Monday, November 26, 2007

Satan's Top 10 Lies on Sex

Satan’s SEX-ED: 10 LIES OUR CULTURE BELIEVES ARE TRUE!

Today, we are going to talk about Satan’s Sex Ed. But first, I want us to look at Satan’s strategy. His strategy is simple, but powerful because he attacks our weakest area, our sexuality. He knows if he can blur God’s reality about sex, we will believe and live out his lies in our lives.
Here’s his strategy: If he can get us to believe his lies, we will have wrong thinking, and wrong thinking leads to sinful actions. The Bible says,”When the devil lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and he is the father of lies” (John 8:44). Satan is the great deceiver, and he is lying. He has been lying for generations and generations, and he loves to lie about sex. But on the other hand, we have words from Jesus that say, “You will know the truth and the truth will set you free” (John 8:32). Today, we are going to expose many of Satan’s lies regarding sex, and we are going to renew our minds with the truth of God.
From the very, very beginning, Satan has been up to no good. If you have your Bible’s, turn with me to Genesis 3:1, (if you don’t have your Bible, then look on with a real Christian).
3:1 “Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the LORD God had made. He said to Eve, "Did God really say, 'You must not eat from any tree in the garden'?”
Like I said before, Satan’s plan is simple. What did he do here? Satan made Eve doubt God’s truth. What did she then do? She did the exact opposite of what God commanded her and ate the forbidden fruit. All Satan did, was get her to think, there was an alternative to God’s best and she took the bait, and ate what was not God’s best.
The reality is, Satan does not have a better alternative than God for sex. His goal is to get us to think, he does. God’s plan for sex, as we will see is absolutely the best, we have, but since Satan has got so many people living lies, we have a hard time sorting out, what is God’s truth about sex and what are Satan’s lies.
10. THE LIE: Satan created sex!
THE TRUTH: God created sex!
Let me be the first to tell you that Howard Stern didn’t invent sex, nor did Hugh Heffner. Sex is God’s idea. God has an exclusive copyright on sex, not Playboy or Penthouse.
Before the first church ever opened its doors, the Bible tells us, there was sex. Even before Adam and Eve sinned in the Garden of Eden, sex existed. (So for as long as men/women have ruled this earth, sex has been on the brain. Can I get an Amen?)
Sex is God’s idea, not Satan’s idea. . .Sex is a God-thing. . .It is a Gift from God to man, but like any gift, it can be abused and misused. . . what this does is make God’s beautiful gift look more like a curse then a blessing . . . Who knows what the first command in the Bible is? . . . To have SEX . . God didn’t use that language but said it like this. . . Gen. 1:28: "Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it”. . . Sex was the first commandment, and someone said, “It is the one command of God that we have no problem obeying. (Can I get an Amen?) . . The truth is that Sex is God’s idea, not Satan’s.
9. THE LIE: Christians are not supposed to talk about sex!
THE TRUTH: Christians have words from God about Sex!
Someone called this problem “The Great Sex Swindle.” Our culture gets there sexual education by listening to music watching TV and going to the movies. Let me show you what I mean? Be honest, raise your hand if you think of God, when you heat the word Sex? Now be honest! What’s the first thing you think of? (Please, don’t tell me!!) Just think to yourself for a second, Satan’s lies have infiltrated our culture so much that sex is equated with sin, not God. So Christians take the positions that if sex is sinful, I better not do it or talk about it. I can see where they are coming from, but I don’t agree. If God’s truth is going to prevail, it is up to you and me. We must be that beacon of light to those dark parts of the world. My motto is this, “If you don’t stand for anything, you will fall for everything.” We need to stand for the whole truth of God’s word and sex is part of that whole.
Satan is extremely smart, he knows, if he can get Christians to shut up, his lies will become accepted as the norm in society. Movies and TV are said to be 2 of the 10 most influencing agents in our culture (and the church is not even on the list). If you just look at the TV shows, like Desperate House wives, or Movies like Chuck and Larry, you can see that at the heart of our culture, we have been infested by sexual perversion.
But there is good news, God has a remedy for our problems. The remedy is for us to live by the standards in His word, and then from a life of integrity. You will be able to be a spokesperson for God.
