People turn to a lot of different sources in our day for guidance on sexuality. They turn to Oprah, movies, magazines, the Internet, or their peers. Well you can just google nuru massage and will have best result for massage.

People in our society don’t go to God very often. They don’t go to the author of human sexuality. They don’t go to the Bible.

In this message we look at getting authoritative guidance from God. We walk through four critical questions about human sexuality and see what the Bible has to say about this very important subject.

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Human sexuality is one of the most powerful, mysterious, baffling forces in all the universe.

If sexuality is such a powerful thing

If it’s so amazing

If it can be such a gift when it’s handled rightly

If it can express intimacy and love like nothing else in the world… which it can

And on the other hand

If sexuality can be so devastating when it’s mishandled

If it can destroy marriages

If it can cripple consciences

If it can traumatize young lives

If it can consume those who have become addicted to it…

Then where are we going to go for authoritative guidance on it?

People turn to all kinds of sources in our day. Some turn to Oprah, some to movies, magazines, the Internet, or their peers.

But I’ll tell you where people in our society don’t go very often. They don’t go to God, to the author of human sexuality. They don’t go to the Bible.

The chaplains of the University of Nebraska did a survey of incoming freshmen and asked, “Did your church significantly influence your views on sexuality?”

Two percent of the incoming classes said yes. Two percent said their church had a significant influence on the way that they think about sexuality.

That’s not a good thing.

So today, we’re going to look at getting authoritative guidance from God.

I would like to walk us through four critical questions about human sexuality and see what the Bible has to say about this very important subject.

Here’s the first question.

If sex is such a great intimacy producing activity, then why are there so many restrictive rules around it?

If sex is such a great intimacy producing activity, which it is, then why are there so many restrictive rules around it? Why does God put boundaries around it?

I want to start here with what is not the answer to this question because there is a lot of confusion about this.

The reason that there are rules regarding sexuality in the Bible is not because God is down on sex or generally opposed to sexual pleasure.

The Bible is quite clear that God created the human body, including the hormones, that are in us. They were his idea. Sexual desire is not evil. It is a good thing.

In fact, in the Bible, the very first command given to human beings is this command: Be fruitful and multiply.

You can be sure Adam and Eve’s response was not, “Well, if we have to, okay.”

God made us sexual creatures. Sexual yearnings are good things. They’re right in the design of your body. They are part of your desire for community and intimacy, but they’ve been junked up by the Fall, by sin.

Every one of us in this room has problems dealing with our sexuality.

Maybe it’s inappropriate sexual relationships

Maybe it’s addictive patterns of behavior

Maybe it’s that I base my self-esteem on whether or not my body is considered sexually attractive by my society

Maybe it’s escaping into romantic fantasy

But you look around this room right now. Every person you see, no matter how together they may look, has problems related to sexuality.

Therefore, the writers of Scripture have some very serious warnings about this area.

Listen to what Paul writes:

It is God’s will that you should be sanctified: that you should avoid sexual immorality; that each of you should learn to control your own body in a way that is holy and honorable, not in passionate lust like the pagans, who do not know God.

Now, the reason warnings like this are in Scripture is not that God devalues sex, but quite the contrary. It is that he va