Its 1:22AM and I am not sleepy. Why? My mind is twirling. With what? With the Lord.
I frankly do not want to go to sleep because I am so into the things I am learning.
Aside from that, I am drinking orange juice. Its great. My roommate does not like PULP so she refuses to drink this orange juice, ironic, cause she is the one who bought it.
Our body and soul are one. Many people do not understand this. “Don’t be so quick to buy into the thought of “what u do with your body has no effect on your soul”-When you are sick physically its hard to focus spiritually. When your sick spiritually you feel sick physically. We are one thing.”(from Louis Brenton)..hmm..never thought about that.
Your relationship with Him is not just that your spiritually joined to Him. There is a physical reality.
–Have you ever cleaned your ears to where it made you cough? It just happened to me. I coughed so much.
Firstly, want to say, all props to Louis Brenton, who preached this sermon..Im just taking notes as I am listening..directly from what he is saying, so here we go.
-”He intentionally compares your relationship to Christ with the personal intimacy of a marriage relationship with sexual intimacy. We are described to be one flesh. And it says “one spirit with Christ”. Point of this is to show that we are meant to have DEEP, DEEP intimacy with Christ.
Human sexuality is more than physical. God has designed sex in such a way that there is a deeper bonding going on rather then just physical contact. God meant sex to be a deep bonding. However, there is a great danger to that when we misuse sex.
-Even outside of marriage the spiritual reality of one flesh still occurs. This should scare the begeez out of us. We bond with those we get physical with. There is a spiritual reality. That is a BIG deal. And it is not constrained to just marriage now in our society.
FLEE from sexual immorality. Must be avoided with URGENCY and DECISVENESS.
“-Flee from sexual immorality. This command for “flee” is in Greek a present imparitive verb, meaning flee all the time, don’t argue, don’t debate, always flee, don’t explain, don’t treat sexual sin like you can overcome it, treat it as a trap. Run! Scream like a little girl if you have to. Don’t stand there and see how much you can take. Techical Greek term for that is: STUPID.”
“No hint of sexual immorality.” Greek word for sexual immorality is “porneia” Does not just mean doing the deed, it means any type of sexual activity outside of marriage. It doesn’t mean making out is okay, it means flee from that too. Just cause your not going all the way “Porneia” is still happening which means you are still committing sexual sin. Satan does not let you read the fine print. Sexual sin never delivers what it promises. It does a lot of damage. Pleasure=pain.
God doesn’t just own our souls. My body is not mine, it belongs to Christ. Aint yo body. It belongs to Jesus Christ. You are not your own, for you were bought with a price.
This sermon was entitled “The Theology of Sexuality”-Louis is a great speaker. Gets right down the point. And he is a sinner just like the rest of us, which makes him cooler.
Miss my church, but I know the Lord is planting my feet here in Jackson.
Our apartment is right by the highway and it is really loud right now, believe it or not at 2am cars are still flying by.
Its now 2am and still not tired.
More orange juice here I come
blessings, a.
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