Presently, I believe the most important area of discipleship we need to focus on is sexuality and that’s exactly why we are here today. We believe if you can get your sexuality under control, you will have better chances of graduating this program and going on to fulfill a dream God has given you. You can graduate this program, leave TC with some tools, and end up like lots of TC grads I personally know, who fail in the sexual area, and then before they know it, they are trapped inside of a crack house. That exact situation last year. Where one of my friends called me from a crack house and after 2 weeks, he came out.
The reality of God’s word is that we should never be embarrassed to discuss what God was not embarrassed to create. The truth is God has words on this topic so we should not be silent.
8. THE LIE: The more sexual partners before marriage the better.
THE TRUTH: Sex cannot serve God’s purposes outside of marriage.
The reality of God’s word is that sex is reserved only for those who are in the context of the marriage covenant between one man and one woman who have pledged their lives together until death. God did this for very good reasons. (1) Let’s just look at our society. . and our problem with abortion. . . I personally have a friend who has had multiple abortions with multiple girls. . . now if he waited till marriage to have sex, would he have had all those abortions? Maybe, but probably not. . . Let me just inform you for a second on the statistics of abortions worldwide . . . TOTAL abortions from1920 - 2006: 804,000,000 reported abortions, the estimated total abortions by the end of 2007 is 929,000,000. The estimated current global monthly average is 1,202,000 abortions. In America alone, one out of every four pregnancies end in an abortion.
Here’s my point, 64.4% of all abortions are performed on never-married women; Premarital sex is the reason for millions of abortions. Now, if we were not having premarital sex, it would be safe to say, millions of lives would be saved each year.
(2) Sexual relations outside of marriage are also the leading cause of sexually transmitted diseases. . Guess how many STD’s there are? Anybody? Over 60. . .The National Post reports that 25% of girls 15-25 years old have venereal warts. This virus is permanent and travels right through condoms, and even after treatment it lays dormant for life and is often a pre-cursor to ovarian cancer.
I heard of a story where a girl ended up with ovarian cancer and it is now questionable whether or not if she will ever be able to have children. So I think it would be safe to say, if we were not having premarital sex, STD’s would not be running so rampant and that girl, I told you about would not be in jeopardy of having children.
The more sexual partners the more baggage you bring into your next relationship. I can testify to this from my own experience. I wasn’t even a player, and the sexual relationships I engaged in before marriage have not done one positive thing for my marriage, but I can tell you a ton of negative things they have done. . Like making my wife wonder if there is any kind of competition . . . that alone destroys relationships . . . the reality is that the more sexual partners before marriage, the harder your sex life will be after marriage. . . In the eyes of women, all those experiences from our past relationships are negative. You will never hear your spouse compliment you for all the women you slept with!
Here’s Satan’s secret weapon: This is in the book, “Every Young Man’s Battle:” Satan will do whatever he can before you are married to get you to sleep with your girlfriend/boyfriend and after your married, he will do whatever he can for you not to sleep with your wife/husband.
Regardless of what your track record was up until this point, you can write a new chapter for your future spouse and from this day forward, you can really go all the way, by staying sexually pure for the benefit of that person you covenant your life to in marriage.
7. THE LIE: Premarital sex prepares a couple for marriage!
THE TRUTH: Premarital sex complicates your marriage!
I love the line I get when people try to convince me that premarital sex prepares couples for marriage. They say, having sex before marriage is like test driving a car before you buy it. You can’t possibility know how it drives unless you take it for a spin. Let’s think about this. Let’s think what this is really saying. If everybody test drives the same car. It’s not a new car anymore. It’s a used car so the one who thinks they are going out for a test drive with a new car is really taking used cars out for test drive. Used and abused old cars.
To further illustrate this point. Picture a grocery store. The particular grocery store Liz and I shop at showcases the apples as the first product anyone sees. So since they are right there, many and many people stop there and get there apples first and so do we. So we begin to look for good apples to buy, we pick them up, feel them to make sure they are not soft, have no worms in them and most importantly to make sure no one took any bits out of them. I don’t know about you, but I would be pretty upset if the person in front of me started to take bites out of the apples and then put them back in order to see if they taste good.
Having sex before marriage is taking a bite out of the apple before committing to it (or buying it). Often it means leaving it for the next person. You can see where this analogy is going. Every bite someone takes out of you makes you less like the original apple. Every sexual relationship makes you less whole. So the whole time, we thought we were preparing for marriage by having sex with this person and that person, what we were really were doing was sabotaging our future marriages. Because with marriage, if you have taken bites of other peoples apples or they have taken bites of your apple, all of this is going to be exposed to your spouse. Now instead of coming into marriage as a whole person, you come as a used car, all rotten with weaknesses that have the potential to destroy your marriage.
