In this edition of UBC Sermon Discussions pastor Jason Wing answers questions from his sermon out of 1 Corinthians 6:12-20

The main idea for the sermon was: A maturing church is full of people who stop using their bodies to sexually sin and start using them to worship God.

Questions discussed in this episode:

Q. I have had conversations with people who have told me that they don’t ever see Jesus speak against homosexuality, just Paul. In your sermon you used the illustration of a junk drawer when you defined “sexual immorality,” meaning it includes homosexuality, sex outside of marriage, looking at women lustfully (pornography), and masturbation. Does this apply to Jesus’ words in Matthew 15:19 when he says: For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, slander. (ESV)? And how would you address someone who says Jesus never speaks about homosexuality?

Q. Can you define what Paul is saying about the only sin against the body is sexual immorality? “Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body.” So no other sin is “against” my own body?

Q. After listening to the sermon one question I had was this: apart from the obvious; (pornography, adultery both physically and of the mind, abuse) what is considered sexually immoral between a man and a wife? Not to sound too crass but I don't want to just have boring relations with my wife. But I also do not want to be caught up in sexual immorality either.

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