. A Divinely Designed Partnership Man and
  Woman (Genesis 218-23)
• 2. A Divinely Designed Relationship
  Heterosexual Marriage (Genesis 224 Matthew
  194-6)

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2. A Divinely Designed Relationship Heterosexual
Marriage (Genesis 224 Matthew 194-6)

• For this reason a man shall leave his father and
  his
• mother, and be joined to his wife and they shall
  become
• one flesh. -Genesis 224
• 4And He answered and said, "Have you not read
  that He who created them from the beginning MADE
  THEM MALE AND FEMALE,
•  5and said, 'FOR THIS REASON A MAN SHALL LEAVE
  HIS FATHER AND MOTHER AND BE JOINED TO HIS WIFE,
  AND THE TWO SHALL BECOME ONE FLESH'?
•  6"So they are no longer two, but one flesh. What
  therefore God has joined together, let no man
  separate."
• -Matthew 194-6

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2. The Clear Biblical Teaching on Sex and Marriage

• The Negative ____________ Against Homosexuality

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2. The Clear Biblical Teaching on Sex and Marriage

• The Negative Prohibitions Against Homosexuality

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2. The Clear Biblical Teaching on Sex and Marriage

• The Negative Prohibitions Against Homosexuality
• 1. The Sodom and Gomorrah Account (Genesis
  1820-21194-8 Jude 17)

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Genesis 1820-21

•  20And the LORD said, "The outcry of Sodom and
  Gomorrah is indeed great, and their sin is
  exceedingly grave.
•  21"I will go down now, and see if they have done
  entirely according to its outcry, which has come
  to Me and if not, I will

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Genesis 194-8

• 4Before they lay down, the men of the city, the
  men of Sodom, surrounded the house, both young
  and old, all the people from every quarter
•  5and they called to Lot and said to him, "Where
  are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them
  out to us that we may have relations with them."
•  6But Lot went out to them at the doorway, and
  shut the door behind him,
•  7and said, "Please, my brothers, do not act
  wickedly.
•  8"Now behold, I have two daughters who have not
  had relations with man please let me bring them
  out to you, and do to them whatever you like
  only do nothing to these men, inasmuch as they
  have come under the shelter of my roof."

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Jude 17 

•  just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities
• around them, since they in the same way as
• these indulged in gross immorality and went
• after strange flesh, are exhibited as an
• example in undergoing the punishment of
• eternal fire.

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2. The Clear Biblical Teaching on Sex and Marriage

• The Negative Prohibitions Against Homosexuality
• 2. The Leviticus Texts
• Leviticus 1822-You shall not lie with a male as
  one lies with a female it is an abomination.
• Leviticus 2013- If there is a man who lies with
  a male as those who lie with a woman, both of
  them have committed a detestable act they shall
  surely be put to death. Their bloodguiltiness is
  upon them.

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2. The Clear Biblical Teaching on Sex and Marriage

• The Negative Prohibitions Against Homosexuality
• 3. The New Testament Texts
• -Romans 126-27
• -1 Corinthians 69-10
• -1 Timothy 18-11

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Romans 126-27

•  26For this reason God gave them over to
  degrading passions for their women exchanged the
  natural function for that which is unnatural,
•  27and in the same way also the men abandoned the
  natural function of the woman and burned in their
  desire toward one another, men with men
  committing indecent acts and receiving in their
  own persons the due penalty of their error.

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1 Corinthians 69-10

•  9Or do you not know that the unrighteous will
  not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be
  deceived neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor
  adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals,
•  10nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards,
  nor revilers, nor swindlers, will inherit the
  kingdom of God.

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1 Timothy 18-11

•  8But we know that the Law is good, if one uses
  it lawfully,
•  9realizing the fact that law is not made for a
  righteous person, but for those who are lawless
  and rebellious, for the ungodly and sinners, for
  the unholy and profane, for those who kill their
  fathers or mothers, for murderers
•  10and immoral men and homosexuals and kidnappers
  and liars and perjurers, and whatever else is
  contrary to sound teaching,
•  11according to the glorious gospel of the
  blessed God, with which I have been entrusted.

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3 The Current Arguments Against the Bibles
Teaching
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3 The Current Arguments Against the Bibles
Teaching

• 1. Scripture and _______

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3 The Current Arguments Against the Bibles
Teaching

• 1. Scripture and Culture

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3 The Current Arguments Against the Bibles
Teaching

1. Scripture and Culture
2. Creation and ______

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3 The Current Arguments Against the Bibles
Teaching

1. Scripture and Culture
2. Creation and Nature

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3 The Current Arguments Against the Bibles
Teaching

1. Scripture and Culture
2. Creation and Nature
3. Love and _______

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3 The Current Arguments Against the Bibles
Teaching

1. Scripture and Culture
2. Creation and Nature
3. Love and Loyalty

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3 The Current Arguments Against the Bibles
Teaching

1. Scripture and Culture
2. Creation and Nature
3. Love and Loyalty
4. Justice and _______

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3 The Current Arguments Against the Bibles
Teaching

1. Scripture and Culture
2. Creation and Nature
3. Love and Loyalty
4. Justice and Rights

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3 The Current Arguments Against the Bibles
Teaching

1. Scripture and Culture
2. Creation and Nature
3. Love and Loyalty
4. Justice and Rights
5. Grace and ______

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3 The Current Arguments Against the Bibles
Teaching

1. Scripture and Culture
2. Creation and Nature
3. Love and Loyalty
4. Justice and Rights
5. Grace and Gospel

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4. The Call to the Church

• Such were some of you but you were
• washed, but you were sanctified, but you
• were justified in the name of the Lord
• Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.
• -1 Corinthians 611 (NASB)