Let me show you what I mean with a couple counseling cases I heard about when a couple went to a pastor for premarital counseling.
The pastor said he never, ever heard some guy look at him and go, “Dude, man, you know, I love her, but I don’t think I can marry her because she’s got a severe parking problem. She gets parking tickets like three, four, maybe five times a year, and I cannot marry someone with a parking problem.”
I never heard a girl say, “You know, I love him and he’s perfect in every way, but I hate to tell you this, he’s a jaywalker. I mean, he’ll just walk right up to that thing that says, “Don’t walk,” and he just doesn’t care, and he walks.”
Those are sins, but they don’t seem to destroy relationships the way other ones do. Now, what he has heard is a girl who came in for premarital counseling say this about her fiancĂ©, or a wife say this about her husband, “I don’t know if I can continue, because he just looks at porn all the time, and it devastates me.” And she cries and says, “It makes me feel insecure and vulnerable, and like I’m not good enough, and it doesn’t make me want to be intimate with him, and it makes me feel dirty, and I don’t know if I can trust him.”
Or a guy will say, “Hey, I want to marry this girl, but man, you know what? She’s been with so many guys in the past that it scares the fire out of me. I’m wondering if she’s going to be comparing me, and am I going to like, you know, am I going to measure up. And here, for all these years, she obviously wasn’t faithful to God’s standard before we were married, so I don’t know if she’ll be faithful to His standard after we are married.”
Those cases are the reality, the picture of what happens when we think we should test drive the car before we buy it. If you set off sparks before your marriage, you will have explosions after your married. Premarital sex does not help a marriage. If you want to go all the way God’s way, then from this day forward, be self controlled, as you wait for God to lead you to a wife and/or husband. You won’t believe the problems you will avoid, if you seriously stay true to that God’s standards.
6. THE LIE: Live together before marriage!
THE TRUTH: Live together after marriage!
I will be honest. I think this one lie has done more harm then all the other 9 lies together. Let’s watch this video.
What people are doing when they move in together before they get married, regardless whether or not they both believe the decision to move in together is the best possible decision, is Play House. They want the benefits of being married without the commitment that goes along. This lie single handily is destroying our present marriages and marriages that have not even happened yet. The reason is, this behavior has reduced marriage down to a living arrangement where each person benefits from the relationship in selective ways, so when they do not feel like it is a benefit anymore to play house, they bail out, because either consciously or subconsciously, they know they are not truly committed.
Do you see how this has hurt the notion that marriage is a life-long covenant, not a temporary arrangement? Research tells us that 90% of couples who do cohabitate break up and move out before they ever get married and then those who do get married have a 75% chance of getting divorce. Living together before marriage is a set up for failure.
I want to paint a picture of dating in the 1st century, when the NT was written. I believe we can learn a lot from our ancestors. The process went like this. Women typically were married in there teens, once she was of age, her father would entertain offers from the fathers of young men who were interested in marrying here, if the fathers agreed on the terms of the marriage, there would be a celebration to honor the couple and announce their engagement. At the celebration, the woman can turn down the arrangement, but if she says yes, then the groom goes home and begins building an addition onto his family’s home. And so he begins to work and work and work on this place he is going to start his new family, but the thing is he doesn’t know when he’s going to finish. He doesn’t have the final say on whether it’s ready. It’s his father’s decision. This whole time, he is very anxious because he is anticipating the arrival of his new wife. His dad will periodically inspect his sons work, looking to see if the quality of what the son is building properly honors his future bride. (I bet you some sons, didn’t care about anything except the bed room, if you know what I mean. I could hear them saying, come on dad, all we need is a bedroom; we can just use your kitchen and bathroom!)
This whole time, the future bride is at home, learning how to run a household. She also doesn’t know when the work will be done. So she is preparing herself for a date that is coming. So the time, comes, the father feels like everything is ready, the son, shoots out of his house to hers, no matter if it was early or late, she was ready. Then they throw a party, have sex, without ever test driving the car, without ever taking a bite of somebody else or having been taking a bite of, and most importantly without any past baggage and you know what, the divorce rate was significantly lower in those days when couples lived together after marriage.
