The sexual revolution drastically changed how women viewed their sexuality. In the past, women hid their sexuality under restrictive clothing and severe social codes. Now we flaunt it. Women used to be envious of men's supposed sexual freedom and the apparent power it gave them. Now we have that same "freedom," but where has it gotten us?
- Legalized abortion-A world in which even if a woman wants to keep her baby, her parents has no responsibility to stand beside her and support her. Too many women feel alone and pressured to abort children. Is that freedom?
- Disappointment-Relationships in which men won't commit because they don't have to. Why buy the cow when you can get the mild for free?
- Emotional baggage-Past physical attachments, emotional scars and the weight of guilt so that women can't enter fully into their marriages or the relationships God intended for them.
- Disrespect-In a world of sexual freedom, women are often treated like (surprise,surprise) sex objects. When was the last time a man held the door for you?
- Expectations-Just because a man buys you dinner doesn't mean you owe him sex-not after one date, four dates, six months or two years.
God wants women to experience the powerful, intoxicating pleasures of their sexuality. Yet he has specific parameters in which that experience should take place-in a monogamous, marital relationship, "one man and one woman", for life. Satan exploits a woman's sexuality by enticing her to express herself sexually outside of God's ideal-through promiscuity, pre-martial sex or adultery.
:::Sexual freedom God's way:::
We think we feel empowered.
-God says we are enslaved-either to sin or to righteousness (Romans 6:16)
We tell ourselves we're in control when we use sex in relationships (since we have what men want).
-God calls that kind of control self-deception (1 Corinthians 3:18)
The world assures us sexual freedom is life's highest reward.
-God WARNS us that we will reap what we sow. (Galatians 6:7)
"Free sex has proven to be quite costly-not only in terms of pregnancy but also with regard to sexually transmitted diseases (STD's). Since 1999,more than 12 million American's contract an STD every year." -Unknown
{Romans 1:24}
So God abandoned them to do whatever shameful things their hearts desired. As a result, they did vile and degrading things with each other’s bodies.
{1 Corinthians 6:12-20}
12 You
say, “I am allowed to do anything”—but not everything is good for you.
And even though “I am allowed to do anything,” I must not become a slave
to anything.
13 You
say, “Food was made for the stomach, and the stomach for food.” (This
is true, though someday God will do away with both of them.) But you
can’t say that our bodies were made for sexual immorality. They were
made for the Lord, and the Lord cares about our bodies.
14 And God will raise us from the dead by his power, just as he raised our Lord from the dead.
15 Don’t
you realize that your bodies are actually parts of Christ? Should a man
take his body, which is part of Christ, and join it to a prostitute?
Never!
16 And
don’t you realize that if a man joins himself to a prostitute, he
becomes one body with her? For the Scriptures say, “The two are united
into one.”
17 But the person who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with him.
18 Run
from sexual sin! No other sin so clearly affects the body as this one
does. For sexual immorality is a sin against your own body. 19 Don’t
you realize that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, who lives
in you and was given to you by God? You do not belong to yourself,
20 for God bought you with a high price. So you must honor God with your body.
{Galatians 5:13}
For you have been called to live in freedom, my brothers and sisters. But don’t use your freedom to satisfy your sinful nature. Instead, use your freedom to serve one another in love.
{Ephesians 5:3}
Let there be no sexual immorality, impurity, or greed among you. Such sins have no place among God’s people.
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