Slides: Dealing with Fallen Sexuality: Teaching in the New Testament

Dealing with Fallen Sexuality: Teaching in the New Testament

Henry and Pamela Reyenga

Sexual Immorality Is A Sin Against Your Body




1 Corinthians 6:18     Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a man commits are outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body.

 

Sexual Immorality

Assumes most of the Old Testament condemnations and many of the pagan practices.

 

1 Corinthians 5:1    It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that does not occur even among pagans: A man has his father’s wife.

 

This brings up a good issue about culturally agreed upon sexual issues.

Age of consent and marriage are self-evident in some cultures but are different in other cultures.

 

 

Male and Female Homosexuality

Romans 1:26-27     Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones.  In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.

1 Corinthians 6:9     Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders…

 

 

Swinging Sex is Condemned

Revelation 2:12   “To the angel of the church in Pergamum write…


Revelation 2:14    Nevertheless, I have a few things against you: You have people there who hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to entice the Israelites to sin by eating food sacrificed to idols and by committing sexual immorality. Likewise you also have those who hold to the teaching of the Nicolaitans. Repent therefore! Otherwise, I will soon come to you and will fight against them with the sword of my mouth.

 

What about Polygamy?

In the Old Testament – Allowed.

In the New Testament –Frowned upon. No for ministers.

1 Timothy 3:2    Now the overseer must be above reproach, the husband of but one wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,
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1 Timothy 3:12     A deacon must be the husband of but one wife and must manage his children and his household well.


Titus 1:6   An elder must be blameless, the husband of but one wife, a man whose children believe and are not open to the charge of being wild and disobedient.