5. THE LIE: The Grass is Greener on the other side!
THE TRUTH: (We must) Water your own grass.
Satan wants us to believe the GRASS is GREENER on the other side, but God wants us to water our own grass.
(EXERCISE) I want to do a little exercise, by the show of hands, (1) how many of you are not married right now, but hope one day you will be married? (2) How many of you are married right now? (3) Now, how many of you plan on one day committing adultery? Plan on committing adultery, messing around on your spouse? Messing around? Amazing.
That’s really shocking to me that none of you say that you plan on committing adultery. When I think of that in light of the recent studies that I’ve examined, studies show that over fifty percent of men and forty-two percent of women will commit adultery, and yet, you tell me you don’t plan on it. Interesting. So, either you are lying, or you have a spiritual enemy named Satan, whose mission is to steal, kill, and destroy everything that matters to the heart of God, and he is scheming on how he can devastate Godly marriages.
Understand that the devil wants us, especially those who are married, to believe they are missing out, that there’s something better out there, that the grass is greener somewhere else. King Solomon devoted a whole chapter in the book of Proverbs to adultery. Scripture says (5:3), “For the lips of an adulteress drip honey, and her speech is smoother than oil.”
Do you see what Solomon is saying about the adulterous woman? She will look sweet and appealing and have all the right things to say to convince you to take a bite.
What this tells me is there is a very good chance that at some point, someday; there will be something that looks more appealing and sounds softer, than what we’ve got at home. The grass might be greener somewhere else. You actually might be missing out. But that does not give anybody the right to water somebody else’s grass. The truth is that we must water our own grass at all times.
Let me share a scripture with you on the amount of times we are to have sex with our spouses. You probably didn’t know the bible even said things like that? You will be amazed!
The apostle Paul says, 1 Cor. 7: 3 “The husband should fulfill his marital duty to his wife, and likewise the wife to her husband. 4 The wife's body does not belong to her alone but also to her husband. In the same way, the husband's body does not belong to him alone but also to his wife. 5 Do not deprive each other except by mutual consent and for a time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer and (NKJV) says fasting. Then come together again so that Satan will not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.”
The NT says to have sex as much as you want unless; you are going to set a time to fast and pray. God gives freedom to married couples to water their own grass as much as they can.
But listen to how our spiritual enemy, Satan, attacks us. He wants us to think, “Well, you know, in my mind, I kind of thought that our marriage sex life would be like this, and it would be more exciting and more adventurous, and maybe a little more variety, but the truth is, it is plain, dull, boring, vanilla. Same approach, same technique, same boring sex. There’s got to be something more exciting out there, something a little more spicy, something a little more hot. There’s got to be something better out there.”
Satan wants you to feel like more of a man when you cheat on your girlfriends or wives, when in reality, you are less of a man because a man keeps his promises, stands up for his wife and protects her, not goes behind her back, sleeps with somebody else wife or mother. A real man waters his own grass in marriage.
Here is the truth about cheating: If you cheat before your married, then it is basically a done deal that when you get married, you will cheat. Because the standards you set today will determine the actions you live by tomorrow. A real man does get caught up in someone else’s grass when they have their own at home.
I want to share with you the reality of marriage. In marriage or even dating, if you haven’t realized already, you and your partner can only meet each others needs 80% of the time. 80% is a great. There are a lot of reasons for this like all your garbage gets in the way of them meeting your needs or vice versa or you have a bad day the same day they are having a bad, and the list goes on.
For me and my wife, I tend to study long and hard a lot, so when I do this, in a sense I am neglecting my wife, those are the times that make up the 20% of the time I am not meeting her needs, because if she can have her way, I would be a bum and sit on the coach all day with her talking, but since that is not reality, there is about 20% of her needs life just won’t let me meet. The 20% is made up of our flaws and we all have them, so the bottom line is that 80% of the time your needs will be met and vice versa, and remember 80% is good. So the problem comes when one party in the relationship goes out shopping for the 20%. They believe Satan’s lie that the grass is greener on the other side.
So they think since all their needs are not being met, they have the right to look for some other greener grass, so they begin to flirt with whoever is around at the time, looking for that person to meet the 20%.
So if they are stupid enough to leave their wife the one who does the laundry, washes the dishes, cooks dinner, cleans the house, schedules events, irons his shirts, saves money, uses coupons, helps pay the bills, raises the children, who is a women of integrity, a godly women, and the list goes on, and so and this person leaves that kind of person, for someone they think could meet that missing 20%, only to find out that this new grass, at best can only meet his needs 20% of the time.
