SEXUALITY

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We came from somewhere

Genesis 1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.

3 Ways “the fall” affects us today

1. What we do

2. Able to be hurt by other

3. The world does not function in the way God created

“Since the earliest periods of recorded history, lawmakers have tried to set boundaries on how people take their sexual pleasures, and they have doled out a range of controls and punishments to enforce them. From the slow impalement of unfaithful wives in Mesopotamia to the sterilization of masturbators in the United States. At any given point in time, some forms of sex and sexuality have been encouraged, while others have been punished without mercy. Jump forward or backward a century or two or cross a border, and the harmless fun of one society becomes the gravest crime of another.” -"Sex and Punishment: Four thousand years of Judging" By Eric Berkowitz

You cannot be your own savior

Galatians 2:20 I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

Revelation 21:3b-4 ...Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God. He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.

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