Video Transcript: Restore Healthy Dopamine Response

Welcome back, we're going to talk now about how to restore a healthy sexual dopamine  response in four areas. And that is a walk driven sexuality, a sex positive marriage driven  sexuality, a moderation in sanctification, sexuality, and a boundary understanding of  sexuality, and how these all relate. So if left up to the natural, not vividly influenced sexual  dopamine response, if left up to the natural outside of God, why are we even talking about  this isn't all pleasure good all the time. And what's bad is bad all the time. But a world view  driven by the word of God, and by God Himself, compels us to understand pleasure  differently, and to train that sexual dopamine responder to love that which glorifies God. So  first of all, to love walking with the Lord, and to have this part of your narrative prayer  narrative with the Lord, your relationship as you pray, Lord, may the sexual peace of my  person glorify You help me to not look lustfully at another woman help me Lord, to when I'm  connecting about relationships, I don't look for pseudo intimacy helped me to never start a  relationship with a woman that could go and cross any barriers that would hurt my marriage.  The woman my ministry, you know, like all of this becomes part of your relationship and in  and assume that I remember Oh, Dr. Stamper is assuming myth that you know, some you  could fall in this area. Number two, by dopamine responder to be all about a sex positive  marriage. Marriage should be honored by all in the marriage bed kept pure for God will judge  the adulterer and all sexual immoral. I Corinthians 7:5, Do not deprive each other but by  mutual consent and for time, so you may Devote yourselves to prayer, then come together so that Satan will not tempt you because of your lack of self control. Okay, so there's my  appetite for sexuality is the marriage bed and pornography or other temptations that want to  break that down? That's not pleasurable. So we ask the Lord to have it well, marriage is the  real deal. It's real flesh and blood. In your mind, go through the benefits of marriage. And if  you're in a marriage, be that romantic partner for your spouse, be that sexual intimacy  partner. Don't deprive each other. Don't let satan get a foothold. I mean, God made marriage  as an institution to just really keep us from the wrecking ball of unrequited pleasure that has  no boundary to it. Moderation, sanctification. Paul says in I Corinthians 6:12, Everything is  permissible for me, but not everything is beneficial. Everything is permissible, but I will not be mastered by anything. So we don't want our dopamine responder to be mastered in can you  imagine how many people get sold a bill of goods in the area of sexuality, because the devil  knows that the false pleasures that the sexual response gives, can essentially make  somebody like that dumb rat who can't do anything else, but is given themselves to to just be a, you know, a victim of their own responder instead of Paul says look Don't be mastered by  anything. You're saying no, don't return to the life that you once lived. And ultimately, love  boundaries. And don't consider boundaries and evil thing I Corinthians 5:11, but I am writing  to you they must not associate with anyone to call themself a brother who is sexually immoral or greedy, or an adulterer or slander or a drunkard, swindler such man do not even eat  Nevertheless, I have this against you tolerate the woman Jezebel, who called herself a  prophetess. By her teaching soumis leads My servants whose sexual immorality and even of  food sacrifice to idols, do not fall or don't trust your fallen depth dopamine responders this  doesn't have to be this huge thing, any different than any other. place with a sanctified  power, the Holy Spirit is coming into your life in so many ways. Ask the Lord, to help me  welcome help you welcome those pleasures that glorify you, you know, it's pleasurable to  build a house, you know, it's pleasurable to build a boundary about your sexual dopamine  responder around is pleasurable. It's pleasurable to work on your marriage, so that the sexual  temptation is less, it's pleasurable to be mastered by Jesus Christ. And so that's a greater  pleasure. It's pleasurable to shut down the idle creating factory of your heart. That's more  pleasurable than all of the sexual temptations. You know, Solomon, given all this wisdom,  great king. But what stole his heart was, he was the rat. In that area of sexual responders. He  was the rat, he he his heart was turned away from the Lord, because an idol in this area got  stronger than even all of his wisdom. So that's what we're talking about is how do we ask the  Lord through a walk with God, to change the mindset of how we think about what is  pleasurable and what is not? Next time we're gonna get very practical, on how to have victory over sexual sin