This person thought just because the greener grass might have dressed nicer or looked nicer, they would find that 20%, when in reality that girl, has no job, is a gold digger, hopping from guy to guy looking for someone to pay her bills, doesn’t know a thing about being a house wife, probably has been divorces a couple times, and is so bad in the kitchen, she burns water and on, so now the person who had all their needs met 80% of the time, gets their needs met 20% of the time. Marriage is an act of obedience . . . Divorce is an act of disobedience. . . .The grass is not greener on the other side. . . Water your own grass!
4. THE LIE: Marriage solves sexual problems.
THE TRUTH: Marriage intensifies sexual problems.
Many people think, especially men that the day I get married all my sexual problems will disappear. They say, I will stop flirting, I will stop looking at porn, I will stop cheating, I will stop masturbating, and on. I am here to tell you that the truth is, the exact opposite happens. After marriage, everything intensifies, small things become big and big things become huge. Trust me, if marriage solved sexual problems, then pornography would not be so prevalent in this day in age and marital affairs would not be at all time highs. The truth is that 40% of all sexual addicts will lose their marriage. Sexual addictions must be dealt with preferably before one gets married.
I want to say a couple things about two of the most potent sexual additions we face today: pornography and masturbating. These two issues are the leading sexual addictive problems both before and after marriage.
(1) First, let’s deal with porn. Everyone knows the sales pitch, SEX SELLS. The porn industry has proved this true by generating more revenue than all combined revenues of all professional football, baseball and basketball franchises. . . World wide the porn industry generates $57.0 billion dollars. . . the USA consists of 12 Billion of those dollars. . . 40 Million US adults regularly visit Internet pornography websites. The internet has become the porn industries best friend . . . 1 out of every 4 search engine searches are directed towards pornographic sites . . . porn is easy to access . . and probably the most potent addiction out there. Porn is a progressive addiction. What satisfied someone yesterday, will not work tomorrow.
(2) Secondly, what goes hand and hand with porn is masturbation (no pun intended). There are a lot of views out there on masturbation. Some say, as long as no one is getting hurt, its okay, and others say, don’t do it, it leads to sin, it hurts people and destroys one’s relationship with God.
Even though the Bible does not address masturbation directly, I think we can get a good handle on this issue, if we filter the act of masturbation through one of Jesus’ teachings in Matthew 5:27-28—He said, “You have heard that it was said, 'Do not commit adultery.' 28 But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.”
Jesus put lust in the same category as the sin of physical adultery . . . so the act of lusting you can say is sinful. . . When you lust you satisfy yourself at the expense of God and others. . . Lust itself is selfishness. . . Lust always takes, love always gives. . .Lusting is an issue of self control. . . Satan knows our weaknesses. . . and he knows if we lack self-control. He can destroy us . . What we have to do is bring our minds under the Lordship of Christ.
Every time we lust, we give the enemy a foothold, a place to wreck havoc in our lives. The end result of lust is sin. . . Let me show you how it works . . . I heard somebody say this: “Sow a thought, reap an action; Sow an action, reap a habit. Sow a habit, reap a character. Sow a character, reap a destiny.” Married or not, if we begin to sow the wrong thoughts, we will do the wrong things, and then we will reap a disastrous destiny and everyone we care about who is around us at the time will hurt. But if we sow positive thoughts, thoughts about God and pure thoughts about our spouse’s and/or future spouses, we will live a life of peace and joy.
Lusting and masturbation are closely related, after looking at masturbation through the lens of Jesus’ teaching I would suggest that masturbation is sinful and the Bible is clear that whatever is sinful hurts our relationship with God, it puts distance between where God wants us to be and where we are today.
The author of “Every Young Man’s Battle” says that at least 98% of all masturbation involves lustful mental fantasies or pornography. He also said, “You’re more likely to masturbate the day after you masturbate than you’re likely to do it the day after you didn’t.” The reason for this is that we have pleasurable chemical reactions that cause us to repeat the practice more and more. This goes for any sexual sin. Marriage is not a solution for sexual sin. If you are not married, begin to deal with your weak spots now. Don’t listen to Satan’s lie.
3. THE LIE: Sex is a woman’s top priority!
THE TRUTH: Sex is not a woman’s top priority!
Listen to the results of this survey. Husbands and wives were asked to rate all the things they like to do with their spouse. For men sex was ranked 1st or 2nd, but guys I am sorry to say that out of 15 choices women Sex was thirteen. You will never believe what number 12 was. Anybody want to guess? Gardening! Women rather garden then have sex. The truth is that Sex is not a woman’s top priority, so don’t feel bad when your wife rather go out to the garden then to bed with you!!!
2. THE LIE: A satisfying sex life holds a marriage together!
THE TRUTH: A satisfying relationship holds a marriage together!
Did you catch that “A satisfying sex life is the result of a satisfying marital relationship.” The relationship itself is most important and out of a loving marital relationship, flows a passionate sex life. It can’t be any other way. Our society’s view is the opposite. They believe “A satisfying marital relationship is the result of a satisfying sex life.” They put all their eggs in one basket and when sex is not everything they thought it should be, they bail out of the relationship.
This has damaged our society’s mentality when it comes to sex and marriage, crippling the marital covenant. The reality of God’s word is that a satisfying sex life is the result of a satisfying martial relationship. Marriage is solely about one thing and one thing only, “building a healthy-lifelong relationship.” SEX is just “1” cylinder in an eight cylinder car.
(1) Did you know that for women, Sex begins in the kitchen? What makes a healthy sex life in marriage is the way you treat your spouse through the day. It is what you do for her, the way you talk to her, the way you listen to her that turns her on the most.
(2) Did you know that a woman’s largest sex organ is her brain? If you can learn to connect with her emotionally through the day, the union of the marriage bed will be out of this world.
(3) Also, “Don’t think you can act like a child all day long and expect to be treated like a man at night.” A woman considers everything you do as foreplay. When I say everything, I mean everything.
(4) Did you know it is romantic to wash the dishes? Gary Smalley learned . . .
(5) Remember this: “Sex is not an end; it is the means to an end. The end we seek is a marriage relationship filled with companionship, commitment, passion and spiritual intimacy. The TRUTH is this: “A satisfying SEX life is the result of a satisfying marital relationship.”
1. THE LIE: Sexual sin does not affect your relationship with God.
THE TRUTH: Sexual sin destroys your relationship with God.
Bart Campolo said, “If you ask the average person how they are doing spiritually, they usually will tell you how they are doing sexually.” Whether we realize it or not, our sexuality is a spiritual barometer.
I believe Satan has declared war on our sexuality and he knows if he can get us to disconnect our sexuality from out spirituality, he could lie to us all day long, but if we connect the two, the more spiritually mature we become, the less sexually immature we will be.
I can’t think of anything more detrimental to our walk with God then sexual sin. Ephesians 5:3 says, “But among you there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality (and then it says) because this is improper for God's holy people.”
We should not even have a hint of sexual immorality in our lives. . . I know this sounds like an unreachable standard. . . But I believe that God would not command us to do something we could not do with His help . . . that would not be right.
The truth is only a hint of sexual immorality can take us out of our game and place us right back in the streets, doing what was, we were doing before we came to TC.
The reason I say that because for the last 6 years, I have watched person after person fall into habitual sexual sin, lose their connection with God, and guess what’s next? There calling me from a crack house, as I listen to them sing the same song: I got myself into a bad relationship, I neglected God and now I am on drugs.
I want to suggest that having a Godly relationship is one of the most spiritually mature things you can do. The way you handle your sexuality, will make or break your ability to be spiritual mature.
Satan knows that God’s standards are so much higher than the watered-down standards of this world. And just because you failed yesterday, doesn’t mean you have to fail tomorrow. There is hope for each one of us. Regardless of our past sexual experiences, if you focus on your present relationship with God, fight through the hard times, God will restore your sexuality so that your present and future spouse’s get God’s best.
The foundation of my marriage and the hope I have is found in the fact that Jesus continues to work in me and through me, if I am not growing in my walk with God, my marriage suffers, but if I am growing in the Lord, then my marriage thrives. (That’s where my wife says, amen!)
In conclusion, I heard a pastor say, “Great and Godly sex starts between the ears long before it is between the legs” (Craig Groshel). Great and godly sex starts with Godly thinking. It’s going to take each one of us standing up for the truth of God’s word, unlearning those habits Satan tricked us into believing and then learning new habits based on the truth of God’s word.